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Wesley Yang
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Nov 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
All the hard won lessons of decades were thrown in the trash when the failed nostrums of the 1970's were rebranded by a new generation of activists, yielding the same results they did the first time around because deranged and dysfunctional ideas inexorably generate failure.

A new layer of dysfunction and delusion was, however, added to the old manias -- transgenderism.
Nov 10 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
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 victimImage washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/inter…
Oct 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Harvard Historian Jill Lepore on the rise of wokeness:

"I just think it's silly to deny that that existed, that it didn't harm a lot of people, that it wasn't wildly out of control on many occasions."

Professors: has this fully come to an end? Image Perhaps it's a tacit admission that some of the work she did during the woke era was done under duress

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Oct 12 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Oct 8 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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.
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Oct 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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. So yeah, here's where we are:
Oct 3 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Oct 1 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
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.
Sep 25 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Chase Strangio explained this in Slate magazine in 2016, noting that "a penis is not a male body part. It's just an unusual body part for a woman.”

This proposition was the start of an internal neocolonial nation-building project -- the imposition of a Schmittian friend-foe dynamic that would march relentlessly to encompass the whole of institutional America and the ruling institutions of the Western world.

If you don't believe this, if you don't publish it, if you don't say it -- you are an enemy whose speech can be suppressed. In the past few months we've seen in what ways this suppression can happen: through censorship, through criminal prosecution, and through shooting you dead mid-sentence.Image Rowling lays out an excellent framework here that will help shake many reasonable, reality-based people out of preference falsification.

But there are also true believers just as there are true believers in transubstantiation.
Sep 22 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Obama "evolved" away from opposition to gay marriage to full throated support as the polls shift toward it.

Nobody knows how to evolve away from full-throated support of male rapists and murderers in women's prison, propagandizing every child that any of them can change sex, chemically castrating confused children caught up in an online social contagion, allowing men to punch women in the face in boxing rings, prohibiting any woman or girl from drawing a boundary between herself and any man who says he is a woman in intimate spaces, and punishing people who refuse to falsify reality as the polls shift away from it.

Nobody knows how to say "So yeah, remember that Civil Rights Movement of the 21st Century we announced in 2019? Yeah, we're not doing that. Never mind."

We have no precedent for such an evolution. He has changed nothing and will change nothing but this is the kind of rhetoric that will be used to enact such a pivot:
Sep 22 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
They castrated a 17-year old Jazz Jennings on camera on a popular reality TV show in 2018 The surgery came with massive complications requiring multiple further surgeries womenshealthmag.com/health/a306312…
Sep 20 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Chase Strangio had to admit that there is no evidence that blocking a child's puberty reduces suicide in front of the Supreme Court. The false claim -- the lie -- that it does is at the foundation of the case for pediatric gender medicine -- used to emotionally blackmail parents to give consent to medicalizing their children, and used in front hundreds of legal and administrative and medical tribunals to justify it over the past decade.

It never had any evidentiary basis. It was always a lie. I've thought a lot about why Strangio didn't just lie to the court as hundreds of other advocates have done over the past decades with impunity.
Sep 14 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Millions of people now have an unshakable belief in the false claim that Charlie Kirk's killer was a far right Groyper who killed Kirk for being too moderate.

There was a period there where one couldn't rule this out but that period has closed. It doesn't matter to the millions whose self-regard depends on this piece of viral misinformation being true.
Sep 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There was always going to be a gender gotterdammerung and it’s only just getting started By defining “misgendering” as a form of “violent erasure” of a self whose existence depends on the affirmation of others, the movement primed its adherents to treat any withholding of the movements demands as fascist, even genocidal, and to respond with due force.
Sep 14 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Last month, the governor of California said something that his entire party spent a decade exerting all its powers to prevent anyone from saying. Image Why did the party exert s much energy preventing anyone from saying it?

Because once you hear it, the spell is broken.
Sep 11 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
DC comics canceled a planned series authored by this trans-identified male author whose prior works includes a novel featuring the death of JK Rowling, murders of TERF's, and a killing executed by the removal of a black woman's womb while she is still conscious. Image thewrap.com/dc-comics-canc…
Sep 11 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I'm skeptical that the man who writes songs about his desire to see someone dead is the same man who actually commits the murder, but this is (one more piece of) evidence of the desire among trans activists to see those they deem their enemies murdered and their total lack of inhibition about it
Sep 10 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Wondering if this piece is the first and only appearance of the term "Luigi Left" in the mainstream media?

It ran two days ago, was criticized by some as the ramblings of someone Too Online, but now it seems pretty timely. The Luigi Left
Sep 8 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1.) These are statistically rare events. There were 428 black-on-white stranger-on-stranger killings in 2019 -- 3 percent of all murders.

2.) They are far more common than the police killings of unarmed black men that became a national obsession in the 2010's. There were 12 killings of unarmed black men in 2019 as the Black Lives Matter movement ramped up to its crescendo.

A narrative can easily be fashioned online by exploiting the "availability heuristic" that causes the subconscious mind to confound the vividness and memorability of events for their incidence. That is what right wing accounts focusing on the black-on-white stranger killings are doing.

Which is of course what the whole of the media did from 2015-2020 for police killings of unarmed black men, culminating in a nationwide freakout that put American cities in flames and resulted in the deaths of 30 people.

This created a pent up interest in re-establishing the salience of 2.), the goal of which is not a nationwide street freakout but simply the changing of prosecutorial polices that allow the catch and release of repeat violent offenders.Image
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Image Yes, 30 deaths directly attributed to violence in the riots and the largest two year spike in murder deaths in American history resulting in thousands of excess deaths above the prior baseline as law enforcement was delegitimized for several years

Sep 7 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
"When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom

Newsom articulates what will in the end prove to be the decisive fact about the trans rights movement: that trans rights and women's rights are zero sum -- to give to the former group is to take from the latter group.

"Marriage equality was about everyone's rights. Your marriage was not diminished because a couple that had been together 30 years got married and happened to be the same sex, but your child may not have that same opportunity to get on the podium if a trans athlete is competing for that limited spot."

Tremendous effort has been expended by the trans rights movement to deny this fundamental antagonism and keep it out of public circulation.

Newsom just put it out there.Image "When you get to the issues around sports, trans issues, that's now no longer about celebrating your rights. It's about denying other people theirs." -- Gavin Newsom
Sep 5 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
After the 2023 mass shooting at a Christian school by a trans-identified female in Nashville, transgender protesters rallied in the legislature and held up seven fingers to refer to seven victims -- the six gunned down by the mass shooter, and the shooter herself, killed by police at the scene of her shooting.

Three days later, the White House spokeswoman president said "LGBTQI+ kids are resilient. They are fierce. They fight back. They’re not going anywhere. And we have their back. This administration has their back."

So it's no surprise that soon after yet another mass murder of children by a trans-identified shooter, the movement are acting like they are the victims while also marking the site of a mass killing perpetrated by one of their own with their flag.Image There's a reason that this movement doesn't resemble prior civil rights movements -- why it behaves so differently than prior such movements while still claiming to inherit the legacy of those prior movements. That is to say that it is something other than it claims to be -- it is not what it identifies as.