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Lisa Simeone's avatar

Thank you for this.

But it is simply staggering that we need a long, numbers-laden, evidence-heavy, point-by-point explanation of basic biological reality and ordinary common sense:

Men are men. Women are women. They are two different sexes. One can't magically morph into the other. Men are physically stronger than women and shouldn't be competing against them in sports.

End of discussion.

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Sally J's avatar

Two things:

1. CA/CIF rules changed to require males to share the glory of a win with the girl he beat. We should be adamantly against this as it does nothing to help the female athlete who was bumped out of the running by the male who is now graciously “sharing” the win. Some other girl didn't make the team or the playoffs or the state championships. She's screwed and we'll never know who she was. This is a deceptive policy that is designed to appease critics. It extends the damage to girls longer than if we managed to force the state to stop letting males compete in the female category. They haven't instituted this policy because they care about us, or because our arguments are sensible and reasonable, or even because enough people have finally spoken up. They're simply trying to subvert Trump's threat to remove funding from California and other Democratic-led states that prioritize male rights above female.

Don't cave! Allowing males to compete will prolong the pain, encourage boys to continue to abuse girls, encourage male use of female showers and will communicate to everyone involved, either competing or watching, that BOYS are more important than GIRLS.

2. ChatGpt is written by male incel gamers who have grown moobs from couch potato laziness and are angry that women won't accept them. These are not men who support women's rights. I'm guessing some of them want to call themselves queer to explain their moobs.

The AI has code that identifies questions from likely gender critical feminists. It's designed to NOT provide useful answers once you've been flagged as someone who questions gender ideology. When challenged on it's response, it'll sometimes give you a “be kind” type of message. Once when I complained that it wasn't answering my questions properly, it gave me a creepy anime of a little girl with giant boobs. Definitely childish male programmers.

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Sarah Barker's avatar

100% on California's "solution." It's difficult to think of a way to both humiliate girls and continue to elevate boys, which they are now openly admitting as male, and manage to call it a solution, but they did.

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Sarah Barker's avatar

100% on California's "solution." It's hard to imagine they could figure out a way to both humiliate girls and continue to elevate boys, who they now openly admit are male, and call it a solution, but they did it

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Mariah Burton Nelson's avatar

OMG this is fascinating about Chat GPT. The creepy anime! Yikes. I'm afraid that it has also learned that I am a GC TERF, Sally J, and is now lecturing me. Here's a related comment I just posted on a different thread about Sarah's article:

https://substack.com/profile/102744500-mariah-burton-nelson/note/c-124495376

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Armchair Psychologist's avatar

I recently asked ChatGPT, “How can I prevent you from spouting gender nonsense (like saying ‘assigned at birth’) at me every time I ask you a question that somehow touches on it? You know I don’t believe in that stuff.”

ChatGPT suggested that I begin every conversation with the sentence , “Avoid gender ideology.”

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Mariah Burton Nelson's avatar

Ha - So funny. Now you really know it's inhuman. A human would have gotten defensive. ChatGPT gave you advice. I'll try taking it too.

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Daniel's avatar

I have a question.A majority of transactivists claim that transpeople have opposite sex brains.But when you control for sexuality It disappears entirely and they're just gay is this Is this true and do you know any studies supporting this finding

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alewifey's avatar

Male athletic advantage starts in utero, not at puberty. The wokes have apparently managed to completely obliterate this crucial truth from chatGPT's datasets.

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Daniel's avatar

Thank you but I have a question.Do you know any good response to the integrity projects attack on On the casser view https://www.thenational.scot/news/24427920.cass-review-john-swinney-responds-yales-serious-flaws-warning/

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Daniel's avatar

It could I ask you to take a look at this systematic review and respond to it?It claims the rate of intersex is over two percent https://t.co/A88ptkmO5D

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Sarah Barker's avatar

Terminology such as hermaphrodite, pseudo-hermaphrodite, and intersex, are considered to be pejorative and dated. The incidence of DSD globally is .02% or 1 in every 5,000 births. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5825923/#:~:text=Disorder%20of%20sex%20development%20(DSD,births%20(2%2C%203).

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Armchair Psychologist's avatar

“possibly reflecting male advantage” 😂😂😂

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Daniel's avatar

Do you have a post critiqueing?The integrity project's weak attack on the cast review

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Sarah Barker's avatar

I do not. While youth gender medicalization tangentially affects sports, I try to focus on girls' and women's sports.

Under the heading of youth gender medicalization, certainly the most startling news in the US is the Children's Gender Clinic at UCLA, the largest such center in the US and home of the very influential and now embattled activist provider Johanna Olson-Kennedy, will close in less than a month. Even more surprising is that the LA Times is the only major media source to cover this closure. In general, the US medical community response to any news on youth gender medicine that is not "life-saving" is rigid silence and/or dismissal

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