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@J_S_millenial @WomenAreReals @benryanwriter @SF_TERF_CENTRAL @Sac_TERF_Ca @SashaAguilar69 @BLoquaciou72958 @aVeryGoodTyrone @AmandaKovattana @mellow_vello @marli_ca out.com/celebs/jon-lov…

@WomenAreReals @benryanwriter @SF_TERF_CENTRAL @Sac_TERF_Ca @SashaAguilar69 @BLoquaciou72958 @aVeryGoodTyrone @AmandaKovattana @mellow_vello @marli_ca Is his spouse trans? I actually did not know that

Remarkable conversation between two men that touches on women’s boundary violations & young women’s struggles to accept their sexuality, yet somehow the men can’t (or won’t) see how it all connects to women. You know, the female kind. It shows how close some men can get to seeing the problem, only to keep wandering in the wilderness: 1) @jonlovett brings up Sam Brinton, but the only comments are sarcastic: It was pretty exciting. Not a good look. It was fantastic. 2) Sedaris observes young women’s distaste with the word “lesbian,” but no deeper analysis here. 3) Sedaris correctly observes that “queer” doesn’t tell him anything and goes on to detail a story about a “queer 12 year-old.” Lovett dismisses this as an “edge case” and quickly changes the subject. Later in the conversation Sedaris mentions his irritation that “queer”includes people in heterosexual relationships, which is ironic since Lovett calls himself gay and is currently married to a woman. @Glinner

The practice of castrating young boys before puberty in order to retain a feminine singing voice first appeared in Italy in the mid-16th century, after the Catholic Church prohibited women from singing in a religious setting. theguardian.com/world/2001/aug…

It's quite shocking to see so many MPs totally heartbroken over scenarios in which, were a boring adult human female the one saying "I don't feel safe", they'd just fire off a template email telling them that's not a legitimate feeling

This creep was arrested by federal police for exposing himself to two teenagers. There’s a guy who walks around naked in the female change room at Brunswick Baths in Melbourne, while making eye contact with women and girls, but he declares that he is a woman so no police are involved.

Gosh. Whatever could’ve contributed to such mistrust of news / courts /police reporting / NHS / mainstream media when they’re writing phrases like “exposed her penis” and calling violent criminals & dirty old men “she” and “her” as if we don’t have eyes? 🤔

Gender identity - unlike sex - is completely subjective yet women and girls are meant to be totally fine with having all of their rights and boundaries based around it theguardian.com/society/2026/j…

It's much harder to police boundaries based on gender identity than on sex - you can't - so what is really being said is "women can't have anything of their own". These MPs owe it to women (and they all know exactly what women are) to say so.

@akabeth10 @WomenAreReals @SF_TERF_CENTRAL @Sac_TERF_Ca @SashaAguilar69 @BLoquaciou72958 @aVeryGoodTyrone @AmandaKovattana @mellow_vello @marli_ca @Trey_Parker_ @SouthPark “Trans for your maa-aa-an…”

@gonochoric @WomenAreReals @SF_TERF_CENTRAL @Sac_TERF_Ca @SashaAguilar69 @BLoquaciou72958 @aVeryGoodTyrone @AmandaKovattana @mellow_vello @marli_ca @Trey_Parker_ @SouthPark I would def go see that!

@DLCDonut @amandakf95 Keep talking, every callous bit of crazed BS you produce just drives voters further from any political party that backs this madness

@amandakf95 Yes i think cancer survivors should celebrate surviving cancer and not obsess over the scars that resulted from defeating cancer. Obv that can be difficult but its a very good goal

If you’re upset that trans ppl are proud of their top scars, then you should respond by being more proud of your mastectomy scars. Shame is a worthless emotion especially for something you’ll have for the rest of your life. Thank you.

@DLCDonut How dare you tell cancer survivors what to feel about something they are forced into by cancer.

@idrawprobably Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but transitioning consists of…drugs and self-harm

transitioning saved my life from drugs and self harm. being trans will never be a mental illness in my eyes. the illness is dysphoria and transitioning is the cure.

"The mighty Auckland Women's Centre for Trans & Cis & Nonbinary People" Translation: Auckland Centre for Anyone. We remember the Women's Centre being radical, keeping men out, being a place for women. NZ women no longer have female-only spaces. facebook.com/reel/252646886…

@daniellismore Yeah sure dude. It doesn’t take many of these cases to blow your whole argument out of the water, and there have been hundreds in recent years: x.com/jk_rowling/sta…

JK Rowling wants you to think she is being silenced. That she is the lone voice of reason. That by defending biological sex she is defending women. I have read her essay. I have looked at the science. Here is what is actually true. Her arguments are dishonest. Her concerns are manufactured. Her legacy is not empowerment. It is harm. She says sex is real. Nobody disagrees with that. But she presents it as a simple binary when biology has never been a simple binary. Intersex people exist. Chromosomes vary. Hormones and anatomy do not always align in the way she describes. She paints the world in two colours because the full picture does not serve her argument. She says trans people using bathrooms is a threat. The data says otherwise. When Massachusetts introduced trans inclusive public accommodation nothing changed. No increase in crime. No spike in assaults. The only thing that changed was that trans people could use a toilet without being in danger. The people getting assaulted in bathrooms are trans people, particularly when forced into the wrong ones. She does not mention that. She mocks inclusive medical language as if public health should centre her comfort rather than reach everyone who needs care. That language exists so trans men and non-binary people are not excluded from menstrual health services. It does not erase women. It means more people get the care they need. She cites rapid onset gender dysphoria as though it is a clinical diagnosis. It is not. The study that coined the term was based on parent reports from online forums, not clinical interviews with the young people being described. Every major medical body rejects it. She keeps repeating it because it sounds alarming. Because if you say social contagion often enough people stop asking for evidence. She says youth healthcare is dangerous. Puberty blockers are reversible and have been studied for decades. The evidence shows they improve mental health outcomes in trans adolescents. Suicide rates are higher in young people who are refused care. If she had read the literature honestly she would know this. The question is whether she has read it and chosen to ignore it. She says most people regret transition. They do not. Regret rates after gender affirming surgery are around one percent. Most people who detransition do so because of external pressure, family rejection, housing loss or job loss. Not because they were not trans. She knows what the research shows. It does not fit her narrative so she leaves it out. She says trans women in prison endanger other women. Trans women placed in men’s prisons are significantly more likely to be raped or assaulted. The US Supreme Court addressed this decades ago. She says she is protecting women. She ignores the ones her logic puts in danger. She says trans women in sport are categorically unfair. The science does not support a categorical position. Hormone therapy reduces muscle mass and strength. Effects vary by sport. That is why most sports bodies are developing nuanced sport-specific guidance rather than blanket bans. She does not want nuance. Nuance does not generate the response she is looking for. She says she is asking questions. But questions have consequences. Every concern she raises has a downstream effect. It shows up in legislation. In bathroom bans. In protest signs outside hospitals. In children being denied healthcare. Her words are not neutral. They travel. They arrive somewhere and that somewhere has a body count. The woman who built her legacy on a story about love defeating hatred is now building a new legacy on fear. She has aligned herself with organisations listed as hate groups. She has become a figure celebrated by people who do not care about women, do not care about children and do not care about anyone who is not useful to their immediate political goals. She is not standing up for women. She is standing on trans people to elevate herself.

@socfemoz So if women don’t need single sex spaces, why do some men want access to these spaces?

@KirstiMiller30 @ohbricki The “overlapping testosterone” claim is a myth based on noisier measurements from older techniques. With the high precision techniques, there is a huge gap, ie a binary. Carole Hooven shows this in her book “T: The story of testosterone.”

The vast majority of people still sees sex as binary, that you are either man or woman, and nothing in-between. However, science has so far has not been able to agree on any single or objective way to define sex. There are at least six markers of sex: chromosomes, gonads (testes and ovaries), hormones, secondary sex characteristics (body hair, square jaw, Adam’s apple, body shape etc.), external genitalia and internal genitalia (uterus, prostate, etc.). None of these characteristics are binary, all of them can vary within individuals, resulting in various combinations. Chromosomes can be more than XX and XY, there can also be XXY, XXXY, XYY and other varieties. The chromosomes are not the whole story though. Each chromosome is full of different genes. On the top of the Y chromosome for instance, there is a gene that functions as an on/off switch. If that switch doesn’t turn on, a person with XY chromosomes will, to a large extent, present as a person with XX chromosomes. All the other genes on the X and Y chromosomes can also either not kick in or mutate, and thus create variety in how they work. These kinds of variations are usually called intersex or difference of sex development (DSD). In fact, few people know their genetic sex as it is rarely tested. It is estimated that 600.000 Americans have chromosome formations other than XX and XY and four million more Americans have an anatomical sex that doesn’t correspond to their genetic sex. & Hormones such as testosterone, oestrogen and progesterone are not sex-specific, everyone has them. The supposedly male hormone testosterone is not only produced in testes but also in healthy ovaries and adrenal glands, and by conversion form peripheral tissues. While on average men have higher testosterone levels than women, there is a lot of variation and a considerable overlap. This does not mean that women and men have the same testosterone levels. It means that on average men have higher levels of testosterone than women, but that there are some women who have really high levels of tesotosterone and a number of men who have low levels of testosterone. Hence, women and men can have testosterone levels that are far from the average levels, and as such, focusing on levels of testosterone renders a false sense of understanding someone’s body. Small quantities of testosterone can have big effect on a body, and big amounts can have small effects. Testosterone is often mislabelled, being considered ‘only’ a sex hormone, while in reality it is vital for many bodily functions, including the liver function and bone density. Gonads and internal reproductive organs can also vary. Women may have undescended testes and/or an absence of an uterus and ovaries, due to intersex variation and hysterectomies. External genitalia look different on every individual, and secondary sex characteristics vary enormously between individuals as well, with for instance some women having a lot of body hair and some men having almost none. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

A federal court challenge to Idaho’s trans bathroom ban intensified after state attorneys suggested DNA testing could be used to enforce the law. Civil rights groups argue the proposal highlights the law’s impracticality and the risks it poses to both transgender and c1s people.

@KirstiMiller30 That 1-2% intersex statistic derives from Anne Fausto-Sterling and is total BS: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/

An estimated 600.000 Americans have chromosome formations other than XX and XY and four million more Americans have an anatomical sex that doesn’t correspond to their genetic sex. That's about as many red-headed Americans.

@tonyvtree Meanwhile, in America: nypost.com/2024/10/08/us-…

@tonyvtree Well, up until the point we banned puberty blockers, we were mutilating children with those. You think we're weird? What on earth made you think that some little boys are actually little girls, or vice versa? THAT'S weird.

@tonyvtree Well gee between the chemical castration of kids based on weak evidence, the Tavistock GIDS jokes about how there would be no gays left when they were done, and the worldwide trans movement proclaiming based on nothing that kids are born in the wrong body, it’s hard to keep track

When you little freaks going to get it through your thick fucking skulls that no one is mutilating trans kids with surgery? No one in the UK is allowed to get any kind of trans surgery until they're legally an adult. And you all KNOW THIS. Fuck off, weirdo.