Earlier this month, Netflix premiered a new show co-created and starring famed drag queen RuPaul, called &#8220;AJ and the Queen.&#8221;
In the show&#8217;s second episode, drag queens relate inappropriately to a 10-year-old gender-confused girl named AJ brought around the performers by RuPaul. One of the men dressed in drag is admonished by RuPaul for &#8220;tucking&#8221; his &#8220;junk&#8221; in front of the girl. Another drag queen refers to the child as a &#8220;top,&#8221; a sexual term for the person on top during sexual intercourse.
The disturbing commentary exchanged before the boy doesn&#8217;t stop there. One drag queen suggests AJ&#8217;s character is a product of closed down Planned Parenthood abortion clinics.
The show, according to the <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2020/01/13/sick-rupauls-netflix-show-calls-10-year-old-child-sexual-top">Media Research Center</a>, &#8220;is about a 10-year-old child who accompanies Robert (RuPaul), a gay male drag performer who goes by &#8216;Ruby Red,&#8217; as he travels across the country performing in drag shows at mostly gay bars.&#8221;
&#8220;The child, AJ (Izzy G.), is the daughter of a drug-addicted prostitute,&#8221; the outlet explains. &#8220;She wants to be a boy &#8216;because people leave boys alone.&#8217; She hides her long hair under a boyish hat and does her best to look and act like a 10-year-old boy instead of a girl. The show is one long exposure of this child to sexualized adult situations in which she does not belong, all under the guise of the drag queen and the child &#8216;bonding&#8217; cross-country.&#8221;
Below is a transcript of the alarming exchange in episode two, via the Media Research Center (emphasis added):
<blockquote>Magda: Well, look what the p***y dragged in. And you have a child. I knew closing those Planned Parenthood clinics would create a problem. [Laughs.]
Magda and Robert: Mwah. Mwah.
Robert: Girl, this is AJ. AJ, this is Magda. One of Pittsburgh’s finest queens.
Edie: Which tells you a lot about the Pittsburg scene.
Robert: Uh, maybe don’t tuck in your junk in front of a minor.
Edie: There are no miners in Pennsylvania, no matter what the president promised.
Robert and Edie: Mwah. Mwah.
Robert: AJ, this is Edie. She used to be pretty.
Magda: I’m still pretty thought, right?
Robert: Well…
Alma Joy: Wait till you…
AJ: What’s his problem?
Robert: That’s Alma Joy and, trust me, she may have a couple of nuts, but there is no joy&#8230;
Robert: Good to see you, Alma.
Alma Joy: Have we met?
Robert: Oh, okay. No high road. Michelle Obama taught us nothing?
Alma Joy: Surprised to see you all the way out here in the sticks, Ruby. Wasn’t that what you called us? I guess she’d know all about sticks. She has that big one stuck up her a**.
Magda: You say that like that’s a bad thing.
Alma Joy: What are you even doing in Pittsburgh? I thought you were opening your own New York club.
Robert: Oh, I am. We’re in the middle of huge renovations and it is going to be major.
Man: Here you go, Edie.
Edie: Oh, Ruby, girl, there are burgers at the bar. Are you hungy?
AJ: I am. Take me. Come on. Let’s go.
Edie: Okay. Follow me. First kid I ever met that’s a top.</blockquote>
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Drag Queen ‘Tucks Junk’ In Front Of ‘Trans’ Child, Refers To Her As Sexual Term ‘Top’ In New Netflix Show

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When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, he was subjected to racist jeers from fans, discrimination from some of his teammates, death threats, and sometimes physical abuse. During his first year on the Brooklyn Dodgers, a player from an opposing team intentionally slid into him cleats-first, leaving a gash in his leg. This treatment was all due to the simple fact that he was a black man playing baseball. His willingness to endure heckles, taunts, and worse, while blazing a trail for other black athletes to follow, has led many people to label him the bravest athlete in sports history.
But now, according to the gay sports outlet Outsports, Robinson&#8217;s reign has come to an end. Cyd Zeigler, writing for the publication, has <a href="https://www.outsports.com/2020/1/14/21062012/fallon-fox-trans-athlete-mma-courage-brave">declared</a> that the bravest athlete of all time, the sports figure who best embodies the virtues of courage and heroism, is a biological male who beat the hell out of a bunch of women in MMA. Zeigler gave the &#8220;trans&#8221; athlete Fallon Fox that moniker in a recent article, explaining that the professional woman-beater &#8220;is an indelible part of LGBTQ sports history&#8221; and has &#8220;opened possibilities for trans athletes in women’s sports that will be felt for generations.&#8221; Why any of this requires courage — much less the most courage of any athlete ever — is never explained.
It also isn&#8217;t explained how courage is involved when a biological male, with his testosterone and greater muscle mass and denser bone structure, <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/transgender-female-boxer-gives-female-opponent-concussion-breaks-her-eye-so">fractures the skull of a female opponent</a> and leaves her lying on the mat, concussed, and bleeding. One would think that the female opponent at least has more courage than the man who is beating her half to death.
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We&#8217;re assured that it&#8217;s okay for a male to physically brutalize a female because females sometimes brutalize each other. This is how Fox himself justified it. &#8220;I’m not the first female MMA fighter who’s broken another fighter’s bones,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And people will of course, because I’m trans, hold it up as this devastating thing that couldn’t possibly happen if I weren’t trans. But there are many different examples of similar things happening.&#8221;
He&#8217;s right, of course. He&#8217;s not the first female fighter to break another fighter&#8217;s bones. Mostly because he&#8217;s not a female fighter at all. Notice here how the arbitrary sex versus gender distinction has been collapsed and disregarded. The large, muscular man with a penis and XY chromosomal structure isn&#8217;t just a woman by gender. He is, in fact, a female.
Don&#8217;t count on Zeigler to grapple with that difficulty. We are just supposed to dutifully applaud, accepting at face value whatever lame excuses and justifications are put forward. Zeigler doesn&#8217;t present actual arguments in favor of allowing men like Fox to fight women because there are no arguments available to him. It is objectively wrong on every conceivable level — morally, ethically, scientifically. A coherent defense of the practice cannot be offered, and never has been offered. The most the other side of this debate can do is make vague emotional appeals, hoping we&#8217;ll forget that the women being abused and cheated have emotions, too. But their emotions are irrelevant, we&#8217;re told. Just as science is irrelevant. Just as fairness is irrelevant. All that matters, for some reason, is how this one guy feels. And his insistence on doing what makes him feel good, at any cost, is admirable. Not just admirable, but also heroic. Not just heroic but the most heroic thing anyone has ever done or could ever do.
Heroic. Courageous. Beautiful. Keep repeating it until you believe it.

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A transgender author, who writes trans-themed science fiction, is &#8220;canceled&#8221; and her book pulled from publication after she received a torrent of online abuse for not being &#8220;woke&#8221; enough.
Reason Magazine&#8217;s Robby Soave discovered the sad tale of Isabel Falls, whose story, &#8220;I Identify as an Attack Helicopter&#8221; &#8212; a play on a meme meant to poke fun at trans activists who insist that gender can be self-selected and that the &#8220;gender binary&#8221; has no place in modern society &#8212; was published in &#8220;Clarkesworld&#8221; and then unpublished after Falls&#8217; critics hounded the author and her publisher over her birthdate.
The story is unabashedly progressive, Soave notes, as is the author: &#8220;[i]t&#8217;s a surreal, mind-bending war story that turns the [attack helicopter] meme on its head. It was read and approved by sensitivity reviewers—some of them trans. Its author, Fall, is herself trans.&#8221;
The world of young adult (or &#8220;YA&#8221; literature) is particularly hostile to the un-woke. YA lit Twitter &#8212; and the corresponding YA audience on the book-centric social media platform, Goodreads &#8212; are brutal to authors who are insufficiently left-leaning and whose work doesn&#8217;t overtly reflect all the (sometimes inherently conflicting) values of social justice warriors.
In one particularly shocking incident, young adult author Amélie Wen Zhao was forced to pull her own debut novel, &#8220;Blood Heir&#8221; from publication after social media fans of YA literature branded Zhao a racist for daring to cast a woman of color as her heroine. Zhao&#8217;s book was labled &#8220;anti-black&#8221; and &#8216;bigoted,&#8221; according to an account <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/01/young-adult-author-cancels-own-novel-after-race-controversy">in The Guardian</a>, because it failed to incorporate an accurate depiction of slavery, and Zhao&#8217;s lead character was multi-racial, and described as &#8220;tawny&#8221; skinned.
It turns out, though, that Zhao wasn&#8217;t describing the American slave trade. She was trying to &#8220;represent a specific critique of the epidemic of indentured labor and human trafficking prevalent in many industries across Asia,&#8221; including in her home country, China. Her character was pan-Asian, not pan-African. And Zhao&#8217;s book, she admitted, was explicitly meant as a public criticism of the Trump administration&#8217;s immigration policies.
“I write fantasy, but my story draws inspiration from themes I see in the real world today. As a foreigner in Trump’s America, I’ve been called names and faced unpleasant remarks – and as a non-citizen, I’ve felt like I have no voice – which is why I’ve channeled my anger, my frustration, and my need for action into the most powerful weapon I have: my words,&#8221; Zhao said.
Isabel Fall&#8217;s situation is, somehow, even worse. There is nothing wrong with her story, reviewers admitted. But Fall herself was clearly a closet white supremacist, they said, because she listed her birth year as 1988. And while Fall is clearly transgender, she is not sufficiently transgender, nor the particular type of transgender individual who should have written this particular story.
If this sounds vague, it&#8217;s because the complaints were, indeed, vague, aside from one: &#8220;Fall&#8217;s stated birth year—1988—was an alt-right dog whistle, since the double eights could be seen as referencing H.H. (H being the eighth letter of the alphabet), or &#8216;heil Hitler,'&#8221; Soave writes.
For that, Clarkesworld&#8217;s publisher pulled the story and wrote a lengthy apologia, even though the reason readers were offended was, in a word, insane. The letter even began with the words, &#8220;This is not censorship,&#8221; even though a group of people clearly advocated for censorship of Fall&#8217;s work for an absolutely bizarre reason.
&#8220;[W]e didn&#8217;t understand enough about trans politics to properly advise a new author who was wading into the deep end,&#8221; the publisher said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not suggesting that we tell an author what they can and can&#8217;t say, but had the previous two items be done correctly, we would have been in a better place to prepare her. Because of those failures, our knowledge gap contributed to the problem.&#8221;
&#8220;In the meantime,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;I offer my sincere apologies to those who were hurt by the story or the ensuing storms.&#8221;
The publisher never, in a rambling statement, goes into detail about what was wrong with Fall&#8217;s story, Soave points out, because it&#8217;s not clear there was anything wrong with Fall&#8217;s story. The problem lies with the critics, for whom no one will ever be woke enough.

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In a historic Sunday night episode of &#8220;Batwoman,&#8221; the lady caped crusader came out as a lesbian to Gotham City, thereby making her sexual orientation official.
According to <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/01/batwoman-comes-out-ruby-roses-cw-superhero-tells-gotham-shes-a-lesbian-1202835688/#comments">Deadline</a>, the midseason premiere episode, titled &#8220;How Queer Everything Is Today,&#8221; featured actress Ruby Rose&#8217;s Batwoman revealing her sexual identity after learning about a teenager whose parents refuse to accept her sexuality.
&#8220;The big reveal came in a magazine article published by CatCo, and the scoop belonged to none other than Kara Danvers, a.k.a. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), the title hero from Batwoman’s Arrowverse sister show,&#8221; the outlet reported of the big moment.
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&quot;What&#39;s next for Lena? Lena Luthor spotted in Gotham&quot; What was Lena doing there?! jajaja and, also, Kara wrote the article of Batwoman being a lesbian!!!! Kara and Kate BROTP! <a href="https://t.co/TH2QbLMV3B">pic.twitter.com/TH2QbLMV3B</a>
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Speaking with <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/19/batwoman-coming-out-caroline-dries-1x10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">Entertainment Weekly</a>, series showrunner Caroline Dries, who wrote the episode, said she wanted the character to &#8220;stand in her truth.&#8221;
“For me, it was so important for this character to stand in her truth,” said Dries. “The girl underneath the costume is so comfortable with who she is and so comfortable with being truthful, and she never really has been in the closet.”
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The character Batwoman first came onto the comic book scene in the 1950s as a potential <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/kathy-kane/4005-81174/">love interest</a> for Batman, but she eventually took a backseat in the 1960s and did not become a lesbian until being reintroduced in DC’s “<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/batwoman/4005-9052/">New 52</a>.” A previous Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/batwoman-series-poll-elseworlds-recap-1168339">poll</a> showed that 85% (more than 2,000 people) of respondents wanted a separate “Batwoman” series.
Though Batwoman certainly has her own woke pedigree, SJWs were reportedly upset over the openly gay Ruby Rose’s casting, prompting her to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34435/ruby-rose-quits-twitter-after-leftist-critics-emily-zanotti">leave social media</a> after enough people complained she was “not gay enough” to play the title character.
“A #RecastBatwoman hashtag started circulating, with people also wondering why the role couldn’t have gone to a lesser-known LGBTQ+ actress in need of an acting break,” <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/ruby-rose-quit-twitter-after-getting-bullied-about-her-batwoman-casting">Glamour reported</a> at the time. “Critics also accused Rose of not being a lesbian since she also refers to herself as gender-fluid.”
In response, Rose said she could not believe people were actually insinuating she was not gay enough when her entire career has been people accusing her of being too gay. “Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian, therefore she can’t be Batwoman’ come from — has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read,” the actress tweeted at the time. “I came out at 12? And have for the past five years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change.”
The CW network broke barriers on the SJW-themed “Supergirl” with the arrival of Nia Nal, the first transgender hero in television history, played by transgender actor Nicole Maines and based on the <a href="http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Nura_Nal_(Pre-Zero_Hour)" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0">DC Comics character Nura Nal</a>. Sometimes called “Dream Girl,” the character Nia Nal is a humanoid alien that also sees into the future.
Marvel has separately announced that phase four in its cinematic universe will feature more LGBTQ representation, starting with “The Eternals,&#8221; which will introduce the universe’s<a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/16/the-eternals-marvel-openly-gay-superhero-trailer-mcu-brian-tyree-henry-angelina-jolie-gemma-chan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> first openly gay superhero, Phastos</a>. The character will be married to a man and will be portrayed by actor Brian Tyree Henry.
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On Wednesday, a divided panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled, in 2–1 fashion, that a transgender litigant — a biological male who suffers from gender dysphoria and subjectively feels that he is a female — cannot require a court to address him using female pronouns.
The case, <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/19/19-40016-CR0.pdf">U.S. v. Varner</a>, pitted Reagan nominee Judge Jerry E. Smith and Trump nominee Judge S. Kyle Duncan in the panel majority, against Clinton nominee Judge James L. Dennis as the lone dissenter. What made the opinion particularly fascinating was that Duncan&#8217;s majority opinion used male pronouns, whereas Dennis&#8217; dissent used female pronouns.
Alas, the latest and most disputatious, headline-grabbing front of our ceaseless culture war has fully hit the federal judiciary.
As highlighted by legal blogger extraordinaire and Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ed Whelan <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/transgender-pronoun-conflict-in-the-fifth-circuit/">noted yesterday</a> at National Review&#8217;s &#8220;Bench Memos&#8221; blog, Duncan&#8217;s majority opinion provided three distinct reasons for denying the plaintiff Varner&#8217;s motion for the &#8220;use [of] female pronouns when addressing&#8221; him:
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First, no authority supports the proposition that we may require litigants, judges, court personnel, or anyone else to refer to gender-dysphoric litigants with pronouns matching their subjective gender identity. &#8230;
Second, if a court were to compel the use of particular pronouns at the invitation of litigants, it could raise delicate questions about judicial impartiality. &#8230; Increasingly, federal courts today are asked to decide cases that turn on hotly-debated issues of sex and gender identity. In cases like these, a court may have the most benign motives in honoring a party’s request to be addressed with pronouns matching his “deeply felt, inherent sense of [his] gender.” Yet in doing so, the court may unintentionally convey its tacit approval of the litigant’s underlying legal position.
Third, ordering use of a litigant’s preferred pronouns may well turn out to be more complex than at first it might appear. &#8230; [O]ne university has created this widely-circulated pronoun usage guide for gender-dysphoric persons.
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Duncan then inserted the &#8220;pronoun usage guide for gender-dysphoric persons,&#8221; borrowed from the &#8220;LGBTQ+ Resource Center&#8221; at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, which is a colorful five-by-nine matrix. This is potentially confusing, to say the least, as Duncan noted, and &#8220;[d]eploying such neologisms could hinder communication among the parties and the court.&#8221;
Duncan then referenced New York City&#8217;s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/05/17/you-can-be-fined-for-not-calling-people-ze-or-hir-if-thats-the-pronoun-they-demand-that-you-use/">regulation</a> that &#8220;prohibit[s] &#8216;intentional or repeated refusal&#8217; to use pronouns including &#8216;them/them/theirs or ze/hir&#8217; after person has &#8216;made clear&#8217; his preferred pronouns&#8221; as an example of his point that &#8220;[w]hen local governments have sought to enforce pronoun usage, they have had to make refined distinctions based on matters such as the types of allowable pronouns and the intent of the &#8216;misgendering&#8217; offender.'&#8221;
Ultimately, Duncan concluded, &#8220;[c]ourts would have to do the same. We decline to enlist the federal judiciary in this quixotic undertaking.&#8221;
It was something of a proverbial &#8220;mic drop&#8221; moment for the Louisiana-based judge, who has been on the Fifth Circuit for less than two years. Formerly the general counsel for the prominent Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Duncan was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2018 by a narrow 50–47 margin.
Along with fellow Trump-nominated Fifth Circuit Judges Andrew S. Oldham and James C. Ho (for whom, in the interest of full disclosure, I previously served as a judicial law clerk), Duncan has frequently been mentioned as someone who should be added to any new Supreme Court nominee &#8220;list&#8221; produced by the Trump administration. In fact, in some ways, Duncan seemed to be following the lead of his colleague Ho. Duncan&#8217;s opinion cited twice a March 2019 opinion, <a href="http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/16/16-51148-CV0.pdf">Gibson v. Collier</a>, written by Ho, which similarly used male pronouns to refer to a biological male individual who subjectively felt that he was a woman.
Good for Judge Duncan for both adhering to the letter of the law and for defiantly standing athwart the modern cultural Left&#8217;s pernicious insistence on gaslighting the American citizenry into thinking that words may not mean what they so clearly do, in fact, mean.

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Political observers in the year 2020 know that, for the Democratic Party and the broader political Left alike, intersectionality often reigns supreme. For those still wondering what exactly &#8220;intersectionality&#8221; is, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has produced a helpful explanatory video on the topic:
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&#8220;Intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to,&#8221; Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-what-intersectionality-jacob-airey">explained</a>. &#8220;At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate: The straight, white male. And who’s at the top? Well, it’s very hard to say, because new groups claim victim status all the time. No one can keep track.&#8221;
Alas, it should come as no surprise that contemporary Democrats would rally around what is perhaps one of the most readily identifiable sub-identity groups boasting immense &#8220;intersectional&#8221; street credibility: The transgender illegal alien.
&#8220;House Democrats plan to call on a key immigration agency to release all transgender people who are currently being detained, arguing that the U.S. has failed to follow guidelines to protect individuals who face more perilous conditions in detention than other migrants,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">reported</a> yesterday.
The outlet then reported on the precise contents of the early copy of the letter it obtained. The letter will be sent to Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Matthew Albence. Per <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/477954-lawmakers-to-call-on-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">The Hill</a>, the letter reads, in relevant part:
<blockquote>We write to demand the release of all transgender people currently detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Transgender migrants and asylum seekers are particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment, solitary confinement, physical assault, and medical neglect. These inhumane conditions and systematic abuses are evidenced in countless reports and accounts by formally detained people.</blockquote>
According to the outlet, the letter cites research from left-wing organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, Amnesty International, and the Center for American Progress in order to argue that &#8220;due to their gender identity, transgender migrants are more likely to face &#8216;the pervasive use of solitary confinement&#8217; and that they are &#8217;97 times more likely to be sexually victimized&#8217; compared to &#8216;their cis-gender and straight counterparts in detention.'&#8221;
The effort is being led by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL), who TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/house-democrats-want-ice-to-release-all-transgender-detainees">notes</a> is of the belief that ICE is actually required to release all transgender detainees. In order to advance that claim, the letter cites a 2015 ICE memo and the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s 2020 appropriations bill.
&#8220;Quigley&#8217;s office is working to get lawmakers&#8217; signatures on the letter and expects to send it to acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf and ICE Director Matt Albence later this week,&#8221; the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-democrats-to-ask-ice-to-release-all-transgender-immigrants-in-custody">reports</a>.
The year 2019 was a busy year for ICE, especially over the first six months. Record numbers of illegal aliens seemed to flood over America&#8217;s porous southern border on a seemingly monthly basis, although the tide has stemmed over the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/month-decline-unauthorized-border-crossings-nearing-million/story?id=66134521">past few months</a>. As the 2020 election heats up, President Donald Trump is continuing to emphasize border security and immigration enforcement as key political priorities.

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Female-to-male transgender individuals who still menstruate are now saying that feminine hygiene products, which are typically marketed at biological women, should be gender-neutral (and free) so that they are not further oppressed, harmed, or triggered by gender-specific packaging and the cost of period products during their &#8220;time of the month.&#8221;
The revelation comes in a wide-ranging report <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-men-pain-menstruation-more-just-physical-n1113961?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&amp;fbclid=IwAR03P8zK0oQzxkJ-OL1B-Wce9n7ye1X3ecOMxmy06okMgz0zOJXbJQiNgqs#anchor-Economicvulnerability">from NBC News</a>, which claims that transgender individuals are caused &#8220;pain&#8221; by the fact that menstruation is assumed to be a female-only process.
“I didn’t believe that having periods would be a part of my lived experience,” one prominent trans-rights activist told NBC about the situation. “I felt isolated; everything about periods was tailored to girls, yet me, a boy, was experiencing this and nothing in the world documented that.”
&#8220;Some transgender and gender-nonconforming people who menstruate,&#8221; the story continues, taking care not to refer to the individuals as biologically female, though that is what they are, &#8220;say when the products are categorized as women’s products, they can feel alienated — and may even avoid purchasing them altogether.&#8221;
The problems stem from the products themselves. Typically, feminine hygiene products are referred to as &#8220;feminine,&#8221; even though there are, now, &#8220;masculine&#8221; periods. As a result, menstruation products have female-oriented packaging, are marketed to women, and are available exclusively in women&#8217;s restrooms (and at a cost). There are also concerns about using feminine hygiene products, if there&#8217;s a chance someone a transgender individual encounters in the process is surprised by their need for pads or tampons.
Activists also say that female-to-male transgenders, who haven&#8217;t completed their gender transition, are being &#8220;discriminated against&#8221; by care providers like gynecologists who will only see patients who have female reproductive systems or who identify as biologically female.
And then there&#8217;s the cost.
&#8220;The cost and taxation of menstruation products could hit transgender people even harder [than cis-gender people], according to Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality,&#8221; NBC News reports. Trans individuals, he says, “are experiencing poverty, unemployment and underemployment at higher rates, so there is absolutely economic vulnerability here.”
Feminists have long complained about the high cost of menstrual products and the &#8220;pink tax&#8221; that gets levied on many health and beauty products targeted towards women, but now that some of those same women consider themselves men, the issue is more urgent, particularly because female-to-male transgender individuals who still need menstrual products can&#8217;t access pads and tampons given away for free &#8212; because those are usually in women&#8217;s restrooms.
The end result? &#8220;Pain,&#8221; the activists say, and further marginalization.
Some companies have taken steps to rectify the situation. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-activists-force-menstrual-products-brand-always-to-remove-woman-symbol-from-packaging">The Daily Wire reported late last year</a> that Always, which makes pads and tampons, changed the packaging of its products after complaints from transgender individuals who found them too &#8220;female.&#8221; The company replaced the &#8220;Venus&#8221; symbol &#8212; an attached circle and plus sign traditionally representing women &#8212; from most of its packaging so as not to be overtly offensive.
The issue is a flash point between transgender activists and feminists, who say the trans-rights movement is erasing women and, by extension, their work.
“Removing the female symbol from sanitary towel packaging is basically denying the existence of women,” one prominent feminist told the Daily Mail during the dust-up over Always&#8217; packaging. “We’re now moving towards the total elimination of women’s biology. The women’s symbol has been used by feminists for decades. This is pure cowardice and virtue signalling from these big corporate brands who are capitulating to the trans agenda.”

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Transgender Men Claim Lack Of Gender-Neutral Menstruation Products Causes ‘Pain,’ Makes Them ‘Unsafe’

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Far-left nonprofit <a href="https://www.hrc.org/hrc-story/hrc-foundation">Human Rights Campaign</a> (HRC) released transgender friendly sex terms, including &#8220;front hole&#8221; and &#8220;strapless,&#8221; in a &#8220;<a href="https://assets2.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/Trans_Safer_Sex_Guide_FINAL.pdf?_ga=2.162811380.910185904.1534872273-1928237950.1534872273">Safer Sex for Trans for Trans Bodies</a>&#8221; guide.
The literature was first released in 2016, but resurfaced this week in viral <a href="https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1214945214688829441">tweets</a>.
As explained by HRC, a vagina can be referred to as a &#8220;front hole&#8221; and the word &#8220;strapless&#8221; can be used to describe &#8220;the genitals of trans women who have not had genital reconstruction (or &#8216;bottom surgery&#8217;), sometimes referred to as a penis.&#8221;
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<blockquote>D***: We use this word to describe external genitals. D***s come in all shapes and sizes and can belong to people of all genders.
FRONT HOLE: We use this word to talk about internal genitals, sometimes referred to as a vagina. A front hole may self-lubricate, depending on age and hormones.
STRAPLESS: We use this word to describe the genitals of trans women who have not had genital reconstruction (or “bottom surgery”), sometimes referred to as a penis.
VAGINA: We use this word to talk about the genitals of trans women who have had bottom surgery.</blockquote>
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When speaking of &#8220;genitals or sexual anatomy of any kind,&#8221; HRC promotes the term &#8220;parts.&#8221;
The literature also includes a testimonial of sorts from a biologically female transgender 29-year-old named Cole.
“Call it my d***, and don’t hesitate when you say it, because that’s how I know what you think and how you feel about what you’re saying. Don’t say cunnilingus, say head. Use the words you would use for any other guy,&#8221; Coles says.
&#8220;My body is different. Chances are good that I have more experience with it than you, or anyone. I probably know what feels good. Whether that’s what I like to be called&#8230; or how I want to be touched,&#8221; the 29-year-old adds.
HRC focuses on consent, too, being sure to simultaneously promote prostitution:
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Consent is the enthusiastic, mutual and voluntary agreement to do whatever activity you’re discussing. Giving consent is an ongoing process: You always have the right to say “yes” or “no” to any sexual activity regardless of whether you’ve done it before, whether you know your partner really likes it or whether you’re in the middle of doing it. We also recognize that transactional sex complicates consent. If at any point you change your mind about doing something, you should say so and your partner needs to stop.
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The nonprofit also touches on sex toys and masturbation, which HRC calls &#8220;one of the most laid-back ways to explore sexual pleasure (and incidentally, also one of the safest) is by yourself.&#8221;
&#8220;Masturbation allows you to experiment with how your body responds to touch: Do your parts like vibration from a favorite toy? Do they like soft, light touches or firm pressure? Are other areas of your body, like your chest, your neck or the creases of your elbows, also sensitive to touch? Taking the time to explore your own body can be liberating. There is no judgment from other people, no pressure to perform a certain way and no rush. If you have ever felt shame about the way your body looks, masturbation is one way to slowly ease into self-acceptance. Take it at your own pace. There’s no one specific goal, only opportunities to better learn what feels good to you.&#8221;
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‘Front Hole,’ ‘Strapless’: Human Rights Campaign Unveils ‘Trans-Friendly’ Sex Terms

Just a few years ago, advocates of so-called &#8220;gender identity&#8221; insisted that all they wanted was space to “live and let live” — to “be themselves.” Unfortunately, that was not true — they wanted much, much more. In the case of British academic <a href="https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/12/our-integral-regime">Maya Forstater</a>, we recently got a glimpse of the ominous end game of gender identity ideology: Nothing less than the total and complete social alienation of anyone who asserts the biological reality that men cannot be women and women cannot be men.
Until last March, Maya Forstater was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Global Development (CGD), working within her research area on the topic of taxes, inequality, and poverty. But she lost it all on Twitter.
Forstater’s <a href="https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1036375230279819264" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1036375230279819264&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSrOupbBeXDf-v2hgKO0c0QHzxPA">tweets</a> were anything but inflammatory. In a typical <a href="https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1036375232062337025" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/MForstater/status/1036375232062337025&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOVKURXZiCaMFg-Shobf4oNbEbFQ">tweet</a>, she said, “I share the concerns of @fairplaywomen that radically expanding the legal definition of ‘women’ so that it can include both males and females makes it a meaningless concept, and will undermine women’s rights &amp; protections for vulnerable women &amp; girls.”
Yet, tweets like that cost Forstater her fellowship at CGD. In mid-December, she then <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFZDiTU5I6DKfDinpyO-I1HAvMQ2Q">lost</a> a lawsuit in which she contested CGD’s decision. In the ruling, the judge made this shocking statement:
<blockquote>[Forstater] is absolutist in her view of sex and it is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment. The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society. (Emphasis added.)</blockquote>
Not only, the ruling says, does gender identity deserve an equal place in the social conversation about sex and gender; it deserves a preeminent and uncontested place. Anyone who disagrees with it can, legally, lose their job.
It is amazing that this has to be clarified: no one should lose his or her job for believing that men and boys are male and that women and girls are female. This is a biological fact; all the surgeries and hormones in the world cannot change the reality that every single cell of a man’s body is encoded with an X and a Y chromosome, and every single cell in a woman’s body is encoded with two X chromosomes. Biological sex cannot be changed.
Asked about the possibility of changing one’s sex, Dr. Lawrence Mayer of Johns Hopkins has a straightforward <a href="https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/03/21151/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/03/21151/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFeNJ2NQF48UK870siECeuLHvP4aw">answer</a>: It can’t be done. “Scientifically speaking, transgender men are not biological men and transgender women are not biological women.”
Shutting down honest conversations about sex and gender is an extremely detrimental form of “cancel culture.” Just a few years ago, the statements made by Forstater were not controversial among feminists. Lesbian groups frequently took a clear stand on this issue, advocating for a <a href="https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/the-gender-identity-movement-undermines-lesbians" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/03/the-gender-identity-movement-undermines-lesbians&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG4P9EcR92JKBeRExXAp1jUip-Q4A">biologically based</a> understanding of sex.
Now, however, gender identity ideology has such a chokehold on discourse that anyone who disagrees with it faces personal and professional ruin. In a grimly ironic and patronizing tone, gender identity ideologues have the gall to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/transgender-reforms-will-not-diminish-womens-rights-scottish-government" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/17/transgender-reforms-will-not-diminish-womens-rights-scottish-government&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGnXCJ-MYY5Z2algENOM6041sZQvA">claim</a> that they are committed to defending women’s rights even as they systematically target and destroy women’s careers.
It is now not even necessary to defend biological sex to end up in hot water. All a person has to do today is defend someone else’s freedom to hold to biological sex in order to be cancelled, vilified, and silenced. The day after Forstater lost her case, &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; series author J.K. Rowling tweeted out her support for Forstater’s right to believe that men are men and women are women.
Rowling’s tweet read: “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya.” Within hours people began hurling the epithet “<a href="https://twitter.com/i/events/1207690260496318465" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/i/events/1207690260496318465&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFo-AR7LtllRjBhA1gyYu2dvF5AJw">TERF</a>” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) at Rowling and calling for her to apologize for her tweet.
Previously a darling of the progressive Left after saying that her famed character Albus Dumbledore was gay, Rowling’s vilification means that no one is safe from mudslinging and suppression when it comes to gender identity ideologues. These activists demand absolute acquiescence from everyone else in society — and they will not hesitate to turn on their own (former) allies at the first sign of dissent.
We all can agree that individuals with gender dysphoria deserve compassion, but no amount of self-perception can make a man a woman, nor change the reality of what being a woman is. That reality is made undeniable on the field of play, where an increasing amount of female athletes — including <a href="http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/10816" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/10816&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFmqo_ppX40O2JGuotDN8MPcDBpuQ">clients</a> represented by Alliance Defending Freedom — are being cheated out of their chance to stand atop a winner’s podium.
Yet, according to at least one judge, it’s out of bounds to so much as notice that men and women are different. This ruling is a travesty. No one should lose their jobs for asserting this reality — but so as long as gender identity ideologues get their way, we are all at their mercy.
And, as we see with Forstater and Rowling as well as female athletes made spectators in their own sports, when it comes to gender identity ideology, it’s women who have the most to lose.
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Kristen Waggoner is general counsel and senior vice president of U.S. legal division and communications at <a href="http://www.adflegal.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.adflegal.org/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH3GTk6aJZSR1orAWUUvAgUNFkeBg">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>. Follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/KWaggonerADF" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/KWaggonerADF&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1578618003714000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGcoqBtZrlhWHavPMv0RwPk-cQj3A">@KWaggonerADF</a>, and follow Alliance Defending Freedom @AllianceDefends.

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WAGGONER: J.K. Rowling ‘Controversy’ Shows Women Have Most To Lose With Gender Identity Ideology

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A new report in <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/marvel-trans-character-superhero-kevin-feige-1203455563/amp/">Variety Magazine</a> claims that Marvel Studios Chief, Kevin Feige, who &#8220;confirmed&#8221; that Marvel is working on a movie with a &#8220;transgender&#8221; superhero, misspoke, and that there are currently no concrete plans to incorporate the &#8220;T&#8221; in LGBT into the Marvel Universe &#8212; yet.
Social justice activists were overjoyed, last month, when Feige told an audience at the New York Film Academy that Marvel was working on a film with a transgender lead character.
An audience member asked Feige if there were plans in the works for &#8220;bringing more LGBT+ characters into the MCU, specifically the T, trans characters.” Feige answered, &#8220;Yes — absolutely, yes&#8230;and very soon. In a movie that we’re shooting right now.”
Variety reports, however, that Feige misspoke when answering the question. &#8220;[T]wo sources close to the studio tell Variety that Feige intended to respond to the first part about LGBT+ characters, and he did not mean to imply that a trans character will be coming to the MCU ‘very soon.&#8217;”
Indeed, there was a clue that Feige didn&#8217;t understand the question in Feige&#8217;s answer. The only movie &#8220;shooting right now&#8221; is &#8220;Marvel&#8217;s Eternals,&#8221; the next entry into Marvel&#8217;s second cycle of superhero films. &#8220;Eternals&#8221; does, in fact, feature an LGBT character (but not a transgender character) &#8212; something that Feige confirmed back last summer at D23, the official Disney fan convention.
&#8220;In August, Feige confirmed that film — which stars Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Gemma Chan, Kit Harington, Barry Keoghan, and Brian Tyree Henry — will have the MCU’s first major gay character, though Feige declined to specify who it would be,&#8221; Variety noted.
“He’s married, he’s got a family, and that is just part of who he is,” Feige told Good Morning America during an interview at the D23 conference, the entertainment outlet adds.
The Marvel Universe did, recently, feature its first openly transgender actor, Zach Barack, who had a bit part in last summer&#8217;s &#8220;Spider-Man: Far From Home,&#8221; as a classmate of Peter Parker.
But even though there are no current, concrete plans to put a transgender superhero front and center in the Marvel Universe, it&#8217;s likely there are long-term plans for the development on the table. Feige has promised that this next chapter of the Marvel film saga will be more &#8220;diverse&#8221; and &#8220;inclusive,&#8221; starting with the sequels to &#8220;Black Panther&#8221; and &#8220;Captain Marvel,&#8221; both due out in the next few years.
&#8220;Eternals,&#8221; which features a much younger, more ethnically diverse cast playing a group of immortal aliens, is due out in late 2020.
Marvel is probably being careful with managing progressives&#8217; expectations on the matter, rolling out developments on the diversity front slowly and deliberately. They will definitely have learned from the experience of another Disney property, Star Wars, which promoted the &#8220;same-sex representation&#8221; in its latest film, &#8220;The Rise of Skywalker,&#8221; but left social justice-focused audiences unsatisfied after the &#8220;representation&#8221; turned out to be a short kiss in the background of a single shot and not the introduction of a high-profile LGBT character.

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Report: Marvel Studios Chief Kevin Feige Misspoke, There Are No Plans For A Transgender Superhero

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In the lead-up to his return as host of the Golden Globe Awards, comedian Ricky Gervais ripped woke culture&#8217;s ruination of comedy by refusing to back down from making jokes it has deemed taboo.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/ricky-gervais-5-time-golden-globes-host-has-a-few-more-things-say-hollywood-1265405">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR), Gervais addressed the intense Twitter backlash he has faced in recent days for making jokes at the expense of transgender activists. Most recently, he jokingly responded to a satirical article from Jarvis Dupont, sarcastically blasting biological women upset over transgenders using their bathrooms and taking over their sports.
“Those awful biological women can never understand what it must be like for you becoming a lovely lady so late in life,” Gervais said on Twitter. “They take their girly privileges for granted. Winning at female sports and having their own toilets. Well, enough is enough.”
Gervais later told THR that he was simply playing along with Jarvis Dupont&#8217;s persona of taking woke to an illogical extreme, arguing that his critics were angered by the fact he dared to make a joke about a touchy subject.
&#8220;I&#8217;m taking the p*ss out of Jarvis Dupont, who is actually a woman in real life. And this is the problem. You can say, &#8216;Listen, I was joking. It&#8217;s a joke.&#8217; But that&#8217;s not always enough for people. They go, &#8216;Well, why were you joking?&#8217; Also, add to that the nature of Twitter — it&#8217;s so curt, there&#8217;s no nuance, it&#8217;s there forever out of context,&#8221; Gervais said.
When THR pressed Gervais as to why he would engage in that kind of joke in the first place, the comedian said that some people would say it&#8217;s better not to engage in such jokes strictly due to fear. &#8220;For an easy life, it&#8217;s better not to,&#8221; he said.
On the issue of woke culture destroying comedy, a subject that &#8220;Joker&#8221; director Todd Phillips publicly lamented in recent months, Gervais said the onslaught of such purity results from a dislike for freedom of speech.
<blockquote>People like the idea of freedom of speech until they hear something they don&#8217;t like. So there&#8217;s still a pressure, but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m going to water it down or back down and not say what I want. It&#8217;s just another form of what we&#8217;ve been through many, many times — it used to be called P.C. I think those things start off with very good intention and then they&#8217;re mugged. It&#8217;s a good thing to not be racist and sexist and homophobic. But it&#8217;s not a good thing to not be allowed to make jokes about those things, because you can tell a joke about race without being racist. I&#8217;m happy to play by the rules. It&#8217;s just that the 200 million people watching have different rules. That&#8217;s the plight. When people say, &#8220;He crossed the line,&#8221; I say, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t draw a line, you did.&#8221; It&#8217;s relative. It&#8217;s subjective.</blockquote>
When THR pressed Gervais on the issue of transphobia, he outright denied having no animosity against transgender individuals, and simply wanted to make a point about people holding up taboo subjects as a sacred cow.
&#8220;Some people, when you deal with contentious issues or taboo subjects, the very mention of them is the sacrilege,&#8221; said Gervais. &#8220;That&#8217;s why they stay taboo. People straight away, particularly with a comedian, if you&#8217;re joking about a subject, they think you&#8217;re anti it as opposed to pro it.&#8221;
Ricky Gervais faced heat for criticizing radical transgender activist Jessica Yaniv, who filed suit against a beauty parlor in Canada for refusing to wax his genitals. When news broke that he would return to host the Golden Globes, <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/ricky-gervais-transphobic-golden-globes-1202189531/">IndieWire argued</a> that Gervais&#8217; past transgender jokes warrant cancelation.

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Ricky Gervais Slams Woke Culture’s Stranglehold On Comedy: I’m Not ‘Going To Water It Down Or Back Down’

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The head of the House Armed Services Committee, Democratic Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, has made it clear that in 2020 he will push for legislation in Congress to permit transgender troops in the military, a perspective which the Trump administration has generally opposed.
Smith stated, “Even if we know (Senate Armed Services Committee chairman) Sen. Jim Inhofe and Donald Trump won’t change their minds, do we want to take another run at it and how? We’ll be discussing that with a lot of people,” as <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/12/30/new-in-2020-another-battle-about-transgender-troops/">Military Times</a>reported.
In March 2019, the Defense Department approved a policy largely barring transgender troops and military recruits who were transitioning to another sex from joining the military. A United States Court of Appeals had <a href="https://notransmilitaryban.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/doe-v-trump-dc-circuit-ruling-1-4-19.pdf">dismissed a claim</a> by a lower court that the policy implemented by the Department of Defense under former Secretary of Defense James Mattis had constituted a blanket ban on transgenders in the military, noting:
<blockquote>Although the Mattis Plan continues to bar many transgender persons from joining or serving in the military, the record indicates that the Plan allows some transgender persons barred under the military’s standards prior to the Carter Policy to join and serve in the military. The Mattis Plan, for example, contains a reliance exemption that will allow at least some transgender service members to continue to serve and receive gender transition-related medical care.
Also, Plaintiffs contended that the Mattis Plan’s exclusion of transgender persons who have gender dysphoria or who are unwilling to serve in their biological sex constitutes a blanket ban, arguing this case as if all transgender individuals either (1) have gender dysphoria or (2) transition to their preferred gender. They characterized these as “essential” and “defining” aspects of being transgender … Other than perhaps one passing statement by one of Plaintiffs’ experts, we can find nothing in the record to support this definition of being transgender, as all of the reports supporting both the Carter Policy and the Mattis Plan defined transgender persons as “identifying” with a gender other than their biological sex.
… we must recognize that the Mattis Plan plausibly relies upon the “considered professional judgment” of “appropriate military officials,” and appears to permit some transgender individuals to serve in the military consistent with established military mental health, physical health, and sex-based standards.</blockquote>
After the court rendered its decision, Pentagon spokeswoman Jessica Maxwell <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/01/04/circuit-court-backs-dod-transgender-service-policy/">said</a>, “The department remains bound by three other court orders that require continued implementation” of the Obama administration policy that permitted transgender personnel to serve openly. She added that the Department of Defense “is consulting with the Department of Justice on next steps in the litigation. We look forward to continuing to press our case in the courts.”
Military Times noted, “House lawmakers last summer approved language in the <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2019/12/11/budget-bill-loaded-with-military-personnel-policies-advances-in-house/">sweeping, annual defense budget measure</a> that would have overridden President Trump’s ban on transgender individuals joining in the military. But the proposal was dropped during negotiations, and the final policy bill included only some new studies on the potential impact of allowing them to join.”
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Dem Head Of Armed Services Committee: In 2020 We Will Push For Transgenders In Military

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Last month, speaker, advocate, and wife of Lutheran minister Jamie Bruesehoff celebrated her 12-year-old child, whom she claims is transgender, receiving a puberty-blocking implant in the arm.
&#8220;Today, this kid showed her strength once again. Today, she did something that was hard and scary. Today, she made herself proud,&#8221; said a social media post from Bruesehoff, the mother of Rebekah, a preteen who is biologically male but identifies as female.
&#8220;Today, Rebekah had her second surgical procedure to place a hormone blocking implant in her arm to prevent her from progressing farther into puberty,&#8221; Bruesehoff gushed. &#8220;This is one example of what medically appropriate, medically necessary, life-affirming, and often literally life-saving treatment looks like for a transgender child.&#8221;
Rebekah was just ten years old when his parents allowed an implant to be put inside the child to start blocking puberty; the latest implant was a &#8220;replacement,&#8221; according to the mother.
⁣&#8221;That is the face of a girl terrified of hospitals and needles, but more terrified of having to live life as someone she is not. That is the face of a girl feeling on top of the world, knowing her body won’t betray her and she’s one step closer to the woman she will grow up to be,&#8221; the mother captioned two photos of Rebekah — one at 10 years old, the other at 12.
&#8220;Today, I’m thankful for top notch medical facilities and physicians,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I’m thankful for ongoing and growing research and guidelines. I’m thankful for health insurance that covered my kid’s medically necessary treatment. And I’m extra thankful and proud to say that the insurance covering this procedure for my transgender daughter is provided to my husband through his employer &#8230; the church.⁣&#8221;
Bruesehoff closed out the post by bashing President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers for seemingly preventing and trying to prevent transgender procedures on minors, which she claims is tantamount to stopping &#8220;life-saving care.&#8221; 
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&#8220;With news of further discrimination out of the White House spreading and GOP lawmakers in multiples states trying to prohibit gender affirming, life-saving care like this for minors, I’m immensely grateful for my child’s medical care. EVERY kid deserves access to that care. We must fight those who want to prevent kids like her from living the lives they deserve,&#8221; the post reads. &#8220;ALLIES, we need you. Pay attention. Speak up. Stop the spread of misinformation. This is not abuse. This is allowing my child to live her best life.⁣&#8221;
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Today, this kid showed her strength once again. Today, she did something that was hard and scary. Today, she made&#8230;
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On Saturday, Bruesehoff celebrated Rebekah making PEOPLE magazine.
&#8220;Big day for [Rebekah Bruesehoff]. We found the January 6 issue of People on newsstands. Rebekah and some of her fellow Marvel’s #HeroProject heroes are in it!! Get your copy and read about these awesome kids,&#8221; the mother captioned a Facebook post. &#8220;AND she got her ears pierced!⁣ We’ve been meaning to for a while, but haven’t been able to squeeze it in. She loves them! #mightyrebekah #transisbeautiful.&#8221;
PEOPLE described Rebekah as a &#8220;transgender activist.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/jamiebruesehoff/about/?ref=page_internal">Bruesehoff</a> describes herself as &#8220;an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate&#8221; who is &#8220;openly queer&#8221; and &#8220;married to a Lutheran pastor and mom to three spirited children, including a twelve year old transgender daughter.&#8221; Bruesehoff specifies her pronouns as &#8220;she/her.&#8221;
&#8220;[Bruesehoff] is passionate about sharing her family’s story, because she believes our stories are bridges to understanding, compassion, and celebration,&#8221; the advocate&#8217;s Facebook page details. &#8220;Jamie writes and speaks about LGBTQ identities, policies and practices, advocacy, anti-bullying, parenting and faith. Jamie strives to live and lead with love, grace, and courage.&#8221;
H/t <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/lutheran-pastors-wife-rejoices-that-transgender-daughter-12-just-got-life-affirming-hormone-blocking-implant">The Blaze </a>

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Minister’s Wife Celebrates Trans Child, 12, Getting Puberty-Blocking Implant, Making PEOPLE Magazine

Last week, The Daily Wire reported that author J.K. Rowling was smeared as a &#8220;transphobe&#8221; and threatened with being &#8220;canceled&#8221; because she spoke out in support of researcher Maya Forstater, who was fired from her job with the Centre for Global Development for saying that while transgender individuals can change their outward appearance, male-to-female transgenders remain male and can never be, biologically, &#8220;women.&#8221;
&#8220;What I am so surprised at is that smart people who I admire, who are absolutely pro-science in other areas, and champion human rights &amp; womens rights are tying themselves in knots to avoid saying the truth that men cannot change into women (because that might hurt mens feelings),” Forstater said, originally.
“Dress however you please,” the “Harry Potter” author replied on social media. “Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill”
Forstater&#8217;s case is particularly egregious. Not only was she terminated from her position for articulating scientific facts, but when she brought a case against her former employer to a tribunal in the U.K., which found not just that CGD was justified in firing Forstater, but that Forstater&#8217;s basic beliefs &#8212; that men can never become biological women &#8212; was harmful, even if Forstater was simply saying what she believed.
“Paying due regard to the qualified right to freedom of expression, people cannot expect to be protected if their core belief involves violating others’ dignity,&#8221; the court said. Forstater’s “absolutist” views on the subject of gender were actually violent, the court found, and her opinion “violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.”
Rowling met with a torrent of abuse for her statement, with LGBTQ+ activists and their allies across the spectrum, threatening Rowling&#8217;s livelihood, and demanding that she apologize and admit that she was in error when she spoke out in support of someone who merely acknowledges biological and genetic reality.
GLAAD has been among Rowling&#8217;s most vocal critics, often saying on social media that Rowling is putting transgender individuals &#8220;at risk&#8221; because she refuses to believe men can be considered women for the purposes of things like privacy and sport. On Friday, the pro-LGBTQ rights group put out a statement blasting Rowling and challenging her to meet with transgender activists and cherry-picked scientists in order to expand her worldview.
In other words, Rowling should submit to indoctrination and bullying until she agrees that male-to-female transgender individuals are, indeed, women.
“J.K. Rowling, whose books gave kids hope that they could work together to create a better world, has now aligned herself with an anti-science ideology that denies the basic humanity of people who are transgender,” the group&#8217;s &#8220;head of talent&#8221; said in a statement, <a href="https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/glaad-j-k-rowling-anti-trans-researcher-1203448964/">according to Variety</a>. “Trans men, trans women and non-binary people are not a threat, and to imply otherwise puts trans people at risk. Now is the time for allies who know and support trans people to speak up and support their fundamental right to be treated equally and fairly.”
Rowling, of course, never said trans men, trans women, or non-binary people are a &#8220;threat.&#8221; She merely spoke out in support of those who acknowledge biology and genetics, suggesting that they shouldn&#8217;t be punished for their lack of wokeness.
In a move that must have been shocking to GLAAD, Rowling herself ignored them. Her representatives declined GLAAD&#8217;s offer of re-education.
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LGBTQ advocacy group <a href="https://twitter.com/glaad?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@glaad</a> says they reached out to <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jk_rowling</a>&#39;s PR team and offered to facilitate an off-the-record discussion between the best-selling author and members of the trans community. Rowling’s reps declined. More here: <a href="https://t.co/77D6sR8Ldm">https://t.co/77D6sR8Ldm</a>
&mdash; Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) <a href="https://twitter.com/adambvary/status/1207748730264272896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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If Rowling continues to stand firm against the wokescolds, she may strike a significant blow for freedom of speech. Although ordinary researchers, writers, and comedians can often be forced to apologize for their wrong opinions &#8212; Star Wars&#8217; Mark Hamill, for example, apologized for merely liking Rowling&#8217;s tweet &#8212; Rowling&#8217;s net worth is well into the billions. People are unlikely to stop consuming Harry Potter books and merchandise simply because some on social media, who once lauded Rowling as a heroine of the &#8220;Resistance,&#8221; are now left disappointed and ignored.
But once the pressure has little effect on one person, it may lose its tooth altogether.

GLAAD Tried To Force JK Rowling To Apologize For ‘Transphobic’ Comments. She Refused.

Never one to back into a corner as the guardians of cancel culture wage their war across the Western landscape, comedian Ricky Gervais jumped into the fire stoked by woke SJWs in response to the controversy over J.K. Rowling daring to say that  “sex is real” regarding transgender issues.
On Friday, Gervais jokingly responded to a satirical article from Jarvis Dupont, sarcastically blasting biological women upset over transgenders coming into their bathrooms and taking over their sports.
“Those awful biological women can never understand what it must be like for you becoming a lovely lady so late in life,” Gervais said on Twitter. “They take their girly privileges for granted. Winning at female sports and having their own toilets. Well, enough is enough.”
&#8220;We need to protect the rights of women,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;Not erode them because some men have found a new cunning way to dominate and demonize an entire sex.&#8221;
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Those awful biological women can never understand what it must be like for you becoming a lovely lady so late in life. They take their girly privileges for granted. Winning at female sports and having their own toilets. Well, enough is enough.
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Later, Ricky Gervais dropped the tongue-in-cheek tone and blasted his critics for essentially enforcing a cultural dogma without any debate.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t want to argue. They can&#8217;t afford to have their propositions questioned,&#8221; Gervais tweeted. &#8220;They want to create a dogma with its own blasphemy laws and the &#8216;fatwah&#8217; of labeling people bigots to shut them down, ostracise them and even have them fired.&#8221;
Predictably, the woke scolds have been relentless in their attacks on Ricky Gervais, accusing him of perpetuating transphobia.
&#8220;If you think Ricky Gervais is standing up for women in his spreading of transphobic conspiracy lies, just a reminder about his rape &#8216;jokes&#8217; and Aids &#8216;jokes.&#8217; He’s a 1970s dinosaur not even using irony as a disguise,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickStrud/status/1208364541811339265?s=20">tweeted</a> Patrick Strudwick of Buzzfeed. 
&#8220;Ricky Gervais is a transphobe and a thoroughly bad person. Namesearch this you utter c***,&#8221; said one Twitter user. 
&#8220;Ricky Gervais continues to prove that people super concerned with free speech are really just looking for excuses to be a**holes,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/courtenlow/status/1208445840974630913?s=20">tweeted</a> Courtney Enlow. 
&#8220;Apart from being a d**k, Ricky Gervais is a transphobe and if he weren’t so dumb he would say he was a TERF. Keep him off my blog and off my timeline,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1208368053865443329?s=20">tweeted</a> Xeni Jardin. 
Due to his refusal to bow to the politically correct establishment, SJWs have been on a concerted quest to cancel Ricky Gervais for the past several months. Most recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiewire-calls-for-canceling-transphobic-gervais-from-globes-gets-crushed-by-readers">IndieWire published</a> an op-ed arguing that the Golden Globes should fire him from hosting the upcoming awards show due to his outspoken “transphobia.”
<blockquote>During Gervais’ 2016 stint hosting the ceremony, he dead-named Olympic Gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner from the stage, and transphobic commentary has been a through line of his work since.
The star of Netflix’s “After Life” opened his 2018 stand-up comedy special “Humanity” — also on Netflix — with not one but three different derogatory remarks about Jenner, discussing her former name, referring to her as a man, as well as discussing surgery and her genitals. …
In an age where comedians are rightfully being held accountable[emphasis added] for bigoted words and actions from years prior … Gervais continues to tweet vitriol toward the LGBTQ+ community only to face no repercussions.</blockquote>
Prior to that, Gervais <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-trolls-transgender-activist-jessica-yaniv-for-targeting-gynecologists">scolded transgender</a> activist Jessica Yaniv for demanding that beauty salons wax his genitals, which was then followed by Yaniv accusing gynecologists of discrimination for not servicing him.

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Woke SJWs Are Now Blasting Ricky Gervais For Making Another Trans Joke

On December 14, transgender activist Brynn Tannehill penned an op-ed for The Advocate, an LGBTQ publication. The op-ed is titled: “Is Refusing to Date Trans People Transphobic?”
Tannehill makes several arguments in the piece pertaining to alleged transphobia, which you can read <a href="https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/14/refusing-date-trans-people-transphobic">here</a> if you want further insight into such thinking, however, one argument Tannehill makes stands out because it completely contradicts itself.
After admitting that “most transgender people have not had ‘bottom’ surgery,” meaning the surgical procedures that would restructure male or female genitalia into an approximation of the other, Tannehill suggests that it is not “transphobic to have a genital preference.”
<blockquote>&#8230;this rule can theoretically be applied neutrally across cisgender and transgender people. Thus, the rule of, “I am not attracted to people with a vagina” or, “I am not attracted to people with a penis” can be equally applied to both cisgender women and transgender men.</blockquote>
Tannehill continues, offering an example of how one can discern transphobic behavior:
<blockquote>The legal realm also provides insight into whether a something is inherently transphobic in and of itself. There is a legal concept call the “but for test,” where but for a certain fact or action, something would not have happened. It is also referred to as the sine qua non rule, which means &#8220;without which not.&#8221; In civil rights cases, this is a crucial test to see if individuals are being discriminated against.</blockquote>
Tannehill says that if a woman is fired from her job for wearing pants like those of her male colleagues, and she wouldn’t have been fired for wearing pants if she had not been a woman, that is a “but for” scenario.
<blockquote>Similarly, imagine a date that’s going well. There’s mutual physical attraction and definite chemistry. Then you find out they’re transgender via conversation (yes, everyone still has their clothes on), and end the date right then and there. But for the fact that the other person was transgender, this would have been a really good date, and you probably would have seen them again. This is discrimination against the transgender person for being transgender.
Obviously, this isn’t illegal, nor should it be. But, from a logical standpoint, yes, this is discriminatory and transphobic.</blockquote>
So, having a “genital preference” isn’t transphobic except for when it is. Tannehill’s arguments contradict each other. In the world Tannehill has created, an individual is allowed to state their attraction limits – but only prior to engaging with another person to whom they might be attracted.
For example, a male can say that he is only attracted to someone who has a vagina, e.g. a female, and that’s acceptable. However, this very same male cannot go out on a date with a biological male masquerading as a female, then, upon the revelation that this biological male is not a female and does not posses natural female genitalia, end the date due to his genital preference.
Embedded in Tannehill’s argument is a deconstruction of what it means to be male and female.
Tannehill implies that if a man is physically attracted to and has chemistry with a female-presenting biological male prior to the disclosure that this female-presenting biological male is indeed a biological male, any unwillingness to proceed romantically following the revelation would be “transphobic.”
This scenario suggests that biology and physical presentation are the same thing; that once any kind of physical attraction is established between two parties, the genitalia of either party ceases to matter. Tannehill’s assertion disregards the fact that built into an individual’s physical attraction to another person is the presupposition that the person to whom they are attracted has the preferred genitalia.
If an individual who loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches sees one sitting on a plate, then bites into it only to find that what he believed to be peanut butter was actually wet sand, should he be faulted for not wanting to continue to eat the sandwich? While he is initially attracted to the sandwich’s physical presentation with the presupposition that the ingredients are peanut butter and jelly, once he discovers that a key ingredient is missing, that changes his perception of the entire sandwich.
To suggest that visual presentation should supersede the fundamental ingredients that make up what it definitionally means to be something specific is absurd.

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CAMP: Trans Activist Seems To Suggest That ‘Genital Preference’ Isn’t Transphobic…Until It Is

NBA star Dwyane Wade recently spoke about his transgender 12-year-old son&#8217;s transformation into who &#8220;she&#8221; is and addressed folks questioning his parenting, whom Wade said are the ones with the problem.
&#8220;I watched my son, from day one, become into who she now eventually come into,&#8221; the former Miami Heat guard <a href="https://people.com/parents/dwyane-wade-watched-child-become-who-she-now-eventually-is/">told</a> the &#8220;All the Smoke&#8221; podcast on Wednesday, referencing preteen son Zion Malachi Airamis.
“And for me… nothing changes in my love. Nothing changes in my responsibilities. So, all I had to do now is get smarter educate myself more. And that’s my job,” continued Wade, who recently <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/miami-heat-star-dwyane-wade-kicks-off-nba-62332990">retired</a> from the NBA after an uber-successful career.
“First of all, you want to talk about strength and courage, my 12-year-old has way more than I have,” he added. “You can learn something from your kids.”
Wade, who married actress Gabrielle Union in 2015, said the couple “talk about making sure our kids understand the power in their voice.”
“We want them to be whoever they feel that they can be in this world. That’s our goal. Understand you can be whoever and you can be whatever,” he said.
Wade explained that when he first noticed his son was not &#8220;on the boy vibe,&#8221; he questioned how he would react as a parent.
“Me and my wife are having conversations about, you know, us noticing that, you know, [Zion] wasn’t on the boy vibe that Zaire was on. And I had to look myself in the mirror and say, ‘What if your son comes home and tell you he’s gay? What are you going to do? How are you going to be? How are you going to act?’ It ain’t about him. He knows who he is. It’s about you. Who are you?”
Young Zion sported long, colored, manicured nails and wore a crop top in the posted Wade family Thanksgiving photo, which triggered a response on social media.
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Reacting to the discussion and backlash over Wade&#8217;s parenting choices, the hoop star took to Twitter to defend how he is &#8220;leading&#8221; his family.</div>
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&#8220;I’ve seen some post-thanksgiving hate on social about my family photo. Stupidity is apart of this world we live in—so i get it. But here’s the thing—I’ve been chosen to lead my family not y’all. So we will continue to be us and support each other with pride, love &amp; a smile!&#8221; he wrote. 
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I’ve seen some post-thanksgiving hate on social about my family photo. Stupidity is apart of this world we live in—so i get it. But here’s the thing—I’ve been chosen to lead my family not y’all. So we will continue to be us and support each other with pride, love &amp; a smile! ✌🏾
&mdash; DWade (@DwyaneWade) <a href="https://twitter.com/DwyaneWade/status/1200919628471570433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“I’m speaking for so many others in the LGBTQ+ community,” contended Wade, speaking to &#8220;All the Smoke.&#8221;
“All these people that’s out there saying these things, look at yourself. Understand that you’re the one that’s got the issues. You’re the one that’s got the problem,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s not the kids, it’s not the ones who decide, ‘Yeah, you born a certain way, you gotta be that way.’ That’s not life, man.”
“This is the new normal. So, if anybody different, we’re looked at as different. The ones that don’t understand it. The ones that don’t get it,&#8221; Wade added. &#8220;The ones that get stuck in the box, you know, they’re different. Not the people out here living their lives.”

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Dwyane Wade Talks About Transgender Son Turning Into Who ‘She’ Is, Hits Folks Questioning His Parenting

Here are several questions for biologists and medical professionals: If a person is found to have XY chromosomes (heterogametic sex), does a designation as female on his birth certificate, driver&#8217;s license or Social Security card override the chromosomal evidence? Similarly, if a person is found to have XX chromosomes (homogametic) does a designation as male on her birth certificate, driver&#8217;s license or Social Security card override the chromosomal evidence? If you were a medical professional, would you consider it malpractice for an obstetrics/gynecology medical specialist, not to order routine Pap smears to screen for cervical cancer for a patient who identifies as a female but has XY chromosomes?
If you were a judge, would you sentence a criminal, who identifies as a female but has XY chromosomes, to a women&#8217;s prison? A judge just might do so. Judge William Pryor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit focused on a Florida school district ruling that a transgender &#8220;boy,&#8221; a person with XX chromosomes, could not be barred from the boys&#8217; restroom. Pryor suggested students shouldn&#8217;t be separated by gender at all.
Fear may explain why biologists in academia do not speak out to say that one&#8217;s sex is not optional. Since the LGBTQ community is a political force on many college campuses, biologists probably fear retaliation from diversity-blinded administrators. It&#8217;s not just academics and judges who now see sex as optional. Federal, state and local governments are ignoring biology and permitting people to make their sex optional on one&#8217;s birth certificate, passport, Social Security card and driver&#8217;s license. In New York City, intentional or repeated refusal to use an individual&#8217;s preferred name, pronoun or title is a violation of the New York City Human Rights Law. If I said that my preferred title was &#8220;Your Majesty,&#8221; I wonder whether the New York City Commission on Human Rights would prosecute people who repeatedly refused to use my preferred title.
One transgender LGBTQ activist filed a total of 16 complaints against female estheticians, with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after they refused to wax his male genitals. He sought financial restitution totaling at least $32,500. One woman was forced to close her shop. Fortunately, the LGBTQ activist&#8217;s case was thrown out by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, and he was instructed to pay $2,000 each to three of the women he attacked. The LGBTQ activist is not giving up. He is now threatening to sue gynecologists who will not accept him as a patient.
In 2012, an evangelical Christian baker in Colorado was threatened with jail time for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage ceremony. When Christian bakery owner Jack Phillips won a landmark (7-2 decision) U.S. Supreme Court case in June 2018 over his refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple based on his religious convictions, he thought his legal battles with the state of Colorado were over. But now Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colorado, 24 days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, faces a new court fight. This fight involves a lawyer who asked him to bake a cake to celebrate the anniversary of her gender transition. There are probably many bakery shops in and around Lakewood, Colorado, that would be happy to bake a cake for homosexuals; they are simply targeting Phillips.
For those in the LGBTQ community, and elsewhere, who support such attacks, we might ask them whether they would seek prosecution of the owner of a Jewish delicatessen who refused to provide catering services for a neo-Nazi affair. Should a black catering company be forced to cater a Ku Klux Klan affair? Should the NAACP be forced to open its membership to racist skinheads and neo-Nazis? Should the Congressional Black Caucus be forced to open its membership to white members of Congress? If you&#8217;re a liberty-minded American, your answers should be no.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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WILLIAMS: Corrupting Our Social Norms

Leftists who have long cited J.K. Rowling&#8217;s young adult fantasy series, &#8220;Harry Potter,&#8221; as their inspiration for turning progressive may have to find a new hero. Rowling is now &#8220;canceled&#8221; after coming out in support of Maya Forstater, a researcher fired from the Centre for Global Development after &#8220;tweeting that a person cannot change their biological sex,&#8221; <a href="https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/j-k-rowlings-support-of-researcher-fired-for-being-anti-trans-sparks-backlash-1203448705/">according to Variety Magazine</a>.
Rowling&#8217;s own tweet wasn&#8217;t particularly specific, and simply noted employees shouldn&#8217;t be forced out of their jobs for saying &#8220;sex is real,&#8221; but by adding the &#8220;#IStandWithMaya&#8221; hashtag, she apparently triggered her legions of leftist fans, resulting in a wave of social media scorn labeling Rowling a &#8220;transphobe&#8221; and a &#8220;TERF&#8221; &#8212; a &#8220;trans-exclusionary radical feminist.&#8221;
&#8220;Dress however you please,&#8221; the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author said. &#8220;Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill”
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Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithMaya?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithMaya</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThisIsNotADrill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ThisIsNotADrill</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1207646162813100033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Forstater&#8217;s original tweet was, of course, an affront to progressives and trans activists who claim that gender is a social construct rather than a biological reality, and that the idea of a &#8220;gender binary&#8221; is outdated. Although transgender individuals can change their outward appearance to that of the opposite gender, they cannot then call themselves women because, genetically, they will always remain male.
“What I am so surprised at is that smart people who I admire, who are absolutely pro-science in other areas, and champion human rights &amp; womens rights are tying themselves in knots to avoid saying the truth that men cannot change into women (because that might hurt mens feelings),&#8221; Forstater said on social media.
Forstater was immediately canned from her job at CGD. She eventually sued the organization claiming that CGD violated her right to free speech by punishing her for her personal opinions. A UK judge disagreed and upheld her termination, claiming that Forstater&#8217;s “absolutist” views on the subject of gender were actually violent, and her decision to disregard the wishes of transgender individuals by referring to them as members of  their chosen sex &#8220;violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.&#8221;
Even &#8220;paying due regard to the qualified right to freedom of expression, people cannot expect to be protected if their core belief involves violating others’ dignity&#8221; read the shocking decision.
Rowling&#8217;s support for Forstater set off an unbelievable firestorm. The Human Rights Campaign lashed out first, taking the progressive paragon Rowling to task for refusing to admit that &#8220;trans women are women&#8221; and &#8220;trans men are men.&#8221;
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Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Non-binary people are non-binary.
CC: JK Rowling.
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The president of HRC, Alphonso David, even took the time to personally reprimand Rowling for her &#8220;fundamentalism&#8221; and backwards thinking.
&#8220;.<a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling" data-mentioned-user-id="62513246" data-scribe="element:mention">@jk_rowling</a> says she&#8217;s opposed to fundamentalism in any form, but she&#8217;s promoting a harmful fundamentalism that endangers the LGBTQ community — particularly transgender youth. She should apologize,&#8221; David wrote.
Rowling&#8217;s fans, who have long heralded Rowling and her character, Harry Potter, as icons of &#8220;resistance&#8221; and frequently compare Potter&#8217;s years-long battle against the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort, to their own crusade to oust President Donald Trump (a metaphor that Rowling herself has often encouraged), decided that the author was, in a word, &#8220;canceled.&#8221;
The triggered Potter fans were &#8220;betrayed,&#8221; called Rowling a &#8220;bigot&#8221; and a &#8220;reactionary centrist.&#8221; Other&#8217;s simply expressed their &#8220;extreme sadness.&#8221;
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Hi guys! I just wanted to let you know that my entire comic is a response to feeling betrayed by JK Rowling and if you also feel that way, I welcome you into my arms. She has said some truly bad shit in the past, and her recent transmisogyny is disgusting.
&mdash; Principles of Magic (@pomwebcomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/pomwebcomic/status/1208027973711998977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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hi. breaking my hiatus real quick just to say: fuck what your childhood heroes say. trans people are real. trans people deserve to be protected, recognized, supported, and loved. if that infringes on your idea of feminism, you’re not actually a feminist at all. you’re a bigot.
&mdash; casey mcchristmas 🎄☃️✨ (@casey_mcquiston) <a href="https://twitter.com/casey_mcquiston/status/1207675007570239488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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I grew up as a trans child reading your books as an escape. I would often pick out names from characters to give to myself, before I ever felt comfortable in who I was. This decision, to support people that hate me, and want to do me harm. It brings me to tears&#8230; Why. Why?
&mdash; Lily is entering unprecedented levels of lethargy (@notafootstool) <a href="https://twitter.com/notafootstool/status/1207649187426455552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Celebrities who &#8220;liked&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s tweet were even forced to apologize for being insufficiently woke after being &#8220;informed&#8221; by social media as to Rowling&#8217;s &#8220;problematic&#8221;-ness. Even &#8220;Star Wars'&#8221; <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/jk-rowling-transphobic-tweet-mark-hamill-maya-fortstater-terf-a9254446.html?utm_term=Autofeed&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1576856205">Mark Hamill had to issue a groveling &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry</a>.&#8221;
This isn&#8217;t the first time Rowling has run afoul of progressive leftists. She&#8217;s been labeled a &#8220;TERF&#8221; before &#8212; a &#8220;trans-exclusionary radical feminist&#8221; &#8212; because of comments she made in support for women&#8217;s rights, which &#8220;TERFs&#8221; believe are threatened by the trans movement, which posits that even men can be women if they so desire. Feminism, they posit, fought to even the playing field for women who are at a disadvantage because of institutionalized sexism, Patriarchy, and rampant, gender-based discrimination. By allowing men to be women &#8212; especially to compete as women &#8212; and to claim gender is now a &#8220;social construct&#8221; that simply doesn&#8217;t exist erases the achievements of feminism altogether.

J.K. Rowling Smeared As Transphobe, ‘Canceled’ After Saying Biological Sex ‘Is Real’

Leftism increasingly functions as less of a political ideology and more of a superstitious cult. Many examples could be presented to prove this point, but today&#8217;s &#8220;controversy&#8221; should suffice.
For a little bit of background, Maya Forstater is a researcher in the United Kingdom who recently lost her job for stating the scientific and indisputable fact that men cannot turn into women. Forstater went to court to win back her job but an employment judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/18/judge-rules-against-charity-worker-who-lost-job-over-transgender-tweets">ruled against her</a> this week, declaring that Forstater&#8217;s belief in biological science is &#8220;not worthy of respect in a democratic society.&#8221; He also ruled that her views on biology do not &#8220;have the protected characteristic of philosophical belief.&#8221; On that point, he&#8217;s correct. It is not at all a &#8220;philosophical belief&#8221; that men can&#8217;t transition into women. It is a scientific fact. But a fact that, in these times, cannot be stated publicly.
J.K. Rowling was next in line for cancellation. The author came to Forstater&#8217;s defense, but did so in the mildest and most leftist-friendly way possible (or so she thought). Writing on Twitter, Rowling said: &#8220;Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for stating that sex is real?&#8221;
Rowling here affirms the relativistic, libertine position on every point, except she is not willing to profess biological sex as a figment of our imagination. So, simply for suggesting that sex exists, Rowling has found herself in the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/biz/news/j-k-rowlings-support-of-researcher-fired-for-being-anti-trans-sparks-backlash-1203448705/">middle of a leftist firestorm</a>. Thousands of science-hating lunatics are calling her bigoted, transphobic, and so forth, all because she relayed a fact as indisputable and uncontroversial as &#8220;two plus two equals four.&#8221;
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You could argue that Rowling deserves to be eaten by the alligator she&#8217;s been feeding all these years. Perhaps she does. But it is worth highlighting her plight because it underscores the point I made at the top. Leftist gender theory is a superstition and leftism itself is a cult. That is certainly how anthropologists of the future will categorize it when they sift through the wreckage of our once-great civilization.
On a related note, and inspired by this latest bit of madness, I am repeating the challenge I have made to the Left several times before. Only now I am upping the ante a little bit. As I <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1207727719192117253?s=20">announced on Twitter</a> this afternoon, I will give $100 to the first leftist who can provide me with a coherent definition of the word &#8220;woman&#8221; that permits biological males to be included yet still maintains womanhood as a distinguishable and objective category.
It is my contention that this simple question — what is a woman? — completely dismantles left-wing gender theory in its entirety. I claim that everything the Left says about gender can be discredited just by posing this question. After all, a statement like &#8220;I identify as a woman&#8221; has no meaning if the word &#8220;woman&#8221; has no meaning. Indeed, all statements about women are rendered incoherent if we do not have a working definition of the term itself.
The problem for the Left is that they need the word &#8220;woman&#8221; to mean something in order for feminist and LGBT rhetoric to have relevance. But any attempt to define the word must result in the exclusion of biological males. There simply is no available definition of &#8220;woman&#8221; that legitimizes transgenderism. If it means anything for a woman to be a woman, then it cannot mean anything when a man says he is one. I submit that transgenderism is both scientifically and logically invalid. This is a very important point. It&#8217;s not just that the Left is promoting a crazy new scientific theory. It&#8217;s that they are making a claim that is logically incoherent and thus dismissible and out of hand.
To review: The phrase &#8220;I identify as a woman&#8221; requires that the word &#8220;woman&#8221; mean something. But if the word &#8220;woman&#8221; means anything at all, then men who identify as woman must be mistaken. All you have to do to prove me wrong is offer a definition of the word that successfully navigates all of these obstacles. If you can, I&#8217;ll pay you for your trouble. But you can&#8217;t.

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