Levi Pay on X - "I remember sharing an office with four other university service directors back in 2015. One afternoon, we chatted about “trans kids” and puberty blockers. It was at the time when that Louis Theroux programme was airing and the issue was starting to surface. Every single person in that office thought the whole thing was nonsense. They saw straight through it and were saying things like, “Why can’t we just accept feminine boys and masculine girls for who they are?” before I even had to say a word. In fact, the colleagues who were already parents were more strident and clear-headed about these issues than I was at the time. I am willing to bet that these four people haven’t said much, if anything at all, at work about these issues over the past few years. I’ve certainly not seen them say anything on social media. So, yes, other medical scandals might have involved deference towards flawed and dangerous professionals - with devastating effects on people’s lives. However, I struggle to think of a medical scandal that comes anywhere close to the invention of the “trans child” when it comes to forcing otherwise sane, normal people, against their better judgement and against every instinct they have to protect kids, to shut up and say nothing."
Weird. We were told the science was "settled"
Canadian government warns that it is VIOLENT to call transgender person by their former name - "Canada's official government website states that 'deadnaming,' or referring to a transgender or non-binary person by their birth name without consent, is an act of 'gender-based violence.' The phenomenon is listed alongside other serious violations, such as sharing intimate images, pressuring someone into sex, assuming consent and engaging in controlling behavior. The section titled, Women and Gender Equality Canada, also encourages people who see deadnaming in action to 'document and report' incidents."
Canadian government warns that it is VIOLENT to call transgender person by their former name : r/CanadianConservative - "If words are violence, then people will justify actual violence to stop words."
"“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” Once was taught to all the children. Not anymore. Times have changed."
Meme - Charles Arthur @charlesarthur: "Guardian US opinion columnist on left; Guardian UK sports writer on right. Both articles published on the same day, three hours apart. Never seen the schism within the organisation laid out so clearly. (A number of UK staff think some US staff are bonkers.)"
"The Olympics' trans policy polices womanhood Moira Donegan"
"The IOC's decision to protect the female category is a victory for fairness Tanya Aldred"
California professor snarls 'this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises!' during transgender rant at university meeting - "A lesbian professor at a California university loudly proclaimed that she has had girlfriends with penises during a public meeting on Tuesday. Jamie O'Quinn, an assistant sociology professor at Cal State San Bernardino, made the unusual declaration during a meeting of the California State University Board of Trustees. She was responding to statements other speakers made in support of an enforcement action filed in January by the Department of Education against San Jose State University, which alleges that the university violated Title IX by allowing a transgender woman to compete on the women's volleyball team. At least eight people, ranging from concerned citizens to activists, expressed concern that San Jose State is not acquiescing to the federal government's demand to separate sports and locker room facilities by sex. O'Quinn was seemingly set off by one woman who said that lesbians 'don't have penises'. 'I'm frustrated that I'm going to have to use my time today to talk about transphobia instead of the cuts that are impacting our students and our faculty every day,' said O'Quinn, who describes herself as a feminist scholar-activist. She continued: 'It seems like there's a bit of a misunderstanding that a lot of the folks calling in have about the difference between sex and gender. Uh, spoiler alert, both are socially constructed.' 'Male and female are binaries on a spectrum,' she said. 'The idea that I have to get up here and say that trans women are women...is absurd. Shame on you. Shame on all of you. And shame on you for using lesbian politics as a front for your transphobia because this lesbian has had plenty of girlfriends with penises.'... Mary Davis, a former San Jose State student, said she was disappointed that her alma mater 'is no longer welcome to women'. 'I'm here to support Title IX and state a basic truth that many people are afraid to say - males cannot become females. Everyone understands this in sports,' Davis said."
Weird. We keep being told that sex and gender are different, and only ignorant people don't know that
SEEN in Journalism on X - "'Lesbian Prof rants about girlfriends with penises' - shouting shame on you' at lesbians who know what women are. Yesterday we had a Prof saying that 'gay' and 'lesbian' labels harm trans people. The homophobia in the California faculty is worrying."
Jenna Taylor ♀️ on X - "A significant portion of the hostility towards transsexual separatism comes from this assumption from transgenders that we transsexuals somehow "owe" the broader 'umbrella' our visibility, legitimacy, medical history, and public sympathy indefinitely. But many transsexuals are increasingly beginning to feel that the broader movement no longer reflects our priorities, language, goals, or understanding of what it means to transition. Our own movement has been hijacked by people who have completely redefined what it means to be trans and have, in turn, silenced transsexual dissent at every turn when we attempt to bring this to light. Wanting the ability to define ourselves separately from this movement that we no longer recognize is not some sort of betrayal, or a sign of trying to be "one of the good ones" or whatever else nonsense transgenders come up with to cope with reality. We want a movement built by transsexuals, and for transsexuals only. We seek self-determination."
Wesley Yang on X - "This was all resolved in 2009. Trans-medicalists lost decisively and now are a minor and insignificant subgroup of the wider umbrella, the vast majority of whose members claim a gender identity outside of any medical framing"
Sa détransition ne sera pas couverte par le régime public | JDQ - " Une jeune femme ayant entrepris une transition de genre durant son adolescence devra débourser des milliers de dollars pour revenir à son sexe biologique. « J’étais soutenue pendant ma transition pour devenir un gars lorsque j’avais de 13 à 17 ans », raconte Rose Guérin. La jeune résidente de Sainte-Catherine sur la Rive-Sud de Montréal a commencé à prendre des bloqueurs d’hormones à 13 ans et de la testostérone à 14 ans. Celle qui était devenue Maxime s’est fait enlever les deux seins à l’âge de 16 ans. Ces traitements étaient couverts par le régime public. « J’étais très investie dans ma transition, j’avais toujours hâte à la prochaine étape », se souvient Rose Guérin... Juste avant la grande opération, à 17 ans, Rose Guérin a changé d’idée. « J’ai fondu en larmes et j’ai appelé ma mère pour lui dire que je n’étais pas un gars, que j’avais toujours été juste une fille très mal dans sa peau », se souvient celle qui travaille comme patrouilleuse pour la SPCA de Montréal. Elle s’est alors sentie abandonnée par le système qui l’avait jusque-là encadrée pendant sa transition. « Il n’y avait soudainement plus de services pour moi », déplore celle qui a aujourd’hui 21 ans et qui a reçu un diagnostic de trouble de la personnalité limite. Pour les divers traitements afin d’éliminer sa pilosité, d’éclaircir sa voix et de reconstituer ses seins, elle estime qu’elle devra payer au moins 30 000 $. « Les chirurgies de féminisation du visage ou de la voix et les traitements d’épilation au laser ne sont pas couverts, que ce soit dans un processus de transition ou de détransition », confirme Marie-Claude Lacasse, du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux... « Chaque fois que je partage mon expérience, je reçois des injures ou des incitations au suicide, mais je n’ai pas envie de me taire », tranche-t-elle."
Alessandra Asteriti 𒊩 on X - "No legal theorist would accept that establishing duties on the basis of an undefined concept is not arbitrary and therefore inimical to the rule of law. Except gender. Gender cannot be questioned and cannot be defined. It is the black hole of legal theory."
Kara Dansky on X - "What she says here is absolutely true. Several years ago, a woman who was new to the fight said to me, "Surely, if you explain to a judge in a courtroom what is really going on here, you'll be able to get this fixed?" No. I explained to her that a US federal judge had at that time recently ruled that a lawyer was not permitted to use the word "male" in court when referring to a male athlete. A few years before that, a different US federal judge told a different lawyer that the lawyer was not allowed to use the phrase "opposite sex" in court because the judge found the phrase to be "complicated." It hasn't been like this in every case that's come up in the US, but it has been like this in nearly every one of them, including cases that are being presided over by conservative judges. "Gender cannot be questioned and cannot be defined. It is the black hole of legal theory" is brilliant."
Weird. I thought that sex and gender were different and only ignorant people didn't know that
Nancy Hogshead, JD, Oly on X - ".@TEDTalks cancelled my talk about women’s rights conflicting with men like this, as soon as it was announced. @TEDTalks platformed him. @TEDTalks de-platformed me. I’m an Olympic champion; I have lived experience of sport. I’m a civil rights lawyer & author; w expertise on women’s rights. I’ve taught Sports Law for 20 years. It’s galling."
Wesley Yang on X - "What's interesting about this anecdote is not that TED deplatformed her but that they had her scheduled in the first place. There was a brief, memory-holed moment around in the mid-2010's when it seemed like actual deliberation and debate was going to be permitted. Trans-activists acted to slam the door shut on this process and the whole of institutional America moved as one to embrace transgenderism, to parrot mindless slogans and enforce the false dogmas by punishing those resisted them. Virtually no one knew what any of it meant or what it would entail in practice. (Few know even now.) Everyone accepted by default that there was, as the movement's acolytes claimed, science, reason, truth and morality behind this abrupt departure from the species knowledge embedded within human folkways and intuitions since the dawn of prehistory. (There was none.) Everyone within the institutions at the time witnessed or took part in this great shuttering of the Western mind -- in virtually all cases, people had to lobotomize themselves in order to believe a falsehood or simply clam up out of self-preservation. In the interim, a gigantic political and intellectual fiasco was building."
Wesley Yang on X - "The reason not one Democrat has been able to moderate on trans inclusion in sports is that they are stumped by Chase Strangio's conundrum: moderating on sports would mean accepting and acting on the (true) premise that trans girls aren't real girls. (They are boys.) Any claim made in the sports domain also applies to all other sex-segregated domains. Contrary to claims made by would-be moderates on this issue, there is simply no way to give ground in any domain without acknowledging the basic falsehood at the foundation of a movement that exists to deploy state power to force people to affirm. The transgender movement designed it this way, to permit no retreat on any front, by making its appeal based on a truth claim: "trans women are women." The advantage of this truth claim was that it resolved every question at once. The problem with this truth claim was that it was, in fact, untrue, and self-evidently so, such that it could not withstand any scrutiny and could only be upheld through a societal campaign of repression which it became the responsibility of the political party endorsing it to enact. All those seeking to triangulate on this issue are forever caught in this impasse, which is why no one tries to escape it, and those who do try find themselves quickly ensnared and unable to do anything about the deep unfairness that this agenda forces them to inflict on a generation of girls. As a result, there are male rapists and murderers in women's prisons across Blue America, and parents having their custody stripped from them by courts if they won't affirm a harmful falsehood that will leave their children sterilized, and millions of children being trained to hate and fear and seek to destroy those who reject false secular dogmas taught to them from the earliest age as the only truth. There can only be a clean break wherein people admit that we have to stop propagandizing children to believe falsehoods, stop acting like it's morally compulsory to treat a falsehood as if it is true, stop punishing people for telling a truth, acknowledge that all of this is profoundly corrosive to the moral and epistemic foundation of a reason-based society in a way that matters to every other aspect of a reason-based order, and that in fact threatens the continuation of that order precisely because the institutions that are stewards of this reason-based order have become infected by it more than any other faction of society. The whole thing has to be scrapped. Of course we have no precedent for societal institutions going all in on such a self-evident falsehood and thus we have no roadmap for how to pull back in a way that saves enough face for those responsible for inflicting this on society to consider doing so. In the process of inflaming this ludicrous travesty of a civil rights movement, a subpopulation of hundreds of thousands of children have been memed into existence, told their lives depend upon the fulfillment of impossible promises that can never be true, told that the non-fulfillment of these impossible promises is a form of genocide, and as a result we already see members of this subpopulation routinely acting out in the form of murderous rampages planned or executed by mentally comborbid youth who were told that pretending to be something they are not would be the resolution of all their problems, and that the whole world not being compelled by law to participate in upholding the falsehood that they've been told their existence requires is violence. This is the Democrats' -- and societies -- dilemma that it may or may not have the resources to solve."
Taxpayer-funded 'Ask a Trans Person' event boots academic before she can ask a question - "They called it “Ask a Trans Person.” It was an event held at the Okotoks, Alberta, Elks Hall on Thursday, April 30. Open dialogue. Community conversation. Welcome to all. Except… not really. Because when former Mount Royal University professor Francis Widdowson showed up — a real academic, someone capable of asking an unscripted, inconvenient question — she was removed. Escorted out. From an event that advertised itself as open. And that tells you everything... Agree with her or not, that’s what academics are supposed to do: ask questions, test claims, and follow evidence. Apparently, that’s no longer welcome — at least not at events like this. Now look at who was on stage. You’ve got Fae Johnstone — a taxpayer-funded activist who’s become the go-to face of this movement. Canadians might remember Johnstone from that bizarre Hershey’s International Women’s Day campaign, where a chocolate bar meant to celebrate women featured a biological male as the face of womanhood. That didn’t go over well with, well, actual women. Johnstone was also tapped as keynote at the YWCA Women of Distinction Awards — again, raising eyebrows about what, exactly, qualifies someone to represent women in spaces built for women. And then there’s the other speaker — a Mount Royal professor performing under the drag persona “Karla Marx,” whose real name is Victoria Bucholtz. This is someone who publicly berated a sitting Alberta MLA, Jennifer Johnson, in what can only be described as a struggle session — attacking her for saying something many parents quietly agree with: that kids shouldn’t be swept up in gender ideology at school. So this isn’t a neutral panel. This is activism. Funded activism. Because the organizations behind this tour — Queer Momentum, Pride Canada, Trans Action Alberta — are tied to federal dollars, directly or through partners like Egale Canada. Which means you’re paying for it. And here’s the kicker: You’re paying for an event that you’re not allowed to question. A taxpayer-funded echo chamber. A travelling ideological roadshow where dissent isn’t debated — it’s removed... They call it “Ask a Trans Person.” But what they really mean is: Ask the right questions, give the right answers, or don’t ask at all. And if you do? Well… there’s the door."
Marissa Streit on X - ".@ConceptualJames traces the aggressive push of gender ideology in schools straight to its source: UNESCO, the UN agency President Trump pulled us out of and Biden put us back in. This is not a grassroots movement. It is a coordinated agenda that runs from international bureaucracy through teachers unions and directly into your child's classroom. Why are these powerful institutions working so hard to put sexual content in front of children? Watch here 👉 https://l.prageru.com/42DsrJH"
alyssa on X - "Women’s rights don’t mean anything if men can say they are women"
Rep. Nancy Mace on X - ""Women's rights" from the same people who can't define what a woman is."
Meme - Wilfred Reilly: "One of the cruelest and most bizarre aspects of the trans trend that many MTF trans people seem not to have been informed that cutting off your penis and testicles ends normal libido. Interestingly, logically, it would also end autogynephilia."
Jaimee Michell @JaimeeUSA: "It might be because you cut off your dick, Mike."
"r/Transgender_Surgeries
Why can't I orgasm yet
ORGASM ADVICE AFTER GCS 35MTF 7 months post opp full depth GCS with Dr. Kaoutzanis. I have sensation around my clitoris, but no matter how long I stimulate it for, I can't even get close to an orgasm. Please help, any suggestions are welcome. If this is the wrong place to post on their topic, please direct me to the sub that it will be appropriate on."
blighter on X - "tbf, believing that cutting off your genitalia wouldn't affect your libido is a logical extension of the (incorrect) belief that 'who you are' is some ethereal thing unconnected from your body, such that you could be "in the wrong body". obviously, if "the real you" is something completely separate and unrelated to your body then why would changing your body affect it? this is the logic of "making your body reflect the real you!" but, of course, this is nonsense. you *are* your body. changing your body *changes you*. cutting off your sexual organs will change your perceptions of sex, including your libido. (interestingly, this mistaken belief of a 'soul' that is separate from and unrelated to your body is an ancient heresy. perhaps we'll never be free from it.)"
Costa Coffee facing boycott over 'irresponsible' advert of trans man - "Costa Coffee is facing a boycott over an “irresponsible” cartoon advert of a trans man after a double mastectomy. The cartoon, which is on a Costa Express van in the UK, depicts a recently transitioned man in a surfing pose with large lips, blue hair and scars typical of a breast removal operation... Maya Forstater, who is on the board of Sex Matters, a human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy, told the Telegraph: “The cartoon-like picture of a young woman who has had her breasts surgically removed is shocking and irresponsible. “Young women are being sold a lie that if they have their breasts removed and take hormones they can become men, or at least avoid being women.” Helen Joyce, the director of advocacy for human-rights organisation Sex Matters, added: “It’s disgustingly irresponsible of Costa to suggest-sell - even glorify - mental distress, bodily dissociation and self-harm among teenage girls. “Costa presumably thinks it’s being ‘inclusive’ with this messaging; in fact it’s helping to fuel a social contagion and medical scandal masquerading as a social-justice movement.” James Esses, a co-founder of Thoughtful Therapists, a group of counsellors and psychologists concerned with impact of gender ideology on young people, addressed Costa directly on Twitter: “Dear @CostaCoffee, Could you kindly explain why you are glorifying irreversible surgery performed on healthy breasts of women for a mental health condition?”... Nike was criticised in April for paying a transgender influencer to model one of its sports bras in a sponsored social media post. Dylan Mulvaney, 26, a transgender social media influencer with more than 10 million online followers, posted videos and photos to her Instagram page, tagging Nike Women and adding the hashtag “Nike partner”, indicating the post had been sponsored by the sportswear brand. The campaign led to outrage on social media, with critics questioning why a biological male without breasts had been asked to model a sports bra."
The irony of Trevor Phillips’ suspension - spiked - "Trans womxn firmly believe in tolerance for all, and believe everyone should be able to decide their sex or gender. People should never be exclusionary. Obviously there are exceptions. Cis-women who don’t believe that womxn are women should be cancelled, No Platformed and excluded. Or executed. It’s the only tolerant way of dealing with bigots. The problem with cis-women is that they are biological essentialists, who think that someone’s masculine or feminine personality is determined by their sex or genitals. This is nonsense. We can choose what personality we have via phalloplasty or vaginoplasty, because only through such sex-change procedures can we be true to ourselves. Some of us were born in the wrong body. Trans people just encourage us all to accept our true innate selves – although encouraging young people to accept their bodies is transphobic. There are no such things as lesbians, only males trapped in female bodies. So young females who think they are of a different sexual persuasion must be put on puberty blockers or receive surgery in order to become true to themselves. Trans people do not have a medical condition. They are being true to themselves. Except people who have gender dysphoria, who do have a medical condition, and need hormone therapy and surgery to be true to themselves. People who transition are being true to themselves; people who detransition are mad. Finally, and we must always remember this, gender is a social construct – except for biologically trans womxn, who are just born in the wrong male body. It really is that simple. If you don’t understand, are you really surprised people want to kill you?"
Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ on X - "A trans activist released a game to Steam in which the goal is to murder as many GC women as you can “in cathartic bliss” as you escape from “a gender-fascist concentration camp.” Think about that for a minute. If one of us released a game that centered on a female character killing trans rapists, not only would it be taken down the moment it came to Steam’s attention, but - depending on their location - the creator might even get arrested. And that’s in spite of the fact that trans rapists are an all-too-common phenomenon, whereas gender-fascist concentration camps exist only in the oppression fantasies of a group of people who see themselves as the most victimy victims ever to be victimized."
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What Happened in Washington State’s Women’s Prison Should Horrify Every American - "Faith Booher-Smith’s story is another reminder of how easy it is to be stripped of our rights. In August 2025, Booher-Smith was violently attacked in an unprovoked by a trans-identified male inmate who was being housed in the Washington State Correctional Center for Women—the state’s only women’s prison. This 6’4”, fully intact man, who had been convicted of sex crimes against a child, was able to allegedly grab Booher-Smith from behind, beat her, and stomp on her, resulting in undeniable, visible injuries. To make matters worse, the Washington State Department of Corrections was well aware of the attacker’s violent tendencies and still chose to transfer this individual to the women’s prison, where a large percentage of the female inmates are survivors of every kind of abuse one can imagine. They did so because gender ideology, the seemingly new religion of our nation’s DOCs, is being prioritized over women’s well-being, safety, and basic human rights... This trans-identified male’s history was no secret. Prior to this attack, he had displayed the same violent and predatory behavior toward another female inmate, Mozzy Clark, who filed two lawsuits against the Washington DOC. Clark was forced to share a cell with this trans-identified prisoner. This man was provided with a predator’s dream crime come true, as he was allegedly able to masturbate in front of Clark and molest her in her sleep. In the years I have been fighting for human rights for women who are trapped in the same cells I was in, this kind of disgusting occurrence is not surprising. It’s actually commonplace—as anyone with a working brain would imagine—when you house violent male sex offenders in a women’s prison, even if they choose to identify as women... The bottom line is the system found a way to accommodate one group—trans-identified men—by shifting the cost onto another: women.Many Americans may think this is a topic that isn’t newsworthy or headline material, but I have one message for those people: what our government will subject the least of us to, they will inevitably subject all of us to."
Left wing logic: trans people "existing" doesn't affect your life in any way so you should ignore women who are the victims of trans mania, because empathy is bad. Meanwhile, they keep quoting Martin Niemöller's "First they came for..."
Jonathan Kay on X - "Remember when the Cass Review came out, activists said it was full of mistakes & no one should follow it? The British Medical Assoc. did a review *of the Cass Review*… a meta-review, in response to activist critics Result: BMA vindicates every one of Cass’ 82 recommendations"
Kristen Waggoner on X - "Their 11-year-old daughter went on a class trip—only to discover that her hotel roommate (and expected bedmate) was a boy. Today we’re representing them & other CO parents at the 10th Circuit. Kids deserve privacy on overnight trips. Parents deserve the chance to protect them."
Matty on X - "Girl was uncomfortable sharing a room w a trans girl, the school says okay and moves her to another room away from the trans kid respecting her wishes and boundaries. Parents sue anyways?? Tf do these people want? “Kids deserve privacy” SHE GOT THE PRIVACY SHE WANTED."
Kristen Waggoner on X - "You missed the fact that school officials deceived this young girl and her parents, promising them that boys and girls would sleep on separate floors. It wasn’t until this 11-year-old girl was on the trip—far from home—that she discovered her expected bedmate was a boy. She was then forced to stand up against school authorities and defend her own privacy in the moment, late at night. They initially treated her as if her concerns were not legitimate, moving her to a different bed in the room. This backfired when the other roommates wanted the boy to move beds too. So this little girl had to muster the courage to voice her concerns a second time. The school finally relented and moved her to another room, but told her to lie about the reason why. Any reasonable person can see how outrageous this is. No child should have to defend her own privacy against a school policy that puts her in jeopardy. And no school district should make it a policy to deceive parents. Furthermore: not all kids have the ability or opportunity to stand up for themselves. Another family in our lawsuit has a son whose sleeping arrangements and showers were supervised by a female (identifying as non-binary) at a week-long school camp. Several of the boys were so uncomfortable that they skipped showers and changed their clothes inside their sleeping bags. This is inexcusable. It is adults’ responsibility to stand up for children—not children’s responsibility to stand up for themselves. This could easily be avoided with a commonsense policy that allows parents to stay informed and opt their children out of mixed-sex sleeping arrangements ahead of time—protecting the privacy of ALL children involved. But despite our requests, the school district repeatedly refused to do this. So yes, we sued. In fact, let me put every district in America on notice right now: if you treat students and parents this way, prepare for a lawsuit."
