A one-off #TheySaidFuckingWhat, in a week where World Athletics refused to allow ongoing cheating.
Our Dear Leader gave her final speech, amidst saccharine "good lucks", & Humza pretended he didn't know/did know what a woman is.
So, to set the scene, a TIF on TikTok was whining that she shouldn't use the women's loos bc "Some Dr decided I was female at birth" & she decided she wd scare women.
A Dr stated that, no, nobody "decided" her sex at birth, it was determined at conception.
Behold the replies
Let's start with the boring
"2 sexes? You bigot" batshittery
There's obviously "about 6"
No, sorry, scrap that. There's 3
Now we have the "babies are magic" theory
They can not only change sex, but have a gender identity.
And obviously sex isn't determined at conception because we'd choose good footballers & geniuses instead
This is a little lacking in imagination, but obviously Dr's just toss a coin if a baby has a medical condition.
Or, if they aren't human.
John, bless his heart, thinks 210,000,000 years of evolution is dependant on legislation or policy.
Judge Mental is the afternoon replacement for Judge Judy.
Not as glamorous, but still entertaining nonetheless.
Genitals means.
I assume akin to means testing, only not quite as accurate.
Because men can have babies, therefore Dr's decide their sex.
Obviously.
And Leigh has a friend, so that definitely means Dr's decide the sex of babies, because Leigh HAS A FRIEND
Oh no, wait.
The majority of Drs think that sex being determined at conception is a "biased assessment".
Presumably they're the same Drs who know that anatomy doesn't determine sex.
Unfortunately, there was no follow-up, so I'm not entirely sure what does separate these 6+ sexes. Eye colour maybe?
And, of course, we have the thought-provoking, well-reasoned, well-researched responses.
This lovely woman was so patient & understanding, and desperately tried to help educate these poor souls, but to no avail.
Usually I'm not in favour of Govt censorship, but I might make an exception for TikTok.
The place where facts & reality got to die.
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"Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) is an annual observance on November 20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence"
As always, this isn't quite what it seems.
The list includes 370 names of transgender people who we are honouring because they lost their lives due to transphobia.
Or does it?
I've had a look at the names on the list.
One of them might shock you (although given all we know, it probably won't)
@wwwheesht had to fight for @dundeewomenfest to include their women's event in the programme.
They did, eventually, because, well as it turns out, unlawfully discriminating against us was unlawful.
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Some of the abuse we received because we objected to being unlawfully discriminated against was awful. Including, as usual, threats of violence.
We hoped that would be the end of it & we could just crack on & give Dundonian women the chance to talk about whatever they wanted
2/
That was, clearly, naive.
We weren't surprised when a couple of women who ID as 'trans' decided they didn't want this to happen, so decided they were going to organise a "counter protest" They meant a protest, but....
3/
I wasn't sure whether to post this as I've not discussed it publicly up to now.
When Jack joined the Scottish Feminist Network, he got access to many women's personal information (names, addresses, employers etc) including mine.
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When I discovered he was a member, a number of trustworthy & respected founding members got together & a decision was made to make women aware & disband the 'network' as the "security measures" clearly weren't robust (they haven't changed).
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This was overridden by 2 women (the self styled 'head' of SFN & her 2nd in command) because the 'network' had to be "maintained" at all cost, & was covered up.
Jack was then added back into SFN after he'd, obviously, been removed!
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Unfortunately, we have no idea how many people ID as 'trans' in Scotland.
And even when the Scottish census data is published, we still won't know because, for reasons that are entirely unclear, ScotGov decided it was unimportant.
So, assuming the E&W figures are broadly the same, that means that 22,000 over 16's ID as 'trans'.
Up until yesterday's ruling, there was some confusion about whether these 22,000 people should be assumed to be their sex, or their "gender identity" legally.
The lives of the 400 people with a GRC isn't impacted. They can still be treated in accordance with their sex rather than their "acquired gender" in some circumstances.