A siren call for hatred
A medical doctor (and breast surgeon) believes that crossword puzzle definitions have to be `inclusive’. Yet another twitter gem preserved for posterity. Once the gender craze is over people will be flabbergasted when reading this.
Rhea Liang @LiangRhea
Disappointed to see un-inclusive language in your publication, @ABCaustralia. This phrase is a siren call for hatred.
Sall Grover @salltweets
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
You’re a doctor. If you won’t acknowledge the fact that a woman is an adult human female, why should anyone let you come anywhere near them to practice medicine on them, because if you’ll ignore that biological fact what else will you ignore?
Rhea Liang @LiangRhea
Replying to @salltweets and @ABCaustralia
A woman is most commonly an adult female human, (the word order is important) but there are a proportion who are also adults, born genetically male, who are women. It’s quite a complex area, not limited to genes and identity alone. Humans are complex, that’s the beauty of us.
Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth
Replying to @LiangRhea @salltweets and @ABCaustralia
It is not complex. Those born with the potential to produce large gametes are girls, later women. Those born with potential to produce small gametes are boys, later men. There is no third gamete. DSDs exist, like other rare conditions. Confusion and obfuscation aren’t beautiful.
Jess @anonotanon
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
I thought this was parody and actually laughed out loud.
But no.
You really just called a crossword puzzle a transphobic siren call for hatred.
For the 10,000th time: Woman is not a dirty word. The definition of woman IS “adult human female”. Grow up and get some self-respect.
Rhea Liang @LiangRhea
Replying to @anonotanon and @ABCaustralia
I find it interesting that many of these replies have proven my point- this phrasing is a siren call for hatred. I imagine many of these people, when told that ‘fat’ is offensive to some, would similarly defend their use of it by saying ‘yeah, but you are fat’.
Royal Chant @RoyalChantMP
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
this is an odd hill to die on. What would you have suggested? (not snark, serious question here)
Rhea Liang @LiangRhea
Replying to @RoyalChantMP and @ABCaustralia
Anything you like- lady, damsel, gender of aunt, song by Harry Styles, whatever. You only need to google the phrase ‘adult human female’ to get pages of anti-trans hate. It’s such a known hate phrase it’s caused a ban from standing for the UK Parliament.
Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Disturbing complaint from a doctor. This fashionable misuse of the word “inclusive” - to exclude and insult those who acknowledge the importance of material reality - will soon be passé. Why? Because material reality continues to exist, whether or not you acknowledge it.
Rooty Crone @AndWeavers
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Your tweet is a siren call for hatred. Do female people exist? Are they human? Is it reasonable for them to have a word for themselves? Perhaps some rights and spaces based on the shared material issues they face? Because that’s what you want to erase.
Keith Jordan @DadRogd
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
As a ‘breast surgeon’, have you ever removed the breasts from a perfectly healthy young woman just so she might better imitate a man?
Sonia Poulton @SoniaPoulton
Replying to @DadRogd @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
No woman should allow this one anywhere near their breasts. I wouldn’t. She makes me shiver.
Janeo @woozel7
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
We all know what a woman is. The language we use to describe ourselves as adult human females is perfect - we are women. Trans identified males are trans identified males. They are not adult human females.
Gem @_____Gem
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
What I am is not “a siren call for hatred.” You’ve been indoctrinated into thinking that, because men want to redefine women as a mixed sex class of people, so as to include themselves where they don’t belong, and you’re only too happy to assist in your own subjugation.
Billy Lenthall @BillyTheCrit
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Acknowledging the reality of women being female is hatred… oh you lot have really gone off the deep end. Truly extraordinary.
keatsie @keatsie777
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
If the dictionary definition of woman triggers you, you really do have issues. Best pull the blankets over your head and stay indoors.
WomanIsBiology @NoToMisogyny
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Genuine question. Would the definition ‘adult feline female’ (or any other mammal) also be a siren call for hatred?
DoveStar No. 3640 @StellaDoves
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
As a Dr are you sure you want people to think you do not understand female biology?
la scapigliata @lascapigliata8
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Colleague to colleague - this is SHOCKINGLY unethical. A dictionary definition of a woman - an adult female human - is not a “siren call for hatred”. I wrote this book for colleagues like yourself especially. See you once this medical scandal is over. Born in de Right Body: Gender identity ideology from a medical and feminist perspective
Eliza Petch @ElizaPetch
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Hatred? You mean disagreement.
You don’t get to say “this is a complex area” and then dictate what people must think.
Aaronbeep @aaronbeep
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
The definition of the word woman is a siren call for hatred? Do the histrionics ever get tiring for you?
Mark Sherry @she74145917
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
This speaks volumes about your professional practice, ethics & communication skills. If you are so didactic on this issue & not prepared to listen to the viewpoints of others, what other points of view do you ignore in your professional practice? Time for reflexivity?
ABK (Omen Sulk) @abkyou
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Words are important and provide our ability to categorise things in the world. If the definition of woman has lately been expanded to include people who were, say, born with a penis and testes, what word can we now use to define someone born with a uterus?
Claire Coleman Ellis @ClaireColemanE
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
‘Why do women leave surgical training? A qualitative and feminist study……..’ (Written by) Rhea Liang, Tim Dornan, Debra Nestel.
You certainly knew what a woman was when you wrote this report in 2019, didn’t you?
LGB Alliance Cymru @LGBAllies_Cymru
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Vixen: adult female fox. Mare: adult female horse. Doe: adult female deer. What is your problem with ‘#woman’? It is not transphobic to speak the #truth.
skogskant @skogskant
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
The two sexes are different especially in the field of medicin & clinical work. Anyone working in these areas without understanding the basics of biology and biological bodies is a danger to any patient.
Brenda Ellis @sapphitweet
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
A breast surgeon said this. Maybe they are the ones removing breasts from young confused girls.
Katie @KatjalnTheAct
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Descriptions for females aren’t supposed to include males. If we talk specifically about redheads we exclude brunettes. If we talk specifically about cats we exclude dogs. If we talk specifically about trains we exclude bikes. Cope.
𝐷𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑠 @HotSpastic
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
36 across - breast surgeon who doesn’t know what a woman is (4,5)
Watson @ImWatson91
Replying to @LiangRhea and @ABCaustralia
Jesus, it must be exhausting being you.
The Emerald Serpent @Izmeina666
I do hope for the sake of potential patients that she merely IDENTIFIES as a breast surgeon.