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SophiaPangloss
Posted - September 2, 2021 at 8:32 PM
Saved - August 11, 2023 at 7:29 PM

@SophiaPangloss - WWW Citizen Pangloss

I don't understand how people can even suggest women and transwomen are the same, there's a vas deferens between them...

OliLondonTV
Posted - April 19, 2023 at 11:19 PM
Saved - April 20, 2023 at 12:28 PM

@OliLondonTV - Oli London

A man called Kaelie who identifies as a ‘woman’ brags about having a ‘legal’ right to use women’s restrooms: “It’s legal in my state as a trans woman to use the bathroom I identify with”.

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I can use the bathroom I identify with as a trans woman because it's legal in my state. Others won't bother me when I tell them I'm trans.
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Speaker 0: Go ahead, buckaroo, because they won't do a damn thing. When I tell them I'm a trans woman, they'll say okay, and they'll leave me alone. You wanna know why? Because it's it's legal in my state as a trans woman to use the bathroom I identify with. Now come at me with another com comment.
BucMon21
Posted - June 12, 2023 at 3:32 PM
Saved - June 14, 2023 at 2:44 PM
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Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN, has faced criticism for his views and writings. He institutionalized that any pushback by parents, students, or the public is bullying, which is now federal policy. Jennings has been appointed to various organizations, including the Arcus Foundation and Lambda Legal. Some believe his influence has led to the promotion of Queer Theory in schools and the push to make sure students know their teachers' sexual orientation. Critics argue that teachers, activists, and administrators are proselytizers, not educators.

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

🧵Wait, what? Kevin Jennings GLSEN founder. A quick look at what got us to Queer Theory in schools & Federal protection. Example of narrative building. https://archive.is/s035z

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

https://www.glsen.org/blog/glsens-partners-rise-support-kevin-jennings Some questionable views and writings came to light. Engage allies to defend.

GLSEN's Partners Rise to Support Kevin Jennings glsen.org

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

https://www.uua.org/people/kevin-jennings Speaks for itself.

Kevin Jennings Kevin Jennings taught high school in New England after graduating from Harvard and is best known for his work creating safe schools for LGBT students. In 1988, Jennings helped establish the nation's first Gay-Straight Alliance for students, and in 1990 he founded GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight... uua.org

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/summer-2014/toolkit-for-radical You have to view these teachers/activists/admins as proselytizers, not educators.

Toolkit for Radical! Learn more about the relevance and diversity of history’s radical teachers. learningforjustice.org

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

So to be clear. He institutionalized that any pushback by parents, students, the public, voters, etc. is bullying (which now means "hate") into federal policy making. Just as the Obama admin redefined racism, they redefined dissent, federally. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/kevin-jennings-obama-anti-bullying-czar/

The Revenge of Obama’s Anti-Bullying Czar Not only did Kevin Jennings survive relentless attacks from the right, he brought the issue of anti-gay harassment in public schools out of the closet. motherjones.com

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

I think we can all see the path. Including the drive to make sure students know their teacher's sexual orientation and queering elementary schools. https://www.thedailybeast.com/hannitys-gay-target

Hannity's Gay Target As Obama readies a major gay-rights speech, the right is tarring his safe schools czar with a homophobic slur. Michelle Goldberg on why the White House must stand by its man. thedailybeast.com

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

2012 went to Arcus Foundation approved by Human Rights Campaign. Fast forward to today and both a big part of the trans cartel & ESG. https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/hrc-statement-on-appointment-of-kevin-jennings-as-arcus-foundation-executiv

07/13/2012 hrc.org

@BucMon21 - F* Your Short Memory 🏴 Anti-Cult of Absurdity

https://lambdalegal.org/staff-board/kevin-jennings/

Kevin Jennings We are a national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and everyone living with HIV. lambdalegal.org
FadicalNem
Posted - June 14, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Saved - November 9, 2023 at 2:25 PM

@FadicalNem - Fadical Nemesist

A TRA fighting for himself against women. He knows all women are called TERFs regardless of pol. Says “radfem” bc he’s parroting BBC, Buttons, Cole, EJ, Higdon and every TruTrans sell out who wants to demonize women who won’t compromise. See how he called us “woke” last week? 1/ https://t.co/1O0wcBPtFy

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There are people who hate transgender individuals and want to erase their existence. Radical feminists are one group that refuses to accept people like me, not because of pronouns or appearance, but simply because we exist. Even though I don't do anything to upset them, they still say horrible things about me. I recently spoke to someone who works in the gender critical space and she was shocked by the hate she witnessed. These radical feminists view me as a threat to women and are out to harm people like me. It's important to address this hate because it discredits our fight against discrimination. I appreciate the support I've received.
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Speaker 0: There is absolutely a crowd out there who is trans hateful. There's a crowd that wants to eradicate transgender people. There is a crowd who does not want me to exist. And I know we're also sick of hearing that, right? Because that's the narrative that's being used all the time now against anybody who has any criticism of anything about queer me. But I think we need to acknowledge that there are certain groups, and the radical feminists are one of them, who genuinely do not accept the existence of someone like me. It's not about what pronouns are used. It's not about what washer might use. It's the fact that I exist. Because even though I don't do any of those things that would upset them, they still say really horrible things about me. I actually had a and she was quite shocked. She is somebody who works in the gender critical space quite a bit someone I've come to know recently and she was really horrified by what she saw and when she reached out to her friend to try to understand what was going on she came to understand what radical feminism is and that these people truly do view me as women face. My mere presentation and the way that I am they take as viscerally offensive as the erasure of women and they are out for blood with people like me. I wanted to highlight this because as long as real transgender hate does exist, the narrative of the LGBT hate stands and it's valid. And when people see that narrative, they hear it and they know it's true because of people like these individuals who have been going after me for the past 72 hours. And if we want to get to a point that we can push back against that. And we can argue that hate is not pervasive in our schools and in our policies and argue that some of the queer theory stuff that's been taken into our institutions has on too far then we need to deal with this kind of hate that does exist because this discredits everything that we're going for. I really appreciate the support and encouragement that I've had today.
salltweets
Posted - August 6, 2023 at 3:03 AM
Saved - August 6, 2023 at 12:56 PM
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Individual beliefs should be respected, but we must consider if that respect is reciprocated. Women's rights are threatened by trans ideology, expecting us to relinquish our rights. The evidence is clear: trans ideology disregards reality, punishes dissent, and incites violence. It demands conformity, sacrificing critical thinking, belief, and speech. Unlike religion, enlightenment values protect our freedoms. Those claiming oppression while living a lie undermine genuine struggles. Compromise is necessary, but trans ideology must also respect others.

@salltweets - Sall Grover

Anyone can believe whatever they want to believe as an individual. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, we have to consider if that is being reciprocated. Women’s rights are the canary in the coal mine of trans ideology. We’re the first to be expected to move over and give up our rights. A lot of people simply expect that of women, don’t care and just don’t understand why women are fighting back so seriously. But the evidence of why is everywhere. Trans ideology forces people to ignore what they see with their own eyes (“that’s not a man, that’s a woman”). Trans ideology punishes people who don’t believe in it (There are countless examples of violent threats from trans activists to women). Trans ideology punishes people who don’t use their language (thus suddenly, words are violence). Are you willing to give up your critical thinking faculties, your freedom of belief & your freedom of speech? All in the name of one ideology that is demonstrably false? I assume you’re not. Historically, religion did do that to the societies it had power over. Thanks to enlightenment values, that is no longer the case in the western world. No one is marginalized because they’re attempting to live a lie. To make it worse, the group claiming to be oppressed due to that lie are actually taking away rights & discriminating against the real deal of the group they’re desperate to be included in. And we should find compromise in this? No. Compromising on this is what has lead to the current mess we are in. Believe what you want. And until trans ideology also accepts that value, it is an ideology that harms others.

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The speakers discuss the concept of being transgender. Speaker 1 argues that being transgender is a culture-bound syndrome and believes there are no actual instances of being transgender. They mention examples of hyper butch lesbians and how their treatment varies depending on culture. Speaker 0 is challenged by this perspective and questions if there are people like Buck Angel who identify as transgender. Speaker 1 remains firm in their belief that being transgender is a cultural category and not a natural occurrence. They compare it to other cultural categories like Fafafine from Samoa. Speaker 0 questions if technology could prove the existence of being transgender, but Speaker 1 suggests that those with unusual feelings about their gender usually grow up to be gay.
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Speaker 0: And I heard Jason d Hill, the philosopher, said that the actual instance of trans is 0.06. Speaker 1: I mean, I don't believe there's any actual instance of trans. I don't believe it's that kind of thing. It's a culture bound syndrome. Speaker 0: You think the whole thing is a No. Not the in not like Speaker 1: his I I I believe the whole thing is a culture bound syndrome. Speaker 0: Oh my god. Really? Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Completely. Completely. Because What does it mean to say that a man can really be a woman in fucking San Jose? Speaker 0: So you don't believe that there's anybody like Buck Angel Are any of these people who literally have something in their brain? Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Absolutely not. If Buck Angel had lived in a different society, in what sense could Buck Angel have ever got the idea Into Buck Angel's head that they were meant to be a man or were really a man. It was. Obviously a lesbian, right, obviously a Hyper hyper butch lesbian, those people are a naturally occurring category. What you do with hyper as a hyper butch lesbian depends on the culture you're in. A lot of it, not Speaker 0: very nice by the way. Never had bottom surgery. Speaker 1: Yeah. A lot of it, they're not at all nice, what's done with butch lesbians. Like, they're forced off to be married. They, You know, they just they have to they have to pretend to care about womanly things. I'm not saying that, you know, other ways of dealing with it are necessarily good. I'm just saying, course, I could never have got the idea into trans if she was meant to be a man. She was meant to Speaker 0: be a man. So you're you've really challenged one of my fundamental beliefs now. I just wanna make sure I understand this correctly. Yeah. So this is a culture bound the whole thing is The whole Speaker 1: thing is a culture bound syndrome. So it's exactly like you've heard of Fafafine from Samoa. Speaker 0: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or Koro. I wrote about that much. Speaker 1: What sense would it make to say what is the natural Naturally occurring rate of Safafine? Speaker 0: Why don't you tell everybody what? Speaker 1: So okay, so Safafine, it's a Samoan category of people and the words mean in the manner of a woman. So they don't have a category of gay men in Samoa. Men men are heterosexual by definition to them. So a man who is gay or a little boy who looks like he's going to grow Gay, because by the way very gender non conforming little boys do grow up much much much more often to be gay than straight, you know, like, And you know the the base rate is very different of a boy like that, okay? Little boys like that are sort of recognized, Thought of as kids who are going to grow up to sleep with men and to wear flowers and be a bit, you know, do beauty pageants and wear women's clothes and things. They're not thought of as women. They're thought of as a third category, and that category is in the manner of a woman. That category doesn't exist here at all. Right? Like like, Speaker 0: like Travesti in Brazil. Speaker 1: Yeah. Sort of. But that's kind of more sex worky. I lived in Brazil for several years, the foreign correspondence. Speaker 0: It's a great book, I I read about that. Speaker 1: So so but my point is that there's no you could, you know, to say What's the naturally occurring rate of trans is exactly the same as to say what's the naturally occurring rate of Fafafine. It's a cultural category. There are no Fafafina in Ireland, none whatsoever, not one. And there are no trans people in the sense of people who are thought of as being really members of the opposite sex Or a man trapped in woman's body or somebody who should be reclassified as a member of the opposite sex. That simply doesn't exist in most cultures. Speaker 0: Wow. Okay. I I'm really taking this away. Speaker 1: Naturally people who are highly, highly atypical for their sake. Speaker 0: Sure. Sure. So that also means that at no level of technology, brain imaging, etcetera, could we look and find it because it doesn't exist because it's a cultural bone syndrome? Speaker 1: I mean, you could you could definitely see That you could imagine a future in which you could see in brain scans that this is somebody who has has a very unusual feeling And that feeling is, I was meant to be a man, I was meant to be a woman. But people who have those feelings younger usually grow up to be gay.
babybeginner
Posted - August 7, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Saved - August 18, 2023 at 12:50 PM
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The battle over language is crucial. Initially, we agreed on the term "transwoman." But suddenly, a shift occurred, demanding a space between "trans" and "woman." Disagreement meant being labeled a bigot. Now, "trans" is an adjective, colonizing the word "woman." Laws have been rewritten, erasing the concept of women. This battle is existential, as they take our words. But we won't surrender. Words matter. Women exist. We reclaim our word for adult human females. Men are men.

@babybeginner - Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖

On the importance of language: We started with transwoman. You were threatened if you did not use the new term. We were all “nice”. We agreed. What’s in a word? Sure. If that makes you feel happy. Ok. We were kind. Then something happened. We we were saying transwoman - a noun to denote a person living a particular lifestyle. All was good. Then it switched. And the switch was dramatic, fast, and full of vicious threats. Suddenly the space was demanded. Trans woman. Not transwoman any more. It’s just a space. Who could complain? Whatever. If you said TW with no space you were a bigot, a monster, a transphobe. The space was demanded. Required. Style books rewritten. News outlets instructed. And what was that about? You could see it in real time. It was a wave. Why? Now trans became an adjective. And woman was the noun. It was an instant colonization of the word woman. Dictionaries have been rewritten. School children taught the new word. And the phrase means that is a KIND of woman. You can offer it up as some kind of compromise thinking you are meaning something else, but that’s like saying I’m happy to call you an apple. You’re just using the words incorrectly in your own head. Trans woman means there is a kind of person who is trans and that particular person is a woman. It makes no difference what you think you’re saying. It matters what it means. And it means this in LAW now. What a clever trick. Who needs to rewrite laws if you have redefined the words used in them. This is the definition now in the UNRUH civil rights act in California (cal civil code 51). By LAW women may not have a single sex space because by LAW women no longer exist. Not as you know the word anyway. Did you know the TRAs don’t have a word that means adult human female in their language? Ask them. You’ll see. You can’t speak of a group that doesn’t have a word. This is an existential battle and they have taken our words. We are taking them back. Words MATTER. Women EXIST. We will keep our word that means adult human female. You cannot have it. Men are Men.

garylfrancione
Posted - August 21, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Saved - August 21, 2023 at 7:42 PM
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Critics argue against criticizing trans beliefs or demands due to violence against trans people. However, this logic is flawed. It's like saying if someone faces violence due to their religion, we must believe in that religion. Similarly, if violence against women by men is prevalent, we should accept gender critical thinking.

@garylfrancione - Prof. Gary Francione

Some very confused people claim that we should not criticize trans belief claims or access demands because there is violence against trans people. That is like saying that, if X is the victim of violence because people dislike X's religion, we must believe in X's religion.

@garylfrancione - Prof. Gary Francione

For the illogical among us who say that, b/c there is violence against those who identify as trans, we should accept/not criticize, trans ideology, then, given that there is more violence against women by men, we should accept/not criticize gender critical thinking.

goddeketal
Posted - August 26, 2023 at 11:50 PM
Saved - August 27, 2023 at 12:58 PM

@goddeketal - Dr. Simon Goddek

“You’re putting down women by saying women can be men.” This is one of the best preaches against the cancel culture movement that I've encountered in a long time.

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I believe that women should be respected and valued for their unique qualities and roles. However, I disagree with the idea that women can be equal to men or that transgender individuals can be women. Women are fearfully and wonderfully made by God, and it is important to recognize and celebrate their distinctiveness. I support women, including mothers and wives, and I am not against them.
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Speaker 0: Misogynist because a misogynist is someone that puts down women. I exalt women to their rightful role. But please Women are supposed to be women, not men. And every time somebody says that a woman is equal to a man and does what a man could do, and you're you're actually abusing and and and dedicating women. Women Have a unique, purpose and they're special. They're fearfully and wonderfully made by god. I support women. So I'm not a misogynist. I don't put you're Putting down women by saying women can be men. You're putting down women by saying transgenders can be women. No. They can never be women. Women are special, and No man can just convert and sell a woman today. You're putting down woman by saying that. Reach the ruler. Be anti women. I'm pro woman. I'm pro mothers. I'm pro wives, and I'm pro women.
legalfeminist
Posted - September 6, 2023 at 8:52 AM
Saved - September 6, 2023 at 9:17 PM
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The Legal Feminists critique CIPD's transgender inclusion guide, questioning the range of stakeholders consulted. They highlight issues like the guide's failure to acknowledge the contentious nature of the term "cisgender" and its biased account of Forstater. The guide's approach to neopronouns and the inclusion of erotic crossdressers also raise concerns. Employers are urged to empower gender-critical staff while navigating the complexities of diverse opinions. The significance of Forstater's case is narrowed, potentially leading to costly legal implications. The article emphasizes the importance of respectful communication and the need for clear policies regarding facilities and misgendering. The contentious claim that trans individuals can compel others to affirm their gender identity is also highlighted.

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

The Legal Feminists have been reading CIPD's "Transgender and non-binary inclusion" guide.

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

They say they consulted "a broad range of stakeholders" - some with transgender and non-binary "lived experience". (We wonder, in passing, what other kind of experience there might be.)

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

We have not researched all the individuals named here, but our first impression of the acknowledgements page is that they have an idiosyncratic understanding of the word "broad".

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

The "key terminology" section starts badly, with a failure to acknowledge that the term "cisgender" is contentious, and one which many find offensive.

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

That's followed by a tendentious and grudging account of Forstater.

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

But a pretty good thumbnail account of what a GRC does for you (more detail here: https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/what-does-a-grc-do/)

What does a GRC do? - Sex Matters By Naomi Cunningham, Sex Matters’ Chair sex-matters.org

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

A prudent turning of the telescope to the blind eye when it comes to neo-pronouns: https://t.co/I4N98x286i

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Always a tricky one - how far to go in acknowledging that "trans" has been extended to include erotic cross-dressers, whether they cross-dress part- or full-time. https://t.co/qi6tagRdhY

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

This all sounds lovely, but employers need to bear in mind that they need to encourage gender critical staff to voice their opinions and talk openly too; actively stand up for their inclusion; and empower them to express their authentic selves. https://t.co/WHl6I2hfcu

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Hang on, what's this about "showing outward acceptance"? What kind of form would that take, and how can employers properly demand it? It sounds awfully like compelling professions of a faith that other employees may not share.

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

This is going to get complicated in a workplace where the employer has even-handedly encouraged the trans/ally and gender-critical staff to talk openly and voice their opinions, and they're now all kicking off about how unsafe each other's opinions make them feel. https://t.co/EoJDvphqtf

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

More on Forstater. This looks like an attempt to confine the significance of Forstater (generally regarded by employment lawyers as a landmark case expressing a broad principle) to its own facts. https://t.co/DIEmAzturz

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

And to imply that although @MForstater's own particular belief (defined in that judgment) was WORIADS, it will be all still to play for in the case of others with slightly differently-expressed beliefs. This is a take that is likely to be expensive for employers.

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

And here we have the Banarama point: it's not what you said, it's the way that you said it. https://t.co/4FW4cv0mVK

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Good thinking - zombies can be awkward to work with. https://t.co/Z71zREMsjX

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

It did say this. It was wrong as well as not being binding: the words of s.7 of the EqA 2010 are perfectly clear. https://t.co/0a2OASxRPv

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Not that narrow - any time you genuinely need a man or a woman for a particular job, you can apply an OR; and it's difficult to imagine circumstances in which you have a real need for a woman, but a man with a certificate saying he's a woman would do just fine. https://t.co/ZakRPwTWyP

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Bad advice. If you fail to collect monitoring data on sex, a tribunal could infer that you don't much care about sex discrimination. https://t.co/BaEIG5vg1a

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Even worse advice. If you tell your staff they can use any facilities they please, so that the separate men's and women's loos are no longer single-sex, but mixed, you will be breaking the law. See ¶20 of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. https://t.co/fdesPu64ab

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

An eye-popping case study. Why should staff have to be trained up in reading a colleague's "signals" as to whether he is in "girl mode" or "boy mode" today? https://t.co/sL5yCCI4cx

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

This all sounds fluffy, but doesn't help employers much with what they should actually do if Violet/Dave says he wants to use the ladies' on Violet days, and his female colleagues object. https://t.co/MEyDbF2Jnk

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

Again - it sounds nice, but make it concrete and the going gets tough. The employer has men's, women's, and a single-occupancy accessible toilet. Violet/Dave doesn't want to use the gents' on Violet days; the women don't want him in the ladies'. Where's he going to go? https://t.co/Pth2IH3HOK

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

This could be worse. But the bit about "misgendering" blandly assumes that people with trans identities are entitled to compel others to speak in ways that signal assent to gender identity theory. That's (at least) yet to be established. https://t.co/jsJ229V1rw

@legalfeminist - Legal Feminist

The same contentious claim recurs here. https://t.co/Czf0bq3RQD

caitoz
Posted - September 26, 2023 at 11:20 PM
Saved - September 27, 2023 at 6:10 AM
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Focusing on divisive culture war topics is a surefire way to lose my interest. In a world facing nuclear annihilation and environmental collapse, it's unjustifiable to waste energy on attacking trans people or obsessing over pronouns. Even if you're right on other important issues, this reveals a limited perspective and a failure to grasp the gravity of our challenges.

@caitoz - Caitlin Johnstone

The fastest way to get me to completely lose interest in your analysis is to start pouring your energy into divisive culture war issues. In a world that’s hurtling toward nuclear annihilation and environmental collapse there’s just no possible justification for running around shitting on trans people and shrieking about pronouns or whatever. Even if you’re generally right about other important issues, the fact that you think that’s a wise expenditure of your political energy tells me you don’t truly understand the gravity of those other issues and have only a very limited perspective to offer.

iam_edh
Posted - October 3, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Saved - October 4, 2023 at 8:28 AM

@iam_edh - Eduardo

we are the confused ones?!.. says the person that changes their pronouns everyone hour depending the direction of the wind!

TAftermath2020
Posted - October 17, 2023 at 7:16 PM
Saved - October 18, 2023 at 4:25 PM

@TAftermath2020 - MAGS

25k fine and prison time if you don’t call people by their proper pronouns. 😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/Et9AHtDwHx

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The speaker discusses the creation of a community safety zone to protect the LGBTQI+ community. This zone prohibits any acts of homophobia, transphobia, intimidation, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda within 100 meters of the property. Violators may face a penalty of $25,000 if successfully prosecuted. The attorney general has the authority to establish this zone and enforce the regulations.
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Speaker 0: Zone to prohibit within a 100 meters of the property any homophobic, transphobic act of intimidation, threat, offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda within the meaning of the con criminal code. It also comes with it a penalty of $25,000 if prosecuted successfully. Firstly, it enables the attorney general to create a two s LGBTQI plus, community safety zone to prohibit within a 100 meters of the property any homophobic, transphobic act of intimidation, threat offensive threats, offensive remarks, protest disturbance, and distribution of hate propaganda within the meaning of the con criminal code. It also comes with it a penalty of $25,000 if prosecuted successfully.
libsoftiktok
Posted - October 31, 2023 at 2:50 PM
Saved - October 31, 2023 at 3:07 PM

@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok

Forcing people to use your pronouns and honorifics or else they will be shamed, is narcissistic behavior stemming from an attention seeking power trip. https://t.co/8jNl9J7ZDE

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The speaker expresses their discomfort with being misgendered and asks to speak to a manager about the incident. They explain that being called "sir" feels like a knife in the heart and that they simply want to be addressed correctly. They mention that they don't need to be called "ma'am," but being called "sir" hurts. They acknowledge that the misgendering may not have been intentional, but it still causes them pain. They ask someone named Allen to address the issue with the person who misgendered them.
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Speaker 0: It looks like he's having a, nice feast She she shear. Yeah. Yeah. It's okay. It's all good. But it was not all good. Hi. I use sheher pronouns. I'm not sir. Oh, so sorry. Yeah. Like, it it it's like a knife in the heart. I also I did specifically ask ahead of time not to be called sir. Yeah. I'm just gonna go. K. Yeah. The sweet water starts at okay. Not I mean, I'm so Sorry. I apologize. It is always like a knife. It always hurts every single time. I was wondering if there's a manager I could talk to about something that happened. Yeah. I I was called sir. Oh, okay. I just really sucks every time it happens. I don't need to be called ma'am. I just need to not be called sir. You know? Thank you. Can you call me sir? I I just wanna tell you that The person who gave me this called me sir called me sir. That's all Just like It kinda just hurts a lot to get called, sir. Oh, sorry about that. Okay. Very good. Alright. Thank you so much. No. Oh, I'm, Yeah. Thank you. I'm not a sir. Nothing like a good misgendering. It does it is a knife In the gut, when I get called sir, I I feel like I need to tell him. I need to tell him that that hurt. It hurts more, though, and it's not intentional because it means, like, this did this is sir to him. I know you didn't mean it, but I'm not a sir. I'm so Sorry. It's okay. I know you didn't mean it. It's just you know, it hurts. I know when people clock me, it's it's fine, but, like, it does kinda hurt. Thank you. I'm not, sir. Hold for a hold on. Yeah. Not, sir. Hey, Allen. Not, sir. But the the guy who dropped the the the food off, He called me, sir, twice in a row. Okay. I'll let him know that and Thank you. I appreciate that.
AlottaMalotta
Posted - November 22, 2023 at 3:18 AM
Saved - November 22, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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The Gender Critical movement lacks broad support due to its focus on biological sex and opposition to men in women's spaces. However, compassion for gender dysphoric individuals prevents public endorsement. Personal experiences highlight the disparities faced by transgender individuals. The embodiment of someone like Megan at Genspect supports the need for early transition. While delaying transition may seem prudent, it risks regret and irreversible damage. Conversations about the risks and precautions of childhood transition are crucial. Transitioning as an adult brings challenges like regret and multiple surgeries. It's important to create space for gender non-conforming individuals and understand the desperation of those seeking childhood transition.

@AlottaMalotta - Julia Malott

Why the Gender Critical movement as it presently stands will never receive broad support: Gender criticality is about centering biological sex over the concept of gender being detached from sex, right? It's about not wanting men in women's spaces... right? And it's also about preventing childhood transition out of an abundance of caution of risks and regret. ... and there won't be broad public support for that blend of policy cocktail because the majority of people have at least a shred of compassion for the gender dysphoric ... -- --- -- At Genspect, I met a women (who I will call Megan) who I later learned was transgender. I had no idea. She passed perfectly convincingly as though she were female, and only those whom she wished to disclose her sex to had any idea that she was biologically male at all. Megan and I left the conference Sunday evening and spent the night (and the early morning) chatting while driving aimlessly around downtown Denver. I realized in that chat just how different hers and my @genspect experiences were. Everything negative encounter I experienced, Megan did not. While many were very uncomfortable with my presence, they were quick to welcome Megan. While some were expressive in their fear I was using the women's washroom (which I did not, for those who care), Megan was present in those spaces with no concern expressed by anyone. ... and in the aftermath of the conference, one of our photos insulted and demeaned, while the other's disappeared as the unremarkable conference attendee she was.... This is a problem that should concern us all, because the embodiment of someone like Megan at Genspect is the strongest argument for why gender dysphoric individuals desperately wish to transition young. We need to face the reality that, I didn’t receive my Genspect experience because I am trans, I got it because I am non-passing trans. I got it because I was not a child when I transitioned, I was 28 years old. That’s a chilling reality to face for those who wish to argue to abolish childhood medical transition. I want to be able to say stopping childhood medical transition is a good thing. Really, I do. I want to tell the 10 year old dysphoric boy and his mother who are navigating this complex domain that waiting is better. That undergoing an unobstructed male puberty, a process through which many boys will find their childhood feelings of dysphoria subsist entirely, is the prudent thing to do. That mother and son need to know that biology is real and that you can’t change your sex. They need to hear that comorbidities exist, as does social contagion, and that it’s in their best interest to take every possible precaution to rule out these possibilities at the hazard of lifelong regret from irreversible damage. Those conversations are not happening and they should be. There’s no excuse not to be having it. I want to say that there’s little downside to waiting until adulthood to transition… But I need to tell them the entire truth: that the bestowal of dignity and kindness will be much sparser when left to transition as an adult. We need to make clear that while the risk of transition as a kid is infertility and regret, the risk of transition as an adult is also regret, along with many more surgeries undertaken in a desperation to try fruitlessly to reverse the masculinization of the jawbone and the forehead, the nose and the voice. For large hands and a long face, there’s no solution to those at the present. To be completely transparent, I would need to tell that mother and her 10 year old son that, should it come to it, he probably won’t pass as an adult transitioner, and that when he fails to convincingly present to the world as adequately feminine—as a woman if you will—he will be labeled a clown, an appropriator of womanhood, a pedophilic threat to our children, and a human unworthy of love. -- --- -- You want to ban childhood transition — create space for gender non-conforming males. You want to hold rigidly to our gendered society—you are pushing gender dysphoric individuals who seek childhood transition even more desperately.

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In gender critical circles, some people believe they can always identify transgender women because they see those who don't pass as biologically male. However, many transgender women do pass, especially if they transition at a young age. Those who pass tend to hide it due to the stigma faced by non-passing transgender women. Stigmatizing gender nonconformity and limiting childhood transition only pushes dysphoric individuals to seek early medical transition. While there are risks and regrets associated with both childhood and adult transition, the lack of acceptance and kindness towards adult transitioners makes it a more challenging path. It's important to have conversations about the risks and realities of transitioning at different stages of life.
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Speaker 0: It's funny. In gender critical circles, there are plenty of people who truly believe that they can always identify a transgender woman. They think this because they see people like me who they can readily identify as being biologically male, and they take this as proof that all transgender people on the feminine end of the spectrum do not pass as their affirmed gender. But some transgender women do pass, lots of them in fact. And transitioning at a younger age, especially before puberty, virtually guarantees this. Transgender women who can convincingly pass as being biologically female They'll tend to hide this at all costs because they know what non passing transgender women encounter. We are excluded and derided and get branded as fetishizers, Perverts, appropriators, and all sorts of other nasty labels. Look at my Twitter account. Despite having devoted the last 18 months of life to delivering videos and articles at my own peril, defending the gender critical concern of modern gender theory. I can't make a single post without a crowd of trolls accusing me Being dangerous around children, fetishizing women's anatomy, or being a threat to the societal order. If we do not create a society that allows for a healthy dose of gender nonconformity, then you've just created a very, very strong reason why dysphoric individuals will desperately want to medically transition young. I'll remind you, some transgender people, some transgender women, pass convincingly as though they are biologically female. And the key to achieving this possibility is to transition young. The more you stigmatize gender nonconformity and non possibility for adults, The more reason you create to transition as early as possible. The more restrictions you place on childhood transition, The more interested those children and families will be in knowing that if as an adult, their dysphoria hasn't assisted, the world will be accepting and kind towards them someone who is visibly transgender. That is the key to why gender dysphoric individuals, especially those who are male and especially those who are young, are desperate to medicalize their transition and desperate for it early. We need to face the reality. I didn't receive my Gen Spec experience because I am trans. I got it because I am non passing trans. I got it because I was not a child when I transitioned. I was 28 years old. That is a chilling reality for us to face. I want to be able to say that stopping childhood medical transition is a good thing. I want to be able to tell the 10 year old dysphoric boy and his mother who are navigating this complex domain that waiting is better. That undergoing an unobstructed male puberty, a process through which many boys will find their childhood feelings of dysphoria subsist entirely, is the prudent thing to do. That mother and son need to know that biology is real and you can't actually change your biological sex. They need to hear that comorbidities exist as those social contagion, and that it's in their best interest to take every possible precaution to rule out these possibilities at the hazard of lifelong regret from irreversible damage. Those conversations are not happening, and they should be. There is no excuse not to be having it. I want to say that there's little downside to waiting until adulthood to transition. But I need to tell them the entire truth, that the bestowal of dignity and kindness will be much scarcer when left to transition as an adult. We need to make clear that while the risk of transition as a kid is infertility and regret. The risk of transition as an adult is also regret, along with Many more surgeries undertaken in a desperate attempt to fruitlessly reverse the masculinization of the jawbone or the forehead, the nose, or the voice. For large hands and a long face, there's no solution to those at present. To be completely transparent, I would need to tell that mother and her 10 year old son that Should it come to it, he probably won't pass as an adult transitioner. And that when he fails to convincingly present to the world as adequately feminine, as a woman, if you will, He will be labeled a clown, an appropriator of womanhood, a pedophilic threat to her children, and a human unworthy of love.
Rob_ThaBuilder
Posted - April 13, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Saved - April 14, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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The posts highlight the use of violent and misogynistic language by individuals associated with the transgender movement. The author expresses concern about the spread of this ideology and criticizes the support these individuals receive, particularly from women who identify as feminists. The posts contain explicit threats and expressions of hatred towards women, which the author believes reflects a larger cultural issue within the transgender movement.

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

One of the ways the genderatti have managed to be so successful in backdooring their hateful, misogynistic ideology is by using euphemistic language that often means the opposite of what is described ("trans women" to describe a type of man, for example). In this 🧵, I'm going to repost many of the "trans voices" from JK's link below, only this time using accurate language for the things actually being described ("TERF" will become 'woman/female', "trans woman" will become 'man' etc). Even for those of us well aware of the violent misogyny at the core of transgenderism, it still comes as a shock when you see it described accurately like that, and makes it even more baffling at how we allowed this malignant cancer to spread so far and so wide before we woke up to how dangerous it is.

@jk_rowling - J.K. Rowling

I want every single person (overwhelmingly, men) claiming feminists have been hateful during the gender wars to follow this link. Don't forget to look through all the pages. Now show us your evidence that gender critical women have behaved similarly. https://terfisaslur.com

TERF is a slur Documenting the abuse, harassment and misogyny of transgender identity politics terfisaslur.com

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I punch women" https://t.co/yPvDJBagoY

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"Dead women ❤️" https://t.co/BU0DWIJinP

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"if you're a woman, I will not hesitate to snap your neck" https://t.co/ADdGg8YmwX

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"if you don't think I should be allowed to use women's restrooms because I'm a man, I will come to your house and shit down your throat" https://t.co/frNvgRFNxa

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"If you're a woman, you can get fucked with the business end of the barbed-wire wrapped around a baseball bat" https://t.co/cf01IOWA8e

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"Any trans allies at #PrideLondon right now needs to step the fuck up and take out the female trash. Get in their faces. Make them afraid. Fuck them up" https://t.co/EMCvf9eamk

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"Stab a local woman" is being sold at best offer in my Etsy shop" [side note, wtf @Etsy , you're cool with this?] https://t.co/CMtDwjMqmP

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "stab a WOMAN today! Remember to twist the knife and then remove it!" https://t.co/eRQD2T8n1T

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "either I get to self ID as a woman or I start ID'ing as a pissed off ball of rage and come at women with a nail encrusted baseball bat" https://t.co/gvfKlbLvdz

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "it'd be nice if there were roving gangs of men beating the shit out of women, but alas, that doesn't seem to be the case" https://t.co/GG4n9ojkb9

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "just to clarify, and I cannot stress this enough, no woman deserves teeth...." https://t.co/u9zQZhtabf

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "I'd stab a woman in the crotch and give them a reason to need a tampon" https://t.co/57qvr9RgrA

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "imagine a group of awesome men tearing out women's tongues and cutting their hands off so they can never speak or type their transmisogynistic [note: not a thing] bullshit ever again" https://t.co/sbm2hRCicL

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "literally kill all women" https://t.co/KM57lrnfdd

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "women need to be eliminated off the face of the Earth" https://t.co/zrlsOrouCw

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

@Etsy "Do you know any women? Cave their head in with a rock" https://t.co/gOmSsT3XbA

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"kill da women!" https://t.co/Ac3AWp3dVy

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I wanna direct a snuff film where multiple women get shot in the head but don't die, they just suffer in agony" https://t.co/QoqeBHFVQJ

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"if you encounter a woman in the wild, deposit her in the nearest dumpster....." https://t.co/bWd8HhqRQE

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"perhaps if a man smacked you in the face with a baseball bat... you would learn...." https://t.co/G9zJQCOxn5

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"frankly, I think the real problem here is not enough men are out there killing women. Can we step up our game a little people?" https://t.co/CMIgBWogxa

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"fuck women with a broken beer bottle #JustSayin " https://t.co/6diH2IXyc1

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"if you're a woman, I will not hesitate to snap your neck" https://t.co/TzsIwFUzIn

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"personally, I cannot wait for women to be lined up against the wall 🔫🔫🔫" https://t.co/7YEROUyIqE

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"the only redeeming quality women have is their corpses will serve as fertilizer for crops" https://t.co/9cOXjgmOhO

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"2017 is the year where if I meet any women irl, I'll kick their fucking teeth in" https://t.co/ikxiRLLvMP

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"female genocide is my dream" https://t.co/SrsJ9QWbfE

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I got suspended for saying I'm ejaculating over the thought of a woman being brutally murdered" https://t.co/UOz3Cj634Y

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"if you're a woman, I literally want to take a knife, stab it directly into your throat, and twist it around" https://t.co/H8zzTzDnvk

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I would love to strangle the life out of female scum" https://t.co/L6o9NL6VeX

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"women can suck on my big trans dick, coming in here saying men aren't women, like yes they are" https://t.co/3hU5hPrG6O

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"kid at work misgendered me, asked why I used the girls room. Shh gonna kick ur 10 y/o ass pal" [just to make clear, this is an adult male who feels comfortable publicly threatening to to fight a 10 y/o child. If that doesn't tell you how degenerate this entire culture is, nothing will. He KNEW he could threaten this kid and his tribe would be cool with it. That's a culture issue, not a "few bad apples]

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"the only good female is a dead female" https://t.co/wHbq53DBYP

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"is it legal to punch a woman with a baseball bat? Asking for a friend" https://t.co/q6Xjwj3tfD

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I mean, I probably wouldn't SAY it normally, but fuck I really want to kill a woman. Just fucking rip her throat out" https://t.co/bhkFeHhbLu

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I literally want to murder women. This isn't the sleep deprivation or general anger caused by frustration talking. I really mean it." https://t.co/rp880zyVlW

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

"I wanna crush every woman's windpipe" https://t.co/Gen9tDIbDH

@Rob_ThaBuilder - The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈

I mean, you get the point. I only browsed through less than 5% of that whole database of violent men. Nobody with any sense can see all that and think "it's a few bad apples". Cultures self police themselves. If violence against women wasn't a core part of the culture of transgenderism, none of these men would never have felt so bold. In fact, they appear to be trying to outdo each other in violent imagery. they're being rewarded for it. It isn't shocking that men who violently hate women would congregate in a movement that celebrates violence against women. What IS shocking is the large number of women who support them, most of whom laughably consider themselves "feminists" 🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤡

newstart_2024
Posted - June 27, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Saved - June 28, 2024 at 12:26 AM
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German MEP Christine Anderson expresses her acceptance of individuals identifying as a different gender, but emphasizes her right to not be involved in their perception. Credit: @Trinity_Prod_; @StaceyKauder

@newstart_2024 - Camus

German MEP Christine Anderson: "If a man thinks he is a woman, that's fine, I don't have a problem with that. He has the right to think whatever the heck he wants. But he does not have the right to make me part of his delusion..." https://t.co/JgAAMJH6fV

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I am a woman and I don't need validation. If a man believes he is a woman, that's his choice, but he can't involve me in his belief. Translation: I am a woman and I do not need confirmation. If a man believes he is a woman, that is his choice, but he cannot involve me in his belief.
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Speaker 0: Let's talk briefly about the gender madness. Right? So I'm a woman. Right? I don't need anyone to confer that I'm a woman. I'm just a woman. Now if a man thinks he is a woman, that's fine. I never found that. He has the right to think whatever the heck he wants, but he does not have the right to make me part of his delusion.

@newstart_2024 - Camus

Credit: @Trinity_Prod_; @StaceyKauder

libsoftiktok
Posted - July 15, 2024 at 5:34 AM
Saved - July 15, 2024 at 5:36 PM

@libsoftiktok - Libs of TikTok

Why do the most intolerant, evil people always have pronouns in their bio? https://t.co/W70cSVcCS9

EricAbbenante
Posted - November 25, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Saved - December 22, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Nancy Mace firmly opposes biological men in women's spaces, asserting a strong stance on privacy and safety for women. She criticizes the left for their hypocrisy in promoting kindness while attacking those with differing views, like herself and J.K. Rowling. Mace expresses frustration over being confronted by individuals who justify forcing rape victims to undress in front of men, calling their arguments extreme. Piers Morgan echoes her sentiments, labeling "The View" as irrelevant and calling for its cancellation.

@EricAbbenante - Eric Abbenante

Nancy Mace draws a red line in the sand that biological men should not be in women's spaces. Piers Morgan notes that those in the party that pretends to 'be kind' threaten those that disagree: Nancy Mace:"We have to put a line in the sand, big, fat, bold red line and say, hell no, no more like I am going to fight like hell for this. I don't want chicks with dicks in my bathroom, in my dressing room. I don't want to be forced to change in front of a man, period. The fact that you're willing to kill a woman over her right to privacy it's insanity. Piers Morgan: "You know, what's fascinating is you're obviously a conservative, but J.K. Rowling, whose had exactly the same experience that you have for raising exactly the same concerns. She's very much to the left. So they're pretty nondiscriminatory in the abuse and threats that they dished out. The trans lobby over this. It comes from a group of people on the left who love to put hashtag Bekind in their X profiles and claim they stand for empathy and compassion and so on. They don't show any of that to people like you or J.K. Rowling, who stand up over the parapet. Nancy Mace: "The party says they're going to protect women. They only mean they're only going to protect trans women." The only lesson liberals taught the world after 'Me Too' was that Harvey Weinstein could have gotten away with any crimes as long as he wore a dress. The Democrat party is a 'diverse' hive-mind that will threaten anyone with divergent opinions.

Video Transcript AI Summary
I have experienced the consequences of abuse and believe women's private spaces should be exclusively for women. Rape victims should not have to undress in front of men. This issue is pervasive in schools and public facilities, and I will fight against it. Critics claim my language fuels transphobia, but I have supported LGBTQ rights while opposing policies that allow men in women's spaces. I've received numerous death threats for my stance, highlighting the extreme reactions from some. Many women, including those from the left, feel marginalized by these policies. It's crucial to protect women's rights without compromising safety. The hypocrisy of those who preach kindness while attacking dissenters is evident. The focus should be on protecting all women's rights, not just those of trans women.
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Speaker 0: And so I have suffered the consequences of abuse, and I know firsthand how women's private spaces should be just for women. Rape victims like myself or any woman, for that matter should not be forced to undress in front of men. And that's what the insanity of the left, that's what their policies are causing, not just on Capitol Hill, but all across the country in schools, in locker rooms, dressing rooms, bathrooms. This is happening everywhere, and we have to put a line in the sand, big, fat, bold red line, and say, hell no. No more. Like, I I am gonna fight like hell for this. I I don't want chicks with dicks in my bathroom, in my dressing room. I don't wanna be forced to change in front of a man, period. And it's a trigger for me. And I absolutely am gonna go to the mat for women and girls everywhere and put a stop to it. Speaker 1: You know, your critics say when you use phrases like chicks with dicks, you're being deliberately inflammatory, and you're fueling transphobia that you have essentially a hatred of trans people. What would you say to them? Speaker 0: I would say they're they're completely off the rails. They're worried about feelings and not facts, and the facts are, Pierce. I voted for gay marriage not once, but twice. I have cosponsored legislation to protect the rights of those in the LGBTQ community, but I draw a line, the insanity of the left that thinks it's okay for a man and his penis to be in our private spaces. And look, Pierce, I was receiving 100 of death threats a day last week. I got over a 1000 death threats. I have had to increase my security. Some guy tried to rush the stage last week trying to get at me. I've had multiple people in front of Capitol Police that were guarding me come up to me and tried to verbally or physically accost me over the last couple of days. The fact that you're willing to kill a woman over her right to privacy is it's insanity. And I feel like the more that they come after me, the harder I'm gonna fight back, the harder I'm gonna push back. This is it's it's rabid insanity is what it is. Speaker 1: You know, what's fascinating is that you're obviously a conservative, but JK Rowling, who's had exactly the same experience that you have for raising exactly the same concerns, she's very much to the left. So they're pretty, you know, nondiscriminatory in the abuse and threats that they dish out the the trans lobby over this. And and, again, I've always said, you know, all I want for trans people is the same rights to fairness and equality that I enjoy and that you enjoy and everybody else enjoys. But what it can't do, and I felt strongly about this for years, it cannot erode women's rights to fairness, equality, and safety, and that's really what the number of this debate is. You know, when you see people like AOC, for example, screeching away about you, what do you feel? Because I always feel with her, you know, on the one hand, she's all for, we've gotta protect women's rights for abortion, for example, but she doesn't give a damn about 6 foot 5 inch biological males dominating women's sport or getting into boxing rings in women's boxing at the Olympics and winning gold medals by beating up actual women when they have male chromosomes. So it's a complete double standard, and I think it's partly one of the reasons they got such a thumping in the election. Because I think most people are like, you know what? This stuff's nuts. Speaker 0: Totally. And you saw Kamala Harris. She won women at a lesser margin than Joe Biden did. When he won in 2020, he won women by plus 13 points. Kamala won women by 8 points, and so women are trending away from the Democrat party. And in fact, just a few minutes ago before we got on to to tape this interview, I heard from a yet another Democrat woman who is sick and tired of being marginalized by the left. And I've heard from lesbians. I've heard from gays. And, you know, they're like, you know, we understand you wanna protect our rights and this goes too far. We get it. We support you. And so I appreciate all of I'm grateful for everyone of every political stripe, every orientation who said, we're with you because this is gonna take an army to push back against 1 half of 1 percent of the population, and literally they're putting my life in danger. I've been called an extremist, a right winger, and I am conservative, but what they're doing, the violent rhetoric they're using is putting the lives of my life and my kids' lives in danger, and it's not okay. And I'm just gonna fight back. I'm gonna fight back harder. Speaker 1: Well, it is absolutely shocking that you've been receiving all these death threats. It's shocking. It's outrageous. It's shameful, and it comes from a group of people on the left who love to put hashtag be kind in their x profiles and and claim they stand for empathy and compassion and so on. They don't show any of that to people like you or JK Rowling who stand up over the parapet. You know, I think you have Riley Gaines as well who's been incredibly brave in in the sports issue and has had similar experience where she's been literally barricaded in in buildings as howling mobs have descended on her. There's a real hypocrisy there, isn't there, that the be kind brigade are often the most vicious? Speaker 0: The party of joy. The party says they're gonna protect women. They only mean they're only gonna protect trans women.

@EricAbbenante - Eric Abbenante

Full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh6_LwDS_1A

@EricAbbenante - Eric Abbenante

Mace here:

@NancyMace - Nancy Mace

Another person tried to get in my face again today to justify why rape victims should be forced to undress in front of men. Another person I had to tell to eff off. These ppl are crazier than I previously gave them credit for. #HoldTheLine

@EricAbbenante - Eric Abbenante

Piers here:

@piersmorgan - Piers Morgan

*NEW COLUMN* The View is now a pointless, irrelevant, Trump-loathing joke - cancel it. https://nypost.com/2024/11/25/opinion/the-view-is-now-a-pointless-irrelevant-trump-loathing-joke-cancel-it/

‘The View’ is a pointless, irrelevant, Trump-loathing joke — cancel it They all despise the man who is to be their president again, and that tediously myopic one-sided act just won’t play now he’s been given such a resounding endorsement from the American people. nypost.com
amy_likes_owls
Posted - January 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Saved - January 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM

@amy_likes_owls - Amy 🇺🇸

Hey @elonmusk Grok won’t refer to a male with male pronouns when I ask bc it whines about “misgendering.” All I wanted was the summary w/o it pandering to gender ideology. https://t.co/Hz6od3GwLX @X https://t.co/GRcyIWfoMt

SwipeWright
Posted - January 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Saved - January 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I experienced a profound loss when a close friend abruptly ended our friendship over my article debunking the "sex spectrum." Despite years of deep philosophical conversations and mutual respect, he reacted with hostility without even reading my work. The pain of being insulted by someone I once considered family is far greater than the random insults from strangers online. It feels like witnessing the extinction of a cherished bond, leaving me to grapple with the impact of gender ideology on our relationship. I've shared the essay for anyone interested in understanding my perspective.

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

Gender ideology parasitized people's brains and turned them into seemingly rabid versions of their former selves. This is how one of my very closest friends (at the time) responded to my article debunking the "sex spectrum" in 2020, including my responses. Many years of friendship thrown away instantly over an article he admits he didn't even read. It's hard to convey how deeply I hate gender ideology for what it did to people.

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

You quickly get used to being insulted by random internet strangers. It just becomes white noise. But when close friends say something like this, it's intensely painful. Every time. We were closefriends for many years, and were even housemates in college for several years. Believe it or not, our friendship was very much defined by having deep philosophical conversations, often on moral issues, where we heard each other out and approached each other in good faith. You'd never have guessed that by the exchange above. It's like he's possessed. Old friends are hard, and often impossible, to replace. It's a tragedy, like the last of a majestic species dying.

@SwipeWright - Colin Wright

Here's the essay he didn't read, in case you were interested. Let me know if you find anything hateful in it. https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sex-is-not-a-spectrum

Sex Is Not a Spectrum Claims that ‘sex is a spectrum’ rely on fundamental misunderstandings about the nature of biological sex. realityslaststand.com
nataliegwinters
Posted - January 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Saved - January 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM

@nataliegwinters - Natalie Winters

I won’t be gaslit on personal aesthetics from people who celebrate obesity, trannies, and grooming

@MailOnline - Daily Mail Online

Controversial White House Correspondent slammed over 'inappropriate' outfits https://trib.al/nku43HJ

SocialFlow trib.al
realchrisrufo
Posted - February 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Saved - February 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I’ve uncovered logs from the NSA’s secret chatroom where employees discuss various sexual topics, including surgeries and fetishes, during work hours. The chat system, Intelink, has been co-opted by gender activists to discuss kink and sex under the guise of diversity initiatives. Conversations include experiences with surgeries and treatments, as well as discussions on non-monogamy and unique pronouns like "it/its." This raises questions about the appropriateness of such discussions in a government setting. For more details, check out the full story.

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time. This is insane. 🧵

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

The NSA maintains a chat system for the "intelligence community" called Intelink. The servers are supposed to be used for government work, but gender activists have hijacked at least two channels—LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG—to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as "DEI."

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. These male intelligence agents love the feeling of penetration and of peeing with their pseudo-vaginas.

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

These trans employees discuss hair removal, estrogen treatments, and breast implants. "Getting my butthole zapped by a laser was . . . shocking," said one trans-identifying DIA official. "Medical science is gonna give me tits one way or another," said a Navy intel employee.

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

One NSA official claims to use "it/its" pronouns, meaning that this person does not identify as a human, but rather, feels like a sexless, genderless thing. Other intel employees defend the usage of "it/itself" pronouns, claiming that not using them amounts to trans "erasure."

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

Intel employees used the chatroom to discuss "ethical non-monogamy," or "polyamory." Many claimed to be part of sprawling sexual networks and have a rich slang vocabulary about their sex lives. "Some of our friends are practically poly-mers, with all the connected compounds."

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

Read the full story about the NSA's secret sex chats exclusively at City Journal. https://www.city-journal.org/article/national-security-agency-internal-chatroom-transgender-surgeries-polyamory

The NSA’s Secret Sex Chats Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal. city-journal.org

@realchrisrufo - Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️

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benryanwriter
Posted - June 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Saved - June 27, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I reflect on the evolution of the gay rights movement, noting its significant victories, such as marriage equality and protections against discrimination. However, I observe a troubling shift towards radicalization, focusing on gender ideology rather than the original goals of equality and respect. The movement now emphasizes a rejection of the sex binary, leading to contentious debates around gender-affirming care for minors. While I support trans rights, I worry about the implications of these changes for gay and lesbian identities and the potential backlash against our hard-won rights. We must protect our achievements while fostering open dialogue.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way By Andrew Sullivan for @nytopinion 🧵⬇️

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

GIFT LINK: How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way By Andrew Sullivan https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/gay-lesbian-trans-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R08.UNTn.rcnCfw_BTEMT&smid=url-share

Opinion | How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way (Gift Article) How the Gay Rights Movement Radicalized, and Lost Its Way nytimes.com

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Ten years ago Thursday, the movement for gay and lesbian equality scored a victory that only a decade before had seemed unimaginable. We won equal rights to civil marriage in every state in the country. In 2020 came another stunning win. In a majority opinion written by one of President Trump’s nominees, Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court found that gay men, lesbians and transgender men and women are covered under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and protected from employer discrimination. In 2024, the Republican Party removed opposition to marriage equality from its platform, and the current Republican Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, is a married gay man with two children. Gay marriage is backed by around 70 percent of Americans, and discrimination against gay men, lesbians and transgender people is opposed by 80 percent. As civil rights victories go, it doesn’t get more decisive or comprehensive than this.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But a funny thing happened in the wake of these triumphs. Far from celebrating victory, defending the gains, staying vigilant, but winding down as a movement that had achieved its core objectives — including the end of H.I.V. in the United States as an unstoppable plague — gay and lesbian rights groups did the opposite. Swayed by the broader liberal shift to the “social justice” left, they radicalized.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

In 2023, the Human Rights Campaign @HRC, the largest gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights group in the country, declared a “state of emergency” for gay men, lesbians and transgender people — the first time in the organization’s existence. It had not declared a state of emergency when gay men were jailed for having sex in private, when the AIDS epidemic killed hundreds of thousands of gay men or when we faced a possible constitutional amendment banning marriage equality in 2004. In fact, we found out, this “emergency” was almost entirely in response to new state bills proposing restrictions on medical treatment for minors with gender dysphoria; bathroom and locker room bans; and transgender issues in school curricula and sports.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Nonetheless, the money has poured into gay, lesbian and transgender groups in the past decade. Charitable funding for such groups totaled $387 million in 2012, according to the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy’s Equitable Giving Lab. By 2021, it was $823 million. L.G.B.T.Q.+ organizations also saw their assets grow 76 percent from 2019 to 2021 — around double the size of their increase in donations. A group like @GLAAD — founded in 1985 to combat anti-gay media bias in the depths of the AIDS epidemic — saw its funding increase sixfold between 2014 and 2023. The Human Rights Campaign @HRC has also seen revenues soar in the past decade.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But this huge increase in funding was no longer primarily about gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights, because almost all had already been won. It was instead about a new and radical gender revolution. Focused on ending what activists saw as the oppression of the sex binary, which some critical gender and queer theorists associated with “white supremacy,” they aimed to dissolve natural distinctions between men and women in society, to replace biological sex with “gender identity” in the law and culture, and to redefine homosexuality, in the process, not as a neutral fact of the human condition but as a liberating ideological “queerness” meant to subvert and “queer” language, culture and society in myriad different ways.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

The words gay and lesbian all but disappeared. L.G.B.T. became L.G.B.T.Q., then L.G.B.T.Q.+, and more letters and characters kept being added: L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ or 2S.L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ (to include intersex, asexual people and two-spirit Indigenous people). The plus sign referred to a seemingly infinite number of new niche identities, and, by some counts, more than 70 new “genders.” The point was that this is all one revolutionary, intersectional community of gender-diverse people, and intertwined with other left causes, from Black Lives Matter to Queers for Palestine.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

They needed a new banner for that. So the rainbow flag, invented back in 1978 at the request of Harvey Milk, was replaced over the last few years by a new “Progress” flag, representing intersectional oppression. Black and brown stripes were added to the rainbow — for Black and brown people (and the people lost during the AIDS crisis) — and pink, light blue and white for trans people. That flag now demarcates a place not simply friendly to all types of people, as the old rainbow flag did, but a place where anyone who does not subscribe to intersectional left ideology is unwelcome.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

“Queer” was a way of summing up the new regime, a clear sign that this really was a different movement than the gay, lesbian and transgender civil rights movement of the past. It’s a word that can easily trigger gay men over 40 who remember it as the last slur they once heard before being bashed in the head. But one of the striking aspects of the younger queer generation is their disdain for those who came before them.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

As I watched all this radical change, I wondered, was I just another old fart, shaking my fist at the sky, like every older generation known to man? Why not just accept that the next gay and lesbian generation has new ideas, has moved on, and old-timers like me should just move aside? And some of the changes are indeed welcome. The greater acceptance of trans people is a huge step forward for all of us. But then, as I told my friends (gay, trans and everyone else), I’d always believed this and always supported trans civil rights. I was glad when, five years ago, the Supreme Court gave transgender people civil rights protection in employment. I’ve also long lived in a gay world that is skewed left, and, along with my fellow gay non-lefties, I’ve long made my peace with it, or tried to.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But this new ideology, I believed, was different. Like many gays and lesbians — and a majority of everybody else — I simply didn’t buy it. I didn’t and don’t believe that being a man or a woman has nothing to do with biology. My sexual orientation is based on a biological distinction between men and women: I’m attracted to the former and not to the latter. And now I was supposed to believe the difference didn’t exist? I’m more than happy to accept that there are some people — not all that many — who don’t fit in that binary, and want to be protected from discrimination and allowed full access to medical interventions in order to live lives that are true to who they are. And I’m with them all the way. After all, I, too, am a part of a minority — most people live their lives governed by heterosexual desires. Thanks to the gay and lesbian movement, I’m not being asked to.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But abolishing the sex binary for the entire society? That’s a whole other thing entirely. And madness, I believe. What if I redefined what it is to be heterosexual and imposed it on straight people? Or changed what it means to be a man or a woman, for that matter? Then it ceases to be accommodation of a minority and becomes a societywide revolution — an overreach that would soon lead to a potent and sane backlash, against not just trans people, but gay men and lesbians as well.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

The gay rights movement, especially in the marriage years, had long asked for simple liberal equality and mutual respect — live and let live. Reform, not revolution. No one’s straight marriage would change if gay marriage arrived, we pledged. You can bring up your children however you like. We will leave you alone. We will leave your children alone. But in the wake of victory, L.G.B.T.Q.+ groups reneged on that pledge. They demanded the entire society change in a fundamental way so that the sex binary no longer counted. Elementary school children were taught that being a boy or a girl might not have anything to do with their bodies, and that their parents had merely guessed whether they were a boy or a girl when they were born. In fact, sex was no longer to be recognized at birth — it was now merely assigned, penciled in. We got new terms like “chest-feeding” for “breastfeeding” and “birthing parent” for “mother."

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

A key leader of this movement, Chase Strangio, informed us that “a penis is not a male body part. It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.” We all were suddenly expected to announce our pronouns as if everyone didn’t already know. Then neopronouns — xe/xem! — were added. The movement came up with a mantra: “TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. TRANS MEN ARE MEN.” It was not an argument, nor a proposition to be explored or debated. It was a theological command. In all caps.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Was there any debate among gays and lesbians about this profound change, a vote taken, or even a poll of gay men and lesbians? None that I can find or recall. And, as in other “social justice” spaces, dissent was equated with bigotry. Dissenters from gender ideology are routinely unfriended, shunned and shamed. Almost all of the gay men, trans people and lesbians who have confided in me that they don’t agree with this, or think that @JK_Rowling or @Martina Navratilova have some good points, have said so sotto voce lest anyone overhear. That’s the extremely intolerant and illiberal atmosphere that now exists in the gay, lesbian and transgender space. This little community used to champion all manner of expression or argument or speech, eccentrics and visionaries. Now it’s fearful, self-censored and extremely uptight. Debate has been all but snuffed out; total uniformity of thought is demanded.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But this illiberalism made a fateful, strategic mistake. In the gay rights movement, there had always been an unspoken golden rule: Leave children out of it. We knew very well that any overreach there could provoke the most ancient blood libel against us: that we groom and abuse kids. You can bring up your children however you like, we promised. We will leave you alone. We will leave your children alone. So what did the gender revolutionaries go and do? They focused almost entirely on children and minors. Partly because the adult issues had been resolved or close to it, and partly because true cultural revolutions start with the young, it meant overhauling the education not only of children with gender dysphoria, but of every other kid as well.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Kids all over the country were impacted. Your children were taught in elementary school that being a boy or a girl was something they could choose and change at will. Your daughter found herself running against a trans girl (i.e. a biological male) in athletics. Children in elementary school got to pick pronouns, and some children socially transitioned at school without their parents’ knowledge or permission. I suppose there are other ways you can resurrect the ghost of Anita Bryant, and all the homophobic paranoia that followed her, but this will probably do the trick.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

And then most radical of all: gender-affirming care for minors, which can lead to irreversible sex changes for children. The “care” included off-label “blockers” to arrest puberty, almost always followed with cross-sex hormones. To begin with, gays and lesbians, including me, empathized with kids with gender dysphoria, and trusted the medical profession with the rest. If this helped kids or even saved their lives, as was often emphasized, what business was it of mine? If transitioning this young in life would helped some pass better as adults, good for them.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Still, questions lingered, drawn from my own life. As a child, uninterested in playing team sports but very interested in the boys who played team sports, I was once asked by a girl when I was just 10 years old, “Are you sure you’re not really a girl?” Of course not, I replied. But I wonder how I might have responded if someone in authority — a parent or a teacher or a doctor — had suggested that my difference and occasional anxiety was because I was, in fact, a girl. That my body was irrelevant, and that I could choose to be the opposite sex before puberty and all my confusions would disappear. I just don’t know what I would have said or done, to be honest.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

And how do today’s parents, teachers and doctors know for surethat a 10-year-old child isn’t, well, like me, and really is trans? How can they know for sure that the gender dysphoria isn’t instead a manifestation of being gay or lesbian and wanting to change it? How do they know for sure there isn’t another complicating personal or psychological factor? I was told not to worry. A child had to demonstrate a “persistent, consistent and insistent” trans identity for years even to be considered for medical intervention.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But this, I found out, was no longer true. The whole point of the new regime of gender-affirming care was that it rejected broad mental health assessments of children that could ensure that mistakes really didn’t happen. The old “persistent, consistent and insistent” model was deemed transphobic and loosened to become an affirmation policy. As soon as a kid said he or she was the opposite sex, further counseling and mental health exploration was deemed problematic, because it amounted to transphobic conversion therapy, we were told. When I said that seemed crazy, and that surely we needed more safeguards, I was sternly told, “Children know who they are.”

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But do they? When they are between 9 and 13? I sure didn’t. Does any parent really believe this? Solid long-term data on how many children who transition but decide later it was a mistake is hard to find, in large part because the procedures are relatively new and the studies often have very poor follow-up. But without a doubt, there are some. They are walking around today, testifying in courts and legislatures, opining all over the web, telling similar stories of rushed judgments, minimal safeguards, inadequate gate-keeping and agonizing regret that as children they made irreversible decisions they could not meaningfully consent to.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

I have met many. They break your heart. And so many of the gender-dysphoric kids are gay and lesbian. Of course they are, and there are many more children who will grow up to be gay and lesbian than who will grow up to be trans. When adolescents referred to a British gender clinic were asked about their sexualityin 2012, some 90 percent of females and 80 percent of males said they were same-sex attracted or bisexual.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

In the Netherlands, the famous Dutch protocol for gender-affirming care was pioneered in the 1990s with far stricter safeguards in place than exist in the United States today. There, of a cohort of 70 adolescents referred to an Amsterdam clinic from 2000 to 2008, 62 were same-sex attracted. And it’s easy to see that one way to “cure” yourself of attraction to the same sex is to become the opposite one. At Britain’s now-shuttered Tavistock clinic, according to the investigative journalist Hannah Barnes, staff members had a dark joke that at the rate they were going, there would be “no gay people left.” This is why sex-change surgeries are permitted and even subsidized in Iran: It’s a way to rid the country of gay people.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

And a fix for gender dysphoria for gay and lesbian kids can be puberty itself, as it was for me and many of my gay male friends. Once my own hormones kicked in, my anxieties evaporated. I lovedbeing a boy, I realized. Puberty blockers literally block gay and lesbian kids from the chance at that possible resolution of their gender dysphoria. There is a real conflict here, and it’s obscured by the L.G.B.T.Q.+ identity.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

We were also told, repeatedly, that transitioning children was drastic, but the alternative could be that they would commit suicide. “We often ask parents, ‘Would you rather have a dead son than a live daughter?’” Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a vocal advocate of these treatments, told ABC News in 2011. But even the American Civil Liberties Union @ACLU’s Mr. Strangio admitted, when arguing before the Supreme Court last year, that suicide “thankfully and admittedly is rare.” In one study from Britain, of some 15,000 adolescents referred for gender care over a decade, there were four likely or confirmed suicides two who had been seen and two had not. One suicide is awful — and suicidality is real among kids with gender dysphoria. But that doesn’t mean that suicide is what will happen if you don’t transition a child.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

One specific concern for boys who transition to girls in early puberty. “If you’ve never had an orgasm pre-surgery, and then your puberty’s blocked, it’s very difficult to achieve that afterwards,” a pioneering trans surgeon, Dr. Marci Bowers, has said. Research on this is minimal, and so caution is necessary in jumping to conclusions. But I ask myself: If there is a risk that some people will be denied sexual pleasure for their entire life because they transitioned very early, is it worth it? And how can a child understand what giving up orgasms for life might mean when he hasn’t experienced a single one? The obvious answer is that he can’t, and it’s profoundly unethical to put him in that situation. And who exactly is looking out for these kids? Certainly not the L.G.B.T.Q. organizations.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

How did a movement that began with sexual liberation end up doing that? By drift, activist extremism, a social media bubble and suppression of free debate. Soon enough, the right began associating what used to be the lesbian and gay movement with this gender extremism, and the L.G.B.T.Q.+ movement responded not by moderating tone or substance, but by closing ranks, seemingly determined to prove its point.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Dissent became anathema. When this newspaper reported on controversies in gender medicine, GLAAD parked a billboard truck outside the New York Times Building on several occasions, demanding the coverage change. In relatively new, disputed medical territory, partisans have insisted that “the science is settled.” When a book came out criticizing childhood transition, Mr. Strangio declared: “Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.” Public speeches by dissenters have faced abuse, intimidation, and far too often, threats of violence.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

It’s a horrible reversal of history: For so long, First Amendment rights were the primary constitutional right gays and lesbians could fully and regularly exercise, and we treasured them. If censorship was in the air, gay men and lesbians were the first to oppose it. We knew who was shut up first when it came to shutting people up, and we knew we would always be a small minority. The idea that we would tell other people what words they can use, shut down speakers, criticize journalists and threaten others into silence was once absurd. Yet these are now the signature tools of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ movement. They do not seek to engage or persuade opponents; they seek to demonize, bully or cancel them.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Or take the campaign for marriage equality. We were almost pathologically civil, willing to debate anyone anywhere, and the harder the nut to crack, the better. For two decades, I went to fundamentalist churches in Idaho, Mormon groups, Catholic universities, conservative media, right-wing talk shows and C-SPAN, and published an anthology that included views from bothsides. We knew that if we wanted to win, and not just posture, we needed to reach conservatives and moderates and explore where we might agree. And it worked! It took time, and we were laughed at at first, but you could see the polling slowly, inexorably shift toward us, from one-quarter to two-thirds in our favor from the 1990s to the 2010s, as our arguments and openness slowly, person by person, won over the country.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Now, look at the recent results of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ movement. In the last five years, activists have actually managed to move public opinion away from their causes in many respects. In 2021, for example, 62 percent of Americans said that transgender athletes should be able to play only on teams that matched their gender at birth; by 2023, that figure had risen to 69 percent. This is not bigotry at work. This year, the very same pollster found that a solid majority of Americans — 56 percent — favor policies protecting trans people from discrimination. Americans are broadly fine with transgender people. They are fine with gay people. They just reject replacing the fact of biological sex with the phantasms of gender ideology.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

And it’s not because most people don’t know any trans people personally. When people who know a trans person personally were polled, only 40 percent in 2021 supported their competing in teams that matched their gender identity; by 2023, that dropped to 30 percent. On the medical question, 46 percent of Americanssupported banning medical care related to gender transitions for minors in 2022. Today, as people have learned more, 56 percent do. Trans extremism was taken up with gusto by Republicans as an issue and it most likely helped move swing voters to Mr. Trump last year. In one post-election survey, cultural issues, including transgender issues, were slightly more salient for swing voters than even immigration and inflation.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

I hoped this might prompt a rethink as the election results sank in. Last week’s Skrmetti decision at the Supreme Court was another reality check, as the court upheld Tennessee’s ban on certain medical treatments for transgender youth, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, rejecting claims that the ban violated the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause and shielding similar laws in other states. When the ruling came down, the mood among L.G.B.T.Q.+ groups was defiant. So the ranks are being closed again.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

If Mr. Trump is against childhood sex reassignment, then we must be for it. If Mr. Trump says there are two sexes, we must insist that there is a spectrum. It will be very hard to break this dynamic in such a tribal atmosphere, especially when there is genuine transphobia among some on the right. But it would be incredibly healthy if we were to allow an actual debate in the community about the direction we are headed in, and treat dissenters less like bigots and traitors. Representative Sarah McBride, the first openly trans member of Congress, echoed this sentiment on @EzraKlein’s podcast last week. But she was condemned on social media as a traitor to trans people.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

This intransigence matters because, left on its current trajectory, the L.G.B.T.Q.+ gender movement carries significant risks for gay, lesbian and trans equality. Gallup found that satisfaction with the acceptance of gay and lesbian people peaked at 62 percent in 2022 but dropped to 51 percent by January of this year. The center and right — whom some of us spent a lifetime engaging — are being lost. Gallup showed Republican support for gay marriage dropping from 55 to 46 percent between 2022 and 2025.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

History strongly suggests that periods of toleration of gay men and lesbians can swiftly end if the public senses an overreach. That may be where we now are. No society has ever been as free for gay men, lesbians and transgender people as the modern West today. There is no such thing as the Human Rights Campaign’s “state of emergency,” and it was absurd to say so. But for some activists, there has to be. As Francis Fukuyama put it in “The End of History and the Last Man,” “Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle againstthe just cause.”

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Returning to a civil rights model and abandoning the quixotic attempt to end the sex binary do not mean, as some might have it, throwing trans people under the bus. Trans people are already on the bus; they are protected from employment discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Their existing rights should be defended and expanded to public accommodations — especially the adult right to have access to gender medicine through Medicaid, which is now being threatened. Americans should back us on that. But fighting a losing battle to allow trans women to compete in women’s sports and for biological men to be in women’s intimate spaces, and to perpetuate risky, inadequately tested sex changes on children, including gay and lesbian ones, is dumb, offensive to common sense and risks a much bigger backlash.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

This does not mean the L.G.B.T.Q.+ project should be shut down entirely. We need to defend our wins; we need to protect the interests of gays, lesbians and trans people. We need to greatly expand help and care for children with gender dysphoria, prevent bullying and increase mental health resources. Protecting them from often irreversible sex changes should not mean abandoning them. It should mean renewed concern, support and, above all, solid, evidence-based research on how best we can help.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

But in America, on, this anniversary of the Obergefell decision, we also need to remember a critical thing: We won. We won because we defended free speech, reached out to right and left and center, left others and children alone — and trusted liberal democracy. That trust was rewarded with one of the swiftest successes in civil rights history. Let’s not throw it away.

benryanwriter
Posted - June 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Saved - June 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
Misgendering is cruel, and I reject any arguments that try to justify it. This issue reflects a broader concern about coercive control disguised as empathy. I question the acceptance of identity changes, like race or gender, and wonder where the line is drawn. In contrast, I believe in using trans people's preferred pronouns because kindness should prevail over conflict, regardless of the ongoing debates about gender.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Misgendering is cruel and rude, no matter how many edge cases or straw man arguments people can come up with to try to assert otherwise.

@Psychgirl211 - Dr P: "Raging Transphobe"

Exactly right @KnownHeretic. This is coercive control masquerading as empathy. I also wonder what @benryanwriter would say if Tim McBride decides he also now identifies as a Black woman, puts on an afro wig and slaps on some dark foundation. Would Mr Ryan expect us to go along with the lie that Tim has also changed race as well as sex? Would we be blocked for pointing out that he is indeed still white? Which lies are acceptable and which are beyond the pale? Benjamin Ryan, Tim McBride and @mattyglesias are nothing more than a trio of out of touch, bullying men who have no idea that they are out of touch, bullying men.

@benryanwriter - Benjamin Ryan

Why I Use Trans People’s Preferred Pronouns https://benryan.substack.com/p/why-i-use-trans-peoples-preferred Regardless of whether there will ever be any winners in the battle of the genders, I choose being kind over waging war.

Why I Use Trans People’s Preferred Pronouns Regardless of whether there will ever be any winners in the battle of the genders, I choose being kind over waging war. benryan.substack.com
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Leftists who once demanded firings over pronoun misuse are now loudly defending free speech to justify offensive behavior. https://t.co/vya7TKMRRm

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Okay. I don't wanna hear a freaking word from leftists who have suddenly discovered the constitution for the first time in their entire lives and now think that they are champions for free speech. You wanted people fired because they didn't use your made up pronouns. You wanted parents stripped of their custody rights because they refused to affirm their kids gender delusion. You wanted American Eagle canceled because they put a white girl in their ads. You've gone after comedians for making jokes. And it was a leftist who just shot a man in the throat for saying things that you didn't like. It's called a code of conduct and if yours was at all decent, maybe you wouldn't be in this pickle.
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Speaker 0: Okay. I don't wanna hear a freaking word from leftists who have suddenly discovered the constitution for the first time in their entire lives and now think that they are champions for free speech. You wanted people fired because they didn't use your made up pronouns. You wanted parents stripped of their custody rights because they refused to affirm their kids gender delusion. You wanted American Eagle canceled because they put a white girl in their ads. You've gone after comedians for making jokes. You went after JK Rowling for saying that women deserve their own spaces. And it was a leftist who just shot a man in the throat for saying things that you didn't like. And now all of a sudden, you're outraged that people are losing their jobs because they were publicly cheering the brutal and bloody murder of an innocent man, and it turns out a lot of companies and schools don't want to be affiliated with people that crazy and inhuman. And look, you have the right to be as vile as you want on the Internet. Cheer, laugh, expose your demonic hateful self all you want, but you do not have the right to force your employer to continue employing you after they find out that you are a rabid lunatic and decide that you probably shouldn't be driving an ambulance or teaching second graders. It's called a code of conduct and if yours was at all decent, maybe you wouldn't be in this pickle.
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