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Irish-German 🇮🇪🇩🇪 | West Ham ⚒
Dancing to my own rhythm, unbound by labels or expectations 🏳️‍⚧️✨

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Israel has kidnapped the sister of the president of Ireland.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

this video is so important considering the western media and zionists are constantly dehumanising palestinians.

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Apple has removed the names of the villages in Southern Lebanon from Apple Maps.
This is where we are.

[Leah McCourt @leahmccourtmma]

Michael, I understand and share the sadness and anger behind your post. What happened is horrific, and it’s something no family or community should ever have to endure.

At the same time, I think it’s important that we look at the full picture of violence against women. The majority of women who are murdered or abused in Ireland are harmed by Irish men, and that is something we as a society also have to be willing to face and confront honestly.

The statement ‘We have allowed Ireland to become a country where welfare migrants kill young women’ absolves the fact that the majority of young women are murdered and abused at the hands of Irish men.

I say this not to dismiss your point, but because I believe the wider issue is the tolerance and acceptance of how women are treated in our communities. That culture of silence and minimising abuse is something many of us have seen firsthand. I have personally experienced harassment, stalking, and abuse for simply believing and supporting a woman when she spoke about her abuser, and no one should face that for doing the right thing.

We should be able to stand against violence towards women in all forms, no matter who the perpetrator is, and work towards a society where women are safe and believed.

I also stand with Ryan and continue to pray for his peace, healing, and safety. Thankyou for your voice and speaking out.

[West Ham United Women @WestHamWomen]

Ffion Morgan on feeling safe, supported and seen in football this LGBTQ+ History Month 🌈⚒️

A thread 🧵⬇️

[Dan Woffenden @danwoff98]

Proper sickener tonight but still PLENTY of positives to take. One defeat in five PL games & you can see Nuno’s style now imprinted on this team. We were very good defensively tonight bar a world class finish. Keep that level going and we’ll stay up.

[Kris J @kjohno10]

Fucking sickening.

I don’t think we done anything wrong tonight. We did get a bit too deep but we still tried to pass out and counter attack.

Lucky we have FA Cup next up. Win there and get that winning momentum back.

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Landmark study suggests trans women may not have advantage in sports ➡️ https://t.co/lWC40yYPSs

📷 Evanto

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

New Sports Medicine Review Finds No Evidence to Support Blanket Bans on Trans Women in Women’s Sport

A new peer reviewed review published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine concludes there is no evidence to justify blanket bans on transgender women participating in women’s sport.

The review analysed 52 studies involving 6,485 participants most of whom were transgender. The authors assessed body composition strength and cardiorespiratory fitness following gender affirming hormone therapy and compared outcomes across transgender women non transgender women and non transgender men.

The findings show that while transgender women may retain slightly higher lean muscle mass one to three years after starting hormone therapy this does not translate into measurable performance advantages over non transgender women in key areas of athletic performance.

The review found no observable differences between transgender women and non transgender women in measures of strength or VO₂ max a standard indicator of aerobic capacity. Researchers also reported that transgender women have higher body fat levels than non transgender men and levels comparable to non transgender women.

When compared with non transgender men transgender women demonstrated significantly lower strength and lower VO₂ max. The authors concluded that convergence in functional performance between transgender women and non transgender women challenges assumptions that transgender women retain inherent athletic advantages after hormone therapy.

Despite these findings several UK sporting bodies have recently introduced bans on transgender women competing in women’s categories following a UK Supreme Court ruling interpreting the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act as based on biological sex.

Organisations that have announced bans include the Football Association England Netball and the England and Wales Cricket Board. Other sports such as cycling and triathlon have introduced open or mixed categories rather than full exclusions.

Internationally the International Olympic Committee has signalled a move toward stricter eligibility frameworks for transgender athletes.

Earlier this year a legal challenge brought by Sex Matters against an inclusive swimming pond in London was dismissed by the High Court. Subsequent data released by the City of London Council showed that 86 percent of surveyed members supported trans inclusive participation policies.

The authors emphasised that hormone therapy is associated with increased body fat and reduced muscle mass and upper body strength in transgender women over time. The review stated that available evidence does not support categorical exclusions and that sport specific criteria based on measurable performance align more closely with the data.

The findings highlight a growing gap between sports science evidence and current regulatory responses with policy increasingly shaped by legal and political considerations rather than empirical performance data.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Transgender women athletes have no advantage over cisgender women, a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine has found.

The researchers found that there was no evidence “to justify blanket bans” on trans women competing in women’s sport and that the data doesn’t support “inherent athletic advantage theories”.

The pooled data analysis of 52 studies on 6,485 people considered strength, fitness and body composition of trans women receiving gender-affirming hormone therapy.

Trans women were found to have more lean mass (a proxy for muscle), but there were no observable differences in upper or lower body strength, or in a key measure of cardiorespiratory fitness – maximal oxygen consumption – between trans and cis women.

The researchers said: “Although the current data do not justify blanket bans, critical gaps in literature were found, notably the under-representation of transgender athletes who may retain more ‘muscle memory’.”

They added that more long-term and high-quality studies are needed to “prioritise performance-specific metrics in transgender athletes” but the “scarce number” of trans people in elite sport makes this difficult.

The inclusion of trans women in women’s sports has been a key issue for anti-trans campaigners.

Last year, the Football Association banned trans women from taking part in women’s football in England, and the England and Wales Cricket Board banned trans women from all levels of women’s cricket.

This came after the UK supreme court ruled in April 2025 that the legal definition of a woman under the Equality Act is based on biological sex.

[Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) @HelenWebberley]

Sorry luvvies. All your transphobic, exclusionary hate has been debunked by proper experts. #transgender #sports

[Kat Bran 🏳️‍⚧️ @KatBranSecrets]

When I was little, I used to press my mom’s lipstick to my lips in secret and wipe it off before anyone noticed.

I didn’t have the words back then - just a quiet knowing and a lot of fear.

Tonight, I caught my reflection while getting ready. Lipstick on. Hair down. No hiding.

I smiled and thought, she waited so long for this 🥹🏳️‍⚧️💕

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This is not Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this is North Gaza.

[Jack Elderton @jackelderton]

The great escape begins

[Funkyrobot™ 🤖🦊 @Funkyrob0t]

@DaleJohnsonBBC How is that offside when Summerville is tackled deliberately by Milenkovic @FA_PGMOL

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Nuno is a fighter. He’s never hidden. But this looks a fight too far. Seven points is more than a gap. It must feel like a gulf. Nuno is a manager who cares and is clearly hurting but he looks bereft of ideas and hope. And who motivates the motivator? 

Even if Nuno goes, so many problems remain. Poor recruitment. Agents’ influence. Too few top-level players. Too few players with strength of character. Started well but belief is brittle. Forest’s players fought harder for longer. 

Some good things - academy brings hope for the future, Foundation brings hope in the community. But the club is a mess. It’s a badly run club and good people are leaving. Gaps in staff, gaps in the stands. The club should be West Ham United, not Divided. The distance between fans and the board is even bigger than the distance between fans and the pitch.

They are stuck with the stadium, an athletics stadium. Fans were sold a dream which has turned into a nightmare. It’s soulless - the antithesis of Upton Park. At the very least the board could invest more in making the London Stadium more of a football ground. Also more investment in training ground required. 

Protests will continue. Board members can either sell - which most fans seem to want - or acknowledge their many mistakes and actually listen to fans and act on their legitimate concerns, ticket prices, stadium flaws etc, and try and rebuild together. As with survival in the Premier League, it looks too late for that. It’s sad. A good family club torn apart - and much of the damage self-inflicted by an insular board. #WHUFC

[Chukwüderä @chukwudera_ng]

My heart goes to every queer and trans sibling who cannot go home for the holidays because they’re not welcomed the way they’re perfectly made.

You’re wholesome. You’re loved. You’re not alone. ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

[Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 @IrelandFootball]

Troy Parrott, take your place on the pantheon of Irish greats 🇮🇪

[Jenna Taylor ♀️ @JennaLizzy]

Another sister lost due to transphobia. I've seen far too many go over the last 15 years since I started my transition. Each one absolutely tragic, and upsetting knowing there is a contingent of people out there celebrating this.

[George Aylett @GeorgeAylett]

Trans men are men.
Trans women are women.
Non-binary people are non-binary.
Trans rights are human rights.

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