K 🦕

American. Brit. Homosexual Adult Human Female. KPSS.

[Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles]

So does transitioning your son because you thought he was gay count as conversion therapy?

Asking for a friend.

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@jan_murray I saw one or two in Disney Paris during the heatwave end of last week. Oddly comforting, albeit it worrying!

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

I can (ofc) understand why GC people in the Labour Party are not shedding many tears about KS's resignation.

But it is a *huge* mistake to think "Well, Andy Burnham can't be any worse."

I'm sure he can be, and I fear he will be.

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@steph_satirical @MikeSouthWestUK I mean.....

https://t.co/t33WWBGDUV

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Essential 🧵on the BBC and the internal battle being waged over truth versus ideology 👇

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@hecubian_devil @Cynthia31441378 Holy shit, just use the men's room Richard. Nobody cares about your special lady feelz.

[owen @olpafc_]

Wait until this guy sees the Welsh flag

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

@jack_turban "I didn't do this to take all your stuff" isn't much of a point to make if you're still taking it

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I agree with every word of Anne Fine’s introduction to this report.👇

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Taking down WPATH would be the gender critical Battle of Stalingrad.

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@RoisinMichaux Pronoun change on LinkedIn or it isn't real 🤣

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@LaLeonaZoraya @NoShirleyNo @AjaTheEmpress @Lostlain1 Another story, for another day. But, I was once subject to Russian intelligence services. I'd like to think they set up the office idiot, because the guy was indeed bumbling (albeit it the info he had was wild).

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@LaLeonaZoraya @NoShirleyNo @AjaTheEmpress @Lostlain1 Same. Couldn't even bring myself to click into the story further, as it was so obviously nonsense.

[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.

[Grahame Park Girl @GrahameParkGirl]

@FondOfBeetles @elniedunne I’m game if they are 🤷‍♀️

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@francesweetman I don't think anyone under the age of 30 is on Facebook anymore, are they???

[K 🦕 @kdot1818]

@RoisinMichaux I hate this timeline.

[Urlofcork @urlofcork]

Waiting to board our flight in Washington and there are 3 Scotland fans in kilts walking past. An American lady says" I love your skirts"
"They're nae skirts lassie they're kilts , We're Scots not Trannies" I genuinely Lol #tartanarmy #fifaworldcup @jk_rowling

[Lola @thefempire50]

Not all men but definitely this guy.

[Natasha @Natasha_etc_]

@jk_rowling Somewhere, a GCSE student who left half the paper blank is watching this and thinking, “Well, that’s reassuring. There’s always a future in government.”