Even though the constant barrage of dishonest rejection of common sense and scientific understanding from a small minority of extremist TRAs on social media can be profoundly frustrating, it is good to see the population at large appears to reject giving vulnerable children experimental treatments and understands the problem with allowing people born male to compete against people born female in most sports. The damage these extremists have been allowed to perpetuate on children, women and transgender people is scandalous.

Not only is this deeply offensive and dehumanising to people with the conditions Diane has appropriated for her ideological nonsense, it is also a grossly pseudoscientific piffle likely borrowed from the blog of an asset manager. 1/2

For the slow ones at the back of the class, shall we recap why only two sexes have evolved? Before the sexes had come into existence sexual reproduction occurred through the syngamy of gametes of similar morphology and function, we call this isogamy. Some unicellular and extremely simple organisms still sexually reproduce through this method. Gamete dimorphism defines sexes, so gametes that are all the same aren’t sexes. Instead, they have mating types. Larger organisms need larger fertilised eggs to store nutrients for early development. The production of larger gametes is expensive, so although it benefits the zygote it also limits the number of gametes an organism can produce. To maximise reproduction, one "mating type" evolved to produce many small gametes that compete to fertilise the larger gametes. The other mating type adapted to produce fewer, nutrient-rich gametes, investing in the quality rather than quantity of offspring. Evolution favours specialisation in gamete sizes, as intermediate-sized gametes (neither small enough to compete effectively nor large enough to nourish the zygote) are less fit which leads to a system with only the small and large gametes – we call these individual strategies male and female, the two sexes. Small gametes compete with other small gametes to fertilise large gametes; the quicker, more efficient, and more quantitative they are they more likely they are to cause fertilisation and establish a new organism. The more energy and nutrients large gametes can contain the more fit they are. Adding a third gamete size/type would face competition from both established types, making it evolutionarily unstable. An intermediate gamete would be simply selected out due to its inability to compete with the large and small gametes. This is about as scientifically nailed on as the existence of gravity or the Copernican model of the universe. academic.oup.com/molehr/arti…

Cam, which 'intersex' condition do you have?

Sale and supply of puberty blockers via private prescriptions for the treatment of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence to be banned indefinitely in UK for under-18s. It follows a targeted consultation and advice on patient safety from the independent Commission on Human Medicines and Cass Review. Government and NHS continue to improve children’s gender services to provide all-round holistic support Legislation will be updated today to make the order indefinite and will be reviewed in 2027 gov.uk/government/news/ban-o…