Rowan Maddox

Don't understand why terfs don't see this. Or do they and they just don't care cos it's more important to be rid of trans people? Horrible and confusing times, honestly.

edit: To be clear, I don't mean trans women have testosterone levels like men - just referring to the imagined idea of testosterone and its role that anti-trans people are working with.

This is applying to chess too. Male pattern testosterone makes people smarter, stronger and all around better at everything I guess! (/s)

Trump-retorikken mot LHBTQI+ vokser raskt i Norge Vi vil understreke alvoret i situasjonen i Norge ved å se den i sammenheng med internasjonale bevegelser og kampanjer. Det som skjer her, er ikke isolert, skriver innleggsforfatterne.

I'm proud to be a co-writer of this opinion piece published in Aftenposten today. My colleagues and I raise our concern for the spread of anti-gender politics in Norway and how this creates a discourse of hate towards especially queer and trans people.
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Not to engage with this complete and utter BS, but it's suggested that men are equal to, or worse, than women at endurance sports such as ultra marathons or long distance swimming.

"She added that biology could indeed play a role because men were larger and more muscular and had more stamina, which could help them in long chess matches."

omg, the leaps they make. Now it's apparently harder for cis women to sit down long periods.

Thanks Maja ! Hope it's of some use to your research :)

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My new article, which explores the racial logic undergirding the ways gender-critical actors use autism to deny the existence of trans & trans autistic people, is published now through European Journal of Women's Studies. And, it is Open Access. :)

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Then I misunderstood you, apologies.

You can take this up with the professor who wrote this paper and the numerous legal professions and legal scholars who concur.

It's OK to start with questions and wanting to understand, I did too, but I won't have a conversation with someone who doesn't have an open mind.

But that's always been allowed.
It's human right to have your existence recognized and not be forced out of public space (as has happened with trans men).

I don't want to have this conversation.

2. If I understand the backfire comment correctly- it's frustrating to hear the argument over and over again that to have basic human rights and civil liberties one must be 'respectable' or behave perfectly. The two aren't connected. They shouldn't be given conditionally.

1. The GRA ref was (cynically) a political move by May, akin to the gay marriage move by Cameron. It means a trans person can marry, die, have children ect. in their gender. That's all.

There are no sex based rights in the UK, only equality acts. Being critical means knowing these things.

I don't know why you are fighting me on this. Have you spent 5+years the reading medical/legal/social science literature from multiple country contexts and going back to the beginnings of state funded gender healthcare? If you haven't then I think you should have an open mind here.

That was proposed by the British Government. All it meant was one could self id (happens in 21 countries already, I happen to live in one). Trans rights groups emerged to fight back against the push back to it. The reforms amount to barely any change in practice, but it means a lot to trans people.

2. I say minor because trans people have always been able to use bathrooms and sex-segregated facilities except under 'exceptional circumstances.' The GRA meant people didn't have to go through undue costly and timely processes & that their knowledge of themselves was taken seriously.

1. Actually, the proposed (v minor) reform to the 2004 GRC caused the emergence of multiple groups (LGBA, Women's Place, May Day for Women ect.) who began creating an issue where there was none. This mutated into a focus on healthcare and the rights of trans people to access it.

True , but public debate does influence medicine and we see this in the pull back of healthcare for trans people. There’s been nothing changed other than gc campaigns lobbying to roll back access and provisions.

No, trans people are not encouraging children to transition. The same narratives smeared gay people. That they were peadophiles, seeking to corrupt children, inherently dangerous.ect. It didn't happen then and it doesn't happen now.

3. That is the direct result of G-C and anti gender campaigners who have fought court cases and shifted the public and political narrative. They are harming trans healthcare by asking for "debate", not helping.

2. I want trans health to be as good as possible. I want detransitioners to be listened to and supported, for them and to better healthcare. The thing is, that just isn't happening. The idea that trans is not 'real'/caused by something else is the hegemonic narrative shaping medical science.

1. Yes and this is way too long for this kind of message. That isn't really what is happening though. The Cass report, for example, didn't listen to trans people, they had G-C figures on their review board. You can't have blind studies in this, you can't have control.

ps. depending on what you count as an expert, I could be considered that. I have a Ph.D and publications and teach about trans health and trans lives. I don't think this is an actual issue that needs debating.

The experts are trans people. I get the impression you wouldn't need to hear 'experts' debate the existence of gay people, so I don't see why this is any different. The anti-trans debate is not a debate, it's politically manipulated obfuscation of actual issues.

You might be right, but why should Stephen Fry debate them? No one should be debating these issues, but an actual conversation would hear from trans people, which we don't. Fry isn't trans, an activist , a medical professional. It would be completely meaningless to have him "debate" GC people.

I was and I also presented in the racialization panel. It was a very good conference I felt :)

Yes, me too, see you then!

Great panel.

I couldn't stop thinking that for all anti-trans people claim to 'care' about sports they don't know that the body of the trans women would never beat the cis women in the meme you showed because track running = leaner bodies. Also, that was a body on steroids, aka gender affirming. 🤓

If you happen to be in Bergen this Pride week, I will be a panelist, with two exciting scholars (@majabandreasen.bsky.social
‬ and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin), discussing the Anti-Gender movement.

And, my wonderful colleague Sunniva Ária Tobiasen is a panelist on the 18th!

Do come along! 🥰

Hegel's Hall of Mirrors?

Disabled people have unnecessarily died in their 1000s because of cruel and dehumanising process of welfare assessment and the pittance given if you are deemed disabled 'enough'. The UKs recent decision to cut disability payments will only cause more death and suffering.