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Developmental biologist. All views are my own. Manchester. Peri-clownfish. Sex Matters.
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There have been two academic reviews of musculoskeletal changes in transwomen suppressing testosterone.
Both conclude that loss of muscle mass and strength is small, and that strength advantage over females is retained.
Citations to follow.
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Today, walking to my house, a very male voice asked from a decent distance: “Coming though, got a dog”. I obviously stepped aside to allow man dog-walker to pass.
As he went past me, he said: “There’s a bloke hanging around behind us, you cross over”.
❤️
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This is Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, the woman who was ultimately displaced by inclusion of Laurel Hubbard.
She’s 21, and it would have been her first Olympics.
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On discriminating the sex of a stranger.
Humans beings - like most mammals - are bloody excellent at recognising the sex of a stranger.
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@CAChalmers_
Sex is the shared biological mechanism by which almost all complex species reproduce. It’s is based on a binary system of gametes of two different types, with differently-specialised roles in the generation of new offspring.
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@GeorgeTakei
‘So-called biological sex’?
I was born with ovaries, a uterus, a vagina and a clitoris.
This ‘so-called biological sex’ has had profound impacts on my life.
How dare you. Seriously, how dare you.
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Semenya does not have unusually high amounts of testosterone. Semenya has amounts of testosterone entirely congruent with being male.
@SkyNews
@SkySportsNews
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@SarahKSilverman
Tall people play basketball, shorter people run track. There are sports for all body types.
Males are 30% stronger than females of the same weight and height.
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@josierones
It’s just women having lunch. Heaps of camaraderie. I think they got mildly pissed. Why does this make you cry?
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Remember when your first question on Guess Who? was “Man or woman”?
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I simply cannot imagine a philanthropist opening a therapy centre exclusively for transwomen who have experienced violence, one with expertise and staffing that best suits their individual and collective needs, and me trying to get it shut down.
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@laurahelmuth
@audubonsociety
No they don’t have “four chromosomally distinct sexes”. Why are you lying?
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Yesterday, a HR person in my local hospital trust posted a declaration that he would not be recommending EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces (that permit female-only spaces and services) to his trust staff.
I went quite hard on him.
Here's why.
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@hemantmehta
What a shame the most prominent evolutionary biologist in the world understands the evolution of sex?
😂
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I would happily make a bet that Bolt after 2 years of T suppression and E addition at the age of 36 yo would set a new female 100m record.
The only Q is “by what margin?”
Any dissenters?
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“the 32-year-old’s body naturally produces higher levels of testosterone than women without the condition.”
The condition is called: being male.
Caster Semenya discriminated against by testosterone levels rules – ECHR
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This is nonsense. Skeletons can be routinely sexed by actual experts, and studies that subsequently analyse DNA show them to be correct nearly 100% of the time.
When
@Riley_Gaines_
asked University of Pittsburgh professor Gabby Yearwood if an archeologist could differentiate between two sets of bones as male and female, Professor Yearwood. who calls himself the “expert in the room,” answers “no” to which the entire audience laughed.
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This is Lisa Carrington. She is a New Zealand canoeist.
She won three gold medals at Tokyo 2020 and became NZ’s most successful Olympian ever.
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@tomhfh
Tom. Promise me you will never teach statistics.
The graph you have posted clearly shows two overlapping normal distributions.
Each normal distribution is associated with either the female sex or the male sex.
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Every time you cross out “gender” and write in “sex” on a form, you’re doing something important.
#SexMatters
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It made me cross. To say the least.
So that's why I went hard at him.
End.
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“When a woman is poor and hungry, the thing to put in her mouth is food, not your cock.”
When did we forget this?
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Dear
@DavidLammy
The cervix is a region of the uterus. It has a unique cellular and tissue composition, mirroring its unique functions within the female sexual and reproductive cycle.
Here is a helpful diagram.
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Men are men. Women are people who menstruate. I am so tired of this shit.
Dundee man Jason Grant has been appointed to the role, which is meant to ensure that people who menstruate have dignity while menstruating.
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@HarmoniaAtLast
There are several mistakes in this thread. I barely know where to start.
First, males don't ovulate. They don't have ovaries, so cannot.
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@PopSci
What on earth is this nonsense?
Because avocado plants have a mechanism that prevents self-pollination, you think this means sex isn't binary? 😂
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Semenya has:
XY chromosomes.
Normal SRY (“make male”) gene function.
Testes and not ovaries.
Normal levels of testosterone production.
Normal cellular response to testosterone (receptors etc).
Normal tissue response to testosterone (muscle growth etc).
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Finance writer Frances Coppola tells her 70k followers that post-menopausal women are changing sex, like clownfish do.
This is possibly the most stupid post I’ve ever read on the subject.
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“Female” as understood today, was developed in the 19th century as a way of referring to black slaves.
^ These are deeply unserious people to whom we have devoted far too much attention and brainpower.
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If your argument for including males suppressing T in female sport is to cite Phelps’ wingspan, your own double-jointedness, or how you are male and crap at jiu jitsu, let me make this clear:
You are arguing for the removal of categories full stop.
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@basem_uk
@EFSMA_eu
@FimsOrg
@WorldRowing
@uniofbrighton
@BMJOpenSEM
@steinacker_jm
@SMHS_DE
@sportaerzte
@Dora_Sportmed
Why are there no females on this panel?
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In their new transgender policy, Swim England introduce a female/open structure for competitive events, and only athletes who are female at birth will be eligible for female categories!
We have published our updated transgender and non-binary competition policy.
Read the policies for each sport and check out our FAQs here ⤵️
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FINA come through.
No male who has experienced any part of male puberty is eligible for female categories.
🥂
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@MarcieBianco
It is entirely reasonable for female athletes to feel confident that the spots in the female category are for female athletes.
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“History has provided countless and wonderful examples of Joan portrayed as a woman.”
Because she was a woman.
Our new play I, Joan shows Joan as a legendary leader who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’. We are not the first to present Joan in this way, and we will not be the last. We can't wait to share this production with everyone and discover this cultural icon.
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Sam Stagg has been suspended.
He is a young neuroscientist who willingly shared his knowledge and analysis of various brain studies in trans people.
This is hateful conduct, apparently.
@andrewdoyle_com
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Richard Dawkins: “There are two sexes, and that’s all there is to it.”
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Richard Dawkins says JK Rowling and Kathleen Stock have been "bullied" while standing up for themselves over trans issues.
"As a biologist, there are two sexes and that's all there is to it."
@RichardDawkins
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@Docstockk
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@tomhfh
Let me illustrate.
Measure the body length of 1000 domestic rabbits and 1000 domestic dogs.
Plot them as length distributions. A tiny dog may well be within the ‘rabbit length’ range.
A tiny dog is not, in fact, a rabbit. You are not mapping a dog-rabbit species spectrum.
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@BillieJeanKing
@AthleteAlly
@LambdaLegal
@TheWNBPA
@WomensSportsFdn
Selina Soule, Alanna Smith and Chelsea Mitchell were forced to compete against males.
They lost races, titles and records.
How can you claim to support women and girls yet cheer this on?
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That feeling when World Athletics admit their preferred trans policy is one where they will allow males with male advantage into female sport.
@sebcoe
@WorldAthletics
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@ShappiKhorsandi
@ZombieTron
@scienceandbears
@LuxuryMoon
@Serena_Partrick
A few months ago, someone complained to my university about me, threatening to “do a Kathleen Stock on me”. Do you know what means? Every woman you’re talking to does.
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Hey
@Trevornoah
@TheDailyShow
Why are you uncritically platforming a person who has little grasp of science, concepts of advantage, categories or human rights?
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Transwoman and MMA fighter Fallon Fox reflects on her victories in the female category.
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@mrjamesob
Someone tried to me sacked for talking about ‘male’ and ‘female’ anatomy. No actual culture war? 🙄
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Here is a NZ TRA punching an older woman in the face. He had time to think, time to assess, and he still punched her in the face.
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@ShappiKhorsandi
@ZombieTron
@scienceandbears
@LuxuryMoon
@Serena_Partrick
This is remarkable. Do you really have no concept of the kind of stuff that happens when identifiable people speak out about their concerns?
I was reported for a hate crime. For saying it wasn’t fair for transwomen to be in female sport. A hate crime.
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It’s been a low simmer for some time, but Gervais finally turned the heat up to full.
@skepticCanary
@GSpellchecker
What about an actual woman who doesn’t ‘identify as a women’ because she doesn’t have to because she actually is one?
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Clownfish. Sequential hermaphrodites. How to recognise the female: she makes large gametes.
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And then yesterday, a HR dude at this very hospital saying out loud - almost proudly - that he would not recommend his staff follow guidance to give this young woman the healthcare she deserves with the privacy and dignity she needed.
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@GeorgeTakei
Females are the sex who are aborted, mutilated, neglected medically and educationally, married as children, pregnant as children, reproductively-controlled, trafficked for sex...
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Anyone who imagines a sports bra is somehow an “intimate” piece of clothing has never smelled one or to tried to wrestle with one.
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@GaryLineker
Unfortunately Gary, there are domains (like sport) where discussion/debate/divisive decisions are necessary.
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Honestly.
Your sexuality is deeply uninteresting to me.
Your “identity” on various axes is deeply uninteresting to me.
I simply do not care about the contents of your head.
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@tomhfh
As you correctly point out, short males are not female.
Yet a very short male may appear in the little area of overlap highlighted, because they are at the far left of the male normal distribution, not because they are magically ‘intersex’ or ‘a bit female’.
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@peterjukes
Sex, Peter. Sex is immutable in all animals except some teleost fish.
Humans might be able to change the biology of our airways by breathing in steroids, but - again - we are not sequential hermaphrodites.
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@sally_hines
Sally, the review was peer-reviewed and published in one of the best sports medicine journals in the world. And even if you don’t like what it says, I can’t believe you think that thread is a credible “rebuttal” 🤪
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Insanity at Edinburgh University (once again) as the university fail (once again) to let women watch a jolly important film.
How much would we need to project it onto the side of the castle?
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Hello
@Roolockwood
Can you confirm or deny please?
You claimed you were being objectively news-y. Did you speak to this individual to prep for your interview with Graham?
@Glinner
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“Rugby is for all shapes and sizes, so we must let males play in the female category.”
I had a brief look at the IRFU squads, specifically their heights and weights. By position.
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@ExtinctionR
Dear Extinction Rebellion,
Humans are not sequential hermaphrodites.
Sincerely,
Evolution.
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@chasestrangio
I am female. This means my body has developed differently to a male person. This is a basic fact of life, one I’d expect a presumably-educated person to understand.
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This young woman, regardless of religious requirements, had *every right to request* and *every right to expect* a female doctor, for an intimate exam that requires undressing and a fair amount of prodding.
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Matilda Simon is a first born son and legal female, and may become one of the only “female” hereditary peers.
Matilda has an older sister. A legal female who was born first.
Monty Python couldn’t have made this up. 🤪
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A man requesting another man tell off his Mum for saying stuff he doesn’t like.
Absolute state of him 🤪
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@whittier_justin
He told me to cross the street because he’d spotted a man who he felt was a bit suspicious.
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@xandvt
@MumpGorithm
@refined_devon
@BBCMorningLive
@BBCiPlayer
I am honestly appalled by your behaviour here. You are a medic and a public communicator, and you seem unable to use basic and commonly-understood words when discussing concepts like population health screens.
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There is plenty of evidence that even though all humans are really accurate at recognising sex, females are better at it than males. This has been described in one academic paper as an evolutionary necessity for females to avoid “angry, adult males”.
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@GaryLineker
FIFA have made sounds that they will allow selfID of transwomen into female football. That is, a person with perfectly typical male development who has not had any medical intervention can play female football if they say they are female.
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“A man fighting a woman must never be accepted, regardless of gender change.”
World Boxing Council President, Mauricio Sulaiman.
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@matteottismith
@KatyMontgomerie
Matt, you understand that a public venue banning a group of women because of their shared political view on this would be the court case we’ve been waiting for? 🤦♀️
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What a joke.
@tmorello
How dehumanising it is to refer to women as “birth-givers”. Do you not see how that intersects with the experience of black women who not only suffer appalling rates of maternal mortality but have a long history in the US of dehumanisation and childbearing?
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Hello. Anyone willing to platform me and Katy talking about this?
I think they should just televise me and one of the most prominent GCs locked in a room until they give a binary definition of sex that doesn't have exceptions. I'm just there to keep them from deflecting, to provide counter examples, and to call them stupid
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@jessiegender
Males are 30% stronger than females of the same weight/height.
Next brilliant idea?
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Hmm.
We are weaker in terms of skeletal muscle strength, but immunologically stronger.
We are less physically-capable of hauling someone out of a burning building but somewhat more physically-capable of making that person in the first place.
Lacks nuance, try again.
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@thefrankiedlc
Sport is not a human right. Competing in the sporting category of your choice is not a human right.
Not suffering disadvantage because you’re female *is* a human right.
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Good news from Cycling Time Trials - TW to compete in an open category, while the female category will be protected for female riders only.
@Cycling_T_T
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@GaryLineker
Hi Gary. People have tried to get me sacked/suspended for questioning the fairness of inclusion of transwomen in female sports (see pinned academic review for more info).
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Why are people so willing to display their stupidity?
Sports should be genderless and just grouped by height/weight class but men are too afraid to lose to women
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Yo
@neiltyson
What does “feeling 80% female” actually feel like?
Is it only 80% of your clitoris being sliced off in childhood? Maybe 80% probability of being kidnapped to warlords? You bleed through your knickers 4/5 periods? Only 80% of men try to control your fertility?
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This has happened because female cyclists, supported by their male colleagues and athletes from other sporting disciplines, and with information about their rights, the law (and a bit of science), came together to demand they be heard.
BREAKING: British Cycling Board of Directors has voted in favour of an immediate suspension of its transgender policy.
"We understand there are concerns regarding the extent to which our current policy appropriately reflects the Sports Councils’ Equality Group guidance"
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@EmmaVigeland
It’s rather remarkable that you are willing to openly admit you have no idea what the position you reject actually entails.
Your coffee wasn’t strong enough.
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@elonmusk
@FoxNews
Hi
@elonmusk
I was an expert witness here. The judge said that arguing about male sports advantage was similar to arguing that black people should be barred from a “saloon”. 😂
I am a a director of
@SexMattersOrg
and we are fighting in the U.K. Give us some money please. 😘
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@RichardDawkins
Professor Dawkins, thank you.
In February 2020, Dr Colin Wright
@swipewright
(evolutionary biologist) and I (developmental biologist) wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, called The Dangerous Denial Of Sex.
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@RealTayChaTLC
Right, let's do this.
Sex is *observed* at birth by “reading” external genitalia, which is a remarkably sensitive marker of sex. Sex is also now routinely observed in utero, again by “reading” external genitalia and, increasingly, by DNA analysis.
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@AndyKindler
That’s nice.
But back to my question: do you understand much about radical feminism and how rad fens feel about gender.
Let me ask another way: I don’t think dolls are “girls toys”. Do you?
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Women have, for time immemorial, sought abortions. If abortions are safe and legal, women seek safe and legal abortions. If abortions are not safe and legal, women seek unsafe and illegal abortions.
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@seaningle
Chances of a 43 year old female appearing in super heavyweight Olympic weightlifting?
1 in 308,000.
Hubbard is three times more likely to be struck by lightning than a 43 year old female is to appear in this event.
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