Its a mixed sex fun event. What box participants tick on signup cant be policed. EA2010 does not even cover this as not single sex, mums with toddlers enter with grandpas and dog walkers. You race against yourself for a personal bests. Deal with it or go enter a professional race

No one wants to harm Parkrun @parkrunUK it is a fabulous event. I’m spent my life trying to get people more active. That will carry on. My point is a simply one of fairness & equality. 28 women’s records are held by men, over 200 1st places in the women’s category have gone to men. More every weekend. It’s demoralising for those women wanting those places & records. This only goes one way. Women just want their own course records & places based on the reality of biological sex, which matters in physical activity. There are ways that extra categories can be added. So records & places remain, which is what the vast majority want to happen, which proves there is a competitive element to Parkrun as it stands. Hence a 30k petition to bring them back. Everyone runs together dresses as makes them happy. Non of that changes but simply enable a fair female category for females please?

I see that men, who support men in women’s sports, are yet again hurling the most vile abuse at #SaveWomensSports supporters. Women and girls will get all of their spaces and sports back, whether these pathetic excuses of men who defend the indefensible, like it or not.

The Women's Institute have been accepting transgender women for over 40 years. Not once in 40 years has any incident taken place, in any toilet, meeting, or even jam making session. It undermines your whole idea.

This debate is so satisfying. Helen Webberly is a “gender affirming doctor” that runs a clinic called gender GP where she grifts off mentally ill children, by allowing them to bypass their parents and receive hormone blockers within just a few months. Her practise has been banned in multiple jurisdictions and she has recently moved operations to the United States 🇺🇸 She gets absolutely tied in a pretzel from the jump here. Check out my full breakdown below 👇

Lush UK. Promoted by Chelmsford City Council.

‘The whole thing is giving dangerous drugs to people and changing their bodies forever.’ Co-founder of Biology in Medicine, Dr Alice Hodkinson, breaks down the concerns raised about a Brighton GP practice that prescribed puberty blockers to children without specialist checks.

C'mon Helen *PENIS* staniland Show us that data that proves trans people increase safety risks for women? C'mon

Same old, same old, from @parkrunUK founder Paul Sinton-Hewitt interviewed on the occasion of the millionth parkrun: “My hope and wish is that as we navigate this, we don’t do ourselves any damage, that we protect what is really, really important to us, which is inclusivity, that we don’t alienate any part of the community.” ‘Don’t alienate any part of the community’… interesting choice of words given that parkrun has intentionally devised gender categories that allow males to self-identify into the female category and thereby erased the female category. That’s alienation of women right there, Paul. And is now a good time to mention that the Aberystwyth women’s parkrun record is still held by a man who tried to murder a UK Athletics official and is now doing time in a women’s prison?

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

The female category exists to promote participation and inclusion @parkrun. This "challenge" was entirely avoidable. Women's concerns were dismissed while self-ID was allowed to undermine the very purpose of a female category. 🧐 #SaveWomensSports edp24.co.uk/news/national/26…

1/ Women and girls deserve fairness, regardless of whether they compete at an elite level or participate recreationally at a grassroots level. parkrun receive public funding to increase female participation but permit males to register as "female gender" @parkrunUK @HallisseyC