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Twitter Account of the Steve Griffiths Charity Fund Beer Pong Tournament Winner 2013, 2017, 2019

[Tom @TomMacGregor4]

@AvantiWestCoast what is the latest with the 6.40pm service from Euston to Birmingham New Street?

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

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[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Zirkzee 😮‍💨

#MUFC || #FACup

[Statman Dave @StatmanDave]

Goalkeepers in recorded history who’ve saved a penalty in normal time and in a shootout in the same FA Cup match:

Altay Bayındır
End of list.

😳😳😳

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Justice.

[Derek Cooper @cooperderek]

Massive year, massive list!

It's my traditional top #boxing Twitter tweets of 2024.

Let's do it!!!

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

Giveaway -

I’m giving another copy of Eternal away.

To enter just retweet this tweet.

https://t.co/zhVtoLttoW

Winner picked Monday 16 December.

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

Christmas markets in my home city require an armed police presence and the installation of concrete bollards to prevent car attacks. Happy 'Islamophobia awareness month' though.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

The thing that baffles me is that good and serious people have seen versions of what happened tonight in the US for eight years and are still surprised that people don’t see the world as they do.
1) Voters think “the economy” is “can I afford to live” NOT “we are doing better nationally than others”. Inflation is politically more important than GDP
2) Immigration matters, both the sense of control/uncontrolled and the raw numbers, particularly when money is tight. See 1
3) Don’t take voters for fools: in this case don’t insist a clearly gaga leader is up to the job
4) Don’t try to fight a charismatic opponent with someone who can’t answer basic questions about why they want to be in charge. The ability to communicate is not an optional extra for politicians, it is a core part of the job description
5) Go woke, go politically broke
6) What the metro elites regard as an illogical vote is not necessarily illogical for people who are struggling and angry - see 1,2,3,4,5
Personally I think democracy matters very much and some/much of what Trump says is appalling but until his opponents learn the lessons above, voters will keep voting for someone who manages to encapsulate what they feel

[Stephen Knight 🎙️ @GSpellchecker]

Don't think that these new leaked details about Imane Khelif will change anyone's minds. He could have dropped his shorts and teabagged everyone in the room at the Olympics and the gender cultists would still have maintained that he's a woman.

The focus should be on getting the @iocmedia to answer for knowingly letting him fight women as well as justice for the athletes who were cheated.

[Serena @Serena_Partrick]

Trans rights =

- Anyone who says they are the opposite sex, or no sex at all, must be treated as if they are the opposite sex, or no sex at all. You are not allowed to believe your senses, you cannot say what you see & hear.

- All spaces must become mixed sex spaces, & someone's sex may never be acknowledged without that person's permission. Everyone can use whatever space they feel like using.

- All sports must be mixed sex. Even if a whole women's team or a whole women's competition is filled with male athletes, as long as they say they identify as women, that's fine.

- Children must be taught that this is normal, that sex segregation was a horrible mistake, akin to apartheid South Africa.

- History must be reconceptualised around trans oppression. Children must be taught that society was wrong to believe in the sex binary at all, that our previous understanding of humanity was flawed & what actually determines if we are male or female, man or woman, is how we feel about it &/or how we adhere to society's sexist expectations at the time & place we are born.

- Puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, & surgeries must be available on demand to anyone who asks for them, even children. Children should never be questioned over their cross-sex, or no sex identity, no matter what age they are or what other factors are at play in their lives.

- Gay history is now trans history, & same sex attracted people owe all their rights to trans people. They must include people of the opposite sex in their spaces & dating pools, they must pretend to be attracted to sex role stereotypes, pronouns, & declarations of identity, rather than adults of the same sex.

- Women may only be referred to as a group in circumstances which can include men who pretend to be women, such as the performance of feminine stereotypes. Women may not be referred to as a group when talking about exclusively female experiences, such as menstruation, menopause, pregnancy, childbirth, even during the grief of losing a pregnancy or suffering the inability to conceive.

- Transvestic fetishism must never be mentioned. All knowledge of it must be scrubbed from the public consciousness, academia, medicine, & police work. We must forget that this paraphilia exists, & that a man displaying a paraphilia usually has more than one.

When people chant "trans rights are human rights", knowingly or not, this is what they are calling for. The architects of this movement very much did not, and do not, "just want to pee".

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

my impression of a labour mp

[Dalton Kates @Dalton_Kates]

Post game interview from Tyler

Here’s his twitter for those asking and want to follow him @tquentinbuck

[Statman Dave @StatmanDave]

Matthijs de Ligt has not made a single error leading to an opponent's shot in league football since he was a teenager. He's 25.

The best Dutch CB in the Premier League. 👀

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

I absolutely despise essay-posting but as the co-owner of the outlet (@reduxx) that broke the news about Khelif and Lin and started this wildfire, I feel compelled to put to bed some of the bullshit surrounding this story.

A rapid-fire FAQ:

1. "L & K are just women with high testosterone!"

Khelif and Lin were never tested for their testosterone levels.

The claims that they were disqualified from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championship due to simple testosterone abnormalities were made by their respective national sporting bodies, who, obviously, have some motivation to lie here.

2. "L & K have female ID!"

Khelif and Lin are not believed to be transgender, and @reduxx made that VERY clear in our July 28 article.

They are believed to be impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development, in which there is a developmental abnormality in secondary sex characteristics. This is a medical condition which can manifest with children being born with ambiguous or disfigured genitalia. Male children impacted by DSDs are often "assigned female at birth" due to these genital defects, as there is a genuine assumption they are girls.

Thus, their identification documents would be completely irrelevant in this case. As is the fact they were "raised as girls." That's entirely expected for male children with DSDs.

Even more so for male children with DSDs in socially conservative countries.

Is a boy without a penis more likely to be raised as a boy or a girl? Exactly.

3. "The IBA never said they had XY chromosomes!"

On March 25, 2023, IBA President Umar Kremlev said that the boxers disqualified at the championships had XY chromosomes. He said this in a statement to TASS News.

There were only two boxers disqualified at the championships: Lin and Khelif.

4. "But Kremlev could be lying!"

Over the last 72 hours, the IBA has released two separate statements confirming that Khelif and Lin were not subject to testosterone testing, but had instead been subjected to a separate test validated by two independent laboratories.

That test confirmed they were not eligible to compete in women's boxing as per the IBA guidelines.

Crucially, the IBA defines "woman" as "an individual with XX chromosomes." In their guidelines, they also indicate that the gender tests they use to determine if a person is eligible to compete with women is a chromosomal test, not a hormone test.

In their second statement, the IBA condemned the IOC for allowing Khelif and Lin to proceed as they believed it was putting female boxers at risk and that they did not support "boxing between the genders."

5. "Why doesn't the IBA release the test!"

They cannot. It is protected medical information. They would be sued.

Khelif and Lin, however, can agree to have the laboratories release those tests themselves... Why haven't they?

6. "The IBA didn't let L & K appeal their disqualification!"

Yes they did. They have no choice in the matter. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is a fully independent tribunal which oversees all disputes in elite athletics. Every athlete has a right to bring a case to the CAS.

Lin did not challenge the disqualification.

Khelif challenged the disqualification but withdrew the appeal before it could proceed through the court.

Please ask yourself why. If they were genuinely female, why would they have chosen to refuse their opportunity to establish that in an irrefutable and legally binding way at a fully independent venue? Literally none of this would have happened had they simply submitted their tests to the CAS.

Buuuut... Consider that all decisions at the CAS are public information. It was through a CAS challenge that the world became aware that Caster Semenya had XY chromosomes, for example.

If Khelif and Lin had proceeded through the CAS, there would have been irrefutable evidence, documented by an independent body, that they were either male or female.

So why? Why did they not want the CAS to examine their tests? Why did they not want this information to be public? I think the reason is obvious.

7. "But the IOC approved their eligibility for 2024!"

The IOC stopped sex testing athletes in 1999. Since then, they have deferred to individual sporting bodies to ensure athletes were eligible.

HOWEVER, for the purposes of the 2024 Paris Olympics, there is no formal oversight body for boxing. This is the first time this ever happened.

As a result, the IOC created an ad-hoc boxing unit to temporarily oversee the boxing competitions in Paris. This unit has no guidelines for gender eligibility, and has apparently just been allowing boxers to compete "as females" if they have female gender markers on their passports/legal documents.

8. "The IBA is corrupt and cannot be trusted!"

The IOC has long had an issue with the IBA because the IBA has refused to disqualify Russian athletes on the basis of their national identity.

Claims of the IBA's "corruption" can basically be summarized to "Russia bad, Russians evil." The IBA has literally no history of bullshitting about the sex of boxers involved and it doesn't benefit them in any kind of way to do so.

9. "The IBA only disqualified L & K because they beat Russian boxers at the 2023 championships!"

No they did not. I started seeing this weird, completely false claim circulating over the last 24 hours.

Khelif beat Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng and was set to compete against China's Yang Liu for gold in the Welterweight category.

Lin beat Bulgaria's Svetlana Kamenova Staneva for bronze in the Featherweight category.

They were scheduled to fight no Russian boxers in either one of their categories, and only one Russian boxer won a gold medal in the entire championship (Anastasiia Demurchian, Light Middleweight).

India won the most gold medals (4) at the 2023 Women's Championship. China won the most medals overall (7). Kazakhstan won the second most medals overall (6). Russia only won 3 medals at the championship.

Also worth noting that another Taiwanese boxer, Huang Hsiao-wen, won gold in the Bantamweight category. So for all the Taiwanese mouthpieces claiming Lin's disqualification was just "discrimination against Taiwan"... lol no.

10. "L & K were only singled out because they don't look feminine!"

This idea that Lin and Khelif were singled out for not meeting some "western feminine beauty standard" is atrocious and quite easily refutable when you look at literally any of their competitors, most of whom do not meet that arbitrary standard themselves because boxing is a physically demanding sport for robust people, male or female.

Below is Khadija El-Mardi of Morocco, for example, who likely would be accused of failing to meet this supposed "western feminine beauty standard." El-Mardi won gold in the Heavyweight category at the 2023 World Championships. She is advancing to the quarter-finals in Paris as we speak. She's one of the best female boxers out there.

She is a woman. Her features and tall stature literally do not matter. She is biologically female. Sex testing would return an XX.

Women are adult human females. This is true regardless of their external appearance.

Likewise, men are adult human males. This is true regardless of abnormalities or defects in their secondary sex characteristics.

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Never even liked tennis anyway.

[Calev Ben-Dor @Fathom_Editor]

The mainstream media has disgraced itself by its coordinated fawning over Haniyeh. Compare the video of his genocidal antisemitic incitement to these ridiculous seven judgements.
* 1. CNN: a "moderating force" and a "political leader"
* 2. The New York Times: "relatively pragmatic"
* 3. The Washington Post "one of the moderate figures"
* 4. Reuters: “moderate”
* 5. The Guardian: “pragmatic”
* 6. BBC: “moderate and pragmatic”
* 7. Sky's Alex Crawford: “very moderate”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Watch this (whole thread), then explain why you’re OK with a man beating a woman in public for your entertainment. This isn’t sport. From the bullying cheat in red all the way up to the organisers who allowed this to happen, this is men revelling in their power over women.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

“How many times have you watched the brick in the groin video today?”

[Tom @TomMacGregor4]

@Jack_Madz Hi mate, I'm just waiting to hear from someone to confirm if they're taking it or not, but I'll let you know if it falls through asap

[Tom @TomMacGregor4]

Flight available to transfer for #Euro2024 final. London Stansted to Berlin Brandenburg. DEP Sat 13th July 17:55, RET Tues 16th 09:40. #ENGSPA #England