So many thanks are due to chapter authors.

We also explore the theoretical debates around sex, gender identity and trans athletes in sport, including categorisation by sex, and consider their significance in terms of international and domestic sport policy, discrimination, fair competition and human rights.

We examine the history of sex and gender in sport and introduce the fundamental anatomy, physiology and biomechanics of the female athlete, as well as the science of testosterone suppression, supplementation and disorders/differences of sex development (DSD).

The book centres female athletes & participants. It explains sex is essential to understanding the sex gap in performance, the history of female exclusion, & the importance of the female category wrt equal human rights, competitive opportunities & fairness for girls and women.

I am delighted to announce that 'Sex, Gender Identity and Sport', is published today by Routledge and now available for order. It's edited by me, and an academic text so a bit on the pricey side, but use Code 26AFLY1 for a 20% discount. Sex, Gender Identity and share.google/5NHeTWqRefwW...

'One in three female students say they have endured sexual harassment during their time at university or college. A recent survey...found that students at England’s leading universities were more than twice as likely to experience sexual harassment than those at “lower tariff” institutions.'

okay but we should take immediate steps to make the lives of people who are pimpled out as prostitutes to violent criminals in male prisons better, and placing them in the existing infrastructure we’ve built for people at risk of sexual assault in prisons (i.e. women) seems like a good step to take

Everyone! Stop what you're doing! We have a new announcement. It is now sadistic to tackle and prevent male violence against other male people in prison and to design male prisons so they are safe for all male people in them. I've torn up my public health strategies already, don't know about you.

Horatio Clare and Nick Cohen conversation about shipping, globalisation, the Gulf - absolutely fascinating. nickcohen.substack.com/p/our-world-...

Blocked for this one already 🙁 4mins

Some of the comments under this post are quite something…though I think ‘*gasp* not on the first day of Pride month *faints*‘ are probably my favourite. What’s yours?

It’s like we’ve gone back in time?! I almost feel nostalgic for the ‘your bathroom at home’ talk. Almost.

This is fine 👍

The new EHRC ruling isn’t just about trans people’s access to toilets - it’s about protecting other vital single-sex spaces

This is fine 👍 [or this is fine too, if you read the other post first]

This is fine 👍

“less visible but which have special status in the women’s movement: prisons, refuges, rape crisis centres, lesbian groups, women’s health centres and sports” Absolutely no justification, ever, to include any biological male in these spaces. Unless you are anti-woman.

🎼 On the first day of Pride, my true love gave to me a zombie fact that has been repeatedly demonstrated to be untrue including by first person testimony from the person in question, and other people who were there at the time, and re-writes a Black lesbian out of her own history. 🎶🎙️ (Scans well!)

James Murray, the new health secretary & a married gay man. 'I believe that single sex spaces should be protected on the basis of biological sex, whilst at the same time believing in dignity for trans people. Single sex spaces within the NHS need to protected on the basis of sex.'

And I can believe I missed this @steveakehurst.bsky.social analysis first time round. open.substack.com/pub/strongme...

Ed Davey has written to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson demanding she WITHDRAW official EHRC guidance protecting female-only spaces in toilets and changing rooms. This is the settled legal position following the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the meaning of “woman” under the Equality Act.

For an analogy specific to Aotearoa New Zealand: can I, as an Englishman, identify as Maori, and gain access to scholarships and funding set aside for Maori? #SexMatters #nzpol

"At least ninety percent of the employees at my location were men, yet the women’s restroom used more than twice as much hand soap."

Never let anyone tell you that there's a limit to what a man will do to get what he wants if his sex drive is involved www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The answer is none 🧑‍🔬

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

"Women must be properly counted amid sex data jumble" My piece for @scotsman.com on the Scottish parliament's decision to remove data on the sex of MSPs. @sriucl.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

In just over a week I'm going to be in Leeds, discussing feminism, patriarchy and how to build a flourishing future for women and the planet, with @trumanbooks.bsky.social The conversations so far around my new book have been 🔥🔥🔥 Do come, do share, do join us! trumanbooks.co.uk/event/an-eve...

If you dont follow Emma (either here or on Substack) you really should!

You said wasn’t true there weren’t specific terms for female and male cats, dogs [sic] and cows [sic]. I can’t help if you don’t know what you’re talking about. 🤷‍♀️

It’s Sunday, let’s treat ourselves and be a bit more lighthearted today… What’s your micro-feminism actions? I group and shelve my books into writer and male writer categories. And label boxes like this when I move (2 x house moves). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“I don’t think we have reckoned, as a country, with how profound the scarring caused by the pandemic was, in almost every policy area. We are suffering from a sort of collective post-traumatic shock and only treating some symptoms, while refusing to talk about it.”

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

First rule of misogyny

"This collision between one’s image of oneself and what one actually is is always very painful and there are two things you can do about it" www.themarginalian.org/2018/01/01/j...

Rachel Hewitt: Name the agent “In a typically brilliant blogpost in November 2015, the late and much-missed feminist sociolinguist Deborah Cameron outlined the history of the idea that writing in the passive voice should be avoided.” rachelhewitt.substack.com/p/feminist-w...

Victoria Smith: But how are you going to police it? glosswitch.substack.com/p/but-how-ar... “But wherever a woman is, she is less safe when she is defined as ‘member of the half of the human race who isn’t permitted to say “no”.”

🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...

This is great news.

Yes, the apparent tolerance towards aggression/abuse from TRAs & the widespread refusal to acknowledge that banning even female-only rape victim support services, prisons, MH wards etc might be going a bit too far led many GC women to conclude that the misogyny wasn't incidental but structural.

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3)

Give up any recognition of the political salience of the female body and I'll stop viewing female people as inferior.

ever go first.

It is not a fair game to begin with, predicated as it is in the idea that a man's offer to stop doing something harmful is equivalent to a woman sacrificing another element of selfhood. It would be unjust even if men kept up their half of the bargain, but all too often they don't, and they never,

Teenage boys who raped and sexually assaulted girls walk free from court with £26 fines

'the demand that half the population, fifty-one per cent of the people in this country, surrender sex-based protections won through generations of organised political struggle, is not a rights claim. It is a power claim' 👏👏👏 labourheartlands.com/trans-rights...