RogSat

[Richard Burton Voice]: “No-one would have believed in the last years of the twentieth century that lesbians would be accused of actual violence against a marginalised group for saying they do not want to date males with beards and testicles..."

One of the weirdest parts about the whole thing was watching all the middle aged, mid career, middling scholar men who decided overnight to throw whatever social power they had into enforcing with utter and profane ruthlessness a view they just heard about the day before.

As my co-author Jonathan Haidt has pointed out, morality on the left became increasingly unipolar, with care for victim groups treated as perhaps the only important moral end. But once people on the left had defended other perceived victim groups, there seemed to be only one place left to go. The result was that the issue was pursued as a quasi-religious social movement rather than as a scientific or public policy question that needed to be carefully thought through and rigorously examined. Once people’s identities revolved around the idea that compassion and care were the highest moral ends, and therefore essentially sacred, hysteria was bound to follow. The Founders tried to guard against this kind of dynamic through things like the pairing of the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses, but those protections do not work as well when the ideology in question does not call itself a religion. This is a real problem. I have been thinking a great deal about how to address the problem of religious-like certainty attaching itself to beliefs that are not formally religious, and I still cannot see a solution that would not risk becoming a disaster itself. But I am still pondering it.

In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight. And usually, that is a sign that the true believers know, at some level, that they are on shaky ground. @hoovlet

Progressive politics: if reality is politically inconvenient, rename it until dissent sounds immoral.

@bruce_warman @Glinner Males who identify as trans. Innit violent and sexual offences at higher rates than other men. You think men cego abuse and destroy should have spaces to women’s spaces if they say they are trans.

@RogSat @Glinner Nope they don't have to, they abuse and destroy women in far greater numbers than the paltry numbers @Glinner is using to justify vilifying a minority who experience violence and hatred ghemselves

Here is our incomplete list of 236 named cases of trans-identified males convicted of violent or sexual offences against women and/or children.

@v01db0rn @Glinner Another trans activist replying to me from behind a block. The same pattern appears everywhere. Trans identifying males are over-represented in sex offender statistics.

@v01db0rn @Glinner JFC dude. Give up.

Queer editor James Ball declares Bluesky a “dying social network,” blaming aggressive censoriousness by Blueskyites of perceived ideological enemies: “There's a large cadre that basically cheers on chasing off any lib/centrist/academic who's the punchbag of the day. There's a culture of saying ‘fuck off back to X, then.’ And the anti- bedtime leftists set too much of the culture. “I don't know if it's fixable, especially as I think quite a lot of the people here don't *want* to fix it. But at the rate users are quitting they'll run out of targets soon enough, and the rest of us will lose what is – for a fair few of us I suspect – the last fun/useful social network. Sigh.”

@v01db0rn @Glinner That's UK government figures. Here's figures from Canada. x.com/OliLondonTV/st…

@RogSat @Glinner None of this is actually fact lmfao. I looked into this and there is nothing reputable. Yall are terrible at this

@v01db0rn @OfZorg @Glinner This is not all cases of "trans people since at least the 80s committing these types of acts". You think every one of the male sex offenders you discuss should have access to women's spaces if they say they are "trans".

@OfZorg @RogSat @Glinner >236 cases of trans people since at least the 80s committing these types of acts. >1.06 to 1.18 billion total children (male + female) have experienced sexual violence globally (lifetime of current population) >800 million women. Congrats, youre a fucking dumbass

@v01db0rn @Glinner The data there is a sample of cases. Data elsewhere int he USA, Canada and thew UK literally shows what I said. x.com/GrahameParkGir…

@RogSat @Glinner No. The data here literally contradicts that you fucking moron.

@bruce_warman @Glinner Is anyone arguing that those males should get free access to women’s spaces?

@Glinner And how many Cis gendered males have been convicted? Asking because #TruthHurts

@v01db0rn @Glinner Males who identify as trans commit sexual and violent crimes at the same rates or higher as other males. Pretty basic.

@Glinner We are looking at millions of trans people that exist today. There are well over hundreds of millions of these offenses against women and/or children. Conflating 236 to "it happens all the time" is so dishonest and straight up stupid it surprises me yall were able to type it.

Trans woo is the most obvious social contagion of our age.

@Brianebutler1 @ChrisKirk_ASP @Martina @Slate No they did not. That's bullshit.

@DanDicksPFT She’s Pronoun Hitler.

If you thought the “Equity Cards" at the 2026 NDP Leadership Convention was bad just wait until you see this… This is so cringe but what’s worse is this is what today’s “leaders” believe and teach. "It's the LAW!!" God help us.

@VampArmandSuxx @supergeekmike @Glinner Are you hoping your reality denial means anything? Males who identify as trans are at least as likely as any other males to be predators and sexual offenders. You pretending that anyone _stops_ being a risk when they say they are trans is beyond stupid. x.com/ripx4nutmeg/st…

@RogSat @supergeekmike @Glinner Are you hoping your hyperbole will carry any weight as a response? Like, where is that happening at any scale? Like we can all agree that freaks exist in all groups, but the statistical comparability to youth pastors (and young female teachers apparently) is so wide.

If people are getting frustrated with you, it's because you refuse to explain your positions and you appear to hold them only to hurt women. Why do you support men in women's prisons/sports/changing rooms? Why do you support surgical and pharmaceutical interventions for children/teenagers? You won't engage on any of these matters because your position is indefensible.

@worstgameplays @boswelltoday @supergeekmike That's hilariously wrong. The existence of a tiny number of people wth DSDs does not mean anyone has to pretend that people without DSDs - or even with them - are a another sex.

@RogSat @boswelltoday @supergeekmike It's a form yes Because if a person I'd borj both male and female on a physical and biological level Then it proves a person can be born in the wrong gender on a physical and biological level But you will only focus on birth rates and say no true hermaphrodite is born

Spent the day fielding a flood of annoying comments from idiotic transphobes, all repeating the same mind-numbing arguments over and over. It was so tedious. But all I could imagine is how much worse it would be if I was trans. I KNOW they always get so much more shit than us.

@VampArmandSuxx @supergeekmike @Glinner No-one is arguing that youth pastors can't be predators and should not be subject to safeguarding, "dipshit". You lunatics want male youth pastors to be able to supervise overnight trips with girls if the pastors just say they are "trans".

@RogSat @supergeekmike @Glinner Please type into google “youth pastor” and “assault” then get back to us, you dipshit.

@supergeekmike @Glinner This is a man. He should be nowhere near women’s spaces. Of course “trans people” can be predators just like everyone else.

@Glinner “My position” is that trans people are valid. Using the correct facilities and receiving care that validates their identity literally saves their lives. Trans people aren’t predators, they just want to live in peace. Hope that helps!