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Sex Matters to Quakers

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We are individual Quakers across the UK who hold that biological sex in humans, as in all mammals, is a biological, immutable reality and has societal consequence. For enquirers wishing to know more - [email protected]

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 10h

"If pressure is brought upon you to lower your standard of integrity, are you prepared to resist it? Our responsibilities to God and our neighbour may involve us in taking unpopular stands. Do not let the desire to be sociable, or the fear of seeming peculiar, determine your decisions." Queries #38

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 12m

Do you think humans can change sex without surgeries and hormones?

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 35m

What is your evidence that humans can change sex?

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 47m

Most men are lovely. Do you think that humans can change sex?

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1h

Masculinity should be broad enough to include all males. Why aren't we tackling exclusionary male behaviour?

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 7h

Any ideology that asks society to distrust parents and care givers is one to mistrust.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 10h

"Children and young people need love and stability. Are we doing all we can to uphold and sustain parents and others who carry the responsibility for providing this care?" Advices and Queries #24

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 10h

"masculinity is beyond the span of my arms. I also recognise that there is femininity in my masculinity because I had a very wonderful mother" Dr Levine's speech about parenting, teens and considered support. youtu.be/Y0tRafvH-Rc?...

What Parents Should Know about Psychotherapy for Their Trans-identified Adolescent | Dr. S Levine

YouTube video by Genspect

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 10h

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

How can we walk side by side? How can we accept difference in view and live together in difference, accepting everyone as unique, precious, a child of God.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Conversion therapy provokes strong emotional reactions, understandably. In the 1950s it meant giving electric shocks to gay people.

It is beyond extreme to consider exploratory talking therapies, consensually helping people accept themselves, to be akin to electric shocks.

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a shift in public attitudes over the last few years. A minor quibble is that gender is used in place of sex in the questions, however in 2020 - unbelievably - you could lose your job for stating what we all know, that sex is real and has societal consequence.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Do you think humans can change sex? Please engage with this. Everyone should be free to live a life free from discrimination. Refusal to engage with ideas serves no one.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for reposting for our Dutch friends and neighbours.

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

The pharmaceutical industry is now turning its marketing machinery towards men. You are perfect just as you are. No one needs to take anabolic steroids for "low testosterone". Being a gentle man, or an under confident man, is not a healthcare condition.

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

He appears to be a mind body dualiist. We are embodied creatures.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Augustin Fuentis seems to generalise from edge cases, across species & primates. He clearly understand that males and females exist and defines the categories fairly accurately. Easy question - can humans change sex?

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Two opposing views on biological sex. You decide. Ask yourself - what evidence am I discounting and why? What is my emotional reaction? What is the core of my belief? What might be the concerns of those who disagree with you?

books.google.co.uk/books?id=wqH...

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Attempts to modify one’s body in order to look like the opposite sex involve ineffective, risky surgery and lifelong dependence on medication that has serious side effects.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching children that it is possible to be born in the wrong body and to change one’s sex is dishonest. No child is born in the wrong body. It is not possible to change sex.

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Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

After the marriage (same sex couples act 2013 Stonewall could have moved its attention to persecutions and injustices internationally, and perhaps would have served us all better by doing so.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

Good point. Men should not be in female spaces, no matter how they identify. Whilst most men are kind and decent it is impossible to identify those who wish to harm women, hence the need for legitimate exclusion of men. Everyone knows what sex they are.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

Most AI now is digital companionship. Digital girlfriends designed to be compliant and keep vulnerable mem engaged on the platform reinforce mysogynistic attitudes.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

The stigmatising and silencing of people with genuine concerns about the harmful, profit driven, medicalisation of young people; women's (and men's) sex based protections - most often felt by our most vulnerable - and concerns about the erasure of same sex attraction, is an ongoing scandal.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

Green Women's Declaration in conversation with Helen Joyce. Cogent, compassionate and comprehensive. youtu.be/nC-xCQdqTLU?...

GWD in conversation with Helen Joyce 07 10 25

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