Over at the Washington Post, people I assume are trans activists and their allies are reacting to news of Dagny "Nex" Benedict's suicide like villagers going after an evil foe with pitchforks and torches. The story is titled: "Oklahoma nonbinary teen's death is ruled a suicide, triggering anger."
In their comments, they seem to be trying to outdo one another to pen the most strident denunciation of Oklahoma's trans hatred, which some blame for killing the troubled teen girl.
The Post's comment administrators are doing their part to suppress opinions that challenge the accepted trans narrative. None of the gender critical comments I posted in last night survived to see the light of day. To test the Post's commitment to freedom of expression, I posted the following text in the Post's comment section about 10 minutes ago.
"Believing that the risks of gender-affirming care have not been adequately evaluated; that minors lack the capacity to give informed consent to social transition and puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones; that social contagion and co-morbidities such as autism can cause as person to identify as trans and that it is unfair for biological males to compete against real females in girls- and women-only athletic events does not make someone fascist. It simply means they're willing to look objectively at reasonable topics trans activists and allies consider anathema. That, as much as anything else, is an indicator that we're on the right track."
One of two things will happen. Either a Post censor will take down the comment, or it will stay where it is and provoke a response not unlike that of stepping on a hornet's nest.
Update: My piece is still there, but it took fewer than 15 minutes for someone to call me "nasty and hateful."
The public censorship on this issue is at dictatorial levels. This is basically "Castro consensus" in which it seems as if there is universal public buy-in on this issue, when in reality it is a small minority who are allowed their comments, and the rest of the majority are silenced.
Second and last update: Sure enough, withing a couple of hours Washington Post's content moderators took down my comment.
I then modified it by changing "real women" to "biological women" and deleting the last sentence. I posted it and, once again, the Post took it down. I suppose I should be thankful that my audacity did not earn me a permanent ban.
Someone at the Post is obviously trying to silence gender critical voices even when there has been no violation of the newspaper's rules.
I have been censored once by the WSJ for a comment not consistent with their "community standards," and had another held up but finally allowed. In the comment they censored the content was just a summary of a couple of the laws in Oregon that channel kids from public schools into gender clinics without parental permission. I posted this in response to another commenter who questioned how children could get gender surgery without parental permission. In the second comment I posted a link to the text of the Florida Parental Rights in Education Bill, in response to another commenter who claimed the bill prohibits saying "gay."
My "world" is birth and breastfeeding, both of which are sexed, not gendered activities. The takeover of so many women founded mother support groups by TRAs is nothing short of astonishing. Considering that the vast majority of mothers stop breastfeeding before they are ready (due to societal structures and general lack of support) means that zero time should be spent supporting male lactation: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/since-when-is-medical-experimentation And no, no men give birth and all people who have babies are women, even the delusional ones.
I have a number of friends in the birthing community who were awakened early on this issue because of the drastic changes in language that they were being forced to participate in. It is insane that we would erase the word "mother" from pregnancy and birth!
Thank you also for these substack recommends. Lucy Leader is great!
Midwifery is horrifyingly captured too, with the same result of peaking my Friends as the lactation disinformation has had with Yours.
The USA's only Spanish-speaking midwifery school, Maternidad La Luz of El Paso, Texas—which is also a high-volume [by midwifery standards] counseling and birthing facility—has managed to hold the line up to this point, honestly as much out of obliviousness as bravery if we're being totally honest. They work across the border with both American and Mexican Mothers, which I guess keeps them from getting as easily swept up in the cultural trends of either the US or Mexico individually. But for whatever reason, MLL has been a point of light in the darkness.
Men don't give birth and men don't lactate. The ooze that drains from these male's nipples is a drug-induced slime. This is no more lactation than is a fashioned hole carved into a male a vagina.
Excellent! And an excellent argument to The 'free speech' advocates who are saying just be kind and use wrong sex pronouns for those men who they like.
Thank you! When people tell me to "be kind," I say, "I am being kind. I'm being kind to women, children, and everyone who doesn't want to be forced to lie. "
Mar 14·edited Mar 14Liked by Amy Sousa, MA Depth Psychology
In the spirit of this piece, I will say that it was recently reported that the death of the self-identified "nonbinary" (or is it "two spirit"?) teen girl known as Dagny "Nex" Benedict has been ruled a suicide.
One is unlikely to find her described this way in any mainstream or liberal publication.
Mar 24·edited Mar 24Liked by Amy Sousa, MA Depth Psychology
Excellent and comprehensive piece. Thinking a lot about courage, these days, the courage to both say no to this cultish insanity, and to stand up and speak out about its great harms to women/girls, children, lesbians. This is a very powerful men's rights movement. Can you image this kind of global capture if it was just females saying they were males and could change sex? We all must, to defeat this, begin by speaking up to our friends and community. Begin by finding just one or two others locally, in person, to discuss and become active.
This is moronic, language changes as it is used, as it is an organic social technology, not some divine fixture or signifier of truth. You aren’t preserving anything, you’re showing yourself to be out of touch and useless to a world history that seeks to trample you.
Over at the Washington Post, people I assume are trans activists and their allies are reacting to news of Dagny "Nex" Benedict's suicide like villagers going after an evil foe with pitchforks and torches. The story is titled: "Oklahoma nonbinary teen's death is ruled a suicide, triggering anger."
In their comments, they seem to be trying to outdo one another to pen the most strident denunciation of Oklahoma's trans hatred, which some blame for killing the troubled teen girl.
The Post's comment administrators are doing their part to suppress opinions that challenge the accepted trans narrative. None of the gender critical comments I posted in last night survived to see the light of day. To test the Post's commitment to freedom of expression, I posted the following text in the Post's comment section about 10 minutes ago.
"Believing that the risks of gender-affirming care have not been adequately evaluated; that minors lack the capacity to give informed consent to social transition and puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones; that social contagion and co-morbidities such as autism can cause as person to identify as trans and that it is unfair for biological males to compete against real females in girls- and women-only athletic events does not make someone fascist. It simply means they're willing to look objectively at reasonable topics trans activists and allies consider anathema. That, as much as anything else, is an indicator that we're on the right track."
One of two things will happen. Either a Post censor will take down the comment, or it will stay where it is and provoke a response not unlike that of stepping on a hornet's nest.
Update: My piece is still there, but it took fewer than 15 minutes for someone to call me "nasty and hateful."
The public censorship on this issue is at dictatorial levels. This is basically "Castro consensus" in which it seems as if there is universal public buy-in on this issue, when in reality it is a small minority who are allowed their comments, and the rest of the majority are silenced.
And late yesterday, the unfortunate tweet by Biden.
Second and last update: Sure enough, withing a couple of hours Washington Post's content moderators took down my comment.
I then modified it by changing "real women" to "biological women" and deleting the last sentence. I posted it and, once again, the Post took it down. I suppose I should be thankful that my audacity did not earn me a permanent ban.
Someone at the Post is obviously trying to silence gender critical voices even when there has been no violation of the newspaper's rules.
I have been censored once by the WSJ for a comment not consistent with their "community standards," and had another held up but finally allowed. In the comment they censored the content was just a summary of a couple of the laws in Oregon that channel kids from public schools into gender clinics without parental permission. I posted this in response to another commenter who questioned how children could get gender surgery without parental permission. In the second comment I posted a link to the text of the Florida Parental Rights in Education Bill, in response to another commenter who claimed the bill prohibits saying "gay."
Are "trans teens" all at such terrible risk of sewer slide—or is it pitchfork time as soon as ONE sewer slide is ruled as such by the coroner?
The ghouls need to pick a side.
My "world" is birth and breastfeeding, both of which are sexed, not gendered activities. The takeover of so many women founded mother support groups by TRAs is nothing short of astonishing. Considering that the vast majority of mothers stop breastfeeding before they are ready (due to societal structures and general lack of support) means that zero time should be spent supporting male lactation: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/since-when-is-medical-experimentation And no, no men give birth and all people who have babies are women, even the delusional ones.
As you so rightly point out, the same news outlets that condemn FGM celebrate "gender affirming care" where the result are largely the same or even worse: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/um-and-the-difference-is-exactly
And differently created universes may work for entertainment purposes, but in reality they are a safeguarding nightmare for women and children: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/alternative-facts-cannot-create-an
I have a number of friends in the birthing community who were awakened early on this issue because of the drastic changes in language that they were being forced to participate in. It is insane that we would erase the word "mother" from pregnancy and birth!
Thank you also for these substack recommends. Lucy Leader is great!
Midwifery is horrifyingly captured too, with the same result of peaking my Friends as the lactation disinformation has had with Yours.
The USA's only Spanish-speaking midwifery school, Maternidad La Luz of El Paso, Texas—which is also a high-volume [by midwifery standards] counseling and birthing facility—has managed to hold the line up to this point, honestly as much out of obliviousness as bravery if we're being totally honest. They work across the border with both American and Mexican Mothers, which I guess keeps them from getting as easily swept up in the cultural trends of either the US or Mexico individually. But for whatever reason, MLL has been a point of light in the darkness.
Men don't give birth and men don't lactate. The ooze that drains from these male's nipples is a drug-induced slime. This is no more lactation than is a fashioned hole carved into a male a vagina.
Excellent! And an excellent argument to The 'free speech' advocates who are saying just be kind and use wrong sex pronouns for those men who they like.
Thank you! When people tell me to "be kind," I say, "I am being kind. I'm being kind to women, children, and everyone who doesn't want to be forced to lie. "
Excellent as always from the Known Heretic!
Thank you so much!
In the spirit of this piece, I will say that it was recently reported that the death of the self-identified "nonbinary" (or is it "two spirit"?) teen girl known as Dagny "Nex" Benedict has been ruled a suicide.
One is unlikely to find her described this way in any mainstream or liberal publication.
Paywalled link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/13/nex-benedict-oklahoma-death-autopsy/
Justice would be served if whichever adults influenced this teen girl to follow this garbage end up in jail.
Excellent and comprehensive piece. Thinking a lot about courage, these days, the courage to both say no to this cultish insanity, and to stand up and speak out about its great harms to women/girls, children, lesbians. This is a very powerful men's rights movement. Can you image this kind of global capture if it was just females saying they were males and could change sex? We all must, to defeat this, begin by speaking up to our friends and community. Begin by finding just one or two others locally, in person, to discuss and become active.
Very important thoughts, very well hashed out here. I very much like this piece!
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Thank you, Amy, for this excellent piece!
Great post! Thanks Amy
Excellent piece, Amy.
Thanks!
This is moronic, language changes as it is used, as it is an organic social technology, not some divine fixture or signifier of truth. You aren’t preserving anything, you’re showing yourself to be out of touch and useless to a world history that seeks to trample you.