Seb Coe: "Biology trumps gender.... I’m really over having any more of these discussions with second-rate sociologists"

I'd have to be totally off my rocker to think that "the man" in places like Iran and Iraq - or Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Russia and so on - would pay any heed to me or anyone like me.

Whenever I've traveled to the the Middle East, I've always been under the same strictures to veil, cover up, "know my place" and "watch myself" as all other women there.

Like many women from the Western world who have traveled to and followed the news of the Middle East over the years, I am very much cognizant of what happened to women like Farrokhroo Parsa in Iran in 1980, Alicia Gali in the UAE in 2007, Lara Logan in Egypt in 2011, and Marte Deborah Dalelv in Dubai in 2013. After personally dealing with law enforcement authorities in Egypt after an Islamist man assaulted me entirely out of the blue whilst I was visiting the Cairo Museum several decades ago, I do not hold any illusions about my personal powers or about being granted special clout because I am an American citizen.

But for the record, I have worked in DP/refugee aid and resettlement programs both in the USA and abroad. Through that, and as a journalist who long covered human rights and women's rights issues, I have done what little I can to help out women and girls from a wide variety of countries where members of the female sex had/have fewer legal rights and freedoms than in the USA. I've also personally sponsored several women from other countries who've immigrated to the USA. But these women are not from the countries you named, so in your view they probably don't count.

Your larger point seems to be that it's somehow unseemly or wrong for feminists like me to support and work for women's rights in the USA, or in spheres as narrow as sports, unless we simultaneously try to topple the mullahs and military authorities in Iran and Iraq and every other male supremacist regime and ideology in all the rest of the world.

By your reasoning, American women like Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Bela Abzug, Patsy Mink, Gloria Steinem and many more were ineffectual time-wasters because they didn't stand up to the man everywhere on earth. To be taken seriously, they would have had to take on the Soviet Politburo, Mao, Pinochet, Pol Pot, Franco, Tito, Honnecker, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Ceaușescu, the apartheid regime in South Africa and billions of other men in the world.

I imagine there are lots of other people you look down on and whose efforts you sneer and laugh at. So be it. I will continue to campaign for fairness and safety for female people in sports and other spheres of life in my own small way anyways.

Oh stop. Your many posts on various threads over several years have convinced me that your views are so unreservedly sexist, misogynistic and trans-male supremacist that you simply can't get it through your head that lots of people of the female sex think for ourselves.

In your superior, authoritarian, male-centric world view, the only way women - meaning adult human females - could possibly object to the incursion of males into female sports, spaces and services - and to the regressive gender ideology you and other gender vendors promote - is because we are empty-headed eejits who take our marching orders from right wing Americans: "where Tucker leads you are following." You really think all of us of the female sex who dare to disagree with you are brain-dead dolts, don't you?

How do you plan to abolish these stereotypes if you insist on strict delimitation and biological definitions of womanhood.

Huh? You and your camp are the ones who want to replace biological definitions of male and female and man and woman with regressive, superficial sex stereotypes of femininity and masculinity. You are the ones who say that "definitions of womanhood" should have nothing whatsoever to do with female human beings like me and the woman who gave birth to you - that being a woman/girl is just an "identity" that any male like you can claim so long as said males hew to a bunch of sexist bollocks.

Please explain how female human beings benefit from an ideology in which males like you simultaneously deny biological sex and the physical sex differences between female and male humans whilst denigrating, fetishizing and appropriating the bodies, bodily processes and everything else associated with women and girls.

Pray tell, what's the payoff for women (the biological kind) if we roll over and accept your view that we must now be relegated to second-class status as a reviled subset of our own sex: "cis women."

How are the lives of women and girls improved by being forced to budge up and give up our hard-won rights to accommodate all the sexist, selfish, pushy and domineering males who seek to at once deny and colonize our existence whom you call "trans women"?

As for your comments on male drag: I have always felt most male drag is grotesquely insulting to women. I think most male drag is an expression of misogynistic male supremacy just as blackface is an expression of racist white supremacy. I think it's high time that the men who do and support male drag take a good look at themselves and what they are doing.

That doesn't mean I believe in outlawing or censoring drag, though. In a plural society, there will always be lots of things that various groups don't like but which we all have to put up with in the spirit of "live and let live."

The only reason male drag has become "a recent target of gender-critical and right wing outrage" is because of the stupid idea that some men came up with that a great way to promote "diversity and inclusion" would be for libraries, schools, local councils and community groups to host events for toddlers and young children hosted by men enacting most sexist and misogynistic caricatures of women by dressing up "as women" in highly sexualized, often frightening costumes.

You can say you don’t, but everyone has a gender identity. It is a function in your brain just as it is in transgender people. I’m not saying anything silly like “girl brain” or “boy brain”, but there is a function of the brain that identifies with a sex and we know this because maybe 1% or so of people have it flipped.

Like another poster said, this is akin to you saying you don’t have a sexual orientation because you are straight and just don’t believe in all that homo nonsense.

Socialists go home devastated.

Why don't you publish your original research to debunk Julia Bakker's study in a peer reviewed journal, instead of just posting on this board?

I didn't write anything about sports teams, but if one of the girls in this video happened to be your daughter, what would you tell her? Your friend is not a real girl, so don't play any sports with her?

Why is "cis women" a second-class status? Compared to what? Who is "first-class" then?

I also don't understand what "gender identity ideology" is. What are its main claims? Who is advocating it? Is there any organized movement behind it? Or just random individuals?

Seriously? By now, it should be clear to anyone that @RunRagged is a TERB (trans-exclusionary radical bigot) whose opinions no one in any position of authority cares about, so this message board full of “I feel like I’m a chair” buffoons is the only place where she can spout the six and half pieces of knowledge on the topic that she has over and over written out as verbose essays because concision doesn’t come easily to the discombobulated.

I remember when I got my first thesaurus