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On Charlie Kirk

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In 2019, Charlie Kirk said “I believe marriage is one man, one woman,” but he sought dialogue and debate with people who held opposing views.

Podcaster Dave Rubin, who is openly gay and married to a man, met Kirk in 2017 and “went on to do dozens of college campus events where we both relished discussing our differences — not only with each other, but with the huge crowds of college students as well. … What started as spirited disagreements on politics, culture, religion and activism turned into a meaningful friendship and a turning point, pardon the pun, in my career.”

Other openly gay critics of leftwing extremism, including Andrew Doyle and Andy Ngo, have praised Kirk’s commitment to free speech and respectful dialogue. And in a statement, Log Cabin Republicans said that Kirk “worked tirelessly to bring American education back to its roots of civil debate, free speech, and tolerance for differing points of view. His work was, and will continue to be, an inspiration for LGBT conservatives to proudly defend their own views against those who may loudly and hatefully disagree.”

In a quote now being widely shared, Kirk himself said this: “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens. Because you start to think the other side is so evil and they lose their humanity.”











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Addendums:

Well said by Debra Messing: “The idea that disagreement could justify erasure is barbaric. And the fact that so many are celebrating it is horrifying.”



OsborneInk (Matt Osbrone) writes:

… GLAAD, the once-hallowed civil rights nonprofit … claimed that Kirk “spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people.” GLAAD is particularly put out by “Turning Point’s college campus campaigns featuring speakers such as Riley Gaines, Chloe Cole, and Pastor Junsun Yoo, who regularly spoke against transgender people.”
I have met one of those people, Riley Gaines, and watched her speak. … Gaines was denied her Title IX rights to fair sports competition, as well as the safety of a single-sex locker room, because William ‘Lia’ Thomas has special gender gremlin inside him that makes it okay, according to the new leftist dogma everyone has been forced to accept as a civil rights project. …
… I actually know Chloe Cole personally, having met her three times and interviewed her. She did not “speak against transgender people” because she never does. Chloe tells the story of how her breasts were cut off while she was a minor child, during the very same time that GLAAD and ‘the left’ were gaslighting America that no minor children were being surgically transitioned, passing off this lie with the compliant help of the media.


More: Will this hold up? We’ll see.

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Same-Sex Marriage Won’t Be Overturned

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Despite the scare-mongering by the left (Big LGBTQ+ now joined by Hillary Clinton) and the fever dreams of the anti-gay right, it’s not going to happen. There are huge legal and moral differences between marriage equality and abortion, as well as the justices’ differing past positions on these two issues (i.e., Roe critics who supported marriage equality in Obergefell).









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Thoughts on the Trans Restroom Issue

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I recently commented on an Eliza Mondegreen Substack post in which she discussed how her views on transmen in women’s spaces has changed, including her current opposition to transmen using women’s restrooms.

The thread is linked to below, but here are some highlights of what I contributed.

“If, say, a man has surgically transitioned into a transwoman and passes adequately as a woman (although I agree, he’s not actually a woman), he really can’t walk into a men’s restroom. That just isn’t going to work. So, what is this person to do? If he’s adequately passing in dress and appearance, he is going to walk into the women’s restroom and use a stall there. Passing laws and putting up signs forbidding this just won’t work, and it’s going to make the gender-critical side look intolerant, and even cruel.
Yes, I’m a guy so maybe I don’t get it. But I do agree about locker rooms and showers, as well as women’s crisis centers and women’s and lesbian-only social spaces. But restrooms seem a different matter, and some flexibility in practice on this is going to be needed, it seems.”

Elsewhere in the tread, I commented:

Legally requiring a male who for all intents and purposes appears to be female to use the men’s restroom, where he is seen as a woman by other men, seems like it would do more to undermine society’s sex binary (and to open the door to restrooms being treated as “gender-neutral”) than allowing the transwoman who (again, for all intents and purposes) passes as a woman, to use the women’s restroom.

And this:

Men won’t accept a person who for all intents and purposes they judge to be a woman (even if yes, an illusion) walking into a men’s room…. It just won’t happen. Believe me. But if that person walks into a woman’s restroom, and if that person appears to be a woman and uses a stall, that is not going to cause a commotion. So, it’s not the same thing.
This is not to say that a person who is obviously male but “identifies” as female should use the women’s room. But there are plenty of transwomen who are passing. …
Similarly, if a transman who passes as a man walks into a men’s room and uses a stall (obviously not a urinal), I don’t see a problem. Laws making this criminal just aren’t going to work in either situation.

And this:

….if the men believe that a woman has entered the men’s room (and yes, many mtf transsexuals can pass), there will absolutely be derisive comments and maybe any close-by authorities (building management, police) would be sought to oust that person to what seems to be their appropriate restroom.

I also noted, however:

As a practical matter, a transwoman who is actually passing as female, and many who have “fully transitioned” (yes, still not an actual woman) do “pass,” this person is not going to go into a men’s room but will use they women’s restroom. That’s just what’s going to happen.
I think [Eliza Mondegren’s] comment … strikes the right note — have policies against men in women’s restrooms (and vice versa) so that the transman can be evicted if perceived as male. That provides a safeguard against the pervs with beards who say they identify as a woman but we all know what they’re up to.

https://elizamondegreen.substack.com/p/where-ive-changed-my-mind-over-the-ed0/comments

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Democrat Presidential Wannabees Trip Over Trans Issues

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I’ve updated my post looking at how potential “moderate” Democratic presidential candidates are trying to appeal to centrists on transgender issues while not provoking too negative a response from the party’s increasingly gender-extreme base.

How’s that working out?

I take a look at the views and actions of former Chicago mayor and Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanual, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — as well as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is by no means a moderate but made a brief feint at playing one.

https://stephenhenrymiller.substack.com/p/democrat-presidential-wannabees-trip



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