Colin Wright on X - "There's a trick activist researchers do when comparing physical differences between women and "trans women" (i.e., men who identify as women) for the sake of sports where they try to hide important physical sex differences by using relative measurements. For instance, this new BMJ meta analysis acknowledges that transgender women have "higher absolute lean mass compared with c!sgender women," but concludes this isn't really an advantage because they found no significant differences in "relative" lean mass. In other words, when they control for the fact that the "transgender women" were all much taller and heavier than the female athletes, the sex difference disappears! But, uhh, being a lot taller and heavier is itself a major advantage in many sports! There are many other things wrong with this study, but I just wanted to highlight this common sleight of hand."
Plus, the GRADE was very low for almost every finding for ciswomen vs transwomen, and low for relative lean mass
'There's no reason to ban us from playing': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports e
Body composition and physical fitness in transgender versus cisgender individuals: a systematic review with meta-analysis | British Journal of Sports Medicine - "This systematic review aligns with previous ones in highlighting critical research limitations. This includes the typically short study durations (<3 years) and a lack of data on elite athletes. Additionally, the potential conflation of trained and untrained individuals complicates extrapolation. The available evidence remains limited for specific outcomes (eg, lower-body strength and VO₂ max), particularly regarding RCTs examining the effects of GAHT on physical fitness and body composition (n=3), as well as studies assessing the impact of puberty suppression (n=6). Another weakness in the literature is the inconsistent reporting and adjustment for confounders, as few studies controlled for training history, diet, baseline fitness, physical activity and body composition or previous hormone therapy, potentially hindering the isolated effects of GAHT, since high-dose oestrogen may alter both fat and muscle mass estimates. Finally, there is very little literature involving transgender athletes of any age, across all sport settings and at any competitive level."
Ironically, the actual paper is very clear about its limitations (even if it's dishonest in its own way), but TRAs keep lying about it, as usual, and claiming this proves that it's transphobic and unscientific to not allow men in women's sports competitions
Effect of gender affirming hormones on athletic performance in transwomen and transmen: implications for sporting organisations and legislators | British Journal of Sports Medicine - "The 15–31% athletic advantage that transwomen displayed over their female counterparts prior to starting gender affirming hormones declined with feminising therapy. However, transwomen still had a 9% faster mean run speed after the 1 year period of testosterone suppression that is recommended by World Athletics for inclusion in women’s events."
Weird. The "experts" tell us that transwomen have no advantage
Thread by @FondOfBeetles on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "What an insane bunch of cherry-picked metrics, cobbled together to try and argue that trans-identifying males should be in female sport.
There are little-to-no controls for physical fitness in the individual studies. Yet they conclude: “transgender women do not exhibit significant differences in upper-body strength, lower-body strength or maximal oxygen consumption relative to cisgender women after 1–3 years of GAHT.” You haven’t controlled for fitness!!! Their "performance" data. Can you see one study that really sticks out as an outlier?
Alvares 2025, a study of 7 self-selected, trans-identifying males, who were 5cm shorter than the female comparators. Which is weird. The authors note this. Also, they played lower level volleyball for about 30% of the hours put in by the female cohort. The authors consider that training volume and competitive level is, indeed, a confounder. It's interesting when assessing lower body strength, this recent paper uses only jump heights and seems to ignore explosive power measurements. That is, while acknowledging low-to-no control for fitness, they use a "fitness"" output instead of raw data like muscular power. Why might unfit people not jump very well? Hmmm. A spectacular pair of sentences.
Manipulating stats by adjusting for a sex difference is dishonest. The bit about "not accompanied by increased functionality" is just riffing. They haven't provided evidence that functionality is impaired because they haven't compared like-for-like in terms of fitness. I dispute "absence". Especially when you've ignored metrics like power (peak and relative).
They apparently ignore the second paper (Chiccarelli 2023) on an expanded USAF cohort, that showed advantages in push ups and sit-ups remain after two years.
Perhaps this tells us something about the cohort/type of data? Hmmm.
My friends, there is power data out there. Including in some of the papers you use."
Biologists must be ignored when they threaten the left wing agenda
expert reaction to study looking at physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women - "Prof Alun Williams FCASES FTPS, Professor of Sport and Exercise Genomics, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, said: “The authors have been thorough in gathering relevant literature, but the paper suffers from several problems. “Only longitudinal studies are truly informative, because otherwise we can’t know the contribution of hormonal treatment to fitness nor how much difference in fitness between transgender women and cisgender women existed before treatment began – it might be that transgender women in research studies have self-selected as a group who were not as strong or as aerobically fit as cisgender men before they began treatment. The longitudinal data (pages 8-9 in the paper) don’t show convincing evidence of changes in physical fitness that remove the advantage known to exist between men and women in the absence of hormonal treatment. Indeed, other authors (including me) reviewed essentially the same literature and concluded that performance decreases due to hormonal treatment in transgender women were notably smaller than typical differences between men and women, meaning retention of performance advantage (https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.14581). “Also, as the authors acknowledge, much of the data they reviewed was low quality due to poor study design or measurement techniques, and little control of confounding factors like how much exercise people did. “How active people in a study were is a critical factor because we know for certain that training affects physical fitness, so it’s almost worthless to compare groups without tight assessment of training history. “Strength measurements depend on voluntary effort, and although lab techniques exist that can assess effort, none of the studies reviewed did that. Therefore, reports of higher muscle mass (unrelated to effort) not leading to higher muscle strength should be treated sceptically. “Furthermore, hormonal treatment after puberty doesn’t change skeletal dimensions like height, limb length, or shoulder width, so those advantages to men in many sports remain in transgender women regardless of hormone changes. “Consequently, I don’t agree with the authors that the studies published to date, or their review of them, overturn the evidence for inherent athletic advantage in transgender women. “I agree with the authors that longitudinal studies with good measurements relevant to sport would help provide more solid evidence on which to base sport policy.”"
Naturally, this didn't stop left wingers gushing over the "study"
Meme - Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy: "Based on this definition, I would qualify as "transgender." I don't have a "core understanding" of my "gender" as "feminine." This is why this whole thing is so stupid. "Transgender" is not a coherent, clear category of anything. It's just a way people choose to identify themselves based on a feeling or preference. You can't create a legal category of people based on a vague feeling that differs from person to person. https://nytimes.com/2025/12/04/opi"
"Douthat: OK. That's useful. We've talked a couple times about the idea of a changing political climate, but I want to just pause for a minute and talk about definitions. For listeners who may not have deep experience with some of these debates, just a basic question: From your perspective, what does it mean to be transgender?
Strangio: A transgender person is someone with a gender identity - so, their core understanding of their gender - that differs from the sex that they were designated at birth."
Meme - Leor Sapir @LeorSapir: "This paragraph from @wapo is a good example of @SwipeWright 's drawing. The beliefs WaPo characterizes as "deeply conservative" are in fact held by a large majority of Americans, including, in some cases, a majority of Dem/Dem-leaning voters. See post below for an example."
"Apart from her support of adults who want to transition, Blaire's views on trans rights are deeply conservative: She believes there are only two genders. She is against trans women 'competing in women's sports (she thinks they should have their own, separate league). She believes governments should ban medical transition care for trans children, regardless of parental consent. She rejects the label "transgender" and identifies instead as "transsexual," a term that some in the 'community consider outdated because it tethers transition to biological sex. And although her Texas driver's license identifies her as female, she argues that trans women like herself are not "women.""
"Year 2008: "My fellow liberal - left. me (happy) - center left. conservative - right.
Year 2012: my fellow liberal? *runs left* me (puzzled and stationary) - center. conservative (stationary) - still right.
Year 2021: woke "progressive" - far left: "Bigot!". me (shocked) - center right. conservative - still right: "LOL!""
Mia Hughes on X - "The 1% regret rate in gender medicine is the biggest red flag of all. The strongest possible indicator that research in the field is garbage. Activists expect us to believe that a man having his penis inverted, which creates an open wound that must be dilated for the rest of his life, has a 1% regret rate. That women who have appendages made out of their forearms sewn onto their groins — a surgery with astronomically high complication rates — has a 1% regret rate. That adolescent girls having medically unnecessary bilateral mastectomies at an age when the desire to be a mother and breastfeed is incomprehensible has a 1% regret rate. Absolutely impossible. Precisely zero chance this could ever be true. The explanation is multi-fold. First, no one loses all their friends and gets death threats for saying that they regret knee surgery. Second, "gender affirming" clinicians do precisely zero follow-up. Just chop off healthy body parts and disfigure genitals and then send the person off on their way. No concern for what comes of them. Then, there's the psychological factor. The power of irrevocability. When a decision cannot be undone, we are powerfully motivated to keep telling ourselves it was the right one. The self-deception is strong. The Dutch noted this in their follow-up study of the first wave of men to partake in this experiment. In a 1988 paper, they observed that the men reported being happy even though no actual change in their life situation was observed. This led the researchers to consider the possibility that in an effort to reduce cognitive dissonance, the participants “simply cannot accept the notion that all has been in vain. The self-reported happiness may have been distorted wishful thinking.” But this wasn't enough to end the experiment. In fact, the failures noted in this study are what caused the Dutch to turn their attention to children in the hopes of producing more pleasing cosmetic results."
Colin Wright on X - "What’s crazy is that while this is the first time Khelif has publicly admitted to having XY (male) chromosomes, this fact has been known for over a year through interviews with his trainer and leaked medical records. Yet no major left-wing news outlet would report on it. I laid out all of these facts on my Substack and some in The Wall Street Journal. Despite the undeniable evidence, some former friends of mine on Facebook refused to believe it simply because outlets they trust, like The New York Times and The Washington Post, hadn’t run their own stories “confirming” what I had already documented. That says a lot about their reliance on institutional authority over their own ability to evaluate evidence. And major left-wing outlets understand this dynamic well. If they just don’t report on a story, their readers will assume it must be disinformation. Even now, the NYT and WaPo remain silent. They still haven’t reported these facts that now came directly from Khelif himself. As a result, huge swaths of the left will never learn the truth because they’ve been trained to distrust any information that hasn’t been pre-approved by their preferred media gatekeepers."
Adam Lehrer SOS on X - "Lmao, I remember a year ago where people were very vehemently arguing that this was just some bizarre looking he-woman, including (crypto libtard) editors of respected right-wing journals Anyone who knows a single thing about fighting knows he was surely not throwing right hooks like a woman. I remember he cracked that Italian boxer so hard that her face sunk into the hell dimension. Following the very bad optics of that fight, Imane cruised through competition by throwing light jabs and boxing defensively, clearly concerned that if he threw another hook and killed an opponent, he might lose his very very retarded defenders in the media. One of the weirdest propaganda case studies of all time, where liberals all of a sudden became deeply invested in an Algerian boxer and became experts in combat sports and human biology overnight."
Paedo drag queen in full costume died after having sex with stranger as his dog 'joined in' - "A paedophile drag queen died after having sex with a stranger and his dog, an inquest heard. Darren Meah-Moore, 39, was found dead covered in cardboard boxes in a secluded car park after leaving a nightclub in full drag costume on January 22, 2023. Convicted sex offender Meah-Moore – who performed as Crystal Couture and made jewellery featured on RuPaul's Drag Race – was last seen in full face make-up and blonde wig after leaving Pulse nightclub in Cardiff. The inquest heard married Meah-Moore had sexual encounters with other men on the same night before meeting a man walking his dog in the early hours of the morning in the street. The dog walker said he went to a secluded car park with Meah-Moore and began engaging in sexual activity with him before the dog joined in. The man – who cannot be identified – said he tried to "shoo" the animal away but Meah-Moore told him not to. The owner said he "lost interest" when Meah-Moore continued to allow the dog to have sex with him. He said that Meah-Moore fell asleep and could not be roused. The inquest was told tests found "human and non-human" semen inside Meah-Moore's body and DNA matched the man's dog. The Pontypridd hearing was told pathologists could not find a "traumatic" cause of death – and tests were carried out to see if Meah-Moore was allergic to dogs. Coroner David Regan said: "The pathologist made a suggestion that there might be some pathological relation with sudden death potentially arising from the dog semen?" Detective Superintendent Paul Raikes replied: "I think it is accepted Darren did have a sensitivity to dogs but it wasn't able to provide a cause of death and attribute it to that." The court heard the original medical cause of death was given as 1a: sudden death in a man with bronchial asthma who had consumed alcohol and in a temporal association with sexual activity including anal intercourse... The inquest heard tributes from Meah-Moore's father and husband who described him as "caring" and "right at the heart of Cardiff's gay community"... Meah-Moore was jailed in March 1999 after being convicted of four counts of rape of a boy under 16. In 2011, he was also sentenced to a three-year community order and given 300 hours of unpaid work for breaching of a sex offender's order."
Since there're no trans people in the Epstein files, this proves that trans people don't commit child sexual abuse
Admiral Invalidator on X - "What are the chances of a town having a parade for a recently deceased man just bc he was a drag performer and it turns out he was a child rapists who died raping a dog with another man? Well it happened. Just know none of us are going to get a parade when we die. Sick world."
Roads closed and horse-drawn procession for funeral of Cardiff drag queen Darren Moore
Beth Bourne on X - "DEVASTATING NEWS: A second trans-identified student at Palo Alto High School died by suicide (hit and killed by a Caltrain) last week. In the article about Summer Devi Mehta’s death, it mentions his best friend at school, Ash He, also a boy who identified as “non-binary,” ended his life in a similar manner last March. I hope the parents of both boys sue the @PaloAltoUnified school district for indoctrinating their sons into a regressive, pseudoscientific belief system that says effeminate boys can’t grow up to be men. I hope the parents also sue the medical providers if the boys were on blockers and/or wrong-sex hormones, which are known to lead to depressive thoughts. God bless these boys and their families. 💔💔"
Wesley Yang on X - "What these sad stories show is that gender affirmation in schools and communities that all agree to pretend that boys are girls or neither male nor female doesn't protect anyone from the myriad mental health comorbidities that typically accompany (and often lead to) transgender ideation and doesn't protect anyone from suicide, a fact that the ACLU's lead trans rights litigator admitted before the Supreme Court of the United States. The suicide rate is high among trans-identified youth because troubled kids are all encouraged to identify into transgenderism. Of course the Trevor Project and other transgender activist organizations seize upon these suicides to fund-raise and blame those who know that pretending that disaffected youth have changed sex is harmful in order to strengthen their ability to emotionally blackmail the world into doing more of the harm. Having first emotionally blackmailed parents into pretending their kids have changed sex after brainwashing their kids into yearning to be chemically castrated and dismembered, they prime even more kids to believe that they have no choice but to kill themselves if their parents don't agree to chemically castrate and dismember them, or if some people don't agree to pretend that they have changed sex, and if the school and state don't punish people who don't pretend they have changed sex. The movement feeds off of these threats of suicide, priming kids to succumb to them so as to have a weapon to threaten even more suicides if the movement doesn't get its way. Every suicide is an opportunity to make more money and wield even more potent threats."
Kate Barker-Mawjee on X - "“I had a very sensitive, quite effeminate, little boy who was probably gay…but Jack’s dad did not approve” Susie Green drugged and castrated her son in a failed bid to save her marriage to a homophobic husband. If she’ll do that to her own child, imagine what she’ll do to yours."
Graham Linehan on X - "I still can't believe this Ted Talk exists. She stands up in front of an audience and just admits it all. Husband didn't want a feminine son, so instead of dumping the husband, she groomed the son into thinking he was a girl, arrested his development with hormones and castrated him on the day of his 16th birthday. A homophobic crime against humanity and she's still walking free."
Trans mania is the true conversion therapy
Trevor Lee on X - "Reality check: More people have been shot by trans women than ICE agents in 2026."
Michelle Mackness on X - "We are housing a male sex offender who was deemed a Dangerous Offender in a prison with women. And, worse, on a floor that has a mother-baby program. He was imprisoned for raping a 3 month old baby boy who needed reparative surgery. We lie to children and youth telling they can change sex, which they cannot. We tell those same kids that anyone who doesn't play along with their dissociative state, that that person hates them and wants them dead. Then wonder why they act out violently, muderously? No duh, fools. Then we prevent clinicians from providing meaningful exploration due to poorly worded federal legislation. Now, a retiree is facing an impossible fine for speaking up. Beware! Your views, too, may one day fall outside the main. No room for dissent in Canada. And, where are our politicians? Crickets. Here, have a date with an alleged self-confessed murderer and convicted baby rapist: #BeKind"
Wesley Yang on X - "People who were surprised by the Canadian's media lockstep suppression of the fact that the "female" "woman" who murdered eight people in British Columbia was in fact a man pretending to be a woman don't understand that there are no limits on what lies that state power will recognize on behalf of a class of people pretending to be the opposite sex. A male baby rapist is in a women's prison with a mother-baby unit in Canada."
Gerald Posner on X - "340–141. That’s the vote by which the European Parliament adopted a resolution yesterday calling for the full recognition of trans women as women across EU policy. It also rejected an amendment stating that "only biological women can become pregnant." Read that again. 233 MEPs voted against affirming that pregnancy is biologically female. This isn’t about courtesy or pronouns. It’s about law, language, and the destruction of biological clarity in public policy. While resolutions may be nonbinding, they shape funding priorities, institutional language, legal frameworks, and educational standards across the EU. When legislative bodies struggle to affirm basic biological realities, it signals something deeper than tolerance. It is another flashing warning sign that delusional ideology is overtaking empirical fact. Once institutions lose the ability to define clearly sex-based categories, the consequences ripple far beyond semantics — into medicine, sport, prisons, data collection, and women’s legal protections. This is not about bigotry. It is about governance."
Weird. I thought sex and gender were different and only ignorant people didn't know that
Meme - Claire Bear (Sorcha) @claire88424030: "One of the most painfully stupid tweets I've seen recently... I'm almost embarrassed on Willoughby's behalf."
India Willoughby: "Just for the benefit of terfs who seem to be dim, blind and confused, I - and many, many, many - other trans women are now naturally biologically female thanks to our bodies becoming how they should have been, courtesy of hormones + surgery. You're the science deniers."
Are the TRAs going to pop out to call him ignorant for not knowing the difference between sex and gender and claiming he's biologically female?
Meme - femme_unapologetic: "Y’all wanted a definition. Here it is. Now argue with the sign."
"Trans woman. adjective and noun. An adult human female who was assigned male at birth."
'We get attacked all the time and we can't say anything' - "The day-to-day life of a trans woman in Brussels in 2025 is not easy; you try to live hidden and are pretty uncomfortable in public spaces. I still get stares, judgements, heavy sexualisation, discrimination, backhanded compliments, and sometimes physical attacks. It was around 02:30 at The Big Game bar in the centre of Brussels, a group of young men speaking Arabic and broken French outside on the terrace were doing what groups of drunk young men do best, being mean, loudly commenting, and being confused whether they see me as disgusting or attractive. The harassment got way out of hand, and I felt the tension rising inside of me, and my body was preparing for violence. I threw a drink at one of them, just the liquid (water), not the glass. And at that moment, everything went haywire. I got a full broken sharp glass in my face with alcohol that blinded me. Everything was blurry and bloody. I could hear the shouting and crying of my friend who was witg and was desperately trying to lure them away. The police eventually arrived. And it was almost natural, if not deliberate, to call me 'monsieur'. It felt sadistic. As if to add salt to the wound. The officer even suggested that I might be partially responsible. A flamboyant man in a wig in a bar at 2 am? I should've known better not to be visibly trans in a public space."
Calysta Goblet is a damn racist Islamophobe!
