1.) Is sex merely 'assigned'at birth?
Imagine an experiment, where little children are isolated on an island in same-age groups. They are monitored and kept safe for 35 years.
Clarification for the stupid: this is just a thought experiment.
Three males walk into a female changing room; a "transwoman", a man in drag, and a man in ordinary men's clothing.
How do you know which one is the most likely to be a predator?
A woman is naked in the gym shower. She steps out and reaches for her towel
A naked male is standing there waiting for the shower.
How does she know what he "identifies as" and why should she care?
@legaltweetz
My daughter has a right to male free spaces and sports. Any right of men who call themselves "transwomen" to invade them diminishes her rights.
@LAWS_28
Is it abusive to point out, based on my medical; expertise, that no males, ever, are women?
That dude "Ellie" Gomersall. Is it "transphobic" to make sure everyone knows he is a man?
Sex is binary and immutable and no men menstruate. Got it yet?
@billybragg
Billy -
A public invitation.
I used to be a professor of medicine, and I still teach doctors about evidence based medicine at a major university.
I would be happy to take some time and DM back and forth to help you gain an understanding of why you are SO wrong on this.
@GinaGwenffrewi
Lecturer in "trans studies"?
Is that like being a lectuer in flat-earth studies?
Fanshawe's appointment is good news.
The sooner the nonsense of trans ideology is stamped out, the better.
@PJR23
@hemantmehta
And as someone with several degrees (including medical ones, who held a chair in medicine, and still teaches the subject) I'd say that you would be wrong.
Clearly you misunderstood those courses.
@girldrawsghosts
You think anyone cares?
You're the same sex you were when you were conceived, the sex you were observed to be at birth.
Your fantasies are not my concern.
@lascapigliata8
@TinaBhartwas
@LGBTLabour
This former professor of medicine agrees with you 100%.
Sex is binary and immutable, and males who ID as women are still male - and therefore NOT the same as real women.
@VerseusGreekus
Driving drunk is illegal. We don't test everyone's blood alcohol levels before they drive.
If the police have "reasonable grounds for believing" that someone is under the influence, the burden of proof shifts to the driver. And we punish those found to have driven drunk.
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@blablafishcakes
The person in the image is a man. Unequivocally, and permanantly. He will never be a woman, because he was conceived and born male.
He wishes to abrogate women's rights for his own benefit.
@KatyMontgomerie
I don't understand why any sane male would wish to take a cocktail of hormones just to create a dubious fake 'milk' that is obviously not in a child's interest.
It is almost as though males who ID as women have some kind of fetish...🤔
Sturgeon just announced that pork may now be sold as transchicken.
Butchers are insisting that transchicken IS chicken, and that Jews who won't eat it are bigots.
Schools will now teach that, as they are chickens, pigs can fly.
@MrAndyNgo
I suggest abandoning the term "transwoman" and instead using "male transperson". This is unambiguous, as once male always male, but it still references the adopted gender posture.
@yvetterusse11
@RowlesDavis
"I’m literally a professor of gender studies."
Laughed when I saw that. Did you make that statement thinking it would persuade people to take you more seriously? You could have written "I am literally a fool" and had the same effect.
[From a former professor of a real subject]
@sylverkara
Are you really strugglng to understand? Or are you posturing?
'Womanface', like blackface, is a mocking pretense. When a male adopts stereotypical/cliched/ exaggerated "women's" makeup/outfits as part of his bogus claim to be a woman, that is womanface.
It is not difficult.
@PsychoPolitico
Speaking as a former professor of medicine who still teaches evidence-based medicine, you obviously do not know the research and should never be allowed to treat kids.
NO child is trans. NO child with "gender issues" should be affirmed as being of the opposite sex/gender.
@bschillace
What on EARTH do you think any of this has to do with men frocking up and demanding that others join in their fantasy that they are not the sex they really are?
Is your suggestion that people who call themselves trans have chromosomal disorders? Because they don't.
Tired of hearing the lazy mantra that "trans people are the most marginalized and vulnerable...". They are not. Almost 6,000 people commit suicide each year; 10% of them have schizophrenia.
Nobody cares about them.
@RossHenley
@Taunton_TC
I'll try to educate you.
The path promoted an ideology arguing that sex is mutable, that children can "change gender" with dangerous drugs, and that women have no right to female-only facilities, and that male cops can strip search women.
Why would you support all that?
@JMPSimor
YAWN
Simor misses the the point again.
I do not care what muslims believe. There is no justification for islamic symbology in public spaces in the UK.
@legaltweetz
I doubt any commenter hates you. I certainly do not - I laugh at you and rather pity you. But hate? I very rarely hate anyone - and certainly not a sad woman pretending to be a man.
@millihill
@Womans_Place_UK
@BBCNews
Very good.
The ridiculous phrase "assigned female (or male) at birth should not be used by the BBC. It is completely unsound.
@HJoyceGender
I still find myself drawn in sometimes, even though I know I shouldn't.
I got into a truly mad exchange yesterday, with someone who sought to refute the immutability of sex by reference to... CADAVERIC HEAD TRANSPLANTATION.
@cool2btrans
I can promise you this: I sit on several boards, and I will block any suggestion that men like you are ever involved in "training" at any organisation where I am involved.
@guardian
"JKR used her position to resist censoriousness and to help ensure that the term woman, and women's rights, are not redefined without debate. She has resisted deliberate mischaracterisation, abuse and threats, to maintain a public awareness that the women's rights matter."
@peabodypress
@LazySusan14
Because these lies are also told to children who still believe in Santa. They walk away from school thinking sex is mutable, alterable. It is worse than telling them that smoking is good for them.
@ada_akpala
I'm not black; my wife is. She complains that she will show up at a meeting - having previously only spoken by phone - to be told "she doesn't sound black..."
Black voice?
@WorldRowing
This is misogynist nonsense. Males will always retain an athletic advantage, irrespective of how long they have pretended to be women. Drugging (doping) males does not make them into women.
You have NOT followed the science.
@AkiretaHK
@thefempire50
What?
I can perhaps help you here, Sean. As a physician of many years' experience, I can assure you of this: Lola's comment is entirely accurate.
It is not possible for a surgeon to create a vagina in a male body.
@JillSixx
@AtxFilmfan
@jk_rowling
It is not hatred, you clown. I have every right to protect my daughter from voyeuristic men in dresses who woudl invade her changing room.
@MeganTheePony
@EOpsych
I rarely touch this sewer of a subject - but I have been physically assaulted by three different women. All quickly became ex-partners. And on every occasion, it was me who was questioned. Never once did I physically retaliate; I carefully blocked punches and withdrew
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@LGBAllied
This person is so fortunate Some doctors are not quacks; some of us remember that when patients show up and tell us what is wrong with them, we don't just accept it at face value. And when they say they are a lizard or an alien, we don't affirm that.
@minnierahman
Free advice: there is no rule on twitter that states you must advertise your ignorance.
More advice: educate yourself and grow up. Perhaps start with what "fascist" actually means.
@Magpieandbadger
@blablafishcakes
@guardian
Of course - the pleasures of some third-rate 24-year-old drama student telling us she is here to "challenge our preconceptions." These are the same tw
@ts
who protest at the mere presence on campus of speakers they disagree with.
@sylverkara
Listen to his line of garbage about what it means to be "non-binary"; utter rubbish about how he is in some ways (his fat) more physiologically female than male. His mocking caricatures of womanhood (like that clown Dylan)...perhaps you might see why he offends. He's a clown.
@VictoriaPeckham
@thetimes
It is shameful that the very institutions that should be protecting her - and the importance of her work - have failed. The universities, the police, the unions and the government.
@LBC
@TheSpurrShow
I do not understand how any self-respecting woman can buy Nike when Nike picks this ridiculous, misogynistic clown as the symbol for female sports. Dylan is a loathsome man. I hope this costs Nike a fortune.
@CordyHaig
You've identified an important ambiguity in how I wrote this.
He absolutely should not be there. My question was intended to ask "why should she care what he identifies as?" And, it was rhetorical, as she should not have to do anything other than reach for the Taser.
@exulansic
This is like something from a really awful horror film. That poor woman. How is this not simply abuse by the clinicians involved in her 'care'?
If he had not been caught, what would have stopped this man going to Scotland, getting a GRC, becoming"legally a woman", hiding any DBS background and having even easier access to women?
@libsoftiktok
If you had not "cone out" as non-binary, how would anyone have known, and what difference would it have made? (Apart from you getting a little less 'special attention', of course.)
@EllStats
Yeah - I know. People with cancer, like, just get given methotrexate, you know, like EASILY.
But when we want it for our psychodrama fantasy games? Those frickin' doctors just won't play.
@davidra
@sullydish
Sure.
"Woke" is a unique state of being that blends imagined victimhood with the privilege of luxury beliefs, and garnishes it with a self-righteous censoriousness and a studied ignorance.
OK?
@DrProudman
Hate? You mean raucous laughter, I think... He looks absurd, and, wen he opens his mouth and talks about being "non-binary"? Good Lord... 🤣🤡
@AriDrennen
Dude - Walsh, like many of us, do not want males like you in places where females are getting undressed.
You might be "the pilot of your life", as we all are, but that does not entitle you to disregard others' rights.
@robjessel
@RosieDuffield1
@jk_rowling
Not enough people are aware of the craziness. Starmer just sounds insane.
My brother, an educated but busy and hardworking Labour voter was astonished - as in, could barely believe it - when I told him.
@Lachlan_Edi
I am a doctor, and I laughed out loud (literally) when I heard him say that he was sure that if it was important to know what his chromosomes were, his doctor would test and let him know.
Has he NEVER been to a GP? Insanity.
@EddieIzzardLab
"I do not think women's rights should be respected. I've always been relentless and hardworking and I won't quit until I have unfettered access to women's spaces."
@iododds
@Independent
I crunched the data, using the techniques in use in my work in evidence-based medicine and pubic health (which I teach; former prof medicine here).
There's no evidence that Io Dodds has any idea what she's talking about.
@LAWS_28
What is "transphobia"? It is refusal to engage in fiction and nonsense.
Pointing out the fact that males cannot be women? I am a physician and can go over the biological facts step-by-step. No male can become a woman. You think this nonsense law is going to stand?
@leng_cath
"...the speak-out champion would “be responsible for improving confidence amongst our employees in being able to speak openly about their experiences”.
Unless you say the wrong thing, such as citing basic biology, on which case we'll come after you...
@hannahsbee
@AbsolutelyVexed
Thanks Hannah. Your work in this field is incredibly important for child health.
The fact that GIDS hasn't been shut down is unforgivable. I'm very worried that ignorant gender ideologues will corrupt efforts to replace GIDS quackery with evidence-based ethical care.
@BrynHarris6
@Docstockk
The entire question is simplified if you step back from the dogma and accept that to go from M>F is not possible. TW are male and always will be. So it turns upon whether you think "woman" means something substantive or merely costume, feelings and hairstyle.
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