#Sex is Real

[thearbourist]

Debunking Myths about the Biology of Sex - ICONS Conference

Science Saturday folks.  Drink it in. 🙂  

[modern-heresy]

SeX iS a SoCiAl cOnStRuCt

I saw another one of the ‘sex is a social construct’ screencaps that come by every once in a while, and I was just struck by how they were just all using that phrase to mean the exact same thing as “gender is a social construct,” listing how behaviors are “sex-associated” or something.

It really could not be more obvious how they are trying to displace ‘gender’ into ‘sex.’ If completed, that would leave no room to discuss structural problems associated with sex. Even more sinister, it would leave no room to allow deviation from that structure, all for the benefit of making trans ideology irrefutable.

A good idea does not need to be irrefutable, it needs to be able to stand against challenges on its own merit.

It does not even help those identifying as trans or who experience dysphoria, it only makes their issues more difficult to discuss...

[returning-to-her]

How about another Sunday sermon of the divine female?

In the beginning, all creation was parthenogenetic (development of an egg without fertilization). The female sex is the only sex that can do this. Today, many species still do this. Therefore, the default sex is female, not male as patriarchal religions preach.

You can read about parthenogenesis through Google but one of my favourite sources is this book which discusses the divine feminine with sexual biology. The two are not separate as modern science and religion like to think. The body and soul are one and the same.

Here is a quote from the book:

“For two and a half billion years on earth, all life-forms floated in the womb-like environment of the planetary ocean - nourished and protected by its fluid chemicals, rocked by the lunar-tidal rhythms. Charles Darwin believed the menstrual cycle originated here, organically echoing the moon-pulse of the sea. And, because this longest period of life’s time on earth was dominated by marine forms reproducing parthenogenetically, he concluded that the female principle was primordial....

This is the fundamental and recurring pattern in nature: Life is a female environment in which the male appears, often periodically, and created by the female, to perform highly specialized tasks related to species reproduction and a more complex evolution....

Every female egg contains a polar body with a complete set of chromosomes; the polar body and the egg, if united, could form a daughter embryo. In fact, ovarian cysts are unfertilized eggs that have joined with their polar bodies, been implanted in the ovarian wall, and started to develop there....

This is not to say that males are an unecessary sex. Parthenogenesis is a cloning process. Sexual reproduction, which enhances the variety and health of the gene pool, is necessary for the kind of complex evolution that has produced the human species. The point being made here is simple that, when it comes to the two sexes, one of us has been around a lot longer than the other.”

From Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor in “The Great Cosmic Mother.” 

[dreamingtime96]

TGismはビニールハウス？

どうも元気にしていますか？私はさっきまで暖房も付いてない部屋で、寒い寒い言いながら三島の東大全共闘論争のドキュメンタリーを見ていたんだけど、ああいう活発に議論しあってるのを見ると脳と知性が活発になってインスピレーションが起こってきて自分も言葉にして思考を何か言いたくなる気持ちが起こってくるね。

本当は生と性と三島の文学とかについても書きたいけど、そこじゃなくて今回は事物との関連からTGismってもしかして？とひらめいたのでそのことについて書きます。

東大生たちと三島由紀夫は主に事物と関係、思想と国家、自然というものについて形而上学的なやりとりをしていたんだけどそっから私はTGismっていうのは要はビニールハウスだと感じたんですね。とっぴな例えでごめんね。

まあ、そんなにおかしいことを言うつもりはないからお茶でも飲みながら、気楽に読んでください。

トランスジェンダリズムがなぜビニールハウスであるのか？

ビニールハウスっていうのはもちろん、例えです。ビニールハウスは、畑の中の温度を適切に保つためにかけてある、あれです。

私は子ども時代たまに、家族でいちご狩りだとかに出かけていたんだけど、ビニールハウスを普段見かけるところに住んでいなかったから、ビニールハウスのかかった半円で半透明の畑の群れを車の窓や電車の窓から見つけると　（ああ、私はいま知らない遠くの街に来ているのだなぁ）とワクワクしたものでした。

…もちろんだけど、なにも私がビニールハウスそのものにワクワクして心を弾ませてるんじゃないってことはわかりますよね？

　私は当時、そこに会ったことのない知らない誰かの生活が根付いていて、その人たちの作る野菜や果物を私も知らないうちに口にしているということが不思議になったのです。

　世界に知らない人々のいくつもの生活が同時に存在しているということや、どんな他者がどういう暮らしをしてるのか？そんなふうに、想像の水路を広げて遊んでいました。

ビニールハウスは、いわば他者の想起と連想の装置でもあり、過ぎた楽しかった記憶を結ぶものとして当時の私の中に存在していました。楽しい過去があったからこそ、私の心の中にそうした良い印象が形作られているのです。

同時に私はビニールハウスをただのビニールの膜じゃなくって、果物や野菜を育てるためにビニールの膜で覆っているもので、畑を覆っているものだということも認識しています。ビニールハウスを見てなんだあのでかい袋？！とはならないのはあの中に畑があるとわかっているからです。

TGismに置き換えてみます。これは外形としての例えであると理解してくださいね。

生物学的な身体そのものを畑であるとしますね、するとその上に被さっているジェンダーというのはビニールハウスであるといえます。

で、TGismはこのジェンダー（ビニールハウス）そのものを身体の性別（畑）より優先するべきで畑を覆ってるビニールハウスそのものも畑である、畑は包括的で多様なのだと言っているようなものなのです。ああ、頭痛がしてくる…

次にジェンダー（ビニールハウス）というものが持つ役割そのものについてです。

ビニールハウスは野菜や果物を育てるために適温や湿度を保って外気の影響を遮断する役割があります。ジェンダーというものは女性身体を持って生きている個人の能力を遮って疎外し、家父長制によって構築されたジェンダーロールを保つ役割があります。要は、皮膜ということです。

例えば、女性は感情的で大袈裟で論理的ではないというジェンダーがあるせいで、日頃から例えば医師にかかった時に主訴をきちんと聞いてもらえないだとか、例えばなんらかのトラブルに巻き込まれた時警察にきちんと話を聞いてもらえないとかあるいは適当にはいはいと流されてしまうだとかいうことがあります。（ちなみに前者も後者も私は経験があります。）

　女性は痴漢にあった時、あるいは学校や会社でセクハラや腕力や体格差では叶わない女性の身体であるがゆえにその劣位を逆手にとったさまざまな暴力の被害に女性は遭いやすいです。

被害を上司や学校の先生などに相談すると、相手は「あなたはこういうことをされたというけど、あなたの勘違いなんじゃないの？」「いや、それはきっと、相手はそんなつもりではなかったはずだよ」とあなたの認識が間違っているか、それが大袈裟なのではないかというふうに言われたり間違いであるという前提あっての指摘をされることが多いです。セクハラ・パワハラは立場や社内の関係性を利用したものであるため

　また女性は細やかであるとされて女子力ということばや美に対する関心を持つことを人並みの感覚だというふうに押し付けられて美に関する感情労働をしなくてはいけません。

それらは自身の容姿を常に検閲しないといけないという苦痛をもたらします。時間や心や肌の健康を奪います。毎日、崩れないように仕上げた化粧を落とすのにクレンジングで水をたくさん使うので、環境にも悪く、結果的に女性の未���を悪化させています、首を締めているようなものです。

こうした女性の意識や身体の健康を悪化させる悪循環が存在している理由は女性が実力や能力を男性よりも求められず、容姿に価値があるとされているからです。美の基準も男性の主観が主軸となったものです。女性はこの社会の中で無徴だからこそ、装った姿でないと認められないという背景があります。

そうしたジェンダーロールやジェンダー規範の有害さというものは、まさに私たちの生命や人生を歪めているのに、はっきりと個人の生活の中に、社会の中に公然と存在しています。しかしそれを感受しているのは身体が女性である女性たちだけです。男性の場合はそれに共感を寄せたり胸を痛めることができても同じような体験や体感を持つことはできません。想像力豊かであっても難しい問題です。もし、ジェンダーが性別より優越する、あるいはジェンダーは性別そのものであるということになると身体にジェンダーが覆い隠されていることがいかに女性の生活を侵犯しているかという問題や女性の生活が脅かされているかといった問題を指摘できなくなります。

そうした明らかに存在してるのに透明なもの扱いになっている点も含めてジェンダーの有害さは半透明のビニールハウスのようだと私は感じるのです。

ビニールハウスの中ってとても暑いですよね。単純に、暑くて汗をかくし外の気温によっては息が苦しく詰まって不快です。しかし、ジェンダーに覆い隠されなくちゃならない女性の苦悩というのは不快で苦痛というだけのものではありません。誰しもが気づかないうちにジェンダーを主軸とした社会の影響を受けてそれらを再生産しながらいきています。

個人の意思や選択で脱出できるジェンダー規範もあるけれど、例えばルッキズムやエイジズムが意識の基盤や価値観に与えた影響から完全にキッパリと全てを脱することはほとんど不可能といえます。

例えば髪を切るとか服を着ると言った外形的な行為で断ち切れたとしても、行為だけでとどまってしまうこともあります。なぜならば行動によってジェンダー的な観念の拘束から離れたとしても、毎日のように脱毛やエステや、体型のわかりやすい服などジェンダー記号に溢れた広告や創作を目にしなくてはいけないためです。影響は残り続けるからです。

また、個人ではちょっとやそっとではどうにもならない問題もあります。例えば、男女で生涯賃金に格差がある状況から私がよしここからさっさと脱しようと思っても、まず生活があるから出られませんよね。作物を育ててるビニールハウスは、外に出れば湿気や暑さの不快さから離れられて逃れられるけど、ジェンダーの場合は不快どころではありません。変えるには社会全体が変わる必要があります。けれど家父長制社会は子宮や卵巣があって月経があり力が弱く、実力や能力を求められない私たちの身体を覆っているジェンダーを内面化するように迫ります。社会的にも立場が弱い私たちはそこに適合することを求められれば受け入れざるを得ないのです。立場が弱いからです。

次にT女性についてです。おそらく彼らは本気で本当にお化粧や女性ジェンダーの織り込まれた女性服やネイルや「女性的」なフレーバーの香水やロングヘアやロリータ服や、浴衣などの服や化粧を女性そのものだと思っているわけではなくって、それらが布や顔料であるというのは当然だけどわかっています。

それらをまとったりしている時の心理的な安心感だとか楽しさだとかあるいは女性の方になんとなく帰属意識があるという感覚を感じとって、自身は女性だというふうに感じとっているわけです　…は？って話ですよね。

ジェンダー（ビニールハウス）と性別（畑）の例えでいうならば、彼らはビニールハウスそのものではなくて、ビニールハウスを起点として自分自身の中にある記憶や思い入れ感慨を引き出しているんです。つまり、それってメイクやファッションが好きな人であって、女性ジェンダーのカルチャーが好きで思い入れがある人たちなんですよね。

…というかそもそも……婦人服を着てお出かけしたりメイクしたりして、なんとなく帰属意識を持ってそっちの方がしっくりくる！というのは女性になったことがないからこそ出てくるあり得ない感覚なんですよ。

身体が男性であるからこそ、社会的に女性ジェンダーの差別性に直面することなく、命を脅かされる危険を体感しないからこそ出てくる感覚なんですよ。

ビニールハウスの中にお邪魔して、ただちょっといちご狩りしにきてわかったつもりになってるだけみたいな感じなのになにが女性だ。

Q．あなたはビニールハウスと例えで言ったけど強度的にはビニールハウスなんて壊せるのに、そこは考慮しないんですか？例えがめちゃくちゃです！

A.女性身体に覆い被されているジェンダーというものを視覚的に理解するためにビニールハウスと言っただけです。

また書きます。

[coochiequeens]

Ladies, if American Freights Furniture thinks women are too much of a distraction to hire then we’re too much of a distraction to enter their stores and buy their products.

A discount furniture chain with stores in 40 states was in the habit of not hiring women, who management reportedly said complained too much, “can’t lift” and were a “distraction” to their male colleagues, according to federal court filings. Now it has to fork over $5 million. Without admitting any wrongdoing, American Freight Furniture and Mattress agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that accused it of rampant gender-based discrimination in its hiring practices. The agreement submitted Feb. 2 ends a nearly 3-year-old lawsuit filed on behalf of a female job applicant in Alabama.

“Refusing to hire women, either because of sex-based stereotypes or simply because they are female, is illegal,” Marsha Rucker, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Birmingham District, said in a news release. “The EEOC will continue its efforts to eliminate discriminatory barriers for women, through litigation when necessary.” A representative from American Freight could not be reached for comment, and defense attorneys representing the company declined to comment in a statement to McClatchy News on Feb. 3.

American Freight sells discount furniture, mattresses and appliances in more than 350 stores across the U.S., according to its website. The EEOC — which is tasked with safeguarding and enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace — sued the Ohio-based retailer in February 2019, saying it violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1991. According to the complaint, a woman applied in 2013 to work for American Freight in Trussville, Alabama, after several employees told her the store was hiring. When she tried to submit an application, the store manager reportedly said they didn’t have any open positions and to come back closer to Thanksgiving. She did, but according to the government, the manager cast her application aside and never got in touch. The Trussville store ultimately hired five men — several of whom were either less qualified or just as qualified as the female applicant, the EEOC said. Court documents show the woman filed a charge of discrimination in January 2014, and the EEOC began investigating shortly thereafter. By November that year, the commission had expanded its investigation to include potential gender-based discrimination at American Freight stores nationwide.

During the course of the investigation, the EEOC discovered just 10 of the company’s 821 warehouse workers hired in 2013 were women — or roughly 1%. That figure stayed roughly the same in 2014 before climbing slightly to 2.6% in 2015. The national representation rate of female warehouse workers for those three years were all at or above 6%, according to the complaint. The sales department wasn’t much better. About 32% of sales workers hired at American Freight in 2013 were women, the EEOC said, while female salespeople in the furniture industry equated to 48.7% nationally. The next year, the company hired about 580 sales workers — 194 of whom were women, or about 33%. By 2015, that figure dropped off dramatically to 14% while the national rate lingered above 47%. The EEOC said American Freight’s dismissal of female applicants was systematic, fueled by corporate officials and store managers spouting gender stereotypes. Some reportedly said women “complain and make trouble” or “b---- too much.” Others were heard saying women were too much of a “distraction” to the men, were unable to work in a warehouse because they “can’t lift” and were otherwise unlikely to do “as great a job at selling furniture as men,” the commission said.

By 2017, the EEOC determined there were reasonable grounds to believe American Freight had discriminated against female applicants and sent the company a letter seeking to resolve the allegations out of court. When that failed, the commission sued. American Freight asked a judge to dismiss the case in April 2019, saying in part that the EEOC relied too heavily on one woman’s experience to justify allegations of discrimination on a national scale. A judge didn’t rule on the motion before American Freight and the EEOC opted to begin mediation last year, court filings show. Under the terms of the three-year settlement agreement and in addition to the $5 million payout, American Freight is barred from discriminating against female applicants and will appoint a Title VII coordinator to ensure compliance. The company will also develop a recruitment plan for women, train employees on anti-discrimination policies and provide regular reports to the EEOC regarding how many women have applied and how many were hired. All previous female applicants who were qualified but denied employment will additionally be offered a job, the EEOC said. Finally, one in every five future vacancies at American Freight must be offered to a woman as part of the agreement.

[juststartwiththetruth]

Some of the best people on Twitter are people who just won’t yield on the gender BS. Men, women, conservatives, classic liberals, and radfems. Libfems throw us right under the bus.

This thread explains the sincerely held and absolutely crazy beliefs of the gendies. How do we get through to people who really think woman is a social construct?

[like-anon-but-worse]

Goku is a himbo

[feminist-side]

"Sex is an under reported variable in many studies and this is a reminder that it is an important factor to consider in research"

Covid-19 is transphobic, everyone block and stay safe.

[fempolitics]

"a reminder to feminist cis women that the misogyny and oppression you face is a result of the societal role you are forced into, not the genitalia or sex organs you are born with"

Geez makes me wonder why are we spesifically forced into that societal role 🤔🤔 could it be...because of the sex we are

[philosofille]

Why can't bio women ever have representation

I honestly don’t even know when even gender ideology took hold. I swear in 2015 I still hadn’t heard about it (happier times). So this whole erasure of women and inclusion of male people under its name has been astounding to discover.

Men most likely are not happy to just lord over women anymore they must take even more and insult us by taking our name and pushing us out of spaces designed for us and that women fought for. 

I’m sorry I don’t have a better answer 

[coochiequeens]

Birth certificates are a record of facts not feelings.

US — Pennsylvania. Democratic Senators for the state of Pennsylvania are seeking to make policy changes for the benefit of those who identify as transgender, including eliminating the sex marker from all birth certificates issued in the state. On January 13, 2022, a Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda titled “Removal of Sex from Birth Certificates” was sent to all fellow members of the Senate of Pennsylvania by Senator Timothy P. Kearney.

Writing on his own behalf, as well as for senators Amanda M. Cappelletti, Katie J. Muth and Lindsey M. Williams, Senator Kearney wrote, “my colleagues and I are introducing a package of bills to reform the name change process and remove some of the legal barriers the LGBTQ community faces when living as their authentic selves.”

According to the memo, the proposal of the bills was inspired by a Senate Democratic Policy Hearing last June, at which the senators listened to “extensive testimony from people with lived experiences around the name change process in Pennsylvania.”

Some attested to “difficulties” faced by having government-issued identification marked with a sex that they do not “conform or identify with.” Others who did not identify as a sex said they “face discrimination from not having gender-affirming documentation” in the form of “state issued IDs with gender neutral designations,” the memo said. “While the current administration has worked to address some of the difficulties of getting state issued IDs with gender neutral designations by simplifying the process on Driver’s Licenses, there are still tremendous hurdles when it comes to the overall process for individuals to change their name and change their sex, particularly on birth certificates. By removing sex designations entirely, we can remove the barriers of acquiring gender-affirming birth certificates,” the memo argued. The memo claimed that having the sex of a person on the document is as relevant as including race, a field that previously appeared on birth certificates. The position of the American Medical Association (AMA) was used to bolster the argument: “The AMA notes that ‘removal of sex designation from the birth certificate would have little to no impact on vital statistics data collected for medical, public health, and statistical purposes.'” The individual’s “sex designation at birth” would continue “to be reported through the separate U.S. Standard Certificate of Live Birth system,” the memo notes. Many women’s rights campaigners have expressed concern about the legal erasure of sex. The replacement of ‘sex’ with ‘gender identity’ has led to policies that decry as harmful to women’s rights, including the reporting of male criminal offenders as women, placement of men in women’s prisons and the elimination of sex-specific shelter refuges, crisis centers, locker rooms and restrooms. CALL TO ACTION

To express your opinion on the package of bills designed to prioritize gender identity over sex in legislation, write to all members of the Pennsylvania Senate with the contact information listed here:

Pennsylvania State Senate

After learning more about the challenges facing transgender Pennsylvanians at a Senate Democratic Policy Hearing held last June, my colleagues and I are introducing a package of bills to reform the name change process and remove some of the legal barriers the LGBTQ community faces when living as their authentic selves.

How is this going to impact sports, scholarships and other things just for women if women can’t provide a birth certificate that states they are women? And more people are using Assisted reproductive technology (ART). Not keeping track of sex at birth will make it harder to collect evidence of male preference. Yes they say that a separate system collects that data but it just adds an extra step in collecting data.

[radmeow]

[sapereaude-habemut]

The whole idea of “being born in the wrong body” is just so...religious.

Like you actually believe your consciousness is ontologically distinct from and was created temporally prior to your physical body? Like it existed before your brain was formed, and at some point during the gestation period or birth or something your physical body was ensouled or your consciousness was somehow placed in or added to your physical body? Who did that? How did that happen? How did your consciousness get in the wrong one? Are you suggesting some realm where all consciousness just float around and get a ticket for a specific body and sometimes there’s a mix up? Are you implying a god who just drops you into some empty, mindless corpse and sometimes doesn’t look before he tosses the soul on in there?

And somehow the nervous system and the impact of hormones on your mental and emotional functions, and the fact that we learn, experience, and cognize our entire lived experience through external stimuli and sensory reception does absolutely nothing to your argument? Like... the fact that the release of hormones which causes different emotions and mental responses are largely triggered by different external stimuli first experienced by your physical body doesnt mean anything for that?

AND Even if we did have separately created, ontologically distinct immaterial souls or consciousnesses why on earth would they be sexually differentiated? How or why would some consciousness formed completely independently and distinct from any physical body have any idea of which sex it was supposed to be? Did some god tell you that too, like “hey you’re supposed to go into a female body just so you know, that’s why you like flowers and the color pink?”

Sexual differentiation in animals is for the purpose of reproduction, and thus, depends on the specific mammals’ physical biology—whether they provide the ingredient to fertilize the egg, or whether they carry or gestate the egg is essentially what sexual differentiation boils down to, and thus, is concerned with the physical body (ie chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive organs). So, how the heck would any signifying characteristic of sexual differentiation exist in something transcendent of the material world? What sort of characteristic or attribute or whatever exists independent of and separate from the physical, material world which denotes, or is indicative of, a specific sex?!

Any way you construe the whole “born in the wrong body” idea at some point falls beyond reason, at some point in the rationale, it fails, and there’s no way to further explain it...just like religion, where no matter how long you try to debate the existence of god, it always comes down to the person you’re arguing with saying “well you just have to take it on faith. God transcends our understanding” ...and as a general rule I don’t let religion and any premise you have to accept on faith, or premise which is based on accepting the truth of its conclusion to overrule scientifically demonstrable and empirically observable truths.

[fempolitics]

If sex is a spectrum then what is at the both ends of that spectrum? Who is the most woman or the most man? Is there women who are more women than others? I thought that was an idea everyone was opposing.

[sailor-etheria]

Funny how some of you are calling JKR a muggle while treating her as a witch.