So, with UCP leader Danielle Smith regularly playing dodge-em with her own statements in the past, it shouldn’t come as any big surprise that something would come bubbling to the surface from one of the UCP candidates. This week’s entry into the bigot olympics comes via the UCP candidate
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Views from the Beltline: Republican trans phobia
People generally like to keep things simple. Black and white, right and wrong, men and women. But of course things generally aren’t all that simple. More often than not there are annoying shades of grey. Gender would seem simple. It’s all determined by our sex chromosomes. Women have two X
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Small Print on when you hear – “Just Trying to Live Our LIVES!”
The use of opaque statements like “Trans people are just trying to LIVE our Lives” is a prime example of the motte and bailey fallacy. “The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Activism – You Did This To Yourself.
The coercive tactics and social shaming that the transgender ideology almost always deploys is coming back to haunt them. People in a democratic society have the right to say “No” to an ideology that fundamentally misogynistic and corrosive for society.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Connect All The Dots – Sound statistics are crucial as the foundation for public policy
Read the entire post at Connect All The Dots, well worth your time. “Not all sex offenders are incarcerated. Given how hard it is to obtain convictions for sexual offenses, consider the likelihood that the total number of male sex offenders may be larger than the total number
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Activist Left Cannot Argue – Name Calling and Social Shaming Though…
This is a critical thinking exercise. It exists to help people understand why they say and support the things they say and support. It fails utterly for the activist students who take up the camp on the ‘strongly agree’ side. What is most telling is when Dr. Boghossian asks them
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: A Tale Of 3 Stories
Over the last several weeks, there have been a series of stories about alleged “indecent exposure” incidents in public change rooms involving transgender women. Incident 1: January 27, 2023 https://thepostmillennial.com/canadian-parents-protest-after-trans-identified-male-allegedly-exposed-himself-to-young-girls-in-pool-change-room https:thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/phil-tank-saskatoon-needs-dialogue-not-threats-on-change-room-nudity Incident 2: February 6, 2023 https://www.westernstandard.news/alberta/parent-furious-transgendered-men-allowed-into-girls-changing-room-at-calgary-pools/article_fb95136a-a638-11ed-bf71-5bf32c6f642b.html Incident 3: February 7, 2023 https://www.cheknews.ca/mother-reports-nanaimo-aquatic-centre-change-room-incident-to-police-1139751/ https://www.westernstandard.news/bc/bc-mother-says-man-wearing-wig-peered-at-daughter-in-womens-change-room/article_12e9ad10-a8c2-11ed-9a16-27b394d7418a.html *Note: Dates are first time that articles
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Alberta NDP Thinks That Female Sport is “Transphobic”
Hey folks, I’m just here watching the NDP continue to betray women and their hard fought for rights in society. Janis Irwin, of course is at the forefront of deciding that we should be including men in female sports, spaces, and services? Why? Because these men have special gender feelings
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Accuracy Matters – Male That Abused His Daughter Referred to as ‘She/Her’.
Perverted men do perverted things. And just because they happen to mutter the gender-magic phrase “I identify as woman” does not change the fact that they remain men. Not ever. Male pattern violence and criminality persist regardless of any sort of gender identity declaration. “A trans-identified male has been sentenced
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transideology Won’t Affect Me… – Take a peek at our Institutions and weep.
Call your political representatives, find out if they can define what a woman is. If they cannot, consider moving your vote to someone who can.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: It is Unlawful and Unethical To Have Males in Female Prisons
Canadians need to be exposed to the end product of inducting the concept of gender identity into Charter and laws. The end result is that we have incarcerated male rapists in female prisons. It is the ultimate expression of placing the feelings of males above the *safety* of females
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Trans Rights are not Apex Rights.
Thank you justdad7 for writing such urgently necessary thoughts. This is the context we need to make any progress with the gender religious, as most seem to be under the notion that the rights they claim happen to be ‘apex rights’ – in other words gender identity should
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Letter to Steve Novella and Sometimes Science Based Medicine – The Turn Away from Rigorous Science
There has been much controversy over lately at Science Based Medicine as they seem to have been institutionally captured by gender ideology and turning away from the foundations SBM was founded on. When gender woo-magic takes precedent of science based facts the lambasting by those who keep their scientific integrity
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Erosion of Female Boundaries – What Transgender Ideology Is.
Something went wrong between the 2nd and 3rd wave of female political action. The class based analysis so firmly rooted in the second wave seemed to have been gradually pushed to the margins and replaced with a the conception of intersectionality that in its initial phase could have gone
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Untangling Sex
The discourse around transgender people often breaks into two sides screaming at each other, one arguing that 'gender is a social construct', and the other stamping their feet and yelling that such an argument denies the biological realities of women. Both positions are correct from certain perspectives, but the "biological"
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Transgender Ideology Obscures & Enables Male Violence – CTV (Newspeak) News
This from a major Canadian ‘news’ website. Forget about ‘just wanting to pee’ wedge issue bullshit – this is what we are in for in Canadian society; this is the upside-down nothing has any meaning timeline that trans ideology has in store for us. Do not believe your eyes, but
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Transgender Athletic Performance
There is an enormous amount of noise being made about the alleged advantage that transgender women have in athletics. First, let me start off by saying that the topic of athletic performance is not an area of expertise for me, so what follows is largely my opinion, bolstered by observations
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Globe and Mail Letter
Today’s Globe and Mail contains a letter to the editor from yours truly (second from the bottom) in response to an op-ed criticizing those who take offence at J.K. Rowling’s misguided views on trans people. I discuss one of my pet peeves in the current “free speech” wars — namely,
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Globe and Mail Letter
Today’s Globe and Mail contains a letter to the editor from yours truly (second from the bottom) in response to an op-ed criticizing those who take offence at J.K. Rowling’s misguided views on trans people. I discuss one of my pet peeves in the current “free speech” wars — namely,
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