Female runner

Grassroots runner fighting for fairness for female athletes

[Female runner @FemaleRunner]

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

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

@alfredlanning23 @KittyKevin01 @Cantspekl @HelenSimpson4 @Caterin00138072 @mara_yamauchi @sharrond62 @SportSEENuk @Martina @xx_xyathletics @KemiBadenoch @ForWomenScot @FondOfBeetles @runthinkwrite @DerryBanShee @WomensRightsNet @WomenChilterns @NWalesReSisters @fairplaywomen @Sport_England @BBCSport @JournalistJill 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 @FemaleRunner]

@MForstater @alfredlanning23 @KittyKevin01 @Cantspekl @HelenSimpson4 @Caterin00138072 @mara_yamauchi @sharrond62 @SportSEENuk @Martina @xx_xyathletics @KemiBadenoch @ForWomenScot @FondOfBeetles @runthinkwrite @DerryBanShee @WomensRightsNet @WomenChilterns @NWalesReSisters @fairplaywomen @Sport_England @BBCSport @JournalistJill .@parkrunUK did exactly this to me but a bit more brutally

[Female runner @FemaleRunner]

@MForstater @alfredlanning23 @KittyKevin01 @Cantspekl @HelenSimpson4 @Caterin00138072 @mara_yamauchi @sharrond62 @SportSEENuk @Martina @xx_xyathletics @KemiBadenoch @ForWomenScot @FondOfBeetles @runthinkwrite @DerryBanShee @WomensRightsNet @WomenChilterns @NWalesReSisters @fairplaywomen @Sport_England @BBCSport @JournalistJill .@parkrunUK did exactly this to me but a bit more brutally

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

“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

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

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

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

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)

[Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi]

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 @FemaleRunner]

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 @FemaleRunner]

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 @FemaleRunner]

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

[Female runner @FemaleRunner]

@HopeMirrlees @parkrunUK I did wonder that so I checked the nearest parkruns to the cancelled one.

Their numbers were normal.

[Female runner @FemaleRunner]

@Caterin00138072 @parkrunUK Absolutely @Caterin00138072

[Progressive Misogyny @JustMisogyny]

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.

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

Great interview with @mara_yamauchi and @DerryBanShee bringing more facts on the unfairness of allowing males into grassroots sports and recreational activities

[Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi]

Is Bunce going to apologise to all the people he called “anonymous fools” who stated the truth that Khelif is male? 🤔

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

The @milanocortina26 Winter Olympics have begun

Although the International Ski Federation protected the female category in Sept 2025, @SnowsportEng @SnowsportWales and @Snowsport_Scot still allow males to participate in all levels of women’s snowsport

Details of the unfair policy and how to contact those in charge follows

[Female runner @FemaleRunner]

Well this sign sparked A LOT of reaction at a grass roots race tonight

So many of the general public and runners coming up and saying

Absolutely
Totally agree
It’s madness
And not just boxing, keep men out of all female sport

#IstandWithAngelaCarini

[Jeannie Brady 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏃🏻‍♀️ @jeannie_brady]

@olvxska @neilDCFC @mara_yamauchi @MayorofLondon Agree. I will never be elite and it matters to me. Training for a marathon is very hard. Training for London requires running regularly over winter often in the dark/ rain/ cold. It's deeply insulting to belittle women who dedicate their time & efforts just for wanting fairness.

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

There’s nothing intimidating about women wearing T-shirts expressing support for fairness in women’s sport.

No individual is being targeted, named or singled out. No rules have been broken. No one is prevented from participating.

Disagreeing with a policy - or expressing a lawful view - is not intimidation. Calling it “campaigning” doesn’t change that.

[Caroline Struthers @Healthy_Control]

https://t.co/iUgzqXI0hU