I have just been informed that, on the matter of Israel and her conflict with the Palestinians, I have "a bias."
Well, yes.
One side is kidnapping, raping, murdering, and desecrating the bodies of young girls, to the applause of men, women, and children in the streets.
The…
Just trust the man in the women's changing room. Trust the man in the women's shelter. Trust the man who follows your daughter into the public bathroom. Trust the man on your daughter's swim team to behave himself in the locker room.
If it were safe to trust men in these…
@MarkRuffalo
I think it's time we recognized that a nation in which people casually throw the term "fascist" around is a nation in which civil discourse is nearly impossible.
There are no "fascists" in mainstream politics today, in either party. Most Americans, and particularly folks like…
Here's an irony.
A common response I get when I say "transwomen are men" is that I'm reducing what it means to being a woman to "body parts," and that that trivializes womanhood.
Meanwhile, those institutions that have fallen for the nonsense of the "trans" movement are busy…
@ACLU
"Medically necessary?" Was his health threatened by not having elective surgeries performed or receiving hormones his body didn't need?
He raped and murdered 2 women: should we really trust his judgment on sexual mattes?
I'm glad I stopped supporting you people decades ago.
In what sense is a biological male who identifies as a woman actually a woman? What does it mean to "identify as a woman?" What distinguishes such a person from anyone else with a mistaken sense of self, say someone who believes he is Napoleon?
Serious questions. I'll listen and…
@OkayBiology
"Ninety-nine percent of kids who wanna play sports aren't trying to go to the Olympics."
Fair enough. They're just trying to compete in high school, to go to state competitions, to get scholarships, to be rewarded for years of practice and hard work, to give it their best shot…
@SwipeWright
In related news, the American Astronomical Society today announced that the Copernican model of a heliocentric solar system will no longer be promoted, because it causes offense to Flat Earthers and those who identify as Ptolemaic.
@RealityEnthusi2
Dylan will always talk about the challenge of his being seen as a woman. He'll do it because Dylan is an actor who is getting rich pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. But that's what he is: A man pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman.
And the absolute last…
@ReduxxMag
Good. I'm sorry that women are being deprived of opportunities to compete fairly, but this kind of boycott is probably the fastest way to put an end to the injustice of men competing against women.
The irony here is that those who subscribe to gender ideology are quite ready to say "a transwoman is woman," but I've yet to hear a definition of "woman" that isn't (1) circular ("a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman") or (2) simply a resort to stereotypes of secondary…
I hear that "diversity" is important. I hear it all the time.
But diversity of what, exactly? Of skin color? Of sexual orientation? Of religious views?
Because if I'm hiring machine technicians, or electronic engineers, or software developers, why do those kinds of diversity…
@MusicSolitaire
It's actually pretty easy to explain.
If you're a woman (that is, an adult human female), then how you feel is how a woman feels.
And if you're a man (an adult human male), then how you feel is how a man feels.
What the gender identity movement is telling people is that there…
@JeremyShawMD
I guess they think this is a powerful rhetorical device, this "denying our existence" argument.
It isn't. If I declare myself a Martian and someone questions that, they aren't denying my existence, merely challenging my status as a citizen of the fourth planet.
@splcenter
SPLC is one of those organizations that has lost its way. Amnesty International and the ACLU are two others.
When you claim to defend ideals but use your platform to smear political adversaries, as all of these do (though none as shamelessly as the SPLC), you're useless.
@thenation
Is this really confusing, Nation? He's a guy swimming against girls. It's a tragicomic injustice, and of course people respond to that.
What is inexplicable is that supposedly serious people call Lia Thomas "her," or that anyone thinks it's okay for him to compete against women.
@LePapillonBlu2
Yeah.
Anyway, I sure enjoyed the low energy prices and booming economy of that guy's, what's his name's, administration.
Of course, I'm glad we've got the new guy in office now. I don't mind paying more for everything and worrying about WW III, particularly. It's worth it to…
About 20 years ago Kansas was ridiculed when proponents of Intelligent Design tried to get that religious belief taught alongside evolutionary theory in the classroom.
Times change. Today Kansas leads the nation in one important aspect of the biological sciences, with the first…
@MeechSteph1
By the way, is there any other group that claims it doesn't exist if the people stop saying they agree with its beliefs? Fundamentalist Christians? Jews? Flat Earthers? Vegetarians? Anybody?
Why are the "trans" folk uniquely needy in this regard?
@EdKrassen
"What harm is it doing to call someone a pronoun that you don’t agree with?"
That's a good question. Here is my response:
The harm it does is help encourage and perpetuate a social contagion that is leading thousands of young people into self-harm in the name of gender…
@amnesty
I suppose it depends on what we're calling "trans rights."
For example, I think women have a right not to have men in women's shelters, toilets, prisons, and locker rooms -- even if those men claim to be women.
Wmn athletes have a right to fair competition against actual women.
@rejserin
I utterly reject the nonsensical claim that only women can have opinions about what it means to be a woman.
If biology divides us into male and female (and I believe it does), then any statement about what defines a man is, inherently, a statement about what defines a woman.…
@Paul_Ilett
I think you're mistaken, Paul. I think it has everything to do with the radical gender-identity movement. Unlike the gay movement, the trans/gender-identity movement: threatens women, harms children, attempts to compel speech, invades women's sports, and is deeply nonsensical.
@JamJarJinx
@inmyownfashion2
More to the point, the people at New York magazine are actually saying that the highest paid female CEO in America will not be recognized, because a guy who says he's a woman is getting her recognition instead.
I wonder how that unmentioned female CEO feels about that.
@MarkRuffalo
On the other hand:
It is certainly true that fossil fuels have done more to lift more people out of crushing poverty and into security and comfort than any other energy source.
That's why it would be evil -- seriously -- to prohibit the poor world from doing the same.
@CNN
What ID documents show "gender identity?"
"Sex" is indicated on official documents -- drivers' licenses, passports, etc. Their documents should show that they're male.
Because they're male.
@althiaraj
@TorontoStar
Sorry, but no. As a parent, I consider it not only my right but my duty and obligation to know what choices my children are making to know as much as possible about any decisions they're making that might impact their long-term wellbeing.
If my children were to express such deep…
@paulkrugman
The largest racial demographic in Macon, GA consists of black Americans. Unfortunately, black Americans have a statistically very high per capita rate of violent crime compared to other demographics.
That's something we should be talking about, but aren't.
@HelenWebberley
Silly post. If the good dr. were correct, there would be no justification for men's and women's sports being separate categories.
But she isn't correct. Size, strength, and robustness matter quite a lot in many sports, and so women are spared competing against male advantage.
@Lawrence
If you're arguing that Biden is capable of doing the job, you must ignore his rambling, incoherent, angry, evasive responses to the handful of unscripted questions that make it past his handlers, and the cheat sheets he needs during his rare exposure to a fawning WH press.
@jk_rowling
Ms. Rowling,
I've never read your books, so they weren't transformative for me. My six kids read them, but they're honestly more into Tolkien. I barely know the main characters of your works.
But you won me over with your clarity and bravery on this issue.
Thank you,
Hank
@PeterTatchell
"Just as real." Just not objectively measurable, not determined by any known biological mechanism, inclined to change as one grows up, and, in cases of gender-nonconformity, often comorbid with several other emotional/psychological pathologies.
But otherwise, yeah. Just as real.
@IlhanMN
"an end to the bombardment of Gaza"
Can we first call for an end to the bombardment of Israel?
Thousands of rockets have been launched from Gaza into Israel, without warning, without direction, merely in hopes of killing Israelis. This has been going on for many years.
Will…
@OwenJones84
I have a hard time taking such statistics seriously, given that I've been accused of "hate" merely for politely expressing skepticism -- in fact, merely for politely asking questions.
I think "hate" is being overused as a way of silencing criticism.
A pretty good argument can be made (and has been made) that gender ideology is much closer to a religion than to anything else.
It has a creed which orthodox followers must express to avoid being cast out. Those who don't embrace its creed are attacked and insulted. Those who…
@TPostMillennial
Will we also put "barriers" on the soccer field and basketball court, to protect the female players from bigger, stronger, faster, more robust male competitors giving them concussions and broken bones?
@stephenwhittle
If your precondition for having a conversation about a disputed belief is that your interlocutor must first accept your position regarding that disputed belief, there's not much point in having that conversation.
So, no. How about we all just use the words we believe to reflect…
@ShaykhSulaiman
The man in question was almost certainly complicit in the criminal misuse of the hospital he operated as a militant Hamas facility. By all means hold him accountable. The sooner jihadists learn that they can not operate from protected civilian facilities, the better.
@KamalaHarris
This violence occurs disproportionately in our large cities and is associated with gang violence.
The Defund the Police movement which your party endorsed and supported is significantly responsible for the increase in urban violence.
Let's start enforcing existing laws.
@BritishVogue
He is welcome to compete in the men's category, as is appropriate for male who went through male puberty and so has, in general, the lasting physical advantages that conveys.
@kevinnbass
Pretty much a how-to guide if one's mission is to destroy any faith in "experts."
I sometimes think that renewed skepticism is the only good thing to have come out of the coronavirus experience.
@WalkerBragman
I like that you ignore both that he was savaged and censored, and that history has demonstrated that he and the very impressive collection of epidemiologists and other medical experts who joined him were almost certainly correct.
But smear away, if you think that works.
@DrLoupis
Man, I must have missed the story of Ukrainian terrorists murdering 1,400 Russian men, women, children, and infants in a surprise terrorist attack prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The point of adding the redundant "cis" prefix is to imply that it isn't in fact redundant -- that there are "other" kinds of "women" that aren't "cis women."
But there aren't. There is only one kind of woman, and that's the female kind. Those who say otherwise are trying to…
@PeteButtigieg
Mr. Buttigieg doesn't understand the difference between discriminating against a class of people for inherent and immutable characteristics, on the one hand, and declining to participate in activities one finds morally objectionable, on the other.
I approve of the S.C. decision.
Israel is attacking Hamas in Gaza. It's destroying an enormous amount of real estate, because Hamas is dug into the civil fabric of Gaza. A lot of innocent civilians are endangered, because Hamas uses them as shields despite IDF warnings that attacks are imminent.
What is not…
Two of the most abused words in the English language today are "tolerance" and "diversity."
Tolerance isn't professing support for, belief in, or approval of a thing. It's allowing it, refraining from abusing those who practice it, being civil toward it.
(cont'd)
The gender-identity movement is the first instance of which I'm aware in which public institutions are explicitly instructed to conspire with children to withhold information from their parents.
This ideology must be exposed, rebuked, and utterly defeated.
@JustMisogyny
I love the "random guesses" part, as if there's just no clue whether we're talking to a male or a female, so all we can do is take a shot in the dark.
Meanwhile, essentially every human being uncontaminated by such nonsense knows, almost all the time, whether they're dealing…
@RayAlexWilliams
What does a real solution not look like:
It doesn't look like forcing everyone to pretend that the male's fantasy is reality, that the man should be given access to women's spaces, and that women should accept the consequences of that.
@OccupyDemocrats
Paramore actually has at least one song I like.
But there's a reason I don't generally look to rock stars for political insight, thoughtfulness, and wisdom.
Meanwhile, I am enthusiastic about DeSantis, and suspect he'll weather Ms. Williams criticisms without too much trouble.
@CNN
Well it's a cinch that no woman will ever win the Mr. Universe competition, given the huge advantage males enjoy.
So this is good. Men get to take over another domain previously the province of women.
Keep it up and all that will be left is the kitchen and bedroom. Bravo, boys!
@AriDrennen
Another set of people (and I'm in this set) will say that the word "woman" serves necessary functions relating to biological sex, and that including biological males in the category "woman" will leave us without a ready term with which to make those distinctions.
So what will…
@mushycrouton
Your comment is an excellent example of how gender movement activists try to silence discussion and cancel people rather than attempt to defend their incoherent and ultimately harmful ideology.
@JeremyShawMD
2/2
should not use the term.
The effect (and, I suspect, the intent) of the use of "cis" is to convey the mistaken view that "trans" is just as "normal" as non-trans. There's "cis" and "trans" and it's all great.
In fact, I think there's normal and there's gender-confused.
@sally_hines
I doubt
@Docstockk
is really motivated by a desire to offend as an end in itself. Rather, I suspect she believes that our freedom to express ideas others may disagree agree with or, yes, even find offensive, is essential to human flourishing.
If that's so, I passionately agree.
@jk_rowling
Ma'am, I listened to the seven-part podcast of your interview with Ms. Phelps-Roper recently. I thought you came across as the adult in the room, entirely reasonable, humane, compassionate, and sensible.
Well done.
@AbbyMartin
Perhaps if these same doctors (assuming it isn't a staged event, which is entirely plausible) had objected to Hamas locating weapons stores and military facilities underneath hospitals in Gaza, hospitals wouldn't be at risk of being destroyed either by Israeli bombing or Hamas…
What struck me as fundamentally wrong about the U.S. response to COVID:
We all knew the names of the medical decision makers, but policy isn't a purely medical decision. And there were no equally prominent people defending personal freedom, economic liberty, education, etc.
1/2
@mehdirhasan
The only video I've seen certainly looks like Hamas accidentally dropped a rocket on the hospital -- just as the IDF claims.
Of course, if Hamas would surrender, the shooting would immediately stop.
#BREAKING
: Reports suggest that the mass casualty event at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City was the result of a misfired rocket launch by Hamas.
No IDF air activity was reported at the time and the timing coincided with a salvo of rockets launched at Israel.
Reminder: 30-40%…
@MorayCouncil
The kids will probably enjoy it. Having said that, I don't understand why caricaturing women seems like a good idea.
Will we be doing this with other identifiable groups as well? Chinese? Mexican? Blacks? The elderly?
I'm sure we could make that funny too.
@TaylorAdvocate
@lottelydia
Exactly, Taylor.
And if we wish to call gluing oneself to the floor a kind of expression, then do it in a way that doesn't prevent others from having the same right of expression.
In fact, the young lady's goal was to prevent speech from taking place.
@ReduxxMag
Put differently (and more accurately):
"I'm more a woman than any TERF will ever be because I imagine I'm a woman and they were just born female."
@DailyCaller
Wonderful! I just payed for Twitter Blue, and this makes me even happier with my decision.
Honestly, I wish more folks on the left were willing to participate on a level playing field, but, shoot, if I believed the things they believe I'd probably be afraid of free speech too.
@JZachreson
I'm rarely in favor of invoking lawyers to settle disputes, but I'd be delighted to read that the officious and intolerant little wannabe dictator who keeps asking the speakers to leave ends up embroiling his institution in an expensive bit of free-speech litigation.
@RonniNicole1
I have to say though, it's nice to see a "trans" person actually competing in the appropriate class for his or her sex. I'm tired of the trans women competing against actual women.
@johncusack
I don't know if any of those statements are true, but let's suppose they are.
How many jobs has Elon Musk created?
How many jobs as Jeff Bezos created?
How many jobs has Mark Zuckerberg created?
And how much tax revenues do all those jobs create?
---
As it happens, I like the…
@BuckAngel
Very sad.
Boyfriends don't get pregnant. We understand what the writer is trying to say, but this is a man-kills-pregnant-woman story, and when we pretend it isn't we distort the statistics (and the truth) about crime, and that really doesn't serve anyone well.
It's time to become serious people again.
> There are two sexes, trans hurts kids and women, and the gender identity movement is ridiculous.
> Israel is a civilized country, and has a right to exist in peace. Hamas is barbaric; too many Muslims share its barbaric views --…
It is nearly impossible to find anyone in the gender identity camp willing to have a civil discussion.
The new[ish] rhetorical technique is to accuse anyone who asks to have a civil discussion as being disingenuous.
So I wonder what they imagine is left, once they've defined…
@CatrionaMelvil1
@rizpossnett
I know I'm a really old-school feminist (and just an old feminist, frankly), but I don't think women have to look a particular way or sit a particular way in order to be real women.
It's a science-y, biology kind of thing. It has to do with gamete production. Not the haircut.
@paulkrugman
Invoking the non-disprovable "systemic racism" claim is politically advantageous for those who want to divide the electorate, but it has the bad side-effect of distracting us from a real crisis in primary and secondary education, urban family breakdown, crime, and violence.
@AnnelieseDodds
I'm a little confused.
Is "conversion therapy" when we kind of convert a little boy into a little girl by giving him drugs that prevent his penis, bones, and muscles from developing normally, and then eventually amputate his now-reduced genitalia and fashion an artificial…
"Trans" is dug in like a tick and it won't go quickly, but I think it's peaked. As the most inane yet tragic farce to grip popular culture in living memory, it can't die quickly enough for me. But I do think it's dying.
You surgeons who amputate the healthy breasts and genitalia…
@BBCNews
I am seeing a lot of these rallies.
Has anyone see large public vigils to honor and mourn the Israelis butchered by Hamas last week? Anywhere?
@kelly_cadigan
It's been suggested (correctly, I think) that Dylan Mulvaney is just an actor cynically using the trans fad for status and money. Clearly it worked for him -- at least until he blew up Bud.
Not saying Kelly's doing the same thing, but it's as plausible as any other explanation.
Why do I stand with Israel?
Here's the short answer. Israel is a nation that embodies western values of freedom, tolerance, respect for the individual, and diversity.
Since literally their first day they have been the target of people who hate Jews and want to see them…
@shoshanahjacobs
I think the vast majority of people are opposed to hate.
It is possible to disagree, even about passionately held beliefs, without hating anyone. Portraying issues about which many people disagree as conflicts between good people and hateful people is a divisive rhetorical…
@mehdirhasan
"It’s been a day and I still can’t quite get over...." -- Mehdi
That is odd, considering that it took you no time at all to get over the atrocities committed on Saturday.
@emmapowell68
@MarkRuffalo
What is fascism? It's an extremist authoritarian ideology characterized by a significant suppression of individual autonomy in favor of state control and the prioritizing of ruling authority over individual rights and liberties.
Trans-advocate: A person is trans is when that person's gender identity doesn't match the sex assigned at birth.
Old Swiss Army Proverb: When the map and the terrain disagree, trust the terrain.
I occasionally read people expressing surprise that, all of a sudden, this gender thing is a big deal, when it really never was in the past.
I think the issues stem mostly from four aspects of the modern "trans" movement:
1. The recent insistence that men should gain access to…
@guardian
Yes. And there's so much more for us to worry about than child abuse, too, or drunk driving, or homelessness, or addiction and suicide.
There are so many things to worry about.
But if we keep men out of women's safe spaces, at least we can worry less about predators and abuse.
@outsidemagazine
I subscribed to Outside many years ago, and enjoyed the magazine then.
No, Outside, banning men from competing against women in women-only events isn't an insult to any women. It isn't even an insult to the men who are such poor sports as to be willing to compete against women.…
After having been called a Nazi more times than I can count, recent events have convinced me that, whatever the left's objection to Nazis, it isn't the Jew-hating part.
@NBCNews
I'll bet most of that 70% didn't use the phrase "sex assigned at birth." I bet most simply said "their sex," recognizing that sex is binary and immutable, and that in almost every instance we correctly figure out to which of the two sexes any particular newborn belongs.
@MeghanEMurphy
This is clearly the case, Meghan. Gays and lesbians could make a clear and sympathetic case that they're simply trying to live a full life of dignity alongside the rest of us.
The trans activists demand that we nullify the concept of "woman." They also mess up our kids.
I like what she's done with her hair.
But, yeah, I think she botched COVID, like the rest of the approved "experts" who were too proud and insecure to tolerate opposing viewpoints, even from such qualified people as
@DrJBhattacharya
and the other Great Barrington Dec. authors.
@WhiteHouse
Benefits everybody? Hurts nobody?
Then how about the government "forgive" all of our home mortgages, too. Just dump them on the taxpayers. Because that's what student loan "forgiveness" does.
Oh, by the way: Will we keep giving out student loans, now that the government is…
@HillaryClinton
And our urban communities deserve adequate policing, because that's actually where most of the gun violence is happening.
Unfortunately, your party backs the "defund the police" movement, which has led to increased crime -- including homicide -- nationwide.
How about focusing…