Is gender a social construct?

[Voyageur]

Planned Parenthood new advertising campaign to attract more customers.

Good grief.

In the days of old, one could be horsewhipped for putting up an advertisement such as that (hence no one would dare). Moreover, a slap of the glove with pistols at dawn, or just plain old fisticuffs for that type of social dishonour might not have been out of the question.

Planned Parenthood:

We're America's most trusted provider of sexual and reproductive health care, and we think we look pretty good...

 

[Glenn]

Speaking of social constructs, this professor set out to write total nonsense papers filled with the jargon of the day, and see if he could get it published in peer reviewed journals.

Hoax Science Paper Says Penis Is a Social Construct that Worsens Climate Change​

Hoax Science Paper Says Penis Is a Social Construct that Worsens Climate Change

NYU physicist Alan Sokal thought very little of the research performed by his colleagues in the social sciences. To prove his point, he wrote a paper that used plenty of trendy buzz words but made absolutely no sense. As he later explained, Dr. Sokal wanted to find out if a humanities journal...

www.acsh.org

 

[Ricardo]

The downward impetus seems to be getting accelerated eh , over the last few years , ( for accuracy's sake last quote , seems to be from Mr. Micheal Ellner ) . greets

 

[Jefferson]

Speaking of social constructs, this professor set out to write total nonsense papers filled with the jargon of the day, and see if he could get it published in peer reviewed journals.

Hoax Science Paper Says Penis Is a Social Construct that Worsens Climate Change​

On the one hand this ideological possession is shockingly concerning but still gotta laugh as at 2:18 Dr Boghossian says “we delved into the literature, I think I lost quite a few brain cells in that process”.

 

[Ant22]

In case someone is in need of some positive news amongst all the madness I bumped into the below article about a case tried in front of the UK employment tribunal. I'll add that a vast majority of employer-employee conflicts in the UK are settled out of court, it's quite rare for an employer to push to go in front of the tribunal due to potential reputational risk. But in the below scenario the CEO of the organisation sued was a transgender woman, and (s)he clearly foolishly assumed that everyone would surely agree with her woke libtardation. Well, they didn't.

What’s also important here is that the UK operates under a precedent-based legal system, meaning this case has entered case law and potentially opens the door to fairer treatment of those who hold gender-critical views (i.e., traditional views on gender). Admittedly, it’s probably more like a small crack in the door, but I was still quite pleased to read it.

Here's a link to the full article:

Charity worker awarded £70k after being constructively unfairly dismissed for ‘gender critical’ views

For those who don't have time to read it here's a quick summary:

A former counselling worker won a case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, winning nearly £70k for constructive unfair dismissal. Her crime? Speaking up about the importance of biological sex in a space designed for survivors of sexual violence. In other words, she insisted that biological sex mattered to sexual violence victims. Instead of listening, the centre targeted her gender-critical views, labelling her concerns as “transphobic” and dragging her through a deeply flawed disciplinary process.

The tribunal didn’t hold back, slamming the centre’s actions as a “heresy hunt” driven by ideology rather than fairness. The judge praised her for her careful and respectful approach, while highlighting that workplaces must tolerate differing beliefs - even those some might find uncomfortable.

The judge justified the ruling as follows:

"Essentially our view of the law is that the law imposes a duty on both sides to tolerate each other in the workplace. Tolerance means not just accepting views which one may not be terribly bothered about but means accepting that others hold views which may cut to the core of one’s being,”

This reads like common sense, but sadly, it's not really that common these days.

This isn’t the only case of its kind. A professor at the UK’s Open University was recently compared to a “racist uncle at the Christmas table” for holding the same views.

Here’s a link to an article about it:

What does gender-critical university professor’s tribunal victory mean for employers?

People Management analyses the implications after further cases find in favour of women who believe sex is biological

www.peoplemanagement.co.uk

 

[Laura]

J. K. Rowling is pretty hot on this topic. Find her on X and see if she has posted about this. If not, you might want to bring it to her attention.

 

[Alejo]

And speaking of the UK, I just came across this one during my nightly news round:

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance from the British Transport Police​

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance.

The British Transport Police policy allows recently transitioned officers to intimately search women if they have been issued a gender recognition certificate.

Titled 'Transgender and Non-Binary Search Position', it was authorised in September by the assistant chief constable for network policing.

It comes after the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) was forced to withdraw similar guidance in January after concerns were raised about women's safety.

The guidance, seen by the Mail, reads: reads: 'British Transport Police recognises the status of transgender and non-binary detainees/staff from the moment they permanently identify in that gender with or without a GRC [gender recognition certificate].

'This means that even when a person has not legally changed their sex, we should continue to use the correct pronouns and recognise the person's gender. BTP officers/staff will only search persons of the same sex as either their birth certificate or GRC.'

What could go wrong? if this stands, it will go the exact same way that the transgender prisoners went, men requesting to be transferred to female prisons where they'd go absolutely mad being locked up with hundreds of potential victims, some of which ended up pregnant.

 

[Nienna]

And speaking of the UK, I just came across this one during my nightly news round:

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance from the British Transport Police​

Yes, these nut-jobs are giving men-who-pretend-to-be-women every opportunity to sexually molest (real) women. It's disgusting and depraved.