A man's a man for a'that - "Sophie Weddell is a man who says he is a woman and goes by the name of ‘Sophie Sparkles’ or ‘Sophie Molly’. He’s quite active on social media and how he manifests his womanhood includes posting pictures of himself with clothes pegs on his nipples, a ball gag in his mouth, his head tilted back in apparent sexual pleasure. I find this portrayal of womanhood offensive and repulsive. But guess what? I have to put on my big girl pants and deal with it. Sophie is allowed to be offensive and repulsive. I don’t think this should be a crime. I can always look away. He isn’t emailing me the pictures directly or standing outside my house at 4am screaming at me to come and look. Sophie finds some behaviour of mine offensive, in particular the manifestation of my protected belief that sex is real, it matters and it is immutable. But he adopts a rather less pragmatic approach and makes direct complaints to my regulator about me. The offensive manifestation of my protected belief were the following words on the social media platform X in 2024 when I commented on Sophie’s topless photo ‘this man is not a woman. I am allowed to say this’ Sophie described this as ‘unprovoked transphobic hate’ which was ‘abhorrent’ directed at a ‘vulnerable transgender woman’ and had bought him to tears. I must face disciplinary action for my abuse of power. My regulator the Bar Standards Board responded to him in June 2024 - perfectly sensibly, lawfully and properly - to tell Sophie that I had a right to express views about sex and gender. I did not use profane or abusive language or threaten him. I simply said, as I will repeat in this piece and beyond, that Sophie is a man. He is male. When his mum’s egg meet his dad’s sperm at the moment of his conception, his sex was determined and can never change. I appreciate he seems unhappy about this and wishes to present as a woman. Whatever floats his boat. But he cannot coerce me or anyone else into believing or saying that he is a woman. Provided I am not refusing him employment, goods or services because of my position, or following him about in real life shrieking ‘you are a MAN!’ - which would be unlawful harassment - my belief and the manifestation of that belief, that you cannot change sex, is political speech which is given the highest form of protection of all, pursuant to article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Not only did Sophie complain but he requested his complaint be kept secret from me, fearing undefined repercussions. Happily, I did find out because Sophie complained in public when his complaint was rejected... I will leave to the Bar Standards Board the issue of whether my calling Sophie a man is in fact a breach of my Code of Conduct and in fact brings the profession into disrepute. I think all of this will raise many interesting questions for a disciplinary tribunal - not least, the issue of whether it is ‘disreputable’ for having views which are shared by more and more people as time passes. At a recent meeting of the Westminster Legal Forum where we discussed equality, diversity and inclusion [EDI] in the law, the Director General of the BSB denied that ‘EDI’ carried any ‘ideological freight’ and asserted there was not only a legal but a moral duty to make sure that barristers were subject to a duty to promote it. The frozen response of the BSB to Sophie’s complaint underscores my fear that the Director General is dangerously wrong. There is clearly significant ideological freight attached to a policy of equality, diversity and inclusion which acts to protect and include only one kind of belief - Sophie’s ideological position that he is a woman must be included, while my protected characteristic, the belief in the immutability of sex, is excluded. He is allowed to sing from the roof tops about what a womanly woman is he. I am to be silenced with threats to my reputation and my livelihood."
Wesley Yang on X - "There is no distinction between "being transgender" and being a cross-dresser because the whole point of manufacturing the empty construct "transgender" in the late 1990's was to encompass and confer rights upon cross-dressers:"
Wesley Yang on X - "The Transgender Inquisition is global and unitary. It seeks the same goals and imposes the same agenda everywhere it acquires the power to do so: it seeks to compel people to believe a falsehood and to punish people who state a truth. What it has done in Canada, where a human rights tribunal imposed a $750,000 fine on a school trustee for resisting the imposition of gender propaganda in the schools, or in Australia, where Smith was found guilty of "vilification" by publicly identifying the sex of men participating in women's sports, it will do everywhere it obtains the power to do so. It is at its core a movement to stop the circulation of truths so that falsehoods may be enshrined as the only truth -- all of its actions conform to this pattern and seek the attainment of this goal."
Liberal Tear Creator™ on X - "How is it possible for an entire middle school class to be “trans?”"
Xuan Vu on X - "Social contagion. Children are the most susceptible and we should not tolerate this. It's child abuse. Sue the school."
Clearly, no one can be influenced into being trans, so they must all be trans and must all be affirmed
Jonathan Kay on X - "The world according to Mother Jones. Forcing people to get vaccinated? A-okay. Cheek swabs to keep dudes out of women’s sports ? A violation of human rights (I’m not anti-vaccine, but I just love the selective bioethical outrage)"
Bodily autonomy is only sacrosanct when it pushes the left wing agenda (i.e. for abortion at any time, for any reason)
Billboard Chris 🌎 on X - "Trans-identified female lawyer berates judge, pulls trans card, gets found in contempt, resists arrest, screams “I can’t breathe,” and yells for people to call 911 as she’s fighting police. Absolutely glorious performance. Women should not take testosterone."
The Dragon's Treasure on X - "There's 2 particular events in this video that are the sheer embodiment of arguing with these kinds of trans people and the left as a whole. The first being when, on camera, she throws her phone on the ground like a petulant child, right there on camera, in front of the judge. When called out, she says she didn't throw it, it fell from the counter, and doubled down on it. A clear and obvious lie everyone can see, and nothing will be done about it. They lie as easily as they breathe. The second is when the cops were trying to arrest her. While things were still calm, she tried to say that they cops were throwing her over the bench or something. It was a lie so big and brazen that even she had to stop herself and back up a bit. But the point being she made herself into a victim before anything violent even happened and screamed oppression... Then took action to CAUSE said violence in the first place. Man, I'm tired.:
Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ on X - "I’ve been a cop for almost 20 years. This has less to do with her being trans than it does with her being a liberal white woman whose testosterone injections do fvckall to suppress her Inner Karen. This is absolutely typical behavior for a liberal white woman who’s dealing with authority figures who won’t let her have her way. Add on the sacred transness, and you get someone who thinks they should be able to do whatever they want: they expect even their obvious lies to be believed. (I will say that it’s the height of irony for the judge to call her out for lying while at the same time addressing her as “sir,” but that’s the world we live in)."
American loses UK appeal to become legally non-binary - "An American who wanted to be formally recognised as non-binary in the UK has been told by the Court of Appeal their gender identity does not legally exist in this country. Ryan Castellucci previously lost a High Court challenge to have their gender recorded as non-binary on a gender recognition certificate - a document which changes someone's legal sex - after moving to the UK in 2019. They had obtained legal recognition as non-binary in California in 2021, and were issued an American passport in 2022 listing their sex as 'X'... Lord Justice Singh, sitting with Dame Victoria Sharp and Sir Andrew McFarlane, said that only 11 countries worldwide, as well as some US states including California, recognise non-binary gender in law... "Ryan's only registered gender is non-binary. Despite Parliament legislating for the UK to recognise foreign-acquired genders, the courts have so far ruled that non-binary foreign genders do not count. "Ryan considers that there cannot be true gender equality without recognition of the fact that not all genders are binary.""
NBC News on X - "Trump administration terminates agreements to protect transgender students in several schools."
Wesley Yang on X - "Trump Administration acts to ensure compliance with Title IX by scrapping prior agreements that force mandates that have been found by multiple federal court judges to violate Title IX and the US Constitution on every school in America"
When you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression
Trans researcher j wallace skelton roasted for absurd pronouns - "A woke Canadian academic whose research includes working with young children to create “queer- and trans-centered spaces” is drawing mockery online for his choice of pronouns — his full name, all lowercase. The PhD — who is transgender and presents as a man with a goatee — asked on Facebook to be referred to by his full name, j wallace skelton, in place of traditional third-person pronouns like him, her or they — including the lowercase letters. “lower case letters please,” the header on his Facebook profile reads for reasons unknown. Skelton, an assistant professor of queer studies in education at the University of Regina, says on his website that he is the father of a “non-binary ten year old,” whom he says is a frequent research partner. One of the duo’s projects — as detailed on Skelton’s personal website — centers around “how do 2SLGBTQ children and children from 2SLGBTQ families envision educational spaces that meet their needs,” he wrote, using Canada’s preferred term for LGBTQ."
Adam Paul Laxalt on X - "Some people are offended by the opening words my former Solicitor General uses, but as he points out, you should be more offended by the underlying law here that forces men into a female only small business spa and the liberal Judges who didn’t protect the female owner."
"This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa- a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa-understandably don't want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don't want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn't appear in a judicial opinion. You're not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa- some as young as thirteen-to be visually assaulted by the real thing. Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls. Yet if harmful and unfortunate consequences were all this case was about, we'd have to shrug and say: "That's what comes with living in a democracy." Unless the Constitution is implicated, we get what we voted for "good and hard.""
Shipwreckedcrew on X - "Judge Van Dyke is addressing a ridiculous social engineering experiment on behalf of a segment of the population suffering from a form of mental illness that is dressed up as a legal argument through the use of sophistry and invented language. If the Ninth Circuit wants to play in the "Theater of the Absurd" he's happy to go along. When you suspend the rules of language that were developed over thousands of years, all for the purpose of accommodating the delusions of a nearly infinitesimal number of sufferers, then all bets are off about what words appear on the page."
One of the first people known to change their gender was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh : The Picture Show : NPR - "For Women's History Month, I wanted to highlight Hatshepsut,"
From March 2026. The media won't stop pushing this bullshit and erasing women
I like how this is for "Women's History Month" but she supposedly wasn't a woman
The rampant misogyny of transing Elizabeth I - spiked - "It’s a sign that trans thought is so woefully conventional, so gender straitjacketed, that it just doesn’t seem able to grasp, in this case, why a woman would refuse to hand over her hard-won power to a man by marrying a stranger who didn’t even speak her language. Or that she said on the eve of the Spanish Armada invasion: ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king’? It’s called wordplay, I believe, and was extremely common until people with Tin Ear Syndrome – a disease affecting the ‘trans community’ and their inordinate number of ‘allies’ – became so prevalent among those in the arts and media. This, of course, is our old mate ‘Queering the Past’ (or ‘lying’ as those not educated beyond all common sense and honesty know it) beloved of universities, museums and other beclowned institutions. There have been some truly rib-tickling examples of it, such as the claim that ‘trans Vikings’ existed, which sounds like a Monty Python sketch; sometimes the whole circus gets too much even for the most proudly gay public figure. In 2023, the museum dedicated to conserving the Mary Rose hosted a blog, promising to understand the collection of everyday objects found on the 16th-century ship ‘through a queer lens’. This prompted the great Philip Hensher to post on X: ‘I am as keen as anyone on gay sex, but I have to say to these curators – you’re fucking mental.’ We can easily mock the kind of mind that can tie itself into the most labyrinthine of sailor’s knots in order to posit the notion of invading ‘trans’ hordes raping their way across countries, presumably using papier-mâché penises, without the poor women of those nations noticing. Who cares about Vikings’ rights anyway? But it’s beyond a joke when real women who lived in (relatively) recent memory – who we know had to fight against monstrous insults and / or oppression – have their remains picked over by academic half-wits, apparently for no greater cause than making inadequate men (befrocked or not) feel better about themselves; Joan of Arc, Rosa Bonheur, Louisa May Alcott, Storme DeLarverie. Some women pretended to be men so they could be doctors, soldiers, pirates – not because they really considered themselves he / hims. The class privilege of those intent on ‘queering’ every female ‘presenting’ as female in history quite understandably prevents them from understanding how earning a living was the reason many women pretended to be men – including, of course, the Brontë sisters, or Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, as they were known. Or even JK Rowling, whose publishers advised her that boys would not buy books written by someone called Joanne. Famous women are rare in history. They are generally there because they dared to do what was not expected of them – sometimes on pain of death. Yet somehow, it’s now ‘progressive’ to cancel them out by posthumously changing their sex. It’s especially idiotic in the case of Elizabeth I, who if she had really been born male (and let’s remember that royal births have been witnessed by the courtiers and politicians of the day, a practice which only ended in 1948, prior to the birth of Prince Charles) would not have seen her mother executed, when Elizabeth was still a child. Her father married and murdered multiple times because he couldn’t get a male heir. It’s telling that those who scream most loudly about having their feelings hurt when they’re called Martha instead of Arthur don’t mind trampling all over the graves of women killed by the savage misogyny of the age. Their lack of respect for the dead reminds one of the way rape and murder victims once had their reputations trashed by authorities defending violent males. A less important but still significant side effect of ‘queering’ or ‘transing’ the past is that this will mean fewer roles for actresses, already at a disadvantage in a profession that throws them on the scrapheap far earlier than men. Shakespeare’s heroines were originally played by teenage boys, as it was considered improper for women to display themselves in such a way. The call for ‘actors who identify as transgender women’, as the casting call for Majesty puts it, means that women can be edged out once more. Over the past few years, the woman-face actors Karla Sofia Gascon, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez and Laverne Cox have been nominated for Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Emmys and BAFTAS in the female categories. Tellingly, there’s been no traffic the other way, with women pretending to be men being put up for male prizes."
Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS on X - "The fellas at @TheOnion have done a spoof about JKR being sectioned These are the same men that would have committed opinionated women to asylums in Victorian times - there is nothing progressive or funny about this"
Kyle Mann on X - "The joke is JK Rowling is insane because she believes men are men and women are women"
Josh Howie on X - "There’s actually something quite funny here, if read as a satire on how trans activists view JK Rowling. But the Onion has instead written it for trans activists, and as such it’s utterly deranged, nasty, and terribly unfunny. The Onion is a cautionary tale of the saddest fate in comedy; to be laughed at, when you used to be laughed with."
Gender-Affirming Care Needs a Lobotomy - WSJ - "Different societies have different ways of responding to the anguish of a young woman. In the medieval period, her difficulties would be understood in spiritual terms and she would be directed toward a priest or even an exorcist. In the late-19th century, she might be diagnosed with hysteria and offered hypnosis therapy. In the 1930s, she might be diagnosed with agitated depression and subjected to a lobotomy. In the 2000s, she might be diagnosed with gender dysphoria... It’s easy to look back at the uncritical acceptance of medical wrongdoing in the past and see what C.S. Lewis described as “chronological snobbery.” It seems obvious now that bloodletting and trepanning were acts of idiocy. But the widespread acceptance of “gender-affirming” medicine in our own time ought to cure us of this hubris. Perhaps the closest historical analog to the emerging scandal around gender medicine is the practice of lobotomy, a type of brain surgery that doctors performed approximately 50,000 times in the U.S., most between 1949 and 1952, with the same goal: to relieve the symptoms of mental illness. The most important figure in the rise of lobotomy in the U.S. was Walter Freeman, a talented surgeon who came from an esteemed medical family and could trace his lineage back to the Mayflower. This was an era when that kind of prestige conferred enormous power on doctors, and Freeman pursued his experiments with very little restriction, although plenty of his colleagues voiced concerns. As his biographer Jack El-Hai wrote, “Freeman made it plain that he found such ethical complaints a waste of time.” He refused to be deterred from his humanitarian mission. We must resist our chronological snobbery here. Freeman and his allies really did think they were doing good, and often the surgeries appeared to work. Some lobotomy patients, in fact, expressed immense gratitude. In an era when psychiatric drugs were still primitive, severe mental illness could see a person confined to an asylum for the rest of his life. Doctors like Freeman were desperate to find some treatment for patients who were experiencing acute suffering, and the scientific principles behind lobotomy seemed sound enough. But some of the outcomes were terrible... If our forebears were transfixed by Freeman’s status as an eminent WASP, we have been bewitched by the social-justice messaging around gender-affirming care. We have heard, like Fox Varian’s mother, that if patients aren’t given access to these treatments, they will surely kill themselves. We have heard, too, that a failure to endorse this area of medicine betrays a lack of empathy for suffering patients. Some who raised concerns have been socially ostracized or forced out of their jobs. A growing movement of detransitioners is now demanding redress, and it seems likely that medical-malpractice lawsuits will become more common. But while the victims of reckless doctors may secure financial compensation, the physical harm done to them can’t be reversed. I’d like to think we will learn lessons on the arrogance of medical authorities, the power of groupthink and the importance of listening to whistleblowers. But history shows that it’s remarkably easy for doctors to double down on a misguided protocol, even—or especially—when they have lost sight of the foundational principle of their profession: Do no harm."
Sevultura on X - "Up until eighties (and nineties) newborn babies were operated on without anaesthetic (including heart surgery) because the medical consensus was that babies couldn’t feel pain. Mothers who saw their babies in distress were dismissed as hysterical ignoramuses"
If you don't Trust the Science, you are an ignorant science denier who spreads misinformation and you need to be silenced
Thread by @epkaufm on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "NEW: trans identification is in free fall among the young
Non-conforming sexual identity (queer, questioning, etc) is also in sharp decline. Gay and lesbian are stable while heterosexuality has rebounded by around 10 points since 2023. Not only this, but freshmen in 2024-25 were less trans and queer than seniors whereas it was the reverse when BTQ+ identity was surging in 2022-23. This suggests that gender/sexual non-conformity will continue to fall.
What explains the sudden reversal of trans and queer? It’s not because the kids became less woke, more religious or more conservative. Those beliefs remained stable throughout the 2020s. Is it improved mental health? Yes, in part. Less anxious and, especially, depressed, students is linked with a smaller share identifying as trans, queer or bisexual. But not entirely. Mental illness fell after the pandemic but the sexuality and gender shifts happened at least a year later. All groups, including LGBT, got less mentally ill after the pandemic. The decline in anxiety and depression occurred within trans, bisexual and queer groups as much as among others. So it wasn’t the case that most of those who solved their emotional problems became heterosexual.
The fall of trans and queer seems most similar to the fading of a fashion or trend. It happened largely independently of shifts in political beliefs and social media use, though improved mental health played a role."
The cope is that they're just scared to come out now, and that the right is going to go after other minorities next. Yet gay and lesbian identification are stable
Wesley Yang on X - "The most obvious social contagion in world history is starting to peter out, but not before memeing into existence a subpopulation of 750K minors aged 13-17 who have been brainwashed into yearning to be chemically castrated and dismembered in pursuit of a delusion that can never be true. A crucial part of breaking this fever was simply people telling the truth about it just as the decisive aspect of stoking it was silencing those who told the truth about it."
WomenAreReal on X - "Another remarkable clip from Wiener’s SB 934 hearing. Hearing Wiener imagine being a parent is bizarre, but I want to focus on the committee’s inability to understand the bill they are voting on. Few realize California lawmakers have been inserting “gender” nonsense into state law for decades. It starts in 1998, when “gender” is added to the hate crime code. Then it appears in the Education Code, opening the door to boys in girls’ bathrooms. By 2003, “gender identity” enters the Government Code. In 2005, female-only public accommodations are gone. In 2007, the biological definition of sex is stripped from the Education Code. By 2013, girls’ sports are no longer protected as female-only. In 2017, self-ID comes to driver’s licenses. By 2021, it reaches women’s prisons. I’ve watched many of the hearings & the pattern is always the same. Every bill is “minor.” Just “codifying.” Just “clarifying.” Just “aligning statutes.” Opponents are dismissed as confused or hysterical. “This won’t let boys into girls’ bathrooms. You’re overreacting.” Then the bill passes and that is exactly what it does. Nothing is different with SB 934. All the committee members (even the R’s) seem sold on the idea the SB 934 merely changes the statute of limitations, nothing more. But anyone with a working brain can read the text of SB 934 (it’s not long) and compare it to the existing CA law on conversion therapy. Under existing law, SB 1172, enforcement of conversion therapy is limited to licensing boards and deals only with “sexual orientation.” However, SB 934 explicitly allows a plaintiff to bring a civil action (lawsuit) for “gender identity change efforts” and recover damages. That is a massive expansion of liability. And even if this were “just” a statute of limitations bill, that should raise a different question: why are we continuing to expand a legal regime in a highly controversial and contested space? But never mind all that. The committee is convinced this is a simple, small bill that increases the statute of limitations. We’ve seen this play out for 25 years. And each time, lawmakers say: this changes nothing or very little. And each time, the law expands far beyond what was promised. SB 934 follows the same script."
Clinical guidelines for children and adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence: a systematic review of guideline quality (part 1) - "Most clinical guidance for managing children/adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria/incongruence lacks an independent and evidence-based approach and information about how recommendations were developed. This should be considered when using these to inform service development and clinical practice."
This is what "settled" "science" looks like
