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Gary Turner
@SmilerTurner
13x World Champion Sportsman, PhD student in the behavioural effects of head impacts in combat sports, hypnotherapist, personal trainer and combat sport coach
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    May 12, 2024
    This is what the rugby researchers do in order to dictate the narrative, why I question everything from any of their science team. How can players be able to give informed consent when rugby conspires with the @BJSM_BMJ to avoid criticism?
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Mar 22, 2024
    How did researchers and the BJSM, in a hurry to counter an editorial questioning ethics, make around a 100 changes to an already published paper, changing the research question, and the year of data collection changed from 2019/20 to 2018/19 (and the data remained the same).
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Feb 21, 2025
    Trans Women in sports - latest research continues the trajectory of all data in sports populations - TW align to CW, they may be disadvantaged compared to CW, and using CM as a proxy for TW is inaccurate. TW were equal with or worse than CW in nearly every metric.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Apr 8, 2025
    I enjoyed this break down of gender critical claims. Considering this is all time, all countries, all levels, all sports, all ages, even if we take the GC presentation as 'fact', it is still an infinitesimally small number. Also, eating competitions and gameshows on the list ;)
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    Blue Georgia
    @BlueGeorgia
    Apr 7, 2025
    John Oliver debunks the right-wing talking point that athletes lost 900 medals to trans athletes.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Apr 9, 2025
    My turn for JK Rowling's attention. Here's my simple response.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Jun 3, 2025
    There is no independently verified evidence proving that Imane Khelif is male. To say she is would be defamation - as comments are being made without the evidence. EVEN if XY, there are XY females. I'd question the motives of people being derogatory towards Khelif.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    May 4, 2025
    GCs not understanding the Approved Documents under the Building Regulations, and instead calling them building "codes", getting their application and details wrong. I would not follow Maya's advice in this thread, it is false.
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    Maya Forstater
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    May 4, 2025
    A 🧵about signs. What do I mean by this sign excludes all men? I mean the sign itself is discriminatory.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Feb 22, 2025
    Replying to @AndieforIndie
    The problem is, as highlighted in the responses on this thread, many are not reading the paper but still concluding it is incorrect. Some minds will never change when presented with data.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Feb 22, 2025
    Replying to @MrTCHarris
    ? I have not presented a political, personal, professional, philosophical, or ideological position, instead I have put forward the latest data, probably the most robust of any in respect to TW in sport.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Apr 26, 2024
    Replying to @No7Sammy
    GCs - "keep males out of sexed spaces" Also GCs - "bring males into sexed spaces" Doh.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Sep 2, 2025
    History is made. A rightful challenge to a wrongful policy (read the policy in full).
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    Imane Khelif: Olympic gold medallist appeals to sport's highest court over genetic sex testing
    Khelif took gold at the Paris Olympics last year amid a gender dispute over her eligibility after she was disqualified from the 2023 World Championships.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Mar 7, 2025
    Replying to @speakoutsister
    Further, as there are medical recorded cases of both simultaneous and sequential hermaphrodites, they demonstrate sex is mutable (it is in utero anyway). Messy.
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    Gary Turner
    @SmilerTurner
    Feb 22, 2025
    Replying to @bernese02
    All studies come with limitations - all carefully explained in the paper. There is always low sample size with transgender in such specific papers - there are so few trans people, let alone trans persons in sport. Definitely worth quoting - the study is robust and adds data.
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    Gary Turner
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    Feb 21, 2025
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    Gary Turner
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    Jun 4, 2025
    Imane Khelif passed countless, and very thorough, medicals, across her entire career. Her sex was not questioned. It appears she has a female phenotype, including, it appears, normal menstrual cycles, or explained abnormalities. iba.sport/wp-content/upl…
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