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29 Dec 21, 4 tweets, 3 min read
The same irrational fears were portrayed with R Richards in 1976. Since Richards there has not even been a single 🇺🇸🇬🇧 or🇦🇺 trans athlete that has won a single elite women's national title in any sport in their respective countries.
There isn’t a single trans or intersex woman dominating her sport.

Even Semenya, the most famous, & arguably most successful, intersex woman athlete doesn’t “dominate” her sport. Caster has won a total of two Olympic gold medals and holds no world records. Image
This paper shows that the bulk of the arguments against trans & intersex women’s full and equal inclusion in sport have been based on assumptions, suppositions, and counterfactuals, not fact.
@AlanaFeral

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Trangender athletes advantage Myth #1- Bone Density. The same argument of bone density was used to keep African-American and Caucasians segregated in athletic competition fifty years ago.
@AlanaFeral
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@FrancisFlanner3 Totally agree and I have managed several of them. Both Lab & LNP government funding priorities across Aust have effectively criminalised the consequences of marginalisation & failed to address the causes of offending.

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@FrancisFlanner3 This is why our prisons presently warehouse Aboriginal men, women and children as well as the mentally ill.
@FrancisFlanner3 The 1987–91 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody reported that: “The single significant contributing factor to incarceration is the disadvantaged and unequal position of Aboriginal people in Australian society in every way.
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31 Dec 21
It's 2022, I'm 56 years old and I still have so many unanswered questions!!!! I haven’t found out who let the dogs out...where’s the beef...how to get to Sesame Street or San Jose... why Dora doesn’t just use Google Maps...Why do all flavors of fruit loops taste exactly the same,
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19 Nov 21
The complicated truth about testosterone’s effect on athletic performance.

One study of professional male triathletes found no relationship between testosterone levels and performance

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.310…
Another, looking at professional cyclists, found the same lack of correlation.

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Yet another, comparing cyclists, weightlifters, and controls to each other on a cycling test, found a negative correlation between testosterone levels and performance.

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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19 Nov 21
Worley’s case opens the courts to athletes human rights cases. The IOC understands their blanket testosterone policies needlessly harmed XY female athletes and they no longer can do so.
Any sports federation that chooses to ignore the ’No- harm’ clause of the IOC framework leaves the door open for other athletes to stake their claim before a court of law, there is a precedent.

sportsintegrityinitiative.com/worleys-case-o…
History of Worley’s case. Worley is an athlete who was an XY male and transitioned to become an XY female over 20 years ago. She describes herself as not transgender, but as a transitioned woman as she has undergone surgical procedures to become female.
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18 Nov 21
One podium does not a pattern make. There were 306 podiums at the 2016 Rio Games. Just one was composed entirely of intersex female athletes (and again, no trans women even qualified to compete).
Women were eligible for 144 of those podiums (including women-only and mixed-gender sports or categories). One podium out of 144, or 0.69%. So apparently one podium out of 144 is enough for the @WorldAthletics to point to the results as evidence of events “dominated” by
intersex women. I think that’s a hasty generalization.
I wouldn’t describe the results of a single event as intersex (or trans) women having “dominated” the 2016 Games. The winner didn’t even set a world record.
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18 Nov 21
Importantly the 2021 IOC framework shifts the burden of proof from individual athletes to the international sport federations. It also specifies that inclusion should be the default unless “robust and peer reviewed research” presents evidence that an individual athlete ..
is gaining “a consistent, unfair, disproportionate competitive advantage in performance and/or an unpreventable risk to the physical safety of other athletes.”
Also the IOC has made it crystal clear sports organizations cannot pick and choose the principles. They have to take all 10 of them into account together
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