Terfflepuff

Woman. Adult Human Female. XX. My little sister would have been transed had she grown up today. Stop female erasure! #IStandWithJKRowling #SexNotGender

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

Please tell me that @madebygoogle is going to restock the Pixel 4 watches! I was about to buy one when it went on sale, went to use the restroom like a moron, and when I returned they were all sold out.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

We’re in a bizarre phase where knowing exactly who the women are and pretending to not know who the women are is happening simultaneously and both positions are being used to punish women.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.

I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)

Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.

I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

@LightninLex @jk_rowling Thanks!

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

@LightninLex @jk_rowling Brilliant! Which Sedaris book is this?

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

@ali_allon @AjaTheEmpress Where did Grok post this? Because Caster Semenya is a MALE with a disorder of sexual development. Ugh.

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

Literal propaganda from the @nytimes. "Transgender" athletes are not banned from girls' sports, only the male ones. A trans-identified girl can play as long as she's not taking performance-enhancing testosterone. And a "transgender female" is just that; FEMALE! Orwellian.

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

@Ebeemee766 @MassDailyNews @Shawn4Boston Absolutely! Check out @AllianceLGB, which is based in the UK, and @LGBAlliance_USA if you're based in the U.S. They believe in #SexNotGender

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

@KDansky @OsborneInk I sincerely hope that @MoPOP gets a call from @jk_rowling 's highly competent attorneys quite soon. 🤞

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

I thought @HillaryClinton was a feminist, but then I saw her pander to #TimMcBride & now she's using the misogynistic language of gender ideology saying "people" have abortions. Women (aka, adult human females) are discriminated against ON THE BASIS OF SEX & we must hold the line

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states.

Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people.

No court or politician can change either of those realities.

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

Another feminist & I went to the women's prison this morning to meet some of the inmates who have been abused by trans-identifying males in their prison.

It's heartbreaking to hear their stories, but we told them how much support they've gotten on X & Facebook. It meant a lot to them, so thank you. ❤️

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

@NewBostonPost Oh, it's that thing that never happens, happening again.

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

Imagine being so oblivious that you criticize gov officials for basing decisions on ideology, while saying the ideological & misogynistic phrase, "pregnant people". It would be laughable if it weren't so dangerous. #SexMatters
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[WomenAreReal @WomenAreReals]

“Governor Newsom’s wife & daughters will never find themselves with a naked man watching them, but the common woman will. I urge you to pass AB1998, and I urge Governor Newsom to think about that small, terrified woman in the locker room and ask himself whose side is he on?”

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

Legal Defence Fund for Kathy Drake https://t.co/14LEnMpTxO

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

If the @nytimes can't call a violent male a male, then how can we believe them about anything? #SexMatters #NotOurCrimes
Live Updates: Police Identify Suspect in Mass Shooting in Canada https://t.co/fIo0zVcnOe

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

The Tale of Two Contagions

In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.

This was an entirely new patient population.

Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.

The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.

Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.

Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger.

And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.

Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.

And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.

Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.

And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.

The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans.

And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.

Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness.

Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.

And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Well, would you look at that. Makes you wonder if all that talk of immutable authentic gender identities we recently “discovered” in vulnerable children was in fact a grotesque social contagion cheered on by doctors and activists who are responsible for life long harm.

[CYNTHIA DILL @dillesquire]

"The gloves are off in the gender war" say Maine ladies. "You deny my reality, I deny yours." My latest post #mepolitics #sexmatters https://t.co/Ey309UUW9f

[Terfflepuff @WomanDownToTheX]

I just entered the Lumos Prize Draw supporting @lumos, the charity founded by J.K. Rowling helping children grow up in loving families. https://t.co/NdRX2r1KDc