Masha 🏁

Sex is a binary system, and it is dimorphic.

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

I'm back!! Having been banned for almost 4 years for merely mentioning #WaxMyBalls, under the new rules, @Twitter has finally ruled that my comment wasn't "hateful" after all. Better late than never!
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Cuenta devuelta tras 4 años en la nevera!!
Hola de nuevo, Twitterfs!!! 👋🏻

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

@ovenbreadjoy @RoisinMichaux They didn't start it. They are collaborators and enablers. Vichy feminists, as @Glinner calls them.
The founders and instigators have always been men, mainly autogynephiles. Read @_CryMiaRiver latest essays at @genspect

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

😳

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

"In 2024, just after the release of the WPATH Files, Genevive Gluck was contacted by Mia Hughes and Michael Shellenberger, who runs the publisher Environmental Progress.

Genevieve was informed that her work was being used in one of their publications without a citation.

After some back and forth, Shellenberger eventually added the citation to the report, but Genevieve was first told that credit was deliberately excluded, due to an attempt to attract mainstream media coverage.

Mia told Genevieve that her research into castration fetishism would be unpalatable to the middle-class base among which Shellenberger was seeking to raise awareness using 'neutral language 'with just the right amount of horror.' No fetishes. No disgust.'

The feminist demanding a return to protective rights is often framed by the think tank set as uncouth, simplistic, uneducated and a little mad. In reality, the knowledge imbalance is often starkly the opposite of what is being claimed."

https://t.co/MZbv5u4VI9

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

This

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

If women seem like we struggle with “agency” it might be because we know at any minute an army of angry horny brutes could drag us by the hair back into servitude and there’d be fuck all we could do about it.

It really does a number on you, once you figure that out as a girl. Women are always living on borrowed time. Look at the women of Afghanistan. They probably didn’t see it coming.

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

@robjessel16 And less waste on the bin.

You can add part of the stock back to the mash to make it lighter. It's all the same flavour so it fits good. And you can add toppins too.

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

@robjessel16 It's good fiber for your gut, I think

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

In solidarity with the pro-veil feminist movement in France, I am getting my clitoris removed and ground into dust by a Malian desert shaman. Any proceeds go to the guy who tattoos ownership markings on little girls’ faces.

Support my feminism!

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

Some of the people on the (much-needed) anti-woke crusade have a hard time seeing why “poor sad trans women” can’t just be left to live their authentic lives, not realising that they are emblematic of the woke derangement.

“What harm do they do to anyone?”

They are not some type of sad wrong-bodied woman, they are chronic masturbators who have slotted themselves into the oppressor-oppressed schema to harvest your sympathy. Don’t be so stupid.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Q: “Is there any difference between you feeling sexually threatened by men who identify as women to what we’ve seen in the headlines this week to do with the Sydney Swans allegations to teenage boys taking girls down alleys allegedly sexually assaulting them?

A: There is no difference, our whole point, is it’s all men being aggressive to women.

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

1 / Thank you @Glinner 🙏

This was Feb 2020, 4 years before Tavistock GIDS was closed, the NHS stopped the routine prescription of 'blockers' and banned private prescription, and Cass and other systemic reviews revealed the seriously weak evidence for them

Graham called 'puberty blockers' out for being an experiment, and he was right

While he used this interview to draw attention to women being harassed / abused / cancelled and #TransingAwayTheGay, the interviewer accused him of using "Ridiculous exaggerations" and only wanted to focus on Graham "Fanning the flames"

Right at the start he said "I’ll admit, I’m not a great person to be in this conversation… I’m a comedy writer and I am very blunt”

Thanks for stepping up Graham and raising much-needed awareness when so many others looked away / denied there were issues, even when doing so cost you so dearly

#TeamGraham

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

So @jonronson replied to this guy's joke to point out it wasn't him, but he won't reply to me on whether he believes that male-sexed people have the right to undress and shower in a communal changing room with women and girls. That's because the author of 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed' looked the other way while a 25yr+ friend had his life destroyed for not being afraid to answer it.

And the answer is no, Jon, by the way. It's just no. The same answer for men in women's changing rooms, for men in women's prisons and men in women's sports. It's just a simple no to all of it.

Jon refuses to even acknowledge the question exists, let alone have enough spine to answer it. That's who he is. A fraud and a coward, obsessed only with how he looks.

[MrMenno 🇳🇱🏳️‍🌈🎶 @MrMennoTweets]

Incredible how even the most fervent critics of DEI will risk all over race but won’t touch ‘trans’ with a barge pole - and how it illustrates the power and influence of gender ideology on society

‘Petra’ de Sutter is a man. It’s not just OK to say so, it’s essential

#JustSayMan

[Women's Rights Network - WRN @WomensRightsNet]

Leaflets don't deter men from raping women.
We need to talk about rape. We need to acknowledge the fact that men know it's wrong, but some just don't care.
@jo_bartosch confronts this reality head on at our WRN conference . Listen to the whole panel discussion on violence and exploitation here: https://t.co/R7rXlrkYku

[Sarah Phillimore @SVPhillimore]

Graham Linehan was right about everything. His reward was to have his life destroyed. I am not surprised he often reacted with fury or rudeness to those who refused to accept what was happening or worse, denied it. Ronson was and still is one of those.

Ryan might want to pause to consider where we would be now were it not for those who risked and lost everything to allow us all now the freedom to speak freely and to stand up for the rights of women and the safety of children.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

The man responsible for popularizing the term "transgender" - yes, a man, and a conservative man, not a feminist - described getting erections while imagining himself as a "girl".

"When the orgasm is over, if you continue to stay in the dress, you begin to discover there's this other part of yourself.

Gee, there's something nice about girlness that I'm enjoying experiencing."

- Arnold Lowman aka Virginia Prince

[Masha 🏁 @MashaVoskr]

@Dammian_tkd @Xiaomi @XiaomiEspana La primera foto da la impresión de ser un eclipse de Luna. ¿Es un filtro?

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

Why Piaget matters: What the theorists never knew they were predicting (longish post)

"There is nothing more practical than a good theory" (Lewin)

The most striking thing about the developmental science relevant to gender identity in children is that none of it was written for this debate. Piaget, Kohlberg, Winnicott, Bowlby, Erikson, Bandura, Vygotsky. They were not responding to a culture war. They were not commissioned by a government review. They worked across incompatible theoretical traditions, competed with one another for primacy, and in several cases actively disagreed about fundamental questions of child development. What they share is that they were all doing something else entirely when they produced frameworks that turn out to be directly and uncomfortably relevant to what is happening in paediatric gender clinics right now.

That is not a rhetorical point. It is an evidential one. A framework developed independently, before the phenomenon it describes existed as a clinical category, and from within a tradition that had no stake in the outcome, carries a different kind of weight than research conducted after the debate was already politically charged. These theorists had no position on gender identity in children because the concept did not exist in its current form when they were writing. They were simply describing how children develop. And what they described does not support the central proposition of the affirmative model.

Piaget established that the cognitive capacities required for the gender identity claim as currently formulated, including abstract self categorisation, stable identity formation, and genuine understanding of long term consequences, are not present in pre-pubertal children. They emerge with formal operational reasoning in early adolescence at the earliest. A child cannot hold a fixed, considered understanding of a lifelong identity before the cognitive architecture for that kind of thinking exists. Piaget was not making a point about gender. He was mapping the stages of cognitive development. The implications for gender medicine follow whether he intended them or not.

Erikson established that identity formation is a developmental achievement of adolescence, not a pre-existing property of the child waiting to be uncovered. It requires a period of genuine moratorium, a phase of exploration, uncertainty, and provisional commitment, before a stable identity can be consolidated. A clinical model that offers certainty to young people in moratorium and rewards commitment while discouraging exploration does not support healthy identity development. It forecloses it. Erikson and Marcia called this identity foreclosure. They were describing a pathological outcome. The affirmative model produces it systematically.

Bandura and Vygotsky, again from entirely different traditions, established that identity narratives are transmitted through social learning and cultural mediation, and that internalised frameworks feel entirely self-generated and authentic even when they have been absorbed from the surrounding environment. This is not a trivial observation. It means that a child who has internalised a gender identity narrative through peer groups, online communities, and institutional affirmation will experience that identity as originating from within, as the most authentic thing about them, regardless of its actual origin. The felt authenticity of an identity is not evidence of its developmental validity. Bandura and Vygotsky established this decades before the current debate existed.

Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Fonagy, working across decades on attachment and mentalisation, established that presentations combining bodily alienation, identity disturbance, and severe mood disorder are characteristic of disorganised attachment and mentalisation failure. These are relational difficulties requiring relational responses. They were identifying a clinical profile long before that profile began appearing in gender clinics in large numbers. The profile they described and the profile now presenting to those clinics are, in a significant proportion of cases, the same profile interpreted through a different framework.

And then there is Winnicott. An identity formed under conditions of psychological distress and institutional reinforcement feels entirely authentic to the person living it. That felt authenticity is not evidence that the identity is the appropriate clinical focus. Winnicott established this in the middle of the twentieth century while treating children who had never heard the word transgender. He was not predicting the affirmative model. He was describing something more fundamental about how children under pressure construct selves that feel real, and what happens when those constructed selves are reinforced rather than gently explored.

The theorists did not know they were building the evidentiary case against a clinical model that would not exist for another half century. They were doing something more important. They were observing children carefully, over long periods, across cultures and contexts, and describing what they found with as much rigour as their methods allowed. The fact that their findings converge, from incompatible traditions, on a picture that raises serious questions about the affirmative model is not an accident of selection. It is what independent convergent evidence looks like.

This matters because the affirmative model has sometimes been defended on the grounds that the older literature simply did not anticipate the phenomenon and cannot speak to it. That defence does not hold. The older literature did not anticipate the specific clinical category. It did anticipate, with considerable precision, the cognitive limitations of pre-pubertal children, the dynamics of identity formation under social pressure, the relational origins of bodily alienation and identity disturbance, and the conditions under which constructed identities feel authentic while foreclosing genuine development. It predicted the shape of the problem without knowing the problem was coming.

That is what good theory does. And it is why the theorists who were never part of this debate may turn out to be its most important witnesses.

[Kara Dansky @KDansky]

“'It is truly a testament to where we are as a society today that it must be said in the context of federal civil rights litigation that women don’t have penises.'

I wrote those words in an amicus brief filed by the U.S. chapter of Women’s Declaration International in the case Olympus Spa v. Armstrong. In his March 12 dissent to a decision in the case, Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit put it more colorfully: 'This case is about swinging d—s,' he wrote, using a vulgar term for male genitalia.

The language caused an uproar, and rightly so. But Judge VanDyke is not wrong."

Thanks to @thehill for publishing this. Please share far and wide.
https://t.co/1HH69bU7v0

[Alex Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

HAPPENING NOW: More from the 2026 NDP leadership convention. A young woman wearing an oversized keffiyeh makes an impassioned speech against involvement in the Iran conflict, but is quickly rebuked and reprimanded for misgendering the chair who self-identifies as "non-binary."

[Thoughtful Therapists @ThoughtfulTs]

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