A federal court judge in Texas just granted a request by two female inmates for a temporary restraining order requiring the Bureau of Prisons to separate male prisoners from their living quarters.
It is the first time a federal court judge has ruled that biological male prisoners cannot be housed with female prisoners.
The restraining order will last until the resolution of the Trump Department of Justice's claim that the female prisoners have no standing to file suit because they have not exhausted standard avenues of redress.
(Although the lawsuit seeks to compel the Bureau of Prisons to act in accordance with a Trump Executive Order banning men from women's prisons, Trump's Department of Justice continues to defend the lawsuit vigorously -- why they are doing so is a question I'll be following up on this week. A federal district court judge in DC has blocked the implementation of Trump's order, which called for the removal of all male inmates from female prisons but did not enjoin the prisons from separating male from female prisoners in the same facility, which is the remedy the plaintiffs sought and were granted by the ruling.)
The inmates will argue that their attempts to use standard avenues were met by a pattern of foot dragging and intimidation that renders the requirement void.
The male inmates, only one of whom has had sex reassignment surgery, (the rest of whom have fully intact male genitals) include:
-- A man convicted of raping a 75-year old woman and kidnapping and sexually assaulting a child
-- A man who murdered his wife's lover with a pipe bomb
-- A bank robber who founded a white supremacist organization that sought to overthrow the United States government
-- A repeat sex offender whose victims include a nine-year old boy and a 17-year old girl
As of January 2025, there were 1,413 men who claimed to be women housed in US federal prisons based entirely on the self-identification of the men.
51 percent of those men were sex offenders -- four times the rate of non-trans-identified male prisoners
There have always been bureaucratic insanities but helping violent male criminals more than half of whom are sex offenders falsify their sex is a new level of insanity. Transgenderism does this to everything it touches.
On SNL, it's a joke. In reality, the sorority sisters failed in their federal lawsuit and the Washington Post wrote a weepy feature story about the man who joined the sorority and prevailed in federal court despite claims that he had a visible erection while staring at his sorority sisters portraying him as the world's most vulnerable victim
When men say they are women, they are still men and should be treated by the law as what they are rather than what they claim to be. The basic postulate of trans ideology -- that men can become women by saying they are women and that women can become men by saying they are men -- is an untrue claim and cannot serve as the basis of any legal recognition or public policy.
Your legal documents must all list your sex, not your claim to be a different one. Your access to sex segregated facilities is determined by your sex, not by your claim to be a different one. Whatever inconveniences flow from a person's attempt to falsify their sex is not a matter for any public institution to solve. No one has a duty to help anyone else to falsify their sex. No institution has a duty to help anyone else to falsify their sex.
There is no way to force anyone to affirm anyone else's gender identity without destroying another person's right of free speech and free conscience. The claims of transgenderism are implacably imposed to the basic postulates of a liberal, pluralistic society in which everyone has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.
I can't prevent you from making the untrue claim that you are the opposite sex from the sex you are in a liberal, pluralistic society. And you cannot prevent me from making the true claim that you are the sex that you are in a liberal, pluralistic society. The same rights that allow you to try to falsify your sex allow me to reject your falsification of your sex.
The entire notion of recognizing trans identity in law is intrinsically a denial of a right that no one can take away from me. It is an inherently illegitimate act for a state to undertake.
He's trying to say "we can do whatever we want, we can ban trans from sports and locker room, but keep requiring everyone to affirm other people's trans identities because there is no real underlying essence, just whatever you decide is socially pragmatic."
In this bizarre exchange, a California Superior Court Judge presiding over a custody hearing asks the father of a trans-identified child if he would be willing to affirm his son in the delusion that he was Queen of England if doing so would help his son avoid psychological harm.
That is to say that the judge was using a reductio ad absurdum of gender affirmation in support of gender affirmation. This moment illustrates a culture that has passed through the eye of a needle.
The judge stripped the father, Edward Hudacko, of custody of his eldest son.
As a condition of the custody agreement, which vested virtually all parental rights solely with the child's mother who was affirming his son as a girl, Hudacko retained a prohibition on any gender identity related surgery on his son while he remained a minor without his prior consent or a court order.
Gender clinicians at UCSF installed a puberty blocking implant in his son's arm in defiance of that condition.
Today, Hudacko's attorneys appear before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals appealing a prior dismissal of his lawsuit seeking to vindicate his constitutional right to direct the medical care of his son that was preserved in his custody agreement and violated by gender doctors who acted in defiance of the terms of that agreement.
Establishing the harms of this specific narrow harm to one father's constitutional rights would create a judicial venue -- the first ever -- to put the entire field of pediatric gender medicalization on trial for the self-conscious acts of serial medical and scientific fraud that were central to its widespread propagation, all of which were exhaustively documented by the bad actors themselves in correspondence that has made its way into the public record in prior court proceedings.
The below link connects to the livestream of the session that starts at 9:30 PDT. The case is sixth on the docket, but the first 4 cases have already been submitted on briefs. I'll update this thread when the case begins. ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live-ora…
I don't like right-wing influencers who constantly repeat the refrain "they want you dead."
But if neither Democratic party leadership nor its electorate sees this sociopathy from the Democratic party's favored candidate to win the state Attorney General race in VA as disqualifying, the refrain is literally true.
I heard that phalloplasty doctors at the most recent WPATH conference admitted that the procedure has a 100 percent complication rate.
Of course. How could it be otherwise? Sewing a tube of flesh torn off a forearm between a woman's leg to affirm a delusion that can never be true is pure complication.
It was a third-hand account -- someone telling me what someone who had attended WPATH told her. But it's reliable account because the person who told me is reliable and the person who told her is reliable -- but above all because it cannot be otherwise.
I didn’t say it was journalism. I said what it was. But I also know that all anyone looking at the literature can say is “nun-uh! It’s ackshually 75 percent!”
But let’s be real, it’s not possible to strip off a hunk of flesh from an arm and refashion it into a meat tube and attach it to a vagina withered by exogenous testosterone without endless complications!
This is why the Klein-TNC "debate" was mere kayfabe. Klein's investment is in the electoral fortunes of the Democratic party, which is a mere cutout for the sprawling network of institutions that profit off of racial conflict and the manufacture of new classes of the oppressed. Jeff Bezos' ex-wife's $20 billion bequest insures that these institutions are the dominant power in this relationship.
Klein's pitch to those institutions and the vast army of white collar rent seekers whose livelihoods the institutions sustain is: the Democratic party has to win power to be able to use the power of the state to enrich you even further. Please allow us to make moderate-sounding noises in order to win back that power and continuing to reward you even more richly. Please allow us to sustain the illusion of open dialogue and debate in order to preserve the appearance of democracy rather than making explicit that a whole class of rent-seekers and political hobbyists live off of Live Action Historical Re-enactments that move inexorably toward violence.
But those institutions only want to rule under their own favored terms that they define and can continue to dominate non-electoral power in America whether or not their cutout is in power. They have no reason to concede anything for mere electoral victory under any terms other the terms they set. While they will feast on the public purse when they can, they are perfectly plump and contented when it's not in their possession. This marks a contrast with the party and politicians.
Abundance was an attempt to give the party something to talk about other than identitarian conflict and the minting of new classes of the oppressed while evading an intra-party conflict that it lacks the power to win. The murder of Charlie Kirk seemed like a moment that could be leveraged on behalf of this project.
The ongoing Dungeons and Dragon re-enactment of 1877, the surreal recasting of a 6'4" white male exposing his intact male genitals in the girls room en route to winning an NCAA women's swimming championship as the new Rosa Parks: surely the Democratic party doesn't want to keep fighting a holy war over these fake causes? Now that the impetus to murder enemies in supposed self-defense that all the lists of hate organizations and hate speakers that the NGO Borg sustains was enacted by an otherwise pretty normal seeming college student, perhaps we could take that moment to draw back from the brink.
This was Klein's appeal. They brought back TNC out of retirement to set him straight. Lia Thomas is the new Rosa Parks. Girls that don't want to share a changing room with a 6'4" untransitioned male were hateful bigots whose voices should not be heard. And all Ezra could do was affirm that yes, the girls and those agree with them are "fundamentally and morally wrong," -- but we live in a democracy and we have to live alongside this rabble of backward trash, and they have a right to vote and thus we need to seek ways to placate them with half-truths and evasions and open lies so we can obtain the power to finish the job of suppressing them with state power. Please let us tell them.
And TNC said, fuck no, what is wrong with you man, and a whole class of tens of millions of white collar rent-seekers who are the core constituency of the Democratic party had their hearts uplifted and were assured that the Democratic party would not allow any daylight between itself and their burning will.
Yes it’s meant to be ambiguous in this way. I sometimes think it’s the latter and all the woke assume it is. But when you see the flash of righteous conviction in his eyes when he says the person who uses sex based pronouns is “an asshole” or pronounces such a person “fundamentally and morally wrong,” it’s clear that he is an honest advocate for lying