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@_JoWard

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Former pro tennis player & GB Champ. Coach. Speaker. Researcher. Work in 🎾. All views are my own.

Brentwood, Essex
Joined March 2013
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@_JoWard
Jo Ward
7 years
Time 4 #coacheducation specific for W&Gs. Forehand 1 of many examples where not knowing norms 4 women’s game makes coaches change perfectly gd swings. Coaching must fit female body & game or we’ll continue 2 lose girls from sport #playlikeagirl #coachingtoolbox #coacheducation
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@_JoWard
Jo Ward
2 years
100% this 👇🏼
@jk_rowling
J.K. Rowling
2 years
🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉 Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them. In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their
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@WimXLearning
WimX Learning
2 years
What a wrap to days 1 and 2 of our LTA padel instructor course @stratfordpadel . Thanks to padel legend and former world no. 1 Iciar Montes who added a world class sparkle to the course ✨👍💪😜
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@cathydevine56
Cathy Devine
2 years
Please remember @bbc & Josh Jones: females cyclists are part of 'the cycling community'. They do not want males, including transwomen, in female cycling. Please stop advocating for males at the expense of females. It is regressive, sexist & patriarchal. https://t.co/jG277Up8F7
bbc.co.uk
Top amateur cyclist and campaigner Josh Jones says rule changes do not "respect people's identity".
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@WimXTennis
WimX Tennis
2 years
So proud that 1 of our founders, @_JoWard, will be speaking in parliament at 10am tomorrow about sexism & inequalities in sport. The Committee will hear evidence from sportswomen, sports scientists/coaches, clinicians, policy campaigners & consider ways of bringing about change.
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@msmithtennis
Matt Smith
2 years
SHAPE THE FUTURE: How do you want to learn as a coach? 📚💻🗣️ This is your chance to input on the CPD & learning landscape in the coming years 🏞️ Our survey takes approximately 4 minutes to complete, and all responses are anonymous ✍️ Offer your thoughts👉 https://t.co/CgC4MapG6z
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@_JoWard
Jo Ward
2 years
Looking forward to supporting the committee to improve opportunities for participation and performance for women and girls in sport @the_LTA
@CommonsWEC
Women & Equalities Committee
2 years
Our 2nd session on Sexism and inequalities in sport will focus on health-related issues for women & girls. Join us on Wed 6 Sept at 10am in Cmte. Room 16 or on Parliament TV. We’ll hear from @_JoWard, @EnglandNetball & @EnglandHockey.
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@Martina
Martina Navratilova
2 years
Come on @USTA- women’s tennis is not for failed male athletes- whatever age. This is not right and it is not fair. Would this be allowed at the US Open this month? Just with self ID? I don’t think so…
@KimJonesICONS
Kim Shasby Jones
2 years
Hey @USTA @WTA @Martina @ChrissieEvert Women’s tennis is turning into a laughing stock because of these terrible policies prioritizing the mental health and identity of men over women who have discovered a love of tennis. The women are calling us and begging for help to be
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@sharrond62
Sharron Davies MBE
2 years
Women have 1% of US sports sponsorship dollar, 4% sports prime time tv. 1000 Uk women earn their living from sport compared to 11,000 men! A tiny piece of the commercial earning cake. NO male with male physical advantage has ANY place in women’s sport, anywhere, ever. Race fair,
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@msmithtennis
Matt Smith
2 years
Opening Up Coach Mentoring🙌 If you are a female, have a disability, and/or are from an ethnically diverse community, you can apply for 6 fully-funded 1-hour sessions with an LTA Coach Mentor 👥 Apply now 👉 https://t.co/jFPRQrVxNu
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@sharrond62
Sharron Davies MBE
3 years
There are so so many good men out there, please speak up for women. These are males wanting female opportunities. At present females are vilified & relentlessly bullied for trying to protect their incredibly hard won spaces, like sport. We need your voices. Thank you …
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@cathydevine56
Cathy Devine
3 years
'...the “female category” for any form of competition from elite to grassroots will be preserved for those with a birth sex of female' Hallelujah! Thank you @BritishCycling Come on @UCI_cycling time to do the right thing.
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theguardian.com
The men’s division will become a trans-inclusionary ‘open category’ as governing body apologises to trans riders for delay to new policy
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@Riley_Gaines_
Riley Gaines
3 years
Each day for the next week I'm going to call on well-known female athletes to take a stance on this issue because silence is complicity...we need their voices. Day 5: @Simone_Biles what do you think about males competing against women?
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@salltweets
Sall Grover
3 years
Allowing men who declare themselves women into female spaces is not equal rights. It’s taking away rights from women while giving extra rights to men, to the point of giving one demographic of men even more rights than the average man but allowing all men to self ID into it. 🤷‍♀️
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@Theo_TJ_Jordan
Theo Jordan
3 years
I don't understand how anyone who supports women can defend Riley Gaines coming in 2nd after a lifetime of work to a 6'4" man. You're not only told to celebrate this, the DNC is making this permanent by adding men to Title IX. It's not just disgusting, its The Twilight Zone. 😵‍💫
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@KimJonesICONS
Kim Shasby Jones
3 years
@EdKrassen This statement is a full fledged pile of crap. Almost zero accurate information. There is no age at which male and female performance (strength, speed, coordination) is equivalent. You can look at World and national recorded times for all track and field, swimming and strength
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@sharrond62
Sharron Davies MBE
3 years
Any news media that writes a headline “trans women banned from sport” is straight out lying & no friend or ally of every female athletes the whole world over. That’s 51% of us. We’re worthy of fair sport too. Remember who sold you out ladies. No one is banned. Compete with your
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@_JoWard
Jo Ward
3 years
Good mini thread. Bloody love it when @FondOfBeetles gets all sciency with someone talking nonsense 😂🤣
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Emma Hilton
3 years
@Anthrofuentes I don’t think I understand. You are male, I am female, and we are both humans. Which of our different anatomy has emerged “from non-binary organismal developmental variation”? I feel this may help me understand what “non-binary organismal developmental variation” is.
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@_JoWard
Jo Ward
3 years
Great to deliver another LTA Padel workshop - lots of engaged, passionate, and curious coaches. Five hours spent “thinking inside the box” 🎾❤️
@WimXLearning
WimX Learning
3 years
Fantastic day at The Heron Club delivering the UK’s first “Coaching Kids Padel” CPD course. ⁦⁦⁦ great ideas on how to introduce kids to this great sport. ⁦@_JoWard
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@Katherine_deves
Katherine Deves Morgan 🇦🇺🚺
3 years
Three men won gold, silver, bronze in 2016 women’s 800m at Rio Olympics The woman who came 4th, & her coach, were threatened. They were not allowed to speak about this injustice Is this what we want? Men dominating women’s sport? #SaveWomensSports #SaveWomensSpaces
@FedPoasting
Bugman Hegel
3 years
At the 2016 Rio Olympics Women's 800M event, three intersex males took gold, silver, and bronze. Not a single woman placed in their own category. Just look at the size difference. Look at the muscle mass difference. This is an absolute joke. https://t.co/wStYzX1ezI
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@WimXLearning
WimX Learning
3 years
Massive opportunity to turn Padel into a kids sport in GB - register for our first Coaching Kids' Padel CPD on Easter Monday at the new covered courts at the Heron Club in Brentwood. https://t.co/IuDlT0H3Ii
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