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5 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The latest Genderbread Person (version 4.0) purports to clarify one's "gender understanding." It claims that "Gender isn't binary. It's not either/or. In many cases it's both/and. A bit of this, a dash of that."

Here's how the poster defines gender identity for children: 🤪
Full poster. Look, whether you're a man or woman is determined by “personality traits, jobs, hobbies, likes, dislikes, roles, [and] expectations.”

And remember, kids who are confused by this are being medicalized and sometimes given puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery.
And one's sex is apparently determined in part by "body hair, chest, hips, shoulders" and even "voice pitch."

Learning this is the opposite of an education. It is indoctrination into a religious cult.
This is what happens when children take The Genderbread Person seriously.
This art by @buttonslives is pretty on-point.

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Colin Wright Profile picture
27 Dec 21
A new letter in @ScienceMagazine deploys the Univariate Fallacy to obfuscate around the nature of biological sex:

"No one trait determines whether a person is male or female, and no person’s sex can be meaningfully prescribed by any single variable."
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
To highlight the problem with a statement like this, note that it is also true that no *single* trait determines whether an organism is a human or a chimpanzee, or a dog or a cat. Yet humans and chimps and dogs and cats are unambiguously distinct, and we don't pretend otherwise.
They also claim that "sex is a context-dependent summary of a multidimensional variable space."

Sorry, no. The sex of an individual is based on their reproductive anatomy and is determined by the type of gamete this anatomy is organized around, through development, to produce.
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Colin Wright Profile picture
27 Dec 21
Oof, my heart hurts. EO Wilson is a major hero of mine. Reading his work was enormously influential in my decision to study social insects. Not only was he a truly bold intellectual giant, but he was also a kind and good person to his core.

An absolute legend.
Some EO Wilson book recommendations:

Sociobiology: The New Synthesis

It's impossible to overstate the impact this book had on the behavioral sciences. This is his landmark contribution to science.

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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

This is one of the first books of his that I read, and was perhaps the most influential on my thinking. Highly recommended.
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28 Nov 21
In a large @TwitterSpaces room hosted by @TjSotomayorKOC, someone asked how we stop gender ideology & the resulting medicalization of gender non-conforming children.

The answer is to keep exposing it. The last thing the activists want is a debate, because they know they'll lose.
Right now the activists don't have to debate because they hold institutional power and cultural inertia. While the institutional power is real, the cultural inertia is on borrowed time.

When the sleeping majority start to wake up, as they're doing now, we will see real change.
The landscape has change A LOT since I started writing and talking publicly about this stuff. Most of the comments I received back then were ignorant and dismissive of the problem. That's no longer he case. People see exactly what's going on now, and want nothing of it.
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23 Nov 21
Yeah, it's hard to get the gender ideologues to admit they're defining "woman" by femininity or the willing adoption of stereotypically feminine "roles," even though it's clear that's what they're doing.

It's at least coherent. But it's absolutely regressive in the extreme.
AND, it should be abundantly clear that we shouldn't be giving children puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and reconstructive surgeries on the basis of not identifying with certain sex-based social stereotypes.

That's INSANE.
I find these comparisons accurate and revealing:

Sexism: the woman should do the dishes
Feminism: men or women can do the dishes
Gender ideology: whoever is doing the dishes is a woman
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Colin Wright Profile picture
23 Nov 21
I've voted Democrat my whole life largely because I thought they were better champions of free speech, women's rights, and combating racism.

But in light of the Left's embrace of cancel culture, gender ideology, and race-based identitarianism (CRT), that's all flipped now.
These are pretty core issues, so it should surprise no one that my vote may also flip in response. This doesn't mean I've "become a Republican." I don't vote for parties; I vote based on my values, which haven't changed much.
If I've "become" anything, it's frustrated with the Left's spiral into insanity.

Yes, there are major problems on the Right. They're nuts too. But we exist in a duopoly, and we can't expect any party to reflect all of our values unless we're blindly partisan.
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23 Nov 21
Gender activists have proposed legislation to combat a fake problem that they've completely fabricated.

"Non-binary" people can already run as party candidates, because even though they may not *believe* they're running as a male or female, they are.
gaycitynews.com/proposed-state…
This is just another example of gender ideology attempting to completely replace biological sex in law. This must be resisted.

Being "non-binary" is an identity based on rejecting masc/fem stereotypes. It's not a 3rd sex, nor does it mean someone is neither male nor female.
Running required candidates to disclose whether they were male or female. Gender activists are upset there was no option for "non-binary" and "gender fluid," even though these are "identities" that have nothing whatsoever to do with whether someone is male or female.
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