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https://twitter.com/britishcycling/status/1662036051659980800The path that leads to this “departure” is interesting. Scientific evidence for retained advantage (and refuting its removal) was there all along, for all parties to recognize. What @BritishCycling had was vocal women who refused to be ignored. Plus a case that demonstrated the
https://twitter.com/dannycare/status/1631710289052803098What sports have to do is a find a balance between creating a pathway that filters out players so that resources can be maximized, and keeping as many players “viable” for as long as possible. At 8, rewarding performance is almost pointless because it’s almost entirely confounded
https://twitter.com/YorkRILadies/status/1552652247124758528...female physiology because of androgens and male development, so we need to prevent males in women's rugby until the evidence strongly suggests it is fair and safe". The latter group is not without evidence, mind. We know the initial typical M vs F differences, and we know the
https://twitter.com/runthinkwrite/status/1541758293756067846Then comes the second part, where I assume based on a lack of quotation marks, that we are now talking about real science. This is the sociological equivalent of “but Michael Phelps’ arms”, with a seasoning of blackmail. I’d answer the Qs at the end with: “please do & irrelevant”
https://twitter.com/catherineordway/status/1539096464756178944If you do it by performance, how do you control for deliberate under-performance? Also, performance is the point of sport, so you’d be using the outcome as the input, so that you’d have a chance at an outcome? That is, well, perfectly circular and defeats the point of sport (2/
https://twitter.com/fem_mb/status/1524536649115385857But now, even the most obvious attempt to include TW at the expense of fairness (& safety - same source physiology) for women has had to abandon this “fairness deception”, and must now begin by accepting the retention of advnantage. It may not feel it, but that IS progress.
https://twitter.com/cathydevine56/status/1523742225850834945Which means having to dictate which words can & can’t be used when asking people’s opinions. This is required to sidestep biological reality (“male”), which then denies ever allowing women to express a direct opinion on the very thing they’re being asked to express an opinion on
https://twitter.com/dickinsontimes/status/1507060105904283652Given a) the significant effect of male biology on performance, and b) the performance differences between M & F, it’s clearly not unreasonable for women to want this. In fact, it’s rational and necessary. For them to then to told to accept it for a range of reasons including…
https://twitter.com/Hogshead3Au/status/1500101305389486084The reason this came up, by the way, is that @gladwell asked the panel if this issue of trans women participation could be handled differently for elite sport compared to sub-elite and community sport? One answer was that yes, it can and should be, and only when records & money