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Hmmmm, disinformation... like?:
1. Intersex people are neither male or female
2. Intersex people prove that sex is a spectrum, or that male people are female
3. Sex is a cultural, or historical concept, and didn't exist before the colonisation of the Americas https://twitter.com/MhairiHunter/status/1337380551376814081
1. Intersex people are neither male or female
2. Intersex people prove that sex is a spectrum, or that male people are female
3. Sex is a cultural, or historical concept, and didn't exist before the colonisation of the Americas https://twitter.com/MhairiHunter/status/1337380551376814081
4. All gender non-conforming people that existed throughout history are trans in the modern sense, even though that concept didn't exist and they didn't identify as such
5. Gender identity is a scientifically verified concept
6. There is no possible reason why young people
5. Gender identity is a scientifically verified concept
6. There is no possible reason why young people
might experience distress with their body or gendered expectations other than them being trans, and that exploring those reasons is tantamount to conversion therapy
7. There is not a significant desistance rate in young people with gender dysphoria if they are not medicalised
7. There is not a significant desistance rate in young people with gender dysphoria if they are not medicalised
8. Puberty blockers are just a pause button
9. Puberty blockers are totally safe and there is tons of medical evidence that the treatment has good outcomes
10. Women are not oppressed on the basis of their sex
11. Gender identification completely
9. Puberty blockers are totally safe and there is tons of medical evidence that the treatment has good outcomes
10. Women are not oppressed on the basis of their sex
11. Gender identification completely
overrides sex in all and every possible instance. There are no salient sex-based patterns either in physicality or behaviour that means we should continue to organise anything by sex.
12. People who continue to think that sex exists and is salient could only be motivated by
12. People who continue to think that sex exists and is salient could only be motivated by
hatred of trans people. There is no reason why anyone, let alone people oppressed on the basis of sex (because they're not lol), should continue to assert that sex exists and is salient in any circumstance.
13. When people talk about the continuing existence of sex, that makes
13. When people talk about the continuing existence of sex, that makes
people unsafe, and sometimes causes men to murder trans women. Because of this, no one should talk about sex, ever.
14. Trans people are the most vulnerable people in the world, and we will demonstrate this, every year, using the murders of Brazilian prostitutes.
14. Trans people are the most vulnerable people in the world, and we will demonstrate this, every year, using the murders of Brazilian prostitutes.
15. It is very much in the interests of young trans people, for us to constantly leverage their sense of vulnerability, and to tell that that anyone who continues to assert that sex exists and is salient hates them and wishes them harm.
16. The people who think sex exists are all right wing, funded by Christian evangelicals, like racists, and driven by fear of the other.
17. Because of this it is important that they are not allowed to speak, and failing that, that everything they say is treated with derision
17. Because of this it is important that they are not allowed to speak, and failing that, that everything they say is treated with derision
18. The progressive way to do politics is to dismiss everything people who disagree with you say, claim that it is bigotry, or lies, and refuse to engage in good-faith political debate
19. This is a democratically normal way to behave, even while you are seeking to change the law
19. This is a democratically normal way to behave, even while you are seeking to change the law
or public policy.
20. People on the right are all driven by hate and bigotry. We are driven only by justice and love and tolerance, other than of course for those terrible people who keep saying sex exists. They should be punched.
20. People on the right are all driven by hate and bigotry. We are driven only by justice and love and tolerance, other than of course for those terrible people who keep saying sex exists. They should be punched.
