‘Girl Power!’: Trans Runner Competing in Women’s London Marathon is ‘Wrong and Unfair’ Says Top Olympian

An experienced marathon runner who now self-identifies as a woman was able to compete in the women’s division of the London Marathon despite new rules blocking biological males, sparking criticism from a top athlete.

Glenique Frank, who ran the New York Marathon last year as a male called Glen, made use of a loophole in Athletics UK’s new rules excluding biological males who have gone through puberty from competing in women’s events to run the London Marathon on Sunday.

According to The Daily Telegraph, Frank completed the marathon in four hours, 11 minutes, and 28 seconds which in the age and gender category opened placed him at 6,160th place among 20,123 women. As the paper notes, that time would have put him in a considerably lower-ranked 15,386th place had he competed as a man.

Frank’s marathon entry may not have come to national attention had he not been interviewed by the BBC during the marathon, during which the runner declared he was soon to become a grandmother and reflecting on a busy calendar of marathons coming up declared: “girl power!”. As a local news report of 2021 notes, Frank has long run marathons in fancy dress, and was known in his local area for running for charity dressed as Batman. Latterly, he switched for Batwoman.

Mara Yamauchi, one of the fastest women in the history of British sport and a board member of the campaign group Sex Matters, spoke out on the controversy and said: “Nearly 14,000 women finished in a worse finish position because of him… Males in the female category is unfair for females.”

While UK Athletics banned biological males from competing in women’s events earlier this year, they left a loophole, called “transitional arrangements”, which would allow those who had already competed to carry on doing so, only forcing new entrants into sports to compete as their own sex. A report at the time defined the carve-out as continuing to allow: “any transgender athlete who has already entered a competition or event in the category that is not their biological sex… but may not accept any prize and their results will not count towards any record, qualifying time or mark, or team scoring.”

So while Frank ran within the new rules, Yamauchi said those rules remained “wrong and unfair” to biological women.

The London Marathon is an annual endurance run of 26 miles and 385 yards inspired by the legendary run of Philippides at the Battle of Marathon during the attempted Persian invasion of Greece in 490BC.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/25/girl-power-trans-runner-competing-in-womens-london-marathon-is-wrong-and-unfair-says-top-olympian/

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A.I. Could Replace Judges in UK Court Disputes, Senior Judge Claims

Artificial Intelligence could possibly replace judges in some UK court disputes in the future, a senior British judge has said.

Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls in England and Wales, has expressed the belief that A.I. could be used to replace human adjudicators in some UK court cases in the future.

The senior judge encouraged the legal profession in the countries to keep pursuing the use of generative artificial intelligence — such as ChatGPT — both inside and outside the courtroom, a position that appears to be at odds with others in the tech sector who have warned that research should be halted until regulations can catch up with advances.

Speaking at the Lincolns Inn on Wednesday, however, Vos said that London’s commercial courts in particular should be pursuing the use of A.I. with great interest, describing the technology as already having proved capable of dealing with issues within the legal profession.

“You will probably all have seen that when GPT-3.5 took the Bar exams (US ones, I imagine) not long ago, it came in the bottom 10 per cent, but when GPT-4 took them just recently, it came in the top 10 per cent,” he said while addressing a crowd as part of the McNair Lecture series.

“This demonstrates the speed at which generative AI is developing. It perhaps makes the point that there is a real possibility that AI may become more intelligent and capable than humans,” he added. “It is obvious that these advances will affect the legal world as much as any other part of our society.”

In particular, the senior judge referenced the high cost of commercial cases in front of the UK court system, saying that A.I. adjudication in some UK courtrooms could ultimately make the civil justice system in the country both cheaper and quicker for businesses, allowing resolutions to be arrived at more easily.

“If London is to retain its place as a litigation and arbitration destination of choice, it will be imperative to embrace digital innovation and AI to do what it does best, namely dealing with a complex mass of material,” he argued.

“The central element of any dispute resolution process is to identify the issue or issues that divide the parties,” Vos continued. “It is here that generative AI may be able to help. It may be that the power of AI could identify, from a mass of complex facts and transactions, the real issues that divide the parties and that require resolution.”

Such an acceleration, the senior judge added, would likely only be aided by the rise of digital currencies — both Central Banck issued and cryptocurrencies — which will make it easier to ascertain the nature, value and timeframe of transactions due to them being recorded on an easily referencable blockchain.

He also said that such automated decision-making should be clearly labelled, with Vos also seeing the possibility of appealing a decision to a human justice as being a requirement for such a change to be implemented.

“I am not offering any kind of blueprint for reform tonight,” he went on to say. “But I am sure that if London is to remain at the forefront of international commercial dispute resolution, it will need to move fast to address these and other fundamental issues of litigation and arbitral procedure.”

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/04/23/a-i-could-replace-judges-in-uk-court-disputes-senior-judge-claims/

The Fish Rots From the Head — Why the CIA is Dysfunctional

This photo array shows the pictures or titles of the 51+ CIA former officials who signed the letter in October 2020 declaring that the Hunter Biden laptop showed all the signs of a Russian disinformation op. Forty-seven of the photos show the real people. Four photos, which display a female with a black band across the eyes, do not show the actual person. There also were 9 other CIA officers, still on the job, that endorsed the letter but their names were left off because they were current CIA employees at the time the letter was written. The good folks at XRVISION assembled this montage.

All of these individuals now face potential legal liability for participating in a Biden campaign scheme to raise doubts about the legitimacy of the Hunter Biden laptop. We also know that they are liars and that each one, by affixing their name to this bogus letter, directly interfered in the 2020 Presidential election.

Here is the full text of the letter that Congressman Jim Jordan sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken notifying him that he must turn over documents and communications in his possession regarding the production and distribution of the letter proclaiming the laptop as Russian disinformation.

Blinken carried out these acts before he became Secretary of State and therefore does not have legal grounds to argue that these communications are covered by Executive Privilege.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/the-fish-rots-from-the-head-why-the-cia-is-dysfunctional/