Academics appeal against judge’s ruling that gender-critical film could be ‘transphobic’ - "Filmmakers will launch a legal battle after a judge ruled their feature called Adult Human Female could be considered transphobic."
Dictionaries need to be banned
‘I grew up in a cult that said gay men were evil. After escaping, I found trans ideology was worse’ - "Until he was 12, Ben Appel was raised in the conservative-Christian Lamb of God cult, which his parents joined in 1976. Now 42, Appel is tall and handsome with thick, dark hair and a radiant smile. He says that, as a child, he presented as very “girly”, although there’s little sign of that now. “The elders really drilled it into my head from a very early age how evil homosexuality was,” he says. Then, in his mid-30s, having recovered from drug and alcohol abuse, and severe mental illness, Appel found himself in an even more rigid cult obsessed with gender ideology, anti-racist orthodoxy and identity politics. Appel’s new book, Cis White Gay, outlines his journey from Christian cult childhood to “ultra hardcore” activist “on fire for social justice”. Nowadays, he describes himself as a “free-thinking gender heretic”... he became embedded within the so-called liberationist movement that includes LGBT rights. In the three-and-a-half years he spent there, Appel saw fellow students becoming indoctrinated with pseudoscientific, anti-Western dogma sold to them as progressiveness. He began to see that what was happening was cult-like and “in many ways worse than Lamb of God”. Any slight digression from the “trans women are women”, “death to the West” type politics was severely punished, he says. “Intelligent young people bent over backwards to be anti-racist, against imperialism and even embracing Islamic jihadists in the process.” Social justice warriordom morphed into the cult of queer, and punishments meted out for failure to adhere to the creed were severe, involving bullying and ostracisation. He had been indoctrinated in the view that sees white cis men (gays included) as the enemy. For these new puritans, the airing of grievances was the preferred blood sport, and there was an obsession with identifying the oppressor, rather than the victim... At Midwestern, Appel found himself constantly self-questioning the progressive take he was supposed to sign up to. It wasn’t until he read an article in the British press about the resignation of five gender specialists from the Gender Identity Development Service at the Tavistock clinic that he was finally able to make sense of his growing concern that labelling gender-nonconforming children as “trans” was a form of gay conversion therapy. It inspired Appel to write a piece on his Substack, which had fewer than a dozen subscribers. Nevertheless, someone from his course saw it, took screenshots of the parts they considered problematic, and passed it around. This resulted in the cancellation of the writing class and workshop, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) involvement and an investigation. When that happened, Appel knew he “had to get the hell out of there”. “That was really scary, because I was so afraid of rejection and being officially pushed out from this new ‘social justice’ cult,” he says. “But it was the best decision I made because now I could think and speak for myself.” Now a full-time writer, and non-aligned politically, Appel says: “You have to keep in mind that arguing with these people is like trying to argue with a biblical literalist, in that they believe that holding certain views makes them a good person and protects them from going to hell. “Now I can say, there’s no third gamete, men should not be in women’s prisons, children are never in the wrong body, and not all white people are racist. I will be saying this even if they bring back the guillotine, right before the blade falls.”"
Meme - EvieGoesHard @TransGirl: "I have no idea how the bigots managed to find my place of employment but cool. Thanks for destroying my livelihood over a god damn joke. I'm sure that's gotta feel great."
"Termination of employment. Dear Evie, We are writing to inform you that your employment with *** is terminated, effective immediately. Your dismissal is due to violations of our social media and sexual conduct policy. Specifically, we were made aware of recent social media posts that could be seen as representative of *** brand or opinions. Your final paycheck will be available for pickup"
EvieGoesHard @TransGirl: "POV the transgender HR lady is about to ruin your life"
Jay: "POV the transgender HR lady ruined his own life"
Sólionath on X - "“I’m trans and I’m going to fire you if you disagree with me, I can’t wait to ruin your li-
NOOOOOOO YOU AREN’T ALLOWED TO TELL MY EMPLOYER I’M SAYING THIS. I WOULD FIRE YOU OVER NOTHING BUT YOU CAN’T TELL MY EMPLOYER ABOUT THE WAY I REPRESENT THEM!!! THAT’S BASICALLY FASCISM!!”"
Of course, if you make a "transphobic" joke, you deserve to be fired
Meme - "They are removing the trans flags... it's a LITERAL GENOCIDE!!!"
"More than 400 trans flags removed from Boston Common; advocates call for hate crime investigation"
"This too is part of the trans genocide"
"Yeah, trans people are being dragged into trains headed towards death camps as we speak. Jesus Christ, reddit"
"Read the ten stages of genocide. It doesn't start with mass extermination. But yes, actually. ICE has been disappearing brown LGBTQ people at a much higher rate than other population groups and shipping them off to god knows where."
"Of course that abrasive sarcasm was ban worthy. I'm basically an Holocaust denier in the eyes of the mod."
Once again, when left wingers complain about Nazism, fascism, genocide etc, you can't take them seriously
bender871 on X - "It is educational to look at 1990s sources where queer and trans activists accuse the gay rights movement of not being trans inclusive, not "queer", and insufficiently supportive of their more ambitious, culturally Marxist agenda. It puts the lie to claims that the TQ+ was always part of the gay rights movement. The two fragments here are from trans activist Riki Anne Wilchins. The first is from "Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender", 1997, the second is from a 1996 interview titled "Who did you say you are?" The interview speaks of "redefining their mission" and confirms that gay rights groups at the time were exclusively fighting for gay rights."
The End of 'Boys' and 'Girls' at Interlochen Arts Camp, and Other Big Issues | National Review - "The Interlochen Arts Camp is in northwestern Michigan. It began life as the National Music Camp, in 1928. It is a wonderful place. An alumna of the camp sent me a notice from Crescendo, the Interlochen publication. It begins, “This summer, Interlochen Arts Camp will change its division names to reflect the full diversity of its students’ gender identities.” In the past, there has been “Junior Boys” and “Junior Girls”; “Intermediate Boys” and “Intermediate Girls”; “High School Boys” and “High School Girls.” But no longer. “Junior Boys” will become “Junior Pines.” “Junior Girls” will become “Junior Lakeside.” Etc. The words “boys” and “girls” will not figure in division names. It’s not so much that I object to this change as that I’m bewildered by it. I suppose that many people reach the point where they realize that the world, to some degree or another, has become a foreign country to them. After all these millennia, are we no longer to have boys and girls? I am all for the accommodation of special cases, and I believe that people who are different should be treated with extra sensitivity and love. God knows they need it. But must this entail the erasure of such basic categories as boys and girls? Those of a certain age — or those who like re-runs — will remember the All in the Family theme song: “Those Were the Days.” One lyric goes, “And you knew who you were then. / Girls were girls and men were men.” It seemed like kind of a joke."
Nurse suspended for calling trans paedophile ‘Mr’ left in limbo by guidance delay - "An NHS nurse who was suspended after addressing a transgender paedophile as “Mr” has been left in legal limbo as the Government delays publishing equalities guidance. Jennifer Melle, 40, a nurse at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, Surrey, was discussing using a catheter for the patient – a paedophile who was a serving inmate from a high-security men’s prison – in May last year when the patient took issue with her using the male pronoun and title. The nurse replied that she was “sorry I cannot refer to you as ‘her’ or ‘she’, as it’s against my faith and Christian values but I can call you by your name”. The patient then subjected her to a racially and religiously aggravated assault, lunging at her and calling her a “n-----” three times. Ms Melle was investigated and disciplined by the hospital in October 2024. She was given a final warning and a referral to the Nursing and Midwifery Council to assess her ability to practise in accordance with its code of conduct. The code states that nurses should not express their personal beliefs. She has since filed a legal claim against the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust for harassment, discrimination and human rights breaches."
Intersectionality: is a black Christian woman more oppressed than a transwoman pedophile?
Glenna Goldis on X - "Today's NYT story on the trans surgery patient obfuscates something. He's not just saying his sex is female. He's claiming his "sex assigned at birth" is female. Not because anyone literally called him a girl when he was a baby, but because he got his birth certificate changed to say he's female. This is beyond the usual sophistry about what "sex" is. It's forthrightly demanding that the hospital and the judge pretend something happened that did not happen. @JoeKGoldstein @nytimes From the lawsuit:"
Shellac 🟦 🟥 🟨 ⬜ on X - "How can someone be born with a "gender" if gender is a social construct? If women and men can be whatever they want to be, what even is "gender" in our society? Why does any of it require cosmetic surgery? All of it is nonsense."
The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine - The Atlantic - "Allow children to transition, or they will kill themselves. For more than a decade, this has been the strongest argument in favor of youth gender medicine—a scenario so awful that it stifled any doubts or questions about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones... But there is a huge problem with this emotive formulation: It isn’t true. When Justice Samuel Alito challenged the ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio on such claims during oral arguments, Strangio made a startling admission. He conceded that there is no evidence to support the idea that medical transition reduces adolescent suicide rates. At first, Strangio dodged the question, saying that research shows that blockers and hormones reduce “depression, anxiety, and suicidality”—that is, suicidal thoughts. (Even that is debatable, according to reviews of the research literature.) But when Alito referenced a systematic review conducted for the Cass report in England, Strangio conceded the point... Here was the trans-rights movement’s greatest legal brain, speaking in front of the nation’s highest court. And what he was saying was that the strongest argument for a hotly debated treatment was, in fact, not supported by the evidence. Even then, his admission did not register with the liberal justices... Advocates of the open-science movement often talk about “zombie facts”—popular sound bites that persist in public debate, even when they have been repeatedly discredited. Many common political claims made in defense of puberty blockers and hormones for gender-dysphoric minors meet this definition. These zombie facts have been flatly contradicted not just by conservatives but also by prominent advocates and practitioners of the treatment—at least when they’re speaking candidly. Many liberals are unaware of this, however, because they are stuck in media bubbles in which well-meaning commentators make confident assertions for youth gender medicine—claims from which its elite advocates have long since retreated. Perhaps the existence of this bubble shouldn’t be surprising. Many of the most fervent advocates of youth transition are also on record disparaging the idea that it should be debated at all. Strangio—who works for the country’s best-known free-speech organization—once tweeted that he would like to scuttle Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, a skeptical treatment of youth gender medicine. Strangio declared, “Stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on.” Marci Bowers, the former head of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the most prominent organization for gender-medicine providers, has likened skepticism of child gender medicine to Holocaust denial. “There are not two sides to this issue,” she once said, according to a recent episode of The Protocol, a New York Times podcast. Boasting about your unwillingness to listen to your opponents probably plays well in some crowds. But it left Strangio badly exposed in front of the Supreme Court, where it became clear that the conservative justices had read the most convincing critiques of hormones and blockers—and had some questions as a result. Trans-rights activists like to accuse skeptics of youth gender medicine—and publications that dare to report their views—of fomenting a “moral panic.” But the movement has spent the past decade telling gender-nonconforming children that anyone who tries to restrict access to puberty blockers and hormones is, effectively, trying to kill them. This was false, as Strangio’s answer tacitly conceded. It was also irresponsible. After England restricted the use of puberty blockers in 2020, the government asked an expert psychologist, Louis Appleby, to investigate whether the suicide rate for patients at the country’s youth gender clinic rose dramatically as a result. It did not: In fact, he did not find any increase in suicides at all, despite the lurid claims made online. “The way that this issue has been discussed on social media has been insensitive, distressing and dangerous, and goes against guidance on safe reporting of suicide,” Appleby reported. “One risk is that young people and their families will be terrified by predictions of suicide as inevitable without puberty blockers.” When red-state bans are discussed, you will also hear liberals say that conservative fears about the medical-transition pathway are overwrought—because all children get extensive, personalized assessments before being prescribed blockers or hormones. This, too, is untrue. Although the official standards of care recommend thorough assessment over several months, many American clinics say they will prescribe blockers on a first visit. This isn’t just a matter of U.S. health providers skimping on talk therapy to keep costs down; some practitioners view long evaluations as unnecessary and even patronizing. “I don’t send someone to a therapist when I’m going to start them on insulin,” Olson-Kennedy told The Atlantic in 2018. Her published research shows that she has referred girls as young as 13 for double mastectomies. And what if these children later regret their decision? “Adolescents actually have the capacity to make a reasoned logical decision,” she once told an industry seminar, adding: “If you want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them.” Perhaps the greatest piece of misinformation believed by liberals, however, is that the American standards of care in this area are strongly evidence-based. In fact, at this point, the fairest thing to say about the evidence surrounding medical transition for adolescents—the so-called Dutch protocol, as opposed to talk therapy and other support—is that it is weak and inconclusive. (A further complication is that American child gender medicine has deviated significantly from this original protocol, in terms of length of assessments and the number and demographics of minors being treated.) Yes, as activists are keen to point out, most major American medical associations support the Dutch protocol. But consensus is not the same as evidence. And that consensus is politically influenced.
Elite advocates push misinformation on trans issues too - just not when they are at risk of being punished for perjury
pagliacci the grinch 🎄🎁 on X - "The way shitlibs lie is incredible. For those unaware… what has been happening is that troons in prison have been crying “rape” to secure transfers to women’s facilities under a law called PREA. Trump wants to end this practice, because it’s absurd that a PREA claim (most of which have no way of being substantiated btw) can result in a man with an actual rape conviction being shuttled to a women’s prison where he has access to new victims. 50% of MtFs in federal prison have a history of sex offences. And there have been COUNTLESS stories of women in prison being raped or assaulted by troons moved in to female facilities using these “smol bean is scared in a men’s prison 🥺” claims. But now the same people who were fine with female inmates being raped by troons want to pretend they care about rape victims? lol. lmao, even."
HeCheated.org on X - "The fact that there are states that bar male athletes from girls' sports while there are states that do not is actually helpful in illustrating many of the fallacies that trans activists perpetuate. None of the trans activist claims in regards to keeping boys out of girls' sports have come to fruition in states where boys are not allowed:
- "trans" people won't be able to participate in sports ("trans" identified females continue to participate on girls' teams and males have been participating on the boys' teams)
- suicide rates in "trans" identified youth will go up (it hasn't)
- real girls will be subject to "genital inspections" (they aren't)
Meanwhile, all of the claims that women and girls make regarding boys participating in girls sports are easily observable in states where boys are allowed on girls' teams
- boys have been harassing girls in locker rooms and even on the court (see "Becky" Pepper Jackson, "Lazuli" Clark, Derek Cannuscio, etc.)
- girls have been injured by male athletes (see Payton McNabb, the Collegiate Charter of Lowell girls' basketball team, the female athlete who had her season ended by Aaron Lester, etc.)
- boys have stolen awards and opportunities (over 200 high school awards meant for girls have gone to boys)
- boys have won over 740 high school girls' competitions, including 57 state championship titles.
- where boys are given unrestricted access to girls' sports, they push girls off the podium entirely
For example, in Massachusetts, there has not been a female state champion in the vault in gymnastics since 2017. Boys have won the past 7 "girls'" state vault titles. (There was no true state championship in 2020-2021 due to COVID. Many schools did not have winter spots that year) How have we let this continue for so long?"
Weird. We're told that there're so few trans MTF athletes that they don't affect anything, and that girls who complain are spoilt and losers who should just try harder
Greg Price on X - "The former deputy director of Joe Biden's "Office of Gun Violence Prevention" gets very confused when Josh Hawley reads from his own report which says we should defund the police and invest in "safe-space initiatives led by two-spirit, trans people.""
Rachel Bovard on X - "The Ezra Kleins and the Ta-Nehisi Coates of the world want you to believe that the left is intellectually superior to the right. Yet this is the left: denies writing "two spirit" (in a report he wrote), can't answer what it means, when pressed, and then calls the senator "two-faced" for asking him about his own words. These people are not smart."
Girlguiding ‘forced’ to ban transgirls from joining the Rainbows and Brownies - "Girlguiding in the UK will no longer admit transgender girls into their groups in a move dubbed as a ‘horrible act of violence’. Around 300,000 young people are members of the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers groups, but now only those recorded female at birth will be able to join. The organisation said they made the ‘difficult decision’ after ‘detailed considerations, expert legal advice and input from senior members, young members’. And it comes after a former Girlguiding leader said she was expelled due to her ‘gender-critical’ beliefs. Ex-unit leader Katie Alcock, a psychology lecturer at Lancaster University, initiated legal proceedings against Girlguiding when she was ‘kicked out’ of the organisation in 2018... Trans rights campaigners have claimed Girlguiding was ‘being forced to exclude young trans girls by adults with bigotries and institutional power’ Campaign group TransActual described the policy change as ‘yet another horrible act of violence against the most vulnerable trans people’. They said: ‘It’s awful that an organisation, which would happily be inclusive and has been for many years, is being forced to exclude young trans girls by adults with bigotries and institutional power. ‘There is no problem being solved here, only harm being done. ‘This is yet another horrible act of violence against the most vulnerable trans people for which the government is ultimately responsible. ‘Another trauma that will leave a generation of young LGBTQ+ people scarred for life.’"
Violence against males is good, of course. And following the law is only good when it pushes the left wing agenda
Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 on X - "Two Christian students and one Muslim student complained about a girl in the boys locker room. The Muslim boy wasn’t punished. The Christian boys were. “Loudoun County determined that these Christian, male students’ religious practice violated school policy, recasting constitutionally protected activity as ‘sex-based discrimination’ and ‘sexual harassment.’ As punishment, Loudoun County suspended the boys for ten days and ordered them to submit to a ‘Comprehensive Student Support Plan’ that further violates the boys’ right to free exercise of religion at school.”"
Brandi Kruse on X - "I almost can't believe I'm typing this. A 5th grade gender-nonbinary teacher in Tumwater, WA, did not want to teach the 10-year-old son of a conservative school board member, citing safety concerns. Mx. TJ Thornton requested the school craft a policy to "help mitigate the placement of students in their class who come from families that do not support LGBTQIA+ identities.""
When left wingers talk about "safety" they don't mean safety: they want their views safe from challenge. Just like fascism, Nazism etc, left wing vocabulary is totally different from normal vocabulary
Lesbian, gay and bisexual groups break from LGBTQIA+ establishment - "A coalition of lesbian, gay and bisexual organizations across 18 countries has split from the broader LGBTQIA+ movement, declaring independence and forming a new umbrella group called LGB International. The group, launched on Saturday, says traditional gay rights organizations have abandoned LGB issues in favour of transgender activism. Leaders argue that same-sex rights are being undermined by gender identity ideology, including the push for heterosexual men who identify as lesbians and heterosexual women who identify as gay men to enter same-sex spaces. LGB International says its focus will be on defending LGB rights in countries where homosexuality remains illegal, in jurisdictions where same-sex partnerships lack legal recognition, and in societies where the redefinition of sex-based categories is eroding the rights of same-sex attracted people. The initiative was inspired by the UK’s LGB Alliance, created in 2019, and now has affiliates spanning Taiwan, Australia, Bulgaria and the United States. LGB Alliance Canada announced its relaunch alongside the international organization, saying Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ groups such as EGALE have prioritized transgender politics at the expense of lesbian, gay and bisexual people. “Canadian organizations have pushed unproven gender-affirming care that disproportionately affects same-sex attracted youth,” LGB Alliance Canada said in a statement. “They’ve also eroded sex-based rights and stoked hostility toward lesbians and gays who want to maintain same-sex spaces.” Frederick Schminke, Chair of LGB International, said the movement was necessary because “all the organisations that once represented gay people are now entirely devoted to gender identity ideology.” He accused legacy groups of abandoning reason and shutting down dissenting voices. Bev Jackson, co-founder of the UK’s LGB Alliance, said the launch represents a growing global movement: “Many young LGB people are being encouraged to think they must be ‘trans’ and need drugs and surgeries, instead of accepting that they are simply same-sex attracted.” Support also came from Renato Sabbadini, former head of ILGA, and Kurt Krickler, former co-chair of ILGA-Europe, who both said the creation of LGB International restores space for LGB people to organize independently.
Allie Beth Stuckey on X - "There was a man who’d wear a dress while riding his bike in my husband’s small town growing up. Everyone knew he was unstable for the simple reason that he was a man wearing a dress. The last thing they would’ve done is let him around kids. Consider: what we call unfair stigma & shame today likely protected countless children & other vulnerable people in generations past. Our unconditional empathy has hurt far more than it’s helped"
Dan Gainor on X - "The left uses empathy to get us to ignore our instincts. No rational parent would let some of these weirdos near their kids."
