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human

[iffish @iffishX]

There is nothing here, really.
this interface
where your own face looms suddenly
from dark patches of the screen
some fragment of cheek, lip, eye
startled recollection of the self
I had imagined I was in a stream
of other voices, false-familiar strangers

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour Nah. It'll need to find me if it's that bothered.

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour Oh don't worry I'll take my share of the credit. People loudly defending their own rights & interests and forcing public awareness that other people's rights & interests are indeed implicated in trans rights claims are certainly part of the pushback.

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour And I'm an atheist, the Gospels don't hold much sway with me. Nor does the disingenuous pretense that we're just talking about a random room. We are of course talking about single-sex spaces.

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour Trans people are already protected by the same laws & rights as everyone else. They may also need additional anti-discrimination protections in many jurisdictions, but what they have been demanding is extraordinary exemptions & privileges.

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour People like yourself are in large part the reason why trans acceptance is going backwards.

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour You are objectively wrong. And you also appear to believe that the doctrines of your bizarre and novel religion of gender can be imposed on everyone else. They can't, and it is extremely offensive to try and do so in a liberal, secular society.

[iffish @iffishX]

@sightONsound @DerekPederson3 @dryadarbour Why should actually female people have to be the ones to leave when male people are invading their spaces?

[iffish @iffishX]

@nerdc0re84 @tracewoodgrains There was a guy ...

Took me way too long to remember which particular Pixies song it was from.

[iffish @iffishX]

@tracewoodgrains 38 is a wrong 'un, do not leave unattended around children, the incomplete symmetry has opened pathways to demonic infestation.

And disagree with Dilan, 10 is bad, very very bad. Base 10 is an abomination and a sign of man's estrangement from Nature and Nature's God.

[iffish @iffishX]

@MrBombastic2525 @stoydawg_00 @DaisyDDesjardin @zaelefty It's a shame the bombastic buffoon is a bit of a coward and ran away to hide behind a block. I don't get to point out to him directly the idiocy of thinking that a description of the outcome of a centuries long evolutionary process was somehow referring to aristocratic edicts. 🤷

[iffish @iffishX]

@MrBombastic2525 @stoydawg_00 @DaisyDDesjardin @zaelefty Congratulations on doing a bit of basic etymology research showing the evolution of the terms. . Unfortunately your second sentence is still pulled-out-of-your-arse bollocks and you've yet to evidence anything resembling deliberate construction.

[iffish @iffishX]

@GrahamSmith4 @OxSoc If you want to defend the funding of HE it might be a good idea if the public isn't getting the impression that it's become a factory for the production of intolerant little ideologues who refuse to respect the rights of anyone else. Otherwise we might just not give a shit.

[iffish @iffishX]

@GrahamSmith4 @OxSoc Funny how it's never the people who are fomenting an aggressive & intolerant cultural revolution who are "stoking a culture war", but instead only those who are defending their rights & interests against the claims of the revolutionaries who are guilty of the charge.

[iffish @iffishX]

@tracewoodgrains @mauddweeb "people can make clear-eyed analysis of the costs and benefits of different transformations"

Can they? I see very little evidence that people in the grip of what some psychologists have called an 'over-valued idea' are capable of that kind of rational analysis.

[iffish @iffishX]

@tracewoodgrains The video linked below is from a few years ago, but it's worth listening to the warnings of an older transexual before being quite so facile in your use of slick but misleading phrases like "morphological freedom".
https://t.co/LHPyKGnMzs

[Sue Green Sex Realist @AKAsusangreen]

@Aaron_George73 Renee Jax, a mature transexual, speaks honestly about living with an ageing trans body. Has to be a better way. https://t.co/hfaIowobv6

[iffish @iffishX]

@tracewoodgrains The human body is not easily forced out of its evolved morphology, and definitely not without damage.

Medical transition inevitably involves a degree of physical self-harm. Do we have no moral obligations to try and discourage people from self-harm?

[iffish @iffishX]

@MrBombastic2525 @stoydawg_00 @DaisyDDesjardin @zaelefty Ok galaxy brain, explain to us all how the words man & woman (since that's the subject at hand) were "deliberately constructed" in any way that matches standard definitions of 'deliberate' and 'constructed'.

[iffish @iffishX]

@DavidBahry @RichardDawkins 2026 and you're still peddling this astonishingly dishonest bullshit and pretending as if you have some moral high ground here. It's like watching von Trier at his most unpleasant, that combination of vicious, scummy behaviour and the most ludicrous self-deception.

[iffish @iffishX]

@srnorty @donaldcclarke @RichardDawkins You're right, it was pointless whataboutery that has no relevance to the op's point.