Big Tranny

The relationship between sisters is often tricky.

Parents going through the ‘hair-pulling one minute, allies against the world the next’ stage are invariably told that time has a way of smoothing out the bumps.

With Sinead Watson and her big sister Andrea, this is certainly true.

Moments after the Supreme Court gave gay people in the U.S. the right to marry, the left hurried to find a new lot of victims to promote. They decided to focus on a tiny group of people, mostly men suffering from a mental issue called “gender dysphoria,” people who believe they should be the opposite sex. Hence, a new crop of lefty victims was born, and that is the very first time we heard the word “transgender.”

A 21-year-old male cyclist, Emily (formerly Zach) Bridges from Wales is set to become Britain’s own Lia Thomas. When competing against his biological sex, Bridges was a promising young cyclist. In 2018, he set a national junior men’s record in the 25-mile race. And he remained in the Great Britain Academy program as a male cyclist until 2020.

The last two weeks were momentous for transgender advocates and their critics. On Monday, Florida governor Ron DeSantis defied Disney, the state’s largest employer, and a slew of other corporations by signing the Parental Rights in Education Act—egregiously mischaracterized as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill—into law. The bill, which mandates that discussion of sexual matters in the classroom be “age appropriate” and requires that parents be involved in medical decisions regarding their children, is, as some critics have charged, vaguely worded, and vague language can indeed be an invitation for regulatory trouble. But it is trans activists who have spent the past decade inflating the meaning of ordinary words like “safety” and “inclusion” to encompass radical and highly controversial ideas and policies. On the whole, given what is happening in our nation’s schools, especially at the K-3 level, the Florida law is eminently reasonable—so much so, in fact, that activists have had to mislead the public into thinking that the law is primarily about homosexuality.

Deconstructing the reality dysphoria dialogue.

The satirical Babylon Bee recently selected Rachel Levine as its “first annual Man of the Year.” “Levine,” the Bee explained, “is the U.S. assistant secretary for health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he proudly serves as the first man in that position to dress like a western cultural stereotype of a woman. He is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. What a boss!”

The idea of ‘women with penises’ is Orwellian, misogynistic drivel.

Remember when it would take a probing question about economic policy or whether we should keep or ditch our nukes to stump a politician? Not anymore. Now the political class is flummoxed, struck almost dumb, by a far simpler query: What is a woman? It used to take a 30-minute televisual grilling by Jeremy Paxman or Andrew Neil on failed policies, broken promises and sex scandals to take the wind out of our political leaders – now it just takes a simple question about biology that most five-year-olds could answer. I’m going to try it. Next time my path crosses with a politician I find annoying, I won’t badger them about their betrayal of Brexit or their failure to defend free speech. I’ll just say ‘Hey, what’s a woman?’ That’s kryptonite to the political elite.

The paper showcased gender-neutral garments for waitstaff as one solution.

Gender stereotypes are built into traditional restaurant service,” lamented the New York Times Tuesday. Chairs are pulled out for women. Women are served first. People are greeted by either “sir” or “ma’am.” It’s all just another example of the discrimination inflicted on “gender-expansive people,” says the New York Times.

Following purges on Twitter for social media users who made controversial statements like, “a man is a man,” one “trans woman” left platform participants speaking up about their disbelief with scientific facts after @iamdeeluu claimed to be experiencing the anatomically impossible.

The sudden prominence of transgenderism in the West owes in large part to compassion becoming unmoored from reason—and to ethics being reduced to compassion.

If a single image could sum up Lia Thomas’s victory in the 500-yard freestyle event at the NCAA swimming championships last week, it would be that of Thomas and the runners-up taken right after they were awarded their medals. Behind a sign with the number “1” on it stands Thomas, who seems barely able to conceal embarrassment at what is undoubtedly an awkward situation. To the right, noticeably keeping their distance and a full head or two shorter, are the runners-up. Their smiles seem no less awkward.

Photographer and University of Pennsylvania graduate Erica Denhoff was shocked to see her work significantly altered on the Today show last week, adding that at first, she thought “something was honestly wrong with the video.” She said she was “disappointed” by the show’s choice and that “I pride myself on providing authentic images as a photojournalist.”