Talyan 🦕🦖

An analogue mind in a digital world

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

You can tell a lot about a person by how they react when someone dies.

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

"Erasing women and women-specific language and needs based on their sex is not only wrong, but also demeaning, regressive and constitutes one of the worst forms of violence that women and girls can experience," @UNSRVAW Reem Alsalem told the @UN Human Rights Council.

#HRC59

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

She’s great!

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

Ari says it was women like @jk_rowling who helped wake him up to reality. He started reading arguments from so-called TERFS and realized he is not, and never will be, a woman. He is a gay man who fell for a lie. More w/@Transphobe01: https://t.co/BvZrBLnMN1

[Sam Morgan @CrunchAlias]

The problem for trans activists is not that the guidance on women’s spaces too complicated to follow, but that it is too clear to misrepresent.

[Independent Women @IWF]

TESTIMONY: “I have decided to step away from the sport I love, at least for now, because USA Fencing has fostered an environment where I am unwelcome in my own category. It is culturally acceptable to bully and shame women who speak up for other women. I should not have had to make this sacrifice.”

Watch Stephanie Turner testify before @DOGECommittee:

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.

I often wonder whether the signatories of such letters have to quieten their consciences before publicly boosting a movement intent on removing women's and girls' rights, which bullies gay people who admit openly they don't want opposite sex partners, and campaigns for the continued sterilisation of vulnerable and troubled kids. Do they feel any qualms at all while chanting the foundational lie of their religion: Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men?

I have no idea. All I know for sure is that it's a complete waste of time telling a gender activist that their favourite slogan is self-contradictory nonsense, because the lie is the whole point. They're not repeating it because it's true - they know full well it's not true - but because they believe they can make it true, sort of, if they force everyone else to agree. The foundational lie functions as both catechism and crucifix: the set form of words that obviates the tedious necessity of coming up with your own explanation of why you're one of the Godly, and an exorcist's weapon which will defeat demonic facts and reason, and promote the advance of righteous pseudoscience and sophistry.

Some argue that signatories of these sorts of letters are motivated by fear: fear for their careers, of course, but also fear of their co-religionists, who include angry, narcissistic men who threaten and sometimes enact violence on non-believers; back-stabbing colleagues ever ready to report wrongthink; the online shamers and doxxers and rape threateners, and, of course, the influential zealots in the upper echelons of liberal professions (though we can quibble whether they're actually liberal at all, given the draconian authoritarianism that seems to have engulfed so many). Gender ideology could give medieval Catholicism a run for its money when it comes to punishing heretics, so isn't it common sense to keep your head down and recite your Hail Mulvaneys?

But before we start feeling too sorry for any cowed and fearful TWAWites who're TERFy on the sly, let's not forget what a high proportion of them have willingly snatched up pitchforks and torches to join the inquisitional purges. Call me lacking in proper womanly sympathy, but I find the harm they've enabled and in some cases directly championed or funded - the hounding and shaming of vulnerable women, the forced loss of livelihoods, the unregulated medical experiment on minors - tends to dry up my tears at source.

History is littered with the debris of irrational and harmful belief systems that once seemed unassailable. As Orwell said, 'Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.' Gender ideology may have embedded itself deeply into our institutions, where it's been imposed, top-down, on the supposedly unenlightened, but it is not invulnerable.

Court losses are starting to stack up. The condescension, overreach, entitlement and aggression of gender activists is eroding public support daily. Women are fighting back and winning significant victories. Sporting bodies have miraculously awoken from their slumber and remembered that males tend to be larger, stronger and faster than females. Parts of the medical establishment are questioning cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls is really the best way to fix their mental health problems.

One seemingly harmless little white lie - Trans Women are Women, Trans Men are Men - uttered in most cases without any real thought at all, and a few short years later, people who think of themselves as supremely virtuous are typing 'yes, rapists' pronouns are absolutely the hill I'll die on,' rubbing shoulders with those who call for women to be hanged and decapitated for wanting all-female rape crisis centres, and furiously denying clear and mounting evidence of the greatest medical scandal in a century.

I wonder if they ever ask themselves how they got here, and I wonder whether any of them will ever feel shame.

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

When Stonewall was warned by SexMatters and others that its false assertion that the Supreme Court ruling was “not yet the law” was disinformation, they changed it to “It's important to remember that the ruling hasn’t gone through the parliamentary process yet.” This is just as bad. It doesn’t need to go through a parliamentary process. It’s the law. It has been the law since 2010 - despite the constant misrepresentations.

Advising sports and other bodies to wait before acting in accordance with the law is advising them to break the law. At this point, such advice looks malicious, designed to foment unrest.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'The Supreme Court didn’t float a suggestion. It clarified the law.'

Dennis Noel Kavanagh accuses Stonewall of misleading the public by downplaying the legal force of the court’s ruling defining 'woman' as biological female.

[FeministRoar @FeministRoar]

When you think about it, it's quite amusing - as in totally farcical, that Stonewall not only advised businesses to act in illegal ways but actually GAVE THEM POINTS and made a whole "top 100" list of how good they were and who was the best at doing the illegal things. 😂😂😂

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Fitness icon Jillian Michaels just sat down with Joe Rogan for a raw, hard-hitting 3-hour conversation.

And while they tackled a wide range of topics—including COVID—no moment struck deeper than when the subject of child mutilation came up.

Rogan predicted that “gender-affirming care” will soon go the way of lobotomies.

“We performed lobotomies for, I think, roughly 50 or 60 years,” Rogan said. “I think they stopped in 1967—that’s when they did the last one. And then they realized, like, oh my God, this is a terrible thing to do. But they did it for so fucking long.”

He added that transitioning doesn’t reduce the risk of suicide—it actually makes things worse.

“The data goes the other way,” he said. “They’re 25% more likely to commit suicide. Suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety. All those things ramp up once they’ve transitioned.”

[Gays Against Groomers @againstgrmrs]

Stephen Miller went beast mode during the WH press briefing this morning, scorching doctors and parents who transition kids, and calling the treatments barbaric child abuse.

We couldn’t agree more. Thank God this administration is fighting to stop it.

[Christy 💕 @Christy4Change]

ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR THIS DAD! 👏🏻

[Bev Jackson @BevJacksonAuth]

Stonewall responds to the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act.

Not a word of “compassion and humanity” for the lesbians who intervened to protect our sex-based rights.

Did you know Stonewall was once a gay and lesbian rights charity?/1 https://t.co/gTJfyA2joV

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Absolute clowns.
Here's an idea - how about you just stick to making soap and leave the giving of specialist counselling advice to expert therapists...?!

https://t.co/PeZHBpKeht

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

I think I did a bloody good job in this one minute. One to share with anyone who doesn't understand, or who misrepresents, the judgment.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

This afternoon a lady came up to me in Aldi & thanked me with tears in her eyes. As a care worker she wasn’t prepared to go along with men self ID’ing into intimate care for vulnerable woman so got pushed out of her job. This is the silent coerced women who have been trampled on.

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🚨A whistleblower from @Girlguiding has been in touch.

Volunteers have been instructed that, irrespective of the Supreme Court judgement, boys who identify as girls can use female camp rooms and toilets. Worse still, parents must not be told.

This is a safeguarding nightmare.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Imagine being such a coward you can only muster the courage to tell the truth once the Supreme Court has ruled on what the truth is.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Kemi Badenoch did not need a supreme court judgment to defend gay rights. She did it long before the great Government reverse ferret of today.