Great article: The Spectre of Totalitarianism: The worst offenders in the new climate of intolerance are our universities (mentions as examples gender theory & J.K. Rowling witch hunt)

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[–]our_team_is_winning 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

President Trump today told CPAC that women's sports was finished if they let biological men in. I'm sure the full transcript is somewhere because his exact words were different from my paraphrase. He did NOT mention bathrooms or other intimate places where women do not want men (well, some women are ok with it, aren't they!) but he got the biological men line in there. He did not use the word "transgender." I hope that the lead Republicans will copy his words and avoid "trans" anything and just keep saying "biological."

I would like everyone to stop using that "trans" term. Let's just say "biological men. Biology. They're male." Is the TRA lobby going to argue that chemicals and operations can change that biology? It messes with it, but it does not change it into female. Like that meme that shows archaelogists digging up the body of a TWAW and announcing the body is male. At what point do they think a male body stops being male? Is a car that's been stripped of most of its parts no longer a car? Minus wheels, engine, transmission, windshield, etc. it might no longer be a functioning car, but it's a "stripped car" or a "vandalized car." It's not suddenly a truck or a van. Silly analogy maybe, but all that TRA stuff is an insult to intelligence.

I wish that word "gender" would just go away, as it seems to confuse so many. Biological sex is easy to demonstrate. Until 20 years ago, or less, it was easy to agree on too!

But I won't hold my breath for the Republicans to save us. There's a few there that see biological reality, but there's plenty who just think "LGBTQ+ rights are popular, so I'll vote for that." Until everyone catches on that T is not LGB, I fear we're screwed.

[–]BEB[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm so sick of sports being the only thing that's brought up regarding the destruction the Equality Act will wreak on women.

Sports is important, but the Equality Act erases women as a distinct legal category and opens up us, and children, to rape and sexual assault on a terrifying scale.

I really think we women opposed to the Equality Act should keep changing the subject from sports to the erasure of women and the danger to every woman and child from opening up sex-segregated spaces to men.

Yeah, I never use "transgender" - I use "men who claim to be women"

[–]our_team_is_winning 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I never use "transgender" - I use "men who claim to be women"

We all need to do that. Refuse to use their made-up language.

This bill redefines "woman" to include "man." What more proof do we need that this is insane? I'm getting all this glib one-liner crap about "you just hate LGBT" (that's always rich when directed at LGB isn't it!) or "don't you know some people are born the opposite sex!" (like they're telling me the sun rises in the east, how can I not know that).

If woman is only "a feeling," how do we recognize women when we see them? Because this was never a problem before. Oh sure, depending on your hair, clothes, body type, occasionally at first glance people mistake one for the other, but at a distance I've mistaken a raccoon for a cat too.

I lost one friend over her insistence "well then how are you going to prove YOU are a woman every time you go in the women's toilets?"

Many people are saying the sports issue is the only one getting attention because men care about sports. I think it's because most people don't know what AGP is. They think "trans" means Blaire White (and they never think about what made Blaire decide to mutilate himself rather than just be a proud gay man).

[–]BEB[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think the sports issue and Rand Paul's grilling of Rachel Levine opened the door to normal Americans.

I think that door is going to blow off its hinges if GC people on the Left, especially GC LGB people, start screaming their heads off that women and gay rights are under attack from the TQ+, as well as women AND children's privacy, dignity and safety.

And to fucking morons like your friend who do the whole thing how do you prove your a woman, you can tell them since the advent of women's toilets, which wasn't that long ago in the US, women have had NO FUCKING PROBLEM telling who was a woman. Because idiots like your friend hadn't demanded we let men into our bathrooms, a butch-looking woman was still assumed to be a woman.

And in a locker room it's even less of a problem because most trans - around 90+% still have their penises.