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[Sam @SATempest]

Yorkshire border: “keep out”
Lancashire border “no you keep out”
The attention to detail in #WallaceAndGromit is unmatched 🤣🤣

[Sam @SATempest]

@Dr_CorbinCWong @I_MakeMoves I can’t bring myself to watch the Hopman cup videos back she was carrying him 😭🤣

[Sam @SATempest]

@sid_balenka https://t.co/fxoBALYNjJ

[Sam @SATempest]

For any Serena Williams super fans, the LTA posted a video of her full first practice at Queens on YouTube. You’re welcome https://t.co/fxoBALYNjJ

[Sam @SATempest]

@mjjwoman @hBencee https://t.co/fxoBALYNjJ LTA posted full practice here, she’s hitting well!

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Sam @SATempest]

@AndyBurnhamGM If you win this and eventually make it to PM, please write off student loans. There’s a whole generation of us trapped paying hundreds a month with no end in sight. Do this, and you’ll secure the vote of every single young person affected by this system.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has set out his views on Labour's path forward and the policy challenges facing the country.

Speaking to Channel 4 News' Andrew Misra, Burnham said he wanted Labour to become “a party that they can believe in again, a party solidly on the side of working class people.”

[Matt Graveling @mattgraveling]

🥇History made live on the BBC!🥇

The favourite moment of my broadcasting career - Kenya's Sabastian Sawe broke the 'impossible' sub 2 hour barrier at @LondonMarathon.

I was live with @MartineBBC on @BBCNews & @BBCWorld talking about Tigst Assefa's record when Sawe flew past!🇰🇪

[Drew @flowersinmalibu]

Welcome back 2000s 😍

[Hughes-on-the-Wold @NotThatHughes]

When you see your taxes being spent on feeding children instead of bombing them.

[Sam @SATempest]

Trump really saw this and was like nah it’s time for WW3

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

The final trailer for ‘THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2’ has been released.

Featuring a new original song “Runway” performed by Lady Gaga and Doechii.

In theaters May 1.

[Rosie @rosie_eats]

My only response to boomer housing discourse is that my nan on her final salary teachers pension gets the same monthly income I get as a teacher on the inner London pay scale

[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

One of the great wonders of life: the astronauts on Artemis II can make video calls with perfectly clarity and reception from halfway to the moon yet try to make a call on an Avanti train on the West Coast mainline at Runcorn and you’ll be lucky to connect by Watford.

[Sam @SATempest]

PREACH

[KnH @keelyhodgkinson]

Thoroughly enjoyed the rattled comments under this, but in all seriousness, to have a global championships back in London would be incredible for our sport. I didn't think we'd get the opportunity again during my career, the british crowd would fill it everyday. Seems silly for London to be taken out of the running, over a football team not compromising on a stadium they pay RENT for when it's only a few extra away games, everything's always all about money and never moments. let us have this moment!!! pretty please 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🤝🤝🤝🤝💕💕💕💕

[KnH @keelyhodgkinson]

Thoroughly enjoyed the rattled comments under this, but in all seriousness, to have a global championships back in London would be incredible for our sport. I didn't think we'd get the opportunity again during my career, the british crowd would fill it everyday. Seems silly for London to be taken out of the running, over a football team not compromising on a stadium they pay RENT for when it's only a few extra away games, everything's always all about money and never moments. let us have this moment!!! pretty please 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🤝🤝🤝🤝💕💕💕💕

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

The IOC just announced their policy on DSD and trans athletes in the female category. Let's skip the outrage and go with the scientific facts:

The modern debate started almost 20 years ago with the rise of DSD athletes who were winning world/Olympics (See: Semenya and others).

It came to a head when DSD athletes swept the podium.

The had the single biggest performance boost we can get, androgenization. Something that none of their competitors could ever have.

So debates commenced...

It's important to put in context how big a boost males get from simply being males. It's a larger boost in performance than if you were Lance Armstrong or Barry Bonds and hopped up on all the performance enhancing drugs known to man.

That's how large it is. It's why from 100 meters to races hundreds of miles long, the performance differential is generally 10-15%. Even larger in some strength events.

Every male gets this boost. It doesn't men all men beat all women, of course.

There's significant overlap in performance. My wife is going to better than 99% of men in distance running.

But...that boost gives each male a 10+% jump in performance that no female ever gets. We can see it in the athletic data and the progressions of men and women at puberty.

So...governing bodies and experts debated what to do about it. Women were losing millions of dollars in total to folks who had a male androgenization advantage.

We went from doing nothing, not much of a real policy to eventually instituting testosterone rules.

THe thinking was, testosterone can be a surrogate marker. It also gave DSD athletes a venue to still compete in the male category. They could lower their T to typical female levels, and still race.

There were a few problems with this. First, it obviously only took into account CURRENT T levels. A large part of the boost comes from androgens through a lifetime.

Second, this was challenged in court by DSD athletes. It was a long process that led to some strange policies along the way (for instance, rules only applied to certain event groups). It was tricky to regulate and be fair, and telling someone they had to have a medical intervention to compete came with ethical issues.

So that was eventually scrapped. I'm simplifying and summarizing years long backs and forth, obviously.

Track and field moved to the policy the IOC just adopted a year ago. Using the SRY test as a screener.

Why? It was simpler, straightforward and applied to all females, so their wasn't a separate DSD and trans policy.

It also put the dividing line for segregating sports by sex instead of a surrogate marker.

It's a one time screener, and then with specific follow up if potential DSD.

There's an exception for CAIS athletes because androgenization has little to no effect on them. So they do not have an advantage.

So what? I've seen this policy framed as immoral, fascist, and even nazism...which is crazy...

But the point is...it's a result of 20 years of debate, research, and trying to figure out a solution to a tricky problem.

There's a lot of people who don't know or are ignorant to the decades this has been going on.

Why is it important to separate sports based on sex?

Because it's the biggest performance boost we could get. If we didn't, there would be zero professional women athletes in an open category.

That's how big the gap is. And I for one value and think women deserve the spotlight to compete and show off their hard work and talent.

I've spent my life coaching women at the elite level to do so.

You might here people say it's a ban. It's not.

Every athlete still has a place to compete. You can do so in the category that matches your biology, in open events, or recreational events that this does not apply to.

A rough analogy: Longevity guru Bryan Johnson can't compete in the under 18 category no matter what age score his crazy metrics say he is.

We have categories and classification to ensure everyone has a chance to compete.

Yes, we pick what categories are important. But it's hard to argue that sex isn't a very important one.

So there you have it. It's been 20 years in the making. It started with DSD athletes with an androgen advantage winning championships and has evolved from there.

It's not perfect. Nothing is. We've debated, shifted policies, etc. But lots of smart folks and researchers have been trying to figure out a just and fair solution for a long time.

[KnH @keelyhodgkinson]

The GB team will bring back more medals to that stadium than west ham have seen in their entire history 🫢🫶🏼😂

[Sam @SATempest]

Middle distance league athletes up and down the country screaming rn when their coach makes them do the 4x400 after just finishing an 800 at the next league meet 😭

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

800m World champ Keely Hodgkinson had the fastest 4x400 leg in the final.

Split 50.10 by herself trying to chase down others, only an hour after winning the 800 in 1:55.3

Impressive double!

[Sam @SATempest]

@Martina @georgegalloway I have huge respect for you but this post is misleading. The UK hasn't changed the 24 week limit for elective abortions. The recent vote was to decriminalise women in crisis who end their own pregnancies, shifting the issue from a Victorian-age law to a healthcare matter.

[Bold Politics @_BoldPolitics]

How private contracts are killing our NHS with @DrAmirKhanGP