Charles Arthur
@charlesarthur.bsky.social
Author “Social Warming”, about how social media inevitably polarises us all (not me or you, obviously, just everyone else). Journalist who has covered sports, technology, science, medicine. Ex-Guardian, -Independent, -New Scientist.
One of the rapid responses to the study published in the BJSM part-funded by the IOC. "No data are presented in this paper to demonstrate that these are equally trained comparison groups."
It's a really bad study.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586
It's a really bad study.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
One of the rapid responses to the study published in the BJSM part-funded by the IOC. "No data are presented in this paper to demonstrate that these are equally trained comparison groups."
It's a really bad study.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586
It's a really bad study.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/11/586
In incredibly low doses. See the left-hand side of the graph? That's where females are, in the orange and the green curves.
There's simply no proper overlap with males.
There's simply no proper overlap with males.
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
In incredibly low doses. See the left-hand side of the graph? That's where females are, in the orange and the green curves.
There's simply no proper overlap with males.
There's simply no proper overlap with males.
Also, do you have trouble reading the content of links you post? Those 46XX are SRY-positive, as it states right up at the top.
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Also, do you have trouble reading the content of links you post? Those 46XX are SRY-positive, as it states right up at the top.
SRY negative, genius. Explain how SRY negative can be anything but female, given this:
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
SRY negative, genius. Explain how SRY negative can be anything but female, given this:
Indeed, because that article says this about SRY.
So if someone is SRY negative...
So if someone is SRY negative...
November 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Indeed, because that article says this about SRY.
So if someone is SRY negative...
So if someone is SRY negative...
As a scientist, Sinclair really should do his research. I had to write a long email to The Conversation. To their credit, they did correct it quite quickly.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
As a scientist, Sinclair really should do his research. I had to write a long email to The Conversation. To their credit, they did correct it quite quickly.
That article was amended because of errors that *I* pointed out in it. He didn't understand the exceptions that World Athletics is making for specific DSDs where people test SRY+ but don't androgenise (Swyer, CAIS). I did, and do.
So much for your scientist (singular).
So much for your scientist (singular).
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
That article was amended because of errors that *I* pointed out in it. He didn't understand the exceptions that World Athletics is making for specific DSDs where people test SRY+ but don't androgenise (Swyer, CAIS). I did, and do.
So much for your scientist (singular).
So much for your scientist (singular).
So predictable: once you’ve got no rational argument you shout "bigot" and hope everyone will go agree with you based on emotion. No actual reasoning.
That stopped working years ago. The overwhelming majority of people are against males (ie TW) in female sports. Better deal with it.
That stopped working years ago. The overwhelming majority of people are against males (ie TW) in female sports. Better deal with it.
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
So predictable: once you’ve got no rational argument you shout "bigot" and hope everyone will go agree with you based on emotion. No actual reasoning.
That stopped working years ago. The overwhelming majority of people are against males (ie TW) in female sports. Better deal with it.
That stopped working years ago. The overwhelming majority of people are against males (ie TW) in female sports. Better deal with it.
You can't read. Apparently everything that proves you wrong is a "far right talking point". Denial as a state of mind.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You can't read. Apparently everything that proves you wrong is a "far right talking point". Denial as a state of mind.
An expert report presented to the committee says the reasons are real and scientific. Sports has been segregated by sex for more than a century.
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
An expert report presented to the committee says the reasons are real and scientific. Sports has been segregated by sex for more than a century.
@aptshadow.bsky.social I feel like you imagined this eventuality
October 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
@aptshadow.bsky.social I feel like you imagined this eventuality
Your searching is sub-par. "Barbie Kardashian offences committed" gets you there.
October 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Your searching is sub-par. "Barbie Kardashian offences committed" gets you there.
Nancy seems to be doubting the bona fides of the IOC, which is an odd thing to imply on social media of all places.
September 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Nancy seems to be doubting the bona fides of the IOC, which is an odd thing to imply on social media of all places.
You'll of course have evidence of that. Because this interview in Holyrood magazine offers no support for the idea, and in fact an outright rejection of such claims about them.
You seem to think the UK is the US. It isn't.
https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,the-women-who-wouldnt-wheesht
You seem to think the UK is the US. It isn't.
https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,the-women-who-wouldnt-wheesht
September 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
You'll of course have evidence of that. Because this interview in Holyrood magazine offers no support for the idea, and in fact an outright rejection of such claims about them.
You seem to think the UK is the US. It isn't.
https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,the-women-who-wouldnt-wheesht
You seem to think the UK is the US. It isn't.
https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,the-women-who-wouldnt-wheesht
Very marginally up. The graph shows growth _for the previous 15 years_ so "2020" means 2005-2020.
But it's been slipping for a long time.
(IFS 2024 https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-poverty-and-inequality-uk-2024)
But it's been slipping for a long time.
(IFS 2024 https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-poverty-and-inequality-uk-2024)
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Very marginally up. The graph shows growth _for the previous 15 years_ so "2020" means 2005-2020.
But it's been slipping for a long time.
(IFS 2024 https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-poverty-and-inequality-uk-2024)
But it's been slipping for a long time.
(IFS 2024 https://ifs.org.uk/publications/living-standards-poverty-and-inequality-uk-2024)
Reform bans Nottingham Live and other reporters from council events. The mistake though in this quote is comparing them to Trump. Reform voters _like_ Trump.
Compare them instead to Mussolini or Idi Amin: tinpot dictators who screwed things up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger45p0lv0o
Compare them instead to Mussolini or Idi Amin: tinpot dictators who screwed things up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger45p0lv0o
August 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Reform bans Nottingham Live and other reporters from council events. The mistake though in this quote is comparing them to Trump. Reform voters _like_ Trump.
Compare them instead to Mussolini or Idi Amin: tinpot dictators who screwed things up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger45p0lv0o
Compare them instead to Mussolini or Idi Amin: tinpot dictators who screwed things up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cger45p0lv0o
Yeah don't hold your breath on that one. But I'll bet you McCloud is rejected by the ECHR. Let me know if you're prepared to take the other side.
August 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Yeah don't hold your breath on that one. But I'll bet you McCloud is rejected by the ECHR. Let me know if you're prepared to take the other side.
There's also this, from 2024. https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/john-pesutto-apologises-to-kellie-jay-keen-for-nazi-comments-after-melbourne-anti-trans-rally/230914
August 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The main players in the UK are very much left wing (as in the prime movers behind FWS), but there are members across the political spectrum, as the paper acknowledges. (The claim about Kellie Minshull is extremely dubious: one UK paper has had to retract its claims there.)
August 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The main players in the UK are very much left wing (as in the prime movers behind FWS), but there are members across the political spectrum, as the paper acknowledges. (The claim about Kellie Minshull is extremely dubious: one UK paper has had to retract its claims there.)
The Claire Ainsworth one? I tend to use this refutation.
If it's the "multicoloured train tracks" one, there's not much to do there except point out that there's a clear dividing line down the middle.
If it's the "multicoloured train tracks" one, there's not much to do there except point out that there's a clear dividing line down the middle.
July 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Claire Ainsworth one? I tend to use this refutation.
If it's the "multicoloured train tracks" one, there's not much to do there except point out that there's a clear dividing line down the middle.
If it's the "multicoloured train tracks" one, there's not much to do there except point out that there's a clear dividing line down the middle.
Just as a reminder of your claim. "You guys get tons of money from American religious-right people in the US". Where "you guys" was in direct reference to the plaintiffs in a UK court case you were discussing.
The reality is you have no grasp of this topic. Just a lot of blather and buzzwords.
The reality is you have no grasp of this topic. Just a lot of blather and buzzwords.
July 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just as a reminder of your claim. "You guys get tons of money from American religious-right people in the US". Where "you guys" was in direct reference to the plaintiffs in a UK court case you were discussing.
The reality is you have no grasp of this topic. Just a lot of blather and buzzwords.
The reality is you have no grasp of this topic. Just a lot of blather and buzzwords.
Let me know if you'll take the other side of this bet, in the comments on your piece.
July 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Let me know if you'll take the other side of this bet, in the comments on your piece.
When you store the phone number as FLOAT instead of STRING
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
When you store the phone number as FLOAT instead of STRING
So, which of these is set to "No"?
July 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
So, which of these is set to "No"?