Thank you, Martina. Tbis ideology is crushing my daughter and I try to find ways to inform my democrats friends who are ignorant of the depth of this scandal by choice. They choose to look away at the harm and continue to vote D. Women in sport is an acceptable angle. It is so so so so deep the forces pushing this. Please continue to dig and reveal the enormous power of the activism and government influence of the trans agenda.
“Bbbbbut sex isn't gender, but let us change the sex designation on our ID documents, and chop up/rearrange our sex organs, and hassle disinterested people about sexual orientation, and call it a sex change or reassignment, and use sexed terms like "male to female' and basically just contradict ourselves at every turn...but you're a nazi if you poke holes in our rhetoric. you big meanie TERF”
Agree with everything you say about men in women’s sports. One small quibble: people with CAIS or Swyer syndrome are females with a DSD, not males. They will have an external female phenotype, won’t go through male puberty, and, in the case of Swyer, can support a pregnancy. This shows sex is not entirely determined by chromosomes. Sex is the body’s blueprint for reproduction; sometimes a person will go down the female developmental pathway despite having XY chromosomes. Those conditions are rare, though, and you will never see them in elite women’s sports because there is no competitive advantage.
Thanks, Mike. We were not familiar with Swyer syndrome. We did add a footnote about CAIS to Martina's story in response to your note and someone else's, and have now updated that same footnote with a sentence about Swyer syndrome. As you indicate, it's complicated, but instead of explaining those complications we're hoping readers turn to experts in other referenced notes or beyond, since that's not her focus. We do appreciate the correction!
Perfectly said, thank you Martina! You are the reason I started playing tennis in the late 70s, my maternal family is Czech. I can't express how much it means to me that you are putting yourself out there like this. ❤️
There are DSD people who have not undergone male puberty, such as those with Swyer's syndrome, who do not have an unfair advantage when competing with normal biological females.
Martina, you amazing and I’m so grateful to you for standing up for women and girls. I plan to use your point about how no one would ever have heard of you had there been no female category next time someone I know argues for inclusion over fairness.
Sadly, given the level of indoctrination in schools today, I cannot agree that any high schooler could tell you that it’s impossible to have “women with XY chromosomes and high testosterone”. My teenage daughter believes this crap and that she herself is a boy. Sex ed is not what it used to be, and nor is human biology.
Indeed Martina is amazing and I share your gratitude for her and her work.
Hm, yes, these widespread reports from people on the ground in high schools and families are hard to believe, but of course I do. This indoctrination and mis-education happened in such a short time.
I'm sure you're way ahead of me, but just in case, for or you or others: Genspect, Parents of Inconvenient Truths About Trans, and the book When Kids Say They're Trans (by Stella O'Malley and two others) offer valuable resources for parents.
Evidently, all you have to do nowadays is say you are female and WHEEE you are. I’ve come across a number of posts saying that Imane Khelif is a biological woman. It seems that everything to the contrary is either a lie or just people being stupid or, this struck me as weird, misogynistic. There’s a photo of him wearing a groin guard, his trainer says he’s male, there were two independent tests done that said he was male. That does suggest, erm, that he’s male. I don’t care if men want to dress as women, or even live very day as they think a woman lives. I have a trans friend and I always call her her. However, she isn’t into boxing or athletics.
Yes. That's the claim: that any man can simply "be" a woman by saying so. Absolutely misogynistic.
And they're asking us not to see what we see. Which is gaslighting. Also someone else pointed out that they didn't say "assigned female at birth," the preferred term for everyone, according to trans activists, as if such assignments are almost random and often wrong. Somehow this person got to be "born a woman," which of course is absurd on the grown-woman front too.
And yes, re: your trans friend: I too reserve the right to use the pronouns that feel appropriate given the situation and the relationship. And I know males who identify as women who are athletic but deliberately compete only in the men's category. So it can be done.
I struggle accepting the “men can dress as women if they like” because this year I have been subjected to full blown erections / sexual exhibitionism by dudes in mini skirts and stocking in public getting “praise” by women for being brave. Last time I checked women aren’t getting an orgasm when they wear jeans or a man’s tshirt IN PUBLIC… but it’s a classic AGP and fetishism for men to wear women’s clothing and lingerie to places where women congregate and claim their space. This used to be called flashing but now a dude can put on a pair of women’s panties and get affirmed.
This is my issue. The umbrella category needs to go. Also why do all these men dress either like their mother or a hooker? Never like other average women?
Men cannot do whatever they want. They need to be told NO because they are basically children looking to be disciplined.
This is akin to telling a diabetic "You can eat whatever you want!"
They can't. They have a particular problem that means that they have to control their behavior.
Doctors should be telling autogynephiles to keep their perversions to themselves.
These men should be told to control themselves, and wearing dresses is not part of that. Enforcing it by laws would not work logically (same with diabetics), but this is part of the changes that have to happen in the medical industry.
So, no. Men cannot do or wear whatever they want because they have shown that they are fundamentally children who need boundaries. Autogynephilia is a perversion and fetish, and men are driven by that. They need to be shamed. They dress like that because they get off on it, not because it's some kind of real identity.
Martina, you continue to be a hero to women. Thank you.
Fantastic essay. Clear, powerful and to the point, in language everyone can understand. Please don’t stop. You are an inspiration. Thank you!
Thanks for speaking up Martina!
Thank you, Martina. Tbis ideology is crushing my daughter and I try to find ways to inform my democrats friends who are ignorant of the depth of this scandal by choice. They choose to look away at the harm and continue to vote D. Women in sport is an acceptable angle. It is so so so so deep the forces pushing this. Please continue to dig and reveal the enormous power of the activism and government influence of the trans agenda.
There's no such thing as "transgender" women because there's no such thing as "transgender."
They're just men.
Calling a man a woman in the first place is the source of confusion. The language is the battle.
Just call them men. That's what they are.
“Bbbbbut sex isn't gender, but let us change the sex designation on our ID documents, and chop up/rearrange our sex organs, and hassle disinterested people about sexual orientation, and call it a sex change or reassignment, and use sexed terms like "male to female' and basically just contradict ourselves at every turn...but you're a nazi if you poke holes in our rhetoric. you big meanie TERF”
There's no such thing as "gender" for humans. It's a linguistics term for words only.
That's why there's no such thing as "transgender."
There's one type of woman--an adult human female.
Everything else is untreated mental illness.
Transwo-men =
Males who claim to be women.
Imane = male claiming to be a woman.
Both are 🐂💩
Bring back swab test!
Agree with everything you say about men in women’s sports. One small quibble: people with CAIS or Swyer syndrome are females with a DSD, not males. They will have an external female phenotype, won’t go through male puberty, and, in the case of Swyer, can support a pregnancy. This shows sex is not entirely determined by chromosomes. Sex is the body’s blueprint for reproduction; sometimes a person will go down the female developmental pathway despite having XY chromosomes. Those conditions are rare, though, and you will never see them in elite women’s sports because there is no competitive advantage.
Thanks, Mike. We were not familiar with Swyer syndrome. We did add a footnote about CAIS to Martina's story in response to your note and someone else's, and have now updated that same footnote with a sentence about Swyer syndrome. As you indicate, it's complicated, but instead of explaining those complications we're hoping readers turn to experts in other referenced notes or beyond, since that's not her focus. We do appreciate the correction!
Perfectly said, thank you Martina! You are the reason I started playing tennis in the late 70s, my maternal family is Czech. I can't express how much it means to me that you are putting yourself out there like this. ❤️
There are DSD people who have not undergone male puberty, such as those with Swyer's syndrome, who do not have an unfair advantage when competing with normal biological females.
Thank you Martina! You are an inspiration as an athlete and as a woman.
Martina, you amazing and I’m so grateful to you for standing up for women and girls. I plan to use your point about how no one would ever have heard of you had there been no female category next time someone I know argues for inclusion over fairness.
Sadly, given the level of indoctrination in schools today, I cannot agree that any high schooler could tell you that it’s impossible to have “women with XY chromosomes and high testosterone”. My teenage daughter believes this crap and that she herself is a boy. Sex ed is not what it used to be, and nor is human biology.
Indeed Martina is amazing and I share your gratitude for her and her work.
Hm, yes, these widespread reports from people on the ground in high schools and families are hard to believe, but of course I do. This indoctrination and mis-education happened in such a short time.
I'm sure you're way ahead of me, but just in case, for or you or others: Genspect, Parents of Inconvenient Truths About Trans, and the book When Kids Say They're Trans (by Stella O'Malley and two others) offer valuable resources for parents.
Great post!
Evidently, all you have to do nowadays is say you are female and WHEEE you are. I’ve come across a number of posts saying that Imane Khelif is a biological woman. It seems that everything to the contrary is either a lie or just people being stupid or, this struck me as weird, misogynistic. There’s a photo of him wearing a groin guard, his trainer says he’s male, there were two independent tests done that said he was male. That does suggest, erm, that he’s male. I don’t care if men want to dress as women, or even live very day as they think a woman lives. I have a trans friend and I always call her her. However, she isn’t into boxing or athletics.
Yes. That's the claim: that any man can simply "be" a woman by saying so. Absolutely misogynistic.
And they're asking us not to see what we see. Which is gaslighting. Also someone else pointed out that they didn't say "assigned female at birth," the preferred term for everyone, according to trans activists, as if such assignments are almost random and often wrong. Somehow this person got to be "born a woman," which of course is absurd on the grown-woman front too.
And yes, re: your trans friend: I too reserve the right to use the pronouns that feel appropriate given the situation and the relationship. And I know males who identify as women who are athletic but deliberately compete only in the men's category. So it can be done.
Thank you, thank you, thank you ❤️❤️❤️
I struggle accepting the “men can dress as women if they like” because this year I have been subjected to full blown erections / sexual exhibitionism by dudes in mini skirts and stocking in public getting “praise” by women for being brave. Last time I checked women aren’t getting an orgasm when they wear jeans or a man’s tshirt IN PUBLIC… but it’s a classic AGP and fetishism for men to wear women’s clothing and lingerie to places where women congregate and claim their space. This used to be called flashing but now a dude can put on a pair of women’s panties and get affirmed.
This is my issue. The umbrella category needs to go. Also why do all these men dress either like their mother or a hooker? Never like other average women?
Men cannot do whatever they want. They need to be told NO because they are basically children looking to be disciplined.
This is akin to telling a diabetic "You can eat whatever you want!"
They can't. They have a particular problem that means that they have to control their behavior.
Doctors should be telling autogynephiles to keep their perversions to themselves.
These men should be told to control themselves, and wearing dresses is not part of that. Enforcing it by laws would not work logically (same with diabetics), but this is part of the changes that have to happen in the medical industry.
So, no. Men cannot do or wear whatever they want because they have shown that they are fundamentally children who need boundaries. Autogynephilia is a perversion and fetish, and men are driven by that. They need to be shamed. They dress like that because they get off on it, not because it's some kind of real identity.