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@Chef_franco74 Tiramisuistan!

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@Rikalii “A woman is someone who feels like a woman” still doesn’t answer what a woman is.

The fact that women differ from one another in countless ways doesn’t mean womanhood is a feeling. It means women are individuals within their sex group.

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@HelenWebberley The issue is the weak and contested evidence of long-term benefit, particularly in minors, for an intervention involving fertility, sexual function, lifelong hormones and irreversible changes. Making any case of regret, especially in minors, a serious medical and ethical failure.

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@KinaMagica All people are far more than just body parts; the least interesting thing about people is their bodies. But we have them, and they are organised around human reproduction — male and female —, not sexual orientation, not personalities, not feelings, and certainly not stereotypes.

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@JohnDonoghue64 Shouldn’t the hare be golden?
#splittinghares

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@EdelGeertje @CoachCaroline Zeker. Toch weet ik zeker dat het merendeel van de mensen ook die eerdere stap niet beseft.

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@DrCarlHindy “It also assumes an ideology has the power to erase the reality of women and their interests, which seems far-fetched.”

That’s precisely what happened, in the NL at least; women *have* been erased in Dutch law as a sex class.

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@sporadica Nowadays, that depends entirely on the season.

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@nyaraVT @jk_rowling It is the *only* definition. Humans have bodies, and these are organised around reproduction: male or female.

Everything else is simply the freedom to express yourself however you want. Nobody is reduced to roles. No two women are the same, and neither are two men.

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@elonmusk 🙄

The court’s argument wasn’t about correctly quoting statistics. It’s about the difference between:

“America has a serious gun violence problem.”

and

“Americans are violent degenerates destroying our society, keep them out.”

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@nyaraVT Being female *is* about the ability to get pregnant: the future ability to get pregnant, the actual ability to get pregnant, the former ability to get pregnant, or the impaired ability to get pregnant.

Trans women are men focusing on one stereotype or another.

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@LordWalney “I hope there is a way that women’s right to single-sex spaces can be delivered without putting MEN at greater risk.”

Really?

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@JohannaNyman5 And that will take a decade. You don’t think Rutte knows that? Plus: only a fool would close doors to sanity.

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@bchapm11 @JohannaNyman5 Curious what the US will do with all the money they’re “saving.”

Spoiler alert: Europe and the US simply value different things, culturally and in principle. Europe won’t suddenly stop investing in social stability, and the US won’t suddenly stop prioritising economic gains.

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@HJoyceGender Especially since Amnesty used to operate with a strong understanding of legal frameworks. I’d have thought this would have enabled them to recognise the crux of the matter: the legal zero-sum tension between the rights of women and LGB people and the rights of transgender people.

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@Bennytouzine Maar niet tijdens de première, hoor 😂

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@MissLauraMarcus The NL is 2nd only to Poland in the number of people recognised by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations”.

Compared to Denmark, the NL was controlled far more directly and harshly by the Nazis, and didn’t have an easily accessible neighbour able to safely harbour refugees.

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@HelenWebberley I agree: everyone should always receive appropriate, effective healthcare tailored to their physiology.

Like pregnant trans men receiving appropriate, effective gynaecological care.

Like trans women with prostate cancer receiving appropriate, effective prostate cancer care.

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@Margreetvz @ministerBZ @ministerBHOS Indeed.

Accepting as normal that women must step aside and surrender their rights simply because a man’s convenience demands it is not enlightenment; it’s regression that sets us back decades.

The ease with which this happens speaks volumes about enduring misogyny.