GROK recently suggested ‘Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World’ by Lauren Fleshman As a book for a young competitive female athlete. Sounded great, but don’t trust a bot searched it up online Fleshman’s book markets itself as the ultimate pro-woman, post-Title IX manifesto: the brutal pressures, injuries, body-image wars, and “man’s world” realities that female athletes face. She meticulously spells out the massive, irreversible physiological differences created by male vs. female puberty, why sports systems are designed by and for men, the alarming dropout rates for girls after puberty, and how female athletes suffer injuries, eating disorders, and mental health struggles when forced to train in a male-centric model. She frames her entire 288-page book and career around the urgent need to respect those hard female-specific realities and rebuild competitive sports with women at the center. Listen to her lay this out in Purple Patch Podcast Episode 249 (especially from the 18–30 minute mark and the whole episode): x.com/purplepatch/status/161… @purplepatch Never trust just Google, so I look it up on X Now here’s where it gets weird: the same author openly cheers biological males (DSD or trans-identified) into female sports categories, calls sex-based exclusion “inhumane,” and argues we should redefine fairness around inclusion instead of biological reality. She built her entire elite career in protected female categories, then wants to pull the ladder up on the next generation. She wrote a book on every reason why we don’t!?! Olympian Mara Yamauchi absolutely torched this nonsense in her thread (watch the full video breakdown): x.com/mara_yamauchi/status/1… I’m glad I found that here on X before blindly going by Grok’s book suggestion. Shoutout to @mara_yamauchi for speaking up in support of Female Sports calling this out , voices like yours are needed now as much as ever. The sheer ridiculousness here deserves its own psychological case study. How does someone who wrote an entire book laying out in detail why male puberty creates unfair, irreversible advantages — and why girls and women need systems designed around the female body — then flip and advocate letting males compete in female categories anyway? This isn’t coherent thinking — it’s peak suicidal empathy and total capitulation to her social ideological peers. @GadSaad To Grok’s credit, the book itself doesn’t openly advocate for males in female spaces. Reviews and reader accounts confirm only a brief, general acknowledgment of trans inclusion early in the book (e.g., “sport needs to be accessible and safe for trans athletes and athletes of color”). It does not discuss, endorse, or analyze males in female sports categories, competitive fairness, male puberty advantages, or related policy debates. That more explicit personal stance—that she evolved to being “very pro-inclusion of trans athletes in every aspect of life, including sports”—appears in promotional interviews tied to the book’s release, not in the book itself. Nonetheless, does the author having the opinion that ‘female sports should include males’ completely invalidate her integrity and credibility? 💯 Yes. If I can’t trust you not to put a boy in my daughter’s locker room, why would I talk to you about … anything else!? @ScottJenningsKY x.com/saras76/status/1977390… @laurenfleshman This is a litmus test of whether anyone should take your book seriously/ buy it: As the author of ‘Good for a Female: A Female Running in a Male's World’ What is your stance, on the recent IOC policy update regarding banning Trans Identified Males or Males with a DSD* from Female sports categories? x.com/iocmedia/status/203715…

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Come and visit the #PurplePatch at Radio 1’s Big Weekend today - a celebration of our purple bins! 💜 A space created by @makeCIC where you can charge your phone for free & learn about the importance of #recycling in Liverpool ♻️ 📹@lpoolcouncil #bigweekend #liverpool #seftonpark

Almost two thirds of the rubbish in your purple bin could be recycled! ♻️ Heading to #BigWeekend at Sefton Park? Visit the #PurplePatch to charge your phone, learn about recycling, & see the DJ deck made from repurposed bins by @makeCIC. See you there! 🎉 liverpoolexpress.co.uk/true-…

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