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[Carrie Clark @cwestonclark]

I am begging critics of the puberty blocker trial to stop getting lost in the weeds arguing about research ethics, Gillick competence, informed consent, fertility preservation and the like. The NHS’s refusal to complete the Data Linkage Study (DLS) before proceeding with a new trial is the ONLY argument worth making on this issue. Everything else is a distraction.
The DLS would find out what has happened to all the children who have already taken puberty blockers. There is NO justification for proceeding with a puberty blocker trial before the DLS is complete. The entire programme of future research in this area should be informed by its results. The fact that the NHS is getting ready to run a live experiment on vulnerable children before it has even established the fate of those it has already experimented on is utterly damning.
The deeply disappointing Dr Cass should be widely derided for her ridiculous comments on ‘harm reduction’. The DLS IS harm reduction. Critics of the trial must stop fighting on their opponents turf by quibbling over technical details. We need to relentlessly force the DLS onto the agenda and expose the shameful hypocrisy of the NHS. DO THE DLS.
#DotheDLS
https://t.co/HfdBR3L8tC

[AdultFail @AdultFail]

@fopminui Gorgeous work - I love it! No such thing as ‘too colourful’, in my opinion, though admittedly that is an ever-present topic of debate in our household too ;)

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

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[Marcel Crok @marcelcrok]

De waanzin in één beeld.
De 'groene' transitie in Portugal.

[pagliacci the hated 🌝 @Slatzism]

I absolutely despise essay-posting but as the co-owner of the outlet (@reduxx) that broke the news about Khelif and Lin and started this wildfire, I feel compelled to put to bed some of the bullshit surrounding this story.

A rapid-fire FAQ:

1. "L & K are just women with high testosterone!"

Khelif and Lin were never tested for their testosterone levels.

The claims that they were disqualified from the 2023 Women's World Boxing Championship due to simple testosterone abnormalities were made by their respective national sporting bodies, who, obviously, have some motivation to lie here.

2. "L & K have female ID!"

Khelif and Lin are not believed to be transgender, and @reduxx made that VERY clear in our July 28 article.

They are believed to be impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development, in which there is a developmental abnormality in secondary sex characteristics. This is a medical condition which can manifest with children being born with ambiguous or disfigured genitalia. Male children impacted by DSDs are often "assigned female at birth" due to these genital defects, as there is a genuine assumption they are girls.

Thus, their identification documents would be completely irrelevant in this case. As is the fact they were "raised as girls." That's entirely expected for male children with DSDs.

Even more so for male children with DSDs in socially conservative countries.

Is a boy without a penis more likely to be raised as a boy or a girl? Exactly.

3. "The IBA never said they had XY chromosomes!"

On March 25, 2023, IBA President Umar Kremlev said that the boxers disqualified at the championships had XY chromosomes. He said this in a statement to TASS News.

There were only two boxers disqualified at the championships: Lin and Khelif.

4. "But Kremlev could be lying!"

Over the last 72 hours, the IBA has released two separate statements confirming that Khelif and Lin were not subject to testosterone testing, but had instead been subjected to a separate test validated by two independent laboratories.

That test confirmed they were not eligible to compete in women's boxing as per the IBA guidelines.

Crucially, the IBA defines "woman" as "an individual with XX chromosomes." In their guidelines, they also indicate that the gender tests they use to determine if a person is eligible to compete with women is a chromosomal test, not a hormone test.

In their second statement, the IBA condemned the IOC for allowing Khelif and Lin to proceed as they believed it was putting female boxers at risk and that they did not support "boxing between the genders."

5. "Why doesn't the IBA release the test!"

They cannot. It is protected medical information. They would be sued.

Khelif and Lin, however, can agree to have the laboratories release those tests themselves... Why haven't they?

6. "The IBA didn't let L & K appeal their disqualification!"

Yes they did. They have no choice in the matter. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is a fully independent tribunal which oversees all disputes in elite athletics. Every athlete has a right to bring a case to the CAS.

Lin did not challenge the disqualification.

Khelif challenged the disqualification but withdrew the appeal before it could proceed through the court.

Please ask yourself why. If they were genuinely female, why would they have chosen to refuse their opportunity to establish that in an irrefutable and legally binding way at a fully independent venue? Literally none of this would have happened had they simply submitted their tests to the CAS.

Buuuut... Consider that all decisions at the CAS are public information. It was through a CAS challenge that the world became aware that Caster Semenya had XY chromosomes, for example.

If Khelif and Lin had proceeded through the CAS, there would have been irrefutable evidence, documented by an independent body, that they were either male or female.

So why? Why did they not want the CAS to examine their tests? Why did they not want this information to be public? I think the reason is obvious.

7. "But the IOC approved their eligibility for 2024!"

The IOC stopped sex testing athletes in 1999. Since then, they have deferred to individual sporting bodies to ensure athletes were eligible.

HOWEVER, for the purposes of the 2024 Paris Olympics, there is no formal oversight body for boxing. This is the first time this ever happened.

As a result, the IOC created an ad-hoc boxing unit to temporarily oversee the boxing competitions in Paris. This unit has no guidelines for gender eligibility, and has apparently just been allowing boxers to compete "as females" if they have female gender markers on their passports/legal documents.

8. "The IBA is corrupt and cannot be trusted!"

The IOC has long had an issue with the IBA because the IBA has refused to disqualify Russian athletes on the basis of their national identity.

Claims of the IBA's "corruption" can basically be summarized to "Russia bad, Russians evil." The IBA has literally no history of bullshitting about the sex of boxers involved and it doesn't benefit them in any kind of way to do so.

9. "The IBA only disqualified L & K because they beat Russian boxers at the 2023 championships!"

No they did not. I started seeing this weird, completely false claim circulating over the last 24 hours.

Khelif beat Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng and was set to compete against China's Yang Liu for gold in the Welterweight category.

Lin beat Bulgaria's Svetlana Kamenova Staneva for bronze in the Featherweight category.

They were scheduled to fight no Russian boxers in either one of their categories, and only one Russian boxer won a gold medal in the entire championship (Anastasiia Demurchian, Light Middleweight).

India won the most gold medals (4) at the 2023 Women's Championship. China won the most medals overall (7). Kazakhstan won the second most medals overall (6). Russia only won 3 medals at the championship.

Also worth noting that another Taiwanese boxer, Huang Hsiao-wen, won gold in the Bantamweight category. So for all the Taiwanese mouthpieces claiming Lin's disqualification was just "discrimination against Taiwan"... lol no.

10. "L & K were only singled out because they don't look feminine!"

This idea that Lin and Khelif were singled out for not meeting some "western feminine beauty standard" is atrocious and quite easily refutable when you look at literally any of their competitors, most of whom do not meet that arbitrary standard themselves because boxing is a physically demanding sport for robust people, male or female.

Below is Khadija El-Mardi of Morocco, for example, who likely would be accused of failing to meet this supposed "western feminine beauty standard." El-Mardi won gold in the Heavyweight category at the 2023 World Championships. She is advancing to the quarter-finals in Paris as we speak. She's one of the best female boxers out there.

She is a woman. Her features and tall stature literally do not matter. She is biologically female. Sex testing would return an XX.

Women are adult human females. This is true regardless of their external appearance.

Likewise, men are adult human males. This is true regardless of abnormalities or defects in their secondary sex characteristics.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of the most surreal beaches on Earth

1. Pathway to Atlantis, Thailand

[Prof Jo Phoenix @JoPhoenix1]

Thread on what I am calling, for the moment, the 'geography' of rape and sexual violence.

1/ Last year, along with @WomensRightsNet, I published a report called "When we are at our most vulnerable" in which we reported, after an FOI to all police constabularies, a shocking...

[Staci Bryant @StaciBryant133]

@HazelAppleyard_ The doctors performing these surgeries should face charges. There is NO informed consent. None of these people understand what they’re really in for if they getthese surgeries.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

Pride used to be about fighting for gay rights. Now it has turned into a celebration of homophobia.

My thoughts for @spikedonline…

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“For me it’s just common sense, that there should be any suggestion that people aren’t allowed to live the life they want to live & to be with who they want to be with & to express themselves whole heartedly, I mean as long as you’re not hurting anyone else & everyone else just needs to butt out.”

David Tennant seemingly has no clue what critics of gender ideology are saying & actually opposing. So let’s make it clear:

• First of all, common sense is knowing that there are only two sexes, sex is immutable & plays many vital roles in society, from sexuality to safeguarding to rights to procreation.

• Next, no one is suggesting that people can’t live how they want to live. This is a nothing statement. There are, basically, 8 billion ways to live life. As many possibilities are there are humans. The issue is that one group of people has fallen for a lie and wants everyone else to live that lie to some extent as gender ideology is a direct attack on how everyone else lives, from speech to education to how society is structured to rights.

• Consenting adults can choose who they want to be in intimate relationships with, that fight has long been won. But gender ideology actually wants to undo that, telling lesbians that they must accept men who claim to be women as lesbians & gay men must accept women who claim to be men as gay men. Now, if being with a person who is lying about their sex is your type, fine. But for everyone else, they also need their rights. Rights to lesbian only spaces & events & rights to gay man only spaces & events, all based in reality. Heterosexual people claiming to be homosexual and then enforcing heterosexuality upon a homosexual group is not progress.

• Who is saying people can’t express themselves? Men can wear dresses & makeup if they want. Women can cut their hair short & do whatever they think men do. We’ve all got one life, live it in a way that makes sense to you. But understand: your expression does not change material reality, and is not a free pass to take away other people’s rights. Rights, rights, rights.

• Many people are hurt by the ideology David Tennant & the like are pushing. Women’s rights are abolished, LGB people’s rights are dismantled (while simultaneously getting the blame for this nonsense), children’s right to grow up with their body in tact is demolished, and then there is freedom of belief, speech & association which impacts everyone. Don’t believe me? Try not believing in gender ideology & see how much freedom of belief you have in the workplace. Try creating a female only space and see how many men demand access to it, with institutions like human rights commissions backing them. Try being a female athlete missing out on competition because a man decided he is a woman and used his biological physical advantage to destroy your dreams. Just try to imagine that there are more issues in life than how one “identifies”.

• Telling people to “butt out” is a clear indication that someone has never once considered how gender ideology plays out in society on a macro scale & why people would be against it, and that he doesn’t actually have empathy for people who are different to him while identifying as someone who does.

If you don’t understand what your critics are saying, don’t criticize them until you do. The end.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

This is a genuine plea, David.

NOT an attack.

You’re a highly regarded actor with a huge reach &, rightly, a vast audience.

Whats “common sense”, is to actually attempt to comprehend that there ARE real life consequences to one group demanding immediate access to ALL the hard fought-for & won rights of another group.

Of course, people can “live their lives as they wish to & be free to be who they are”, but the MOMENT that desire impacts, concerns & overrides OTHER groups of people, those groups have a perfectly legitimate & reasonable right to take issue & have THEIR SAY.

We were told “No Debate! It’s happening whether you women, gays, transsexuals or detransitioners like it or not!”

What did you think would happen? They’d just roll over & acquiesce??

Perhaps you should rejoin social media, instead of relying on others, & actually HEAR the thousands & thousands of personal testimonies by those who ARE DEEPLY affected by changing rooms, sports, toilets, prisons, hospitals, r*pe shelters , the right to self assembly, etc.

Are you aware that gays & lesbians are no longer permitted to have their own bars, clubs, apps, ANYTHING of their own, without being picketed, screamed at & threatened?

Are you aware that women are intimidated, attacked & called the most wretched things when they gather together to discuss issues pertaining to THEM?

Are you aware of the distinction between transsexuals & TRA’s, and that the radicals refer to transsexuals as “truscum”?

Are you aware of the huge increase in detransitioners, their lives irreparably damaged, who are also treated as traitors & apostates by many Q+/TRA’s?

Because until you TRULY understand what the consequences are, your “allyship” is doing more harm to so many, than you could ever realise. And directly to many of us, who are now on the receiving end of the worst homophobic & misogynistic abuse I’ve encountered since the AIDS crisis of the 80’s.

Being “critical” of something does NOT equate to “hate”. It’s simply being critical because they’re are legitimate reasons.

This fight is NOT about taking away anyone else’s rights. We’re all agreed that trans rights are human rights.

However, there is NO AUTOMATIC HUMAN RIGHT to impinge, intimidate, threaten the rights of others.

This is about PRESERVING & PROTECTING women’s rights. Their privacy, their spaces & their dignity.

And just so you know, watching YET another man publicly telling a woman to “shut up” comes across as familiar, unpleasant & just misogynistic.

I’m not saying this to put the boot in. I’m saying it because I know you believe you are doing this with the best of intentions & you’re not st*pid.

But I, respectfully, ask you to REALLY consider & research the other side of this debate & the consequences for many others.

We didn’t all suddenly become “right wing bigots” overnight. There are very good reasons to question decisions made by a lobby group, which achieved its aims back in 2014, & now suddenly treats as “pariahs”, females, gays, lesbians, transsexuals, whomever, who vigorously championed their cause until their new direction caused the very unease they themselves predicted publicly. (See Ruth Hunt).

I wish you well.

Congratulations on your award.

Please RT. 🙏

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[Safe Schools Alliance @SafeSchools_UK]

We think age of consent should be 18. Will any political party remember that 16 & 17 year olds are children & commit to increasing protections for them?

#RestoreSafeguarding #GeneralElection #GE2024 https://t.co/1F9svk3eKA

[Amazing Video @amazingvideo01]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Amazing human being.... God bless him! 💓

[Meghan Murphy @MeghanEMurphy]

Here is how we win this fight: we say no. To all of it. To “preferred pronouns,” to “transgenderism,” to “trans people,” to “trans kids,” to “gender dysphoria” and to the notion that one’s personality, clothing preferences, feelings about one’s body or about gender stereotypes, or fetishes is an important part of one’s identity that must for some reason be “expressed” in public and “validated” by every stranger on the planet.

[Andrew Doyle @andrewdoyle_com]

If #GlinnerWasRight isn’t trending, it bloody well ought to be…

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Free speech hotline launched in response to hate crime law

https://t.co/ryFo07ZwzX

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.

For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.

It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.

I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.

If you agree with the views set out in this tweet, please retweet it.

#ArrestMe #AprilFools #HateCrimeActScotland

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[Keith Jordan 🛡 @DadRogd]

@MidwivesRCM For those who think the above is utterly bonkers:
a) You are 100% right
b) Please sign this petition:
https://t.co/1tjeRvlaZh

[Safe Schools Alliance @SafeSchools_UK]

For the hard of thinking on #Edutwitter who cannot see the issues here.

1) Children’s speech being compelled is a violation of their human rights.

2) Lying to children & gaslighting them about what they can clearly see with their own eyes is emotional abuse.

3) Anyone looking to use children to validate themselves is an unsuitable individual to work with children & should fail any effective #SaferRecruitment process.

If you are more concerned with the rights of this teacher than the #safeguarding of children then YOU are the problem, YOU are undermining the effective safeguarding of children & YOU are unsuitable to work with children or the vulnerable.

#WomenEd #TeamEnglish #RestoreSafeguarding