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Women don’t know they’re women unless they test their chromosomes, says Stonewall

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ResisterRex · 17/04/2022 13:13

Telegraph article freely accessible at the link. It looks like more co-opting of intersex to forge ahead with getting to the point where gender identity trumps sex.

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From the article:

"The session began by setting out the definition for intersex people, who fall outside societal expectations of the male-female binary. Staff were told: “Most people do not have their chromosomes tested, so many of us don’t actually know what they are.”
It is widely understood that for the vast majority, males have XY chromosomes and females XX, a biological process of DNA in egg cells when fertilisation occurs, however, some intersex people can rarely have a mixture.
A source who attended the session, titled “First steps to LGBTQ+ inclusion”, said it was also discussed how intersex people, who form less than two per cent of the population, may have both sets of genitals. The session materials referred to “sex assigned at birth”, rather than birth sex."

And more on the silencing of those who understand and apply the real law:

"an HR worker at Bristol, told The Telegraph she had to write a letter of apology after trans activists on a staff equality committee walked out last year over her defence of the word “maternity” in university policies.
While the word ultimately stayed, she said she was subject to a three-month informal probe when staff complained about the “problematic” and “exclusionary” term and said she had been offensive by stating only biological women can give birth.
“There is a culture of fear on campus. Female professor friends and I are scared to even talk about women’s rights in public spaces near the university,” she said. “We speak in hushed tones looking over our shoulders.”"

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Angrymum22 · 17/04/2022 22:24

I’m more than happy to have a chromosome test to confirm I’m a woman. But surely once we are all card carrying XX woman doesn’t that totally exclude the XY trans woman who are so invested in this ridiculous argument.
Although my 21yr old niece has been brainwashed (university) into thinking that transitioning actually changes your chromosomes, much to the amusement of her aunt who has a phd in genetics. Niece has an A level in biology, perhaps they skipped the genetics section.
The trans communising have been working very hard indoctrinating the 18-25 age group. Fortunately some of them are capable of critical thinking but many are not.

IHateCoronavirus · 17/04/2022 22:07

If we are found to be men do we get a pay rise? [hides episiotomy scar under a large pair socks tucked into some y fronts].

Live4weekend · 17/04/2022 21:37

Hey maybe I'm not really a woman!

I did give birth to 2 kids, but hey maybe I really have male chromosomes!

Who would have known!

Funny though - all the men I know, who may not actually have male chromosomes, have never actually had kids. How can that be if they have female chromosomes Shock

This shit gets dafter and dafter every day.

CeratopsofthePharoahs · 17/04/2022 21:27

I actually have tested my chromosomes. At university, they were showing us how to do a Barr Body test. Buccal swab, add the right stain and look through a powerful microscope. If you're XX one is inactive in every cell and takes up the stain readily and you see it as a noticeable blob in the nucleus.
Funnily enough I already knew I was female, what with the menstrual cycle, breasts etc.
Ironically for Stonewall that particular test isn't perfect as women with Turner's syndrome don't have a Barr Body and men with Kleinfelters syndrome do.
Also neither of those are actually "intersex" they are differences of sexual development, not some "other" class of human.

RoseLunarPink · 17/04/2022 21:02

So what not want

RoseLunarPink · 17/04/2022 21:02

But also, it doesn’t matter even if sex was more complicated, even if you could successfully argue there are more than two sexes because of DSDs, so want? It’s a con trick and false logic to suggest that implies that sex is therefore unimportant, or fluid or changeable.

Ethnicity is more complex than just black and white. Disability is more complex than just totally able bodied or totally incapacitated. Age is more complex than either newborn or 100. And yet none of these complex spectrums mean that if you are one thing you can just announce you’re another and take that other group’s rights, spaces, sports, awards or whatever. It’s a completely ridiculous supposed “gotcha”.

EdithStourton · 17/04/2022 20:47

[quote buckeejit]@EdithStourton was it that shit from a friendly biologist. What a crock of shit. I don't know enough about biology & cell/chromosome structure to refute it but clearly they haven't just discovered all these extra X & Ys floating about that show that sex is more complex than male & female. It's the smug way it's presented too 🤮[/quote]
Yep, it was. It started off with something like , 'Friendly biologist here!'. I knew from the tone exactly where it was going to go.

I went off and googled the SRY gene and guess what I found? That if it's in the wrong place, its generally obvious either at birth or when puberty doesn't happen.

And yes, they are very rare: about 1 in 5,000, as a PP said. The stats that show them as being much more common include things like hypospadias, where the opening of the penis is misplaced (I knew a little boy who was born with that; it was surgically corrected. There was never any question about his chromosomes, and he's gone right ahead and fathered a child...)

Cuck00soup · 17/04/2022 20:24

@TheAbbotOfUnreason

So transwomen are women because they feel all womanly, but women need to check their chromosomes before they can call themselves women?

Riiiiiight.

Thank you for this excellent explanation Grin

TheBiologyStupid · 17/04/2022 19:59

TRAs like to think that the vanishingly rare incidences of an intersex person being designated female at birth but later undergoing male puberty is some kind of "gotcha" proving that sex isn't binary. Which is like claiming that just because very occasionally someone is mistakenly declared dead only to revive later disproves the living/dead binary...!

Rainbowshit · 17/04/2022 19:43

So I who have gestated two beautiful babies can't be sure I'm a woman until I have my chromosomes checked, but my transwoman friend who has fathered two beautiful babies is definitely one because they say they are? 🤔

ResisterRex · 17/04/2022 19:19

@MarshmallowSwede

I just had a baby. Wait until I tell my husband we can’t truly be sure I’m a woman until I do this test.

These people are fucking insane!

This really made me laugh Grin you're right - it's fucking insane
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LittleWhingingWoman · 17/04/2022 19:13

“There is a culture of fear on campus. Female professor friends and I are scared to even talk about women’s rights in public spaces near the university,” she said. “We speak in hushed tones looking over our shoulders.”

It's fucking NUTS!

Rightsraptor · 17/04/2022 18:54

Someone wise (maybe the much missed Bowlofbabelfish, late of this parish) said if you've either given birth or fathered children then you can be almost 100% certain you have the expected chromosomes.

I had mine tested - XX. Would still be a woman even if I didn't know that.

What's that 1960s song - 'war, what is it good for? (absolutely nothing)', Let's change the first word to Stonewall.

buckeejit · 17/04/2022 17:55

@EdithStourton was it that shit from a friendly biologist. What a crock of shit. I don't know enough about biology & cell/chromosome structure to refute it but clearly they haven't just discovered all these extra X & Ys floating about that show that sex is more complex than male & female. It's the smug way it's presented too 🤮

MangyInseam · 17/04/2022 17:35

Poeple who have had children knows they are male or female without DNA testing. Which is a large number of people. What idiots.

Loveacuppa · 17/04/2022 17:33

If you've worked out boy/girl via an amniocentesis, how does that fit with squishing them into the "sex identified / recorded at birth" box? Is there yet another classification required? "Sex identified pre-birth" Hmm

Crcohetmonster · 17/04/2022 17:24

So stonewall are admitting transwomen are not women? Wow! It’s taken some time but there we are.

Soubriquet · 17/04/2022 17:23

Chromotheythem GrinGrin

GibbonsGoatsGibbons · 17/04/2022 17:17
Grin
Organictangerine · 17/04/2022 17:14

@quiteathome

What is the non-binary chromosome?
Chromotheythem
quiteathome · 17/04/2022 17:13

What is the non-binary chromosome?

Birdie746 · 17/04/2022 17:12

Just ignore them. What else can you expect from famous paedo/abusers rights group Stonewall. Big hairy bollocks to them 🤮

ChopinBoard · 17/04/2022 17:08

Ok then, let's all get our chromosomes tested. Pretty sure I, and most of you, will be definitively shown to be female, and all men will not. What then, stonewall?

tkwal · 17/04/2022 17:06

Do men need to test as well ? Chromosomes are something that can't be changed by hormonal treatment or surgery. Not even by gene therapy. So is this Stonewall accepting that we should all accept being labelled by chromosome results ? Would this be the beginning of a whole new nightmare leading to socially acceptable termination of those with chromosomal "differences"?.

dropthevipers · 17/04/2022 17:02

@Rightsraptor

I'd love to see the handout.

SW are getting increasingly desperate and boy, is it showing. Grin

Is it just me, or does anyone else think SW are making this up as thy go along?
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