Rowan Maddox
@romaddox.bsky.social
New here. Disability and trans researcher, focusing on the anti-gender and gender-critical movements, living in Norway. Friend to a great dog, runner, film-watcher, fan of mushrooms, and sometime radio DJ. Nice to meet you!
Don't understand why terfs don't see this. Or do they and they just don't care cos it's more important to be rid of trans people? Horrible and confusing times, honestly.
August 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Don't understand why terfs don't see this. Or do they and they just don't care cos it's more important to be rid of trans people? Horrible and confusing times, honestly.
edit: To be clear, I don't mean trans women have testosterone levels like men - just referring to the imagined idea of testosterone and its role that anti-trans people are working with.
August 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
edit: To be clear, I don't mean trans women have testosterone levels like men - just referring to the imagined idea of testosterone and its role that anti-trans people are working with.
This is applying to chess too. Male pattern testosterone makes people smarter, stronger and all around better at everything I guess! (/s)
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This is applying to chess too. Male pattern testosterone makes people smarter, stronger and all around better at everything I guess! (/s)
Not to engage with this complete and utter BS, but it's suggested that men are equal to, or worse, than women at endurance sports such as ultra marathons or long distance swimming.
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Not to engage with this complete and utter BS, but it's suggested that men are equal to, or worse, than women at endurance sports such as ultra marathons or long distance swimming.
"She added that biology could indeed play a role because men were larger and more muscular and had more stamina, which could help them in long chess matches."
omg, the leaps they make. Now it's apparently harder for cis women to sit down long periods.
omg, the leaps they make. Now it's apparently harder for cis women to sit down long periods.
July 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"She added that biology could indeed play a role because men were larger and more muscular and had more stamina, which could help them in long chess matches."
omg, the leaps they make. Now it's apparently harder for cis women to sit down long periods.
omg, the leaps they make. Now it's apparently harder for cis women to sit down long periods.
Thanks Maja ! Hope it's of some use to your research :)
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thanks Maja ! Hope it's of some use to your research :)
Then I misunderstood you, apologies.
June 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Then I misunderstood you, apologies.
You can take this up with the professor who wrote this paper and the numerous legal professions and legal scholars who concur.
It's OK to start with questions and wanting to understand, I did too, but I won't have a conversation with someone who doesn't have an open mind.
It's OK to start with questions and wanting to understand, I did too, but I won't have a conversation with someone who doesn't have an open mind.
June 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
You can take this up with the professor who wrote this paper and the numerous legal professions and legal scholars who concur.
It's OK to start with questions and wanting to understand, I did too, but I won't have a conversation with someone who doesn't have an open mind.
It's OK to start with questions and wanting to understand, I did too, but I won't have a conversation with someone who doesn't have an open mind.
But that's always been allowed.
It's human right to have your existence recognized and not be forced out of public space (as has happened with trans men).
I don't want to have this conversation.
It's human right to have your existence recognized and not be forced out of public space (as has happened with trans men).
I don't want to have this conversation.
June 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
But that's always been allowed.
It's human right to have your existence recognized and not be forced out of public space (as has happened with trans men).
I don't want to have this conversation.
It's human right to have your existence recognized and not be forced out of public space (as has happened with trans men).
I don't want to have this conversation.
2. If I understand the backfire comment correctly- it's frustrating to hear the argument over and over again that to have basic human rights and civil liberties one must be 'respectable' or behave perfectly. The two aren't connected. They shouldn't be given conditionally.
June 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
2. If I understand the backfire comment correctly- it's frustrating to hear the argument over and over again that to have basic human rights and civil liberties one must be 'respectable' or behave perfectly. The two aren't connected. They shouldn't be given conditionally.
1. The GRA ref was (cynically) a political move by May, akin to the gay marriage move by Cameron. It means a trans person can marry, die, have children ect. in their gender. That's all.
There are no sex based rights in the UK, only equality acts. Being critical means knowing these things.
There are no sex based rights in the UK, only equality acts. Being critical means knowing these things.
June 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
1. The GRA ref was (cynically) a political move by May, akin to the gay marriage move by Cameron. It means a trans person can marry, die, have children ect. in their gender. That's all.
There are no sex based rights in the UK, only equality acts. Being critical means knowing these things.
There are no sex based rights in the UK, only equality acts. Being critical means knowing these things.
I don't know why you are fighting me on this. Have you spent 5+years the reading medical/legal/social science literature from multiple country contexts and going back to the beginnings of state funded gender healthcare? If you haven't then I think you should have an open mind here.
June 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I don't know why you are fighting me on this. Have you spent 5+years the reading medical/legal/social science literature from multiple country contexts and going back to the beginnings of state funded gender healthcare? If you haven't then I think you should have an open mind here.
That was proposed by the British Government. All it meant was one could self id (happens in 21 countries already, I happen to live in one). Trans rights groups emerged to fight back against the push back to it. The reforms amount to barely any change in practice, but it means a lot to trans people.
June 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
That was proposed by the British Government. All it meant was one could self id (happens in 21 countries already, I happen to live in one). Trans rights groups emerged to fight back against the push back to it. The reforms amount to barely any change in practice, but it means a lot to trans people.
2. I say minor because trans people have always been able to use bathrooms and sex-segregated facilities except under 'exceptional circumstances.' The GRA meant people didn't have to go through undue costly and timely processes & that their knowledge of themselves was taken seriously.
June 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
2. I say minor because trans people have always been able to use bathrooms and sex-segregated facilities except under 'exceptional circumstances.' The GRA meant people didn't have to go through undue costly and timely processes & that their knowledge of themselves was taken seriously.
1. Actually, the proposed (v minor) reform to the 2004 GRC caused the emergence of multiple groups (LGBA, Women's Place, May Day for Women ect.) who began creating an issue where there was none. This mutated into a focus on healthcare and the rights of trans people to access it.
June 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
1. Actually, the proposed (v minor) reform to the 2004 GRC caused the emergence of multiple groups (LGBA, Women's Place, May Day for Women ect.) who began creating an issue where there was none. This mutated into a focus on healthcare and the rights of trans people to access it.
True , but public debate does influence medicine and we see this in the pull back of healthcare for trans people. There’s been nothing changed other than gc campaigns lobbying to roll back access and provisions.
June 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
True , but public debate does influence medicine and we see this in the pull back of healthcare for trans people. There’s been nothing changed other than gc campaigns lobbying to roll back access and provisions.
No, trans people are not encouraging children to transition. The same narratives smeared gay people. That they were peadophiles, seeking to corrupt children, inherently dangerous.ect. It didn't happen then and it doesn't happen now.
June 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
No, trans people are not encouraging children to transition. The same narratives smeared gay people. That they were peadophiles, seeking to corrupt children, inherently dangerous.ect. It didn't happen then and it doesn't happen now.
3. That is the direct result of G-C and anti gender campaigners who have fought court cases and shifted the public and political narrative. They are harming trans healthcare by asking for "debate", not helping.
June 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
3. That is the direct result of G-C and anti gender campaigners who have fought court cases and shifted the public and political narrative. They are harming trans healthcare by asking for "debate", not helping.
2. I want trans health to be as good as possible. I want detransitioners to be listened to and supported, for them and to better healthcare. The thing is, that just isn't happening. The idea that trans is not 'real'/caused by something else is the hegemonic narrative shaping medical science.
June 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
2. I want trans health to be as good as possible. I want detransitioners to be listened to and supported, for them and to better healthcare. The thing is, that just isn't happening. The idea that trans is not 'real'/caused by something else is the hegemonic narrative shaping medical science.
1. Yes and this is way too long for this kind of message. That isn't really what is happening though. The Cass report, for example, didn't listen to trans people, they had G-C figures on their review board. You can't have blind studies in this, you can't have control.
June 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
1. Yes and this is way too long for this kind of message. That isn't really what is happening though. The Cass report, for example, didn't listen to trans people, they had G-C figures on their review board. You can't have blind studies in this, you can't have control.
ps. depending on what you count as an expert, I could be considered that. I have a Ph.D and publications and teach about trans health and trans lives. I don't think this is an actual issue that needs debating.
June 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
ps. depending on what you count as an expert, I could be considered that. I have a Ph.D and publications and teach about trans health and trans lives. I don't think this is an actual issue that needs debating.
The experts are trans people. I get the impression you wouldn't need to hear 'experts' debate the existence of gay people, so I don't see why this is any different. The anti-trans debate is not a debate, it's politically manipulated obfuscation of actual issues.
June 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
The experts are trans people. I get the impression you wouldn't need to hear 'experts' debate the existence of gay people, so I don't see why this is any different. The anti-trans debate is not a debate, it's politically manipulated obfuscation of actual issues.
You might be right, but why should Stephen Fry debate them? No one should be debating these issues, but an actual conversation would hear from trans people, which we don't. Fry isn't trans, an activist , a medical professional. It would be completely meaningless to have him "debate" GC people.
June 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You might be right, but why should Stephen Fry debate them? No one should be debating these issues, but an actual conversation would hear from trans people, which we don't. Fry isn't trans, an activist , a medical professional. It would be completely meaningless to have him "debate" GC people.