Here is the tweet from Bette Midler that got her in trouble with the Gender Activists.
WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! They don’t call us “women” anymore; they call us “birthing people” or “menstruators”, and even “people with vaginas”! Don’t let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!
As a classic Christian, I’m not on board with Midler about the “rights over our bodies” part. When there is a pregnancy there are two bodies involved. Not just one. It is much more complicated and morally nuanced than that. But she is certainly right about the other stuff. And the wholesale devaluing of female bodies that Gender Ideology represents.
Go Bette! (“Make alliances were we can!!”)
Also, here is artist Macy Gray’s comment that got her in trouble with the Gender Activists.
"Just because you go change your parts, doesn't make you a woman, sorry."
Don't miss Piers Morgan's interview with singer Macy Gray on tonight's show.
CLK above is replying to Bette Midler, who recently got in trouble for stating the obvious: “I thought you stood up for LGBT+ people” CLK tweeted.
To which the obvious reply would be that, well of course we want confused people who think they are born in the wrong body to have civil rights etc…but it doesn’t mean we don’t believe they are greatly confused.
That’s something we should be allowed to say in public.
We can believe both that people are confused AND that the cancelling of “woman” for the sake of “inclusion” is devastatingly beyond the pale.
Why is this not happening to “men”? Hmmm? As the graph above indicates. If you are a woman you are a “vulva owner.” If you are a man? Still a man?
Or will that term eventually be cast into the “dustbin of history” too?
The latest development is that the charge against Nurse Hamm about making statements that included “medically inaccurate information” have been dropped.
The original charge said that Hamm:
“…made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, some of which statements included medically inaccurate information, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.”
Professionally, I suppose, that could have been a problem. Though everybody knows medical professionals sometimes make inaccurate statements. They are only human, after all.
But the new charge now reads:
“Between approximately July 2018 and March 2021, you made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, while identifying yourself as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.”
Of course that is a step in the right direction.
However. Nurse Hamm’s free speech right to make, as a medical professional, the completely rational and scientific statement that it is impossible to change your sex is still, unfortunately, facing discipline.
Regulatory bodies are increasingly policing the speech of professionals (see this post)
to “cancel” medical and educational professionals with whom they disagree. But as more and more decide to bravely face this cancel culture of intimidation, I hope the current trajectory of this debate will change. One can only hope.
You can read more about Amy’s story here. Go Amy!!
