Paranoid Android

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” – Philip K. Dick.

Science, reason, healthy skepticism.

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

4. Female oppression is sex-based

Women are oppressed as a sex class. Patriarchy is not aimed at an inner identity called “womanhood.” Women are not discriminated against on the basis of their pronouns or fashion. Discrimination against wome and girls is organized around female embodiment: reproduction, pregnancy, childbirth, menstruation, female socialization, physical vulnerability, economic dependency, sexual exploitation, and male violence.

This is why sex matters in feminism. If the word “woman” is detached from female human beings, feminism loses the ability to name the class of people historically and materially subordinated under a male supremacist system.

5. Single-sex spaces and services are sometimes necessary

Gender-critical feminists do not argue that every space must be segregated by sex. They argue that sex matters in specific contexts where privacy, dignity, safeguarding, trauma, bodily vulnerability, or fairness are at stake.

Examples include prisons, rape crisis services, domestic violence shelters, changing rooms, intimate care, hospital wards, and female sports.
The argument is not that every male person is dangerous. The argument is that male-pattern violence, male physical advantage, and the privacy needs of female people are real enough that female-only provisions must remain lawful, meaningful, and enforceable.

A right to single-sex provision is not a right to harass anyone. It is not a femininity test. Masculine women, butch lesbians, and gender-nonconforming female people belong in female spaces. The category is sex, not appearance.

6. Sexual orientation is sex-based

Gender-critical feminists argue that homosexuality is same-sex attraction, not same-gender-identity attraction.

Lesbians are female people attracted to female people. Gay men are male people attracted to male people. Bisexual people are attracted to both sexes.

No one is entitled to another person’s attraction, validation, language, or sexual boundaries. Recognizing sex-based attraction is not hatred. It is basic respect for sexual orientation and consent.

7. Trans people have rights, but not the right to override sex-based rights

Gender-critical feminism does not require cruelty toward trans-identified people. It does not require denying housing, employment, medical care, ordinary public participation, or protection from violence.

The disagreement is narrower and more specific: gender identity should not override sex where sex is materially relevant.

The core objection is to compelled belief, compelled language, sex-category replacement, and policies that remove female-only boundaries without honest democratic debate.

8. DSDs do not erase the sex binary

People with differences of sex development deserve dignity, privacy, and accurate medical care. They should not be used as rhetorical loopholes.

DSDs are variations or disorders of sex development. They may complicate classification in rare individual cases, but they do not create a third reproductive sex or make male and female meaningless.

Ambiguity at the margins does not destroy the categories. It presupposes the categories exist in the first place.

[Cervixen of the Clitorians @cervixen]

The Gender-Critical or "TERF" Position is a materialist analysis of sex, gender, and women’s rights. It is not a theory of hatred toward trans-identified people. It is a claim about the importance of sex as a real, human, and materially significant category in law, language, medicine, safeguarding, sport, and feminism.

Trans activists often misrepresent the views of GC feminists, sex realists and TERFs becaue honesty would cause them to lose the argument.

The following is an attempt to represent my position as a gender critical, sex realist and radical feminist precisely so it is easier to see when that view is being intentionally misrepresented and/or understood by bad faith representatives of trans activism.

I know my own position better than anyone. Bad faith is presuming to tell me what my own position is in order to discredit me. That's worse than a strawman, and the main tactic of gender essentialist activism.

Here is my actual position: the only position I need to defend:

1. Sex is real and materially significant

Sex in human beings is not an identity, a feeling, a role, or a personality type. It is a reproductive and developmental category: male and female are the two human sex classes that are the means of human reproduction. Male is the sex class organized around the development of small, mobile gametes and female is the sex class organized around the development of large, immobile gametes.

This does not mean every person is fertile, typical, or currently capable of reproduction. Infertility, menopause, hysterectomy, castration, DSDs, injury, age, or illness do not erase sex. Sex is not a human performance and there is no standard for sex beyond teproductive role. Sex is a human condition and an innate, immutable attribute of the human body.

Gender-critical feminists reject the idea that sex is “assigned at birth” in the sense of being invented, guessed, or arbitrarily imposed by authority. In ordinary cases, sex is observed and recorded. Even in rare, extraordinary cases with ambiguous secondary sex characteristics, with modern instrumentation, the primary atrribute of sex is observable at the definitive level beyond the crude level of external genitalia at the cellular level.

2. Women are female human beings

In this framework, “woman” means an adult human female. “Girl” means a juvenile human female.

This definition does not depend on femininity, beauty, clothing, sexual behaviour, reproductive capacity, compliance, heterosexuality, or conformity to stereotypes. A woman can be masculine, feminine, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, celibate, infertile, disabled, old, young, gender-nonconforming, or medically atypical. She remains a woman because she is female.

The position is therefore not that women must look, act, dress, think, or feel a certain way. It is the opposite: women should be free from the sex-based stereotypes traditionally imposed on female people.

3. Gender is not sex

Radical feminism distinguishes sex from gender.
Sex refers to the embodied, biological male/female distinction.
Gender refers to the social roles, stereotypes, expectations, behaviours, and hierarchies imposed on people because of sex.
Gender-critical feminism does not seek to preserve gender roles. It seeks to abolish their coercive power.

A feminine male does not become female. A masculine female does not become male. No one should have to change sex category, medically alter their body, or adopt a new identity to be allowed to reject sexist expectations.

Continued...

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

Please make no mistake about this: trans ideology, which maintains that an unverifiable/unfalsifiable notion called "gender identity" can trump/supplant biological sex, is nothing less than an explicit call to abolish women as a sex class. This is madness and it is morally wrong.

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

Belatedly, a government guidance document upholds the Supreme Court ruling that a woman is – guess what? – a woman. 70 MPs have signed a rearguard motion opposing it. Presumably they think a man is a woman if he says he is. Among them is Layla Moran, for whom I used to vote.

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

OK, since a few people have missed this, my usage is common amongst people who want clarity about biological sex - otherwise known as 'gender critical' people or 'sex realists' It's also considered.

Male and female are biological terms, that apply across species. You can't change sex, so all 'transwomen' are male, and all 'transmen' are female. Male and female are not social roles. With 'man and woman' it's not quite so obvious, so I tend, like others who use this approach to refer to trans-identified *males*, not trans identified *men*. I defend the view that 'man' and 'woman' are not social roles but biological categories and I defend the definition of woman as adult human female, but I want to be crystal clear.

So this group of male people 'identify' as the opposite sex, or, sometimes, just as trans, or as some other gender identity (like 'gender queer') that falls 'under the trans umbrella'. Hence, because biology is important, I refer to *trans identified* males and *trans identified* females. I tend to use initials and 'they' when referring to particular people. This does not gratutiously hurt them, and does not force me to saying something that I don't what to say - viz - that trans identified males are in some respect women. I'm now of the view that it is morally wrong for males to identify as women. I was persuaded of this, by this paper by @aytchellesse:

https://t.co/l3lCpniDKW

Unlike Holly, I no longer refer to transwomen - I don't think it works - but I'm happy for other people to do so. The main reason is that I think that the demands raised by (most, not all) trans identified men are demands that flow specifically from *male* entitlement. It is, I now think, important to capture that in the terms we use. I think it's quite important for *men,* specifically, in this argument to acknowledge and critique the huge male entitlement that is engaged.

The worst and most confusing usage is primarily American and consists in phrases like 'male to female transgender.' This is a *nonsense* phrase.

I think people should use clear language, and they should spell out why they use the terms that they do. I think people should be self-reflective about thier language use, and prepared to explain and defend their policy, and to change it, if necessary.

hth.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.

Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.

Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.

This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.

For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”

It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.

Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.

Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

A very sad announcement.

I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration.

In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least.

Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration.

In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence.

Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.”

That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth.

Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration."

You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible.

Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it.

The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration.

Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail.

Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win.

If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM.

If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Being biologically female means having a body that is observably organised to produce large gametes (eggs), as opposed to a body organised to produce small gametes (sperm). A woman is female whether her eggs have been fertilised or not. A man can never be female.

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

“In a free society, people can believe whatever they want. If you want to believe men can be women or you’re a man who wants to call himself a woman, that is your business. What you cannot do in a free society is force anyone else to accept it. What is at stake here is the ability to lawfully acknowledge reality.

If you care so much about “trans rights” you can work out a way to get them without destroying the category of women in law, female spaces, sport, services, the entire reality of lesbianism, and punishing citizens for acknowledging reality. The fact that you haven’t even tried makes it appear that destroying the rights of women is the goal.

Any politician who will look an Australian citizen in the eye and tell them that a man can be a woman is admitting that they will lie about anything and everything because the most obvious lie has already been told.

If no one in this room can acknowledge reality and fix an obvious problem you are either malicious or incompetent. The days of dismissing this issue are over. This is not a culture war. It’s reality.”

- my words, read by Alison Penfold MP, in parliament today.

Contact politicians are tell them to BACK THE BILL - “Sex Discrimination Amendment- sex based rights bill 2026”

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

GIGGLE V TICKLE APPEAL DECISION

FRIDAY MAY 15, 2PM AEST

Federal Court, Sydney

Live streamed

https://t.co/0vsdBdlUU5 🩷

[Janet Murray @jan_murray]

I believe people “peak” about trans ideology in stages - and we have to let them.

Because some of what people eventually discover is genuinely frightening and difficult to process. Push too hard too early, and instead of becoming more open to the evidence, many will simply shut down or turn away from it completely.

That aside, I spent the best part of a decade in digital marketing. Which is how I know - first hand - that most of us need to hear something more than a dozen times - and often in many different ways - before the message has any chance of landing.

And that we can't assume everyone is at the same 'stage' we are.

STAGE 0: “Live and let live.”

You support gay rights and assume this is mostly about kindness and acceptance.

You may feel uncomfortable about men in women’s spaces - but it hasn’t affected you personally, so you don’t think too deeply about it.

And because it’s all grouped together under LGBTQIA+, you’ve never really separated sex (LGB) and gender identity (TQIA+).

STAGE 1: Something unsettles you.

Maybe it’s a nurse being forced to share a changing room with a man who says he's a woman at work. A parent challenging a school because girls are expected to undress in front of a male pupil. Boys being allowed to join a girls’ only organisation.

At the same time, you start noticing language changing.
NHS leaflets that say “pregnant people” or “cervix havers”.
Women’s initiatives that include men.
Men in women’s sport.
Children being medically transitioned.

You still feel sympathetic - especially towards young people struggling with gender identity - but something feels ‘off’.

But you still think there must be a sensible solution.
Third spaces. Clear boundaries. Some kind of ‘compromise’ maybe?

But when you cautiously voice even mild concerns - or see someone else doing so - you realise these views are often treated as unacceptable.

STAGE 2: The penny drops.

You realise this isn’t simply about being kind to people who are different. People are being expected to publicly deny biological reality - socially, politically and professionally.

You notice people in positions of power saying ridiculous things - like ‘women can have penises’ or men can 'grow cervixes.' And that challenging such ridiculous statements costs people jobs, reputations and friendships.

You notice some gay people are pushing back hard - and why.

Because if sex is no longer real or meaningful, then neither is same-sex attraction.

So this doesn’t just affect women’s rights, but gay people too - whose hard-won rights also depend on sex being real.

You learn about women like Maya Forstater, Kellie-Jay Keen and Sall Grover - women who have been publicly attacked, vilified and, in Kellie-Jay Keen’s case, physically assaulted, for what feel like entirely reasonable positions about sex and women’s boundaries.

You learn what a “TERF” is - and how it’s used as a slur against women who defend their sex-based rights.

You see pictures of masked protesters holding up signs calling for women to be hanged and r*ped. Videos of activists calling for them to be urinated and defecated on. Simply for defending their lawful right to single sex changing rooms, toilets and other intimate spaces.

You notice journalists, politicians and institutions seemingly afraid to state basic biological facts. Male offenders - who have committed the most serious crimes - being described as women in the press.
You start to feel the chill.

Not just around women’s rights - but around free speech itself.

And start asking yourself:
If people can be pressured into denying biological reality - into literally agreeing that the man standing in front of them is actually a woman - what else can they be pressured into staying silent about?

STAGE 3: You can’t unsee it

You realise that men demanding access to women’s spaces aren’t poor, misunderstood people who simply want acceptance.

They are vulnerable.

But they need mental health support - not affirmation.

You learn that some may have a recognised condition called autogynephilia - where a man is sexually aroused by the idea of himself as a woman.

And realise - often with horror - that many public institutions have embedded harmful ideology in the name of compassion and inclusion. Without properly questioning it.

Allowing some men to bring their ‘kinks’ to work, education, social and other aspects of public life. In some cases, into settings that include children.

You still have compassion. And recognise that many vulnerable children - and their parents - have been swept up in something adults should have questioned much sooner. But know you can’t look the other way.

Because you now understand why so many ordinary people stayed silent - not because they agreed, but because they were afraid.

At this stage, some people speak publicly. Many speak up earlier.

Others support quietly behind the scenes.

But very few return to Stage 0 - and nor should they.

[WDI.USA @WDI_USA]

WDI USA is proud to announce a new database of men who have committed crimes and claimed womanhood. Not Our Crimes draws from publicly available sources to show that the alleged “one-offs” are actually a systemic pattern of abuse against vulnerable women perpetrated by men and sanctioned by the state.

The Not Our Crimes Prison Project is the result of extensive volunteer research, fact checking, and compilation of publicly available records, including news reports, Department of Corrections websites, Federal Bureau of Prisons data, and Freedom of Information Act responses. The site serves researchers, policymakers, journalists, and members of the public seeking accurate information about the consequences of prison housing policies based on “gender identity.”

Help us by sharing this website broadly. If you are aware of an individual in the United States who you believe should be included but does not appear in the database, please submit a tip at the link below. Thank you for your support as we seek to ensure that the public knows the truth about these men and their crimes.
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[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

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[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Trump starts a redistricting battle, thinking Democrats won't retaliate, but they do, and gain more seats. Now Republicans cry foul at their self-imposed problem.

Trump starts a trade war, expecting the world will take it. Instead, the US loses jobs, farms go bankrupt, manufacturing declines, and our trading partners make deals with China rather than with the US. Worst of all, Trump's tariffs are illegal, so the government ends up with nothing for all the trouble.

Trump berates NATO and threatens to invade a NATO nation. Then, when Trump starts a war in Iran without talking to our allies first, he's shocked when they don't show up to help.

Trump bombs Iran, expecting them to cave to his demands a few days later. Instead, Iran attacks US military bases and damages other nations' energy production. It closes the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy markets, sending gas prices over $4 a gallon, and spiking US inflation to the highest in years. The war is in its eighth week.

Trump is outmatched and continues to fail. His first term was a shock to America and the world, but this time, everyone was ready for him.

Trump's bullying no longer works, and that's all he knows.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Try not to choke on your cornflakes but the Guardian has written a piece acknowledging that sex cannot be changed and explaining why males who went through male puberty have an unfair advantage over women in sport.
As Tanya Aldred writes:

‘These physical advantages mean that the fastest 14-year-old boys run the 100m more quickly than the women’s world record; the No 1 women’s tennis player, Aryna Sabalenka, lost last December’s battle of the sexes game to an out-of-shape Nick Kyrgios, then ranked at No 671 in the world; and if there were no category for women at the Olympics, there would be no female medallists – except in equestrian events, and possibly static shooting. This does not mean that women’s sport is lesser, it just means the two sexes are different.’

Please no one tell ‘right side of history’ woke bros Owen Jones, Jonathan Liew, Alistair Campbell etc

Link below ⬇️

[Read some Piaget please! @prof_curiosity1]

https://t.co/4B2FyV140y

[Amy Eileen Hamm @preta_6]

Some exciting news: As of May 1 I will be licensed in 2 provinces—including Alberta!

I fear further political persecution in BC. It only made sense to double license, and get in with a province that has legislation to protect professionals from what I’ve endured.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.