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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)

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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)

@StephenORahilly

Physician-scientist interested in the causes and adverse consequences of obesity. Director MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge. Views mine.

Cambridge, England

mrl.ims.cam.ac.uk/research/princ…

Joined May 2011

stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 14, 2024
And as an endocrinologist (who has been President of the Society for Endocrinology ) I can confirm that both JK Rowling and John Pike are completely scientifically correct on this matter
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Sep 16, 2024
I am a head of department at a major UK university and happy to state publicly that biological sex is a real and meaningful concept and necessary in many contexts including medical, social & sporting.
Academics For Academic Freedom
@AFAF_freespeech
Sep 16, 2024
Dare any VC or senior person in a University could say that biological sex is real. Even if they think it, no one would say this publicly. Their career would be at an end. This is the test of whether free speech still exists in academia. @StudentAFAF @WRNDerbyshire @SpeechUnion
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 15, 2024
To clarify. I have no personal or professional access to the relevant tests. The confirmation by at least one boxer's trainer that they had XY chromosomes (and that was the reason for the previous ban) combined with the striking body habitus easily observed by an experienced/
stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 14, 2024
And as an endocrinologist (who has been President of the Society for Endocrinology ) I can confirm that both JK Rowling and John Pike are completely scientifically correct on this matter
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Jun 28, 2022
Many kind friends are puzzled about why I have started to tweet in support of women who have expressed some concerns about the importance of retaining the importance of biological sex vs self identified gender. Below is an example of the hostility they face. Incitement to murder.
stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Apr 14, 2025
When I go back to Ireland, which I do fairly often, I am amazed at how few of my highly educated friends have ever even heard of Helen Joyce, a brilliant Irish citizen and graduate who was a senior journalist at the Economist for many years. She has written a seminal and/
The Countess
@TheCountessIE
Apr 2, 2025
Helen is an Irishwoman and an alumni of Trinity College Dublin. She has never been invited to speak on an Irish TV or radio show. She has never been interviewed by an Irish journalist either. In Ireland the elites think that if we don’t talk about it, then there’s no problem.
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 15, 2024
Replying to @StephenORahilly
On the basis of all data available to them they were "complete scientifically correct" in drawing the conclusions that they did. Of course if the boxers concerned were willing to make their karyotype results publicly known then any room for doubt could be removed.
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 15, 2024
Replying to @StephenORahilly
endocrinologist watching the boxing match make 5ARD (o, less likely,PAIS) extraordinarily likely as a diagnosis and other explanations highly implausible. Which is why I strongly supported the hypotheses proposed by JK Rowling and John Pike as best fitting the available data.
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Oct 21, 2021
Government should tell obese to eat less, says ex-minister Lord Robathan bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… Now why didn't we think of that? Answer: because we know it doesnt work. Obesity is not a knowledge deficiency disorder.
Government should tell obese to eat less, says ex-minister Lord Robathan
From bbc.co.uk
stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 15, 2024
This is Alicia Scott Weigel and American writer who has openly discussed the fact that she is XY with Complete Androgen Insensitivity syndrome, She has never been exposed to the effects of androgens, particularly not at puberty, so her musculo-skeletal body habitus is female
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Nov 4, 2024
The cited endocrinologist is a highly expert one. 5 alpha reductase deficiency is a devastating disorder. It’s sufferers deserve expert and compassionate care. However, their pubertal development is male and it is dangerous to allow them in a boxing ring with biological women.
WRN for Herts and Cambs
@WRNHerts_Cambs
Nov 4, 2024
It's become a cliche when examining gender identity ideology, but the @iocmedia and all associated with the male boxer 'told us to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears'. In the summer of 2024, a male was enabled to punch women on the biggest sporting stage, to prop up an
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Feb 3, 2020
What’s so difficult to grasp about the fact that hunger and satiety are signals generated deep in primitive parts of our brain, that their intensity varies between people, largely on a genetic basis, and that this variation strongly predisposes people towards leanness or obesity?
stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Mar 8, 2024
Just received formal final confirmation that our MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit has been fully funded for 2024 to 2029 having obtained maximum possible scores for past work and future plans. Thanks to all the staff of @IMS_MRL who made this happen.
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 15, 2024
By this, I mean I do not have any privileged access to these particular boxers' results. I do have over 35 years of clinical and research experience as an endocrinologist and my lab as discovered several of the key molecular controllers of human puberty
stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
Aug 15, 2024
Replying to @StephenORahilly
endocrinologist watching the boxing match make 5ARD (o, less likely,PAIS) extraordinarily likely as a diagnosis and other explanations highly implausible. Which is why I strongly supported the hypotheses proposed by JK Rowling and John Pike as best fitting the available data.
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stephen o'rahilly (its pronounced O-RA-hill-EEE)
@StephenORahilly
May 17, 2025
What an amazing woman. An object lesson on how to use good fortune and wealth to try to reduce human misery. And not a hint of self-importance.
JK Rowling: ‘Nobody who hasn’t been poor can understand what it means’
From thetimes.com
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