For Women Scotland Sport
@FWSSport
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For Women Scotland Sport is an advocacy group for female sports working to ensure a fair and safe playing field for women and girls.
Joined January 2023
For Women Scotland Sport is a new group which will advocate for the rights of women and girls to fair and safe sport in Scotland. We look forward to working with other advocacy groups for female sport across the globe in campaigning for those rights.
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**IMPORTANT NOTICE** The Ladies Gaelic Football Association is conducting a comprehensive review of its playing rules ahead of proposed changes that would see the introduction of rules that align with some of the GAA's (men's) rules. Here's the link: https://t.co/DbmfZDbZQq
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Bit by bit sport by sport women are reclaiming fair competition đ„
US Olympian Margherita Guzzi Vincenti is leading a class-action lawsuit against USA Fencing for allegedly allowing biological males to compete in women's events at the 2025 North American Cup without disclosing it to competitors. https://t.co/z6ukUslfR5
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Tut tut, @Hobbycraft, this is unlawful discrimination. Your staff have no business refusing customers because of their political views and your managers need to leave their personal issues at home. Better get the lawyers on this one or apologise!
@Hobbycraft apparently bars GC people from its shops. I was in the #Dundee store with my partner today. Staff member wore a badge reading âno terfs no toriesâ as part of her uniform. We confronted the badge. We got chucked out for doing so.
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Itâs a puzzleâŠ.
Remind me why the womenâs volleyball net height is 7â-4â and the menâs is 8â-0â?? @CIFState
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There is still so much to do around the world. Boxing may have introduced sex testing but not all countries are adhering to rules. Women continue to be beaten by male fists.
đšBiologically male Olympic boxer Lin Yu-Ting has returned to the ring after being cleared to fight women at Taiwanâs National Games without a sex test. Yesterday, his teenage rival abandoned the match in under 2 minutes, fearing for her safety. https://t.co/mRXfQsWvgh
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Thank you Joani! For too long the Cabal represented by this group have tried to remake law in the dark.
A handful of activist Lords have no business undermining an independent regulator's guidance on the Supreme Court ruling. That judgment didnât make new law, it clarified it. Overturning it would mean rewriting the 2010 Equality Act. Womenâs single-sex spaces are protected and
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Effectively Semenyaâs argument seems to be âI canât help the fact that I was born me so itâs mean not to let compete in the female categoryâ. https://t.co/LliyjqYqa4
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"No trans athlete has EVER been excluded from sport. They've just been asked to compete where it's fair" This is fantastic. @sharrond62 brilliantly deals with a trans activist who heckled her at the Conservative Party Conference. Calm. Confident. Correct. Well said Sharronđ„
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'Sport by sport', 'case by case', 'district by district' are all false bases for determining eligibility, because biological facts do not vary by sport/case/district. They vary on the basis of sex. Either TWAW and all should be allowed in female sport, or TWAM, and all
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Breaking! @archerygb protects the female category From October 1st, the female category is for only those born female. There will also be an open category
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BIG NEWS: four months before the Winter Olympics, FIS adopts SRY gene testing for eligibility https://t.co/tg54UA5KD2
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What is going on in sport? - Sports councils in denial - Many sports have changed, but not all - Scotland & Wales lagging behind - Precision sports still a problem - Two-tier policies - Men are flouting the rules - Initiatives for women wonât say no to men - Facilities
NEW: The state of affairs in protecting womenâs sport Progress has been made, but some sports are still lagging behind in spite of the Supreme Court judgment. What action is needed? đ https://t.co/TWtvpOUaaK
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Why are we here? EIGHT schools forfeit, but the people in charge keep supporting ONE boy at the expense of ALL girls. Girls mean less. There is no other way to interpret this.
Eighth CA girlsâ volleyball team forfeits instead of facing Jurupa Valleyâs male player, AB Hernandez. Jurupa Valleyâs girls are seeing their season derailed as the school prioritizes one male over its female athletes.
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I wrote about sex testing in sport and the need to centre the stories of women who've already lost out
unherd.com
Nine years ago, Scottish runner Lynsey Sharp came sixth in the womenâs 800m Olympic final in Rio. Canadaâs Melissa Bishop-Nriagu finished fourth and Polandâs Joanna JĂłĆșwik fifth. Interviewed by the...
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Reminder that at the 1996 Olympics, 928 women athletes were surveyed and 82% said they would like sex testing to continue to protect the female category. Despite this, @iocmedia discontinued gender testing in 1999 ignoring the clear majority opinion of the women affected.
Those who campaigned to remove sex testing (once in a lifetime cheek swab) enabling XY DSD athletes with androgenisation at puberty and male transgender athletes to compete in female sport against the wishes of elite female athletes bear the responsibility for this. 1/
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As many of us said & were knocked down by the media - Semenya was NEVER a female with high levels of testosterone. Gaslighting the public. Semenya was a male with a male only DSD & male levels of T, who was taking an unfair advantage & cheating South Africa women out of a places
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We spoke recently to a mother whose girls play @LadiesFootball. She said something we think every person involved in Gaelic Games who values the physical, mental and emotional well-being of children should hear. "You know, I have always told my girls not to be afraid to speak
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I am really am speechless. Itâs painful to realize @WorldAthletics leadership knew all along that XY-DSD was a HUGE PROBLEM (50-60 of these men in womenâs #track!) and yet let this go on for so long. ALSO the flagrant double standard is a punch to the gut. đđŒInjustice to men = 1
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Story from here in Tokyo. Sex tests brought in after data showed 50-60 DSD athletes in global and regional finals between 2000 and 2023, World Athletics says. https://t.co/F8tAQO6pvP
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World Athleticsâ head of health and science told a panel in Tokyo that DSD athletes were âover-representedâ in female category finals since 2000
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