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.)

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.

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

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.

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.

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1903033994976833949

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

These videos of tragic or malevolent AGP's are cruel.

But it's very important to see them. No amount of verbiage can substitute for what they convey in an instant -- they show what an absurd travesty it is to call forcing the whole world to call these men women and give them access to the intimate spaces of women "the civil rights movement of the 21st century." Of course not all trans-identified men are like this. But when legislatures act to ensure transgender inclusion in women's intimate spaces, 100 percent of these men qualify for inclusion because the sole criteria for who counts as a woman is saying you are one.

An odd situation where everyone takes these facts as a moral condemnation of the United States rather than of Africa

https://twitter.com/LeahLibresco/status/1885500216297607197

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1885835614500552921

That a leading figure at the dominant legal NGO in America could make this self-evidently deranged claim on national television and expect and receive a respectful reception, to be followed by an appearance before the Supreme Court where the Solicitor General of the United States and three justices parroted similarly unhinged falsehoods about the terrible harms of being forced to go through "the wrong puberty" is a fact made possible by the moral and intellectual failure of the entire American professional class. From the Emperor's New Clothes to "Snipe Hunts", a proper moral education of the youngest children in a civilization where truth-seeking is a virtue prepares each of us for tests of our moral and intellectual mettle in the face of a powerful and threatening pseudo-consensus that demands conformity to obvious lies -- a test that virtually every American progressive and liberal failed egregiously

Pakistanis would instantly pogrom any foreign population that mass raped their daughters -- for the theft of the commodity value of their virginity, which is the primary basis of the harm of rape as they understand it -- a harm against fathers and brothers and male cousins who all stand to benefit from a future transaction of that tradeable good.

That the English have only given short prison terms to a handful of the most flagrant serial perpetrators is interpreted by them as an act of societal consent to this theft by a society that has willingly pornified and prostituted its own women. It is similar to the concept of squatter's rights. Your failure to safeguard your property (by allowing it to walk in public uncovered and unaccompanied by male protectors) gives others free use of it in the way that naturally any man unconstrained by the property claims of other men would.

The authors of Easy Meat note that before UK Pakistani child rape gangs targeted white girls, they first victimized Sikh girls.

They found they could break the media embargo on Pakistani child rape gangs only by first focusing on non-white victims. barnesandnoble.com/w/easy-meat-pe…

The belief within the UK Muslim community that the grooming gangs acted upon is that Western society is morally decadent and has pornified and prostituted its own women and that there is license to do whatever one wishes to any woman or child left unsupervised by fathers, brothers, and cousins whose duty is to control their movement in order to protect their primary commodity value, their virginity.

The former belief has some basis in reality; the latter is a value that is simply incompatible with coexistence under the same laws in a single polity with those who do not share it.

The attempt to coexist with an unreformed population that holds this view would require either 1.) pervasive surveillance of members of that community by law enforcement or 2.) restrictions on the freedom of movement and speech on the community that rejects those values.

Faced with this dilemma, the UK has chosen the second path -- they are literally jailing British citizens for uncivil descriptions of what the migrant community has done. The belief within the British community was that lower-class slags in decaying post-industrial towns were uneducated white trash and complaints that their daughters were being raped by a Brown Horde reflected their benightedness. In a powerful sense, the Muslim belief that unsupervised girls were fair targets was vindicated.

"More than 40 percent of South ­Koreans below the age of forty have stopped dating. The Korea ­Development Institute reports that, in 2020, more than 52 percent of South Koreans in their twenties preferred a childless marriage, up from about 30 percent in 2015. More than 30 percent of all ­Korean households comprise only one person." South Korea's experience shows that state policy can very successfully engineer fertility crashes, but cannot engineer fertility rebounds once it has succeed in engineering a crash

It's super interesting that there are cultures where homosexuality is grounds for death but raping boys is fine, what's a good explainer of this phenomenon? Foucault's experiences in Algeria and Morocco led him to believe that Islam was cool with homosexuality and was thus shocked to find out that homosexuality was not only not tolerated in Iran but grounds for death during the period when he was rhapsodizing about the Iran revolution. Like most Westerners, he wasn't able to grasp that homosexuality is forbidden but raping boys is fine.

Norm MacDonald's joke from 2016 is now an actual template for news coverage

Why have so few reporters covered what is shaping up to be one of the the worst medical scandals in modern American history? A relentless campaign of lies and smears and threats:
benryan.substack.com/p/it-is-wrong-…

Absolutely insane Orwellian nightmare coverage of an app where viral misinformation has resulted in incitement to murderous threats against a journalist for impartially and scrupulously coverage an ongoing medical scandal techcrunch.com/2024/12/13/blu…

It happened with essentially no deliberation and debate. Sometime around 2019 it became clear that you could have your livelihood destroyed if you dissented from a dogma introduced a few weeks prior.

https://twitter.com/salltweets/status/1865871446159011890

Many good liberals accepted a series of claims about child transition -- that it was evidence based and lifesaving -- that have since been proven to be utterly without foundation.

A man kills his wife and two children and in the immediate aftermath begins identifying as a woman.

The local paper covering his case honors the preferred pronouns of the triple murderer, referring to him as "she."

They are doing so because the transgender movement defines a "woman" as "anyone who claims to be a woman" -- that is to say, the same reason that a 6'4" non-medically transitioned man was allowed to change with NCAA swimmer and set a woman's world record, the same reason that a serial murderer of women who beheaded and dismembered a woman upon his release from a prison sentence for two prior murders of women is now housed in a women's prison, the same reason that Kamala Harris wrote a letter congratulating Dylan Mulvaney, a 29-year old man who identifies as both a female and a child, for his "365 days of being a girl," the same reason a Seattle Human Rights Commission fined a Korean nude spa for women for denying entry to a non-transitioned man who claimed to be a woman, the same reason YouTube will ban content referring to Mulvaney as a man.

All claim to be women and are therefore women according to the criteria established by the transgender movement for who is a woman -- rules obeyed by the cultural, political, financial, legal, medical, and corporate establishments of the Western world. montrealgazette.com/news/crime/tri…

Mayo Clinic recently added Martine Rothblatt to its board of directors

https://twitter.com/nocisgender/status/1838838346036265126

I was pretty surprised when I learned a couple of years ago that our coral reefs are larger than they have ever been

https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/1826578876073394444

There's a whole popular kids book and TV series based on the imminent threat to the reefs posed by human activity aimed at 5 and 6 year-olds. Had to explain to my daughter that the Great Barrier Reef is larger than ever.