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Wesley Yang
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May 27 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Of course the suicide claim is an odious lie, a self-evident absurdity that no remotely numerate person would entertain for a moment. (Over a half-decade, out of 15K British youth on the waiting list for the UK's only pediatric gender clinic, a total of four children committed suicide.)

Of course even if it were true, it is a nonsequitur that has zero bearing on whether boys should compete against girls in sports rather than in their own sex category. In neither case would male or female athletes be responsible for anyone ending their lives anymore than a coach who cut a student who feels like he cannot live without being on a varsity athletic team is responsible for that death.

Of course it's the same cheap emotional blackmail and bullying from a cult that brainwashes children to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered and programs them to coerce parents into consenting to the sterilization of their children with threats of suicide being deployed by a major candidate for the governorship of California.

Of course Tom Steyer is indifferent to whether anybody is being helped or harmed by his ridiculous grandstanding, or whether what he is saying is false or true.

Of course he is content to know nothing, repeat mindless talking points handed to him the woke staffers, and bask in his virtue and goodness.

All of it reveals a person devoid of moral and epistemic integrity who has no business leading anything. You should not kill yourself because someone said no to an unacceptable demand you made.

You should not encourage people to feel like suicide is an an inevitable response to the refusal of an unacceptable demand they made.

May 23 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
You can see in this passage from 2008, in which Christopher Hitchens heaps scorn on Michelle Obama's undergraduate thesis, ("To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language") the reason why the Great Awokening was soon to be launched.

After a decade of Giuliani-ism and Clintonite triangulation (welfare reform, "superpredators", the Crime Bill), cynical white guys, even those nominally "on the Left" (Hitchens had departed it by 2008, but his prior credentials as a figure on the Left were part of what gave him permission to say these things in mainstream publications) felt free to do things they would soon not feel free to do, like belittle and ridicule and denigrate the intelligence of the first black First Lady.Image From the Before Times
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May 22 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Trans people are not a historically oppressed group because they are not a group and they have never been oppressed. There is no history of discriminatory state action against them. There are no rights they don't have. Their only grievance is the existence of sex segregated facilities designed for the safety and privacy of women. What the transgender movement calls "rights" are imperious demands to allow anyone who claims to be something they are not to violate sex-based boundaries and coerce others to affirm them as they thing they are not, inherently an assault on the civil rights and liberties of others that masquerades as a civil right belonging to themselves and as a psychic necessity they require for their survival, which in turn serves as a pretext for threatening suicide and committing violence in pursuit of that alleged imperative to survival.

They are a psychiatric diagnosis that was inflated into an astroturfed identity category in the last thirty years by a small cabal of wealthy male sex fetishists who wanted to cross-dress full time and conspired to brainwash a subpopulation of autistic and gender nonconforming children into medically harming themselves with drugs that stopped their maturation, creating an army of hostages that could be used to blackmail the state into coercing the whole world into granting their imperious demands. Along the way, this cabal corrupted medicine and science and law, turning each of these institutions into a font of misinformation in the service of trans activists goals. Literally nothing that issues from these discourses is true, from denials that men have athletic advantages over women to claims that blocking the puberty of children has ever had an evidence base.

Treating any of this like it is real, like it is a civil rights movement, inexorably will result in the infliction of a cascade of absurdities and cruelties on actual vulnerable populations -- woman and children -- above all those confused children who are being brainwashed from the earliest age the falsehood that any of them can change sex. Behind the transgender movement is the desire for there to be a brave new frontier of human freedom. A decade into the public rollout of that movement, we can already see that the movement marks an inflection point in the history of Western societies: the end of the age of emancipation.
May 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A woman whose breasts were surgically removed after two brief telehealth appointments in order to affirm her "nonbinary" identity has reached at confidential settlement that may have been for $3.5 million.

The settlement underscores two key facts that everyone with a glancing familiarity of the routine practices within gender clinics knows: 1.) the WPATH standards of care are a joke that do not protect anyone from a lifetime of medicalized harm and 2.) nobody even follows them.

The second fact is why essentially every gender clinic in America is on the hook for millions in liability that will as a matter of certainty catch up with many of them over time. They will be punished for having ignored the existing "standards of care," such as they are.

The first fact is why gender medicine has always been a scam without an evidentiary basis that qualifies it as medicine rather than cult ritual masquerading as medicine and why the FTC should and will prosecute it as a form of fraud.Image nypost.com/2026/05/21/med…
Apr 14 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The gap itself is not in question. The debate is over whether the causes are hereditarian or environmental and if the latter, whether the environmental causes pertain to cultural deficits within the black community (this is the position taken by James Flynn, the psychometrician who observed rising IQ's across industrialized world -- a trajectory that had reversed by the time of his death in the US ) or to 'systemic racism."

In practical terms, of course, the latter question doesn't really matter to a prospective employer: for cognitively demanding tasks, the distribution of those capable of doing the work will be different across groups. This could entirely be the fault of the warping effects of repeated triggering of adrenaline on the developing child's brain caused by racial microaggressions (every time someone asks to touch your hair reduces your IQ by a point, let's say): it would not change the fact that while there are roughly 60K white students who score above 700 on the Math SAT each year, 60K Asian who scored that high -- and 2K black students. This means that for any job for which the ability to score a 700 on the math SAT is table stakes, there would be roughly nine white candidates and sixty Asian candidates.

Here is how the eminent Harvard sociologist Christopher Jencks characterized the IQ gap in the NYT back in 1998. He took an environmentalist position on the question, expressed optimism that the gap could close, but said doing so "would probably take more than one generation." I read that as saying "I'll be dead by the time this prediction can be tested." He died in February 2025.Image "The Flynn Effect" of rising IQ's across the industrialized world is typically cited by anti-hereditarians with hopes that gaps will close as disparities of health and human welfare level off between groups.

Toward the end of his James Flynn himself said black IQ's weren't rising because black parents don't create cognitively enriching environments for their children:

"In the late 1970s, an experiment took 46 black adoptees and gave half to black professional families and half to white professionals with all the mothers having 16 years of education. When their IQs were tested at eight-and-a-half, the white-raised kids were 13.5 IQ points ahead. The mothers were asked to do problem-solving with their children. Universally, the blacks were impatient, the whites encouraging. Immediate achievement is rewarded in black subculture but not long-term achievement where you have to forgo immediate gratification.”Image
Mar 22 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The BC Human Rights Tribunal issued a decision that established the principle that doubting a man's claim that he is a woman is "existential denialism" and levied a $750K fine against a man who harbored those doubts and stated them aloud.

Now on cue, an adult male convicted criminal and serial harasser who abused the tribunal process to target immigrant women who provide intimate services to women because they wouldn't wax his balls is shooting off accusations of "existential denialism" at everyone who accurately refers to his sex (he is a man).

The adult male convicted criminal and serial harasser is right that everyone he is targeting has indeed made repeated and public statements that men cannot become women and that despite his claims to be a woman that he is man. He is therefore arguably right that each of these people has placed themselves in violation of the tribunal's precedential finding that defines refusal of a man's claim to be a woman as "existential denialism."

Will the tribunal enforce its prohibition on "existential denialism" by levying ruinous fines on Brodie and others who deny that a man can become a woman? (Men cannot become women.)

Will the courts issue warrants for the arrest of any who refuse to pay these fines? Will they incarcerate people who 1.) deny that a man becomes a woman when he says he is a woman and 2.) assert that despite Jessica Yaniv's to be a women, he remains a man? (Jessica Yaniv is a man.)

It was always going to come to this. Now is the time for choosing.
Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Millions of schoolchildren have literally been taught that the nuclear family is a form of white supremacy in grades K-3 across America Image Image
Feb 19 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
People are laughing at the Quebec Human Rights Commission awarding a $500 judgment to a bald non-binary identified man who claimed that he was oppressed because a hair salon only offered men's and women's haircuts.

But another Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia has fined a man for refusing to parrot the false dogmas of the transgender movement, effectively making it illegal for anyone to disagree that a man claiming to be a woman becomes a woman by virtue of the claim.

The tribunals are a totalitarian menace and must all be decommissioned.
Feb 10 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
When I refer to "Hanania-tier hypocrisy", I refer to the most brazen lies ever told in a tone of supercilious scorn despite everyone, including himself, knowing that there is easily available evidence in his own publicly broadcasted words contradicting a posture he is assuming at the moment, quickly followed by assertions that thrashing around from one position to its opposite is a mark of a superior mind No, the claim emerging from postmodern academia was that the harms associated with fat stigma imposed a psychic burden on patients that was more injurious to health than obesity itself.
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Feb 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
First, the ACLU's lead trans rights litigator admitted before the Supreme Court that there is no evidence to support the claim that chemically castrating children reduces suicide.

Today, the incoming president of the medical lobby that creates standards of care for the gender industry is published stating that cutting off the breasts of teenage girls caught up in the delusion that they are boys isn't suicide prevention either.

And yet California is suing a hospital for complying with federal mandates to stop transing minors.Image oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…
Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Gerald Posner on why the $2 million judgment against gender cultists who cut off the breasts of a 16-year old girl to "affirm" the delusion that doing so would turn her male marks the beginning of the end of the worst medical scandal of any of our lifetimes:

"For years, critics of pediatric gender medicine have warned that vulnerable minors were being rushed toward irreversible interventions without science-based psychological exploration, without meaningful long-term outcome data, and under an atmosphere of emotional coercion that routinely invoked suicide risk to justify speed. In this case, jurors heard testimony that a parent opposed the surgery but consented out of fear that refusal might lead to self-harm. They heard evidence that clinicians lacked full knowledge of the patient’s doubts and psychological history. They heard that key records were never obtained and that the professionals involved failed to meaningfully consult with one another.

In other words, they heard facts that successful trial lawyers understand very well."Image justthefacts.media/p/the-first-ve…
Jan 31 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
BREAKING: A detransitioned woman who received a "gender affirming" double mastectomy at the age of 16 just received a $2 million medical malpractice judgment from a jury in New York state.

The dam just broke. Piece from earlier this month on the start of the trial: theepochtimes.com/us/civil-trial…
Jan 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
We brainwashed hundreds of thousands of unstable young people to believe that chemically castrating and dismembering themselves is their only way to become their true selves and avoid suicide and that anyone preventing them from inflicting the ultimate sexual violence on themselves is a Nazi who wants to kill the children he’s protecting from the ultimate sexual violence. Of course they will threaten and commit violence.
Dec 19, 2025 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Colorado just passed a law forcing every private insurer in the state to cover the cost of cheek implants, lip augmentation, nose jobs, and breast implants (among other elective cosmetic procedures) for one group of legally privileged people -- men who claim to be women and women who claim to be menImage It's literally against the law in Colorado not to force every insurance customer to bear the cost of the elective castration or nose job of any man who claims to be a woman
Nov 27, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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, 2025 • 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.