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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. PalMD‏ @palmd 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @MarkHoofnagle and

      What I am saying is that rather than treating sex/gender as a high school debate contest to be won on rhetoric, it harms science not at all to acknowledge that human sex is far more complicated than sexual dimorphism, zygotes, etc.

      6 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
    2. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @palmd @MarkHoofnagle and

      Well me might completely agree on that in that human sexual behaviours and social expressions, expectations, norms etc are vast. But we cannot understand those aspects of we cannot clear about our human biology.

      1 reply 0 retweets 79 likes
    3. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @palmd and

      I got involved in this debate because the absurd fashionable ideas about sex have concrete impacts on (a) preserving sex-based rights and protecting for women and (b) harmfull approaches to children who experience gender dysphoria.

      3 replies 8 retweets 151 likes
    4. PalMD‏ @palmd 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @MarkHoofnagle and

      That is frankly bullshit.

      5 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
    5. PalMD‏ @palmd 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @palmd @lecanardnoir and

      “Sex-based rights” is what? I suspect it is actually gender based, given that both rights and gender are social constructs.

      5 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    6. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @palmd @MarkHoofnagle and

      Socially constructed rights have no requirement to be formulated around other socially constructed ideas. Age might be one. Your sexuality another. Pregnancy is not socially constructed. All these have rights and protections associated with them.

      2 replies 1 retweet 108 likes
    7. PalMD‏ @palmd 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @MarkHoofnagle and

      Really? Rights are always based on social constructs, ultimately. Just look at the abortion debate. Not everyone agrees on what pregnant is because the bio and social are inseparable in the context of rights.

      7 replies 1 retweet 18 likes
    8. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @palmd @MarkHoofnagle and

      Is your age socially constructed? Your sex is not. Although the fashionable idea is to deny this. Your sexuality is not. But if you you deny sex is material and objective then sexuality must be denied too. In what possible sense is this progressive?

      6 replies 0 retweets 139 likes
    9. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @palmd and

      Yes age is socially constructed. We decided it starts at birth, because the definition predates understanding of reproduction. In the end we are all billions of years old - a continuous thread of life. And we chose a point along each split - arbitrarily - to age the individual.

      299 replies 7 retweets 48 likes
    10. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 31 Aug 2019
      Replying to @MarkHoofnagle @palmd and

      How does your conception of age help us protect children from various forms of exploitation? "The person's age was a construct your honour. Perhaps they were billions of years old. That is why I tried to have sex with them". The mind boggles.

      5 replies 10 retweets 268 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Sep 2019
      Replying to @lecanardnoir @MarkHoofnagle and

      Funny how you leapt from a discussion of the arbitrariness of how we define people's age to pedophilia. Disturbing.

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        2. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 1 Sep 2019
          Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle and

          David. The context was rights and protections and how we set objective standards in upholding those protections based on objective criteria like sex and age. But by all means, argue with those that wish to pretend such attributes are mere arbitrary "social constructions".

          2 replies 0 retweets 10 likes
        3. Le Canard Noir‏ @lecanardnoir 1 Sep 2019
          Replying to @lecanardnoir @gorskon and

          It is astonishing that no thinking person in the US, with a few exceptions like Ophelia B, has the courage to say that humans are sexed creatures and that their sex is a material fact. Are you prepared to say that?

          3 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
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        2. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 1 Sep 2019
          Replying to @frozenwarning @lecanardnoir and

          I did, and he did.

          2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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