I'm a Man, I've Got a Bigger Windpipe

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Men have more fast twitch fibres in their muscles as well as much bigger muscles. Men's tendons are stronger and thicker and less elastic, so they transmit power faster. All these things are shaped by test test ostrone and never undone. The only way you could say that is like saying that women are inferior or defectivemen. I'm not that's what the ancient greeks thought. Like, i quote gallen in the book saying that a woman is the same as a man in all respects, but all the organs are in exactly the wrong places. No, i'm my own sex. Thanks.

Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In an analysis that is at once expert, sympathetic and urgent, Helen Joyce offers an antidote to the chaos and cancelling.

Shermer and Joyce discuss: What is a woman? What is a man? • conflicting rights: trans vs. women • sex vs. gender; who you identify as vs. who you are attracted to • cross-sex identification • gender dysphoria • social contagions • gender affirming care • puberty blockers, testosterone, hormone treatment • detransitioning • top surgery, phalloplasty, vaginoplasty • preferred pronouns: compelled speech ≠ free speech • trans sports • exclusive spaces, and more…

Helen Joyce is a senior staff journalist at The Economist, where she has held several positions, including Britain editor, Finance editor and International editor. Before joining The Economist in 2005 she edited Plus, an online magazine about mathematics published by the University of Cambridge. She has a PhD in mathematics from University College London. On Twitter, she is @HJoyceGender.