It seems the Yay Nazis wing is celebrating. The New Republic reports:

The immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s presidential election win is already a bad omen for women and minorities across the nation, who within less than 48 hours have found themselves the subjects of hate campaigns designed to belittle and marginalize them.

“Your body, my choice. Forever,” posted white supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes hours before the race had even been called in Trump’s favor.

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A text campaign—and obvious hate crime—issued a threat to students of color across the nation, claiming the recipients had been “selected” as “house slaves” and were due to appear at plantations.

Just kids blowing off steam.

And we wonder why Dems are unpopular.

Check out the self-righteous beardy white guy shouting down the black guy who had the unmitigated temerity to say the words “boys playing in girls’ sports.”

He’s why Trump won.

Ok not all of why Trump won, but a big chunk of it.

Via Kathleen Stock, a seminar at Sussex in 2021.

I find it so fascinating, that substitution of the image for the reality. It’s not a brute physical fact that children are children, no no no no, how crude and philistine would that be? No no, it’s an image, conjured up by evil cruel weird “transphobic activists.” It’s not a brute physical fact that mutilating genitals is mutilating genitals, no no, it’s a paranoid fantasy in the contemporary landscape. Everything is an image and a fantasy, nothing is physical or real – except of course for the obvious unmistakable fact that the trans child is the trans child.

This should cheer us up – Susan B. Glasser at the New Yorker on Trump’s revenge.

Electing Donald J. Trump once could be dismissed as a fluke, an aberration, a terrible mistake—a consequential one, to be sure, yet still fundamentally an error. But America has now twice elected him as its President. It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be. His victory was a worst-case scenario—that a convicted felon, a chronic liar who mismanaged a deadly once-in-a-century pandemic, who tried to overturn the last election and unleashed a violent mob on the nation’s Capitol, who calls America “a garbage can for the world,” and who threatens retribution against his political enemies could win—and yet, in the early morning hours of Wednesday, it happened.

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Trump has now achieved an unthinkable resurrection. Even his four criminal indictments have served only to revive and reinvigorate his hold on the Republican Party, which is now centered more than ever on the personality and the grievances of one man. Almost sixty-three million Americans voted for Trump in 2016; more than seventy-four million cast their ballots for him in 2020. 

More than 74 million people look at Trump and like what they see.

And yet what a leap of unthinking partisanship and collective amnesia it has taken for his party to embrace this twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, once-convicted con man from New York. Trump in 2024 was no regular G.O.P. candidate. He was an outlier in every possible way. In 2016, perhaps it was conceivable for voters upset with the status quo to see Trump, a celebrity businessman, as the outsider who would finally shake things up in Washington. But this is the post-2020 Trump—an older, angrier, more profane Trump, who demanded that his followers embrace his big lie about the last election and whose campaign will go down as one of the most racist, sexist, and xenophobic in modern history. His slogan is now openly the stuff of strongmen—Trump alone can fix it—and he will return to office unconstrained by the establishment Republicans who challenged him on Capitol Hill and from inside his own Cabinet. 

Unconstrained by anything at all, I would think.

An interesting development:

UPDATE: A source with knowledge in the matter has told me that the ACLU is considering sacking its star transgender attorney, Chase Strangio, from leading oral arguments on Dec 4 in U.S. vs. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court case involving Tennessee’s ban on pediatric sex “change” Rx. According to my source, Strangio is “Not dealing well with the stress, not being sufficiently respectful” of LGBT org veterans, “running their mouth in social media, inexperienced.” The concern on the part of LGBT groups “is that Strangio does not care (and has actually said so) if Bostock [vs. Clayton County, the precedent being invoked by the DOJ/ACLU] gets a haircut that screws gays.” This is still unconfirmed, but I’m told will be reported on (and likely spun) by a prominent transgender activist very soon. Or not, now that I’ve made it public.

Strangio’s Twitter account just went down. That’s odd. pic.twitter.com/GG9Kdaplj4

— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) November 7, 2024

Now it’s gone to “This account doesn’t exist.”

See ya.

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Historians will.

Did you stop for a minute to really think about what exactly “trans” IS? There’s no question that you love your child. Isn’t that all the more reason to look long and hard at what’s going on with your child, no matter how frightening it may seem to look directly at it?

I’ll tell you what trans is NOT: it is not some innate state of being. “Being trans” is not like being gay, which is inborn. “Transness” is not something anyone is born with. Your child was not born “trans” and your child is not fated to “be trans” for the rest of their days. Transness is an idea in people’s heads, and it’s one that causes very real emotional distress. But it is nevertheless still just an idea in people’s heads. (Gayness is not. Gayness can be materially measured and studied via numerous methods.)

There have never been people anytime in history who exhibit the symptoms that young “trans people” have begun exhibiting in our current culture, right after social media came to prominence. You can prove this to yourself by simply looking at your own high school yearbook. Anyone over age 40 can do the same. This isn’t because some vast subset of the human population has up until practically yesterday suffered and died in some kind of transgender closet, with all of those deaths being somehow magically erased from any and all logs of history. It’s because until the idea that it’s possible to have been “born in the wrong body” was planted in people’s minds and then advertised 24/7 on social media, virtually nobody thought to be distressed about it before. That’s what’s called a social contagion.

Whatever your child is experiencing, they are experiencing it entirely because of ideas they were exposed to in their cultural environment. (I say “they” so as not to offend, but it sounds like you have a daughter who is in denial about her sex, because she is confused about the concept of sex, because a subculture has emerged on the Internet whose adherents set out to make everyone confused about the concept of sex. And because she is in distress about the sexist social ideas that are laden on women and girls by our sexist society.)

There are no trans kids. Only kids confused about sex. Read this essay about it, if you’re interested.

Watch the clip.

The chief anti-Holocaust-denialism scholar, Deborah Lipstadt:

Horrified by the attacks tonight in Amsterdam, which are terribly reminiscent of a classic pogrom. I am also deeply disturbed by how long the reported attacks lasted and call on the government to conduct a thorough investigation into security force intervention and on how these despicable attacks transpired. In terrible historical irony, this is happening two days before the grim anniversary of Reichspogromnacht in 1938, when Nazi-sanctioned and led pogroms against Jews erupted across the German Reich.

Ah yes, “Zionist hooligans.” That explains everything.

“Maccabi Tel Aviv Hooligans” – that’s just lovely.

Yes, the one consolation for the victory of the convicted felon is that he’s not a TransAlly and won’t be appointing any men who pretend to be women to cabinet posts. No, that’s not because he respects women.

In other words, what she said.

All of what she said:

In case I haven’t been clear in the numerous articles I have written in which I slate and heavily criticise what passes for the modern left these days, including Biden and Harris. I understand, as far as I am able, whyTrump was elected, and the absolute shit show surrounding the Democrats. What I have been astounded about are all of these women and men making statements about how Trump will now protect women and children, and will make that his priority. That women and girls will be safe under Trump. I’m sorry if this has offended you, but I stand by it. And yes, he does know what a woman is. You are certainly right about that.

Like for instance:

Antisemitic riots in Amsterdam:

Israeli commercial planes on Friday were bringing home citizens injured in Amsterdam after bursts of violence tied to a soccer game between a Dutch and an Israeli team that Israeli and Dutch officials described as antisemitic attacks.

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While the exact sequence of events remained unclear, the violence appeared to be the product of two combustible forces in Europe: the unrest that often accompanies gatherings of hard-core soccer fans and tensions over the yearlong Israeli military offensive in Gaza.

In other words men lose control.

Videos circulating on social media and a video distributed by The Associated Press provide a glimpse of the tensions in the hours leading up to the violence. In the A.P. clip, dozens of men wearing scarves with the colors of the Israeli soccer club, Maccabi Tel Aviv, are seen gathering on Thursday at Amsterdam’s central Dam Square, where flares are being lit amid a heavy police presence.

Other video footage verified by The Times shows a group of men trying to take down a Palestinian flag from a building on Rokin, a street in central Amsterdam. One man is heard saying in Hebrew, “The people of Israel live,” while others shout anti-Palestinian chants using expletives. The earliest versions of the videos appeared on social media in the early hours of Thursday.

It’s almost funny, in a way. What’s it about? Israel and Palestine? Or football?

Europe has experienced an increase in antisemitic incidents in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023 and the ensuing war in Gaza. On Thursday, a broad coalition of German lawmakers passed a resolution calling on the government to do more to criminalize and otherwise punish antisemitic acts.

Gaza? Or football?

Originally a comment by Mike Haubrich on Historians will.

@Bevin

If you and your child were to be honest about what is going on with the trans issue, you would be more able to resolve it in a way that protects him, or her in the long run. The transgender issue is an artifact of toxic masculinity. Those children who experience the sexism and bullying of not conforming to the gender expectations of their sex are now being shepherded into a belief that they have a gender identity that is different from their sex, and that the gender identity is what takes primacy in defining whether they are male or female; and that is a dangerous social lie that has taken hold.

Rather than resolving the identity issue, the transgender movement exacerbates it because it affirms that male superior roles are “natural,” while female subservient roles are also natural. We should instead be affirming that males with femimine personae are still males, and that females with masculine personae are yet females. But now we are swimming against a tidal wave of gender confusion with the belief in gender identity. To question it in any way is considered bigotry, and so few people want to be thought of as bigoted (except for the redhatted uglies, of course) that they don’t look at this issue with any sort of skepticism.

I’m sure that you honestly believe that your child is trans and needs your protection as such. But this belief is a result of a social phenomenon that actively puts women at risk of violence, preventing women from having safe private spaces away from males and especially when women are vulnerable. There are men who are keenly aware of the social stigma of questioning trans identities, and so they use this to claim they are trans in order to access women’s private spaces. In clamoring to ensure that men who identify as women are safe from men who get freaked out about such things, society has ensured that women will be cornered in locker rooms, in restrooms, in homeless shelters, in rape crisis centers, and other refuges women have fought for in order to have respite from the dangers of male dominance.

Protect your child, yes, but protect him or her by helping them resolve their sexual identity in a way that affirms rather than denies their true nature. There’s confusion among adults in this issue, not helped by the stigma attached to those who are trying to right it. Imagine how it is for children, who are trying to figure out gender even in the best of circumstances.

Maybe, just maybe, this was never a good idea in the first place.

Trans men sue NHS over ‘half-built’ genitalia

Sorry, mate, just can’t get the parts.

Human rights lawyers are representing patients who have been left with “indeterminate genitalia” and “psychological distress” after their surgery processes were unexpectedly halted.

NHS England had commissioned St Peter’s Andrology Centre, a private clinic in north London, to carry out the surgeries but did not renew the contract upon its expiry in March 2020.

Good old Saint Peter, patron saint of rebuilt peters.

Seeking further information, I learn that andrology is a real thing. Creating a penis out of thigh skin on the other hand, not so much. Whatever you create that way it’s not a penis.

The two genital surgeries in question are metoidioplasty and phalloplasty, in which a penis is created from existing genital tissue or from skin grafts from elsewhere on the body, respectively. They are complex procedures that commonly require three stages of surgery.

It isn’t, though. A pseudo-penis, a dummy penis, a pretend penis, a fake penis – but not a penis.

Department of silly titles department.

Trump’s triumph is a disaster for Starmer and the self-regarding, virtue-signalling elites

Well, yes, but it’s not quite that simple. Just for one thing it’s also a festival for the rich, destructive, profit at all costs elites.

Preening virtue-signaling thought-policing lefties can be annoying, especially when they forget that women are not The Enemy, but that doesn’t make the blunt misogyny and racism and generalized contempt of Trump more acceptable. The choice is not between gender police and Trump; there’s a huge amount of territory between those two silly poles.

That territory is where most people live.

The International Boxing Association speaks up.

The IBA sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee in June last year, warning of the safety risks that women could face at the Paris Games against a fighter who had already failed sex tests. But the IOC took no action, instead allowing Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, a second boxer whose results suggested the same difference in sexual development, to sweep to Olympic titles without losing a single round. Three months on, as the IOC pours scorn on fresh reporting in France about “unverified documents whose origin cannot be confirmed”, the IBA is mounting a staunch defence of the accuracy of its testing procedures.

“It was a chromosome test, to check for XX or XY, and these two boxers didn’t meet the eligibility criteria, because they both fell into the XY category,” Chris Roberts, the IBA chief executive, tells Telegraph Sport. “They were tested twice, in 2022 and 2023. When you receive a secondary laboratory test with the same results, demonstrating that both boxers are ineligible, it’s clear. What comes with it is our obligation and our duty of care to the other athletes.”

A serious obligation and duty of care, because if you put a male boxer in the ring with a female boxer, you are putting the female boxer in extreme danger.

Roberts is unsparing in his argument that the IOC failed to uphold any such duty, with president Thomas Bach insisting with increasing desperation that womanhood could be determined by passport status alone. “In my opinion, Bach has taken two gold medals away from the other two finalists,” he says. “He has a heck of a lot to answer for. I find his comments totally disrespectful. How do you compete as a woman based on a passport? You or I could change our passports to do that.

“We support women’s right to compete against women. In a hard sport, women shouldn’t be subject to anything outside those criteria. When women are going to compete for a gold medal at the Olympic Games, they don’t need another obstacle in the way, an obstacle that shouldn’t have been there in the first place. And these two boxers ended up winning gold medals in both categories.”

It wasn’t fair, and it was dangerous.

There is also the question of why the IOC remains so dismissive about sex tests as a concept, given that Reem Alsalem, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said last month that they should be mandatory so that women’s events were ring-fenced for those born female.

I’m afraid it’s the usual reason. Women don’t matter. Women aren’t really among the downtrodden, they just pretend to be because they’re Karens.

In a report presented to the General Assembly in New York, she wrote: “There are circumstances in which sex screenings are legitimate and proportional in order to ensure fairness and safety in sports. At the Paris Olympics, female boxers had to compete against two boxers whose sex as females was seriously contested, but the IOC refused to carry out a sex screening. Current technology enables a reliable sex screening procedure through a simple cheek swab with non-invasiveness, confidentiality and dignity.”

Why did the IOC refuse?

Oh goody goody, another first.

State Sen[ator] Sarah McBride will be Delaware’s next representative in Congress, becoming the first transgender person elected to federal office in the history of the United States.

But not, by quite a long way, the first man elected to federal office in the history of the United States.

That’s part of the fun of trans for men, you know – getting to playact being oppressed and ignored and shoved aside All This Time. When you pause to remember they’re men the game crumbles into nothing.

She will assume the congressional seat vacated by U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Tom Carper.

Man replaces woman. Big news.

The tribunal ruled that Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre had to apologize to Roz Adams.

The rape crisis centre says it is committed to balancing the views, needs and wants of all its service users.

Does that mean “including the male ones”?

Because if so, that’s the same old problem. A rape crisis service shouldn’t be “balancing” men’s needs and wants with women’s needs and wants. Some men’s “wants” include raping women.

Naomi Cunningham explains:

The point is this. Single-sex spaces for women can’t have men in them, because if they do, they’re not single-sex. 

I told you it was simple. It’s like the “no peanuts” rule for a peanut-free dish. If you label a dish “peanut free”, you have to leave the peanuts out. All of them. The fact that lots of people like peanuts is no answer. Peanut-free dishes aren’t about those people: they’re about the people who may go into anaphylactic shock and die if they eat a peanut. It doesn’t matter if the peanut has been mashed to a paste, moulded into the shape of a walnut and scented with walnut oil, so that no-one looking at it, smelling it or eating it would dream that it might be a peanut. It doesn’t matter if it’s got a special certificate that says that for legal purposes it’s a walnut. It still needs to be left out of the peanut-free dish, or the peanut-free dish ain’t peanut-free. 

Anaphylactic shock, sexual assault – not the same things, but both are unwanted.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Historians will.

…knowingly pushing Genderist (or other generally divisive) policies, ideology, and rhetoric prioritizes support for those things over victory.

The bolded part is the part I don’t get, and is the core ingredient of the dictum I’ve noted here on a number of occasions: “Every organization that embraces trans ideology turns to shit.” How is it that these institutions (or at least some sufficiently powerful, decision-making fraction of them) have been able to so completely delude themselves that genderism is in any way progressive, and are willing to maintain that belief in light of the manifest harms to women, children, lesbians and gays, (whom one would expect to be the normal beneficiaries of progressive attention)?

They can’t not know that these harms are happening. Depending on their degree of support for the trans “rights” that are causing these harms, they have to discount, downplay, or ignore them. They also now have a vested interest in getting others to do the same, whether it be through (mis)information, or actual enforcement. This deliberate institutional suppression and disregard for the injury and distress caused by their support of trans “rights” will often run counter to the organization’s original mandate and reason for being. It inevitably results in a bewildering, Kafkaesque “opposite world” of inherently contradictory and antithetical consequences for the “allies’” own operations. We end up with self-censoring news media failing to report fully and honestly about gender issues; prison systems offering incarcerated male sexual predators more female victims. Health systems eroding the clarity and accuracy of communications by removing the word “women” from bulletins nominally meant to alert women of health risks; sports federations forcing women and girls to play alongside and against men, thereby risking injury and disability; rape crisis centers refusing to offer exclusively female care or spaces; organizations originally established to win and protect the rights of gays and lesbians which have dropped same-sex attraction in favour of enforcing a homophobic same gender attraction based agenda. All of these end points are perverse inversions of the original, normal functions of these bodies. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. TWAW.

Again, I return to my real question. I can almost see what the gender zealots within these bodies and agencies get in return for essentially destroying the credibility and reputation of the organizations they’ve shackled to the cause of trans “rights”: woke cookies and the happy glow of militant self- righteousness in fighting for a Good Cause. I imagine that people have betrayed more for much less than that. But what’s in it for the captured and subservient institutions themselves? What’s the payoff? Why do they let this happen in the first place? Why do they let it continue, once the price being paid (by both the institutions and the innocent victims they’re supposed to ignore) becomes clearer? How far will sunk cost fallacy take you away from what you’re supposed to be doing before you finally admit the costs are truly sunk? How does an organization benefit from having its purpose turned around 180 degrees to make it go backwards? Who outside of trans activism (and the trans medico-pharmaceutical industrial complex), actually benefits from associating themselves with this cause?

All too goddam true.