I'm late to this - thread, and article. How do we protect gender rights of all, while respecting hard won distinct rights for women?https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1104077126469332992 …
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Replying to @SwahiliStreet
Hm, just read the thread/article. Call for evidence-based discussion fine, but striking that a # of claims themselves not evidence-based/drawing on assumptions, e.g. re supposed consequences of loss of privacy, dignity, female only sports, etc for women. Are those consequences?
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Replying to @MCollord @SwahiliStreet
2 thoughts. (1) They will come down to matters of perception/opinion, in most cases, wh/ is why you can't get away from this being a fundamentally *political* issue (women themselves have v diff views on this, altho some women do try to speak 4 others in fairly problematic way)
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Replying to @MCollord @SwahiliStreet
(2) Points about sports or differences in male and female bodies generally (wh/ are based on averages of course) risks actually putting women in a box, i.e. its bad for women and trans women. E.g. seee cases around female athletes seen as androgenous.
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Sports are segregated by sex not gender identity. Because there are wide differences in male & female bodies. Flo Jo's 100m record has stood for 20 years, but is beaten by hundreds of men & boys every year. in basketball where the tallest women are smaller than the average men.pic.twitter.com/lNxftz45NX
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