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Women are being sanctioned for speaking up about sex.

We could do with support.
Within whatever framework you view ‘sex’, I hope we can all agree that for almost all people it’s uncontroversial, even if others say differently. And it’s immutable - you can’t change sex.

Please don’t be captured fingers crossed 🤞
Sex = fundamental principle that underpins complex life on earth. Even if you think it’s more nuanced than binary, you can’t stand by + allow woman to be told she can’t think differently.

@AdamRutherford @bengoldacre @SLSingh @giagia

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You’re the rational skeptics, the ones who eschew blind faith over useful models based on observed data.

Women are losing jobs. I had to defend - defend - my dev bio framework to my university.

Stand up.
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Dr Emma Hilton
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Is it wrong to be excited about a long train journey?
Although having been kept awake until 3am by @CCriadoPerez, I may just fall asleep.

Who knew my research citations suffer because I’m female???
If I’ve said I’ll do something for you in 2020, and you (correctly) perceive flakiness on the part of my memory, feel free to prompt me.
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Dr Emma Hilton
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@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 Scientists framing models of sex are all working from the same dataset. Scientists saying ‘sex is a spectrum’ do not have any special understanding unavailable to those who disagree with this framing.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 I disagree with the novel interpretation of sex as a spectrum. The standard binary framing has far more use and predictive power as a model. The exceptions utilised by Spectrummers (not a word) are all understood perfectly well within the standard binary model.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 I do not believe it is good science to reject a model that applies to nearly all complex life on earth, to account for rare exceptions.

Exceptions that are entirely predictable within the standard binary model.
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Dr Emma Hilton
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Can I urge any natural scientists/medics who would be willing to work on a short letter regarding the reality of biological sex and put their real name, discipline and (former) institution as a signatory to get in touch please.

#ThisIsNotADrill
We need experts in the subjects of sex, development, genetics and related areas.

We need the biggest names possible.

We need the most names possible.

But mostly, we need scientists/medics willing to stand up and be counted.

Please retweet.
An important note: We need people who are verifiable (academic pages, research sites, etc). We can’t take people’s words for it.
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Sex workers. Prostitutes. Escorts. Hookers.

These subjects have been in the news a lot lately. We need to talk about it.

I'm going to take position here that many of you might not like.

Sex work is a net positive to society and should be decriminalized.
I've known several sex workers in my time and I've followed sex worker twitter for a while.

Sex work is real work and it provides a valuable service to men and society.

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