Thread. Bari Weiss has published numerous pieces like this— “wokeness gone mad” first-person anecdotes that do not hold up to scrutiny. Wild that a piece of media criticism makes so many obvious errors.

Finally read the Uri Berliner piece on NPR biasand I'm baffled by how little the enormous media controversy it spawned has resulted in scrutiny of its claims for factual accuracy. There are significant problems with the piece including obvious, verifiable falsehoods

The Cass Report, which is what J. Karen Rowling is so Very Mad Online about, also neglected to include most positive stories from trans teens because they were deemed 'biased.' It also neglects tons of studies for bias reasons while maintaining a veneer of objectivity.

Honestly, these numbers speak to a system that is built to prevent transition at every turn. 93% didn't get treated and 69% aged out? That's fucking shameful. If anything, this reveals a deeply inefficient and hostile system, a far cry from the 'fast tracking' TERFs claim.

Just like self-driving cars are always five years away, the evidence that tons of people regret their transition is always at another clinic that hasn't been studied yet

Episode 28: 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' Part 2

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lmao the only evidence of rising 'antisocial behavior' in this article is by the cops

the way she's responding to someone called 'far right hooligan' like... is the feminism in the room with us right now?

relistening to this episode and losing my mind over this chart again

When you get ghosted by a goth girl on Tinder

you take a little nyquil and suddenly you’re invested in steam trains

nice topical OJ reference in this weeks ep 🫡

Better Angels 2: The Bettering
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mcmansions ruin neighbourhoods

The Cass Review systematically excluded almost every study from its consideration on the basis that they were not blinded interventions, which in the context of puberty blockers is actually not tenable: the efficacy of puberty blockers in their labeled function is not disputed.

Who could have predicted that after all the sturm und drang about 'trans-ing' tomboys and effeminate men and so on, that we would end up just trying to enforce gender norms by law?

Oh wait, never mind, it was pretty obvious.

The Cass Review rejected around 50 studies (98%) submitted to it, but accepted studies not focused on trans people. It claims 24 year olds are children. It claims that toys children play with is determined by biology.

This report is anti-science and is for ideological zealots.

It should not matter what Trump says on abortion tomorrow. He was already president, and when he was, he appointed Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade and helped ban abortion in states across America. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…