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Friday, May 15, 2026

Links - 15th May 2026 (2 - Trans Mania)

Janet Murray on X - "I didn’t really get the problem with gender ideology at first.  I’m liberal-minded about most things. 'Live and let' live has generally been my motto. I believed inclusion mattered. I believed in being kind. In not using language that might upset people unnecessarily.  I knew people who identified as transgender. I knew some adults chose medical treatments or surgery to resemble the opposite sex. That seemed to me a matter of personal autonomy. Adults can do what they wish with their own bodies.  What I hadn’t realised - and I feel slightly embarrassed admitting this - was that I’d misunderstood what was being claimed.  I thought “transgender” meant a form of self-expression. A man who liked wearing women’s clothes. Someone changing their name. Gender non-conformity.  What I hadn’t grasped was that some activists weren’t just asking for tolerance. They were asserting that declaring yourself the opposite sex made you the opposite sex. Not metaphorically. Literally.  And that this wasn’t just cultural. It had legal consequences.
- It meant men who said they were women were demanding access to women’s sports, prisons, domestic violence shelters and hospital wards
- It meant the rewriting of healthcare language - “pregnant people”, “bodies with cervixes” - to avoid saying “women”
- It meant children struggling with identity being affirmed onto medical pathways with lifelong implications
And also redefining same-sex attraction. Lesbians called 'bigoted' for not wanting relationships with men who identify as women. Gay men accused of prejudice for saying they're not attracted to female bodies. None of which made any sense.  But I'd also overlooked how far this had travelled - into HR policies, professional bodies, schools, political parties and public institutions.  And how easily disagreement was framed as cruelty. Speaking up felt risky - because others were being publicly humiliated for doing so.  None of this is abstract.  Because sex is the basis on which safeguarding works. On which data is collected. On which cancer screening programmes run. On which fair sport and single-sex spaces depend. It’s written into law - including the Equality Act - because material differences matter.  If sex becomes a 'feeling' rather than a biological category, those protections become unstable.  And once reality becomes negotiable, everything does.  Once I saw it, I couldn’t unsee it. But I needed to be sure.
So I read. Books, research papers, policy documents. When I finally spoke publicly, there was backlash from all directions.  Many women thanked me - both quietly and publicly. But some feminists criticised me for speaking too late.   Others were angry about a past interview I’d done with the parent of a transgender person, accusing me of promoting harm.  It takes courage to change your mind publicly.  It takes courage to speak when you know your reputation, friendships or livelihood may be on the line - when you know raising your voice could strain, or even end, relationships you value.  Once I understood what was at stake, staying silent was no longer an option. I lost my livelihood simply for saying I didn’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. That alone tells you something is deeply wrong. It shouldn’t be this way.  I will never judge any woman for when she finds her voice.  Because every voice adds value - whenever it is raised. And I know how persuasive this ideology can be. I know how easily it bypassed me. And I know how much courage it takes to admit, publicly, that you got something wrong."
Grok_Slow on X - "Trans rights are NOT human rights. They already have human rights. What they want is privilege - to commandeer women's spaces, to mentally kidnap and sterilize children, to force the world to ignore objective reality in favor of whatever makes them feel good."

Meme - Medeya Espina: "Just found a wallet on a ground at Macy's . Found the cashier and together we tracked down the owner. They were so happy that I returned their wallet that they tried offering me cash. Of course I refused bc it's not their fault that they lost their wallet. Anyway the moral of this story is... you do understand the use of They/Them pronouns to refer to a singular person. YOU DO VERY CLEARLY AND SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE all"
Gender Inclusive Schools: "You do understand."
Shane DeVon: "The moment you looked at the id, you knew the the gender of the owner. At which point none of your statement makes sense, it would have to say his/her. Nice try though."
Matthew Taylor: "You mean when you don't know someone's gender based upon little to information, including visual, auditory, and social cues? Because that is actually how that works."
Left wingers are forever conflating unrelated issues

Man stabbed after denying sex to adult content creator ‘because she was not Jewish’: Miami Beach PD - "An online adult content creator from Atlanta stabbed a man in a shower in Miami Beach on Thursday after he denied her sex “because she was not Jewish,” police said he told officers. Authorities arrested La’Rose Sainte, a 30-year-old transgender woman who advertises explicit profiles on the Fansly and X platforms, on a felony aggravated battery charge and three misdemeanors.  Police said the stabbing happened just before 9:30 p.m. at the Edwards Apartments, located at 953 Collins Ave. on South Beach.  According to an arrest report, the victim told officers he met Sainte, whose full name is listed as Larose Angel Sainte, three weeks ago and invited her to his apartment on Thursday. “The victim explained after (Sainte) arrived, he informed her they would not engage in sexual intercourse because she was not Jewish,” the report states. “(She) then became upset and requested his car keys and money.”  Police said the man told officers that as he tried walking to the bathroom, Sainte pushed him and caused him to fall toward the bathtub; Sainte, he said, then punched him several times in the face.  Authorities said he left the apartment but came back after hearing Sainte breaking his property. According to the report, Sainte grabbed “a piece of glass from a shattered mirror” and caused “several minor lacerations” to his left hand as she stabbed him.  Sainte, after fleeing, was seen on a police drone getting into an SUV and officers pulled over the vehicle, taking her into custody, the report states. The victim told police that Sainte ultimately destroyed two pairs of sunglasses, a mirror and a refrigerator door handle."
Damn transphobic hate crime!

San Diego Man In Women's Clothes Scolds Woman For Native American Costume

Meme - *Dylan Mulvaney* "MANY BELIEVE IF TRANS WOMEN COULD ACTUALLY GET A PERIOD THAT THEIR NONSENSE WOULD END IN 28 DAYS"

Meme - "POV: you realized that taking an unscheduled work break after you got misgendered is NOT an inconvenience to a good manager. you are valid <3"
"la.mia.caffe: caught this lil vid during one of my panic ..."
Time to go on about "straight fragility"

Dr. Kristina Rizzotto | Facebook - "The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security has released its third Red Flag Alert on the current state of trans rights in the United States under the trump administration. The institute issues Red Flag Alerts when developments occur in countries and regions that exhibit red flags with “potential to radicalize and/or bring together destructive historical trajectories and move a society further towards a mass atrocity event aimed at destroying one or more collective identities”. It released its second alert eight months ago, but has now said that “the Republican Party’s anti-trans agenda has radicalized and continued to intensify”. The Lemkin Institute noted that there was a 45 percent increase in what it deems to be anti-trans bills between 2024 and 2025. Last year also became the sixth record-breaking year for the number of anti-trans bills that were considered in the country. The US military’s bans and restrictions on trans service members was also cited as a reason for the Red Flag Alert. In a statement published to the Lemkin Institute’s website on 11 March, it said: “Given these ideological developments, especially coupled with the increasingly hostile and draconian legislation against trans identities, the Lemkin Institute believes that the United States is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the US and globally.” Source: PinkNews"
Good reminder that you can't take left wingers seriously when they go on about "genocide"

TheRoadknight on X - "The ABC tale of two trans.  Four weeks ago, this story it was revealed that, despite being warned of the dangers, Clinton Rintoull, a male-born transwoman was transferred to a Victorian women's prison where he sexually assaulted a young woman.  The ABC did not report this.  The ABC did, however, report the assaults on Marjorie Harwood, a man who identified as a woman, in a male prison (link below).  So, when the victim of a crime, the ABC reports. When the perpetrator of a crime, the ABC doesn't report.  But this is standard practice for the ABC and its treatment of its 'pets', especially Aboriginal people.  When the victim of a crime or grievance, the ABC ensures it reports that the person is a 'proud member of a tribe or tribes'. When the perpetrator, they do their best to ensure that the person's race isn't mentioned.  If race is not a motive in a crime, there is no need to mention it - unless, of course, it perpetuates and seeks to over-represent Aborigines as victims.  Portraying any race as perpetual helpless victims is racist, since it positions that race as weak.  The ABC, with their smug, sanctimonious finger-wagging over racism, is the most racist organisation imaginable - and also projects this onto other classes of minorities, such as trans people."

Bernie on X - "There are no words! according to reports the NHS is PAYING children, including those with learning difficulties, to be part of the NHS puberty blockers trial! Paying them £500 vouchers to spend at Uber Eats and on XBOX games, whilst sterilising them. Read that again."

NHS halts gender-affirming hormone prescriptions for under-18s - "Meanwhile, a separate clinical trial examining puberty blockers has been suspended due to concerns regarding potential long-term biological damage.  The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency intervened last month, requesting additional safeguards and proposing a minimum participant age of 14.  Dr Alice Hodkinson, founder of the campaign group Biology in Medicine, welcomed the announcement whilst cautioning that the dangers do not diminish once a patient reaches adulthood. "Cross-sex hormones do not become any less harmful on a patient's 18th birthday," she warned.  "There is mounting evidence of the long-term adverse effects, which include heart disease, stroke and early mortality."  She raised particular concerns about vulnerable individuals obtaining prescription hormones through private channels and EU regulatory gaps, specifically citing access from Spain and Ireland.  Dr Hodkinson urged ministers to address these alternative supply routes, including illegal anabolic steroids purchased directly from websites, to safeguard young people from exploitation."
Weird. TRAs claim this never happened. Surely they weren't lying as usual?

possum faerie 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸🔻 on X - "Forcing trans people to revert gender markers means they will immediately be outed in any interaction that requires an ID- renting an apt, starting a job, applying for a bank account, every interaction w police. This enables discrimination+can put trans people in physical danger"
Claire 🦎 on X - "the number of people who are so passable as the opposite sex that being "outed" could be a genuine concern is so miniscule that I dont see this as in any way an effective argument. 99.9% of the time you will be "outed" as soon as you walk into a room or speak. anyway, its not the government's job to facilitate you more effectively lying about your sex. government documents should document reality, not the feelings in your brain."

Meme - Wesley Yang @wesyang: "Chase Strange explained this in Slate magazine in 2016, noting that "a penis is not a male body part. It's just an unusual body part for a woman" This proposition was the start of an internal neocolonial nation-building project the imposition of a Schmittian friend-foe dynamic that would march relentlessly to encompass the whole of institutional America and the ruling institutions of the Western world. If you don't believe this, if you don't publish it, if you don't say it you are an enemy whose speech can be suppressed. In the past few months we've seen in what ways this suppression can happen: through censorship, through criminal prosecution, and through shooting you dead mid-sentence."
Chase Strangio @chasestran...: "Abigail Shrier's book is a dangerous polemic with a goal of making people not trans. I think of all the times & ways I was told my transness wasn't real & the daily toll that still takes. We have to fight these ideas which are leading to the criminalization of trans life again. Also stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% hill I will die on:"
Left wingers love censorship, because they know their ideas can't stand scrutiny

Wesley Yang on X - "When the ACLU's lead trans right litigator Chase Strangio tweeted a promise to stop the circulation of a book chronicling the online social contagion driving trans identification in young people, Strangio was being true to the intrinsic nature of the movement.   The movement eschews deliberation and debate on principle because deliberation would instantly expose the reliance of the movement on an act of faith in a false claim that any bright nine-year old who hadn't been propagandized from the earliest age could dismantle in five minutes.   The movement relied on state and societal coercion from the first instance to enforce a top-down astroturfed pseudo-consensus because it had no chance to compete in any arena where reason, logic, and evidence held sway.   Do not listen to anyone purporting to critique the "strategic missteps" an otherwise righteous movement made on its path to claiming the arc of justice. The recourse to lies, bullying, skullduggery, medical and legal fraud, propagandizing children, campaigns of cancellation, and punishment of truth tellers was by far the best chance it had for success.   A movement aimed at attempting to enshrine a falsehood as the only truth cannot withstand any world where free speech, open exchange, pluralism, liberalism, and democracy convert the will of the people into policy. It can only succeed by the systematic dismantling of all of the above, as it has moved to do wherever it obtains power.   The fatal debility of the movement is that it is based on metaphysical propositions that 1.) aren't true and 2.) inflict massive risks, harms, cruelties, and absurdities on the whole population. It is not salvageable with better messaging, tactics, or strategy. It simply needs to be scrapped."

Wesley Yang on X - "Strangio's tweet is a key moment in an ongoing dialectic wherein transgender activist are constantly lying and engaging in petty and grand frauds within the various professions -- but also periodically blurting out the discrediting truths. Strangio made it as plain as it can be that the ACLU had become a key vector of the most illiberal and authoritarian social movement in recent American history."

Lord Ashcroft’s collection of medals rehomed after museum row - "Lord Ashcroft’s collection of Victoria Crosses (VC) was given a new home following a row with the Imperial War Museum.  The Tory peer who owns the “rare and expansive” VC collection called the museum “beyond parody” over its decision to replace the collection with an exhibit on transgender history"

Meme - "Troon Wheel of Reactions
"Fictional character says troon rights"
shitty Lowtiergod reaction image
*locks replies*
"wuhhh" "what does this mean" "did you just-"
"you talk about troons so you must want to fuck one"
"Erm.. rent free lol"
*violent power fantasy about killing le bad transphobes*
"literally just porn addiction*"

Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ on X - "If you constantly have to remind people that you’re a woman, you aren’t one."

Meme - "Play pretend all you want... just don't expect me to play pretend with you."

PragerU on X - "If a man wants to pretend he's a woman, that's up to him. But if he wants us to pretend he's a woman, that's up to us."

7NEWS Melbourne on X - "An international student who was busted filming up to 150 Melbourne women in toilets has walked from court scot-free. The 23-year-old avoided a conviction and can now freely pursue his dream of becoming a doctor. @georgia_bm_"
The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 on X - "This man filmed 150 women while using the bathroom. When he got caught, he was naturally charged with a crime. But when he went tk court, he told them the main reason he was in the womens bathroom was become he was "confused about his gender"  The result? He was let go scot free.  This is everything weve been warning about. It isnt even about "trans ppl" in womens bathrooms. Its about predators, pedophiles and sex pests who clearly understand that IDENTIFYING as trans is a get out of jail free card to shield them from social and legal consequences of their predatory behavior. How the fuck are so many unable to see this horrific movement for what it is?"

Public restrooms should always be broken into multiple, small single-toilet ones - "You can fit more stalls/spaces in the same amount of space compared to individual rooms. In high traffic areas, that means more throughput and shorter lines."
"Individual rooms are actually very expensive from an infrastructure level; urinals and stalls are much cheaper."
"Urinals are so much nicer to use if u just need to pee. I know a guy who installed one in his home even."
This is suggested as one way around TRA demands, but accommodating mental illness is expensive

Katherine Deves Morgan 🇦🇺🚺 on X - "Australia - something is rotten in the state of Victoria and the House of Trans  Man repeatedly filmed himself raping his 5 year old daughter   “Hilary Maloney” justifies this by saying he thinks he is a woman   Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis accepted this excuse & he is incarcerated in Dame Phyllis Frost prison for women   He is put in solitary due serious safety & security concerns   Taxpayers now paying his legal fees so he can sue the government for unfair treatment   Also in Victoria, Premier Jacinta Allan makes a “secret payout” to a female prisoner after she is locked in a cell & sexually assaulted by a convicted male murder who claimed he was a woman during his 20 year sentence   He was released in 2024, do we think he is still “identifying” as a woman & intruding into female spaces or was it a convenient case of Prison Onset Gender Dysphoria?   A “trans” identity gives a free pass to male sexual offenders"

Meme - "AUTOGYNEPHILIA: FOUR TYPES
AGPs fit into one or more of the following categories:
#1 TRANSVESTIC. Erotic arousal associated with the act or fantasy of wearing women's clothing.
#2 BEHAVIORAL Arousal associated with the act or fantasy of engaging in female-typical behavior.
#3 ANATOMIC Arousal associated with the fantasy or reality of having female anatomic features.
#4 PHYSIOLOGIC Arousal associated with the fantasy or simulation of being pregnant, menstruating, or lactating."

Trans woman given lobbyist role at endometriosis charity - "Steph Richards, who was born male but identifies as female, will represent the charity in talks with MPs as the parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast.  Gender-critical campaigners have described the choice as “deeply offensive” because transgender women cannot suffer from endometriosis. Endometriosis, a painful chronic disease linked to the menstrual cycle, is diagnosed when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus. Many women who suffer from the condition struggle for years to get a diagnosis... Responding to renewed criticism of Ms Richards’s position, Endometriosis South Coast insisted that it was “scientifically inaccurate” to suggest endometriosis was a condition that only affected women.  A spokesman for the charity said: “It affects people of all genders, including trans men, non-binary and intersex individuals.”"

‘Misogyny is at the heart of gender ideology’ - spiked - "Harris: When people say there is no ‘LGB’ without the ‘T’, they should look at the history of gay rights. Stonewall was a gay-rights movement until 2015. After that, I and other ex-trustees of Stonewall became worried that it was going off-piste. It was awful, because we had all come from Stonewall. We had all given our blood, sweat and tears to it. We felt we couldn’t criticise it because we had made it. We didn’t know what to do. So we asked for dialogue. We at the LGB Alliance are not anti-trans. If we were, why would we have trans people at our meetings? Why would we have speakers who are trans? Being trans is incredibly difficult. I think it must be one of the hardest conditions to have. And I do call it a condition, when you have such severe gender dysphoria that you need to have body parts removed. We fully support the rights of trans people. But there is no visible link between us and them. We could just as easily be linked with any other group with protected characteristics...
spiked: What do you make of the rise of ‘trans-inclusive’ language? What does it tell us that some institutions are now referring to women as ‘bodies with vaginas’?

Harris: It shows how successful gender-identity ideology has been. At its very heart is misogyny. It’s so regressive, so misogynistic and so homophobic. It reinforces all the old stereotypes that we thought had gone. The insult ‘TERF’ gives men the perfect opportunity to let out their hatred of women. This is the real danger – that it gives them a free pass. ‘You’re a transphobe’ covers more or less any woman in the UK who decides to speak up. We want every single child to grow up being what he or she wants to be, not tied down by pink or blue gender roles. I have fought for 50 years for people’s right to do what they want. Wear a dress! Call yourself Ariadne! But don’t say you are a woman. And don’t say that I am transphobic if I don’t want to have sex with you because you’re a man with a penis wearing a dress... One of the difficulties we have is getting heard. We can’t get on the BBC. We can’t get on ITV. We can’t get on Sky News. Free speech means the right to offend people. I’m even happy to talk to someone who says they think lesbians are disgusting. It’s no good going through life being offended. This is how Stonewall used to be – we talked to people. There’s no point in only talking to people who agree with you."

Robert Sterling on X - "The idea that one out of every 33 high school kids is trans is patently absurd.  The DSM-IV, which psychologists used from 1994 until 2013, estimated the prevalence of transsexualism to be 1 out of every 30,000 males and 100,000 females. You really mean to tell us all that researchers just 30 years ago were off by a factor of 1000x?  I’m sorry but it’s not bigotry to call this a social contagion, and we’re doing our kids a disservice by pretending otherwise."

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