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@702ValetParker Hey! BSc and MSc here, you're a dipshit and lack basic reading comprehension, let alone a functional understanding of reproductive biology! Hope that helps :)

I regret to inform you that reproductive biology is slightly more complicated than the Fisher Price version of science you seem to be operating with. Women can be born without uteruses. Women can lose uteruses to cancer. Women can have hysterectomies. Women can stop menstruating decades before death. A uterus is an organ, not a philosophical litmus test for womanhood. Plenty of women do not menstruate. Plenty never could. Who knew biological science was being rewritten by people whose understanding peaked in middle school health class.

@THINGSTERFSSAID @hecheateddotorg It appears to be very important to you that this can't possibly be correct. Why??

@hecheateddotorg It is true that it's absolute nonsense, yes.

Hi Jill, Trans men also exist. Though, if I had £1 for every time a trans person negatively affected my life, I'd have zero pounds.

@jack_turban @wizardingnews Effeminate boys aren't girls, and shouldn't compete with them :)

@wizardingnews Yea it’s definitely still Elon’s Twitter

Everyone should read this. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@GarySpedding @Mullerian_Duck @SianHerfield @helenstaniland Hi Gary! How many trans women have been assaulted in mens bathrooms? How many women have been assaulted by men or trans women in women's bathrooms?

@Mullerian_Duck @SianHerfield @helenstaniland I do not object to that at all. I suppprt the women & trans women who want those spaces to be inclusive and safe for all women - including trans women.

After decades of women being told they're bigoted for fighting to retain female single sex spaces, or refusing to call men she/her, or objecting to children being medicalised life, Gary here comes along to say that nothing is being demanded from women.

@AvaLovelaceX @jk_rowling Where are all the dead kids from when "medical transition" wasn't an option? Suicide has been going up in kids since it became widely available. There is no convincing evidence that MT reduces suicides in trans id kids and researches have tried to hide evidence it doesn't help.

@jk_rowling ‘Chemical castration’ and it’s literally just preventing children from gaining deformities they have explicitly stated will ruin their life None of which involves them becoming infertile at a young age btw

Taking down WPATH would be the gender critical Battle of Stalingrad.

@GarySpedding @Susanshox They're only asking to be put in prison with vulnerable women, they're only asking for the survivors of their rape to call them "she/her", they're only asking to be able to masturbate in the stall next to you, they're only asking you to let them watch your daughter undress at gym

Trans women are women. Full stop. After decades of feminist activism, my realisation has been that womanhood isn't reducible to a narrow, biological gatekeeping exercise. This isn't 'men's rights activism'—it's progress. Excluding trans women from feminism and female spaces because of their genitals or chromosomes is the exact kind of essentialism patriarchy has always used to control and diminish women. This sexualisation and focus on genitals is also really gross. Trans people aren't asking biological women to 'sacrifice' anything; they're asking for basic dignity, inclusion, and the right to exist without being attacked, subject to violence and intimidation, and put at extreme risk of being murdered for how they navigate a world that already punishes gender nonconformity at present. The idea that acknowledging some women have penises (or had them) makes someone a bigot is just a rhetorical shield for exclusion. It's also exclusionary to women who have genuine medical issues such as hermaphrodism and androgyny. Feminism that punches down on the most marginalised isn't feminism—it's reactionary hatred. My position is the consistent one: solidarity with all women, including trans women. Your version sounds a lot more like defending a hierarchy, protecting a cult, and supporting the patriarchy than liberating anyone.

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

@CloverSevenLeaf @southernmsgurl "We in the white tower have decided that gender is now something totally different than it ever was historically and that means that men can now call themselves women and the state will coerce others into playing along." I'm sure this will work out so well for actual women.

I know I'm super privileged to live in a country that respects trans rights and has strengthened hate crime laws in response to the regression lately down south But it's so wild to me to read some Americans on here thinking gender/gender identity is some grand conspiracy the world invented ten years ago and not simply accepted fact since the last mid century, some 90 odd years ago, by psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, biology etc. Kind of like watching a really old film and snorting at a character saying something we know is hilariously incorrect in modern times

@daniellismore I believe you've overstated the conclusions of these articles. Even so, none of this means that a man can become a woman (or vice versa). Perform whatever outdated stereotype you like. Women are female. Men are male. Any man can be any kind of man.

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The Biology of Being Transgender: Everything the Science Actually Shows You think you know the answer to this. You probably do not. Whether you believe transgender people are confused, influenced, mentally unwell, or making a choice, this article is for you specifically. Not to lecture you. Not to call you names. To show you what the science actually says, because most people on both sides of this argument have never read it. The research is not new. It is not fringe. It has been published in Nature, in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, by researchers at some of the most respected institutions on earth, peer reviewed, replicated and cited thousands of times. Here is the part that might surprise you. The brain and the genitals develop in the womb at different times, through different biological processes, influenced by different hormonal environments. They are not the same process. They do not happen simultaneously. Because they are separate, they can produce different outcomes in the same person. That is not ideology. That is embryology. A transgender person is not confused about their identity. Their brain developed one way. Their body developed another. This happened before they were born. Before they had a name. Before they had any awareness of the world they were entering. Nobody taught them this. Nobody influenced them into it. The womb did it. If you are a politician making law about this, read what follows. If you are a lawyer arguing about it in court, read what follows. If you are a journalist writing about it, read what follows. If you are a parent trying to understand your child, read what follows. The science has been here the whole time. How the Brain and Body Develop Separately Every human embryo begins identically regardless of what sex it will eventually be assigned. For the first six weeks of development there is no sexual differentiation. The same structures exist in every embryo with the potential to develop in multiple directions. Then two separate biological processes begin on different timelines. The genitals differentiate first, between weeks six and twelve of pregnancy, under the influence of a hormonal cascade initiated by the SRY gene on the Y chromosome. Testosterone produced by the developing testes drives the formation of male reproductive anatomy. In the absence of this hormonal surge female anatomy develops by default. The brain differentiates separately, in the second half of pregnancy, under a different hormonal environment. This is not the same process. It does not happen at the same time. It is not governed by identical mechanisms. The brain develops through a series of distinct cellular processes including the formation and pruning of dendritic spines, selective cell survival and death in specific nuclei, epigenetic modifications, and the activity of chloride cotransporters and prostaglandins that vary by sex from before birth. Because these two processes are separate, they can produce different outcomes in the same person. When the hormonal environment present during brain development differs from the one that shaped the genitals, the result is a person whose neurological identity does not match the sex assigned at birth. That is the documented biological basis for transgender identity. There is no proof that social environment after birth has any effect on gender identity. This conclusion has been reached by multiple independent research teams across multiple countries over multiple decades.

@TransAudit1 @viralchristie @LeorSapir @Glinner @NatureHumBehav @CityJournal If you're going to claim any "facts" you need proof. Your histrionics are running thin.

@viralchristie @LeorSapir @Glinner @NatureHumBehav @CityJournal What a lovely person you are Christie. Want to revel in people who have committed suicide or attempted it? Well let me tell you i know of 4 people personally you fucking horrible cunt.

Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles A widely cited study published in the prestigious @NatureHumBehav claimed that “anti-transgender laws” encouraged teen suicide attempts. A new methodological review dismantles that finding. New from me in @cityjournal

@MichaelVSmith7 @preta_6 "Attacked"

@preta_6 To clarify, Amy is complaining that the people she attacked have fought back.

Will provide some updates regarding my ongoing legal saga soon. In the meantime, I can’t believe that this is real life. I can’t believe what toxic woke activists did to my life just because I opposed gender ideology. It is crazy-making that I’ve had to rebuild my life from the ground up for knowing—and stating—that men are not women. I’d also love to express my appreciation for all of the wonderful persons I’ve met in the past six years. Thank you for keeping me as sane as the times allow for. ❤️

@Dee345840488470 @preta_6 Because someone should have to abandon their career when the leadership of their college decide to institute activist garbage instead of actual good practice standards??

@preta_6 You’ll be free of the nonsense as soon as you come clean. Just admit you were part of a profession that had professional standards that your values didn’t align with. Instead of parting ways, you chose to get into this mess instead. It’s not exactly baffling

@AlberduhAntifa @preta_6 @VCHhealthcare Is there any difference in the sexual offence rates between men and trans women?

@preta_6 @VCHhealthcare "I don't know how to mind my own genitals."

My public service announcement about @VCHhealthcare ☺️

@JustMisogyny They also all trained less and were in their mid-30s, when performance tends to decrease regardless!

TRANS LOGIC If men take performance-reducing drugs their athletic performance gets worse; therefore they should compete against women.

@KirstiMiller30 "However, we observed a strong positive correlation between AGs and the self‐reported training volume. Thus, increased exercise training volume may help attenuate GAHT associated decrements in performance and/or improve AGs in TW runners." And in their mid30s, when performance ⬇️

A 2025 longitudinal study (Harper et al., European Journal of Sport Science) tracked 9 trans women runners and 1 trans woman swimmer before and after starting GAHT. Race times slowed by around 15% in runners (with bigger decrements in longer-distance events) and around 5% in the swimmer. After adjusting for training volume, the runners’ age-graded performance scores did not differ pre- versus post-GAHT, meaning they were roughly as competitive in the women’s category as they had previously been in the men’s category. This is the first study to use both retrospective and prospective data on the same trans women athletes before and after GAHT. google.com/url?q=https://…

@garylfrancione @HelenWebberley Same here. Used to be a hardcore lefty.. like left my home town because it was conservative type lefty. Believed the mantra TWAW. Then the sports issue got me reading, and the more I learned the more TERF I became.

@HelenWebberley Helen, I have done a ton of reading and listening and before I started all of that, I was actually of the view that self-ID was fine. But all of that reading and listening convinced me I was wrong, and that trans ideology is a terrible threat to women and kids.

Every time someone says 'I'm just asking questions' about trans healthcare, they are not asking questions. They have conclusions. The questions are the performance. Real curiosity leads to reading, to listening, to changing your mind. That's not what's happening. 🙃

@malanorea @keira3737 @girlsbian_ You should probably drink more water and eat more fibre.

@keira3737 @girlsbian_ Then please, tell me what causes the symptoms according to real science if it's not an estrogen-dominant hormonal cycle.

THERE ARE BOOBS GROWING OUT OF ME

@TakedownMRAs @nationalpost The irony of someone claiming to be antiMRA while being pro trans is amazing.

@nationalpost Oh look, it's Amy Hamm, founder of listed hate group Cawsbar

A judicial review of the Alberta Human Rights Commission’s (AHRC) refusal to hear a complaint about women’s sex-based rights has been quashed. The case centred around an academic who, along with her 14-year-old daughter, encountered a male in fetish gear using a female change room. "There will be more cases," writes Amy Hamm, "because there are thousands of Canadian women who’ve had enough of being forced to share their intimate spaces with males" nationalpost.com/opinion/amy-ha…

@Lesbiacrus @zb1ornothing @NaturallyIthink Glad you're no longer depressed! But that still doesn't make you a woman. It still doesn't mean you have a "female brain". You're a man taking estrogen. That's it. And it's also totally OK.

@zb1ornothing @NaturallyIthink I got hormone therapy and am no longer depressed, so what's the problem?

Explain how a male can be a woman without being sexist. I'll wait.

@VideoGuy67 @vincentneilho It started at the top.

@vincentneilho Good work! This is hilarious and very alarming how high the gender identity brain rot goes in Canadian society...

🧬🤐 Watch the Liberals scramble to silence Canada’s Chief Science Advisor while she tries to answer what the definition of a woman is. They say they follow the science… until the science answers the question.

“Gender identity” is often presented as a deep, innate psychological essence that exists independently of biological sex. However, the evidence for such a claim is far less clear than is commonly assumed. At its most basic level, what is called “gender identity” can be understood as an individual’s perception, understanding, or subjective relationship to their biological sex. Neurologically, researchers do not directly observe a “gender identity” module in the brain. Rather, they identify statistical correlations between certain brain regions, networks, or patterns of activity and individuals’ self-reported feelings, beliefs, and experiences. This is no different in principle from studying political identity, religious identity, national identity, athletic identity, or any other self-concept. The fact that a mental state correlates with brain activity does not establish that it is an innate, biologically distinct entity. The statement that “gender identity is in the brain” therefore risks overstating what neuroscience can actually demonstrate. Every thought, belief, preference, and self-conception is represented in the brain in some form. Saying that gender identity has neural correlates tells us little more than the fact that people think about themselves in sex-related ways. At most, biological, developmental, psychological, and social factors may influence whether an individual feels comfortable with, identifies with, or rejects aspects of their sexed body. These influences are worthy of study. However, it does not follow that “gender identity” should be treated as a separate category that supersedes biological sex in law, medicine, or public policy. Biological sex has direct physical, reproductive, and physiological consequences that are relevant in areas such as healthcare, sport, privacy, data collection, and scientific research. Any policy framework that elevates subjective identity above these objective realities bears the burden of demonstrating why such a departure is justified. Simply asserting that gender identity is real or that it has neural correlates does not, by itself, establish that it should take precedence over biological sex in legal or institutional decision-making.