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Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS): network of women athletes & our supporters advocating for female protected categories in sport
Sep 10, 2023 • 14 tweets • 7 min read
🤺🧵Will USA Fencing & the USOPC be sending a male fencer to represent US women in the next Olympics?
@iocmedia @USOPC_News @FIE_fencing @USAFencing Image 🧵Male fencer, Eden Philpot won a women's national title this summer and became the only athlete to finish top 8 in 2 different weapon categories, a virtually unheard of feat in the sport.
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Mar 29, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
🥊Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif accused of being male after pummeling Mexican female boxer, Brianna Cruz and being disqualified for "high level of testosterone" after recent bout.

Khelif is a top 5 Tokyo Olympian, World silver medalist & 3x African champion women's boxer
@iocmedia @WBCBoxingImage
Image 🥊"Algerian welterweight, Imane Khelif, was disqualified by the @IBA_Boxing hours ahead of her gold medal bout...for her failure to meet the sport's global governing bodies 'eligibility criteria.'" toi.in/SBDK0b
Mar 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
🧑‍⚖️67 athletes & supporters in our network filed an amicus brief to #SCOTUS in support of WV’s law protecting women’s sports. This is the 1st case to come before the Supreme Court addressing today’s threat to women’s athletics.

Among the 67 female athletes... ...their family members, coaches, and sports officials who filed a brief are @Martina Navratilova, 59x Grand Slam Champion; Jennifer Sees, former NCAA track athlete, high school track coach, and parent of an NCAA soccer player; @SummerSanders_, Olympic gold medalist...
Feb 17, 2023 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
🚨🚨🚨Police called on 19 women @ICFSport in Vancouver by Canadian Powerlifting Union Pres. Shane Martin

Women dressed in black to “mourn women’s sports” with “XY≠XX” stickers cheered female lifters forced to compete at CAN Nationals against trans identifying male, Anne Andres. Original footage has been taken down by event organizers youtube.com/live/yVZIH0gaA…
Jan 4, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
🏋️Trans identifying male, Anne Andres is Alberta Canada's women's powerlifting record holder in bench
🚨competes next month in women's category at the 2023 CPU National Championships

🚩Recognizes no understanding of upper body strength differences btw males & females
🧵 🎦Dr. Ross Tucker @Scienceofsport explains scientific data highlighting the profound upper body strength differences between males and females here ⬇️ 🧵