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Christina Dalcher Profile picture
@CV_Dalcher
Mar 31, 2023 • 9 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Our fearless leader @POTUS is certainly busy today with all these proclamations, statements, fact sheets, and round tables!

A short 🧵on the government efforts to make this the best #TransDayOfVisibility ever!

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“Today, to hear directly about the joys, hopes, and challenges that transgender children are experiencing, the White House will host a Roundtable on Affirming Transgender Kids”

No information so far on who will be sitting at the roundtable. Feel free to guess.

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A massive White House Fact Sheet, including fun new ways to obfuscate sex on government documents, courtesy of @DHSgov.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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A statement from Joe Biden on #TransDayOfVisibility emphasizing (once again) suicide rates unsupported by data while perpetuating the myth that criticizing gender theology means you are hateful MAGA-hat-wearer:

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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A 5-page document from the Office of Personnel Management laying out “Guidance Regarding Gender Identity and Inclusion in the Federal Workplace”

opm.gov/policy-data-ov…

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A handy graphic from the Department of State to help you request an X gender marker on your passport. No documentation required!

travel.state.gov/content/travel…

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If that isn’t enough, in addition to #TransDayOfVisibility, proclamations were signed for

Care Workers Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month
National Donate Life Month
National Cancer Control Month
National Public Health Week
Second Chance Month

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Proclamations, cont’d:

National Child Abuse Prevention Month
World Autism Awareness Day
Education and Sharing Day
Arab American Heritage Month

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Finally, here’s the short proclamation following the Nashville shooting.

Not that I’m hinting at any imbalance.

whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

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Christina Dalcher Profile picture
Mar 11
Good piece in Unherd today (following up on the Telegraph piece about crime statistics).

🐘 But who’s talking about the elephant in the room? 🐘

It isn’t just ‘men from war zones’ or ‘foreign-born people’ or ‘non-British nationals.’

There’s something else going on…

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I read @polblonde’s article before I saw Unherd’s promotional post.

Me: “This is an article about higher offense rates per 100K by men from cultures where women are devalued”

Unherd: “This is an article about men who recently arrived from war zones” (just not Ukraine)

🤔

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The original Telegraph article doesn’t speak of war zones, but uses non-specific terms like

foreigners
foreign / Non-British nationals
migrants

when speaking of people from

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So it’s not just ‘foreigners,’ is it?

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Mar 10
“Don’t feel safe”
“Afraid to travel”
“Trip was canceled”
“In passport purgatory”

🚨 Free advice 🚨
No matter how you dress or what you call yourself, you don’t get to mandate what official documents look like or what data they include.

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🛎️ There’s a common thread in all of the stories below. It’s one of persecution and ‘see what the government is doing to me?’

🛎️ But let’s look at it another way:
People who claim to be the opposite sex (or refuse to be saddled with the horrid binariness of sex) think that the world should adapt itself to suit them.

This is not how the world works. It isn’t how government documents work. Or how security clearances work.

Some things aren’t (and should not be) up to individuals to decide, hide from the public, lie about, alter, etc. Sex and age are two of those things.

No government-issued document should be changed on a whim, and unless we want to go down the rabbit hole of ‘how often and how soon and how many times can one request a new sex marker on a passport,’ allowing any such changes will be whimsical. If we do stipulate limits/restrictions there will always be someone who feels persecuted if the rules disallow a change.

🛎️ Who wins?
There are solid reasons (border security) for sticking with accuracy in passports.

Trans-identifying people claim there are solid reasons (personal security) for allowing passports to reflect their ‘chosen’ identity.

IF these are in conflict, then which comes out on top?

The safety of entire populations?
Or the feelings of a small number of people who have made life choices incompatible with reality? 🤷‍♀️

🍿 And now…on to stories of unbound cruelty…

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Transmasculine-nonbinary-identifying female (woman) applied for a passport update to show MALE sex in Jan. 2025. No details given, but State still has the passport.

“it’s basically like transgender folks have been put on an informal travel ban, unable to leave the country.”

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Mar 2
One thing the Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of the US just did…

It made me glad I’m no longer a linguist, nor an academic, nor a member of the Linguistic Society of America!

Ready for some eye-roll-inducing wokeness?

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Why am I turning an important thing like an EO into a conversation about an academic society in a fringe field?

Easy. Because the academy is the REAL PROBLEM.

1. There’s nothing new about government efforts to establish an official language—in the US or elsewhere.

2. Yesterday’s Exec Order seems pretty lightweight:

It states English is the official language of the US, but doesn’t seem to define what that means.

It repeals a Clinton EO from 1980.

It doesn’t require agencies to do anything about existing documents in other languages.

But what the Linguistic Society of America is doing to its faculty and students? 👇

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In 1987, the Linguistic Society of America issued a resolution against ‘English Only’ policies.

Anyone reading it at the time would have thought…

‼️ Wokeness Alert ‼️

Except we didn’t have wokeness in the 80s. We had political correctness. So…

‼️ PC Alert ‼️

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Mar 1
Of all the horror stories in Douglas Murray’s THE STRANGE DEATH OF EUROPE, this was the most horrifying:

A victim of sexual assault lied about the ethnicity of her attackers because she—get this—didn’t want citizens to view the men who attacked her “as the problem.”

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Imagine the poor self image of a woman who would lie to the police to protect the public image of three men who assaulted her.

But it gets worse. Much worse. 👇

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In a nightmarish manifestation of Stockholm Syndrome, the woman says in her open letter:

“You’re not the problem. You’re usually a wonderful human being”

Tip: wonderful human beings don’t force women to perform sex acts on them.

And there’s still more…

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Feb 28
Speaking of shifting positions, We the Undersigned, & leftist GC feminists…

A few thoughts on left-shift, derangement syndrome, cafeteria free speech, & misperceptions

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Did the ‘Left’ shift position (i.e., move further left)?

Generally speaking, yes.

With respect to the more specific group of left-leaning GC feminists in the UK, I don’t think so. Rather, the Southport riots and Farage’s growing popularity seem to have served as timely catalysts that stimulated an already-left-leaning group to start speaking out against perceived ‘islamophobia.’

In other words, they would have spoken out before, but there wasn’t much reason to.

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Did Trump Derangement Syndrome migrate eastward?

I suspect it did. And it’s still TDS, it’s just Tommy Robinson Derangement Syndrome.

No, I’m not a hardcore Trump supporter (I am a Trump *administration* supporter). And I hadn’t heard of Tommy Robinson until late summer 2024 (strange thing, considering I’m one of those far-right people). But the behaviour patterns induced by TDS are strikingly similar:

Do not, under any circumstances, agree with a policy—no matter how sound—that is supported by [name of right wing person] lest you be associated with [name of right wing person]

What’s interesting is that the UK GC crowd failed to recognize this is EXACTLY why there are so few US-based critics of genderism within the Democrat community (Kara Dansky is the notable exception). Say something negative about TQIA+ ideology in the States? Poof—you’re a Trump supporter. Abracadabra—you’re far-right.

How far a leap is it to see that any criticism of Islam in the UK might be seen as tantamount to supporting Tommy Robinson?

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Feb 28
Hurray for multiculturalism!

May we have some more, please, Sir?

If you aren’t familiar with this recent manifestation of self-hoisting-by-petard à la française, Lionel Shriver wrote a column about it shortly after the squatters—er, invited guests—took over.

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“theatre Gaité Lyrique staged a free conference on ‘reinventing the refugee welcome in France’. The organisers literally invited their own downfall: 200 West African migrants who apparently felt very welcome indeed and refused to leave”

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spectator.co.uk/article/immigr…
The theatre is owned by the council—which we can assume means it’s funded by residents.

It had to cancel its events (meaning no income), continue to pay its 60 employees (meaning expenses).

Then there were the 350 invited guests all sharing a pair of restrooms. No showers.

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