Spot on again Louise. I loved your comments about being hardwired to recognise sex - I always knew there was something behind me looking at men’s forearms - it’s survival after all knowing who is a man and who is not ✅
P/s have just bought (and reread) your abridged book for my 5 granddaughters- well done
I am very happy to hear this news from TERF Island. But I doubt that this presages any fundamental changes in North America. In fact, the controversy over men in women’s sports has resulted in a fierce doubling down. Too many people have bought the lie, and it’s not so easy to walk it back. It’s going to be a long haul.
There is a dynamic at work in the US that is quite different from the UK. The perception is that opposition to trans is coming entirely from the right, and that the Democrats are standing up for the civil rights issue of our time.
So Trump’s actions are stiffening the righteousness and the resolve of the trans movement and the Democrats. Another complicating factor is that so many have bought into a lie — that men can be women — with disastrous consequences for medicalized young people. It’s not so easy to backtrack from this lie.
This doesn’t make sense. The Trump administration is coming down on transgender nonsense like a ton of bricks. I don’t agree with Trump about a lot of things. But this isn’t one of them. Also, I realize that North America also includes Canada. Still, the United States is the most populous nation in North America. And the trans craze no longer has the wind at its back in the USA.
I live in the States (British) and just happened to be visiting the UK this joyous week. Dems and blue states are ignoring Trump’s EO’s. We NEED legislation. The EO’s are not enough. We need to get this to the Supreme courts ASAP
History Fact: Stalin's Russia and Mao's China inadvertently starved millions of their own people because they denied biology.
The Communists imprisoned or killed any scientists who argued in favor of evolution via natural selection and genetic inheritance, because these conflicted with their radical egalitarian/humanitarian fantasies (that an unconditionally altruistic society would one day be possible).
Basically, the Communists said: "If you believe in biology, then you're a capitalist Nazi! Thus, you need to be silenced!"
This destroyed their ability to do agriculture correctly. They pushed for a pseudoscience called Lamarckism/Lysenkoism: the idea that everything is nurture and nothing is nature. As per this, the Communists planted crops ridiculously closely together, because they believed that this would make the crops "cooperate" with each other better and grow bigger and faster with fewer resources (thus saving water and nutrients in the soil).
No really.
Suffice to say, the crops didn't care about their ideological fantasies. The scarce/limited resources resulted in the crops all collectively dying out (a perfect metaphor for Communist states in general), and massive crop failures ensued all over the Soviet Union and China, leading to millions of deaths by starvation.
Did a group of overly rational third wave psychology majors decide that highly suggestable women could be convinced they were assertive? I assume so they could avoid marrying that guy Herald their aunt keeps bringing to dinner. Does that explain our current gender dynamic in the West?
Spot on again Louise. I loved your comments about being hardwired to recognise sex - I always knew there was something behind me looking at men’s forearms - it’s survival after all knowing who is a man and who is not ✅
P/s have just bought (and reread) your abridged book for my 5 granddaughters- well done
I am very happy to hear this news from TERF Island. But I doubt that this presages any fundamental changes in North America. In fact, the controversy over men in women’s sports has resulted in a fierce doubling down. Too many people have bought the lie, and it’s not so easy to walk it back. It’s going to be a long haul.
There is a dynamic at work in the US that is quite different from the UK. The perception is that opposition to trans is coming entirely from the right, and that the Democrats are standing up for the civil rights issue of our time.
So Trump’s actions are stiffening the righteousness and the resolve of the trans movement and the Democrats. Another complicating factor is that so many have bought into a lie — that men can be women — with disastrous consequences for medicalized young people. It’s not so easy to backtrack from this lie.
This battle will be fought for a long, long time.
This doesn’t make sense. The Trump administration is coming down on transgender nonsense like a ton of bricks. I don’t agree with Trump about a lot of things. But this isn’t one of them. Also, I realize that North America also includes Canada. Still, the United States is the most populous nation in North America. And the trans craze no longer has the wind at its back in the USA.
I live in the States (British) and just happened to be visiting the UK this joyous week. Dems and blue states are ignoring Trump’s EO’s. We NEED legislation. The EO’s are not enough. We need to get this to the Supreme courts ASAP
"The reason it matters so much is because it represents a state-sanctioned assault on reality itself." Well put!
Congratulations to Great Britain and the brave TERFs who stood up for reality.
History Fact: Stalin's Russia and Mao's China inadvertently starved millions of their own people because they denied biology.
The Communists imprisoned or killed any scientists who argued in favor of evolution via natural selection and genetic inheritance, because these conflicted with their radical egalitarian/humanitarian fantasies (that an unconditionally altruistic society would one day be possible).
Basically, the Communists said: "If you believe in biology, then you're a capitalist Nazi! Thus, you need to be silenced!"
This destroyed their ability to do agriculture correctly. They pushed for a pseudoscience called Lamarckism/Lysenkoism: the idea that everything is nurture and nothing is nature. As per this, the Communists planted crops ridiculously closely together, because they believed that this would make the crops "cooperate" with each other better and grow bigger and faster with fewer resources (thus saving water and nutrients in the soil).
No really.
Suffice to say, the crops didn't care about their ideological fantasies. The scarce/limited resources resulted in the crops all collectively dying out (a perfect metaphor for Communist states in general), and massive crop failures ensued all over the Soviet Union and China, leading to millions of deaths by starvation.
Did a group of overly rational third wave psychology majors decide that highly suggestable women could be convinced they were assertive? I assume so they could avoid marrying that guy Herald their aunt keeps bringing to dinner. Does that explain our current gender dynamic in the West?