🧵 One thing missed re. Petrillo. Disabled athletes face hurdles that disadvantage or exclude them from Para sport. I’ve competed in many sports. A man cheating being in the women’s event at the #Paralympics, is more than a biological insult. Some reasons why: 1/4

Positive responses from everyone today! A female category is for females parkrun UK & we want it back! We don’t want a mixed category which is what we have now! Mara Yamauchi Female runner Sharron Davies MBE Women's Rights Network - WRN Jon Pike Wales-Women’s Rights Network 💜🤍💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Helen Joyce Kellie-Jay Keen

To all the women, men & organisations that stand up to this absolute nonsense thank you very much 🙏 Not one man should be in a female category in anything! These are our spaces & they should be respected! parkrun UK Mara Yamauchi Female runner Wales-Women’s Rights Network 💜🤍💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Women's Rights Network - WRN

Caterina 🌈 parkrun UK Mara Yamauchi Sharron Davies MBE Women's Rights Network - WRN Jon Pike Wales-Women’s Rights Network 💜🤍💚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Helen Joyce Kellie-Jay Keen Well done and thankyou Caterina for raising awareness of parkrun UK unfair self ID policy, week in week out and all over the country Female parkrunners want the same fairness in results as males get, wherever they finish

Mara Yamauchi Just one male in the female category destroys fairness for hundreds of women in their local area or in this case, thousands of females, in their quest to take all age category records in parkrun Australia tourism #NoToUnfairSelfID

Well done Mary Ngugi-Cooper 💪🏼💥🎉 #GNR

Thank you George M. Perry for highlighting this. Yup, final para of this document is ‘interesting’. If you are trans, you are exempt from the anti-doping rules appears to be the message.

This is reminiscent of a trans-identifying male runner in UK who demanded of a major event provider that they change their categories so that he would feel comfortable. They duly obeyed. This male started parkrun in F cat, then moved to AGI/PNTS, & is now back in F cat.

I’ve been away so catching up on all the males running in the Female category in UK parkrun. And history was made last Saturday, 31 Aug! 🥳 As usual, males finished 1st Female - this time two did it. One of them beat all men in the same age category & got top age grade %….

…score by nearly 10%. The other made history by not only finishing 1st Female but 1st overall. Let me explain why this is significant. To cross the line first, reach the finish before everyone else, or win - use whatever words you want, I’m talking about beating everyone…

…else present - even when everyone else is the same sex as you, is very difficult. You have to train hard for years, be fit & healthy on the day, and have a bit of luck. To do this in a mixed-sex event is extremely difficult for females, bc males run on average 10% faster…

Parkrun is a mixed-sex start so the vast majority of the time, males get the exhilarating, satisfying & confidence-building experience of finishing 1st overall. Females finishing 1st overall is extremely rare. The tiny number of females who’ve managed it are exceptional. This…

…very special & unique accomplishment is only accessible to the very best females. So when the male in the Female category finished 1st overall, we are led to believe that this is an exceptional female achieving a v rare feat. But the truth is this was no different to any…

…other Saturday, when males finish 1st overall at all or nearly all parkruns. It seems there is nothing for females, not even finishing 1st overall, that males will not appropriate at parkrun. I am aware of another male who used to run in the Female category in parkrun who…

…also finished 1st overall, but it appears he got parkrun to move this result to AGI/PNTS retrospectively. In total, at least seven males ran in the Female category. Between them, they bumped down >2,800 females - a large number bc one ran at Bushy Park. #SaveWomensSports

At least seven males ran in the Female category in UK parkrun yesterday. One finished 1st Female & beat all men in same age category. Another also finished 1st Female, beat all men in same age category by >2 mins & got top age grade % score by >8%. Another improved further…

"According to ICC 's own rules and regulations, Full Member (and Associate Member) status is conditional upon having women’s cricket teams and pathway structures in place. Afghanistan, on even the loosest assessment, is not meeting this requirement." sports.legal/2024/04/afghan… 2/2

Shameful that Great Run only allows the female elite runners and prize winners to have fair, male-free results For the mass race, males are welcome to self ID into the female category, even though this is in breach of their England Athletics race licence

The Ride Across Britain is this week, and male athlete Farrah Herbert is riding in the women's category. And before anyone says it's "not a race:" This event is timed. Everyone wants to see how they measure up against their peers. Women deserve a category for, you know, WOMEN.

For every male allowed into sport for women - a female loses her place & many females get bumped down places & prizes! Presently we are EXCLUDING women & girls from their OWN category in favour of biological MALES who are welcome in the mens category to race other males. I just