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Rower 💚 Coach 🤍 Bitch Troll From Hell 💜 Loathsome Bigot. 💚 Uses biology as a backstop. 💜Posts about rowing (occasionally) but mainly women’s rights.

[Coach @rowinggeek]

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Row Granny Row! 📣

I’m embarking on a charity challenge starting next week, to raise funds for a small charity that helps families of babies born with TOF (tracheotomy-oesophageal fistula).

I’d never heard of TOF before my grandson was born with the condition in 2025. He had an operation when he was a few days old and stayed in the NICU for several weeks before he was allowed home. Then, when he was six-months old, he had major surgery at Great Ormond Street. Today, he’s a happy, healthy, one-year-old with a very cheeky grin and a zest for life.

TOFS charity has helped my family through a very traumatic time and I’d like to help them in return.

I’m rowing 10k a day on the indoor rower for 10 days starting on 10th November. This will be a challenge as my max rowing distance is usually about 5k now and then… 😬 But I’ve done some training and bought some Sudocrem (IYKYI) and I’m ready to go!

Anyone who would like to sponsor me, I’d be very grateful. Further details are on my JustGiving page. Thank you x

(Apologies - previous post about this had some errors so I’ve reposted.)

https://t.co/xleeqhunDg

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

How can a terrorist regime that blinded these women, sexually assaulted these political prisoners, and subjected them to mock executions be nominated to a UN committee that helps shape programs on human rights?

This is not just a slap in the face to the people of Iran. It is an insult to every democratic nation that claims to stand for human rights.

We are standing in German Parliament with a mother whose daughter was executed with a woman whose brother was executed by this regime.
They are holding the pictures of protesters who received death sentence.
Now imagine telling these women and men that the very regime responsible for their suffering has been nominated to a UN committee that helps shape the organization’s programs and priorities.

How can you look these women in the eyes and still call this human rights diplomacy?

[Coach @rowinggeek]

I think it's more transactional... lovely expenses paid trips to IOC HQ in Lausanne, jetting around the world to all-expenses paid conferences, being invited here there and everywhere (and someone else is always paying)... these are roles where people feel important - meanwhile screwing everyone else over...

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@runthinkwrite @LinkedIn @SportandRights I've just had a look at the daily round-up of the conference over on LinkedIn... I think you were well out of it. Self-serving doesn't even begin to describe it. And sponsored by Sky Sports - not known for their support for women's sport...

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@QcWynter Have fun!

[Coach @rowinggeek]

📣 Day 2: Row Granny Row! UPDATE 📣

✅ 20k down, 80k to go (or 80,000 metres 😬)

I managed to finish in time for 2 minutes silence at 11am, remembering my grandparents, and great-grandparents who endured the two World Wars.

I need to apologise. Dear rowers on whom I inflicted the 5x2k ergo workout throughout my career as a rowing coach. Sorry. It’s horrible. Anyway, I can tick it off the list.

Time for coffee and second breakfast … which is toast, peanut butter and jam.

TOFS charity daily fact:

Each year in the UK 150 babies are born with OA / TOF. All will need surgery when they are a few days old to separate the trachea and oesophagus, and to join the oesophagus to the stomach.

Read more about why I’m doing this charity challenge in my pinned post. Thank you

[Coach @rowinggeek]

Day TWO. Row Granny Row - 10k a day for 10 days.

Meet Brenda, my silent witness in the corner of the home gym - wearing the TOFS charity vest. Brenda never comments on my rowing technique but is there for every stroke of the challenge! 😂

Today I’ll be doing my 10k as a 5x2k - a very popular session with rowing coaches… rowers not so much…

Check my pinned post for further details.

See you later! 🚣‍♂️

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@rowingdonna Thank you, Salty! Much appreciated.

[Coach @rowinggeek]

Day TWO. Row Granny Row - 10k a day for 10 days.

Meet Brenda, my silent witness in the corner of the home gym - wearing the TOFS charity vest. Brenda never comments on my rowing technique but is there for every stroke of the challenge! 😂

Today I’ll be doing my 10k as a 5x2k - a very popular session with rowing coaches… rowers not so much…

Check my pinned post for further details.

See you later! 🚣‍♂️

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@QcWynter Welcome to the rowing challenge Colin! I have some friends over on FB who are also joining in. We all agree that 10k on the ergo is a bit far at our age…

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@MatkaTerf

[Coach @rowinggeek]

These absolute heroines. Reclaiming the Night for women … and the men didn’t like it…

[Nottingham Reclaim the Night @NottsRtN]

Nottingham 7/11/26 women made history.
The first female-only #ReclaimTheNight march in the city for over a decade.
We are local women & this was our grassroots effort.
These are our voices.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The media is obsessed with slimeball celebrity predators- latest allegations are against David Walliams - while Maggie Oliver has to sue the government to get action for tens of thousands of victims of Pakistani rape gangs.

I know which story I think is more important.
@MaggieOliverUK

[Coach @rowinggeek]

@nomcebo_mkhali @emmajaned0lan Happy Birthday! Have a lovely day. You’re a warrior for women and girls

[Coach @rowinggeek]

The echo chamber in action today…

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

Tomorrow sees a session on Gender Eligibility at the @SportandRights conference in London. Sadly, they don't want a balanced panel or serious discussion. Here's the line-up:

[Coach @rowinggeek]

I believe new mothers are not cared for in a way that promotes their health and that of their babies. Mothers are spat out of hospital too soon and well before any feeding pattern is established (whether it’s breast or bottle). I can’t help thinking that in closing down the maternity hospitals we threw out the good with the bad. Looking after new Mums and their families should be the number one priority of our whole society.

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

I could absolutely blast this woman with hundreds of examples of boys hurting girls, taking their medals and opportunities, and ruining the athletic experiences for not just "five girls" but for thousands, but honestly, I'm tired, and this isn't about examples or "lack" therof.

What this is about is the fundamental question of whether or not girls are allowed to have female only sport. Regardless of whether or not there is only 1 boy participating or 1,000, policies that based sports on "gender identity" give EVERY BOY in the state the RIGHT to participate if he so wishes.

What this means is that girls no longer have a RIGHT to participate in female-only competition.

Legislating on the question of whether or not girls' sports should exist is not a "fake problem."

It is a fundamental policy question that concerns every single girl who participates in sport in this country.

Rachel Maddow, ignorant, useful idiot that she appears to be, does not seem to understand this or believe that sports matter for girls in any way, shape, or form.

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

We are glad to see the women and girls of Afghanistan receive this award. They are persecuted and their rights are eradicated due to their sex. Their treatment is a human rights catastrophe.

This award not only recognises their courage and resilience, but keeps their predicament in the public eye and not conveniently hidden and forgotten. Women and girls matter.
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[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Women and girls are being put at risk of sexual crimes every time they try on clothes in high street retailers that only provide mixed-sex changing rooms.

🚩 Allowing males access to women and girls in a state of undress is a safeguarding failure. The majority of high street stores have now moved to mixed-sex changing rooms. Stores that do have separate women’s and men’s changing rooms often allow males into the women’s facilities. 🚩

Every single one of the sex crimes listed in this thread could have been prevented if high street retailers recognised that they have a duty of care to look after their customers.

First, a woman trying on a bikini in M&S… 1/8

[Henry Nowak Foundation @HenryNowakOrg]

💙 Today we shine a light on Henry Nowak’s best friends, who are taking on an incredible challenge in memory of their beloved friend.

We couldn’t be prouder of these amazing young men. 💙

https://t.co/PZOFKMweA4

[Tracy Edwards @TracyEdwardsMBE]

We did the 1989/90 Whitbread Round the World Race on Maiden, they moved the race to leave out SA to protest Apartheid. This meant we did the longest, most dangerous leg in the race ever; 7,400 miles through the Southern Ocean. These men can't even boycott a match; pathetic!