Vice went on to argue, “Sexuality and gender aren’t simply something that comes from some biological imperative. They are phenomena that are developed through a messy brew of social, cultural, historical, and psychological factors. They can also prove to be lightly malleable if we try to dig into the foundations of how those oppressive structures influence the ways we see and understand the world.” 616You must not be opposed to hooking up with a tranny, or else you are a “cis-sexist” bigot now.
Aerobics icon Richard Simmons sued The National Enquirer after they reported he had been living his life as a tranny, claiming it was defamation. He was not living as a tranny, but lost the case because the judge claimed that being called transgender shouldn’t be seen as an insult, even if it’s a false claim and the person is not. Richard Simmons not only lost the defamation case, but had to pay The National Enquirer $130,000 for their legal fees. 617
Since the culture has changed so much recently, and in the wake of Richard Simmons losing his lawsuit, it’s likely that if someone is falsely smeared as a homosexual in the press, they may have no legal recourse since the courts will follow the precedent set by Richard Simmons’ lawsuit and claim that being called gay isn’t defamatory because “there’s nothing wrong that that.”
“Some Women Have Penises”
Transgender activists on social media like Riley J. Dennis and Zinnia Jones claim that “some women have penises” and “men can menstruate.” 618Jones says, “We need to resist this push to misgender trans women using very specifically chosen definitions and applications of ‘biological’ and ‘male.’” 619And that “If we accept the use of terms like ‘male’ or ‘male genitals’ for trans women, people now have an excuse to call us partially or fully male.” 620“She” went on to say that, “Referring to a trans woman’s penis as ‘male genitals’ might seem harmless or even common-sense. It’s not. It’s the thin edge of the wedge.” 621
Just enter a search into Twitter for “some women have penises,” and you’ll find countless tweets from social justice warriors arguing that this is the case and engaging in online arguments with others trying to convince them of this. There are even people selling T-shirts online that say, “Some Women Have Penises. Get Over It.” 622
The infamous “Pussy Hat” came to prominence during the 2017 feminist Women’s March which was the day after President Trump’s inauguration where participants carried signs that read “Pussy Power” and “This Pussy Grabs Back” to console each other after Hillary Clinton’s loss, but the “Pussy Hat” becoming the symbol of the Women’s March was offensive to some because it was too “reproductive system-focused” and marginalized transgender “women” who don’t have pussies. One transgender activist wrote an essay for the University of Oregon’s student newspaper, The Daily Emerald , to complain that too many women were equating womanhood with having a vagina. 623
Another social media maniac tweeted, “Today I’m talking about my vagina for #VaginaFriday, promoting women’s health. Did you know, you don’t have to have a vagina to be a woman?” 624Reading through these people’s Twitter feeds is like taking a tour of an old fashioned insane asylum, but it’s not just a few random weirdos online making these kinds of claims. These ideas are being fully embraced by mainstream media, major universities, and the Big Tech giants.
Google has installed tampon dispensers in men’s bathrooms at their headquarters in Silicon Valley because they love being on the cutting edge of “diversity.” 625Brown University also installed tampon dispensers in men’s bathrooms, 626and there is a “movement” to have all colleges (and businesses and public bathrooms) do the same thing in what they call the “Free the Tampon” movement. 627
“Nobody expects you to carry around your own toilet paper, and so in the same sense we don’t think it should be required or expected of people to pay for or carry around their own tampons or pads,” says one proponent. 628They’re literally calling it the fight for ‘menstrual equality.’
A 24-year old transgender “man” named “Cass” Clemmer began free bleeding to “raise awareness” that “Periods are Not Just For Women” and that “It’s harmful to equate periods with womanhood.” 629“Free bleeding” means she doesn’t wear a tampon and has her period blood seep through her pants which creates a large bloodstain on her crotch. How it’s not illegal for a woman to walk around and sit on chairs in restaurants or other public places and leave them smudged with period blood is a question that remains to be answered.
The Daily Beast , an online website run by the parent company of Newsweek , declared, “Yes, Men Can Have Periods and We Need to Talk About Them” in a bizarre article claiming, “Menstruation isn’t just a ‘women’s issue.’” 630The writer got triggered by a joke on Twitter about “if men had periods” and penned a lengthy essay about how some “men” do “have periods.” “We do not need to hypothesize what the world would be like if men had periods. Some men do have periods, as do some non-binary people.” 631
A popular health website called Healthline.com, which is one of the top 250 most-visited websites in the United States according to Alexa (the Internet web traffic analytics firm) 632has decided to stop using the word “vagina” when referring to women’s genitals in their “safe sex guide” because they’re concerned the term is associated with women, and have opted to start calling them “front holes” to be more “gender-inclusive.” 633
They explained that historically sex education “discriminated” against trans and gender nonbinary people, and that, “These guides also often unnecessarily gender body parts as being ‘male parts’ and ‘female parts’ and refer to ‘sex with women’ or ‘sex with men,’ excluding those who identify as nonbinary. Many individuals don’t see body parts as having a gender — people have a gender.” 634
The post, which it notes was “medically reviewed” by a doctor before being published, says, “the notion that a penis is exclusively a male body part and a vulva is exclusively a female body part is inaccurate. By using the word ‘parts’ to talk about genitals and using medical terms for anatomy without attaching a gender to it, we become much more able to effectively discuss safe sex in a way that’s clear and inclusive.” 635
“For the purposes of this guide, we’ll refer to the vagina as the ‘front hole’ instead of solely using the medical term ‘vagina.’ This is gender-inclusive language that’s considerate of the fact that some trans people don’t identify with the labels the medical community attaches to their genitals.” 636
It continues, “For example, some trans and nonbinary-identified people assigned female at birth may enjoy being the receptor of penetrative sex, but experience gender dysphoria when that part of their body is referred to using a word that society and professional communities often associate with femaleness. An alternative that’s becoming increasingly popular in trans and queer communities is front hole.” 637
In 2014 the Midwives Alliance of North America updated their website to be more “inclusive” of transgender people by removing all references to mothers being women, and now calls them “pregnant people” or “birthing individuals” because in their mind, “men” can be pregnant too. 638
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