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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Apr 4

The reason transgender inclusion in women's sports is "deeply unfair" is that:

1.) Men have a physical advantage over women
2.) Trans women are men

In lieu of acknowledging these two facts, the Democratic party calls women and girls begging them to put an end to deep unfairness Nazis.

Of course some elements of the party (and journalists throughout the mainstream media and "scientists" at corrupted peer reviewed journals) deny 1.) It's possible for smart guys in the liberal coalition to dispute or even mock such obviously untrue claims.

The thing they can't do is acknowledge 2.)

Some Smart Guys in the liberal coalition claim that it's possible to end the deep unfairness of letting men dominate women in women's sports without acknowledging 2.)

But that's plainly wrong. There is no deep unfairness to end without acknowledging 2.)

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Mar 26

Textbook circa 2017 intersectional clusterfuck with white "ciswoman" becoming indignant over black man weaponizing her body in a drive to Otherize trans women. "How dare you?" she inveighs.

"Disingenuous statements about protecting the safety of women have been used as tools of oppression for hundreds of years..."

She's all but accusing him of being one of Emmett Till's murderers.

(A white male colleague asked if his support for women's spaces and sports could be analogized to support for Jim Crow laws days earlier.)

Someone replied to my earlier thread by saying "it must burn these progressives up so bad that he's black."

But based on their conduct toward them, it does not constrain them in any way. The run the same playbook with no deference or alteration at all.

If you look at the intersectional math as revealed in action, trans just trumps everything. Gay, black, female -- counts for zip. Gay black female might as well be Bubba from Mobile next to the white man in a dress.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Mar 25

https://twitter.com/JamieWhistle/status/1904656820867588426

Wheeler refers to the many appeals he heard from women seeking the protection of women's sports and spaces:

"Was I supposed to listen to those women and label them all transphobic?"

Voices from the crowd: "Yes!"

Wheeler pauses.

"Well that's not something I'm going to do."

https://twitter.com/JamieWhistle/status/1904656820867588426

The absurd hypothetical always receives earnest assent from the Trans Activists and allies

But of course for a member of the Democratic party, the answer is literally yes. Two Presidents -- Obama in the final year of his term, and Biden in the final year of his -- passed regulations mandating that the concerns for safety and privacy of women and girls must have no standing before any school in America

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Mar 25

People will say "trans people have always existed" and then point to depraved Roman emperors, Greek and early Christian castration cults, or "third sexes" in premodern societies who are treated as a pariah class consigned to prostituting themselves in order to preserve rigidly binary sex roles

People distressed by their sex have always existed.

There's just never been a better approach to this than to promote tolerance and understanding of people who diverge from gendered norms without performing grisly medical experiments on their bodies or attempting to use state power to compel acceptance that any of them have changed by virtue of those experiments or propagandizing every child into believing that their distress can be solved through grisly medical experimentation.

https://x.com/glennagoldis/status/1832536641807724717

I don't support castrating people who identify as eunuchs.

But a salient difference between eunuch affirmation surgery and gender affirming surgery is that people who castrate themselves really become eunuchs.

https://x.com/glennagoldis/status/1832536641807724717

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Mar 24

This 22-year New Hampshire Democratic state legislator voted to ban gender surgeries on children last year and to protect girl's sports and changing rooms this year. Local LGBTQ organizers intend to make him pay a price for...enacting the will of 67 percent of Democratic party voters, that all but one other party member in the House took great pride in defying. They are circulating fliers calling these votes "severe discrimination against the lives of LGBTQ people."

It's a matter of the utmost importance for the party to clamp down on this show of independence by one of its members, to deploy blood-curdling emotional blackmail (a white colleague asked Wheeler if his vote supporting keeping girl's changing female could be analogized to supporters of Jim Crow laws) and implicit and explicit threats of political ruin against anyone who break ranks with a lobby that exerts greater disciplinary power than any other within the party.

Wheeler has evidence, reason, and reality on his side, and has shown admirable poise and fortitude in defending his vote. The question is whether it will be enough to secure him against the coming onslaught. I have good reason to hope that he will not fold like Seth Moulton before him.

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Wesley Yang

@wesyang

Mar 12

At Detransition Awareness Day, Forrest Smith describes running away to Portland after dropping out of college and availing himself of a network of homeless youth services that allowed him to reinvent himself as a transgender woman and participate in street political militancy.

During covid he was rushed through for an emergency orchiectomy despite closure of the hospital for elective procedures with the aid of a referral specialist whose job was to manipulate billing codes for gender procedures. Received a letter from a psychiatrist testifying that testicle removal was urgent and lifesaving; eight days later the surgery was done.

When he began to question his transition, no therapist would speak to him, and insurance that paid to remove his testicles while he was homeless and drug addicted would not cover removal of his breast implants.

Smith described fetish porn first encountered as a child at Deviant Art consuming him in a world of squalid obsessions and that gender transition offered the promised of transforming those desires into something clean.

Mirrors the motives of many older AGP’s seeking to launder their paraphilias into a valid identity by propagating a new cohort of child transitioner who can model for the public the cleanliness and innocence they yearn for after allowing their transvestic fetishism to swallow them whole

In an earlier panel, Smith described serving in the role of a confessor to some gender surgeons.

"He went on to tell me 'many of my patients, many of my trans female patients who come in on public insurance are making a mistake.'

And he described being able to count their ribs because he was telling me how emaciated they were, because he was literally operating on homeless people.

And in Portland, some of the situation with the homelessness is the homeless aren't like native Oregonians, right? They're not from Oregon. They are getting shipped there from all over the country.

So these people are totally, totally homeless and destitute -- and then they're being operated on.

And they're having these vaginoplasties, which -- it's hard to call them vaginoplasty, because it's just this gross mutilation.

And so I was talking to a surgeon, and she's showing me picture after picture of patients and -- they're horrible pictures to look at. They're just horrible mutilation.

And that's when her eyes are watering as she's presenting this to me, and she's kind of trying to tell me it might not turn out right.

And at that point, I was also so thoroughly into the identity and the comorbidities. I was struggling with addiction. So I it was during COVID. I was wearing a little mask. I had no eyebrows, wearing a soggy hat. I also was a waif.

And I told her what I had heard from some of my transgender friends.

I said that I realize I am a guinea pig. Because she was telling me, we don't have enough data.

I said, I realize I'm a guinea pig.

And then she told me, 'that's very insightful of you.'"