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Ian Craig Wiseman's avatar

This is a great compilation and commentary. As I read, I wondered if you / others have heard the ideas of Iain McGilchrist? He talks of the ‘left hemisphere’ seeing parts and not the whole. The ‘right hemisphere’ sees the big picture. There is an irony here: it seems trans ideology is based on ‘parts’ as if they make the whole: if you have hormones, or surgery or whatever, then you must be the other sex. Then they turn around and make the silly inspection / chromosome test accusations as if they are the ones who see the ‘whole’ person. According to McGilchrist (and mainstream neuroscience consensus), the LH also confabulates on the fly. Trans ideology begins to seem like a giant LH distortion. That’s perhaps why, those of us who stand back and (at least aim to) see the bigger of whole picture find it so insanely confusing. They are, in this view, literally seeing the world (or biology) as parts, not a whole.

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Garwhoungle's avatar

Thanks Ian. I'll look Gilchrist up but I thought that left/right brain stuff had been dismissed? Or is this something else? In any case there is definitely something very compartmentalised about trans activist thinking, isn"t there? While claiming to be opposed to reductionist thinking they do reduce us to body parts, stereotypes, a hormone shot . I tend to think of it as a very consumerist approach, that femaleness is just another commodity that can be bought.

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Ian Craig Wiseman's avatar

It is something quite different from the usual view of things - it is based on discoveries from split brain patients and the impact of strokes. McGilchrist then takes it a step further to comment on our actions as cultures. His books are ‘The master and his emissary

’ and ‘The matter with things.’ Most fascinating, for me, is the way the left hemisphere will make up nonsense explanations on the spot. McGilchrist is a serious thinker, not a pop psychologist 😎.

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u.n. owen's avatar

#terfisaslur & much RTA misogynist.

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Robin's avatar

Wow, this is a great compilation! The more I read from moronic cretins who clearly can't tell their ass from their elbow, the more exclusionary I feel. If you really cannot understand the importance of mammalian sex, you should not be out in public without supervision.

There are as many nonbinary people on the globe as there are unicorns. And there are no trans kids; there are only kids who have been led astray by untrustworthy adults (some of whom, are unfortunately their parents). The answer to any mental distress felt by children/teens is not to tell them that they need to become lifelong medical patients who need "fixing". https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/be-thankful-for-what-youve-got

This is one of several excellent bits of research on the importance of using sexed language in maternity care, because all "pregnant people" are biological women. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/global-womens-health/articles/10.3389/fgwh.2022.818856/full

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Garwhoungle's avatar

Ass from elbow <snorts>. Yeah, they have a problem with body parts. Oh yes, I have seen this article before but probably lost it at some point. Great to have a link.

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Dusty Masterson's avatar

Thanks for a great, comprehensive round up.

Have cross posted

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-good-and-the-bad-and-the-ugly

Dusty

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Suzanne Levy's avatar

This is just wonderful, what a whirly couple of weeks it has been, thank you for documenting it so beautifully!

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Jan Rivers's avatar

Excellent. What a sad lot these are.

I see that Helen Joyce has just published a matching summary of UK coverage. Thinking about the same thing at the same time. Could you possibly be related? :-) https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/joyce-activated-issue-108 I was very impressed by an article by Phillip Crump which tied in Casey Costello, The NZF sex is real bill, Kathleen Stock and Starmer's change of heart. https://cranmer.substack.com/p/winds-of-change-defining-woman-and Jenny Ruth has published an article too. I think both maybe behind paywalls. But its the best sort of journalism. And then yesterday Bruce Logan did a short piece on The Platform which was summarised by @2eteka. https://x.com/2ETEKA/status/1917051115356803204 about how genderism is the new secular faith.

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DAVID BEDGGOOD's avatar

Yes, I agree that defining women as a biological sex against trans ideology is a great victory at the level of bourgeois law. The 20th C bourgeois default position on women was characterised by Beauvoir as the exploitation of women as a sex class by the gendered social relations of patriarchal capitalism. The 21 C trans ideology queered the materialist sex exploitation reproduced by gender oppression as its idealist appearance as a non-exploitative, de-gendered pomo identity. So we have a way to go from the restoratoin of the legal recognitiion of biological sex to the abolition of the patriarchal capitalist roots of sex exploitation and gender oppression.

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Sheryl White's avatar

Thank you for this roundup. I'd read quite a lot of it previously but it was good to have it compiled. I read through it all again, because I live in an ongoing state of disbelief about transgender activism and its success! So I read it to see if it's really that bad - and it is! I hadn't seen the Gordon Campbell piece previously, and this evoked one of my gasps. Haven't read him for a good while but always thought of him as sensible and someone who would stand by truth. That he has bought into the tired old story about trans vulnerability and victimisation is extremely disappointing. I really loved Victoria Smith's piece. I know I'm on the right side when I read her stuff, and yours, and all the other wonderful women who do see clearly, and speak it out.

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Garwhoungle's avatar

Thanks Sheryl. It's odd times and I hang on to the amazing, funny and brilliant women and their words to keep me sane. Yeah, Gordon Campbell's piece was "disappointing" to quote a friend. And Victoria Smith's such a great antidote. I think it's hard in NZ because we're so small that organised resistance doesn't have the critical numbers that they can muster in the UK.

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KenInNZ's avatar

Thanks Garwhoungle @theministryhasfallen

"to appease 1 or 2 pregnant people who don’t identify as women."

Those one or two can identify how they like, but if they give birth they most definitely are women.

Steroid infused, drugged up, mentally confused, foot stamping women though they may be.

Best wishes

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Garwhoungle's avatar

Thanks Ken.

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Terf vibes's avatar

Thank you for this excellent roundup of the NZ version of Transmania post the SC decision. As ever it's a case of falsehoods flying while the truth limps after (Swift). The lies they tell about women's rights and sometimes believe testify to how hard it is for most humans to grasp that women ARE discriminated against as women and it has serious consequences for our freedom and autonomy. Feminists of course used to reject the 'biological essentialism' that reduced women to our reproductive biology. Chloe's use of it with reference to her 'strong proud' feminist upbringing, reminds of Sturgeon's defence of being a 'feminist to my fingertips' to say she couldn't possibly be misogynist. They are both radical misogynists, not even feminist in their fingernails.

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Garwhoungle's avatar

Thank you Terf Vibes! Yeah Chloe's proud feminist tradition of pretending women don't exist isn't a very old tradition which makes the use of the word tradition questionable.

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Terf vibes's avatar

Everything she says is questionable.

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Pirate Hag's avatar

Walls: “This isn’t an isolated incident—it’s part of a broader agenda: the weaponisation of gender identity for political gain…” Ffs - the genderborgs are the ones weaponising gender identity - we all had to state our “gender” in the last bloody census! No opt out for those of us who don’t believe we have a sexed soul. These people do my fcking head in with their gaslighting. The entire PMC, the media, academia, the arts, health and education sectors and more are captured by genderism but we are the baddies for refusing to nod along with the sexed-soul Thetan cult.

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Garwhoungle's avatar

I had to look up Thetan, it's perfect. Yeah. The capture of institutions is astonishing and heart breaking when it's old once solid women's groups and gay groups that now work against the people who set them up. I have to think it's a cult and to feel sorry for most of the people who go along because I just can't believe so many people would willingly be so dismissive of and cruel to women.

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