Hungary bans the legal recognition of Trans. J.K Rowling Defends
Biological Sex Again, Gets Hate Again
Newsletter published on June 11, 2020
(1) J.K Rowling Defends Biological Sex Again, Gets Hate Again
(2) J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and
Gender Issues
(3) Hungary bans the legal recognition of Trans
(4) Sex differences in personality remain even in Feminist countries
(5) Female Athletes File Federal Lawsuit to Prevent Transgender
Participation
(6) Record number of Trans athletes at Tokyo Olympics
(7) LGBTQ activists condition school children as young as six to accept
LGBTQ ideology
(1) J.K Rowling Defends Biological Sex Again, Gets Hate Again
By Paul Bois
Jun 7th, 2020 DailyWire.com
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has taken another round of heat for
her anti-transgender stance, something she has remained steadfast about
for over a year now.
In a Twitter post on Saturday, the acclaimed author essentially said
that the concept of transgenderism erases the struggles of women across
the world.
"If sex isn’t real, there’s no same-sex attraction," Rowling tweeted, as
reported by Fox News. "If sex isn’t real, the lived reality of women
globally is erased. I know and love trans people, but erasing the
concept of sex removes the ability of many to meaningfully discuss their
lives. It isn’t hate to speak the truth."
"The idea that women like me, who’ve been empathetic to trans people for
decades, feeling kinship because they’re vulnerable in the same way as
women – ie, to male violence – ‘hate’ trans people because they think
sex is real and has lived consequences – is a nonsense," she continued.
In another tweet, J.K. Rowling shared an article from Devex that used
the phrase "people who menstruate" instead of the actual people who
menstruate, namely, women.
"‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a word for those
people. Someone help me out. Wumben? Wimpund? Woomud? Opinion: Creating
a more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate," she tweeted.
…
Rowling’s anti-trans stance makes her what leftists call a TERF – Trans
Exclusionary Radical Feminist. Naturally, leftists denounced her as a hater.
"The vast consensus of medical and other scientific experts validate
trans people and urge affirmation of us," tweeted Human Rights
Campaign’s Charlotte Clymer. "Your own country’s medical organizations
have said as much. You don’t love trans people, and you certainly don’t
care about us."
"I also want to remind everyone that when LGBTQ organizations generously
reached out to [Rowling] in December to discuss all this in a
collaborative setting, she refused to speak with them," added Clymer.
"I respect every trans person’s right to live any way that feels
authentic and comfortable to them. I’d march with you if you were
discriminated against on the basis of being trans," responded Rowling.
"At the same time, my life has been shaped by being female. I do not
believe it’s hateful to say so."
52.7K 9:16 AM - Jun 7, 2020 "You’re a smart person. How do you not yet
understand the difference between sex and gender? The only way I can
possibly explain your ignorance at this point is willfulness. It’s
incredibly disappointing," tweeted Brad Walsh.
As reported by The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti, Rowling was subject to a
cancel campaign last year when she came to the defense Maya Forstater, a
university professor who was stripped of her job after "tweeting that a
person cannot change their biological sex."
Rowling tweeted, "Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you
like. Sleep with any consenting adult who’ll have you. Live your best
life in peace and security. But force women out of their jobs for
stating that sex is real? #IStandWithMaya #ThisIsNotADrill."
(2) J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and
Gender Issues
10 JUNE 2020
J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender
Issues
Warning: This piece contains inappropriate language for children.
This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become
clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by
toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity.
For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for Maya
Forstater, a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed
‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal,
asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that sex is
determined by biology is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it
wasn’t.
My interest in trans issues pre-dated Maya’s case by almost two years,
during which I followed the debate around the concept of gender identity
closely. I’ve met trans people, and read sundry books, blogs and
articles by trans people, gender specialists, intersex people,
psychologists, safeguarding experts, social workers and doctors, and
followed the discourse online and in traditional media. On one level, my
interest in this issue has been professional, because I’m writing a
crime series, set in the present day, and my fictional female detective
is of an age to be interested in, and affected by, these issues herself,
but on another, it’s intensely personal, as I’m about to explain.
All the time I’ve been researching and learning, accusations and threats
from trans activists have been bubbling in my Twitter timeline. This was
initially triggered by a ‘like’. When I started taking an interest in
gender identity and transgender matters, I began screenshotting comments
that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to
research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly ‘liked’ instead of
screenshotting. That single ‘like’ was deemed evidence of wrongthink,
and a persistent low level of harassment began.
Months later, I compounded my accidental ‘like’ crime by following
Magdalen Burns on Twitter. Magdalen was an immensely brave young
feminist and lesbian who was dying of an aggressive brain tumour. I
followed her because I wanted to contact her directly, which I succeeded
in doing. However, as Magdalen was a great believer in the importance of
biological sex, and didn’t believe lesbians should be called bigots for
not dating trans women with penises, dots were joined in the heads of
twitter trans activists, and the level of social media abuse increased.
I mention all this only to explain that I knew perfectly well what was
going to happen when I supported Maya. I must have been on my fourth or
fifth cancellation by then. I expected the threats of violence, to be
told I was literally killing trans people with my hate, to be called
cunt and bitch and, of course, for my books to be burned, although one
particularly abusive man told me he’d composted them.
What I didn’t expect in the aftermath of my cancellation was the
avalanche of emails and letters that came showering down upon me, the
overwhelming majority of which were positive, grateful and supportive.
They came from a cross-section of kind, empathetic and intelligent
people, some of them working in fields dealing with gender dysphoria and
trans people, who’re all deeply concerned about the way a
socio-political concept is influencing politics, medical practice and
safeguarding. They’re worried about the dangers to young people, gay
people and about the erosion of women’s and girl’s rights. Above all,
they’re worried about a climate of fear that serves nobody – least of
all trans youth – well.
I’d stepped back from Twitter for many months both before and after
tweeting support for Maya, because I knew it was doing nothing good for
my mental health. I only returned because I wanted to share a free
children’s book during the pandemic. Immediately, activists who clearly
believe themselves to be good, kind and progressive people swarmed back
into my timeline, assuming a right to police my speech, accuse me of
hatred, call me misogynistic slurs and, above all – as every woman
involved in this debate will know – TERF.
If you didn’t already know – and why should you? – ‘TERF’ is an acronym
coined by trans activists, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical
Feminist. In practice, a huge and diverse cross-section of women are
currently being called TERFs and the vast majority have never been
radical feminists. Examples of so-called TERFs range from the mother of
a gay child who was afraid their child wanted to transition to escape
homophobic bullying, to a hitherto totally unfeminist older lady who’s
vowed never to visit Marks & Spencer again because they’re allowing any
man who says they identify as a woman into the women’s changing rooms.
Ironically, radical feminists aren’t even trans-exclusionary – they
include trans men in their feminism, because they were born women.
But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many
people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering
before the tactics of the playground. ‘They’ll call us transphobic!’
‘They’ll say I hate trans people!’ What next, they’ll say you’ve got
fleas? Speaking as a biological woman, a lot of people in positions of
power really need to grow a pair (which is doubtless literally possible,
according to the kind of people who argue that clownfish prove humans
aren’t a dimorphic species).
So why am I doing this? Why speak up? Why not quietly do my research and
keep my head down?
Well, I’ve got five reasons for being worried about the new trans
activism, and deciding I need to speak up.
Firstly, I have a charitable trust that focuses on alleviating social
deprivation in Scotland, with a particular emphasis on women and
children. Among other things, my trust supports projects for female
prisoners and for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. I also fund
medical research into MS, a disease that behaves very differently in men
and women. It’s been clear to me for a while that the new trans activism
is having (or is likely to have, if all its demands are met) a
significant impact on many of the causes I support, because it’s pushing
to erode the legal definition of sex and replace it with gender.
The second reason is that I’m an ex-teacher and the founder of a
children’s charity, which gives me an interest in both education and
safeguarding. Like many others, I have deep concerns about the effect
the trans rights movement is having on both.
The third is that, as a much-banned author, I’m interested in freedom of
speech and have publicly defended it, even unto Donald Trump.
The fourth is where things start to get truly personal. I’m concerned
about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also
about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning
to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in
some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their
fertility. Some say they decided to transition after realising they were
same-sex attracted, and that transitioning was partly driven by
homophobia, either in society or in their families.
Most people probably aren’t aware – I certainly wasn’t, until I started
researching this issue properly – that ten years ago, the majority of
people wanting to transition to the opposite sex were male. That ratio
has now reversed. The UK has experienced a 4400% increase in girls being
referred for transitioning treatment. Autistic girls are hugely
overrepresented in their numbers.
The same phenomenon has been seen in the US. In 2018, American
physician and researcher Lisa Littman set out to explore it. In an
interview, she said:
‘Parents online were describing a very unusual pattern of
transgender-identification where multiple friends and even entire friend
groups became transgender-identified at the same time. I would have been
remiss had I not considered social contagion and peer influences as
potential factors.’
Littman mentioned Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram and YouTube as contributing
factors to Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria, where she believes that in the
realm of transgender identification ‘youth have created particularly
insular echo chambers.’
Her paper caused a furore. She was accused of bias and of spreading
misinformation about transgender people, subjected to a tsunami of abuse
and a concerted campaign to discredit both her and her work. The journal
took the paper offline and re-reviewed it before republishing it.
However, her career took a similar hit to that suffered by Maya
Forstater. Lisa Littman had dared challenge one of the central tenets of
trans activism, which is that a person’s gender identity is innate, like
sexual orientation. Nobody, the activists insisted, could ever be
persuaded into being trans.
The argument of many current trans activists is that if you don’t let a
gender dysphoric teenager transition, they will kill themselves. In an
article explaining why he resigned from the Tavistock (an NHS gender
clinic in England) psychiatrist Marcus Evans stated that claims that
children will kill themselves if not permitted to transition do not
‘align substantially with any robust data or studies in this area. Nor
do they align with the cases I have encountered over decades as a
psychotherapist.’
The writings of young trans men reveal a group of notably sensitive and
clever people. The more of their accounts of gender dysphoria I’ve
read, with their insightful descriptions of anxiety, dissociation,
eating disorders, self-harm and self-hatred, the more I’ve wondered
whether, if I’d been born 30 years later, I too might have tried to
transition. The allure of escaping womanhood would have been huge. I
struggled with severe OCD as a teenager. If I’d found community and
sympathy online that I couldn’t find in my immediate environment, I
believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my
father had openly said he’d have preferred.
When I read about the theory of gender identity, I remember how mentally
sexless I felt in youth. I remember Colette’s description of herself as
a ‘mental hermaphrodite’ and Simone de Beauvoir’s words: ‘It is
perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the
limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she
should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts
them.’
As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the
1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental
health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so
many girls to war against their bodies in their teens. Fortunately for
me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a
woman, reflected in the work of female writers and musicians who
reassured me that, in spite of everything a sexist world tries to throw
at the female-bodied, it’s fine not to feel pink, frilly and compliant
inside your own head; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and
non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.
I want to be very clear here: I know transition will be a solution for
some gender dysphoric people, although I’m also aware through extensive
research that studies have consistently shown that between 60-90% of
gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria. Again and again
I’ve been told to ‘just meet some trans people.’ I have: in addition to
a few younger people, who were all adorable, I happen to know a
self-described transsexual woman who’s older than I am and wonderful.
Although she’s open about her past as a gay man, I’ve always found it
hard to think of her as anything other than a woman, and I believe (and
certainly hope) she’s completely happy to have transitioned. Being
older, though, she went through a long and rigorous process of
evaluation, psychotherapy and staged transformation. The current
explosion of trans activism is urging a removal of almost all the robust
systems through which candidates for sex reassignment were once required
to pass. A man who intends to have no surgery and take no hormones may
now secure himself a Gender Recognition Certificate and be a woman in
the sight of the law. Many people aren’t aware of this.
We’re living through the most misogynistic period I’ve experienced. Back
in the 80s, I imagined that my future daughters, should I have any,
would have it far better than I ever did, but between the backlash
against feminism and a porn-saturated online culture, I believe things
have got significantly worse for girls. Never have I seen women
denigrated and dehumanised to the extent they are now. From the leader
of the free world’s long history of sexual assault accusations and his
proud boast of ‘grabbing them by the pussy’, to the incel
(‘involuntarily celibate’) movement that rages against women who won’t
give them sex, to the trans activists who declare that TERFs need
punching and re-educating, men across the political spectrum seem to
agree: women are asking for trouble. Everywhere, women are being told to
shut up and sit down, or else.
I’ve read all the arguments about femaleness not residing in the sexed
body, and the assertions that biological women don’t have common
experiences, and I find them, too, deeply misogynistic and regressive.
It’s also clear that one of the objectives of denying the importance of
sex is to erode what some seem to see as the cruelly segregationist idea
of women having their own biological realities or – just as threatening
– unifying realities that make them a cohesive political class. The
hundreds of emails I’ve received in the last few days prove this erosion
concerns many others just as much. It isn’t enough for women to be
trans allies. Women must accept and admit that there is no material
difference between trans women and themselves.
But, as many women have said before me, ‘woman’ is not a costume.
‘Woman’ is not an idea in a man’s head. ‘Woman’ is not a pink brain, a
liking for Jimmy Choos or any of the other sexist ideas now somehow
touted as progressive. Moreover, the ‘inclusive’ language that calls
female people ‘menstruators’ and ‘people with vulvas’ strikes many women
as dehumanising and demeaning. I understand why trans activists consider
this language to be appropriate and kind, but for those of us who’ve had
degrading slurs spat at us by violent men, it’s not neutral, it’s
hostile and alienating.
Which brings me to the fifth reason I’m deeply concerned about the
consequences of the current trans activism.
I’ve been in the public eye now for over twenty years and have never
talked publicly about being a domestic abuse and sexual assault
survivor. This isn’t because I’m ashamed those things happened to me,
but because they’re traumatic to revisit and remember. I also feel
protective of my daughter from my first marriage. I didn’t want to claim
sole ownership of a story that belongs to her, too. However, a short
while ago, I asked her how she’d feel if I were publicly honest about
that part of my life, and she encouraged me to go ahead.
I’m mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy,
but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories
like mine, who’ve been slurred as bigots for having concerns around
single-sex spaces.
I managed to escape my first violent marriage with some difficulty, but
I’m now married to a truly good and principled man, safe and secure in
ways I never in a million years expected to be. However, the scars left
by violence and sexual assault don’t disappear, no matter how loved you
are, and no matter how much money you’ve made. My perennial jumpiness is
a family joke – and even I know it’s funny – but I pray my daughters
never have the same reasons I do for hating sudden loud noises, or
finding people behind me when I haven’t heard them approaching.
If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read
about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you’d find
solidarity and kinship. I have a visceral sense of the terror in which
those trans women will have spent their last seconds on earth, because I
too have known moments of blind fear when I realised that the only thing
keeping me alive was the shaky self-restraint of my attacker.
I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero
threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I’ve outlined.
Trans people need and deserve protection. Like women, they’re most
likely to be killed by sexual partners. Trans women who work in the sex
industry, particularly trans women of colour, are at particular risk.
Like every other domestic abuse and sexual assault survivor I know, I
feel nothing but empathy and solidarity with trans women who’ve been
abused by men.
So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to
make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of
bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a
woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be
granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the
door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.
On Saturday morning, I read that the Scottish government is proceeding
with its controversial gender recognition plans, which will in effect
mean that all a man needs to ‘become a woman’ is to say he’s one. To use
a very contemporary word, I was ‘triggered’. Ground down by the
relentless attacks from trans activists on social media, when I was only
there to give children feedback about pictures they’d drawn for my book
under lockdown, I spent much of Saturday in a very dark place inside my
head, as memories of a serious sexual assault I suffered in my twenties
recurred on a loop. That assault happened at a time and in a space where
I was vulnerable, and a man capitalised on an opportunity. I couldn’t
shut out those memories and I was finding it hard to contain my anger
and disappointment about the way I believe my government is playing fast
and loose with womens and girls’ safety.
Late on Saturday evening, scrolling through children’s pictures before I
went to bed, I forgot the first rule of Twitter – never, ever expect a
nuanced conversation – and reacted to what I felt was degrading language
about women. I spoke up about the importance of sex and have been paying
the price ever since. I was transphobic, I was a cunt, a bitch, a TERF,
I deserved cancelling, punching and death. You are Voldemort said one
person, clearly feeling this was the only language I’d understand.
It would be so much easier to tweet the approved hashtags – because of
course trans rights are human rights and of course trans lives matter –
scoop up the woke cookies and bask in a virtue-signalling afterglow.
There’s joy, relief and safety in conformity. As Simone de Beauvoir also
wrote, "… without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage
than to work for one’s liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to
the earth than the living."
Huge numbers of women are justifiably terrified by the trans activists;
I know this because so many have got in touch with me to tell their
stories. They’re afraid of doxxing, of losing their jobs or their
livelihoods, and of violence.
But endlessly unpleasant as its constant targeting of me has been, I
refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable
harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and
offering cover to predators like few before it. I stand alongside the
brave women and men, gay, straight and trans, who’re standing up for
freedom of speech and thought, and for the rights and safety of some of
the most vulnerable in our society: young gay kids, fragile teenagers,
and women who’re reliant on and wish to retain their single sex spaces.
Polls show those women are in the vast majority, and exclude only those
privileged or lucky enough never to have come up against male violence
or sexual assault, and who’ve never troubled to educate themselves on
how prevalent it is.
The one thing that gives me hope is that the women who can protest and
organise, are doing so, and they have some truly decent men and trans
people alongside them. Political parties seeking to appease the loudest
voices in this debate are ignoring women’s concerns at their peril. In
the UK, women are reaching out to each other across party lines,
concerned about the erosion of their hard-won rights and widespread
intimidation. None of the gender critical women I’ve talked to hates
trans people; on the contrary. Many of them became interested in this
issue in the first place out of concern for trans youth, and they’re
hugely sympathetic towards trans adults who simply want to live their
lives, but who’re facing a backlash for a brand of activism they don’t
endorse. The supreme irony is that the attempt to silence women with the
word ‘TERF’ may have pushed more young women towards radical feminism
than the movement’s seen in decades.
The last thing I want to say is this. I haven’t written this essay in
the hope that anybody will get out a violin for me, not even a
teeny-weeny one. I’m extraordinarily fortunate; I’m a survivor,
certainly not a victim. I’ve only mentioned my past because, like every
other human being on this planet, I have a complex backstory, which
shapes my fears, my interests and my opinions. I never forget that inner
complexity when I’m creating a fictional character and I certainly never
forget it when it comes to trans people.
All I’m asking – all I want – is for similar empathy, similar
understanding, to be extended to the many millions of women whose sole
crime is wanting their concerns to be heard without receiving threats
and abuse.
(3) Hungary bans the legal recognition of Trans
Hungary bans legal recognition of its transgender citizens
By Associated PressMay 20, 2020 | 10:04am
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation
banning the legal recognition of transgender citizens.
Amendments to the law on the birth, death and marriage registry,
approved mostly by deputies from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz
party, will prevent transgender or intersex people from legally changing
their gender to match their gender identity.
The bill changes the "sex" category in official documents like birth
certificates to "sex at birth," defined as the "biological sex
determined by primary sex characteristics and chromosomes." Once
determined, the birth sex category can’t be changed.
The amendments were part of a large legislative package submitted by
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjen, head of the Christian Democratic party.
"Given that the complete change of the biological sex is not possible,
it is necessary to state in law that there is no possibility to change
it in the registry of births, marriages and deaths, either," an
explanation accompanying the amendment said.
The legislation has come under strong criticism from rights groups,
which are asking Hungary’s president to refrain from signing the bill
into law and send it for review to the Constitutional Court.
Among those expressing concerns about the legislation were the European
Parliament, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Council of
Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights and the Hungarian Psychological
Society.
"This decision pushes Hungary back toward the dark ages and tramples the
rights of transgender and intersex people," Amnesty International
Hungary international researcher Krisztina Tamas-Saroy said in a
statement. "It will not only expose them to further discrimination but
will also deepen an already intolerant and hostile environment faced by
the LGBTI community.
"Everyone’s gender identity should be legally recognized and everyone
must be allowed to change their legal name and gender markers on all
official documents."
Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights,
earlier asked Hungary’s Parliament to reject the amendments, calling on
authorities to "ensure that transgender people have access to
expeditious and transparent procedures for changing their names and
gender or sex in the civil registry and on identity cards, passports,
educational certificates and other similar documents."
In 2018, the Orban government, which sees Muslim immigrants as a threat
to Christian culture in Europe, withdrew state funding from gender
studies programs and removed official accreditation for masters degrees
in the discipline.
(4) Sex differences in personality remain even in Feminist countries
Sorry, Western feminists, but women want to be women: In gender-equal
societies females diverge from males even more
22 May, 2020 07:07 /
By Peter Andrews, Irish science journalist and writer based in London.
He has a background in the life sciences, and graduated from the
University of Glasgow with a degree in genetics
A major study of almost 350,000 people in 48 countries shows that sex
differences in personality are higher in countries with higher levels of
gender equality. The feminists were wrong again – they ignore biology at
their peril.
Personality studies are one of the more fascinating fields of modern
psychology. They are not, however, a very ‘woke’ one. These studies
often find that women are higher in traits like Neuroticism and
Agreeableness than men; traits which may impact on career earnings.
Pointing this fact out was what got James Damore, author of the fabled
‘Google memo’, in so much trouble back in 2017.
And a new study published in the Journal of Personality, entitled: ‘Sex
Differences in HEXACO Personality Characteristics Across Countries and
Ethnicities’, is the latest to make for awkward reading for postmodern
university professors, militant feminists, and others who would deny the
facts of life. This study used a six-trait model known as HEXACO, which
stands for: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, eXtraversion, Agreeableness
(versus Anger), Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience.
In the study, 347,192 people filled out questionnaires in which they
ranked how strongly they agreed with statements such as "I like to watch
television" or "I often go for walks." The study took in data across
several years and from 48 countries, which were ranked by gender
equality using a blend of two metrics: the Gender Gap Index and the
Human Development Index.
Unsurprisingly, the Nordic countries come out on top in this index,
followed by Ireland, Switzerland and New Zealand. Down at the bottom are
bastions of political correctness like Kenya, Lebanon, India and, in
last place, Pakistan. Perhaps postmodern feminists should do some field
reporting in those countries to learn how we in the West can have more
male nurses and female engineers. I am certain we could spare some.
Emotional women, patient men
Lo and behold, this mammoth study replicated previous findings by
showing that women scored substantially higher than men in Emotionality
and Honesty-Humility. Furthermore, broken down at the national level,
the sex differences in Emotionality were larger in wealthy and
gender-egalitarian countries. Finally, as if to drive the final nail
into the coffin of the biology-deniers, the sex differences in
Emotionality showed little ethnic variation within English-speaking
countries. This means that the gender-equal societies were indeed the
thing driving the sex differences, rather than the presence of certain
non-native ethnic groups.
Emotionality is characterised by traits like anxiety, physical harm
avoidance, emotional attachment and sensitivity, and is thought to come
in handy for protecting children. It should not be surprising that women
are programmed to be higher than men in this trait; unless, that is, you
are woke. Although the greatest difference by far was in Emotionality,
there were other, smaller effects. Men scored higher in the sub-traits
of Patience and Prudence and Inquisitiveness, while women were higher in
Aesthetic Appreciation and Altruism.
The authors describe the key finding of the paper, that sex differences
are directly proportional to gender equality, as "counter-intuitive."
But it is only counter-intuitive if your intuitions are staunchly
postmodern, blank slate-ist and anti-scientific. A person whose
understanding of society goes beyond sociology (at least the postmodern
brand) and accepts the notion that biology plays any part at all,
realises that when you minimise one variable, you maximise the effect of
the other. So in an environment controlled with respect to gender
relations – such as a wealthy, egalitarian society – there is nothing
left to differentiate people’s lives but their inherent urges. In other
words, for both men and women, their biology takes over when they are
free to make their own decisions.
The wrong king of equality
As usual, the problem (if there is one) comes down to ‘equality of
opportunity’ versus ‘equality of outcome’. It used to be in the West
that women, black people and other ethnic groups really were obstructed
from going certain places and doing certain things. Throughout the 20th
century, but particularly in the 1960s, great advances were made in
doing away with these inequalities. There are now extensive laws on the
books to stop this discrimination – many of which arguably tread into
the territory of discrimination against ‘historically privileged’
groups, such as Appalachian hillbillies and ‘white’ Ashkenazi Jews.
But as has become increasingly apparent ever since, equality of
opportunity was not good enough for some activists (who ironically are
mostly middle-class university-educated people). These people could not
understand, or chose not to understand, why the utopia they envisioned
(which would be a dystopia to many) did not materialise. They thought
that allowing women to pursue careers if they so choose would, or
should, result in at least one woman and one ‘person of colour’ to each
‘white male’ in every position of power in every industry. Of course,
they are not concerned with the more run-of-the-mill positions, or
anything below Fortune-500 board level or US president.
Woke ‘intellectuals’ are eager to point out the difference between
gender and sex whenever they can. They claim that gender is a ‘social
construct’, whereas sex is simply a nasty process that has something to
do with genitalia. (Of course, despite being a social construct, gender
is also somehow all-important to these people, vastly more interesting,
variable and essential to a person’s identity than sex.) In any case,
here is a simple sentence that I offer up to sociology professors
everywhere to help their students remember the distinction: When gender
equality increases, sex differences do too.
(5) Female Athletes File Federal Lawsuit to Prevent Transgender
Participation
Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes
The families of three female high school runners filed a federal suit
seeking to block trans athletes in Connecticut from participating in
girls sports.
Feb. 13, 2020, 11:28 PM AEST
By Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. — The families of three female high school runners filed
a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block transgender athletes in
Connecticut from participating in girls sports.
Selina Soule, a senior at Glastonbury High School, Chelsea Mitchell, a
senior at Canton High School and Alanna Smith, a sophomore at Danbury
High School are represented by the conservative nonprofit organization
Alliance Defending Freedom. They argue that allowing athletes with male
anatomy to compete has deprived them of track titles and scholarship
opportunities.
"Mentally and physically, we know the outcome before the race even
starts," said Smith, who is the daughter of former Major League pitcher
Lee Smith. "That biological unfairness doesn't go away because of what
someone believes about gender identity. All girls deserve the chance to
compete on a level playing field."
The lawsuit was filed against the Connecticut Association of
Schools-Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and the boards
of education in Bloomfield, Cromwell, Glastonbury, Canton and Danbury.
"Forcing girls to be spectators in their own sports is completely at
odds with Title IX, a federal law designed to create equal opportunities
for women in education and athletics," attorney Christiana Holcomb said.
"Connecticut’s policy violates that law and reverses nearly 50 years of
advances for women."
The Connecticut Association of Schools-Connecticut Interscholastic
Athletic Conference says its policy follows a state anti-discrimination
law that says students must be treated in school by the gender with
which they identify and the group believes the policy is "appropriate
under both state and federal law."
The lawsuit follows a Title IX complaint filed last June by the girls'
families and the Alliance Defending Freedom with the U.S. Education
Department's Office for Civil Rights, which is investigating the policy.
The lawsuit centers on two transgender sprinters, Terry Miller and
Andraya Yearwood, who have frequently outperformed their cisgender
competitors.
The two seniors have combined to win 15 girls state indoor or outdoor
championship races since 2017, according to the lawsuit.
The three plaintiffs have competed directly against them, almost always
losing to Miller and usually behind Yearwood. Mitchell finished third in
the 2019 state championship in the girls 55-meter indoor track
competition behind Miller and Yearwood.
"Our dream is not to come in second or third place, but to win fair and
square," Mitchell said. "All we're asking for is a fair chance."
Yearwood, a senior at Cromwell High School, and Miller, a senior at
Bloomfield High School, issued statements vehemently defending their
right to run in girls events.
"I have faced discrimination in every aspect of my life and I no longer
want to remain silent," Miller said. "I am a girl and I am a runner. I
participate in athletics just like my peers to excel, find community,
and meaning in my life. It is both unfair and painful that my victories
have to be attacked and my hard work ignored."
Yearwood said she also is a girl and has been hurt by the efforts to
"tear down my successes."
"I will never stop being me!" she said in her statement. "I will never
stop running! I hope that the next generation of trans youth doesn't
have to fight the fights that I have. I hope they can be celebrated when
they succeed not demonized. For the next generation, I run for you!"
The American Civil Liberties Union said it will represent the
transgender teens and defend the Connecticut policy in court. Attorney
Chase Strangio, deputy director for Trans Justice with the ACLU LGBT &
HIV Project, said transgender girls also are protected by Title IX.
"The idea that the law only protects the individuals with XX chromosomes
as compared to individuals with XY chromosomes is found nowhere in the
legislative history of Title IX, in any implementing regulation or in
any other aspect of the interpretation of Title IX over the last 50
years by the courts," he said.
The attorneys for Alliance Defending Freedom is asking the court to
prevent the transgender girls from competing while the lawsuit moves
forward. No hearing date on that request had been scheduled Wednesday,
the day before the state's indoor track championships begin.
Connecticut is one of 17 states that allowed transgender high school
athletes to compete without restrictions in 2019, according to
Transathlete.com, which tracks state policies in high school sports
across the country. Eight states had restrictions that make it difficult
for transgender athletes to compete while in school, such requiring
athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate, or
allowing them to participate only after going through sex reassignment
procedures or hormone therapies, according to Transathlete.
Yearwood and Miller have said they are still in the process of
transitioning but have declined to provide details.
(6) Record number of Trans athletes at Tokyo Olympics
Aussie Olympian takes a stand against transgender athletes at Tokyo
2020 27/02/2020
BEN FORDHAM
With less than six months to go until Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Games are
under threat from all angles.
The coronavirus outbreak is threatening to move or maybe even postpone
the Games due to public health risks.
And, as Olympic qualifiers continue, it’s been revealed there will be a
record number of transgender athletes competing. There are particular
concerns about whether athletes who were born as men have an unfair
advantage in the women’s category.
Three-time Australian Olympian Tamsyn Lewis has spoken out against
transgender athletes being allowed to compete in the women’s category,
arguing it compromises the integrity of elite results.
The former track runner tells Ben Fordham, "people are scared to come
out and say anything because of political correctness".
"This is an issue that’s a really difficult issue. Not even the IOC can
come to the proper guidelines," says the three-time Commonwealth Games
gold medallist.
"It is politically charged and it’s a sensitive topic [but] if we don’t
make a stand, what’s going to happen to that female category of sport?"
Ben Fordham agrees and says it’s not about discriminating, it’s about
supporting women’s sports.
"That is the great fear here. It’s not about discouraging transgender
athletes, it’s about encouraging female athletes."
(7) LGBTQ activists condition school children as young as six to accept
LGBTQ ideology
LGBTQ activist transforming schools admits: "We’re training school
teachers to completely smash heteronormativity"
Caldron Pool
July 30, 2019
Elly Barnes, founder of Educate and Celebrate, describes her
organisation as a "charity" that "transforms schools" into
LGBTQ-friendly places.
According to Barnes, that means the organisation is "predominantly
training teachers" to be "confident in the language of gender identity
and sexual orientation."
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The goal is to make sure LGBTQ ideology is an "every-day occurrence
within the school." But the "bottom line," as Barnes puts it, is to
train teachers to "completely smash heteronormativity."
Sarah Hopson, a primary school teacher from Warrington, is a perfect
example. Last year, Hopson told the BBC she conditions school children
as young as six to accept LGBTQ ideology while they’re young and
impressionable, so they’ll be less likely to accept a Christian view of
sexuality later on in life.
"The more they can be accepting of ‘diversity’ at this age — you’re not
going to face it further on, because the children will be accepting now
and will be accepting this diversity around them," Hopson said.
One method Hopson employs is requiring her young pupils to write a gay
love letter from one male character to another male character. The
school has also adopted "non-gender-specific" uniforms.
Sadly, in many instances, these activists seem more passionate about
indoctrinating our children than we are about protecting and educating
them. We must be aware of what our kids are hearing in the classroom and
who’s training them. Because, as Jesus warned: "Every pupil when he is
fully trained will be like his teacher" (Luke 6:40). And these activists
know this well.
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