A British Transport Police spokesperson said: “Under previous policy, we had advised that someone with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) may be searched in accordance with their acquired sex, however as an interim position while we digest yesterday’s judgement, we have advised our officers that any same sex searches in custody are to be undertaken in accordance with the biological birth sex of the detainee.

“We are in the process of reviewing the implications of the ruling and will consider any necessary updates to our policies and practices in line with the law and national guidance.”

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        Except if you compare these two sources, one is from an organisation that relies on the scientific method, and the other is from a lobbying organisation that exists to promote conservative ideologies.

        These things are not the same.

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        Did you not read the article?

        The central point of the argument you shared is that the natural variation in sex among humans doesn’t count because anything that doesn’t fall into a rigid binary is an exception to the rule.

        That’s tautological, “my dogma is correct because anything that contradicts me doesn’t count.” This isn’t science, it’s ideology.

        Science is built upon the fact that the existence of exceptions to a rule means that the rule doesn’t describe reality. If your system of categorization requires exceptions, then there are categories you failed to describe.

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          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Scholars

          National Association of Scholars (NAS) is an American 501©(3) non-profit politically conservative education advocacy organization. It advocates against multiculturalism, diversity policies, and against courses focused on race and gender issues.

          NAS is a member of the advisory board of Project 2025

          Yeah this seems like a scientifically-minded unbiased organisation on the matter

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          Two sexes.

          Let’s see a man try to give birth and a woman get a man pregnant. That is binary. Never in the history of human kind has a man birthed a child.

          Forget your little gender words (which are Just made up by JM)

          Anyway I’m done arguing with extreme leftists. Online doesn’t reflect reality thankfully.

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            You are obviously not aware of the fact that trans men can and do get pregnant and trans women can and do sire children. Your “never in history” argument has, in fact, never been true, since it relies upon the assumption that trans people aren’t real.

            This “two sexes” argument is reductive to a fault. By the binary logic, all men must be equally “manly”. Unless your argument is that every man you know is as manly as a trans woman in skirts and eyeliner, then you’re just lying to yourself. If some men can be more or less manly than others then the distribution of sex must be bimodal rather than binary.

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                Again, if trans men are women then these are the kind of people you think belong in women’s rooms:

                If you don’t want people that look like men in women’s rooms then the definition of “man” and “woman” can’t be based on private physical features that we keep out of sight under our clothes.

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                  Women get pregnant not men

                  My mom had a hysterectomy years ago. She’ll never get pregnant again. By this logic, my mom is no longer a woman.

                  Of course, if you have any experience talking with cissexists you’ll know that they distract people from their poorly conceived, fuckbrained arguments by just repeatedly moving the goalposts.

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                    This isn’t my talking point, it’s yours.

                    This is the inevitable result of defining sex based on people’s birth certificates.

                    You are demanding that these guys be required to use the stall next to your daughter because you’re afraid of men in women’s bathrooms. Because you can’t allow yourself to consider the implications of applying your rule to messy, complicated, ambiguous reality.

                    You are the kind of person that would go into a women’s room and accost a woman because you thought she was a man. You are what you fear.