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Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

tl;dr he got suspended from the greens for transphobia and left to join a party more aligned with his bigotry

#OtD 5 Mar 1988 2,000 people took part in a demonstration through Leeds to protest against the homophobic Section 28 law which prohibited the so-called 'promotion of homosexuality' by local authorities and schools. It was eventually repealed in 2003 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1054...

#OtD 5 Mar 1871 Jewish revolutionary socialist, Rosa Luxemburg, was born. A critic both of reformist socialists and Lenin's "ultra-centralism", she was murdered by right-wing paramilitaries on behalf of social democrats after the failed 1919 uprising shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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today is bandcamp Friday. a great day to support musicians because they don't take a cut of revenue and these streaming services do not care if we live or die

I have many compact discs available. I hear people like those these days and I have a bunch of rare ones

openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com/merch

We've just learned that the person at the MHRA whose letter caused Wes 'I follow the clinical evidence' Streeting to cancel the puberty blockers trial is Professor Jacob George, the GC who enjoyed mocking trans people on his social media account.

Why did Wes Streeting cover up his name?

The serious, grown up approach to politics is owning the gay Jewish man by asking Grok or what the fuck ever to produce bad drawings of him holding hands with a homophobic antisemite.

Update from Kate on FB is that the warrant has been suspended which is good news but the council are still putting this family through the wringer.

"Women Just Aren't Funny": The Fight for Equality in the Comedy Industry In the lead up to International Women's Day, comedy venue Komedia look at the issue of sexism and inequality in the comedy industry.

Change for women in comedy still moves sluggishly

www.komedia.co.uk/women-just-a...

the amount of Islamophobic content they've managed to generate out of a historically left-wing constituency voting for a left-wing MP is astonishing

BREAKING: The Met police have raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House.

AGAIN.

Once again the basis of the raid is conspiracy to protest.

It's a violation of freedom of expression & association rights. Not to mention freedom of religion for the Quakers too.

Pubic statement by GirlGuiding to carry on excluding transgender children despite being offered legal support by the GoodLaw Project. It is now apparent this exclusion is by choice not by threats of legal action by the GCIM

It with great sadness that we read the GirlGuides are continuing to discriminate against transgender children despite the offer by the @goodlawproject.org to defend them in any legal case. It is painfully apparent now they have used threats against them by the GCIM as an excuse to allow exclusion.

This idea that refugee status should be temporary and only last as long as a country is deemed to be “unsafe” is utter nonsense. The trauma which causes people to flee lasts a lifetime and cannot simply be undone once a state is (for example) no longer at war.

Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.

On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.

Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."

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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

transphobia is comorbid with being a fucking cunt in every other aspect of your life

I know so many people whose lives would begin to stabilise if they got a $3k cheque.

Nationalism YouTube video by QELD - Topic

Midweek banger
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1 Inquiry for New York Times Good afternoon, My name is [REDACTED] and l am a reporter for the New York Times. I am researching how much money the Palestinian diaspora community has sent to support Gazan families since the war in Gaza began. Does your team track this figure? I really appreciate it. With gratitude, [REDACTED]

Palestine Diaspora Movement Hello [REDACTED] We do not collaborate with The New York Times. Your email asks about money sent to Gazan families "since the war in Gaza began." Let us first correct the premise. This is not a war. It is a genocide. Calling it a war is part of the problem. It obscures the reality of a colonized people being massacred by a military machine backed by the United States and defended, sanitized, and rhetorically softened by institutions like yours. The New York Times has spent far too long parroting Zionist propaganda and laundering Israeli state narratives while Palestinians bury their dead. That kind of coverage does not merely misinform. It helps create the political climate in which Palestinian slaughter becomes explainable, defensible, and forgettable. So no, we will not be sharing any figures, internal data, or community information with a paper that has so thoroughly damaged its credibility on Palestine. Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it. Do not contact us again for this purpose, The Palestine Diaspora Movement Team

“Quite frankly, we would rather chew jeans than help The New York Times extract from our community while continuing to fail it”

lmaooo GET EM

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What's wild about all the TRANS CONTAGION pieces is that, outside of Op Eds, the editing process at these publications make it *almkat impossible* to make even basic factual statements without rigorous fact checking.

A rule that is just shredded, pulped, and thrown out the window for transphobia.

Book with a broken spine being mended with hinge tape. A jar of glue, a brush, and a bone folder lie on the counter behind the book.

part of my job is to take broken books and fix them so they are even stronger. i am genuinely happy that my life has come to this. 📚

It is genuinely distressing to me how many people are sharing this with some variation of “FAFO.”

I dunno man, I think it is bad for disabled people to be left out to dry whether they or their families have politics I agree with or not.

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'Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Lives at Risk for No Purpose' The Government talks about wanting to reduce division and increase integration and then implements policies which will do the complete opposite, argues Daniel Sohege

🔴‘Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Lives at Risk for No Purpose’

The Government talks about wanting to reduce division and increase integration and then implements policies which will do the complete opposite, argues @danielsohege.bsky.social

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There were about 3600 public libraries open in the UK in 2020.
This is about £40 for each of them.