Biology Not Ideology

Biology Not Ideology
Pro choice
Pro woman
Pro Progress

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

@miroirdufou A woman is an adult human female. A female is a member of the sex whose bodies are organised to produce large gametes (eggs). Women's rights are predicated upon that accurate definition. Any false definition that includes men, including men in dresses, eliminates women's rights.

[Lisa Selin Davis @LisaSelinDavis]

OH MY GOD, @michaelshermer did it! He broke through the concrete wall at @WNYC and @BrianLehrer to explain the complexities of youth gender medicine and reframe the debate as science versus belief, not left versus right. As usual, I waited on hold the entire time to no avail.

[Lisa Selin Davis @LisaSelinDavis]

I realize that many people in my liberal circles see Trump's executive orders on sex and gender as hateful. But they are filling a regulatory vacuum created by our own side, which refused to moderate, modulate, reform.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The doctor who chose not to publish a study on puberty blockers because it showed no improvement in participants' mental health is the very same Johanna Olsen-Kennedy who's being sued by a young woman put on blockers at 12, given testosterone at 13 and a double mastectomy at 14.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

As state-level bans on youth gender medicine have accumulated, and are being tested at the Supreme Court, this controversial field has been seized by a fierce debate over the proper role of mental-health assessments https://t.co/fthcyDGyFl 👇

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy leads the Centre for Transyouth at LA’s Children’s Hospital. One of her patients thinks she has been negligent https://t.co/pUbdwEqfMR 👇

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

BREAKING: Detransitioner Sues Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a Top Pediatric Gender Medicine Doctor, For Medical Negligence

🧵⬇️⬇️I report: Dr. Olson-Kennedy is the most prominent doctor yet to be sued by a detransitioner—for medical negligence after overseeing a mentally ill girl's gender-transition starting at 12 and mastectomy at 14. She recommended a hysterectomy at 17.

[Lisa Selin Davis @LisaSelinDavis]

Today was a historic day at the Supreme Court: the first time liberal Americans learned that there are lesbian, gay, transsexual, liberal, and feminist people objection to pediatric gender medicine. It’s not a left/right issue.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

'We must not publish a study that says we're harming children because people who say we're harming children will use the study as evidence that we're harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.'

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

The way the non-binary faithful obsess about intersexes, and about individuals who can’t produce gametes, amounts to a pathetic clutching at straws while they drown in postmodern effluent. Yes, some fish change from sperm-producing male to egg-producing female (or vice versa). That very statement relies on the gametic definition of male & female. Ditto hermaphroditic worms & snails who can produce both male & female gametes.

In any case, the existence of intersexes is irrelevant to transexualist claims, since trans people don’t claim to be intersexes. Also, as if it matters, humans are not worms, snails, or fish.

The rare tetra-amelia syndrome (babies born without limbs) does not negate the statement that Homo sapiens is a bipedal species. The rare four-winged bithorax mutation does not negate the statement that Drosophila is a Dipteran (two winged) fly. Similarly, the occasional individual who can’t produce gametes doesn’t negate the generalisation that mammals come in only two sexes, male and female, defined by games size.

Sex is binary as a matter of biological fact. "Gender" is a different matter and I leave that to others to define.

[Cornelia Channing @nina_channing]

Hi! @nytopinion is looking for personal essays about regret. If you have a *specific* regret that haunts you and continues to shape or inform your life, pitch me! We're looking for unexpected, compelling, instructive stories and great writing. [email protected]

[Lisa Selin Davis @LisaSelinDavis]

Calling all detransitioners!

[Lisa Selin Davis @LisaSelinDavis]

If any detransitioned people are planning to submit an op-ed to the @nytopinion about regret, as they’re calling for, I’m happy to take a look at a draft and offer advice. They’ve ignored you for years. Maybe they’ll listen now.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

@Dublinate I Never forget where I came from nor what I went through. Which is exactly why I am fighting for fairness for women and girls. Not anti trans at all- females who identify as men can compete against males all they want. It’s about biology and not about self ID.Thank you.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

About that panel on sex that was accepted and then canceled by the American Anthropological Association: @HdxAcademy will host it online, Nov. 8.

HxA members get first registration. (So join HxA, or at least join our mailing list.)

https://t.co/sYazFffYgO

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

There is contention among trans advocates over what constitutes conversion therapy of gender dysphoric children. Laura Edwards-Leeper, the founding psychologist of the US's 1st pediatric trans clinic, thinks that conflating holistic counseling of such kids with CT is harmful.

[Retraction Watch @RetractionWatch]

How a canceled panel on sex plays into censorship by the right: A guest post by @AliceDreger https://t.co/cRj4OCBcCJ

[Genspect @genspect]

NYT MUST READ: How Teens Recovered From the ‘TikTok Tics’. It’s virtually impossible to read this article and not see the explosion of trans-identity in teens, particularly girls, as the same exact phenomena. https://t.co/x2ExroVcd7

[Carole Hooven @hoovlet]

"Policing what scholars can say and think about sex and gender is no way to help minority sex, gender, and sexual-orientation populations. That policing will always end up harming some of them." @canceledanthro

[Alice Dreger, Ph.D. @AliceDreger]

How a canceled panel on sex plays into censorship by the right: A guest post by Alice Dreger https://t.co/PTtmAibYTL via @ivanoransky