Biden will address your 'gender identity' rather than your sex.

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Biden says Dr Rachel Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic — no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability — and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond

So, when Biden says 'woman' I assume he means your gender identity and not your sex. What about those women who cast aside crappy gender stereotypes which are detrimental to women.

TL;DR Don't know if that means it's ok not to get people through this pandemic because of their natal and immutable sex. But don't worry, if you adopt a gender identity, the new administration will get you through it.

Still ok to f*ck women over I guess, 'cos sex not as much a thing as say 'zip code'. Issues related to zip code much more important than issues because of your sex. If you don't see natal and immutable sex, then you can't see sex discrimination. Maybe it all disappears in the first hour of the new administration. Kinda Trump, really. Don't look for it or call it by it's name and hey presto, it's gone.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rachel-levine-transgender-biden-cabinet-assistant-health-secretary-b1789420.html

I hope the huge created industry of child medicalisation doesn't get carte blanche to soar in the US?

In afraid that I think some of them really are that zealous. AOC, for example - she wants people put on lists and sent for re-education: she gives me the shivers.

I suspect it will be the opposite. Trump was a convenient bogeyman. Now that he's out they have to keep the manufactured moral panic going. The general media and political pundits have expanded the narrative to turn him into some evil nemesis with hoardes of white supremacists at his beck and call lurking around every corner. Everyone is a white supremacist now (apart from those making the claims of course). Considering the sheer volume of people who voted for Trump, this poses an inconvenient conundrum. How to resolve this? Maybe some introspection to decide they might have been wrong on some issues? No! Just expand the definitions and narrative even further! Now there's a new villain in town - 'multiracial whiteness'. 😂

One significant achievement by Trump was to trigger a responsive reaction of polarisation on the progressive side. The progressive side now has its own quasi-religious belief systems in which extraordinary behaviours are permitted and alternative (fake) facts. The more progressives operate in a reactive mode, the more they bolster Trump's cause. Trump might be very stupid in some ways but in some key areas he has a brilliant intuitive sense of how to define and control the larger conflict.

Yes. Personally I can't think of a more stupid or potentially divisive "first move in office" than to focus on identity politics with such a contentious issue too. It makes Biden look out of touch to a lot of ordinary people who aren't part of the religion.

But it gives all those of the True Faith something to cross themselves over and say a prayer of thanks about.

Anyway, Trump is now about to give his departure speech, the final event of his presidency. Let's see whether he aims for legacy, to stir up his base to cause further polarisation, or something else.

It should be happening shortly but Trump is not well known for his time-keeping.

Would love Sarah Cooper to do one on 'the more you acknowledge the biological reality of sex, the more sexism you find. So, the more you ignore the biological reality of sex, the less you address the difficulties experienced by women because of our sex'.

Men's rights alone, front and centre a gogo!

Plus ca change.. .

I'm starting to think that Biden is dimmer than I previously thought. Either that or he's a career politician without any values or principles of his own. I'm increasingly picturing him as a doddery old man who relies on his advisors for his every move and has neither the strength of mind or character to come up with any ideas of his own or forge his own path.

Advantages that older people can often offer, such as wisdom, moderation, the experience of years, the ability to unite, seem to lacking in Biden.

I hope I'm wrong.

Lisa Nandy praising Biden as a ‘woke guy’ has made me cringe myself inside out this morning.

Has she said anything about that trans rapist?

I thought she would be worried sick that he does not go to a mens prison

I think Biden is not going to be a leader in a real sense but will be a follower having fed to him issues and the views he should hold by a number of groups including identity politics focused progressives.

I have zero faith in Biden being any good.... goes off to make another round of comforting toast

Sorry dont haave time to get the thread links but there has been an active campaign by gender critical feminists in the US, and they have done on line briefings on this.

One of the first directives Biden will bring in is to allow self identification. ie any facilities or services aimed at women will be open to men who "indentify" as women.

Appointing a trans woman in this job is just part of the woke signally that this (sorry to say this) old man is using to show how in touch he is, in the same way as having a young woman of color or Lady Gaga sing the nation anthem this after noon.

The appointment of one individual is nothing like as damaging as the bill that will be passed this afternoon.

Maybe someone can pull up the threads onthis including links to the briefing.

As it is in Texas they have already had a court case saying it is discriminatory to stop trans women competing in women's sports.

Be prepared for the total avalanche.

Because as it is here, every one just assumes those who oppose this are just right wing fundamentalists and on what will be the political high of Trump being kicked out, the long embedded trans activists will now be able to influence all areas of women's lives in America.

Appointing a trans woman in this job is just part of the woke signally that this (sorry to say this) old man is using to show how in touch he is

His age has nothing to do with it.
Don't insinuate that "old people" who have different opinions to you must be doing it to look cool or woke or whatever, or that they don't know what they're doing.
Talk about patronising.

@Wildswim

I'm starting to think that Biden is dimmer than I previously thought. Either that or he's a career politician without any values or principles of his own. I'm increasingly picturing him as a doddery old man who relies on his advisors for his every move and has neither the strength of mind or character to come up with any ideas of his own or forge his own path.

Advantages that older people can often offer, such as wisdom, moderation, the experience of years, the ability to unite, seem to lacking in Biden.

I hope I'm wrong.

I also have that impression. I can't believe that he was the best candidate. (Well he wasn't, but you know what I mean!)

or that they don't know what they're doing.

From the footage I have seen of Biden discussing this - I think that it is a very fair conclusion to say that he has either no idea or no care about the implications of this policy on women and girls.

@UppityPuppity

or that they don't know what they're doing.

From the footage I have seen of Biden discussing this - I think that it is a very fair conclusion to say that he has either no idea or no care about the implications of this policy on women and girls.

Yup!

Fair enough if you think that, but I keep seeing his age being dragged into it (old man) he's in his 70s just like Trump is.

Here is a clip. What on earth is he saying?

He nearly says sexuality and mentions OBGYN for some reason. Wtaf?

twitter.com/NorfolkGTI/status/1351220616435822593?s=20

When Biden was asked in a recent interview how many genders there are his reply was 'At least 3'.

I'm not on Twitter personally but I have a professional account which mostly follows academics in the UK and Ireland. The Twitter response to Biden's statement - 'At least three' - was delight, glee and fondness. 'Aw, isn't he great, what a brilliant response, he gets it, how cute' were the tweets about it. When one brave person tweeted that she was worried about single sex spaces, she was piled on and reported.

Sorry I know it's not related to the topic but I can't help myself... Just seen Titania McGrath's post... I'm in stitches listening to the clip. 😂😂

twitter.com/TitaniaMcGrath/status/1351894232643076099?s=20

I found myself in a quandary in the run up to the US election. I didn't want Trump to win but neither did I want Biden and the trans-agenda to win.

Biden and the Democrats have not hidden their trans-agenda nor their willingness to throw women under any passing bus.

I know little of Dr Levine so I'm happy for the Dr to prove that they do understand the importance of biological sex in health outcomes.

Equality for All Act - see info from meeting last month www.eventbrite.com/e/the-equality-for-all-act-act-before-congress-convenes-in-january-tickets-131940113431#

Sorry Quaagars - I am also an old person and what I am saying is it is a political tactic to try and promote him to the young, because he alienated many young democrats. Politcal reality and how things are spun is absolutely what is going on here. I suspect like here in the UK 99% of the population do not think of this as an important issue. So ask yourself why does it keep getting pushed up the agenda. Because trans activists have imbedded this as being somehow the future. Women are so passe.

Politics isn't what happens when people type something on a keyboard. It is what happens in meetings behind closed doors when tactics and strategy over take pure policy.

Like it or not women's voices are irrelevant. Trans activism is, not only on social media but in MSM the touchstone to indicate how in touch you are with "forward" thinking.

And I suspect Biden's more traditional politics means he also doesn't think it much of an issue so having trans rights pushed to the front of the queue has little or no meaning for him because he has probably never spent any time thinking about women's rights.

So as is always the case women's rights get pushed to the back of the queue. The left has always been able to make women feel guilty about asking for their rights to be seen as being as important as other rights.

And lets face it a lot of feminists in the US said more important to get rid of trump that worry about self identity.

And if pollsters were right that a lot of young voters who would have voted democrat couldn't be bothered to do it for Clinton, then it was essential to make sure they could be bothered to vote for Biden. Dont forget just how many votes Trump got, and if young democrats had stayed home and not voted what might have happened.

@Pudmyboy

Yes saddened and alarmed by this; I really feel for women on the USA: is there any hope?

Lawsuits, the Supreme Court and the science completely unravelling in the ideology elsewhere in the world...

The best thing to do in the UK is to fight and win court cases here.

The US is not bound to follow precedents set in other countries, but generally common-law countries will look abroad if they have a test case to decide. If a common-law country such as the UK has decided one way, it may be used to support a judge's decision in the US.

Of course if Australia does something completely different to the UK then that may also be taken into account by the US.

He said in his speech "we must reject the culture in which facts are manufactured as well as manipulated."
I hope that happens.

Yes, just listened to his inauguration speech. It was good.