Grassroots runner fighting for fairness for female athletes
Joined November 2022
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Thanks to so many regular parkrunners/volunteers across the UK who sent me their photos calling on @parkrunUK to do better and stop unfair self ID! Sorry I couldn’t use them all. Please keep sharing and encouraging others to make their voices heard #savewomensparkrun
Female runner retweeted
Some things for you to consider regarding #Parkrun & (un)fairness in light of the average advantage of males over females…
#SaveWomensSports #FairFemaleSports #RealityRulesRunnersUK #ParkrunUK
On a lovely out and back @parkrunUK today
Given an average male has a 10% advantage over an equally trained female - 3 mins for the average parkrunner
Would I be allowed to turn back early and run 10% less?
Or would my result be deleted because it wasn’t fair?
@RRRunnersUK
On a lovely out and back @parkrunUK today
Given an average male has a 10% advantage over an equally trained female - 3 mins for the average parkrunner
Would I be allowed to turn back early and run 10% less?
Or would my result be deleted because it wasn’t fair?
@RRRunnersUK
. @parkrunUK policy allows males to choose the female category…
… for women and girls, it’s the same unfairness as cutting the course short
Only one type of unfairness is acceptable to @parkrun /2
Female runner retweeted
"Women only sports? There are so many girls brilliant at sports. This is their only chance. Why take it away from them by making them compete against biological males. That's not fair."
@KemiBadenoch
Interview clip from @MrMennoTweets
“First female - well done” shouted to me by parkrunners & marshals
In a small out and back @parkrunUK it’s easy to spot the first female finisher
The only thing for certain - I was 12th. Any of the 11 males in front of me could have registered in the female category today…
… I self-exclude from the mixed-sex category advertised as ‘female’ and therefore also get excluded from any category stats
@parkrunUK allows males to self-ID into the ‘female’ category and lets them keep all their comparison data
@RRRunnersUK
… People were very certain I was female, even though I am registered as ‘prefer not to say’
It would be so easy for @parkrun to ask people to register on the basis of sex and give females fair results
(Maybe the pink shorts were the clue?)
Lots of support for Reality Rules Runners at a sunny @parkrunUK this morning
Fantastic encouragement from the army of volunteers on @parkrun’s 22nd birthday. Hopefully the present to the female parkrun community will be fair, sex-based results soon
@RRRunnersUK
Female runner retweeted
Reasons @parkrunUK gave for deleting my results and barcode
No To Unfair Self-ID - “false name / deemed inappropriate”
Willie Tucker - “overall context of the situation”
Bjorna Mann - “reading aloud the name is an example of a protest registration”
Female Runner - “unsuitable”
I’ve joined @RRRunnersUK and returned to @parkrunUK
All my previous results and barcodes have been deleted by @parkrun
No To Unfair Self ID
Willie Tucker
Bjorna Mann
Female Runner
Started afresh with 1 volunteer credit and now 1 run
Will Dee Leeted avoid being deleted?
Female runner retweeted
Email the person and say "you seem to be registered in the wrong category. Here are your options - register as M, register without sex. Please correct your registration within X days or let us know if this a mistake on our part. " Etc
The normal thing to enforce TS and Cs
Female runner retweeted
“Across all running events, males (aged 7 to 9) consistently outperformed females, with an average performance advantage of 4.9 %”
This is why it is grossly unfair to school girls to only have mixed-sex sport options; setting them up to fail even before puberty
New article! But not necessarily ground breaking news. Once again an analysis of track competition data shows that 7, 8, and 9 year old boys run faster than girls in distances of 70m to 400m, this time using data from Australia
@icons_women @coachblade
pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/…
Female runner retweeted
The first conclusion from the @void_if_removed review of the @BJSM_BMJ paper - debunking their claim that transwomen (biological males) have no advantage over female athletes
The SEEN in Sport website has an abundance of peer reviewed research; showing male advantage increases from birth and is not removed by years of testosterone suppression
An absolute savage review of that terrible BJSM paper trying desperately to show no fitness differences between trans-identifying males and females.
Well worth the read. voidifremoved.co.uk/p/beef-t…
Female runner retweeted
Another debunking of the @BJSM_BMJ claim that transwomen (biological males) have no advantage over females in sport
Yes there’s overlap between elite women and untrained men (Graph 1)
But compare elite women v elite men and the overlap virtually disappears (Graph 2)
🚨NEW: Major scientific and media outlets have been using a recent @BJSM_BMJ analysis to assert that “transgender women” have no advantage over biological women in sports.
This is HIGHLY misleading, and it’s being used to justify elite sports policy the data cannot support.
The BJSM study measures recreational fitness in amateur populations, not elite athletic performance under extreme training.
Overlap in average fitness does not predict outcomes at the performance ceiling, where outcomes in elite sport is actually decided.
For @RealLastStand, ports scientist @jsmoliga breaks down why using this paper to justify competitive sports policy is scientifically unjustified.
🔗realityslaststand.com/p/why-…
Female runner retweeted
London Marathon is in April. Every year since UKA banned males from the Female category, males have competed in it.
The 2026 race, including the Mass race, is under EA’s licence and therefore males are still banned.
So how many males will break the rules this year?
Female runner retweeted
Timed and ranked results are important to the majority of the @parkrunUK community
Women and girls are lawfully entitled to the same fairness in results as males enjoy.
All it needs is a simple sex at birth registration policy and an expectation that people will be honest
The @parkrunUK I planned to do was cancelled today because no RD was available
I still went along to do a ‘fun run’
The vast majority of parkrunners did not
Seems they really like getting timed results published in ranked order and split into male and female categories
Timed and ranked results are important to the majority of the @parkrunUK community
Women and girls are lawfully entitled to the same fairness in results as males enjoy.
All it needs is a simple sex at birth registration policy and an expectation that people will be honest
Female runner retweeted
There was a time when a women's Olympic gold medallist confessing he's really a man would have been front page news, @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News.
Female runner retweeted
Great interview with @mara_yamauchi and @DerryBanShee bringing more facts on the unfairness of allowing males into grassroots sports and recreational activities
The @SexMattersOrg podcast is on sport this week - @MForstater, @DerryBanShee & me discussing the law (it’s not just section 195!), competition, recreational sport, men still flouting the rules in athletics, parkrun and more. 👇
sex-matters-news.org/p/sport…
