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Yes, always a Sunday.
Let me rephrase for clarity: “Does Easter come on the same *date* every year?”
Let me rephrase for clarity: “Does Easter come on the same *date* every year?”
It falls on the first Sunday after the Paschal Full Moon. The solar calendar date bobs around a bit.
iris lilies
4-11-24, 10:52am
Yes, always a Sunday.
Such a comedian. :D
iris lilies
4-11-24, 10:56am
Does Easter come on the same day every year?
Are you actually attempting to give the Joe Biden/trans Day thing traction? Hunh.
Well I suppose it’s a way to distract from the real issues involving trans activists in society. As you would say, “ Carry on.”
Speaking of fun with calendars, I see the Democrats have scheduled their national convention after the filing deadlines for Ohio and Alabama. They are apparently relying on the legislatures of those states to vote them an exception to put the Biden/Harris ticket on the ballot. Given the failure to strongarm New Hampshire into rescheduling their primary, that could prove problematic.
Are you actually attempting to give the Joe Biden/trans Day thing traction? Hunh.
Just the opposite.
The International Trans Day Of Visibility has been on the *date* of March 31, since the year 2009.
This year that date happened to fall on the same date as Easter. Easter's date moves around. It is a moveable feast, as the Jesuits taught me.
Some right-wing types are trying to make some nonsense out of "Biden dishonored Easter" or some such, but I bet most of them have never set foot in the Vatican Observatory.
Some right-wing types are trying to make some nonsense out of "Biden dishonored Easter" or some such, but I bet most of them have never set foot in the Vatican Observatory.
Peasants!
I think the problem was that most folks can't keep up with all the days, weeks and months devoted to LGBTxxxxxxx celebrations and had no idea March 31st was an established celebratory day. Then, when asked about his proclamation of Trans Visibility Day on Easter, Biden replied "I didn't do that", which I believe generated lots of incredulity among everyday folks who were then labeled 'right wing types".
ToomuchStuff
4-11-24, 7:53pm
Such a comedian. :D
Don't get many shots, but laughing certainly has helped with my stress, so thank you Bae for the easy layup!!!!
iris lilies
4-12-24, 11:42am
Just the opposite.
The International Trans Day Of Visibility has been on the *date* of March 31, since the year 2009.
This year that date happened to fall on the same date as Easter. Easter's date moves around. It is a moveable feast, as the Jesuits taught me.
Some right-wing types are trying to make some nonsense out of "Biden dishonored Easter" or some such, but I bet most of them have never set foot in the Vatican Observatory.
well, now you have baited me into talking about this non-issue.
You may consider yourself as carrying the banner for All That is Right and Good but to me, it just looks like you are perpetuating talk about something that didn’t even deserve to be a news story seven days ago, Apparently President Biden chose to tweet about Trans Visibility day coming up rather than Easter. He could’ve said something about both. Perhaps he did and I don’t know it, but I don’t think he did. Whatever.
See? It just doesn’t matter.
Perhaps you could weigh in on one of the many important issues raised in the Cass report. While none of them are new, it is an important survey of medicalized treatment of gender questioning children.
This video below is a new release on YouTube and it features an old school psychologist who worked with children in the gender clinic at Tavistock. He’s such an old, calm, compassionate grandpa type guy with decades of experience. I just melt in admiration.
I know it’s boring to get information through video, I myself hate it. But this guy is worth listening to. ignore the stupid alarmist headlines, Dr. Marcus Evans is the real deal.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXIqMscv6o&list=WL&index=48&pp=gAQBiAQB
ApatheticNoMore
4-13-24, 2:08am
I think the problem was that most folks can't keep up with all the days, weeks and months devoted to LGBTxxxxxxx celebrations and had no idea March 31st was an established celebratory day.
It's incredibly hard to keep track of Easter and why it changes and so on either. So I asked my partner "why is Easter always on wildly different days? (months apart even)" as they went to catholic school and I was not raised christian and they said probably something to do with a pre-modern calendar. Oh.
LOL, we all saw his proclamation of March 31st as Trans Visibility Day even though he then said he didn't do that. It must have been difficult for CIS haters to sit quietly for 10 days anxiously awaiting someone to bring it up on their regular online discussion forums but then having to do it themselves. Makes you wonder who's ignoring who.
It’s tough to tell since only hardcore right wing news sites bothered to report on this, and do so in such a way that one actually has no idea what actually happened but it sounds like biden’s ’I Didn’t do that’ was responding to the silly accusation that he picked Easter as trans visibility day. Which he didn’t. It’s always on March 31st.
iris lilies
4-24-24, 11:53am
Consequences of England’s Cass report are being reported trickling out all over the Internet.
The Cass report does not say the following:
* There are no trans kids
The Cassreport DOES say the following:
* children are in distress about their bodies
* The gender services arm of Tavistock served them very poorly
* evidence for prescribing sex hormones is weak
* It recommends, among other things, that two professional opinions and recommendations be obtained before children get medicalized treatment i.e. drugs
Yet these very reasonable issues are being debated. Hillary Cass is predictibly called a trans phobic TERF and she’s unable to take public transport due to threats on her life. She fears for her own safety. More and more radical trans ideology resembles radical religious sects in that people who don’t believe in a soul or inherent gender are shunned, ridiculed, and the modern equivalent of burned at the stake.
The often quoted percentage of detransitioners is as “ 1%” is quickly becoming outdated. Lawsuits about inappropriate medical treatment of children are starting all over our country and also in England. Do No Harm has been violated big time.
The Washington University Gender clinic here in St. Louis was allowed by legislators to continuing to administer drugs to children who already were on them. Washington university Transgender Clinic declined to do that. My personal theory is they got a whiff of what’s coming down the pike, big lawsuits.
iris lilies
6-3-24, 5:21pm
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/05/09/target-pride-month-collection-backlash-fewer-stores/73636054007/
Commercial entities are pulling back their trans love.
Jason Warner who heads Bud Light operations in Europe (trendy woke Europe!) told reporters his company has learned to stay in their lane. They wont be inserting themselves into societal hot topics any time soon. I believe In Bev/Budweiser will keep the Clydesdales around for a few more years at least for damage control, so that is a good thing.
Me, I would just be happy if they do not disparage their core customer as Alyssa Heinersheid did when she was Marketing head of Bud Light and she made sneering comments about Bud drinkers last year.
Target stores will not be promoting the trans togs for children that they did last year. Consumers spoke out against it.
Selling some t-shirts, a hat, a rainbow belt…all good fine and dandy, as no one spoke out about those items. But the specially designed children’s clothing was a bridge too far for front of store promotion.
Now, if we can just get the suggestive, exploitive drag shows back into adult venues, that would be great.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/05/06/bud-light-stay-in-lane-trans-backlash/
iris lilies
6-3-24, 5:42pm
We are told that only one percent of the population is trans.
We are told the number of trans people invading women’s spaces hardly matter, it barely registers.
Yet—-
It only takes one man inserting himself into a women’s sporting event to break records, historical records, and set himself up to be the record holder for quite a while (probably until the next trans person comes along. )
Just one man, and usually a man who was rather mediocre at his sport.
please tell me why this doesn't matter.
Because sports don't matter.
iris lilies
6-4-24, 9:54am
Because sports don't matter.
Sports don’t t matter to me or you, but athletic participation matters to a lot of girls and women. I’m not going to so easily dismiss their interests. But Maybe they should just stay home, keep their heads down and be good little subservient girls, and pop out babies when they are grown. Whaddya think?
Sports don’t t matter to me or you, but athletic participation matters to a lot of girls and women. I’m not going to so easily dismiss their interests. But Maybe they should just stay home, keep their heads down and be good little subservient girls, and pop out babies when they are grown. Whaddya think?
Hmm, I think there is a pretty vast middle ground there. I mean, you may very well be right about the sports issue, but I am so disinterested in sports, I don't think it is possible to be less interested in sports than I am, so this will have to be someone else's cause/battle. There are plenty enough causes to go around for all of us.
rosarugosa
6-10-24, 8:56am
IL: I am going to gingerly wade into your topic of interest here on trans matters (pulls on rubber waders). Richard Dawkins is one of my atheist heroes. I'm reading a book on atheism by Daniel Dennett, and he mentioned something interesting about Dawkins, which I wanted to look up.* I recalled that Dawkins had somehow run afoul of the trans community, so I was interested enough to try to learn more about that too. I can find plenty written about the issue, but I'm having a hard time seeing any villainy or ill-intent on his part. I think my mind is fairly open on this one (although I do have some pro-Dawkins bias), so am I missing something?
https://reason.com/2021/04/26/by-canceling-richard-dawkins-the-american-humanist-association-has-betrayed-its-values/
https://www.breakpoint.org/richard-dawkins-says-science-is-pretty-clear-about-sex/
https://substack.com/@richarddawkins/note/c-48949248
*Dawkins coined the word "meme" in 1976, long before anyone envisioned those pithy little snippets being bounced around on social media. Who knew? Certainly not me.
iris lilies
6-10-24, 11:55am
IL: I am going to gingerly wade into your topic of interest here on trans matters (pulls on rubber waders). Richard Dawkins is one of my atheist heroes. I'm reading a book on atheism by Daniel Dennett, and he mentioned something interesting about Dawkins, which I wanted to look up.* I recalled that Dawkins had somehow run afoul of the trans community, so I was interested enough to try to learn more about that too. I can find plenty written about the issue, but I'm having a hard time seeing any villainy or ill-intent on his part. I think my mind is fairly open on this one (although I do have some pro-Dawkins bias), so am I missing something?
https://reason.com/2021/04/26/by-canceling-richard-dawkins-the-american-humanist-association-has-betrayed-its-values/
https://www.breakpoint.org/richard-dawkins-says-science-is-pretty-clear-about-sex/
https://substack.com/@richarddawkins/note/c-48949248
*Dawkins coined the word "meme" in 1976, long before anyone envisioned those pithy little snippets being bounced around on social media. Who knew? Certainly not me.
My friend, welcome to the world of crazed trans activists who, among thousands of insane acts, took back Richard Dawkins’ distinguised Humanist of the Year award due to his “transphobic” ideas.
Sure I have heard Dawkins talk on the trans issue, interviewed by my two favorite guys on Triggernometry, the ones I wrote about yesterday in the podcast thread.
At 24 minutes into the podcast linked below, Dawkins talks about the anti-science brigade thwarting our language, shutting down scientific inquiry, denying basic science as in the human sex binary. At 35 minutes in they talk about delusions of the trans world as a religion.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MVq4GLepUwI
Dawkins is a thoughtful and respected evolutionary biologist who does not deserve to be canceled as have hundreds of others for similar thoughtful positions that simply ask reasonable questions of the trans ideology or point out logical inconsistencies in their “science.”
iris lilies
6-10-24, 12:03pm
And the problem is that for some reason, the crazy trans radical idealogy has taken over mainstraim organizations and we see that effect every day. The cancelation of Richard Dawkins a few years ago was not enough to make reasonable people within those organizations say Wait a minute, lets look at this issue more critically.
They are too afraid for their jobs, their research grants, their publication status.
I can name several scientists who stepped out of academia because they refuse to play the nutty trans game. Regular joes in regular jobs in the UK have actually lost fheir jobs for pushback against trans ideology.
At 24 minutes in Dawkins talks about the anit-science brigade thwarting our language, shutting down scientific inquiry, denying basic science as in the human sex binary.
Human sex binary.
What is Dawkins' thought on people who are neither XX nor XY, and who may have characteristics of both "binary sexes"?
I suppose you could eliminate that issue by suitably limiting definitions, but that seems cheezy.
rosarugosa
6-10-24, 12:42pm
Bae: One of the articles I read (I forget which one) indicated that he would consider it an anomaly from a biological and evolutionary viewpoint.
iris lilies
6-10-24, 12:50pm
Human sex binary.
What is Dawkins' thought on people who are neither XX nor XY, and who may have characteristics of both "binary sexes"?
I suppose you could eliminate that issue by suitably limiting definitions, but that seems cheezy.
Gametes. It’s about the gametes one produces or has a system set up ( but possibly thwarted) to produce. That’s basic biology for reproduction. This is the accepted definition of the binary by real scientists unafraid to speak clearly in the language of science.
The human sex binary
* does not define how one feels about one’s intrinsic sex and identity with same
* does not define society rules of behavior concerning the sex binary
* does not deny anatomical anomalies and variations in primary and secondary sexual characteristics
But here is Dawkins’ response to Scientific Americans’s article on the topic that defined the chasm between rational science and Woo science a few years ago:
Dawkins says
“This ridiculous article (shame on the once-great Scientific American) ignorantly misunderstands the nature of the sex binary: “Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary”. Sex is not defined by chromosomes, nor by anatomy, nor by psychology or sociology, nor by personal inclination, nor by “assignment at birth”, but by gamete size. It happens to be embryologically DETERMINED by chromosomes in mammals and (in the opposite direction) birds, by temperature in some reptiles, by social factors in some fish. But it is universally DEFINED by the binary distinction between sperms and eggs. You may argue about “gender” if you wish (biologists have better things to do) but sex is a true binary, one of rather few in biology.”
littlebittybobby
6-10-24, 1:02pm
okay---tell you kids how it's affected MY littlebittylife-----we usta go ta the wreckin' yard, take our tools, get under & pull a TRANNY. ha. but, not no more. it's strictly transmission, by model name, such as: 700r4 or turbo 400 or C4 or whatever. yup. see? hope that helps you kids some.
This report came out recently, and may be of interest:
https://ilga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Laws_On_Us_2024.pdf
iris lilies
6-10-24, 1:50pm
This report came out recently, and may be of interest:
https://ilga.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Laws_On_Us_2024.pdf
This is an interesting worldview. I’ll have to spend some time with it. Pages 23-28 are a good summary of what this LGBTQetc friendly organization* identifies as problematic issues.
One specific thing I looked up was page 133 “conversion therapy.” The report speaks of it in quotation marks. They do not seem to give a definition of “conversion therapy” and you have to get its meaning through context in the report. I laughed to myself about this because in certain circles, the sacred “gender affirming care” model is tongue-in-cheek also called “conversion therapy” including Iran’s outrageous requirement for homosexuals to undergo genital mutilating surgery to conform to their twisted view of gender and the human sex binary.
Of course I didn’t see any mention of Iran as the gender affirmation-supporting country it is in this report. I wonder why, hmmm….
*The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA)
iris lilies
6-10-24, 2:01pm
I have a lot to say about this ILGBTI report’s words on free speech. Since that is my #1 concern in the world of trans activism I’m glad to see this report focus on it, from another point of view than mine of course. I will read this over and come back.
Overall, I am not at all surprised to see some “regression” in legislation, “regression” according to this group anyway. This tracks with universal reports of eroding tolerance for LGB (not T) people, issues, activities. Extremely unfortunate.wonder what is causing this? Hmmmmm…..
If you listen to some of the old fart gays and lesbians in the UK you might get a picture of what is happening.
Interesting article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/opinion/gender-affirming-care-cass-review.html
iris lilies
7-12-24, 7:12pm
Interesting article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/opinion/gender-affirming-care-cass-review.html
The politically correct response is that Pamela Paul has written several transphobic articles for the transphobic New York Times espousing her transphobic ideas. In case you don't get it, the prevailing narrative in trans land has Pamela Paul acting as Trans Hater.
But me, I thought it was a well balanced thought piece that is of course her opinion and her opinion is that gender affirmation needs more study and often doesn’t work.
I found this idea especially interesting because I firmly believe that’s what happened in St. Louis , thatcWashington University trans clinic stopped giving hormones to some kids because they are afraid of lawsuits. Follow the money.
From the article
Given how entrenched the gender-affirmating model has become, reversing course won’t be easy. If the medical profession turns away from the notion that transitioning young people is necessary and lifesaving, it could open itself up to malpractice suits…I’m already hearing from the boards of directors and trustees of some hospital systems who are starting to get nervous (https://archive.ph/o/qpvJQ/https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj.q1141) about what they’ve permitted,” Erica Anderson, a former president of the U.S. Professional Association for Transgender Health and a transgender woman, told the British Medical Journal in May. In recent years, a number of detransitioners in the United States have brought suit (https://archive.ph/o/qpvJQ/https://www.nysun.com/article/damning-information-about-trans-medical-group-expected-to-reach-supreme-court-as-justices-consider-challenge-to-ban-on-gender-treatments-for-minors) charging malpractice or the failure to provide informed consent. If American doctors admit their approach was wrong, it’s going to be a costly and politically explosive practice to undo.
iris lilies
8-18-24, 10:01am
“Eunuch identified” is an accepted gender now. Who knew!!???
The WPATH folks, those good people who are advising the medical community on treating trans kids with permanently body altering meds and surgical interventions, explain it here. 11 pages to give their recommendations on treating “eunuchs” which can be summed up as “help them by cutting off their testicles.”
https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Documents/SOC%20v8/SOC8%20Chapters%20for%20Public%20Comment/SOC8%20Chapter%20Draft%20for%20Public%20Comment%20-%20Eunuch.pdf
this puts me in mind of that strange fetish where people envision themselves amputees and they visit surgeon after surgeon, wanting to have a limb cut off. I suppose if they visit enough surgeons, especially going overseas, they will accomplish that. I just don’t think the American medical association has their stamp of approval on it.
iris lilies
9-1-24, 4:22pm
The BMA, the British Medical Association, has recommended that the Cass report be ignored. This is a very recent development.
The Cass report issued some months ago on treatment of trans youth at the Tavistock clinic in the United Kingdom caused that clinic to stop all medicalized treatment of trans youth. Tavistock is where “gender affirming “care in the form of hormones and surgeries took place on youth and young adults. The Cass report recommended stopping these treatments until more data could be collected and greater efficacies identified. As a result, the National Health Service stopped giving “gender affirming “care for minors per legislation everywhere.
That legislation also covered patients in private practice.
So anyway, this might seem like a major reversal, right? Except that it’s not. The British Medical Association is largely a Doctors union and concerns itself with workplace issues such as pay, work hours, etc. It does not concern itself primarily with clinical treatment. Its leader council of 60 some people made this decision. The BMA has a a couple hundred thousand members.
Its Membership is not happy with this decision made by a tiny minority of their group, and primarily 20 to 25 people in the leader group.
By no means does this reverse the laws forbidding affirmative medical treatment. It’s a general recommendation by just one group, granted an important group, but a group in which the vast majority did not have a say.
I like how trans issues are highlighted as if in a petri dish in the small country of the United Kingdom. Small country, small population, small number of activist voices on either side, and issues can be examined as if under a microscope. It’s more orderly than it is in the United States with our huge population, no national health service, and states with varying laws.
iris lilies
9-4-24, 1:13pm
Re: youtube podcasts
I’m sure anyone paying attention to social issues has heard the idea that today’s political leftie ideology has taken the place of religion in the lives of many lefties.
I heard Jonah Goldberg ramble on about it quite a bit yesterday. Today I listened to Andrew Gold interview Richard Dawkins. Andrew Gold is one of the young UK podcasters I listen to because they are rational, smart, and not Shouty Shoutertons like the Americans.
Anyway, Dawkins made these observations which I found interesting:
Trans idealogy mimics Christian dogma in the way they think of trans women. In the Catholic church, transsubstantiation takes place when a priest changes wine into blood, bread into flesh. That is magical thinking. In modern trans idealogy men become women with the blessing of a therapist and attending physician. More magical thinking.
He also mentions the concept of original sin and how that mimics current left politics in shaming our dominant culture of white people. White people need to repent.
These are just interesting little ideas, nothing to change the world.
iris lilies
9-24-24, 4:41pm
I watch the trans gender activitsts in Scotland with interest. Scotland is a unique little laboratory of trans radicalism because
1) The Scottish National Party is in bed with trans radical operators
2) JK Rowling, Scotswoman, has taken it upon herself to push back against the transradical agenda. As someone who has more money than god she does not need to fear cancellation which happens with regularity to others who lose their jobs
3) SNP politics support somewhat different political agendas about hate speech and trans self ID, than the British Parliament
In this Scottish petri dish of political activism we can see what one Western nation is grappling with.
Trans women i.e. men in “women’s spaces” has such an abstract “who cares!!??” quality to it until real life situations present the conflict.
So, Scotland has a well known situation of placing sex offenders in women’s prisons where they…surprise!!!…offend again. That is old news.
A more recent incident highlights a transwoman (i.e. biological man) working as the head of the country’s premier rape crises center. Ms. Wadhwa, biological male, promotes a programs of trans activism in the rape crises center. Wadha’s harrassment of employees who wanted victims to,be able to choose the sex of their counselor was well known. Wadha wrote a sanctimonious position statement making it clear he WOULD denigrate and harrass rape victims who were “bigoted” in their preferences for treatment.
Some women who have been raped might, just might, prefer not to deal with members of the male sex during treatment and recovery from this traumatic event. Apparently, that is bigoted attitude that must be adjusted. Who knew!
Here is the statement from Ms. Wadhwa:
…”Sexual violence happens to bigoted people as well... If you bring unacceptable beliefs that are discriminatory in nature [into the centre], we will begin to work with you on your journey of recovery from trauma. But please also expect to be challenged on your prejudices... If you have to reframe your trauma, I think it is important as part of that reframing... you also have to rethink your relationship with prejudice. Otherwise, you can't really, in my view, recover from trauma, and I think that's a very important message that I am often discussing with my colleagues...Because, you know, to me, therapy is political…”
iris lilies
9-26-24, 10:45am
Trans ideology in some influential circles pathologizes homosexuality. I thought that point of view went out the window years ago, but not everywhere apparently.
We know a rather high percentage of teens who identify as opposite sex are gay kids. Now it is coming to light the UK’s main gender clinic, the Tavistock clinic, regularly practiced conversion therapy on gay teens by ignoring their opposite sex attraction and pushing them to identify as something they are not.
I have mentioned before how imams in Tehran have taken up this same point of view: it is ok to be trans, it is not ok to be gay. Cut off the body parts to transition so you will be ok!
Articles and podcasts are shedding light on the regular indoctrination of clinicians at Tavistock to guide their gay clients away from a homosexual identity. Their conversion therapy isn’t “pray away the gay” they practiced “Cut away the gay” . Ugh.
Several former clinicians at Tavistock are speaking out about this overarching philosophy of the Tavistock clinic.
Dr. Matt Bristol shares his experiences here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11747153/Controversial-Tavistock-gender-clinic-pushed-gay-teens-transitioning-former-employee-claims.html
at 16:00 Dr. Az Hakeem talks about this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBur13a-50&t=24s&pp=2AEYkAIB
Examples of LGB voices:
https://www.thetimes.com/comment/letters-to-editor/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-tried-to-erase-gay-people-kh6bzj65k
The last includes this:
Homophobia alert
As a gay man I believe the growth in referrals to the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) belies our naive belief that we have become more tolerant of homosexuality. That so many parents and/or unhappy children are choosing such drastic therapy suggests to me that anti-gay bullying and homophobic attitudes are more prevalent than we would like to think.
Stephen Chappell, Malvern
iris lilies
10-27-24, 8:59am
https://www.thefp.com/p/tiger-jamie-reed-detransition-wash-u-transgender-affirming-care
I opened The Free Press this morning to find this explosive de-transitioner article about …get this…our neighborhood librarian who is married to Jamie Reed, the whistle blower at our now closed St. louis gender clinic. This librarian works in my former city neighborhood and in the branch where I go to make free photocopies.
i had NO IDEA Tiger Reed was
1) Trans
2) married to Jamie Reed.
I had never seen Tiger even tho I have been in and out of that library several times and have read his reports at neighborhood meetings. Neighbors talk about Tiger, the branch manager. I just had not met him, soon to be her.
iris lilies
10-27-24, 12:33pm
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/us-sex-reassignment-surgery-market
Gender re assignment surgeries are projected to grow 11% a year in the near future.
Score a big one for capitalism! And that doesn’t even cover the non surgery related drugs used in gender affirmation programs.
iris lilies
11-16-24, 8:38pm
There has been an important court ruling in the issue of men competing against women in Sports.
In Connecticut, when female track athletes brought suit against their school district/state for allowing men to run against them claiming a Title 9 violation, the local judge threw out the case (while also, insultingly, requiring the girls and their legal council to refer to these men as “women.) This is one of the critically important issues “trans rights” is bringing our society, policing of language and free speech.
But back to the court case—upon appeal that first judge’s ruling was turned down and that judge has now agreed to hear the case.
The case started in 2020 during Trump’s last months. His Department of Justice supported the girls. When the Biden administration took over, Biden’ Department of Justice and Department of Education withdrew support.
As the case goes forward, surely it will be shown to go against the protections of Title 9 to have full biological males competing against women. The Trump administration will help this case, no doubt. As it should.
iris lilies
11-17-24, 3:19pm
Unlike many “trans critical” persons, I did not really have an opinion against Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif because she did not claim to be “trans” and hers is a case that muddies that water, IMHO.
It seems likely to me that Imane was raised as a female in her Algerian village due to abnormalities of her genitalia. but it’s pretty clear at this point, given leaked medical records, that she is a biological male with deformed genitals, part of a common syndrome that affects males. As such she would have testosterone levels that would lead to the physical advantages men have over women in competitive sports. She may not have typical testosterone levels of a man, but she has elevated T, that’s for sure and that operated during her puberty.
in these cases, whatever the Olympic committee or governing body of the sport decides is fine with me. This is a competitor who sincerely believed she was female until somewhere along the way in her competitive life testing showed otherwise. I think it’s likely she went into the Olympics “knowing “she was a biological male tho, and for that reason it all seems rather dishonest.
iris lilies
11-17-24, 3:25pm
It’s a funny coincidence that two of my tiny obsessions have collided. For 50+ years I’ve been obsessed with a particular Scottish castle, Craigievar Castle, in Aberdeenshire. I knew that one of the generational aristocracy of that castle was rumored to have gone from one sex to the other. So —my Castle obsession and trans obsession have come together, how funny!
Anyway, I am reading a very recent biography of the subject in question. It is written from a tran# activist point of view so that makes it both culturally relevant now and a little irritating.
iris lilies
11-25-24, 9:17pm
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/bullied-out-of-charity-after-i-said-biological-men-cant-breastfeed-ksps6l0n6
the latest “woman’s space “to be invaded by biological men is Le Leche League, The 70-year-old organization supports women in breast-feeding their children. In those meetings of women, they talk about all bodily functions tied to pregnancy and childbirth in addition to teaching women the art of breast-feeding
Apparently, trans women ( biological men) are now showing up wanting to “chest feed.” A brief summary of concerns with this problem is:
1. Loss of privacy for women having intimate discussions about their biological reality; many wish to do that outside of the presence of men,
2. Fetishists taking advantage of a formerly-closed-to-them women’s space
3. Babies fed with chest milk containing the hormones that were necessary to stimulate the milk production in biological males
This article is a layman’s summary of current thoughts about hormones transgender women must take to produce breastmilk, what is known about it and what is not known about it in relation to infant health:
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/transgender-womens-milk-just-as-good-for-for-babies-says-nhs-trust-m02tnvr55
Apparently, trans women ( biological men) are now showing up wanting to “chest feed.” A brief summary of concerns with this problem is:
What about intersex people?
I have lactated in the past, without taking hormones or having pituitary issues, or taking certain medications. I still can, under certain circumstances, though I take medications to prevent this.
My body just is...complicated. I am not transgender.
Unlike many “trans critical” persons, I did not really have an opinion against Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif because she did not claim to be “trans” and hers is a case that muddies that water, IMHO.
Iris,
In my youth, I was very successful in competitive judo and full contact karate. (This was pre-MMA).
I have several genetic differences from you baseline humans.
In my 60s, I still have t-levels that are typically well over that of an 18-year-old male in great shape. (>1400 ng/dL). I would be flagged for doping in almost any competitive sport. My bone mass/density is odd. I sink in saltwater, even though I am > 300 lbs at 5'11". When I was in fighting trim in college, I was 275 lbs.
Should I be allowed to compete against "normal" men?
In college, in intramural wrestling, in the unlimited class, I defeated everyone handily. Until I encountered a fellow two years older, who was an Olympian shotputter. When we grappled, it was like running into a brick wall. He quietly said to me "let's make it look good, then I'll pin you. Don't struggle too much, and you won't get hurt". I was helpless in his grasp. He was a completely different sort of mutant. None of my size, strength, or skill made even a dent. Should he have been allowed to compete?
A few years ago, I spent a month in Iceland training at the facility where the strongest men on Earth train. I could barely even muster the strength to eat the > 15,000 calories a day of (wonderful) fish/protein chowder they fed us. In the strength training, I was a child compared to Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who, btw, is a very nice fellow, and took me to some great bars with wonderful live music. Should Hafþór be allowed to participate in sports?
iris lilies
11-26-24, 9:09am
Iceland! Before I talk about sports let me take a little side path into Icelandic trans culture. The church is entwined with the State in Iceland in ways I do not like, much like England I suppose. I heard a discussion by a gay Icelandic politician who is very concerned about how trans activism has taken over the church and hence the state in Iceland. Apparently the head church honcho, the Bishop, has a trans child and a trans nephew.
There are lots of things to say about this situation but for the sake of brevity let us contemplate this symbolic representation of trans culture in Iceland:
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This “trans Jesus “ figure was plastered all over buses, children’s spaces, etc. After some controversial tugs of war, the powers that be removed this propaganda campaign and apologized for scaring people ( but not for their intent .) But the fact that it was put out there at all using public money is amazing. Jesus with boobs, genderqueer Jesus. Alrighty then.
The church can do whatever it wishes to do in promoting itself, but this image on public buses crosses a line for me.
iris lilies
11-26-24, 9:36am
What about intersex people?
I have lactated in the past, without taking hormones or having pituitary issues, or taking certain medications. I still can, under certain circumstances, though I take medications to prevent this.
My body just is...complicated. I am not transgender.
You do not identify as trans. You do not say you are a woman. That’s the complete story.
If you chose to breast feed your child as a form of bonding, fine, just stay out of Le Leche League meetups. You are not welcome there. If you need help in the breast/ chest feeding game perhaps an open minded LeLeche League volunteer would come to your house.
But—-If you chose to breastfeed your child as their sole source of nutrition in today’s world I think you…need to do more research and please feed that kid as recommended by pediatricians while you are doing your research. There is no reason to starve your child except for selfcentered/ fetish/ reasons.
catherine
11-26-24, 3:02pm
I went to LaLeche meetings. Maybe it was because we as a culture were just emerging from the standard practice of bottle-feeding, a lot of the women there were kind of radical progressives. I'm wondering if that type of woman would be more accepting of trans females attending LaLeche meetings today. However, even though I was totally into all things "natural" back then, I was still super self-conscious about breast-feeding. I never considered doing it in public for instance. My maternity nurse in the hospital was a young male who had just graduated nursing school and I have to say, I was really uncomfortable having him teach me how to nurse.
Because I was even put off by a woman at La Leche with 3 year old twins whom she was still nursing, I am pretty sure I would be uncomfortable with a trans female chest-nursing. I like your suggestion that one volunteer going to the trans-mom's house.
ETA: OTOH, I can appreciate that the trans-mom would sorely need support for not just breast/chest feeding, but for parenting in general. I would hope she would be able to find people that would be able to give her that casual contact and share parenting experiences. I'm not sure LaLeche is the right place.
iris lilies
11-26-24, 4:33pm
I went to LaLeche meetings. Maybe it was because we as a culture were just emerging from the standard practice of bottle-feeding, a lot of the women there were kind of radical progressives. I'm wondering if that type of woman would be more accepting of trans females attending LaLeche meetings today. However, even though I was totally into all things "natural" back then, I was still super self-conscious about breast-feeding. I never considered doing it in public for instance. My maternity nurse in the hospital was a young male who had just graduated nursing school and I have to say, I was really uncomfortable having him teach me how to nurse.
Because I was even put off by a woman at La Leche with 3 year old twins whom she was still nursing, I am pretty sure I would be uncomfortable with a trans female chest-nursing. I like your suggestion that one volunteer going to the trans-mom's house.
ETA: OTOH, I can appreciate that the trans-mom would sorely need support for not just breast/chest feeding, but for parenting in general. I would hope she would be able to find people that would be able to give her that casual contact and share parenting experiences. I'm not sure LaLeche is the right place.
If by trans moms you mean biological males, of course, parenting support is universally needed but as you say, there are better venues. Le Leche League is very much about bodily concerns and accompanying mental attitudes. These are concerns that, for the most part, biological males do not have. For the most part, I said. All the issues of childbirth and how a body is left after that experience—men don’t share that experience.
What about biological women who identify as trans men? Some of them are pretty intimidating as men and would make some women uncomfortable in women’s spaces. But I think if they have the right equipment in giving birth to their children and retaining breasts to feed their children, they can be part of that Le Leche gang.
iris lilies
11-26-24, 4:38pm
Catherine, your discomfort is legitimate and should be respected. This is the problem with “trans Women are women.” It means biological men who sometimes are not even androgynous looking, but who look like men, push their way into women’s spaces. It is not OK.
The Scottish head of the rape crisis center in Edinburgh was a trans woman who scolded women like you who were uncomfortable with male rape crisis counselors. That is not OK.
It is not OK when one’s 18-year-old daughter shows up at her college dorm room to find her roommate has a penis, a hairy chest, a beard. That is not OK.
it is not OK that biological men are being put into women’s prisons where they have access to intimate spaces of women. That is not OK
and etc.
iris lilies
11-26-24, 9:10pm
Iris,
In my youth, I was very successful in competitive judo and full contact karate. (This was pre-MMA).
I have several genetic differences from you baseline humans.
In my 60s, I still have t-levels that are typically well over that of an 18-year-old male in great shape. (>1400 ng/dL). I would be flagged for doping in almost any competitive sport. My bone mass/density is odd. I sink in saltwater, even though I am > 300 lbs at 5'11". When I was in fighting trim in college, I was 275 lbs.
Should I be allowed to compete against "normal" men?
Sure, you should be allowed to sign up in men’s sports as a man since that’s the category of sports you belong in. If when signing up you exceed the levels of testosterone they allow into the men’s sporting arena then I guess you won’t be able to compete.
For decades some female athletes have been denied entry into women’s sports for having excessive testosterone. These are women, not trans women. That is too bad but that’s the limits of hormone testing.
I am against male athletes competing against females in female sports. For the vast majority of trans women elbowing their way into women’s sports, it’s not hard to determine they are male. Around puberty is when athleticism differences between the two sexes change. Until that time, it’s fine with me if boys and girls compete on the same teams.
For competitors for whom it’s not easy to determine who is male and female, I’m satisfied with whatever testing the national sporting body wishes to undertake because that’s a tiny minority of people . I want them to separate males and females, separate biological males and biological females. That is not hard. I don’t want them playing silly games like pretending Lia Thomas is female. There will always be edge cases like the Algerian boxer who we now know is really male, and it’s too bad he stole the Olympic title.
These kinds of Olympic titles and athletic records should have stars by them, like Mark McGuire’s home run record. Our home town boy “beat Roger Maris’ record for home runs” and read that in air quotes because it is said with a wink and a nod.
iris lilies
11-26-24, 9:37pm
In college, in intramural wrestling, in the unlimited class, I defeated everyone handily. Until I encountered a fellow two years older, who was an Olympian shotputter. When we grappled, it was like running into a brick wall. He quietly said to me "let's make it look good, then I'll pin you. Don't struggle too much, and you won't get hurt". I was helpless in his grasp. He was a completely different sort of mutant. None of my size, strength, or skill made even a dent. Should he have been allowed to compete?
A few years ago, I spent a month in Iceland training at the facility where the strongest men on Earth train. I could barely even muster the strength to eat the > 15,000 calories a day of (wonderful) fish/protein chowder they fed us. In the strength training, I was a child compared to Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who, btw, is a very nice fellow, and took me to some great bars with wonderful live music. Should Hafþór be allowed to participate in sports?
There is never a completely level playing field. Why would you think that? I don’t think that. Some sports are dominated by the same person for years. I’m thinking of the tennis player Serena Williams. Or Tiger Woods. Eventually, those megastars age out, or get bored with the sport they dominate, or get big money to leave.
I think it’s pretty obvious, although perhaps not to you, that there’s a line drawn to separate men and women because most male competitors will beat most female competitors most all the time.
As Bill Maher recently said to science educator Neil Degrasse Tyson “ why should I believe you about anything since you think a WNBA team could beat the Lakers?” Haha
In one of his conversations Tyson offered the idea that that female long distance swimmers may have an advantage over men. so that’s one sport where women might dominate .I’ve heard that. It has to do with their body fat.
An exception doesn’t disprove a rule in the case of human activity. There are other sports where men might have a disadvantage I think. Women’s gymnastics would be one maybe. Female ice skating? Perhaps. These are areas of sport where grace and elegance are emphasized and are influenced by biological body type. Maybe. I’m just spinning a theory here.
And this discussion hasn’t even touched on how women get more seriously injured in contact sports and in sports where when they MIGHT have contact when playing against men. There are several instances out there, truly too bad. And avoidable. Because trans women are not women.
iris lilies
12-4-24, 10:55am
Today the Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on opposite sex hormones and puberty blocking drugs given to trans identifying children. 26 states have similar bans.
I think these state bans are stupid because I do not want to see state legislatures (or our national legislative body) making laws about such a wide world of medical treatment. There is no way these laws can address nuances needed in medical care of children who think they are opposite sex.
We as society have set up the medical professions and their regulatory bodies to address this sort of thing.
That said, I think the medical professions and psychological professions are completely captured by ideology. The “science” for “transitioning” youth is weak. These organizations and practitioners are doing harm.
edited to add something from chief Justice Roberts, who is not sure judges should be making medical policy either
“…Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted in the majority in a 2020 case in favor of transgender rights (https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-transgender-rights-lgbtq-donald-trump-3bb3ace81ff32b6dec382b486ec6a772?utm_source=flin%2 0flon%20reminder&utm_campaign=flin%20flon%20reminder%3A%20outbound&utm_medium=referral), questioned whether judges, rather than lawmakers, should be weighing in on a question of regulating medical procedures, an area usually left to the states.
”The Constitution leaves that question to the people’s representatives, rather than to nine people, none of whom is a doctor,” Roberts said in an exchange with Strangio….”
and several justices questioned the “ science” behind using drugs to treat trans identifying children.
I suspect in the current state of politics that this will be a political outcome as much as medical or constitutional. As much as I can figure the Supreme court is washing their hands of the issue and throwing it back to the states? And any pull or push by the Biden administration will be reversed soon anyway. Why anyone would want to administer hormone therapy to a minor is beyond any logical I can come up with regardless of any science. Not exactly something I want to study up on either.
iris lilies
12-4-24, 8:28pm
I suspect in the current state of politics that this will be a political outcome as much as medical or constitutional. As much as I can figure the Supreme court is washing their hands of the issue and throwing it back to the states? And any pull or push by the Biden administration will be reversed soon anyway. Why anyone would want to administer hormone therapy to a minor is beyond any logical I can come up with regardless of any science. Not exactly something I want to study up on either.
Apparently the Supreme court won’t issue their ruling until next summer.. I do not know which way it will go.
Puberty blockers ( not hormones) are legitimately prescribed for various childhood issues. The purposes I know about are to block precocious puberty, or to delay puberty to encourage growth in children who are too short.This forms the basis for an argument against the ban, that the ban is sex discrimination because a trans girl cannot get the puberty bloggers, but a non-trans girl can. Because the Supreme Court mixed up gender with sex in an earlier ruling, I can see the logic of this argument, even though I don’t like it.
It sounds like there are legitimate reasons to administer puberty blockers. I understand the core of the issue is parents with children or young teens who give some sort of indications or claims of being trans. My guess is that there is not an accurate test to determine who could be trans at an age when hormones and minds are still mailable. Which is different from treating a medical abnormality that can be verified with clinical tests.
iris lilies
12-4-24, 10:26pm
It sounds like there are legitimate reasons to administer puberty blockers. I understand the core of the issue is parents with children or young teens who give some sort of indications or claims of being trans. My guess is that there is not an accurate test to determine who could be trans at an age when hormones and minds are still mailable. Which is different from treating a medical abnormality that can be verified with clinical tests.
According to practitioners of transgender affirming therapy and medicine, we are supposed to take even three year olds’ word for it that they are the opposite sex.
I believe that some kids really do know early on with unshakable faith that they “feel “like the other sex. I get that. I don’t think that’s true for many ( most?) kids being transitioned in today’s society though. And we really can’t lump all “trans” kids together in a group because the mental pathology of teenage girls is very different from 17 year-old boys. There are a lot of things going on in their psyche.
I know gay people who say they knew, from almost day 1, they they were gay. How a young person can separate these types of tendencies from being trans or other preferences is beyond me, and what ever I pick up from common media is that some young people may experiment. To predetermine any outcome with medications doesn't make sense to me and I understand how legal protections of at risk minors is needed.
Even though the issue won't be finalized until springtime, the court seems to be leaning to supporting the Tennessee restrictions. How the dems lost the election will probably be debated for years, but their emphasis on identity politics of all sorts is a big one as I see it.
iris lilies
12-13-24, 3:40pm
So, two positive things happening:
1. Britain’s National Health Service has made their temporary ban on puberty blockers for children now permanent. It is “permanent “while extensive studying takes place in the next two years. The NHS will reevaluate puberty blockers for children when there is more scientific data to inform their decision.
This is very good news and seems like a reasonable action given their previous findings that puberty blockers were being prescribed with little to no physician analysis or therapeutic relationships. The U.S. would do well to be looking to the UK in this regard.
2. A gender therapist I follow on YouTube, Sasha Ayad, will be starting a new podcast geared to teens who are questioning their gender. She says her podcast will be open for any kind of discussion and there is no dogma of any kind pushed. She wants to encourage thoughtful teens to come and talk about real life consequences of transition. In her therapy practice she finds teens who see too much black and white thinking from both trans activates and gender critical folks, and she wants to support their honest questions with discussions.
in her practice she also sees teens who have rigid ideas about gender expression (girls like pink etc.) and she hopes to lead them away from rigid thinking.
https://sashaayad.com/
iris lilies
1-12-25, 3:52pm
I love this for California taxpayers. Unfortunately, women (as usual) are being brutalized when subjugated to prison policy of the state of California.
What is “this?” The policies that support men who identify as women in California’s prisons. They are allowed to move to women’s prisons by simply declaring themselves “trans.” Large violent male prisoners are placed among women in vulnerable positions. One statistic claims a majority of Male-to-Female trans prisoners have rap sheets including sexual assault.* Taxpayers pay for their expensive surgeries and hormone treatments.
The organization Independent Women is raising awareness of the problems men are causing in women’s prisons.
These videos are from this organization
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge5LGy7HnJs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rOcBFCLp_rA
* I don’t know the source of this statistic but suspect it is from Scotland and covers a very small number of inmates. So, caveat. The thing is, it would be a fairly easy statistic to gather in California and report but there is NO WILL to examine facts like this in our world of trans idealogy because they might find inconvenient facts.
edited to add:
The BBC examines source of trans prisoners guilty of sexual assault. Conclusion: that number is not verified, it is unclear.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42221629
iris lilies
1-12-25, 4:25pm
The last few weeks of 2024 gave up some victories in the trans culture wars.
* U.s. Supreme Court is hearing the lawsuit challenging statewide bans on medicalization of minor children who identify as the opposite sex. While I don’t know what their decision will be, it is useful for this issue to be brought to a national stage at a time when this medical standard is becoming…less standard…shall we say. Those people concerned about life changingmedical edical treatment for kids who cannot fully consent are making inroads on more and better studies and procedures for treatment of trans kids.
* Biden Department if Education withdrew its recommendations for LGBTetc treatment in schools which also covered male athletes in female sports.
* Best of all, and this is HUGE: major media platforms will no longer attempt to determine veracity of facts. This is a major strike against trans ideology because some of the big social platforms shut down any discussion of trans issues that did not fit their preferred narrative.
iris lilies
1-12-25, 6:29pm
I heard a really good interview with the mother of a trans boy, someone who is actively working with parents of trans boys. Their support organization centers on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) in boys. This woman has a Phd in bio chemistry. She and her husband employed several therapists to help their son as he turned away from them angry and physically dangerous because he perceived them as holding him back feom transitioning. He had requested hormone therapy within 24 hours “or else.”
ROGD is a recognized phenomena* in girls, but is lesser known in boys. 30% of ROGD kids are male and this percentage seems to be holding steady over several years.
My takeaways from this excellent video:
Her son’s experience which she says is typical of a certain population of trans boys included:
* very rigid thinking, expectations for black and white rules in life despite being very smart
* this thinking opened him up to any social system that prescribed specific rules for happiness and a supportive community. She recognized this having grown up in a cult religion herself
* boys at his age, 14, are trying to figure out who they are and how to be men; they do not like the “macho man” persona they THINK they are supposed to be and they know they CANNOT be
* his trans identification started during Covid when he spent hours in his room on the internet; this is something she hears from many parents of these boys. Kids were denied socialization in real life during this time
* trans identification is heavily tied to the burgeoning sexuality of these boys. They are surprised and horrified at what their bodies are doing
* attention from some girls, the “cheerleaders” of trans culture, gives them major strokes in attention, help with makeup and clothing, support and encouragement
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VRAP_0fqVnk&pp=ygUVR2VuZGVyIHN0ZWxsYSBvbWFsbGV5
* ROGD is not sanctioned as a concept in the therapeutic world but is a popular term in use by parents and adults who observe trans kids.
You might want to take a look at this article about this theory in Scientific American:
Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims | Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermines-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-claims/)
iris lilies
1-21-25, 10:48pm
You might want to take a look at this article about this theory in Scientific American:
Evidence Undermines 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' Claims | Scientific American (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-undermines-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-claims/)
I skimmed this article and skimmed some of the links from the article. The Scientific American article is a couple of years old so I think I heard about it when it first came out.
“Rapid Onset Gender dysphoria” it’s not a technical term, it’s just the theory of one researcher. It’s taken hold in popular culture because some parents are stymied at the swiftness of their children changing to someone who identifies as the opposite sex when there was, to their eyes, no indication of that in childhood. ROGD is a convenient label to communicate a phenomena even if not entirely accurate.
Parents do not necessarily know what is in the heads of their children and as parents were the sole source of information in the Littmsn study, yeah, it certainly has its problems as accurate research.
But something is going on with adolescent girls and too many of them are having extraordinarily hard experiences in puberty. It is a strange and difficult time for kids and how many tales have we heard of parents telling about how their angelic child turns evil practically overnight? A lot, and I mean this long before ROGD came on the scene.
Call it ROGD now. A few centuries ago, they might’ve called “witchcraft.” Haha.
i’m skeptical of the entire industry of psychology and mental health anyway so none of these studies have “THE” Answer as far as I’m concerned. Research is often inconsistent even among the like minded. For instance, the World Health Organization won’t use the term “gender dysphoria” it is “gender incongruous” because according to WHO this is not a mental illness. The DSM-5 terms “gender dysphoria “a mental illness. Whatever.
i want to see research continue and that research be scrutinized. I do believe this industry is ideologically captured which makes it very hard for real facts to be identified. Time will reveal hard truths.
I would like to see kids grow up with healthy physiques, not marked by surgeries and drugs.
iris lilies
1-29-25, 12:58pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9T6_as-kH4
This is an interview with Brianna Woo, a trans activist who is moving to the center of advocacy and taking a position that I’m hearing more and more often, that radical trans advocacy has created an untenable situation.
She clearly speaks against “men with penises “in women’s prisons and women’s spaces. More than once, she used the word “transsexual “which is has been considered a derogatory term, yet that’s one I’m hearing and seeing more often on the Internet in recent weeks. I like the term because it is accurate. That word is coming back into vogue.
She advocates a moderate position where adults can get the medical care they need to transition to the opposite sex and integrate into society.
She calls out the whining, victimhood and fringe positions of the radical left trans activists and blames them for creating the pushback from the political right and the majority of Americans who want women’s spaces protected from natal men.
I am no fan of Brianna Woo but I have to support moderate transactivists like her and Buck and Blair and that crowd.
iris lilies
2-12-25, 6:27pm
Not only is the pediatric Medical community and the pediatric therapeutic community captured by trans ideology, Chat GBT is full on a trans activist!
It is comical, the response I get when I ask Chat GPT “Are trans women women?” the Chat bot twists itself into logic knots to opine the term “woman” is a term of gender, not sex. I could accept that if society didn’t define “ a woman” as “an adult human female.”
And then, when I ask for the federal statistics on sexual assault convictions by trans women in prison, Chat GPT tells me in one sentence they aren’t available but then gives me several paragraphs on the dangers trans women face in prison. Delivers this with a little lecture about …well, you get the picture.
yet Chat GPT warns me it does not deliver opinions, just facts.
okey-Dokey.
iris lilies
2-25-25, 11:55pm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ijDBD9x-TwE
God, I love this guy, Dr. Az Hakeem who is (was?) Muslim, and gay. He has many decades in counseling trans clients. He knows his stuff.
Here’s five minutes of rational thought about trans identity issues.
The interviewer is Andrew Gold who is one of the young British centrists who push back on many trans issues. Andrew spent years in South America documenting cults And cult behavior. It should surprise no one that he sees trans ideology as a cult.
The NYT had a recent survey indicating 1 in 10 adults identify as LGBTQ and one in every 4 among gen Z. I'm not one to pass judgement, but that just seems like a lot. Especially gen Z. It seems to me like a significant demographic shift. I certainly would not imagine it that common in my small universe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/upshot/lgbtq-survey-results.html
iris lilies
2-28-25, 9:39am
The NYT had a recent survey indicating 1 in 10 adults identify as LGBTQ and one in every 4 among gen Z. I'm not one to pass judgement, but that just seems like a lot. Especially gen Z. It seems to me like a significant demographic shift. I certainly would not imagine it that common in my small universe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/upshot/lgbtq-survey-results.html
Yes. The queering of America has been on a steamroll since 2015. Ten years they’ve been at it.
40% of Brown University’s freshman class recently identified as LGBetc. Next year it may go up to 50%.
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/nearly-40-of-students-at-brown-identify-as-lgbtq-university-newspaper-reports
A recent unscientific man-on the-street interview poll of about 30 young people at a Pride event had 70% of them identify as “ queer.” From what I can tell, “queer” encompasses the artsy, gender fluid, gender non conforming folks. They are the Emo and Goth kids of previous generations. “Queer” is the umbrella term for anyone who considers themselves outside the sexual binary.
All of this is fine with me, a way for kids to find their paths in life. It is experimental. A percentage of these kids have severe psychological problems that will follow them through life in body dysmorphia, opposite sex identifying, etc.
It is important to not funnel all of these children into the medicalized world of trans ideology. Let them work out what they perceive as their differences and hold off hormonal suppression, hormonal treatment, and surgeries as long as possible with really good therapy for those who need it.
Thanks, IL. It's going to take me a while to digest and make sense of it all. I have had friends and known gay people who say they knew since birth or at least their early childhood that their biological programing of sexual preference was different. I think they mostly have had some issues adjusting to social norms. Beyond that and maybe among Gen Zers I tend to think some or much of it is a cultural or social phenomena and less of a biological influence. More like a trend or fashion. But what do I know.
I had heard that 10% figure quoted in animal behavior--and that was back before 2000, so it sort of tracks out, that we primates are no different than other animals.
iris lilies
4-16-25, 8:40pm
Today the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom declared, unanimously, that the definition of “woman “as used in the 2010 Equality Act refers to biological women only.
That word “woman “does not cover natal men who have a gender certificate issued by the government that declares him to be a woman.
This has ramifications, as these decisions always do, but it is a positive step in embracing common sense.
littlebittybobby
4-17-25, 5:04pm
okay-----see---that's why i wholeheartedly support the annexation of Greenland by the USA. It will take a load off of Denmark, insure strategic security for the western hemisphere, and the new territory will serveas lebensraum for people who do not feel wholly accepted elsewhere in the usa. But yeah---establish a coastal settlement especially for ALPHABET People, where they can "do their thing", without being harrassed or discriminateds against. With Global Warming or whatever, the ice covering Greenland will recede, and they can move further inland and establish great communitires like San Francsco, Denver, and others. Yup. Hope that helps you kids some. Thankk mee.
iris lilies
4-26-25, 9:20am
I ran across this reasoned scientific view of the human sex binary by real scientists, those folks we are supposed to listen to, published in BioEssays in 2022.
It states simply that the human sex binary exists for reproduction. It does not deny “gender” and “sex roles” and “sex identification” and all of the human constructs around sex. It is a simple biological reality.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202200173
I agree with this and see it as a hard truth, if a narrow truth. The meanings assigned to this “truth” in political and social contexts are endlessly debatable but the scientific truth remains undeniable.
iris lilies
4-26-25, 9:39am
There is a lot of protesting in the UK over the Supreme Court’s ruling that “woman” means “adult human female” for purposes of the law.
Some politicians are falling all over themselves to reverse their position on that issue. But no matter, I take it as they have been educated.
iris lilies
5-8-25, 4:24pm
Two weeks ago the Supreme Court in the U.K. defined “woman” in the correct biological way, an adult human female. This definition exists for legal issues. It does not prevent anyone calling himself a woman and identifying/dressing/acting as such.
there has been fallout from this decision and these videos, just a couple examples of many events, show the lack of regard for this Supreme Court decision.
In this one, after the Supreme Court gave everyone clarity , women identifying for a day as men attempt to use a “men only” swimming pool but are turned away. Yet, men identifying as women are allowed at the same facility to enter the “women only” pool. Hmmmmmm. Well we can’t have men inconvenienced, can we?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sqfmEyF2t_M
In this one, a nurse for the National Health Service in the UK called a patient a “man. “The patient identified as a trans woman. The patient was in an urology unit for treatment of his intact male genitals. The nurse was suspended and has not been allowed back to work even after the Supreme Court ruling so apparently the NHS is continuing with policies that are in conflict with law.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAcgj3bgs8&t=357s&pp=ygUaTmhzIG51c2UgY2Fsc3MgdHJhbnMgYSBtYW7SBwkJhgk BhyohjO8%3D
These are clickbait videos and I would be happy to read a less prejudiced account if anyone has a link. Problem is, legacy media doesn’t cover these issues since they are not part of their favored narrative.
My thinking is that the concerns of trans people can be solved if any laws that refer to “women “or single sex spaces make it clear that “transWomen “ are to be considered along with “women. “ Just add “trans women “to the laws, it can’t be that hard can it? Or do they think that’s going to be a problem? Hmmmm.
iris lilies
5-8-25, 4:32pm
The writing of trans activists over the past two weeks in protesting the decision of the UK Supreme Court had them carrying vulgar and threatening signs. Things like “TERFS must die “and “the only good TERF is a dead TERF” and alike.
Here in the United States these signs are not a big deal because we take our free speech seriously. But over in the UK, they can consider hate speech to be a jailable offense. So now it will be interesting to see if these trans activists are visited by their local gendarmes. Trans activists have had many people harassed and jailed by people who expressed an opinion about trans ideology.
iris lilies
5-9-25, 9:03am
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sUIfoaduzYY
Another video showing fallout from the UK Supreme Court decision. Sports authorities in the UK are reluctantly changing their policies to exclude trans women from women sports.
But trans women are making plans to invade women’s sports anyway.
Sue Wong, who heads a “women in sports” organization, points out that insurance for any sport organization will be
invalidated if they have a policy that is in conflict with a law. In other words, they need to follow the Supreme Court ruling and keep men out of women’s sports. So that is an interesting cudgel, the financial aspect of a lawsuit unprotected by insurance.
littlebittybobby
5-17-25, 1:13pm
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iris lilies
5-17-25, 1:23pm
My dog is eating pizza even as I speak. Oooey gooey pizza. He loves it.
iris lilies
5-19-25, 9:18am
Maine legislator Laurel Libby made a social media post about a trans woman competing against girls in pole vaulting. Her post was the wrong point of view, so her fellow legislators have censured her, and this means not counting her votes.
Her constituents are not getting representation. This is crazy.
It may be legal but it is crazy. And wrong. This is cancel culture operating as usual.
https://reason.com/2025/05/02/maine-legislator-barred-from-voting-over-social-media-post/
but this First Amendment protecting organization thinks this is illegal
https://www.thefire.org/news/maines-censure-lawmaker-post-about-trans-student-athlete-attack-free-speech
She posted photos of minors without family consent. She stuck their photos on social media.
The feeling around here is that she is a disgusting person for using children to further her own political aims.
That is why she was censured.
iris lilies
5-19-25, 10:01am
She posted photos of minors without family consent. She stuck their photos on social media.
The feeling around here is that she is a disgusting person for using children to further her own political aims.
That is why she was censured.
do you believe her vote should not be counted in the state legislature because she
1. violated a minor’s privacy on Facebook
2. is a disgusting person?
The first reason to not count her votes doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
The second reason is blatantly wrong.
Do you have any concern at all about denying her constituents their representation?
Iris, I am telling you as a Mainer how Maine reacted to what she did, because you did not include it.
We try to take care of our children here, and not use them as political props.
I understand it was a straight party line vote rather than an eruption of spontaneous anger over a politician mentioning children.
I understand it was a straight party line vote rather than an eruption of spontaneous anger over a politician mentioning children.
My understanding from living here is that it was an eruption of spontaneous anger.
My understanding from living here is that it was an eruption of spontaneous anger.
I think that may be the most accurate description of today's Democratic Party that I've ever heard. I wish I'd thought of it. ;)
iris lilies
5-20-25, 10:43am
Censure the woman, I don’t care, if “censure” means only “we want it on record you did something we don’t like” but this removal of her ability to represent those who voted for her is what is despicable. Who do these legislators think they are, anyway? Oh, right, the Morality Police.
I have seen so many instances in government where bad performers probably need to be removed from office, but there is real sensitivity about overriding the voters who voted that politician in. We saw that with our city prosecutor, an elected position who was completely incompetent but the high state level people who had the power to remove her did not and did not even “censor” her. They were mindful of what the voters wanted and respected that.
I realize that Maine has a problem in pitting their state’s human rights Act against Trump’s Executive Order and funding for education, and that will have to be wrangled in the courts. Since I like states rights, I do not mind that Maine (and some other states) has included trans women in their Equality Act I just don’t know how that plays out in girls’ sports.
And I really don’t think it should have anything to do with Federal funding. If Maine wants to include men in women’s sports, ok for Maine, but don’t expect every federal program to support it.
My understanding from living here is that it was an eruption of spontaneous anger.
So a tightly planned and organized eruption of spontaneous anger.
It caused a lot of anger when she did that, yes. People here protect their children, and they don't like people who use children this way.
It caused a lot of anger when she did that, yes. People here protect their children, and they don't like people who use children this way.
Smells like political kayfabe to me.
People who attack kids are not okay in my book. I think this really upset people around here.
iris lilies
5-20-25, 1:26pm
People who attack kids are not okay in my book. I think this really upset people around here.
I can see that. We have to be careful with trans girls to not beat them up, yet to pretend they don’t represent a threat to natal girls as they carry out their LARPing is also wrong. There are competing needs and I’m happy with this trans issue when people actually recognize the conflict. It will sort itself out eventually.
I think we see this differently. Living here, it was very much a sense of outrage at how she involved the children in her political posturing. You are concerned with her rights, I am concerned with the rights of the children. She did them an injury, and that was why people responded with anger. It was a primal anger at her injury to the children. That's what I was trying to add into your account, as you were not presenting that.
Obviously, it's easy to deliberately mischaracterize people's viewpoints, and I am committed to not doing that with what you are saying. I did want to speak up for the children and the injury that she did them, and the resulting anger here in Maine. I am not sure why people want to mischaracterize what I am trying to say, but have at it, I guess.
It looks like the Supreme Court decided in a 7-2 ruling to return Maine Representative Libby's ability to represent her constituents, striking a blow to the legislature's Democratic majority attempt to stifle Democracy.
iris lilies
5-21-25, 10:24am
It looks like the Supreme Court decided in a 7-2 ruling to return Maine Representative Libby's ability to represent her constituents, striking a blow to the legislature's Democratic majority attempt to stifle Democracy.
That is good news.
iris lilies
5-23-25, 3:51pm
I think we see this differently. Living here, it was very much a sense of outrage at how she involved the children in her political posturing. You are concerned with her rights, I am concerned with the rights of the children. She did them an injury, and that was why people responded with anger. It was a primal anger at her injury to the children. That's what I was trying to add into your account, as you were not presenting that.
Obviously, it's easy to deliberately mischaracterize people's viewpoints, and I am committed to not doing that with what you are saying. I did want to speak up for the children and the injury that she did them, and the resulting anger here in Maine. I am not sure why people want to mischaracterize what I am trying to say, but have at it, I guess.
you know, I was gonna let this go since this discussion is probably over but I decided to correct you.
I am not concerned with the “rights “of legislator Libby. I don’t see how you can make that statement based on what I said, but I realize text is an imperfect medium. Your summary of my position is incorrect.
I am concerned that her responsibility as a legislator has been thwarted by not counting her votes. That truly looks to me like the Morality Police exercising woke cancel culture on her and also on her constituents who voted for her because they are all bad bad people. That is a far reaching action that affects more than legislator Libby. It is wrong.
What do you think “censure “in your legislative house should mean? I’ve already said above what I would be fine with in “censoring” her.
I guess I am not getting across what I thought, and apologies if I misunderstood you, so sending you peace and hoping that this situation resolves in a decent fashion for everyone here and everyone else concerned with these issues.
iris lilies
6-18-25, 2:12pm
Today the Supreme Court’s long awaited decision on the ability of states to limit “transgender affirmation care “ for children was issued.
The Court’s majority gives a green light to states that want to limit and control medicalization of trans youth.
I’ve skimmed Sotomeyer’s minority report but have not read the majority report. Frankly, I’m surprised at this outcome given their decision in the Bostwick discrimination case, but I have to spend some time with the court rulings before I say more.
I would like to emphasize that I DO NOT want to see state legislatures controlling this. There’s no way for legislatures to address this kind of care because it is so complex and it needs nuanced control, available only from the patient, parents, and medical personnel.
It is true I think the medical establishment is captured by trans ideology and they provide drugs and surgeries for far too many minors. Anyone who tells you minors do not receive gender affirming surgeries is lying to you or is woefully misinformed. Anymore,, I tend to think they’re lying.
iris lilies
6-18-25, 2:24pm
A few days ago the New York Times’ four part podcast on gender affirming care for youth dropped. This production centers on the original model for gender, affirming care from the Dutch and how it migrated the United States and changed. One segment is about the cast report in England that caused affirming care to close down significantly with the national health service in the UK allowing it in controlled circumstances.
I listened to it all, and it is pretty much a mainstream presentation with a decided point of view. Their point of view is that the original Dutch study was very carefully done and each patient had many hours of therapy before medical treatment took place. The New York Times writers think that when the affirmative care model jumped the pond over to the United States protocols, changed dramatically, and kids are fast tracked to medicalization.
one entire segment was devoted to St. Louis‘s whistleblower, Jamie Reed. Jamie is a gay woman who was married to a trans man. Jamie’s husband, Tiger Reed, is the librarian in my firmer city neighborhood. Beginning last fall Tiger Reed de transitioned and is now known as Roxanne Reed. And now they are separated and perhaps divorced.
Good article in Washington Post: "I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine"
archive.is link to avoid registration/paywall:
https://archive.ph/2O6oo
Direct Wapo link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/hhs-review-anonymous-author/
rosarugosa
6-28-25, 6:47am
Good article in Washington Post: "I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine"
archive.is link to avoid registration/paywall:
https://archive.ph/2O6oo
Direct Wapo link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/hhs-review-anonymous-author/
Thanks, Bae. Interesting read.
iris lilies
6-28-25, 9:05am
Good article in Washington Post: "I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine"
archive.is link to avoid registration/paywall:
https://archive.ph/2O6oo
Direct Wapo link:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/26/hhs-review-anonymous-author/
From the article
”…[medicalized care for minors] rests on very weak evidence…no reliable evidence indicates that these treatments are beneficial to minors health.”
and
”…After surveying all the evidence, and applying widely accepted principles of medical ethics, we found that medical transition for minors is not empirically or ethically justified.”
This is essentially Cass Report 2.0
Now to watch WPATH run around denying, defending, lying.Should be fun.
Also, never forget in the former Health and Human Services regime the Assist head of HHS, Rachel Levine, trans person and trans activist, withheld a report about trans medical care that did not fit Rachel’s narrative.
iris lilies
6-28-25, 9:58am
I like the way Alex Byrne author of the Washington Post article and one of the co-authors of the medical review, hits ALL the high points of the social problems of trans active medicine:
1. Many trans kids are just gay. Called in the gender critical world “trans away the gay” it recognizes the absurdity of a new conversion therapy where sexual proclivities are cut out on the surgical table. Remember how the United States is in alliance with the Imams in Tehran on this issue? Yeah, not a place we should be.
2. The oppressive environment for open discussion and true scientific enquiry. It permeates research, professional collaborations, etc. Any professional with doubts or conflicting experience to the prevailing narrative of trans activism is shunned. This is Shameful, and this does irreparable harm to a world where we are beseeched to “ trust the science “ when the science is bullshit.
3.The perversion of language, deliberately so, by gender activists. You know, “assigned female at birth” for the word “ girl” and “gender affirming care” for drugs drugs, and more drugs then surgeries.
This is part of the assault of free speech brought about by the trans activists movement.
iris lilies
6-28-25, 2:28pm
The thought in gender critical circles is that this insane activist stuff has started to wind down, the tide is turning toward more reasonable inquiry and debate.
St. Louis’ own Jamie Reed who has been a key witness to the madness and who blew the whistle on her employer, a transgender clinic treating minors, recently issued these profound words:
“…
Jonathan Cowan, writing for Politico, urged Democrats to “meet Americans where they are today, not where advocates might wish them to be, or where society may be headed in the future.” Sarah (Tim) McBride, a trans-identified male and congressional representative, echoed that line on The Ezra Klein Show (June 17, 2025), lamenting that the [trans] movement simply hadn’t had the time to “open hearts and change minds.”
But the truth is: we did have the time. I saw what happened with it”
….
So when Sarah McBride says Americans would be more supportive if they just met trans people, I have to ask: Which ones? The ER staff met them. Riley Gaines met them in the locker room. What people found was not a marginalized population simply asking to live in peace—but a movement demanding the suspension of reason, the redefinition of language, the erasure of sex-based rights, and the medicalization of distress in children.”
Jamie writes on Substack and is a fellow at Genspect. As an activist herself I see her getting a bit out over her skiis in some areas (example: the recent Missouri abortion bill that was obscurely tied to trans medicine. Ok y’all wouldn't understand that, it’s a Missouri thang) but Jamie is still a thought leader to whom I pay attention .
iris lilies
7-9-25, 1:52pm
A couple days ago at the Red Cross when I was donating blood, they asked what my “gender” is. I hadn’t paid attention to that question before, I’m sure it’s not new. I know that there are different standards for females and males for hemoglobin levels.
But this got me to thinking about the language confusion of gender ideology
There has been a deliberate obfuscation by gender activists to promote a difference between “sex” and “gender” as defined concepts. I am ok with that idea and accept it as a useful tool for dialogue, as long as everyone plays the same game.
Here, sex means biological sex i.e.male or female. Gender means identification, a vaguely defined mental comdition.
But when that medical community dealing in biological reality uses the term “gender “I have to sayWTF? I mean, what the actual fk?
I know a couple of ways that biological sex plays into blood donations (there are likely others!) and the hemoglobin standard is one of them. Here’s another one and notice this web source confusingly uses the term “gender”and biological categories of sex interchangeably.
Gender Mismatch:
A growing body of research suggests that transfusing red blood cells from women, especially those who have been pregnant, to men may be associated with poorer outcomes, including increased risk of mortality in some cases. This is potentially due to antibodies produced during pregnancy that can trigger immune responses in the pregnant woman.
I also can’t imagine how little gender nonconformists who consider themselves one of 200 genders would answer this word from Red Cross people. When their genders are things like non-binary and etc. cat and etc, what do health workers do with that?
I a[/I]lso can’t imagine how little gender nonconformists who consider themselves one of 200 genders would answer this word from Red Cross people. When their genders are things like non-binary and etc. cat and etc, what do health workers do with that?[/COLOR]
When doing EMT-type medical stuff on calls, my required checklist at one point asks the question of the patient: "Is there a chance you may be pregnant now?", which we ask *everyone*, and don't go by our own eyeball judgment. (There are some things we won't do if we think you are pregnant, so as not to endanger the child.)
I once had a quite muscular, bearded dude answer "yes". And indeed, some months later, we had a new island resident.
early morning
7-9-25, 3:13pm
IL, I generally consider you a sane and balanced person until I forget to not click on this thread, lol. :0! And cat is not a gender. :~)
bae - that's a good approach. Everyone gets the same question. That makes much sense to me.
bae - that's a good approach. Everyone gets the same question. That makes much sense to me.
Sure takes the pressure off the first responder, and because it is a checklist, it doesn't get overlooked. And since often our medical supervision is at the other end of a radio halfway across the state and doesn't have eyes on the patient, it probably produces better patient outcomes.
Plus it often gets a giggle from the patient, which can help calm down bad situations.
iris lilies
7-9-25, 4:11pm
IL, I generally consider you a sane and balanced person until I forget to not click on this thread, lol. :0! And cat is not a gender. :~)
.
ha ha, well, just consider it my TDS operating.*
indeed, there are youth who name their gender as cat, and any number of YouTube videos will show you that. I may have more to say about that later.
* TDS= Trans Derangement syndrome, much like “Trump derangement syndrome.”
Maybe the youth choose gender cat because they are unwilling to have people shoving them into boxes for purposes of social control. I get it.
iris lilies
7-10-25, 12:05pm
Maybe the youth choose gender cat because they are unwilling to have people shoving them into boxes for purposes of social control. I get it.
The confounding thing I see about youth in the “queer space “is that THEY are the ones prescribing gendered behavior. It boggles my mind why.
That’s why a recent study showing teens increasingly identifying as “non-binary” rather than trans cheers me up because that “non-binary” label would presumably be a refuge for teens who want to be edgy and part of the “queer “world but do not need to be pushed into medical body modifications by the healthcare community.
Let the kids be non binary, seems like a good solution to me.
early morning
7-10-25, 12:06pm
Tybee - +1. I know when I have to fill out asinine forms, I sometimes get creative, especially if it's another stupid survey. I always mark race as OTHER: Human, and for sex OR gender I generally write in NO, thank you. I'm sure they are scanned by non-humans and thus are ignored, but it does make ME fell a little better. I have talked to a couple self-described "cat children". They are well aware they are not cats (although at least one likes cats much more than humans!) but they are quite gleeful re: the consternation, even panic, they are causing.
iris lilies
7-10-25, 12:44pm
Tybee - +1. I know when I have to fill out asinine forms, I sometimes get creative, especially if it's another stupid survey. I always mark race as OTHER: Human, and for sex OR gender I generally write in NO, thank you. I'm sure they are scanned by non-humans and thus are ignored, but it does make ME fell a little better. I have talked to a couple self-described "cat children". They are well aware they are not cats (although at least one likes cats much more than humans!) but they are quite gleeful re: the consternation, even panic, they are causing.
Those of you who don’t buy humans identifying as cats might be practicing speciesism! Think about it. Haha
If children want to cavort around with tails coming out of their pants, that’s fine with me. They are kids. It’s when the whole gender concept is brought into the real world, the world where facts need to take precedence such as in healthcare, that it all becomes very stupid.
iris lilies
7-29-25, 4:07pm
So tiresome. Registered sex offender Richard Cox declared himself trans and camps out in women’s locker room at a high school. At least twice. The high school allows adult swim time from members of the community.
I know, I know, this is 1 in 1 million. It’s 1 in 1 billion. oh right, it never happens.
The problem here is there is no protection for women to keep people like this out.
https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/registered-sex-offender-identified-himself-as-transgender-in-indecent-exposure-case-arlington-virginia-washington-liberty-high-school-richard- (https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/registered-sex-offender-identified-himself-as-transgender-in-indecent-exposure-case-arlington-virginia-washington-liberty-high-school-richard-cox)cod
Mariah Burton Nelson, a feminist gender issue writer, wrote a substack piece about this happening at her very own gym. You can bet it’s happening all over the country, but there are not journalists who focus on gender issues exposing this.
Girls and women are just supposed to take it. We are expected to act as emotional support animals for men ideating as women, as Helen Joyce so eloquently out it.
We are supposed to completely accept with open arms men hanging around a place where women get naked. We are supposed to embrace their bodies, fully unclothed, with their junk hanging out.
In a hilariously ineffective attempt to address this new problem, signs went up in this Locker room saying “Be considerate of others’ privacy by being modest. Cover your intimate body areas while using shared spaces.”
Could somene please demonstrate for me how that is done when showering? Utter nonsense.
Mariah Burton Nelson gave this update:
On July 25, the federal Office for Civil Rights found that Arlington and four other Northern Virginia counties are in violation of Title IX and ordered them to rescind policies allowing students to use facilities and participate in activities based on “gender identity” rather than biological sex. The counties have ten days to comply.
littlebittybobby
8-28-25, 1:19pm
okay----well, well, well; why are we not all discussing the disgruntled, disgusted, disillusioned disenchanted, and deeply disturbed Trans shooter waaaaay up dere in Minnasooota? I guess the kid realized that female privilege was not worth the hassle. Yup. Hope that helps you some.
iris lilies
8-28-25, 3:50pm
okay----well, well, well; why are we not all discussing the disgruntled, disgusted, disillusioned disenchanted, and deeply disturbed Trans shooter waaaaay up dere in Minnasooota? I guess the kid realized that female privilege was not worth the hassle. Yup. Hope that helps you some.
There are many mentally distressed young people who identify with the Trans world because medical professionals and professional therapists have suggested to them that could be the cause of their distress. That’s just where we are right now in society.
littlebittybobby
8-31-25, 3:11pm
okay-----here's a photo of a REAL man at the wreckin' yard, toting a steering column he pulled. Back then, when men-were-men and wimmin were wimmen, and nobody even THOUGHT about getting a sex cxhange. Nope. (see photo) Ha. How do ya like that?6492
iris lilies
8-31-25, 8:21pm
Andrew/ Andrea Balcer, a biological male, killed his parents and the family dog. He was sentenced and is now serving time in prison in Maine. Several interesting things are associated with this case:
* Andrew/Andrea claims he killed his parents because he didn’t think they would accept him as a trans person
* He came to court dressed in a white shirt and tie, apparently belying his trans nature
* he’s being housed in a women’s prison (one has to wonder what will happen to women in prison when they misgender this 6‘1“ 300 pound biological male; too bad so sad for them)
* Trump is apparently withholding funds to Maine prisons due to the incarceration of Andrew in a women’s prison
But perhaps the most interesting fact to come out of it at all is that Andrew/Andrea had to kill the family dog because the dog would not accept him as a woman. The dog was a TERF.
Who knew?!!?? Who knew dogs could be so cruel? But now that I think about it, there are plenty of dogs who do not like biological men. So maybe Andrew/Andrea was onto something.
news report of federal funds witheld here:
https://wgme.com/news/local/trump-administration-pulls-funding-from-maine-prison-system-over-trans-inmate-andrea-balcer-womens-prison-us-attorney-general-pam-bondi
So you are okay with them withholding money from Maine prisons? To heck with everyone else, everyone's rights?
iris lilies
9-1-25, 11:13am
So you are okay with them withholding money from Maine prisons? To heck with everyone else, everyone's rights?
I am not ok with the state of Maine housing dangerous criminally minded super large male inmates who have committed violence against women with women.
I do not agree with witholding Federal funds being used as a kudgel to force an idealogical outcome. I assume this is a state prison run according to the rules of the state of Maine’s prison system. If it’s a federal prison, that’s a whole different deal and I would think federal funds can control what happens at a federal prison.
See? I can hold two thoughts about this issue at the same time that might seem to you to be conflicting.
So now, your turn: Do you agree with housing this dangerous man amongst women?
I do not agree with witholding Federal funds being used as a kudgel to force an idealogical outcome.
Thanks, got it. It seemed for a moment that you were happy they were withholding the money, which seemed ironic since you have been writing over many years about "nanny gubmint".
I don't have any opinions on the rest of what you are writing about with respect to withholding money from Maine.
iris lilies
9-1-25, 12:22pm
I don't have any opinions on the rest of what you are writing about with respect to withholding money from Maine.
you have deflected my question and did not answer.
Ignoring how Maine’s prisons are funded, are you OK with men who ideate as women being housed in women’s prisons?
iris lilies
9-1-25, 12:23pm
Related to Andrew/Andrea and his transphobic dog, I did a silly Google search to see what Reddit is saying about transphobic dogs. And yes, there is an entire thread about it. So there we are, crazy land.
iris lilies
9-1-25, 12:47pm
I will amend what I said above to say this: in the case of Donald Trump suddenly, without warning, withholding federal prison funds from Maine for any ideological purpose—that is wrong. It is the sudden ness of it, the yanking of expected funds that is wrong ( and it may be procedurally wrong too, I don’t know. Court cases will decide that.)
In the bigger picture Tybee mentions: It is clear to me that government funding generally guides ideological paths. The government always funds things in society it wishes to happen, there’s nothing new about that. It is just what the government does. I can’t say I like it in many many cases, and I wish the government would keep its nose out of many of the issues it finds, but that ship sailed decades ago.
In my mind proper Federal government funding is done through slow moving Congressional laws and slow moving government regulations. It is not and should not be carried out by a single individual person.
iris lilies
9-1-25, 1:01pm
USAID Federal dollars has been supporting a plethora of trans issues overseas but Elon Musk’s investigations put a stop to some or all of that. . Aid to a “ trans clinic” in Hyperadad, India, has been cut.
For those who don’t know, Hyperadad is a center of transgender population and has been known as that for decades, long before this recent boom of trans persons.
It is a clinic that caters to trans people’s health, and this article highlights treatment of HIV. We would all agree that HIV patients need to be treated. I don’t agree that the United States taxpayers should pay for it. Especially, when there are HIV clinics in India, funded by the Indian government.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62zvlgqzdpo
from the article:
…”There are state-run and private hospitals that offer medical help to the community, but many say they prefer going to Mitr Clinics because they find it more affordable and inclusive.
"Transgender people are not treated properly in general hospitals," Rachana says, explaining why the Mitr Clinics were so important for the community…”
I would suggest that the Indian folks then start treating their trans people “properly in General Hospital “rather than asking me a U.S. taxpayer to provide a service like that.
To me, this reeks of the political abuse of psychiatry in the former Soviet Union…
The Department of Justice is reportedly considering a proposal to restrict transgender Americans from possessing firearms, marking a dramatic reversal of the Trump administration’s pledges to preserve Second Amendment rights while escalating the president’s attacks against trans Americans.
The proposal, according to CNN, comes in the wake of a mass shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic church allegedly committed by a 23-year-old trans woman, which has fueled conspiracy theories and right-wing outrage baselessly alleging trans people are predisposed to commit violence.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trans-gun-ban-trump-mental-illness-b2820372.html
iris lilies
9-4-25, 7:04pm
To me, this reeks of the political abuse of psychiatry in the former Soviet Union…
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trans-gun-ban-trump-mental-illness-b2820372.html
That is unconstitutional and will not come to pass.
There ARE restrictions against people with mental illnesses who have met certain legal thresholds being denied access to firearms, but simply ideating as the opposite sex does not meet that threshold.
iris lilies
9-5-25, 10:59am
And the problem is that for some reason, the crazy trans radical idealogy has taken over mainstraim organizations and we see that effect every day. The cancelation of Richard Dawkins a few years ago was not enough to make reasonable people within those organizations say Wait a minute, lets look at this issue more critically.
They are too afraid for their jobs, their research grants, their publication status.
I can name several scientists who stepped out of academia because they refuse to play the nutty trans game. Regular joes in regular jobs in the UK have actually lost fheir jobs for pushback against trans ideology.
This week Malcolm Gladwell, a darling of the Left, went on record as apologizing for his cowardliness in failing to deny trans activists their ridiculous ideas in past years. Gladwell is marking one of the turning points we are seeing in trans ideology releasing its hold on sane people.
In Britain some of the insanity has abated. Their Supreme Court said, for the purposes of equality under the law, the word “woman “means biological female. Their National Health Service backed off drugs and surgeries for trans youth.
Yet people in Britain are still being detained by police, arrested, and jailed for “trans hate” speech.
To me, this reeks of the political abuse of psychiatry in the former Soviet Union…
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trans-gun-ban-trump-mental-illness-b2820372.html
I saw that today and it would be laughable if it wasn't so scarily emblematic of the distorted leadership of Trump. So everyone in the country can have any and all guns they want-because of the sacrosanct Second Amendment--EXCEPT for the segment of the population that is responsible for less than 0.1% of the mass shootings.
iris lilies
9-6-25, 9:18pm
I saw that today and it would be laughable if it wasn't so scarily emblematic of the distorted leadership of Trump. So everyone in the country can have any and all guns they want-because of the sacrosanct Second Amendment--EXCEPT for the segment of the population that is responsible for less than 0.1% of the mass shootings.
Well, the National Rifle Association has spoken today and they do not believe in exceptions to gun ownership as proposed. They are in favor of everyone having all the guns.
iris lilies
9-11-25, 8:16pm
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/ontario-must-pay-for-surgery-to-give-trans-resident-both-penis-and-vagina-appeal-court/ar-AA1DzfGi
Taxpayers in Ontario, Canada, will be paying for a man to have “gender affirming surgery “ that affirms his identity as a non-binary person. What would that surgery be you might ask? He wants surgeons to add a vagina to his existing penis. Yes, apparently this is a thing.
There’s quite a lot to say about this, but the main idea is THIS IS INSANE. I like the story as a reminder of how bad things can get if we let it in the trans activist community. I firmly believe most trans people who go about the business of life accept they get one set of genitals but the crazies are moving the goalposts.
There’s a fun long thread on Reddit with taxpayers from Canada making comments wondering why they have to wait years for standard procedures when there clearly is enough funding to send this patient to the state of Texas where medical experts will carry out his fetish surgery.
There’s quite a lot to say about this, but the main idea is THIS IS INSANE. I like the story as a reminder of how bad things can get if we let it in the trans activist community. I firmly believe most trans people who go about the business of life accept they get one set of genitals but the crazies are moving the goalposts.
I suppose as usual the devil is in the details.
Though I present as male, I myself am intersex, and have bits-and-bobs typical of both "standard issue" genders. I've never felt the need to surgically modify myself to pick one or the other, or to enhance/reduce anything. I could imagine easily being in that situation though.
iris lilies
9-12-25, 9:25am
I suppose as usual the devil is in the details.
Though I present as male, I myself am intersex, and have bits-and-bobs typical of both "standard issue" genders. I've never felt the need to surgically modify myself to pick one or the other, or to enhance/reduce anything. I could imagine easily being in that situation though.
Yes, it is true we don’t know the motivation of the man in this article. But that doesn’t really matter if he’s demanding experimental, non-standard, mutilating surgery. He can desire whatever he desires, but we can’t always get what we want. Especially if we want others to pay for it in another country.
That’s the real problem as it always seems to be in these situations. The grown-ups in the room did not say “no “to the toddler.
This court case was decided by three judges, not just one. it is amazing to me that Canadian provinces have been captured by trans ideology at this level.
iris lilies
9-20-25, 10:16am
I am so freaking pissed at the transgender world right now because that whole ideology is inserting itself into the Missouri political fight about abortion. It pisses me off so much that the abortion rights camp has to consider these people in their legislation.
It is truly obscure, the connection between trans and abortion, but it’s a Missouri thing. Ground News picked it up today. ugh. I’m so mad.
iris lilies
9-20-25, 1:13pm
We are living in a Monty Python sketch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c
The funny part isn’t that Stan wants to be a woman, the butt of the joke is the group’s agreement at the end they will support Stan’s right to do the impossible, gestate a child.
Empty virtue signaling is the real butt of this joke. Trans ideation is just the vehicle for the punch line.
One of the Pythons has been pressured to remove this from the Python cannon, but he refused.
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