Culture & Identity

The Ultimate Agenda

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But of course:

University of California, Riverside associate professor Brandon Robinson argued that a sexual identity label like “gay” or “lesbian” “harms trans people” and called for abolishing sexual identities altogether. …
Robinson, who uses they/them pronouns, explained the importance of moving beyond “gender essentialism” from sexual identities, which the professor claims can be built around gender “stereotypes.”
“If being ‘gay’ means being a man attracted to men, it assumes ‘man’ is a stable, inherent category, when history shows the definition of manhood is constantly changing,” Robinson said. “Gender essentialism also harms trans people, who often complicate those binary boundaries.”
Robinson included traditional labels like “gay” or “lesbian” as ones to abolish, wanting readers to question “why we privilege gender and genitals above all other attributes” in our desires.


For those who discount conservative-leaning news sources, here’s the UC Riverside press release.

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Defending Effeminate Boys

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Kevin Waldman writes that he:

…conducted a mixed-methods study on the University of Michigan campus examining identity formation, belonging, and psychological safety within campus LGBTQ coalition structures. …
Put plainly: the data suggest that gay students experience pressure to align with trans-centered frameworks, while trans students do not report a comparable expectation to align with gay-centered frameworks. … Gay male participants in interviews did not describe hostility toward trans peers. They described vigilance. They described scanning their speech before speaking. They described calculating reputational risk. They described fatigue. …
The findings from this study suggest that universities should consider restoring orientation-specific spaces for gay youth – spaces organized explicitly around same-sex relational development and psychosocial experience – alongside broader LGBTQ coalitions.

While I question whether “broader LGBTQ+ coalitions” make sense given the conflicting interests of those of us who are gay and those who are trans-identifying, particularly transactivists (i.e., protecting and safeguarding the natural development of gender-nonconforming kids vs. encouraging them to trans-identify and socially/medically transition), kudos to the author for going so far as to encourage gay-specific social spaces for gay students. I hope the pushback from the TQ+ side isn’t overwhelming.

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Reasserting Gender Common Sense in Girls’ and Women’s Sports

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And summing it up:



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Understanding ‘Useful Idiocy’

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And more of Alexander’s examples:

Ideology is how useful idiots know what to think about things they don’t understand. Perhaps “From the river to the sea” sounds poetic to the “Free Palestine” activist, but ask them which river and which sea and you’ll likely get a blank stare. It’s the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, of course, but the point is that chanting the slogan effectively calls for the elimination of Israel and its people. It’s a bit genocidal when you think about it, which they don’t.
“Trans women are women” works in the same way. It’s not a claim about biological reality but an unfalsifiable redefinition of the word woman. It also functions as a sort of loyalty oath. Ask for a definition of woman, and it quickly falls apart. That’s because slogans are engineered to short-circuit thought and leave reason at the door.

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What We’re Up Against

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“Jack of Shadows,” the handle of a gay man who worked in sexual health and HIV prevention in a midsize Northeastern U.S. city, shares his story via LGB Courage Coalition:

My STI testing booth at the Pride festival was overrun by obviously autistic women on testosterone, so-called “trans children,” their very proud parents, all manner of Queers for Palestine, and, of course, Furries. This parade of mentally confused kids, oblivious parents, and—Furries—was just too strange to ignore. I often say that gender ideology is a mile wide but paper thin. Once you see it for what it is, you can’t unsee it. And I had seen too much. …

My advisor, a child-maternal health expert with a PhD in epidemiology, was censored by journal editors when she submitted papers using “controversial” words such as “mother” or “woman.” If she refused to use preferred terms such as “birthing person,” “uterus haver,” or my least favorite, “chest feeder,” her reputation and employment would be endangered. In secret, we vented our disgust at these dehumanizing, dystopian terms that the public health sector had so rapidly embraced. …

As [a required training] ended, I politely pointed out that “trans men” have different concerns than men do. Women who believe they are gay men are still women with all of the same sexual and reproductive concerns women have (pregnancy, cervical health). Furthermore, sex matters when it comes to infectious disease. … When I carefully, painstakingly pointed this out—like walking on eggshells—the pushback was swift and severe. …

I entered this field because, as a Gen X gay man who lived through the AIDS crisis, I wanted to help others in a way the generation before me had not. … Yet the moment I questioned the dogma, even privately, I was pushed out of the field I had dedicated almost a decade of my life to.


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Was TQ+ Surge a Fad or Contagion?

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A 4 percent rate of trans self-identification for American college students is still ridiculously high.




Stop the celebration?


Prof. Kaufmann discusses his report:



Related and worth repeating:

His high school “gay-straight alliance,” instead of focusing on homophobia and acceptance of being gay, promoted transitioning for students who were gender nonconforming. In college, he became further immersed in the gender-transition ideology pushed by faculty and supported by administrators.



Lauren Leggierico, co-executive director of the LGB Courage Coalition, tells Mariah Burton Nelson: >>Gay functions nowadays are mostly trans. You go to a lesbian party – and it’s not even called a lesbian party. It’s called a queer women’s party. There’s no one under thirty that looks like me: gender nonconforming. They are all medicalized. They’re all “trans men.”<< https://strongerwomen.substack.com/p/when-girls-who-would-have-been-lesbians

– Stephen Henry Miller

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