@slicedoff@helenstaniland @Chris_Hubris @EmilyBanting1@wendycockcroft@nekosantapa @nichz92 OK you've written a lot here and I genuinely thank you for giving details. I do not claim scientific expertise but I would like some time to read through all this as well as the paper. I will try to respond tomorrow or the following day.
@slicedoff@helenstaniland @Chris_Hubris @EmilyBanting1@wendycockcroft@nekosantapa @nichz92 Those do not prove anything and the idea of gendered brains has been widely debunked since then through neuroplasticity. Most of the males identifying as trans now do not even have dysphoria or surgery. you seem to know that though and just don't care who gets hurt by this.
@slicedoff@helenstaniland @Chris_Hubris @EmilyBanting1@wendycockcroft@nekosantapa @nichz92 It also allows them to change their markers on their birth certificate and legal ID. That is the issue. Not marriage and death certificates as you well know.
Yes, C-16 is part of the Self-ID system we have. I never specified one specific law did I?
@PotipharJo@cawsbar This is getting pretty far from the original topic. The feminists I support want to abolish all gender roles. I believe this would help both men and women including with the legitimate issues you raised above.
@PotipharJo@cawsbar A lot of gender differences in behavior come from socialization (such as girls being socialized to care for children). It is acknowledged that gender roles may have initially partly come about due to physical differences but it is nothing we couldn't overcome in modern society
@slicedoff@helenstaniland @Chris_Hubris @EmilyBanting1@wendycockcroft@nekosantapa @nichz92 And once again only you are saying anything about "anti-discrimination laws" the hypothetical situation is a male deciding to change his birth certificate to female and then using female changing rooms which he could do with this ID. You claimed this was impossible.
@slicedoff@helenstaniland @Chris_Hubris @EmilyBanting1@wendycockcroft@nekosantapa @nichz92 Our laws allow a person to change their legal sex on the basis of self-ID. There is no medical gatekeeping at all. That is what I am referring to. I don't know about Australia but I know what our laws are as I am extremely upset about them.
There is an undeniable strain of Stalinism running through Gender Ideology: erasure of history, glorious fanfare, re-education, Lysenkoism... As a movement it leads to a hundred pretty petty tyrannies.
@PotipharJo@cawsbar Biological sex and dimorphism is part of evolution. Gender roles are a social construct like religion. They have nothing to do with evolution.