âProtect themâ from other cis women and girls who are not sufficiently conventionally feminine presenting. Policing womenâs bodies is always what this is about. And the vast majority of those hurt by it will be cis women and girls.
Iâve been using the appropriate restroom since maybe before she was born.
Itâs harmed her grievously?
Itâs fucking enraging someone couldnât just say the truth: trans women ARE women. Itâs just the truth, no matter what that bigot mace attempts to argue. All sheâs doing is punching down on other women.
And the other panelists should have said something or refused to collaborate with her.
Yep, absolutely⌠Iâm so sick of these refusals to push back against this kind of bigotry⌠if she started going on about Jewish people being a threat, or POC, or whoever, this would get forceful pushback. People WOULD refuse to work with her and call her out⌠There is no reason NOT to do so for trans people, except for the fact that far too many are willing to throw the trans community under the bus for their own god damn comfort.
I am so sick of living in such an amoral society. We know what the right thing to do is, and far too many of us refuse to do it.
Hereâs the whole thread:
This is deeply concerning. Littman, famed for the junk theory on âROGDâ, is teaming up with J Michael Bailey and Ken Zucker on a new âstudyâ. And theyâre going through Northwestern Universityâthe host of the recent International Trans Studies Conferenceâto do it.
sourceWe already know it will be awful. All you have to do is look at their past âworkâ. Bailey, for instance, had his last paper retracted for failing to get informed consent from participants. Which was stilted anyway because it surveyed Parents of ROGD Kids! Junk-Science journal republishes retracted anti-trans paperÂ
Littman was forced to correct her famous âROGDâ paper for similar reasons: she surveyed anti-trans parents without being transparent about it. She wasnât transparent about her recruitment sources for her detransition paper either - we had to do that for her. https://healthliberationnow.com/2021/10/21/littman-tries-to-prove-rogd-by-surveying-detransitioners-fails-spectacularly/
Zucker, meanwhile, had his clinic shut down after an external review (commissioned by CAMH, which oversaw it) found it was subjecting trans youth to controlling, damaging practices that has been described by former patients as conversion therapy. Why the closing of Toronto's CAMH gender clinic matters | Xtra Magazine
All three of these researchers have professional investment in maintaining anti-trans positions. But we also question just how effective this would even be. Lumping trans youth in with parental responses is already hairy, but especially so if your work is best known in anti-trans parent networks!
Given Littmanâs past failures in this department, and how Bailey had his last âstudyâ retracted due to ethical violations, this new one will be just as terrible. Trans professionals and activists should be on guard, and Northwestern should be ashamed of itself for approving this nonsense.
You would think that Northwestern would know better than to sanction research by a guy they had bust down from supervising and teaching graduate students and classes above the introductory level for past incidents and research concerns.
Including reportedly having sex with a trans woman who was a (was it a research subject or patient? I forget), presenting research subjects in stigmatizing ways etc.
Oh yes - and the âfuck sawâ incident. Thereâs some nice imagery about his views on women.
I posted my opinion on the whole bathroom debacle when it first started getting national attention back in June or July of last year over on Tumblr.
(The executive summary: If Iâm going to the bathroom, itâs to dump out pee or poop, not gawk at who has what under their clothes, not hold a fucking meeting, nothing. I might fix something with my hair, makeup, or clothing, but thatâs IT, and I expect the same from others in there.)
What a garbage human. Every transphobic shit she posts is yet another few bucks she gets in donations, too.
God, do I hate this timeline where we have to be subjected to such grifting pieces of shit on a regular basis.
Anticipatory obedience is taking hold everywhere. The big companies as well as more local things, getting their heads down to try to avoid the notice of the fascists. Guarantee there will be a concerted effort to find examples to be made and heads to be mounted on walls. I suspect they know the blow-back will be severe, and so are making every effort to eliminate the opposition before that happens.
I take some small comfort in knowing that my workplace will be a target of such hunts. I mean, I donât want anyone hurt, but thereâs something ⌠uplifting? reassuring? ⌠that at least some libraries are saying flat out âWe Will Not Comply.â The American Library Association (ALA) stopped playing nicely about this several years ago, talking less and less about âbook challengesâ and openly calling them âbook banners.â
Book Riot has been having more and more articles on dealing with increasing censorship and staying ahead of the attacks. The latest being âPrepare Your Library Before January Arrivesâ and talking about protecting vulnerable populations within our patrons and staff.
Fuck anticipatory obedience. Weâre already planning to resist compulsory obedience; weâve done it before. (e.g.; âYou want patron records showing whoâs been reading that material? Oh, so sorry, we donât retain that information.â)
Though Iâm not sure it takes much for Walmart to go fash. A slight breeze, maybe.