#Chromosomes

Kirsti Miller

KirstiMiller30

Hormones & Sports? We have been there before!At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, 18-year-old American sprinter Helen Stephens was accused by rival athlete Stella Walsh [Stanisława Walasiewicz] of being

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mingisminari

why the phrase “theres only 2 genders” doesn’t make sense anymore— a thread so let’s just point out the obvious, gender ≠ sex. gender is a social construct whilst sex

Rena the halberd lesbian

blindrapture

I had to delete my tweet about CVS asking for Assigned Sex at Birth on the COVID forms because transphobes got a hold of it.1)Assigned Sex is not relevent to

Emmett Harsin Drager

trans_historic

Hi, my name is Emmett. I’m also a Sagittarius and a sibling and pen pal and really good domino player and also, I’m trans. (1/22) My pronouns are they/them/theirs. I’m

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RebeccaRHelm

Friendly neighborhood biologist here. I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex sex seem really simple. Well,

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

I received an excellent question about sex determination, and how biologists classify organisms. Here's the question: "Is it a consensus among biologists that sex is determined by gametes? If so,

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RebeccaRHelm

Hi all, friendly neighborhood biologist here again. Going to repost this thread as a reminder that the science of human sex is incredibly complex. We the people must understand this

Elting Lab

EltingLab

I am so excited to share our new preprint we recently posted - a first for the Elting Lab! I'm gonna do a little thread about the main results of

Zach Elliott

zaelefty

Sex (the fusion of two gametes to produce a new individual) is a *mechanism*, and so it makes perfect sense to define one’s sex in terms of machinery: what machinery

c0nc0rdance

c0nc0rdance

Fennec foxes gigantic ears serve dual functions:1. Temperature control in their native Sahara2. They can hear their prey (insect or small mammal) in their burrows. The Fennec fox is the

💜🤍🖤 Fiori Loto (tiredly queer) 🏳️‍⚧️

Loto_Fiori

Intersex people, demigender people, multigendered people, and genderfluid/flux people exist.All of which can, if that's their gender, be AFAB trans women.It literally is gatekeeping. Because by your own logic, calling

IndieFlower🆖

IndieFlower3

FAQ thread about it/its pronouns and being an agender lesbian: please keep in mind that any answers here are simply my personal experiences and will not reflect the views

🦴Spooky Shkeleton🦴

workingdog_

AFAB and AMAB are not biological descriptors they don't mean anything about your body. AFAB and AMAB refer to a specific event in your life: when you were assigned a

Sam Dylan Finch

samdylanfinch

So we can add @PsychToday to the list of mental health publications that have no qualms about publishing transphobic op-eds."If you have a Y chromosome, you're technically a man."https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mood-mi

Shahrar Ali

ShahrarAli

What Is A Woman?Statement by Shahrar Ali, 20 July 2020A woman is commonly defined as an adult human female and, genetically, typified by two XX chromosomes. These facts are not

Elianor, anarchist brat.

BathoryElianor

Allez visiblement il faut remettre ça : NON ça n'est PAS transphobe de refuser de coucher avec une personne trans. PERSONNE ne dit ça à part des légions d'abrutis qui