Break it down for me? 2 - General Break it Down archive thread

[Helleofabore]

I am creating this thread as an archive thread just for all the important sources of information that we read and want to keep. With the option for saving threads so we can find them easily, I figure it is a good way to gather specific types of information into one place.

Please post studies, papers, media articles that pull together references, or informative articles, tweets, videos, and interviews. Only on the topic of Sex & Gender.

It would be helpful if you could please post with a summary of the article, study, papers, etc so people can also use Advanced Search to locate the information and it will make it easier to read through to find the information again too. Also, and this is just a thought, I have found putting a bolded sentence at the top to make it really clear what the post is about works well for scrolling through to find the posts that people might be looking for specifically.

I don't want to be the thread police, but ask that we keep this free of discussion. Getting into discussion on this thread will mean it will fill up quickly and not serve the purpose of being simply an archive.

If you post things on this thread that might be useful on other specific archive threads, then feel free to post them there or someone else might do this too.

Can I ask that if you want to discuss something you see here, you start a thread to do so and link and refer to a post on this thread? If a post has been presented with commentary that people disagree with, can that be discussed on a new thread please.

Keep this thread free just for the information.

Here is the previous Break it down for me thread?

The specific archive threads are:

Save female sports evidence thread
Statistics & poll evidence archive thread
Medical treatment archive thread
It will never happen - resource thread
Court cases/Judicial Reviews/ET/ETAs

Thank you.

Edited by MNHQ at OP's request

THE DENTON'S REPORT - GOOD FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW WE GOT HERE...

Here is a link to the 'Denton's report' that was titled "Only Adults? Good Practices in Legal Gender Recognition for Youth".

http://archive.today/gm2z9

Plus

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-dentons-document

This substack has links to the Denton's report for anyone who has not read the document and wishes to read it.

Here is the James Kirkup article about it:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-document-that-reveals-the-remarkable-tactics-of-trans-lobbyists/

The document that reveals the remarkable tactics of trans lobbyists
James Kirkup
2 December 2019

ADULT HUMAN FEMALE VIDEO

https://adulthumanfemale.info

This is the first UK documentary feature to look at the clash between women’s rights and trans ideology.

In record time, the trans movement has captured the big institutions.

The police, the political parties, the media, the universities and major corporations have taken up the cause in the name of inclusiveness.

But is it really harmless when men identify into the female sex?

Is it progressive for doctors to modify the bodies of young people in the name of changing their ‘gender’?

There has been a manufactured confusion around sex and gender. At the same time we are told that ‘there is no debate’. Dissenters are cast as ‘haters’ and cancelled.

This is not only a struggle to defend women’s rights. At risk is safeguarding for children and young people, biological reality, reason and even democracy.
Reality denial comes at a price.

Featuring: Aja the Empress • Julie Bindel • Shereen Benjamin • Mandy Clare • Shonagh Dillon • Simon Edge • Judith Green • Louise Irvine • Jane Clare Jones • Lisa Mackenzie • Lucy Masoud • Jo Phoenix • Karen Ingala Smith • Joan Smith • Susan Smith • Rebekah Wershbale.

Violence and intimidation against women speaking to the end of 2023

https://x.com/glinner/status/1980390649246675001?s=46

On my website, JL collected almost a decade's worth of trans activist violence to disprove the "bad behaviour on both sides" myth. I just asked ChatGPT to summarize it:

Documented pattern spanning nearly a decade of violent intimidation, physical assault, property damage, vandalism of memorials, stalking, hostage-taking, and sustained harassment campaigns specifically targeting women's rights advocates, lesbians, feminists, and anyone questioning gender ideology. Only one side doing this.

2014 onwards - "Kill All TERFs"
Widespread violent threats on social media documented by website "Terf is a Slur" - rape and death threats against women.

terfisaslur.com

September 2017 - Speakers Corner & Maria MacLachlan
We Need To Talk event forced to change venues after harassment. Trans activists followed attendees through Hyde Park. Meeting at University Women's Club had to be curtailed due to mob outside screaming and intimidating elderly members. MacLachlan assaulted on camera by Tara Flik Wood.

November 2017 - Social Justice Warrior at Book Fair
Woman surrounded for over an hour by 30 trans activists at anarchist bookfair, subjected to misogynistic abuse.

March 2018 - Spooking Millwall Football Club
We Need To Talk forced to cancel after relentless harassment of venue. Previous events in York and Glasgow also cancelled under pressure.

March 2018 - Violence on the Picket Line
Paula Lamont attacked on her own Bectu picket line by trans activists including Tara Flik Wood. Forced to leave for her safety.

April 2018 - The Siege in the Jam Jar
Trans activists forced their way into Bristol venue, physically blocked staircase, prevented attendees including Julie Bindel from entering. Heather Brunskell-Evans trapped in stairwell.

June 2018 - WPUK Besieged at Conway Hall
London Young Labour incited protest. Venue cancelled hours before event. Alternative venue surrounded by 100+ masked activists. Women assaulted, had projectiles and water thrown at them. One woman suffered panic attack running gauntlet of protesters.

January 2020 - Death Threats at Oxford University
Professor Selina Todd required security detail after speaking at WPUK event. Death threats credible enough for university protection.

June 2020 - Death Threats for Children's Author
JK Rowling subjected to rape and death threats after tweeting about biological sex. Continues after she published statement about concerns over gender ideology.

October 2020 - L'Amazone in Paris
Female-only space broken into by trans activists who changed locks, shut women out, vandalised artwork including memorial to murdered woman by drawing penis over it.

February 2021 - Spain's New Dictatorship
Trans activists hung effigy of First Vice President Carmen Calvo by neck from tree after she opposed self-ID laws.

March 2021 - Breaking Bones in Canada
Chris Elston assaulted approximately 20 times while campaigning. Attacked by masked thugs in Montreal who stole equipment, punched him, broke his arm.

July 2021 - Protest at Melbourne University
Trans activists organised protest calling for Dr Holly Lawford-Smith to be sacked. Women verbally abused, had water thrown at them, called c*nts. Trans-identified male shouted into woman's face with loudhailer.

August 2021 - Police Escort for Gay Man at Pride
Alexander Bramham assaulted at Manchester Pride, hat stolen, required police escort. Gay man ejected from Pride event for wearing LGB Alliance logo.

September 2021 - The Hounding of Kathleen Stock
Sussex University professor subjected to ongoing campaign of threats, harassment. Required cameras at home, bodyguards on campus. Anonymous 'Anti Terf Sussex' group posted guerrilla-style photos with smoking flares demanding she be fired. Eventually forced to resign.

September 2021 - Trying to Set Lesbians Alight
Trans-identified male attacked lesbians at Bordeaux Pride with lit flare.

October 2021 - Intimidation at FiLiA Conference
Large group of mostly male trans activists protested Portsmouth conference about ending male violence. Brandished placards with misogynistic slurs whilst women inside spoke about rape and domestic abuse.

November 2021 - Women Attacked in Brussels
Small group of women marching against male violence surrounded by 50 trans activists. Beaten, insulted, intimidated. One woman kicked in back.

April 2022 - Fantasising About Male Violence
Trans-identified male Gretchen Felker-Martin published "Manhunt" - novel featuring hunting and killing women described as "TERF soldiers" and "knights of JK Rowling". Features rape scenes and disturbing violence.

May 2022 - Bookshop Burning in Barcelona
Trans activists attacked bookshop hosting authors of "No One is Born in the Wrong Body", clashed with police, threatened to burn down shop. Authors forced to shelter inside with blinds drawn for 45 minutes.

March 2022 - Let Women Speak in Manchester #1
Large gang marched from St Peter's Square chanting "Terf scum off our streets". Disrupted WPUK meeting where speakers included Zimbabwean lesbian asylum seeker and CSA survivor discussing importance of female-only spaces.

June 2022 - Bristol Let Women Speak
Masked, hooded, predominantly male protesters screamed at women. Held signs reading "TERFs can suck my dick". Wrote "Colston - Terfs are next" on pavement (reference to torn-down statue of slave trader).

June 2022 - MP Escorted By Police at Pride
Jo Gideon, Conservative MP, subjected to non-stop abuse at Stoke Pride by 20 LGBT+ Society activists. Required police escort. Banner vandalised.

June 2022 - Let Women Speak in Barcelona
Feminists protesting male violence surrounded by trans activists screaming "Kill the TERF".

July 2022 - Destroyed Memorial to Murdered Babies
Trans activists vandalised street mural memorial to 14 babies killed by shaken baby syndrome. Collage created by grieving mothers whose babies were murdered by male partners. Vandals admitted destroying it because creators were "transphobic feminists".

August 2022 - Let Women Speak in Philadelphia
Trans activists with drums, noise makers, megaphones tried to drown out women. Crowded Kara Dansky, tried to grab mic, screamed "Shut the fuck up", gave continual thumbs down. Police unprepared.

August 2022 - Let Women Speak in Port Townsend
80-year-old Julie Jarman barred from pool after protesting male employee in women's changing room watching little girls undress. Women's press conference attacked by trans activists. Activists threw equipment, tore flags, damaged property, screamed in faces. Man with AR-15 over trans flag on cap present. Aggressive men shouting at Black woman and rape survivor.

September 2022 - The New Homophobia
Lesbian Strength march in Leeds disrupted by trans activists.

September 2022 - Attacking a Stonewall Veteran
Fred Sargeant, 74-year-old gay rights pioneer who was at original Stonewall riot and organised first Pride march (1970), assaulted at Burlington Pride. Pushed to ground, hit on head, jabbed with umbrella, had coffee poured on him. Required hospitalisation. Over $550 property stolen/damaged.

September 2022 - Let Women Speak in Brighton
Trans activists arrested for assault, obstructing police officer, and sexual assault by touching.

October 2022 - Portland Cancellation
Event cancelled after credible death threats by Antifa. Portland police unable to offer protection. Isabel Rosa Araujo (Antifa militant) publicly fundraised for pepper spray, collapsible baton, Bowie knife. Made open threats: "Smash On Sight", "Make TERFs afraid again". Few brave women who did gather were attacked.

October 2022 - Let Women Speak in Tacoma
Despite death threats, police refused presence. Man in short skirt rushed Lierre Keith at mic. April Hutchinson had fingers deliberately crushed and broken by male activist's bare hands. Trans activists advertised with image of boot stamping on women.

November 2022 - Mob at New York City Hall
Kellie-Jay Keen unable to reach podium due to aggressive demonstrators. Large crowd of trans activists and Antifa members required barricades. Demonstrators spat at women, chanted insults, used whistles/bells/drums/alarms, fought with NYPD, breached barricades, followed and threatened attendees.

Two topless trans-identified males grabbed and fondled own "breasts" whilst screaming at women. Amara Gisele Jones Velasquez screamed "I'm going to beat your ass", "These titties are way more real than you", "No man wants you", called 77-year-old LGBT activist "fucking faggot".

NYPD Strategic Response Group deployed. Unlawful assembly declared. Multiple arrests. Eli Erlich (accused of rape/sexual assault) bragged "We glitterbombed, pied, flipped off, screamed at, spit on, and cursed TERFs".

December 2022 - Shit-Throwing in Brussels
Céline Masson and Caroline Eliacheff (authors of "The Making of the Transgender Child") attacked at Brussels café. Twenty hooded men threw pots containing litter and excrement at attendees, tried to assault speakers, vandalised venue.

January 2023 - Storming McGill University
Professor Robert Wintemute (37 years defending LGB rights) prevented from giving talk at McGill. 100 trans activists stormed discussion. Attendees physically assaulted - shoved, pushed, blasted with bullhorns, one pushed to ground. Professor had flour thrown at him.

March 2023 - UCL Feminist Conference
Feminist conference featuring Joanna Cherry KC, Julie Bindel, Helen Joyce besieged. Sarah Jane Baker (30 years for kidnap/torture/attempted murder) yelled "c*nts" at women. Activists banged on windows, screamed. Kate Worley (DJ Lippy) assaulted - phone wrestled away and thrown, thumbs pulled back, bruised.

February 2023 - Storming Mexican Congress
Trans activists stormed Mexico City Congress protesting legislation to prevent child medicalisation. Smashed doors and windows, threw rocks, graffitied. Victoria Sámano forced way through, fought security guards.

March 2023 - Auckland Mob
Kellie-Jay Keen's New Zealand event besieged by "feral" mob before it started. Predominantly men, not in dresses. Shoved women, screamed in faces. Broke through barriers, descended on rotunda. Kellie-Jay doused with tomato juice, grabbed, jostled, stomped on. Mob tried to trip, punch her, grabbed clothing.

March 2023 - Assault in Vancouver
Chris Elston mobbed and surrounded by masked male activists in camouflage. One lunged at him twice, jabbed hand in his face. Another activist threw Elston's supporter to floor whilst police watched. Trans-identified male with long blond hair screamed "Fuck you!" repeatedly in Elston's face. Police did nothing.

April 2023 - Threats in Nantes
Symposium "Woman, Life, Freedom" supporting Afghan/Iranian women postponed after threats of "rotten eggs and baseball bats" from trans activists. Poster circulated with knife superimposed. Organiser faced "absolutely monstrous violence".

April 2023 - Riley Gaines Held Hostage
Riley Gaines speaking at San Francisco State University heckled throughout. After speech, mob burst in, turned off lights. Man in women's clothing hit her twice - shoulder then face. Cornered in hallway with no exit. Barricaded in office for three hours whilst mob hammered walls screaming "Open the door, we want Riley", "This is vengeance". Eventually required SFPD cordon and had to run to car as mob chased her. Left at 2am.

April 2023 - Gay Man Assaulted by Belfast Bar Staff
Man assaulted by staff at Robinson's bar Belfast after Standing For Women event.

July 2023 - Incitement to Violence at Trans Pride
Sarah Jane Baker told London Trans Pride crowd: "If you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face". Cheered loudly. Recording shared by official London Trans Pride Instagram who defended it: "Sarah and many others hold a lot of rage and they have the right to express that anger".

July 2023 - Woman Seriously Assaulted in Aberdeen
Julie Marshall assaulted at Women Won't Wheesht event. Male activist struck her full in face with sign, glasses flew off, then punched her in arm. Suffered black eye and severe bruising. Esme Houston, trans-identified organiser of protest, celebrated male violence on social media.

August 2023 - 'Millions of Dead Terfs' in San Francisco
WDIUSA conference at Hilton Hotel besieged. Trans activists outside making sexually aggressive gestures, chanting obscenities. Hotel locked doors. One activist held sign "millions of dead terfs". Eight scaled fence trying to attack Meghan Murphy and K Yang on rooftop. They had to run. One attacker physically assaulted hotel general manager.

Nearby art exhibition "A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art of Dissident Feminists" featuring work by lesbian and Black African artists also targeted.

November 2023 - Portland Violence
WDI event at Multnomah County Library. Trans activists stalked organisers to AirBNB, slashed car tyres. Vandalised library - smashed glass doors, spray-painted graffiti. Library forced to close. Event moved outside. 30-50 masked male trans activists descended on 10 women. Threw cans, pepper-sprayed women directly in faces causing temporary blindness. Punched women, pushed them down, kicked them on ground. Four hospitalised. Equipment stolen, phones snatched/destroyed. Elderly uninvolved woman in 70s pushed down. Portland Police never responded to multiple 911 calls reporting active assaults.

This is an excellent reference and historical record, thank you @Helleofabore

SAFEGUARDING IMPLICATIONS : INSTINCTS VS INSTINCT DISRUPTION

Tweet from Amy Sousa says and then there is a link to her video.

Response video: Instincts vs Instinct Disruption

"This response allowed me to clarify how instincts function at a precognitive level. Transgenderism disrupts instincts not just at the level of sex deceptive practices, but also on the level of linguistic manipulations that undermine adaptive responses.

When kids are constantly questioned about their own sex and told they can’t know the sex of others this confuses their senses and ability to trust the signals of their own body. A John’s Hopkins study showed that when children are asked questions that don’t make sense such as “is milk bigger than water” they don’t have the cognitive discernment to toss out the question as ridiculous but believe there must be a “right answer.”

The same is happening to children who are repetitively being asked to answer questions about their “gender identity.” They believe there must be a “right answer.” The relentless questioning is in itself a cognitive disruption that interferes with instinctual responses."

https://x.com/knownheretic/status/1950601958781493755?s=46

Just a reminder though....

Please look back on the Break it down for me? original thread for many more links to studies and papers....

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3145470-Break-it-down-for-me?page=1

Reminder that archived pages of the "Break it down for me?" thread can be found on https://archive.today by entering the URL below into the Search Box - remember to include the asterisk at the end of the URL to see a list of all the pages archived:

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

Brilliant work.

Thank you so much for this. I can’t begin to tell you how helpful this is.

VIDEO COLLECTION OF PSYCHOLOGISTS & THERAPISTS DISCUSSING THE IMPACT OF GENDER IDENTITY

Ryan Rogers compiled this collation of sections of his interviews around this topic. It might be an interesting thought provoker.

https://fairplayforwomen.com/pronouns/

'One of the biggest obstacles to halting the stampede over women’s rights is pronoun and preferred name ‘courtesy’. People severely underestimate the psychological impact to themselves, and to others, of compliance.'

https://sex-matters.org/

Guidance and resources for work, parents, service providers.

https://kpssinfo.org/

Info on prisons (no longer updated)

https://www.transgendertrend.com/

Info and resources on health, schools, etc.

https://www.bayswatersupport.org.uk/

Support group for parents

https://segm.org/
https://genspect.org/

Medical-related organisations

More on prisons:

BBC reality check:

'We submitted Freedom of Information requests to the Ministry of Justice.
It said that 60 of the 125 transgender inmates it counted in England and Wales were serving time for a sexual offence.
This is roughly half - but it's not the full picture.
Remember - those 125 transgender inmates only include people who have had a prison case conference. It won't include transgender people who haven't identified themselves to the prison service or who already have a gender recognition certificate.'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42221629

'The Swedish Study' , shows no change in male offending rates post transition.

'Drawing on criminal convictions data, the study showed, among other findings, that male-to-female transitioners were likely to retain the same risk of male-pattern criminality both in relation to crime generally, and to violent crime. Dhejne et al. summarize this finding in the following terms:
‘In this study, male-to-female individuals had a higher risk for criminal convictions compared to female controls but not compared to male controls. This suggests that the sex reassignment procedure neither increased nor decreased the risk for criminal offending in male-to-females.’ (2011: 6)

https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2021/04/21/long-term-follow-up-of-transsexual-persons-undergoing-sex-reassignment-surgery-cohort-study-in-sweden-a-review-of-dhejne-et-als-findings-on-criminal-convictions/

This is the Victoria, Australia ad campaign where women are being told to ignore their instincts

This is the lift segment

And the full segment

And a reaction video that is worth watching explaining more about it and why women rejected it.

This is a tweet from Aja that is well worth adding here.

David Aaronovitch tweeted on the 20/11/2025

“Why? What does it cost you to have Jan Morris called a woman?”

Ajatheempress answered on the 21/11/2025:

-start-

Glad you asked.
When men get called woman they get put in the “female” box, and it costs women everything we ever fought for. We lose fairness in sport, because suddenly a bloke can walk in, take the medals, the records, the scholarships, and everyone’s meant to clap like it’s progress. We lose the safety of our own spaces — refuges, changing rooms, hospital wards, prisons — all turned into mixed-sex free-for-alls just to keep men’s feelings warm.

We lose dignity, because apparently women aren’t allowed a single moment of privacy without a male body in the room. We lose accuracy in healthcare, because female biology suddenly has to take a back seat to someone’s identity drama. We lose political representation, because men now tick the “woman” box and take seats meant for women. We lose sex-based crime data, because male violence gets washed clean and relabelled as “female offending.”

We lose language — our words, our names for our bodies, our culture — all replaced with creepy pseudo-medical nonsense to avoid hurting men’s egos. We lose the ability to tell the truth about anything: periods, birth, menopause, breastfeeding, lesbianism — everything has to be rewritten to centre men.

We lose single-sex education, religious female-only spaces, and community groups, because apparently every boundary women draw is an act of oppression. We lose funding for women’s organisations unless we agree to pretend men are women. And lesbians? We lose our entire orientation if we don’t perform obedience on command.

We lose safety from male offenders in prison, because their feelings outrank women’s bones. We lose the right to speak openly about male violence without being branded hateful. We lose job protections, because men now qualify for initiatives built to counter sexism against women.

And the biggest loss?
We lose the meaning of the word “woman” — the one political category that exists for a reason: because female people are oppressed as female people. If that category goes, our rights go. Our safety goes. Our history goes. Our future goes.

All because men demanded access to absolutely everything women have, right down to our name.

-end-

Thank you Aja. You have always had such a way with words.

ONE OF THE RESEARCHERS BEHIND HOW WOMEN’s BREASTMILK INTERACT WITH THEIR INFANTS

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19f8K414tC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

In 2008, Katie Hinde stood in a California primate lab staring at hundreds of milk samples. Male babies got richer milk. Females got more volume. Science had missed half the conversation.

She was a postdoctoral researcher at the California National Primate Research Center, analyzing milk from rhesus macaque mothers. For months, she'd been measuring fat content, protein levels, mineral concentrations. The data showed something she hadn't expected: monkey mothers were producing completely different milk depending on whether they'd given birth to sons or daughters.

Sons received milk with higher concentrations of fat and protein—more energy per ounce. Daughters received more milk overall, with higher calcium levels. The biological recipe wasn't universal. It was customized.

Hinde ran the numbers again. The pattern held across dozens of mother-infant pairs. This wasn't random variation. This was systematic.

She thought about what she'd been taught in graduate school. Milk was nutrition. Calories, proteins, fats. A delivery system for energy. But if milk was just fuel, why would it differ based on the baby's sex? Why would mothers unconsciously adjust the formula?

The answer shifted everything: milk wasn't passive. It was a message.
Hinde had arrived at this question through an unusual path. She'd earned her bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Washington, then completed her PhD at UCLA in 2008. While most lactation research focused on dairy cattle or developing infant formulas, Hinde wanted to understand what milk actually did in primate mothers and babies.

At UC Davis, she had access to the largest primate research center in the United States. She could collect milk samples at different stages of lactation, track infant development, measure maternal characteristics. She could ask questions that had never been systematically studied.
Like: why do young mothers produce milk with more stress hormones?

Hinde discovered that first-time monkey mothers produced milk with fewer calories but higher concentrations of cortisol than experienced mothers. Babies who consumed this high-cortisol milk grew faster but were more nervous and less confident. The milk wasn't just feeding the baby's body—it was programming the baby's temperament.

Or: how does milk respond when babies get sick?

Working with researchers who studied infant illness, Hinde found that when babies developed infections, their mothers' milk changed within hours. The white blood cell count in the milk increased dramatically—from around 2,000 cells per milliliter to over 5,000 during acute illness. Macrophage counts quadrupled. The levels returned to normal once the baby recovered.

The mechanism was remarkable: when a baby nurses, small amounts of the baby's saliva travel back through the nipple into the mother's breast tissue. That saliva contains information about the baby's immune status. If the baby is fighting an infection, the mother's body detects the antigens and begins producing specific antibodies, which then flow back to the baby through the milk.
It was a dialogue. The baby's body communicated its needs. The mother's body responded.

Hinde started documenting everything. She collected milk from over 250 rhesus macaque mothers across more than 700 sampling events. She measured cortisol, adiponectin, epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factors. She tracked which babies gained weight faster, which were more exploratory, which were more cautious.

She realized she was mapping a language that had been invisible.
In 2011, Hinde joined Harvard as an assistant professor. She began writing about her findings, but she also noticed something troubling: almost nobody was studying human breast milk with the same rigor applied to other biological systems. When she searched publication databases, she found twice as many studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition.

The world's first food—the substance that had nourished every human who ever lived—was scientifically neglected.
She started a blog: "Mammals Suck...Milk!" The title was deliberately provocative. Within a year, it had over a million views. Parents, clinicians, researchers started asking questions. What bioactive compounds are in human milk? How does milk from mothers of premature babies differ from milk produced for full-term infants? Can we use this knowledge to improve formulas or help babies in NICUs?
Hinde's research expanded. She studied how milk changes across the day (fat concentration peaks mid-morning). She investigated how foremilk differs from hindmilk (babies with bigger appetites who nurse longer get higher-fat milk at the end of feeding). She examined how maternal characteristics—age, parity, health status, social rank—shaped milk composition.

In 2013, she created March Mammal Madness, a science outreach event that became an annual tradition in hundreds of classrooms. In 2014, she co-authored "Building Babies." In 2016, she received the Ehrlich-Koldovsky Early Career Award from the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation for making outstanding contributions to the field.

By 2017, when she delivered her TED talk, she could articulate what she'd discovered across a decade of research: breast milk is food, medicine, and signal. It builds the baby's body and fuels the baby's behavior. It carries bacteria that colonize the infant gut, hormones that influence metabolism, oligosaccharides that feed beneficial microbes, immune factors that protect against pathogens.
More than 200 varieties of oligosaccharides alone. The baby can't even digest them—they exist to nourish the right community of gut bacteria, preventing harmful pathogens from establishing.

The composition is as unique as a fingerprint. No two mothers produce identical milk. No two babies receive identical nutrition.
In 2020, Hinde appeared in the Netflix docuseries "Babies," explaining her findings to a mass audience. She'd moved to Arizona State University, where she now directs the Comparative Lactation Lab. Her research continues to reveal new dimensions of how milk shapes infant outcomes from the first hours of life through childhood.
She works on precision medicine applications—using knowledge of milk bioactives to help the most fragile infants in neonatal intensive care units. She consults on formula development, helping companies create products that better replicate the functional properties of human milk for mothers who face obstacles to breastfeeding.

The implications extend beyond individual families. Understanding milk informs public health policy, workplace lactation support, clinical recommendations. It reveals how maternal characteristics, environmental conditions, and infant needs interact in real time through a biological messaging system that's been evolving for 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs.

Katie Hinde didn't just study milk. She revealed that the most ancient form of nourishment was also the most sophisticated. What science had treated as simple nutrition was actually a dynamic, responsive communication between two bodies—a conversation that shapes human development one feeding at a time.

Here is another artlicle about her work

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2016/04/22/breast-milk-liquid-gold-infants-hinde-says

a study

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35352583/

And where her work has led to so far

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/09/11/breast-milks-benefits-are-not-limited-to-babies

Yes, there’s so much about breastfeeding that is based in basic human biology / dimorphism. It’s sickening that so many ppl have sold out to the fetishising men here.

AN EXCELLENT ARTICLE WITH MULTIPLE EXAMPLES OF TRANS-IDENTIFIED MEN DESCRIBING THEMSELVES AS "BIOLOGICAL WOMEN"

"Is it really true that “no one's denying the reality of biological sex”? There seems to be a lot of people doing that thing that "no one" is doing"

https://speakingplainly.substack.com/p/is-it-really-true-that-no-ones-denying

SARAH VINE KC AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE 2025

From 4.11 minus

"I am yet to encounter anybody who can explain, describe or define gender identity to me without finally resorting to an acceptance that it is essentially a
metaphysical belief. I should be absolutely clear. I do not deride or demean metaphysical beliefs. I have plenty of them myself.

I do not however in a democratic society expect them to be protected as though they were material characteristics."

then at 7.20 mins

"more than Stonewall, more than any of their uh connected or aligned organizations, there is one man in this country who is, if you'll excuse me, fucking dying for for this government to pass this legislation, both in terms of conversion practices and in terms of hate crime.

That person is Nigel Farage. He will have the biggest party about blasphemy
law. And the worst thing about it is he'll be right. Because what you're
doing when you are saying we will protect transgender identity or indeed gender identity above and beyond any other belief is that we have now created a hierarchy of beliefs and the belief in gender identity and the manifestation of that belief sits at the top.

Everything else is subordinate to that. That is not a proper balance of rights.

So here are the problems then with a law involving transgender identity.

The definitions that are currently available in legal sources go like this.
Section 11 of the Hate Crime and Public Order Scotland Act 2021
defines transgender identity as follows.

A person is a member of a group defined by reference to transgender identity if the person is a maleto-female transgender person, a female to-male transgender person, a non-binary person, a person who crossdresses.

When you boil it down, the definition of transgender in that act is transgender.
Helpful. Um, section 666, it's probably a coincidence of the sentencing act,
states this references to being transgender include references to being
transsexual or undergoing, proposing to undergo or having undergone a process or a part of a process of gender reassignment.

What the keen eyed and keenrained among you may have noticed there is that that is not a definition because a definition by definition excludes everything that does not fall within it. That definition excludes nothing. It tells you what it does include but it doesn't tell you what it excludes.

This however is my favorite. It's not law exactly, but this is taken from the
Crown Prosecution Service charging guidance on consent, specifically sexual
consent. These are the words that they have used and published.

The way in which someone is perceived or experiences themselves is commonly known as gender identity.

So um if you can't define something um I know a lot of people go it's fine
we can let the court sort it out. can't let the court sort it out because if you
have something that is completely nebulous, you are simply setting into train
endless endless endless litigation.

Here is a snipped clip

https://x.com/treesey/status/1996545116774002689?s=20

Full video

CARROTANDCORNSOUP : A LETTER TO THE WOMAN WHO CALLED ME A TERF

Because we should have a reminder of the breadth of this issue and how long women have been clearly articulating the issues.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/3108929-a-letter-to-the-woman-who-called-me-a-terf?reply=73953319

To the woman who shrieked at me that I am a bigot and a terf and a hateful transphobe for defending women's rights,

Ten, fifteen years from now, I ask you to remember me.

Remember me when you have your first baby and you're referred to throughout your pregnancy as a birthing individual, a pregnant person, and it makes you feel kind of dehumanised and you wish they'd just call you a woman, a mother, because that's what you are. But they're not allowed, because it's illegal to say only women can be pregnant and give birth.

Remember me when you give birth and you feel vulnerable and exposed and you really want a woman beside you who understands what you're going through and instead your midwife is a six foot man with stubble in a dress and you know he isn't a woman but you're not allowed to object, even when you need to be examined and you just want a woman to do it but you know you can't say anything because that would be hate speech, even though your body is screaming no.

Remember me when your elderly mother, who has lost her mind to dementia, goes into a care home and is told that her carer, Susan, is a woman, because you asked that she only be cared for by women. And even in her addled state of mind, she knows that Susan is a man, and you know Susan is a man, but you cannot object, and she has to allow Susan to perform her intimate care, because to object would be hate speech.

Remember me when your daughter comes home from school crying, the daughter who has spent the last five years training to be the best athlete in her class, her school, her district, she's crying because Lucas in her class, one of the fastest boys, has decided he identifies as female for now and so is allowed to run in her race, and she knows it doesn't matter how hard she trains, he will always beat her, and she can only ever hope for a silver medal now. Or bronze, if there is another Lucas.

Remember me when you go into a toilet late at night, perhaps in a bar, and there's noone else around, and a guy walks in, he has a beard and is wearing jeans and a t shirt, and the way he looks at you seems off, and you feel afraid and unsettled and worried he might hurt you. But you can't challenge him, because if you do he'll say he's a woman and has as much right as you do to be in this toilet, a place where many years ago you might have come to feel safe.

Remember me when you go for a promotion, for a board position at work that's designated for a woman. You've put in the hours, you've worked so hard, you know you deserve it. And the position goes to Lola, who until last year was a 50 year old man. Lola will never do anything inconvenient like needing time off to have babies, or to deal with any health issues that you, a woman might face, like endometriosis, breast cancer, PND. Lola is a woman just like you, and your company are happy that they have fulfilled their quota of women members on the board.

Remember me when you read on the news that crime statistics for women committing rape and murder are on the increase, and now women carry out a much higher number of rapes and murders than they did when you were a teenager or a young woman. And you know that these 'women' are men and that the statistics are wrong, but to challenge this would be hate speech. Remember me too, when these women rapists are locked up with vulnerable women in female prisons and cannot escape, because to challenge the presence of the women rapists with penises in prison with them would be hate speech.

Remember me when your son comes home from school and says that he's learned at school that you can change sex and that some girls have penises and some boys have vaginas and that his teacher said that because he likes playing with girls and dolls that maybe he is really a girl in the wrong body. And you think, no, you are just my wonderful, unique, son, and you were born in your own body.

Remember me when a few months down the line the teacher calls you in and says she's concerned that you are not validating your son's identity and that she's noticed you are still referring to him by the name you so carefully chose for him when he was born, and calling him a boy, when he is actually a girl, and that she doesn't want to have to involve social services but she's worried she might have to if you continue to misgender your son and deny his real identity. And you know that she will, because it's happened before in a school near you, and you are afraid.

In this brave new world that you helped to create, look around for your transactivist friends, your lefty male allies, the ones you stood beside and yellled 'terf, transphobe, bigot' with, with you shouting the loudest, because you wanted to show what a good ally you were, how inclusive, how progressive. Where are they now? Why, they are where they always were. Benefitting from the patriarchy. Enjoying the new, improved version of it that you helped them to build by crushing the resistance from the women who spoke up for their rights. This has all cost them nothing; it has made the world a better, easier place for men. It has cost you and your sisters who campaigned with them for virtue cookies, everything.

And me? I'll be where I've always been. Fighting for your rights. Fighting to undo the damage.

I'll have your back, as I always have done.

AN INTERVIEW THAT GIVES A PERSPECTIVE OF PART OF THE HISTORY OF THE THEORY OF GENDER IDENTITY:

The War on Norms: Derrick Jensen Traces Anarchism, Queer Theory, and Trans

From Beyond Gender with Stella O’Malley

Derrick Jensen is an environmental philosopher and author of over 25 books. In this conversation with Stella and Bret, he traces the intellectual lineage from anarchism through queer theory to trans, explaining how the rejection of all social norms, including those protecting children, found its way into academic theory and beyond.

Jensen discusses how his book The Culture of Make Believe predicted the rise of the insane right, but when he tried to write a companion critique of the insane left, his publisher held the manuscript for five years before dropping him entirely for criticizing queer theory.

He walks through the founding documents most people have never actually read, including Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay "Thinking Sex" and Michel Foucault's advocacy for abolishing age of consent laws. The conversation also covers Karen Horney's concept of "womb envy," Peggy Reeves Sanday's cross-cultural research on sexual violence, and DARVO, the pattern where abusers deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender.

Stella and Bret also ask Jensen about his viral "Queer Theory Jeopardy" moment.

Another example of a male person using ‘female’ to describe himself when sex matters

https://archive.is/ZLmix

Trans stalker tells judge 'I'm a female' in demand for switch to women's prison

12 Dec 2025

Vivienne Taylor, 28, is currently in custody awaiting sentence for the pursuit of Tina Rashid, in actions which stretched across four years.
At a hearing at Isleworth crown court on Monday, Taylor joined on a videolink from HMP Wandsworth, a male category B jail in south London.

“I have a female recognition certificate”, Taylor told Judge Hannah Duncan. “I am a female.
“I should be treated as such, I should go to Bronzefield or another female establishment.”

However, the judge replied: “While in the prison estate, where you are hosted is not something that has anything to do with me.

LEONARD SAX REBUTTAL OF 1.7% ‘INTERSEX’ STATISTIC FROM FAUSTO - STERLING

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/

How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling

Leonard Sax, August 2002

Abstract

Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.

TL/DR

the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%.

It is discussed here in this article :

https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/intersex-is-not-as-common-as-red

Here we can see that the large majority (88 percent) of Fausto-Sterling’s 1.7 percent figure is taken up by one condition: late-onset adrenal hyperplasia (LOCAH). These individuals have completely normal male or female genitalia at birth that align with their sex chromosomes. The sex of these individuals is not ambiguous, so to label LOCAH as an intersex condition is a far cry from what most people and clinicians conceptually envision the term to capture.

The next most prevalent DSD on Fausto-Sterling’s list include any chromosomal deviations from classical XX and XY (e.g. Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, etc.). However, these conditions do not result in ambiguous genitalia and therefore cannot be considered intersex in any clinically relevant sense. (see my previous post about why sex chromosome variants are not their own unique sexes.)

Lastly, vaginal agenesis, the next most common DSD on the list, is not generally considered an intersex condition, as girls with this condition are genotypically XX, possess perfectly normal ovaries, and can become pregnant and birth their own children following vaginoplasty.

They are unambiguously female.
When these common DSDs are removed, and intersex conditions are more precisely defined as “conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female,”Fausto-Sterling’s 1.7 percent figure drops dramatically. According to Sax, “Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling's estimate of 1.7%.”

A LIST OF UK SPECIFIC SEX CRIMES INVOLVING MALE PEOPLE WITH TRANS IDENTITIES IN FEMALE TOILETS

https://x.com/suzxu/status/1903148306043220462?s=46

Katie Dolatowski, a p3dophile male identifying as trans, convicted of voyeurism & sexually assaulting a young girl in a female toilet in 2018 & allowed into a Leeds Women’s Aid refuge with vulnerable women & kids.

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10492612/trans-paedo-katie-dolatowski-dad-lock-him-up/

Ivan Blidar, arrested for spying on a woman in a female toilet, claimed he thought Britain’s LGBTQ rules let him choose, saying, “I identify as a woman, I’m gay, I can pick any toilet—it’s usual in London pubs.”

https://archive.is/z3JS3

Ian Bullock, a violent male identifying as female, convicted Dec 2022 at Birmingham court for sexually assaulting a woman in public toilets at Birmingham New Street station.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ian-wright-british-transport-police-birmingham-crown-court-b1062093.html

Kurtis Mawson, a trans p3dophile, jailed for filming women in female toilets near Durham’s Odeon & sexually assaulting a tourist on a bridge. The 22-yr-old was caught standing on a toilet, peering into the next cubicle.

https://archive.is/00EOy

Joseph/Jo White, a violent male identifying as trans, jailed 5 yrs in 2018 for sexual assault, voyeurism, & making child abuse images. Abused a 2-yr-old & 11-yr-old, filmed women in bathrooms. "Heinous" crimes spanned 7 yrs.

transcrime Uk.com/2024/05/28/joseph-jo-white/

( copy and paste the above link and close the space between crime and UK - done so link isn’t hidden by MN).

Steven Ballantyne, a trans male, convicted Aug 2022 of outraging decency. Caught wearing a bra, masturbating in a ladies toilet at Alnwick petrol station, seen by a mum, her 5-yr-old, & another woman.

( Note: he was a tutor/teacher)

transcrime uk.com/2024/01/28/steven-ballantyne/

( copy and paste the above link and close the space between crime and UK - done so link isn’t hidden by MN).

Jonathon/Charlene Mallon, violent male identifying as trans, jailed for life in 2014 for raping & assaulting 6 women over 13 yrs. Met victims at church, abused them in toilets & homes. "Monstrous" acts, min 10 yrs before parole.

https://reduxx.info/scotland-serial-rapist-seeking-transfer-to-womens-prison-following-name-change/

Paul Neary, a trans male, convicted 2016 for child abuse images, got suspended sentence. Worked as ice cream seller 18 months. Found with Barbie dolls, kids’ underwear, & photos of sex acts in public toilets near his van.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/paedophile-ice-cream-van-man-22762417

Lee Baker/Tiffany Aching, violent male identifying as trans, convicted of stalking in 2017. Fined £200, no jail. Posted pics from female toilets & women in underwear on X, reported women questioning gender ideology.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6906977/Transgender-army-veteran-jailed-15-months-harassment-campaign.html

Joel Hardman, violent trans male, convicted 2011 for voyeurism, spied on women in female toilets with a rubber mask & wig—first at uni, then Bullring mall. Stabbed a cop in 2012, convicted of assault & knife possession.

https://archive.is/0aNn9

Mark Lazarus, violent trans male, jailed indefinitely 2012 for trying to rape a 71-yr-old in a female toilet. Carried out attacks on women & girls while he was dressed in female clothing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209304/Mark-Lazarus-Cross-dressing-sex-attacker-obsessed-skirts-tried-rape-woman-71-Teignmouth-Devon.html

AMY SOUSA - INSIGHT INTO MANIPULATION ON CONSENT and LANGUAGE.

I think this is a useful video in that Amy highlights several important things.

One is the nature of the boundary violations of male people, that even a boundary violation by deception is a significant issue.

But she also highlights the tactics and emotional manipulation that underlie the rhetoric people use to demand that male people are treated as if they are female people.
Remembering of course, that this can only ever be premised from a philosophical position. Because there is no material way for male person to change sex and someone’s feelings of gender dysphoria does not mean that they are materially the sex they want to believe they are.

https://x.com/knownheretic/status/2006188958586380420?s=46

Once you can strip away the emotionally manipulative language and behaviour, there is no logic or science that supports the demand that male people should be treated as if they are female