sigjar.bsky.social
New feminist, scholar, researcher, geographer
What’s really at stake is the very basis of truth and reality. Observable, basic fact
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And then you get cars claiming they are bicycles choking the few bike lanes that there are
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Why this incendiary headline? You are stoking the flames of the culture wars instead of putting them out @theguardian.com
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I don’t have a vote in the US, but I have seen the same thing. Talking with a long time democrat of an older generation, I was wondering if maybe the trans issue was some of the reason democrats lost — "some of the reason??!" Was her immediate response
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Loved reading this in anticipation of the comments. Truly, we’re past the tipping point.
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t.co/jp3Ss6uXBN
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For sure. Addressing amenorrhea is important for young athletes, as for any other girls. It impacts health, they might be overtraining and malnourished. Catching male DSDs is just one of many reasons to address it.
All the Algerian girls who have missed out on opportunity to this deceit…
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Of course! It wins them titles and they get to virtue signal to the world how inclusive they are
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Exactly. At what point does he realise but just keeps punching at women anyway? It’s either pure misogyny or it’s that the TWAW debacle made him feel justified.
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Why is it they can come so close to getting it, but then still missing it spectacularly?
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I don’t hate. I just want women to have a voice. TRAs think that’s bigotry and hate. I tried engaging with you but I’m learning that it’s not about facts, but about the stories we tell, the way we set up the narrative: who’s the hero, victim, and villain. Then the facts are interpreted to match 🤷♀️
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Yes, for sure. You see bathrooms as a unique issue; I see it as a part of a large issue concerning women’s rights. You see one study with some criticism and conclude the case is closed; I see an under-researched field full of ideologically motivated reasoning. Women have always been so hard to see.
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Agreed there needs to be knowledge based rather than ideology based ways forward. We’ve been mired in trans-ideology for a decade now, but folks are waking up, including myself. Let’s agree science and stats, tempered by compassion will help us figure this one out. See ya
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Look, we’re just running after a moving target at this point. Until and unless you can recognize that there are two coexisting issues: that women have distinct rights and needs based in biology - AND - that transpeople have their own distinct rights, I think we should conclude and call it a draw.
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There are very few reputable studies on this. That ought to mean precaution.
There are studies on women’s particular needs, however. Most have faced abuse. They don’t need men with erect1ons in their enclosed spaces.
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Of course they do. Nowhere near the rate men do it. Please instead change male patterns of violence and privilege to render women’s rights redundant. Women have fought for equality, but it’s starting to feel like a brief window now, closing in as men take our places and render women subaltern
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Never made that claim. But if 1% of men in prison changed gender, women’s prison rates increase 50%. Which is the increase we’ve seen in later years. Look up numbers of trans offenders from Canada and the UK, issued by government sources. Higher rates than men for sexual offenses.
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Those few men affect a lot of women. Most never gets reported. Look, I’m sympathetic to what TRAs are trying to do in terms of doing away with negative divisions. Just start at the other end please. Don’t do away with hard earned women’s rights for the sake of a utopian future. Start with the men.
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No. Since rape means by pen1s in the UK meaning men do it. Abuse, for sure. Nowhere near the same rates.
The difficulty of discussing this is that you show motivated reasoning in discrete examples without recognizing the whole: across crime, sport, medicine, reproduction, women are distinct/real
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Sharp as always. This sums up the inability to understand one-another 👇
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So our patterns of crime are indistinguishable. Why do transwomen need to be in women’s restrooms again? Because they feel like and fashion themselves like women? How does one feel or appear like a women at all if we’re indistinguishable from men?
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Are you trying to say women and men could well commit violent and sexual crime at equal rates? If so I’m out of here. Because then you’re acting in bad faith. Go get stats on violence and rape from any country. Show me evidence you don’t find the same stats I sent you from everywhere.
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I looked up Norwegian stats myself
Violent crime left and sexual crime right. Men versus women
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I hate to cite Wikipedia but lots of references to peruse here
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Prison stats, which of course has more women since women do other kinds of crime than violence
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I think you need to go out and read up, but here is a sample. 98% is sex crime, violent more like 80-90% overwhelmingly men are the violent offenders journals.openedition.org/chs/1028?lan...
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Take a look in the mirror before you start throwing accusations of racism around. It is primarily black and brown female athletes who lose their positions in sport both within their countries and on the world stage when athletes with male DSDs take their places in female sport.
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Well you asked for references, so there’s a good few for you there. I think you’re reading the text selectively, but here are some pointers from the SDG page. Do you not know what men do? 98% of violent crime is by men, this holds everywhere, all cultures and all times.
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I’ll provide a few, amnesty and otherwise.
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There’s not. You’re fixated on the bathroom and see women as somehow defined by access to them. Bathrooms are an accommodation that stems from the reality of the female condition, a means to an end.
Your turn: why are bathrooms for girls in developing nations a goal for eg. Amnesty?
(In Cali)
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Yes, they are one of many expressions of the destruction that stems from permitting some men to access services, protections, and rights for women. It’s not about the bathroom as such, they are an effect, an expression of the obliteration of woman as a class of people
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And men’s rooms are gross. Men can’t aim at the bowl, and there are urinals. Our plumbing is just different.
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Restrooms were a means to the ends of including women in public life/work, it turned out. Men and women both agreed it was a good idea. Its still being pushed in developing countries. We just took it for granted and forgot why.
But the restroom is a downstream issue from the redefinition of women.
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No, it led to a call for women’s restrooms so they didn’t need to enter the men’s. It clearly wasn’t working.