I actually wrote a letter of support to JK Rowling's publisher (and got a positive response) in support of her when all those people were attempting to cancel her simply for saying that "a menstruating person" is a woman and that biological sex is real. For all their attempts at canceling her, she is still out there standing strong, and they didn't care about any of things she went through in life (single mother, sexual assault, poverty) even though in ANY OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE when trans "women" aren't involved, they would be claiming to care about such things.
And I got so tired of watching videos on YouTube....and I primarily watch live animal cameras and videos related to art and craft...and people would randomly make some comment about how they still like Harry Potter even though they don't like or disagree with Rowling. I unsubscribed from a few channels simply because they talked more about "woke" stuff rather than the topics of their videos.
It was Rowling and all the abuse she received that *UN*-woke me to all that was going on.
So she did make a difference. A number of people, particularly women, peaked on all the trans-radicalism, just like I did.
The problem is, a lot of people still support the abuse of Rowling and others who believe the same thing, and even though Rowling is standing strong and her voice matters and has mattered, it hasn't been strong enough.
So I'm thinking it's great that someone like Dave Chappelle has entered the ring, so to speak, in support of women and in support of biological reality. Maybe more people will see what's going on and take the whole subject far more seriously because it goes far above any divisions of left and right, religious or atheist or any of those things.
And I have some personal reasons for my views as well. If this stuff had been going on while I was younger, I might have also been pulled into this whole trans thing. While I did like some things that were stereotypically "female", some of my favorite toys were my Tonka trucks that I'd play with in the sandbox, my little set of green army men, my leather holster with toy silver western pistols (probably banned today), and a few years later, my Evil Knievel doll complete with stunt motorcycle, and most of my friends growing up were boys in my neighborhood, so I had the dirt bike and all the "boy things" as well as the "girl things".
I had the impression at the time that boys were better than girls, that boys got to do more fun things without the same potential disapproval that a girl might get from doing the same, and other such things. Had adults been influencing me in the sense of informing me that I actually COULD be a boy, I would have been all over that and had my parents been accommodating of the nonsense, approving hormones and such, it all would have ended up being a HUGE mistake. Instead, I was protected and simply allowed to play with the kinds of toys I wanted, dress the way I wanted (within reason), have play friends that were boys, go hunting and fishing with my dad and all the things and yet STILL be a girl.
Not because of the type of toys I played with or because I wore shorts instead of a skirt or because even though most years I'd wear my hair long, I'd sometimes cut it short, or all the different things that EVERYONE generally enjoys depending on their uniqueness as a person, but because I was (and am) BIOLOGICALLY a girl.
Thanks be to GOD that I was protected because (and I'm starting to sound like I should run out into my yard with a shotgun and start yelling at kids about my yard) I am truly fearful for the kids out there today and what is going on with them in the schools and everywhere because this is something that can severely damage them PERMANENTLY. It's not the same as a couple or three rebellious years or that year they spent wearing purple hair dye. Even a tattoo that you might regret later is nothing compared to this.
And Chapelle is right. It *IS* incredibly offensive to women to have these men claim to "feel like women" when they've never been a woman in their entire lives and believe that they are ENTITLED to define and redefine what a woman is to suit THEIR desires, needs, and fantasies. They'll talk about how "cultural appropriation" is bad, how terrible white women are for enjoying yoga (yes, I got into *that* argument once elsewhere), and yet CRICKETS when men culturally appropriate women in the name of "inclusion" and "diversity." It's the *women* who are hateful for not just accommodating it all in their view.
And then we have the movements of "believe women" when women are raped and abused and yet again CRICKETS when a young girl is raped in a bathroom by a boy in a skirt and then her father is proclaimed a "domestic terrorist" by speaking out about it.
I am literally HORRIFIED by all of this and I am tired of people on the left acting like it's no big deal at best and blaming and cancelling women (even other women on the left) for not keeping our silence like the good, obedient "bodies with vaginas" that we are supposed to be.
