Thread by @LostinFife

@urielkhein @rnz_news It's legal sex self-determination not gender. We don't care what sex stereotypes (aka gender) you fancy internalising and externalising. Sex matters. Being born female in a male-dominated world matters. It has real, objective, material consequences for all those born female. >>

@urielkhein @rnz_news >>In how we are socialised, how we are treated, what we experience, including oppression and discrimination on the basis of our sex. And male violence is one of the biggest human rights issues on the planet. Trans privilege campaigners like you clearly have not the faintest >>

@urielkhein @rnz_news >>clue about the lived experiences of female people. And females have the right - in language and in law - to define ourselves in a category of our own, separately from males. With our own sovereign places, spaces, sports, services and provisions designed to balance out the>>

@urielkhein @rnz_news >>discrimination we face just because we are female. International human rights law grants us that right and the vast majority of people wd be horrified if they learned that legal sex self-determination is a trans privilege campaign that leads to the erasure of female rights.>>

@urielkhein @rnz_news >>And you don't understand the first thing about feminist theory if you think that our fight for female rights is rooted in the kind of biological essentialism that you claim. On the contrary, we acknowledge biological differences between male and female people. We acknowledge>>

@urielkhein @rnz_news >>that our female sex has material consequences for our lived experiences.

But we absolutely reject the notion that our sex should determine how we think, behave, dress, present ourselves; what we strive to do or become, what we are capable of or ultimately achieve in life.