Gender Critical Reference Thread

[BetsyM00]

There was talk on this transgender thread about starting a list of references.

Hope no-one minds me starting one. Please feel free to add to it!

I'm still looking for a good link to dispute the pink/blue brain nonsense. Maybe @M0stlyBowlingHedgehog can add one with references to d values of 0.5.

I'll start with Gender Identity (Protected Characteristic) Bill 2016-17
services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/genderidentityprotectedcharacteristic.html

Further categories to follow...

Yet more links:

Studies/Research

Scans prove there’s no such thing as a male or female brain
www.newscientist.com/article/dn28582-scans-prove-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-male-or-female-brain/

Cordelia Fine interview
blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2010/09/28/cordelia-fine-and-the-delusions-of-gender/

Study: More proof a man can never become a woman
mobile.wnd.com/2017/05/study-more-proof-a-man-can-never-become-a-woman/

Transgenderism: A Pathogenic Meme by Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins Hospital
www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/06/15145/

Censored by Trans - Who’s Silencing Who?
bannedbytrans.wordpress.com/masterpost/

New Guidance for Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
thejungsoul.com/new-guidance-for-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria/

Suicide rate in Canada
33% of LGB youth have attempted suicide. 47% of GB male 74% LB females have thought about it.
19% of T youth have attempted suicide. 47% thought about it. 28% attempted in more rural isolated areas.
egale.ca/backgrounder-lgbtq-youth-suicide/

Buying time or arresting development? The dilemma of administering hormone blockers in children
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444866417301101?via%3Dihub

No adolescent withdrew from puberty suppression, and all started cross-sex hormone treatment.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20646177

NHS Scotland - Gender Reassignment Protocol 2012
www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/mels/CEL2012_26.pdf

Social survey results on transgender people in Scotland
www.gov.scot/Topics/People/Equality/Equalities/DataGrid/Transgender

Media

Flaws in trans suicide rate claims
4thwavenow.com/2015/08/03/the-41-trans-suicide-rate-a-tale-of-flawed-data-and-lazy-journalists/

The dispute between radical feminism and transgenderism
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/04/woman-2

Maria Miller interview (behind paywall)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/89e2bd02-73bd-11e7-83f1-667fddf1d78f
Full text here
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/2993425-Maria-Miller-interviewed-by-Janice-Turner-full-text

Mixed-sex wards endanger and humiliate women
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/30/mixed-sexed-wards-endanger-and-humiliate-women?CMP=share_btn_tw

Beyond Criticism
countrysquire.co.uk/2017/07/27/beyond-criticism/amp/

Sports

Schuyler Bailar, transman in male competition, swimmer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuyler_Bailar

Crime in the UK

The Tip of the Iceberg - categorised list of trans crimes
randomstabbing.tumblr.com/post/144989720467/the-tip-of-the-iceberg-please-add-to-this-list
evolution-thru-revolution.tumblr.com/post/139764335829/the-tip-of-the-iceberg-please-add-to-this-list

Another compilation of trans crimes
fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-violence-never-happens

David Fuge, child rape
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/cross-dressing-jehovahs-witness-raped-13311020

Man filming in gender neutral toilets
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-38094691

Wendy Jones, extreme animal porn
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/woman-caught-extreme-animal-porn-13399570
(DoJ figures for the past decade show that 95% of people convicted of possession of extreme porn are male.
The actual number of women convicted of extreme porn possession averages at 6 per year. Inclusion of just one male distorts figures by 15%
That's 6 women out of 30 million - or 1 in 5 million. By contrast over 100 men are convicted of extreme porn, equating to 1 in 300,000)

Kira Leverton, hoards of child abuse videos and images
www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/woman-sentenced-images-child-sex-256657

11 sex offenders from one prison want sex-change ops
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jailhouse-frock-11-inmates-one-10896312

Events

Woman’s gaming event cancelled due to men planning to infiltrate by pretending to be TIMs
mic.com/articles/181000/king-barcelona-gaming-ladies-event-canceled-forocoches-online-trans-troll-harassment-campaign#.4Hj15Bj4d

There was another woman's gaming event in Germany where a group of TIMs were turned down as they could not provide female passport ID - turned out to be a hoax. Was the event cancelled? Can't find a link.

Links from other threads:
3 Aug 2017 www.thetimes.co.uk/article/children-want-to-be-free-of-gender-obsessions-0h8mqlwz5?shareToken=61c1e4a94ffbd106fc6532935dc01232 About children feeling pressured into conforming to a gender and worrying trend of prescribing puberty blockers.
3 Aug 2017 Times: Full text Janice Turner is still on the case about Maria Miller: A question of honesty
I’ve interviewed many politicians over the years and am used to their media-trained skills. Don’t answer questions, just keep saying what you want to say, doggedly, repeatedly. Smile pityingly, roll your eyes, try to make your interrogator feel foolish for banging on.
Maria Miller, chairwoman of the women and equalities select committee, did all of those when I interviewed her about her report proposing changes to the Gender Recognition Act, redefining our very concepts of male and female. Yet what shocked me was how Ms Miller questioned my right to ask these questions on how her plans would affect 30 million women.
These were her excuses: this report was two years ago; I’ve done lots of other reports since then; I didn’t know I would be talking about this today; this is now in the hands of Justine Greening (who has launched a further consultation) so ask her; this is difficult to answer and Justine should look into it.
Seriously? You propose changes that will affect women’s safety, privacy, sports, scholarships, legal status . . . then just shrug: “Not my problem now, mate.” I hope Justine Greening will have some answers: because women still have lots of questions.

New Year's resolution is to meet more feminists and engage in more feminism. I already follow all the obvious feminists on Facebook & Twitter. Want to be part of a constructive group rather than online arguments. (Possibly with the long-term aim of setting up a political party, if that's not too ambitious, which it probably is, haha!) Looking for others on here who are both feminist and leftwing and green ? Anyone ? I'm in York though....

Just leaving this here as a very useful reference point.

www.transgendertrend.com/2017-round-up-happy-new-year

Nora Horton I work near York and I’d be up for some kind of constructive group real life meet up type thing. I too am tired of arguing on the internet though I really appreciate the women who are so patiently explaining reality to people. I’m a bit limited time wise but maybe other Yorkshire people on here are interested and we could try meeting for a coffee?

Hi wrappedup. That would be great, a real-life meet-up (I've PMed you my FAcebook name). I also don't have much time (I think that's why women and mothers in particular never organise!) We should be able to manage a quick coffee though :) I know two other women in York who would like to start a York RadFems group, and I'm sure manyothers would join once its started. So that's one thing (anyone interested in York RadFems please PM me - or maybe we could broaden it out to a Northern or Yorkshire thing?). I am also collecting names (nationally) for anyone who is interested in starting a new women's group (either protest group or longer term political party for the politically homeless, obviously we don't want to split the leftwing vote at next general election) , and working on a few proposals and objectives to circulate (by email) and get feedback on. So anyone interested in that please PM me too. (Am thinking the latter will be done by a reply-to-all email group)

This is brilliant, thank you! I would like to email these references to gender critical feminist organisations such as Object! to put on their websites. Does anyone have any objections?

Good books on the subject/similar subjects are A. Saini, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - she looks at the sexism in science from Darwin to the modern day and presents alternative findings and research. She very much defeats the 'ladybrain argument' and stresses the impact of the difference between XX and XY in for example medicine and drugs. She analysis how an abuse of Science has been used to trample women's rights.

Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender is brilliant. This work also demolishes sexist science.
Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex is eye-opening and won the science award this year. It shows how the importance of testosterone has been wrongly represented and the implications for this - yes you guessed it sexist science once again supporting the patriarchy.

What an excellent resource this thread is.

also informative website Transcrimeuk.com

Here's a must have video on Transgender (Male) Crimes against women and girls.

There might be some helpful references for anyone filling in the GRA consultation.

Is this thread still current? Or is there another one that's more up to date? Asking because I find threads like these absolutely invaluable. I've bookmarked it, and if there is an "updated" version, I'd love to bookmark that too.

@ComprehensiveTea
Try this one, particularly the last half of the thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me

This is my must watch on sexed brains. Sophie Scott is a British neuroscientist and Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow at University College London. She was given a CBE for services to neuroscience in the 2020 new years honours, for services to neuroscience, I think due to her work in science communication. This talk was due to be given at several "skeptics in the pub" events, but her talk was cancelled.

vimeo.com/414833798?utm_campaign=5370367&utm_source=affiliate&utm_channel=affiliate&cjevent=cc11db1623a411ec83c829e20a18050c&clickid=cc11db1623a411ec83c829e20a18050c

Might be better to keep posting new items on the Break it down for me thread.

Quite right. Will do.

@Helleofabore thank you! Bookmarked!

This is a brilliant resource thank you for bumping!
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re the pink and blue brains: Rippon, Gina (2019) The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience That Shatters The Myth Of The Female Brain.

Here's a review of it in Nature.