It has been quite some time since I felt a need to address something that Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has written. Then I happened to wander past the Calgary Diocese website and read his latest “pastoral letter” (or whatever his columns on t…
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The Cracked Crystal Ball II: Bishop Henry Returns …
It has been quite some time since I felt a need to address something that Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has written. Then I happened to wander past the Calgary Diocese website and read his latest “pastoral letter” (or whatever his columns on the website are officially known as). The title is
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Bishop Henry Returns …
It has been quite some time since I felt a need to address something that Calgary’s Bishop Fred Henry has written. Then I happened to wander past the Calgary Diocese website and read his latest “pastoral letter” (or whatever his columns on t…
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: An Open Letter To Margaret Wente
Dear Ms. Wente, I thought that as a journalist you were supposed to do some research before you go writing stories. In the case of your August 2, 2014 column in The Globe and Mail, it is painfully obvious that you haven't even bothered to try. As a child, Lindsay
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Radical Feminism Versus Reality
The New Yorker decided to publish an exposé about the ongoing war of words between Transsexual Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) and transsexuals. Sadly, the author spent most of their time talking about what TERFs have written about transsexuals and failed entirely to present the transsexual side of the discussion in
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: When Is A Policy A Non-Policy?
When it involves the Catholic Independent Schools of Vancouver Archdiocese making a policy on "accommodating" transgender students. At first glance, this almost seems like a reasonable document. There are lots of "The schools shall do this" and "shall provide that" statements, and it almost looks as though they made reasonably
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Oh The Dumbf …
Over at “Crosswalk.com” (no, it’s not a site about crossing roads), we find a Dr. White going off on gender identity in the wake of Time’s June 9 article “America’s Transition” (hiding behind a paywall, a copy has appeared on Scribd here). It’s a somewhat appalling excuse for writing, especially considering
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Really, Dr. McHugh?
For reasons somewhat beyond my comprehension, the Wall Street Journal has decided to give Dr. Paul McHugh another podium from which to spew his nonsense. "Transgender Surgery Isn't The Solution" is yet another attempt by McHugh to justify his hostility towards providing transsexuals access to gender reassignment surgery. I've
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: It’s Not Just About Trust
One of my news feeds dropped the following article this morning: “Gender Transition isn’t a Whim, so Why the Mistrust?”. After reading through it, the article is more or less the standard “I know I need this surgery, so why can’t I get it on demand?” argument. To a certain
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: How The National Review’s Williamson Gets It Wrong On Laverne Cox
Kevin D. Williamson is suddenly an expert on the topic of transgender and transsexual people it seems. Or at least, he has appointed himself as an expert. Titled “Laverne Cox is not a Woman”, Williamson’s column is a pretty basic attack on transsexual people and the issue of being cross-gender
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On RuPaul And The Use Of Language
I’ve seriously tried to stay away from the fracas that has developed around RuPaul’s use of the word “Tranny” (and a couple of other terms which I think are both denigrating and offensive to transitioning transsexuals that I will not repeat here because they are straight out of the fantasy
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: No, Transition Does Not Absolve You Of Your Past
I’m sure that the far right is going to use this story in the war currently being conducted on transgender rights in both Canada and the United States. Transgender Defense: ‘Donna’ Says ‘Doug’ Is the Spokane Serial Killer In fact, LifeSite has already picked up on the story: Transsexual
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Wente Is Getting It Wrong … Again
I suppose it should come as little or no surprise that Margaret Wente is getting things wrong again. This time, she is expounding on the treatment of transgender children. Suddenly transgender kids are everywhere – in the news, on Dr. Phil and in your neighbourhood. School boards have developed detailed
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Distort Things Much?
Over at his blog (where he has conveniently turned off comments), we find Walt Heyer madly scribing away, and getting it horribly wrong. He refers to three cases of what he supposes are gender transition regret: 1) Like the physician who wrote me. He became a “trans woman.” Yes, a physician! Even
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Wow, Walt – Generalize Much?
If the latest utterances from Walt Heyer were the first you had ever heard from him, you could easily be forgiven for believing that the man had never had anything to do with the transgender community. Women—Simply Men with no Snoopy The real war on women today is being waged on the
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