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From the high-security wing of transgender TikTok:

Tara, the “poly trans lesbian” quoted above, has given quite a lot of thought to the subject of forcing his way into women’s bathrooms and other intimate spaces. Perhaps we should be thanking him for clarifying the issue, albeit inadvertently.

Update, via the comments, where Rafi adds,

Not really, no. There is a certain obliviousness. And so, we have a man who considers it his right to be universally affirmed as somehow being a woman – specifically, a lesbian (because of course) – and to be given unchallenged access to women’s intimate spaces, regardless of actual women’s fairly obvious concerns.

Say, concerns regarding the fact that said man boasts about using force to invade women’s toilets and changing rooms – because only “fascists” and “Nazis” could possibly object, you see – and then boasts of using firearms to defend his alleged right to intrude as and when he pleases. A man who says, quite emphatically, that he’s “not afraid to die” while doing so.

Yes. Nothing to be concerned about, ladies.

Update 2, via the ladies at Reduxx:

Previously and somewhat related.

Via Mr Muldoon in the comments.

Christopher Rufo on self-flattering fantasies:

Andy Ngo shares a bedlamite horror story:

Frankly, I’m still processing the words trans therapist. On Twitter, Mr Ngo adds, “As I dig into more disturbing criminal cases involving extreme violence or child sex abuse, I’m finding many of the suspects are trans but are never reported as such by press, sheriff’s offices, or prosecutors.”

And Amy Wax on ‘equity’ versus competence:

In other we’re-letting-the-mentally-ill-teach-your-children news:

The teacher in question, a dysmorphic man named Ashlee Renczkowski, is apparently prone to “phases of depression,” and was, in his words, “having bad thoughts.” And hence of course the comments about shooting the children in his care, grades six through eight, presumably with the three firearms in his possession. The ostensible cause of this rather severe mood swing was a social media post in which unnamed people were “talking negatively” about Mr Renczkowski’s sexuality and professed womanhood.

And any reservations about Mr Renczkowski are, clearly, unfounded.

When not “feeling cute and beautiful” and exploring the possibilities of a “zero-depth vaginoplasty,” Mr Renczkowski boasts of “giving students a safe place.”

Some ironies are just a little too on-the-nose.

Mr Renczkowski has since been removed from the school and his weapons confiscated.

And in other, entirely unrelated news – when a sociology researcher discovers the wrong kind of things:

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