Groundbreaking news: hold onto your hsts

Somebody somewhere is potentially going to make an absolute mountain of cash churning out affirmative trans tests.

Shame Elizabeth Holmes isn't looking into new projects at the moment.

Yes grombles - they tell us who they are every single time don’t they?

Heh.

Hehehe.

Hehehehehehehehehheeh!

Exactly.

OK. You found a biological mechanism that causes people believe that their gender (sic) does not match their sexed body.

Now what?

Male bodies and female bodies still exist, humans are still sexually dimorphic, male people who have this variation are still male, and female people who have it are still female.

Literally nothing changes.

It’s very telling that the reaction to more information potentially coming to light about an issue are met with howls of outrage. What other conditions which are apparently so grave as to drive people to the brink of suicide are characterised by the people suffering from them objecting to research?

Bonkers.

Your average TRA sees brains like this

There is some tiny (and I mean tiny) research projects which "show" brains same sex attracted transwomen have similarities to brains of hetrosexual females.

There are other studies showing people with gender dysphoria have different brains to people who don't have gender dysphoria. Pink News did a report on this, but later scrapped it, because it didn't fit the lady brain narrative.

All the studies are too small in sample size to prove or disprove anything.

The only provable difference between male and female brains is size.
Meta analysis here👇
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This is marvellous!!!

Is this like Jennifer Anniston saying "here comes the science - concentrate"?

Haha! That was autocorrected from "hats" but is actually appropriate.

That typo is CLASS!

So when they recognise that a particular minuscule measurement of brain cells which can be made by posthumous dissection and has broad overlapping distributions which at the mean fall closer to the female mean in male transsexuals, and that may affect their life experiences...

Are we then allowed to recognise the large scale differences in physical body makeup with absolutely vanishingly small overlap and, amazingly, 99.9% + diagnosable with the naked eye at birth or even earlier with scientific instruments, and has a far larger chance of affecting our life experiences?

Hint: you needed to acknowledge the reality of the second to even do the former study.

I was born in the bong, Roddy.

Maybe it turns pink, blue or rainbow for the enbies.

bellac11:

It used to be trans sexual years ago but now its trans gender which confuses me

A fun aspect of language in this area is that it changes so fast everybody except the in-group is always behind, and then will be corrected in a way which reads passive-aggressive to me. To avoid that, we have to keep checking what the approved language now might be.

So FTM and MTF are now not appropriate, I have been told, though transmasculine and transfeminine might be, but perhaps not, and so on.

All this raises the effort and energy needed for engaging with the topics, and that might be one intended effect, the other one being the deconstruction of all relevant language so that arguments become nearly impossible as nobody can know what some term really is supposed to mean. Like gender (meaning?) assigned (meaning?) at birth in medical questionnaires (which I now need to answer at my physician's office!).

Hold onto your hsts 😂

Ok, let's go with it, let's suppose there really is a biological reason why some people think they are the opposite sex.

So what? That doesn't mean they're right.

Im slightly confused about the 'biological' bit, because gender isnt biological but sex is

Yet people on that twitter thread keep referring to biological research about being trans gender. Surely its trans sexual (if anything).They're referencing that the brain is associated with the opposite gender, surely they mean sex?

It used to be trans sexual years ago but now its trans gender which confuses me

😂I can't tell.if that response is satire or... genuinely real?

If it's satire, it's genius.

I am also imagining the ‘genuinely real research scientist’ dresses like this. But with a cock, beard and much, much bigger moobs

‘…a genuinely real research scientist expressing their own truth.’

I am actually laughing out loud at this

Why did they change their name to a synonym for semi-transparent? Interesting choice.

Apparently they think it will prove trans is more like an "intersex" condition, which will show the evil t*rfs.
Several of the characters shouting "truth" about the paper have fathered children ffs. Nothing remotely ambiguous about their biological sex.

Oh and when a woman pipes up its good because then maybe now they will find a cure for gender dysphoria (which we are constantly told is cripplingly painful and terrible to endure), she is told she is a nazi. 😐

Honestly, they are such a mess.

Hold Onto Your HSTS is a great name for something - a news letter or blog? It would have to be something written rather than spoken.

Why the hell schedule it for 5pm on a Friday?

Perfect time to open a glass of wine?

Because that's the same time Susie Green dumpage news came out?

Maximise Sunday papers coverage?