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The real story is that there’s not a newsroom on the planet who hasn’t known this since day one. pic.twitter.com/IuWhQ9d7b4

— Galut Greg🎗️ גלות 流亡 (@ExiledIsraelite) April 2, 2025

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They are not observable. To base sex assignment on gametes is therefore to rely on an imperceptible dimension of sex when observation remains the principal way sex is assigned. Second, most biologists agree that neither biological determinism nor biological reductionism provides an adequate account of sex determination and development. As the Society for the Study of Evolution explains in a letter published on 5 February, the ‘scientific consensus’ defines sex in humans as a ‘biological construct that relies on a combination of chromosomes, hormonal balances, and the resulting expression of gonads, external genitalia and secondary sex characteristics. There is variation in all these biological attributes that make up sex.’ They remind us that ‘sex and gender result from the interplay of genetics and environment. Such diversity is a hallmark of biological species, including humans.’

This is, in short, nonsense. Jerry Coyne has debunked this stuff ad nauseam – here, for instance, or here.

And here's his take on the Butler LRB article.

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I don't know if Butler was ever smart – but the LRB used to be. Now it runs garbage like this. It is genuinely incredible how gender ideology has turned so many into desperate clowns https://t.co/wVWWtnQawa

— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) April 2, 2025

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From the article:

Stone, credited with starting the academic field of transgender studies, is also a recording engineer, an artist, and the first known trans woman in the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Around the end of this year, her story will be told in a documentary film.

Stone was inducted into the hall last year along with several other prominent women, such as civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, tennis champion Serena Williams, and scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Earlier inductees, among more than 300 in the hall, include Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams, Maya Angelou, Hillary Clinton, Angela Davis, Emily Dickinson, Amelia Earhart, Jane Fonda, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Billie Jean King, Wilma Mankiller, Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks, Nancy Pelosi, Sally Ride, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The hall, founded in 1973, is located in Seneca Falls, New York, noted as the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement, having hosted the nation’s first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848.

And now, finally, a man! Well isn't that just wonderful.

“It’s a great honor and a great responsibility,” Stone says of her induction. “Somebody has to go first.”

“Obviously this was an incredibly historic induction,” says Jennifer Gabriel, CEO of the hall. “We were delighted to be able to celebrate her. She does a good job of highlighting the trans community and experiences we all share as women.”

Except – you know – he's not a woman. From his Wiki page we learn that he "underwent gender reassignment" in 1974, in his late thirties. So no, his experience is not one "we all share as women".

a, though, the Arabs are the biggest victims ever as the Israelis take strong action to counter the Hamas Islamic jihad against Jews, and the world explodes in protest. It's genocide, they cry.

Nice work if you can get it.

d the claims that about 70 per cent of the deaths are women and children, and these lists, especially the most recent, show that’s complete nonsense,” he said.

About 72 per cent of fatalities aged 13-55 are men, which is the rough age range of Hamas combatants, Mr Fox said. “We know that Hamas uses child soldiers, and these statistics show clearly that Israel is targeting fighting-aged men.”

Magnolias at Golders Hill Park this morning:

Another German trans saga, from Reduxx:

A trans-identified male accused of murdering a security guard at a refugee shelter was placed in pretrial detention for women in the federal state of Brandenburg, where he terrorized female inmates and threatened to kill them. Henrico Hilton G., a refugee from South Africa, was supposed to have been deported before his gruesome act and is now demanding in court to be addressed as a “female” named “Cleopatra.”

The court, of course, complied.

In a bizarre twist, three hours after fleeing the murder scene, Hilton contacted police to report that he had been “misgendered” at an Edeka supermarket in Schöneberg. Unaware of his connection to the murder, local officers recorded Hilton’s complaint without recognizing his connection to the ongoing manhunt, allowing him to remain free after taking his report. Information from this incident eventually led to Hilton’s arrest.

Initially placed in pretrial detention at Luckau-Duben women’s prison, Hilton reportedly terrorized the female inmates, leading to criminal complaints from two women. Witnesses at his trial described his behavior as aggressive and threatening, including frequent harassment and issuing death threats. Following numerous complaints, he was transferred to the men’s prison in Neuruppin-Wulkow in August 2024.

ep in British life, from hospitals that are run by managers not doctors, to universities that employ vast bureaucracies staffed by administrators who are better paid than actual academics.

They're the same people who put pronouns in their bios, and make sure that everyone goes on Stonewall courses about trans inclusivity. They didn't get where they are today by thinking for themselves.

Then again, on X – "You’re lucky to have mediocrities. We here in the States can’t seem to find anybody that good."

Let’s be extra careful with the wording here:

Female lawyer who proclaims she’s a man spends her time helping boys beat your daughters in athletic events.

That’s Chase Strangio. And that’s some kind of messed up. https://t.co/N4gNUrJxoH

— Christina Dalcher (@CV_Dalcher) March 31, 2025

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It's difficult to make out what she's saying, with that weird strangulated voice. Her interviewer also seems to be having some difficulty…