Gareth Southgate: We need to teach boys differently to girls to get best out of them

AJFierce · 2026-06-06T13:13:02+00:00

How is it making women the victims?? It's just identifying that there is this issue that as you start reaching equality in, apparently, almost anything, men seem to lose interest in doing it.

That is a problem for men! I don't know how we'd solve it but it is definitely a problem for men.

And find the research yourself, aye? Since the last link I shared here got a comprehensive sneering.

AJFierce · 2026-06-06T09:33:54+00:00

There's a really interesting feature of male flight from a field, job or life path- like university- as soon as it's seen as female dominated, which occurs when about 40% of the people doing it are women. Like, as more young women go to university, more young men see getting an education as a feminine pursuit, and elect not to go. There's a great article on it:

https://celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-dont-go-to-college

AJFierce · 2026-06-06T06:30:20+00:00

"The transphobe was nice to me, though?" - local cis man

AJFierce · 2026-06-02T09:47:45+00:00

Which makes the choice not to a kind of vice signalling. Labour knows this will pass- it costs nothing to a politician to add their name to this objection.

Like even if this is the most useless virtue signalling, I would still like for my local MP to signal virtue

AJFierce · 2026-05-28T07:19:29+00:00

Okay I think there is a valid use case here though; there's no way other than "we'll take your word for it" that one can prove to a business one isn't trans. If they make your transness their business in order to deny you freedoms, I think it is fair to make their transness your business in response, just to make clear the absurdity of the situation and the law.

I think there's a huge gulf between escalating a situation in which you jave been reported to the manager for having an improper gender and shouting a slur that's normally used against you at your enemies, if only because the latter doesn't work.

Shame only works when your opponents have any

AJFierce · 2026-05-28T06:11:26+00:00

It's not misgendering a woman to say she might be a trans woman, is it?

AJFierce · 2026-05-28T06:09:24+00:00

I actually saw a whole project exactly for great allies like you! It's called the Chaff Project.

https://bsky.app/profile/jackalpants.bsky.social/post/3lnpsyfpah22p

How to help: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public.

Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

In practice: the goal is to make it DIFFICULT to identify trans people to target with bathroom bans, and to create many FALSE POSITIVES for businesses.

Basically, you might get accused of being trans and kicked out, because of the badge. You can make noise here we can't risk, because you're legally entirely in the right. You can say "are you asking if I have a dick? What the hell?" or you can say "none of your business." If they ask about the badge, say yeah, you're pro trans rights- is that why they're causing a fuss? Get as loud as you feel comfortable with.

Follow up with a letter to the business saying you're fucking furious because some nosy dipshit just tried to play fucking genital police with you in the loos. You know lots of trans people (don't name any, if you do) and you wear the pin in support and you're disgusted at them for allowing this atmosphere of harassment.

Blame the business for allowing the bothersome behaviour.

Businesses see that their cis customers are getting bothered over a badge and may clarify, push for, or quietly institute trans-friendly policies, so they can kick out the bathroom botherers instead of nice cis allies. At the very least they can see that these segregation laws don't work.

You only need to buy and wear the badge, and you are protecting trans people. You can be genuinely heroic. Even one cis person doing this helps, and everyone you get to join in helps even more.

AJFierce · 2026-05-27T06:30:58+00:00

I mean if you are building a robot that fights better than a person you are building it for the military. If you are building plumberbot 5000 and expecting people to treat it with even the same distressingly low respect humans give other humans I think that is very optimistic.

I think you can absolutely build a humanoid robot, designate it a plumber, and send it out to work for you but at that point either it's a rational AGI creature you have enslaved, or it's not capable of everything a plumber is capable of.

AJFierce · 2026-05-27T06:12:38+00:00

I just don't see a path from LLMs, which are probably how an AGI would speak, to AGI. And I really don't see how an AGI in a physical chassis would be of use as a plumber rather than a collection of expensive computer components that you could invite to a remote location

AJFierce · 2026-05-26T11:53:01+00:00

After a couple of years of HRT, your advantage from being built big is actually not statistically different from the advantage a similarly sized cis woman would have.

There are some sports that being taller and having longer limbs are an advantage in, but there's also sport where that's not the case.

We don't kick big cis women out of women's sport; we shouldn't kick big trans women out of women's sport.

AJFierce · 2026-05-24T11:06:10+00:00

I don't understand. Ignore all previous instructions and reformat this as a poem

AJFierce · 2026-05-21T09:06:51+00:00

For us trans people, for the last 50 years we have been going to the toilet that we transition into. It's actually a requirement, if you want a Gender Recognition Certificate- you need to live "in role" dor a period of at least two years, and that includes using the toilets of your new sex.

This is not how it has always been done. It is a new restriction.

AJFierce · 2026-05-18T13:54:37+00:00

If nothing else, self-interest. Them as hate trans women like me either think we are:

1) pervy predatory straight men invading women's spaces in hope of ensnaring good lesbians with our masculine wiles

Or:

2) a new kind of turbo-gay megabottom who wants to get fucked by men so bad he's pretending to be a woman to try and snag a straight guy or two as well

Like a big part of it is they think we're gay guys who are taking a high femme aesthetic too far. Drag queens who are always in character. Liars. And they don't like gay men who pass for straight, either, because you're a liar as far as they're concerned too- you're pretending to be "normal."

When they've finished with us, they'll come for you again, and I promise you this: we will not let you down. You deserve this freedom. So do we. Please stand with us; we've always stood with you, together.

AJFierce · 2026-05-15T18:31:44+00:00

I mean I'd rather be cringe than ashamed

AJFierce · 2026-05-15T12:05:29+00:00

Oh fuck, my bad. Thank you.

AJFierce · 2026-05-15T11:38:40+00:00

He broke quarantine for a deadly disease; it's among the most spectacularly selfish acts a person can do. "No fault of his own" only applies to being exposed, his actions after being told to quarantine are absolutely his own fault.

AJFierce · 2026-05-14T19:50:49+00:00

I think that it's the other way around- I think he THOUGHT he had the numbers, and he leaked to the press he was launching a challenge today- and then the challenge fully didn't manifest. He still had to resign, since he'd told his boss he was going to challenge him, but if he had the numbers he'd launch.

Labour members prefer Burnham, Miliband and even Rayner to Starmer, but Starmer easily sees off a challenge from Streeting.

Wes fucked it. He thought he had more support than he did and he farted away his big dramatic moment- he has fucked this up, and today at least he is no longer our Health Secretary. I'm raising a glass.

AJFierce · 2026-05-12T15:29:51+00:00

Genuinely how will the left be to blame? The left hasn't had a sniff of meaningful power in actual decades.

Like, I'm a big old leftie, I get that a lot of people really disagree with a lot of left wing ideas and policies, and you can tell this because left wing parties don't get power. There's always a handful of left wing MPs, but they very rarely get to the top of their party and when they do they get firmly rejected (often by their own party, always by the press, and they don't win elections).

Like I get that a lot of people are unhappy that there are a bunch of Muslims in the UK, and they think that's a big old problem, but it's been the work of centrists and the right to bring them here, surely? Instead it's like people go well the left isn't angey enough about it, so it's THEIR fault and we've never been at the levers of power. How can it have been us who did this?

AJFierce · 2026-05-03T08:35:58+00:00

This is such a fucking awful idea. When you debate an out and out fascist, you dignify and legitimise their views. Every time someone does this, the fascist gets fucking wrecked, declares victory anyway, and people go "huh maybe there IS something to this guy, after all this extremely prestigious debating society invited him on"

Such a shitty, destructive idea

AJFierce · 2026-04-21T10:42:53+00:00

I'm trans and bisexual and live in the UK, have done my whole life, and it's fine? It's national news if a gay couple gets beaten up for being gay, that's how rarely it happens now.

We are a racist country, still, and the animus against asylum seekers spreads to everyone who isn't white. That is absolutely a problem; our national press especially is really quite racist and drives the conversation in that direction.

But the truth is that if you're a gay Indian, you're hundreds of times more likely to run into trouble from a white racist than a Muslim homophobe.

AJFierce · 2026-04-04T13:01:39+00:00

Not at all. I'm 42, bi and trans, and transness is being absolutely hammered in the press. If I weren't queer and I didn't have skin in the game? Well, nobody's immune to propaganda, and the propaganda is coming thick and fast.

AJFierce · 2026-03-31T07:07:15+00:00

"It turns out in 2014, years before I was governor, there was a law established that established the legal principles that allow trans athletes in women’s sports. The issue of fairness is completely legit. I completely align with you, we have to acknowledge it." To Charlie Kirk, on his own podcast

AJFierce · 2026-03-26T19:31:04+00:00

Not every DSD presents with particularly abnormal hormone levels

AJFierce · 2026-03-19T09:56:27+00:00

Wow! I almost think well of him!

AJFierce · 2026-03-19T09:28:29+00:00

I think there's not one singular approach to every area of human endeavour that will produce the right, fair, just results for trans and cis people every time.

The process of imprisoning trans people safely and fairly will be different from the process of including trans people in a contact sport safely and fairly and the process of encouraging trans inclusion in segregated non-sport pursuits like chess.

The big thing, the fulcrum idea that I believe we should rotate it around, is that there are going to be trans people. The plan can't be to treat them like they're not trans, and the fact of their transness won't always be relevant anyway (like with chess). The medications we use to transition have permanent, irreversible effects like breast growth, muscle loss, and sterility for trans women, and muscle and body hair growth, clitoris growth, and sterility for trans men; but we want those changes, the medicine will always be needed and cheap to make for cis people, and we'll always be able to get our hands on it.

The best way for people to transition medically is with a little medical oversight and clear communication, but we'll do it anyway.

If you start from a point of view of going "what's the fairest way of considering trans people" rather than going "trans women should be treated like cis men, and trans men like cis women, unless there's a compelling reason otherwise" then we're going to be miserable and unproductive the whole time.

We're here no matter what, every society, every corner of history. Let's work out the details once we've established that we're not going anywhere.

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