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Chris Fox's avatar

It’s worth noting that “gender identity” peaked some years ago and is now waning.

In 2023, 6.6% of genz identified as”trans”; two years later it was 3.4%. The cult of “gender identity” is collapsing under the weight of its own absurdity.

Ghosts, souls, gender identities: three Unreal Things. There is only biological sex, and it is binary.

P.I. Miller's avatar

And, yet the restrictions on free speech continue with the new nebulous “emotional harm” as the standard promoted. Which is tied to competition to be defined as the most harmed. Those who are most harmed set parameters of discussion. Authoritarianism masked as caring.

Kyle Smeby's avatar

I hope you are correct but beware of premature declarations of victory. Social movements wax and wane. It may be receding for the moment but the left still controls some of the most important institutions and they only need to win a couple elections before they start looking for ways to actively signal to their activist base.

NV's avatar
Jun 5Edited

Women's spaces now rely on a flawed honor system instead of solid protections. We can't accept this decline in women's security. Our rights are inalienable and cannot be bartered away. This undermines the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and violates international law. It's up to us to fight for these protections since institutions like the UN have failed us and no longer protect their founding document.

There's a "Third Way" that offers a fair solution: create separate, recognized spaces for everyone. This means keeping men's and women's facilities based on biological sex while providing distinct spaces for transgender individuals. Everyone deserves their own secure category without infringing on women's rights.

Sports categories must remain sex-defined to ensure fair opportunities, privacy, and security. Protecting these categories safeguards women's chances, scholarships, and dignity under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights while extending similar protections to transgender people.

This presents a clear choice for policymakers. go back to honouring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Protect women's rights. Create separate space for trans, and everyone benefits from safety. Reject it, and it reveals a goal to erase sex as a legal category and undermine women's rights.

Opening women's spaces to self-identified women violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 3 ensures personal security, Article 12 protects privacy, and Article 30 prohibits using freedoms to undermine others’ rights. Women’s rights cannot be traded away.

The current approach forces women to navigate constant speech policing, scrutiny and mandatory training just to use their own facilities that have been colonised by an unwanted imposition on their once upon a time enviable rights. Meanwhile, consultants profit off this conflict, perpetuating a dishonest, anti-human rights scheme.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights aims to prevent totalitarianism in all forms. Weakening these rights brings us closer to the oppressive systems the declaration sought to combat.

Dei represents an anti-universalist mindset that inches us toward Marxism, an ideology responsible for over 100 million deaths. It has failed in 27 countries, leading to GULAGs, secret police, and a wealthy elite while crushing the poor. The language of oppressor oppressed is the langue of genocide - it dehumanises and breeds hatred it has never once worked to create a utopia.

NV's avatar
Jun 5Edited

The framing is weaker as it misses the defense of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) for women and instead its labeling it an "ideological claim"when in fact its a broken adherence to the universal rights document!. By pushing a "compelled speech" narrative, the organization misses the most well known brand to fight freedom with - the UDHR

DEI is breaking human rights law and removing rights from women, it's not just a disagreement it's an abrogation of fundamental rights that have been lost for women.!! this loss is explicitly forbidden in the UDHR documentation yet nobody speaks about it!... they do it in a roundabout way that the everyday person doesn't understand!

(and in doing so, you can expose the UN as being abrogating its own functions because it is a captured institution also, which is now acting against its own founding document!!) it's really time to clean out these totalitarian ideologies that are floating around...

ratgrrrrl's avatar

This is not about the First Amendment or free speech. It's about kindness and consideration. Boll is certainly not treating "every patron and coworker with courtesy and professionalism" if she calls them by names they don't want to be called by (or uses pronouns to refer to them when they do not want those ponouns used-- a rare thing, since when would a trainer talk to anyone about client, anyway?).

Lost in an Angry World's avatar

Wanted to register for the Canadian session, but it just takes me to the meeting space. Is there a registration page, especially interested as I might not be able to attend in person because of time zone, but would want to see a recording at least.