Here is a good example in development of saying "gender" but meaning sex....https://twitter.com/DaveEvansPhD/status/1171763570826104835 …
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Its fine, here. Everyone knows that
@MadhulikaKhanna really means sex in the paper.... but on the other hand@PlanUK have a whole programme on how menstruation affects some school pupils, but it has thrown away both the words 'girl' and 'female' to describe the pupils it affectspic.twitter.com/N9EycNozd2
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And Plan is an org that says it's *all about girls*....and yet it's promoting the idea that there is no objective reality of being female. You cannot stand up for girls while at the same time making it unsayable that female children are girls and will grow up to be womenpic.twitter.com/K3XbYhdh6b
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I complained to them & withdrew my long-standing sponsorship over this. Their reply was quite astonishing. They claim they’re being inclusive to people who DO NOT identify as women.
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‘It is certainly not our intention to cause any offence or upset because of any of the campaigns we run however moving forward, Plan International UK aims to be as inclusive as possible...’
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@MForstater I'm asking Evans what they mean by good nutrition. Bc I'm making a thread and 1 thing I tweeted was that women if not for so many chemicals in food and cosmetics in our ancient past would be having their menarche at 18. Menarche is starting earlier in the last 100yrs -
That's just related to regular nutrition I think.calories, protein --> body fat percentage
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