Abortion access in the US continues to be challenged in multiple states. Some legislators use bills to end trans medicine as vehicle to limit abortion access
I was a bit surprised to read your final comment. I agree with much of it – our civil liberties are being restricted in frightening ways.
However, your take on our migrant issue is one I disagree with. The UK takes far less migrants than other European countries but makes a lot more fuss about it. Migrants can and do make hugely positive contributions in our society and should be welcomed (in other countries with a much larger influx of migrants, they are welcomed and celebrated and there is far less trouble).
In the UK, the government and media deliberately foment hatred amongst the Daily Mail-reading public and those who are incapable of critical thinking. It is a perennial political football. It is not the migrants who are the main problem - it is, as usual, our leaders and opinion formers.
Of course, in every community of people, there are going to be bad apples, but it is our countries who cause the trouble in the countries they come from and so, on the one hand, we reap what we sow, but on the other, it is our duty to help those affected, most of whom are just ordinary individuals who have suffered terribly and deserve our empathy and support.
> "... Sororities are free to induct whomever they want, including <strike>transgender sisters</strike> MEN. ...."
👍😉🙂 Time to start calling a spade an effen shovel. That too many of the "main(lame)-stream" media insist on doing otherwise is even more reason to correct them where and whenever we are able to.
Somewhat apropos of which, and in a note from our sponsor ..., my open letter to several "journalists" at the NYTimes who have insisted on referring to feminine males as "transgender girls” and “transgender female athletes”:
While it's somewhat debatable as to exactly what it takes to qualify as male and female -- particularly as many feminists of various stripes, and even various so-called biologists & philosophers, balk at the logical implications of the definitions in reputable biological journals and in Trump's EO -- what isn't at all debatable is that there are two, count 'em two, basic human, and mammalian, "design" plans organized around having either ovaries (females) or testicles (males). There is simply no way in gawd's green earth that anyone born with either type is going "transition" to the other sex by acquiring the other type. Which is what would be required to actually change sex (when pigs fly, and to the moon ....) -- at least one thing that evolutionary "biologist" Colin Wright gets right, more or less in any case:
But "brute facts" don't get much more "brutish" than the fact, the rather astounding phenomenon, that people produce either "large reproductive cells" (females) or "small reproductive cells" (males) -- as Trump's EO puts it. The brute fact of the matter is that we exhibit either of two profoundly distinct processes of either oogenesis (females) or spermatogenesis (males). And ain't no case EVER of someone "designed to produce" one type eventually going on to produce the other type:
Ergo, absolutely no one EVER changes sex. A medical and biological impossibility. A crime and medical scandal of the century that a bunch of so-called doctors are tricking autistic and dysphoric children into "thinking" that that is possible. Should be hell to pay for that at least; a bunch of so-called doctors, their fellow-travelers, and "enablers" should all be strung up by their nuts, or reasonable facsimiles, and left to twist in the wind -- figuratively speaking, of course ....
I was a bit surprised to read your final comment. I agree with much of it – our civil liberties are being restricted in frightening ways.
However, your take on our migrant issue is one I disagree with. The UK takes far less migrants than other European countries but makes a lot more fuss about it. Migrants can and do make hugely positive contributions in our society and should be welcomed (in other countries with a much larger influx of migrants, they are welcomed and celebrated and there is far less trouble).
In the UK, the government and media deliberately foment hatred amongst the Daily Mail-reading public and those who are incapable of critical thinking. It is a perennial political football. It is not the migrants who are the main problem - it is, as usual, our leaders and opinion formers.
Of course, in every community of people, there are going to be bad apples, but it is our countries who cause the trouble in the countries they come from and so, on the one hand, we reap what we sow, but on the other, it is our duty to help those affected, most of whom are just ordinary individuals who have suffered terribly and deserve our empathy and support.
https://www.menonpause.info/p/to-be-adored-to-be-respected-to-be
> "... Sororities are free to induct whomever they want, including <strike>transgender sisters</strike> MEN. ...."
👍😉🙂 Time to start calling a spade an effen shovel. That too many of the "main(lame)-stream" media insist on doing otherwise is even more reason to correct them where and whenever we are able to.
Somewhat apropos of which, and in a note from our sponsor ..., my open letter to several "journalists" at the NYTimes who have insisted on referring to feminine males as "transgender girls” and “transgender female athletes”:
https://humanuseofhumanbeings.substack.com/p/open-letters-ideological-capture
Likewise a shot at another "journalist" at Slate who seems to "think" that it's possible to “transition from one sex to another”:
https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/heres-my-exchange-with-slates-mark (not currently pay-walled)
While it's somewhat debatable as to exactly what it takes to qualify as male and female -- particularly as many feminists of various stripes, and even various so-called biologists & philosophers, balk at the logical implications of the definitions in reputable biological journals and in Trump's EO -- what isn't at all debatable is that there are two, count 'em two, basic human, and mammalian, "design" plans organized around having either ovaries (females) or testicles (males). There is simply no way in gawd's green earth that anyone born with either type is going "transition" to the other sex by acquiring the other type. Which is what would be required to actually change sex (when pigs fly, and to the moon ....) -- at least one thing that evolutionary "biologist" Colin Wright gets right, more or less in any case:
https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/1240781010800979968
But "brute facts" don't get much more "brutish" than the fact, the rather astounding phenomenon, that people produce either "large reproductive cells" (females) or "small reproductive cells" (males) -- as Trump's EO puts it. The brute fact of the matter is that we exhibit either of two profoundly distinct processes of either oogenesis (females) or spermatogenesis (males). And ain't no case EVER of someone "designed to produce" one type eventually going on to produce the other type:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oogenesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatogenesis
Ergo, absolutely no one EVER changes sex. A medical and biological impossibility. A crime and medical scandal of the century that a bunch of so-called doctors are tricking autistic and dysphoric children into "thinking" that that is possible. Should be hell to pay for that at least; a bunch of so-called doctors, their fellow-travelers, and "enablers" should all be strung up by their nuts, or reasonable facsimiles, and left to twist in the wind -- figuratively speaking, of course ....