https://xcancel.com/HelenWebberley/status/2091279458929922438
She’s so so so wrong.
Being female means having the brain of a woman.
Biological sex is defined by gamete production or reproductive anatomy organized to produce ova (females) versus sperm (males), not brain structure. Human brain sex differences are small, overlapping and do not define biological sex categories.
https://open.lib.umn.edu/evosex/chapter/8-4-sex-its-about-the-gametes/
https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z0405_00017.html
https://xcancel.com/jk_rowling/status/2091228093272760551
Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. It is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered.
I just described every female on earth.
c/critical analysis
Uncritically posts chatbot output rehashing tired discussion about ‘biological sex’ vs gender identity.
The biggest threat to women’s safety (and perception of it) is men. Empowering men to police women’s bodies is not going to increase women’s safety (nor their perception of it)
Posted for critical analysis.
Are the models correct, or biased? How does that reflect their training data and how people use them? What makes those discussions tired?
Interesting, that’s exactly what TERFs say
I would be surprised if they’re substantially wrong, because of the barrels of ink that have been poured out on the topic so they surely have ample training data.
The discussions are tired because people have been having them for ages without meaningful progress.
Sure (broken clock), but they’re too busy policing women’s bodies to do much to actually help women. Even if trans women were significantly more likely to assault women in the bathroom, the harm done to cis women in the process of enforcing a trans woman ban dwarfs any potential benefit by orders of magnitude. The discussion only serves to divide and distract people from areas where we can actually make a difference.
Where do you see meaningful progress coming from? To read into your response a bit via “I would be surprised if they’re substantially wrong”, are you saying that sex is binary and immutable in humans? That’s a falsifiable claim, and progress could be made by either proving or disproving it.
I think the standard answer is “Men should just respect women’s spaces”. What do you tell someone that agrees with “The biggest threat to women’s safety is men” and also believes sex is real, i.e. a TERF? It doesn’t seem like a lot of progress will be made with “The biggest threat to your safety is just a distraction”
Yawn.
I say that banning trans women from the bathroom doesn’t make them safer and ask them for ideas on how to make women safer.