Groundbreaking news: hold onto your hsts

[TinselAngel]

The "organisation" which has replaced "Steph's Place" has big news and there just isn't enough popcorn in the world:

twitter.com/translucent_org/status/1601975586745991172?s=46&t=AlyQNI2D7U0IazR4qvSMwA

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With all the talk of 'testing', I'm imagining like a 'trans' lateral flow test, where you swill a swab around your tonsils and nostrils and then within a few minutes it will tell you 'trans' or 'cis'!

Science is amazing isn't it?!

Will no one think of the poor gender fluid and nonbinary folk?

Their dna is made of shifting sands .

Strands.

Woven Rainbows?

What a surprise that TRAs are opposed to something even if it gives transness a medical grounding.

I wonder if Steph is reflecting on the maxim that there's no such thing as bad publicity?

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

Worth watching / following this twitter account run by someone doing an msc in neuroscience. Sam, extremely anti gender ideology, is very much looking forward to tearing the paper apart!

twitter.com/neurosgs/status/1602283783796948994?s=46&t=7tR1ah79pzFW9Neu03z7cA

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?

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.

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.

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

Presumably all the good words starting with "trans" were taken.

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

I am actually laughing out loud at this

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

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

If it's satire, it's genius.

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

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.

Hold onto your hsts 😂

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!).

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

I was born in the bong, Roddy.

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.