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Margaret Nelson 🌦

@flashmaggie.bsky.social

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Don't get out much these days. 9th decad, 2nd wave. Conducted 100s of funerals. Owe a lot to the NHS. Part-time cloud-spotter. Dendrophile. Suffolk 🇬🇧. Excuse typos. "The cure for boredom is curiousity. There is no cure for curiousity." - Dorothy Parker.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 6h

I meant saved.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 6h

How did you come to imagine I think that? Are you simply being perverse?
Bye bye!

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 8h

True, but it's mental exercise.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 8h

My sympathies to the caption writer. I type typos too.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 8h

Another important life safed.

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 8h

Two months into Nursery life, Arthi is growing in confidence, character, and size. During feeding times, he confidently leads the herd, messily gulps down his bottle, and then demands another! His confidence a positive sign that he has already found his place among our Nursery family: swt.bio/arthi

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 8h

His mother was Jewish, though apparently he was unaware of that until adulthood.
The Bible is an anthology. There are parts that even atheists can agree with, but the story of Abraham from Genesis isn't one of them. It's the basis of some Jews claim to Israel.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 8h

From what I've just read, it supports my view.
Social conditioning is powerful.
But it's also true that we can't change our sex, only our behaviour.
The problem with those who claim to have a gender that differs from their sex is that they don't accept this.
Like anorexics, they deny reality.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 9h

Again, it's irrelevant to the notion of gender. If they have testicle, they're male, however they identify.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 15h

Disorders of sexual development don't make anyone anything other than male or female, any more than any other developmental disorder.
They can cause problems, but that has nothing to do with the notion of gender.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 16h

Language is an imprecise means of communication in social media.

"'When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

"'The question is,’ said ''Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’"

Illustration by John Tenniel from 'Alice Through the looking-glass, and what she found there' by Lewis Carroll.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 16h

Societies don't consider, but share conventions.
People everywhere recognize the reality of two sexes, because that's how we reproduce.
The word gender has only recently been used in relation to sexual expression rather than linguistically.
Beliefs vary widely but aren't necessarily true.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 16h

There's an underlying assumption behind this that there's general agreement about the meaning of trans, which there isn't. How can you be anti something that you haven't clearly defined? And what trans people fear is being forced to accept reality.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum - a week of absolute scenes has left the organisation in limbo. Here's what happened, why it happened, and what it all means iandunt.substack.com/p/frightened...

Frightened and desperate: EHRC anti-trans campaign loses its momentum

A week of absolute scenes leaves the organisation in limbo.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 17h

None.
Existence means the fact of objective reality. We exist for as long as we live.
The meaning of gender in relation cultural norms is performative. It's about behaviour, expressing oneself in relation to conventional notions of masculinity or feminity.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Google's keen to introduce me to AI. I've been using Chrome to open sites because it has a "listen to this page" option, which is useful as I have poor sight. But now there's an AI version that doesn't read the page aloud but has a man and a woman explaining it to me. It's not an improvement.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

Hence book-burning and censorship.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

I repost this video from time to time for the benefit of those who are ignorant of the Inception and development of so-called transgender medicine in the US from the 50s. Since then, thousands of young people have been harmed by hormones and surgery, many regretting it.
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The terrible fraud of 'transgender medicine'

YouTube video by MassResistance

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

You've digressed, both of you. See my reply.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

I've followed the development of the phenomenon for well over 10 years and researched its history.
I've been abused and had death threats. People certainly feel strongly about it!
And it is mostly nonsense, but harms children.
I rarely read The Daily Fail.
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My 15 minutes of fame, and what it was about

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell A post I wrote over a...

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

It started with three, male to female, female to male, and non-binary. Then, when it became fashionable to call yourself trans, there was fluidity and all sorts of other inventions, mainly among trendy young people.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

The rights conflict was inevitable with the introduction of the Gender Recognition Act. Establishing a definition of trans has been problematic, especially since the proliferation of "genders". All will become clear, though not everyone will be happy. share.google/NRYOQFGieLeP...

The EHRC code of practice should stick to the law

This is the first in a series of posts focusing in detail on individual parts of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s draft code of practice for

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

But how? We'll see.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 1d

True, but it's still about observation.

Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2d

I can't read that.

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, but "assigned at birth"? The midwives might have something to say about that.
And the staff are generally too busy to remember ridiculous pronouns, or put up with tantrums if they get them wrong.

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