Mara Wilson thinks dyeing your hair proves you can change your biology...

Shall I start a petition to rename hair dye into 'gender fluid'?

If they’ve created a magic hair dye - why doesn’t my wrinkle cream work?

It’s got to be a piss take?

Although may be it is down to biology that my mum and her two estranged sister's all went prematurely blonde around mid 50s from their natural dark brown (greying) hair. Maybe it was a quirk of the menopause?

I've read her tweet and some of the responses to it. I'm not quite sure I understand what point she is trying to make.

Is it: becoming a different gender is as easy as dyeing hair?

Or your biological sex changes when you make cosmetic changes to your body?

Is it?

Jeez doesn't anyone proof read for these people before tweeting, they sound like complete idiots, or stuck at about 8 or 9 years old.

I had previously paid no attention to the HP fandom. Were they always this barmy?

Having spent my formative years in HP fandom, I can confirm: yes, we they were always this barmy. First furry I ever met was in in HP fandom; everyone I ever knew there seems to have come out as some flavour of queer these days.

Can't remember the Rita Skeeter description; my GoF reread stalled a week or so back just after the fourth champion was announced. Must get back to it and see what's so objectionable about it.

She claims to have written "True Stories of Girlhood"! I mean that's transphobic surely? How does she know she was a girl? She may become a man next year, which means she was actually a boy all along.

D'you think someone should tell her?

I knew American education system is bad but this is priceless

Any worse than in the UK?

I don’t see why you need to drag Americans or the education system into this thread simply because Mara Wilson is American and tweeted something uninformed and illogical, Imnobody4. It’s hugely insulting, not to mention ignorant and possibly xenophobic.

I had previously paid no attention to the HP fandom. Were they always this barmy?

"Some one pointed out to me the other day to re-read the way Rita Skeeter is described as looking, in the books.

Keep in mind she's also an 'unregistered Animagus', so she can 'change her form to sneak into places she is not meant to be'

I fucking. Rowling is pure evil."

twitter.com/NMorganCreates/status/1277747009357787136?s=19

I'm agog.

Um, biology is how the women in my hair have red hair at sixty. It doesn't always come out of a bottle, y'know? Honestly, she's completely erasing the lived experience of natural born redheads, and we get a shit enough deal as it is. Looks like gingerphobia to me.

Speaking of people getting their information off Twitter:

mobile.twitter.com/FlLMGIRLTHOT/status/1277738014043713539

I just... How do these people get through a day without exploding in a grand conflagration of their own terrifying stupidity and outrage?
The "omg she evil" and dumbass GIFs. Jesus Christ.

Wonderful own goal there, Mara!

Hmm. You change your phenotype by dyeing your hair, and your phenotype is part of your "Biology". Dyeing your hair does not change the underlying genotype, of course. I don't know which she meant, but I am getting tired of the misuse and misunderstanding of science in the public sphere. (sorry for barging in on your topic)

I don't think anyone is saying "you can't change your biology" are they? Every time I take the pill I'm changing "my biology". People are saying you can't change sex. Dying your hair does not change your sex, taking/blocking hormones does not change your sex. Why is it so hard to understand?!

can I ask a dumbish question
If you are a transman do you usually take hormones & do those hormones stop periods? (yes I know about the transman - cant remember name who went on to give birth & than tried to get themselves put on birth cert as dad. I wonder if he was on hormones & took himself off?)

I'd like to add that most appear to get their "facts" from Twitter/Facebook and because someone (who could be anyone and rarely someone they know) on there said something it must be true.

I thought she was joking when I saw it. I also thought she was quite bright but it looks like I was very very wrong.

A lot of Americans are now either don't understand, or are actively 'anti science' it would appear, and this is just one example. It's starting to cause them real problems with the coronavirus (quoting Dr Fauci here).

Obviously we have to be polite and tactful on here , but I often just think to myself 'you sound as if you're really fucking stupid' when I read posts on here about transwomen are women and some men have periods and the rest of the nonsense.

''I have a family member who works in biology''

A hairdresser then?