At the NCAA swim finals Kellie Jay Keen takes on transgender activist who lived nearly 50 years as a man, fathered three children, and now says “I’m a mother.”
Sex is binary. Females produce eggs and bear offspring, while males produce sperm and impregnate females. The existence of disorders of sexual development (or, more imprecisely, of “intersex” persons) in no way collapses this distinction.
#IStandWithMaya
#ThisIsNotADrill
Just got into a debate about sex with an older woman at the NCAA swim prelims. She said, “I’m a physician and I can tell you this is very subtle. You might be a man. How do you know you’re not if you’ve never been tested?”
Some people seem to be struggling with this, so let me try another way. (1) Humans are two-legged creatures. The existence of persons with one or three legs does not alter this fact.
Sex is binary. Females produce eggs and bear offspring, while males produce sperm and impregnate females. The existence of disorders of sexual development (or, more imprecisely, of “intersex” persons) in no way collapses this distinction.
#IStandWithMaya
#ThisIsNotADrill
Your regular reminder that
@Mermaids_Gender
is a sinister organisation, out of step with NHS guidelines and basic safeguarding practices, and promoting experimental sex-change treatments for children.
My lenghty feature for the latest print issue of National Review. I provide an overview of the medical harms of gender ideology for children. Not a happy read; not at all.
The ‘Trans’ Child as Experimental Guinea Pig
After
@BlanchardPhD
had his brief Twitter lock-out, I gave him a call. What he had to say was so illuminating that I decided to publish our interview.
Here he is on transgenderism, transsexualism, and the politicization of psychiatry.
"Protesters surrounded a *transgender woman* with children at home who was covering the event, shouting that **she** was “not a mother” and ordering **her** to stay out of “women’s spaces.”"
From the WaPo.
Now watch the video/google this individual. See why language matters?
If you’re wondering why more journalists aren’t reporting on this stuff, consider this. A “6ft 3 ex-Para” male threatening a young female journalist with physical violence. Nice.
(5) The aggressive negation of self-evident categories and the blurring of distinctions is a political technique, used to bully and baffle the general public into accepting an activist agenda without question.
When the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal blew up, journalists were rightly all over it. So why are we ignoring a similarly shocking social and medical scandal happening in the plain sight?
(4) Individuals who *self-identify* as having missing or extra legs -- i.e. "body integrity dysphoria" -- are suffering from a psychological condition, and are distinct from individuals who genuinely have missing or extra legs (a physiological condition).
This is for anyone with a vagina... (and anyone who knows someone with a vagina)
Actress shares smear test experiences to help more people understand their life-saving potential
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"the first openly transgender woman to win an N.C.A.A. swimming championship."
This isn't about identity ("openly" or otherwise). This is about sex. Being the first male to win an N.C.A.A swimming championship *in the female category* is not progress.
Scary stuff being introduced by the backdoor in Scotland. New bill proposes up to 7 years imprisonment for “stirring up hate” (and offending woke orthodoxies)
Scotland Swaps One Blasphemy Law for Another
At the NCAA swim finals Kellie Jay Keen takes on transgender activist who lived nearly 50 years as a man, fathered three children, and now says “I’m a mother.”
There are all sorts of social situations in which we avoid the plain truth to protect other peoples’ feelings. A court of law is NOT one of them.
#IstandwithSelina
Teen Girls vs. ‘Trans’ Athletes
The UK and Scottish governments are consulting right now on how people legally change their gender. But is this issue also affecting freedom of expression? James Morton from Scottish Trans Alliance and journalist Madeleine Kearns shared their thoughts with
#TheNine
.
No emotionally stable person could read Rowling’s thoughtful essay and conclude that she was arguing trans people “shouldn’t exist,” or that *suicide* is a proportionate response. Sharing this to score political points is as irresponsible as it is ugly.
The mum of the 9 y/o "trans girl" in the new
@netflix
series "The Baby-Sitter's Club" spelling out in a 2017 Good Housekeeping article how uncomfortable she was having a little boy with effeminate tendencies. Your regular reminder that 👇THIS👇 is the real conversion therapy🤦♀️
So calling males “men” is an insult in 2019? 🤷🏻♀️Why? Men are great! The only point here is that they shouldn’t compete against women.
@jack_turban
you pick your words & I’ll pick mine. But if you must resort to name calling, you don’t have an argument.
#sticksandstones
I get that
@WSJopinion
leans conservative, but letting a bigoted writer (
@madeleinekearns
) repeatedly call transgender women “men” crosses a line.
This propagation of societal stigma is exactly what drives adverse mental health outcomes for
#trans
youth.
Riley Gaines, NCAA swimmer, speaks of the injustice of women being forced to compete against males. Circus of trans activists shows up to try to drown her out
#savewomensports
I can’t help but feel that this column was written before the author did her due diligence establishing the facts. Time and time again, under enormous pressure,
@MForstater
spoke courteously and clearly about her beliefs. This column mischaracterises the case.
@Glinner
I trained as a teacher in Scotland & was commanded to teach 5 year olds sexist nonsense. I quit, moved to US & became a journalist, only to learn that schools were tip of the ice berg.
‘Is This Really Happening?’ I am interviewed by
@jaynordlinger
about transgenderism in medicine and what is being done to kids’ bodies. Frank and factual. Not for the faint of heart...
Warren is denying the agency of women who *choose* to keep their babies when sufficient practical and moral support is offered. This isn't pro-choice. Just pro-abortion.
Warren: “Crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber abortion clinics by 3-1. We need to shut them down all around the country.”
I disagree. She has friends, peace of mind, and a hard earned reputation to lose, as much as anyone else. Yet she spoke up (when it would have been far easier not to) for the sole reason that it was the right thing to do. That’s courage.
By "conversion therapy" I assume you mean the vast range of ethical therapies addressing the root causes of gender dysphoria? And not the actual "conversion therapy" which uncritically converts gay & autistic kids with the "lifelong irreparable damage" of sex-change surgery?
Parents who in 2019 are still trying to force their kids into Conversion Therapy knowing the fact that it causes lifelong irreparable damage should ABSOLUTELY be demonized. It's child abuse plain and simple.
#SorryNotSorry
#ProtectTransKids
#EndConversionTherapy
The parents of trans-identifying youth I have been contacted by are about as diverse a group as they come. Yet they're united by their love for their children and their insistence on evidence-based medicine.
“We probably spent quarter of a million quid [on a surrogate]… they have a company that basically is supermodels who are Ivy League educated… Our one went to Columbia… it’s a bit prostituty, isn’t it?”
“I think it’s quite fabulous… but we got a Brazilian supermodel.”
SIGH…
I also asked
@NicolaSturgeon
at the
@UN
, after the conference had finished, to take seriously the implications of “gender identity” for women and children.
A very helpful summary of my talk for the Heritage Foundation by our friends over at Media Matters, who follow my work religiously. Recall my closing line from that speech: "The worst thing they can do is say that you’re the boogeyman, and you just say, 'Boo.'”
. . . Boo! 🤣
@tfitzsimons
Hi Tim. As another journalist covering this issue - I wish, at the very least, you wouldn’t demonize parents. Gender dysphoria in childhood is extremely complicated. Caused by a multitude of factors. Omitting parent testimony, then warping it, is very odd.
An excellent report from
@njhochman
explaining how transgender ideologues are winning in conservative South Dakota thanks, in large part, to the state GOP. Maddening stuff.
How Gender Ideology Conquered South Dakota
My joint review of
@AbigailShrier
and
@DrDebraSoh
respective books on gender ideology. Highly recommend both!
Transgender Craze Harms Young Women Especially
"Most people know that the emperor is naked but are too intimidated to say so… It is not only the female achievements that are under attack but the very definition of female.” Our
@NRO
editorial.
The NCAA Swimming Championship Was a National Scandal
And this was a very uncreative way of saying “because I went to Harvard and have MD after my name I must be right about everything.”
You know who else went to Harvard? Paul R. McHugh MD
(2/2) “I do: You don’t understand, for the duration of this call I’ve been putting on an American accent in an effort to be better understood.”
Pause. . . “Are you serious?”
“Yes. I do it at Starbucks, too.”
“Speak normal then.”
I speak normal. Her mind is blown.
If it were possible to safely transfer a fetus from the mother's womb to an artificial womb, would you support this as an alternative to legal abortion?
I sometimes wonder whether these activist types are really conducting a global experiment in political campaigns: By re-labelling an uncontroversial view (such as “men shouldn’t compete against women in sports”) as bigotry, how many people will commit to the absurd?
“Anti-transgender bills.”
Remember to tell your daughters how frivolous their rights are to the Left, how readily sacrificed their hard-won chance to succeed, the moment another victim group came along.
I just called my daughter and her wife—who are expecting a baby next spring—to let them know that this Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act!
What a great day!
If you or anyone you know has been called a “transphobe” for politely stating the obvious — reply here with
#BOO
(Unrelated note: it rhymes with MeToo 🤣)
Re hormones, Thomas says: "I lost muscle mass and I became a lot weaker and a lot slower in the water."
A weakened man is still a man.
He says he performs better on the women's team because he's "happy," whereas on the men's he was "miserable."
An unhappy man is still a man.
EXCLUSIVE: "Trans people don't transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves."
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas speaks out to
@JujuChangABC
about backlash and future plans to compete.
From my piece:
"It is an irony of tragic proportions that today’s young women, who have never been better positioned to stand up for themselves, have never been worse at doing so."
Read here: