Very thoughtful article. I respect your decision and I actually think both approaches are necessary. My daughter has to scan the sideline if every club and middle school soccer game to see if it’s safe for her to head a ball, particularly in club finding it’s not. She’s already watched 3 friends sustain season ending injuries from boys playing dress up on a girls club team. This has been allowed to happen because left wing gender activists mock and belittle anyone who disagrees with them, and it works. It’s ok to fight a little fire with fire to bring down the faux superiority complex of the many kids and mommies who think it’s cute to encourage their sons to invade my daughters’ athletic competitions and private spaces. At the same time, there are many moderates, particularly those who have no interest in athletics and only sons, who have absolutely been insulated from the brutal reality of this movement that need to hear calm facts.
When my daughter first asked our pediatrician about this a few years ago he said the majority of the cases he had seen were mommy driven actual or close to Münchausen syndrome. That usually social stigma kept attention seeking parents, most often mom, from acting to harm their child for attention, but that social media seems to be fueling addictions to attention, and gender ideology gave these susceptible moms a license to encourage their child towards self harm. He said phycologists, YouTube, TikTok, and even some teachers certainly encouraged kids towards this ideology against their parents wishes, and he could often help those children, but what he had seen at the time was mostly mommy pushing it. My daughter was very upset her doctor couldn’t stop the mommy medical transitions. He explained reality - he won’t participate and will refer to another doctor, but he won’t lose his ability to help all his other patients and his livelihood for his family to not actually save a single child from this. That was an important lesson for her. An important lesson for me was that rightly mocking and demeaning those who promote child genital mutilation based upon an absurd notion that you can be born in the “wrong body” will be necessary to save many children not withstanding the unfortunate impacts on the very few adult males who are genuinely happier living as transsexuals.
We need both voices. We need the mocking, blunt truth to stop the Dylan Mulvaney’s of the world from making an all out joke of my daughter and all actual women and girls. He’s a jerk. He’s mean spirited. He is full on mocking everything it is to be a woman or girl and reducing us to some insane and condescending stereotype. He deserves ridicule. Relentless ridicule.
But we also need calmer voices like yours to change hearts and minds and embrace those who have been so permanently damaged by this cruel ideology. To remind the few true transsexual adults that nobody wishes them harm or cares how they live so long as they don’t deny biological reality. We need there to be voices of comfort and hope for the many thousands who will undoubtedly regret destroying their bodies, ability to be sexually intimate, and fertility. They are the biggest victims of this cruelty and it’s unfair to cast it aside as “self-inflicted” when it was others who promoted and enabled the harm - others who had a responsibility to do no harm. We need to stop the harm and help those who have been harmed and that is 2 different groups that will likely respond to different approaches.
I am much more conservative than you are and so disagree with you on many things -- ie, while I agree that Matt Walsh deliberately says provoking things (as does, say, Steven Colbert and many "news personalities" on the left) , I also agree with everything he said about Dylan Mulvaney. He does, indeed, look creepy, and no one does respect him. Moreover why you do not find DM's bizarre take on what it means to be a woman and his insistence that he is one incredibly insulting to yourself and all women is beyond me. However, I also think you're very good and thorough journalist and I appreciate the work you have done. It's not a good idea to say bad things about your employers, but then, I've read some of your personal tweets and I'm not surprised. I will continue to follow you because I want to support everyone writing about and otherwise covering this, whatever their personal opinions. This seems like a better fit for you and I hope it's a good move.
Christina, as you know, life is brutal. Facts are involved in that brutality, but stating those facts is an assertion of Truth, regardless of the cruelty of that truth.
Everything Matt Walsh said about wannabe-a-woman DM was Truth. And Truth oftentimes carries cruelty. Yes, we should in most cases phrase the Truth to be less cruel in tone and content. But not here involving DM who announced he’s more of a woman than any woman and he would steal our husbands. Grotesque.
The Matt Walsh segment that is being railed against is not "excessive".
Dylan Mylvaney is the living embodiment of "autogynophilia" - the notion that a man can get sexually excited by his embodiment as a seductive hot female. He says "I am the hottest I will ever be. And I do believe that I could steal a husband away." This is basically a perversion of the very most obvious sort. This man has dolled himself up. But he is not attractive.
Matt is telling the truth, and telling the truth in a clear and undisguised manner can seem brutal. He tells Dylan that he will always be a man. DYLAN WILL ALWAYS BE A MAN. EVERY CELL IN HIS BODY IS MALE.
When I watch "Blue Bloods" on TV, I never say "Wow, that police commissioner of the city of New York is a stand-up guy". I know that Tom Selleck is an actor, and he is not a police commissioner. He PLAYS Frank Reagan. He is not a policeman.
In the same way, Dylan is PLAYING a woman, but he is not a woman. If this is offensive to hear, you are confused.
Transgenderism and leftist wokeism is the greatest danger our civilization has faced since at least World War II. Well-intentioned Americans did not start this war--it was brought to us by people with a savage view of human nature who intend to bury Western civilization with barbaric practices like chemical castration and genital mutilation of children. They created the Covid crisis that turned Americans against one another, the racist myth that blames every problem of racial minorities on white people, the gutting of our educational system that produces illiterate and ignorant citizens, the sacking and burning of once beautiful cities in the ironic name of social justice, and the drug and crime epidemics that have left too many of our people living on sidewalks and dying in their own excrement with needles in their arms. I once believed in the leftist policies that produced this cultural cancer, but I had the courage to walk away from the corrosive and frankly evil ideology that produced these horrors. The catastrophic course we are on will not be changed by people like you giving up because your feeling were hurt by someone saying something mean. We all have to decide whether to choose civilization or chaos, and those who choose civilization should put aside our differences until the evil is extinguished.
I understand your decision and your reasoning, and I look forward to reading your work. But I respectfully disagree with some of what you are saying. Dylan Mulvaney is broadcasting (to millions of kids) the "fact" that he actually IS a girl, supporting the claim that men can BECOME women and should have access to female safe spaces/sports/prisons/etc. I think that belief MUST be countered. (Blair White has always ridiculed that idea, from what I've seen.) I personally believe that if influencers (and other glorified loud voices in the media) who are lying to children are never countered - by other loud voices like Knowles and Walsh and Dave Chappelle - then your attempts to "save the kids from gender ideology" will fail. But as I said, you have your dividing line and I totally respect it. I am thankful for the work you did at Daily Wire and the work you will continue to do on one of my favorite Substacks.
Christina, I salute you for your continued effort in fighting the good fight but absolutely disagree with you tucking your tail betwixt your legs and scurrying away from the DW cause Walsh/Knowles said some ’mean’ things.....
What is needed right now is BRUTAL, unvarnished, honesty. Walsh provides that efficiently and admirably. However, this utter dehumanization of the female gender by vile charlatans like Dylan Mulvaney calls for FAR more harsh rhetoric than the tidbit Walsh proffered....I’d support using even harsher, more biting words that delve into the psyche of a MAN pretending to clone a female. Mulvaney et al’s actions are by far and away the most grotesque crime against the female gender across the board! His actions and those of all pro gender theory child mutilation freaks SHOULD enrage EVERY red-blooded human female and male on Earth! Any female not furious with this absolute virtual murder of females across the board should immediately stop, step back and think long and hard about the implications of what’s actually going on here in every facet that this evil permeates our lives......Walsh has publicly and repeatedly stated that to him this is THE most significant worldwide social issue of our time and a hill he’d die defending....I couldn’t agree more!
Thank you for making it easy to reduce my subscription budget. You are part of the problem if you feel bad for DM and think Matt walsh was being too mean. Being cordial is what has gotten us here in the first place. What MW said was 100% on point and it's fake fighters/squishes (loved that comment from other poster) like you and Colin who contribute to harming children and erasing women. If you think you're doing some admirable, you're not.
Because others are pushing back, I feel the need to say this: you are 100% correct about the issue of being mean (though I haven't seen the specific Walsh piece on DM).
This isn't about feeling sorry for DM, nor is it about being nice. This is about doing serious work on this front instead of publicly getting your jollies from self-indulgent gossip/trashing that makes you look frivolous. The world is full of ridiculous people of all kinds, and making fun of them is shooting fish in a barrel.
Thank you for caring more about influencing policy and helping kids than getting claps for hack comedy.
It doesn't matter how nicely, eloquently, or compassionately you put it, they'll still go after you. Just look at J.K Rowling, a lifelong progressive, being probably the most vilified of all people who raised concerns with gender fluidity.
There is no real middle ground. If you believe that biological sex is an empirical reality, and that society should classify humans on biological sex and not gender expression, as I do, carving out a few exceptions of 'genuine transsexuals' isn't going to cut it, because they will in fact always be the sex they were born as. Where do you think we got to where we are today? The laws that were passed to accommodate 'genuine transsexuals' were based on a fabrication of reality from the start, and a little lie in a limited area eventually disorients a society's entire concept of truth and reality.
The transmedicalist argument fails because they still cannot define what 'gender' is. The supposed proof from brain scans is inconclusive. How does one determine who is 'genuinely transgender' and who is not through personal claims alone? How do we know that claims of 'dysphoria' may actually just be built on society's gender stereotypes and associating biological sex organs with those stereotypes?
I initially believed the 'gender dysphoria mental health condition and only cure is transition' argument, but we have been lied to so much by transgender 'experts' and things have gotten so utterly unhinged so rapidly, that I do question whether the science was reliable even to begin with.
After witnessing transgender activism over the past few years, I've come to the opposite conclusion as you have. We cannot have only adult transition because it will inevitably flow down to children. Once you accept consent as the moral basis for all action, then everything gets sucked into its vortex. Removing health body parts and extreme body modification surgery for adults is wrong period. As a society we should condemn it and make sure it does not occur. A woman cannot be a hysterectomy on demand and this is righteous and just. An anorexic wouldn't be able to get gastric bypass and this too is righteous and just, though I fear that if anorexia arose now v. the 1990s, there would be doctors telling parents that gastric bypass is better than a starving dead, daughter. No standards, no norms, just consent. It is a dangerous slippery slope that will absolutely damage children.
It's interesting to see liberals balk at mean words, when the truth is Dylan is weird and artificial. I think the same thing of others who have gone overboard with plastic surgery.
I reject the notion that we need to bend the knee to the pronouns and chosen identify of adults. It is a belief system. Buttons wants DW staff to "respect" her adult trans friends like Blaire White and means go along with the game. No. The game has to be ended in adult society. Full stop. No more men in female spaces. No more pronoun nonsense.
Christina, hi, I'm Matt Walsh's dad and take no offense about your decision and rationale for making it.
That said, I'd like to respectfully make two points:
A) We're in a war for the soul of our nation now. The chasm separating the two opposing sides can't be bridged by sweet talk. It's much too late for that. The other side isn't interested, won't be convinced, and has zero interest in compromise. They're playing to win...which is why they are.
B) The Gender Cult is not the disease itself but rather a symptom of it. The dots all connect, and what they depict is a Culture of Death. Surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned, our side's most powerful weapon is Truth. If you're a pro-choice atheist with a history of supporting the Dem-Media Party, as you describe yourself, you throw that weapon overboard. The bad guys will eat you alive.
Matt's mom and I are very proud of him...as we're proud of all our six children, all of them high-achieving, high-character men and women. One is a Poor Clare contemplative nun. The rest are happily married with 28 (going on 29) children between them.
Matt neither says nor does anything for "clicks" but rather out of a deep sense of conviction and outrage at what this rotten cult of ghouls is doing to our children. He's come a long way against long odds and with God's help has now won some major battles against the Forces of Evil now ruling our land. His mom and I are very proud of him.
I’ve respected your journalism thus far but this seems inappropriate and grifting. You could have graciously left the daily wire without writing a whole article about it and asking for donations here on your way out.
Another 'heterodox' Leftist (you are no liberal, the only liberals in our society are on the Right, not the Left - liberalism being the foundation of the U.S. republic and constitution) craps on the Right. Let's be clear about transgenderism once and for all, and I think you'll see the fraudulent nature of Ms. Buttons hyperventilating over the matter.
I'm going to go long, if that bothers you that's what the scrolling function is for...I've been interested in transgenderism for 20 years, ever since a trans woman ended up in the "Self Expression and Leadership" program I was coaching. I was to be her 'Life Coach' of sorts for 4 months. He (and I won't use preferred pronouns anymore since apparently that also means I want to "queer" the world) was uniquely dysfunctional and uncoachable. He was an 'activist' with rainbow dredlocks - anyone non-trans who presented themselves the way he did would have been considered a lunatic. But not him. I was immediately aware of the privilege he angrily demanded from all around him that we just accept it.
While conservative, I've always been a bit of a sexual libertine. Working in NYC I knew many gay people and had seen drag up close and personal from time to time in that scene (had a close friend who was gay). I was not at all politically opposed to what was going on with this guy. The course was a disaster for him. He could not follow through on any commitments he made. Could not show up for coaching calls, did no assignments. What I ultimately realized is that he was so arrogant, so deluded about his 'speshulness' and 'bravery' as a celebrated activist in the NYC gay political scene is that he couldn't face how utterly dysfunctional he was. His life was a disaster. If it weren't for the whole trans schtick, I have no idea how he would have made a living. And be clear, many Leftist activists today make a living from it.
I began to do research and realized this was already a battlefield. I elected to read The Man Who Would be Queen by J Michael Bailey. He's a long suffering researcher of homosexuality and trans, an academic psychologist. He was hated because he deals with all this utterly without regard for the insane gender ideology emanating from Judith Butler et al...
He begins by explaining and distinguishing what we know about homosexuality and trans and I was really surprised by what I learned but it made huge amounts of sense. First is that homosexuality is not the same between men and women - cuz men and women are very different. Example: Women find all kinds of sexual things arousing. Men, women, animals - this has been studied via autonomic reactions that mark arousal. Pupil dilation, galvanic skin response signal arousal. It's not self-reported. Women are much more sexual omnivores than men. There is a lot of study of this in the literature, including discussions of the 'War Brides' phenomenon. Women are much more opportunistic than men sexually and bisexuality is much more common for women as a result of all this. As well, exclusive lesbians are much more rare than gay men.
He then discusses sexual orientation and how people express that. Turns out this is all about 'mating strategy'. Huh. He answered simple questions like why do gay men present themselves in an effeminate way? It had never occurred to me that they do so to attract men by being feminine. Gay men by no means limit their mates to other gay men. Huh. It was at this moment that I realized I'd been conned about all this for a long time. Fyi, it's also most likely that being gay has an epigenetic basis, based on fetal hormonal exposure but it's also more complex than that.
He lays all this out with lots of scientific data to make it clear before discussing trans. The breakthrough for me was understanding that sexual orientation and identity were not neatly separable. We present ourselves as male or female as a strategy to mate. It's a base sexual drive. He makes so clear that sexual orientation and 'identity' are intertwined. And it all makes so much sense. It also seemed to occur on a spectrum in men, which were the majority of trans folks. Back then, before all the current insanity, a female to male trans was rare. And the men fell into two very clearly distinct categories.
The first category can be seen as "very gay" men. The level of fetal hormonal exposure varies, but gay men are deeply effected invitro by the overdose of estrogen they get. The amount varies. All gay boys and men tend to experiment with female expression as they grow up, wearing dresses or even wanting to be girls. This is all quite normal for a gay man. The "very gay" men would go to extremes to present themselves as women, basically adopting the most aggressive mating strategy they could. Being a woman. It's much less common in women cuz lesbians are so rare. Huh.
So what have we done? We've convinced gay boys they are girls. And we essentially created a mythology about 'gender identity' that isn't based on science which radical and aggressive gender ideologues. The book is brilliant and you can also clearly tell he has so much love and compassion for these people. He made me much more empathetic to these folks and how they struggle to find a comfortable place to be in this world.
I then read other books on human sexuality, Sex at Dawn, The Red Queen and others. Then I read The End of Gender by Debrah Soh, PhD a neuroscientist who specialized in sex and sex research. She made very clear that several aspects of how 'gender identity' and 'gender expression' are not at all what they are made out to be. First off, gender is not fluid - there is zero scientific bass for that assertion. In fact, the 'gender' is fixed by biology as well and rarely varies from biological sex. That said 'gender expression' does vary based on genetic/hormonal variation and environment. Also, gender does not occur on a continuum - it's a bimodal distribution with very little variation.
Now, what we have today is not about science. It's about 'queering' an entire generation of kids to finally destroy the family and all traditional morality in Western societies. To be 'queer' has nothing to do with sex - did you know that? It's simply about violating every norm with glee. to make one's life political performance art nonstop. Queer is about destroying. And trans is mere one weapon they use. This all emanates from Marcusian Critical Theory and Kimberlee Crenshaw etc. These are political ideas, not scientific. I mean, do we really want to take our 'science' on gender from radical philosophy students?
If this was 'science' why is it all coming from the humanities dept? Why isn't this coming from the sciences, biology in particular? Cuz it's horseshit.
Why did I have to say all this. Cuz now I realize the entire gig is BS. Matt Walsh is correct, this author is a shallow hack who hates conservatives and this is her ticket out. I reject transgenderism as a concept utterly based on the science. Yes we have some small number of folks who have developmental issues based on how their gender works out but it's not an alternat model of sexual or gender identity. We can easily view them as having 'gender dysphoria' and treat them accordingly. Hint - 'the science' shows that most kids who receive supportive counseling and treatment for their other issues come out the other side of dysphoria just fine with their sex and sexual identity and orientation. Many are just gay but are being grabbed as fodder for this insane machine.
Last? An even stronger reason for rejecting trans is the LGBTQIA blah blah BS. They made themselves into a "block" and as such I'm either with the block or I'm not. I'm not with the block. The moment this involved teaching perversion and sexually assaulting children via exposure to absurdly sexualized experiences, I was done with the entire thing. I have NO PROBLEM using force against those who would harm children. And at this point, you can keep every gay and trans and non-normal persons away from children. None of you seem to respect parental authority and kids well being.
So I'm with Matt cuz I care about kids. This hack author cares much more about her political standing as a feminist and prog-marxist than children. Which makes her quite questionable morally.
Very thoughtful article. I respect your decision and I actually think both approaches are necessary. My daughter has to scan the sideline if every club and middle school soccer game to see if it’s safe for her to head a ball, particularly in club finding it’s not. She’s already watched 3 friends sustain season ending injuries from boys playing dress up on a girls club team. This has been allowed to happen because left wing gender activists mock and belittle anyone who disagrees with them, and it works. It’s ok to fight a little fire with fire to bring down the faux superiority complex of the many kids and mommies who think it’s cute to encourage their sons to invade my daughters’ athletic competitions and private spaces. At the same time, there are many moderates, particularly those who have no interest in athletics and only sons, who have absolutely been insulated from the brutal reality of this movement that need to hear calm facts.
When my daughter first asked our pediatrician about this a few years ago he said the majority of the cases he had seen were mommy driven actual or close to Münchausen syndrome. That usually social stigma kept attention seeking parents, most often mom, from acting to harm their child for attention, but that social media seems to be fueling addictions to attention, and gender ideology gave these susceptible moms a license to encourage their child towards self harm. He said phycologists, YouTube, TikTok, and even some teachers certainly encouraged kids towards this ideology against their parents wishes, and he could often help those children, but what he had seen at the time was mostly mommy pushing it. My daughter was very upset her doctor couldn’t stop the mommy medical transitions. He explained reality - he won’t participate and will refer to another doctor, but he won’t lose his ability to help all his other patients and his livelihood for his family to not actually save a single child from this. That was an important lesson for her. An important lesson for me was that rightly mocking and demeaning those who promote child genital mutilation based upon an absurd notion that you can be born in the “wrong body” will be necessary to save many children not withstanding the unfortunate impacts on the very few adult males who are genuinely happier living as transsexuals.
We need both voices. We need the mocking, blunt truth to stop the Dylan Mulvaney’s of the world from making an all out joke of my daughter and all actual women and girls. He’s a jerk. He’s mean spirited. He is full on mocking everything it is to be a woman or girl and reducing us to some insane and condescending stereotype. He deserves ridicule. Relentless ridicule.
But we also need calmer voices like yours to change hearts and minds and embrace those who have been so permanently damaged by this cruel ideology. To remind the few true transsexual adults that nobody wishes them harm or cares how they live so long as they don’t deny biological reality. We need there to be voices of comfort and hope for the many thousands who will undoubtedly regret destroying their bodies, ability to be sexually intimate, and fertility. They are the biggest victims of this cruelty and it’s unfair to cast it aside as “self-inflicted” when it was others who promoted and enabled the harm - others who had a responsibility to do no harm. We need to stop the harm and help those who have been harmed and that is 2 different groups that will likely respond to different approaches.
I am much more conservative than you are and so disagree with you on many things -- ie, while I agree that Matt Walsh deliberately says provoking things (as does, say, Steven Colbert and many "news personalities" on the left) , I also agree with everything he said about Dylan Mulvaney. He does, indeed, look creepy, and no one does respect him. Moreover why you do not find DM's bizarre take on what it means to be a woman and his insistence that he is one incredibly insulting to yourself and all women is beyond me. However, I also think you're very good and thorough journalist and I appreciate the work you have done. It's not a good idea to say bad things about your employers, but then, I've read some of your personal tweets and I'm not surprised. I will continue to follow you because I want to support everyone writing about and otherwise covering this, whatever their personal opinions. This seems like a better fit for you and I hope it's a good move.
Christina, as you know, life is brutal. Facts are involved in that brutality, but stating those facts is an assertion of Truth, regardless of the cruelty of that truth.
Everything Matt Walsh said about wannabe-a-woman DM was Truth. And Truth oftentimes carries cruelty. Yes, we should in most cases phrase the Truth to be less cruel in tone and content. But not here involving DM who announced he’s more of a woman than any woman and he would steal our husbands. Grotesque.
He got what he deserved: undistilled Truth.
The Matt Walsh segment that is being railed against is not "excessive".
Dylan Mylvaney is the living embodiment of "autogynophilia" - the notion that a man can get sexually excited by his embodiment as a seductive hot female. He says "I am the hottest I will ever be. And I do believe that I could steal a husband away." This is basically a perversion of the very most obvious sort. This man has dolled himself up. But he is not attractive.
Matt is telling the truth, and telling the truth in a clear and undisguised manner can seem brutal. He tells Dylan that he will always be a man. DYLAN WILL ALWAYS BE A MAN. EVERY CELL IN HIS BODY IS MALE.
When I watch "Blue Bloods" on TV, I never say "Wow, that police commissioner of the city of New York is a stand-up guy". I know that Tom Selleck is an actor, and he is not a police commissioner. He PLAYS Frank Reagan. He is not a policeman.
In the same way, Dylan is PLAYING a woman, but he is not a woman. If this is offensive to hear, you are confused.
Transgenderism and leftist wokeism is the greatest danger our civilization has faced since at least World War II. Well-intentioned Americans did not start this war--it was brought to us by people with a savage view of human nature who intend to bury Western civilization with barbaric practices like chemical castration and genital mutilation of children. They created the Covid crisis that turned Americans against one another, the racist myth that blames every problem of racial minorities on white people, the gutting of our educational system that produces illiterate and ignorant citizens, the sacking and burning of once beautiful cities in the ironic name of social justice, and the drug and crime epidemics that have left too many of our people living on sidewalks and dying in their own excrement with needles in their arms. I once believed in the leftist policies that produced this cultural cancer, but I had the courage to walk away from the corrosive and frankly evil ideology that produced these horrors. The catastrophic course we are on will not be changed by people like you giving up because your feeling were hurt by someone saying something mean. We all have to decide whether to choose civilization or chaos, and those who choose civilization should put aside our differences until the evil is extinguished.
I understand your decision and your reasoning, and I look forward to reading your work. But I respectfully disagree with some of what you are saying. Dylan Mulvaney is broadcasting (to millions of kids) the "fact" that he actually IS a girl, supporting the claim that men can BECOME women and should have access to female safe spaces/sports/prisons/etc. I think that belief MUST be countered. (Blair White has always ridiculed that idea, from what I've seen.) I personally believe that if influencers (and other glorified loud voices in the media) who are lying to children are never countered - by other loud voices like Knowles and Walsh and Dave Chappelle - then your attempts to "save the kids from gender ideology" will fail. But as I said, you have your dividing line and I totally respect it. I am thankful for the work you did at Daily Wire and the work you will continue to do on one of my favorite Substacks.
Christina, I salute you for your continued effort in fighting the good fight but absolutely disagree with you tucking your tail betwixt your legs and scurrying away from the DW cause Walsh/Knowles said some ’mean’ things.....
What is needed right now is BRUTAL, unvarnished, honesty. Walsh provides that efficiently and admirably. However, this utter dehumanization of the female gender by vile charlatans like Dylan Mulvaney calls for FAR more harsh rhetoric than the tidbit Walsh proffered....I’d support using even harsher, more biting words that delve into the psyche of a MAN pretending to clone a female. Mulvaney et al’s actions are by far and away the most grotesque crime against the female gender across the board! His actions and those of all pro gender theory child mutilation freaks SHOULD enrage EVERY red-blooded human female and male on Earth! Any female not furious with this absolute virtual murder of females across the board should immediately stop, step back and think long and hard about the implications of what’s actually going on here in every facet that this evil permeates our lives......Walsh has publicly and repeatedly stated that to him this is THE most significant worldwide social issue of our time and a hill he’d die defending....I couldn’t agree more!
Thank you for making it easy to reduce my subscription budget. You are part of the problem if you feel bad for DM and think Matt walsh was being too mean. Being cordial is what has gotten us here in the first place. What MW said was 100% on point and it's fake fighters/squishes (loved that comment from other poster) like you and Colin who contribute to harming children and erasing women. If you think you're doing some admirable, you're not.
Because others are pushing back, I feel the need to say this: you are 100% correct about the issue of being mean (though I haven't seen the specific Walsh piece on DM).
This isn't about feeling sorry for DM, nor is it about being nice. This is about doing serious work on this front instead of publicly getting your jollies from self-indulgent gossip/trashing that makes you look frivolous. The world is full of ridiculous people of all kinds, and making fun of them is shooting fish in a barrel.
Thank you for caring more about influencing policy and helping kids than getting claps for hack comedy.
It doesn't matter how nicely, eloquently, or compassionately you put it, they'll still go after you. Just look at J.K Rowling, a lifelong progressive, being probably the most vilified of all people who raised concerns with gender fluidity.
There is no real middle ground. If you believe that biological sex is an empirical reality, and that society should classify humans on biological sex and not gender expression, as I do, carving out a few exceptions of 'genuine transsexuals' isn't going to cut it, because they will in fact always be the sex they were born as. Where do you think we got to where we are today? The laws that were passed to accommodate 'genuine transsexuals' were based on a fabrication of reality from the start, and a little lie in a limited area eventually disorients a society's entire concept of truth and reality.
The transmedicalist argument fails because they still cannot define what 'gender' is. The supposed proof from brain scans is inconclusive. How does one determine who is 'genuinely transgender' and who is not through personal claims alone? How do we know that claims of 'dysphoria' may actually just be built on society's gender stereotypes and associating biological sex organs with those stereotypes?
I initially believed the 'gender dysphoria mental health condition and only cure is transition' argument, but we have been lied to so much by transgender 'experts' and things have gotten so utterly unhinged so rapidly, that I do question whether the science was reliable even to begin with.
Everything Matt said about Dylan Mulvaney was 100% true and accurate.
After witnessing transgender activism over the past few years, I've come to the opposite conclusion as you have. We cannot have only adult transition because it will inevitably flow down to children. Once you accept consent as the moral basis for all action, then everything gets sucked into its vortex. Removing health body parts and extreme body modification surgery for adults is wrong period. As a society we should condemn it and make sure it does not occur. A woman cannot be a hysterectomy on demand and this is righteous and just. An anorexic wouldn't be able to get gastric bypass and this too is righteous and just, though I fear that if anorexia arose now v. the 1990s, there would be doctors telling parents that gastric bypass is better than a starving dead, daughter. No standards, no norms, just consent. It is a dangerous slippery slope that will absolutely damage children.
It's interesting to see liberals balk at mean words, when the truth is Dylan is weird and artificial. I think the same thing of others who have gone overboard with plastic surgery.
I reject the notion that we need to bend the knee to the pronouns and chosen identify of adults. It is a belief system. Buttons wants DW staff to "respect" her adult trans friends like Blaire White and means go along with the game. No. The game has to be ended in adult society. Full stop. No more men in female spaces. No more pronoun nonsense.
Christina, hi, I'm Matt Walsh's dad and take no offense about your decision and rationale for making it.
That said, I'd like to respectfully make two points:
A) We're in a war for the soul of our nation now. The chasm separating the two opposing sides can't be bridged by sweet talk. It's much too late for that. The other side isn't interested, won't be convinced, and has zero interest in compromise. They're playing to win...which is why they are.
B) The Gender Cult is not the disease itself but rather a symptom of it. The dots all connect, and what they depict is a Culture of Death. Surrounded, outnumbered, and outgunned, our side's most powerful weapon is Truth. If you're a pro-choice atheist with a history of supporting the Dem-Media Party, as you describe yourself, you throw that weapon overboard. The bad guys will eat you alive.
Matt's mom and I are very proud of him...as we're proud of all our six children, all of them high-achieving, high-character men and women. One is a Poor Clare contemplative nun. The rest are happily married with 28 (going on 29) children between them.
Matt neither says nor does anything for "clicks" but rather out of a deep sense of conviction and outrage at what this rotten cult of ghouls is doing to our children. He's come a long way against long odds and with God's help has now won some major battles against the Forces of Evil now ruling our land. His mom and I are very proud of him.
I’ve respected your journalism thus far but this seems inappropriate and grifting. You could have graciously left the daily wire without writing a whole article about it and asking for donations here on your way out.
Another 'heterodox' Leftist (you are no liberal, the only liberals in our society are on the Right, not the Left - liberalism being the foundation of the U.S. republic and constitution) craps on the Right. Let's be clear about transgenderism once and for all, and I think you'll see the fraudulent nature of Ms. Buttons hyperventilating over the matter.
I'm going to go long, if that bothers you that's what the scrolling function is for...I've been interested in transgenderism for 20 years, ever since a trans woman ended up in the "Self Expression and Leadership" program I was coaching. I was to be her 'Life Coach' of sorts for 4 months. He (and I won't use preferred pronouns anymore since apparently that also means I want to "queer" the world) was uniquely dysfunctional and uncoachable. He was an 'activist' with rainbow dredlocks - anyone non-trans who presented themselves the way he did would have been considered a lunatic. But not him. I was immediately aware of the privilege he angrily demanded from all around him that we just accept it.
While conservative, I've always been a bit of a sexual libertine. Working in NYC I knew many gay people and had seen drag up close and personal from time to time in that scene (had a close friend who was gay). I was not at all politically opposed to what was going on with this guy. The course was a disaster for him. He could not follow through on any commitments he made. Could not show up for coaching calls, did no assignments. What I ultimately realized is that he was so arrogant, so deluded about his 'speshulness' and 'bravery' as a celebrated activist in the NYC gay political scene is that he couldn't face how utterly dysfunctional he was. His life was a disaster. If it weren't for the whole trans schtick, I have no idea how he would have made a living. And be clear, many Leftist activists today make a living from it.
I began to do research and realized this was already a battlefield. I elected to read The Man Who Would be Queen by J Michael Bailey. He's a long suffering researcher of homosexuality and trans, an academic psychologist. He was hated because he deals with all this utterly without regard for the insane gender ideology emanating from Judith Butler et al...
He begins by explaining and distinguishing what we know about homosexuality and trans and I was really surprised by what I learned but it made huge amounts of sense. First is that homosexuality is not the same between men and women - cuz men and women are very different. Example: Women find all kinds of sexual things arousing. Men, women, animals - this has been studied via autonomic reactions that mark arousal. Pupil dilation, galvanic skin response signal arousal. It's not self-reported. Women are much more sexual omnivores than men. There is a lot of study of this in the literature, including discussions of the 'War Brides' phenomenon. Women are much more opportunistic than men sexually and bisexuality is much more common for women as a result of all this. As well, exclusive lesbians are much more rare than gay men.
He then discusses sexual orientation and how people express that. Turns out this is all about 'mating strategy'. Huh. He answered simple questions like why do gay men present themselves in an effeminate way? It had never occurred to me that they do so to attract men by being feminine. Gay men by no means limit their mates to other gay men. Huh. It was at this moment that I realized I'd been conned about all this for a long time. Fyi, it's also most likely that being gay has an epigenetic basis, based on fetal hormonal exposure but it's also more complex than that.
He lays all this out with lots of scientific data to make it clear before discussing trans. The breakthrough for me was understanding that sexual orientation and identity were not neatly separable. We present ourselves as male or female as a strategy to mate. It's a base sexual drive. He makes so clear that sexual orientation and 'identity' are intertwined. And it all makes so much sense. It also seemed to occur on a spectrum in men, which were the majority of trans folks. Back then, before all the current insanity, a female to male trans was rare. And the men fell into two very clearly distinct categories.
The first category can be seen as "very gay" men. The level of fetal hormonal exposure varies, but gay men are deeply effected invitro by the overdose of estrogen they get. The amount varies. All gay boys and men tend to experiment with female expression as they grow up, wearing dresses or even wanting to be girls. This is all quite normal for a gay man. The "very gay" men would go to extremes to present themselves as women, basically adopting the most aggressive mating strategy they could. Being a woman. It's much less common in women cuz lesbians are so rare. Huh.
So what have we done? We've convinced gay boys they are girls. And we essentially created a mythology about 'gender identity' that isn't based on science which radical and aggressive gender ideologues. The book is brilliant and you can also clearly tell he has so much love and compassion for these people. He made me much more empathetic to these folks and how they struggle to find a comfortable place to be in this world.
I then read other books on human sexuality, Sex at Dawn, The Red Queen and others. Then I read The End of Gender by Debrah Soh, PhD a neuroscientist who specialized in sex and sex research. She made very clear that several aspects of how 'gender identity' and 'gender expression' are not at all what they are made out to be. First off, gender is not fluid - there is zero scientific bass for that assertion. In fact, the 'gender' is fixed by biology as well and rarely varies from biological sex. That said 'gender expression' does vary based on genetic/hormonal variation and environment. Also, gender does not occur on a continuum - it's a bimodal distribution with very little variation.
Now, what we have today is not about science. It's about 'queering' an entire generation of kids to finally destroy the family and all traditional morality in Western societies. To be 'queer' has nothing to do with sex - did you know that? It's simply about violating every norm with glee. to make one's life political performance art nonstop. Queer is about destroying. And trans is mere one weapon they use. This all emanates from Marcusian Critical Theory and Kimberlee Crenshaw etc. These are political ideas, not scientific. I mean, do we really want to take our 'science' on gender from radical philosophy students?
If this was 'science' why is it all coming from the humanities dept? Why isn't this coming from the sciences, biology in particular? Cuz it's horseshit.
Why did I have to say all this. Cuz now I realize the entire gig is BS. Matt Walsh is correct, this author is a shallow hack who hates conservatives and this is her ticket out. I reject transgenderism as a concept utterly based on the science. Yes we have some small number of folks who have developmental issues based on how their gender works out but it's not an alternat model of sexual or gender identity. We can easily view them as having 'gender dysphoria' and treat them accordingly. Hint - 'the science' shows that most kids who receive supportive counseling and treatment for their other issues come out the other side of dysphoria just fine with their sex and sexual identity and orientation. Many are just gay but are being grabbed as fodder for this insane machine.
Last? An even stronger reason for rejecting trans is the LGBTQIA blah blah BS. They made themselves into a "block" and as such I'm either with the block or I'm not. I'm not with the block. The moment this involved teaching perversion and sexually assaulting children via exposure to absurdly sexualized experiences, I was done with the entire thing. I have NO PROBLEM using force against those who would harm children. And at this point, you can keep every gay and trans and non-normal persons away from children. None of you seem to respect parental authority and kids well being.
So I'm with Matt cuz I care about kids. This hack author cares much more about her political standing as a feminist and prog-marxist than children. Which makes her quite questionable morally.