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Hongourable Madisha said:
And yet somehow nobody else involved with The Matrix knew it was supposed to be a trans allegory,
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Funny how something they almost entirely ripped off Phil Dick is a trans allegory. I guess he was secretly a tranny too.
Bosmadden said:
There's no troon agenda in that movie, the weird degenerate stuff was present in the sequels for sure, but those were both terrible movies that no one gives a fuck about now.
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The Merovingian had a cool tie though. So Matrix 2 had that going for it.
 
Jin831 said:
Found a way to solve the trans issue. Stop talking about it til 2040.

Problem is, it relies on personal opinion. And the people who advocate for it usually gets either politicians or scientific branches in on it. So unless the system itself aknowledges it as mainstream in lets say "20 years from now on" then wasting time on it seems pointless.

Think only Non PC opinion that is ok to have is, Male, Woman or Trans branch of sport. To make it fair.. To add it more up "Trans Male vs Trans Male or Trans Female vs Trans Female " interms of how you identity as.

Since i saw South Park Trans Athlete parody episode which was good.

But as a whole, i would just stay out of it, seems smarter. It works for everyone
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Then that means trans activists get away with more shit.
 
Beware of gender therapists.
 

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Evening Kiwi's,
Just to give an insight in how far the ideiology has spread, this is what arrived in our inbox in (academic) hospitals all over Europe: Sex, Gender and Intersectionality. They even cite Crenshaw. Medicine is fucked if there is no pushback.

But I invite critical kiwi's:
1. in what way would distinction by Gender be meaningful for daily clinical practice ?
2. in how far do you agree with the statement as outlined below "Gendered behaviours and attitudes are learned; they are neither fixed nor universal. Nonetheless, gendered experiences can affect biology"? I would argue that certain tendencies are very much influenced by sex and in how far the brain is virilised by testosteron, e.g. feminine/masculine/metrosexual straight men, feminine/masculine/metrosexual gay men, feminine/masculine/metrosexual TransIdentified men and the same for feminine/masculine/metrosexual gay/metro/hetero/bi/ transidentified women.

It really reads to me like they are putting the horse before the cart when they start talking about gender...

Anyway, enjoy!

Edit: paging @eternal dog mongler @Positron (ignore if not interesting enough)
Sex ‘Sex’ refers to biology. In humans, ‘sex’ refers to the biological attributes that distinguish male, female and intersex. In non-human animals, ‘sex’ refers to biological attributes that distinguish male, female and hermaphrodite. In engineering and product design research, sex includes anatomical and physiological characteristics that may affect the design of products, systems and processes. Defining sex for biomedical research: humans and lab animals Sex relates to the biological attributes that distinguish male, female and intersex according to functions that derive from the chromosomal complement, reproductive organs, or specific hormones or environmental factors that affect the expression of phenotypic traits in sexually reproducing organisms. These attributes may or may not be aligned in any individual (Fausto-Sterling, 2012; Ainsworth, 2015). Sex may be defined according to the following. 1. Genetic sex determination: chromosomal make-up, generally XX/ XY for most mammals. The presence of sex-determining genes means that every nucleated human cell has a sex. 2. Gametes: germ cells. In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, the egg–sperm distinction is the basis for distinguishing between females and males. 3. Morphology: physical traits that differentiate female and male phenotypes. a. Primary sex characteristics in humans and other mammals include the following. i. Internal reproductive organs and genitalia derive from bipotential organs (e.g. indifferent gonads that become ovaries or testes) and dual structures. Usually, one structure is maintained and the other regressed. ii. External genitalia generally differentiate towards one of two basic forms: distal vagina, labia and clitoris in females, and scrotum and penis in males. Nevertheless, external genitalia may not reflect karyotypical or internal genital sex (Fausto-Sterling, 2000). b. Secondary sex characteristics in humans and many other animals are phenotypic traits strongly associated with females or males that become prominent at puberty under the influence of endogenous oestrogens in females and androgens in males. Examples of secondary sex characteristics in humans include shorter stature and wider pelvis, breast development, and more fat in the thighs and buttocks in females, and broader shoulders, greater muscle mass, more facial and other body hair, and male pattern baldness in males. These traits vary within each sex, and ranges overlap. For instance, many women are taller than many men and some women are stronger than many men. >> SEX refers to biological characteristics 12 Intersex conditions may be defined as variations or combinations of what are considered XY male-typical and XX female-typical chromosomal, gonadal and genital characteristics. In some cases, intersex individuals (ranging from 1:100 to 1:4 500 depending on the criteria used) have genitalia or other traits not easily categorised as male or female (Kessler, 1998; Karkazis, 2008; Arboleda et al., 2014; Jones, 2018). Defining sex for research in non-human animals Sex relates to biological attributes that distinguish male, female and hermaphrodite. Sex may be defined according to the following. 1. Genetic sex determination: chromosomal make-up (female/male), such as XX/XY (mammals), ZW/ZZ (birds and some insects) and XX/XO (insects). Regardless of karyotype, the presence of sex-determining genes means that every nucleated cell has a sex. 2. Non-genetic sex determination: common in many species (Gilbert, 2010). These are diverse and include the following. a. Social sex determination. For a number of fish, mollusc and other species, sex is determined through social interactions with other members of a population. In the slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata, all young individuals are male but some later change to female, depending on their position in a mound of snails. b. Environmental sex determination. In the echiuran worm Bonellia viridis, sex is determined by physical environment. Larvae that land on the ocean floor develop as females (~10 cm long), whereas larvae that are engulfed by a mature female through her proboscis develop as males (~2 mm long) and live symbiotically. In all crocodilians, most turtles and some other reptiles, sex determination is determined partially or entirely by temperature. In certain species, sex is genetically determined within a temperature range but environmentally determined outside that range. 3. Gametes: germ cells. In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, the egg–sperm distinction is the basis for distinguishing between females and males. In some species (called sequential hermaphrodites), the type of germ cell produced by an individual can change at different stages of life. Hermaphrodite describes an individual that is able to produce both male and female gametes during its lifetime. Hermaphroditism is very common in nature, occurring in approximately 30 % of animal species (excluding insects) and most plants (Jarne and Auld, 2006). Hermaphrodites are classified as either simultaneous (individuals functioning as both male and female at the same time) or sequential (individuals first functioning as one sex and then changing to the other at some point). The factors determining the timing, direction and frequency of sex change are diverse throughout nature, and dependent on the species and an individual’s social-ecological context (Munday et al., 2006; see case study ‘Marine science’). Defining sex for engineering and design In engineering and product design research, sex includes anatomical and physiological characteristics that may affect the design of products, systems and processes (see Schiebinger et al., 2011–2020). Many devices and machines have been designed to fit male bodies. For example, military and commercial cockpits were traditionally based on male anthropometry, which made it difficult or even dangerous for some women (or small men) to be pilots (Weber, 1997). Crash test dummies are also based on male bodies; while small dummies are now 13 used to represent women, they do not model bodily differences, such as neck strength (Linder and Svedberg, 2019). Office building thermostats, which are based on male metabolic rates, may set temperatures too low for many women (van Hoof, 2015). Workplace safety gear (e.g. police vests) often does not fit women or small men. It is also important to understand differences within groups of women, men and gender-diverse people. Many period-tracking apps fail users who have irregular cycles (Tiffany, 2018).

Works cited Ainsworth, C. (2015), ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, 518(7539), 288–291. Arboleda, V. A., Sandberg, D. E. and Vilain, E. (2014), ‘DSDs: genetics, underlying pathologies and psychosexual differentiation’, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 10, 603–615. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000), Sexing the Body: Gender politics and the construction of sexuality, Basic Books, New York. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2012), Sex/Gender: Biology in a social world, Routledge, New York. Gilbert, S. (2010), Developmental Biology, 9th Edition, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland. Jarne, P. and Auld, J. R. (2006), ‘Animals mix it up too: the distribution of self-fertilization among hermaphroditic animals’, Evolution, 60, 1816–1824. Jones, T. (2018), ‘Intersex studies: a systematic review of international health literature’, Sage Open, 8(2), 2158244017745577. Karkazis, K. (2008), Fixing Sex: Intersex, medical authority, and lived experience, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Kessler, S. (1998), Lessons from the Intersexed, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. Linder, A. and Svedberg, W. (2019), ‘Review of average sized male and female occupant models in European regulatory assessment tests and European laws: gaps and bridging suggestions’, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 127, 156–162. Munday, P. L., Buston, P. M. and Warner, R. R. (2006), ‘Diversity and flexibility of sex-change strategies in animals’, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(2), 89–95. Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I., Sánchez de Madariaga, I., Paik, H. Y., Schraudner, M. and Stefanick, M. (eds.) (2011– 2020), ‘Design thinking’, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (http://genderindesign.com/). Tiffany, K. (2018), ‘Period-tracking apps are not for women’, Vox, 16 November. van Hoof, J. (2015), ‘Female thermal demand’, Nature Climate Change, 5, 1029–1030. Weber, R. N. (1997), ‘Manufacturing gender in commercial and military cockpit design’, Science, Technology, & Human Values, 22(2), 235–253.

‘Gender’ refers to sociocultural norms, identi - ties and relations that (1) structure societies and organisations and (2) shape behaviours, products, technologies, environments, and knowledges (Schiebinger, 1999; Ridgeway and Correll, 2004). Gender attitudes and behaviours are complex and change in time and place. Im - portantly, gender is multidimensional (Hyde et al., 2018) and intersects with other social cate - gories, such as sex, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and ethnicity (see ‘Intersec - tional approaches’ in Annex B). Gender is dis - tinct from sex (Fausto-Sterling, 2012).
Three related dimensions of gender​
As social beings, humans function through learned behaviours. How we speak, our man - nerisms, the things we use and our behaviours all signal who we are and establish rules for in - teraction. Gender is one such set of organising principles that structure behaviours, attitudes, physical appearance and habits.​
  1. Gender norms are produced through social institutions (such as families, schools, workplaces, laboratories, universities or boardrooms), social interactions (such as between romantic partners, colleagues or family members) and wider cultural products (such as textbooks, literature, films and video games).
    1. Gender norms are produced through social institutions (such as families, schools, workplaces, laboratories, universities or boardrooms), social interactions (such as between romantic partners, colleagues or family members) and wider cultural products (such as textbooks, literature, films and video games).
      1. Gender norms refer to social and cultural attitudes and expectations about which behaviours, preferences, products, professions or knowledges are appropriate for women, men and gender-diverse individuals, and may influence the development of science and technology.
      2. Gender norms draw upon and reinforce gender stereotypes about women, men and gender-diverse individuals.
      3. Gender norms may be reinforced by unequal distribution of resources and discrimination in the workplace, families and other institutions.
      4. Gender norms are constantly in flux. They change by historical era, culture or location, such as the 1950s versus the 2020s, Korea versus Germany or urban versus rural areas. Gender also differs by specific social contexts, such as work versus home.
    2. Gender identities relate to how individuals or groups perceive and present themselves in relation to gender norms. Gender identities may be context-specific and interact with other identities, such as ethnicity, class or cultural heritage (see ‘Intersectional approaches’ in Annex B)
    3. Gender relations relate to how we interact with people and institutions in the world around us, based on our sex and our gender identity. Gender relations encompass how gender shapes social interactions in families, schools, workplaces and public settings, for instance the power relation between a man patient and woman physician
      1. Social divisions of labour are another important aspect of gender relations, whereby women and men are concentrated in different types of (paid or unpaid) activities. One consequence of such gender segregation is that particular occupations or disciplines become marked symbolically with the (presumed) gender category of the larger group: for example, nursing is seen as a female profession, engineering as male.
      2. Women and men who work in highly segregated roles acquire different kinds of knowledge or expertise, which can sometimes be usefully accessed for gendered innovations (see ‘Co-creation and participatory research’ in Annex B; see also Schiebinger et al., 2011– 2020a).
      3. Gender relations can also become embodied in products or urban environments, such as transportation systems (see case study ‘Smart mobility’).
    4. Sex and gender interact. The term ‘gender’ was introduced in the late 1960s to reject biological determinism that interprets behavioural differences as the outcomes of biological disposition. ‘Gender’ was used to distinguish the sociocultural factors that shape behaviours and attitudes from biological factors related to sex. Gendered behaviours and attitudes are learned; they are neither fixed nor universal. Nonetheless, gendered experiences can affect biology. Moreover, some individuals seek to change aspects of their bodies to align them better with their gender identities. Sex and gender are often useful analytical terms even if in reality sex and gender interact (see Schiebinger et al., 2011–2020b).
    5. Legal gender categories. Governments typically require citizens to categorise their gender identity on official documents such as birth certificates, driving licences and passports. Numerous countries recognise a third gender category. These include Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Malta, Nepal, New Zealand and Pakistan, among others.
    6. Cisgender and transgender. ‘Transgender’ is an umbrella term that describes a range of gender identities, including individuals whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth (Marshall et al., 2019; Scandurra et al., 2019). This is in contrast to ‘cisgender’, which describes individuals whose self-identified gender matches their birth sex assignment (Aultman, 2014). Other individuals refuse the concept of gender as binary altogether and may self-identify as genderqueer, non-binary, gender-fluid or bigender (Hyde et al., 2018).
    7. Gender is multidimensional. Gender is often described as existing on a masculinity–femininity spectrum, but such categories can reinforce stereotypes about women and men, and ignore individuals who fall outside traditional gender binaries (Nielsen et al., forthcoming). Gender is multidimensional: any given individual may experience configurations of gender norms, traits and relations that cannot be subsumed under the simple categories ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’.
Problems to avoid when analysing gender
Problems can arise if researchers assume that:
all women as a group, all men as a group and all gender-diverse people as a group (their attitudes, preferences, needs, behaviours and knowledge) are the same;
women, men and gender-diverse people are completely different;
observed differences between women and men are solely biological in origin;
observed gender differences hold across cultures;
life conditions and opportunities are similar for women, men, and gender-diverse people;
birth sex can be used as a proxy for gender identity in surveys;
certain questions are relevant to only one gender (e.g. survey questions about caregiving relate primarily to women or questions about the strain of physical work primarily to men).

Works cited
Aultman, B. (2014), ‘Cisgender’, Transgender Studies Quarterly, 1 (1–2), 61–62. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2012), Sex/Gender: Biology in a social world, Routledge, New York. Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R. S., Joel, D., Tate, C. C. and van Anders, S. M. (2018), ‘The future of sex and gender in psychology: five challenges to the gender binary’, American Psychologist, 74(2), 171–193. Marshall, Z., Welch, V., Minichiello, A., Swab, M., Brunger, F. and Kaposy, C. (2019), ‘Documenting research with transgender, nonbinary, and other gender diverse (trans) individuals and communities: introducing the Global Trans Research Evidence Map’, Transgender Health, 4(1), 68–80. Nielsen, M. W., Peragine, D., Neilands, T. B., Stefanick, M. L., Ioannidis, J. P. A., Pilote, L., Prochaska, J. J., Cullen, M. R., Einstein, G., Klinge, I., LeBlanc, H., Paik, H. Y., Risvedt, S. and Schiebinger, L. (forthcoming), ‘Gender-related variables for health research’ (https://doi.org/10.1101/20 20.09.17.20196824). Ridgeway, C. L. and Correll, S. J. (2004), ‘Unpacking the gender system: a theoretical perspective on gender beliefs and social relations’, Gender & Society, 18, 510–5. Scandurra, C., Mezza, F., Maldonato, N. M., Bottone, M., Bochicchio, V., Valerio, P. and Vitelli, R. (2019), ‘Health of non-binary and genderqueer people: a systematic review’, Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01453). Schiebinger, L. (1999), Has Feminism Changed Science?, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I., Sánchez de Madariaga, I., Paik, H. Y., Schraudner, M. and Stefanick, M. (eds.) (2011– 2020a), ‘Water infrastructure’, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/case-studies/ water.html). Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I., Sánchez de Madariaga, I., Paik, H. Y., Schraudner, M. and Stefanick, M. (eds.) (2011–2020b), ‘Analysing how sex and gender interact’, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (http:// genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/methods/how.html).

‘Intersectionality’ describes overlapping or intersecting categories such as gender, sex, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and geographical location that combine to inform individuals’ identities and experiences. Researchers and engineers should not consider gender in isolation; gender identities, norms and relations both shape and are shaped by other social attributes (Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018). In 1989, the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ to describe how multiple forms of discrimination, power and privilege intersect in Black women’s lives, in ways that are erased when sexism and racism are treated separately (Crenshaw, 1989). Since then, the term has been expanded to describe intersecting forms of oppression and inequality emerging from structural advantages and disadvantages that shape a person’s or a group’s experience and social opportunities (Hankivsky, 2014; Collins and Bilge, 2016; McKinzie and Richards, 2019; Rice et al., 2019).

Works Cited
Buolamwini, J. and Gebru, T. (2018), ‘Gender shades: intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification’, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 81, 77–91. Collins, P. H. and Bilge, S. (2016), Intersectionality, John Wiley & Sons. Crenshaw, K. (1989), ‘Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1, 139–167. Hankivsky, O. (2014), Intersectionality 101, Institute for Intersectionality Research & Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Colunbia. McKinzie, A. and Richards, P. (2019), ‘An argument for context-driven intersectionality’, Sociology Compass, 13, e12671. Rice, C., Harrison, E. and Friedman, M. (2019), ‘Doing justice to intersectionality in research’, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 19, 409–420.
 

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Dr. Troon Lagoon said:
Evening Kiwi's,
Just to give an insight in how far the ideiology has spread, this is what arrived in our inbox in (academic) hospitals all over Europe: Sex, Gender and Intersectionality. They even cite Crenshaw. Medicine is fucked if there is no pushback.
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Just refuse to treat these lunatics at all. Just say they have special needs requiring the attention of experts in their specific special expertise in specialness, because they're so special. You're just not qualified to handle their unique problems. Problem solved, troons die.
 
Dr. Troon Lagoon said:
Evening Kiwi's,
Just to give an insight in how far the ideiology has spread, this is what arrived in our inbox in (academic) hospitals all over Europe: Sex, Gender and Intersectionality. They even cite Crenshaw. Medicine is fucked if there is no pushback.

But I invite critical kiwi's:
1. in what way would distinction by Gender be meaningful for daily clinical practice ?
2. in how far do you agree with the statement as outlined below "Gendered behaviours and attitudes are learned; they are neither fixed nor universal. Nonetheless, gendered experiences can affect biology"? I would argue that certain tendencies are very much influenced by sex and in how far the brain is virilised by testosteron, e.g. feminine/masculine/metrosexual straight men, feminine/masculine/metrosexual gay men, feminine/masculine/metrosexual TransIdentified men and the same for feminine/masculine/metrosexual gay/metro/hetero/bi/ transidentified women.

It really reads to me like they are putting the horse before the cart when they start talking about gender...

Anyway, enjoy!

Edit: paging @eternal dog mongler @Positron (ignore if not interesting enough)
Sex ‘Sex’ refers to biology. In humans, ‘sex’ refers to the biological attributes that distinguish male, female and intersex. In non-human animals, ‘sex’ refers to biological attributes that distinguish male, female and hermaphrodite. In engineering and product design research, sex includes anatomical and physiological characteristics that may affect the design of products, systems and processes. Defining sex for biomedical research: humans and lab animals Sex relates to the biological attributes that distinguish male, female and intersex according to functions that derive from the chromosomal complement, reproductive organs, or specific hormones or environmental factors that affect the expression of phenotypic traits in sexually reproducing organisms. These attributes may or may not be aligned in any individual (Fausto-Sterling, 2012; Ainsworth, 2015). Sex may be defined according to the following. 1. Genetic sex determination: chromosomal make-up, generally XX/ XY for most mammals. The presence of sex-determining genes means that every nucleated human cell has a sex. 2. Gametes: germ cells. In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, the egg–sperm distinction is the basis for distinguishing between females and males. 3. Morphology: physical traits that differentiate female and male phenotypes. a. Primary sex characteristics in humans and other mammals include the following. i. Internal reproductive organs and genitalia derive from bipotential organs (e.g. indifferent gonads that become ovaries or testes) and dual structures. Usually, one structure is maintained and the other regressed. ii. External genitalia generally differentiate towards one of two basic forms: distal vagina, labia and clitoris in females, and scrotum and penis in males. Nevertheless, external genitalia may not reflect karyotypical or internal genital sex (Fausto-Sterling, 2000). b. Secondary sex characteristics in humans and many other animals are phenotypic traits strongly associated with females or males that become prominent at puberty under the influence of endogenous oestrogens in females and androgens in males. Examples of secondary sex characteristics in humans include shorter stature and wider pelvis, breast development, and more fat in the thighs and buttocks in females, and broader shoulders, greater muscle mass, more facial and other body hair, and male pattern baldness in males. These traits vary within each sex, and ranges overlap. For instance, many women are taller than many men and some women are stronger than many men. >> SEX refers to biological characteristics 12 Intersex conditions may be defined as variations or combinations of what are considered XY male-typical and XX female-typical chromosomal, gonadal and genital characteristics. In some cases, intersex individuals (ranging from 1:100 to 1:4 500 depending on the criteria used) have genitalia or other traits not easily categorised as male or female (Kessler, 1998; Karkazis, 2008; Arboleda et al., 2014; Jones, 2018). Defining sex for research in non-human animals Sex relates to biological attributes that distinguish male, female and hermaphrodite. Sex may be defined according to the following. 1. Genetic sex determination: chromosomal make-up (female/male), such as XX/XY (mammals), ZW/ZZ (birds and some insects) and XX/XO (insects). Regardless of karyotype, the presence of sex-determining genes means that every nucleated cell has a sex. 2. Non-genetic sex determination: common in many species (Gilbert, 2010). These are diverse and include the following. a. Social sex determination. For a number of fish, mollusc and other species, sex is determined through social interactions with other members of a population. In the slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata, all young individuals are male but some later change to female, depending on their position in a mound of snails. b. Environmental sex determination. In the echiuran worm Bonellia viridis, sex is determined by physical environment. Larvae that land on the ocean floor develop as females (~10 cm long), whereas larvae that are engulfed by a mature female through her proboscis develop as males (~2 mm long) and live symbiotically. In all crocodilians, most turtles and some other reptiles, sex determination is determined partially or entirely by temperature. In certain species, sex is genetically determined within a temperature range but environmentally determined outside that range. 3. Gametes: germ cells. In species that produce two morphologically distinct types of gametes, the egg–sperm distinction is the basis for distinguishing between females and males. In some species (called sequential hermaphrodites), the type of germ cell produced by an individual can change at different stages of life. Hermaphrodite describes an individual that is able to produce both male and female gametes during its lifetime. Hermaphroditism is very common in nature, occurring in approximately 30 % of animal species (excluding insects) and most plants (Jarne and Auld, 2006). Hermaphrodites are classified as either simultaneous (individuals functioning as both male and female at the same time) or sequential (individuals first functioning as one sex and then changing to the other at some point). The factors determining the timing, direction and frequency of sex change are diverse throughout nature, and dependent on the species and an individual’s social-ecological context (Munday et al., 2006; see case study ‘Marine science’). Defining sex for engineering and design In engineering and product design research, sex includes anatomical and physiological characteristics that may affect the design of products, systems and processes (see Schiebinger et al., 2011–2020). Many devices and machines have been designed to fit male bodies. For example, military and commercial cockpits were traditionally based on male anthropometry, which made it difficult or even dangerous for some women (or small men) to be pilots (Weber, 1997). Crash test dummies are also based on male bodies; while small dummies are now 13 used to represent women, they do not model bodily differences, such as neck strength (Linder and Svedberg, 2019). Office building thermostats, which are based on male metabolic rates, may set temperatures too low for many women (van Hoof, 2015). Workplace safety gear (e.g. police vests) often does not fit women or small men. It is also important to understand differences within groups of women, men and gender-diverse people. Many period-tracking apps fail users who have irregular cycles (Tiffany, 2018).

Works cited Ainsworth, C. (2015), ‘Sex redefined’, Nature, 518(7539), 288–291. Arboleda, V. A., Sandberg, D. E. and Vilain, E. (2014), ‘DSDs: genetics, underlying pathologies and psychosexual differentiation’, Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 10, 603–615. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000), Sexing the Body: Gender politics and the construction of sexuality, Basic Books, New York. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2012), Sex/Gender: Biology in a social world, Routledge, New York. Gilbert, S. (2010), Developmental Biology, 9th Edition, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland. Jarne, P. and Auld, J. R. (2006), ‘Animals mix it up too: the distribution of self-fertilization among hermaphroditic animals’, Evolution, 60, 1816–1824. Jones, T. (2018), ‘Intersex studies: a systematic review of international health literature’, Sage Open, 8(2), 2158244017745577. Karkazis, K. (2008), Fixing Sex: Intersex, medical authority, and lived experience, Duke University Press, Durham, NC. Kessler, S. (1998), Lessons from the Intersexed, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ. Linder, A. and Svedberg, W. (2019), ‘Review of average sized male and female occupant models in European regulatory assessment tests and European laws: gaps and bridging suggestions’, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 127, 156–162. Munday, P. L., Buston, P. M. and Warner, R. R. (2006), ‘Diversity and flexibility of sex-change strategies in animals’, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21(2), 89–95. Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I., Sánchez de Madariaga, I., Paik, H. Y., Schraudner, M. and Stefanick, M. (eds.) (2011– 2020), ‘Design thinking’, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (http://genderindesign.com/). Tiffany, K. (2018), ‘Period-tracking apps are not for women’, Vox, 16 November. van Hoof, J. (2015), ‘Female thermal demand’, Nature Climate Change, 5, 1029–1030. Weber, R. N. (1997), ‘Manufacturing gender in commercial and military cockpit design’, Science, Technology, & Human Values, 22(2), 235–253.

‘Gender’ refers to sociocultural norms, identi - ties and relations that (1) structure societies and organisations and (2) shape behaviours, products, technologies, environments, and knowledges (Schiebinger, 1999; Ridgeway and Correll, 2004). Gender attitudes and behaviours are complex and change in time and place. Im - portantly, gender is multidimensional (Hyde et al., 2018) and intersects with other social cate - gories, such as sex, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and ethnicity (see ‘Intersec - tional approaches’ in Annex B). Gender is dis - tinct from sex (Fausto-Sterling, 2012).
Three related dimensions of gender​
As social beings, humans function through learned behaviours. How we speak, our man - nerisms, the things we use and our behaviours all signal who we are and establish rules for in - teraction. Gender is one such set of organising principles that structure behaviours, attitudes, physical appearance and habits.​
  1. Gender norms are produced through social institutions (such as families, schools, workplaces, laboratories, universities or boardrooms), social interactions (such as between romantic partners, colleagues or family members) and wider cultural products (such as textbooks, literature, films and video games).
    1. Gender norms are produced through social institutions (such as families, schools, workplaces, laboratories, universities or boardrooms), social interactions (such as between romantic partners, colleagues or family members) and wider cultural products (such as textbooks, literature, films and video games).
      1. Gender norms refer to social and cultural attitudes and expectations about which behaviours, preferences, products, professions or knowledges are appropriate for women, men and gender-diverse individuals, and may influence the development of science and technology.
      2. Gender norms draw upon and reinforce gender stereotypes about women, men and gender-diverse individuals.
      3. Gender norms may be reinforced by unequal distribution of resources and discrimination in the workplace, families and other institutions.
      4. Gender norms are constantly in flux. They change by historical era, culture or location, such as the 1950s versus the 2020s, Korea versus Germany or urban versus rural areas. Gender also differs by specific social contexts, such as work versus home.
    2. Gender identities relate to how individuals or groups perceive and present themselves in relation to gender norms. Gender identities may be context-specific and interact with other identities, such as ethnicity, class or cultural heritage (see ‘Intersectional approaches’ in Annex B)
    3. Gender relations relate to how we interact with people and institutions in the world around us, based on our sex and our gender identity. Gender relations encompass how gender shapes social interactions in families, schools, workplaces and public settings, for instance the power relation between a man patient and woman physician
      1. Social divisions of labour are another important aspect of gender relations, whereby women and men are concentrated in different types of (paid or unpaid) activities. One consequence of such gender segregation is that particular occupations or disciplines become marked symbolically with the (presumed) gender category of the larger group: for example, nursing is seen as a female profession, engineering as male.
      2. Women and men who work in highly segregated roles acquire different kinds of knowledge or expertise, which can sometimes be usefully accessed for gendered innovations (see ‘Co-creation and participatory research’ in Annex B; see also Schiebinger et al., 2011– 2020a).
      3. Gender relations can also become embodied in products or urban environments, such as transportation systems (see case study ‘Smart mobility’).
    4. Sex and gender interact. The term ‘gender’ was introduced in the late 1960s to reject biological determinism that interprets behavioural differences as the outcomes of biological disposition. ‘Gender’ was used to distinguish the sociocultural factors that shape behaviours and attitudes from biological factors related to sex. Gendered behaviours and attitudes are learned; they are neither fixed nor universal. Nonetheless, gendered experiences can affect biology. Moreover, some individuals seek to change aspects of their bodies to align them better with their gender identities. Sex and gender are often useful analytical terms even if in reality sex and gender interact (see Schiebinger et al., 2011–2020b).
    5. Legal gender categories. Governments typically require citizens to categorise their gender identity on official documents such as birth certificates, driving licences and passports. Numerous countries recognise a third gender category. These include Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, India, Malta, Nepal, New Zealand and Pakistan, among others.
    6. Cisgender and transgender. ‘Transgender’ is an umbrella term that describes a range of gender identities, including individuals whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth (Marshall et al., 2019; Scandurra et al., 2019). This is in contrast to ‘cisgender’, which describes individuals whose self-identified gender matches their birth sex assignment (Aultman, 2014). Other individuals refuse the concept of gender as binary altogether and may self-identify as genderqueer, non-binary, gender-fluid or bigender (Hyde et al., 2018).
    7. Gender is multidimensional. Gender is often described as existing on a masculinity–femininity spectrum, but such categories can reinforce stereotypes about women and men, and ignore individuals who fall outside traditional gender binaries (Nielsen et al., forthcoming). Gender is multidimensional: any given individual may experience configurations of gender norms, traits and relations that cannot be subsumed under the simple categories ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’.
Problems to avoid when analysing gender
Problems can arise if researchers assume that:
all women as a group, all men as a group and all gender-diverse people as a group (their attitudes, preferences, needs, behaviours and knowledge) are the same;
women, men and gender-diverse people are completely different;
observed differences between women and men are solely biological in origin;
observed gender differences hold across cultures;
life conditions and opportunities are similar for women, men, and gender-diverse people;
birth sex can be used as a proxy for gender identity in surveys;
certain questions are relevant to only one gender (e.g. survey questions about caregiving relate primarily to women or questions about the strain of physical work primarily to men).

Works cited
Aultman, B. (2014), ‘Cisgender’, Transgender Studies Quarterly, 1 (1–2), 61–62. Fausto-Sterling, A. (2012), Sex/Gender: Biology in a social world, Routledge, New York. Hyde, J. S., Bigler, R. S., Joel, D., Tate, C. C. and van Anders, S. M. (2018), ‘The future of sex and gender in psychology: five challenges to the gender binary’, American Psychologist, 74(2), 171–193. Marshall, Z., Welch, V., Minichiello, A., Swab, M., Brunger, F. and Kaposy, C. (2019), ‘Documenting research with transgender, nonbinary, and other gender diverse (trans) individuals and communities: introducing the Global Trans Research Evidence Map’, Transgender Health, 4(1), 68–80. Nielsen, M. W., Peragine, D., Neilands, T. B., Stefanick, M. L., Ioannidis, J. P. A., Pilote, L., Prochaska, J. J., Cullen, M. R., Einstein, G., Klinge, I., LeBlanc, H., Paik, H. Y., Risvedt, S. and Schiebinger, L. (forthcoming), ‘Gender-related variables for health research’ (https://doi.org/10.1101/20 20.09.17.20196824). Ridgeway, C. L. and Correll, S. J. (2004), ‘Unpacking the gender system: a theoretical perspective on gender beliefs and social relations’, Gender & Society, 18, 510–5. Scandurra, C., Mezza, F., Maldonato, N. M., Bottone, M., Bochicchio, V., Valerio, P. and Vitelli, R. (2019), ‘Health of non-binary and genderqueer people: a systematic review’, Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01453). Schiebinger, L. (1999), Has Feminism Changed Science?, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I., Sánchez de Madariaga, I., Paik, H. Y., Schraudner, M. and Stefanick, M. (eds.) (2011– 2020a), ‘Water infrastructure’, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/case-studies/ water.html). Schiebinger, L., Klinge, I., Sánchez de Madariaga, I., Paik, H. Y., Schraudner, M. and Stefanick, M. (eds.) (2011–2020b), ‘Analysing how sex and gender interact’, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment (http:// genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/methods/how.html).

‘Intersectionality’ describes overlapping or intersecting categories such as gender, sex, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation and geographical location that combine to inform individuals’ identities and experiences. Researchers and engineers should not consider gender in isolation; gender identities, norms and relations both shape and are shaped by other social attributes (Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018). In 1989, the legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term ‘intersectionality’ to describe how multiple forms of discrimination, power and privilege intersect in Black women’s lives, in ways that are erased when sexism and racism are treated separately (Crenshaw, 1989). Since then, the term has been expanded to describe intersecting forms of oppression and inequality emerging from structural advantages and disadvantages that shape a person’s or a group’s experience and social opportunities (Hankivsky, 2014; Collins and Bilge, 2016; McKinzie and Richards, 2019; Rice et al., 2019).

Works Cited
Buolamwini, J. and Gebru, T. (2018), ‘Gender shades: intersectional accuracy disparities in commercial gender classification’, Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 81, 77–91. Collins, P. H. and Bilge, S. (2016), Intersectionality, John Wiley & Sons. Crenshaw, K. (1989), ‘Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: a Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1, 139–167. Hankivsky, O. (2014), Intersectionality 101, Institute for Intersectionality Research & Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Colunbia. McKinzie, A. and Richards, P. (2019), ‘An argument for context-driven intersectionality’, Sociology Compass, 13, e12671. Rice, C., Harrison, E. and Friedman, M. (2019), ‘Doing justice to intersectionality in research’, Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 19, 409–420.
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Document at https://ec.europa.eu/info/publicati...alysis-contributes-research-and-innovation_en has the same hash, the attachment is unmodified and trojan-free.

I had to verify because this document primarily consists of a singularity of severe stupiditism. Some highlights:
  • "Mainstreaming gender analysis into waste management innovates and transforms how we think about waste." (p27)
  • "Combating the harassment of conversational AI. Feminised chatbots are often harassed. Pushing back on harassment presents an opportunity for AI to help stop gender and sexual harassment." (p31)
  • "Sex and gender roles can affect the human metabolism" (p21)
  • "Physicians and researchers should pay attention to language and gender norms in diagnostic procedures." (p20)
  • "Promoting gender equality through VR. VR provides a technology for humans to create imaginary worlds – in this case, virtual worlds where gender equality exists – with the hope that these experiences will modify behaviours in the real world." (p29)
  • "Is your robot designed to promote social equality?" (p224)
  • (under "Analyzing sex in hermaphroditic species") "Researchers may need to adopt a fluid categorisation of sex, defined along a continuum and dependent on multiple interacting physiological, biochemical, behavioural and genetic process." (p228 )
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Also someone fucked up the decision tree there.
  • "GIA is a stepwise process (see diagram) designed to evaluate the potential impacts of research before research decisions are finalised." (p232) (yes this document includes a guide to doing bad science for the sake of gender equality in five simple steps on pages 232-234)
  • "Integrating sex and gender analysis into research and innovation adds
    value to research and increases its societal relevance. It is thereby crucial
    to secure Europe’s leadership in science and technology, and support its
    inclusive growth"(the last page)


For A&H tards: No the chairwoman of the project isn't a jooooooo, she just has a german surname.
 
I used to watch a lot of Youtube doctors and Mama Doctor Jones was (note the past tense) one of my favorites. Unfortunately she's gone completely off the deep end with troonery, starting with this video:


It's so disappointing to see a prominent OB/GYN bending the knee to troon activists and idiots on social media. She's been using the term "pregnant people" instead of "pregnant women" and other intentionally confusing "inclusive" gender language. In the video, she even brings up the chromosomes argument aka "if you've never checked your chromosomes, how do you know if you're a man/woman?" Oh man... (:_(

Why is it so hard for medical professionals to put their feet down? There are no "men with cervixes" and women cannot have penises.

For anyone who thinks medicine is conservative, they're dead wrong. It's mind-rottingly progressive and will only get worse. I just can't believe trans quackery (puberty blockers, hormones, SRS butchery, redefining reproductive healthcare) is allowed to exist in the face of "do no harm".

EDIT to avoid doubleposting: From her videos, a huge reason why MDJ supports trans issues (besides typical libtard virtue signaling) is because she's coming from the perspective of damage reduction/prevention: if you bend the knee to accomodate troons and genderspecials, maybe they'll pay more attention to their reproductive health. I see a lot of nonbinary girls and FTMs in her comments section talking about how they're glad MDJ is so inclusive, but I think this hypothetical benefit is a silver lining in a shitty cloud. Sure, maybe a couple of FTMs will go for checkups because they feel welcomed, but at the same time you're enabling them and allowing them to destroy their bodies in a much worse way.
 
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Faggy Blanket said:
I just can't believe trans quackery (puberty blockers, hormones, SRS butchery, redefining reproductive healthcare) is allowed to exist in the face of "do no harm".
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You know, lobotomies were really good for neurobiology because cutting away parts of the brain meant learning what those parts did. HRT and blockers let scientists observe the effects of weird hormone combinations on the human body. SRS is probably useful for something related to putting stuff not encoded into the genome in/on a human. For someone with an utilitarian morality, this is good because it helps people in the future.
 
Large said:
You know, lobotomies were really good for neurobiology because cutting away parts of the brain meant learning what those parts did. HRT and blockers let scientists observe the effects of weird hormone combinations on the human body. SRS is probably useful for something related to putting stuff not encoded into the genome in/on a human. For someone with an utilitarian morality, this is good because it helps people in the future.
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I hope it teaches them to learn from their mistakes and not to demand reality reshape itself so they don't feel bad anymore.
 
LightDragonman1 said:
Btw, TV Tropes users included these two quotes on their section for The Reason You Suck Speech.

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The first fag just stated his relativist beliefs in an unnecessarily verbose and insulting manner and then proceeded to make an assumption that the OP believes troons want to lynch him.
The second dude probably just assumed psychiatry is as developed as other types of medicine, incorrectly.
 
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