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The history of left handedness, showing a huge rise in rates from 2% for those born in approx. 1910, reaching a plateau for those born in the 1950s and later of approx 12%
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
Charles

It's basic biology

It is just excruciating to see someone sooooooo wrong being soooooo patronizing.
phenotype, all the observable characteristics of an organism that result from the interaction of its genotype (total genetic inheritance) with the environment. Examples of observable characteristics include behaviour, biochemical properties, colour, shape, and size.
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
"I never said they were"

It is pretty pointless having a discussion with someone who freely lies, constantly shifts the goalposts, and is unable to acknowledge and correct their own misunderstandings
Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social • 7mo → Replied to my mamas child The two classes whose bodies are organised towards production of either the small or large gamete. Small: male. Large: female. Sterile humans still have body organisation around one or the other gamete. (Boys, post-menopausal women.) This is extremely basic biology which you should know. Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social • 6mo - Replied to my mamas child Body organised towards production of large gametes. You haven't described why you think you don't match that criterion. Or the male one. Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social • 6mo → Replied to tharook Your pancreas is organised to produce insulin. Some people have a pancreas that does not do that, but their body is still organised towards the task (inter alia) of producing insulin. It's not an accident. Charles Arthur @charlesarthur.bsky.social • 1d → Replied to Until All of Us Are Free 1: sex in mammals fits that description. 2: you mistake the definition (which gamete the body is organised towards making) and how we can easily (via cheek swab) determine it. Some instances aren't as easily determined, but are still only male or female.
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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She-ing is a word ffs

lithub.com/the-feints-a...
In the Polari speaker's world, gender was linguistically reversed— he was she and (less commonly) she became he. This practice of feminizing through language, referred to by artist and Sister of Perpetual Indulgence (Manchester branch) Jez Dolan, is referred to as "she-ing." She-ing is one of the aspects of Polari that has survived into more recent decades, and the practice was so pervasive at a particular bar on Canal Street in Manchester's Gay Village that a "She-box" was installed a few years ago, akin to a "Swear-box," where patrons would have to put in a few coins if they she'd someone, with the proceeds being donated to charity.
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Of course this is simply recycled homophobia as used as part of the accusation of "social contagion"

The same hate, the same target, the novel stupidity of those like you buying into it

scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...
E. Homosexuals Demand "Special Rights," Not Mere Toleration According to pro-family organizations, not only do homosexuals infringe on the rights of others when they express their homosexuality, but the very rights that they are asserting are "special rights."*) As the first maxim of the contagion model proves, homosexuals are not a valid
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
From the Gay Liberation Front Manifesto

1971
The truth is that there are no proven systematic differences between male and female, apart from the obvious biological ones. systems are different, and so are certain other physical characteristics, but all differences of temperament, aptitudes and so on, are the result of upbringing and social pressures. They are not inborn. Human beings could be much more various than our constricted patterns of 'masculine" and 'feminine' permit - we should be free to develop with greater individuality. But as things are at present, there are only these two stereotyped roles into which everyone is supposed to fit, and most people - including gay people too - are apt to be alarmed when they hear these stereotypes or gender roles children 'won't know how to grow up if they have no one to identify with', or that 'everyone will be the same', i.e. that there will be either utter chaos or total conformity. There would in fact be a greater variety of models and more freedom for experimentation, but there is no reason to suppose this will lead to chaos. By our very existence as gay people, we challenge these roles. It can easily be seen that homosexuals don't fit into the stereotypes of masculine and feminine, and this is one of the main reasons why we become the object of suspicion, since everyone is taught that these and only these two roles are appropriate. Male and female genitals and reproductive attacked, fearing that
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
“oh I suppose everyone who has a different economic opinion is a Nazi now huh?!”
Nazi propaganda advocating an economic case for killing people
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
IIRC the scope of your scientific reading is unfortunately limited due to the access costs. 🤷‍♀️

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
(46,XY females) or have a female ke yotype but are phenotypically male (46,XX males). 46, XX male is rare (1:20 000 in newborn males), and SRY positivity is responsible for this condition in approximately 90% of these subjects. External genitalia of 46,XX SRY-positive males appear as normal male external
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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I'm unclear how the SRY test works in this situation 🤔
Results): SRY was present in both twins, but no mutations were detected in the SRY conserved motif. Monozygosity was confirmed by the use of short tandem repeat analysis in four loci: c-fms, thyroid peroxidase, von Willebrand factor, and tyrosine hydroxylase. The karyotype was 46,XY uniformly in both twins. Conclusion(s): Monozygotic twins can develop discordant male and female phenotypes despite the presence of a common karyotype and despite the presence of intact testis-determining genes. In the present case, this could be due to mutation or to mosaicism involving occult 45,X cell lines in the dysgenetic gonads.
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
payitnomind.bsky.social
the prejudice expert has checked in
lulurockinsmith.bsky.s... @luluroc... • 1mo ..and yet you, as a woman, have the privilege to make a sweeping negative statement about men and not only not be castigated for it, but applauded for it.
November 2, 2025 at 11:06 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
You appear to be suggesting that 457 is less than 100.

Depressing that the mental contortions of transphobia lead you to simply dismiss the severe levels of violence that trans people routinely experience through this pathetic whataboutery. Crass, cold, and cruel.
Sample Size: 457 Transgender adults in GB Fieldwork: 23rd July - 11th August 2025
November 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This is an article that literally discusses the strong case for a “noncategorical” approach, btw

Do you not read the hand-me-down citations that you parrot?
May 31, 2025 at 10:07 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
Your own citation - which uses outdated and stigmatising terminology - does not agree with you
making with respect to surgical intervention is perhaps the most difficult. The decision itself is paradoxical in that it often pertains to the future status of an individual that cannot be known until later in life (e.g., gender identity, sexual orientation, psychosexual functioning, and the person's sense of authenticity [Pachankis, 2007; Quinn & Chaudoir, 2009]). Historically, decisions about surgical
May 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
Me: pointing out that a gene isn't "for" something if it that something is not, in fact, instantiated by that gene

You:
Nigel Tufnel from Spinal Tap, captioned "Well That's Just Nitpicking, Innit?"
February 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
None of that implies therefore that biological sex is defined in terms of "what would have happened if it had but it didn't but should of", which is actually the mast you've tied yourself to
Tweet from Charles a day ago, with some text highlighted: Charles Arthur‬ ‪@charlesarthur.bsky.social‬ When I’ve seen biologists use “biological sex” they don’t split it in that way. (Begin highlighting) The biological sex is the intended role in reproduction. (End highlighting) The other stuff is malleable - hence some doctors will say “hormonal sex”, “anatomical sex” etc.
February 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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remember when GCs confidently proclaimed that certain roles in ballet could only be performed by "biological women" and got ripped for it by people that actually knew anything about ballet?
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February 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
payitnomind.bsky.social
Why isn't this called the "DSD pride flag" Charles
Intersex pride flag
February 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM