So very optimistic right now.



#BritishColumbia
#Canada 🇨🇦
Changing before our very eyes. 👀

When the @bcndp caucus all stood up and voted in unison against fairness for women and girls in #sports I turned to @Lea_Christina4 and whispered:
“The #NDP just lost the election.”

#bcpoli
#cdnpoli Such a stupid political mistake!!
The #BCndp might have even stood a chance if they had voted YES to get to a second reading so they could forestall this embarrassment and study the bill more closely.
But they are so extremely ideologically driven that they simply could not bring themselves to even consider the #ProfressiveMisogyny BC women and girls are dealing with on a near daily basis.
They will reap the consequences.

#NDPmisogyny
#NDP_ErasingWomen

#bcpoli
#cdnpoli

*HIStrionics* THREAD ⚠️
Examination of an #Alberta 🇨🇦 man’s entitled demand to participate in women’s sport.

As many of you know, I have a standing rule to avoid visibility of AGPs because public exposure (even of the negative kind) feeds their fetish.

Therefore, I have redacted the name of the TRA who forced @Lea_Christina4 to go public in 2023 with his contemptible demand to compete as a “woman” in the Canadian Powerlifting Union (CPU).

Here is his latest self-pity diatribe as observed on #Instagram .

Over the ensuing SIX posts, allow me to inspect his claims more closely. 1. “I’m still alive.”

This is the attitude such men bring to women’s sports:
Essentially claiming that ‘if you don’t give me what I want I might ______ (self harm).’

This is abusive manipulation of women.
‘It will be all your fault if something bad happens to me because you won’t let me win unfairly.’

It’s amazing that the #CPU and so many other sports orgs have been manipulated in this manner.
It also illustrates what we have been arguing all along:
👉🏼That women’s sports is being used as a kind of “social therapy” for mentally ill men.

This paragraph ends with a hint at a claim of heroism.
‘I will resist self-harm for the sake of my child!’ (Whom this man has fathered, presumably.)

1. The Charge… 2. The Evidence…

It was inevitable that this #Alberta lawyer would limit who could see her revealing thread.
So, I took screen shots to keep things on record.
This is an invaluable glimpse into the mindset of those working within the penal system in #Canada 🇨🇦.
In this series of 10 tweets, we see… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Tweet #1 : Instant anger over citizens simply expressing their concerns in a public space.

SHOCKING ⚠️
I just learned the reason for the baffling 🇨🇦silence at outcome of TOTALLY UNFAIR outcome of the 2016 #Olympics 800m women’s podium that featured three MALE winners, leaving #Canada’s #MelissaBishop in 4th place instead of winning 🥇 GOLD as she deserved:
A lawyer from @TeamCanada threatened #Canadian head coach @Head1Coach as follows:
“I was threatened by COC lawyers in 2016 not to speak up. If I said something I was told that I was going to be banned for life from sport.”

I do have his blessing to post this for the first time in public.

#UNSPORTING
#UNETHICAL

#cdnpoli

The injustice to one of our own female athletes from #Canada 🇨🇦 is breathtaking.
Our own country’s leadership would rather sellout to a cult rather than to defend one of our champions - even at the expense of waving GOODBYE to #Olympic Gold!! 🥇
Sacrificing a woman and her entire career on the alter of #GenderIdeology .
Just let that sink in. 🤯

This is on you @WorldAthletics !!
Shame on all of you.

#Disappointing
#Absurd
#Unsporting

Having recently sat down to think & note all types of sports (team vs indiv, contact vs non-contact,etc) that could handle a “third (tr*ns) category,” I am concerned about the impending chaos in #sport.
Even “open” is tricky.
It really seems best to stick w/ binary MALE & FEMALE. If someone identifies in a particular way to the point where they interfere with their own body - hormones & surgeries - that’s not on #sports. That’s a choice made by an individual athlete no different than choosing to retire. In a truly “inclusive” society a feminine male…

Part of this #UNSPORTING situation is the need to ask.
This is the inevitable endpoint, right?
Bullying & gaslighting of female athletes, all for the sake of #sports organizations TRYING to be “inclusive” of (largely) privileged white males representing ~0.15% of the population.

https://twitter.com/JanePagie/status/1532261233239392256

Since I am both a former athlete, #sports program designer, and personal coach who also serves as president of a provincial sports organization (governance), my perspective of “big picture” informs me that retaking lost ground requires a coordinated effort.
One-off efforts …

@JimBUWDawg LOL
Hold on.
I need to check my notes. @JimBUWDawg So here's the deal, Jim.
It was utterly heartbreaking to listen to a woman who had no idea even 5 months ago what the trans movement was.
Her focus was on her daughter being on an @IvyLeague @NCAA swim team with bright hopes for a new season.

Over this past weekend I took 18hr the CPR/FirstAid course in person.
Instructor was brilliant in anatomical knowledge & engaging!
Demonstrating palpation technique, he showed how to turn palm away from victim while checking chest area, due to sensitivity based upon gender.

THEN

https://twitter.com/swipewright/status/1387088691315675139

...He said: “Of course, you all know there are three genders, right?”

As he said this he stood up and leaned back against the chalkboard with a smug “I told you so expression.”

He looked so pleased with himself.

Like a person suddenly revealing the existence of a new planet.

June 23 is the anniversary of #TitleIX; that wonderful law un #USA 🇺🇸 that enabled me to get my scholarship & education.
To commemorate I will demonstrate the difference in argument between those who wish to usurp women’s #sports and women like me who fight to preserve it.
1/12⬇️ Usurper’s argument on the LEFT (original article)
Women’s argument on the RIGHT (track changes recommended by @coachblade )
#TitleIX anniversary June 23🎆
#SaveGirlsSports
#SaveWomensSports
@SaveWomensSport
2/12

The years 2015-2020 have revealed an insidious disregard for the #female category by #OlympicGames @olympics executives and their corporate sponsors.
Male (XY) 🧬athletes now allowed into XX events.
Time to take stock re #women’s #sports.
Where did we begin?
Where are we going? Our story begins in the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (2000 B.C.)
Forms of women’s competition were somewhat different than we experience in 2020 A.D.
Contests revolved around two key aspects of #Egyptian life:
1. Food acquisition- #hunting & #fishing
2. Entertaining - #acrobatics

@Muttmere1 @BillieJeanKing @GovernorLittle @Martina @sharrond62 Two points
1. It’s not ethical.
2. It’s not #sports

See elaboration in tweets below⬇️ @Muttmere1 @BillieJeanKing @GovernorLittle @Martina @sharrond62 1/ I use “ethical” rather than invoking “fairness”, because of the predictable retort “who said life would be fair”. Having males in female sports goes beyond natural unfairness (typical skill variation)- it is a purposeful decision to disadvantage 50% of #Athlete population

Thread:
1. Today I unfollowed a female person whom I have enjoyed following for years on Twitter. I will refer to her as EM. I have not always agreed with everything EM says. Since I love the men in my life I would often marvel at her extreme contempt for ALL men as a category. 2. At the same time, I felt that EM offered a unique voice on feminism – a prolific author and journalist whose lived experience spans Western and Middle Eastern worlds. There were many truths she would speak on the plight of women that had merit and that I needed to consider.