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[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

My position is that gender dysphoria is a real, painful condition and that for some adults, the only way they may feel able to resolve that inner conflict is transition. If that’s the road they choose I wish them long life and happiness and I would vigorously oppose any discrimination against them when it comes to employment, housing or voting rights.

I do not believe children have the capacity to consent to treatments that may leave them infertile and, in some cases, anorgasmic. Multiple studies have shown that gender dysphoria in childhood and adolescence is not uncommon, for gay kids particularly, but it also occurs in, for example, straight girls who hate the idea of becoming women and sometimes, tragically, in children who’ve been abused. The available evidence shows that in the majority of cases, gender dysphoria resolves after the person has gone through adolescence. I am strongly opposed to the experimental treatment of blocking puberty in dysphoric children. I believe trans activists have behaved hugely unethically and irresponsibly in pretending that there is good evidence that these treatments are beneficial (there isn’t), that puberty blockers are completely reversible (there is a mounting body of evidence to suggest they aren’t) or that children are likely to kill themselves if denied blockers (there is no evidence to support this and suicide prevention charities warn against making such statements, due to the very real danger of suicide contagion.)

Of course, not all trans-identified people are dysphoric. Erotic transvestism, also known as autogynephilia, (getting a sexual thrill out of dressing as/pretending to be a woman) has been around for a very long time. I believe lesbians are entitled to exclude straight, cross-dressing men from their dating pools without being accused of bigotry and worse (same goes for gay men with trans-identified women). It’s profoundly homophobic to attack gay people for being same-sex attracted.

I don’t believe anyone, adult or child, is ‘born in the wrong body.’ That is an unfalsifiable, quasi-religious belief. A person may *feel* as if they’re in the wrong body, but humans cannot literally change sex. However they identify, men don’t belong in the single-sex spaces for which women fought so hard.

[We Heart Seattle @weheartseattle]

I was attacked by my a man having a meth induced psychotic episode at a children’s park while being interviewed by @FoxNews The double standard is on full display 👇🏼 @lniwa held another meeting with me this week and asked things like 1: How many needles do I pick up per month 2: Where do I take them 3: What gloves I wear 4: If I also pick up other garbage 5: Do I direct volunteers 💉 Be safe out there! Thank you @BretBaier for featuring this insanity. @GovBobFerguson perhaps it’s time to declare children’s parks a state of emergency and bring in the feds.

[Darren Bailey @DarrenBaileyIL]

They told you Flock was for criminals.

Government employees in Illinois used it to track exes and people in their personal lives. One person was searched 140 TIMES.

Mass surveillance WILL be abused.

BAN FLOCK IN ILLINOIS.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Nothing to see, just the guy people worshiped during Covid is actually a mad scientist and blatant criminal trying to illegally cover up his illegal mad scientist experiments :

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Declassified Docs Show Deep State Letting Chinese Espionage Slide If It Helps Democrats https://t.co/awumU1NP5t

[Olivia Reingold @Olivia_Reingold]

Almost exactly a year ago to the day, I uncovered that a dozen of the most viral images presented as evidence of famine in Gaza in fact showed children with unrelated medical issues, including cystic fibrosis and autoimmune conditions.

The investigation earned me death threats, calls for me to be tried at The Hague, and jabs by a high-profile comedian on national TV—despite the fact that we’ve had to issue exactly zero corrections on our story.

Our point was simply to tell readers that if there was a famine in Gaza, photographs of these children were not evidence of it.

What is indisputable today is that there is currently no famine in Gaza.

That is the major finding from a UNICEF-led team that recently produced the most comprehensive and robust nutrition survey of Gaza since the war began.

The survey found that less than a year after a famine was declared in Gaza, the territory has one of the lowest malnutrition rates in the region. A recovery that swift is not just “miraculous,” in the words of a malnutrition researcher I spoke with—it raises questions in and of itself. Questions like: How can a war-torn territory go from famine to showing some of the lowest rates of child malnutrition in the region in less than a year? 

In my report today for @TheFP, I investigate that question, its implications, and what it means for the debate over the official decision to classify a famine in Gaza still raging 12 months on.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

You asked for results, we made the changes necessary for this FBI to deliver- one example, DNA:

We are statutorily required under the “DNA Fingerprint Act of 2005” to receive and process collected DNA samples from federally convicted offenders, arrestees, and non-U.S. citizen detainees.

These samples are required to be sent to the FBI Laboratory Division (LD) for processing – we get around 50k a month. This literally solves crimes across the country, like unsolved homicides, mass shootings, sexual assaults, and other violent offenses.

There had been a massive backlog at the FBI Lab for decades. On August 1, 2024, the pending DNA backlog for these samples was over 1.81 million, literally breaking federal statutory requirements. A typical example of institutionalized bureaucracy from prior leadership that left crimes across America unsolved.

When we got here, we changed it. This FBI dedicated more resources, more equipment, improved IT systems, and used business analytics for DNA processing.

TODAY - that DNA backlog is officially at ZERO.

Just more evidence of the monumental and necessary changes made by this FBI. Thank you, FBI Lab Division.
-DKP🇺🇸

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Female means possessing the reproductive system that produces eggs instead of sperm. It is irrelevant whether said system is defective, immature or surgically altered.

I just described every female on earth.

[Carole Hooven @hoovlet]

My recent @NIH talk 👇🏽 was on why we need to get real about sex.
I recommend the lively Q&A (at 50 mins), with NIH scientists in the room and online. (Not all were happy with the gametic definition.) @NIHDirector_Jay was called away, so the conversation was moderated by Rick Woychik [@DirectorNIEHS].
And stay for the supplemental video (at 1:30) that I made to answer some of the online questions we didn't have time for. Also there was some blowback on social media, so I tried to clarify some of my main points in response. https://t.co/q8M7dQghu0

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

To the public, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Russiagate, and Hillary’s email server appeared to be separate and unrelated events. But they never were. In fact, the best way to understand them is as a single, decade-long FBI operation to deceive the American people.

[Matt Calkins @Matt_Calkins]

After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males. It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change.

https://t.co/NAhfUbmaPI

[Richard H. Ebright @R_H_Ebright]

Fauci Senior Advisor David Morens pleads guilty to "Conspiracy to Commit Offenses and to Defraud the United States" in connection with conspiring with Fauci, Daszak, Keusch, and others to defraud the public about NIH-funded gain-of-function research and the origin of COVID.

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

Now, listen to me very carefully!

So far, I’ve spoken with:

2 Former NBA players
3 G-League players
3 European players

They have all said that if the @WNBA doesn’t change the rules, they’re ready to join the movement and are considering coming out as women and putting their names in the 2027 #WNBA Draft.

Hear me out;

The @NBA G- League pays players $45,000 a year, while the #WNBA top players earn $1.4 Million.
Those “men” could earn an extra $1,355,000 a year by just identifying as women.

Rules are rules.

#LetFreedomPlay

[The Free Press @TheFP]

There is no shortage of genuinely extraordinary black intellectuals. The problem was that many of them refuse to play the ideological role liberal elites wanted them to play, writes Coleman Hughes. https://t.co/oPA3DRU3Sc

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down.

[Quillette @Quillette]

"Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University.

After ascending to the academic elite, Fryer didn’t resign himself to irrelevant technical puzzles; he put his genius to work investigating the most hotly contested issues of race in America, and translating his findings into concrete programs that dramatically improved the lives of poor black kids. He’s been praised as a genius, winning a MacArthur prize, a Time 100 listing, and the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the best under-40 economist in the world."

So why did Harvard University goes after one of its best black professors?

Rob Montz in the Quillette archive.

https://t.co/lfRWHJfhiy

[Jonah Orion Wheeler @jonahowheeler]

Gender ideology is an illiberal, backwards way of thinking that I make no apologies for opposing.

Heres a bit of my explanation as to why.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

'Wolves In White Coats': 5 Key Takeaways From HHS Report On Alleged Pediatric Gender-Treatment Fraud https://t.co/VMAhkvWHQD

[Julian Assange™ @JulianAssange_2]

Dear Bill Maher,
I am waiting for your apology for you yelling at me on your podcast about the Jan 6th “Insurrection” that turns out to be an inside job WITH 26 @FBI CONFIDENCIAL HUMAN SOURCES…

[Lion Leonidas @LionLeonidas3]

„Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation“ gibt nun auf ihrer Website an:

„Die Impfung gegen COVID-19 kann die Multiple Sklerose durch querreagierende CD4+-T-Zellen auslösen, die das Spike-Protein von SARS-CoV-2 und Myelin-Peptide erkennen.“

Mit anderen Worten: Ihr eigenes Immunsystem zerstört die Nervenbahnen und greift dann Ihr Gehirn und Rückenmark an.

Diese Daten standen während der Lockdowns zur Verfügung, wurden aber als „Verschwörungstheorie“ bezeichnet und von den sozialen Medien zensiert.