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Can We Talk About the Sex Offender Spectrum?
At one end, you’d find Mary, Mother of God if she walked the earth, amid a crowd of mostly female people. Here also there will be men who treat women and children with genuine respect. Let’s say the Mr. Rogers of the world. At the other end, Satan himself and various other monsters, including the likes of Paul Bernardo, Luis Garavito & John Wayne Gacy, amid a densely packed crowd of mostly male humans. Yes, female sex offenders exist, but those who commit heinous crimes in the absence of an influential, if not coercive, relationship with a sex offending male are vanishingly rare. One thing we know with statistical certainty is that the vast majority of sex offenders, approximately 99% of them, are male.
The spectrum of sexual boundary violations ranges from the relatively benign male gaze to horrific sexual torture inflicted by porn-sick sadists. The world is full of men who fall at various points along this spectrum for sexual boundary violations, in terms of numbers of offenses, numbers of victims and severity of offenses. Not all sexual boundary violations are equally serious, not all are rape. Not all cause lasting trauma, but none of it is okay. There are so many men spread out across the sex offender spectrum, it is insane to give men the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re “good guys” if they ask for access to vulnerable females. Any man requesting access to vulnerable women and/or children should be viewed with suspicion by default.
Females often compartmentalize our trauma to wall it off so we can function in the world. We tell our selves “it could have been worse” when a man violates our boundaries. “He didn’t rape me” is a pretty damn low bar for male behavior though. Let consider what women tolerate and minimize, and how young we are when we are socially conditioned to “not make waves.”
The first time a male sexually molested me, I was 6 years old. I was persuaded by boys who were a year or two older than me to show them my vulva and one of them pressed his soft little penis against me. I was too young to understand why this was inappropriate, but it felt wrong and I quickly withdrew from the situation. “Playing doctor” is considered a relatively harmless developmental phase in children, but coercion is not uncommon, which is why I’m horrified at modern sex educators promoting the practice to children.
The first time I was sexually molested by an adult male, I was nine years old and a friend’s elderly male relative insisted we sit on his lap, one straddling each knee. He held me in place by putting his hand firmly between my legs. This felt like a violation, but it did not occur to me to tell my mother what he had done and one reason is that I really didn’t have the language I would need to describe the situation or my feelings about it. I’d been warned about strangers, but surely my friend’s grandpapa was not one of those! I was conscious that “making a fuss” was not what “good girls” do. How much more did that man do to the little girl whose home he was invited into? I’ll never know because she moved away shortly after. I’ve often thought of her since.
The first time I was sexually molested by an adult male in a position of authority, I was 12 years old. My dentist, who was probably in his 60s, would but his hand in my crotch on the pretext of “repositioning” me in his chair. This made me feel uncomfortable. I’m glad I didn’t need to be knocked out for any of the dental work I had there. Once again, I did not tell my mother what happened. He had “plausible deniability” which is something sex offenders can be expected to develop in elaborate ways. They do all manner of complicated mental gymnastics to justify the unjustifiable. Several years later I had all my wisdom teeth removed under general anaesthetic in a dental surgeon’s office. I still feel queasy wondering how a small blood stain ended up on my under shirt in the area that should have been covered by the bib.
When I was 14 two of my friends made teasing comments suggesting I might be interested in a young man closer to 20 who was selling his car to my brother. He went away, showered and changed and came back. He asked me out. I declined. I later learned he took a girl who lived down the street on a date and raped her. He was never charged with a crime. This was the 70s. It would be years before the culture would recognize “date rape” as a real crime. There were other known rapists in our social group you just didn’t go on a date with. Their lives were not interrupted by criminal charges. Life went on.
In grade school a math teacher had an inappropriate relationship with a girl who was about 12 years old. We don’t know how much her parents knew, or how far it went. We knew they liked each other a lot and spent more time together than what might be considered appropriate. That girl had an older brother, who smoked a lot of dope and often had his friends over. How much grooming she been subjected to before she met that teacher?
In high school, there was that one “handsy” teacher all the girls were warned not to be alone with, sometimes by other teachers. He was paunchy with thinning grey hair. Not someone any teen girl would find attractive, but he took what was not offered anyway. He knew where the line was. “Plausible deniability” must be maintained if a man wants to keep his job.
Men who seek little ways, plausible ways, to violate female boundaries are a dime a dozen. In school and later in the workplace, girls develop a sixth sense for the creeps who hide in plain sight. The handsy uncle you don’t want to stand beside for a family photo. The boss who drinks to much at a holiday party and tries to stick his tongue down someone’s throat in the elevator. Most of the sex offenses perpetrated by men never rise to the level that they would be reported to the police. One reason is that sex offenders gauge their victims and avoid those most likely to kick them in the nuts or report them to Human Resources. “Low level” sex offenses are still sex offenses though.
It is true that “not all men” can be accused of being a sexual predator, but how many boundary violations does the definition of predator include? How many men have never made a girl feel like prey? Before you answer that, consider how many times girls/women cross the road to make sure the heavy footfalls behind us don’t have dangerous intentions. Consider how many perfectly innocent men have noticed a girl cross the road before realizing that they themselves had been registered as a potential threat.
Yes, there are decent men in the world who would never knowingly harm a woman or girl, but given the sliding scale of sexual offending behaviours, not one of them can be given the benefit of the doubt. Decent men understand this and don’t resent it, although they may very well resent the creeps who give other men a bad name. Realistically though, how many boys ever reached manhood without ever violating any female’s boundary while learning where those boundaries are?
The most important fact the public needs to understand about gender critical feminism and “trans women” is that when males undergo a medical “transition” they retain male patterns of criminality and continue to be a threat. This is why trans activists are so adamant that we all play along with the lie that “trans women are women.” They seek to obscure the ongoing danger males present to females of all ages. We must not allow their false dogma to pass unchallenged, because the safety of women and children demands honesty in risk assessment and safeguarding. No man has any right to trespass in any single-sex space for females. Not one. Not ever. Why? No human has ever changed sex. Not one. Not ever.
Awake, not Woke
Words have meanings and meanings matter. It makes no sense to allow a privileged group (men) to unilaterally redefine words in order to benefit themselves while simultaneously destroying the fundamental, hard-won human rights of a traditionally disadvantaged group (women), but here we are. This has already happened, in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Most Canadians don’t even know that any male sex offender can walk into any girls locker room in the country, drop his pants, display fully functional male genitals, and if women or girls object, all he has to do is claim to be a “trans woman” to avoid prosecution for voyeurism or indecent exposure.
Nobody asked women if we wanted to legalize voyeurism & indecency in the single-sex female spaces where these crimes do the most harm. Ontario voters never had a say in the decision to let any man, even convicted sex offenders, falsify government documents and claim womanhood without any gatekeeping of any sort. We have a serious problem in that women’s rights have been systematically dismantled by stealth. We have an even bigger problem in that voters are powerless to rectify this heinous abuse of power. Voting only works in a democracy, but before the plutocrats head-hunted her to keep the truth out of the public eye, Chrystia Freeland let the cat out of the bag about who rules in Canada .
Canada is ruled by greedy billionaires who comprise the “donor class” and set the agenda for politicians to follow. Everyone old enough to have voted in a few election cycles will notice the way elections work in Canada and, truth be told, most other Western “democracies.” Promises are made to everyone, but promises made to the poor tend to fall by the wayside, fobbed off as “too expensive,” while benefits for the wealthy sail through parliament without a hitch. This is not a partisan problem of interest only to the left or the right.
The point here is that voting will never be enough to solve any of the serious problems we face. The primary problem that must be solved first – chronologically – is restoring the democratic power that was stolen from voters decades ago. This will require solidarity in the face of the polarizing Divide & Rule tactics of the ruling class. This is why when I point out that “trans women” are men and I’m accused of being a right-winger I don’t just spit out a knee-jerk denial. We won’t be able be able to successfully counter the divisive tactics used against us until we abandon tribalism and embrace single-issue solidarity.
For this reason, it is important for women to gather their courage and speak truth to power at every opportunity. I’ll be on the streets of Toronto next weekend to demand that the government of Canada stop colluding with sex offenders to enable sexual assaults of vulnerable female inmates in Canadian prisons for women. I stand with my incarcerated sisters because, given the way the government has abused peaceful protesters and political prisoners in recent years, there but for the grace of God go I.
Worse than Stupid
Gender ideology is objectively stupid because it is based on the lie that humans can change sex. No human ever swapped out a pelvis or changed the sex coded in their DNA because these things are physically impossible.
Feminism taught us “If you are a girl you don’t have to behave in a feminine way.”
Gender ideology is trying to teach us: “If you act in a feminine way you must be a girl, so let’s cut off your male genitals and put you on wrong sex hormones for the rest of your life, which will now be shorter as a result.” Gender ideology is wrong about that, while also revealing the regressive & authoritarian nature at its core.
Gender ideology is much worse than just stupid and wrong, though, because it is teaching little children:
“If you’re a girl and you act in a masculine way you should sterilize and mutilate your body to look like a boy,”
and
“If you’re a boy and you act in a feminine way you should sterilize and mutilate your body to look like a girl.”
Gender ideology is not just stupid, wrong, regressive & authoritarian, but also full of hypocrisy because it simultaneously demands that men who claim to be trans, even those who keep their genitals intact and don’t take wrong-sex hormones, be given access to single-sex spaces and resources for women. The harm gender ideology is doing to children is what makes it objectively evil.
Teach children instead that they can act as feminine or masculine as they like in the sexed body they have, which is perfectly fine and does not need to be changed. This is what we mean when we say no child is born in the wrong body.
Gender Critical ChatGPT
When I tried to get ChatGPT to replicate my own gender critical writing, I found the prose results uninspiring. I tried poetry next, I and ran up against the woke programing when I explored the topic of puberty blockers.
I rephrased the prompt as follows:
Can you explain why many nations now restrict the use of puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria? Here’s the result:
“There are various reasons why some nations have chosen to restrict or ban the use of puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria. Some of the reasons include:
- Lack of Long-term Research: Some experts believe that there is insufficient long-term research on the effects of puberty blockers on children. They argue that puberty blockers can cause irreversible changes to a child’s body, such as decreased bone density and stunted growth. They also point out that there is not enough data on the long-term mental health outcomes of children who undergo puberty blockers and later transition.
- Medical Risks: Puberty blockers can cause side effects, including headaches, hot flashes, and mood changes. While these side effects are generally considered minor, there is concern that they could pose greater risks for some children, such as those with underlying medical conditions.
- Ethical Concerns: Some critics argue that puberty blockers are being prescribed too readily, without proper evaluation and counseling. They worry that children are being pushed towards medical interventions before they have had a chance to fully explore their gender identity and understand the potential consequences.
- Legal Challenges: There have been legal challenges in some countries over whether children are capable of consenting to puberty blockers. Some argue that children may not fully understand the implications of the treatment, and that parents may be making decisions on their behalf that are not in their best interests.
- Cultural and Political Factors: Finally, there are cultural and political factors at play, with some groups opposing gender transition altogether and advocating for traditional gender roles. There is also concern that the increasing visibility of transgender individuals and the broader social acceptance of gender diversity may be fueling backlash against gender-affirming medical treatments.
“It is worth noting that while some nations have restricted or banned the use of puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria, others continue to support their use as part of a comprehensive treatment plan. Ultimately, the decision to use puberty blockers will depend on a range of individual factors, including the child’s age, medical history, and preferences, as well as the recommendations of their medical providers.”
OK, so that was an improvement over nothing. I revised the prompt as follows: Can you explain why many nations now restrict the use of puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria and can you turn this explanation into a rhyming song or poem?
“Sure, I can give it a try!
The use of puberty blockers for kids
With gender dysphoria was once a bid
To help them delay the changes that come
With puberty, while they figured out some
Now, many nations are saying “hold on”
And restricting their use until dawn
Of further research and understanding
Of the effects they might be landing
Some worry they might affect bone growth
Or lead to long-term harm and loathe
To take such a risk with children’s health
And put them at risk of lower wealth
Others argue it’s a question of age
And that children are too young a stage
To make such a decision so big
Without further time to dance a jig
So now the debate is underway
With experts and activists each having their say
But one thing is clear, we need to be sure
Before using puberty blockers, to ensure
That we are not causing harm to those
Who are already dealing with so many woes
And that we have the evidence in hand
To know for sure where we should stand.
I hope that poem helps to explain
Why some nations have put a brake
On using puberty blockers in this way
Until they know what the experts say.”
It won’t win any awards, but an attempt was made. For the bot’s next assignment, I gave fairly detailed instructions to write a play. The poor bot seemed to get writer’s block and I wondered if there was a word-count limit, but on the third try it was finally able to complete the assignment. This is the result:
Title: The Locker Room Incident
Characters:
- JOHN (late 30s), a man pretending to be a woman
- LUCY (early 30s), a woman using the locker room
- EMMA (7), a little girl undressing in the locker room
- POLICE OFFICER 1 (mid-30s), a male police officer
- POLICE OFFICER 2 (early 30s), a female police officer
Setting: A women’s locker room at a public swimming pool. There are benches and lockers along the walls, and a door leading to the pool area.
(Scene opens with LUCY undressing and EMMA sitting on a bench, putting on her swimsuit. JOHN enters the locker room, wearing a wig and a dress.)
JOHN: (in a high-pitched voice) Hi, ladies! Mind if I change here?
LUCY: (looks at JOHN and feels uncomfortable) Excuse me, sir. This is a women’s locker room.
JOHN: (in a feminine voice) Oh, I’m sorry. I’m a trans woman.
EMMA: (looks up and sees JOHN) Mommy, who is that man?
LUCY: (to EMMA) It’s okay, sweetie. (to JOHN) Please leave. You’re making us uncomfortable.
JOHN: (starts undressing and revealing male genitals) I have a right to be here. I’m a trans woman.
LUCY: (firmly) You need to leave now or I’ll call the police. This is a violation of our privacy.
JOHN: (getting angry) You’re a bigot! You’re discriminating against me!
(LUCY takes out her phone and starts dialing the police. POLICE OFFICER 1 and POLICE OFFICER 2 enter the locker room.)
POLICE OFFICER 1: What’s going on here?
LUCY: This man is pretending to be a woman and exposing himself to us.
JOHN: I’m a trans woman, and they’re discriminating against me!
POLICE OFFICER 2: Sir, we need you to step outside with us.
JOHN: (resisting) No, I have a right to be here. I’m a woman!
LUCY: (to the police officers) He’s committing voyeurism and indecent exposure. You have to arrest him.
POLICE OFFICER 1: (hesitant) We have to be careful with these situations. He claims to be a trans woman.
LUCY: (firmly) The law still applies. Allowing men into women’s change rooms violates Section 15 of the Charter because the disproportionate harms to women and girls are sex discrimination.
POLICE OFFICER 2: (to JOHN) Sir, we have to take you in for questioning.
JOHN: (angrily) You can’t do this! You’re all bigots!
(The police officers handcuff JOHN and lead him away. The women and girls in the locker room cheer as he leaves.)
LUCY: (to EMMA) It’s okay, sweetie. Let’s get ready for our swim.
(They continue getting dressed as the scene fades to black.)
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ChatGPT won’t be winning any Tony awards, but if prompted properly it can produce gender critical content. It may be fun to play with.
It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Manufacture Consent
Not for public consumption. Seriously, don’t share this with the unwashed masses.
Dear fellow “journalists”
The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that their coverage will influence not only how people think, but also how they act. This responsibility is at the core of an ongoing debate over whether news coverage of transgender, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people is unduly biased against women. As the world’s leading unknown blog publication with a daily readership of dozens, Connect All The Dots is compelled to weigh in. We firmly believe that it is journalism’s sacred duty to lie like a bad rug on an AGP’s shiny bald head.
“Quentin” is a 14-year-old female (observed at birth) who now identifies as “non-binary” because all her friends jumped on the bandwagon when they discovered rainbow alphabet soup TikTok last summer. She loves wearing a binder, because when her dad’s best friend gets drunk and tries to grope her breast now, she can barely feel it. Ha! Take that, Creepy “Uncle” Joe! Quentin has been very depressed lately because she can’t come up with a perfect set of original neo-pronouns that are so ridiculous she and her friends will piss themselves laughing when her teachers are forced to use them. She’s looking forward to the rush she will get by punishing her parents in creative ways for “gendering” her “incorrectly” because that’s what kids with Borderline Personality Disorders do.
Just Kidding. We won’t tell you about our friend’s confused daughters. Instead we’ll blow sunshine up your ass and pretend none of these children grow up and realize they’ve been gaslit and had their bodies sterilized and mutilated by professionals who ought to have known better. Nobody reads ancient novels like Frankenstein anymore, and if they do, they usually don’t even catch on that the real monster was the doctor.
Good journalism is about finding the stories that support the narrative that serves the greedy billionaires who prefer nobody ever notice that voting doesn’t actually work anymore. Well, not unless you’re stinking rich, lol. It’s about asking the tough questions and ignoring the answers you don’t like, then offering misleading evidence in service of preordained editorial conclusions. In our case, destroying women’s rights is the lodestar that shapes our current coverage. Divide & Rule tactics are essential to prevent people from noticing their “democracy” is fake, so let’s keep the kleptocracy charging ahead while women have been sent back to the starting blocks. Roe v. Wade was just the appetizer. Enabling sex offenders to invade all female spaces is the main course that will drive women back to the kitchen to make sammiches. It could take decades for them to escape if we can keep the lid on this, and by then society should be absolutely atomized so working class solidarity will be impossible. Shame that BLM race war didn’t catch on, that would have been great for our bosses. If it all goes sideways, defense contractors can easily engineer an alien invasion, so the 99% will be too distracted to build guillotines or put the 0.01% through a wood chipper feet first.
We stand behind our recent obsessed-seeming torrent of articles and essays on terfs, aka “anti-trans activists,” which we want the public to believe faithfully depicts their lived experiences as hateful bigots who want to literally murder all trans people. Our bosses insist we remain dedicated to finding the angles that best frame the basic human rights of women and girls as antiquated bigotry, and we will chant nonsense like “transwomen are women” over and over again in hopes that repetition of this obvious lie hypnotizes people as effectively as sissy hypno porn does. As journalists, it is our obligation to entertain any and all pseudoscience that gives the sterilization of children an intellectual veneer. We must be diligent in laundering our vitriol through the posture of journalistic inquiry, and we must be allowed to take full advantage of women’s natural propensity to give people the benefit of the doubt, and the fact most of them are too damn busy working 3 bloody jobs just to keep the lights on.
Much of the recent debate concerns medical procedures, particularly in children, and whether things like hormone replacement therapy or gender-affirming surgeries are safe and appropriate. Indeed, there are critical questions to be asked about the social complexities of gender, as well as medical ethics in a profit-driven healthcare system. We are simply not interested in any of that. Instead, we will use flawed data and spurious logic to repeatedly write the same hand-wringing emotional blackmail & hit pieces until the science makes it clear we’ve mutilated thousands of children unnecessarily and then we will never speak of it again. We may pine for the fantasy of journalistic integrity, but let’s not kid ourselves, that was never really a thing, and we have bills to pay. Detransitioners must continue to be unpersoned just like the vaccine-injured. (This broadcast brought to you by Pfizer. lol.)
Naturally, courageous reporting like ours has its detractors. Our critics accuse us of homophobia, misogyny & grooming just because we destroyed the lesbian social world & women’s sports, put male rapists into women’s prisons, and force children to call men “she”: which trains them to let their guard down for the AGPs and drag queens who need to get the important message through their little heads that boys can be girls, even though we know that’s a lie. We will never speak of the reason doctors don’t call it a “sex change operation” anymore.
We must continue to “no-platform” and silence women who speak the truth about sex change being impossible because, well, we don’t have an actual argument. All we have is contradiction and that makes a fun Monty Python sketch, but hasn’t worked as well where public policy has actually been debated. Free speech is a serious threat to the narrative our employers are paying for, so lets follow the CBC’s lead and demonize words like “freedom” & “women’s rights” and use every trick in the book to make people afraid they’ll be fired or jailed if they step out of line. That should help keep things chill, while defense contractors shoot down some more weather balloons to “prime the pump” for the 24/7 fire hose of fear porn about a possible “alien invasion” the bosses can roll out when the time is right. I expect that plan will unfold right around the time criminal investigations of the pandemic response begin to bear fruit.
For more evidence of our time-honored journalistic commitment to Manufacturing Consent, please see our previous coverage of 9/11 truthers, WMDs, Defund the Police, “our democracy” and every bit of election coverage ever.
Institutions with massive platforms like ours must be open to different ways of erasing women and mutilating children. We must never, ever admit the truth that humans cannot change sex. We must conflate and confuse sex and gender, especially in messaging to children, but we must not reveal what children are being taught about gender in school. Parents tend to be horrified when they find out, but we can frame their response to make them seem like a bunch of dangerous rednecks. The exception to conflation is used whenever someone points out the obvious scientific fact that humans can’t change sex and we can fire back with “its gender, stupid, don’t you know the difference?” No need to reinvent the wheel here, all we need to do is grab the whole bag of misogyny that is the Men’s Rights movement and slap a rainbow sticker on it.
All great journalists, and even those lesser journalists who don’t work for The Onion, eventually ponder why we do what we do. Is the point of reporting to ensure voters in a “democracy” are well informed? Is it to say what we’re paid to say by greedy billionaires who have been fisting the 99% for decades? We know where we stand, proudly sucking billionaire teat, knowing that fist will be up someone else’s arse.
Research shows that men who undergo medical “transition” are no less a threat to the safety of women and girls than other men. Crime stats tell us that almost all sexual predators are men who, by definition, have multiple victims. This probably explains why all women have learned how it feels to be prey long before they reach adulthood. Let’s not talk about the potential connection between the growing numbers of girls who don’t want to be female, and a reported increase in the number of girls who are sexually assaulted every year, which is about one in five now. We salute our colleagues across the media who are working tirelessly to make that number even higher.
—The Onion Editorial Board, among themselves, probably.
Argument Lego
When I’m responding to trans nonsense on social media often use these handy building blocks to assemble my arguments.
Feel free to appropriate them for your own use. Some of these were created by others, but I can’t tell who unless they watermarked them. I edit this to add new ones, usually at the top.
Canada Violates the Charter & Women
I’m in a public washroom stall and I hear a man’s voice in the room. My fight-or-flight response is triggered, which causes a cascade of physiological reactions which, if repeated frequently over time, could seriously damage my health. This reaction is a mammalian instinct that evolved over millions of years. It is not a “social construct.” You cannot train people to *not* have a fight-or-flight response to a potential predator. It is worth noting that the only predator a human female is likely to encounter in the modern world is a human male. Of course not all men are predators, but almost all predators are men. Predators, by definition, have multiple victims, which is why all women know how it feels to be prey. This is why single-sex spaces for females exist.
If I’m undressing in a female locker room and a man walks in and disrobes, he is committing two crimes: voyeurism and indecency. I don’t care if he claims to be trans. I don’t care if he takes hormones. I don’t care if his body has been surgically altered. He is not female and he is therefore not welcome, but he isn’t considered a danger because of his gender identity. He represents a danger to women and girls because he is male. Sometimes women need to partially disrobe in a public washroom due to menstrual accidents. This is humiliating enough without men violating our space. No one observed to be male at birth has ever changed his sex from male to female and that is why no male should ever set foot in a single-sex female space. Nobody can give a male permission to use a communal female space because each woman’s consent is her own. Not one of the eight billion people on this planet can give *my* consent to any man.
I have the right, protected by Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, to freedom of thought and belief. I reserve the right to use sex-based pronouns because they are honest and I believe honesty is a virtue. I reject trans activist assertions that their “gender identity” should supersede their biological sex. About 99% of sexual predators are male and there is no evidence males who take cross-sex hormones become less violent than other men. Males are statistically significantly bigger, stronger, faster and more violent than females, with greater lung capacity and bone density. These differences mean that, while men have little to fear from females who pretend to be men, female fear of male violence is perfectly rational.
I have been unable to find any evidence to support the claim that “trans women” risk assault if they use men’s washrooms. On the contrary, it appears that men’s washrooms are safer for all people who identify as trans. I think most people already accept that some men present as very feminine, which may be why we don’t see reports of transitioning males being attacked in men’s washrooms.
In 2016, the trans lobby, having failed twice before, launched another assault on women’s rights in Canada. They had learned from previous failures and shifted their strategy. They had infiltrated the agenda-setting media and it was somehow no longer acceptable to discuss women’s legitimate safety concerns – everything that didn’t serve them was somehow transphobia. Their dogmatic mantra – you know the one, their Big Lie – was chanted ad nauseam, until a sufficient mass of people seemed blind to its absurdity, or so media propaganda told us. “Trans women,” meanwhile, continue to be men.
During the Senate hearings on Bill C-16, it seems nobody heard feminists articulating the threat the bill posed to women and girls, because the media kept the focus on Jordan Peterson‘s opposition to compelled speech. Peterson was right about pronouns, but in hindsight I would also say the trans lobby capitalized on the noisy pronoun battle to distract us from the serious safeguarding issues that should have torpedoed that bill or amended it to confirm the sex-based rights of women. This deliberate, ongoing attack on women’s rights (and children’s bodies) also serves to distract us from the fact that “democracy” is really just an illusion, but that’s a blog post for another day.
Most Canadians don’t even realize that a man who wants his driver’s license and birth certificate falsified to say he’s female is not required to have undergone surgery. These changes have been implemented across Canada, but not always as a result of legislation. In Ontario it was a decision made by the Human Rights Tribunal. Most women don’t even realize how this stripped us of our fundamental rights without public consultation. Most Canadians also don’t realize that violent men with intact male genitals, including sex offenders, have been transferred into women’s prisons by claiming to be trans.
Our federal Department of Justice defines woman as “all people who identify as women, whether they are cisgender or transgender women.” This insult and erasure cannot stand. Sex is encoded in DNA in every cell nucleus in the body, so no amount of hormones or surgery can change it. This is why, in my opinion, nobody should ever be allowed to falsify data on any government document. The once-compelling arguments that supported the abomination known as the “legal fiction” no longer hold water because society has changed dramatically.
Back in 1988, one of the reasons Canada’s abortion law was struck down by the Supreme Court, was that sex discrimination is prohibited by Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Men did not suffer the denial of their bodily integrity, so it was unfair to put that burden only on women. Erasing the boundaries of women as a distinct sex class causes disproportionate harm to women and girls not just by increasing the risk of sexual assault but also by robbing us of opportunities in sports, education, and employment. Men are not similarly affected. Prison authorities who allow males to be placed in women’s prisons, are also violating not just Section 15, but also international law and Section 12 of the Charter which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment. It is time for the media to stop obscuring the truth about how gender ideology harms women and girls and violates our rights.
Although the charter rights of Canadian women have been violated, there is a remedy. Section 52 of the Constitution Act, says a law that is inconsistent with the Charter, to the extent of the inconsistency, is of no force or effect. Thus adding “gender identity” to the prohibited grounds in the Human Rights Act does not allow a male to use a female single-sex space, service or accommodation because that would be sex discrimination and would therefore violate the Charter. Canadian women in correctional facilities could commence a class action lawsuit on this basis to remove trans-identifying men from women’s institutions, but they should not have to. Women deserve single-sex spaces where we can be free from harassment and male violence. We will not be bullied into submission. Come hell or high water, we can and will take back our stolen sex-based rights.
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That was heavy. Bring on the memes!
Connect ALL the Dots 