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"Gobbelsian"

👍🙂 Big lies and little lies, as far as the eye can see. But you certainly cover a lot of ground, far more than I have time to delve into as I'm largely focused on, as you put it, "the GenderWang front". Arguably where the rubber meets the road in a great many ways.

Somewhat apropos of which and ICYMI, particularly as I see you subscribe to Gender Clinic news:

Gender Clinic News: "Yes, our evidence is weak

A leading gender clinician acknowledges the low-quality evidence base and says he no longer regards puberty blockers as a 'pause' button for children"

https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/yes-our-evidence-is-weak

Closer to home, a recent bit of Canadiana from Eva Kurilova, although I think she's barking up the wrong tree in many ways, and, to some extent at least, more a part of the problem than of the solution:

"How the Ontario Human Rights Commission Helped Gender Ideology Take Over Canada"

https://www.evakurilova.com/p/how-the-ontario-human-rights-commission

"Ministries of Truth" R Us. Although, sadly, hardly exclusive to provincial "governments". ICYMI, Statistics Canada's foray into the field with their 2021 call for "consultation on gender and sexual diversity statistical metadata standards". A particularly odious bit of bafflegab and bunch of circular definitions:

StatsCan: "

1 Male gender: This category includes persons whose current gender was reported as male. This includes cisgender and transgender persons whose current gender was reported as male.

2 Female gender: This category includes persons whose current gender was reported as female. This includes cisgender and transgender persons whose current gender was reported as female."

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/concepts/consult-variables/gender#a12

Though they do helpfully and usefully acknowledge that sex and gender are entirely different kettles of fish:

StatsCan: "Sex and gender refer to two different concepts, but are interrelated. While sex is understood in terms of biological features, gender is a multidimensional concept that is influenced by several additional factors, including biological characteristics, cultural and behavioural norms, and self-identity."

The problem is generally that their definitions are anything but scientific, being charitable. One might reasonably expect something better from, presumably, a bastion of science, a keeper of the flames, a gatekeeper of credible scientific principles and nomenclature. Relative to which, you might have some interest in a paper I had submitted to them in response to that "call":

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kRIpfkx0sq8y0nC7HBK6GyMiI_SUv_zv/view

So far, crickets. Kind of expect, or at least hope, that many other people also gave them both barrels.

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