“We’re seeing a linguistic sleight of hand in which what used to be called ‘protection’ is recast as ‘segregation’”, writes Sex Matters Advisory Group member Joan Smith @polblonde… unherd.com/thepost/the-at…
“No amount of support for girls’ and women’s sport can eliminate the fact that men are more muscular than women, while women are just over half as strong as men in their upper bodies and have about two-thirds as much strength in their lower bodies.”
“The obvious solution, which is to have women’s, men’s and open sports categories, is anathema to gender extremists because it doesn’t achieve the aim of eliminating single-sex spaces — sorry, I mean challenging the strict gender binary.”
#SexMatters in Sports:
Male athletes are taller, faster, stronger with bigger bones, longer limbs, wider hand spans, wider shoulders, a narrower pelvis, larger hearts and lungs.
Their larger & denser muscles have a higher proportion of fast twitch fibres. sex-matters.org/where-sex-matt…
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From our live notes of the evidence of the Allison Bailey v Stonewall Equality Limited and Garden Court Chambers Case – cross-examination of Kirrin Medcalf, 10th May 2022
The Stonewall scheme is an authoritarian system of thought control that actively undermines the freedom of expression and self-determination of anyone whose beliefs differ from Stonewall’s, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual employees.
26% of Britons say they strongly agree “trans women are women, trans men are men”. 20% somewhat agree, 22% don’t know, 12% somewhat disagree and 18% strongly disagree.
More in Common asked the question vaguely, and it seems like what most people interpreted was "post op"
We think it is a positive and welcome step in the right direction. Thank you @EHRCChair and @Marcial_Boo
1) It clarifies that “sex” (as understood in the Equality Act 2010) is binary, and that a person’s legal sex is their biological sex as recorded on their birth certificate.
2) It says that a gender recognition certificate is not relevant to decision-making about access to single-sex services.