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Jul 25
Five years ago, I gave a speech comparing sex denialism to creationism.

At the time, my partner-in-crime, Colin Wright, and I were near-lone academic voices willing to stand up and say “Biology! We have a problem!”

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Reflecting, back in 2020, on that state of affairs:

“[That] there are two sexes, male and female is apparently something that biologists do not think needs to be said.

I think they are wrong.”
Since then, biologists with far more authority than an unknown developmental biologist who was trying to work out how nerves navigate over muscles and an unknown evolutionary biologist who was studying what makes insects mad have spoken up.

And their voices are much welcomed.
Read 9 tweets
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Jul 23
It took Naomi Cunningham a single minute with a medic under oath to get a straight answer to a question that nobody wants to answer. Image
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Jul 14
"My data has suggested that my power, strength, stamina, muscle mass, oxygen levels and lung capacity all fit within the c*sgender female range."

Let's look at why this is a red herring.

onmanorama.com/sports/cricket…
Several people argue that if the metrics of a trans-identified male fall "within female range", it is fair for that male to compete in female sport.

But we need to look at what's typical .v. what's exceptional.
Male traits often overlap with female traits. Height, muscle mass and so forth all generate normal distributions within sex (bell curves), where the lower end of the male range overlaps with the upper end of the female range.
Read 10 tweets
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Jun 2
Let’s address what many consider an uncomfortable topic.

Here, Bunce argues that Khelif was “condemned on her looks”.

That’s not true.
People argued that Khelif appears to be male.

They may not have always been as polite as Bunce’s sensitivities required, but this is not “condemning” someone “on their looks”.

It’s noting that Khelif looks male/masculinised/(a man, if you prefer), and raising urgent alarms about what that means in boxing.Image
Sportswomen are no strangers to being called “men”. It’s an ugly, misogynistic way to attack gender-nonconforming women.

Tall women, lesbian women, women with short hair and no makeup.
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May 31
I don't think this is The Solution, but I'm generally in favour of weighing up proposals, so let's look at this one.

California high school sports have proposed to protect girls and accommodate trans-identified boys as follows:

If a male athlete gets a medal, the displaced female athlete also gets her medal.

Some thoughts to follow, chewing the fat for open discussion...
An example of finish places and medals under this scheme might look like this:

1st William-now-Lia 🥇
2nd Helen 🥇
3rd Sarah 🥈
4th Catherine 🥉

So on the face of it, the top three girls get their rightful medals. Presumably this is how CIF say they are protecting those girls.
That is, to rephrase the original proposal:

The top three girls are medalled in order, and any boy that is good enough to finish in this female competitive window gets a place-matched medal.

This rephrasing shows the flaws.
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Apr 25
This is a computer-generated series, transitioning between "hyper male" and "hyper female".

Where does your perception of the sex of the person shift?
Which face is the most ambiguous?

If you reply, please include your sex (the actual one). Image
OK, in the paper, the data was:

Faces 1-3: 100>97% scored "male"
Faces 5-7: 94>100% scored "female"
Face 4 was the transition face, with 68% scoring it "male".

FTR, I didn't hesitate on 4/male then 5/female.
Next set: same series, now skinned 🤣

I won't ask for responses. It is probably obvious that people were less able to detect any sharp transition from male>female, from face-on bone structure.

Note to archeologists: this doesn't mean you can't tell a male from female face, so stop pretending you can't.Image
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