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An Inconvenient Truth about Dr. Torrance Stephens' article Credentials. Historical memory. And transgender rights. Three things that shouldn’t be in conflict, but here we are. Today we’re going to talk about Dr. Torrance Stephens (@crim3j0nes), a respected infectious disease scientist[1] who studied how prejudice literally kills
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How One Commenter Discovered the Revolutionary Concept of Consequences Friends, let me tell you a story about consequences. It's a concept that some folks find as foreign as a decent healthcare system in America, and today's protagonist is learning this lesson in real-time. Meet Darleen Lev,
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An Inconvenient Truth About Satire Sometimes the universe delivers a gift so perfect, you wonder if it's performance art. Enter Holly MathNerd (@hollymathnerd), whose comment on my satirical piece about oblivious parents of trans kids demonstrates exactly the behavior my satire was critiquing, except they did it unironically.
How ancient philosophy becomes modern misdirection In the ongoing debates about sex and gender, it's become somewhat fashionable to invoke ancient philosophy as an ace in the hand - as if Plato or Aristotle might settle modern questions about biology and identity. Recently, a gender critical blogger writing
A response to Jason's "It's Not Possible to Be an 'LGBTQ2I+ Person'" CW: This post quotes some transmisic LGB Alliance “LGB without the TQ” crap. Look, folks. I've read a lot of arguments against LGBTQ+ community solidarity in my time,
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Yet Still Somehow Confused LOCAL LIVING ROOM — In what experts are calling “the most oblivious parental response since that dad in 2003 who thought his son’s rainbow flag was ‘just really into meteorology,’” area parent Jordan Miller spent several hours Tuesday staring at a laptop screen, attempting to piece
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A Deep Dive into Anti-Trans Pseudoscience Well, well, well. What do we have here? A shiny new “literature review” that claims to have uncovered all sorts of terrifying health risks from hormone therapy for transgender women. Published in a real journal and everything! Surely this must be legitimate medical research
An Inconvenient Truth About Polly Clark’s War on Nuance Friends, gather ‘round. Today we’re going to talk about something that apparently died recently - nuance. According to author Polly Clark, it was murdered by Helen Joyce on BBC Radio 4, and honestly? They seem pretty happy about it.
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A Satirical Response A Satirical News Article As A Response to “I Have to Leave You Here” by a brave anonymous parent SPRINGFIELD—In what experts are calling an unprecedented display of parental martyrdom, a brave local anonymous father who we will call Richard Simmons, or just Dick, 52, has
The Intellectual Acrobatics of Daniel Howard James Every so often in the ongoing discourse around transgender healthcare, something comes along that’s so peculiar it demands attention - not because it’s persuasive, but because it represents a fascinating case study in how rhetoric can substitute for substance. Daniel Howard
When The Title Of Your Article Tells On Yourself and Prejudice Masquerades as Reason Sometimes I come across an article so densely packed with falsehoods, fallacies, and misrepresentations, that I need to take a deep breath before diving in. Today’s specimen comes from Lisa Shultz (@EyesOpen Substack), who recently
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So Ridiculous It Deserves An Equal Serving of Facts and Satire This year’s contestant is Adam Brooks, who opened their Substack approximately 4 hours before penning this masterpiece, and boy oh boy, did they bring all the classics to the table. Let’s start with their masterful opening gambit: