"Why is there a man on the women's team?"
"It makes him happy."
"Now he's in the women's changing rooms.
"Just don't look."
"Fully grown men are racing in my daughter's competition!"
"It's only amateur."
"He took her place in the Olympic qualifiers."
"It's only one man."
"Now there's a man in the women's championship!"
"He has no advantage."
"Two men in the women's pool finals!?"
"It's only pool."
"A man gave a girl brain damage!"
"It's a dangerous sport."
"There's 5 men on the women's football team...?"
"The players don't mind."
"Now there's a whole team of males!"
"They have a right to play."
"How can we stop this?"
"Don't be a bigot."
"There'll be no women's sports left."
"Good, it's segregation."
"We can't compete with men!"
"Then start your own league."
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I keep forgetting that so many people have joined the discussion on gender identity in just the last year or so, and have no idea about all the madness that came before. Share some mind-blowing pre-2022 moments that people should know about.
How about the time @ActionAidUK (a UK charity specifically for women and girls) responded to the anti-FGM campaigner @HiboWardere (follow her), to tell her that there is no such thing as a male or female body?
@ActionAidUK@HiboWardere Or when @TheBodyShop tweeted @jk_rowling a bag of menstruation products and a book on trans in response to her raising the fact that women were being called menstruators?
Today I was called a misogynist for voicing the opinion that women's uteruses should not be transplanted into men in order to fulfill their wish to simulate womanhood using living babies. Society is broken.
Since many people seem unsure, this is not yet possible. "Doctors" are working on it. This was in response to an article about a 12 year old boy who wanted to transition with the understanding he could grow up to get a transplant and have babies.
At the moment it seems a long way off because of organ rejection and also because a uterus is not a female reproductive system, it's just part of it. The only "success" I've heard of was in rats, where the female was still attached to the womb after transplant into the male.
Since many still claim detransition was or still is under 1%, I'm reproducing a thread for my own reference. I originally made it during a conversation with someone who claimed they would care about detransitioners if "say 1% or more" who underwent surgery detransitioned.
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The original response thread is quite broken, as they since deleted their tweets. Much of this info is available on statsforgender.org and I would highly recommend bookmarking that site!
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Even as far back as 2004 it was estimated to be up to 18%. We seem to be hearing from more and more all the time, but more are obviously also getting procedures.
"International research suggests that 3-18% of them come to regret switching gender."