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Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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The paper is peer-reviewed, from a Evolutionary Biology PhD, submitted to a journal specializing in the topic. He starts off talking about sex, mentions gender briefly for context, and then sticks to sex for the rest of the paper. The mention is "In recent years, however, this previously uncontroversial fact has been challenged in popular discourse, [...] seemingly driven by cultural and political debates surrounding the concept of “gender identity” and transgender rights." The paper is entirely about sex, and says "some people misunderstand sex because of gender". That's not conflating sex and gender, that's specifically calling out other people that have confused them.
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You should fix your ignorance. It's painful
The thesis relies on conflating sex and gender. Sex from an evolutionary biology standpoint and gender from a modern sociology standpoint are mutually exclusive. Literally apples to oranges.
The thesis relies on explicitly differentiating sex from gender, because it defends the overwhelming consensus in biology that sex is binary. It doesn't address gender at all other than to briefly note that some people confuse them.
Except he uses the justification to push his anti trans agenda or he wouldn't getting to gender at all and you're deliberately engaging in bad faith because you know this already
He uses the justification to talk about sex. The paper is limited to talking about sex. If that's transphobic, then reality is transphobic.
No he goes out of his way to being up gender and conflate sex and gender to push his transphobic agenda, like you're doing right now too. Gender isn't relevant when discussing gametes but he specifically goes out of his way to conflate gender and sex because he's a transphobic pushing an agenda. He's not respected and generally fringe in his field because he uses junk science to push right wing culture war bullshit. And on top of it all an evolutionary biologist is in no way an expert on anything gender related what with gender having nothing to do with evolutionary biology which again doubles down that he and you are pushing a bigot agenda. Fuck off bigot. Gamete differentiation in mammals is not in any way relevant to any discussion on gender, but you know that because you're here in bad faith to be transphobic. And all this because you right wing chuds are afraid to admit you're attracted to chicks with dicks.