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Transwomen are not Women - Part 15

You'll have to explain yourself with greater clarity for that sentence to be understood.
For the avoidance of doubt I have no issue with people wanting to identify howsoever they please, I do have an issue with men demanding to use female only facilities.
 
I should never underestimate the drawing power of irrational fear and hate.
Indeed you shouldn't. The modern gender identity movement is founded heavily on whipping up irrational fear in trans-identified people and promoting hatred of people dissenting from their philosophical beliefs. That is a big draw for bullies, narcissists, authoritarians, and fundamentalists.
 
It's all they've got. Don't like men demanding entry into your single-sex spaces, ladies? The only possible reason for this is that you're guilty of irrational fear and hate. Finestkind argument.
 
While I'm against Transgender athletes competing against biological females, I don't give a damn about the other stuff.
Why not? It all stems from the same irrational ideology: Men should be entitled to override sex segregation whenever they want.

If you're against that in sports, why aren't you against it in prisons, and in women's shelters. It seems to me that prisons and shelters are even more important than sports, for the exact same reasons that sports are important. Why do you only care about sports, and not prisons or shelters?

Why do you only care about sports, and not accurate crime statistics? Why don't you care about accurate statistics about the representation of women in society (on company boards, in elected office, etc.)?

And why are you completely ignoring the horrifically anti-science position taken by much of the medical community, when it comes to the question of trans-affirming care for minors?
 
That applies to everything, not just parkrun. Everything has rules separate from the labels. Of course the rules aren't an abstract concept. That reinforces my point, not yours.

God, you're bad at this.
I love how you always have a bit of a personal dig, it's interesting.

edit: My point is that getting rid of gender labels for public toilets or sports or whatever and using sex instead would be better, what was your point again?
 
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What are the defining characteristics of the "social man gender role thing"?
It seems to be the gender stereotypes, in a similar way to males going for the social woman stereotypes. There seems to be a attraction for some trans people to conform to social gender roles which is strange. I think that people in general should be trying to get away from gender roles.
 
California decides to keep on letting men and boys play against women and girls.

McMahon’s statement on X was the latest salvo in the culture wars over transgender youth and ratchets up the personal rivalry between Trump and Newsom. Trump has made reversing advances in transgender rights a priority since returning to office on January 20, while California law has allowed student-athletes to participate in sports in alignment with their gender identity since 2013.
Note the slanted wording there; Trump is reversing advances in rights. The article goes on to note California's attempt to split the baby:

With controversy brewing ahead of the state high school track and field championship in June, the CIF allowed girls displaced from the finals by a transgender athlete to also be granted space to compete. The CIF also allowed girls to appear on the winners’ podium if they would have won a medal without a transgender athlete competing.

As a result, the CIF crowned two champions in the girls’ high jump and triple jump after transgender girl AB Hernandez won both events.
Might be a reasonable solution for track and field events, but it's unlikely to resolve the concern over team sports.
 
It seems to be the gender stereotypes, in a similar way to males going for the social woman stereotypes. There seems to be a attraction for some trans people to conform to social gender roles which is strange. I think that people in general should be trying to get away from gender roles.
What are the defining characteristics of the "social man gender role thing"?

Wearing pants? Having a job? Standing to pee?
 
California decides to keep on letting men and boys play against women and girls.


Note the slanted wording there; Trump is reversing advances in rights. The article goes on to note California's attempt to split the baby:


Might be a reasonable solution for track and field events, but it's unlikely to resolve the concern over team sports.
Calling it male and female instead of the gender labels might solve it.
 
What are the defining characteristics of the "social man gender role thing"?

Wearing pants? Having a job? Standing to pee?
from the people I know that do the social man gender role thing it's all beards and muscles for the most part, which is a wee bit err? cos I have no beard or muscles yet i'm male.
From the people I know that do the social woman gender role thing it's all dresses and breasts for the most part, which again is a wee bit err? cos I know females that don't wear dresses and don't fixate on their breasts.
 
from the people I know that do the social man gender role thing it's all beards and muscles for the most part, which is a wee bit err? cos I have no beard or muscles yet i'm male.
Beards and muscles are sex indicators, not defining characteristics of a gender role in society.

You're a man, you say. So. What gender role do you perform in society? What defines your gender role, for you?

From the people I know that do the social woman gender role thing it's all dresses
Dresses aren't a role.

and breasts for the most part,
Breasts are sex indicators, not defining characteristics of a gender role in society.

which again is a wee bit err? cos I know females that don't wear dresses and don't fixate on their breasts.
What gender role do you think those females are performing?
 
Hasn't worked for parkrun. Hasn't worked for all UKian TRAs who are subject to their supreme court's recent ruling.
The parkrun rules state that gender overrides sex in the sex categories, I linked to them a few posts ago, so go back and read it and check the posts from then onwards.
The parkrun rules are a mess because they use gender labels and sex labels interchangeably, like the sex essentialism wiki. Which is the opposite of what I suggest.
 
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Beards and muscles are sex indicators, not defining characteristics of a gender role in society.
Beards and muscles are clearly not sex indicators, as I know females with beards and muscles?

You're a man, you say. So. What gender role do you perform in society? What defines your gender role, for you?
I'm a male, I didn't say I was a man as that's the very gender labels that I'm arguing against.
Gender roles should have long gone, but they're still here unfortunately.


Dresses aren't a role.
Don't get hung up on the word 'role', in this context it just means things that you do that in society other people do too.


Breasts are sex indicators, not defining characteristics of a gender role in society.
Already answered above.


What gender role do you think those females are performing?
Performing? They are females that don't fit the gender stereotype? I'm not talking about roles on a stage that you have to perform or anything, i'm talking about behaviors that people naturally fall in to in our societies.
 
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Because YOU keep conflating DSD with trans issues.
The set of individuals with DSDs has relatively little overlap with the set of people who suffer from gender dysphoria, as I've repeatedly said in various earlier instances of this thread. I would hope everyone here is clear on this fact, by now. DSDs are bound to be looped into this discussion, though, whenever someone tries to cleanly sort every human being into exactly two sex categories for the sake of any given public policy.
DSD people are taking splash damage because they're become a prop for the trans advocates.
They are taking damage because the current administration in the U.S. have created a strict sex binary via executive order without taking into account any of the complexities raised by DSDs, several of which were discussed by Novella in any attempt to decrease scientific illiteracy on this topic. The administration appears to be constructing this binary based on genotype, in a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey sort of way which somehow travels backwards to the time of conception.

It makes rather little sense—from where I'm sitting—to blame trans advocates for the actions of their political opponents.
I cannot think of any policy of sex segregation where CAIS individuals should not be classified as female.
Okay, but how would you persuade someone trying to follow the executive order—in good faith—that they should treat individuals who have testes and will never produce any ova that they belong "to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell" for purposes of complying with federal policy? There might be an argument that really works here, but I've yet to see it.
The Venn diagram intersect of people who have both is exceedingly minuscule, around 0.0000018% - less than 150 people world wide
You are assuming statistical independence here, probably incorrectly.
 
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