Betony Morrison 🇨🇦

Momma. RMT. Former MNR Ops Tech

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

This has been on my mind a lot lately. What does real reconciliation look like. How do I get there? #reconciliation #hope #relationshiprepair

[TED Talks @TEDTalks]

Made a mistake? It happens! What matters most is what you do next.

Here's what you should say to take your first step on the road to reconciliation: https://t.co/q8uDtgOckD

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@Spotify can you please add "not interested" in menu 4 new recommendations. Only thing in my history even remotely related to p*rn is true crime involving SA. So no, I'm not interested in this topic suggestion and it's weird that your algorithm thinks this is what I want.

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

Win for Nintendo https://t.co/mkADTcaN5y

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@Eddie_Stainer @milton_theresa ❤️

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

A father just asked the most dangerous question in education right now.

His 16-year-old overslept for school. His reaction surprised even himself.

Camillo: “Does any of this really matter at all right now? Like, what are you even doing?”

He can’t say it out loud to his kid. But he can’t stop thinking it.

Camillo spent years being strict about attendance and grades. The traditional playbook.

Show up. Study hard. Get the degree. Build the future.

Then he watched what AI is doing to that playbook in real time.

Camillo: “Every single kid in America is using AI for every single assignment and every single test.”

Not a vocal minority. Not the tech-savvy outliers.

Camillo: “I don’t think people realize. It’s close to 100% of every high school and college student using AI for close to everything that they do.”

The student gets a math worksheet. Takes a photo. Uploads it to Gemini. Asks it to show the work.

Done.

If 100% of students are using AI to pass the test, the test isn’t measuring intelligence anymore.

It’s measuring willingness to comply with a system that stopped being relevant before it had time to notice.

Camillo: “The world is moving so quickly, and I can’t even imagine the stuff that you’re learning and how slowly it…”

He doesn’t finish the sentence. He doesn’t need to.

Curriculums take years to update. AI is rewriting the global economy in real time.

The gap between what school teaches and what the world requires is now unbridgeable.

And it’s widening every single day.

The kids aren’t failing the system.

The system is failing the kids. Slowly. In public. With everyone watching and nobody saying it out loud.

Camillo just did.

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@LeslynLewis @LeslynLewis
Pls press the HOC for official apology for unlawful invocation of Emergencies Act (as ruled by Federal Court & upheld on appeal) A sincere apology demonstrates basic decency & is essential first step to rebuilding eroded public trust. TY #EmergenciesAct

[Elizabeth Eddy @elizabetheddy2]

The W in NWSL

When I joined the National Women’s Soccer League 11 years ago, our games were live-streamed to fans on YouTube. Today, our league is halfway through a four-year, $240 million television contract. Our teams are among the most valuable franchises in women’s sports. Yet with this remarkable growth comes an urgent challenge: How do we preserve women’s rights and competitive fairness while fostering meaningful inclusion?

I’m proud to have played a small role in our league’s transformation from struggling startup to supercharged celebrity-maker. I’ve been a part of winning seven titles: three NWSL Championships, three regular-season titles and one International Champions Cup. But I’m concerned that without clarity about who the league is for, it will lose its identity and its momentum.

Recent controversies across women’s sports — from swimming to track and field — have highlighted the absence of clear eligibility policies in professional soccer, unlike a growing number of other competitions. This uncertainty serves no one, as questions and controversy abound over intersex and transgender athletes. Players have been excluded and then unexcluded, administrators have blamed and criticized each other, and fans have used the uncertainty to harass players. 

Leaders from across the political spectrum, including progressives like California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Vice President Kamala Harris, have expressed support for stronger protections for the integrity of women’s sports. Ensuring fairness prompted numerous international leagues to tighten eligibility. World Athletics did so in 2023 for international track and field competitions. Other countries’ domestic organizations did the same, including the UK Athletics Federation. World Aquatics (formerly FINA), international swimming’s governing body, adopted clear rules about sex and gender eligibility in 2022. England’s Football Association now requires ovaries at birth.

Addressing this challenge entails remembering why women’s sports categories exist in the first place: not to exclude but to create a space where female athletes can physically compete on equal footing. Studies show measurable differences between men and women in muscle mass, bone density and cardiovascular capacity, which directly affect competitive outcomes. Further research has found male muscular advantage is only “minimally reduced” — by about 5% over 12 months — by testosterone suppression.

Fairness and inclusion are core American values. Reasonable people can disagree about where to draw lines, but avoiding the conversation altogether by shutting out diverse views does not serve us. In fact, we owe it to current and future female athletes to solve this.

The NWSL must adopt a clear standard. One option is all players must be born with ovaries, as the FA requires. Another option is an SRY gene test, like those World Athletics and World Boxing implemented.

This SRY genetic marker indicates male-developmental pathways during fetal growth, providing objective scientific criteria for competitive categorization. Critics say genetic-testing policies can cause psychological harm. This concern must be taken seriously. Testing could easily integrate into medical evaluations through existing blood draws or noninvasive cheek swabs, conducted once per career under strict confidentiality protocols. Athletes testing positive for the SRY gene could receive comprehensive support, including counseling, privacy protections and inclusion in professional networks. World Athletics has successfully used similar protocols since 2018, with legal challenges ultimately supporting such policies’ scientific basis.

Creating pathways for athletes traditionally excluded from competing at the highest level would demonstrate inclusion and competitive integrity can coexist.

I know from experience the NWSL is more than just a sports league. For many, dreams are coming true in real life — dreams that were impossible before my generation. I also understand that for many athletes and fans, seeing intersex and transgender athletes compete and dominate on sports’ biggest stages also realizes a dream. How can we make an open arena reality for small and tragically marginalized minorities with nowhere else that may feel safe and inclusive to compete?

The answer is in the NWSL’s own history. Just as we built a new space for women to compete in the largest arenas, now we must honor that commitment and make the National Women’s Soccer League for women. I welcome leaders including the aforementioned American politicians to come together with the NWSL’s blueprint and build solutions.

Some pathway ideas: an open division within the NWSL, small-sided opportunities like the Soccer Tournament and World Sevens Football, pathways to stay in the game and free counseling. I don’t have all the answers, but I do know we’re all in this together. It will take time, space and creativity to cooperate as we move forward.

Decisions the NWSL makes — or shirks its responsibility to make — will shape opportunities for young athletes of all backgrounds for decades to come. We must get them right by finding the most ethical and innovative path ahead.

Women’s sports showcase the full range of human ability as we reach and exceed what is physically possible. Everybody needs a chance to break records and achieve the previously impossible. That is why we love to celebrate women competing against each other and why we need creative solutions to ensure everybody can compete on a level playing field. 

It would be nice to have no need for clear eligibility criteria. Unfortunately, when money, power and fame are at stake, which inevitably happens in professional sports, competitors may try to push on what is right or fair. Especially when the goal of winning requires using every available advantage.

[Chris George @ByGeorgeJournal]

THE WHO PANDEMIC TREATY AND CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY

"MP Leslyn Lewis @LeslynLewis has been following this issue for years and has consistently warned against signing the WHO’s Pandemic Treaty and accepting the revised regulations. She argues that the treaty will effectively usurp the decision-making processes of Canadian law-makers and health care officials during the period of a global health crisis. She has always been direct in her assessment of what Canada will give up after signing onto the WHO’s treaty."

Read the detail in the latest issue of The Monthly Globalist Monitor in the By George Journal: https://t.co/vswsx3x3Jv

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #bygeorgejournal #elbowsup #MarkCarney #PierrePoilievre #Ottawa #Toronto #Niagara #StCatharines #Hamilton #Edmonton #Calgary #Regina #Ontario #Alberta #Saskatchewan #Canada

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

RT @LeslynLewis: I have heard from many Canadians asking for an update on the WHO Pandemic Treaty and how they can stay involved on this cr…

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@EricLDaugh Hopefully he considers the people addicted to that supply...not going to be pretty in America without more resources for them.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Bill C-8 isn’t about “safety.” It’s about silence.

It gives the Minister power to decide who gets a voice no courts, no due process.

Canada can’t call itself a free country if dissent is digitally erased. ⚠️🇨🇦

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

This is an eye-opening statement about current "gender" care. Please read.

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

Please realize:

Gender dysphoria is a junk diagnosis based on the faulty premise of an innate “gender identity.” It was created by sexologists and fetishists to normalize child transsexuals and commit insurance fraud. Myself and other mental health professionals have critiqued it many times.

The DSM is a political tool and for profit book. It is not to be trusted.

The word “gender” in the DSM diagnosis of gender dysphoria means “a public, sociocultural, or lived role.” It is NOT a synonym for sex. It’s about identity. And dysphoria is not a synonym for dysmorphia. Further, it is not considered a disorder, but rather an innate condition.

I might be able to get on board with a disorder called sex dysmorphia. I might also go with a specific kind of body integrity disorder. But that is not at all how gender dysphoria is defined. It’s defined as an identity incongruence and the diagnostic criteria is a list of sex stereotypes. It’s basically saying if you don’t conform to sex stereotypes and this makes you uncomfortable, then your body is wrong for your identity. It assumes identity is innate and bodies can be wrong for your identity.

And because it is not considered a disorder but an innate condition it then uses this position to justify chemically castrating children, as well as breast binding, medically unnecessary radical double mastectomies, genital mutilation, and the creation of cosmetic flesh sculptures, as well as other extreme plastic surgeries. All in defense pf someone’s mental concept of themselves aka identity

But Identity is not innate. Identity is a mental concept we create about ourselves. Psychology used to warn about over attachment to egoic identity as a brittle mental state and would question this position. Now the profession argues for affirmation only. It’s appalling.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

[Jeffery Mead @the_jefferymead]

Charlie Kirk was the fastest growing and one of the most effective conservative voices in the country.

Interesting, is it not?

[CJ Pearson @Cjpearson]

Take this fucking network off the air.

[Cycling Weekly @cyclingweekly]

The national governing body of cycling, USA Cycling, will prohibit transgender women from competing in any of its female categories at sanctioned competitions starting September 15, 2025.

The new policy is the strictest eligibility criteria USA Cycling has adopted to date regarding transgender participation, and follows direction from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC).

https://t.co/lYCUePYbi9

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

Yo @McDonaldsCanada , why you leaving all the decaf people out in the heat? No decaf ice coffee or caps? 😭😭

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@AbbasTanya @CP24 The podcast about her is great work and absolutely horrifying. #cbcpodcasts #podcastrecs https://t.co/5FZZYno9lu

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

Great job @HaldimandCounty #splashpad looks great! Nice to see some of the fountains going that haven't worked in previous years.👍👍👍

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@_CryMiaRiver Best podcast episode about this that I've heard so far, to really understand what happens with puberty and hormones: Beyond Gender podcast episode "The Devastating Impact of Missing Puberty - James Linehan" released 20 March 2025. Absolutely brilliant. Love your work.

[Betony Morrison 🇨🇦 @Wanderwithher]

@Ames2420 Loved this as a kid. Died on it as an adult. Only ride to ever make me nauseous.