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Again, balance across time and platforms, but presenters shouldn’t spread misinformation.

Nor should they accuse people of being far right because they’ve just said they want to use accurate pronouns. That’s all the guy said.

Thanks Paula. We’ll see how this goes!

‘FA braced for further protests as hundreds march on Wembley for teenager banned in transgender row’

In @telegraphnews.bsky.social

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Then no doubt you’ll make a report.

Our account is based on accuracy. If it’s banned, so be it. We can’t lie.

Not a fact. There’s no evidence to support it, and a compelling weight of evidence against.

In addition it’s an incoherent claim. For example it would be impossible for you to explain what the words ‘trans’ ‘are’ and ‘women’ mean.

But you must be allowed to make the claim and try to justify it.

He’s right. We would like to post on Bluesky.

However our number one focus is accuracy. If we aren’t allowed to make accurate posts on here about sex and gender, the account will have to remain dormant.

You’re free to express this view too. It’s very rude though.

However we aren’t wrong, and we are trying to find out if Bluesky will allow truthful statements about the differences females and males.

We hope so.

Thank you for your posts! And the interesting conversation.

Whatever causes people to have dysphoria, the facts remain it’s impossible to be the opposite sex because of your brain, or to have an opposite sex brain.

A man with dysphoria is not a woman, he’s a man with dysphoria (and vice versa).

You are free to express this view. It’s the responsibility of media outlets to explain that you are wrong.

But it’s not possible to have an ‘opposite sex’ phenotype unless you link sex to particular behaviours/traits.

As soon as a trait/phenotype ascribed to ‘female’ is found in a male brain, it’s no longer uniquely female. It’s shared.

So it’s necessarily impossible to have an opposite sex brain.

Sex is a rigid binary based on the gamete your body ‘is designed’ (has developed) to produce.

Large gamete (egg) - female. Small gamete (sperm) - male.

Sex is a rigid binary based on the gamete your body ‘is designed’ (has developed) to produce.

Large gamete (egg) - female. Small gamete (sperm) - male.

‘Differences’ or even ‘variations’ is the preferred term. Intersex should not be used as it implies people are in between the sexes.

Tests are indeed usually done to determine sex where there is doubt.

Not always: Caster Semenya was ‘assigned’ female but is male.

They are the science facts from pre-history and until the human race (and mammal biology) dies out.

No legacy media outlet currently makes this clear. All are willing and enthusiastic distributors of untruths about sex and gender.

We hope that will change.

Gender has several different meanings. It’s hard to tell which one people have in mind.

Sometimes people use it to mean a kind of ‘brain sex’, separate from the body. There’s no such thing. The brain is the same sex as the body.

People have feelings but they don’t determine what sex they are.

We block abuse.

They are all either male or female. Everyone has a sex. No one is in between.

These are called disorders/differences in sexual development or DSDs. They are diagnosed according to which sex the person is.

Yes, though it’s based on gametes, with chromosomes as a marker.

Sex matters in many areas of public policy and provision. It’s well-evidenced.

For example: mixed sex changing rooms and toilets result in more sexual offences against women. Single sex wards and counselling promote female recovery.

There are two sexes, they’re based on gametes, and no one can change sex or has ever changed sex.

Impartiality means acknowledging these facts and then publishing a range of views around them.

For example: your view is not fact-based but no one should prevent you from expressing it.

Our network works to ensure that the facts of sex and gender are made clear by media outlets: that no one changes sex, even if they identify as the opposite sex.

This means trans-identified men remain men.

Around these truths a suite of views should be aired, but the facts are central.

Our values and mission We are a group for journalists of both sexes in the UK who are committed to accuracy and impartiality in reporting news and debate around sex and gender.

Here is our mission statement.

We will remain on X.

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Our values and mission We are a group for journalists of both sexes in the UK who are committed to accuracy and impartiality in reporting news and debate around sex and gender.

Here is our mission statement.

We will remain on X.

open.substack.com/pub/seeninjo...