Is gender a social construct?

Planned Parenthood new advertising campaign to attract more customers.

Good grief.

In the days of old, one could be horsewhipped for putting up an advertisement such as that (hence no one would dare). Moreover, a slap of the glove with pistols at dawn, or just plain old fisticuffs for that type of social dishonour might not have been out of the question.

Planned Parenthood:
We're America's most trusted provider of sexual and reproductive health care, and we think we look pretty good...
:umm:
 
Speaking of social constructs, this professor set out to write total nonsense papers filled with the jargon of the day, and see if he could get it published in peer reviewed journals.


Hoax Science Paper Says Penis Is a Social Construct that Worsens Climate Change​


 
Speaking of social constructs, this professor set out to write total nonsense papers filled with the jargon of the day, and see if he could get it published in peer reviewed journals.

Hoax Science Paper Says Penis Is a Social Construct that Worsens Climate Change​

On the one hand this ideological possession is shockingly concerning but still gotta laugh as at 2:18 Dr Boghossian says “we delved into the literature, I think I lost quite a few brain cells in that process”.:lol:
 
In case someone is in need of some positive news amongst all the madness I bumped into the below article about a case tried in front of the UK employment tribunal. I'll add that a vast majority of employer-employee conflicts in the UK are settled out of court, it's quite rare for an employer to push to go in front of the tribunal due to potential reputational risk. But in the below scenario the CEO of the organisation sued was a transgender woman, and (s)he clearly foolishly assumed that everyone would surely agree with her woke libtardation. Well, they didn't.

What’s also important here is that the UK operates under a precedent-based legal system, meaning this case has entered case law and potentially opens the door to fairer treatment of those who hold gender-critical views (i.e., traditional views on gender). Admittedly, it’s probably more like a small crack in the door, but I was still quite pleased to read it.

Here's a link to the full article:

Charity worker awarded £70k after being constructively unfairly dismissed for ‘gender critical’ views

For those who don't have time to read it here's a quick summary:

A former counselling worker won a case against Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, winning nearly £70k for constructive unfair dismissal. Her crime? Speaking up about the importance of biological sex in a space designed for survivors of sexual violence. In other words, she insisted that biological sex mattered to sexual violence victims. Instead of listening, the centre targeted her gender-critical views, labelling her concerns as “transphobic” and dragging her through a deeply flawed disciplinary process.

The tribunal didn’t hold back, slamming the centre’s actions as a “heresy hunt” driven by ideology rather than fairness. The judge praised her for her careful and respectful approach, while highlighting that workplaces must tolerate differing beliefs - even those some might find uncomfortable.

The judge justified the ruling as follows:

"Essentially our view of the law is that the law imposes a duty on both sides to tolerate each other in the workplace. Tolerance means not just accepting views which one may not be terribly bothered about but means accepting that others hold views which may cut to the core of one’s being,”

This reads like common sense, but sadly, it's not really that common these days.

This isn’t the only case of its kind. A professor at the UK’s Open University was recently compared to a “racist uncle at the Christmas table” for holding the same views.

Here’s a link to an article about it:

 
And speaking of the UK, I just came across this one during my nightly news round:

Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance from the British Transport Police​


Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance.

The British Transport Police policy allows recently transitioned officers to intimately search women if they have been issued a gender recognition certificate.

Titled 'Transgender and Non-Binary Search Position', it was authorised in September by the assistant chief constable for network policing.

It comes after the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) was forced to withdraw similar guidance in January after concerns were raised about women's safety.

The guidance, seen by the Mail, reads: reads: 'British Transport Police recognises the status of transgender and non-binary detainees/staff from the moment they permanently identify in that gender with or without a GRC [gender recognition certificate].

'This means that even when a person has not legally changed their sex, we should continue to use the correct pronouns and recognise the person's gender. BTP officers/staff will only search persons of the same sex as either their birth certificate or GRC.'

What could go wrong? if this stands, it will go the exact same way that the transgender prisoners went, men requesting to be transferred to female prisons where they'd go absolutely mad being locked up with hundreds of potential victims, some of which ended up pregnant.
 
Yes, these nut-jobs are giving men-who-pretend-to-be-women every opportunity to sexually molest (real) women. It's disgusting and depraved.
Right, and that's the next level of insanity, I keep coming across articles of institutions that oversee a sport competition backing teams that line up former men, and shaming full female teams for their sexism for not wishing to play an unfair and dangerous game.

It's quite literally someone letting a criminal loose, and sanctioning him, amongst women and calling anyone that dares complain, evil.
 
that's the next level of insanity
Here is the highest level of insanity. I came across this news but it would be good if someone who speaks Norwegian checks the story.


NORWAY: Transgender Pedophile Who Expressed A Desire To Rape Children Given 420 Hours Community Service, No Jail Time

A Norwegian man who was found in possession of 10,800 videos that sexualize children or depict the sexual abuse of children has been spared a prison sentence on the basis “having personal difficulties.”

The man, whose identity and biological sex has been concealed by Norwegian press, communicated with other pedophiles online and is said to have participated in a group chat with another man who shared content showing himself raping his 8 year-old sister. In response, the trans-identified man expressed a desire to have a child of his own to abuse, and encouraged others to have sexual intercourse with children under 14 years of age.

The case was heard at the Midtre Hålogaland district court beginning in October, where the prosecution requested 320 hours of community service. When handing down a conviction on November 25, the final judgement agreed with the lenient verdict, while adding an additional 100 hours to the total sum, resulting in a sentence of 420 hours of community service in lieu of a prison term.

This was despite the fact that the court argued a suitable sentence would have been imprisonment for 4 years and 8 months if “mitigating circumstances” were not taken into account. Despite this, even this proposed sentence was initially reconsidered due to “major personal challenges” on the part of the sexual predator, and debated down to 2 years and 6 months before community service was ultimately chosen.


The trans-identified pedophile was first detained on December 6, 2023, when found to be in possession of a total of around 2,300 images and around 10,800 videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. Police confiscated his two smartphones, two computers and an external hard drive.

According to police, the man had on several occasions written about and otherwise participated in dialogues about sexual abuse of children via popular messaging app Telegram. Police documents state that he was active in a Telegram chat from December 2021 to September 2022, where he was discussing the sexual abuse of young child with another man.

The convicted predator, who is from Narvik, encouraged an Australian man known online as “Butters (Froggie)” to sexually abuse his 8 year-old sister and other children in a series of chat sessions. Images of the girl being assaulted by “Froggie” were shared within the group chat, and for this reason, the Norwegian was charged with complicity in the rape of the child. “Froggie” is in custody, having been arrested by Australian police after Norwegian authorities tipped them off.

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Court documents, with identifying information redacted in accordance with Norwegian law, detailing messages sent by the Narvik man, who claims to identify as transgender. COURTESY ESPEN TEIGEN.

A report from Neetavisen News published explicit messages sent by the Narvik predator to other pedophiles. In one message, he expressed a desire to “creampie” a child. The term is used in pornography to describe ejaculating inside another person. He additionally used crude terms to describe his wish to rape a “loli,” a term used in the Japanese pornography genre “lolicon” to describe animated depictions of sexualized underage girls.

Reduxx spoke with Norwegian journalist Espen Teigen, who covered the case for Document.no earlier this week. Teigen provided redacted court records and confirmed details of the investigation, while adding that the Narvik predator underwent genital surgery in Thailand two years ago at the age of 18.

Despite being male, Norwegian press has reported on the court case while describing the pedophile simply as a “young woman.” In order to protect the victims, identifying information has been withheld. The pedophile was in contact with several young children.

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Teigen highlighted the deception on the part of Norwegian press, stating that the media has “deliberately lied” in a bid to protect a child sexual abuser.

“This is a case which shows how trans ideology and gender ideology has gone completely off the rails,” Teigen said. “The state broadcaster, NRK, has deliberately lied to the Norwegian people by writing about a ‘young woman’ who was sentenced because of possession of child exploitation videos and pictures, distributed them and trying to make others have sex with children. This is a grotesque case which should result in a long prison sentence.”

“However, if you read the judgment from the court, you see immediately that it’s not a young woman. It is a man in his 20s, who started dressing as a girl when he was 12 years old. When he turned 18, he flew to Thailand to have gender surgery,” Teigen said.

“In the judgment you can read that the court believes the penalty should be four years, eight months in prison,” Teigen continued.

“However, due the ‘personal conditions’, which are later elaborated to be his transgenderism – he does not even need to go to prison. He will be serving only 420 hours of community service for depraved acts of child molestation. How the mainstream media continues to lie about this case has upset many. This is not justice.”

Norway has strict protections surrounding gender identity, and recent years have seen multiple women’s rights advocates threatened with criminal investigations after “misgendering” or “deadnaming” trans-identified males.

n 2022, Reduxx reported on two cases in which women were investigated by police after referring to trans-identified males as “men” or denying that trans-identified males could be “lesbians.”

In one instance, Tonje Gjevjon, a lesbian artist, was notified in November of 2022 that she was under police investigation for hate speech over a statement she posted to Facebook condemning trans activists who seek to criminalize women who oppose gender ideology. In another, Christina Ellingsen, a representative of Women’s Declaration International (WDI), was investigated under hate crime charges after referring to a trans-identified male as a “man.”

While Gjevjon and Ellingsen were able to successfully combat their charges, a Norwegian man was sentenced to 21 days in prison in 2021 after being found guilty of “insulting” and “misgendering” a trans-identified male on Facebook.
 
Here is the highest level of insanity. I came across this news but it would be good if someone who speaks Norwegian checks the story.

Unfortunatly this story seems to be correct.

The news site Document.no who is reporting this is labeled a "right-wing" newspaper and is marginalized in the MSM here in Norway. They are the only ones who have labeled the pedophile correctly as a man pretending to be a woman as I can find here. Overall very little coverage of a serious crime that should be punished in a way, that Norway is not set up to do.
 
The recent murder of Border Patrol Agent David Chris, 44, by Teresa Youngblut, 21, and Felix Baukholtz, a German national, reveals some unusual cargo that was discovered when she was apprehended in Newport, Vermont, near the Canadian border.

Both were from Washington State and were accused of other homicides in the past.

I am not sure if these Trans activists were also Vaxxed.

Both suspects attended the prestigious Lakeside School in Seattle, studied computer science, and appear to sympathize with fringe Bay Area group described as a “murder gang.

Updated: January 27, 2025 - 6:00 AM

The FBI says a 21-year-old woman is in custody after a border patrol agent originally from Minnesota was fatally shot earlier this week while making a traffic stop in Vermont near the Canadian border.

On Friday, authorities identified the woman as Teresa Youngblut, saying the U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged her with assault of a federal law enforcement officer for the death of 44-year-old agent David “Chris” Maland on Monday.

As reported by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, Agent Maland was involved in a traffic stop on southbound I-93 when at some point, an exchange of gunfire happened, and Maland was hit.

Maland, who was born in Blue Earth, graduated from Fairmont High School in 1999. He served nine years in the U.S. military and 15 years in the federal government, which included time on the Mexico and Canada borders. Maland also worked in Washington, D.C. at the Pentagon during 9/11.

Federal charging documents say the traffic stop was done around 3 p.m. on a Toyota Prius Hatchback which had a North Carolina license plate. The registered owner, identified in the documents as Felix Baukholtz, a German citizen, appeared to have an expired visa in the Department of Homeland Security’s database, and was a passenger. Meanwhile, Youngblut was identified as the vehicle’s driver.

The document goes on to say shots were reported at the scene between 3 and 3:15, and another agent arrived shortly after 3:35 p.m., who was told by other agents at the scene that both Baukholt and Youngblut had guns and that Youngblut not only drew a handgun but fired it toward at least one of the agents without warning.

It goes on to say Baukholt tried to draw a gun, and at least one agent fired at both Youngblut and Baukholt. While Youngblut was wounded by gunfire and was eventually taken to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Baukholt died at the scene from his injuries.

The vehicle was inspected at the scene before being towed away, and the indictment shows two phones wrapped in what appeared to be aluminum foil were found, as well as at least two other cell phones and multiple laptops.

The charging document adds both Baukholt and Youngblut were seen by investigators before the traffic stop at a Wal-Mart store in Newport, Vermont between 11:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m., and were seen leaving with two packages of aluminum foil.

Authorities had apparently been doing some periodic surveillance of both Baukholt and Youngblut since mid-January after a hotel employee told police a man and woman had checked in while wearing all-black tactical style clothing with protective equipment, and the woman, later identified as Youngblut, had a firearm.

After police spoke with Youngblut and Backholt, they checked out of the hotel that same day and were later seen wearing similar clothing a few days later while walking in downtown Newport.

On Jan. 21, authorities were given a federal search warrant for the vehicle involved in the traffic stop, and agents found multiple pieces of tactical gear, full-face respirators, dozens of rounds of hollow point ammunition, shooting range targets, two-way radios, documents which had IDs, travel and lodging information for multiple states and more.

His family issued a new statement on Friday:

“We are deeply touched at the outpouring of love and support for our son, brother and fiancé. To think people who never knew David Christopher Maland personally would reach out with condolences and beautiful words of support has been beyond our imagination. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Our grief continues, please continue to pray for us.”


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Strangely, these Trans hit squads haven't been labeled as a terrorist organization by the FBI.



 
"To be clear, this decision does not require states to ban gender-affirming care, but it does protect the ability of states to ban the practice. The Tennessee case sets a precedent that will inspire similar bans throughout most of the US."
Leftists "Devastated" By SCOTUS Decision Ending Child Trans Experimentation
by Tyler Durden
Saturday, Jun 21, 2025 - 06:35 PM

The abject insanity of the political left cannot be overstated when it comes to the issue of transgenderism. The notion of gender fluidity is built upon a swampy foundation, with a handful of questionable scientific papers primarily backed by pharmaceutical companies acting as the only evidence that trans "identity" has any basis in reality. At bottom, the transgender debate is a perfect example of what happens when science becomes political.

When corporate greed meets ideological cultism there is little room for objective analysis. Progressives took an extreme minority of aberrant mental health cases (people with the psychological illness of gender dysphoria) and turned them into an international movement to deny basic biology and psychology.

No society should ever enable or embrace mental illness as a cultural ideal. In particular, vulnerable children should be kept far away from emotionally unstable, morally bankrupt political zealots. The western world is well aware of what happens when cult movements get their hands on little kids.

It would appear that the majority of the US Supreme Court agrees with this assessment with their latest 6-3 decision to uphold a ban on gender affirming care for minors in the state of Tennessee. With its decision in Skrmetti v. United States, the Supreme Court has delivered a decisive blow to the transgender activist movement which has long sought to spread their ideology throughout the US. The top goal of these activists is to normalize the trans grooming of children.

To be clear, this decision does not require states to ban gender-affirming care, but it does protect the ability of states to ban the practice. The Tennessee case sets a precedent that will inspire similar bans throughout most of the US.

In response, most Democrat politicians remain surprisingly quiet which has infuriated far-left progressives. Democrats suffered severe political consequences for their blind support for transgender activism, losing the presidency, the House, the Senate and the popular vote in 2024. Wokeness helped to destroy their party and they are trying to distance themselves. Dem leaders seeking a potential White House run in 2028 are particularly absent from the debate.

Lefists argue that this represents a "betrayal" on the part of Democrats and on the part of SCOTUS. They say the court's decision is "devastating", which makes little sense to normal people but perfect sense when you understand how important the grooming of children is for trans ideologues.

In 2007 the very first transgender youth clinic was opened in Boston, MA. By 2017 there were 41 such clinics across the US. From 2017 to 2024, at least 300 trans clinics aimed specifically at children were built. The institutions were spreading like a cancer.

In 2017 the narrative was that there was no such thing as transgender treatments for children. Leftist completely denied the practice existed. Post-2020, the Overton Window shifted; Democrat leaders and progressive activists not only admitted that puberty blockers and gender-based surgeries were being administered to children, they argued that to prevent this from happening was akin to "genocide".

Between 2019 and 2023 around 14,000 American kids received puberty blockers and other treatments (which permanently sterilize them and ruin their physical development for the rest of their lives). At least 5700 of those kids underwent trans surgeries.

The claim among trans advocates is that children are aware of their gender fluid identity at a early age and have the cognitive ability to consent to such treatments, even without a parent's knowledge. Trans propaganda in public schools led to the rise of "trans trenders" - Minors who jumped on the bandwagon in order to fit in or stand out as "special". Then there is the problem of leftist narcissist parents who push their children into transgenderism because they see their kids as political fashion accessories instead of human beings.

Social media is rife with abuser parents manipulating their kids into believing they are trans.

While conservatives and libertarians tend to demand limits on government interference in individual decision making, one area in which most of them agree is that kids do not have the ability to consent. Undergoing transgender treatment is a life altering decision that cannot be left to easily impressionable minors, or their parents for that matter. Not all "freedoms" are inherently good.

Scientifically speaking, there are only two genders and there is no evidence whatsoever that "trans children" are a reality. The assertion that these kids will be more prone to suicide if they don't receive puberty blockers and surgeries is baseless. There is no historical precedent for what is happening in the west today when it comes to gender fluid theory. Chemical castration and chopping off body parts for aesthetic purposes is not healthcare.

Such children are, in fact, being used as guinea pigs to satisfy a monstrous political experiment in biological and moral relativism. This can no longer be tolerated.
 
Is gender a social construct? I think it is if one is on the STS path, living in subjective reality and lying to oneself is spiritual progress for STS, especially being transgender. This reminds me of Alex Jones and his experience when he sneaked into a Bilderberg event and everyone was acting gay, the result of their STS spiritual teachings. For STO, living in objective reality and being true to yourself, gender is not a social construct.
 
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