Interesting concept, "trans ideology". This is partly the fault of the trans community for defining "trans" so broadly in the first place. This was intentional, in part just to get away from "transgender", which from the time it was coined was extremely broad in scope, but included a large subculture for which the word "transgender" meant "not transsexual".
What we have now is something else, and I don't even want to try to deal with it here. What does concern me is "assigned sex". Yes, this is a real thing for some people, especially in a world flooded with endocrine disruptors and other stuff that makes sexual development go wrong. Sexual development is certainly not a matter simply of XX vs. XY, and wouldn't be even if those were the only two possible configurations. Enzymes and hormones are part of the "other stuff". For a Y chromosome to do its job properly, these other things have to be intact. For a sampling of what can go wrong, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720965/
There are some interesting observations in this publication. See, for example, "2.2.2 17α-Hydroxylase, 17,20-Lyase Deficiency (P450c17D)". In one case we have "steroidogenesis in adrenals and gonads is severely impaired, causing deficiency of cortisol and sex steroids, with mineralocorticoid excess. Consequently, 46,XY fetuses are severely undervirilized while 46,XX sexual development is unaffected at birth (33). The typical presentation of this form of CAH is a phenotypic girl or adolescent with pubertal failure, including lack of breast development and primary amenorrhea, hypertension and hypokalemia (45)."
XY sex chromosomes, but typical presentation as "a phenotypic girl or adolescent with pubertal failure". Male genotype, female phenotype. Hmmm. Admittedly this is rare, as are other similar conditions. I came across this information 19 years ago when I was researching my own endocrine issues revolving around pregnenolone insufficiency and partial pubertal failure. CAH did not fit, in any known variant, but it came closer than anything else I was able to locate back then. I still look for new research from time to time, when I have spare time, which is never.
A transwoman that transitioned surgically is usually at minimal risk for prostate cancer. The prostate shrinks away to almost nothing. Don't ask me how I know. An undersized pituitary can be quite a problem, or not. How would one know if it is? Empty sella syndrome diagnosis. How is it diagnosed? It can't be, as far as I know. (Empty/partially empty sella alone is diagnosed through MRI, been there, done that, but finding it doesn't tell you if it is a problem. Syndrome = yes, a problem, but no way to tell if that's what's causing the problem.)
Inquiring about it at least made for an interesting phone conversation with a UCSF endocrinologist.
I'm a copy editor. One of my former bosses once said that conservatives were responsible for this whole "gender" problem because they were too squeamish to use the word "sex" referring to male/female. I tend to agree.
Also, my OB told me my son was a boy at 12 weeks gestation. I said, "Are you sure?" He said, "Well, I sure hope so, because that's a penis." To me, that's why this whole "assigned at birth" is so ridiculous. What are those dumb "gender (should be sex, right?) reveal" parties for, if people are supposed to wait for the doctor to assign it at birth?
Why is it that differentiating between sex and gender is so obvious to those of us who aren't immersed in trans rhetoric, but so offensive to people who are? As you explain here, there are clear and valid reasons for keeping the two separate and keeping activist driven language changes entirely out of scientific papers.
I knew one trans man up until the last 10 years or thereabouts. I don't think too many people thought about the issue at all, until they really started pushing the T and Q in media, legislation (pronouns are protected grounds in Canada under our Charter) and in education. When they came for the kids, people woke up. Why would grown men dressed as a caricature of women be paid by government to read to small children? It is happening across Canada. It's part of the Marxism that has crept into our education system. Children are being indoctrinated. They are confused into believing that puberty is something they can cancel and pick up later on without a problem or "change" gender. Most young girls are uncomfortable with puberty. I suspect boys are similarly uncomfortable, although there seems to be more of a culture of celebrating boys to men. The surgeries are barbaric and comprise abuse if done on young people. Young people need protection from themselves and those who would permanently sterilize them and mutilate their healthy bodies.. My other issue is the cancelling of women and mothers to appease Ts and score ESG points. Or grifters who piggy back on the movement for fame and fortune. I won't mention any names...
Find it very troubling that this language is seeping into scientific articles. Scientists know the difference between the biological sexes - I just can't accept that they don't know this. Therefore it appears to be some kind of agenda.
You are right that some people equate sex and gender; they are related but different. Nonetheless, scientists know the difference between biological sexes - it's not something assigned.
I ran into this languaging at Kaiser. I'm due for my pap smear and the email addressed to me said "all people with a cervix need to be checked for cervical cancer." I had a couple email exchanges with my nurse practitioner, and I wrote, if you can't recognize me as a woman, and if you don't know the difference between my cervix and a trans woman's inverted penile tissue, then you're no longer competent to give me a pap smear. I will go elsewhere for my health checkup.
Interesting concept, "trans ideology". This is partly the fault of the trans community for defining "trans" so broadly in the first place. This was intentional, in part just to get away from "transgender", which from the time it was coined was extremely broad in scope, but included a large subculture for which the word "transgender" meant "not transsexual".
What we have now is something else, and I don't even want to try to deal with it here. What does concern me is "assigned sex". Yes, this is a real thing for some people, especially in a world flooded with endocrine disruptors and other stuff that makes sexual development go wrong. Sexual development is certainly not a matter simply of XX vs. XY, and wouldn't be even if those were the only two possible configurations. Enzymes and hormones are part of the "other stuff". For a Y chromosome to do its job properly, these other things have to be intact. For a sampling of what can go wrong, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720965/
There are some interesting observations in this publication. See, for example, "2.2.2 17α-Hydroxylase, 17,20-Lyase Deficiency (P450c17D)". In one case we have "steroidogenesis in adrenals and gonads is severely impaired, causing deficiency of cortisol and sex steroids, with mineralocorticoid excess. Consequently, 46,XY fetuses are severely undervirilized while 46,XX sexual development is unaffected at birth (33). The typical presentation of this form of CAH is a phenotypic girl or adolescent with pubertal failure, including lack of breast development and primary amenorrhea, hypertension and hypokalemia (45)."
XY sex chromosomes, but typical presentation as "a phenotypic girl or adolescent with pubertal failure". Male genotype, female phenotype. Hmmm. Admittedly this is rare, as are other similar conditions. I came across this information 19 years ago when I was researching my own endocrine issues revolving around pregnenolone insufficiency and partial pubertal failure. CAH did not fit, in any known variant, but it came closer than anything else I was able to locate back then. I still look for new research from time to time, when I have spare time, which is never.
Also, there is this: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2002/10000/Gender_verification_of_female_Olympic_athletes.1.aspx
A transwoman that transitioned surgically is usually at minimal risk for prostate cancer. The prostate shrinks away to almost nothing. Don't ask me how I know. An undersized pituitary can be quite a problem, or not. How would one know if it is? Empty sella syndrome diagnosis. How is it diagnosed? It can't be, as far as I know. (Empty/partially empty sella alone is diagnosed through MRI, been there, done that, but finding it doesn't tell you if it is a problem. Syndrome = yes, a problem, but no way to tell if that's what's causing the problem.)
Inquiring about it at least made for an interesting phone conversation with a UCSF endocrinologist.
I'm a copy editor. One of my former bosses once said that conservatives were responsible for this whole "gender" problem because they were too squeamish to use the word "sex" referring to male/female. I tend to agree.
Also, my OB told me my son was a boy at 12 weeks gestation. I said, "Are you sure?" He said, "Well, I sure hope so, because that's a penis." To me, that's why this whole "assigned at birth" is so ridiculous. What are those dumb "gender (should be sex, right?) reveal" parties for, if people are supposed to wait for the doctor to assign it at birth?
Why is it that differentiating between sex and gender is so obvious to those of us who aren't immersed in trans rhetoric, but so offensive to people who are? As you explain here, there are clear and valid reasons for keeping the two separate and keeping activist driven language changes entirely out of scientific papers.
I knew one trans man up until the last 10 years or thereabouts. I don't think too many people thought about the issue at all, until they really started pushing the T and Q in media, legislation (pronouns are protected grounds in Canada under our Charter) and in education. When they came for the kids, people woke up. Why would grown men dressed as a caricature of women be paid by government to read to small children? It is happening across Canada. It's part of the Marxism that has crept into our education system. Children are being indoctrinated. They are confused into believing that puberty is something they can cancel and pick up later on without a problem or "change" gender. Most young girls are uncomfortable with puberty. I suspect boys are similarly uncomfortable, although there seems to be more of a culture of celebrating boys to men. The surgeries are barbaric and comprise abuse if done on young people. Young people need protection from themselves and those who would permanently sterilize them and mutilate their healthy bodies.. My other issue is the cancelling of women and mothers to appease Ts and score ESG points. Or grifters who piggy back on the movement for fame and fortune. I won't mention any names...
Find it very troubling that this language is seeping into scientific articles. Scientists know the difference between the biological sexes - I just can't accept that they don't know this. Therefore it appears to be some kind of agenda.
You are right that some people equate sex and gender; they are related but different. Nonetheless, scientists know the difference between biological sexes - it's not something assigned.
I ran into this languaging at Kaiser. I'm due for my pap smear and the email addressed to me said "all people with a cervix need to be checked for cervical cancer." I had a couple email exchanges with my nurse practitioner, and I wrote, if you can't recognize me as a woman, and if you don't know the difference between my cervix and a trans woman's inverted penile tissue, then you're no longer competent to give me a pap smear. I will go elsewhere for my health checkup.
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