Saw this clip between Walsh and the trans identifying male. This is why the TRA would rather hurl vile names and resort to violence, because they would lose every rational, calm discussion.
As a biologist, I just correct them to say Variations of Sex Development instead of 'intersex'. Variations occur across the genome in autosomes and sex chromosomes. The variations in autosomes, no matter how extreme in consequence, do not make the individual not human, e.g. a person born without legs is a legless human and their existence does not make human beings no longer a bipedal species & all humans on a leg spectrum. The variations in sex chromosomes do not make the individual neither sex or both sexes, and even if it did, it wouldn't put all humans on a sex spectrum. Another thing I like to ask is if a person with Down's is not human, because, following their logic of a karyotype of xxy, a sex trisomy, being not male or female, the logical conclusion would be that monstrous.
Link to violent "Trans Day of Vengeance" in Los Angeles. Trans Resistance Network and Antifa attack, harass, menace, block traffic on main streets, marching to a police station. No police response. Anyone wonder why we trans widows, who have written our memoirs (In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow, iuniverse.com/bookstore, 2022) are a bit shaky that they might come and attack us in our homes, for simply and in straightforward manner, telling the narcissistic abuse we suffered from our cross-dressing (now ex) husbands? See for yourself in news video:
Exactly! Built in to the whole misuse of "intersex" is the implication that people with DSDs aren't real men or women, but are some weird mishmash of the two. It's insulting as hell, not to mention flat-out wrong. Everyone male is a "real man", whether he's a trans "woman", or a man with a DSD, or a straight man, or a gay man, or whatever. It's an either/or - if you're male, that's what it takes to be a real man.
The whole "intersex" thing drives me crazy. It's so completely beside the point. Even if people with DSDs actually were some third sex, which obviously they are not, so what? How would that show that a trans person could actually change his or her sex?
Think of hybrid species - lions exist and tigers exist, and on rare occasion one of each will mate with the other and produce a baby liger/tion. But the existence of ligers does not in any way mean that if we take an adult male lion, shave off his mane, dye him orange, and tattoo black stripes on him, that he will become a tiger. He'll still be a lion. A shaved, dyed, and tattooed lion, but a lion nevertheless.
Thanks Colin, I just joined your subscription to read this article. It was really helpful to have the points broken down in this way, and I appreciated it was easy to understand. Happy to support you to carry out such vitally important work debunking trans ideology pseudo science! There seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors on the TRA side and not whole lot of logic. I also think Matt Walsh can be quite polarising, but on this issue he’s on point. Look forward to reading more of your articles.
Biologist here. Scientific arguments are good up to a point. Let's just be careful not to engage in the co-opting of common sense. Nobody needs to be a biologist in order to be able to tell someone's sex in person.
We can all tell. And at the end of the day that is where the strength of our argument lies.
There is a reason that there is absolutely no test whatsoever that can detect if a man is actually a “transgender woman” or if a woman is a “transgender man” (or “non-binary”, “two- spirit,” or any of the other endless variants on personal “gender identity.”
There are tests that can determine real conditions, such as to whether a person has diabetes, whether a woman is pregnant, has leukemia, and hundreds, if not thousands, of other conditions.
The reason there is no test that can detect “transgender” etc. is for the same reason you cannot open a zoological atlas to a map with a shaded area to show where there are unicorns.
"This claim is unfortunately common and even appears in top science and medical journals."
Why? I mean, I think I know the answer politically, and this TIM is definitely not a "medical expert" or scientist, but why does this ridiculousness pass muster among actual biologists and "top scientists"? What "scientific" reasoning are they using to support it?
Great content as usual. It's helpful to get a case study of a trans activist using cliché arguments and pettifogging with false information. I'm sure many readers here can relate to this. It's also quite satisfying for an actual PhD in evolutionary biology to chime in and set the record straight. Why acolytes of identity politics feel they can speak on scientific consensus, while also crying bigotry on the science community, is beyond me.
The sex binary is indeed high school biology in that it's so simple even teenagers understand. It's beyond me why activists would think this is some kind of own, unless they mean to say schools are teaching disproven concepts like spontaneous generation as fact.
Can you supply some more scientific articles and data to help refute the “sex is a spectrum” argument? What stays the same even after puberty blockers and hormone therapy?
Saw this clip between Walsh and the trans identifying male. This is why the TRA would rather hurl vile names and resort to violence, because they would lose every rational, calm discussion.
As a biologist, I just correct them to say Variations of Sex Development instead of 'intersex'. Variations occur across the genome in autosomes and sex chromosomes. The variations in autosomes, no matter how extreme in consequence, do not make the individual not human, e.g. a person born without legs is a legless human and their existence does not make human beings no longer a bipedal species & all humans on a leg spectrum. The variations in sex chromosomes do not make the individual neither sex or both sexes, and even if it did, it wouldn't put all humans on a sex spectrum. Another thing I like to ask is if a person with Down's is not human, because, following their logic of a karyotype of xxy, a sex trisomy, being not male or female, the logical conclusion would be that monstrous.
Link to violent "Trans Day of Vengeance" in Los Angeles. Trans Resistance Network and Antifa attack, harass, menace, block traffic on main streets, marching to a police station. No police response. Anyone wonder why we trans widows, who have written our memoirs (In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow, iuniverse.com/bookstore, 2022) are a bit shaky that they might come and attack us in our homes, for simply and in straightforward manner, telling the narcissistic abuse we suffered from our cross-dressing (now ex) husbands? See for yourself in news video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crTO97hEM4E
"Being sexually ambitious" is the greatest typo I've ever read. Please don't fix it.
Great article, as always!
Exactly! Built in to the whole misuse of "intersex" is the implication that people with DSDs aren't real men or women, but are some weird mishmash of the two. It's insulting as hell, not to mention flat-out wrong. Everyone male is a "real man", whether he's a trans "woman", or a man with a DSD, or a straight man, or a gay man, or whatever. It's an either/or - if you're male, that's what it takes to be a real man.
The whole "intersex" thing drives me crazy. It's so completely beside the point. Even if people with DSDs actually were some third sex, which obviously they are not, so what? How would that show that a trans person could actually change his or her sex?
Think of hybrid species - lions exist and tigers exist, and on rare occasion one of each will mate with the other and produce a baby liger/tion. But the existence of ligers does not in any way mean that if we take an adult male lion, shave off his mane, dye him orange, and tattoo black stripes on him, that he will become a tiger. He'll still be a lion. A shaved, dyed, and tattooed lion, but a lion nevertheless.
Thanks Colin, I just joined your subscription to read this article. It was really helpful to have the points broken down in this way, and I appreciated it was easy to understand. Happy to support you to carry out such vitally important work debunking trans ideology pseudo science! There seems to be a lot of smoke and mirrors on the TRA side and not whole lot of logic. I also think Matt Walsh can be quite polarising, but on this issue he’s on point. Look forward to reading more of your articles.
Excellent article.
Clear and useful, as always. Only one problem. The word "ambitious" should be "ambiguous."
Biologist here. Scientific arguments are good up to a point. Let's just be careful not to engage in the co-opting of common sense. Nobody needs to be a biologist in order to be able to tell someone's sex in person.
We can all tell. And at the end of the day that is where the strength of our argument lies.
There is a reason that there is absolutely no test whatsoever that can detect if a man is actually a “transgender woman” or if a woman is a “transgender man” (or “non-binary”, “two- spirit,” or any of the other endless variants on personal “gender identity.”
There are tests that can determine real conditions, such as to whether a person has diabetes, whether a woman is pregnant, has leukemia, and hundreds, if not thousands, of other conditions.
The reason there is no test that can detect “transgender” etc. is for the same reason you cannot open a zoological atlas to a map with a shaded area to show where there are unicorns.
"This claim is unfortunately common and even appears in top science and medical journals."
Why? I mean, I think I know the answer politically, and this TIM is definitely not a "medical expert" or scientist, but why does this ridiculousness pass muster among actual biologists and "top scientists"? What "scientific" reasoning are they using to support it?
Great content as usual. It's helpful to get a case study of a trans activist using cliché arguments and pettifogging with false information. I'm sure many readers here can relate to this. It's also quite satisfying for an actual PhD in evolutionary biology to chime in and set the record straight. Why acolytes of identity politics feel they can speak on scientific consensus, while also crying bigotry on the science community, is beyond me.
Things will become simpler and saner when everyone realizes that the concept of "gender identity" is philosophically incoherent.
The sex binary is indeed high school biology in that it's so simple even teenagers understand. It's beyond me why activists would think this is some kind of own, unless they mean to say schools are teaching disproven concepts like spontaneous generation as fact.
Can you supply some more scientific articles and data to help refute the “sex is a spectrum” argument? What stays the same even after puberty blockers and hormone therapy?