"Biological sex is not a social construct – male and female are distinct material realities which have significant implications for medical and surgical treatment of many different conditions...
...These physiological differences are relevant on the levels of clinical practice, research, and policy, and absolutely must be acknowledged in order for physicians to best treat their patients."
"2/3rds of our written materials have been updated with this new language. For the 1/3rd that has remained out-of-date, our class has received multiple..emails from course instructors in which they provide corrections, beg for forgiveness and patience, and avow to “do better”"
"A vocal minority of students are loudly in favor of the most extreme aspects of gender ideology, while the majority seem to be vaguely supportive in a nonspecific way. I think that this comes from a mixture of naive goodwill and fear – they are trying to be good allies...
...and this is the only way they know how. Additionally, it is heavily implied that to ask critical questions, even in a way which is ultimately patient-centered and supportive, is perpetuating bigotry, so they just nod along"
"One professor broke down crying after a genetics lecture which relied heavily on the use of “male” and “female” by necessity. (Though the lecture also made ample space to talk about transgender and non-binary individuals, this was not enough to appease the critics.)...
...Another professor referred to “pregnant women” rather than “pregnant people” and spent a very uncomfortable few minutes after class abjectly apologizing for having caused offense “by implying that only women can get pregnant”. It was incredibly disturbing to see"
"A person’s pronouns are not relevant when deciding to prescribe a particular antibiotic, and at which dose."
"If there are relevant but subtle sex-specific differences, then they will often be downplayed or ignored altogether..(e.g)we were told that the higher risk of heart attacks in men was due only to the presence of testosterone, and not for any other reason,which is patently false"
"the denial of sex is just one manifestation of a greater problem, which is the corrosion of critical thinking itself..the triumph of dogma over data ..is fundamentally incompatible with critical thinking, the most powerful all-purpose tool a physician has at his or her disposal"
"Our positions as students are precarious, especially if one is labeled as being on the wrong side of history. Consequences for speaking out can include shunning, being anonymously reported to the school for “remediation”, being informally blacklisted...
... from research and leadership opportunities, and potentially expulsion. Until I have earned my degree and have completed residency, I need to remain anonymous. To do otherwise would be to kill my career before it has even begun"
"I think it should be on the onus of administration and our tenured professors to stand up against this madness, rather than on lone students to publicly put themselves at risk of debt and ruin. For now, I resist in the small ways that I can"
The above thread is quotes from this Q&A with a medical student at an American university. plebity.org/conversations/…
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"Conflicting results contributed to the difficulty of identifying specific brain features which consistently differ between cisgender and transgender or between heterosexual and homosexual groups"
"before hormonal treatment, in transgenders the most important brain parameters..tend to be congruent with the gender assigned at birth—after hormone treatment they partly adjust to the characteristics of the desired gender"
"Complex human behaviors..cannot be entirely explained by phenomena occurring only in a single brain region. Therefore, the idea that brain sexual differences cause behavioral sexual differences, rather than being an assumption, still constitutes a hypothesis to verify."
"The intended readership was ‘amongst the classes to whom, more especially, advertisements are generally addressed’. Such people would value ‘the commercial connections and knowledge of the conductors of the Guardian’." Hasn't changed much in 200 years. #YeOldeChatteringClasses
"Thanks to its anti-democratic campaigning, the working-class Manchester and Salford Advertiser dubbed the Manchester Guardian ‘the foul prostitute and dirty parasite of the worst portion of the mill-owners’."
"What the Manchester Guardian found most abhorrent was the emancipation of the slaves. So outrageous was the paper’s promotion of Jefferson Davis’s slaveholders’ revolt that it was denounced in a mass rally of Union supporters in the nearby Free Trade Hall"
"The society has for years..buried its head in the sand seemingly hoping that the debate would go away,and you would not have to jump on one side or the other..a cowardly position which ignores the long history of your organisation in campaigning for women"grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/dave-fawcett…
"I do not believe that it is bigoted or transphobic to say ..that transitioning children, performing mastectomies on healthy young girls is wrong. That erasing the same-sex attraction of lesbians, labelling them bigots if they will not date men who define as lesbians, is wrong"
"That women must have the right to accommodation in single sex spaces in hospitals, prisons and refuges, and that requesting this, or complaining when men are housed with them, is not bigotry or transphobia. Victimising women for demanding their sex-based rights, is wrong."
"Watching male students on campus scream and attack my supporters, made it visceral how much the harassment of women academics has become socially acceptable under the guise of gender identity activism."
"If I complain that this sort of defamation impedes me from doing my teaching job and threatens my own safety on campus,’ says Stock, ‘they reply that since I am a free speech warrior, shouldn’t I just put up with it? They are utterly toxic and my mental health has..suffered."
"Faculty colleagues are still publishing letters to the editor in the student newspaper denouncing me,’ says Hughes. ‘All of the letters, petitions and statements that have been released are full of misinformation and outright lies about me."
"the demographic make-up of these marchers reveals something that is routinely swept under the carpet by Clinton feminism: social class. According to one survey, 43% of marchers earned above $75,000 per year–despite only 16% of Americans of either sex earning that amount or more"
"It’s one thing to demand an equal right to earn hundreds of thousands a year as a lawyer, but there’s no feminist campaign for an equal right to become bin men. And everyone knows why."
"even for lawyers, Clinton feminism can only ignore sex so far: what we call the “gender pay gap” is mostly an effect of the brutal fact that smashing the glass ceiling is difficult to combine with having babies...
"the Big Tech oligarchy, which clearly has no respect whatsoever for borders, territory or democratically made national laws and feels that it can reach into any nation state it chooses and switch off the oxygen of publicity to any party, group or individual it disapproves of"
"surely our friends in the SWP have read some Trotsky..he ridiculed leftists in Mexico who were seeking to ‘curb’ reactionary right-wing voices..'Any leftist who ‘arms the bourgeois state with special means to control public opinion’ is a fool'"
"Once you accept the logic of censorship – the logic that says some ideas are too dangerous for public expression – you immediately open yourself up to censorship. It is astonishing that some people still don’t realise this."