Thread by @mara_yamauchi

This article about male Glenique Frank who ran London Marathon in the female category is v interesting - please read. 👇Thanks to @georgeabtsports for flagging.

1. Frank seems to think his eligibility for the female category is about passports & “I ticked female because I…

https://twitter.com/georgeabtsports/status/1650924575905947649

…see myself as female”. (Last night this said “felt female” but article seems to have been updated; unftly I did not keep screenshot.) In actual material reality, UK Athletics rules in force from May 2021 to 31 March 2023 determined eligibility. They required testosterone….

…suppression under 5nmol for 12 months to become eligible & then continuous suppression under 5nmol to remain eligible. Was Frank in full compliance with these rules? If not, he must be disqualified.

2. Frank says he “came out three years ago”. So April 2020. In Oct 2021 he..

…ran LM in the men’s category, so why didn’t he do that this time? 🤔

3. Frank says it was “traumatic” to be publicly attacked. If he ran in the male category, nobody would care. Does he think males like him invading female-only single-sex spaces is NOT traumatic for W&G? 🤔

4. Frank says he’s “trying to spread joy and happiness with the rainbow love”. Yeah, he cd have done that running in the men’s category. Women & girls in sport whose achievements are stolen by males like him don’t feel much “joy and happiness”.

5. “I feel sad that I’ve upset Mara, because I respect her”. So if I or @ripx4nutmeg had not drawn attention to this, what? This isn’t about me, it’s about ALL women & girls, especially the 20,144 females who suffered unfair competition on Sunday & the nearly 14,000 who suffered

… a worse finish position bc of him. Does he respect them? If it was one of them, not me speaking up, would he have taken any notice?

6. The words “girl” & “granny” are taken, by females. No male will ever be a girl or a granny. Stop stealing our language!

7. Frank is “shocked at the blowback” bc not elite competing for prize money. So fair competition for all females below elite level doesn’t matter? Has he ever asked any of them?

8. Raising money for charity - great, well done. Go & do that in the male category.

9. Frank says he’s “going to enter under ‘other’ or ‘male’, just to keep everybody happy.” Good. But if nobody had spoken up, would he have continued running in the female category? This isn’t about “happy”, it’s about FAIRNESS for females. Did he consider that when he entered..

…in the female category?

Every male in the female category shows that this is all about them. They never seem to give a scrap of thought to the impact of their actions on women & girls.

The female category is for females to enjoy, participate & compete against other females

It is NOT for males to indulge their fantasies that they are ‘women’, nor for those males to use female athletes as unconsenting tools to affirm their fantasies.

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