[ukpol, terfism]

@Lazarou

On the fortieth day of Christmas
My true love gave to me
Forty wailing resignations
And a partridge in a pear tree

Some background on the ancient Jewish ideas of sex and gender:

https://www.keshetonline.org/resources/gender-diversity-in-jewish-sacred-texts/

The concept of a sex binary is a recent invention of Western culture. Until the age of colonialism, variation in sexual characteristics was recognized as part of human diversity. Jewish traditions acknowledged 6 sexes. Ancient Greek medicine thought that different shades of male and female and […]

"Biological sex" erases trans people by denying the reality of gender identity.

"Biological sex" erases intersex people by falsely claiming there is a clear binary sexual dimorphism. The reality is that sex is complex and many-factored.

@2legged M Sweeney is gone, who's going to pull the strings now?

@2legged

Looking forward to a replacement, but...

Never forget that Starmer and Streeting are ideological twins - if you can call their fascist-coddling triangulation an ideology.

I have a little residual faith in the Labour Party given the unpopularity of Starmer and Streeting amongst the […]

Nothing bad ever happened to me, I’ve traveled solo to all of the places I read men say ‘are scary for women’, but that they themselves haven’t been to.

YMMV, it’s all different for everyone. I just can’t help but feel as if many people’s of comfort and safety map to ideas of patriarchy and […]