Sex and the Data Bill

[@pinwheelart2825]

Insanity. Thanks for the breakdown. ♀️✊🏽💖

[@robbiespence6504]

Maya Forstater once compared the original mangling of sex and gender data to government witness protection schemes, that is, something that was only needed for a very few citizens. Like Jan Morris, for example. The data about numbers in this video show how it's changed out of all recognition to those original benevolent intentions and how it's now creating more problems than it could ever solve.

[@jonah9861]

If you reject Christ, you reject your Family, Architecture, Flag, your Heritage.. and you become an atom, isolated and vulnerable to be replaced. Return to Christ. Soon.

[@Lycaerix]

I wish people would stop pretending that sex and gender are distinct. They're not. It's why it's their *sex* characteristics that are offensive to them; why the *sex* on identity documents is changed; it's why the *sex*-specific spaces, rights, privileges, etc. are appropriated. For goodness sakes, when will people stop playing along with this nonsense and stop lying to themselves and each other. If even people opposing this nonsense cannot grasp that sex and gender are synonymous then we're all doomed. This is biological gender. Not grammatical gender. Stop this rubbish.

[@ireallymeanthis2760]

"gender", a word the other side have a great deal of trouble defining, is used to disguise,deflect & confuse.

[@sonmi2246]

They actually are distinct (if intimately related) concepts, but that doesn't change anything else that you correctly pointed out. Sex, of course (in this context), refers to the reproductive organization of a body around the production of one of two gamete types-- it refers to the categorical distinction btwn male and female; whereas gender (if it is to have any coherent definition) refers to a set of attributes, behaviors and-- in the case of humans-- social roles which are associated with one sex or the other. This definition is used in fields of naturalism and zoology as well in order to describe sexed behaviors and the division of labor among other sexually reproducing organisms. But basically: gender is a *derivative* of sex, and is not a discreet category the way the former is; one does not "have" a "gender" the way that one has a sex. And that's the issue here: for all their (the TRA's) talk of "sex and gender are different!" they are actually the ones continually conflating the two-- they have no coherent definition of gender-- it means whatever they need/want it to mean in the moment and for the sake of the argument. And we all know that when one of these men, for example, declares himself to be a "woman", he means an actual adult, human *female* -- not some abstraction of a feminine "gender" -- which is why they chemically and surgically alter their *sexed* bodies, and demand access to spaces which are segregated for the female *sex* . Of course there are also many people who simply use the words as synonyms-- probably bc it feels more "polite" to say "gender" rather than "sex"-- and this adds to the confusion (a confusion with TRAs are happy to exploit). My advice is to simply dispense with the word "gender" altogether-- we can just as easily use "personality" to describe certain male-typical or female-typical traits-- and only use "sex" when discussing this topic.