Thank you for bringing attention to this, Matt. I’ve been following WOLF and talking about this issue online for over a year…and it’s just maddening how dismissive and nonchalant everyone is about this situation.
If you take into account the *staggering* percentage of female inmates who have suffered sexual and domestic abuse…who are often there *because* of their abuse…it’s clear that we are forcing cruel and unusual punishment on the most vulnerable, most abused population in our country.
As a woman, nothing has ever made me feel sadder, more helpless, or more hopeless than this issue. It tells you everything you need to know about how our society fails to value women.
XX chromosomes and the nature given ability to give birth to other human beings equals a woman. How something this fundamental has been high jacked and distorted is beyond me. People with XY chromosomes are not female.
"If there’s a better illustration of the upside-down state of politics in 2022 America, it’s a feminist activist group forced to seek cyber-refuge in a Christian fundraising company."
This is the problem: "a major shift in elite political attitudes." We have allowed elites to dictate too much of what goes on in this country at the expense of an ocean of non-elites. It's no accident that the people who run around defending Amber Heard are the same ones who would expose female prisoners to rape in the name of "social justice." We hear about "privilege" so much in this country. We're brow beaten with it day in and day out. But no one wants to talk about the real privilege, the privilege of class and how these people in their virtue-signaling have left a swath of damage behind them. And I hope you are right that the "worm is turning," but I have my doubts. I don't think we've redlined the craziness meter quite yet.
The statement "women who have penises" has got to be one of the most insane sentences ever. That people can actually make that statement just shows that human beings are equivalent to lemmings. The future is shaping up to be both very strange and very disturbing.
Thank you, Matt! I'm one of those TERFs in the UK (a.k.a. TERF Island). I think I'll make some mugs and stickers with 'Fuck Etsy' on them & try to sell them on Etsy.
It should be noted that men's prisons are separated by severity of crime. Women's prisons are not separated. There's normally no need because the percentage of women convicted of violent crime is so low, there's no point. So murderers share a cell with tax evaders.
Matt, you should talk to Amie Ichikawa (Twitter @ichinita310). WoLF can put you in touch with her or just DM on Twitter.
I once again applaud Matt, as someone who has been a WoLF supporter for some time. I again urge Matt to follow the old journalistic adage: FOLLOW THE MONEY! The promotion of trans-activist extremism is no accident. There is big money behind it, which is why much of the corporate media is promoting the agenda and why so many people are joining the cancel-culture mob to attack any and all dissenters. Here are just some of the resources that we are compiling at the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights [https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/]:
Hugh Esco, ed. The lobby for gender ideology: a quick primer. [2022] Published by the Gender Critical Greens PAC https://archive.ph/wip/vRsZq
Gender Dissent [Canada] “Exposing the money and influence behind the gender industry in Canada https://www.genderdissent.com
I think there will be worm-turning on a lot of issues soon. On the transgender issues first because there are so many absurdities ("I can't define woman since I'm not one") but I think on other things as well. Lots of self-righteous people will be doing 180 degree shifts and pretending to never have supported things they shoved down everyone else's throats for years.
One of these days, and I hope it's soon, there will be a great reckoning over this coordinated effort to establish a delusion in law and in everyone's minds.
Altering one's body does not magically transform anyone to the opposite sex. Merely cross-dressing and expecting access to sex-segregated spaces is the pinnacle of narcissism and extremely destructive to what little social cohesion remains. "I'm a woman because I say I am. My penis has nothing to do with it." How did so many people fall for this colossal lie?
The attempt to change sex does not (or should not) confer special social status or heroic status. The urge to do so is not whimsical like merely cross-dressing used to be, it is condition that is to be pitied, and that pity is being destroyed by the trans/gay lobby and its strident, deeply irrational campaign to wipe out commonsense understanding of sex and sex expression.
That our political "leaders" are so cowardly as to force the entry of cross-dressing rapists into women's spaces is a travesty, more of the feminist chickens coming home to roost. It is the social disaster of "equity" taken to its extreme and now even some DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity) enthusiasts are having second thoughts even as this insane method of social leveling is destroying what's left of our institutions.
You'd better hope that if the Rs gain a majority some of these accommodations will be rolled back, but don't hold your breath. We need leaders who can stand up to the infantile whinging and hysterical claims of "genocide" and put an end to the advancement of professional sex agitators, fashionable gender benders, butchering sex-reassignment surgeons, and the lickspittle press that defends them in the public prints..
The silence of most women in the face of these assaults on the gains of the feminist movement is astonishing.
More generally, why is it that gender and race are the ONLY drivers of identity to drive societal groupings? Why do those immutable characteristics override other characteristics the contribute to identity?
Here's a thought experiment: I'm a specialized professional who is a white male. If I walk into a room and there are two groups of people: a group white male construction workers and a group of non-white females who work in the same profession as me, which group will I want to mix with? I will prefer to mix with the female group becasue their experiences and thoughts are going to provide for stimulating conversation. Not that I'm hating on construction workers, it's just the reality that I will share more interests with the professional group. So what part of my identity is most important? On what basis are gender and race considered the most important components of identity and should drive social/governmental policies?
"Bill C-16 also amended two parts of the Criminal Code:
It added “gender identity or expression” to section 318(4) of the Code, which defines an identifiable group for the purposes of advocating or promoting genocide (section 318) and inciting hatred (section 319).
It added “gender identity and expression” to section 718.2(a)(i) of the Code, which deals with sentences for hate crimes. This section allows courts that impose a sentence to take into account evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on a person’s gender identity or expression. It means judges should consider hatred based on gender identity or gender expression.
The Correctional Service Canada
In 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to make sure transgender inmates are placed in prisons based on their gender identity. He stated:
I will make sure we look at it and we address it and we do right in recognizing that trans rights are human rights and we need to make sure we are defending everyone’s dignity and rights in every way we can.
After that promise, the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) – which governs the federal penitentiary – changed its transgender inmate placement policy. The CSC’s old policy was to place transgender prisoners according to their sex assigned at birth.
About the old policy, Boyer, Odeyemi and Fletchers stated:
As recently as January 2017, the CSC policy dictated that trans prisoners be assigned to either men’s or women’s penitentiaries based on their pre-operative sex. Consequently, trans women who had not undergone gender affirmation surgery were forced to live in men’s prisons instead of with the gender they identify with. This CSC policy has led to extreme difficulties for these women, who are often subjected to sexual harassment and assault. Frequently, they are sent to solitary confinement or are otherwise isolated for their protection."
The Chandler case has two big problems. First and foremost, the bad guys are trans. That’s an unthinkable no-no in contemporary American (really the entire Anglosphere) life. Trans is a sacred value and going against it make you a ‘very bad person’. The highest value of American life is protecting the ‘right’ of Will Thomas to cheat by joining the women’s UPenn swim team. TWAW and you had better not forget it.
Of course, class plays a role here. The core of feminist ideology (in practice, WOLF is an honorable exception) is promoting the interests of elite women. Ordinary women are of little or no interest to most feminists. Since, female prison inmates are at the bottom of society, they don’t count.
Please stay with this issue Matt it is the most important issue of our time. Women and girls are under brutal assault promoted at all levels by the Biden regime
FIST is another feminist organization doing outstanding work pushing back against the extremist trans-activist agenda. Check out this informative video presentation about autogynephilia, which explains much of the trans phenomenon. People need to understand that the trans-activist demand to allow males who "self-identify" as women to have access to women's spaces is another manifestation of patriarchal domination. It is being driven by male fetishists who want women to accept them as women for purposes of gratification (and, as noted in another comment of mine, they are supported by some big money, including money from the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex). See: https://feministstruggle.org/2022/03/31/agp-awareness-day-march-31st/
I’ve seen the attacks on you from “left” Twitter (actually broken-brained narcissistic — and really mean — grifter quacks who are in no way “left”) for these articles, and I know it must be difficult for you. This writing been empathetic and sensible and deeply reported, which is what people should want on this issue.
Thanks for this writing, and thanks for pointing out the work of Herzog and Singal; I’m a big fan of theirs.
Thank you for bringing attention to this, Matt. I’ve been following WOLF and talking about this issue online for over a year…and it’s just maddening how dismissive and nonchalant everyone is about this situation.
If you take into account the *staggering* percentage of female inmates who have suffered sexual and domestic abuse…who are often there *because* of their abuse…it’s clear that we are forcing cruel and unusual punishment on the most vulnerable, most abused population in our country.
As a woman, nothing has ever made me feel sadder, more helpless, or more hopeless than this issue. It tells you everything you need to know about how our society fails to value women.
XX chromosomes and the nature given ability to give birth to other human beings equals a woman. How something this fundamental has been high jacked and distorted is beyond me. People with XY chromosomes are not female.
Smart observation:
"If there’s a better illustration of the upside-down state of politics in 2022 America, it’s a feminist activist group forced to seek cyber-refuge in a Christian fundraising company."
This is the problem: "a major shift in elite political attitudes." We have allowed elites to dictate too much of what goes on in this country at the expense of an ocean of non-elites. It's no accident that the people who run around defending Amber Heard are the same ones who would expose female prisoners to rape in the name of "social justice." We hear about "privilege" so much in this country. We're brow beaten with it day in and day out. But no one wants to talk about the real privilege, the privilege of class and how these people in their virtue-signaling have left a swath of damage behind them. And I hope you are right that the "worm is turning," but I have my doubts. I don't think we've redlined the craziness meter quite yet.
The statement "women who have penises" has got to be one of the most insane sentences ever. That people can actually make that statement just shows that human beings are equivalent to lemmings. The future is shaping up to be both very strange and very disturbing.
Thank you, Matt! I'm one of those TERFs in the UK (a.k.a. TERF Island). I think I'll make some mugs and stickers with 'Fuck Etsy' on them & try to sell them on Etsy.
It should be noted that men's prisons are separated by severity of crime. Women's prisons are not separated. There's normally no need because the percentage of women convicted of violent crime is so low, there's no point. So murderers share a cell with tax evaders.
Matt, you should talk to Amie Ichikawa (Twitter @ichinita310). WoLF can put you in touch with her or just DM on Twitter.
I once again applaud Matt, as someone who has been a WoLF supporter for some time. I again urge Matt to follow the old journalistic adage: FOLLOW THE MONEY! The promotion of trans-activist extremism is no accident. There is big money behind it, which is why much of the corporate media is promoting the agenda and why so many people are joining the cancel-culture mob to attack any and all dissenters. Here are just some of the resources that we are compiling at the Green Alliance for Sex-Based Rights [https://greenalliance.sexbasedrights.org/]:
Hugh Esco, ed. The lobby for gender ideology: a quick primer. [2022] Published by the Gender Critical Greens PAC https://archive.ph/wip/vRsZq
Gender Dissent [Canada] “Exposing the money and influence behind the gender industry in Canada https://www.genderdissent.com
Jennifer Bilek. “Big Pharma exploits and monetizes ‘Trans Identity.’” [2021] https://archive.ph/lJ02b
“Transgenderism is just Big Business dressed up in pretend civil rights clothes.” [2018] https://archive.ph/LzwJU
“Who are the rich, white men institutionalizing transgender ideology?” [2020] https://thefederalist.com/2018/02/20/rich-white-men-institutionalizing-transgender-ideology/f
“Who owns Big Pharma and the billionaires invested in the trans industry?” [2021] https://archive.ph/YTV76
The Data Lounge. “Martine Rothblatt: a founding father of the transgender industry.” [2020] https://archive.ph/utSFX
Alexandra DeSanctis. “Planned Parenthood jumps into the hormone-therapy game.” [2021]
https://eppc.org/publication/planned-parenthood-jumps-into-the-hormone- therapy-game/
Dialoguenotexpulsion.org. “NLGC [National Lavender Greens Caucus]--vs–GaGP [Georgia Green Party] Testimony.” [n.d.] https://archive.ph/ZTbCw
Sue Donym. “Inauthentic selves: The LGBTQ+ movement is run by philanthropic astroturf and based on junk science.” [2021] https://archive.ph/dFfh3
If we are looking for humans that can be categorized as “women”, maybe Martina Navratilova said it right, “A penis is a deal breaker”.
I think there will be worm-turning on a lot of issues soon. On the transgender issues first because there are so many absurdities ("I can't define woman since I'm not one") but I think on other things as well. Lots of self-righteous people will be doing 180 degree shifts and pretending to never have supported things they shoved down everyone else's throats for years.
One of these days, and I hope it's soon, there will be a great reckoning over this coordinated effort to establish a delusion in law and in everyone's minds.
Altering one's body does not magically transform anyone to the opposite sex. Merely cross-dressing and expecting access to sex-segregated spaces is the pinnacle of narcissism and extremely destructive to what little social cohesion remains. "I'm a woman because I say I am. My penis has nothing to do with it." How did so many people fall for this colossal lie?
The attempt to change sex does not (or should not) confer special social status or heroic status. The urge to do so is not whimsical like merely cross-dressing used to be, it is condition that is to be pitied, and that pity is being destroyed by the trans/gay lobby and its strident, deeply irrational campaign to wipe out commonsense understanding of sex and sex expression.
That our political "leaders" are so cowardly as to force the entry of cross-dressing rapists into women's spaces is a travesty, more of the feminist chickens coming home to roost. It is the social disaster of "equity" taken to its extreme and now even some DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity) enthusiasts are having second thoughts even as this insane method of social leveling is destroying what's left of our institutions.
You'd better hope that if the Rs gain a majority some of these accommodations will be rolled back, but don't hold your breath. We need leaders who can stand up to the infantile whinging and hysterical claims of "genocide" and put an end to the advancement of professional sex agitators, fashionable gender benders, butchering sex-reassignment surgeons, and the lickspittle press that defends them in the public prints..
You reap what you sow.
The silence of most women in the face of these assaults on the gains of the feminist movement is astonishing.
More generally, why is it that gender and race are the ONLY drivers of identity to drive societal groupings? Why do those immutable characteristics override other characteristics the contribute to identity?
Here's a thought experiment: I'm a specialized professional who is a white male. If I walk into a room and there are two groups of people: a group white male construction workers and a group of non-white females who work in the same profession as me, which group will I want to mix with? I will prefer to mix with the female group becasue their experiences and thoughts are going to provide for stimulating conversation. Not that I'm hating on construction workers, it's just the reality that I will share more interests with the professional group. So what part of my identity is most important? On what basis are gender and race considered the most important components of identity and should drive social/governmental policies?
My country, Canada, is committing the same idiocies.
An astonishing and dismaying 50% our female prisoners are First Nations.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/indigenous-women-half-inmate-population-canada-1.6289674
The current situation can be read about here: https://www.lawnow.org/transgender-inmates-in-prison/
"Bill C-16 also amended two parts of the Criminal Code:
It added “gender identity or expression” to section 318(4) of the Code, which defines an identifiable group for the purposes of advocating or promoting genocide (section 318) and inciting hatred (section 319).
It added “gender identity and expression” to section 718.2(a)(i) of the Code, which deals with sentences for hate crimes. This section allows courts that impose a sentence to take into account evidence that the offence was motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on a person’s gender identity or expression. It means judges should consider hatred based on gender identity or gender expression.
The Correctional Service Canada
In 2017, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to make sure transgender inmates are placed in prisons based on their gender identity. He stated:
I will make sure we look at it and we address it and we do right in recognizing that trans rights are human rights and we need to make sure we are defending everyone’s dignity and rights in every way we can.
After that promise, the Correctional Service Canada (CSC) – which governs the federal penitentiary – changed its transgender inmate placement policy. The CSC’s old policy was to place transgender prisoners according to their sex assigned at birth.
About the old policy, Boyer, Odeyemi and Fletchers stated:
As recently as January 2017, the CSC policy dictated that trans prisoners be assigned to either men’s or women’s penitentiaries based on their pre-operative sex. Consequently, trans women who had not undergone gender affirmation surgery were forced to live in men’s prisons instead of with the gender they identify with. This CSC policy has led to extreme difficulties for these women, who are often subjected to sexual harassment and assault. Frequently, they are sent to solitary confinement or are otherwise isolated for their protection."
The Chandler case has two big problems. First and foremost, the bad guys are trans. That’s an unthinkable no-no in contemporary American (really the entire Anglosphere) life. Trans is a sacred value and going against it make you a ‘very bad person’. The highest value of American life is protecting the ‘right’ of Will Thomas to cheat by joining the women’s UPenn swim team. TWAW and you had better not forget it.
Of course, class plays a role here. The core of feminist ideology (in practice, WOLF is an honorable exception) is promoting the interests of elite women. Ordinary women are of little or no interest to most feminists. Since, female prison inmates are at the bottom of society, they don’t count.
Please stay with this issue Matt it is the most important issue of our time. Women and girls are under brutal assault promoted at all levels by the Biden regime
FIST is another feminist organization doing outstanding work pushing back against the extremist trans-activist agenda. Check out this informative video presentation about autogynephilia, which explains much of the trans phenomenon. People need to understand that the trans-activist demand to allow males who "self-identify" as women to have access to women's spaces is another manifestation of patriarchal domination. It is being driven by male fetishists who want women to accept them as women for purposes of gratification (and, as noted in another comment of mine, they are supported by some big money, including money from the medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex). See: https://feministstruggle.org/2022/03/31/agp-awareness-day-march-31st/
I’ve seen the attacks on you from “left” Twitter (actually broken-brained narcissistic — and really mean — grifter quacks who are in no way “left”) for these articles, and I know it must be difficult for you. This writing been empathetic and sensible and deeply reported, which is what people should want on this issue.
Thanks for this writing, and thanks for pointing out the work of Herzog and Singal; I’m a big fan of theirs.