In less than a week in North America, two mass sh—tings in Canada and the U.S. resulting in the deaths of at least 10 victims — all women and children — were committed by trans shooters. Both shooters were men who identified as women. Many others were injured, some seriously.
A man who makes himself look like this is extremely antisocial. Never forget it. He doesn't care about anyone else's discomfort. In fact, he enjoys it. These are not poor oppressed women stuck in men's bodies. These are psychopaths.
I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
ICE disarmed that man and executed him, which is literally what every Republican politician has told us for years that Democrats would do to Americans if they got too much power. Turns out they were telling us their own plan all along.
So after how many decades of arguing that
school shootings are an acceptable price to be paid for the guns they need to defend themselves against government tyranny, they're now arguing that a tyrannical government can shoot people for carrying a gun.
Okay.
Women have been speaking up about men in women’s sport for years. YEARS. They were speaking up at the 2016 Rio Olympics. So the question isn’t “why aren’t women speaking up?” it’s “why is no one listening?”
“We’re very much relying on the people at the top sorting it out.” 💔
So @NPR, I've listened to this segment, and I follow this debate closely. I'm a leftist philosophy professor: your target audience.
This segment is *utter rubbish* from beginning to end. Sosin simply *lies* about the research, notably the paper by @FondOfBeetles in SM (2021). But the whole framing is wrong, and the spin that you put on this - on words like 'ban' and 'advantage' - is deeply dishonest.
On this evidence, you simply have no regard for the truth at all. It's *astonishingly* poor journalism. Your reputation should be in the ditch for this, including among liberals.
The number of men who tell me I'm unqualified to have an opinion on whether there might be downsides to cutting healthy breasts off teenaged girls with mental health issues, yet are 100% certain they're qualified to tell women what a woman is, continues to astound.
@wesyang I know a family that was held hostage by miscreants who vandalized their car while they sat helpless inside. Needless to say, this shaped their views of SF and driverless cars.
It’s not “would you rather have a dead child or a trans child?”
It’s “would you rather have a healthy gay child or a surgically & chemically altered gay child?”