Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.

Of all your poor faith efforts to date, that nonsense must rank as one of the worst.

Disparaging someone for making a contribution, after demanding they explain some fairly simple words that you could have figured out yourself if you really couldn't understand them, and then deliberately mischaracterising the explanation. Shocking, but not surprising.

Very specifically. As in only specifically.

WTAF are you on about? Listen lad, if you want to set up a straw man whereby you define what you decide "counts" so that you can win the internet, then fire away. I'm happy for you to think that you'll have achieved a great victory for yourself.

So you sit on some sort of committee, just say that then.

I said exactly what I do. I was happy to elaborate on it in simpler terms to assist you with your comprehension problems in understanding what was being said. No need to thank me. I do sit on committees (plural). That is a part of what I do. It sounds like it's a lot more than you do. And it certainly has a much bigger real-world impact than your apparent gold standard of starting a thread on boards.

People who "sit on some sort of committee" can be hugely impactful in promoting female sport. To give one example already referenced in this thread, Kirsty Coventry "sits on some sort of committee". It even has the word committee in the title, just to clue you in. It's worth repeating the last paragraph of the Guardian's Opinion piece (I've bolded the key bit to help you) on what she has done this week in her role of "sitting on some sort of committee":

However, whichever side of this issue you fall on, one thing is clear: a seismic shift has taken place.

That's in the real world. I'm guessing that starting a thread on boards wouldn't have the same seismic impact, or do you think otherwise?

Oh dear oh dear. Reduced to partial quotes to try to win the internet. Let me try again… I bold again to see if it helps with your comprehension of what is being said.

I do sit on committees (plural). That is a part of what I do.

And to again emphasise :

People who "sit on some sort of committee" can be hugely impactful in promoting female sport. To give one example already referenced in this thread, Kirsty Coventry "sits on some sort of committee". It even has the word committee in the title, just to clue you in. It's worth repeating the last paragraph of the Guardian's Opinion piece (I've bolded the key bit to help you) on what she has done this week in her role of "sitting on some sort of committee":

However, whichever side of this issue you fall on, one thing is clear: a seismic shift has taken place.

Good to see that you've moved beyond thinking that starting threads on boards is some kind of gold standard for promoting female sports. As it happens, the sports I'm involved with don't have that coaching problem. So I take it you're trying close the coaching gap in the sport you coach?

Again with using something true to create a false impression. The fact that @Enduro sits on committees was not in dispute, but you used the word "committee" (singular) and "sit" in such a way as to infer that the sitting was literal (I know you're fond of using " literal") and that there was nothing tangible being contributed. A cheap shot, no useful contribution to the discussion -IOW business as usual.

Not a dicky bird about the Olympics rule change from either the Indo or the Irish Times, other than syndicated copy bought in on the announcement itself. None of their sports journos have anything to say about it. Though, in fairness the Indo do have a couple of other columnists who have expressed strong views on the wider issue of trans rights vs women's rights. I really thought there would be something over the weekend.

Here's the IOC press conference announcing and explaining the policy. Jane Thornton, the IOC Health, Medicine and Science Department Director gives an in-depth explanation on how the working group went about their task.

I care about fairness in sports. As a result, I care about fairness in entry criteria for the female category. I couldn't give a damn which political "team" happens to align themselves with my opinion or not. My opinions will not be guided just because an extreme left or extreme right political organisation happens to agree or disagree with it.

In the grown-up world we can choose to support a political organisation because they align with some of our views. We don't have to childishly support every opinion of a political party just because we may have chosen to support them. For grown-ups with their own independent thoughts it's highly unlikely that any political organisation will align 100% with those opinions 100% of the time.

If you can't understand any of the words I've used there, do let me know, and I will try to simplify it if necessary.

In case you don't realise it, there are multiple ways that Female sports can be better supported. More effective female-focused insurance is one for sure. So is keeping Male sex athletes out of the female category. It's more than possible to deal with more than one thing at the same time. Of course, that requires people actually doing something about it, rather than complaining on the grassy sidelines about the people who actually get things done.

I wonder how that improvement in insurance came about. Was there some sort of group of people who took on the task of getting it done? I wonder if there is a name for that sort of grouping of people?

"Everyone who disagrees with you is trolling?" - posted in response to someone who was referring to one person, and describing his posting style as "straw men and semantic gymnastics" (absolutely no mention of mere disagreement).