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."
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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

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.