This morning I woke to some really encouraging news: The UK Supreme Court has officially ruled that the legal definition of “woman” is based on biological sex, and trans identified males do not qualify as women under the country's equality legislation.
In June, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision in the Srkmetti case, regarding whether or not we should allow the transgenderists' experimental, elective, cosmetic drugging and butchering of children.
Because Republicans have packed the Supreme Court, there are actually only a few people there in service to the transgenderism lobby blood money. So we have pretty sanguine hopes for this.
Once they're no longer allowed to put children--their target market--through their medical/pharmaceutical mill, the men financing the transgenderist lobby will lose their massive profits, and I suspect they will throw in the towel.
They're certainly not profiting off all those men who exploit the freedom to violate girls' and women's rights without using any drugs or surgeries at all.
No matter how SCOTUS rules in the Srkmetti case, that will only affect whether or not states can ban "transitioning" children. That will not stop the schools in blue states from indoctrinating children with transgender ideology, as is now happening in Oregon, Washington state, California and many other states. Nor will it stop women in state prisons from being locked in with men and sexually assaulted and harassed by them.
There are many "hills" that we need to take back from transgender activists. No one court case will be able to do that. Even in the UK, the one Supreme Court decision still leaves transactivists with many options to implement their agenda. I just read how some National Health Service hospitals are simply going to eliminate male and female wards, so that all wards will be open to everyone, which will actually be worse for women because now they will not only have to put up with men claiming to be women in women's wards, but other men present in whatever ward a woman finds herself in.
Things could actually get worse in some aspects of women's and children's lives in the UK and the USA as transactivists concoct new ways to get what they want.
The men machinating the transgenderist lobby are doing it for one reason and one reason only: profit. So, once their ROI collapses after they can no longer prey on their target market--the low-hanging fruit of vulnerable children--they'll do what all predators do: cut their losses and move on to some other prey. They won't stick around to finance expensive defenses that won't be worth it to them financially.
They did it with Oxycontin, and they'll do it with transgenderism too.
They might switch their propaganda to adults. But that would be much more costly to them, because adults have mature logical functions. It would not be the ROI they're getting now through kids.
As far as the NHS, they already have problems with privacy on their wards. They already have big problems with healthcare in general. Healthcare under the NHS is worse than it is in Canada, and it's worse in Canada than it is in the US. The NHS kind of have their hands full.
I don't think a Supreme Court that voted *unanimously* to protect girls and women are going to allow the NHS to weasel around them. If the NHS tries it, For Women Scotland can sue again, and the UK Supreme Court will rule again.
Besides, as Kara has noted, the UK leadership that pushed transgenderism in law is already back-pedaling madly:
This lobby has passed its peak and will only become less and less profitable to its predatory investors. They made billions. They got what they wanted. And they're not stupid--they won't waste money on a losing proposition.
It's not as though they're doing this for the sake of anyone but themselves.
But, isn't there a risk with Skrmetti that SCOTUS will rule that being trans is an immutable characteristic like race such that laws which apply to trans people trigger a heightened level of scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause, thereby requiring the government to show the law is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest?
We are banking on the fact that Republicans packed the Supreme Court, so Democratic judges are a minority. We'd have to see a number of Republican judges switch sides to stand with Democrats on this, and in this political climate, I think that's very unlikely to happen.
Republicans used this issue to achieve an easy defeat of Democrats in the 2024 election. It's their meal-ticket. They'd be crazy to turn their backs on it now.
Anyway, we won't know until June. Until then, we're all just crossing our fingers.
I am worried that Justice Amy Coney Barrett will rule in favor of the trans kids. She's got a soft spot for children. I hope I am wrong and that she'll heed her far-right religious beliefs instead, which condemn trans.
I am also concerned that Gorsuch may follow his reasoning in the Bostock case, where found that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected gay and trans people even though there is no way on God's green earth that Congress intended that.
Both of those two are wild-cards, and you're right to worry.
I can only hope that Coney Barrett's supposed soft spot for children translates into protecting them against predatory exploitation by the Soros and Arcus Foundations (among others). Republicans are no friends to Soros.
Gorsuch, I'm sure, has gotten an earful from Alito since Bostock. And they've both seen how transgenderism is losing support here and in the UK.
Gorsuch in the Bostock decision did not even define what "transgender status" meant. The ACLU brief started out by stating that Aimee Stephens was male. The ruling on the three cases was that there had been discrimination on the basis of sex. "But for" their sex, none of the three plaintiffs would have been treated by their employers as they were. There was no statement that Aimee Stephens had been discriminated against because of his "transgender status", but rather that he had been discriminated against, as were the two gay men, on the basis of sex. It really was a sloppy decision, mentioning "transgender status" but not defining what was meant by that term.
Yeah, I subscribe to Kara Dansky's substack, and she is no end irritated over Bostock. She's hoping the Skrmetti ruling will finally, at long last, tell us WTF the Supreme Court thinks "transgender status" even is.
I appreciate articles like this one that detail the evidence with links to what has happened over time. It is an excellent reference tool for later conversations and writing. Thank you!
And thank you for your courage to live not by lies, as Rod Dreher would put it.
I share your anger. I want the people and institutional to go down. Make them all the laughing stocks of the world. Bankrupt them. And then put them in prison.
When I first heard the ruling, I was of two minds:
First, did I just wake up in a parallel universe?
Second, that women had to seek judicial intervention to secure their right to exist as a distinct group, with access to single-sex spaces like refuges, hospital wards, and sports, free from encroachment is disheartening and it should never happen again.
Good post, Kaeley. It's strange that the welfare of children always seems to take a backseat to making sure adults don't feel uncomfortable in some way. Amazingly, the same dynamics apply for women and men. Despite all that, people who support such cruelty call themselves "progressive."
Kaeley, I was crying along with you. And what a fantastic job you've done of beginning to catalogue the social costs to all sorts of people in the US, every man woman and child who is attached to a reality-based understanding of the world (in other words, basically most mentally healthy people, and especially those with disabilities or special circumstances that make it more of a challenge for them to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears--little children, the elderly, those with dementia).
I share Plum's skepticism that a one-fell-swoop reckoning like this is coming in the US, for several reasons--the attachment of the Democratic party to this ideology (and the continued loyalty even of convinced gender realists to the Dems, thanks to their aversion to the sitting president), to the "not a biologist" on our Supreme Court, and to the greater relative domination of for-profit or effectively for-profit medicine in the US system, even if a lot of this is funded by Medicare. That is a pain point, and lawsuits are pain points, and state insurance regulations are pain points--you cover transition care, you are on the hook for de-transition care, which will be massively costly--if the current administration can follow through on all of these, those most directly hurt, the kids and young people, will have a chance for redress. The rest of us, the ones insulted, fired, who lost professional or educational opportunities, we may just have to deal and allow people to pretend they never said or did what they said and did. Kara Dansky had a great essay about this the other day.
The other wonderful point you've made is to draw the connection between the abuse of language and the abuse of power--the utter perversion of the truth (that people can be born into the "wrong" bodies)--there can be psychological distress with the body but a body cannot be wrong as that is a moral not a medical concept), and the perversion of medical care and the whole concept of "do no harm"--what is stopping pubertal (brain) development, cutting off healthy functioning organs, giving supranormal doses of cross-sex hormones known to be harmful, but doing harm? This is not rocket science. Somehow the doctors involved in the Dutch protocol and spreading it across the developed world justified violating this principle with the suicide narrative but now we have the research that shows this to be false, so they are committed to continuing to lie?
Finally, you've hit upon a point too little acknowledged that the perversion of language is the foundation of any totalitarian order, promoting the exploitation of the weak by the strong unrestrained by law. This is why the transgender identified absolutely must, however absurd the claim by the 6'4" in the ladies changing room, claim to be the victims. Transgenderism as a phenemenon goes beyond the litany of erroneous, harmful, failed medical treatments based in bigotry or ignorance that you note (wondering wombs, lobotomies), and has become a vehicle for a particularly noxious strain of abusers/sexual fetishists to exploit the most vulnerable women in a new way. And also for society to continue to enact its bigotry on same-sex attracted persons.
I hope and pray the those of us in the US will continue to find the strength to stand up for reality in the face of what is likely to be continued, if not increased social pressure against a return to sanity as the bien-pensants associate it with the bad orange man, making it one of the proscribed thoughts that will mark you as on the other side of the divide. We will need to stand up with bravery and dignity in the footsteps of our UK sisters.
Fantastic writing Kaeley!!! Been in this struggle since the early 1990s when the mtfs were crashing our Lesbian spaces, and young Butches just started to begin to trans as a fad..pushed along in the background by the mtfs.
I saw the UK Lesbians celebrating and Soooooo happy. Tired of the silencing anddeplatforming myself!!!
I can't tell you how many dyed-in-the-wool liberals in both Canada and the US (including Chase Strangio's aunt) have ADAMANTLY insisted to me that public schools are NOT teaching transgenderism to schoolchildren.
Universally, they say, "I don't believe that."
"Maybe in Arkansas," Chase Strangio's aunt said furiously--as though Arkansas were the hotbed of transgenderism, and Massachusetts were the cool head of reason who were never, ever, ever do such a barbaric, medieval thing to innocent children.
So thank you for providing me with an image of the Genderbread Person from the hallowed halls of the Dept of Education.
As a parent, I'll always remember. And yes, "I want people to know about the many other grieving parents who lost this battle and had to watch their brilliant young daughters undergo double mastectomies and pump their bodies full of testosterone because a compromised medical industrial complex convinced them this was the solution to their trauma-related issues." That is what I had to do...
Needed this. Such a monumental day for those of us affected by this madness. I am so sad at how my family are not celebrating with me. I want the world to know how harmful this has been & not to get brushed under the carpet
I will never forget that I had to face how deeply men truly seem to loathe and fear actual women, and how only a handful of them stood up to this on our behalf.
Thank you to people like J.K Rowling and Ricky Gervais, who never backed down and said it like it was. Without highly prominent celebrities holding the line we may not have ever had the world watching.
For all the celebrities pushing trans ideology, I will never forget. For every friend who dropped me, I will never forget. Every politician, every ”doctor” or psychologist, I see you and I know what you are, and I will never forget. Sheep at best, woman hating creeps whether you own it or not.
And to everyone whose offspring has told me to die in a fire, and that the world would be better without people like me because of this dystopian ideology, well, I never wished you harm but I can’t help but saying I hope reality comes calling and the medical fallout makes you face how monstrously you behaved toward women who wanted you to love yourselves.
I hope The Reckoning involves a self-awareness that brings you to your knees and that you find your way to apologizing to those you attacked. But even if you do, I will never forget.
Well said ,Kaeley. It's completely mystifying how this damaging ideology captured so many of our institutions and public bodies ,even Governments !! Many people should be held accountable for the unleashing of this monstrous movement on Western Civilization ,and if there's any justice we should start with the BILLIONAIRES who promote and fund it !! If only 🙏
This is great news but I’m not ready to celebrate. I don’t think we are anywhere near this type of decision in the US.
We are getting closer.
In June, the Supreme Court is expected to announce its decision in the Srkmetti case, regarding whether or not we should allow the transgenderists' experimental, elective, cosmetic drugging and butchering of children.
Because Republicans have packed the Supreme Court, there are actually only a few people there in service to the transgenderism lobby blood money. So we have pretty sanguine hopes for this.
Once they're no longer allowed to put children--their target market--through their medical/pharmaceutical mill, the men financing the transgenderist lobby will lose their massive profits, and I suspect they will throw in the towel.
They're certainly not profiting off all those men who exploit the freedom to violate girls' and women's rights without using any drugs or surgeries at all.
No matter how SCOTUS rules in the Srkmetti case, that will only affect whether or not states can ban "transitioning" children. That will not stop the schools in blue states from indoctrinating children with transgender ideology, as is now happening in Oregon, Washington state, California and many other states. Nor will it stop women in state prisons from being locked in with men and sexually assaulted and harassed by them.
There are many "hills" that we need to take back from transgender activists. No one court case will be able to do that. Even in the UK, the one Supreme Court decision still leaves transactivists with many options to implement their agenda. I just read how some National Health Service hospitals are simply going to eliminate male and female wards, so that all wards will be open to everyone, which will actually be worse for women because now they will not only have to put up with men claiming to be women in women's wards, but other men present in whatever ward a woman finds herself in.
Things could actually get worse in some aspects of women's and children's lives in the UK and the USA as transactivists concoct new ways to get what they want.
Oh, I know. Skrmetti is only one step.
But it's a BIG step.
The men machinating the transgenderist lobby are doing it for one reason and one reason only: profit. So, once their ROI collapses after they can no longer prey on their target market--the low-hanging fruit of vulnerable children--they'll do what all predators do: cut their losses and move on to some other prey. They won't stick around to finance expensive defenses that won't be worth it to them financially.
They did it with Oxycontin, and they'll do it with transgenderism too.
They might switch their propaganda to adults. But that would be much more costly to them, because adults have mature logical functions. It would not be the ROI they're getting now through kids.
As far as the NHS, they already have problems with privacy on their wards. They already have big problems with healthcare in general. Healthcare under the NHS is worse than it is in Canada, and it's worse in Canada than it is in the US. The NHS kind of have their hands full.
I don't think a Supreme Court that voted *unanimously* to protect girls and women are going to allow the NHS to weasel around them. If the NHS tries it, For Women Scotland can sue again, and the UK Supreme Court will rule again.
Besides, as Kara has noted, the UK leadership that pushed transgenderism in law is already back-pedaling madly:
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/theyre-all-going-to-tell-us-they
This lobby has passed its peak and will only become less and less profitable to its predatory investors. They made billions. They got what they wanted. And they're not stupid--they won't waste money on a losing proposition.
It's not as though they're doing this for the sake of anyone but themselves.
But, isn't there a risk with Skrmetti that SCOTUS will rule that being trans is an immutable characteristic like race such that laws which apply to trans people trigger a heightened level of scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause, thereby requiring the government to show the law is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest?
Yes, there is certainly that risk.
We are banking on the fact that Republicans packed the Supreme Court, so Democratic judges are a minority. We'd have to see a number of Republican judges switch sides to stand with Democrats on this, and in this political climate, I think that's very unlikely to happen.
Republicans used this issue to achieve an easy defeat of Democrats in the 2024 election. It's their meal-ticket. They'd be crazy to turn their backs on it now.
Anyway, we won't know until June. Until then, we're all just crossing our fingers.
I am worried that Justice Amy Coney Barrett will rule in favor of the trans kids. She's got a soft spot for children. I hope I am wrong and that she'll heed her far-right religious beliefs instead, which condemn trans.
I am also concerned that Gorsuch may follow his reasoning in the Bostock case, where found that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protected gay and trans people even though there is no way on God's green earth that Congress intended that.
Both of those two are wild-cards, and you're right to worry.
I can only hope that Coney Barrett's supposed soft spot for children translates into protecting them against predatory exploitation by the Soros and Arcus Foundations (among others). Republicans are no friends to Soros.
Gorsuch, I'm sure, has gotten an earful from Alito since Bostock. And they've both seen how transgenderism is losing support here and in the UK.
So I think we have cause for cautious optimism. 🤞
Gorsuch in the Bostock decision did not even define what "transgender status" meant. The ACLU brief started out by stating that Aimee Stephens was male. The ruling on the three cases was that there had been discrimination on the basis of sex. "But for" their sex, none of the three plaintiffs would have been treated by their employers as they were. There was no statement that Aimee Stephens had been discriminated against because of his "transgender status", but rather that he had been discriminated against, as were the two gay men, on the basis of sex. It really was a sloppy decision, mentioning "transgender status" but not defining what was meant by that term.
Yeah, I subscribe to Kara Dansky's substack, and she is no end irritated over Bostock. She's hoping the Skrmetti ruling will finally, at long last, tell us WTF the Supreme Court thinks "transgender status" even is.
I appreciate articles like this one that detail the evidence with links to what has happened over time. It is an excellent reference tool for later conversations and writing. Thank you!
And thank you for your courage to live not by lies, as Rod Dreher would put it.
Precisely so
I share your anger. I want the people and institutional to go down. Make them all the laughing stocks of the world. Bankrupt them. And then put them in prison.
When I first heard the ruling, I was of two minds:
First, did I just wake up in a parallel universe?
Second, that women had to seek judicial intervention to secure their right to exist as a distinct group, with access to single-sex spaces like refuges, hospital wards, and sports, free from encroachment is disheartening and it should never happen again.
Good post, Kaeley. It's strange that the welfare of children always seems to take a backseat to making sure adults don't feel uncomfortable in some way. Amazingly, the same dynamics apply for women and men. Despite all that, people who support such cruelty call themselves "progressive."
Kaeley, I was crying along with you. And what a fantastic job you've done of beginning to catalogue the social costs to all sorts of people in the US, every man woman and child who is attached to a reality-based understanding of the world (in other words, basically most mentally healthy people, and especially those with disabilities or special circumstances that make it more of a challenge for them to ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears--little children, the elderly, those with dementia).
I share Plum's skepticism that a one-fell-swoop reckoning like this is coming in the US, for several reasons--the attachment of the Democratic party to this ideology (and the continued loyalty even of convinced gender realists to the Dems, thanks to their aversion to the sitting president), to the "not a biologist" on our Supreme Court, and to the greater relative domination of for-profit or effectively for-profit medicine in the US system, even if a lot of this is funded by Medicare. That is a pain point, and lawsuits are pain points, and state insurance regulations are pain points--you cover transition care, you are on the hook for de-transition care, which will be massively costly--if the current administration can follow through on all of these, those most directly hurt, the kids and young people, will have a chance for redress. The rest of us, the ones insulted, fired, who lost professional or educational opportunities, we may just have to deal and allow people to pretend they never said or did what they said and did. Kara Dansky had a great essay about this the other day.
The other wonderful point you've made is to draw the connection between the abuse of language and the abuse of power--the utter perversion of the truth (that people can be born into the "wrong" bodies)--there can be psychological distress with the body but a body cannot be wrong as that is a moral not a medical concept), and the perversion of medical care and the whole concept of "do no harm"--what is stopping pubertal (brain) development, cutting off healthy functioning organs, giving supranormal doses of cross-sex hormones known to be harmful, but doing harm? This is not rocket science. Somehow the doctors involved in the Dutch protocol and spreading it across the developed world justified violating this principle with the suicide narrative but now we have the research that shows this to be false, so they are committed to continuing to lie?
Finally, you've hit upon a point too little acknowledged that the perversion of language is the foundation of any totalitarian order, promoting the exploitation of the weak by the strong unrestrained by law. This is why the transgender identified absolutely must, however absurd the claim by the 6'4" in the ladies changing room, claim to be the victims. Transgenderism as a phenemenon goes beyond the litany of erroneous, harmful, failed medical treatments based in bigotry or ignorance that you note (wondering wombs, lobotomies), and has become a vehicle for a particularly noxious strain of abusers/sexual fetishists to exploit the most vulnerable women in a new way. And also for society to continue to enact its bigotry on same-sex attracted persons.
I hope and pray the those of us in the US will continue to find the strength to stand up for reality in the face of what is likely to be continued, if not increased social pressure against a return to sanity as the bien-pensants associate it with the bad orange man, making it one of the proscribed thoughts that will mark you as on the other side of the divide. We will need to stand up with bravery and dignity in the footsteps of our UK sisters.
Thank you Kaeley for your courage!! Things are getting better!
This is great news as I thought most of the UK was smitten with mad cow disease.
Fantastic writing Kaeley!!! Been in this struggle since the early 1990s when the mtfs were crashing our Lesbian spaces, and young Butches just started to begin to trans as a fad..pushed along in the background by the mtfs.
I saw the UK Lesbians celebrating and Soooooo happy. Tired of the silencing anddeplatforming myself!!!
- The FeistyAmazon
"The collapse of my generation's Iron Curtain"
Exactly.
I can't tell you how many dyed-in-the-wool liberals in both Canada and the US (including Chase Strangio's aunt) have ADAMANTLY insisted to me that public schools are NOT teaching transgenderism to schoolchildren.
Universally, they say, "I don't believe that."
"Maybe in Arkansas," Chase Strangio's aunt said furiously--as though Arkansas were the hotbed of transgenderism, and Massachusetts were the cool head of reason who were never, ever, ever do such a barbaric, medieval thing to innocent children.
So thank you for providing me with an image of the Genderbread Person from the hallowed halls of the Dept of Education.
It will be used prolifically.
Beautiful writing Kaeley!
As a parent, I'll always remember. And yes, "I want people to know about the many other grieving parents who lost this battle and had to watch their brilliant young daughters undergo double mastectomies and pump their bodies full of testosterone because a compromised medical industrial complex convinced them this was the solution to their trauma-related issues." That is what I had to do...
My both you and your daughter heal.
Needed this. Such a monumental day for those of us affected by this madness. I am so sad at how my family are not celebrating with me. I want the world to know how harmful this has been & not to get brushed under the carpet
brilliant. thank you, Kaeley
I will never forget that I had to face how deeply men truly seem to loathe and fear actual women, and how only a handful of them stood up to this on our behalf.
Thank you to people like J.K Rowling and Ricky Gervais, who never backed down and said it like it was. Without highly prominent celebrities holding the line we may not have ever had the world watching.
For all the celebrities pushing trans ideology, I will never forget. For every friend who dropped me, I will never forget. Every politician, every ”doctor” or psychologist, I see you and I know what you are, and I will never forget. Sheep at best, woman hating creeps whether you own it or not.
And to everyone whose offspring has told me to die in a fire, and that the world would be better without people like me because of this dystopian ideology, well, I never wished you harm but I can’t help but saying I hope reality comes calling and the medical fallout makes you face how monstrously you behaved toward women who wanted you to love yourselves.
I hope The Reckoning involves a self-awareness that brings you to your knees and that you find your way to apologizing to those you attacked. But even if you do, I will never forget.
Well said ,Kaeley. It's completely mystifying how this damaging ideology captured so many of our institutions and public bodies ,even Governments !! Many people should be held accountable for the unleashing of this monstrous movement on Western Civilization ,and if there's any justice we should start with the BILLIONAIRES who promote and fund it !! If only 🙏