"Well, here, right now, at long last, I would like to put all those rumors to rest. I will not be seeking political office. In fact, I won’t be continuing in politics at all. I have my sights on something much bigger.
Effective immediately, I am going to concentrate all my efforts on becoming the greatest, most powerful player in the nine-to-twelve-year-old division of my local girls’ softball league."
Well... don't set your hopes high, those 9-12 years old girls are dangerous. Maybe try something a little bit less... "challenging"? Like preverbal toddlers? Then you wouldn't be interrupted by mean people saying hurtful things.
Besides, considering that you have been concentrating all your efforts on this for over a year now, it looks like you won't make it. Like your dad, someone should have told him not to run for second term. I suppose you are going to blame Covid.
On serious note, a whole chapter on transpeople! I never knew they were THAT scary!
What have transpeople ever done to you for you to hate them? They don't have anything to do with Democrats, they don't have anything to do with you, they aren't threatening anything or anyone, they are a totally harmless minority and so small a minority at that... they aren't even accepted by some GLBTQA+ people! And as if the world wasn't full of derogatory mockery and misinformation about transpeople.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel!
Seriously, had you been Teddy Roosevelt, and they had brought you the tied up bear cub, you would have shut it, and then bragged about it.
This is low even for you.
Trump Really, Really, Really Does Not Like Trans People
"It is no longer anyone’s business what sex you were assigned at birth"
It has never been anyone's business what sex you were assigned at birth. Why would it be? Why are you so interested about what's between the legs of people?
"If I wake up one day feeling like a thirteen-year-old girl named Susan (which would come as a pretty big surprise to my girlfriend, Kimberly), then you are required—by law in some countries—to call me that."
I don't think it would come as such a big surprise to her.
But, firstly, there's quite a lot more to being transgendered than "today I want to be a girl!". Secondly, if you want to be a 13yo girl named Susan, be it. Doesn't bother me.
Then, if you want to play in Little League - probably because that's the only place where you could win... though I doubt even that - it's up to the Little League if they accept you. You could always try to sue them for not letting your inner 13yo girl play, but even if you won, I would say the other parents would run you out of the city.
It didn't go so well for Danny Almonte. And no Democrats were screaming "let the poor boy play!"
Now, the issue of transpeople has nothing to do with adult people being so tired of losing they start cheating. It would be nice if you actually met and discussed the issues with actual transgendered people, the same way you talked things with your bluecollars, but I don't think you would. Discussing with people "like that" probably damages your fragile masculinity, and the relations with Trump voter base. You can't have that, now. Besides, the transpeople are such a minority no-one cares. And your audience loves it when you mock minorities, especially those they feel are threatening them.
It never cease to amaze me how fragile the macho masculinity is. A man wears a ballgown. Your masculinity is fractured. A man kisses another man. Another crack. Gillette has an ad telling guys they don't need to bully, fight, and treat women like trash to be men, and you lose your mind.
"Just ask Kate Scottow, a woman who lives in Hertfordshire, England. In February 2019, she was arrested by local police for “harassing” a transgender woman (which means a man who identifies as a woman). You see, she referred to her as a “he” on Twitter. (I know, I know. This can get confusing.) Police showed up at Scottow’s apartment and arrested her in front of her autistic ten-year-old daughter and her twenty-month-old infant son. In court, the prosecutor accused Scottow of engaging in a “campaign of targeted harassment” against the transgender activist, all because she refused to call the activist by her preferred pronoun."
Oh, poor Kate Scottow.
Again, had she just done that, nothing would have happened. No-one can force anyone to use correct pronouns of them, and it's not illegal. But there were no quotation marks around the harassment in this case. It was a campaign of targeted harassment. This woman created several twitter accounts just to harass transgendered people, not just Stephanie. She didn't only post comments on Stephanie's Twitter, she spoke crap about her elsewhere, too, accusing her of racism (never any evidence or reference to what she was talking about) and said things like: 'He is a very, very sick individual. I have evidence of that.' (The kind of "evidence" Trump has on election fraud 2020. No-one ever sees it because it doesn't exist.)
There were TWO court orders telling her to stop the harassment, but she continued. Just created another Twitter account, as if that made it OK.
It's not a question of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is when J.K.Rowling goes out saying things on her own twitter account, or when Harry Miller talks crap on his. Kate Scottow went out of her way to actually harass a person, against a court order.
Had she not committed a crime, she would not have been arrested in front of her children. Now she threw away a whole career she had been investing a lot of work, time and money on.
You call it "left's nonsense", I call it "TERF idiocy". I don't think disagreeing with on how other people identify themselves is worth getting arrested in front of my children and throwing away a promising career, but she obviously thought it was.
And now you are blaming her victims for her reaping the just and fair harvest of what she chose to sow - of her own will, well knowing the situation.
It's like all these people whining about social media "silencing them" - when we joined the site (private owned, how ever big they are - which means that they have all the rights to set which ever rules they want to), we all signed an agreement where we said that we would follow the rules, among other things to be civil and not harass other users, not engage in criminal activities (like defamation), and not to post deliberate falsehoods as truth. And when these people do (like Milo whatthefuckhisnameis), and get kicked out for breaching the agreement, they start whining.
Pitiful.
And the fact that most people haven't read the agreement, where the site very clearly explains all the rules you agree to follow, is no excuse. You signed the agreement.
(Crossing that "I have read the code of conduct and I agree" box counts as legal signature.)
"Now, for those of you who haven’t heard about all this transgender news, let me see if I can catch you up."
Oh, please don't. I'm 100% certain of that you can't.
"According to liberals today, many of whom reside in their mom’s basements or their university dorm rooms"
says a middle-aged man who lives in his daddy's attic. (But it's OK, daddy furnished it very nicely.)
How old were you when you decided to be a boy? How did you know you were a boy?
How old were you when you decided other children's gender mattered? How did it matter? Boys played with G.I.Joes and girls with G.I.Janes?
I knew already when I was five that I was a girl, and I learned that it mattered so that all the fun and interesting toys were meant for other kids, I wasn't allowed to play with them, because I was "a girl". Other than that - nah. Nothing important. "Plumbing" looked a bit different, most kids were dressed a little differently according to if they were "girls" or "boys". There was no physiological imperative for this, it was just the way it had always been done. Then came the puberty and the physical differences grew, and people kept telling me I wasn't "allowed" to do this or that, because it was meant for boys and I was not a boy. No rational reasoning for that either. Just the way it had always been done. That is about the stupidest reason to do things.
"you have to refer to that person with whatever names and pronouns they ask you to"
Isn't that just common manners? I call you Susan or Donald or what ever you want, because it's none of my business what name you wish to use of yourself. No skin off my nose.
"Also, you don’t need to undergo any sort of gender reassignment surgery or hormone therapy to change your gender anymore. All you have to do is declare that you are another gender, and people have to accept it."
How is this a problem?
"So if you call a person Betty when s/he is feeling like Billy, what happens?"
Depends on how close friends you are. If they are your colleague, probably nothing. If you are a friend, he'll probably tells you you used the wrong name. It's usually rather clear to see who they are. Betty behaves differently from Billy, and often dresses differently as well. If you aren't their friend or colleague, I don't see why you would be calling them anything.
"Do you get charged with a hate crime?"
No.
"What if that person feels as though you committed a hate crime?"
They'll think you are an asshole, and react accordingly. If you care, you'll apologize. If you don't, you won't.
It's not complicated.
"Because remember: These days, all that really matters is feelings. Facts, evidence, and logic have gone out the window. Once you accept the fact that feelings matter more than facts, it doesn’t matter whether you’re dealing with religion, race, or kids’ basketball games. You’re in trouble."
President Trump lost the election 2020. A month later, his supporters, still refusing to accept the defeat - mostly because president Trump is refusing to accept the defeat, because it doesn't feel good, and fact, evidence and logic doesn't matter - are sending death threats to the election workers and state officials of the biggest states where Joe Biden won, trying to force them to give the victory to Trump. It has gone so far that Trump called his old friend and supporter "enemy of the people".
Deplorable, indeed. Sore loser.
"For example, take CeCe Telfer"
Let's take Cecé Telfer. Thank you for using the correct pronoun.
What you need to understand about the testosterone suppression therapy is that it cuts off the testosterone that the muscles need to be "nearly twice as durable and powerful as those of the average female". She lost quite a lot of her muscle mass because of the hormone therapy. On top of that, every ciswoman has now more testosterone than she does. On top of that, she has been used to use a body with stronger muscles, and has been forced to learn to use a body that isn't as effective. Something all the ciswomen have been using their whole life. Sure, she's very tall, but that's not always a bonus. She also learned to run on men's track, which is different from women's track. So, no, I don't see her having an advantage.
And, in fact, Cecé did not "smoke the competition". She didn't win everything she participated in, which means that there were several cisgirls who were better than Cecé, and there probably are some girls who think that's so unfair as well. Do you remember Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan?
I'm a cis female, I was running when I was young, and I don't mind. I believe in science, and when they show me how much the performance goes down on testosterone suppressants, I'm fine with this.
Now... why do you mind?
"If I’ve learned one thing about children—and human beings in general—it’s that they can thrive only when they’re challenged. Just as your muscles won’t grow if you don’t put them under the stress of weight lifting and your mind won’t expand if you don’t fill it with difficult thoughts, books, and arguments, people can’t grow if they’re not made uncomfortable, or at least challenged, sometimes."
In my mind shielding young people from racism, intolerance, and bullying is more important than shielding young people from competing and not winning. The kids who lie on 20th place have worked equally hard as the kids who are on 1-5, but no-one cares one bit about them. In my mind complaining about transgirls having unfair advantage of the male physique, is finding excuses because one doesn't want to accept the fact that one lost. I don't think any one of these girls will participate in Olympics.
Cecé won't. She wants to become a nurse.
Also, "pretending to be a girl" just to be able to win in high school and college competitions? There's more to life than running. Do you think the transhate is so dismissable people would risk it just to win some races? And what about dating and social life? "Pretending to be a girl" has an impact on EVERY ASPECT of your life. It's not worth it.
"Even Martina Navratilova, the legendary tennis player who grew up not too far from my grandparents’ village in Czechoslovakia, weighed in. Here’s a woman who had worked her entire life to become one of the greatest of all time. To her, the idea that we were going to allow men who couldn’t hack it in their own division to start competing against women was “cheating.”"
But as an intelligent woman, she took a closer look at the issue, and changed her mind. How about that...
If Martina Navratilova's thinking on trans athletes can evolve, so can sport
"From track and field to volleyball to weight lifting, trans athletes are smashing women’s hard-earned records."
Ah, I see...
"Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar called for an investigation into USA Powerlifting in January after the athletic association announced that male lifters who identify as transgender women aren’t allowed to compete as women.
Omar called it a “myth” that men who identify as transgender women have a “direct competitive advantage” in a Jan. 31 letter she sent to USA Powerlifting on behalf of Jaycee Cooper, a male powerlifter in Omar’s district who identifies as a transgender woman."
Ilhan Omar Urges Keith Ellison To Investigate USA Powerlifting For Barring Biological Males From Women’s Events
"It’s funny, you never hear about trans men (women) dominating men’s divisions. I’ll wait for that to happen before I start rooting for trans women (men) who compete in the women’s divisions."
ZHANG Shan: The only female shooter to win gold in a mixed competition
10 transgender athletes explain why it’s fair to compete
"But when it comes to contact sports, there’s more than just our sense of fairness and lost scholarships on the line. This is where it becomes a safety issue. I don’t think anyone was totally comfortable, for instance, when a mediocre mixed martial arts fighter named Fallon Fox decided he was going to transition to a woman. This wasn’t just a man who wanted to run races in lanes next to women. This was a man who was losing bouts to other men, so he decided he wanted to beat up women instead. In one of his last fights, against a woman named Tamikka Brents—who held on for a very long time, considering the circumstances—Fox used his big hands to beat Brents into an early technical knockout. Hours after the match, doctors discovered that Brents’s skull had been fractured. There is no universe in which that should be acceptable, nor is there anyone who can argue that it was a fair fight!"
So... Tamikka Brents lost, and somehow Fallon Fox is a crook? It's MMA for crying out loud. People suffer from fractured bones, skulls and eye sockets included, concussions, you name it. It is totally acceptable in this universe, and both fighters were in it of their free will, and there were judges, so looks totally fair fight to me. It's not the size of the hands, it's how you use them...
People who had also "shattered eye socket":
Jack Hermansson “
Broken toe and broken eye socket but not a broken spirit. The goal remains the same! Thank you for your support.”
Karolina Kowalkiewicz “
After the fight, I spent all day in the hospital. S*** happens. I still love this sport and UFC. Don’t worry I’ll be OK.”
Miesha Tate.
Lucia Rijker has fought guys, and held hers.
Theybies? Sounds like a great idea. Because people treat "boys" and "girls" differently.
"I'm shocked, SHOCKED, that the gender-neutral craze caught on in Hollywood".Aren't you easily shocked.
Genderbread person? Yep, that's how it works. Maybe you need to work with it a bit.
"When it starts to get harmful, in my opinion, is right around the time some of the crazy parents begin going to “gender specialists,” who wear white coats and stethoscopes, to discuss whether or not their little theybies should begin the process of transitioning genders in a medical way. In some cases, parents whose children express tendencies of genders other than their own—boys who like to play with dolls, for example, or girls who like little toy army men—are told by these specialists that hormone therapy to suppress puberty, and/or a full-on surgical transition, might be the only way forward."
Yeah... isn't it great that that doesn't happen.
Boys who like to play with dolls are still boys. Girls who like little toy army men are still girls. The idea of that tomboys are being brainwashed into believing they are really boys is a TERF fantasy, and based on the fact that they don't have the slightest idea of what transgenderism is.
The hormone therapy to suppress puberty just delays the puberty, it has been done for 40 years, and some of the people who went through it are mothers and fathers today. Most people went through it because the puberty is starting earlier and earlier, and we have girls now who start menstruating when they are 8. I think that's too early, and I am grateful they have found a safe and harmless way of delaying the puberty so that the girl gets time to grow a bit before the crap starts. If it can be used to let people figure out whether they are boys or girls - or neither - wonderful.
"when the left demanded that confused old men in dresses be allowed into the same restrooms as little girls"
So your dad is not allowed to use the same bathroom as your daughters? I suppose that's never a problem in your home, but you forget that not everyone is a millionaire. Living in their dad's attic.
Nevertheless, we were thinking more about young people and adults, who look indistinguishable from other young people and adults using the bathroom, and who use the bathroom to relieve themselves and perhaps check their outfit. I don't know what guys do in their bathroom, but I assume they look at the other... patrons... as much - or little - as the gals do. Most people use the toilets because they have to pee. Why do you use toilets? Why do you assume it's just perverts, "old geezers in dress", men "dressed as a woman" who want to go to ladies' room to ogle at the women? Have you ever been in ladies' room? You might need to visit a couple, to see that there is nothing to see.
Pronouns... in some languages the pronouns aren't gender based. We have managed quite fine through thousands of years. It's not important.
"If things keep going the way they are, don’t be surprised if in a few years, you see a bill on the House floor—likely with “Ocasio-Cortez” and “Tlaib” written somewhere on it—that forbids all parents to assign their babies gender identities at birth."
Sounds wonderful! Though I think it might be Ilhan Omar, not Rashida Tlaib, who does that.
BTW, there you have two of these Muslim families who are well adjusted and not radical Islamist terrorists. Not that one would know, considering how you talk about them.
But, how has the fact that you didn't get a genderless upbringing effect you? What do you think are the benefits and the downsides? How do you think your life would be different had you been treated as "neutral" when you were a child? How do you think Ivanka's life would be different had she been treated as "neutral"?
What about your children? How are you raising the girls and boys differently? How much differently are you treating them because of their gender? Or do you treat them as the individuals they are, according to how they express themselves, what they want to do, what they want to wear, etc.? How much differently would you treat Kai if she was a boy?
"And don’t be surprised when it gets passed. Like every other crazy idea that the left has had — from the Green New Deal and free college to prison voting and unlimited abortions — this one will come from the far left and then creep slowly but surely toward the center."
None of those ideas is crazy. You might even be thankful for "prison voting" one day.
"I also have a problem when people start saying, as some researchers have been saying over the past few months, that trans people are being discriminated against because straight people don’t want to date them. I’m a live-and-let-live type of guy. I’m fine with people transitioning, using different pronouns, and referring to themselves with whatever names they see fit. But men shouldn’t be branded transphobic, homophobic, or bigoted just because they’re not lining up to date women with beards and penises."
They aren't. They are branded transphobic because they claim women who don't have beards and penises have them. Because they call people like Caitlyn Jenner "a confused old man in a dress".
No, the problem with "I would never date a transperson!" is that you never know whom you fall in love with.
It's assuming being born a male or female means you have some qualities, characteristics, what ever - that "men are from Mars and women are from Venus", when in reality all that is more a societal expectations and treatment, and the individual characteristics are stronger than any gender related.
It's assuming there's something "essentially female" or "male", that people are born with, and that every female/male born share, that makes the genders different.
It is assuming there's "female experience" no "male born" can ever understand, or "male experience" no "female born" can understand. This is total bullshit. No two women share the "female experience", it's all different to all of us, even sisters have different experience of being a woman in the world.
Transphobia goes beyond transpeople. The underlying attitudes and prejudices excuse sexism, chauvinism, transphobia, misogyny and misandry, as "natural reactions" to these inborn qualities. It excuses bullying tomboys for being "too boyish", and the male equivalent for being "too girly". It is in the bottom of teenagers being "confused" on if they are girls or boys. Transpeople have known their whole life. Most say they were about 3, 4, 5, when they started to protest the "wrong" gender expectations. It doesn't come when one is a teenager and starts getting the brunt of patriarchal society and "being a woman" might be a problem.
And when you can't see if the woman is trans or cis, you are physically attracted to her - then... it really doesn't make any sense to say you aren't attracted to transwomen.
Now, there are other reasons to why you wouldn't want to date a transperson. For example, you want to marry and get children. A transperson will probably not be able to give you any. Is the hassle really worth it? Or you simply aren't attracted to the person. I'm not attracted to every guy out there, even though I'm straight! Date who ever you want! Really, I'm sure transwomen wouldn't want to date a transphobe either.
But for goodness' sake, own your phobias and aversions!
It's OK to be transphobic! It's not OK to try to hide the transphobia by being an a-hole.
"For too long, we have allowed the laws of our nation to be written by its most aggrieved, least stable citizens. We’ve pandered to ideas that have no basis in reality because we know that the people who came up with those ideas will turn the social justice mob on us if we don’t."
Excuse me, what? The Congress and the President are "the most aggrieved, least stable citizens of your nation"? WTF? Don't you think that's going a bit too far in your eagerness to bash the Democrats?
No, your attack on transpeople has nothing to do with the Democrats, and don't stick to softball, because the girls would kick your ass there too.
