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Google Dumps Top Black, Female Conservative For Believing Men Can’t Be Women
The Federalist ^
| 05/01/2019
| Natasha Chart
Posted on 05/01/2019 10:12:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I spoke this March at an event sponsored by the Heritage Foundation at the U.N. Convention on the Status of Women, I mentioned to the moderator that it must have seemed odd for Heritage to have invited a liberal feminist to their event as it was for me to be there. I went on to describe how I (and many other women) have been fired, harassed, or no-platformed by the left for disbelieving in gender identity fictions, including the existence of the female penis.
As odd as everyone surely feels about those weve found ourselves agreeing with, we all seem to have found a lot of common ground on challenging a movement thats mandating parents go along with the chemical sterilization, or surgical sex organ modification, of all children who discover gender identity on Tumblr, or in a PFLAG group, or after a friend at school goes trans. Many people find it curious that such drastic interventions are being proposed for a vaguely defined psychological condition with an ever-expanding list of barely related symptoms.
A tweet from the U.K. charity Mermaids, which promotes child transition and gender ideology, from the 2019 European Professional Association of Transgender Health conference, April 12, 2019. It shows a slide from the presentation of Aydin Olson-Kennedy, a social worker who consults on pediatric transition as the director of the Los Angeles Gender Center.
I certainly didnt think when I was talking that day in New York City that, only a few weeks later, Id be reading a news story about the head of The Heritage Foundation getting deplatformed. Yet Google disbanded its entire Artificial Intelligence ethics panel after its employees protested the inclusion of Heritages president, Kay Coles James, who wrote about that experience here. The protest wasnt over the inclusion of a conservative generally, either, but appears primarily related to Heritages position on gender identity.
Anonymous employees, calling themselves Googlers Against Transphobia, closed their sign-on statement in opposition to James — an African American — this way: Google cannot claim to support trans people and its trans employees a population that faces real and material threats and simultaneously appoint someone committed to trans erasure to a key AI advisory position. Given this, we call on Google to remove Kay Coles James from ATEAC.
So, thanks to gender identity activists having quite an astonishing tantrum, a major global technology provider with a questionable track record regarding long-term planning and product support has just abandoned outside ethical review of their AI projects.
Heritage Is Up for the Debate, But Not Google
Its true that Heritage has become widely known as one of the only mainstream political organizations that will provide a platform to any feminist, medical professional, or detransitioner whos critical of gender identity at all.
Two years ago, Heritage hosted a left-leaning midwife who was thrown out of her midwifery organization for refusing to use sex-neutral language in the profession, and a lesbian veteran whod campaigned to end Dont Ask, Dont Tell, along with two conservative women, in their “Biology Isnt Bigotry” panel. A year later, they held a panel on gender dysphoria in children, featuring medical experts.
This year, some of my colleagues at the Womens Liberation Front (WoLF) spoke this January at another Heritage panel on the inequality of including gender identity in the Equality Act, although with a focus on the harms of transition to children and their families. Heritage held a further panel on medical harms to children, featuring two medical experts and a detransitioner, a week following my appearance at the U.N. event. Shortly after the council was disbanded, Heritage went ahead with a previously announced event focusing on harms to womens sports if men are allowed to compete.
If you listen to any of these panels, all youll hear will be calm, reasoned discussion of real events, including the deplatforming of other women, medical harms to children, and medical facts. You wont hear anything like the kinds of harassment and threats that gender activists routinely issue to those who disagree with them, especially women.
It should worry everyone that respectful commentary on gender policy like Heritage has featured can get people removed from polite society now, or even fired. It should dispel any remaining belief that this is just a fringe, internet phenomenon that can be ignored.
Gender Totalitarians Stronger than Other Far-Left Groups
From my perspective as a liberal who used to work at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) headquarters in DCyou may remember SEIU as a regular feature on Glenn Becks old whiteboard; those segments always cracked us up at the officeIve never seen anything like the power gender activists have on the left to rule entire viewpoints out of bounds, or blacklist staff across issue groups on ideological grounds.
Within the union space, the Communication Workers of America have generally sided with the telecommunications industry on net neutrality, against a broad opposing consensus on the left. Construction unions are often on the opposite side of policy fights with environmental organizations. The teachers unions werent thrilled with the support several Obama administration figures gave to charter schools, and this fight continues within the party at the state and local levels. None of these major policy disputes have been resolved by declaring one side or the other out-of-bounds, or their opinions disallowed, and these are not small disagreements.
As an example more people will be familiar with, theres abortion policy. While the Democratic Party is mainly in favor of womens access to abortion, no less a figure than Nancy Pelosi recently declared that there would continue to be room for voters and elected officials with opposing views in the party.
Gender identity activists are not only more powerful within liberal activism than the union and womens movements combined, they also have astonishing ideological dominance within the technology companies that represent the new public square. Any expressed disbelief in mind-over-matter sex change can get your postsor your accountsuspended from Twitter, Facebook, or WordPress.
Its not just technology companies enjoying the PR benefits of being part of the Human Rights Campaigns Business Coalition for the Equality Act, or wholl go to great lengths to stay on the right side of HRCs Corporate Equality Index. Accenture, a global management and technology consultant with offices in Washington State, recently threw a female reporter, Joani Walsh, out of a ticketed event they were holding on transgender visibility at their U.K. offices in London, along with the lesbian feminists attending with her.
The women had done nothing besides sit quietly in their seats, before seven police officers showed up to remove them from the venue because one of the panelists recognized the women as having disagreements about gender identity politics.
Where Might This Lead?
If you want a look into where this could all lead, you only have to keep abreast of the news about gender identity policy in countries that dont have free speech protections. U.K. gender activists, including a man who admitted to strangling his ex-wife, are training police, whove begun cautioning and even arresting people over such invented crimes as deadnaming or misgendering” people who claim to be a different sex than they are. A Canadian court has now issued an order to arrest the father of a young girl if he refers to her again as a boy, in public or private, or to third parties, on charges of family violence.
Even in the United States, where we do have free speech protections, both Facebook and Twitter have suspended or banned women for referring to trans-identified men accurately with respect to their sex. Both companies are, like Google, part of HRCs Business Coalition for the Equality Act. Both companies have refused to remove content encouraging violence towards women described as TERFs, (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), and Twitter has been recognized by Amnesty International as allowing especially persistent abuse towards women on its platform. The Human Rights Campaign seems fine with all of that.
In the future gender activists seem to want, all of our speech rights could be suspended at the whim of people who demand that the entire world lie about what sex they are. That may be impolite to say, but its important that we do say so before it becomes illegal.
Its important that we are able to say that a man named Veronica May Clark who made a club with screws embedded in it, then broke into his ex-wifes house and beat her boyfriend to death with it, severely injuring his ex-wife and leaving her for deadis a male convict, who should not under any circumstances be imprisoned with women while he serves the remainder of his 75-year sentence.
Its important to say that men shouldnt be in womens domestic violence shelters, which the Democrats in Congress are currently trying to insist on. Its important to say that treating children with any combination of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones that fully block their natural, reproductive development window constitutes a permanent chemical sterilization, and they will not be able to reverse this as adults.
Human beings cant change sex. Im going to say it until I cant. We all should.
Natasha Chart is the board chair of the Womens Liberation Front, and a member of the Hands Across The Aisle Coalition. She does not recant her heresy.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: black; blackconservatives; conservative; google; googlefemale; heritagefoundation; homosexualagenda; kaycolesjames; liberalfascism; purge
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To: SeekAndFind
Google got bux? Hope somebody kept a “CYA” log of things.
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posted on
05/01/2019 10:15:17 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: SeekAndFind
Total mind control. Social media and search engines are now telling us what to believe. They are blocking truth. This is pure 1984.
They are ready for the election. It will a campaign like none that has ever existed.
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posted on
05/01/2019 10:18:15 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/01/2019 10:27:01 AM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: SeekAndFind
This may be sexist, but its not racist, LOL.
At Google at least, LGBT trumps race.
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posted on
05/01/2019 10:39:30 AM PDT
by
Pearls Before Swine
( "It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
To: SeekAndFind
Women can become men by having a surgery called Addadicktome and men can become women by having a Cutadickfromme.
To: SeekAndFind
The Left want to brainwash weak-minded people into thinking they are trans.
They truly are Satanic.
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posted on
05/01/2019 11:24:24 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: I want the USA back
No kidding. We thought 2016 was the MOA elections. The battle between Good and Evil has barely begun.
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posted on
05/01/2019 11:33:18 AM PDT
by
DivineMomentsOfTruth
("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
To: SeekAndFind
How can any feminist or real woman possibly tolerate this stuff?
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posted on
05/01/2019 11:37:58 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(Hi It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
To: SeekAndFind
I like that the transsexuals are getting into sports. It’s finally making women open their eyes as their records are smashed my these men parading as women via plastic surgery and pharmaceuticals.
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:00:14 PM PDT
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: I want the USA back
On a Hill article on the CIAs social media program someone noted that it was called Facebook! Spot on!
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:01:37 PM PDT
by
Harpotoo
(Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
To: DivineMomentsOfTruth
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:01:48 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(May Jesus Christ be praised.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:03:46 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(May Jesus Christ be praised.)
To: SeekAndFind
And don't forget, the Left's beloved "victim" groups (and non-western Communist states) are totally exempt from this madness. It's only rednecks who get it all dumped on them.
I'll say it again: the Left's current insane freak show of a political coalition is like the heels in old time kayfabe professional wrestling.
To: SeekAndFind
The left has moved so far left that even Natasha Chart finds The Heritage Foundation to be safer than Google when it comes to first amendment rights.
Who would have thought there would ever be a natural alliance between conservatives and radical leftwing activists / feminists?
The LGBT movement is the modern NAZI movement. Anyone who has read The Pink Swastika can tell you that the NAZI movement was homosexual at its core. A lot of people have attacked the Bible for treating homosexual sex as a capital offense, but when we see the hell on earth unleashed by these demons, it becomes clear that the death penalty is an act of mercy.
This movement is out in the open preaching the sterilization of children through the use of drugs and surgery. It is the duty of every moral and decent human being to aid in the effort to stop this madness by any and every means necessary.
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:22:59 PM PDT
by
unlearner
(War is coming.)
To: SeekAndFind
It makes me wonder WHO is really behind the trans movement. Somebody very powerful is pushing this.
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:33:04 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
To: SauronOfMordor
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:39:15 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: SauronOfMordor
It makes me wonder WHO is really behind the trans movement. Somebody very powerful is pushing this.Short answer from article posted above: Jennifer Pritzker (a male who identifies as transgender); George Soros; Martine Rothblatt (a male who identifies as transgender and transhumanist); Tim Gill (a gay man); Drummond Pike; Warren and Peter Buffett; Jon Stryker (a gay man); Mark Bonham (a gay man); and Ric Weiland (a deceased gay man whose philanthropy is still LGBT-oriented). Most of these billionaires fund the transgender lobby and organizations through their own organizations, including corporations.
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posted on
05/01/2019 12:42:07 PM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Harpotoo
Hmm. Let’s find some schlubby, moderately athletic man, slap a wig on him, and get him to destroy Venus & Serena Williams. Then we can see how the feminists and black power crowd feel about that.
To: I want the USA back
The whole transgender thing with pronouns is newspeak. 2 + 2 = 5.
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05/01/2019 1:10:07 PM PDT
by
NetAddicted
(Just looking)
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