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"On Transgender Day of Visibility, we want you to know that we see you just as you are," indeed!

See things as they are, this #TransDayOfVisibility, including predatory males and brave trans-identified people who choose not to be part of the "affirmation-only" #gendergrift.

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Corinna Cohn @HeteroDorx is one trans-identified male who deserves greater visibility on #TransDayOfVisibility2023.



They are among the most reasonable voices I know on Twitter, consistently rational and kind.
Buck Angel @BuckAngel is brave here on Twitter, and also on their YouTube where they address real issues such as inappropriate targeting of youth for lifelong medical treatment and longterm effects of T such as vaginal atrophy, .
Let's highlight honest voices against predators who would push lifelong iatrogenic dependencies on minors, including @MsBlaireWhite at youtube.com/@BlaireWhiteX/…, on this #TransDayOfVisibility2023.
Remember early trans-identified icons such as #MirandaYardley, mirandayardley.com/en/, longtime friend of lesbians and trans voice in defense of lesbians.

#TransDayOfVisibility
Honor brave trans activists such as @NotScottNewgent, @NewgentScott, , constantly speaking against the trans targeting of youth and honestly addressing the complications and dangers of phalloplasty.
Be honest about the sexual orientation of trans-identified males such as @LaverneCox, , whose twin brother is also attracted to men (but with less religious baggage).
"Trans is not a thing you are, but a think you do," and the sooner we can be clean about that, the more clearly we can discuss the many public-policy issues that trans identity raises.



We can protect "gender" expression and single-sex spaces both.
"Trans" has never been one thing but an umbrella often pushed without appreciation for its true diversity, hollylawford-smith.org/talking-past-e…, which varies greatly by

• Age at onset
• Motivation for change
• Political awareness

We particularly need to watch for comorbidities in youth.
Too much of the "trans" agenda is really a male sexual-rights campaign, focused on "forced teaming" of inattentive liberals who confuse "identity" claims with LGB orientations.

uncommongroundmedia.com/forced-teaming…

This hostile take-over only hurts LGB goodwill and protections.
No, "trans" is not "the new gay." Let us be clear about that going forward.



Be brave enough to see that, and make the distinction, in ways that protect EVERYONE's rights to free and open gender expression.

Male bodies need NOT colonize female spaces.
Oppose the "gender" industry to support gender-anxious youth and other people who might fall prey to false "trans" promises of a quick fix.

Too much of the gender industry is a con and a grift, a business model packaged as a civil-rights struggle.

This is not "liberation" in the way many think, and we must be clear about that.

Buying homophobic and sexist stereotypes is not "progress" and never will be.

#BeBrave
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More from @rorybowman

Mar 25
It is important to distinguish zero-cost "liberty rights" (such as free speech) from zero-sum "claim rights" (such as private property or participation in a restricted sport category).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claim_rig…

Male bodies should not colonize female-only spaces.
As a general rule, men pretend to be women for access to private spaces, while women have pretended to be men for access to public spaces and opportunity.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentheus

This is an important distinction.
If one accepts public spaces are the divine right of men, as is the case in Afghanistan or many other parts of the world, Bragg is right. Male entitlement is under direct attack, and compromised.

But why were female-only spaces created?
What public policy do they serve?

Still?
Read 5 tweets
Feb 19
I cannot recommend Affirmation Generation strongly enough, especially for those new to these issues. It is engaging with up-to-the-minute data, both viewable AND downloadable via vimeo.com/800032857. Image
I particularly loved this graphic which shows the lock-step #gendergrift factory model. Image
My lightly-adapted, emoji version, with slightly more emphasis on the dangers of "social transition," which study shows is more of a launch pad than short respite. Image
Read 6 tweets
Feb 17
A #2023thread on grief and grief resources 🧵
“Growing Around Grief,” whatsyourgrief.com/growing-around… references Lois Tonkin, 1996. Growing around grief—another way of looking at grief and recovery, Bereavement Care, 15:1, 10, doi.org/10.1080/026826….
Graphic of "my experience" versus what I thought "stages of grief" would be.
Read 9 tweets
Feb 14
One cannot talk about "sex" in biology without acknowledging anisogamy, and that is the key error in this (often-referenced) thread.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisogamy
The definition of sex (across kingdoms) is tied to gametes, whether plant or animal.



Male gametes are small and motile.
Female gamers are large and sessile.

Sex is determined by what gametes a structure, organ or individual can support.
This trait is more fundamental to eukaryotic organisms than things as key as "body plan" or biological symmetry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_plan Image
Read 6 tweets
Dec 12, 2022
Lisa Selin Davis @LisaSelinDavis, 2022. Liberal media refuses to tell full truth about transgender kids. New York Post, nypost.com/2022/12/10/lib……, 10 December 2022.

🧵 Links from article unrolled below…
Puberty retardant "blockers" and then cross-sex hormones likely to cause sterility.

PJ Cheng, AW Pastuszak, JB Myers, IA Goodwin & JM Hotaling, 2019. Fertility concerns of the transgender patient. Translational andrology and urology, 8(3), 209–218. doi.org/10.21037/tau.2….
Vast majority of children w gender dysphoria will overcome their angst w puberty.

R Kaltiala-Heino, H Bergman, M Työläjärvi & L Frisén, 2018. Gender dysphoria in adolescence: current perspectives. Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics, 9, 31–41. doi.org/10.2147/AHMT.S….
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