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Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
It must be The Great Race time - kangaroos up on the mountain hopping over the famous Mount Panorama sign 🦘
Iconic!
#Bathurst1000 #repcosc #supercars
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
Just as most men aren't rapists, voyeurs or domestic abusers, so there are plenty of trans women who pose no risk to women and girls.
However, some trans-identified men provably are a risk. We know this because it's a matter of public record. Trans women have been convicted of all the crimes listed above, and of femicide.
No study has ever proven that trans-identified men don't have the same pattern of criminality as every other kind of man. All available evidence points the other way: they are just as likely as any other man to be a rapist or a woman-killer. The evidence is plain to see in government statistics and court reports, however much you'd like to pretend none of those exist.
Demanding that women and girls pretend there is no risk to themselves, which you do constantly, is itself abusive. Your insistence that you belong in women-only spaces, and your pretence that the likelihood of harm to females in those spaces doesn't increase with every man who's allowed inside, mark you out as precisely the kind of man who should be nowhere near women's and girls' locker rooms.
Decent men, however they identify, respect women's boundaries. Even if they themselves would never dream of harming a girl or woman, they are under no illusions about what some of their fellow men will do if given access to spaces where women and girls are undressed or otherwise vulnerable.
As for women who commit terrible crimes: I have literally never heard any woman deny that Myra Hindley, Karla Homolka or Joanna Dennehy are female. Nor have I ever seen a woman argue that being a woman entitles them to enter spaces reserved for vulnerable people, without having a professional or family-related reason for being there.
Yet another difference between women and trans-identified men of your type is that the former aren't demanding, en masse, the right to go where they clearly don't belong - for instance, into a nursery where they have neither a child nor a job, or onto an intensive care ward when they know nobody and have no medical qualifications, purely because they consider themselves to be especially kind and nurturing. Even if such an interloper didn't hurt a child or a critically ill person, women as a class understand how inappropriate it would be to push themselves into those spaces and just how much justified disquiet they'd cause by doing so.
The entitlement and disregard you show for the feelings and boundaries of women and girls are of those of an unfortunately all-too-common type of male. You believe you have the right to demand that women sacrifice their own personal safety to validate your feelings about yourself. You're either indifferent to the fact that you might make women and girls uneasy at best, and scared at worst, or you're well aware that you'll have that effect, and the thought gives you a thrill. Nothing about that makes you a woman. On the contrary, you just keep proving, over and over again, that you are a man.
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
This post has had 4.6 million views on X.
Under Albanese's fake-virtuous Digital Duty of Care bill, a post like this will be rendered invisible to Australians.
You've got less than a day to make a submission.
Email [email protected] by 12pm tomorrow (Tue 22 Sep) to say no to Albo's latest attempt at censorship.
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
All human variation can be represented by a binary of sex and a spectrum of human traits. You do not need to invent new sexes, pretend humans can change sex, claim some humans are sexless or both sexes, or turn sex itself into a spectrum to explain human differences.
The confusion comes from mixing up sex classification with sex-associated human variation, and misunderstanding what "binary" and "spectrum" mean.
Binary does not mean simple. Computers generate enormous complexity from two discrete states. The complexity of human development is not evidence against binary sex.
Humans are anisogametic and gonochoric. Human reproduction is organized around two gamete types that define the two sexes: sperm for male and ova for female. There is no third human gamete or continuum between sperm and egg. No spergs. No speggs.
Sex is binary because there are two reproductive categories in humans. Every human is one or the other sex. No human is neither or both, and no human can change sex.
A spectrum describes something that varies by degree along a continuum. Height, hormone levels, vocal pitch and penis size vary this way. None defines or changes sex. Only potential gamete type defines sex, across species, not just in humans.
There is no reproductive category for someone who is 30%, 50%, or 70% male or female, or for the supposed intermediate sexes depicted by a "sex spectrum."
Human traits vary enormously. Some are continuous, some discrete, some categorical, and the overwhelming majority overlap between males and females. Lifespan, brain volume, lung capacity, height, handedness and countless other traits vary across humanity and within both sexes. Human development, including sexual development, creates an extraordinary spectrum of human variation.
Sex classifies. Traits vary.
The mistake is taking variation in sex-associated traits and treating it as variation in sex itself.
Male isn't a continuum of "maleness" determined by height or penis size. Female isn't a continuum of "femaleness" ranked by estrogen levels, breasts, hips, height or femininity.
A female with PCOS isn't partly male. A male with Klinefelter syndrome isn't partly female. A tall woman isn't moving toward the "male end" of a sex spectrum. She's simply toward the tall end of human or female height. Her height does not shift her sex toward "male."
It's a category error: where someone falls on the spectrum of sex-associated traits doesn't tell you where they fall on some supposed spectrum of sex.
Biology classifies sex by reproductive organization, not by resemblance to an imaginary "average" male or female. Human development can produce unusual combinations of sex-associated traits without creating intermediate gamete types or additional sexes, just as variation in human traits doesn't make anyone more or less human or a different species.
Calling sex itself a continuum turns human variation into degrees of "maleness" and "femaleness." A girl with broad shoulders, a woman with small breasts, a boy with wide hips, or a man with large breasts isn't less male or female because of those traits.
No two women are exactly alike. No two men are exactly alike. Human development explains that diversity. It doesn't contradict binary sex.
The model is simple:
Binary sex + spectrum of human variation.
If sex itself is supposedly a spectrum, ask three questions:
What is the continuous variable? What are its intermediate values? What trait variations would make someone partly male or female, less male or more female?
Pointing to hormone levels, genital measurements, chromosomes, secondary sex characteristics or other variable traits shows that human traits vary, not that sex itself varies along a continuum.
There are two sexes and an extraordinary spectrum of ways for male and female human beings to develop.
Variation doesn't weaken the binary. The binary is the classification that contains the variation.
I called it before Shayna #justsaying #theblock
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
This is the report about "gender-affirming care" that should end careers and open federal fraud investigations.
HHS released yesterday Wolves in White Coats, a detailed 64-page report that documents how 225+ hospitals and health systems built pediatric gender programs. It exposes some of the billing practices that helped turn experimental medical interventions on minors into a lucrative industry.
This is exactly the type of investigation those of us who've spent years reporting on this have been asking for. It should be the blueprint for criminal investigations — and grounds for medical boards to start disciplinary proceedings against the clinicians involved.
Report and executive summary in the reply. 🧵
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
Dear ABC,
If you're looking for opinions on the Census Data, here's mine.
I'm a former data analyst (crime), but I also designed a data matching algorithm still used today by Victoria Police because of its effectiveness, so I have some professional skin in the game.
I am unable to defend the 2026 prioritisation of Census questions.
How does "We urgently need nationally exhaustive information about whether someone identifies as straight, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation"...
While we didn't obtain nationally exhaustive information about whether households can access a GP,
whether they have unmet childcare needs,
whether working people commute three days rather than five,
whether households are involuntarily overcrowded because they cannot find housing.
Or these types of questions, which would surely be hard to argue against from a prioritisation perspective of best value for data capture, and best opportunity for Australians to provide a holistic picture of their lives;
Citizenship / visa or residency status (because Country of birth doesn't tell government whether someone is a citizen, permanent resident, international student, temporary worker, etc. Those populations can impose quite different infrastructure/service demands).
Year a non-Australian-born person obtained permanent residency/citizenship (because there is much better longitudinal information about settlement and integration than birthplace alone)
Primary mode of transport normally used (Census asks about journey-to-work circumstances, but hybrid/WFH has made a single Census-day travel snapshot much less informative than it once was).
Housing capacity/occupancy pressure (Bedrooms alone is crude. Ask whether people are sharing bedrooms, using converted garages/studies, or accommodating people who would otherwise live elsewhere. That's enormously relevant during a housing shortage).
Reason adults remain in/shared household (Understanding drivers of Financial necessity, caring, cultural preference, disability, housing unavailability etc...would distinguish genuine housing stress from chosen multigenerational living & inform other pressure points th Government can focus on).
Internet quality/access (As infrastructure in its own right, particularly with WFH, telehealth and online government services).
Household energy characteristics (Solar, battery, EV charging, gas/electric heating etc... would be extraordinarily useful for electricity-grid infrastructure planning)
Many of these variables have extremely obvious relationships with hospitals, roads, rail, schools, housing, childcare, workforce participation and infrastructure investment.
The ABS also removed “number of children ever born” from the 2026 Census (it will return in 2031).... while introducing gender and sexual orientation.
From a strategic-planning perspective, fertility and family formation are among the most consequential long-term variables imaginable. They affect future school enrolments, workforce size, dependency ratios, healthcare demand and population ageing.
This missed opportunity to capture all those above mentioned data sets to inform in policy/planning areas isn't just a shame, it's borderline failure of professional judgement.
We removed access to data that could inform those things, and replaced it with gender questions.
Who managed to convince a ABS strategic review board
“We don't have enough justification to collect fertility information every Census, but sexual orientation warrants universal national collection every five years”??
I'd love to see the cost-benefit/consequences methodology behind that decision !
The reality is the Census can only ask so many questions, and we should prioritise the ones that provide the greatest benefit for planning Australia's future, not pander to the "feelings" of a tiny majority of people that got warm and fuzzy because a national census survey "affirmed" their gender.
Thank you, if you read this.
ABC Online would like to hear from people about their experiences with the census...
abc.net.au/news/2026-08-11/2…
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
El feminismo dijo: "la biología no es destino". Nunca dijo: "la biología no existe".
Luchamos contra la idea de que nuestra biología nos hacía inferiores. No contra el hecho de que tenemos un cuerpo de mujer.
Nos oprimen por eso. Negarlo no es feminismo, es borrarnos.
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
Jay Daniel Thompson (@RMIT) used thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with journalists to highlight ethical issues with how journalists report on digital hostility towards women. tinyurl.com/vbr69rv8
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
Most experts use AI to write for them.
That's the amateur move.
The real power is using AI to interrogate your own thinking.
Here are 7 short prompt questions that turn AI into your toughest research partner:
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
"Believed to be one of the last things renowned philosopher, pacifist and public intellectual Bertrand Russell wrote, it is as relevant today as it was 55 years ago."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08…
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
Good Vibrations is a symphony.
This clip of Brian Wilson and The Wrecking Crew recording the track is outer worldly.
Proof that all he needed were just musicians to play his material.
He is The Beach Boys.
Dr Deborah Wise retweeted
Just as disgusting that the ABC keeps referring to Joe Hockey as "former ambassador to the US".
But fails to outline his current role as weapons industry lobbyist.
If they insist on calling on Hockey re #AUKUS, journalistic standards demand that his interests are declared.
