Anyone seen the latest from John amaechi?

Helleofabore

Ah, a psychologist - I see! Obviously qualifies him to speak as an expert on physiology, anatomy and endocrinology!

Lots of these guys in sports go on to be motivational speakers when they retire, if they have the charisma to pull it off. Right now the money is in racial bias training, so that's what he is talking about.

I don't think there are any real qualifications for that kind of role.

Isn’t he a psychologist?

His LinkedIn in profile shows he attended Penn State University, which is the university that entered Lia Thomas in women's swimming races.

I'm not quite sure I understand why being a retired basketball player qualifies him to be an expert on transw and their medical and biological quirks, if they have any.

Indeed.

I've never heard of him but he looks to be a pusher of CSJ and all the woo that entails, with a big fat dollop of communal narcissism on top.

Nothing we haven't seen countless tiresome times before.

Datun

Yes mate, your mum is a woman.

How do you know? "DID YOU CHECK THEIR CHROMOSOMES?!!

He's on an identity politics crusade of intersectionality and has been feted for it in the last few years.

Everything is power and oppression to him and he's righteously always on the side of the oppressed.

In this world view trans are the oppressed.

To try to discuss this with him is the same as trying to discuss racism with him: just a sign of your bigotry.
Listen, understand and obey is what is required.

This is why he's totally comfortable not debating and blocking.
He knows he's on the side of the righteous so why bother?

Oh, he'd be one of a million no mark self help gurus, part of the Find Your Authentic Self charlatans.

At best he'd be helping people to speak confidently in public, or getting ahead in business.

Imagine the Alice In Wonderland world where a guy who encourages you as a male to be an ex smoker now encourages you to be a female.

He's using his mother's cancer, the vile man. How low can you stoop with this subject?

It sure is a trap for the superficial to display their stupidity. What would he be doing if "activism" hadn't provided him with easy money for talking shite I wonder.

The thing is… if nice transwomen who have gone through years of therapy and treatment are transwomen, and nasty ones who assault women are not, then surely he would support some kind of gatekeeping so that only the former are allowed in our spaces. But we’re bigots if we ask for that too, apparently.

So close yet so far! He tantalisingly says that when we ask “what is a woman” we don’t appreciate the difference between sex and gender, but he doesn’t tell us what this mystical “gender” is. He just blocks. And he also seems to be a few years behind on his queer theory: he appears to think that males need hormone therapy and diagnoses in order to be women, and he’s ignorant of the fact that trans people now claim to literally change sex.

As Obi Wan would have said "The misogyny is strong in this one".

*If MNers are unsure why I'm keeping up the Jedi references, he identifies somewhat as a Jedi Knight... y'know...fearless, logical, a champion, a hero.

Too bad he's none of these things. Indeed he's a block-headed man, no more, no less.

Dick swinging, then.

No way! So just manipulating the audience for backpats?

Me and John have "form" lol.

He's already defined me as suffering white supremacy. That's enough for one lifetime. Now I'm a transphobe as well.

Aka, racist, Nazi etc.

Yada yada yada.

I'm not sure if us on the GC side of this culture (un)civil war understand how strong the pull and obligations of #BeKind #LiveYourAuthenticLife #SomePeopleAreTransSoJustGetOverIt are to the liberal/anti racism/critical theory crowd.

For them, this is not semantics, it's threaded through their whole philisophical existence.
POC discrimination and racism/slavery/Empire/white Enlightenment/homophobia/gay rights etc etc, the attitude to trans is framed thru this prism. Once you see science and empiricism as irrelevant or indeed tainted by cis white male heterosexual orthodoxy that led to trans being the most marginalised group in history, then it's just a small step to promote and protect trans above and beyond all others, indeed use the fight for black rights and gay liberation as the step up to highlight this cause.

Of course in this intersectional cosmic game of Top Trumps, some groups have to sacrifice and move over. First it was Jews, with this endless demeaning game amongst post modernist liberals as to whether Jews are indeed non-white thus deserving of protection, or not just white, but the whitest of white, and deserving of full frontal liberal attacks.

And more relevant to this forum, women needing to "move along now, dear", trans want your space, and not even "just" that, but your very definition. And the way Amechi and his clan do this, is by so diffusing and obfuscating the definitions of women to effectively make the female group indeterminate, that pretty much anyone can apply and tick all the boxes.

Except of course post-Adam Bryson where the Amechi Directive means that the moment a TIM commits a sexual or violent crime, he's no more a woman, magically the trans free pass is taken away.

We now have madness layered on madness. John Amechi dictates that Adam Bryson can be a woman. Adam Bryson rapes women. John Amechi dictates that Adam Bryson isn't a woman.

I call this the Quantum Theory Of Gender, you can be all things to all...men, but certain men can assign you purely on intent, and then re-assign you, you can literally be in two places at once.

'talks he has given where many audience members have been moved to tears.'

IDK, that kind of arrogance solipsistic view can sometimes make your eyes water.