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Sally J's avatar

Fait accompli! Well, at least in the UK. Now another 10-20 years to repair the damage to governments, companies, institutions, NGOs nonprofits, schools, universities, and of course a generation or more of screwed up children. But now that the legal ruse has been revealed, others will join us without (as much) fear of cancellation and job loss.

Then onward to fix the US. California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Maine, Colorado, Minnesota and many more woke hotspots that haven't gotten the memo yet. Ugh.

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Lucy Leader's avatar

Go TERF Island I say! As to other places that badly need fixing, let's not forget some European countries, Canada, Australia and New Zealand where gender woo still prevails. Less glitter, more reality, please!

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Betsy Warrior's avatar

Thank you Lucy for your sincere, intelligent advocacy for women and children. Speaking of reproduction this is something to think about: The company CONCEPTION is striving ti manufactured synthetic human eggs, as the CEO explains "in case one of the sexes becomes extinct." Have you heard of this? I think we need to pay attention.

There's a company called Conception working on making synthetic human eggs “in case one of the sexes becomes extinct" says Matt Krisiloff the CEO of Conception, Matt Krisiloff, ex-boyfriend of Sam Altman of the leading AI company ChatGPT, says it's so that men partners can have babies using both men's DNA without using any genetic material from a woman, which would be necessary if women were extinct. (Aside: Sam Altman has recently been able to purchased an infant through surrogacy, dispite the fact that he's long been accused by his sister, who is nine years his junior, of having been sexually abused by him for years. How can this dystopian nightmare be happening?

Because of an interest in the biosciences I've been doing some research on the men who are trying to manufacture eggs. With dollar signs in their eyes Matt Krisiloff, and his husband Pablo Hurtado, have already had success in creating some ovarian tissue which can nurture an artificial egg in case the sex who produces eggs becomes extinct. (guess which one of the sexes? Likely the one who produces eggs.) This idea of the expendability of women goes way back to the Seventies when a trans man in Berkeley CA named Angela said women were no longer necessary. ( His rationalization was because of a glut of humans.)

Matt Krisiloff's billion dollar company, Conception, wants to get in on the enormous profits early because he expects so many men would like to combine each others genes within one egg rather than use a woman's egg and her genes, which would be in it. Krisiloff feels he's getting closer to his goal with his manufactured ovary cells nurturing prototype eggs.

https://www.healthlawpolicy.org/2024/03/05/the-viability-of-in-vitro-gametogenesis-for-social-and-situational-infertility

https://humanumreview.com/articles/the-obsolescence-of-parenthood

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/07/15/1184298351/conception-human-eggs-ivg-ivf-infertility

We have already seen so many examples of the erasure of women in language (pregnant people, chestfeeders, people with front holes, people with cervixes) and in social/political roles that it should come as no surprise that there men who hope to erase women biologically as well.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/children-from-gamete-like-cells-dishing-up-a-eugenic-future

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dean-phillips-biden-challenger-super-pac-sam-altman-1234949460/

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/without-men-women-and-sex-scientists-one-step-away-from-making-human-babies-from-a-single-cell-12880462.html

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Lucy Leader's avatar

Wow, grateful thanks to you for alerting me to this new company. (I always feel like asking these dudes why they hate their mothers so much.) It pays to remember that obscenely wealthy white guys are funding the transhumanist movement too. Some of them claim to be women, but none of them are women. https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/terasem-movement-inc

I wrote here about a group called Men Having Babies, who manage to run an extensive surrogacy website with nary a "woman" or "mother" in sight. (Not many babies either actually, which rather highlights the intrinsic importance of men in their eyes.) https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/telling-it-like-it-is-without-the

And don't forget about those men who buy babies for the entire purpose of socially engineering them into their preferred state of "queerness": https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/queering-babies-is-there-no-escape

I will definitely be reading your references for a future post!

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Go Lucy Go's avatar

Great article, Lucy! I have to say, if we look back in time, when women started to wear pants, play competitive sports, wear their hair very short, vote, or run for office, etc., nobody challenged the legal or medical definition of the word "Man." Women were allowed to play, to a certain extent, with men's toys and share roles traditionally held by men, and nobody thought that those women had "transformed" into men. In a world where all minorities can expect respect from others and social protection, the erasure of clear parameters defining what a woman is seems like a sure path to chaos.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks for another great piece, Lucy.

Have cross posted

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/a-mans-a-man-for-a-that

Now let's get it enforced!!

Dusty

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