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  • To highlight the points you’re making, Sport England itself has data on its main page that stipulates that women are less active than men in general and that starts at a young age.


    https://www.sportengland.org/research-and-data/research/gender

    Our new 10-year strategy launched in 2021, Uniting the Movement, is our plan to make being physically active a normal part of life for everyone in England – to make it easier for all of us as we go about our everyday lives.

    Because currently, it’s not always a level playing field.

    We know that women are less active than men, and this gender gap starts with girls being less active from a very young age.

    This inequality, as well as others, is at the very core of Uniting the Movement and we have a laser focus on tackling them in all that we do, because providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind, and helping to remove the barriers to activity, has never been more important.


    So, surprise, it’s probably not just “genetics” or “testosterone” as people keep claiming that all men are naturally stronger, when the statistics say that women are by and large less active, and that since this starts at a young age, it can have a long-term affect on women’s sports abilities.

    On top of this, socially, women with lots of muscles are often not viewed as sexually desirable, despite being stronger than a lot of men in their weight class. So it’s also justified to consider maybe women don’t pursue strength as a virtue in the way a lot of men do, due to social expectations.

    As Sport England points out, they’re often not being told socially that they can and should be active and involved, and on top of that, they often have negative social consequences for doing so.

    Literally a huge part of what Sport England is supposed to do is supposed to be about outreach and inclusivity, to make all Britons more active.

    That should include making trans people more active, instead of looking for more reasons to remove them from activities.



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    Except that the sports overseeing body tested it and found out that Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges, the athlete in question, IS actually able to cast twice as far as most women.

    You’re asking me to read the article, but nothing in the article stipulates as much, except an anecdote from the team coach, which doesn’t say Becky can cast 150 meters, but says “Men can.”

    This is the statement from the body overseeing this sport:

    https://anglingtrust.net/2023/06/13/angling-trust-clarifies-transgender-participation-policy-following-england-ladies-shore-team-resignations/

    Other articles about the same thing repeatedly say: “The Angling Trust has denied claims that transgender women have a physical advantage in fishing.”

    So if the Angling Trust is defending her, and they aren’t changing the rules unless told to by a larger sports body, who is this sports body that “proved” this, then?

    Jamie Cook, chief executive of the Angling Trust, said: 'As the national governing body for angling, the question we are required to address by Sport England is whether the sport of angling is gender impacted to an extent where fairness overrides inclusion or safety.

    ‘The view of the Angling Trust board is that as a non-contact sport, the safety concern is not deemed significant within the sport of angling.’

    There are literally zero articles that support the idea that a sports overseeing body tested it and found out. I think you’re fucking misreading this shit, man. But I suppose that’s what you got for taking anything printed in The Daily Fail seriously.