A recent “systematic review” claiming transgender women show no meaningful strength differences from women after hormones went viral in progressive circles, but it should never have been published.
It included studies that didn’t even meet its own criteria, and excluded relevant studies that did but contradicted its preferred conclusion. It made sweeping claims based on limited (and flawed) data, and one outlier study drove the headline result.
This did not pass even basic expectations for scientific rigor, and yet it passed peer review in a top journal.
Exercise scientist @JamesLNuzzo does the rigorous, line-by-line review this paper should have received before publication, breaking down exactly where it went wrong and why the conclusions don’t hold up.
Read the full article below.
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https://t.co/9dckqWqY6c is not just an X account. I operate a website that tracks male participation in sport for women and girls.
This was necessary because neither athletic organizations or legislative bodies had made any attempt to do so, and for years, we have been largely left in the dark on the scale of this issue.
That ignorance has allowed unfair policies to be written and outright lies to be spread unchecked.
Yes, the site tracks ALL sports that are sex affected. Even in darts and pool, sex differences show advantages for males. If there is male advantage, even if it's a tiny sliver of one, it's on the site.
Yes, the site tracks ALL levels of sport. All female athletes deserve fairness. The largest number of athletes participate at the amateur and youth level. Their wellbeing and their accomplishments matter too.
Yes, the site tracks ALL competition sizes. Even if it's a small, local race, the women there deserve the same respect and opportunity males have to succeed. These "fun" events are only fun when they are fair. Losing unfairly is not fun.
Yes, the site tracks ALL males. That includes males with DSDs who have been mistakenly "assigned female at birth." All males have an advantage over female athletes, even if they have believed themselves to be female for a number of years.
Yes, the site tracks ALL years. Males have been in women's sports since the 1920s. The more comprehensive the database, the larger picture we get on male advantage and the impact even one male can have. The majority of results, however, are from the past 10 years.
Yes, the site tracks ALL countries. Every woman on earth deserves fairness in sport. Many athletes compete across borders in international competition. Athletes immigrate to other countries. The majority of results, however, have been found in English-speaking countries, especially the United States.
Yes, all results are linked to a source where they can be independently verified.
Yes, all athletes are verified as male. Many can be independently confirmed with a simple Google search. If you have further questions, contact the site, as I do not link more personal family info in public posts.
If you know of any athletes not on the site or see any mistakes that need correcting, please let me know.
Knowledge is power. Arm yourself with it.
Julie Buchill's 2013 rant about troons (the one that got her banned from writing for the Guardian) has re-emerged. It would be terrible if people today were to read such bigotry, so please don't share the link with anyone
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In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams said they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 in the men's division.
So, little known and 203rd ranked men's player Karsten Braasch took them up on the challenge.
Braasch after a night of drinking and smoking with zero practice, destroyed Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets.
The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat.
It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't.
But, as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against.
That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with.
To even the playing field.
That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it.
@AntiquarianMuse There is no way that a European reporter would allow him to talk like this. He is a national embarrassment and its about time someone called him out to his face.
@robbiebone@NormalGayPsych The point is u cant become the opposite sex in any meaningful way despite wrong sex hormones and invasive surgery. But there are many ways to be yr own sex by not conforming to outdated stereotypes.
Because women are so often scolded for following their instincts where trans-identifying men are concerned, I think it’s time for a discussion of transvestic fetishism and the dangers its practitioners can pose to women.
TF, or autogynephilia, is a paraphilia/fetish that involves dressing in women’s clothing for purposes of sexual gratification. While not all of the men who practice it are dangerous, TF has been seen as a red flag in law enforcement circles for decades.
Paraphilias often cluster, and men with TF often present with other fetishes; most commonly voyeurism and exhibitionism, but these are hardly the only ones. This is why we see TIMs masturbating in women’s spaces, or taking lewd photographs of themselves outdoors where they could get caught. The risk of being seen only adds to their arousal.
Paraphilias also escalate; like a drug addict, the fetishist must perform ever-more deviant acts in order to achieve the sexual high he is chasing. These warped desires can take over a person’s entire life, and indulging in them only makes the urges stronger.
One of the images below is of a man named Dennis Rader, although if you’ve heard of him, you probably know him instead by the name he chose for himself: BTK.
Rader, who murdered at least ten people, also played elaborate crossdressing games in which he posed as his own victims to recreate the crime scene and then took photographs, which helped him to relive the rush of the kill. In this photograph, Rader is mimicking the pose in which he left a victim, substituting his own body for those of the women and girls he tortured and murdered.
This sort of self-insertion lies at the very heart of TF. It plays a large part in the formation of the fantasy the fetishist desires to fulfill, and allows him to practice and refine his rituals for the maximum amount of sexual satisfaction. It helps to solidify the fantasy, and makes it easier for the TF to eventually bring that fantasy out of the realm of his imagination, and into the living world.
In these photographs, these men become the object of their own twisted desires: both victim and predator, both powerful and powerless, and they keep them close at hand so as to be able to recall or imagine the thrill of taking lives.
Rader is, of course, far from the only serial sexual murderer with a liking for women’s clothing, or who enjoyed dressing up as one of his own victims. I can name half a dozen off the top of my head, from Ed Gein, who was the model for Buffalo Bill, to Doil Lane, a serial child rapist/murderer who enjoyed wearing his victims’ panties, to Russell Williams, a colonel in the Canadian Air Force who murdered two women and photographed himself posing in their underwear.
Another paraphilia often found with TF/AGP is pedophilia. It’s common for pedophiles with TF to enjoy dressing as children of their own age of attraction; some of these men will even go out in public like that, in order to enjoy the sexual thrill they get from doing so.
The transage movement, with its claim that adults of normal intelligence can be children on the inside, has attracted a large number of men like this, and many spend a great deal of time online interacting with minors, while pretending to be children themselves.
Sexually deviant men are the main beneficiaries of the trans rights movement. Others are being manipulated into mutilating themselves, but predatory TFs identify as trans specifically so as to be able to coerce others into participating in their sex play by treating them like women - and so as to have access to vulnerable women whom they can sexually exploit, whether that comes in the form of filming themselves masturbating in a women’s bathroom, walking around a women’s shelter with a visible erection, or being put in a women’s prison when they commit a crime.
The trans rights movement has been a gift to predatory men, and must be stopped if women are to have any safety anywhere, even in women’s spaces. It’s
Since 2000, there have been 11 trans-identifying homicide victims in the UK. All but one were personal-cause killings, and had nothing to do with the fact that they identified as transgender.
In the same amount of time, 20 trans-identifying people have been convicted of homicide. They have killed husbands, wives, parents, grandparents, neighbors, friends, and total strangers. All but one of them were male.
The personal safety of women and girls is largely built upon the existence of single-sex spaces. The men demanding entry are not fragile, vulnerable flowers. They are men — dangerous, predatory men who are absolutely obsessed with gaining access to the places where women and girls are most vulnerable.
Ask yourself why.
I’ve just seen a post from yet another man who thinks my position has shifted since I wrote my 2020 essay about gender identity ideology and the consequent clash of rights https://t.co/pasxBD1Hzl
For the avoidance of doubt, I stand by every word I wrote then. For instance: ‘woman isn’t a costume.’ If it surprises you that I say men don’t become women by wearing make up and dresses, you didn’t understand the essay. I’ve been crystal clear all along that I believe people are free to live and present themselves as the opposite sex if that’s what feels comfortable and authentic TO THEM. This appears to have been interpreted (most often, tellingly, by men) as ‘and it naturally follows that I, as a woman, will validate a man’s belief that he is now, to all intents and purposes, the same sex as me, and I will use only the speech he deems appropriate and will be very careful to protect his sensitive ego, no matter the cost to myself in pretending to believe a falsehood, or the loss of my own rights due to this pretence.’
Dress as you like within normal bounds of situational decency, wear lipstick, sequins and a beard if you want, call yourself whatever you like, have sex with any consenting adult you please: I wish you health, happiness and safety. What you don’t get is the power to compel my speech and belief.
When I call a man a man, I am speaking verifiable truth. It is essential to be able to accurately name sex when discussing fair sport, facilities and services for women and girls and the right of gay people not to be demonised for their same-sex attraction. In years to come, a lot of useful idiots are going to awake to the fact that they’ve been complicit in enormous harm done to women, girls, gay people who stood against the insanity, and some extremely vulnerable young people. I don’t doubt we’ll hear a lot of, ‘I thought I was just being kind.’ Such individuals, especially those in positions of power, should be asked why they never had anything to say about the loud, public, widespread unkindness directed against those who refused to adopt their fashionable, elitist beliefs, eg, the detransitioners being bullied and vilified by former ‘allies’, the whistleblowers who tried to stop an unregulated experiment on troubled children, the women who lost their careers and livelihoods by standing up for all women’s rights.
Some people appear to believe it a worse crime for a woman to call a man a man than for trans activists to call loudly and publicly for the assault and assassination of all women who refuse to bend the knee. I have never wished violence or any other kind of harm on a trans-identified person, but, like many other people who’ve defended women’s and girls’ rights over the past few years, I have received thousands of threats of death, rape and torture. The wilful blindness of those who bleat ‘both sides’ will rightly be judged harshly in times to come.
TL;DR Trans women aren’t women, and if that hurts your feelings, be grateful you live in a society where you are just as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to speak the truth. As Orwell said: ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’
As of 7/22/26, men have stolen 1st place in women's sports events 6,251 times.
Men have robbed women of top 3 finishes 11,505 times.
Males have stolen from women:
69 world championship titles,
354 gold medals in international competition,
64 continental championships,
461 national championships,
5 Olympic gold medals.
Males have stolen 994 top three "women's" world and national championship medals.
Males have set and reset "women's" records over 689 times and currently hold 471 records, including 20 world records.
Men have stolen over $2.4 million from female athletes.
@TheTransTroll@BertDalziel Shes explaining that sex segregated spaces were designed bcse of the very real risk that men pose to women. You were creating a false equivalency.
@sapphyreblayze Thank you for more anecdotal evidence that the majority of women to not want to share those spaces with men. This is only news to the TRAs still loudly shouting that all women think that TIMs are women.
@IBSpify@ThePandemos The diff is in the 70s and 80s we dressed how we pleased, men had long hair & make-up, women played with androgeny. We freed ourselves from stereotypes. None of us believed our appearance made us change sex. Trans belief that style choices equal sex is regressive nonsense.
@StarmiiStr@Uncivilized468@Shawdes29 We allowed the change of sex on official docs, the pronoun nonsense and encouraged people to use the sex segregated facilities they identified with. Now MANY trans actually believe that wrong sex hormones have changed their DNA and thus sex. Separation of sex & gender is dead.