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A publication dedicated to free speech, science, and reality. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away.” ~ Philip K. Dick
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Reality's Last Stand is a hub for great writing on science, free speech, sex and gender, and related topics. If you'd like to publish your writing in RLS, please send your submission to: realityslaststand at gmail dot com.
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Colin Wright has been suspended from @Twitter for posting the cartoon attached to this @RealLastStand article below. He's being asked to delete it and admit to violating Twitter's rules against hate speech. This is absurd. @TwitterSupport @elonmusk .
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"This 'intersex is as common as red hair' claim is frequently voiced by leading human rights and LGBTQ+ organizations, Left-wing activists, popular online magazines, and even scientists. But it isn't true." – @SwipeWright .
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REALITY CHECK: The existence of the white box below does not mean the blue and pink areas are meaningless "social constructs" with no basis in biological reality. 🛡️
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"'Transgenderism' is a word acting as a social bridge between transsexualism and transhumanism. It is an umbrella term with weak borders that allows this bridging quality to transhumanism to nimbly evade scrutiny." – @bjportraits .
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Pediatric Gender Medicine and the Moral Panic Over Suicide | @LeorSapir . "Not only is the empirical basis for the affirm-or-suicide mantra shoddy at best, but its dissemination is also profoundly irresponsible.".
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Republicans, Don't Alienate the Atheists | @SwipeWright. "As the Left undergoes an ideological purity spiral, the Right has a golden opportunity to give these godless political wanderers a home.".
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I Pretended To Be ‘Nonbinary’ To Expose a Medical Scandal at Kaiser Permanente | Beth Bourne. "Kaiser gender specialists were eager to approve hormones and surgeries, which would all be covered by insurance as 'medically necessary.'".
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"A person with Klinefelter syndrome (who have an extra X chromosome (XXY)) isn't a new sex in the same way that a person with Down's syndrome (who have 3 instead of 2 copies of chromosome 21) isn't a new species." – @SwipeWright .
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"No amount of 'cross-sex' hormones, taken for any length of time, will cause a female body to become male, nor will a male ever become female." – @heterodorx .
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"What is occurring at Vanderbilt Medical, and hospitals and clinics all over the country in the name of gender pseudoscience, is a medical scandal of horrifying proportions. And it has to end right now." – @SwipeWright .
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"If someone had told me then that I would spend my post-menopausal years trying to convince people that men should not be competing in women’s sports, I would never have believed them." –@coachblade .
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"The gender clinic presented my parents with the classic false dichotomy regarding children with gender dysphoria: 'Would you rather have a dead daughter or a live son?' Given these options, what loving parent wouldn’t choose to transition their child?"
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“Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling's estimate of 1.7%.” – @SwipeWright .
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Avoid the ‘Intersex Trap’ | @SwipeWright . "Gender activists have dragged intersex people into this debate against their will in order to further their sex-denying political agenda.".
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The Medical Leash of Hormone Replacement Therapy | @heterodorx . "I am permanently leashed to a medical provider. My only freedom is that I can pick who holds the leash.".
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"The view that sex is a spectrum is no longer confined to humanities departments and hermetic internet communities. It has now made considerable inroads into mainstream culture, thanks in part to a highly sympathetic media environment." – @SwipeWright .
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"Gender ideologues are notorious for word games and language manipulation. When it suits them, 'gender' is used as a synonym for 'sex.' At other times. gender is taken to refer to roles and behaviors stereotypically associated with being male or female."
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The Origins of Two Sexes | @zaelefty . "The emergence of two sexes is so optimal for sexual reproduction that the male-female dichotomy has 'evolved independently across nearly all lineages of multicellular organisms.'".
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"Being asked 'what are your pronouns?' is often the first encounter a child will have with gender ideology, and it is therefore a common first step in creating so-called 'trans kids.'" – @SwipeWright .
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"It wasn’t necessary to put the trans movement on a collision course with reality, fairness, common sense, medical ethics, toleration for difference, freedom of speech and conscience, and the basic recognition that sex matters." – @elizamondegreen
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"When introduced to these concepts, gender nonconforming children and kids who don’t view themselves as paragons of masculinity or femininity may come to believe they're 'trans' or 'nonbinary,' or they’ll be extremely confused." – @SwipeWright
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“The issue with fixating on credentials is that, for any given topic, there will always be highly credentialed individuals on opposing sides. So, at the end of the day, you need to actually make a compelling argument.” – @SwipeWright .
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John Oliver Gets Gender Wrong | @LisaSelinDavis . "Oliver ended up greatly contributing to the spread of harmful disinformation surrounding 'gender affirming care' by uncritically repeating several common and easily disprovable falsehoods.".
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"Ivy also claims to be 'a female' because 'all my identity records, my racing license, my medical records, all say female.' But there is a world of difference between a document saying you are female and actually being a female." – @SwipeWright .
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On ‘Gender,’ the Left Is Shooting Itself in the Foot | Bruce Lesnik. "None of this is progressive, or revolutionary. None of this challenges the powers that be. On the contrary, gender ideology is anti-material, anti-science, and reactionary to the core."
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"People can easily be misled when something is presented as complex, mistaking this for being scientific or nuanced. This is why concepts like the “sex spectrum” and multivariable models of biological sex can seem attractive." – @SwipeWright .
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Etsy Equates ‘Detransitioner Awareness’ Designs With Hatred | @buttonslives. "Etsy’s action implies that merely acknowledging the existence of detransitioners is an act of hate.”.
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A De-Transitioner’s Review of Elliot Page’s ‘Pageboy’ | @FunkGodArtist . "Your pain is real, Ellen. Your joy is real. I believe your experiences. But I disagree that you are a boy, or a man.".
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"The false memory and ritual abuse scares of the ‘80s and ‘90s now seem bizarre almost beyond imagining. The current trend to diagnose children as transgender bears an eerie similarity to this previous social panic." – @LisaMarchiano .
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An 8th Grade Girl Explains Why Male Athletes Should Not Be Allowed in Women’s Sports | Kathryn Taylor. "I hope my generation will continue to speak up about this issue without fear so women and girls will have the right to fair sports now and forever.".
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"At some point, one can no longer pretend to be a victim. At some point, you become complicit. At some point, you are knowingly cheating. I believe that point has been reached." – @SwipeWright .
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"Pronoun rituals are extremely effective at normalizing and institutionalizing the abolition of biological sex in favor of gender identity by taking advantage of people’s confusion and compassion to achieve compliance." – @SwipeWright .
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"It becomes much more difficult to hide behind a saccharine veneer of kindness and inclusion when you cheer male boxers punching women in the face." –@eva_kurilova .
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"Pronoun rituals are extremely effective at normalizing and institutionalizing the abolition of biological sex in favor of gender identity. These rituals take advantage of people’s confusion and compassion to achieve compliance." – @SwipeWright .
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“Such statements put @neiltyson into a quantum superposition-like state where he is attempting to signal progressive values while simultaneously spiraling into a regressive black hole.” –@SwipeWright .
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The 2024 Olympic Games Must Exclude Males From Female Categories | Daniela Llaven. "Let there be no doubt: this is not about preventing transgender individuals from partaking in sports; it is about ensuring fair play and safety for all, especially women.".
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Dr. Richard Pan’s Claims in Support of California’s SB 107 Are False and Medically Irresponsible | @LeorSapir . "@DrPanMD stressed the importance of 'talking about facts' and 'not exaggerating.' I suggest he start taking his own advice.".
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I Was Fired for Supporting Women’s Sex-Based Rights. Now I’m Suing. | @AnnMenasche. "I am fighting back against my former employer. I refuse to be silenced or intimated."
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The Stakes Are Far Too High To Stay Silent | @JamesEsses . "I expected vigorous debate on this issue within my community of therapists. But instead, I found silence.".
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Denying the Human Sex Binary Turns Biology into Nonsense | Catherine Hawkins. "Vote for anyone or anything you like. But leave biology out of your political project. Some of us would still like to use it to make sense of the natural world.".
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"I believe Americans deserve to know the truth about this radical and perverse ideology that is being marketed as necessary and 'life-saving' healthcare." – @ChoooCole .
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"It’s ironic that activists criticize the sex binary as 'high school-level biology' while promoting the unproven 'sex spectrum,' which is often popularized in unreviewed science magazines and cartoon teaching aids aimed at young children." –@SwipeWright
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Breaking News | @buttonslives . A young detransitioned woman is seeking justice from the medical group and hospital that facilitated her medical transition which included puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and a double mastectomy at just 13 years old.
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ICYMI: I Would Have Been a ‘Trans Kid’—Stop Medicalizing Gender Non-Conformity | @eva_kurilova . "The widespread belief that there is such a thing as a 'trans child' instills the notion that there is a 'wrong' way to be a little boy or a little girl.".
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Should Stick to Physics | @SwipeWright . "@neiltyson's views appear to be the result of a successful Left-wing fear mongering campaign to dismiss and downplay legitimate concerns over gender ideology.".
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"I worry that I and millions of other women are becoming invisible—not at the hands of right-wing extremists, but by people who claim to promote tolerance, inclusion, and equity." – @UnpluggedNow .
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Detransitioners Respond: A Letter to Attorney General Garland | @ChoooCole, @lacroicsz, @ImWatson91, @desisteraqua, @HormoneHangover, @TullipR, and @catcattinson. "We must not conflate passionate criticism with violence or incitement of violence."
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"I decided to go undercover as a nonbinary patient to show my daughter what danger she might be putting herself in. I am at heart a mother protecting her child.".
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We’re Not Going Away: My Response to the New York Times Hit Piece | @ChoooCole . "My heart hurts every time I see a new detransitioner come out, but soon our numbers will be too large for the New York Times to dismiss as a 'few stories of regret.'".
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Is There a Doctor in the House? | @JenniferLahl & @Kal_Fell. "The authors argue that 'gendered' pregnancy care is too focused on helping women have healthy babies." .
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"The equating of sex nonconformity with transgenderism arose incrementally, through a complicated regulatory process involving court decisions and bureaucratic guidelines that were presided over by transgender interest groups." – @SwipeWright
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"The claim that biological sex is 'assigned at birth' is misleading as it draws a false equivalence between transgender and intersex people, and suggests that identity, as opposed to primary sex organs, defines one’s biological sex." – @SwipeWright.
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali Is Right about Islam and Sexual Violence | @Ravarora1. "@Ayaan compellingly outlines, the role of Islamic culture is central to the disproportionate rate of sexual violence among migrant men."
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Why I Stopped Going To Pride | @DebbieHayton. "Behind the rainbows and the sparkles, and the banners and the flags, there is a totalitarian mindset that demands compliance.".
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Gametes Are Not an ‘Arbitrary Definition’ of Biological Sex | @SwipeWright. "Accusations of transphobia or 'idiotic biases' only serve as a feeble attempt to obscure the inescapable fact that the gametic foundation of sex is fundamental and unassailable."
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Queer Theory Aims to Normalize Pedophilia by ‘Rethinking’ the Age of Consent | @BarbaraRKay . "Radical gender ideology has as its principal goal the 'queering' of norms that are foundational to healthy societies.".
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Current Concerns About Gender-Affirming Therapy in Adolescents | @segm_ebm . "Every quality systematic review of youth gender transition to date has failed to find credible benefits even in the short-term.".
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"The spread of gender ideology into the classroom is not a conservative issue, a Christian issue, or even primarily a feminist issue. This is a matter of children’s health and wellbeing." – Laura López.
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"Because biology is complex, people can be easily swayed with graphs and drawings, especially if they purport to prove something we want to believe anyway—such as the supposedly liberating notion that sex is a spectrum instead of a binary." – @SwipeWright .
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"Defending the binary nature of sex in court will become increasingly important because the depiction of sex as a haphazard collection of traits—instead of being tied to reproductive function—is a central tenet of gender ideology." –@SwipeWright .
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Case Study: A Mother Rushes To Get Her 15-Year Old Daughter’s Breasts Removed | @buttonslives & @SwipeWright .
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"As troubling as the study’s findings are, its suppression may be even more consequential. The decision to withhold this research from public discourse speaks to a larger issue: the growing entanglement of ideology and information." – @SwipeWright .
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Read a short comment from @SwipeWright about being locked out of Twitter for his political cartoon, and enjoy today's Reading List with articles from brilliant writers such as @FondOfBeetles, @rpondiscio, @Docstockk, and others! 📰☕️.
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Gender Ideology Impacts Everyone | @redpilledlcsw. "It is important to recognize that the trans issue extends beyond the realm of women's concerns. Indeed, it is a broad and more complex issue. It affects us all."
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"Schools have dress codes for a number of reasons, including decency. Decency can’t always be precisely defined, but there was a time when its inverse—indecency—needed no definition, because it was instantly recognizable." – @BarbaraRKay .
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@lascapigliata8 @Twitter @TwitterSupport @elonmusk It's not back. Colin is still locked out of his account until he removed the tweet that @TwitterSupport claims violated their Rules against hate speech.
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"These inconsistent, overlapping definitions [of 'gender'] are used by gender ideologues to resist being pinned down, to evade addressing logical contradictions, and to dismiss material reality." – Bruce Lesnick.
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The Distortions in Jack Turban’s Psychology Today Article on ‘Gender Affirming Care’ | @LeorSapir . "Turban's public statements on pediatric gender medicine policy in the United States have been less than honest."
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To Call or Not Call a Man ‘She,’ That Is the Question | @salltweets . Read Sall's full essay:
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"As gender ideology gained a foothold within the atheist movement, the brains of many prominent and once-rational figures began to melt." – @SwipeWright .
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Is the decline of Christianity responsible for the rise of wokeism?. Author @HPluckrose discusses her latest @RealLastStand essay with @andrewdoyle_com on @GBNEWS' Free Speech Nation!
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"Simply put, this is conversion therapy for gender nonconforming kids, except that it’s now bodies instead of minds that are being converted to bring children into 'proper' alignment with themselves." – @SwipeWright
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"This all sounds progressive in theory, but is regressive in practice, since the indicia of male-ness and female-ness invoked by sex-spectrum enthusiasts are based on sexist ideals and stereotypes that our grandparents would have recognized." –@SwipeWright
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"The most profoundly sinister aspect of this cult ideology, aside from the practice of 'gender-affirming care' itself, is its ability to drive even the most rational and principled among us to the mental brink of questioning our own sanity." –@SwipeWright.
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"Ennis’ journalistic grand finale is to take on the role of a mind reader and accuses me and other detransitioners of causing 'deliberate harm to trans and nonbinary youth,' though she fails to state who I’ve harmed, or how." – @ChoooCole .
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"When kids spend their entire waking lives being monitored by an adult, they start to think that kind of monitoring is normal. Worse, they start to think that they need it." – @Julian_Liberty, Mark Johnson, & Geoff Laughton.
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Who or What Is to Blame for Gender Ideology? | @eva_kurilova . "Let’s not pretend we can’t see, hear, speak, and know basic, self-evident facts simply to cultivate an air of intellectual sophistication.".
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"The posture of this campaign, featuring playfully soft 'girly' punches, hyper-feminine makeup, windswept hair, and a flowery dress, seems to be something like: 'See, bigots? We told you she was a woman!'" – @SwipeWright .
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"Fausto-Sterling's central error was to equate any 'differences of sexual development' (DSDs) with 'intersex.' But while all intersex conditions may be considered DSDs, not all DSDs are necessarily intersex conditions." – @SwipeWright .
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Worker Bees Are Female, Not 'Nonbinary' | @SwipeWright. "Žižek’s use of the terms 'feminine' and 'nonbinary' in relation to bee reproduction either unveils his confusion about gender ideology or an intentional effort to blur the line between sex & gender."
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Sex Isn’t All About Chromosomes | @zaelefty . "Males and females are not defined as the presence or absence of the Y chromosome. The sexes are defined by their structure and function: the reproductive anatomy that produces sperm or eggs.".
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My Employer Risked Its Core Mission to Cancel Me for My Conservative Views | Josh Slocum. "Speaking my mind in public has cost me almost everything, and it may yet cost me the rest.".
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"Wokeness is a totalizing worldview—a lens through which nearly every policy area. is viewed and scrutinized. Consequently, a voter driven by opposition to wokeness is closer to an 'every-issue' voter than a 'single-issue' voter." –@SwipeWright .
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"How could I expend energy expanding the frontier of human knowledge on esoteric topics like the collective personalities of social insect societies when fundamental scientific discoveries were being purposefully obfuscated and forgotten?" – @SwipeWright.
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"[E]ugenics hasn’t gone anywhere. It has simply advanced with technology and is riding the tsunami wave of unfettered corporatism. It is now coming at us through transhumanism and genetic engineering." – @bjportraits .
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The Ideological Intensification of DEI in STEM | @GoadMason. "DEI initiatives may sound wholesome, but the reality is far from it. DEI must be stopped, not only to save the sciences, but the humanities, the arts, and Western civilization at large."
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