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More Election Post-Mortems

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Andrew Sullivan explores further how the Democrats lost their way. He writes, regarding the party’s support for bio-male boys playing in girls’ sports and sex-transitioning for gender-nonconforming kids:

One thing you notice about the [social justice warrior] pushback: they never actually rebut any of the concerns about fairness in sports, which is the nub of the issue. They don’t rebut it, because they cannot rebut it, even though some have tried. Nor do they ever engage with the fast-changing facts and research on “gender-affirming care,” i.e. sex reassignment for children. In fact, they do all they can to suppress journalism and hound reporters because this subject has been determined “not up for debate.”

And so transness is sacralized, made inviolable, and any weighing of the evidence is regarded not as part of a reasonable debate but as a kind of blasphemy.

More from Sullivan below.

Andrew Sullivan writes: >>…the transqueer activists then portray themselves as merely the latest people to be “on the…

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 15, 2024


Here’s Guy Benson on the fear-mongering by LGBTQ+ activists that’s left many gay people convinced their marriages are about to be annulled (so send you checks today!!!!):

:Exhales: Okay, here we go: No. 1) Obergefell isn’t going anywhere & I’d bet SCOTUS lacks the votes (they’d need 4) to even take up a hypothetical challenge. 2) Even if they somehow overturned that case (they won’t), Congress passed a bipartisan law, signed by Biden, further protecting/enshrining same-sex marriage. 3) SCOTUS expanded LGBT protections in a ruling authored by a Trump appointee (Bostock/Gorsuch). 4) Whatever else you think of him, Donald Trump is *openly pro-SSM.* He even hosted a gay wedding at his house. I’m not asking liberal or progressive gays to become Republicans. I am asking them to stop fear-mongering about this.

And posted by Ben Appel:


If you have an hour to spare, watch Brianna Wu on a post-election TRIGGERnometry podcast, on how Democrats (she's one) lost their way on gender and other issues.

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 15, 2024

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Transinsanity and the GOP Victory

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The progressive left’s embrace of promoting the transing of gender-nonconforming kids and letting boys who “identify” as female compete against girls in high school and college sports was one of the reasons sane people chose to vote for Trump, despite everything. Sadly, a rationale approach to treating transgender adults is lost in the extremism targeting (often gay) kids for transitioning, or letting gender-dysphoric boys or often-fetishicistic men (who “identify” as female but are physically male) use women’s locker rooms and showers.

When progressives are challenged, their response is typically to end the debate by lobbing the accusation of “transphobe” or “fascist.” The “slur” in the clip below that caused the progressive to throw a tantrum was referring to male minors who identify as female (or, who have been indoctrinated into getting on the trans train because they are gender-nonconforming) as “boys.”


And this:

Rich Lowry writes: >>The problem is that progressives consider whatever new boutique obsession they’ve come up with at…

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Sunday, November 10, 2024


Plus this, from liberal Sam Harris, who endorsed Kamala:

Sam Harris writes: >>I want to be very clear about this: I have no doubt that there are real cases of gender dysphoria,…

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Tuesday, November 12, 2024


And from another sane liberal:

Nick Tyrone writes: >>If you’re a grown-up, have had an adequate amount of therapy to rule out other possibilities and…

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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Democrats No Longer Good for Gays

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Ben Appel explains in Why I’m Not Voting why he can’t vote for a political party whose policies put gender-nonconforming gay kids at risk:

The progressive position, embraced by Democrats, used to be that there was no “right way” to be a boy or a girl. That boys can like dolls and girls can play football. Not so today. Today, so-called progressives tell young boys that if they like pink, mermaids, and long, flowing dresses, they might be girls “on the inside,” and they tell young girls that if they prefer short hair and hate makeup, they might really be boys.
What we have known for years, decades, maybe centuries, is that most gender-nonconforming children—that is, butch girls or girly boys, like the sissy little boy I once was—will grow up to be gay. And yet the Democratic Party advocates for medical treatments that block the natural development of these young people. Medical treatments that leave them sterile and often sexually nonfunctional. Medical treatments that began as nothing more than an attempt to turn homosexual young people into straight adults.
Talk about conversion therapy!
This is not progressive. This is regressive, illiberal, and antigay.
And, like Donald Trump’s election denial, it is inexcusable.

Note: When I tried to post this on the IGF CultureWatch Facebook page, Facebook’s censors removed it as “inappropriate.” It’s true, Facebook is censoring posts that its progressive gate-keepers see as critical of Democrats on the eve of the election!

More from Ben, post-election:

Ben Appel’s election reflections, which hopefully Facebook’s moderators won’t remove (as they did my attempts to post…

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 8, 2024


And this:

Here's hoping that the U.S. Supreme Court next year will allow U.S. states to do the same.

Posted by IGF CultureWatch on Friday, November 8, 2024

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The Side that’s Authoritarian Is Pretty Clear

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It’s well past time for LGBTQ+ activists to stop the lawfare against Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Co., and trade their authoritarian (you will do what we say, deplorable) attitude for a more just and libertarian one (you have your beliefs, we have ours, and that’s fine).
From the Wall Street Journal editorial, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission acted with particular animus toward Phillips’ faith when ordering him to create a custom same-sex wedding cake:

[A]n attorney had called Mr. Phillips to request another custom cake, this one celebrating a gender transition. He also requested a second cake depicting Satan smoking marijuana. Mr. Phillips declined again on religious free-exercise grounds. The attorney then sued. This is the lawsuit the Colorado Supreme Court dismissed this week….

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The Backlash Cometh

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The rightwing “Not the Bee” shares a range of tweets that reveal what’s actually fueling the backlash, such as:
— “One day you’re ok with gays getting married, next day they’re telling you kids have to cut their genitals in order to be happy with their identity?”
— “Funny how we went from ‘let us get married’ to ‘let me mutilate your child’ in a decade.”
— “I supported it [same-sex marriage] back then and wish I never had. No offense to gay people who just wanted to be happy but it opened Pandora’s box….”

Across the pond, they actually are following the science.

Gay men and and lesbians standing up to the TQ+ radicals find themselves excommunicated.


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The Depths of Intersectional-Left Insanity

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Binion adds: “When it comes to ‘Queers for Palestine,’ what’s richly ironic is that many LGBT Palestinians seek asylum in Israel—the same country these stateside protesters are rallying against.”

Progressive, intersectional LGBTQ+ “social justice” activists think that by supporting Hamas and its genocidal policies (look at what children are taught in Gaza) they’ll curry favor with radical anti-Semitic jihadists, the way that Harvey Milk won support for gay rights by supporting San Francisco labor unions. Yes, this is what the intersectional left believes! Coalition-building!

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Progressive feminists are now onboard with mass rape.


And this:

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