Reality Rules Runners UK

UK Running club for women & men who know biological reality matters in sport. We expect fairness through sex-based categories at parkrun.

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

#RealityRulesRunnersUK’s launch is covered extensively in @DailyMail.

The article covers @parkrunUK’s discrimination against women & girls and includes input from long-standing campaigners @SexMattersOrg, @mara_yamauchi, @sharrond62 & @SportSEENuk.

https://t.co/jgTOlqNDjg

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Good to see @GBnews giving a woman airtime to explain why fairness matters in parkrun.

Imagine if the BBC did the same ...

[SEEN in Journalism @JournalismSEEN]

Important story from @jan_murray about men competing in women’s categories in grassroots sport.

In terms of participation, parkrun is one of the UK’s biggest grassroots sporting organisations.

So why has an issue affecting women’s results, placings and records received so little serious scrutiny from the mainstream media - until now?

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

We made it to 2,427, which is an excellent result! What a great day it has been. Looking forward to getting back into it in a few hours. Sleep tight everyone 😴

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

We had around 100 followers at this point yesterday. Now we have 1,500.

Our follower @HallisseyC suggested a sweepstakes on our growth in followers, so we thought we would do a poll.

How many followers do you think #RealityRulesRunnersUK will have by the end of today?

[sutterfrau 💚 🤍 💜 @livelove_elbow]

If you Park Run please svuppprt reality rules (below)

Because apparently the claim that only a small number of people only matters if those people are women

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

On point from Claire!👇 Stop making excuses for Parkrun’s discrimination against their female participants.

[Claire Hallissey @HallisseyC]

Yet again, I'm seeing lots of comments about how parkrun can't possibly have sex-based categories as volunteers can't be expected to enforce them. But nobody "polices" existing age categories, there's just an expectation from parkrun that people register their correct age. . .

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@KittyKevin01 Looking forward to catching up and running together in a few weeks! 🙂

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

#RealityRulesRunnersUK’s launch is covered extensively in @DailyMail.

The article covers @parkrunUK’s discrimination against women & girls and includes input from long-standing campaigners @SexMattersOrg, @mara_yamauchi, @sharrond62 & @SportSEENuk.

https://t.co/jgTOlqNDjg

[Mara Yamauchi @mara_yamauchi]

100% this! 👇

Allowing men to run in F cat just pisses people off, especially women. The complete opposite of the Public Sector Equality Duty. Parkrun need to own this.

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

This 💯
Parkrun would be better at improving public health if women could use PR data to map their progress & compare age grade scores as motivation towards health goals.

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@eleanor_leech It’s a great episode! Thanks for sharing.

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@cathydevine56 That would be amazing! You can always walk - no need to run 🙂

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

Yay! Welcome Reality Runners. Hope to run with you one day.
🏃🏃🏃

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@compoanna @parkrunUK @sharrond62 @mara_yamauchi Thanks for your support, though I am sad that you too have been forgotten and excluded by Parkrun’s ‘inclusivity’

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

🥳 we just reached 2,000 followers. Thanks to every single one of you who has followed us and thank you all for spreading our message to @parkrunUK.

We won’t stop until #Parkrun introduces sex-based categories and ensures fairness for females.

#RealityRulesRunnersUK #Parkrun

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@TwisterFilm Thanks for the support and help Malcolm!

[Malcolm Clark @TwisterFilm]

Great to see this. 👇👇👇

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@eleanor_leech @parkrunUK Thanks for the question Eleanor. Please sign up to our newsletter at https://t.co/puZgGpM7s4
We will update you more about our debut run and from what date you can add the club. 🙏

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@formula1_m @parkrunUK Sadly there are many women and girls like you who will have stopped going because of Parkrun allowing males to sign up as females

[Reality Rules Runners UK @RRRunnersUK]

@MForstater Thanks! Looking forward to much more work in the next weeks and months 🙂

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

parkrun’s unfair policy of allowing males to record times in every available category including female gets an airing today in the Mail on Sunday.

Show your support for Fair Sport for Females at your local parkrun!

Our Save Women’s Sport and XX Biology Doesn’t Lie T-shirts get the message across loud and clear. Campaigners for fair sport have been wearing our exclusive T-shirts at parkrun’s all over the UK and beyond. Eye-catching and great conversation starters!

Link to our exclusive WRN retailer in the next post.

[SEENinSport @SportSEENuk]

"The Supreme Court ruling was very clear. Where something is designated Male or Female, it must be by biological sex."

Excellent interview by @mara_yamauchi
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