WOMEN & SPORT
BIOLOGICAL
DIFFERENCES
We play sport with our bodies, and therefore, in the interests of fairness, we must keep sporting categories separated on the basis of sex, and not gender identity.
We know that men are bigger and stronger than women, and we know that this is the result of a testosterone fuelled puberty.
We have more than enough data to know that in any sporting event that requires speed, strength, grip, resistance or fast reactions then women can’t win against men, all other things being equal.
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The differences are so pronounced, that when the athletics results of high achieving US schoolboys are compared to 2016 Olympic Women's Finalists, the boys win everything. In many events, the best women athletes in the world don’t even qualify for the boys’ event finals.
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WHAT ARE
PEOPLE SAYING?
Emma Hilton: Developmental Biologist and University Lecturer. She has published more than twenty manuscripts on developmental biology and genetics
Martina Navratilova: Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, 31 major women's doubles titles, and 10 major mixed doubles titles, for a combined total of 59 major titles
Jon Pike: Senior Lecturer in Philosophy. Political Philosophy, and the Ethics and Metaphysics of Sport.
Mara Yamauchi: Second-fastest GB marathoner ever, two-time Olympian (6th Beijing ‘08), corporate & personal running coach.
Suppression of testosterone after puberty has little impact on the advantages conferred by male puberty, and this has been recognised by the IOC.
Laurel Hubbard was required drop his testosterone to <10 nanomoles/litre in order to compete in the women’s weight lifting event in Tokyo. The IOC has replaced that guidance with the requirement that no athlete may have an “advantage that disproportionately exceeds other advantages that exist at elite-level competition”.
In other words...
There is no longer any meaningful guidance that would exclude males from female competition.
Early Humans
WRN Blogs
10 Days, A Race That Didn't Happen & Some Very Brave Women: Julie Bindel caught my mood exactly when she wrote “The week Britain finally came to its senses on trans extremists and cried... ENOUGH!” in the Daily Mail. After years of being mostly ignored and misrepresented in the media you could almost hear the collective gasp of disbelief as the British public finally woke up - Read more
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You owe Sharron Davies an apology, Jeremy Vine: Sharron Davies is one of the best swimmers Britain has ever produced. She would, without a doubt, have been the Olympic gold medallist in 1980 if Petra Schneider had not been doping - Read more
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Why is Emily Bridges marking his own homework?: Emily Bridges has been prevented from competing in the National Omnium Track Cycling Championship against multiple Olympic and World Champion Dame Laura Kenny because his British Cycling registration records that he is male - Read more
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Laura Kenny is a National Treasure – Official: Remember the glory days of the 2012 London Olympics? When Laura Trott (as she was then) won gold in the women’s omnium? By 2016, she had won 7 world titles, 10 European titles and 4 Olympic golds and was already the most successful British female Olympian - Read more
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Early Humans
WRN You Tube Channel
The Truth About Women's Sport: Visit our YouTube Channel and take a look at our video about the claims made by Pippa York during a recent conversation with fellow cyclist Matt Stephens abut Pippa's experiences in cycling: Watch Now
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Early Humans
WRN Podcast
A Different Game - Equality In Women's Sports: Listen now
Coach Blade - The Fight For Women's Sport: Listen now
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Ross Tuckers Talks With WRN: Listen Now
Neanderthals among mammoths: excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk, UK
Fact Sheets
Fair Play For Women: Why is transgender inclusion a problem in female competitive sport? Read More
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Neanderthals among mammoths: excavations at Lynford Quarry, Norfolk, UK
Articles
Fair Play For Women: Trans inclusion in women’s sport: IOC abandons testosterone suppression - Read More
Quillette: Male and Female Athletic Performance: Worlds Apart by Jon Pike, Emma Hilton, and Leslie A. How - Read More
Quillette: On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead by Doriane Coleman and Martina Navratilova - Read More
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Reason: On the Biology of Sex, Sex Differentiation, and the Performance Gap by Doriane Coleman - Read More
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