Little Thread 🧵
The LGFA @LadiesFootball is celebrating 50 years. This association was set up to provide women access to our sport.
But the LGFA now allows boys and men to play our game. The Ladies Gaelic Football Association is now the Mixed Gaelic Football Association.

https://twitter.com/LadiesFootball/status/1805556554692780149

If a sports body includes males in its female categories, they no longer have a female sport category. They have a mixed sport category.
We cannot pretend that a sport for girls and women is still fair and safe when it includes males.
#LGFA not #MGFA
#SaveWomensSports

Fantastic from @swimireland, protecting the womens category!
"In developing our policy, we (Swim Ireland) undertook a comprehensive consultation process, internally and externally."
Something the @LadiesFootball failed to in creating of their policy.
…swimireland.ie/2024/05/29/swi "In terms of competition, views differed. Whilst transgender individuals and representative groups have generally advocated for no restrictions in the competitive space, the overwhelming majority of our membership believe that the biological female competition category needs to..

Can the Management Committee of @LadiesFootball please take note of the findings from @sportireland?
You have a chance at the next Central Council meeting to at least review your Transgender Policy!
#SaveWomensSports
@CllrMLNaughton @Trinamurray17 sportireland.ie/ethics/news/sp… 'Biomedical science tells us that there are significant differences in the determinants of sporting performance between the sexes. The evidence points to retention of some of these differences in transgender women, even after transition therapy.'
#FollowTheScience @LadiesFootball

1)
As we approach the 1st anniversary of @LadiesFootball transgender policy on 15th Feb, I will be posting a number of threads on the issue.
#SaveWomensSports

Thread No 1:

Here's a timeline of events so far:

July 2022 - A man takes part in a @dublinladiesg women's match. 2)
Sep 2022 - GAA; 'We are working with our sister organisations to review this area'
LGFA; 'We are currently working in consultation with our counterparts in the GAA to develop policy in this area'.

Yet @officialgaa and @OfficialCamogie still have no trans policies.

Here is another peer reviewed scientific publication, which you must have missed also @LadiesFootball when 'consulting' on your Transgender Policy.
Handelsman DJ, Sikaris K, Ly LP. Estimating age-specific trends in circulating testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin... ...in males and females across the lifespan. Ann Clin Biochem. 2016 May;53(Pt 3):377-84. doi: 10.1177/0004563215610589. Epub 2015 Oct 5. PMID: 26438522.
doi.org/10.1177/000456…

Here is a peer reviewed scientific publication, which you must have missed @LadiesFootball when 'consulting' on your Transgender Policy.
Circulating Testosterone as the Hormonal Basis of Sex Differences in Athletic by Handelsman, Hirschberg, and Bermon
academic.oup.com/edrv/article/3… "Competitions have separate male and female events due to men’s physical advantages in strength, speed, and endurance so that a protected female category with objective entry criteria is required."