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Pronoun fatigue

Jun 17th, 2023 11:09 am | By

This is hilarious, if only Pink News could see it. Demi Lovato stopped “using gender neutral pronouns” because omigod it was so exhausting. I’m pretty sure I know why it was so exhausting.

Demi Lovato, who now uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, publicly came out as non-binary with a preference for they/them pronouns in a moving video in May 2021, just weeks after coming out as pansexual.

Oh I bet that was tremendously moving. It’s always moving watching narcissists tell us all about their pronouns and opinions and struggles and feelings. It’s especially moving that it was just weeks after she came out as pansexual. We should all start coming out as things; apparently it’s very important … Read the rest



Fundamentally unjust

Jun 17th, 2023 10:49 am | By

Pink News sneers at female athletes for wanting fair competition.

An athlete declaring herself the “fastest girl in Connecticut” is suing the state after she lost a race to a trans athlete.

A male athlete. She doesn’t care that he’s trans, she cares that he’s a male competing in female races. Pink News would care too if it had any sense, because there would be less resistance to trans ideology if it gave a damn about fairness to women.

A reference guide for the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) policy states that it would be “fundamentally unjust” to prevent trans athletes from taking part in gender-specific sports categories.

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In the can

Jun 17th, 2023 10:09 am | By

Updating to add: apologies for the abrupt beginning plus lack of source. I’d been going back and forth between video and a transcript so maybe I thought I’d done a previous post with the sources. US Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did a briefing June 14 at which a reporter asked:

“Does the White House worry about the physical safety of females directly competing against males in sports?”

It’s a complicated issue, says Jean-Pierre. She cites giving schools “flexibility to establish their own athletic policies while establishing guardrails to prevent discrimination against transgender kids.”

That is not what he asked. She carefully ignored what he asked. Why did she do that? Why is it more urgent for schools to have “flexibility” … Read the rest



Not saying T=Nazism

Jun 17th, 2023 9:11 am | By

So it really is forbidden to talk about LGB, even when LGB is in fact the subject.

https://twitter.com/lwhb__/status/1670033177052684288

But but but but what if it’s a study about LGB people? What if the study is just not about trans people? Isn’t it ok to report on the study?

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Everyone else just wings it

Jun 17th, 2023 7:53 am | By

That’s very very very interesting.

It’s interesting the other disciplines/professions don’t grasp that it’s good to say you don’t know when you don’t know. It’s interesting that they’re more self-protective and less thoughtful. It’s interesting that they haven’t internalized the fact that winging it is bad, because it risks disinforming. It’s interesting that the truth takes second place to the ego.

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She was 14

Jun 17th, 2023 2:11 am | By

I suppose we have Chase Strangio to thank for this bulletin:

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Will’by’s hobby

Jun 16th, 2023 5:05 pm | By

More mystifying than ever. He must think he looks fabulous or he wouldn’t tweet it but…

Onlookers don’t think he looks fabulous, and wonder why he has a bikini strap growing out of his neck.

Remember, kids, this is a man age 57. What men age 57 do you know who tweet photos of themselves simpering in bathing suits?

https://twitter.com/MeMyselfOnline/status/1669751115393511426

All the rest of his time he spends bullying women on social media. Weird fella.… Read the rest



Clueless

Jun 16th, 2023 3:34 pm | By

Dude.

Newsflash, OJ. You know who else is defying the expectations attached to the gender sex on our birth certificate? Feminist women, that’s who. We’ve been doing it for years and years and years, decades, centuries. You didn’t invent it, gay men didn’t invent it, trans people sure as hell didn’t invent it. Women too suffer bigotry because we defy those expectations – including yours. You expect us … Read the rest



Respect the decision

Jun 16th, 2023 11:18 am | By

My country Our candidate right or wrong. Sign the loyalty oath or lose your job.

Top Republican Party officials have a message for any candidate worried about signing a loyalty pledge to potentially support a convicted felon: There’s the door.

In light of Donald Trump’s indictment for his handling of classified documents, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s campaign on Wednesday requested a meeting with RNC officials about amending the loyalty pledge.

An aide took the meeting; the RNC said forget it buddy.

In a statement, RNC senior adviser Richard Walters said the GOP primary candidates are only “being asked to respect the decision of Republican primary voters and support the eventual nominee.”

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Lying for Lexi

Jun 16th, 2023 9:52 am | By

Carla Jaeger seems to have a bit of a specialty in reporting on men who claim to be trans invading women’s sports. Her specialty is carefully concealing the fact that she’s talking about men invading women’s sports. I shared today’s entry; there’s another from four days ago.

In March, Harcourt and Robinson formed part of the three-person panel assembled by Basketball Australia to assess the eligibility of transgender basketballer Lexi Rodgers, who applied to join the semi-professional WNBL1 South league. The application was rejected after a near-month long assessment.

Yebbut transgender how? Which kind of transgender?

She doesn’t say. Not only does she not say here at first mention, she never says. She never once spells out that Lexi … Read the rest



Their best seller for a reason

Jun 16th, 2023 8:57 am | By
Their best seller for a reason

The joys of commerce. Nice Frogtees promotes its line of “or I will stab you” merch.

I wonder if they have any others in that vein. Move to the back of the bus or I will stab you? Get on the train to Auschwitz or I will stab you? End the strike or I will stab you? Stay south of the Rio Grande or I will stab you? Stop screaming and spread your legs or I will stab you? Obey the tyrant or we will stab you?

The text that accompanies this festive threat is slightly discordant.

This is the newest Respect My Pronouns Or I Will Stab You Shirthoodie, sweater, tank top and long sleeve tee

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Leave out all the relevant facts

Jun 16th, 2023 5:38 am | By

Journalism simply refuses to report on this subject honestly or accurately. The Age on “Australia’s new sports trans guidelines”:

Transgender athlete Hannah Mouncey has declared Australia’s new guidelines for elite trans athletes as the best and most detailed that she’s seen.

The issue isn’t “trans athletes.” The issue is males in female sports. Journalism simply will not say that.

However, the guidelines, developed by the Australian Institute of Sport to guide Australia’s sporting codes on what to do when transgender athletes seek to join elite competitions, were condemned in a scathing statement from the Queer Sporting Alliance.

Not transgender athletes; male athletes in female elite competitions. They know this but refuse to say it.

At a time when the

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Withdraw the withdrawals

Jun 16th, 2023 5:07 am | By

Always start the day with a bracing challenge to pious humiliation rituals. Kathleen Stock is a brilliant challenger. The news from Ukraine is grim, she says, but on the upside…

…the American author of Eat, Pray, Love has withdrawn her next book from publication.

The novel in question, The Snow Forest, is set in Siberia, and is now postponed indefinitely in the name of the Ukrainian people. In a video made by its author Elizabeth Gilbert to explain her decision, she explained she did “not want to add any harm to a group of people who have already experienced and who are continuing to experience grievous and extreme harm”.

Upon hearing this, my first thought was that surely

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Nosce te ipsum

Jun 15th, 2023 4:01 pm | By

Wait, who missed the point here?

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Bug spray…what does that remind us of…?

Jun 15th, 2023 3:57 pm | By

Hinting that we’re vermin now. Always a healthy sign.

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Biblical thinking

Jun 15th, 2023 11:57 am | By

It turns out Trump is the victim of an authoritarian coup.

The day before former President Donald J. Trump was arraigned on federal charges, he gave an interview to Americano Media, a conservative Spanish-language broadcaster in South Florida, and described his indictment as a “regression” of democracy.

Minutes before he pleaded not guilty in a Miami courtroom on Tuesday, his spokeswoman told reporters that the episode was something “you see in dictatorships like Cuba and Venezuela.”

As he mounts his political defense against a 37-count indictment, Mr. Trump has repeatedly invoked corruption and dysfunction in Latin American governments, casting himself in the role of oppressed political dissident.

Why does that sound so familiar? Oh yes – because it … Read the rest



Such discomfort

Jun 15th, 2023 10:27 am | By

Other people’s identities…

…and if your views on other people’s identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such discomfort that they cannot live in peace, then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good.

What does that even mean?

At this particular moment we know that “people’s identities” means the raging insistence of a small number of men that they are women and that women must not say they are men.… Read the rest



His profile as a respected LGBT advocate.

Jun 15th, 2023 8:17 am | By

Reduxx reports:

A prominent trans activist has been sentenced for the 2016 triple homicide of a California lesbian couple and their son. Dana Rivers, born David Chester Warfield, has been handed a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

“It is a horrible thing to sentence someone to die in prison, and I don’t take that lightly,” Judge Scott Patton said during the court hearing held today. “But this is the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years. Frankly, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in prison.”

Rivers’ crimes date back to November 11 of 2016, when police were called in response to the sound

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Guest post:

Jun 15th, 2023 7:50 am | By

Originally a comment by latsot on Preserving mystery in legislation.

I’ve lived a sort of double life as part scientist and part engineer, so I like to come at these things from two directions. On the one hand we have the big-picture thinking described well by iknklast and Holmes: this is a terrible idea for freedom and democracy. It will be used to serve political goals, that’s inevitable. Over in the UK, we’ve installed Police and Crime Commissioners as political appointments; these are the people who would be in charge of how hate laws are implemented in practice, which makes me more than a little uneasy. The entire principle of policing in the UK is that police are supposed … Read the rest



Meant to be inclusive

Jun 14th, 2023 3:48 pm | By

Make it make sense.

Women have shared their concern about the erasure of “all female identities” after Johns Hopkins University used the phrase “non-man” to describe lesbians.

The Baltimore-based university received backlash online after defining “lesbian” as “a non-man attracted to non-men” in its glossary of LGBTQ+ terms.

The update, which has since been removed from the website, was initially meant to be inclusive of non-binary individuals, who may still identify as lesbians.

That last bit. What can possibly be the point of being “inclusive” of a tiny tiny tiny fragment of the population, which has a fatuous delusion that it’s something labeled “non-binary,” which doesn’t mean anything, at the expense of over half of the population? Why … Read the rest