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  • 20 Common Gender Identity Terms, As Defined By Psychologists And Sex Experts

    03/16/2024 9:51:10 PM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 50 replies
    Woman's Health ^ | Dec 15, 2023 | EMILY BECKER, SABRINA TALBERT AND ADDISON ALOIAN
    So, you're interested in learning all the terms and phrases someone might use to express their gender identity. Or maybe, you're exploring your own gender, and looking for the right word or words. Either way, there are a lot of terms out there, and you might have a few questions—especially if you're realizing that you don't (always) identify with the gender assigned to you at birth...... What is gender identity? In short: “Gender identity is how you feel about yourself and the ways you express your gender,” says Jackie Golob, MS, LPCC, an AASECT-certified sex therapist in Minnesota. It’s important...
  • Google Changes Definition of 'Bloodbath' Following Trump Rally

    03/21/2024 2:54:02 PM PDT · by lowbridge · 16 replies
    outkick.com ^ | March 21, 2024 | Bobby Burack
    Google was the chief promulgator of the Donald Trump "bloodbath" hoax over the weekend, flooding its search results with articles that deceptively framed the former president's comment. Trump predicted that re-electing Joe Biden would stir an economic "bloodbath," while specifically referencing the automotive industry at a rally last weekend. Yet nearly every headline Google generated on the topic led users to an article skimping over the context, suggesting Trump warned of his plans to provoke a civil war. Google understands it can no longer lead users to such deceptive headlines. Most Americans know what Trump said by now. Therefore, Google...
  • What the WHAT? GLAAD declares the term 'homosexual' to be derogatory and offensive (they prefer gender)

    03/20/2024 6:40:41 AM PDT · by NetAddicted · 39 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 3/20/2024 | Grateful Calvin
    If there is one thing we know above all at Twitchy, it is that language matters. Words matter. After all, words are our stock in trade. If we keep letting leftists redefine words according to their whims, then those words stop having any meaning. If we let leftists take control of language, then they have already won. It is why we ignore the 'preferred pronouns' nonsense, not to mention other bastardizations of language like 'gender-affirming care.' But sometimes we are even amazed at the attempts by the left to twist language to their nefarious purposes. For instance, take this latest...
  • Joe Biden’s White House Begins Referring to Illegal Aliens as ‘Newcomers’

    02/29/2024 1:25:40 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 96 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/29/2024 | John Binder
    President Joe Biden’s White House has begun referring to border crossers and illegal aliens as “newcomers and “people who are in the country” — a terminology distinction that conflicts with federal immigration law. On Thursday — while promoting a Senate bill to preserve his catch and release network at the United States-Mexico border — Biden’s White House made a passing reference to border crossers and illegal aliens, calling them “newcomers” to the U.S. The White House fact sheet on the Senate bill reads: The bill also includes $1.4 billion for cities and states who are providing critical services to newcomers,...
  • Secretary of State urged staffers to avoid ‘problematic’ terms like ‘manpower’ and ‘mother/father’

    02/19/2024 6:44:31 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 28 replies
    Nypost ^ | 02/19/2024 | Victor Nana
    Secretary of State Antony Blinken instructed State Department employees to refrain from using gendered terms such as “mother, “father” and “manpower” in a recent internal memo, according to a report. The Biden administration official argued in the memo that gender is a social construct and that a person’s gender identity “may or may not correspond with one’s sex assigned at birth,” according to the Feb. 5 missive. The note was obtained by National Review and titled: “Modeling DEIA: Gender Identity Best Practices
  • Former Mexican congressman convicted of 'gender-based violence' for calling a man a man

    02/19/2024 9:38:02 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 19 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 2/17/2023 | Grateful Calvin
    The global assault on free speech has gotten so widespread, that it's difficult anymore to find a country in the world where woke armies AREN'T trying to take it away. Here in North America, we see that being attacked every day (mostly accompanied by people fighting back, thankfully), and Canada ... well, Canada is just completely lost (for now, at least). But we hadn't heard much related to this issue from our neighbor on our southern border. Until now. This week, ADF International -- a group dedicated to defending basic rights and freedoms -- reported that former Mexican congressman Rodrigo...
  • A 2024 woke-to-English translation guide

    01/21/2024 4:28:03 AM PST · by NetAddicted · 20 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | 1/20/2024 | David Burg
    As we enter 2024, many conservatives see the coming election as the last best chance to save our cherished republic from irreparable leftist destruction. We know from history that four more years of Democrat political control and neo-Marxist cultural domination may well be more than the America we love can bear. But we’re also aware that leftist DNA requires its woke adherents to employ every conceivable scheme and ploy to retain power. So we must be fully-equipped to counter each falsehood, each gas light, and each dirty trick the left desperately will throw against the American people over the coming...
  • Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism (A Very Important Paper to Understand where We are Today)

    01/01/2024 4:56:38 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 37 replies
    New Discourses ^ | 25 Dec, 2020 | JAMES LINDSAY
    Many of the greatest horrors of the history of humanity owe their occurrence solely to the establishment and social enforcement of a false reality. With gratitude to the Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper and his important 1970 essay “Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power” for the term and idea, we can refer to these alternative realities as ideological pseudo-realities. Pseudo-realities, being false and unreal, will always generate tragedy and evil on a scale that is at least proportional to the reach of their grip on power—which is their chief interest—whether social, cultural, economic, political, or (particularly) a combination of several or...
  • ACLU of Montana challenges law defining the word ‘sex’ in state code as only male or female

    12/19/2023 2:35:08 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 23 replies
    Associated Press ^ | December 19, 2023 | Amy Beth Hanson
    The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person’s biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue the law denies legal recognition and protections to people who are gender non-conforming. The plaintiffs — a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual and a nurse practitioner — also moved for a summary judgement in Monday’s filing in state court in Missoula, asking for the law to be declared unconstitutional. Republican lawmakers who supported the bill “seem to think...
  • Wanting to hire ‘fewer white men’ for a job is not discrimination

    12/19/2023 9:54:11 AM PST · by Altura Ct. · 47 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 12/19/2023
    Wanting to hire “fewer white men” for a job is not discrimination, a tribunal has ruled. Chris Palmer was turned down from an £80,000 post at a financial services company, who instead opted to hire a woman, after he was told at his job interview the company wanted to hire fewer white men. At an employment tribunal, the candidate said his failure to get the position as head of HR was based on his ethnicity and gender following the remark from Michael Jones, the managing director. However the panel dismissed his claims – ruling it was not “indicative of an...
  • Feds Want to Unify Thought [semi-satire]

    12/04/2023 9:35:14 AM PST · by John Semmens · 4 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 3 December 2023 | John Semmens
    This week, in testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of Federal Government, journalist Michael Shellenberger revealed that "US And UK military contractors worked to both censor and use sophisticated psychological operations and disinformation tactics developed abroad against the American people. The Supreme Court ruled that the government may not induce, encourage, or promote private persons to accomplish what the government is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish. Yet, there was a regular organized stream of communication between the FBI, DHS, and the largest tech companies to flag content in enormous numbers involving spreadsheets of accounts that ran into the...
  • From “Inclusion” to “Belonging”. Reformers must oppose DEI’s latest existential standard.

    10/23/2023 4:03:43 AM PDT · by karpov · 7 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | October 18, 2023 | Adam Ellwanger
    The manipulation of language is an ongoing strategy for disrupting the traditional values and beliefs of American society. Across the broader Western world, cultural revolutionaries wage a relentless campaign to change the vocabulary of everyday citizens, claiming for themselves a sovereign right to police violations of the new nomenclature. “Prostitution” has become “sex work.” “Illegal immigrants” have become “migrant workers.” Sex differences have been eclipsed by talk of “gender identity.” These changes are often spearheaded by activists in our universities. Such constant changes ensure that regular Americans are often uncertain about which words are acceptable in polite society and which...
  • Telegraph inadvertently proves Orwell's point in hit piece worthy of 1984 Newspeak

    10/20/2023 7:32:58 PM PDT · by NetAddicted · 20 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 10/19/2023 | Tertullianis
    There are occasionally posts that get missed when they are initially posted. These are the posts that start out bad and get worse. This writer is unsure how this particular one made that list, given that he follows the Telegraph specifically because of their notoriously bad takes. George Orwell was ‘sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic and sometimes violent’ https://t.co/GAps4MA8pM — The Telegraph (@Telegraph) October 15, 2023, (*** followed by extremely informative Community Note! ***)The Telegraph tries to cancel Orwell for crimethink. Now, if you ask us, that may be the most ironic thing ever posted. Apparently, according to the book, Wifedom, by...
  • Schools cannot ban 'merely offensive' speech on gender identity, appeals court rules

    10/05/2023 1:54:42 AM PDT · by CFW · 36 replies
    Just the News ^ | 10/4/23 | Greg Piper
    Fifty-six years after it exempted antiwar teenagers from First Amendment protections while on campus, a federal appeals court in America's heartland affirmed students' speech rights in public schools on an equally contentious subject today. The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a preliminary injunction Monday against an Iowa school district policy that threatens suspension and expulsion for "intentional and/or persistent refusal … to respect" a peer's gender identity, finding it's likely too vague to survive legal scrutiny. "A school district cannot avoid the strictures of the First Amendment simply by defining certain speech as 'bullying' or 'harassment'"...
  • Atmospheric river, early-season bomb cyclone to hit Pacific Northwest

    09/23/2023 2:49:57 AM PDT · by zeestephen · 22 replies
    The Washington Post (via MSN.com) ^ | 22 September 2023 | Ian Livingston
    Parts of the Pacific Northwest are about to be hit with the first powerful storm series of the coming winter season, an impact that will bring some whiplash for the region as it goes from severe drought to flash flooding...The main culprit is a storm that will rapidly intensify to the south of the Gulf of Alaska. It is forecast to reach "bomb cyclone" status over the weekend before unleashing fury on the Pacific Northwest into next week.
  • How to Recognize Transphobia — and What to Do Next

    09/06/2023 9:02:49 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 61 replies
    Healthline ^ | 9/22/21 | Francis Kuehnie, Crystal Raypole
    Transphobia, in basic terms, refers to any expression of fear or hatred directed toward folks who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming. Like other forms of discrimination and prejudice, transphobia often stems from a lack of understanding and insight around: what it means to be transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming the many careless actions and words that can cause harm While transphobia tends to decrease as awareness around gender increases, it remains a major problem in some communities. It doesn’t just cause distress by invalidating someone’s identity, though that’s harmful enough. It also often leads to hate speech, hate crimes,...
  • ‘Latinx’: Why do many Hispanics hate the term?

    09/02/2023 5:55:10 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 49 replies
    KTLA ^ | September 2, 2023 | Russell Falcon
    National Hispanic Heritage Month officially kicks off Sept. 15, marking the 35th year of the celebration of Hispanic cultures and their contributions to the U.S. As Hispanic people continue being one of the U.S.’ most visible communities, many questions about terminology arise. The current most common ways Hispanic populations refer to themselves are “Hispanic,” “Latino/Latina” and “Chicano,” but the newer gender-neutral term “Latinx” attempts to be more inclusive to non-binary members of the population
  • 'Identifies as' is propaganda trickery: Here's a little philosophical exercise to expose transgenderism

    08/29/2023 9:52:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 19 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/29/2023 | Arnold Cusmariu
    Gender dysphoria (G.D.) claims that someone whose sex was determined at birth to be male is entitled later to "identify as" female and take appropriate measures. Analogously, someone whose sex was determined at birth to be female is entitled later to "identify as" male and take appropriate measures. What about this? Entering stage right is conservative philosopher WVO Quine (1908–2000), who taught at Harvard University for decades and published widely during a long and distinguished career. While many of Quine's contributions are technical, there is a fairly simple one that applies to the problem at hand. Suppose, Quine noted, that...
  • Swimmer brings crusade against trans athletes in women’s sports to Nebraska

    08/28/2023 7:20:33 AM PDT · by Mean Daddy · 24 replies
    Omaha World Herald ^ | Aug. 27, 2023 | Martha Stoddard
    A former All-American swimmer brought her crusade to keep transgender women out of women’s sports to Nebraska Sunday, speaking to more than 1,000 people at an event marked by Christian faith and patriotic fervor. Riley Gaines, who swam for the University of Kentucky, tied the issue of transgender women in women's sports to an array of other issues in America. She also said transgender women try to join sororities and seek to be housed in women's prisons, with the goal of having access to women. She decried "the changing of the language that we use, the silencing, the denying of...
  • The Digital Services Act Will Give the EU Sweeping New Censorship Powers, Forcing X and Facebook to Remove Content that Challenges Mass Migration, Transgender Ideology or Net Zero

    08/25/2023 8:51:48 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 24 replies
    dailysceptic.org ^ | August 25, 2023 | Dr Frederick Attenborough
    [H/T Mewzilla]The European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) comes into force today, obliging “very large online platforms” to swiftly take down what unelected European Commission bureaucrats decide to define as ‘disinformation’.As Laurie Wastell points out in the European Conservative, the DSA obliges online platforms to swiftly take down so-called disinformation. From today, the EC has at its disposal an aggressive enforcement regime, such that if Big Tech companies fail to abide by the EU’s ‘Strengthened Code of Practice on Disinformation’, which requires swift censorship of mis- and disinformation, then they can be fined up to 6% of their annual global...