And yet again we see the bizarre statement “Here at CTT, we are committed to the promotion of inclusivity and a fair competition in sport”. INCLUSIVITY? Are you fucking kidding me?
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This is outrageous. It apparently requires blood testing of ALL female competitors and will ban for life 10% of all cisgender women because of elevated testosterone levels. There needs to be strong protest from cisgender women against this, and court action.
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This rule would ban women who have previously had PCOS related high testosterone levels because anyone with a registered test over 2nm/mol isn't just wiped out for that test but for the rest of their cycling career. It's really profoundly extreme as a policy.
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Serum testosterone for women cyclists in British cycling time trials restricted to 2.5nml/litre.
Absolutely batshit. As You can see in the graph below, quite a lot of elite female athletes have a serum testosterone above 2nm/l. At least 13%
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Not reporting on the requirement for Cis women to "not have had a Testosterone result in serum of above 2.5nmls/l before competing" as 1 of 3 requirements if eligibility ???
That's the first requirement of it's kind in the WORLD 
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No woman should be in prison for making decisions about her own body.
This shocking case highlights the urgent need to change the law.
Abortion is healthcare. It must be decriminalised, now.
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I wonder if neurodivergent trans people present to their doctor and just say “I’m trans”, whereas a neurotypical trans person presents and says”I have great ennui, I don’t seem to connect with society’s expectations of me”, and so we get more ND trans people.
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I know our NHS is broken and it’s very difficult to get appointments but I do wonder if the problem is I still haven’t learnt how to deal with medical people. Is this a neurodiversity issue? End
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I guess what I’m saying is that I have a problem convincing people I’m in pain and need help. This could have been sorted in January, but it’s June, I’m about to go on holiday, and I’m incredibly frustrated. 9/n
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When I mentioned that my last test came back negative, I was told “No, you tested positive for e.coli” so how were they ignoring my symptoms even in the face of evidence? So now I’m waiting for yet another test result because the last one is now invalid 8/n
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So here I am back in the present, I’ve been in pain for 6months unable to convince anyone I’m ill. At my last appointment I was offered some pills to ‘relax my bladder’, but couldn’t convince them I had an infection. 7/n
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It transpired that the (male) doctors took a look at me and decided that no way was my lung collapsed, but the (female) nurses believed me. I later found out that they’d had a bet on my condition and I’d won the female staff some money. 6/n
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When I explained myself to the triage nurse she was rather shocked. I’d been forgotten. They called for a wheelchair and I was pushed down the corridor. Pneumothorax is life threatening. I then had a similar experience with the doctors 5/n
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I was sent to A&E, told them I had a collapsed lung, and was told to sit in the red chairs in the front row (which I assumed were priority). After 2 hours the triage nurse asked if anyone was waiting. I assumed everybody was waiting but I put my hand up 4/n
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Reminds me of the second time my lung collapsed (yes, seriously). I presented at my GP surgery telling them that I was having trouble breathing and I thought my lung had collapsed. They seemed dismissive but when I suggested I had ‘chest pain’ (not strictly true) they saw me 3/n
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I filled out the eConsult and it said “based on your answers you need urgent attention and should call the surgery”. So yet again I’m being bounced around because I’m apparently unable to convince people I’m ill. 2/n
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I just talked to my GP surgery. I’m fairly sure I used the words “I’m in a lot of pain”. When I asked for an appointment I was told end of June, but I was welcome to fill out an eConsult and have a GP deal with it “in a day or 2”. 1/n
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Also, juxtaposing a picture of a truly horrible predator with a story about trans people, I’m sure is no coincidence. This is deliberately stoking hatred of us.
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I am right in thinking the hatred of us has ramped right up for Pride Month, yes? It’s not normally quite this bleak is it?
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“It could put female patients at risk”. I’m fucking sick of trans people being portrayed as predators. Just how is a trans doctor supposed to be putting a patient at risk? Just stop with this shit.
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“the central figure is Kathleen Stock…. once a philosophy lecturer at the Uni of Sussex. That’s the extent of her expertise. Her specialism was the philosophy of literature, not feminist theory or gender studies, not human rights, not law, not medicine.”
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A lot of talk about the evil trans lobby and the evil trans activists...
...I have been covering trans activism and know a hell of a lot than most about the state of trans lobbying.
Here is the truth.
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I saw Tina Turner at Murrayfield during the Goldeneye tour. She walked on stage, started singing, and I burst into tears. No one had ever done that to me before. Icon. Thank you Tina. RIP
I’d agree, but add:
40 years of being out:
1983: Moral panic, nurse assumes I’m an AIDS risk and freaks out.
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On 3/4/23, wrote to suggesting that "sex" be defined as biological within the terms of the Equality Act. On 5/4/23, the met with some LGBT organisations. There were only TWO trans people in the room. This is what happened:
A THREAD:
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It’s good to see the American government are finally doing something about gun violence
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This is some of the most dystopian propaganda I've seen.
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For the first time in my entire life my vote has counted! I have a councillor I actually voted for! It looks like the parties in neighbouring wards were careful to avoid splitting the anti-Tory votes, and it worked!
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My pal just called...
She said:
I'm off to vote, who should I vote for?
I asked her postcode
I popped it into the website below
It said:
Vote Lib Dem
She said:
On it
And that's how easy it is to de-seat the Tories.
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The usual - in my opinion - hyped-up, mis-information, sensationalised, lie-of-a-heading utilised here by the right-wing Daily Mail to promote "outrage" and transphoic propoganda
As usual it won't get challenged of checked by so the so called "independant"
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UK gov is proposing to force teachers to out LGBT kids to their parents
Clearly a huge safe guarding risk. If a child only feels comfortable telling their friends or teachers and not their parents there will be a good reason
Here's a petition against it
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I see examples of this a lot. La Vuelta Feminina starts today and is the first Grand Tour of the year. The men’s Giro starts on the 6th May and would appear to be the second Grand Tour.
My guess is Demi Vollering to win first Grand Tour of the year
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Less than 500 signatures needed to force a government acknowledgement that non-binary folk exist and want recognition
Please sign if you haven't already
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Time is starting to run out for this petition. I have very little hope it will get across the line. Which would mean it's already the third or fourth time this fails. But yeah, we're a strong community. Except we're not really, are we? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6295
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In the last week many cis allies, including many women, have been asking 'What can I do?!' in response to the hysteria & hate aimed at trans people in the UK.
We're under attack by a body that should be protecting us. The .
THIS is what you can do tinyurl.com/EHRCCalltoact
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Read this thread. ⬇️
Take note of everything in it.
Do everything it suggests.
UK trans community and allies, this is for real.
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A lot has been written and said about the nightmarish situations facing trans people in the United States.
The UK situation has become almost as terrifying. Here is a thread breaking it down
Please read, please share. Many aren't aware of this
Change that
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If you would like something practical to do to help the trans community we really could use your support on this important case - otherwise we are going to have to drop it.
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Here is a gov petition to not remove trans people's rights from the Equality Act 2010
The gov responded saying they weren't going to change the EA2010 when it reached 10,000 signatures, but things have changed since. Let's get this to 100k
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The EHRC guidance appears to want to stop me having breast screenings. It also seeks to legally define my boyfriend as gay. It’s utter garbage
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6 months ago I had a breast screening. 3 weeks ago I had a vaginal swab. My biological sex is female and to pretend otherwise to appease a bunch of bigoted Tories is utter insanity.
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The “Women’s tour” is actually the women’s tour of Britain. Not sure why call it that, when the men’s is ‘The tour of Britain” but I suspect it’s a rights thing. The men’s tour is a relatively minor event on the calendar, but the women’s tour is a major world tour event. Big loss twitter.com/Chican3ry/stat
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"Gender critical" leader, Posie Parker has said that she never loses, and she will "annihilate" any woman - including GC women - who stand in her way.
She failed to hold her anti-trans rally in Auckland today, and she is now leaving New Zealand early.
Here's what happened. 1/
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