No legal definition of biological sex, teaching union members told

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I don't know if this has been shared yet, I can't see it if it has:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/23e62b5a-1754-4199-8233-887c05b4d739?shareToken=7a17042a38f041aad3672258b82c82cf

I'm amazed the NEU (my union) has actually said women need supporting in the work place. Formerly they have been so trans/most vulnerable that women seemed to be - despite being the majority of union members - definitely second class.

There is no evidence of any trans person actually having a DSD

most DSD are actually irrelevant ( triple X for example - common but limited impact on people and doesn’t lead to any sex ambiguity)

Dsd rate is no higher in trans people than the general population this has been shown by multiple studies.
The TRAs claim that around 1.7% have a dsd by claiming that policistic Overy syndrome is a dsd.
The dsd community have repeatedly asked the TQ+ community to stop using them as a gotcha and to stop conflating trans and dsd as there's no real crossover between the groups regardless of what many trans people claim

Reading about Corbett vs Corbett. Fascinating case! thanks for mentioning. I'm always awed by the wise women of MN :)

But how do the surrogacy companies know which people to get the babies from? 🤔

No wonder birth rates across the Western world are plummeting!

I knew it'd be the NEU.

I left, along with thousands of other qualified and experienced teachers. Your comment would have been upsetting once upon a time.

Me too. But as I've just commented on another thread, promoting transgenderism over facts, science and reality brings out the muppet in so many people - including teachers.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. (Orwell, of course)

I'm not a big fan of citing 'common sense', partly because it does actually track IQ, but I think this might be an occasion for it.

99.8% of birth registrations correctly align with gonadal sex.

Of the 0.02%, some will develop an adult female external phenotype which matches their paperwork, and no issue will arise.

Some will develop an adult male external phenotype which doesnt match their paperwork. Whether they choose to correct their paperwork or not, they are protected under the perceptive discrimination provisions of the Act. By the same token, they can be excluded from women-only spaces as an exception to the bar on perceptive discrimination (exemplified in the judgment by reference to transmen, but the same reasoning applies).

Still a teacher, agree they’re muppets 😀

I don’t use the word muppet unless referring to The Muppet Show.