Fun hike around Balanced Rock at Arches. Great time to visit in Mid-March. Weather perfect. Not many visitors. Snowcapped La Sal Mountains provide the backdrop.
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Feminist Facing Up to Three Years in Prison Over Tweets
In a Tweet she questioned the belief that men (biological males) could be lesbians. Police are investigating because in January 2021 Norway introduced “gender identity” into their hate crime policy. And now women are being persecuted for stating biological facts.
"I am under police investigation for campaigning for women’s rights, because to certain groups, the fact that women and girls are female and that men cannot be women, girls, mothers or lesbians, is considered hateful,” Ellingsen told Reduxx. "Women are not protected against hate speech in Norway, but men who claim to be both lesbian and a woman, are protected both on the grounds of gender identity and on the grounds of sexual orientation,” Ellingsen said. "The fact that police are legally able to investigate and persecute women who engage in women’s rights is concerning. This is new territory in Norway, so the outcome of the investigation is important, both if the case is dismissed and if it leads to trial.” In 2021, a Norwegian man was sentenced to 21 days in prison and a fine of 15,000NRK after being found guilty of “insulting” and “misgendering” a trans-identified male on Facebook.
Is this the world we want to live in?
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Designed At Birth, Not “Assigned At Birth”
Bodies born with the anatomy in the pictures below are indisputably female bodies. If you don’t have this potential reproductive capacity because a disorder keeps your body from functioning normally then you are still a valued female.
If you are born with none of these potential capacities, this means you are a valued male. And that will never change. No matter how much you desire that change. Of course, humans are more than just their reproductive capacities. But they are not less.
This is bedrock folks. And we build from there.
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
Charles Pequy
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Love Refuses to Affirm Confusion