Tag: transphobia

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I’ll always remember the day Twitter restored my long-suspended account — not because it was a particularly meaningful occasion for me, but because it happened to fall on Valentine’s Day. Elon Musk’s romantic gift, as I jokingly thought of it, lasted little longer than a bouquet of flowers or a box of chocolates. Exactly two months and 14 days later, I was booted off the platform again. (more…)

Christine Jorgensen

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Amid all the censorious, aneurysm-inducing twaddle about “transphobia” and the nauseating, bootlicking treatment of the gender-dysphoric as cultural gods these days, a thought recently bubbled up that had been embedded deep inside my noggin for decades:

Why does no one hear about Christine Jorgensen anymore?

I asked a handful of friends if they could place the name, and none of them could. (more…)

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787)

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Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. — Exodus 22.18

The lady’s not for burning. — title of a 1948 play by Christopher Fry (more…)

George Weinberg

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Many if not most of the fixtures of our modern age that make life easier, less painful, and more enjoyable we possess because of some very smart, determined American men who decided to invent things that would improve the lives of their countrymen. Let me offer just one example: Charles Kettering from Dayton, Ohio, in the early years of the twentieth century, knew that there must be an easier, safer way to start an automobile than to stand in front of the car (more…)