The Dems' dilemma is even more fundamental. Most of them think the Party has gone too far on the trans issue, but most of them still don't realize that most of their fellow Party members agree with them. They've been intimidated into silence and compliance by trans activists and their relatively few captured cult members, and the captured media is keeping them ignorant by suppressing the truth of the matter.
For example, that very revealing NYTimes poll that we're all talking about in GC circles, showing that 67% of Dem voters oppose males in female sports and 54% oppose medical transition of minors? The sports-related poll results, which should have been the headline on pure newsworthiness alone, given the votes in Congress that were happening, were buried by their own reporters, in their own article about the poll. Read it - no mention of the sports issue:
This is a fascinating issue. The MORE people learn beyond the superficial talking points, the less they agree with the trans advocates. For example, when people learn that WPATH consulted with groups of castration fetishists, people look askance. When they understand that "affirming care" means - includes - chemical and physical castration and unnecessary cutting off young women's breasts and clitorises, they become less supportive. When they learn about the side effects of cross sex hormones .... You get the picture. And the being born in a "wrong" body (like with arms maybe) ....
There is actually a mental illness called body integrity Identity disorder.
Apotemnophilia, or Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), is a condition where individuals feel a strong, persistent desire to have a healthy limb amputated. They see themselves as disabled. Doctors do not cater to this mental illness so why is it okay to treat a similar disorder under the misnomer “gender affirming” surgery and experimental pharmaceuticals instead of as a mental health issue.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what happens to a vagina exposed to high levels of T for a long period of time. I finally came up with a way to accurately describe it. The vagina can dissolve.
Furthermore, maintaining *any* legal fictions that are based on complete disregard of (or, as it seems to me, utter contempt for) scientific facts is an insult to reality & its adherents: it is dogmatic faith in the place of reasoned policy.
"She has the nerve to advocate “simple honesty,” when the Democratic Party has been fiercely opposing this position for years. Is she admitting that the party has been dishonest up to now? Or is it after all, only “political expediency” – given that 79% of the US public, including 67% of Democrats, are opposed to natal males being admitted to girls’ and women’s sport? Where was Goldberg’s editor?"
YES!!!! The past decade of Progressive gaslighting has been atrocious! Sick of it. Dems are always bitching about how the American People support A, B and C and therefore Repubs should acquiesce and pass A, B or C laws (gun restrictions, abortion, healthcare reform) and yet when it comes to the SACRED COWS of the left, their view is: Fuck the dumb, philistine masses. Double-down. Admit nothing. Lie.
Excellent article. Very comprehensive. I just wonder why you are encouraging the Democratic Party to reject transgender ideology. It's patently obvious that any elected Dems willing to do that would only be giving lip service and have no intention of protecting women and girls as a class. Instead of encouraging elected Dems to lie to us, it seems we'd be better off replacing those politicians with a new party that incorporates the old-fashioned Dem principles (such as supporting women's rights) and pulls in some reasonable Republican policies (such as eliminating illegal immigration and securing the border). We just took down half the duopoly last year. Trump will do enough damage to destroy the Repub party over the next 4 years, in spite of their excellent work finding Dem corruption.
I can't see any reason to help the Democrats reassert control when they've already shown their stripes:
- Dems prioritized male rights over female by legally giving female sex-based rights to males who claim to be women
- Democrats broke our border control with “catch & release” policies and Sanctuary states and cities that have enabled drug cartel members, murderers and rapists to live freely in our communities, in spite of their refusal to apply for citizenship and very often in spite of them being arrested for crimes and released to commit more
- Dems, just like Repubs, promote the interests of the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us
- Democrats used to be anti-war. Now they initiate wars for profit, just as Republicans do
It seems like we'd be better off just starting a new Party, one that combines the best of both parties in the US duopoly. If anyone would like to help create that, contact me via Substack messages.
The problem is that establishing a new party is very hard to do in practice, for lots of structural reasons. There is a very long list of failed attempts.
It takes time, money and lots of people in many different states to create a new party. But it's doable with enough advance planning and a lot of foresight. Remember, there's never been an attempt to create a unified party that deliberately chooses to not argue over things we cannot come to agreement on. That is the key feature of our plan for this new party. We will be able to agree to disagree.
I don’t think a new party is likely. It is my preference as the Democratic Party is infested with corruption and rot. It would be better to start a new party that included liberal and moderates while have positions that appeal to conservatives. If you take a good, impartial, look at some conservative policies, I think many would agree with some.
However, it is more likely that the path forward would to coup the Dems and push out the rot with new leaders in political seats and the actual staff. They all need the boot and can reapply for their position. If they were doing a good job they could be rehired. I doubt there are many of them. I wish I were super rich and do a full on frontal attack on those corrupt dumbasses. The party died when they pushed Sanders away for the nomination.
No one actually believes that you can change biology by cutting off healthy body parts and experimental pharmaceuticals. They just won’t admit it. And we are dying on that hill. The insanity this belief system demands is mind numbing.
I was delighted to see the DIAG -- Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender site and promptly sent if off to a bunch of Dem friends - I'm European - so I was keen for people to read something which came from Democrats. One friend cancelled a coffee date we had this morning after a very unfriendly message, the other wrote me a lengthy and angry tirade about how DIAG was a shady group mouthing republican talking points. The implication was that I was a bigot. What a slap in the face. I replied to her that I felt sad and misunderstood by her attack. Back came the retort "Ha! imagine how Trans People feel! LOL" ... I guess that friendship has bitten the dust too. I'm shocked with how rigid people are when it comes to this issue! Ideology over childrens' wellbeing. Maybe one day they'll see the light.
It's the sunken cost fallacy in action. How can the Democrats admit they were wrong without admitting their opponents were right? The activists have defined even the mildest gender criticism as bigoted, toxic, hateful, and unscientific. How do reverse that while saving face?
There certainly are. But they have nagging doubts below the surface of their consciousness. They must. How to bring these doubts to the surface? That's the question.
The ones captivated by the cult are beyond hope. When we finally win, they'll be like the collaborators in the Shire who skulked away after the battle with Sharkey's men at the end of Return of the King.
Thankfully, most people don't really believe in it and are just going along vaguely on the surface.
I imagine they're all captivated to some degree. A small minority are hardcore true believers. They really think men can become women, or vice versa, or that sex is a spectrum, or that women can have penises, or that men can give birth, or whatever it is they claim to believe. A majority are opportunists and/or tribal loyalists. They can see what happens (or at least what used to happen) to gender critics, and they're reminded constantly that the stupid bad bigoted people (Republicans, conservatives) are gender critics, so it's easier for this group to just go along with the tribal consensus rather than face expulsion. They may have private doubts, but they dismiss them much as a Christian dismisses Satanic temptations. Another group goes along out of compassion. If they will not go along, they're assured, trans people will kill themselves, and they don't want blood on their hands, let alone the blood of a sacred caste. This group overlaps with the tribal loyalists to a large degree. What percentage of these can be flipped, however? I think it depends on how much emotional capital they’ve publicly invested on the issue, plus a general sense of how the tribe is leaning as a whole. Gavin Newsome’s partial recanting is an interesting sign, as too is AOC and other politicians dropping their stupid pronouns.
I'm not saying it's genuinely possible, but Seth Moulton is probably making the best attempt. Read his interviews, the way he falls all over himself to criticize the GOP on the trans issue in general while sticking to his position on sports.
Another is Jared Golden the Maine red-district Dem rep. He's here on Substack and just came out with his own fence-straddling position.
Where do they stand on males in women's prisons, males in rape crisis centers, males skewing crime, health and other sex-specific statistics? Males in women's sports gets most of the attention, but it's arguably the least important aspect of this bizarre controversy.
>[Democrats] could come right out and say: “There are only two sexes and no one can change sex.” ... Either now or later. How about now: before the mid-terms?
LOL! Dream on!
That's not going to happen before the 2nd Vance term ends in 2036.
The Dems' dilemma is even more fundamental. Most of them think the Party has gone too far on the trans issue, but most of them still don't realize that most of their fellow Party members agree with them. They've been intimidated into silence and compliance by trans activists and their relatively few captured cult members, and the captured media is keeping them ignorant by suppressing the truth of the matter.
For example, that very revealing NYTimes poll that we're all talking about in GC circles, showing that 67% of Dem voters oppose males in female sports and 54% oppose medical transition of minors? The sports-related poll results, which should have been the headline on pure newsworthiness alone, given the votes in Congress that were happening, were buried by their own reporters, in their own article about the poll. Read it - no mention of the sports issue:
https://archive.ph/ThUtt
It's easy for us to forget about it, since we're free of it - but the gaslighting going on within the Party is fierce.
This is a fascinating issue. The MORE people learn beyond the superficial talking points, the less they agree with the trans advocates. For example, when people learn that WPATH consulted with groups of castration fetishists, people look askance. When they understand that "affirming care" means - includes - chemical and physical castration and unnecessary cutting off young women's breasts and clitorises, they become less supportive. When they learn about the side effects of cross sex hormones .... You get the picture. And the being born in a "wrong" body (like with arms maybe) ....
There is actually a mental illness called body integrity Identity disorder.
Apotemnophilia, or Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), is a condition where individuals feel a strong, persistent desire to have a healthy limb amputated. They see themselves as disabled. Doctors do not cater to this mental illness so why is it okay to treat a similar disorder under the misnomer “gender affirming” surgery and experimental pharmaceuticals instead of as a mental health issue.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what happens to a vagina exposed to high levels of T for a long period of time. I finally came up with a way to accurately describe it. The vagina can dissolve.
Well said!
Furthermore, maintaining *any* legal fictions that are based on complete disregard of (or, as it seems to me, utter contempt for) scientific facts is an insult to reality & its adherents: it is dogmatic faith in the place of reasoned policy.
"I hope there are people within the party who are trying urgently to address this problem."
There are. In DIAG -- Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender:
https://www.di-ag.org
Other than that, I'm cross-posting this excellent essay.
"She has the nerve to advocate “simple honesty,” when the Democratic Party has been fiercely opposing this position for years. Is she admitting that the party has been dishonest up to now? Or is it after all, only “political expediency” – given that 79% of the US public, including 67% of Democrats, are opposed to natal males being admitted to girls’ and women’s sport? Where was Goldberg’s editor?"
YES!!!! The past decade of Progressive gaslighting has been atrocious! Sick of it. Dems are always bitching about how the American People support A, B and C and therefore Repubs should acquiesce and pass A, B or C laws (gun restrictions, abortion, healthcare reform) and yet when it comes to the SACRED COWS of the left, their view is: Fuck the dumb, philistine masses. Double-down. Admit nothing. Lie.
Glad to see you back, Bev. And right on the money here. I have restacked.
Excellent article.
Excellent article. Very comprehensive. I just wonder why you are encouraging the Democratic Party to reject transgender ideology. It's patently obvious that any elected Dems willing to do that would only be giving lip service and have no intention of protecting women and girls as a class. Instead of encouraging elected Dems to lie to us, it seems we'd be better off replacing those politicians with a new party that incorporates the old-fashioned Dem principles (such as supporting women's rights) and pulls in some reasonable Republican policies (such as eliminating illegal immigration and securing the border). We just took down half the duopoly last year. Trump will do enough damage to destroy the Repub party over the next 4 years, in spite of their excellent work finding Dem corruption.
I can't see any reason to help the Democrats reassert control when they've already shown their stripes:
- Dems prioritized male rights over female by legally giving female sex-based rights to males who claim to be women
- Democrats broke our border control with “catch & release” policies and Sanctuary states and cities that have enabled drug cartel members, murderers and rapists to live freely in our communities, in spite of their refusal to apply for citizenship and very often in spite of them being arrested for crimes and released to commit more
- Dems, just like Repubs, promote the interests of the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us
- Democrats used to be anti-war. Now they initiate wars for profit, just as Republicans do
It seems like we'd be better off just starting a new Party, one that combines the best of both parties in the US duopoly. If anyone would like to help create that, contact me via Substack messages.
The problem is that establishing a new party is very hard to do in practice, for lots of structural reasons. There is a very long list of failed attempts.
It takes time, money and lots of people in many different states to create a new party. But it's doable with enough advance planning and a lot of foresight. Remember, there's never been an attempt to create a unified party that deliberately chooses to not argue over things we cannot come to agreement on. That is the key feature of our plan for this new party. We will be able to agree to disagree.
There have been plenty of such attempts, most recently "no labels". I do wish you luck, though.
I don’t think a new party is likely. It is my preference as the Democratic Party is infested with corruption and rot. It would be better to start a new party that included liberal and moderates while have positions that appeal to conservatives. If you take a good, impartial, look at some conservative policies, I think many would agree with some.
However, it is more likely that the path forward would to coup the Dems and push out the rot with new leaders in political seats and the actual staff. They all need the boot and can reapply for their position. If they were doing a good job they could be rehired. I doubt there are many of them. I wish I were super rich and do a full on frontal attack on those corrupt dumbasses. The party died when they pushed Sanders away for the nomination.
Fantastic article!
No one actually believes that you can change biology by cutting off healthy body parts and experimental pharmaceuticals. They just won’t admit it. And we are dying on that hill. The insanity this belief system demands is mind numbing.
I was delighted to see the DIAG -- Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender site and promptly sent if off to a bunch of Dem friends - I'm European - so I was keen for people to read something which came from Democrats. One friend cancelled a coffee date we had this morning after a very unfriendly message, the other wrote me a lengthy and angry tirade about how DIAG was a shady group mouthing republican talking points. The implication was that I was a bigot. What a slap in the face. I replied to her that I felt sad and misunderstood by her attack. Back came the retort "Ha! imagine how Trans People feel! LOL" ... I guess that friendship has bitten the dust too. I'm shocked with how rigid people are when it comes to this issue! Ideology over childrens' wellbeing. Maybe one day they'll see the light.
Yes, how bigoted of you to notice reality! I am heartily sick of this utter bullshit myself.
It is really alarming how intransigent the Democratic leadership and many rank and file Democrats are on this issue. Well done for trying.
It's the sunken cost fallacy in action. How can the Democrats admit they were wrong without admitting their opponents were right? The activists have defined even the mildest gender criticism as bigoted, toxic, hateful, and unscientific. How do reverse that while saving face?
There are actually those who truly believe in the ideology. That's the problem. You can't talk to those people.
There certainly are. But they have nagging doubts below the surface of their consciousness. They must. How to bring these doubts to the surface? That's the question.
The ones captivated by the cult are beyond hope. When we finally win, they'll be like the collaborators in the Shire who skulked away after the battle with Sharkey's men at the end of Return of the King.
Thankfully, most people don't really believe in it and are just going along vaguely on the surface.
I imagine they're all captivated to some degree. A small minority are hardcore true believers. They really think men can become women, or vice versa, or that sex is a spectrum, or that women can have penises, or that men can give birth, or whatever it is they claim to believe. A majority are opportunists and/or tribal loyalists. They can see what happens (or at least what used to happen) to gender critics, and they're reminded constantly that the stupid bad bigoted people (Republicans, conservatives) are gender critics, so it's easier for this group to just go along with the tribal consensus rather than face expulsion. They may have private doubts, but they dismiss them much as a Christian dismisses Satanic temptations. Another group goes along out of compassion. If they will not go along, they're assured, trans people will kill themselves, and they don't want blood on their hands, let alone the blood of a sacred caste. This group overlaps with the tribal loyalists to a large degree. What percentage of these can be flipped, however? I think it depends on how much emotional capital they’ve publicly invested on the issue, plus a general sense of how the tribe is leaning as a whole. Gavin Newsome’s partial recanting is an interesting sign, as too is AOC and other politicians dropping their stupid pronouns.
I'm not saying it's genuinely possible, but Seth Moulton is probably making the best attempt. Read his interviews, the way he falls all over himself to criticize the GOP on the trans issue in general while sticking to his position on sports.
Another is Jared Golden the Maine red-district Dem rep. He's here on Substack and just came out with his own fence-straddling position.
Where do they stand on males in women's prisons, males in rape crisis centers, males skewing crime, health and other sex-specific statistics? Males in women's sports gets most of the attention, but it's arguably the least important aspect of this bizarre controversy.
Newsom has a few problems in CA....Scott Weiner, Berkley/Stanford, and the coding/gaming industry that is rife with transgenders.
>[Democrats] could come right out and say: “There are only two sexes and no one can change sex.” ... Either now or later. How about now: before the mid-terms?
LOL! Dream on!
That's not going to happen before the 2nd Vance term ends in 2036.