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Jun 22

Lines on the retirement of Thomas Bach

So. Farewell then Thomas Bach
9th President of the IOC

Your tenure in the top job
Has been marred
By scandal
After scandal

From which you have emerged
Smelling of roses,
Until the boxing debacle.

Men punching
Women
For sport
Was frankly
A step too far.

Stepping down
From the top job
Is the best thing
You’ve ever done

(with apologies to the late EJ Thribb)

Let us count the ways Thomas Bach has destroyed women’s sport …
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The darkest day in Olympic women’s sport has to be 1st August 2024 when Angela Carini became the first woman boxer to square up against a male. IOC-sanctioned violence against women.

That’s on you Thomas Bach. #NonEGiusto

2/7

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Allowing a convicted child rapist to compete at Paris 2024 was a new low. Passing the buck by blaming the Dutch Olympic Federation was par for the course. You could have introduced rules banning athletes, coaches and officials with criminal convictions but nahhh, it’s only women … nothing to see here.

3/7

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Jun 20

What would you do if you spotted a long-haired man in a bikini exiting the female changing rooms at your local swimming pool?

Alan’s immediate instinct, as the lifeguard on duty, was to report the incident to his managers as a failure of safeguarding good practice. 🚩

The managers at Wilmslow Leisure Centre, run by @EBLeisure where Alan worked, saw things differently. Alan was told that anyone may self-identify into the changing room that ‘aligns with their gender’. Nothing to see here.

What happened next was astonishing . . . 1/ 5

Alan knew that a male in a female changing room was a RED FLAG for danger. He, and his colleagues, had no idea that the company operated a Trans Policy that allowed males into the female changing areas. A letter signed by 18 employees, querying the safeguarding risks of the policy was sent to management. At which point Alan was called in for a dressing down . . . 2/5

Alan’s manager questioned whether he had actually seen a man emerging from the female changing room. He was accused of coercing or even forcing people into signing the letter to senior management and was accused of being ‘transphobia’.

At the time of the incident, in July 2024, Everybody Health and Leisure was following the @_UKActive Transgender Access Guidance, which was withdrawn after the Supreme Court ruling.

The operator recently said:
“We will provide suitable alternative facilities for transgender customers”.
3/5

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May 20

Women’s Rights Network launches its Red Flag Campaign this week to highlight the dangers of mixed-sex leisure centre changing rooms for women and children. Nearly 90% of sexual crimes in leisure centre changing rooms are committed in mixed-sex facilities. 1/6

There are NO single-sex changing facilities in ONE-THIRD of local authority swimming pools in the UK providing easy hunting grounds for predatory males seeking access to women and children in a state of undress. 2/6womensrights.network/post/leisure-c…

We know mixed-sex changing facilities are high-risk. In a 2018 FOI investigation there were 134 complaints of sexual misconduct in sports centres and swimming pools in the UK, 120 (nearly 90%) occurred in mixed facilities. 3/6

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May 4

BRACE YOURSELVES 🚨
What would be your conclusion about an official internal police document that noted the terms ‘TERF’ and ‘FART’ to describe GC women, yet didn’t condemn these?

Would you think that the police had actively ‘taken a side’ rather than remaining impartial?

You’d be right. Read on ….
1/7

The recently withdrawn ‘Transgender Handbook’, for officers and staff in @swpolice does just that.

They’ll need to hastily rewrite this given the Supreme Court judgment of course.
We suggest they also examine their attitude to dissenting women (who were right all along).
2/7

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This section on ‘Gender Critical Beliefs’ 👇makes clear that the ‘approach of policing’ must not be challenged.
The approach being one that will not listen to women who challenge them.

Because this is a police force that is VERY clear where its allegiances lie.

3/7

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May 1

In all the excitement over the new policies to protect females in football, cricket and netball it’s easy to forget that there are many sports in the UK that still allow males into the female category - despite the Supreme Court Judgment.

In 2023, we launched the WRN Fair Sports Awards. Of the 74 sports we analysed, only SIX protected the female category at all levels from grassroots through to elite level.

A staggering 77% had policies that allowed males to compete in the female category, with just under 15% protecting elite categories but throwing every other female to the wolves.

A year later the situation had improved with 68% of sports still allowing males into the female category.

As sports governing bodies finally wake up to their legal responsibilities here’s our handy guide to the sports that have yet to update their policies to comply with the Equality Act 2010.

The situation is moving so fast that we haven’t yet updated our website but we hope that when we do 0% of sports will be discriminating against women and girls. In the meantime here's our list ... 1/

❌= Unfair ✅ = Fair and Safe
NOTE: Sports are also marked ❌if they protect competition but not recreational or grassroots sport

Akido ❌
American Football ✅
Archery ❌
Athletics ✅
Baseball and softball ❌
Badminton ✅
Baseball (elite) ❌
Basketball - under review
Bobsleigh - no policy
Bowls ❌
Boxing ✅
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu ✅
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Canoeing ❌
Climbing ❌
Cricket ✅ (policy announcement imminent)
Croquet ❌
Curling - No policy
Cycling ❌ (Breeze Rides allow males)
Darts ❌
Diving❌
Fencing ✅
Fives ❌
Football ✅ (Policy announced 1 May 2025)

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Apr 22

For the first time in many years women who line up on the start of Sunday’s @LondonMarathon can be sure that there will be no males in their category, thanks to the Supreme Court Judgment.

Perhaps . . .

The London Marathon, whose @EnglandAthletic licence covers the entire race, should have excluded males from the female category from 31 March 2023, when @BritAthletics banned all post-puberty males from the female category. Instead, London Marathon has ignored the rules, and all pleas from women’s groups to do the right thing by its women runners.

Now the highest Court in the land has declared that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex. In other words, London Marathon's female category must be for females only.

Top of the ‘to do’ list for the marathon organisers this week must be weeding out the males who have erroneously entered the female category, and switch them to the male or non-binary categories.

No ifs. No buts. It’s the law. And always has been.

The LM entry list is not yet published but we know of several male runners who have declared their intention to run the London Marathon in the Female category, thereby breaking UK Athletics rules…

First up is Emma Smith, formerly Matthew, who works for @BBCSport … 1/4

Emma Smith raced in the female category in 2023’s London Marathon and is entered for next Sunday’s race. He raced in the Female category at the licensed Tatton Park 10k earlier this month in preparation.

Smith posts frequent updates on social media. Interspersed with reports from sports events such as the Women’s Football World Cup and the Paris 24 Paralympics are updates on his oestrogen therapy, feminizing surgery and those ‘oh so embarrassing female wardrobe malfunctions’.

We hope his @BBCSport colleagues weren’t too distressed the day his boobs kept popping out of his dress at work. He reported from the Ladies’ loos: ‘The gender euphoria is real, but it is also very annoying’.

In fact, his outfit updates from the Ladies’ loos at BBC Salford are so frequent we wonder how he has time for any actual work, or race training.

Next up is Sarah Stephenson-Hunter… 2 / 4

Sarah Stephenson-Hunter took time out of training last weekend to attend the London ‘trans’ protest at the Supreme Court Judgment. Brandishing a poster declaring: ‘F*** JK Rowling’ he described it as ‘a poignant start to lesbian visibility week and running the London marathon for @stonewalluk’.

Registered blind, Stephenson-Hunter, formerly worked in the Equality and Diversity Department at the University of Oxford, and now runs his own consultancy breaking down ‘barriers faced by disabled and lgbtq+ people in the workplace’.

Stephenson-Hunter runs with a young female guide who declared on her own social media feed that ‘we are both lesbians’.

In his latest race, the licensed Surrey Half Marathon, Stephenson-Hunter recorded a time of 3:20.43 in the Female 50-54 age category. He is also a regular at parkrun where his times are also recorded in the Female category. We look forward to seeing him complete the London Marathon in the male category where he belongs.

Next up are Farrah Herbert and Glenique Frank … 3 / 4

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