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This is definitely bollocks:

It's not Trans people being excluded from sport. It's, I imagine, part of the incredibly difficult problem of defining sport classification to protect the integrity of the sport for the section of society that the intended classification exists.

I don't doubt that this is subject to social/cultural/political processes, and is sometimes bent and unfair. Like everything else. But it doesn't alter the fact that women's and girls sport serves an important role in society, and should be protected and fair for them to participate in. Without elite sport for women, and only competition to all participants, women's elite sport dies, there are no role models for women and girls, and we all end up worse off.

Wherever you make a classification there are winners and losers around the margins. That's the nature of categorisation sports. Only sports that don't require classification would make society poorer. Only open competition would make society poorer. There will always be rules and decisions that those on the wrong side of don't like. Whether that be allowable drug use, number of functioning limbs, or testosterone levels at puberty.

The women's indoor 800m record was almost certainly going to fall on Saturday. But now it probably won't - Keely Hodgkinson sustained an injury in her last training session.

Indoor championships are to athletics, what Gladiators is to the Olympics.