Transgender Logic: A Kidney is the Same Thing as a Liver

From Zach Elliott's tweet:

Elliot's "argument" is satirical, aimed at claims commonly being made by transgender activists. Elliot cites to some of these claims in his tweet thread. Another person making this claim that biology is merely socially constructed is Chase Strangio, one of the lead attorneys for the ACLU, which, once-upon-a-time used to be a principled organization, but has now become unapologetically partisan on many issues.

The problem for Strangio, et al is that biological sex came into existence two billion years before the existence of hominids.  That said, basic biological facts don't seem to matter to trans activists like Strangio.

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What is the Performance Difference Between Olympian Athletes Who Have Undergone Male Versus Female Puberty?

43-year-old weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is likely to become the first transgender Olympian athlete this summer. As a man, she competed in men's weightlifting before transitioning in 2013. The resulting controversy is covered by the U.K Mail Online, in an article titled: "'It's another kick in the teeth for female athletes': Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies hits out at decision to allow transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard to compete in Tokyo."   Former British swimmer Sharron Davies is voicing an objection:

We need to talk respectfully and find fair solutions, maybe a female category and an open and inclusive category. I’m not anti-transgender but I’m pro female sport, facts and fairness. Feelings are no fair way to categorise sport.

Other athletes feel that they cannot voice an opinion. According to this article:

Several female athletes share the view of Davies but are told to stay silent by sponsors to avoid controversy and a potentially toxic fall-out with the trans community.
How much of an advantage do female transgender athletes have over women athletes? Here are three excerpts from the article:

Biological differences between males and females are huge, with insurmountable performance implications. A male versus female gap of even 10 per cent, as is found in running events, is so large that many thousands of men outperform the very best woman.

Many high school boys sprint faster, throw further and jump higher than women’s Olympic champions. Strength and power differences are even larger than in running. At the same weight and height, men lift 30 per cent heavier weights, and produce 30 per cent more power.

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These changes are ‘performance positive’, enhancing athleticism in all but a few sports, and the result is a performance gulf, rather than gap, between typical males and females, or between Olympic-level athletic males and females. It is this difference, ranging from 10-50 per cent depending on the attribute . . . "

According to the article, for an athlete who has already gone through male puberty, using hormone suppressants for 12 months only slightly decreases these advantages.

See the full article for more quotes and statistics.

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Public Schools Should Stick to their Educational Mission

What does it mean to be informed? At bottom, it means to respectfully listen to a diversity of opinions. To have viewpoint diversity.  In my view, viewpoint diversity is by far the most important type of diversity.  I make it a habit to reach out to people with whom I disagree.  That is my personal mission and that is the mission of Heterodox Academy. 

Many public schools are straying from their core educational mission and this has ramifications for families back home. This core mission of education is to teach traditional subjects.  It means taking each child as he or she is and teaching those subjects. This mission does not include diagnosing, evaluating or attempting to change a child's "gender," much less cheering on a child to change his or her "gender."  The core mission of schools never allows a school to hide important information about a child from the child's parents.

I think it is important to consider much more than the driving narratives of the left-leaning legacy media on these issues, where you will never read anything like the following. I am writing these words as someone who is left-leaning on many issues.  I don't agree with every position taken by PEC, but it's important that we listen to people who are hurting as well as people who are exuberantly riding the modern wave of transgenderism.  Truth is a mosaic.

The following excerpts are from Partners or Ethical Care, an first-hand account by a mother titled "As Mother's Day 2021 Approaches."

Here’s how I am this week, as Mother’s Day approaches again.

I’m exhausted, and frustrated, and scared.

I pulled all of my kids from public school after one announced a transgender identity, and all the teachers, administrators, and counselors began lying to me, using my child’s made-up name and fake pronouns behind my back, and undermining my husband and me to our child with words like “unsupportive” and “inappropriate.”

That child desisted and came back to reality after we cut off all the trans juice flowing from the school and the GSA club and social media and woke neighbors. So I know pulling my kids from public school and homeschooling them was the right decision.

. . .

I’m angry. I want someone to answer for what they’ve put our family through.

I want this to end.

But I’m the mom, and I love my kids, and this is what I have to do, for as long as it takes. I cry more than I should have to. I’ve given up my own life to save my children’s.

But the culture says I’m abusive and hateful and bigoted.

This is how Mother’s Day finds me this year.

Maybe next year will be better.

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The Inevitable Question

I enjoy listening to Buck Angel. He's quite a good-hearted free spirit who speaks his mind. He's also a trans man who calls himself a trans man. He doesn't claim that he is the same as a "man," because (he explained on Joe Rogan) he was born a woman but presents as a man. Simple and straight forward. He became a trans man decades ago, when such decisions were driven solely by sexual dysphoria and not so much like social contagion, which leads to his question:

Someday, Buck's question will need to be addressed head-on and I can already see the future. The next move by TRA's (Trans Rights Activists) is that sexual dysphoria does not require any diagnosis based on any carefully determined criteria. The off-the-cuff conclusion of an activist counselor is all you need. Believe anyone who makes this claim, even though the rate of sexual dysphoria is now 1,000 times greater than in prior years. If you question this assertion, you are a bigot. It's entirely subjective and fluid. In other words, Wokeness "theory" will assert that there is no objectivity in this matter.

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ACLU Sues a Woman Seeking to Use Washington State’s Public Records Act to Determine Transgender Populations in Washington Prisons

It is rather amazing that any organization would seek to block a citizen from obtaining access to public records. It is surreal that the ACLU is seeking to block citizen access, but this is not the principled ACLU of the Ira Glasser era. . Rather, this is the ACLU that hires attorneys that want to ban books. And now, the ACLU has reached a new low.

PM reports what happened in this case:

A woman was interested to know how many inmates in Washington state identify as transgender, and how many of those transgender identified inmates have been given transfers to go from men's prison to women's prison, and the reverse. To get this information, she filed a Freedom on Information Act request. Instead of getting the information she requested, she got sued by the ACLU.

Here's a copy of the public records request filed by the citizen:

Why did this woman seek this information?

"I started requesting information about what is happening in US prisons after learning about cases abroad where violent male offenders were housed in women's prisons," the woman who made the request told The Post Millennial, "including a case where a woman became pregnant as a result. Due to the shameful lack of impartial media reporting on this issue, the public can't trust the institutions we've come to rely on to get accurate information.

The ACLU responded by sending the woman this letter:

I'll end by reminding us all what the ACLU supposedly stands for:

We must seize every opportunity to protect and advance our civil rights and liberties — in legislatures, the courts, and our communities. Join us in holding our leaders and institutions accountable to fulfill the promise of democracy. With your support, we can lead freedom forward.

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