Guys and Gals

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Part 1

POLICE OFFICER UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR CALLING A MAN A MAN:

Tucker, Georgia, is an eastern Atlanta suburb, located in the ultra-woke Dekalb County, so this story may not come as a surprise, but it’s infuriating a lot of people, so I thought I’d share.

It all started a few weeks ago with a man who identifies as a woman by the name of Sasha Swinson. He was at the Tucker-Reid H. Cofer Library, a place he claims he frequents regularly, and had just used the bathroom. The women’s bathroom. When he stepped outside, a DeKalb County police officer allegedly told him that he needed to use the men’s bathroom next time as there were women and young girls in the other. As you can imagine, that didn’t sit well with Swinson.

“I use the restroom, the women’s restroom, like I have been for months, if not years,” Swinson told local news outlets. “He says, ‘Excuse me, sir.’ So, misgendering me right away, just goes, ‘But you’re not a woman. That’s obvious.'”

In case you’re curious about just how obvious that was, here’s a video of Swinson enjoying his 15 minutes of fame as he complains about the situation. Even I didn’t expect that voice to come out that deep.

Part II

It’s just so hard these days to figure who’s on top of the victimhood totem pole (yes, that’s now a racist term, offense to Indians — screw ‘em). For instance, it wasn’t that long ago that a black female lesbian was pretty high in the rankings, and now she has to lie down for a man flopping his penis around while screaming, “I am woman, hear me roar!”.

It’s a mystery.

Gold’s Gym Just Canceled Real Woman for Standing Up to Naked Man

But wait, there’s more!

Trans person accused of exposing self in women’s locker room was convicted of brutally beating ex-wife before taking her name

The transgender person caught up in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row had been convicted of assaulting their now-ex-wife while living in Ohio as a man — before taking the victim’s first name as their own.

Alexis Black ran afoul of women at a gym in Beverly Hills, including singer-songwriter Tish Hyman, who accused them of exposing himself and harassing her in the locker room.

Black, formerly Grant Freeman, pleaded guilty in 2022 to savagely beating his wife Alexis Freeman, causing a compound fractured jaw among other serious injuries.

“Kyle Grant Freeman caused serious physical harm to the victim. The victim suffered a compound fractured mandible, which resulted in her needing surgery,” said court documents from Hamilton County, Ohio.

Black was sentenced to a year in prison, minus time served.

Black had been convicted of both domestic violence and drug trafficking in the past, and has faced a slew of other charges, including resisting arrest, records show.

Part 3

A couple of weeks ago Stephen Green published a deep dive essay on this subject. It’s behind the PJ paywall, which you can breach by subscribing to all Town Hall’s media outlets — a strategy I highly recommend — but here’s an excerpt:

Thursday Essay: You Only Think the 'Trans' Crisis Is Over

Matt Walsh crowed last week that "Transgenderism is effectively over."

"We destroyed it," he went on, calling it the "clearest and most decisive cultural win that conservatives have ever achieved."

Sorry, no — if Matt were any more wrong, he'd put on a dress and insist we call him Mathilda. But before you can understand where Walsh went wrong, you have to understand what's really going on.

I put "trans" in scare quotes up above in the headline because the word has been conflated beyond all meaning. So before you can understand why the crisis is far from over, we have to restore meaning to that word.

The confusion stems — and this is no accident, by the way — from taking the word transexual (which is the less scientific term for gender dysphoria) and expanding it to cover three other types of people who are not in any way gender dysphoric. 

The short version is that the catch-all term "trans" now includes four distinct groups: the genuinely gender dysphoric, predators, victims, and trendies. Before we get to the fakers and the harmed, let’s take a quick look at the real deal.

True dysphoria isn't a TikTok trend or a phase trendy kids go through — it's a real and painful disconnect between mind and body that makes the simple act of being feel out of tune. At best. It means waking up every day and believing the mirror lies to you about the most fundamental aspect of your biology. The gender dysphoric aren’t confused about who they are; they’re exhausted by how hard it is to live in the body they have.

The real tragedy is that we still don't have a handle, medically or psychologically, on how (or necessarily whether) to treat gender dysphoria. The reported attempted suicide rate for the gender dysphoric is higher than any other group of people you could name, at nearly 40%. That's an astonishing figure, and although the research is spotty on self-reported suicide attempts, the figure remains about the same regardless of whether a dysphoric person has medically transitioned. 

And Another Thing: For brevity's sake, I use "transitioning" for the series of hormonal and surgical procedures that we used to call "getting a sex change." But please know that I know that basic biology and common sense dictate that there's no actual transition or sex change taking place. Any changes are purely cosmetic. For some who are gender dysphoric, that's enough. For others, not so much.

A 2019 study found that "Despite professional recommendations to consider gender-affirming hormone and surgical interventions for transgender individuals experiencing gender incongruence, the long-term effect of such interventions on mental health is largely unknown." That's true even after six-plus decades of procedures performed on tens of thousands of people in the U.S. alone.  

Some are happier after transition surgery and hormone treatments. Some are worse off, but have made changes to their bodies that can never be fully reversed. The medical profession is unable to tell in advance which person will fall into which group.

There are as yet no easy answers. Hell, there don't seem to be any difficult answers, either. People caught in the dysphoria dichotomy deserve our sympathy and our help, although the former is at risk from the "trans" movement, and the latter, we still don't really know how to provide. 

The gender dysphoric do not seek to draw attention to themselves; they just want to pass.

You know who does draw attention to themselves? Autogynephilic male predators who coopted the trans label.

The middle-aged straight man with the stringy "girl" hair, the beard, and the dress trying to barge into the girls' locker room so he can ogle and wave his penis around isn't "trans" anything. His kink, as sexologist Ray Blanchard described it, is sexual arousal at the idea of having a female body, and flaunting it in front of others.

In better times, he paraded around in front of his wife or whatever — in private. Today, he uses the law to force the rest of society to accept that he's just a girl, free to invade women's space and compete in women's sporting events.

On second thought, the predators are probably best divided into two subsets: Autogynephilics and losers. 

Here's an autogynephilic:

And here’s a loser:

But make no mistake: Both prey on women.

Autogynephilic men have shown all kinds of violent tendencies, over and over — though I still don’t fully understand why. Maybe someday I'll do enough research to write an essay on them, assuming I can stomach it. 

The Left loves promoting these male predators as having the same rights as women, because promoting predation, kink, and mental illness to individual rights obliterates the entire concept of individual rights. As I wrote above, the conflation between gender dysphoria and "trans" is no accident.