🧵Nancy Armour has just published a lovely article supporting men in women's sport in USA today.

Let's break this down a bit:
usatoday.com/story/sports/c… "The days of transgender athletes being able to compete at the Olympics are numbered."

No. All athletes are welcome to compete at the Olympics if they qualify.

Males will no longer be able to compete in the female division if they so choose.

"But from her loaded language to the dearth of transgender athletes at the Games, it’s obvious this is intended as a means to exclude, not include."

Yes. The entire point of the female category is to exclude male athletes. Otherwise, there would be no female category.

Thank you for finally recognizing this, Nancy.

🧵I don't think many are aware of this sobering fact, but in the entire history of women's sport, not once have women had fair competition free of males.

At the same time male athlete Stella Walsh was scooping up medals and world records in the United States and Poland, another man was doing the same over in Germany. Born in 1918, Ratjen began competing in girls' track and field were he found immediate success, qualifying for the 1936 Olympics at the age of 17 where he placed 4th in the high jump. (Fellow male athlete Stella Walsh placed 2nd in the 100)

In June of the 1937 season, he immediately broke the German high jump record and equaled the world record in July that same year.

In 1938, he broke the women's high jump world record at the Lower Saxon Championships.

He would better that record later that year at the very first Women's European Championships in Vienna where he took the gold medal in the high jump and male athlete Stella Walsh took gold in the 100 and 200 meters.

"It's just one"

Stella Walsh was "just one" athlete. Born in 1911 in Poland, Stanisława Walasiewicz emigrated to the U.S. with his family as a baby.

Walsh exceled in athletics in school and quickly rose to fame by only 16 years of age after making the 1927 Olympic team.

He was unable to compete in the Olympics that year, as he was not yet an American Citizen, but what followed were almost three decades of domination by someone who should have been considered an average male athlete.

Instead, because he ran against women instead of his male peers, Walsh was considered the fastest "woman" on earth and even one of the best "female" athletes in the world through the 30s and 40s.

🧵Simone Biles believes women should be "uplifting trans athletes" or men who invade our spaces and have been stealing our athletic awards and opportunities.

I can only hope that she is saying this because she really, truly is not familiar with this issue and does not know who these men and boys are.

@Simone_Biles, me introduce some of them to you. Michael "Lauren" Jeska

Jeska terrorized the women's fell running scene in the UK for years, taking 3 consecutive English Fell running championship titles along with a Welsh (WFRA) title.

When officials questioned Jeska's eligibility, declaring his results void as he failed to comply with the rules, he took two knives to the UK Athletics office and proceeded to stab Ralph Knibbs, head of human resources, in the head and neck in an attack eyewitnesses describe "as though [he] were trying to skewer meat."

He also injured the two men who tried to intervene.

Knibbs suffered a stroke in the attack and was subsequently disabled. Jeska continues to serve his sentence for attempted murder.

He still holds women's parkrun records and is being held in a women's prison.

🧵The New York Times has put out another article painting a male athlete cheating in girls' sports as a hero and a victim.

Once again, male desires and feelings are centered and girls' are ignored.

Let's take a look... "The California athlete at the center of a searing political debate over trans girls’ competing in girls’ sports went home a winner on Saturday in what is arguably the most competitive state track and field meet in the nation."

This is not a "political" debate. It extends outside politics and is simply a matter of women's rights. Do we treat female human beings equal to male? Is this a political issue?

Hernandez did not go home a "winner." He went home with a participation trophy that boys and girls much more talented than he is were not given.

Hernandez continues to cheat (compete unfairly) as the marks his performances are being compared to come from female competitors while he is male. He alone is being offered this special circumstance while no other athletes are.

🧵There is one part of the conversation that is often left out when speaking about "trans" ideology when it comes to sport, and that is the negative impact on male athletes.

Female athletes are not the only ones who have been affected by this nonsense. 1. Many "trans" identified males enter "mixed" competitions along with the "women's." In these mixed competitions, there is supposed to be a set number of male and female participants.

These rules are ignored, of course, for male athletes who claim to be "female."

What this means is that the actual men and women on mixed teams are forced to compete against teams comprised entirely of men or with more males on the roster than is normally allowed.

In this way, male athletes, along with their female teammates, are cheated out of medals, awards, records, and in some cases, prize money.

A few examples:

I don't often post about the "trans" identified female athletes who compete in men's/open sports, mainly because there is no issue with their participation as they are entering competition at a disadvantage

But sometimes, I do like to highlight these athletes to point out the obvious differences in performance between them and their male counterparts and the absurdity of it all.

Take this article about "Cody" Smith from Outsports👇

outsports.com/2025/4/2/24109… Smith is a female athlete who participated on the women's track and field team at RPI university as Caitlin Smith. She formerly set a school record as part of the women's 4x100 team (has since been broken.)

Between her sophomore and junior year, Smith changed her name to "Cody," began taking testosterone, and switched to the men's team at RPI.

🧵As the 2024-2025 school year comes to an end, let's take a look back at all of the boys in "girls'" high school-level sports in the United States.

Remember girls, you are supposed to celebrate this, and if you don't like it, you're a bigot and should just shut up. The authorities have told us it isn't happening enough to be an issue, and even if it is, the girls it negatively affects aren't important enough to warrant any concern.

Here we go... Volleyball:

Male athlete Henry Hanlon leads the San Francisco Waldorf team to a Bay Counties Conference championship, a CIF Div 6 North Coast Section Championship (a repeat of his 2022 title), and a second-place finish in the regional championship.

A female player is benched due to Hanlon's participation.

🧵You may have heard of "Stephanie" Barrett, a man who took up archery in his late 30s and not even a few short years later, after almost immediately winning a national title and setting a national record, was competing on Team Canada at the Tokyo Olympics, in the "women's" division, of course.

But Barrett is not the only man who has stolen a roster spot on a national archery team from a woman.

Meet "Diane" Cochran. Cochran is currently a member of Team USA for the senior "women's" barebow.
National team members are selected based on their performances at USAT series events.

Per their website, "at the end of each calendar year, top ranked archers in each division will be appointed to 50+, Senior, Para, U21 and/or U18 USAT. USAT archers are rewarded with highly coveted national team uniforms and sponsor benefits."

The Greater Lawrence Rowing club's girls' varsity team had a great showing at the Saratoga Invitational in New York two weekends ago, taking silver medals in the 4+ and bronze in the 8+ events.

The only problem is that one of the rowers on each of these "girls'" boats was actually a boy...

Meet Henry "Alice" Fischer.
Fischer was a member of the boys' team prior to 2023. The team even warned the varsity boys in an instagram post to "beware" of him.

And with good reason. Fischer's recruiting profile now lists him at 6'4", 200lbs.

1/6 Elena King is a young woman who plays women's rugby in the Netherlands.

On January 1st of this year, her team faced off against a "women's" team that actually had a man on their roster.

In a previous match, Elena had seen this player cause a black eye, rib, and spine injury to her teammates, and she saw another "coming off the pitch crying because she was tackled so hard."

In the game on January 1st, it was Elena who was injured in a poorly executed tackle by the player. He popped her knee out of its socket, tearing her ACL and MCL in the process. 2/6 Elena received no support from the Dutch Rugby Association, who care much more about the feelings of this man than the safety of every single woman in the league.

Unless the Breda Dames Rugby club has more than one man on their "women's" roster, the player in question is Liam "Ashley" Mooney.

🧵More football stars!

This is Will "Billie" Walker. "Billie" claims that allowing single sex sports for women is "political, not scientific," and that we should be allowing men onto women's teams.

This is because "Billie" is a man himself who plays for the London Galaxy team in the Greater London Women's Football League. If you've seen my very recent thread on the Clapton FC team, "London Galaxy" may sound familiar.

That's because they finished second in the league to Clapton and Walker just so happens to have been the fourth in the league for goals right alongside fellow male athlete Oscar "Oskia" Summers.

(Both Walker and Summers played in fewer games than the top two scorers.)

This is Tancrède Fulconis. Tancrède is a heterosexual man, married to a woman, who decided to move to the UK and begin pretending to be a woman. He now calls himself "Fae."

Despite being a man, Fulconis believed himself entitled to a spot on a women's football roster, and joined a women's team. He currently plays for the Hackney FC "women's" team where he was the leading goal scorer along with assist leader in the 2021/22 season.

Although the FA recently banned males from playing on women's teams, Fulconis says he'll keep playing in violation of the rules (and women's rights) until they drag him off the pitch.

Male presence on the women's team is not only an issue of unfairness, it also presents issues regarding safety along with opportunities for female participation in sport. Each roster spot a male takes is one that is taken from a female athlete. Each minute a male plays in the game is time a female athlete spends watching from the bench.

Fulconis is allegedly only "one of 20" players affected (meaning male players, female do not matter of course) by the rules keeping men off women's teams. But is that really true? Let's find out…

Did you know that there have been multiple men claiming national championship titles in the "women's" division of athletics already this year?

Hugo "Ana" Caldas has stolen a national title in 6 events, 5 of them individual, at the USMS masters swimming national championships in April.

But another male has been dominating the women in his sport as well. Fabrizio "Valentina" Petrillo is still abusing women in Italian track and field.

He recently stole three national titles at the Italian Paralympic Indoor Championships in March of this year in the T12 division of the 60m, 200m, and 400m, resetting his own national record in the 60 meters.
Although there are few participants involved in para athletics, Petrillo has still robbed women of this incredible honor.

Here are the real winners:
T12 60m: Antonella Inga
T12 200m: Anna Maria Mencoboni

T12 400m: Petrillo won by default after Sara Cocciu was DQ'd. Petrillo should have been DQ'd from this event due to the fact that he's a man.

Meet Erik (left) and Paul (right) Corcoran, two brothers both serving in the U.S. military, Paul as a captain alongside his wife. Paul describes himself as a typical heterosexual man, outgoing and enjoying athletics and dating many girls in high school.

However, in his mid 30's, Paul decided that he wanted to start pretending to be a woman, and came out as "Kara" in 2018 while his wife was pregnant with their twins, days before she gave birth, to be exact.

He says he knew he was a woman even as far back as college, but that he didn't "transition" because women couldn't serve in the infantry at that time.

"It didn’t cross my mind, because at the end of the day, I couldn’t serve as a woman in the infantry, and I couldn’t see myself doing anything else."

How convenient for him.

It's always interesting when trans activists try to "debunk" official athletic results that are, quite frankly, indisputable.

Let's take a look at the most recent attempt from the "Erin in the Morning" blog (and give a little more info on HeCheated and its author in the process)...

erininthemorning.com/p/fact-check-l… "Indeed, in a segment aired earlier this month, “Last Week Tonight” debunked HeCheated.org’s predecessor, SheWon, which had gone viral over the highly misleading claim that “900 medals” in women’s sports were “displaced”—meaning, given to a trans woman instead of a presumed-cis woman."

Well, no. John Oliver did not "debunk" the claim. SheWon has made a wonderful rebuttal to Oliver's nonsense here: x.com/shewon_org/sta…

And in fact, the numbers on SheWon are an underestimate at this point.

In fact, HeCheated.org has documented 921 first place championship medals alone that males have taken in women's sport. This includes world, continental, national, state, regional, conference, and club championships.

Including other invitationals and international competitions, they have taken over 1,450 1st place medals. Again, this doesn't count the 2nd or 3rd place medals they have stolen.

Including smaller events, males have finished in first over 3,800 times. (This number will very soon be updated to over 4,000)

This also does not count "displaced" medals, but rather medals and trophies given directly to the male athlete.

Perhaps more concerning is the total of over $2,060,450 that male athletes have taken from female competitions.

Denials of male athletic advantage only serve to demonstrate an extreme ignorance of the sports being discussed, male development, and the existence of an overlap between male and female performance.

Here is a great example. This excerpt is taken from a "political blog" that claims male athlete AB Hernandez does not have an "inherent advantage" over female athletes.

Let's break this down 👇 "AB is tall and thin. She is listed as 5'8" and weighs around 120 pound.s"

The average height for women in the United States is 5 feet 3.5 inches, average height for men 5 feet 7 inches. 5'8" is in the 95th percentile for women, meaning only 15% of women in the United States are 5'8" or over.

This means that Hernandez is an average male but already would be exceptional if female.

health.clevelandclinic.org/what-is-the-av…

dqydj.com/height-percent…

🧵I've read through this article a couple times and have some thoughts to give.

First, I'd like to start off by saying that this is certainly progress. Five years ago, an article like this, allowing for a more balanced view of the situation, would not have been published and I doubt Slusser's voice would even have been heard.

It is also encouraging to see a bit of doubt cast on the belief that males who have suppressed testosterone have no advantage over female athletes and the citing of evidence that states that males have advantage even before puberty.

That being said, I see some issues that I would like to address. This is a long one...
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nytimes.com/2025/04/20/mag… "Last November, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, the second- or third-best player on the third- or fourth-best team in the sixth- or seventh-best conference in women’s college volleyball took the court in Las Vegas."

The article begins by attempting to downplay Fleming's athleticism. The 2024-2025 season he led the team in kills with 314. The next highest player had 228.

Again, he was playing for a Division I team. These athletes are among the top 1% of all high school volleyball players in the nation. He was ranked 4th in the Mountain West Conference in kills per set, despite the possibility that he had thrown a game on purpose (bringing his kills/set down).

There are highlight reels of him slamming the ball so hard that he knocks female players over, repeatedly.

"She didn’t play for a powerhouse school like Penn State or Nebraska; she had never received all-conference, much less All-America, honors."

Fleming made several all-tournament teams, received all-conference mentions, and again, was playing for a D1 school despite having played competitive volleyball for only TWO YEARS in high school. The lack of skill he would have demonstrated due to this inexperience was more than compensated for with his power and jumping ability that comes from being male.

🧵I focus a lot of attention on the male athletes in the girls' division, but when it comes to the high school boys, their parents also need to be held responsible.

In 2015, Stacy Drageset wrote a children's book called, "'Pink is a Girl's color'...and other silly things people say." The message of the book is that it's okay for a girl to like cars or a boy to like ballet, that we shouldn't classify clothes as "boy clothes" or "girl clothes," but children should wear what feels comfortable for them.

This is a good message for children, and Stacy seems to have gotten things right... Except for the fact that she knew her 4-year-old male child, her son, was really a girl because when he was a toddler he "wanted to be a fairy or cheerleader or witch. On play dates, she (sic) hung out with girls in play kitchens."

After her son declared he was a "girl," clearly associating that "identity" with the patterns and stereotypes he was beginning to observe around himself, as all children do, rather than helping him understand that boys and girls are not defined by those stereotypes and instead gently guiding and correcting him as an adult should, Stacy agreed and said, "Yes to the sparkly cupcake shirts from the girls section at Target. Yes to the Barbie Dreamhouse."

She wrote an entire book on sexist stereotypes, but her son Tate's favorite color "used to be pink: the color she (sic) associated with being a girl, the easiest way to assert her (sic) femininity."

In other words, this boy liked pink for no other reason than that pink was a "girl's color."

Although the photos speak for themselves, I realize I should maybe add some context behind these. It only gets worse...

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#JohnOliverIsAMisogynist

https://x.com/hecheateddotorg/status/1910166298069189075

This is the podium at the 2019 Samoa Pacific Games where Gavin Hubbard, now known as "Laurel," a male lifter, beat two Samoan women, Feagaiga Stowers and Iuniana Sipaia, for the overall gold.

The crowd cheered when Hubbard failed his final clean & jerk attempt.

Hubbard was 43 years old when he qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, taking the place of a 19 year old Roviel Detenamo from Nauru. She would have been Nauru's fourth ever female Olympian.

In 2018, Hubbard pled guilty to a reckless driving charge after his car collided with that of a couple in their 60's, hospitalizing the driver with a spinal injury. His name was kept out of the papers as the judge ruled it would hurt his chances for an Olympic bid.

Hubbard has set 3 "women's" world records in the masters category.

"Laurel" Hubbard is a man.

insidethegames.biz/articles/10820…

fairplayforwomen.com/laurel_hubbard/

🧵The real face of (male) "inclusion" in women's sport...