@suzanne_moore What poll - this one or is there a new poll

Happy birthday to Yelena Shevchenko!

As a child Yelena was very trusting. She was friendly with other kids but lived a bit in her own world. She had a good memory which helped her a lot at school. By nature a creative person and an eternal optimist, she had many interests and strove for perfection in each.

She could have easily become an actress, model, translator, but destiny brought 7 year old Yelena to Moscow CSKA where she fell in love with gymnastics and found friends & mentors. Her first coaches were Viktor and Irina Razumovskiy.

Soon the mere fascination with gymnastics ended & 5 years of hard work began, plus the will to achieve serious results. More than once she was tempted to quit, but persisted. She perfected her characteristic expression on floor which bewitched the judges & spectators alike.

She had many competitors at CSKA and later at Vatutinki to keep her driven including Gurova, later Chudina and Baraksanova along with others. She competed for the Armed Forces team and first made the national team at 12.

@manuelvlara @dsmitheconomics Not for the last 20 years https://t.co/RN5ye9QoE5

Have got a long trip back to UK. Can anyone recommend a good book for the journey. No Booker short listed novels I beg you.

Many thanks everyone. That is terrific

Any organisation considering whether they should stay in the @stonewalluk schemes should consider that they are not in line with the @EHRC employers code of practice.

Why take the risk of signing up to a scheme that is different from the law?

Stonewall tells employers to "acknowledge the limitations of the Equality Act (2010)"

It advises against using language based on compliance with the law saying this is "outdated" and may "cause offence"

Ignore what the law says about protected characteristics says Stonewall guidance

"Gender Identity" and "Gender Expression" are treated as protected characteristics.

They are not.

Book Twitter: what’s the last book you were absolutely obsessed with? I’m talking ignore-your-family, laugh-in-the-face-of-sleep, hide-in-a-cupboard-to-read obsessed?

The effort at anathematising @ALLIANCELGB by claiming that it "does not represent L, G or B people in no way shape or form" betrays a confusion that underpins a lot of the totalitarian moralism from some in this debate - and there is a debate. (1/14)

Beneath that is an overuse of the term "community" to the point where it means little and obscures a lot {banking, landlord and spying communities, anyone?}. The #LGB Alliance emerged precisely because a large number of people, including some Stonewall founders... (2/14)

tried to win an actually broader, more "representative" approach from that charity and not to lose focus upon the rights of same-sex attracted people. Stonewall refused, so an organisation was founded "representing" the spurned point of view and campaigning priorities. (3/14)

In none of this is there a claim to "represent" all or some proportion of LGB people. It is representing a *point of view* and commitment to specific charitable and political aims. It is Stonewall that is lazily claimed to be "the representative" of LGBT+ people qua LG... (4/14)

But even when SW did more align with more people and ostracised none, it was still a matter of political campaigning not representation of a community in the usual sense. There was no vote to appoint the "representatives". No structure of mass decision-making. (5/14)

I’m in the market for some holiday reading - fiction, quality sci-fi, history, readable nerdery. Recommendations?

me: *I need to be more patient with my relatives*

me after a 30 second conversation with them:

I got Dominic Toretto!

He's gone

Well, you can't expect him to hang around all day, unlike you, he has a family

Komova is working on her online influencer career. Her manager posted the list of products she refuses to advertise. Among them are betting/gambling, astrology/fortune telling, and MLMs

This was a great answer

The Queen appreciating the GOAT

This is the shameful behavior of Rep. Michael Skindell at the Ohio House yesterday during the introduction of the SWS Act. These are the types of absurdities we deal with when trying to #SaveWomensSports

One thing being missed in the reporting of the Laurel Hubbard story is a glaring anomaly in the current IOC regulations governing the participation of transgender athletes in Olympic event, on which this graph clearly illustrates.

The graph shows population distributions... /1

...for circulating testosterone levels for normal healthy females, females with PCOS and/or hyperandrogenism, and for normal healthy males, all based on current IAAF reference ranges.

I've also added the following two lines:

1) The 'Semenya Line' shows the level below... /2

...which both transgender and 46XY athletes are required to reduce their testosterone level for at least 12 months prior to them being permitted to compete in specific track events under IAAF rules.

This is the rule that will prevent Caster Semenya defending her 800m title... /3

...in the upcoming Tokyo games.

2) The 'Hubbard Line' show the level below which Laurel Hubbard is required to reduce her testosterone level for 12 months, under IOC rules, in order to compete in Tokyo.

As the graph makes clear, not only are the two sets of regulations... /4

...out of sync but the IOC regulations, which govern Hubbard's participation in Olympic weightlifting, would allow her to compete while maintaining a testosterone level that is still WITHIN the lower end of the normal range for a healthy male.

Regardless of what you think... /5

I spoke to @KayBurley on @SkyNews this morning. It was a brief chat about the #transgender athletes in sport controversy. I’ve put a version of it up on IGTV at this link if interested:

I also wrote an article for the @thetimes on the transgender controversy, explaining some key issues, from the meaning of sport to biological advantages (it’s not like height!), and why a “T fix” doesn’t work. Thanks @martynziegler for the invitation:
https://t.co/UCOG0nbSz7

@llilmazx Oxygen stealing bottom feeder

This is Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard.

She’s 21, and it would have been her first Olympics.