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A network for journalists and content-makers across platforms who seek to restore accuracy and impartiality to media coverage of sex and gender

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Thanks Paula. We’ll see how this goes!
November 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Then no doubt you’ll make a report.

Our account is based on accuracy. If it’s banned, so be it. We can’t lie.
November 17, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Not a fact. There’s no evidence to support it, and a compelling weight of evidence against.

In addition it’s an incoherent claim. For example it would be impossible for you to explain what the words ‘trans’ ‘are’ and ‘women’ mean.

But you must be allowed to make the claim and try to justify it.
November 17, 2024 at 10:01 PM
He’s right. We would like to post on Bluesky.

However our number one focus is accuracy. If we aren’t allowed to make accurate posts on here about sex and gender, the account will have to remain dormant.
November 17, 2024 at 9:45 PM
You’re free to express this view too. It’s very rude though.

However we aren’t wrong, and we are trying to find out if Bluesky will allow truthful statements about the differences females and males.

We hope so.
November 17, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Thank you for your posts! And the interesting conversation.

Whatever causes people to have dysphoria, the facts remain it’s impossible to be the opposite sex because of your brain, or to have an opposite sex brain.

A man with dysphoria is not a woman, he’s a man with dysphoria (and vice versa).
November 17, 2024 at 9:20 PM
You are free to express this view. It’s the responsibility of media outlets to explain that you are wrong.
November 17, 2024 at 7:37 PM
But it’s not possible to have an ‘opposite sex’ phenotype unless you link sex to particular behaviours/traits.

As soon as a trait/phenotype ascribed to ‘female’ is found in a male brain, it’s no longer uniquely female. It’s shared.

So it’s necessarily impossible to have an opposite sex brain.
November 17, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Sex is a rigid binary based on the gamete your body ‘is designed’ (has developed) to produce.

Large gamete (egg) - female. Small gamete (sperm) - male.
November 17, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Sex is a rigid binary based on the gamete your body ‘is designed’ (has developed) to produce.

Large gamete (egg) - female. Small gamete (sperm) - male.
November 17, 2024 at 4:13 PM
‘Differences’ or even ‘variations’ is the preferred term. Intersex should not be used as it implies people are in between the sexes.

Tests are indeed usually done to determine sex where there is doubt.

Not always: Caster Semenya was ‘assigned’ female but is male.
November 17, 2024 at 4:12 PM
They are the science facts from pre-history and until the human race (and mammal biology) dies out.

No legacy media outlet currently makes this clear. All are willing and enthusiastic distributors of untruths about sex and gender.

We hope that will change.
November 17, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Gender has several different meanings. It’s hard to tell which one people have in mind.

Sometimes people use it to mean a kind of ‘brain sex’, separate from the body. There’s no such thing. The brain is the same sex as the body.

People have feelings but they don’t determine what sex they are.
November 17, 2024 at 9:37 AM
We block abuse.
November 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM
They are all either male or female. Everyone has a sex. No one is in between.

These are called disorders/differences in sexual development or DSDs. They are diagnosed according to which sex the person is.
November 17, 2024 at 9:32 AM
Yes, though it’s based on gametes, with chromosomes as a marker.

Sex matters in many areas of public policy and provision. It’s well-evidenced.

For example: mixed sex changing rooms and toilets result in more sexual offences against women. Single sex wards and counselling promote female recovery.
November 17, 2024 at 9:31 AM
There are two sexes, they’re based on gametes, and no one can change sex or has ever changed sex.

Impartiality means acknowledging these facts and then publishing a range of views around them.

For example: your view is not fact-based but no one should prevent you from expressing it.
November 17, 2024 at 9:26 AM