Soy Boy
@soyboy
Four legs good, two legs bad. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴☠️
This is a very Normal way to talk about children and definitely doesn’t sound like you cannot wait to consume their tender flesh.
“My resemblance to Nosferatu, on the other hand, is about the fact I am such a nice guy”
Moving to the center? The right moved the fucking center by veering far far to the right. Just admit YOUR policy preference is to not have to talk about gender stuff.
Not the main point—though the fact his detail makes custom pins to make fun of “Bobcat” is very funny—but am I to understand law enforcement are big fans of…flair?
I think this is the olive branch to business—including promising rich men we will stop pointing out when they are being pigs and pretend this is a meritocracy
Here he really starts to cook. He denies the existence of trans people. And he provides citations! They are 1) a paper by philosopher Alex Byrne and 2) a paper on the philosophy of language by J Piper “on the abuse of language.” 4/?
Here Thomas says that not only is trans not a protected class, it is a psychiatric diagnosis (gender dysphoria), is not an immutable characteristic, and is more akin to the status of mental illness (diminished capacities/rights) or immigration status (non-citizenship) 2/?
And a final Kavanaugh-ism. Trans people are not a protected class, are not being honest about their “biological sex,” and have created all these problems BUT don’t vilify them. He’s not a bigot or a spoiled brat, Sonia. (10/10)
He loves his little listicles of all the things trans athletes take away from women. They are deeply harmed by not being able to compete fairly. He does a long listcle of What They Took From You. Trans girls? Too bad, so sad. Not everybody can win! (9/?)
And Kavanaugh here sees no way in which the interests of trans girls can ever be reconciled with women’s rights—no matter what women are harmed even if they don’t have to compete against trans athletes by the thought that they might have to! This speculative harm has endless potential (8/?)
The fact that states have passed laws against trans athletes becomes the evidence that trans athletes are a problem. He cites the IOC, NCAA, etc —all of whom modified their policies after political pressure from the Trump admin. 6/?
Here’s the stuff I found interesting/important. Kavanaugh says schools and legislatures are better equipped to legislate here, no reference to expertise, medical organizations, health care providers, etc. instead the evidence is—states have passed laws, organizations have changed their rules! 5/?
Kavanaugh reiterates the claim from Skrmetti concurrences that transgender status is not a protected class (no intermediate or strict scrutiny) so trans girls like BPJ and Hecox are only legible to the law as “biological males.” (4/?)
The presumed binary of “biological sex” allows Kavanaugh to compare “biological males” and “biological females” as a group with no consideration of whether comparing a transgender female athlete with a “biological male” or “biological female” makes more sense. (3/?)
The opinion argues for the use of “sex” in accordance with the “original public meaning” 🙄 of the term which he says was biological sex. Props, I guess, for not citing the 1972 dictionary ala Gorsuch. He rejects an as applied claim (classification is generally fair but not in this case) (2/?)
You can see the difference in how the majority (Kavanaugh, on the left) differs from the concurrence/dissent by Sotomayor (right). BPJ is a “biological male who identifies as female” to Kav (a petty bitch) who avoids using pronouns. To Sotomayor she is transgender girl, her and she. (2/?)
Reading the trans sports cases and the outcome is exactly as it seemed at arguments. Of course Coach Kavanaugh writes a repetitive, bloviating argument wherein he gets to be a Coach to Girls and Friend to Women Athletes. A few things of note: (1/?)
Fun fact: Russia had the highest gender gap in life expectancy—before they invaded Ukraine. Masculinity is a cage and we are all living in it.
Please read this it is so good. The comparison with Cuomosexuals is so spot on—men in a homosocial relationship with a Real Man for security, an imaginary Big Dick.