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Emma Hilton Profile picture
@FondOfBeetles
Feb 21 • 14 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
You know that story about breast milk from a man being as good - BETTER - than that from a woman?

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/1…
You know it, the one informing policy in at least one NHS trust?

thetimes.co.uk/article/transg…
The trust using one case study to underpin their policy. Seems legit. Image
Well, I have a question.

This breast milk that was analysed - stay with me - that is as good as - BETTER - that produced by women?

I reckon it’s as good as the woman who produced it. Image
As far as I see, there is precisely zero protocol regarding sample acquisition or validation.

He turned up to his personal doctor and handed over samples.

“Came from me, pinky swear”
With an actual mother - sorry, lactating person - in the mix at home?

“Sure thing, I believe you. Definitely not lying? Promise?”
Imagine the comparison with sports doping (H/T to @HairyLeggdHarpy)

They actually look at the pee coming out of you. Not ideal, probably induces a bit of anxiety, but that’s what it takes to ensure the sample is truly yours.

No turning up with a bag and claiming ownership.
@HairyLeggdHarpy Ironically, breast milk contains an awful lot of cells - some is a washing away as liquid flows, but some is actual immune cells that help baby.

The medic mentions that the milk analysis doesn’t cover immune properties. Great.

She didn’t consider karyotyping it either.
@HairyLeggdHarpy And the peer reviewers didn’t care about this glaring omission when they reviewed the paper?

And the editor at @JHL_Lactation didn’t pick up on it either?

There is no evidence that the sample was his. That’s a problem.
@HairyLeggdHarpy @JHL_Lactation I simply cannot believe that the sample wasn’t taken under specific ethics approval, according to clinical lab standards, and processed by SOP.
@HairyLeggdHarpy @JHL_Lactation And do you know what, in the current issue of @JHL_Lactation, there’s a systematic review of the nutritional content of raw versus pasteurised/frozen milk (from actual women).

Because that’s important, right. And it’s a big analysis, because the topic deserves one.
@HairyLeggdHarpy @JHL_Lactation @millihill How does that (limited) nutrient profile compare to formula?
Read this from @HairyLeggdHarpy
@HairyLeggdHarpy Read this from @millihill

millihill.substack.com/p/dear-bbc-you…

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Emma Hilton Profile picture
Jul 31, 2023
Yo @neiltyson

What does “feeling 80% female” actually feel like?

Is it only 80% of your clitoris being sliced off in childhood? Maybe 80% probability of being kidnapped to warlords? You bleed through your knickers 4/5 periods? Only 80% of men try to control your fertility?
Female people - women - are real human beings, my friend.

We aren’t a feeling, whether 100%, 80% or 0.01% of the time.

We are not 80% of a skirt, or 80% nurturing, or 80% good at fucking handwriting.
Do you have any concept - any? - of how it feels to be female and see a man talk about our material reality as if it’s something you can wake up to and feel about four fifths of?
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Jul 11, 2023
Semenya does not have unusually high amounts of testosterone. Semenya has amounts of testosterone entirely congruent with being male. ⁦⁦

@SkyNews⁩ ⁦@SkySportsNews⁩
news.sky.com/story/olympic-…
Here @SkyNews repeat one of the most pervasive lies in sport, and one that has held back honest (and admittedly often uncomfortable) discussion about male bodies with male advantage in female sport.
@SkyNews I say precisely nothing about Semenya’s legal and social status.

I say this very precisely: Semenya is male with a DSD. That DSD does not affect male development that is relevant for sports performance. Males with this DSD should not be eligible for female categories.
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Jun 13, 2023
The argument that because males suppressing testosterone often have very low testosterone levels (duh, the drugs typically work), it must therefore be fair or just for those males to compete in female sports is painfully misguided.

Here’s why.
Let’s take a thought experiment, starting with the current male 100m Olympic champion, Lamont Marcell Jacobs. He won gold in Tokyo in 9.8s. He’s not Usain Bolt speed, but Bolt is retired and probably eating chicken poppers on a beach right now. Image
Let’s imagine we could click our fingers and instantaneously remove all the testosterone from a transgender Jacobs’ body. Let’s say we do this a few magical minutes before a female race.
Read 23 tweets
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Jun 5, 2023
Women have, for time immemorial, sought abortions. If abortions are safe and legal, women seek safe and legal abortions. If abortions are not safe and legal, women seek unsafe and illegal abortions.
For thousands of years, women have sought abortions. They have done so with an arsenal of ingested or inserted toxins, with the forceful wielding of sharp tools, with the blunt trauma of heavy tools, with dodgy internet pills.
Women seek abortions in the face of legal restrictions, severe financial penalties, social sanctions, travel restrictions, and the threat of eternal damnation. They spend all their savings, they sail to international waters, they lose relationships.
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May 4, 2023
Revisiting a previous thread of mine on sexual dimorphism.

Sexual dimorphism: Systematic differences between the two sexes of a gonochoristic species of a physical characteristic (or set thereof), not including reproductive anatomy.
Some sexually dimorphic characteristics are non-overlapping (e.g. green duck heads) while some are very overlapping (e.g. human height). The extent of overlapping observation/measurement is irrelevant. The only requirement is a robustly-detectable difference between sexes. Image
Many female humans are taller than many male humans, yet the population descriptions of height in humans consistently reveal that males as a sex class are taller than their demographically-matched female peers.
Height in humans is a sexually dimorphic characteristic.
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May 2, 2023
Like others, I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of Professor Fuentes’ much promised piece on sex and binaries.

However, @hoovlet appears to have linked to an article that is no more than five year old, Facebook-level attempts at gotchas.

I’m a bit confused.
Fuentes: “There are those, politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex.”

Correction: whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know to identify which sex we are.
Fuentes: “our legal rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide [differential gamete production].”

Correction: only the small subset of legal rights that are contingent on sex, like abortion, protected spaces and so on.
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