🧵Although I hadn't seen the results at the time, when I saw the Ice Breaker HEMA group post calling out "bigots" I knew that meant there were men participating in what is supposed to be the women's division.

I wasn't expecting it to be this bad though… It turns out, all three medals in the "Women's and Underrepresented Longsword" event at the Icebreaker Open 2025, Gold, Silver, and Bronze, went to male fencers.

1st - Roman "Romana" Shemayev
2nd - John "Joan" Keizer
3rd - Andrew "Claire" Sell

The only woman who seems to have won anything in the entire Icebreaker Open 2025 tournament was Ania Chaney, who won "Honorable Conduct" award.

The Icebreaker organizers have succeeded in almost completely excluding women.

🧵The shame of men in women's sport doesn't belong to just one nation or sport. There is plenty to go around.

Here's a list of what I believe to be the most notorious/high profile case from each country.

See how many you recognize and let me know if you think someone else should be represented instead! 1. Algeria - Imane Khelif, boxing (Olympic champion)

The narrative of victimhood men and boys who pretend to be women and girls portray and then foist onto the mainstream media is both disgusting and dangerous.

Let's take a look at this article about male athlete Declan "Harriette" Mackenzie, a young man who believed himself to be entitled to take a place away from a woman on a women's team and cheat in women's sports.

This is a long one…
The article opens with a description of a play where Mackenzie was flagrantly fouled. An opposing player pulled him by the jersey to the floor.

Just for reference, Mackenzie is 6'2", the tallest player on the VIU team and one of the tallest in the league.

"Was it frustration? Frustration happens…"

The frustration of being forced to play against a 6'2" man who is the "best player" in the women's conference (because he is the only man in the conference) is not something that should be happening. Ever.

🧵Men who pretend to be women bear the full responsibility of their own actions, but that doesn't mean they haven't been enabled by almost everyone around them from athletic organizations to the media, family, and even teammates.

One harmful result of "gender ideology" is that we can no longer trust what we are reading.

When a "woman" is described in the news as committing a crime, reporters may as well just say "person," as the word "woman" can now mean anything. It's the same in the athletic world.

Here are a few examples: “Daughter Inspires Mom to Get Back in the Saddle” – September 2017 Athlete of the Month
nsga.com/daughter-inspi…

"Six years ago, Candace Kennedy-Hess thought her cycling days were long over. The challenges of a single mom raising kids, earning a master’s degree at NYU, and pursuing a successful sales and marketing career had relegated her custom bike to be a garage wall hanger for 16 years."

“I grew up on the Jersey Shore and rode bikes a lot,” she recalls. “I loved to surf, and used cycling to help keep me in shape. The cycling took over in my 20s and 30s.”

"Candace competed semi-pro in several disciplines, including mountain biking, downhill and cross-country, and she earned her share of podium positions. But at 38, life responsibilities prompted her to hang it up, thinking she was done for good."

Nowhere in this article does it mention that "Candace" is actually a man formerly known as Robert Kennedy.

This is just one example of how these men seek to erase and replace women.

Kennedy-Hess's wife, the actual mother of his children, no longer exists, and a narrative is put forth instead that portrays him as a "single mother" raising kids and balancing a career in a male-dominated industry.

❓Where are they now❓

Michael "Lauren" Jeska burst onto the "women's" fell (mountain) running scene in the late 2000s, winning no fewer than 40 races between 2008 and 2015 including 4 national championship titles in English and British fell running.

Jeska also ran at parkrun, finishing 1st female in 17 of the 18 he ran and setting a parkrun course record.

Where is Jeska today?

Serving year 8 of his 18-year sentence for attempted murder at HM Prison Foston Hall in Derbyshire.

HM Prison Foston Hall is a women's prison.
In 2015, UK athletics told Jeska he would need to provide blood tests to prove that his hormone levels were within the accepted range required for him to run "as a woman."

After Jeska failed to provide these tests (apparently, he did not want the fact that he was male to be made public) he was told his results would be considered "null and void."

On March 22, 2018, Jeska drove to the UK Athletics office in Birmingham armed with two knives where he proceeded to stab the head of HR, Ralph Knibbs, a man who was working to help Jeska, in the head and neck in an attack that was described as though he were "trying to skewer meat."

The two men who attempted to restrain Jeska were also injured, though less severely than Knibbs, who survived but suffered a stroke at the scene and was left with permanent partial loss of vision and disability due to severed nerves.

🧵On July 1st, a 58-year-old man formerly known as James Phillips, now going by the name "Kathryn," won the 50-59 age group "women's" title at the 2025 USA Cycling Masters & Junior Road National Championships.

Phillips' entrance into the race was hidden from other competitors. Female racers who entered the women's category specifically so they would not have to race against men where blindsided by a large man lining up at the start and finishing on top of the podium.

For anyone unfamiliar with what has been happening in women's cycling, this may come as a shock and an outrage.

For those who are aware of what has been going on, while no less outrageous, this is just another day. This is simply the tip of the iceberg. There are at least 100 men who have participated in "women's" bike sports including events in BMX, mountain biking, road races, gravel races, cyclocross, and track racing.

These men have entered at least 3,410 "women's" events, placing 1st in no less than 711 and making the podium in 1,443.

At least 9 of these men have been "women's" national champions, and 30 have ridden professionally or in the "elite" category. One man was part of the Olympic team at Tokyo.

Let's look at a few examples of the discrimination that has been happening to female athletes in cycling…

🧵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.