Jo Ward

Former pro tennis player & GB Champ. Coach. Speaker. Researcher. Work in 🎾. All views are my own.

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

Time 4 #coacheducation specific for W&Gs. Forehand 1 of many examples where not knowing norms 4 women’s game makes coaches change perfectly gd swings. Coaching must fit female body & game or we’ll continue 2 lose girls from sport #playlikeagirl #coachingtoolbox #coacheducation

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@katherine_deves @fairplaywomen This. Can ANYONE watch this and still support male bodied people in female categories? This is disgusting misogyny on full display 😢

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@Jodurie Alan was a force of nature & one of a kind. He was funny, generous, inspirational, & a brilliant coach. Even though I didn't see him much, I can't believe I can't just pick up the phone. I can't imagine the hole he's left in your life & the lives of Vicky, Laura, & Ryan x

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

100% this 👇🏼

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[WimX Learning @WimXLearning]

What a wrap to days 1 and 2 of our LTA padel instructor course @stratfordpadel . Thanks to padel legend and former world no. 1 Iciar Montes who added a world class sparkle to the course ✨👍💪😜

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

Please remember @bbc & Josh Jones: females cyclists are part of 'the cycling community'. They do not want males, including transwomen, in female cycling. Please stop advocating for males at the expense of females. It is regressive, sexist & patriarchal.
https://t.co/jG277Up8F7

[WimX Tennis @WimXTennis]

So proud that 1 of our founders, @_JoWard, will be speaking in parliament at 10am tomorrow about sexism & inequalities in sport.

The Committee will hear evidence from sportswomen, sports scientists/coaches, clinicians, policy campaigners & consider ways of bringing about change.

[Matt Smith @msmithtennis]

SHAPE THE FUTURE: How do you want to learn as a coach? 📚💻🗣️
This is your chance to input on the CPD & learning landscape in the coming years 🏞️
Our survey takes approximately 4 minutes to complete, and all responses are anonymous ✍️
Offer your thoughts👉 https://t.co/CgC4MapG6z

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

Looking forward to supporting the committee to improve opportunities for participation and performance for women and girls in sport @the_LTA

[Women & Equalities Committee @CommonsWEC]

Our 2nd session on Sexism and inequalities in sport will focus on health-related issues for women & girls. Join us on Wed 6 Sept at 10am in Cmte. Room 16 or on Parliament TV. We’ll hear from @_JoWard, @EnglandNetball & @EnglandHockey.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Come on @USTA- women’s tennis is not for failed male athletes- whatever age. This is not right and it is not fair. Would this be allowed at the US Open this month? Just with self ID? I don’t think so…

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@pauldb71 @acrossleytennis @the_LTA Definitely Malbec 😉

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@pauldb71 @acrossleytennis @the_LTA Hey Paul, it’s not too challenging. Once you book it (£36) everything you need to do is presented in video and text formats 👍🏼

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Women have 1% of US sports sponsorship dollar, 4% sports prime time tv. 1000 Uk women earn their living from sport compared to 11,000 men! A tiny piece of the commercial earning cake. NO male with male physical advantage has ANY place in women’s sport, anywhere, ever. Race fair, it’s simply cheating otherwise #SaveWomensSports

[Matt Smith @msmithtennis]

Opening Up Coach Mentoring🙌
If you are a female, have a disability, and/or are from an ethnically diverse community, you can apply for 6 fully-funded 1-hour sessions with an LTA Coach Mentor 👥
Apply now 👉 https://t.co/jFPRQrVxNu

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

There are so so many good men out there, please speak up for women. These are males wanting female opportunities. At present females are vilified & relentlessly bullied for trying to protect their incredibly hard won spaces, like sport. We need your voices. Thank you …

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@BritishCycling Well done @BritishCycling - fairness for females has been restored👊🏽

[Cathy Devine @cathydevine56]

'...the “female category” for any form of competition from elite to grassroots will be preserved for those with a birth sex of female'
Hallelujah!
Thank you @BritishCycling
Come on @UCI_cycling time to do the right thing. https://t.co/8EU2sHPs0W

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@Vitality_UK over an hour on hold to speak to someone. This isn’t good enough when it comes to health, & this service isn’t filling me with confidence right now. Look forward to either someone answering the phone or a reply on here - not holding out hope for either #broken

[Jo Ward @_JoWard]

@female_cyclist Disgraceful. One day the world will look back on all of this & be unafraid to call it out for the blatant misogyny it is

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

Each day for the next week I'm going to call on well-known female athletes to take a stance on this issue because silence is complicity...we need their voices.

Day 5: @Simone_Biles what do you think about males competing against women?

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Allowing men who declare themselves women into female spaces is not equal rights.

It’s taking away rights from women while giving extra rights to men, to the point of giving one demographic of men even more rights than the average man but allowing all men to self ID into it.

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