Kit

Feminist lawyer and mother in Canada. Logic not sophistry. Appreciates diverse viewpoints. Blocks for incivility.

[Jon Pike @runthinkwrite]

The reason this framing is decisively wrong is that it presents the decision as based on someone's trans status, whereas it is based on their sex. It's not because the people involved fall under the description 'transgender women' but because they fall under the description 'male'. Sometimes, it might not matter which of the descriptions you use, but here it does, because it mischaracterises the logic of the decision to describe them as @BBCNews does.

There's a pretty good community note below this, which I've rated as helpful.

[Prof. Gary Francione @garylfrancione]

No one should be treated as a punching bag. That is precisely my problem with trans ideology. It treats women as things whose rights can be abrogated and ignored and whose sex class can be abolished. It treats gays/lesbians as things whose sexual attraction can be denied, and it treats children as things that can be manipulated to believe they were born in the "wrong body."

[Kit @Evidence1st]

“Compassion is a virtue. But compassion that cannot count the cost is not kindness – it is moral abdication dressed as virtue ... It is the instinct that strips single-sex spaces of meaning rather than risk the discomfort of saying no.”
https://t.co/SdkEiMAwDv

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

This is really good

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

5 reasons to abandon preferred pronouns

[Kit @Evidence1st]

@_CryMiaRiver They aren’t just trying to frame trans identities as healthy, but also frame gender-identity-based language and policy as normative at the expense of sex-based language, on which women’s equality rights are based and depend.

[Kit @Evidence1st]

@babybeginner It reminds me of a forest fire near the shore, with clouds of smoke overhead and reflecting in the water. I like it too.

[Kit @Evidence1st]

@Women___Exist https://t.co/0TzzkFeMTe

[Restoring the West @RestoringWest]

The Restoring the West Manifesto

I spent the first part of my life living under oppression. I know what it means to be silenced, to have your freedom stolen, to watch a civilization reject the very values that make human flourishing possible.

I also know what it means to be free. And I know that freedom is not inevitable — it must be defended, understood, and taught anew to every generation.

The West is at risk of losing that fight. And too many people who should be leading the defense have no idea how to do so.

That’s why we’re launching Restoring the West.

The Crisis We Face

The civilization that gave the world individual liberty, the rule of law, scientific inquiry, and human dignity is under siege — not primarily from external enemies, but from internal collapse.

Many of our institutions have been captured. Too many of our universities teach students to despise their own inheritance of broad thought and discourse. Our media amplifies every grievance to leftist ideology, while ignoring threats from intolerant ideologies and forces. Our leaders lack the moral vocabulary and fortitude to defend what we’ve built.

Meanwhile, illiberal ideologies — from political Islamism to postmodern identity politics — advance unchecked, demanding submission to group identity over individual conscience, censorship over free speech, and tribal loyalty over universal human rights.

Classical liberals and conservatives? Too often, we’re losing. We win elections but lose the culture. We defend policies but surrender the principles. We react to provocations but fail to plant ideas that endure. We even wage wars to liberate oppressed people in other nations, yet we fail to explain—both to outsiders and to our own citizens—the moral absolutes that demand we use our power against evil, such as the death cult that served as the operating system of Iran’s Islamist regime.

The West will not be restored by winning news cycles. It will be restored by winning the argument for why the West is worth preserving.

Our Guiding Principles:

DEFEND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES, UNAPOLOGETICALLY

The features that have uniquely made our civilization a place where all can flourish are rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition: individual liberty, equality before the law, freedom of conscience and expression, and the dignity of every human being. These values built free societies. These values are now under attack. We will defend them without apology or equivocation.

FIGHT ILLIBERALISM IN ALL ITS FORMS

Whether cloaked in religious orthodoxy or academic jargon, illiberalism seeks the same end: the suppression of individual freedom in service of collective control. We oppose political Islam, which seeks to impose religious law on free societies. We oppose postmodern ideologies that replace individual rights with identity hierarchies. We refuse to choose between these threats. We recognize them both as enemies of Western civilization.

PLANT IDEAS THAT ENDURE

This publication is not about outrage or affirmation. It's about intellectual ammunition. Every piece we publish will advance a clear argument, address serious objections, and connect to the project of civilizational renewal. We write for people who need to be persuaded, not just people who already agree. Our goal is to shape minds, change debates, and arm veterans and new generations for the work ahead.

SPEAK WITH MORAL CLARITY

I did not escape one form of oppression to tolerate another. I will not pretend that all cultures are equal, that all ideas are equally valid, or that we can restore the West through euphemism and evasion. Moral clarity is not extremism — it's the precondition for moral action. We will say what is true, even when the truth is uncomfortable.

FIVE PILLARS, ONE MISSION

Everything we publish connects to the civilizational foundations we must restore:

Faith & Family - The roots of free societies

Education - Where the future is won or lost

Law & Liberty - Without which we are subjects, not citizens

Nation & Citizenship - The framework for self-governance

Media, Arts & Culture - Where values are formed or deformed

These aren't talking points. These are the fronts in a war for civilization itself.

SMART BREVITY, SERIOUS PURPOSE

Busy people need clear arguments, not bloated essays. We respect your time by making every word count. But efficiency serves substance, not the other way around. We will never sacrifice intellectual rigor for algorithmic reach or dumb down complex arguments for easier consumption. Excellence is the standard we want restored in our civilization — it’s the standard we hold ourselves to here.

Why This Matters

I have seen what happens when civilizations abandon their principles. I have lived under the thuggish sandal of illiberalism. I know the price of freedom because I know what life costs without it.

Too many of the institutions that once defended Western civilization have failed or been captured. The task of restoration falls to us — to those who understand what’s at stake and refuse to surrender what generations before us built and bled for.

This is not pessimism. This is realism coupled with resolve.

The West can be saved. But only if we’re willing to make the argument for why it deserves to be saved — and then do the work required to save it.

Welcome to Restoring the West.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

[Kit @Evidence1st]

@preta_6 I believe it too. Jordan Peterson once said they would put us in the gulag if they could.

[Lisa Bildy @LDBildy]

It's been a busy year for me, helping to build a new organization on top of running a law practice. It has taken a personal toll to some degree, but I view the freedom to speak truth to power as non-negotiable in a civilized society. Past generations paid for this freedom from the tyrants of their day with imprisonment, torture and exile, so some time and treasure to keep the light of liberty burning in our day seems a reasonable price to pay.

I'm grateful for the volunteers and (part-time) staff at FSUC who work hard to advance our mission of defending free speech in Canada. If this is important to you too, please consider joining us or donating so we have the resources to continue.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I know why Canadians embraced the lies. They thought they were kinder or more empathetic or nicer than the truth. But lies can never do those things. All they've brought is hate and ruin and it's time to stop.

[Shelley Crowley🇨🇦 @MrsDrBee]

This is a courageous, gutsy and honest piece. Thank you, Jamie. I spend much of my time on this issue and I have despaired of the country waking up. You don’t know what this means. 💜

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

This is not a minor semantic dispute. In high-profile crimes, accurate reporting matters. Biological sex is a data category used in criminology, public policy, and statistical analysis. Erasing it — or substituting identity categories without clarity — distorts public understanding and, over time, the historical record.

[Amy Eileen Hamm @preta_6]

Friends of X: Would you be so kind as to share @cawsbar’s upcoming Montreal conference?

We are selling in person and LIVESTREAM tickets for the event.

We are volunteers, but it remains a challenge to so much as break even on our conferences.

Our organization launched a Charter challenge to remove men from women’s prisons last year. We are doing big things!

Your support goes a long way to ending gender madness in Canada! 🙏🏻❤️

[Victoria Smith @glosswitch]

Women who know they're not feminine ladybrains have to choose between pointing out the sexism of conflating femaleness and femininity (and be denounced as terfs), or declare themselves not-women (and look like narcissistic idiots)

[Kit @Evidence1st]

@JimMcMurtry01 I never met him but I think of him often.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

A new course just wrapped up. “Dangerous Ideas” invited students to tackle difficult and polarizing topics by debating both sides, and the students loved it — suggesting that they would rather examine and discuss ideas than be told that they’re off-limits. https://t.co/HMYZkdBG6o

[Kit @Evidence1st]

@downlowjanedoe @Rob_ThaBuilder Another difference is that among many in the far left, women as such are no longer considered marginalized or equity-deserving, while Black people are considered oppressed.

[Nancy Hogshead, JD, Oly @Hogshead3Au]

I was raped when I was inarguably among the strongest women in the 🌎… and he was just a guy.
When he grabbed my wrist, I quickly realized – in that slow-motion-adrenalin-awareness phenomenon – that I couldn’t move my arm in any direction: not even when using my lats in a downward motion, where swimmers excel.”