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Jan 8, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This footnote by Amia Srinivasan, taken from her book, the Right to Sex, poses the question in a useful way. It is a hard question that is part of the psychosexual pre-history of our times. I will feel I have satisfied my purpose as I writer when I have answered it. Image
What I like about the framing is the way at looks at two pieces by the same author and uses it as a lens to look at the way the world change. Here are two of my favorites: salon.com/2005/09/20/kun…

And: thecut.com/2018/06/summer…
The story told in Srinivasan's sequence is in a way the same story told in mine. This is the story that hasn't quite been told, merely acted out by the culture industries.
The question is not hard in itself, it just becomes hard because of all the ways the culture has become involuted, but the work of writing is to master those involutions in such a manner as to make them straight them again
The rhetoric of the prior tweet is sure to be parsed as illustrative. And it is!

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Apr 24
A group of British transgender activists issues open letter listing their demands of the UK government in wake of recent Supreme Court ruling that trans women aren't women

Medical demands include fully taxpayer funded provision of:

-- 200 hours of electrolysis
-- Facial surgery
-- "Any gender non-conforming surgeries"
-- "Full compensation paid to any transgender people who have been forced to pay for private treatment due to the failures of the NHS to address the issues faced in accessing gender affirming care."Image
transrightsnow.uk
This is actually just the baseline. That this totalitarian exertion is being deployed in all earnestness on behalf of so self-evidently frivolous and narcissistic a set of goals is the news.
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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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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.)Image
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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Mar 25
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."
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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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.
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.
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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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