Charlie Hansson

Teacher, woman, mother of boys, feminist.

[Charlie Hansson @CharlieREvans]

@PompeySteph The gender binary is simply reality. One cannot ’smash’ reality. Women are oppressed based on the reality of their sex. Women are oppressed by men. Trans women are men.

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@HelenWebberley Are you a linguist now? I thought we were supposed to stay in our lanes of expertise?

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

The Gender-Critical or "TERF" Position is a materialist analysis of sex, gender, and women’s rights. It is not a theory of hatred toward trans-identified people. It is a claim about the importance of sex as a real, human, and materially significant category in law, language, medicine, safeguarding, sport, and feminism.

Trans activists often misrepresent the views of GC feminists, sex realists and TERFs becaue honesty would cause them to lose the argument.

The following is an attempt to represent my position as a gender critical, sex realist and radical feminist precisely so it is easier to see when that view is being intentionally misrepresented and/or understood by bad faith representatives of trans activism.

I know my own position better than anyone. Bad faith is presuming to tell me what my own position is in order to discredit me. That's worse than a strawman, and the main tactic of gender essentialist activism.

Here is my actual position: the only position I need to defend:

1. Sex is real and materially significant

Sex in human beings is not an identity, a feeling, a role, or a personality type. It is a reproductive and developmental category: male and female are the two human sex classes that are the means of human reproduction. Male is the sex class organized around the development of small, mobile gametes and female is the sex class organized around the development of large, immobile gametes.

This does not mean every person is fertile, typical, or currently capable of reproduction. Infertility, menopause, hysterectomy, castration, DSDs, injury, age, or illness do not erase sex. Sex is not a human performance and there is no standard for sex beyond teproductive role. Sex is a human condition and an innate, immutable attribute of the human body.

Gender-critical feminists reject the idea that sex is “assigned at birth” in the sense of being invented, guessed, or arbitrarily imposed by authority. In ordinary cases, sex is observed and recorded. Even in rare, extraordinary cases with ambiguous secondary sex characteristics, with modern instrumentation, the primary atrribute of sex is observable at the definitive level beyond the crude level of external genitalia at the cellular level.

2. Women are female human beings

In this framework, “woman” means an adult human female. “Girl” means a juvenile human female.

This definition does not depend on femininity, beauty, clothing, sexual behaviour, reproductive capacity, compliance, heterosexuality, or conformity to stereotypes. A woman can be masculine, feminine, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, celibate, infertile, disabled, old, young, gender-nonconforming, or medically atypical. She remains a woman because she is female.

The position is therefore not that women must look, act, dress, think, or feel a certain way. It is the opposite: women should be free from the sex-based stereotypes traditionally imposed on female people.

3. Gender is not sex

Radical feminism distinguishes sex from gender.
Sex refers to the embodied, biological male/female distinction.
Gender refers to the social roles, stereotypes, expectations, behaviours, and hierarchies imposed on people because of sex.
Gender-critical feminism does not seek to preserve gender roles. It seeks to abolish their coercive power.

A feminine male does not become female. A masculine female does not become male. No one should have to change sex category, medically alter their body, or adopt a new identity to be allowed to reject sexist expectations.

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In the UK, 11 trans people have been murdered since 2000.

In the same country, from 2009 - 2021, 16 women were murdered by serving or retired police officers. Not killed by officers in the line of duty — flat out murdered.

In 2022 alone, 11 British women were killed by male strangers. 12 were murdered by their own sons; 150 British women have been murdered by their own sons since 2012.

On average, a woman is murdered by a man in the UK once every 72 hours.

Where is the Day of Remembrance for the women murdered by their own sons? By their husbands, their fathers, their brothers? By serving police officers?

In the last 25 years, there have been nearly twice as many trans-identifying murderers than there have been murder victims - 20 murderers, versus 11 victims — and yet we’re told to believe that this is a genocide, while our own dead go ignored and unnamed.

These people are, per capita, the safest demographic in the UK, with a homicide rate of 0.38 per 100k (for women, it’s 0.50 per 100k, and for normal men, it’s 1.23.) but we’re supposed to believe that they’re being physically exterminated? Or is genocide another one of those words that has deliberately been stripped of its meaning, like “woman” and “female”?

Who gains when people are conditioned to roll their eyes at the word “genocide”? When “woman” has no meaning in law or policy? What is the end game here?

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@HelenWebberley @ZelahGlasson The level of nonsense is astronomical. Literature deals with so many different types of people including ’queer’, gay and gender non conforming. Trans is the rot in Denmark it’s the rot in healthy individuals.

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@zarahsultana Can you actually fuck off you stupid commie bint?

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@twilygirly Men

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@HelenWebberley https://t.co/ZVzBKVxAQH

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@zaelefty I love how clear and concise your explanations are.

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@LouiseAThompson When I wasn’t feeling well during my pregnancy my own father said ’you’re not ill, you’re pregnant’

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@LouiseAThompson Because it is a ’natural process’ that women are ’designed for’ so how could it possibly be traumatic? (Hope you can hear my sarcastic tone)

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@GregorioSh64773 If she was born female, everything she is is feminine. It’s people like you who make women feel bad about themselves.

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@Heccles94 No one is banned from anything, moron.

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@sharrond62 It’s so good! Rocky, Grace, save cinema!

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@bindelj So he is sending those ’legal’ letters as a BA, graduate student for an MA?! Hilarious!

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@GBNEWS Another misleading headline! Transgender athletes are not banned from anything.

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@KatieInBoston1 @sharrond62 What do you want her to say? Male with a DSD? Male athlete with a DSD?

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@ThomasWillett9 Fixed it for you: Khelif was born male, has lived and competed as a female, and the IOC lied, he failed eligibility rules to compete as a woman at the 2024 olympics
Despite Rowling’s best efforts to highlight the unfairness, Imane Khelif is still recognised as a cheat.

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@emkenobi No it’s been proven he is a man