Thread by @hogotheforsaken

Redoing this thread because Twitter has hidden all the tweets which link to studies or articles.

To see the hidden content - where directed, copy & paste into Google search, and click on first link that comes up.

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Why is it important that we affirm there are only 2 biological sexes, and that sex is immutable? Why can’t we just be kind, and allow that maybe the existence of transgender people and intersex people “proves” existence of a “third sex”, or that “sex is a spectrum”?
Because:

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Biological sex is of huge political significance for the 52% of the population who face endemic sex-based discrimination and epidemic sex-based violence.

Children/young people must be protected from ethically unsound/experimental medicalisation and ideological brainwashing.

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People with disorders of sexual development are hampered, not helped, by conflation of intersex with transgenderism, and by lack of clear factual understanding of their conditions.

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Humans are sexually dimorphic.
Rare intersex conditions = anomalous developments of dimorphic sex classes.
It is not possible to change sex.
There is no agreed scientific basis for someone having the mind of someone of the opposite sex, or being born in the wrong body.

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To see the link, copy & paste into Google search: 

‘Gender incongruence in children, adolescents, and adults’ - British Journal of General Practice 2019

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Determined at conception, objectively observed and recorded at birth, sex characteristics are almost always aligned with chromosomal sex.
When intersex features exist these indicate a medical condition.
Factual attributes are not assigned.
Intersex is not same as transgender.

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To see the link, copy & paste into Google search:

‘Safeguarding LGBT+ adolescents’ - British Medical Journal 2019

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Only 0.02% of births are intersex (ie sex is ambiguous or there’s a mismatch between sex genotype and phenotype).
See graph by @swipewright (he had to make the graph that tall for the 0.02% intersex category to even show up as a bar 1 pixel thick).

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To see the link, copy & paste into Google search:

‘How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling’ - National Centre for Biotechnology Information 2002

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"Sex is binary in humans. The existence of DSDs does not prove that there is a range, or spectrum of sexes."

To see the link, copy & paste into Google search:

‘Is Sex Really a Spectrum?’ - ScienceFactNotFiction Wordpress

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For more detailed and expert info see: @FondOfBeetles @TriciaFrasman @intersexfacts

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