Mick Hartley – Page 167

Author: Mick Hartley

Talking perfect sense

ge punching power has been measured as 162 per cent greater than females.

None of this can possibly come as news to anyone who has walked about in the world with their eyes open.

The way the entire trans issue has been weaponised in recent years by those on the front lines of the culture wars strikes most people, I think, as extremely bizarre. ‘What is a woman?’ has become a staple question of any media interview with a politician, and all of us increasingly – particularly during Pride month, when even captured corporations get in on the fun – are stridently impelled to agree that trans women are indeed women.

Personally, I’ve come suspect the point of it all is just a diabolically clever and deliberate means of making the West question itself constantly, eventually causing it to suffer a nervous breakdown. Looking around, you’d have to say as a plan it’s working quite well.

That may be tongue-in-cheek, but it's not a joke. As Arty Morty points out, the whole issue of “gender identity” has tainted progressive politics in the eyes of an entire generation, with countless people abandoning their liberal political affiliations and losing trust in liberal media outlets because of it. And the most obvious, the most blatant, lies concern the participation of men in women's sport under the mantra that trans women are women, and in the name of inclusivity. It's nonsense, everyone knows it's nonsense….everyone can see it's nonsense. In the spirit of 1984: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

October 26, 2024
Good guys and bad guys

ry obviously "the bad guy," but he's willing to mock those… https://t.co/4QlE5B2EZI

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) October 25, 2024

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October 26, 2024
One of the biggest cultural disasters in history

the world: the fact that male and female and homosexual and heterosexual are fundamental, natural categories of people, but trans and “cis” are… well, I wouldn’t say they’re “made up” (that wording’s maybe a bit harsh) but they’re culturally contingent social categories. Which, when you think about it, should have been completely obvious to everyone all along: they’re just identities after all, and identities are social constructs by definition.

The main objective of the gender fundamentalist movement is to flip the facts around — to force society to swallow the lie that male and female (and by extension, gay and straight) are oppressive social constructs — literally, “white supremacist colonialist” fictions — while trans and “cis” are as fundamental as the elementary particles and as universal as the laws of thermodynamics.

But yes, read it all. Powerful and comprehensive.

“Gender identity” has tainted progressive politics in the eyes of an entire generation. Countless people have abandoned their liberal political affiliations and lost trust in liberal media outlets like the New York Times, the Guardian, and the New Yorker upon realizing that the transgender movement has mutated into a dangerous cult and that liberal politicians and journalists are foisting it on the rest of society, perhaps unwittingly. Wittingly or not, they are complicit in a grave injustice.

In the existential tug-of-war between the material world and the conceptual world, between the hardware of our bodies and the software of ideas that animate us, only our software can be truly reprogrammed. While we can improve our bodies in many ways, we are each stuck for life with the one we were born with. That’s a fact we cannot ever fully transcend. And that’s a good thing. Our imperfect bodies are what make us human, and learning to value and love ourselves for who we are is the great project that gives meaning to each of our lives. The great project of civilization is our collective attempt to help each other in that regard. Transgender fundamentalism has been a detour from civilization’s path to progress, a lurch toward the false promise that we can each opt out of the challenges that society collectively faces — that every man is an island, where we can satisfy our desires and overcome our fears by imagining reality away, lured down a false path of personal enlightenment by medical shamans who sold us lies. But in the end — spoiler alert — you’ll find it was all just a dream. Sorry, Neo and Morpheus, we are not trapped in the Matrix after all. The real world is all there is, and all of us men and women must work together to make it better.

October 25, 2024
Gaining consensus

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Individuals who hold different beliefs are not invited to take part in this research because the focus of the research is gaining consensus on the components and processes of a children and young people’s gender assessments.

Individuals who hold different beliefs – for instance that the phrase "a child or young person continues to identify with a gender identity that differs to their sex assigned at birth" makes no sense – are not invited to participate, as they may skew the results in a way contrary to the results aimed for. "The focus of the research is gaining consensus", and he can hardly do that if he includes people who disagree. So, only gender-affirming clinicians need apply.

As I said wrt the suppressed NIH study in the US: this isn't science, it's ideology.

James Esses: "our universities have been taken over by a trans agenda".

Added: the research is described as a Delphi study:

The Delphi method or Delphi technique is a structured communication technique or method, originally developed as a systematic, interactive forecasting method that relies on a panel of experts…

Delphi is based on the principle that forecasts (or decisions) from a structured group of individuals are more accurate than those from unstructured groups. The experts answer questionnaires in two or more rounds. After each round, a facilitator or change agent provides an anonymised summary of the experts' forecasts from the previous round as well as the reasons they provided for their judgments. Thus, experts are encouraged to revise their earlier answers in light of the replies of other members of their panel. It is believed that during this process the range of the answers will decrease and the group will converge towards the "correct" answer.

I think we can see the problem – especially if the "experts" are chosen to exclude those with whom the study coordinator disagrees. If, that is, the only experts included in the study are those who believe in the reality of "gender identity", and the prevalence of gender dysphoric teens who've been cruelly let down by Cass.

Special attention has to be paid to the formulation of the Delphi theses and the definition and selection of the experts in order to avoid methodological weaknesses that severely threaten the validity and reliability of the results.

Hmm.

“Allowing North Koreans to roam around Chinese cities could have a negative impact on public safety”

authorities in China on Sept. 29 and all returned to North Korea the next day, sources said.

The incident was triggered by a female worker who disappeared from her workplace.

The woman wandered around Dandong after leaving her workplace in mid-September. Prior to the incident, she reportedly had difficulty communicating with co-workers and exhibited cognitive difficulties.

It remains unclear whether these problems were present when the woman was assigned to work in China, or whether they manifested themselves over the course of months spent largely in confined spaces.

After leaving her factory and dormitory, the woman spent a day wandering the streets of Dandong. She walked as far as the railway bridge over the Yalu River, about 15 kilometers from the factory, and the next day entered a North Korean restaurant called Songdowon in downtown Dandong.

North Korean restaurant workers informed state security agents about the woman, who was speaking incoherently, and the agents replied that they had been looking for her.

The problem was that the garment factory where the woman had worked had already reported her disappearance to the Chinese police, who had been tracking her through video feeds from security cameras installed throughout the downtown area.

As a result, the Chinese police detained the woman and investigated the incident. A week later, the police ordered not only the woman but all the North Korean workers and managers at her factory to return to North Korea immediately.

“The decision was made to repatriate the entire contingent at the factory, including the managers, because of their negligent management of the workers. The rationale was that allowing North Koreans to roam around Chinese cities could have a negative impact on public safety,” a source said.

The North Korean consulate in China was blindsided by the incident. In response, the consulate organized an emergency five-day conference for managers of North Koreans working in the country.

“Our relations with China are not so good right now. Since we’re here in China, we have to make sure we abide by Chinese law,” consulate officials said during the conference.

“Everyone was surprised when the Chinese authorities suddenly deported this group of North Korean workers. Some say this incident seems to confirm that relations between Beijing and Pyongyang are rocky at the moment,” another source in China told Daily NK.

A surveillance state – with, it would seem, a real contempt for North Koreans.

The crumbling of “gender-affirming care”

h, thanks largely to the Cass Report, is what we're now starting to see.

Postscript: JK Rowling sums it up:

“We must not publish a study that says we’re harming children because people who say we’re harming children will use the study as evidence that we’re harming children, which might make it difficult for us to continue harming children.”

The UNRWA illusion

since assimilated, now as Canadian and American as anyone else.

My grandparents, however, risked everything to smuggle themselves back into Jaffa with their newborn child. They endured incredible hardship, but they rebuilt their lives, became equal citizens, and now their grandson—me—serves as an ambassador for Israel.

But the third path, the one my relatives who stayed in the Arab world were forced to walk, is the one that breaks my heart the most.

For nearly 80 years, my family in Lebanon and Syria have been denied the dignity of citizenship. Stateless, they’ve been forced into an existence of waiting—waiting for a return that will never come. Some found jobs in the Gulf, but even they are stuck in limbo, branded as “forever refugees.” They hold on to keys that will never fit in any door, clinging to the false hope that one day they’ll reclaim the homes of their ancestors, built on the ashes of the Jewish state.

Thanks to UNRWA, this illusion persists. My relatives, their children, their grandchildren, and now even their great-grandchildren are trapped in a cycle of victimhood. How is it that my cousins in Canada have full rights as citizens, while those born and raised in Syria, Lebanon, and the Gulf are still labeled refugees?

This isn’t just a failure of policy. It’s a human tragedy.

Every decent person must demand the dismantling of UNRWA. My cousins—and millions of others—deserve more than endless waiting. They deserve a future.

George Deek is Israel’s ambassador to Azerbaijan.

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I acquired a folding bike some while back for just this sort of trip – tube down to Waterloo, train to Godalming. Perfect. A car journey down from north London would be grim. Hadn't realised that the three or so miles from Godalming to Winkworth is all uphill…

The FA and women’s football

nded its position, saying in a statement earlier this year: “Our current transgender policy has been in place for 10 years, and it has helped to enable a very small population of transgender women to enjoy playing football safely in the grass-roots game. This is a complex and constantly evolving area, and our review remains ongoing as we monitor and support the practical application of our policy.

Ooh, so smug, these people – and so self-righteous. A "very small population of transgender women" – who can still adversely affect a very large number of real women – "enjoy playing football safely" – while the women can't enjoy playing football safely because they're playing against men. In women's football, this is – which was specifically set up so they wouldn't have to play against bigger, stronger, faster, men.

And of course it's not a complex area at all. It couldn't be simpler. No men in women's football.