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“Following advice from legal counsel, and a literature review on the topic, the Sports Councils CEOs agreed that a full review is required.”
No longer can @Sport_England offer sports governing bodies a choice between including males in the female category and protecting safety, fairness and opportunity for women & girls. 2/
find-tender.service.gov.uk/N…
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Does @parkrunUK not concern themselves about basic safeguarding? Graham Holland, Run Director, spent much time yesterday denying a threat of violence was made towards women. He even tagged the man making the threat into other women's feeds.
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Turns out that Andrew not only thinks women rile him up but it’s Mara’s fault that men (mild mannered race directors) lose their tempers.
This man is all the 🚩🚩🚩
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#RealityRulesRunnersUK’s response to criticism we shouldn’t protest at #ParkrunUK👇
@parkrunuk should not have abandoned fairness for women & girls in 2019. They had 7 years to meaningfully engage with, instead of ignore, concerns raised by many women & men.
#FairFemaleSports
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This gay woman won’t be censored by the so called inclusive “be kind” crowd! No body can change sex. To all the LGB crowd who dare to stand for the truth! Stand strong & be proud! You are not alone there are loads of us who haven’t followed the herd!
@AllianceLGB @ForWomenScot
Such a shame to see this censorship of the lovely @RRRunnersUK tops on Facebook photos from Saturday's parkrun. I wonder if parkrun HQ are supportive of one of their volunteers taking this action 🤔
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“Dark money funded organisation”!! This would be funny, if Andrew wasn’t someone who threatened people wearing @RRRunnersUK t shirts at his local parkrun.
The lengths men go to, to stop women from getting fairness, never fails to surprise me. Say no and the true person shows up
The more I think of it, Flo - and hello by the way - the more I think this is likely to be a dark money funded organisation. So rather than accusing strangers on the internet of misogyny, I wonder if you would really happy about being used as a political..
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Phantom Raspberry Blower retweeted
Hi @parkrunUK
This is the kind of rank misogyny that your sexist policy is enabling online. You’ve seen evidence of some of it in correspondence. Going to start sending it your way now.
New hashtag:
#parkrunMisogyny
#RealityRulesRunnersUK
Bless - describing a new club as growing because it went from 0 to 240 is a little desperate. It was a flop - it went to press claim it would have thousands and got 240 to run for a free club after a huge celebrity backed campaign.
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Question: If men stayed out of womens changing rooms & bathrooms in years gone by because they knew they were not supposed to be in there, and it was law, why can’t they do that now?
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Phantom Raspberry Blower retweeted
Asking for a female parkrun category that doesn't include men isn't transphobic and it isn't trying to make parkrun more competitive. It's just asking for fairness in a results category that already exists. Why would anybody want to argue against that? #RealityRulesRunnersUK
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Phantom Raspberry Blower retweeted
Reminder: if you are an avid Parkrunner and already a member of 1, 2, 3 or 4 running clubs you can still join #RealityRulesRunnersUK
Instructions on how to join & show your support for sex-based categories and #FairFemaleSports👇
realityrulesrunnersuk.substa…
A reminder that unless you're already in 5 clubs, you don't have to leave your current club to join #RealityRulesRunnersUK. You can join up to 5 clubs at once in your parkrun profile 👍
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🤩 What a WEEK!!
Tonight we celebrate 4K followers on ‘X’ & 500 subscribers!
If you haven’t yet, please follow #RealityRulesRunnersUK, sign up👇& share this post widely!
Still need a few hundred club members before 3 October!
realityrulesrunnersuk.substa…
#Parkrun #running #runner
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Phantom Raspberry Blower retweeted
It’s gonna be weird when the next generation grows up thinking the Nazis were a benevolent group of mostly left-wing women, protecting women’s rights, eating tea cakes and reading Harry Potter.
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Of course sex-based categories at parkrun wouldn't guarantee women a fair and meaningful result. People might take a shortcut, men might still register as women. But at least parkrun would be respecting women. Plus we could all agree that these people were cheating. #RealityRules
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And calling men, men is okay. Because even the ones who feel like women, are still men. Wouldn’t it be nice if just once Roo and chums said something that makes sense. I’ll not hold my breath 🤣
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Age old story. Men scolding women for speaking out about unfairness. These men are effectively saying “burn the witch”!
This person is effectively asking people to report me to parkrun so it can “have a word” about my stated view that men should not compete in the female category.
They also misrepresent what I said. I did not claim that times were the “only motivator” for attending parkrun. What I actually said was - I quote:
“I’ve been involved in parkrun for more than a decade - as a runner, volunteer and now an event director. And I have never met a parkrunner who doesn’t care about their time or placing, regardless of age, ability or fitness.”
I spend around 20 unpaid hours each month supporting my local parkrun community. I follow parkrun’s rules, but I am not obliged to agree with every policy - or pretend that I do. Nor did I suggest that I was speaking on parkrun’s behalf.
Parkrun is well aware of my position, not least because I had to raise a safeguarding concern earlier this year - after an anonymous letter was sent to our venue claiming that my views made me an unsuitable event director.
Instead of engaging with the points I’ve made about fairness in women’s sport, this person is asking parkrun to “have a word” with me for making them.
Which looks remarkably like an attempt to silence a woman for expressing an opinion about women’s sport.
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Most people aren't cheats though.
Can we agree as a principle:
1. It is wrong for someone to try to run in the wrong age category
2. It is wrong for man to try to run in the female category
Or do you think that is controversial?
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You’d think something so simple and yet so genuinely inclusive would be welcomed by an organisation which claims to support fairness.
One more time, for the people at the back who clearly haven't been listening: we're not trying to exclude anyone from parkrun. We're not trying to make it more competitive. We're just asking for a change to the existing female category so it only includes actual females. Simple.
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Neil still likes to think he’s one of the “good guys” but forgets that he’s just the same as any other misogynist
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Phantom Raspberry Blower retweeted
My Team GB London 2012 team-mate @HallisseyC was robbed of 1st Female by a man today. This is at least the 3rd time he has robbed Claire of 1st Female. He runs races in the MALE category! Why can’t he do that in parkrun? Because @parkrunUK allows MEN in F cat. It’s a disgrace!🤬
Did I enjoy parkrun today? 💯
Was I pleased with my PB? 💯
Am I angry that I had to witness a man finishing ahead of every genuine woman in the female category? 💯
#makeparkrunfairforall
#SaveWomensSports
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