North Carolina's legislature just overrode a veto of a law that, among other worthy initiatives, extends the statue of limitation for medical malpractice claims for transgender procedures to ten years.

Extending the statute of limitations to 25 years across the whole country would be the end of the gender medicalization industry.

We know this because the law banning pediatric gender medicine in Missouri allowed the clinics to stay open for another year and continue treating children already having their puberty blocked or cross-sex hormones being administrated.

But the clinics all shut down immediately because of another provision of the bill, extending liability for those who regret their transitions for 25 years.

Though the clinicians claim they are helping people to become their authentic selves by dosing them with cross-sex hormones, they don't really believe it. If it were true, they would have no reason to fear future liability. But it's not true, they know it's not true, and they therefore shut down immediately rather than face that liability. The transgender mania began with major corporation joining in a capital strike on North Carolina (including the NBA moving the All-Star game in protest) because it passed a law saying that women's bathrooms should be for women only. That was the zenith of trans lobby's power, when it had lined up all of corporate America's leadership in a kind of rainbow mafia cartel.

Since 2020 more than 100 laws have been passed banning child gender medicalization and boys in girl's sports with zero protest or action from corporate America.

Five Democratic state senators broke with their party in PA to join with Republicans to pass a bill protecting girls sports.

They did so in spite of the rhetorical onslaught of the state's governor, Josh Shapiro, who called those supporting the bill "extremist politicians."

Polling shows that 67 percent of Democratic voters support laws keeping girls sports female.

The Democratic House Speaker has prevented the bill from coming up for a vote, "reportedly fearing that some of her own members might also break ranks with the party and support the popular legislation."

"Republicans believe McClinton is shielding Shapiro from having to either sign or veto a bill on an issue that hurt Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign. And while Shapiro has attacked the pro-girls-sports bill, he has been careful not to pledge a veto."

Shapiro posted on social media back in 2020 that "trans women are women" and has a long record of actions and statements demonstrating a deep commitment to transgender ideology. delawarevalleyjournal.com/shapiro-labels…

A rigorous yearslong study of unconditional cash aid to poor families has found that the children whose parents received that aid "were no more likely to develop language skills, avoid behavioral problems or developmental delays, demonstrate executive function or exhibit brain activity associated with cognitive development." nytimes.com/2025/07/28/us/…

You thought there was a vibe shift and we were done with wokeness. You posted about how weird things were back in 2020, as if 2020 was decisively in the past.

You thought wrong.

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1949638423784104115

The vibe shift, to the extent it exists in some milieu, is merely a pause while the next army of woke warriors is propagandized from the earliest age for the next generational assault on already weakened and infiltrated American institutions

https://x.com/RhyenStaley/status/1949651441729052860

This sounds superficially appealing but it's educated and wealthy elites who are being consumed by it more than anyone else.

The schools where 30-50 percent of the kids are trans-identified are all elite private schools and competitive public schools in SuperZIPS full of children of academics and other knowledge workers. Now we do have some anecdotal evidence that trans is making major inroads into Appalachian and downscale America. So it's possible we will see a sad and terrible replay of what happened after the 1970's, when wealthy elites were the first adopters of divorce and later re-moralized their class societies -- while marriage as an institution crumbled amidst the working classes and never recovered.

The first screenshot is Manhattan Institute federal budget expert "Jessica" Riedl, a middle-aged man who knew he was a girl on the inside at the age of four and went on to marry a woman and father two children, citing "brain studies" as evidence that he was actually "born trans."

The second screenshot is three researchers employed by the Manhattan Institute nothing that these studies are fatally flawed and do nothing to support the claim that anybody is "born trans."
city-journal.org/article/transg…

Ten-year old fears he's going to be murdered on the street, is desperate for assurance that he will have access to "my medicine" (an off-label cancer drug used to chemically castrate adult sex offenders and never approved for keeping ten year old boys frozen in prepubescence to look more like a girl.)

If you watch this and aren't horrified on the boy's behalf because of what his parents have done to him but are instead horrified by efforts to protect him from maniacs drugging him at age of ten, you have lost your moorings. People who've had their minds warped by delusion to this degree (and this is the default position of every Democratic official elected and unelected at every level of government) cannot be reasoned with -- they just have to be ousted from influence and kept from power for all time.

https://x.com/Thom71900733912/status/1937083752720839001

It’s not filters fwiw. There are no filters that will do that. It’s four facial reconstruction surgeries.

It’s why Wu is so zealous in support of blocking the puberty of boys as young as 12.

https://twitter.com/bleedinheart2md/status/1936848089064599553

https://x.com/wesyang/status/1936873868909764627

The main takeaways of the NYT story on Skrmetti are:
— the claims of the transgender lobby are false
— the claims of the transgender lobby’s critics are true
— the behavior of the transgender lobby was profoundly unethical
— the dominant figures in the transgender lobby are insane feelsdesperate.substack.com/p/we-won-so-mu…

I'm not as certain of victory as @feelsdesperate, but within one minor but important domain -- what we are allowed to say at dinner parties in New York and San Francisco -- the NYT piece is an unqualified victory.

Coddled begins with a vigorous short recap of what we've been saying every day for the past three years on Twitter, which is what any sane and well-informed person who has not joined a cult understood:

The NYT Magazine has written a thorough account of the fiasco of pediatric gender medicine. The author frames Skrmetti as having set back the cause of trans rights by a generation.

It frames Skrmetti as a strategic error by the ACLU driven by the impetuousness of its lead trans rights litigator, Chase Strangio, and its Executive Director, Anthony Romero, who backed him fully as the organization drifted toward the iceberg.

The criticism is well-deserved as far as it goes. The tactical and strategic errors the story documents are indeed enormous.

But the fiasco of the trans rights movement cannot be cured by better messaging, strategy, or tactics.

In fact, the trans rights movement in itself illustrates that we have reached the end of the age of emancipation.

The giant apparatus we constructed to launch new civil crusades had no one left to liberate and thus set about manufacturing a new subpopulation of the marginalized by chemically castrating children at the crucial stage of physical, emotional, and cognitive development.

This was an experiment in the overt, self-conscious, institutionally-directed reconstruction of social reality. And in the process, we reached the limit of how far-reaching such projects can go in a society that remains pluralistic, liberal, Democratic, and free. nytimes.com/2025/06/19/mag…

Barrett has figured out that there is no coherent definition of a "trans person." Once you understand this, everything else unravels.

https://twitter.com/hamill_law/status/1935348732264100310

Her developing reputation as a brilliant outlier willing to upset rightists and leftists alike in order to say the truth will serve her in good stead here -- and be served by this determination

Of course it is fine for a state to restrict an abusive act of medicalized self-harm on children, and no it's not a discriminatory act.

Shame on the three Supreme Court Justice who dissented from the legally correct, morally humane 6-3 ruling that affirmed this self-evident truth supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

Yes, I was radicalized by TERF's.

Obstreperous women coming into the mentions of myself and others relentlessly repeating stock phrases such as "a woman is not a castrated man," eventually made me realize that when you touch grass and wake up from the relentless ideological programming, what they are saying is 100 percent true without qualification, that these facts are decisive and resolve every question while refraining from recognizing them as true without qualification hands victory to the other, wrong side.

It's my goal to do for others what was done for me. Yes to be deradicalized is to be radicalized, because one becomes aware of the extent of the institutional coup that made it necessary to be deradicalized

https://x.com/Serena_Partrick/status/1929975588875321363

The term for this is Thomas Piketty's "Brahmin Left" -- a left bereft of working class voters.

The mass basis of these parties is actually a nominally credentialed pseudo-intelligentsia created by the dramatic expansion of higher education -- a class of therapeutic state functionaries attending to an ever proliferating cast of victim classes that replace the proletariat as the subject of history. Ruy Texeira, famously the author of the book that predicted back in 2002 that a coalition of minorities and educated white people would construct a ruling coalition that would dominate the country for a generation calls for a de-Brahminization of the Democratic party and the emergence of a political entrepeneur to enact a hostile takeover of the party from its elites.

"That entrepreneur will have to be unafraid of the professional class blowback (accusations that you are racist, sexist, transphobic, a bigot, MAGA-lite, etc.) that will inevitably arise and aggressively push back against that class and its priorities."

The left wing activist who murdered two Israelis in Washington DC mused about the need to “genocide white people” in DM’s kenklippenstein.com/p/read-elias-r…

A group of British transgender activists issues open letter listing their demands of the UK government in wake of recent Supreme Court ruling that trans women aren't women

Medical demands include fully taxpayer funded provision of:

-- 200 hours of electrolysis
-- Facial surgery
-- "Any gender non-conforming surgeries"
-- "Full compensation paid to any transgender people who have been forced to pay for private treatment due to the failures of the NHS to address the issues faced in accessing gender affirming care." transrightsnow.uk

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