8 thoughts on “Today’s Joke. Tomorrow’s Reality”

  1. Remember when the “I want to be a woman” scene from Monty Python’s The Life of Brian was so funny because it was so insane?

  2. Conversely, one must ask whether “Trans-only” events discriminate against the cis-gendered and LGB… community?

    Probably don’t work that way….

  3. There doesn’t seem to be a problem with women putting on fake beards and invading men’s spaces. I wonder why not?

  5. There is something deeply sexual about the need men have to invade and control women’s intimate spaces. There is even a proverb for it — “a cock in the henhouse.”

  6. Worth noting is that the U.S. rowing federation recently decided that the women on “mixed” crews (4 men/4 women) needed to be XX, but the women on woman-only boats can be either XX or XY (or whatever I guess). Those who want to have women’s sports as XX only have concluded that it’s the men’s rights that matter to them, not the women’s.

  7. “Commissioner Bolt claimed ‘sex’ was not a protected attribute, but gender identity was.”

    So I’m a bit confused, biological sex is not a protected attribute so the lesbians cannot discriminate against biological males because gender identity is protected. I guess this is a problem because we use the same words for sex and gender, which makes sense because sex and gender used to be synonymous.

  8. Gender is a word that applies to language, not biology. I use gendered language to recognize the biological sex of the person I am discussing. Some languages do this, some do not. As far as I can tell, the word ‘gender” became synonymous with “biological sex” in the early 1960s. This was because the word “sex” became synonymous with copulation in the 20th century, and people wanted a word other than “sex” to use when referring to biological sex.

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