Dear “educate yourself” brigade, we…

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A Twitter thread by @ladyduckpojok

Dear “educate yourself” brigade, we have and if anything we are more conhinced than ever than female ppl exist as a coherent sex class, have rights that can exclude male ppl, that gender is a patriarchal imposition that should be discarded as much as possible.

On the sex binary

https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s12129-020-09877-8?sharing_token=Wju7pagbpWZw0t_qJTx1T_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY4m7bhVvT3i3HzK1MtbR0sAj3X6fKY8SAYEvIodxn7BFrNv6ieSienYmepjKKDkBglnsxWn6NeO6s4Zo5C6m_gL8phpEE2XN5aJvO10kfSpt9ram2k3vTA8YRK1yqMWOY0%3D

On toilets

https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/History-of-Womens-Public-Toilets-in-Britain/

In sex and gender identity

https://theelectricagora.com/2020/06/02/on-sex-and-gender-identity-perspectives-from-biology-neuroscience-and-philosophy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

On the law

https://www.modernlawreview.co.uk/asteriti-bull-sharpe/

On prisons

https://www.google.com/amp/s/murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2020/01/17/the-placement-of-trans-prisoners/amp/

On treatments for gender non conforming kids

https://bjgp.org/content/69/681/170

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/sex-gender-and-gender-identity-a-reevaluation-of-the-evidence/76A3DC54F3BD91E8D631B93397698B1A/core-reader#

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/freedom-to-think-the-need-for-thorough-assessment-and-treatment-of-gender-dysphoric-children/F4B7F5CAFC0D0BE9FF3C7886BA6E904B/core-reader

On the lady brain

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21467211/

On crimes

http://transcrimeuk.com/

On suicide and violence stats

https://medium.com/@sue.donym1984/the-transgender-movement-and-bad-stats-a-debunking-compilation-31760947b382

More on the suicide stats

https://4thwavenow.com/tag/michael-biggs/

On why identity politics is a inefficient tool to fight oppression.

https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/19484-the-return-of-idealism-identity-and-the-politics-of-oppression

On murder rates

https://medium.com/athena-talks/trans-murder-rates-the-data-120b60b19cb4

On bad anthropology and the two spirits

https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/toward-an-end-to-appropriation-of-indigenous-two-spirit-people-in-trans-politics-the-relationship-between-third-gender-roles-and-patriarchy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

On all the above

https://forwomen.scot/did-you-know/?fbclid=IwAR0H7TqxQNqemZcAGFtvR_HLkbkxmZ4FY6srcgrULWxGPyWuc6QPTmDQfVI

On sport

https://arcdigital.media/on-transwomen-and-sports-54fe1a8963e

On sport

https://fairplayforwomen.com/emma_hilton/

More on UK murder rates.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-how-many-trans-people-murdered-uk

I wanted to have this as my pinned tweet but not with that many typos… 😱
Please add any resource, article, peer reviewed paper you came across while you “educated yourself” on the subject.

Also, in case you believe none of this matters because the trans rights lobby does not want to diminish women’s rights, look at this:

And believe ppl when they tell you who they are.

On sex-selfID and the damage to women’s rights

https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/losing-sight-of-womens-rights-scottish-affairs-vol-28-3/

more on sport and the effect of testosterone

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202005.0226/v1

on persistence and desistance in gender dysphoric children

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18981931/

and another one on desistance

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21216800/

one of my favourite: Do women exist?

https://convincingreasons.wordpress.com/2018/12/10/do-women-exist-the-science-of-sex-the-politics-of-gender-and-the-materialist-and-dialectical-thinking-needed-to-distinguish-the-two/

and how it all unfolded by the inimitable @janeclarejones
(Yes I need to get on with the french translation!)

https://janeclarejones.com/2018/11/13/the-annals-of-the-terf-wars/

On the history of transsexualism

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/robert-stoller-true-trans/

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/sexist-science-transsexualism-part-i-benjamin-ihlenfeld-money-ehrhardt/

And on queer theory and its justification for peadophilia by @PankhurstEM

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/the-trojan-unicorn-queer-theory-and-paedophilia-part-i-%ef%bb%bf-dr-em/

Another one on the neuroscience of dysphoria.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-17352-8

A late addition on the media capture from @STILLTish

https://gendercriticalwoman.wordpress.com/2019/07/15/why-are-the-guardian-suddenly-so-woeful-on-womens-rights/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

And on the money behind it by @bjportraits

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/stryker-arcus-billionaires-lgbt/

More on US murder rates

On bad science

https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/health/2020/august/prestigious-psychiatry-journal-retracts-findings-admits-sex-reassignment-surgery-didnt-fix-mental-health?fbclid=IwAR20Ox-iwJQtuP3LrLX2gC7HsV2zPL9hZlmP6RuhbpYBI-J0Hn4zDD3nDDg

On the sex binary

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11845-020-02464-4

On effects of puberty blockers, by the Tavi itself: it shows no increase in bone density in growing adolescents,
frames it as good news while ignoring the fact that BMD should increase rapidly during teenage years, not stagnate.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.01.20241653v1

On the political erasure of sex in law and data

https://thepoliticalerasureofsex.org/

On how sex selfID laws undermine women’s rights

https://www.modernlawreview.co.uk/asteriti-bull-sharpe/