Is this another BudLight moment? Costa Coffee trivializes cutting girls breasts off.
They have stores in some of our largest metro areas. And it is the biggest coffee chain in Britain. Do what you think is appropriate.
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Trans Movement Unnecessary: The Road Not Taken
Eliza Mondegreen argues that the current conflict over trans rights was not inevitable but rather a result of the radical approach taken by the trans movement. She suggests that a more empathetic and understanding approach could have been more effective in winning people’s empathy.
She criticizes the trans movement for focusing on erasing sex in law and society, putting men in women’s prisons and boys in girls’ sports, and running unregulated medical experiments on gender-nonconforming children. These radical demands have led to an absurd and dystopian reality, and have put the trans movement on a collision course….
Reasonable accommodations for confused people could have been made. And still could be made. There is a strong constituency out there who are overwhelmingly sympathetic to the “reasonable accommodations” route, but empathy doesn’t mean submission or writing blank checks to the activist script.
Sometimes empathy sounds like “If I were a kid today, I would have transitioned, too. I’m glad I didn’t.” Or: “I understand why you want that but the answer is still no.”
"It wasn’t necessary to put the trans movement on a collision course with reality, fairness, common sense, medical ethics, toleration for difference, freedom of speech and conscience, and the basic recognition that sex matters." – @elizamondegreen https://t.co/MvqW5WXsgD
— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) July 30, 2023
Trans Activism and the Road Not Taken
As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”
Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.
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Parents Clinging To A Self-Affirming Delusion
Helen Joyce thinks she has landed upon a crucial motivation for some of those caught within the gender identity matrix.
And how those few often paralyze entire organizations.
…“A lot of people have done what is the worst thing you could do, which is to harm their children irrevocably, because of it. Those people will have to believe that they did the right thing for the rest of their lives, for their own sanity, and for their own self-respect. So they’ll still be fighting, and each one of those people destroys entire organizations and entire friendship groups.
“Like, I’ve lost count of the number of times that somebody has said to me of a specific organization that has been turned upside down on this, “Oh, the deputy director has a trans child.” Or, oh, the journalist on that paper who does special investigations has a trans child. Or whatever. The entire organization gets paralyzed by that one person. And it may not even be widely known at that organization that they have a trans child. But it will come out, people will have sort of said quietly, and now you can’t talk truth in front of that person, and you know you can’t, because what you’re saying is: “You as a parent have done a truly, like, a human rights abuse level of awful thing to your own child that can not be fixed.
“There are specific individuals who are actively against women’s rights here and it is not known why they are, but I happen to know through the back channels that it is because they’ve transed their child.
“So those people will do anything for the entire rest of their lives to destroy me and people like me because people like me are standing in reproach to them. I don’t want to be, I’m not talking directly to them, and I don’t spend my time bitching to them.
“But the fact is that just simply by saying we will never accept natural males in women’s spaces, well it is their son that we’re talking about. And they’ve told their son that he can get himself sterilized and destroy his own basic sexual function and women will accept him as a woman. And if we don’t, there’s no way back for them and that child.
“They’ve sold their child a bill of goods that they can’t deliver on.“
Helen Joyce
[Transcript from Interview conducted by Peter Boghossian : timestamp 1:07:26]
These are not people who want to radically restructure society; the Neo-Marxists, Neo-Maoists, the Critical Theorists, the hard core ideologues who want to reduce ‘cisheteropatriarchy’ and capitalism to the dustbin of history.
These are parents who can’t possibly admit what they have done.
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