Regina Philange

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act” women are adult human females. #TeamCarrotCottage

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

I’m going to unpack some of this.

1. The premise that women are unknowingly carting around a Y (with SRY) is massively over exaggerated. The risk of Surprise SRY is minimal.

2. The risk of Surprise SRY is, however, non-zero. But in reproductively healthy women who have had periods and, more definitively, had kids is as near to zero as one can map in science.

3. That is, if you are a person who got a period before 16yo (ish), who has ever been pregnant or who has had the kind of screens that are offered to women (like cervical screening) without any drama, I’d bet my house you don’t have SRY.

4. If you have proof you have popped eggs and/or seen your ovaries, you would be almost singular (literally in the scientific record, the second case to my knowledge) if you also have SRY, functional or otherwise. If that’s me, with my entirely healthy reproductive system and physiology, I’m writing myself into a paper.

5. If you are born appearing female but actually carting around a Y with an SRY, it will almost always make it’s presence felt during puberty. You won’t menstruate, your GP might then discover unusual anatomy etc. Nobody in the U.K. should be getting Surprise SRY.

6. Ironically, Mums to boys are the most likely confounder (via fetal microchimerism). It should not need to be said that picking up some cells from the baby boy you’ve carried in your belly doesn’t change your sex. The carrying of the baby boy, almost certainly from your own egg, refutes that. 🙄

7. If, despite being an apparently healthy woman, you get a Surprise SRY, that means you’re an interesting woman, not a man. It also means that you won’t be excluded from female sport. Because whatever your genetics, sport is divided on bodies.

8. The lay person’s fascination with genetics and the cultural position that DSDs are “just normal variation” has led a fair amount of even normally-sensible people down a dumb rabbit hole. They are medical conditions that are really rare. 1/20k is a binned frequency that we use in genetics to describe things that are really rare. It’s not a measured number, it’s almost qualitative.

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@DreyfusJames @leakylike I can’t imagine they’ll fare well in prison. Evil doesn’t even begin to describe those monsters. I hope they rot.

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@heatherthefair

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@DannyBeales So anyone who ‘feels’ they’re not in the right body, should be able to access things for the body they identify as, yes? So if I identify as a body with brown skin, or a body with only one hand, can I access all the things reserved for people with those characteristics?

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@NadiaWhittomeMP Blimey I’m so glad you’re around to tell us how we can’t possibly tell men from women - how ever did we manage for the 10,000 years before you were born? All hail Nadia the Gender Defender! 🙄

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@BradfemlyWalsh The irony!

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@Jonnywsbell Bloody hell Hagrid gets about doesn’t he?!

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@aniobrien Thankyou for articulating this. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Same sex attraction and relationships are about so much more than ‘fnar fnar, ooh matron, bum fun’ and it’s such a reductive take. Very disappointing.

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@babybeginner Total publicity stunt cooked up between @jan_murray and @hughlaurie to promote re-watches of House and promote her Substack. Genius move. Bravo! 😂

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@BradfemlyWalsh It’s put me right if my artisanal sausage and mash tbh @HelloFresh @HelloFreshUK

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@davidzmorris It was in true ‘House’ style though!

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@HelloFresh @HelloFreshUK

[I’m always right @SallySimmons]

@SerioJoshehe @HelloFresh @robjessel16

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@Sheehuurthem @jan_murray @HairyLeggdHarpy @hughlaurie @blablafishcakes Says the fella who wants to barge his way into women’s spaces. Take your own advice and stay in your lane mate!

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@hughlaurie @BradfemlyWalsh @jan_murray House scares me - I watch it, and am expecting to be told off for not doing my homework any second! 😂

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@Futurepilot1972 @BradfemlyWalsh Hello!

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@BradfemlyWalsh Two of the delightful and not so delightful bonuses of being a natural redhead, is A) my hair is still pretty vibrant for a woman past mid fifties and B) fetishistic men. I’m 57 this year and still get it. It’s pretty grim.

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@thefempire50 Becoming a mother is such a profound change for a woman. It’s so much more than a clinical process. I think ‘birthing person’ is so inadequate as a term. The word ‘mother’ encompasses the life of the child, not just the process of ejection from the womb.

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@heatherthefair He’s quite unhinged in his obsession about allowing children to make irreversible decisions about their own bodies

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@swklibdems @VMMChamberlain Throwing women under the bus for the men in dresses. Must be a chaser.

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@redditchrache This fella rubbed his hands with glee minute seedy cross dressing was included under the ‘trans umbrella. You can see when he’s answering the questions he doesn’t mean a word of it. He’s just happy he gets to flap about with a stiffy in wigs and dresses all day!