Permanently banned for ‘promoting hate’

[RumAndReisling]

Following ten years uneventful membership of a major social media site I have been permanently banned for ‘promoting hate’.

Never again will I be able to participate on that site.

My crime? Saying that if you had given birth to a child, there was no way you could literally change sex and produce semen to father one.

Is this not a statement of fact, or is this now unacceptable to say?

AIBU to say that my husband isn’t able to give birth?

Yes, saying the Emperor has no clothes on is not allowed.

My mum actually knows a hermaphrodite ( and have vaguely read a few controversies where female athletes were banned for having too much (natural) testosterone. Equally, a man I know started lactating! So yes, biological sex can be a spectrum.

That said, I do think a lot of artificial gender transitioning (through artificially induced hormones etc) could be body dysmorphia (which I used to have badly) or is an expression against arbitrary societal norms, like "men can't wear skirts and makeup, so I have to become a woman". Men can absolutely wear skirts and makeup imo – historically, males were the first gender to wear makeup and high heels, even before women. They also wore skirts daily.

Are you not aware this a thread about being banned from social media?

Sorry wanted to say in brackets - not sure if hermaphrodite is the updated medical term but that's what she called it back then

Where do you think the posts were made for which the women were arrested?

Why are you trying to pretend the two issues are not at all connected?

It is a statement of fact, but fact is irrelevant when compared to feelings. You're supposed to submit to the new dogmas that defy material reality.

Just in case you weren't aware if you ever see an article with words similar to "a woman with naturally high testosterone" it's usually a male with a DSD (see Caster Semenya, Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, none of them are female).

Sex is a binary.
Everyone is either male or female.
There’s no third sex.

There’s no spectrum. People aren’t “more male/ female” or “less male/female” than others of their sex.

Some people have medical conditions or DSDs linked to their sex. It doesn’t make them less male or female.

Hermaphrodite is not a term used by scientists or doctors these days. Most people involved in this area either professionally or as a patient or relative of a patient would prefer a term like DSD, standing for disorders or differences of sexual development. I am not an expert in this area or connected to anyone affected by a DSD, but I believe from what I've read that nobody can have both a male and a female reproductive system. What can happen is that something goes wrong at a very early stage of development and an individual ends up with a partially developed system, sometimes with characteristics of both sexes. My understanding is that it will still be possible to say whether that person is male or female, but sometimes it's very difficult socially for them to find their place.

None of this, though, has anything to do with gender identity, which is not usually linked to any physical issues at all.

I’m maybe to new to understand but is their not a sub forum for this content.?

I genuinely worry about my children growing up in the world as it is….chest feeding, etc. it drives me mad.

I have no problem with trans people but accept you’re trans and that there are differences between identification and biological genders.

Most posts there will even equate a trans woman to a pedophile.

If you read the board, you know that's a lie. It's not hateful to say men can't be and aren't women. There's no possible way that anyone can even suggest that without being called transphobic.

No it isn't, gender reassignment is. So is sex.

It is ridiculous that you can be banned for speaking biological truth. Men cannot give birth. No man ever has.

@GrinAndVomit

Look, I get that you are trying to support a op here. In case you missed what I've told you twice, I am gender critical. But op's second post is wrong - women are not simply defined by their ability to give birth.

Do I think men can give birth? No.
Do I believe that biological sex can be changed? No
Do I think the definition of 'woman' should be based on feelings rather than biology? No.

But for a group of posters so obsessed with science, accuracy about definitions should matter, even if being made by someone on your side.

@AmuseBish It's transphobic to use sex and gender interchangeably?

Your mum does not know a hermaphrodite. There are extremely few documented cases of any individual having both male and female sexual organs ,either primary or secondary characteristics. People with a DSD are always male of female but have some difference of development which may give the appearance that the individual is not of their biological sex .

,AIBU to say that my husband isn’t able to give birth?

Only because he still hasn't started his periods.

Apparently if he uses the womens toilets, pees sitting down, and asks to borrow tampax, he can grow a womb of his own. Didn't Virginia Woolf write an essay about that?

I literally read those exact comparisons on a post about a transwoman who posted a photo of her with a baby to the breast.

About 10 posts equated it to pedophilia.
Thats pretty hateful, if you ask me.

What context is needed? It’s a biological fact that if you were born female you will never be able to produce sperm.

I thought being gender critical was protected by law?

@loislovesstewie My first husband was male on the outside but was found to have ovaries and a uterus.

Gestating and giving birth is the basic biological function of the female species.

I’d love to know the website that bans stating facts

They are going to have to rewrite a whole lot of textbooks!