Links - 24th March 2025 (2 - Trans Mania)

Florence Ashley on X - "Gendering animals serves to normalise bioessentialist conceptions of gender. When we gender animals, we forget that sex is assigned. We begin to believe that sex is literally ~in~ the body."

Meme - "r/MtF
I want to scream right now
I called a homeless shelter and said "I think I might go homeless because I'm having trouble paying rent. I have a cat and am a transgender woman, so I'm uncomfortable living with men. I don't know what to do" "You a transgender? Hold on ima transfer you to the male shelter" And I hung up instantly and teared up a little. I hate this shit... Does anyone know about resources that can help me? I live in Fort Worth Texas right now."

REDUXX on X - "🚨A school district in Arlington, Virginia, has announced that it will implement "sex offender screening" after a convicted pedophile identified as "transgender" to gain access to the girls' locker rooms at multiple area schools.  At a school board meeting last week, parents clashed over the gender self-identification policy, with some arguing that it wasn't to blame for the incident.  This is despite the fact that Richard Cox only had to claim he was a "woman" to be allowed in to the girls' facilities."
Weird. We keep being told this never happens

Meme - *Daily Struggle Two Buttons*
"20 Year olds are too immature to audit USAID"
"Toddlers can change gender without parental consent"

J.K. Rowling on X - "This 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.   Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.   Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it. People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that sex is real and matters.   When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been harmed. The power dynamics underpinning our society have been reinforced, not dismantled. The loudest voices throughout this entire fiasco have been people insulated from consequences by their wealth and/or status. They aren't likely to find themselves locked in a prison cell with a 6'4" rapist who's decided his name's now Dolores. They don't need state-funded rape crisis centres, nor do they ever frequent high street changing rooms. They simper from talk show sofas about those nasty far-right bigots who don't want penises swinging around the girls' showers, secure in the knowledge that their private pool remains the safe place it always was. Those who've benefited most from gender identity ideology are men, both trans-identified and not. Some have been rewarded for having a cross-dressing kink by access to all spaces previously reserved for women. Others have parlayed their delicious new victim status into an excuse to threaten, assault and harass women. Non-trans-identified leftybros have found a magnificent platform from which to display their own impeccably progressive credentials, by jeering and sneering at the needs of women and girls, all while patting themselves on the back for giving away rights that aren't theirs.  The actual victims in this mess have been women and children, especially the most vulnerable, gay people who've resisted the movement and paid a horrible price, and regular people working in environments where one misplaced pronoun could see you vilified or constructively dismissed. Do not tell me this is about a tiny minority. This movement has impacted society in disastrous ways, and if you had any sense, you'd be quietly deleting every trace of activist mantras, ad hominem attacks, false equivalence and circular arguments from your X feeds, because the day is fast approaching when you'll want to pretend you always saw through the craziness and never believed it for a second."

Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "still mind-blowing that a tiny group of dysphoric male narcissists convinced the Democrats to surrender the feminist high ground to Donald Trump"
Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_: "I think I may post this photo once a week for the next four years to remind the Democrats what a leader who fights for women's rights looks like." *Trump signing a bill protecting women's rights while surrounded by women*

Meme - Fight the Patriarchy: "katiejgln: I'm convinced that the main reason why some men are so adamant on insisting that women can't do all the things that men can do because, in reality, it's men who can't do all the things that women do and it kills them.
sasha_arcana: Me too. Once you see the womb envy in patriarchal religion it's really hard to unsee it, and that's just one clear, long extant example"
Michael Promnitz: "Obviously, you've got penis envy disguised as this weird insistence that men have womb envy. So you are projecting your own guilt. But you have to deal with that. No, men are happy being men mostly and getting to be attracted by women. Nope, definitely don't want to have a womb. But trans women might have this womb envy. Funny post. I guess we'll never know for sure whether you really believe this nonsense or not."
The irony is that many feminists go crazy about defending transwomen, who are really the ones who are jealous of real women

ripx4nutmeg on X - "MSNBC host Chris Hayes tells Bill Maher that if parents want to abuse their children by mutilating them or giving them cross-sex hormones, the government has no right to step in and stop them - and that's the message the Democrats should use to win back power"

Meme - Sall Grover @salltweets: "Gender ideology makes people say the stupidest things that anyone could ever say."
Laura T @laura_tee_mgdi: "as a physician, I can say that in nearly all clinical scenarios, knowing someone's physiologic sex is probably more meaningful than knowing their birth sex"

Wes Streeting condemns wiping of trans doctors' records - "Wes Streeting has raised concerns after a Telegraph investigation found that doctors who change gender are able to have past wrongdoings scrubbed from the public record... when medics seek to change their gender status on the GMC record they can do so without any supporting evidence... One trans doctor, Dr Beth Upton, is at the centre of an employment tribunal against NHS Fife.  Nurse Sandie Peggie has said she was subjected to unlawful harassment by being made to share a changing room at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, with Dr Upton, who was born male but insisted on using the women’s changing room."

Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ✡️⚢ ❌❌ on X - "Apparently not wanting to share a changing room with this creep means I’m mentally ill.  I just love it when younger men who look 20 years older than I do try to shame me for being in my 40s. This dude looks like a ten year meth habit gone bad. It certainly explains the wig."

Men can use female lavatories if they self-ID as women under SNP rules - "Men who self-identify as women are “unlawfully” being allowed to access female lavatories and changing rooms under SNP government rules... a “transitioning” guide for the Scottish NHS, which is being rolled out nationally, warns that telling a trans person they cannot use their “preferred facilities” could amount to “unlawful discrimination on the grounds of gender reassignment”.  An academic expert warned the policies were a “clear breach” of employment law, which stipulates that separate communal changing and lavatory facilities must be provided for male and female workers.  Dr Michael Foran, of the University of Glasgow, said the definition of “woman” for the purposes of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 did not include trans people who self-identified as women. He told The Telegraph that it was “quite staggering” that Scotland’s public bodies were creating policies that presented trans access to female facilities as “a legal entitlement...when the legal obligation is the exact opposite”.  The Tories said Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID plans were being introduced “by the back door”, despite her legislation having been blocked by the UK Government over concerns about the impact on women’s safe spaces. The disclosure that many public bodies have adopted self-ID anyway comes in the wake of a landmark employment tribunal in Scotland about the right of trans people to access female-only areas. NHS Fife accused Sandie Peggie, a nurse, of misconduct after she challenged the presence of Dr Beth Upton, who was born male but identifies as a woman, in female facilities at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy."

Steph Richards: (She/her) - Always Block GC! on X - "I did not sleep well last night. I suddenly thought about what Dr Beth Upton said about nurse Sandie Peggie, which left her "upset and afraid." I suddenly thought: "That nurse could be looking after me."   Many trans people won't access NHS healthcare for fear of embarrassment, fear of "what people will say or think" in the first place, but now we have gender-critical people to consider.   Can you imagine the likes of JK Rowling or Maya Forstater being a nurse given their views on trans people?   Or how about Helen Joyce, the woman who proudly held aloft a ripped LGBT+ Progress flag while trampling the section representing trans people underfoot? Did she not suggest there should be fewer trans people?   People like Rowling, Forstater and Joyce exist and work in the NHS - their views are even legally protected!   Being trans will be on our health record - but being GC won't be on theirs. So if the shoe is "on the other foot", for example, a trans healthcare professional would not know if someone was GC, but it doesn't work the other way around.  , And before the neutral (not to mention the transphobes) scream at this post saying health professionals take an oath, so did Lucy Letby, convicted of killing a dozen babies, and Ian Paterson, who carried out some 20 unapproved mastectomies and got 20 years.   @IndiaWilloughby  #NHS  #IStandWithSandiePeggie"
J.K. Rowling on X - "Trans-identified man who was appointed as head of an endometriosis charity compares a female nurse who doesn't want to take her clothes off in front of a male colleague to a convicted child killer."

Holyrood magazine on X - "First Minister John Swinney says the Conservatives are attempting to "sow division in our society" by raising the matter of gender self-ID. "The legal position is absolutely crystal clear..." #FMQs"
Jenny Lindsay on X - "Scuse my language, but you can f*ck right off with this one, sir. What causes division is imposing, top down, an insane ideology on every sector in the land, and treating women with utter contempt for defending the boundaries of their sex AND objective truth itself. Unbelievable."
Left wing logic - if you oppose their attempts to radically reengineer and reshape society, you are being divisive and should spend your time on real issues

stellacreasy on X - "The arrogance of those who believe their right to do whatever they want whereever they want supercedes the right of others to access healthcare in privacy reflects how this isn't about prayer. Its about their power to shame those having abortions. #backOff"
J.K. Rowling on X - "Now do men in women’s changing rooms, hospital wards, rape shelters and prison cells, @stellacreasy."
Scholaris on X - "There is no harm in prayer. They will never admit the same for men in women’s bathrooms at least for now. People don’t always want to admit they’re wrong."

Meme - "Tampons and Ice cubes"
Pamila40D: "Try this you'll love it. Find the round smooth ice cubes and insert 8 or 10 then put a Super Max Tampon in. When the ice cubes being to melt the tampon begins to swell. The feeling is incredible while you're out completely dressed getting your period."
Paula3626: "Another great idea, I've just posted about something very similar using Passata instead. Using that many cubes the Tampon must swell up to an amazing size."

BBC hails drag queens as 'inspirational mums' on CBeebies site - "The BBC has been accused of “insulting” mothers by celebrating two transgender American drag queens as “inspirational mums” on its CBeebies website aimed at children under six.  Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are named among the inspiring mothers lauded online by the children’s channel “for International Women’s Day”... Johnson and Rivera were transgender women and drag performers who formed a friendship while fighting for LGBT rights in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.  The pair, who both worked as prostitutes and struggled with homelessness, went on to set up a shelter in New York to help young transgender people called Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970...   Lucy Marsh, from the Family Education Trust, said: “CBeebies should not be promoting drag queens as they are highly sexualised caricatures of women and completely inappropriate for children, especially for under six-year-olds who might believe that these men are really women.  “This is also deeply insulting to actual mothers, many of whom could have been featured as role models for young children.” Stephanie Davies-Arai, founder of Transgender Trend, a parent-led campaign group concerned about the rise in young people identifying as transgender, added: “The BBC has hit a new low. There is no excuse not to fact-check information directed at six-year-olds... The controversy comes after the BBC sparked a row by including a transgender Colombian scientist in its annual 100 Women list last December.  Feminist groups branded the inclusion of Brigitte Baptiste, the trans biologist, on the list of “influential” women as “breathtakingly insulting”.  The BBC’s CBBC channel for children has also come under fire previously for its trans-related content after broadcasting a show called “Just a Girl”, about a schoolboy who takes puberty blockers to change gender."
It's Science!

Thread by @BevJacksonAuth on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Ruth Hunt became Stonewall CEO in 2014, after promising a key group of lesbian members including Kate Harris that SW would remain LGB. SW then met with 700+ trans people and added the T, reneging on her pledge. Hunt refused to respond to lesbians’ concerns. In April 2019 Kate and I met. We shared concerns that SW’s shift from gay rights to gender identity & self-ID, and its dogmatic, aggressive rhetoric, were harming the community it had once served so well. We decided to found a new organisation for LGB people - LGB Alliance. We were particularly horrified to discover how many LGB teens were being taught a strange dogma of body denialism - online, but also by Stonewall - which led them to seek drugs and later surgery to align their bodies with their supposed “gender identity”. We met growing numbers of young women, mostly lesbians in their 20s, who’d had multiple problems & been misled. They’d thought altering their bodies would be the solution and now deeply regretted it. They felt fragile; few were willing to air their anger and shame in public. We campaigned endlessly to publicize the fact that gender identity dogma was leading some distressed LGB teens to seek harmful medication in a bid to “change their gender”. We pointed out the dogma was essentially homophobic. We opposed self-ID for the same reason. The Newsnight report on GIDS told the same story: homophobia was an issue in all the families the journalists had spoken to. Yet when the extent of the medical scandal started to emerge, SW continued to promote “gender affirming care” - because children “know who they are”. Only someone who has never been around children for more than 5 minutes can say they “know who they are”. They need love, support and guidance. They need safeguarding. That is what the adults in their lives are supposed to provide. The growing ranks of detransitioners - the detrans subreddit now has 53,000 members - make it abundantly clear that children - including teens - can make mistakes. If they are given hormones with life-changing effects, those mistakes can be devastating. So we were pleased to see the report from the Cass Review identify the failings of pediatric gender care in England and point a better way forward. Dr Cass rightly wants children with gender dysphoria to receive the same high standard of evidence-based care as everyone else. Stonewall cautiously welcomed the report and its recommendations, with some reservations. It sent love and solidarity to trans people, but none to the LGB people who had been badly mistreated by the NHS. And see the furious responses of gender identity zealots to Stonewall’s low-key statement. From obscenities to cries of “traitor!” Those are the armies that Stonewall itself has nourished for 9 years. By abandoning LGB people and promoting the lies of gender identity dogma. We founded LGB Alliance to stand with LGB people everywhere. Including those who mistook their gay, lesbian or bisexual sexual orientation for a “gender identity”issue, egged on by Stonewall and its many satellite groups. We’re so sorry this happened to you. We are with you."

Gender case row creates an identity crisis for the law - "This month in an important Federal Court judgment, Justice Robert Bromwich declared Australian laws accept that “sex is changeable”. What does this mean for the normal terms we use such as “man” and “woman”, “boy” and “girl”? This ruling in effect reduces those words to “cisgender terms” by which people only self-identify, regardless of what immutable biology tells us.  As most readers of this column probably know by now, the judgment concerned a discrimination charge brought by transgender Roxanne Tickle whose Queensland birth certificate was changed from male to female, against Sall Grover and her Giggle for Girls social media app. Grover claimed that as the app was for females only, natal biological males such as Tickle should be excluded.  The action was brought under the federal Sex Discrimination Act 1984"
Weird. We're told that sex and gender are different, and only ignorant people don't know that
Keywords: "Sex is changeable, judge rules"

Meme - Science News @ScienceNews: "Sex is not just a binary, scientists say. Defining it based solely on reproductive cells ignores biology, genetics and human diversity. “These are not hard categories with clear definitions,” says molecular evolutionary biologist Nathan Lents."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know: "Despite the claims of sex being on a spectrum, Evolutionary Biology, has defined sex in anisogamous species as the *potential* to produce a certain gamete size. In humans this is strictly binary and immutable. All other characteristics are secondary."
So much for no biologists not believing sex is binary

Trump’s executive order on ‘two sexes’ is factually wrong, experts say - The Washington Post - "President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring that the United States recognizes “two sexes, male and female” — but according to experts and a significant body of academic research, the definitions he used are oversimplified and inaccurate... Maurine Neiman, a University of Iowa professor who has studied the biology of reproduction for 25 years, said: “While there are some areas of active debate, scientists are in wide agreement that biological sex in humans as well as the rest of life on earth is much more complicated than a simple binary.”  Eve Feinberg, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University, echoed the sentiment. “It’s scientifically incorrect,” she said of the order. “And I think it’s a disservice to people who don’t fall into one of those two sexes.”  Michael Ulrich, a professor of health law at Boston University, said Trump’s executive order is in all likelihood targeting transgender people. “It’s trying to explain away people,” he said. “They want to try to present it as this extremely simple issue — as if it’s really just one or the other, you’re male or you’re female.”... Neiman, of the University of Iowa, points as an example to people who are considered intersex, meaning their sex characteristics do not fit a female/male sex binary.  “While these cases are a minority, sex is legitimately difficult to assign for close to 2 percent of the U.S. population,” she said. “We can find real exceptions in real people to whatever rule we might apply to define sex, whether it be sex chromosomes, the size of reproductive cells, hormone levels, internal organs or genitals.”  “The executive order demands that we fit a spectrum into a nonexistent binary box,” Neiman added. The order also seeks to define female as “the sex that produces the large reproductive cell,” meaning the egg; and male as “the sex that produces the small reproductive cell,” meaning sperm.  However, Neiman said, “there are people who by other criteria we would call males who can’t produce sperm at all. There are people we could call females using other criteria who don’t produce any eggs.” Trump’s order also says sex is determined “at conception,” but Feinberg, the Northwestern professor, says that term is religious rather than scientific. If by “conception” the order means “fertilization,” Feinberg notes that “internal reproductive organs don’t form at the time of fertilization. They form much later in the development of the fetus.”... The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), in a fact sheet released this month, points out that it is not uncommon for individuals to have atypical combinations of chromosomes... “It is crucial to understand that biological sex is determined by biology, not politics,” the group said."
Weird. We keep being told that sex and gender are different and only ignorant people don't know that
We get the usual fake news about intersex people, of course. And now we get fake news about how DNA works, and obfuscation over chromosomes, even though Trump's Executive Order doesn't even mention them
I wonder what quantum leap in biology the ASRM can point to that led to the recent revelation that sex in humans isn't binary

boswelltoday on X - "Shona Robison MSP forced through self-ID, dismissing concerns as ‘scaremongering’ and claiming ‘no man has ever had to pretend to be a woman to do harm.’ Tell that to Andrew Miller’s victims.   Now Scotland is at the Supreme Court fighting to erase women's sex-based rights entirely.   This is all on her.  @ShonaRobisonMSP"
Man jailed for abducting schoolgirl while dressed as woman - "A man who abducted a primary school girl while dressed as a woman and then sexually assaulted her in his Borders home has been jailed for 20 years.  Andrew Miller, who is also known as Amy George, offered to give the girl a lift home in February this year.  But Miller, 53, instead drove her to his own house, took her into a bedroom and refused to let her leave.  He then subjected her to a series of sexual assaults over the course of the next 27 hours."

Eric Daugherty on X - "JUST IN: Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers (D-WI) is backing a proposed law to replace the word "mother" with "inseminated person" in a state statute. H/t @DanODonnellShow"

Steve North on X - "Today UNISON’s Women’s Conference passed a motion stating “That Trans Women are women and Trans men are men, all our LGBT+ comrades must be respected.” Not one delegate spoke against. In a world of increasing hate and division, I’m proud that our union is a beacon of unity 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊"
J.K. Rowling on X - "When you make people too terrified to speak against the motion, you do tend to end up with unanimous agreement. Congratulations on the win, Comrade Stalin."

Meme - J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling: "It's only February, but this will take some beating at the 2025 Batshit Take of the Year Awards.  "It's women's fault if trans-identified men commit sexual assault in previously women-only spaces, because by saying that's a thing that happens, women put the idea in men's heads.""
"Has it ever occurred to you that by constantly suggesting men get into women's spaces to rape by wearing a dress and a wig that they might be following your suggestion? Your endless bullshit harms both women and trans people."
Weird. Left wingers usually mock the idea that demonising men and other "majorities" radicalises them

Emma Hilton on X - "Fact: For the type of sexual reproduction humans do, you need a large gamete and a small gamete to produce babies.
Male doctor: “That’s one belief. Don’t disrespect those who think otherwise.”
I mean, fella, you do you, but you cannot possibly remain a doctor after this."

Benjamin Ryan on X - "One frequently hears from trans activists:   "There have always been trans and nonbinary people throughout history."   Is this true? Especially given that the codified nonbinary identity in particular is a very recent phenomenon?  By comparison, gay historians are usually careful to emphasize that the modern concept of a gay identity did not emerge until the 20th century. So while we can say with certainty that there have always been some men who are attracted to and have sex with men, we cannot say that people hundreds of years ago identified as gay and thought of being gay as a distinct, intrinsic identity."

Thread by @babybeginner on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "When I first got into all of this I, like everyone else, wanted to be kind. I was happy to use whatever language anyone wanted. Sure. Why not?  But then something changed. We call it “peaking”. For me it was a story about a women’s r*p* shelter.
I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing. People were angry at a shelter??? Huh? Then I discovered it was a particular group of men who were furious at the shelter for being for women.  Again. Huh???? This story started with a man who wanted to be volunteer and sit on the phones and listen to the women’s stories. This shelter is well aware of that type and thus only accepts women volunteers. It’s a shelter run by and for women only.  Who could complain? Well, that guy could. He sued to be allowed to volunteer there and lost.  Next entered this Morgane character. He was a part of the government. He threatened the shelter and ultimately they got funding taken away from them. Bc they were for woman only!  I thought to myself, surely that is just one person. No one else would feel that way! Who would seriously object to a woman only r*p* shelter??  Turns out a whole lot of people. In fact, I got called all kinds of things bc I supported these women."

Meme - Bonnie (#1 pigeon fan) @bennie.gay: "It may be hard for some to accept, but the truth is the fate of all women is inherently tied to the fate of trans women."
Carl Taylor: "This is undoubtedly true, but unfortunately not in the way that he means."