I’m leaning toward the Hulkian rage
Gee. It’s only taken them ten or fifteen years.
But the realities of human biology raise legitimate questions about any notion that trans women should always and everywhere be treated exactly like cisgender women.
YA THINK??????????
Jesus fucking christ we’ve only been saying that at the top of our lungs for literally years only to be branded terfs and transphobes and cuntbitchwhores. Why did it take the Washington Post bigwigs all this time to discover what we’ve been shouting at them since forever?
After his party’s election defeat on Nov. 5, Rep. Seth Moulton (Massachusetts) offered some blunt advice: “Democrats spend way too much time trying not to offend anyone rather than being brutally honest about the challenges many Americans face. … I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”
Mr. Moulton’s remarks sparked an immediate backlash within his own political camp. His campaign manager quit. A state legislator accused him of “scapegoating transgender youth.” A city council member in Salem, Massachusetts, called for him to resign. The Bay State’s governor, Maura Healey, opined that Mr. Moulton was “playing politics with people.”
Guess what, Governor: the people who insist that men must be allowed to compete against girls aka run over them on a playing field are also “playing politics with people” only the politics they’re playing are ruthlessly unfair to women and girls.
Even Tufts University briefly got in on the act when David Art, chair of the political science department, reportedly called Mr. Moulton’s office and told him not to contact the university to recruit interns in the future.
Tough shit for any political science students who might have wanted to intern with Rep. Moulton, yeah?
Trans women’s participation in sports raises thorny questions about fairness — but that should not preclude Mr. Moulton from speaking his mind. Trans people deserve to be treated with dignity, and the law should protect them from discrimination in areas such as employment and housing. But the realities of human biology raise legitimate questions about any notion that trans women should always and everywhere be treated exactly like cisgender women.
As we’ve been saying. And saying. And saying.
…unless the data show that transitioning can fully erase the effects of male puberty, the country will also need a frank and open debate about the trade-offs between inclusion on the one hand and safety and fairness on the other. And yet too often, efforts have been made to avoid or prevent discussion of those trade-offs by labeling debate inherently transphobic. This is not how a healthy democracy makes decisions.
By labeling debate inherently transphobic and by labeling women who debate monsters, bitches, transphobes, cunts, Karens, evil cruel arrogant sadistic right-wing pieces of shit. That is not how a healthy democracy or a healthy left wing makes decisions.
There really aren’t any tall buildings in Washington, at least not any that would be worthy of a Hulkian rage.
And I would ask him to please stay away from Arlington.
As a Democrat, it would be a great idea to remove transactivism from the party platform. It is not a “progressive” movement. Its tendencies are illiberal and authoritarian. Your current treatment is not a policy discussion, it’s a heresy trial, an excommunication. Not only is it vital to show that genderism is regressive, it is imperative to show that opposition to its aims is not hateful or bigotted, and is in fact more progressive than its enactment. Unfortunately, removing genderism from the Democratic Party is going to look less like a divirorce, and have more in common with radical surgery or chemotherapy. The key is whether the self-examination taking place in the aftermath of the current electoral disaster is used to disengage with trans ideology, the support of which was used by the Republicans as a bludgeon. Why give your opponents such an useful weapon?
Even here there’s far too much deference and not enough honesty, brutal or otherwise. “Formerly male athlete” suggests that “transition” of whatever degree turns males into something other than male, when it doesn’t and can’t. This is the point that critics of “inclusion” have been trying to make all this time. Humans can’t change sex. Suggesting they can gives up half the battle before you’ve even begun. There’s no need to do that. The truth needs no apology. Don’t apologize for it. If it hurts someone’s political position or their “feelings”, that’s too damn bad. If defending your ideas rests upon preventing debate, by intimidating and shutting up your opponents, then your ideas are the problem, and not the solution to anything. Find a better, honest position to hold; one you won’t be embarassed defending. The ones who should be afraid to say anything are the liars who’ve been given a free ride all this time.
Here’s an idea: let the snowflakes melt If the support of those who are now turning away from you was contingent on your unquestioning, uncritical acceptance of the claims and demands of gender ideology, I say good riddance. They weren’t really on your side. They weren’t hoping for any kind of informed debate to determine policy, they wanted a willing hostage to their outrageous agenda, one that withers and dies in the light of public scrutiny. On this issue, your obligation was to obey. As soon as you say “Wait a minute…” you’ve become their opponent, whether you intended to or not. They will now turn on you as a reflexive act of self-preservation against the very backlash to which they will now eagerly subject you. It won’t matter how much else you share, how much you have in common. Trans activism’s totalism demands your excommunication for the slightest doubt.
Transactivists think they possess the power to render you an unperson. The more who stop and say “Wait a minute…”, the more that power fades and weakens. I’ll take the Washington Post’s belated sea-change as a welcome sign. Who knows what editorial room shouting matches there were, how much rancour from gender-committed staff there was. I first step is better than no step. If it takes, so much the better. More steps, please. Maybe they can stop saying “transwomen.”
Similarly, calling trans identified males “transwomen” cedes too much unearned’ undeserved territory to gender activists, who get to claim that “women” are being pushed out of female spaces, when what in fact what women are trying to do is to keep men out. Force the gender extremists* to defend their actual position, not one that claims high ground they shouldn’t be allowed to occupy. The onus is on them to make their case. But they won’t, because they can’t. Instead, they defend the territory they’ve carved out for themselves at the expense of women and girls.
*Any support for the belief that humans can change sex, and/or that “gender identity” should ever override sex in any context where facilities, opportunities, and activities are divided by sex, is an extreme position. Forcing women to accept men in these contexts is an extreme position. Lobbying for the acceptance of men as women in these areas is an extreme position. That women’s need, desire, and effort to keep men out of their spaces has been branded as “hateful” and “extreme” is perverse, and shows how much trans activism has controlled and distorted the framing of this issue, short-circuiting “debate” and presenting their own position as some sort of desirable, compassionate, default one that deserves unquestioning acceptance and protection. It is not a “neutral” stance, or a “level” playing field, but a male foot in the door that women deserve to be able to keep closed. In reality, genderists’ demands are dangerous, narcissistic, and aggressive. It is not hateful or bigoted to call their delusional, reality-denying stance “extreme.” Because it is extreme.