Nancy Pelosi just slapped down Trump’s pitiful plea to deliver the State of the Union

Nancy Pelosi just slapped down Trump’s pitiful plea to deliver the State of the Union: Nancy Pelosi is not putting up with President Donald Trump's embarrassing attempts to insist on delivering a State of the Union address to Congress, despite her rescinding the offer in the wake of the government shutdown. On Wednesday afternoon, she sent a letter to Trump in response to a message...

Allow me to deliver the State of the Union address.

The union is in a fucking mess, thanks to Lord Dampnut and his corrupt cronies.

Done.

The Trans Cult Reinforces Gender Roles

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This is a reply to the thread on the Gender Critical community thread on Reddit entitled An unspoken way conflating personal interests and gender ID materially hurts straight girl children.

Yes! As a woman in her fifties, I often wonder if I wouldn't have been pushed to believe that I should transition if I was growing up in modern times. I never liked wearing "feminine" clothes because I found them impractical. When I wore dresses or skirts, I wore shorts under them so I could still run and play and not worry about stupid boys trying to lift up my skirt and show my panties.

I did like playing with dolls, but I also liked playing with "boy" toys like trucks. I didn't want to be a boy, I wanted the same opportunities and respect that boys got. I didn't like being seen as "lesser" because I was a girl. I hated the term "tomboy." My name wasn't Tom, and I wasn't a boy. I was a girl.

These days, who knows if some "well-meaning" school psychologist might have convinced me and my (somewhat gullible) parents that I was a boy trapped in the body of a girl.

As a former nurse, I know both the upsides and downsides to medical treatment. Hormone therapy is not something that should be played around with willy-nilly. I take micronized progesterone to counteract my body's tendency to produce too much estrogen. For me, the benefits outweigh the risks. I am trying to avoid having to have a hysterectomy, something which even to this post-menopausal woman is the last resort. Yet there are doctors who will more than happily recommend major, life-altering surgery to young people who are questioning their identity and their place in this world.

I do not hate transgender people. I know that many of them have suffered untold misery at the hands of cruel individuals. I hate the patriarchy and I hate this modern trans cult (trans activism) which I think stands to do tremendous harm to vulnerable young people, such as I once was.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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The Problems With Physically Transitioning as Shared by a Trans Woman

Leanne Mills

The following is a response to Leanne Mills, who shared her thoughts on the downside of physically transitioning with the website Transgender Trend. I hope you will read the post and actually give Leanne's words some thought rather than a) attacking her as a "freak of nature" for having transitioned or b) attacking her as a "traitor" for revealing the negative aspects of gender reassignment surgery.

Thank you, Leanne, for sharing your story. It couldn't have been easy.

I sometimes think that if I had been young in this era, I would have been convinced by psychologists that I was transgender because I never liked to dress in a "feminine" fashion and I was always angry at the opportunities that boys were given. I didn't want to BE a boy. I wanted the opportunities and respect that they get, and I find feminine clothes impractical. 

I have always felt that transgender people should be treated with kindness and common decency, that no-one should be denied opportunities or be bullied and called names for being transgender. However, I cannot understand or abide by the current climate of consciousness which postulates that anyone who disagrees with the trans activist movement is a "TERF" who deserves to have physical violence done to them. It is impossible to have a conversation about identity politics or about whether transitioning is indeed what is best for a person, for the reasons you mention in your post without being shouted down and accused of being some sort of bigot. One is supposed to simply accept mantras such as "trans women are women" without question.

The thing is, I'm the sort of person to approach others from an above the neck perspective, not to obsess on what's below their belt. I'm going to treat people like people first, and if someone identifies as a woman, I will call her by her preferred pronouns (same for men.) I'm not going to demand that this person prove they have the "correct" genitalia or that they were born whatever sex they say they are. However, trans activists will nonetheless brand me a TERF because I question whether giving children puberty blockers is the right action. There is no rational discourse with these people.

We need more trans people like you who are courageous enough to speak about the downside of transitioning. Thank you for doing so.

~Sly Has Spoken~