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@JustMisogyny Interesting. So if you were a female warrior you were trans. If you were a female pharaoh you were trans.
And other activists have argued that many famous women were really trans. Or at least nonbinary. This is the most sexist&regressive new ideology ever. Very anti-feminist.

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@JustMisogyny Interesting. So if you were a female warrior you were trans. If you were a female pharaoh you were trans.
And other activists have argued that many famous women were really trans. Or at least nonbinary. This is the most sexist&regressive new ideology ever. Very anti-feminist.

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@rivier @ripx4nutmeg It's training. Important to make misogynist ridicule of women mainstream, even virtuous. Training must be repeated to stick ...

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@jan_murray Looks like having & eating her cake: Identifies out of her sex class to avoid its mistreatment, identifies into it when it benefits her.
The nonbinary label I loathe: It assumes everyone else happily identifies with all regressive gender stereotypes applied to their sex. Bigotry.

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I've read another two today, written with precisely the same pattern. The personal writing voices are disappearing.

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What's the AI now widely used for long essays? A pattern of a few short statement sentences ("not A, not B, not C"), then a much longer one ("but D"), usually in 1st & last paras.
Its so common that I now spot the pattern & feel I'm reading one author, not many different ones.

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@grey4626 Which AI?

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@Jebadoo2 Declaring himself nonbinary means that he views 'binary' people as content to be defined as just 2-dimensional sexist stereotypes (Barbie dolls, GI Joes). So this third 'gender' both strips us of names for the two sexes &repurposes the old names to equal sexist gender concepts.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

The Taliban are hunting down women who took part in rare anti-hijab protests in Afghanistan, The Telegraph can reveal.

Read more about the methods they're employing ⬇️
https://t.co/ZOoUdYKI6P

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@Gaynotqueer1 Chrome AI definition of allo:

Allosexual/Alloromantic: In the LGBTQIA+ and asexual/aromantic communities, "allo" is slang for someone who does experience sexual or romantic attraction. It is the opposite of being on the asexual or aromantic spectrums.

😂😂😂

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What's the AI now widely used for long essays? A pattern of a few short statement sentences ("not A, not B, not C"), then a much longer one ("but D"), usually in 1st & last paras.
Its so common that I now spot the pattern & feel I'm reading one author, not many different ones.

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@Martina How does he know he has a six month old son? We don't know the gender identity of the infant.

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@icpolicy @msediewyatt 3. causes if they are causes. But I think the reaction to lowered childhood mortality, the need to invest in children's education in post-agrarian countries, and possibly a diffuse reaction in very high population density places all have an effect. This is all speculation.

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@icpolicy @msediewyatt 1. The reasons for this are probably complicated. Some are economic (large families are useful in agriculture, but expensive in post-agricultural societies, improved health care makes child mortality lower so fewer children needed even where there's no social old age pensions.

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@icpolicy @msediewyatt 2. To support you in old age, that is. Contraception makes preventing births feasible, etc. It can't be just increased women's rights as UAE etc have low birth rates & China & Korea are not places where feminism has flowered for very long. Or at all
These are all proximate

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@icpolicy @msediewyatt 2. So this might be a good thing for mother nature and indirectly for us. There are shorter term problems, true, in terms of coping with larger older age cohorts, but if we don't become fewer in this way the longer term consequences are likely to be far worse, incl resource wars.

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@icpolicy @msediewyatt 1. Sub-replacement birth rates right now don't result in the end of homo sapiens. If we were fewer, undesirable climate change would slow down, poor countries could become less poor in ways which now hurt the environment, more space for wildlife etc and nature would be created.

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@bonjourtonnerre @gingerhaderach @HelenWebberley I read the study. Of those with a diagnosis of gender dysphoria 60% changed their legal sex. Of THAT group around 1% changed it back. This is not the same as the detrans rate, because there may be many detrans in the 40% of dysphoria sufferers who didn't change legal sex at all.

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@ForWomenScot A nice chair.

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@glosswitch @suladoyle Perhaps it has to do with what this long essay fleetingly refers to: the idea that there is a quasi-religious aspect to this movement which is absent in social justice movements in general?
https://t.co/FIoV0Y9csv

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Everybody who identifies as "trans" chooses that identity. There seems to be a lot of confusion around what people are actually objecting to. Same-sex attraction exists, and is something people are not able to control.

To claim a "trans" identity, however, one must first adopt a restrictive system of belief, one that requires a lot of assumptions. It claims to rely on the lexical split between the words "sex" and "gender." But if we look at what the outcome of gender ideology is, rather than what its stated axioms are, it disallows any reference to sex as a category while replacing it with gender. It is impossible to come up with a connotative definition of gender that covers all cases of self-ID perfectly. Therefore, as a result, the language around problems where sex is relevant is broken down, and adherents are unable to productively communicate around issues such as women's and gay rights.

Many people reject this model because it relies on universally enforcing a belief, that "gender identity" should subsume sex, making it an ideologically authoritarian system that violates the First Amendment.

Others reject it because of the coercive control aspect. Because anyone who states that they believe sex is relevant in some cases, more so than "gender identity," risks losing their job, family, or friends if they do so, many people are playing along with this belief system than may not have otherwise.

Yet others reject it because there is a heavy incentive system in place that makes adopting a "trans" identity a very attractive option both to people who are vulnerable and people who want to hurt others. Young people, including abused young people, those with autism, and those who would have otherwise grown up to be same-sex attracted adults, are being increasingly monitored for "signs" they might be "trans," and then encouraged to adopt a "trans" identity under the hypothesis that it will relieve their distress. If their distress persists, and later down the line they find out that the distress was not caused by "gender dysphoria" at all, it is often after they were already given hormones and surgeries that caused iatrogenic harm on top of their unresolved suffering. The community celebration over children adopting "trans" identities is a form of emotional manipulation called "love bombing," and it telegraphs to children that if you adopt this identity, you will be elevated above others and treated as special. Many celebrity children also identify as "trans," children who would not interpret their distress as originating from their sex otherwise, because it comes with loads of attention and recognition.

Separately from that, male predators have learned that if they put on a wig and say their pronouns are she/her, it causes progressives to assume they are the "victim," no matter what, and defend their actions based on where they fall on the marginalization hierarchy. Women who object to men masturbating in their bathrooms are scolded for acknowledging that the man is male. Women who are attacked by violent rapists and murderers in prison are treated as "problematic" for acknowledging that the person who attacked them is male, which is relevant because the average man can easily overpower the average woman, and that is very relevant if the man is also jailed for violent offenses.

Overall, one of the biggest problems with the "trans" framework is that it places responsibility for managing the emotional well-being of individuals on society. That's not great for managing individual distress. If someone's psychological well-being depends on others "validating" them, that means it takes just one person who disagrees with their self-image to shatter their ego. If people are instead encouraged to be comfortable with who they are, and not care so much what others think, it makes it possible to move through a liberal, pluralistic space without causing them unnecessary distress. They can even take on challenges that help them learn and grow. If they're constantly looking inward, inward, inward, at their assumed identity, and nothing else, though, they tend to feel isolated and stagnate as a result.

So, back to "trans is a choice." "Trans" should be understood as not only opting into a belief system, but electing to receive its strongest benefits. It is the priest caste of a pseudo-religion that requires adherents to believe in a restricted doctrine. Many people don't know they're upholding the hierarchy, but they are. Many people didn't consciously choose to adopt a restricted, authoritarian set of principles, but they did.

The point is that individual choice is still active regardless of the control mechanism that inserted this programming. People can still see the program operating in their own heads and uninstall it. And when the belief system goes, so goes the identity known as "trans" or "queer."

There's a high cost associated with leaving. For sure. But telling people their distress is permanent because they can't act as individuals to choose to re-examine their model of their own identity only compounds that cost.

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@QcWynter I've seen other trans-identified men make similar claims: that they are clearly biological (not robots) and that they are women. Therefore, they are 'biological women'.
It's very much like Humpty Dumpty declaring that words mean what he wants them to mean.
https://t.co/dpHpnMNBgp