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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

Feb 23

They're doubling-down on sex pseudoscience. This won't end well for them.

This article attempts to critique the new definitions of sex announced by the @HHSGov, yet the new HHS statement completely anticipated their critiques and makes them entirely irrelevant.

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Sex is all about gametes, or "reproductive cells." Other traits—which emerge during puberty—are considered "secondary sex characteristics" because they are a downstream effect of sex, not sex itself.

The "expert" cited here, Sam Sharpe, is a Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University, and self-describes as “a trans and intersex person” who has “been involved in trans and intersex activism since 2016.” Sharpe has previously called for a “more inclusive understanding of sex diversity” and believes Lia Thomas (the male swimmer who won an NCAA Division I title in the women’s category) is being discriminated against for “failing to conform to expectations of cisnormative white femininity.”

Sharpe says that “biological sex is complex, variable, not fully understood, and definitely not a binary,” and has blamed the binary view of sex on “capitalism.”

Sharpe is an activist first, and a biologist second.

The article claims that the new definition of sex "leaves out people who carry genetic variants and don't make any reproductive cells, or gametes."

This is 100% FALSE.

The new HHS statement (right) explicitly explains that "having the biological function to produce eggs or sperm does not require that eggs or sperm are ever produced" and covers cases where "males and females may not or may no longer produce eggs or sperm due to factors such as age, congenital disorders or other developmental conditions, injury, or medical conditions that cause infertility."

They're choosing to ignore the substance of the document.

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

Feb 3

🚨ALERT: On Day 1, Trump signed an executive order affirming the reality that sex is binary, immutable, and based on gametes—not “gender identity.”

However, protecting women’s rights requires not only acknowledging biological reality but also PREVENTING EFFORTS TO HIDE IT. 🧵

Right now, 44 states allow their residents to amend their birth certificate's sex marker. Fifteen states will even issue NEW birth certificates without any indication that a change has been made, and all records linked to the original are sealed, accessible only by court order.

⚠️Such efforts to conceal biological reality must not be allowed!⚠️

To actually defend women's rights, we need an additional executive order banning amendments to sex markers on birth certificates, at least for national purposes.

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

Jan 31

🚨ALERT: Former US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) has quietly removed his gender pronouns (he/him) from his 𝕏 and other social media profiles.

Gender ideology is absolutely toxic. Expect more Dems to start quietly distancing themselves from it.

@PeteButtigieg Buttigieg added his gender pronouns to his bio in 2019.

@PeteButtigieg Pete's husband, Chasten, has also removed the pronouns from his bio.

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

Jan 5

Bill Nye the (pseudo)Science Guy has gone all in promoting gender woo and sex pseudoscience. He wrongly equates sex chromosomes and hormone levels with sex, and promotes the unscientific (& regressive) concept of "gender identity" for kids as young as 3.

I've written extensively on the false equivalence of sex chromosomes and sex, which you can read for free below. realityslaststand.com/p/sex-chromoso…

For more details on why "genetic sex" is a misnomer, see my article in City Journal explaining this in detail. city-journal.org/article/geneti…

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

Dec 12, 2024

I can't reliably tell what's parody anymore in the woke world, but the identity flags seem to be proliferating due to the normalization of the "transabled" (i.e., able-bodied people who desires a specific disability) community.

🧵A brief tour (it gets a lot more insane) ⬇️

"Mixed" category

Transpluriabled / Transmultiabled: a physically non-pluridisabled individual who desires to acquire multiple disabilities, or feels as if they are or should be pluridisabled (someone with multiple disabilities).

Transill / Transnoso: someone who desires to acquire an illness/illnesses or disease/diseases (somatic or mental) that they don't physically have.

Diachrohna/Transchronichana: someone who wants or feels like they should have the fictional Hanahaki, Hanakanjo, or Hanauso Disease, chronically.

Disabledfluid: someone whose disability/incapacity-acquisition desires or disability/incapacity feeling/identification changes over time. It can change at random or it may vary in response to different circumstances.

Aerodisabled: when one's disability-desires-acquisition, disability/incapacity identification, or feeling changes based on the setting or atmosphere. This can refer to things like temperature, weather, time of day, time of year, elevation, etc.

"Physical" category

Crutchian: someone who uses crutches to walk even though they don't need them physically {it should be noted that if you plan on doing this, please consider how much you require the aid over someone who physically requires it, dysphoria is horrible, but mobility aids are hard to access}.

Transtuirot / Transrottui: someone who desires a fractured leg, or who feels as if they have or should have a fractured leg when they physically do not.

Wheelchairqior: someone who uses a wheelchair even though they don't need one physically {it should be noted that if you plan on doing this, please consider how much you require the aid over someone who physically requires it, dysphoria is horrible, but mobility aids are hard to access}.

Transvitiligo: a transill identity in which someone desires to physically acquire vitiligo in order to match their internal identity to their physical body, or someone who identify/internally feels as if they have or should have vitiligo.

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Colin Wright

@SwipeWright

Dec 9, 2024

🚨BREAKING: A brand new study in a peer-reviewed @SpringerNature journal—"Queering Babies"—sexualizes infants and exposes the ideological rot in academia.

The paper, which argues that surrogate babies are “queer creatures by default” and that perhaps all babies are inherently queer, stretches the boundaries of logic, coherence, and decency.

The author claims his paper "explores how encounters with [surrogate babies] disrupt or confirm normative expectations about the ‘babyness’ of babies, the ‘parentness’ of parents, and the interactions between these two."

He does this through a "autoethnographic account in dialogue with a collection of personal narratives from same-sex and different-sex parents to address the performative and relational aspects of this queerness."

The paper isn't merely absurd, it is also disturbing—it explicitly engages in the sexualization of infants.

The author recounts his daughter’s instinctual search for a breast during early skin-to-skin contact with him as “somewhat animalistic and perverse.” He describes a newborn’s attraction to breastfeeding as evoking "feelings of alienation and connotations of the sexual."

He then extends this strange sexualization by framing the connection between parent and child as inherently “gendered and sexual.” He writes: “The umbilical cord of 𝗍̶𝗋̶𝖺̶𝗎̶𝗆̶𝖺̶ shared fate, going back to the primal desire to 𝗅̶𝖺̶𝖼̶𝗍̶𝖺̶𝗍̶𝖾̶ connect and stay connected. And the future of connection—or this connected future—is always gendered and sexual.”

The author’s framing of queerness in infants also adds to the disturbing subtext of sexualization. Queerness, as he defines it earlier in the paper, inherently carries connotations of “sexualized strangeness.” To ascribe this quality to infants—who are incapable of sexual agency—is both inappropriate and disturbing. By defining queerness in this way, Boross is conflating its sexual meanings with infant behavior, dangerously blurring boundaries that should remain clear and unambiguous.

See the post below for a link to my full report.

If academia is to regain its credibility, it must return to the principles of rigorous inquiry and empirical validation, rejecting the postmodern tendencies that have allowed such works to thrive.
realityslaststand.com/p/queering-bab…

A special thanks to @JDHaltigan for obtaining the full PDF of the paper for me.
link.springer.com/article/10.105…

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