1/ The Dalton School in Manhattan is having a race meltdown. It's absolutely insane. Teachers are holding the school for ransom with demands, but they're so extreme the school will crumble if they give in. But they'll crumble if they don't, too!
Here are some of the demands:
2/ "Dalton has... actively encouraged the sort of thinking that is now biting them in the ass. And the obvious irony is that if Dalton is 'systemically racist,' a belief they themselves promote, it is progressives who bear the responsibility." thenakeddollar.blogspot.com/2020/12/breaki…
3/ Other schools & universities should take note. Giving in to this ideology is not a winning strategy. Hiring diversity officers will not improve your situation. Diversity officers are good at one thing: finding reasons to justify hiring more diversity officers.
4/ You eventually reach a tipping point where there are so many diversity officers fighting to uncover ever-more nuanced forms of racism and perceived oppression that a school's probability of boiling over in a moral panic for no apparent reason approaches 1.
5/ The list of demands is only the short version. There are actually 24 much more expansive demands that span 8 full pages! Here they are below.
🚨The NCAA's "transgender" policy is a TROJAN HORSE!
While the new policy might appear reasonable at a glance, a closer look reveals a massive loophole that actually streamlines the process of allowing males to compete in women’s sports. 🧵...
First, the policy is steeped in gender ideology and deliberately avoids referencing objective biology. It defines “woman” as a “gender identity” rather than as an “adult human female”—the language of Trump's EO. Further, it defines “gender identity” circularly as “an individual’s own internal sense of their gender.”
Second, though the policy states that “a student-athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team,” and that eligibility will be determined based on the sex “marked on [the athlete’s] birth records,” this standard is easily manipulated.
They're doubling-down on sex pseudoscience. This won't end well for them.
This article attempts to critique the new definitions of sex announced by the @HHSGov, yet the new HHS statement completely anticipated their critiques and makes them entirely irrelevant.
Thread 🧵...
Sex is all about gametes, or "reproductive cells." Other traits—which emerge during puberty—are considered "secondary sex characteristics" because they are a downstream effect of sex, not sex itself.
The "expert" cited here, Sam Sharpe, is a Ph.D. candidate at Kansas State University, and self-describes as “a trans and intersex person” who has “been involved in trans and intersex activism since 2016.” Sharpe has previously called for a “more inclusive understanding of sex diversity” and believes Lia Thomas (the male swimmer who won an NCAA Division I title in the women’s category) is being discriminated against for “failing to conform to expectations of cisnormative white femininity.”
Sharpe says that “biological sex is complex, variable, not fully understood, and definitely not a binary,” and has blamed the binary view of sex on “capitalism.”
Sharpe is an activist first, and a biologist second.
The article claims that the new definition of sex "leaves out people who carry genetic variants and don't make any reproductive cells, or gametes."
This is 100% FALSE.
The new HHS statement (right) explicitly explains that "having the biological function to produce eggs or sperm does not require that eggs or sperm are ever produced" and covers cases where "males and females may not or may no longer produce eggs or sperm due to factors such as age, congenital disorders or other developmental conditions, injury, or medical conditions that cause infertility."
They're choosing to ignore the substance of the document.
🚨ALERT: On Day 1, Trump signed an executive order affirming the reality that sex is binary, immutable, and based on gametes—not “gender identity.”
However, protecting women’s rights requires not only acknowledging biological reality but also PREVENTING EFFORTS TO HIDE IT. 🧵
Right now, 44 states allow their residents to amend their birth certificate's sex marker. Fifteen states will even issue NEW birth certificates without any indication that a change has been made, and all records linked to the original are sealed, accessible only by court order.
⚠️Such efforts to conceal biological reality must not be allowed!⚠️
To actually defend women's rights, we need an additional executive order banning amendments to sex markers on birth certificates, at least for national purposes.
🚨ALERT: Former US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) has quietly removed his gender pronouns (he/him) from his 𝕏 and other social media profiles.
Gender ideology is absolutely toxic. Expect more Dems to start quietly distancing themselves from it.
@PeteButtigieg Buttigieg added his gender pronouns to his bio in 2019.
@PeteButtigieg Pete's husband, Chasten, has also removed the pronouns from his bio.
Bill Nye the (pseudo)Science Guy has gone all in promoting gender woo and sex pseudoscience. He wrongly equates sex chromosomes and hormone levels with sex, and promotes the unscientific (& regressive) concept of "gender identity" for kids as young as 3.
I've written extensively on the false equivalence of sex chromosomes and sex, which you can read for free below. realityslaststand.com/p/sex-chromoso…
For more details on why "genetic sex" is a misnomer, see my article in City Journal explaining this in detail. city-journal.org/article/geneti…
I can't reliably tell what's parody anymore in the woke world, but the identity flags seem to be proliferating due to the normalization of the "transabled" (i.e., able-bodied people who desires a specific disability) community.
🧵A brief tour (it gets a lot more insane) ⬇️
"Mixed" category
Transpluriabled / Transmultiabled: a physically non-pluridisabled individual who desires to acquire multiple disabilities, or feels as if they are or should be pluridisabled (someone with multiple disabilities).
Transill / Transnoso: someone who desires to acquire an illness/illnesses or disease/diseases (somatic or mental) that they don't physically have.
Diachrohna/Transchronichana: someone who wants or feels like they should have the fictional Hanahaki, Hanakanjo, or Hanauso Disease, chronically.
Disabledfluid: someone whose disability/incapacity-acquisition desires or disability/incapacity feeling/identification changes over time. It can change at random or it may vary in response to different circumstances.
Aerodisabled: when one's disability-desires-acquisition, disability/incapacity identification, or feeling changes based on the setting or atmosphere. This can refer to things like temperature, weather, time of day, time of year, elevation, etc.
"Physical" category
Crutchian: someone who uses crutches to walk even though they don't need them physically {it should be noted that if you plan on doing this, please consider how much you require the aid over someone who physically requires it, dysphoria is horrible, but mobility aids are hard to access}.
Transtuirot / Transrottui: someone who desires a fractured leg, or who feels as if they have or should have a fractured leg when they physically do not.
Wheelchairqior: someone who uses a wheelchair even though they don't need one physically {it should be noted that if you plan on doing this, please consider how much you require the aid over someone who physically requires it, dysphoria is horrible, but mobility aids are hard to access}.
Transvitiligo: a transill identity in which someone desires to physically acquire vitiligo in order to match their internal identity to their physical body, or someone who identify/internally feels as if they have or should have vitiligo.