“we need to resist it with every fibre of our being”
“Need” recalls and affirms centuries of oppression by the patriarchy who lectured us on our “need” to conform to societal norms.
“Resist” is a clear case of conceptual appropriation from our struggle to fight back against the aforementioned cultural norms.
“Being” implies a state of non-being which has been the fate of so many of our fellow persons for centuries in the eyes of white, heteronormative society.
“Fibre”, with its odd, UK spelling that was once imposed on huge areas of the world, recalls the horror of British colonialism.
The only acceptable word in that deeply oppressive sentence is “We” as it encompasses the inclusion of the marginalized.
I don’t think a sentence has so traumatized me since, I don’t know, about an hour ago.

Bravo Joan. Put your armour on.

It’s come to something when the safeguarding of children has been turned on its head and a Roman Catholic President of the US thinks it “sinful” to protect them from mutilation.

Language is everything when it comes to trans ideology. If you actually explain what gender-affirming care is, the vast majority of people are not only opposed to it, but horrified. I was out with some friends on the weekend and somehow we started talking about JK Rowling. I was the only one at the table who knew her actual support for trans people – that she only opposes gender affirming care and other radical ideology.

None of this surprises me about the Grauniad and NYT. What doe’s surprise me is that otherwise rational friends think that they are balanced, accurate newspapers of record. I’m nit sure that such a thing even exists.

Trans girls are, biologically speaking, boys 

The fact that this was a bit shocking for me to read shows the insanity western society has become accustomed to, and really drives the author’s point home.

‘Not according to the NYT, which claims that opposition to these anti-women policies is a Right-wing plot. ‘

If you are opposed to children being giving hormones and surgery, you are Right-wing and should admit that to yourself.

“The Nation” journal (something I’ve supported for many years but am now seriously reconsidering) recently had an article about how transwomen were basically physically no different from natal women when it came to sport, and then another article where they described JK Rowling as an “anti-trans activist”.

The best analysis of the trans movement I’ve heard is here: https://youtu.be/tLXdoqXbC6k

This is Paedophilia

Language control: the first refuge of scoundrels and totalitarians. ( but I repeat myself )

You know, if you believed this claptrap, you might get the mistaken notion that people who identify as LGBTQ+ are actually oppressed!

The comments’ section of the NYTimes were a palate cleanser of rational rejection of both articles’ premises. That was the only saving grace to these aggravating levels of linguistic gymnastics.

Well said, Joan. Perhaps you could have a word with Jesse Singal, whose column heads today’s UnHerd.

The Times pushed back against the open-letter from activists and employees about their coverage of trans issues, receiving the praise of gullible free-speech activists and then acquiesced to all of the letter writers demands. None of the journalists who wrote the offending articles have covered trans issues since the letter.

The more reasonable people; those of us who stand against trans-activism, climate activism, etc., should admire the way the “progressive” side has managed to take over the common language, the public discourse. The U.S. military has been working on this for years. They refer to it as “controlling the information space”.
Immediately after admiring the technique we should learn to use it ourselves. And turn it against activists of all sorts.
In the absense of truly representative government various activists have pretty much turned democracy on its head. It’s time to move on to the next turn of this long, strange trip we’re on. There are more important things to deal with.

If a boy can call himself a girl, can I call myself black? Now everyone needs to respect my life choices, right? What if I called myself “Emperor of the Universe”?

As always, the first question to ask is: Cui bono?

Indeed, once we dispense with the risible declaration, “It’s for the children.” who is getting rich/powerful promoting this agenda? I submit that the more we wallow in the weeds, the less influence we have on the outcome.

Follow the money and the political power, and expose that corruption. For example, Drag Queen story hours are a distraction, a way to divert energy and resources while holding forth on trans affirmation.

I’d be willing to support with my wallet investigative journalism focusing on who are the winners of the trans debate, both now and in the future.

My only certainty is that very very few of those winners will be found among the poor children duped into the gender dysphoria racket.

Enough of this! who cares?!!!