In the days and weeks leading up to the 2024 election, we all heard a lot of words like "fascism" and "Nazi" thrown around regarding Donald Trump and his supporters. I even had a social media "friend," whose teenager suddenly and randomly became "transgender" sometime in the last year, start panic posting about how if Trump was elected, said child would end up in a concentration camp. She truly believed that.
While Trump hasn't officially become the 47th president yet, he's been pretty active, meeting with foreign leaders and appointing his cabinet, and I've yet to see any indication that he's setting up concentration camps or doing anything Nazi-like. I wish I could say the same for the people on the other side of the aisle because lately, it seems like if you aren't 100% in line with their way of thinking, you're going to pay for it. Sometimes, literally.
As my colleague Ben Bartee pointed out last week, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal made Emo Township in Ontario, Canada pay $15,000 worth of fines for its failure to celebrate "Pride Month." The small town has a population of just over 1,300 people. The decision comes from an incident that happened back in 2020 when Borderland Pride, a group that describes itself as a "SLGBTQIA+ Pride organization serving the Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada and Koochiching County in Minnesota" on its website, approached the township's officials and asked them to display their flag outside a municipal building. (And no, I don't have a clue what "SLGBTQIA+" means.) They also asked Mayor Harold McQuaker to declare June "Pride Month "in the township. According to Fox News, McQuaker said he would not do that because there were "no flags being flown for the straight people," and he felt it would be unfair.
Karen Dawson (if the name fits, right?), the vice chair of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, found the response offensive and deemed it "discrimination." In addition to the hefty fine, township officials, including McQuaker, must take part in mandatory "human rights" training. Basically, if you don't bow down to the woke mob, they'll punish you. At least, Emo Township only had to pay a fine.
Author J.K. Rowling has been notably outspoken about the gender ideology movement, despite a nasty backlash from the woke mob. Yesterday, she posted on X some of the details about what she and her family have gone through just because she dared to exercise her right to freedom of speech and stood up for the rights of biological women. She tells of threats of "murder, rape, and violence" and how someone tried to dox her oldest child. One trans person even posted the author's address online along with information on how to make a bomb. But Rowling points out that it's not just her:
By standing up to a movement that relies on threats of violence, ostracisation and guilt-by-association, all of us have been smeared and defamed, but many have lost their livelihoods. Some have been physically assaulted by trans activists. Female politicians have been forced to hire personal security on the advice of police. The news that one of the UK's leading endocrinologists, Dr Hillary Cass, was advised not to travel by public transport for her own safety should shame everyone who let this insanity run amok
Some might argue that Rowling is a celebrity or that McQuaker is a politician, so it's only natural that they receive this type of attention for being outspoken, but it's happening to everyday people too. Last month, I wrote an article about how the founder and other leaders within La Leche League International (LLLI) were resigning from their positions because of this very thing. Trans activists have taken what was meant to be a wholesome organization designed to provide assistance to mothers who want to breastfeed their babies and turned it into a joke by insisting they include "lactating men."
Miriam Main, a Scottish trustee of the Great Britain branch of the organization, said they were forced to make language changes. For example, they could no longer say "mother," only "parent," and instead of saying "breastfeeding," they were made to say "chestfeeding." When she and others questioned the language changes and suggested they could cause issues ranging from confusion for mothers who don't speak English as a first language to potential psychological side effects for children who are "chestfed" by men, she said they were "told we were transphobic, and we were compared to racists and Nazis."
And there are hundreds, if not thousands, more stories just like this from over the last few years.
Look, I honestly don't care how you want to live your life. If you're a woman who thinks you're a man or vice versa or whatever, you do you. It doesn't impact me at all. But when you use it as a threat or use it to take away the rights of biological women, that's when we have a problem. Many of the LGBTs, especially the Ts, aren't happy until everyone is participating in their fantasies, and it seems like they're becoming increasingly tyrannical about it. I truly believe that most Americans are sick of it, and that's one of the main reasons why Donald Trump won huge in November. And I hope we stay on this path, so these people who threaten the lives and livelihoods of others won't gain any more power at all in the future.
