Do not call us “cis”
The ACLU’s Staff Attorney on their National LGBT & HIV Project:
They’re not “cis” girls. Chase Strangio doesn’t get to other them from their own sex like that. They’re just girls. They didn’t choose it, they were born it, as we all were. That doesn’t make them a subcategory of their sex.
But even more dishonest is that “because their trans peers are able to participate fully in school life.” Strangio lies like that constantly, and it’s infuriating, especially coming from the ACLU. That is not why the girls are suing, and Strangio knows it. They are suing to prevent boys from competing on the girls’ team and thus depriving girls of medals and scholarships. Those boys don’t have to compete on the girls’ team to participate fully in school life. They could compete on the boys’ team (since they are boys). They wouldn’t come in first, but there is no “right” to come in first, especially by cheating.
How would those two boys – Yearwood and Miller – like it if all the boys in the school joined them on the girls’ team? Not much, because they would lose again.
It’s a sanctimonious and kind-of-racist lie to say this is about “urging the state to police young Black women.” Yearwood and Miller are not young Black women, because they are not women.
Chase Strangio is despicable.
Not only does the TRA position have to fight the constant presence of material reality itself (as I noted on an earlier thread), it depends on the use of easily discovered lies. Not a good position to have comitted oneself to.
What sports team do non-binary people get to play on? Boys? Girls? Both? Whichever they choose?
It’s so trendy now, surely there’s enough of them to warrant a league of their own?
But twiliter, there’s no crying in baseball.
And what about all the other gender categories? As Dan Savage wrote earlier this week
This was in response to a letter from a woman wondering if her husband, who recently “discovered” him(?)self to be demi-gendered, was now a lesbian. The mind reels.
As one of the commenters to that post wrote, if a professional sex advice columnist can’t keep up with this stuff, what chance have the rest of us?
Furthermore, one of the young women who filed the lawsuit, Alanna Smith, is black. Strangio doesn’t give a shit about black women and girls. She doesn’t care about Alanna Smith’s hard work, her hopes and dreams. Strangio just wants some cheap propaganda. Some heuristic that will press the right emotional buttons and bypass rational thought.
She is.
What if someone declares themselves gendertiger? Does that mean the zoo has to feed them raw meat?
I’m trying to decide whether
a) TRAs and their allies/captives like the ACLU have completely underestimated the poor reception this sort of thing will be received outside the woke-o-sphere;
or
b) they know EXACTLY how well this wouldn’t fly and are counting on top-down fiat, compliance, and submission through promulgation via institutional capture, avoiding having to argue their beliefs in front of the Unwashed, Unwoked masses.
Because until those guilty of Wrongthink are able to be made examples of and sent to TRA re-education camps for gentle, loving correction*, there are going to be lots of people to call out this agressive nonsense for the vacuous, unevidenced tosh it is.
*Not that there aren’t people being made examples of and having their lives and livlihoods disrupted by TRAs and their useful idiots, they still aren’t powerful enough to really make things stick across the board on a societal level outside of academe and Twitter. I think that would take more power than they currently have, but given things like the declaration circulating within the UK labour Party, I have no doubt that it’s the sort of result they would like to achieve. I think that hope is, ultimately, delusional. In the meantime, too many more women and girls will be endangered and disadvantaged along the way, but I think reality will eventually prevail.
“Eventually” cannot come soon enough.