Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sex Matters to Quakers

@sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social

16 followers 32 following 130 posts

We are individual Quakers across the UK who hold that biological sex in humans, as in all mammals, is a biological, immutable reality and has societal consequence. For enquirers wishing to know more - [email protected]

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

Think you know JK Rowling's views? Read for yourself with an open mind, take time to critically reflect, and decide for yourself. Refusal to engage with ideas is a sign of authoritarian group think. www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k....

J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues - J.K. Rowling

Warning: The below content is not appropriate for children. Please check with an adult before you read this page. To go back to the children’s page, please click here. This isn’t an easy piece to writ...

www.jkrowling.com

5 12

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 13h

How can we walk side by side? How can we accept difference in view and live together in difference, accepting everyone as unique, precious, a child of God.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 19h

Conversion therapy provokes strong emotional reactions, understandably. In the 1950s it meant giving electric shocks to gay people.

It is beyond extreme to consider exploratory talking therapies, consensually helping people accept themselves, to be akin to electric shocks.

1 1

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a shift in public attitudes over the last few years. A minor quibble is that gender is used in place of sex in the questions, however in 2020 - unbelievably - you could lose your job for stating what we all know, that sex is real and has societal consequence.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think humans can change sex? Please engage with this. Everyone should be free to live a life free from discrimination. Refusal to engage with ideas serves no one.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for reposting for our Dutch friends and neighbours.

1 2

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

The pharmaceutical industry is now turning its marketing machinery towards men. You are perfect just as you are. No one needs to take anabolic steroids for "low testosterone". Being a gentle man, or an under confident man, is not a healthcare condition.

trt.manual.co/trt-sem?utm_...

MANUAL | TRT - Life-changing treatment for low testosterone

Feel healthier, happier and stronger with a tailored testosterone treatment plan designed by our expert TRT doctors.

trt.manual.co

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

He appears to be a mind body dualiist. We are embodied creatures.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Augustin Fuentis seems to generalise from edge cases, across species & primates. He clearly understand that males and females exist and defines the categories fairly accurately. Easy question - can humans change sex?

1 2

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

@quakers.bsky.social @quaker.org.uk

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 1d

Two opposing views on biological sex. You decide. Ask yourself - what evidence am I discounting and why? What is my emotional reaction? What is the core of my belief? What might be the concerns of those who disagree with you?

books.google.co.uk/books?id=wqH...

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

1 1

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Attempts to modify one’s body in order to look like the opposite sex involve ineffective, risky surgery and lifelong dependence on medication that has serious side effects.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching children that it is possible to be born in the wrong body and to change one’s sex is dishonest. No child is born in the wrong body. It is not possible to change sex.

1 2

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

After the marriage (same sex couples act 2013 Stonewall could have moved its attention to persecutions and injustices internationally, and perhaps would have served us all better by doing so.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Good point. Men should not be in female spaces, no matter how they identify. Whilst most men are kind and decent it is impossible to identify those who wish to harm women, hence the need for legitimate exclusion of men. Everyone knows what sex they are.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Most AI now is digital companionship. Digital girlfriends designed to be compliant and keep vulnerable mem engaged on the platform reinforce mysogynistic attitudes.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

The stigmatising and silencing of people with genuine concerns about the harmful, profit driven, medicalisation of young people; women's (and men's) sex based protections - most often felt by our most vulnerable - and concerns about the erasure of same sex attraction, is an ongoing scandal.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Green Women's Declaration in conversation with Helen Joyce. Cogent, compassionate and comprehensive. youtu.be/nC-xCQdqTLU?...

GWD in conversation with Helen Joyce 07 10 25

YouTube video by Green Women's Declaration

youtu.be

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

The Cass Review determined that social transition for young people is not a neutral act, but rather the start of the medical pathway. Young peoples emotional distress is usually better served non-medically. First do no harm. webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202503...

UK Government Web Archive

This Page is [ARCHIVED CONTENT] and shows what the site page https://cass.independent-review.uk/home/publications/final-report/ looked like on 10 Mar 2025 at 14:39:33

webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Bringing your authentic self means being open to new ideas, and curious to learn. Authenticity is not the wafer thin but glossy and impervious narcissism badged, promoted and sold to vulnerable people for profitable gain.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

The definition is much improved from Stonewall's previous one. There is still widespread public belief that "misgendering" is always transphobic - directly due to Stonewall campaigning. Stonewall would get more public credit if they promoted this definition as widely as thier last, confused, one.

2 3

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds really interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

Aversion to deductive reasoning inhibits the societal ability to examine evidence and nuance. When looking at sex based rights, which everyone agrees are crucial for the protection of women and girls, what are our assumptions?

1 3

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 2d

How do you think more critically?

1) Identify the core reason you hold a belief.
2) Eliminate your core reason from you position. Are your other arguments sufficient to warrant your belief?
3) Make good arguments against your belief.
4) Try to work out, with others, how your belief could be wrong.

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

Do you uphold those who are acting under concern, even if their way is not yours? Can you lay aside your own wishes and prejudices while seeking with others to find God’s will for them? Advices and Queries #36

Sex Matters to Quakers @sexmatters2quakers.bsky.social · 3d

Most people would agree that sex is real and has consequence. Most people would agree that cutting healthy body parts off children, most who would otherwise grow up to be healthy gay adults, is unconscionable.