Cancel culture destroyed my life; here's how I built a new one



Have you been canceled? Have you lost your family, your social circle, your job, your reputation?

I have.

People who had known me for years, including people I’d met in real life, mused online about how I was likely to become a 'spree killer' who murdered women.

Just like the countless Americans who had their lives and livelihoods uprooted or destroyed over the past five years or so, my story is unique. But also depressingly familiar.

Today, I want to talk about how I came out on the other side.

Painful lessons

There’s no sense in sugarcoating the issue: It absolutely sucked. It was one of the hardest periods in my life, and I am not the same person I was before it happened.

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After seeing clearly for the first time how duplicitous, selfish, and downright evil humans can be, there's no going back. For me, it won’t be possible to trust other people, including loved ones, the way I did before.

But painful life lessons have their compensations.

What we call the woke left has been around for a long time. While the most egregious abuses by radical leftists occurred during the past 10 years, the problem started decades ago. You might say that the seeds planted in universities in the 1960s by leftist European Marxist intellectuals finally reached full flower by 2020.

With the alleged pandemic, those with actually fascist inclinations in their hearts made themselves known, and for many of us, that group turned out to include family and friends.

Spoiler: The liberals are the real authoritarians.

Closet Marxist

Back in the 1990s, I was studying at the most liberal of liberal arts schools, Sarah Lawrence College in New York State. If you haven’t heard of it, the school is hard leftist like Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and similar small colleges.

What I didn’t know when I attended was that it was Marxist, and so was I. The intellectual architects of postmodernism — the idea that there’s no such thing as the truth, that everything is only about oppressor and oppressed — were the mainstays of the curriculum.

We studied Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and many others. These “intellectuals” are the patron saints of the radical “queers,” “trans” activists, and other seething malcontents who believe all of their problems are because of capitalism instead of their own resentful laziness.

Among the libs

After graduation, I spent a few years as a newspaper reporter during the last period in which any semblance of actual reporting and objectivity was still valued. Then, I took a job at a nonprofit consumer organization. Yes, I entered the dreaded NGO sector.

The group I worked for was a consumer education organization focused on helping grieving people plan funerals and burials without going into debt. With the average American funeral costing $10,000 easily, financial heartache gets piled onto grief for many families. The mission was a worthy one, and I don’t regret my time working to better protect people in mourning from aggressive mortuary sales pitches.

But while the organization was officially nonpartisan, it was staffed and governed almost exclusively by Democrats and hard liberals.

That was “fine” when I was one of them, but if you’ve ever disagreed with a liberal, you know how fast a disagreement can turn into a bloodbath.

Growing up

By 2020 to 2021, I had changed my mind politically. Today, I’m a conservative traditionalist. The shock of watching transgenderism capture children, and the lying and hatred directed at conservatives in general and Donald Trump in particular, pushed me to belated political maturity in my 40s.

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In 2021, I launched a weekly show called "Disaffected" with a friend and business partner. The show looks at politics and culture through the frame of warped personal psychology. In brief, I believe that the same narcissistic and unstable personal characteristics that drive domestic and child abuse (the same characteristics that ruled the home in which I grew up) drive the left.

"Disaffected" directly critiques transgenderism, anti-capitalist agitation, fake victimhood for attention, and warped states of mind such as Trump derangement syndrome.

Cast out

When volunteers and staffers at my job discovered what I put out in my private time, they engineered a coup from within. Satellite offices put out press releases calling me a misogynist and a bigot who was a danger to “trans” people and women and a public health menace for my stance against forced vaccination.

At the same time, my online friendship group circled the wagons and made sure my reputation was thoroughly trashed. People who had known me for years, including people I’d met in real life, mused online about how I was likely to become a “spree killer” who murdered women. These were the people I thought of as friends.

At the end of 2023, I finally lost my job. It’s true that I resigned, but had I not, I would have been fired. My board of directors would not defend me, and only a handful of colleagues from two decades of working together sent any messages of support.

Fighting back

Did it hurt? Yeah. It also scared the daylights out of me. For the first time in 20 years, I didn’t have a steady paycheck. My name was ruined in the consumer advocacy field; there was no point in even showing my face in the nonprofit sector. Not only did these people cancel my job, but they made sure I was unemployable even though I was the top legal expert in consumer burial and funeral law in the country.

What to do? I spent a few months in despair and depression, but that can’t last forever. You have to put your life back together but in a new way.

Here’s what I did:

  • Lying and duplicity exercise me to the point of hot anger pretty quickly. I channeled that into exposing the abusive practices of the left even more acutely on my weekly show.
  • I launched a Substack blog to supplement the show and offer essays on topics that didn’t make it "on air."
  • After 20 years of counseling grieving people by phone on the worst day of their lives, I started a private coaching and consulting practice. Now, I offer private conversations and advice for those facing social and family ostracism in abusive or leftist (I repeat myself) households. Clients can come to me for affordable funeral planning, too.
  • When one door closes, another opens. I used to be a screeching leftist liberal, and now I write a weekly column for Align (hello).

Going from a biweekly paycheck with health benefits to working four or five freelance jobs is a hell of an adjustment. Work isn’t guaranteed when you make your living this way.

But that’s the price of actual freedom. And I am free today mentally, emotionally, and politically in a way I never had been before as an unreflective “Democrat from birth.”

Hard as it was, I wouldn’t go back.

Harvard Law Review Retaliates Against Alleged Leaker—And Demands He Press Free Beacon To Destroy Documents

The Harvard Law Review retaliated against a student editor for allegedly leaking documents to the Washington Free Beacon and demanded, as part of the journal’s disciplinary process, that he request their destruction, according to emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The demand came as the law review was under a document retention order stemming from multiple federal probes, raising questions about whether the journal was also trying to interfere with a government investigation.

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If AI isn’t built for freedom, it will be programmed for control



Once the domain of science fiction, artificial intelligence now shapes the foundations of modern life. It governs how we access information, interact with institutions, and connect with one another. No longer just a tool, AI is becoming infrastructure — an embedded force with the potential to either safeguard our liberty or quietly dismantle it.

In a deeply divided political climate, it is rare to find an issue that unites Americans across ideological lines. But when it comes to AI, something extraordinary is happening: Americans agree that these systems must be designed to protect our most basic rights.

Voters from both parties recognize that AI must be built to reflect the values that make us free.

A new Rasmussen poll reveals that 77% of likely voters, including 80% of Republicans and 77% of Democrats, support laws that would require developers and tech companies to design AI systems to uphold constitutional rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religious expression. Such a consensus is practically unheard of in today’s political climate.

The same poll found that more than 70% of voters are concerned about the growing role of AI in our economy and society. And that concern isn’t limited to any one party: 74% of Democrats and 70% of Republicans say they are “very” or “somewhat concerned.”

Americans are watching the AI revolution unfold, and they’re sending a clear message: If we’re going to let these systems shape our future, they must be governed by the same principles that have preserved freedom for generations.

Why it matters now

That concern is more than hypothetical. We are already seeing the consequences of AI systems that reflect narrow ideological agendas rather than broad constitutional values.

Google’s Gemini AI made headlines last year when it produced historically inaccurate images of black Founding Fathers and Asian Nazi soldiers. This wasn’t a technical glitch. It was the direct result of ideological programming that prioritized “diversity” over truth.

In China, the DeepSeek AI model was trained to avoid any criticism of the Chinese Communist Party. Ask it about the Tiananmen Square massacre, and it refuses to give you an answer at all. When models are trained to serve power rather than seek truth, they become tools of suppression.

If left unchecked, agenda-driven AI systems in the United States could soon shape what news we see, what content is amplified — or buried — on social media, and what opinions are allowed in public discourse, thereby conforming society to its pre-programmed ideals.

Biased AI systems could even influence public policy debates by skewing public opinion toward "solutions" that optimize for social or environmental justice goals. These constitutionally unaligned AI systems may quietly reshape society with complete disregard for liberty, consent, and due process.

Regulation for freedom’s sake

Some conservatives bristle at the word “regulation,” and rightly so. But what we're talking about here isn’t micromanagement or bureaucratic control. It’s the same kind of constraint our Founders placed on government power: constitutional guardrails that prevent abuse and preserve freedom.

When AI is unbound by those principles, it doesn’t become neutral — it becomes ideological. It doesn’t protect liberty; it calculates outcomes. And in doing so, it can rationalize censorship, coercion, and discrimination, all in the name of “progress.”

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This is why Americans are right to demand action now. The window for shaping AI's trajectory is still open, but it won’t remain open forever. As these systems become more advanced and more embedded in our institutions, retrofitting them to respect liberty will become harder, not easier.

Don’t let the opportunity slip away

We are living through a rare moment of political clarity. Voters from both parties recognize that AI must be built to reflect the values that make us free. They want systems to protect speech, not suppress it. They want AI to respect human conscience, not override it. They want AI to serve the people, not manage them.

This is not a partisan issue. It is a moral one. And it’s an opportunity we must seize before the future is decided for us.

AI doesn’t have to be our master. But it must be taught to serve what makes us free.

'All 2SLGBTQIA+ crew': Airline mocked mercilessly after dropping insane promo video to celebrate all-rainbow flight crew



Aviation's marriage to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives has been coupled with equal parts mockery and life-threatening incidents, seemingly coming to a head in 2025.

Tone-deaf diversity programs may have finally reached their pinnacle, though, with a new video from Canada's biggest airline titled "Air Canada: With pride in every role."

'We would like to point out this watershed moment in Canadian history.'

On June 2, Air Canada achieved peak wokeness by celebrating gay pride and telling customers it had deployed an entire flight crew based on sexuality; but not every employee could put together the latest acronym the company chose to use for its promotional video.

"We are doing the first ever — now let me get that one straight because a few letters have been added to this one — 2SLGBTQIA+ flight ever in Canada," a pilot said from his cockpit.

The video panned through different crew members wearing transgender pride flags and making announcements about their understanding of the importance of the flight.

"To celebrate inclusion and diversity, we are proud to announce that today's flight features our very first all 2SLGBTQIA+ crew," one employee said in an announcement.

"We would like to point out this watershed moment in Canadian history," another employee said in French.

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Air Canada's social media posts were met with so much disagreement that it disabled comments on X but not before a flurry of backlash came in.

"Please explain how sexual preference affects plane flights, I would like to know why an airline is obsessed with something that has nothing to do with flying planes," one viewer wrote.

Another upset X user said, "This is absolutely ridiculous — all we need and care about is competent employees, regardless of what they're doing in their bedrooms. Get a grip."

This is absolutely ridiculous - all we need and care about is competent employees, regardless of what they're doing in their bedrooms.

Get a grip.
— Michael (@justwannasayth2) June 2, 2025

Air Canada could not escape ridicule on its YouTube channel either, where comments remained.

"Do your job, and prioritize that. People don't care who you want to have sex with," the top comment read.

"If you're trying to distract people from your s**t service, you just made it worse," another YouTube user declared.

That last commenter likely has a point; Air Canada was ranked the ninth-worst airline in North America by Cirium in 2024, the worst in Canada.

Compare the Market ranked the airline the 10th worst in the entire world in 2023. Reaching back a few years, Air Canada was also considered the worst airline in North America in terms of satisfaction in 2017 by Kelowna Now.

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TORONTO, ONTARIO - JUNE 30: Air Canada participates in the 43rd annual Toronto Pride Parade on June 30, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Harold Feng/Getty Images)

"This is a corporate-backed attempt to normalize these disordered lifestyles," Fandom Pulse editor John F. Trent told Blaze News.

Trent explained that while in recent years, programs like Air Canada's could be considered virtue-signaling, at this point it should be considered a blatant ideological push.

"It has become abundantly clear they want these behaviors normalized, and they want more and more people living as depraved as possible. This is evil and must be opposed."

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Trail Life USA takes up the mission abandoned by Boy Scouts



On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

To generations of American men, the Boy Scout Oath is as familiar as the Lord's Prayer. Those 40 words encapsulate a legacy over 100 years in the making.

'In Trail Life, fathers can find a community of like-minded men who also want to make sure their sons grow up to be great Christian men.'

It look little more than a decade to destroy it.

The beginning of the end was May 23, 2013. This was the day the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow the admittance of openly gay members.

The move met with pushback from parents and religious organizations, who saw this supposed concession to the times as a betrayal of the BSA’s founding principles and predicted that it was the first step in a radical reinvention of the storied institution.

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Boy Scouts in decline

Their fears turned out to be warranted. A scant two years later, the BSA lifted the ban on openly homosexual adult leaders. Three years after that, in 2018, the organization was opened to women and girls.

Last February, just in time for the 115th anniversary of the BSA, the group rebranded under the “more sort of gender-neutral name” (per president and CEO Roger Krone) Scouting America.

It took only 12 years for the Boy Scouts to go from an organization where young men could learn to embody Christian values and American patriotism to a coed organization intent on indoctrinating its members with the ideals of the contemporary American left.

These changes have left the BSA's traditional adherents at a loss. Fathers who grew up and thrived in the Boy Scouts could no longer trust the organization to teach sound values to their sons. Churches that partnered with the organization have had to cut ties or risk compromising on their own moral teachings.

Be Prepared

Fortunately, some of them noticed the early signs of decline and — in the spirit of the motto "Be Prepared" — began building an alternative: Trail Life USA.

Founded in 2013 as a traditional, Christian version of the Boy Scouts, the organization grew quickly.

According to CEO Mark Hancock, over 1,200 people from 44 states attended the inaugural convention in the fall of 2013. “Three months later, we launched with over 5,000 members.” Trail Life USA currently has over 65,000 members and 150,000 alumni.

The fact that Trail Life was “forged in the fires of this cultural battle” is largely responsible for the continued growth of the organization, says Hancock.

Christian values

The BSA was founded in a society whose common Christianity could be taken for granted. Having seen what happened to the BSA when that faith dropped away, Trail Life USA's founders were careful to incorporate explicitly Christian values into every aspect of the organization.

The most prominent of Trail Life USA's "core values" is a commitment to being a "Christ-centered" organization. To this end, individual churches sponsor each troop, which takes as its aim the formation of "godly young men."

In Hancock's view, Trail Life's call to inspire "the increased demonstration of Christlike character and courage by both adult and youth members" is a way of promoting real action against American cultural degradation.

Or as Hancock puts it, the organization seeks nothing less than to develop “a generation that not only manages the rising tide of cultural change but turns back the tide itself.”

Boys to men

Peter Ohotnicky, a former BSA member whose family has been involved with Trail Life since 2013, agrees. He points to the organization’s reliance on charter organizations and financial policies as assurance of continued fidelity to its principles. “It means that Trail Life is much more likely to stay aligned with our values.”

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Ohotnicky says Trail Life’s explicitly Christian focus has made hiking and camping with his sons far more impactful than during their time with the BSA. “These activities have been pivotal in preparing my adult sons for manhood and continue to be how I help my teenage sons to grow into the men God expects them to be.”

Besides its explicitly Christian identity, another element that sets Trail Life apart is its emphasis on the involvement of fathers. Ohotnicky says this aspect has made his family’s involvement even more meaningful. “Boys and men form bonds by doing challenging things together.”

Trail Life has not only helped him to raise his sons, but to bring that experience to others. “In Trail Life, fathers can find a community of like-minded men who also want to make sure their sons grow up to be great Christian men.”

A real demand

Although Trail Life bears many cosmetic resemblances to BSA, such as uniforms, badges, and outdoor activities, Hancock says the organization’s “specific development of boys within a context that embraces biblical principles” allows it to offer “a distinctive and independent experience.”

Offering this experience has worked well for Trail Life so far. The organization currently has over 1,360 troops across all 50 states, showing a real demand among American Christians for organizations that can be trusted with the formation of their children.

As mainstream culture continues to decline, groups like Trail Life will find themselves even more in demand. Their active and unapologetic focus on a much-maligned demographic has been central to Trail Life’s ability to meet that demand. As Hancock puts it, “the emphasis on Christ-centered and boy-focused distinctives cannot be overstated.”

For more information about Trail Life USA — including a directory of troops in your area — visit its website here.

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'European companies continue to promoting woke events'

'Woke right' smear weaponized by liberal interlopers against MAGA conservatives, populists — and Arby's?

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On his website, he stated:

Woke Right refers to right-wing people who have adopted the characteristics and underlying worldview orientation of the Woke Left for putatively "right-wing," "conservative," or reactionary causes. They are, as reactionaries, the image of the Right projected by the Left made real by players claiming to be on the Right. That is, they’re right-wing people who act and think about the world like Woke Leftists.

Lindsay echoed this definition in his written responses to Blaze News, in which he suggested that woke right "means using critical theories or Marxian analysis for right-wing or anti-Left causes."

"It is very specific," Lindsay continued. "Most conservatives do not meet this definition."

A sizeable portion of the MAGA coalition does, however, supposedly meet this or one of Lindsay's other definitions. Right-wing populists, for example, are on the liberal's naughty list, as are those who subscribe to national conservatism, which he dubbed "the Woke Right final boss."

The application of "woke right" to national conservatives amounts to the more tactical smear, as it not only cuts through the MAGA coalition but deep into the Trump administration and the Republican Party.

Past speakers at the National Conservatism Conference, which is run by the Hazony-led Edmund Burke Foundation, include Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Michael Anton, another senior State Department official; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby; White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller; Trump border czar Tom Homan; and Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.).

Of course, there's also JD Vance, who underscored in a NatCon speech — given just days before President Donald Trump chose him as his running mate — that while America was founded "on great ideas," it is not, as some have suggested, reducible to "just an idea."

James Lindsay and a bunch of his friends tried to pump the hatred higher because the term 'illiberal' — it just didn't succeed in sufficiently tainting and de-legitimizing conservatives.

While Lindsay has danced around labeling Vance "woke right" for daring to express such thoughts, stating in December, "I haven't called JD Vance Woke Right anywhere yet," he has implied as much — calling him a "post-liberal" with a predominantly woke right team, who not only entertains the woke right definition of "nation" but did the unspeakable: speak at a National Conservatism Conference.

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In fairness to Vance and his fellow NatCon alumni, it is apparently easy to find oneself labeled "woke right." After all, even a fast-food chain has been tagged.

Lindsay recently indicated online that Arby's had veered into woke right territory with its post, "Unlike dad, our ham & swiss actually came back."

In the much ridiculed post, which he has since apologized for and walked back, Lindsay noted, "That's curtains for them. Cringe af."

When asked why national conservatives warrant their categorization as "woke right," Lindsay suggested that while "not all of National Conservatism is Woke Right ... the general thrust of the movement meets the basic definition."

Final boss

Hazony, the author of "The Virtue of Nationalism" whom Lindsay has repeatedly targeted with the “woke right” smear, explained to Blaze News that the strategy behind the term is not new.

"The main people who are behind this — and James Lindsay is the one who's most explicit, but I don't think that he's at all the only one — they've been doing the same thing for many years, long before the term 'woke right' came out; at least as far back as Donald Trump being elected, you know, so it's almost a decade ago," said Hazony. "There was this game of saying that in between liberals and Nazis or racialist fascists — in between, there is no legitimate position. That is a standard argument of the anti-nationalist liberal camp that has been used by many, many different people, and it's always the same."

"When people started using 'illiberal' ... in the mid-2000s, what they were doing was eliminating the legitimacy of the word 'conservative,' because 'illiberal' is anybody who's an authoritarian or a Nazi or a theocrat or a fascist, plus anybody else who's not a liberal," continued Hazony. "So that strategy, using the term 'illiberalism' as a way of saying, 'No, I'm not going to recognize that there are any legitimate conservatives or nationalists' — that's been around in that form for at least 15 years."

Hazony noted that more recently,

James Lindsay and a bunch of his friends tried to pump the hatred higher because the term "illiberal" — it just didn't succeed in sufficiently tainting and de-legitimizing conservatives. So they switched to "Christian nationalism," and it was the same kind of thing, where, you know, you pick the absolute least palatable people who can be called "Christian nationalists," you quote them, and then you say, "Well, everybody who's a nationalist and a Christian all the way right up to the borders of liberalism — that entire sphere of conservatives and nationalists who are basically normal but they have criticisms of liberalism — no, they're all illegitimate. They're all totalitarians. They all reject the American Constitution." And so they tried that; that peaked in 2023; and it failed. It petered out. They didn't succeed in convincing the average, intelligent person who's paying attention that the political spectrum is only liberals and fascists.

Whereas previous attempts failed, Hazony indicated that "this time, they have succeeded in drawing blood."

"This term [woke] was designed to be humiliating by taking the term that we were using for the Maoist-style cultural revolution that was taking over America and Britain and other countries. And now they say, 'Those of you who are fighting against this, you're exactly the same. You're the same exact thing.' And it upsets people."

'You got dogmatic, fanatic liberals who thought that the whole world simply could be brought under liberalism either by persuasion or, if not, then by conquest.'

Hazony further told Blaze News that "it's deeply insulting at a personal level for people who've devoted their time to trying to save America and the West from the woke, and at the same time, it's incredibly effective at destroying the coalition that was built — the anti-woke coalition — by making the different parties despise one another."

"The idea that liberalism is about toleration was just thrown out the window and you got dogmatic, fanatic liberals who thought that the whole world simply could be brought under liberalism either by persuasion or, if not, then by conquest."

Playing with fire

Lindsay has tried tarring Blaze Media with the same brush he has used on Hazony and others, characterizing it as "the first captured stronghold" in his imaginative woke right "takeover" narrative.

'The term has little meaning other than as a slur used by people trying desperately to gatekeep this intellectual, cultural, and commercial majority movement.'

Blaze Media editor in chief Matthew Peterson, whom Lindsay has implicated as a key player in this supposed takeover, said, "I know Lindsay and we had a decent relationship until he suddenly lumped me and my tenure here at Blaze Media with his slur."

"Obviously, we have a wide variety of people and opinions at Blaze Media. We represent the broad MAGA-MAHA majority coalition, and I take that role seriously," continued Peterson. "But I do not need to say for the record that we are not 'woke right' because the term has little meaning other than as a slur used by people trying desperately to gatekeep this intellectual, cultural, and commercial majority movement."

Peterson suggested that the term's capricious usage has helped empty it of meaning.

"What's puzzling and ultimately discrediting about the term is that Lindsay and others lump disparate people and groups together into a wild, grand conspiracy," continued Peterson. "He and his associates refer a lot to abstract -isms like hermeticism, communism, and gnosticism and call all kinds of people followers of various schools of thought: 'Nietzscheans' and 'Schmittians.'"

The "Schmittian" smear lobbed around evokes Carl Schmitt, a German political theorist who critiqued liberalism, defined politics as the distinction between the categories of friends and enemies, and lent intellectual support to the Nazi regime in Germany.

Peterson noted that he once tried to explain his thoughts on Schmitt to Lindsay over text.

"As a student of political thinkers who were taught by Leo Strauss, who fled Nazi Germany (as opposed to Schmitt, who became a Nazi), I think Schmitt's writings are important to anyone who wants to seriously consider the nature of executive power, which is why they are still studied by people of all kinds throughout the world," said Peterson. "But the idea that this makes me a Nazi or that I agree with everything Schmitt says or believed is ridiculous. James recently asked me to 'denounce Schmitt' on X at his command, which sounds a lot like he's trying to initiate the very 'struggle sessions' he often decries."

Peterson emphasized the range of people and institutions that Lindsay and his fellow travelers have lumped into his "grand conspiracy," noting, for instance, that "they throw in institutions from the Roman Catholic Church to the Claremont Institute, countries from Hungary to China, and individuals from General Michael Flynn to Yoram Hazony to Peter Thiel in the mix as part of whatever the 'woke right' is."

"It becomes silly pretty quick," said Peterson.

Threatened liberals

The host of BlazeTV's "The Auron MacIntyre Show" — one of Lindsay's frequent targets — said that when it comes to Lindsay, woke right "seems to be more of a branding exercise and a political weapon than it does anything with definitive content."

"I think that's the reason so many people have had difficulty when attempting to have even a basic discussion about the term," MacIntyre said. "The guy who is most famous for coining and popularizing it himself has admitted that it wasn't a great one, and it doesn't really have a lot of content besides its ability to be used as a political weapon."

'The only thing that seems to actually link any of these people together is their willingness to win.'

MacIntyre suggested that woke right's apparent transformation in the wild from a denigratory term for anti-Semites and identitarians into a strategic full-spectrum put-down is “the real trick of this term.”

"A lot of people assume that [anti-Semites and identitarians] were the original targets, and because of that, many people thought that perhaps there could be some value in it because, you know, not all of those groups are particularly ones that people enjoy being associated with," said MacIntyre. "That said, it's become quickly clear that the expansion of the term has now come to encompass Orthodox Jews like Hazony, guys who are big fans of Israel like Tim Pool, and others."

"He's included a large number of very well-respected people who are obviously well outside of this — guys like Matt Walsh."

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BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre. Photo by DOMINIC GWINN/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

"The only thing that seems to actually link any of these people together is their willingness to win, their willingness to fight back against the left, their willingness to say, 'Actually, we're going to take affirmative steps. We're going to take power. We're going to use power to win political battles.' And that seems to be the main violation," continued MacIntyre.

'What they're finding is actually, no, conservatives would like to be in charge.'

When asked whether this campaign might be, at least in part, the early stages of an effort to politically neutralize JD Vance ahead of the next presidential election, MacIntyre answered in the affirmative.

"Not only is that the case, I think he's been pretty explicit about that," said the BlazeTV host.

MacIntyre suggested that Lindsay and other "new atheists, rational-centrist types" feel threatened by Vance and the national conservatives, given their willfulness and refusal to "be ruled by people who hate them, hate their values, hate their religion."

MacIntyre suspects that while the "salience" of the "woke right" term has risen, the credibility of those wielding it has "plummeted."

"[Lindsay has] made many enemies of pretty high-profile figures with good reputations by throwing around this term and attacking people who clearly don't hold any of the nefarious views he's attributing to them," said MacIntyre.

The attacks have also served to expose bad actors who "ultimately were hoping to undermine the conservative movement rather than be a productive part of it," said MacIntyre. "That's something that's critical to know at this juncture."

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Meet the schmucks trying to kneecap the anti-woke alliance



Until recently, “woke” was a term that anti-Marxist liberals, nationalists, and conservatives had in common. It was a term we could use to communicate with one another and understand one another in our post-2015 battle against a virulent and ascendant strain of neo-Marxist revolution. In other words, the term “woke” played an important role in building a broad coalition that looked like it could be strong enough to defeat this enemy.

It was a pretty big achievement for such a small word.

But now a handful of anti-woke liberals have decided to turn this formerly unifying, coalition-building term into a weapon to use against the right.

True, some of the most malicious liberals have been intentionally using “woke right” to cover just about the entire nationalist right, whereas other, more naive liberals, having taken the bait, are trying to apply the term “woke right” only to what used to be called the “alt-right” or “white nationalists.”

I get it. I really do. I understand that some of the liberals who’ve been pumping up the term “woke right” are deceitful scoundrels and that others are just honestly, nerdishly trying to work out a way of answering real questions in political theory that bother them.

But for present purposes, it doesn’t matter if you’re a deceitful scoundrel or an earnest nerd. Every liberal using the term “woke right” is being a schmuck.

What they are all doing is taking a flag and a symbol that for 10 years was highly effective at rallying opposition to the neo-Marxist revolution — and worked well to cement a coalition that could defeat it — and throwing that flag to the ground and trampling on it so it can’t be used any more.

Yes, you schmucks, “woke” always meant exactly one thing: It referred to that part of the neo-Marxist left that liberals, conservatives, nationalists, Christians, and Jews had to join forces to defeat. And by repurposing that term as a weapon against this coalition, you’ve turned it into gall in our mouths. You’ve taken a shared term of discourse, gutted its common and universally accepted meaning, and mangled it so we can’t use it to talk to one another any more.

Targeting the anti-woke coalition

This is why so many on the nationalist right are so amazed by the treachery of certain anti-Marxist liberals who have been promoting the theory of the “woke right” — and by the wretched folly of so many other liberals who have walked right into the trap.

Turning the term “woke” on the nationalist right isn’t just redefining any old term. It’s a betrayal. A betrayal that, if it goes through, will mean the end of the anti-woke coalition that looked, for a few short months, like it could actually win.

Sure, there were always different streams on the right. There was always an “alt-right” (as Richard Spencer called it) or a “white nationalist” right that set itself up in opposition to mainstream nationalist conservatives. There was also the “dissident right,” which had a somewhat broader reach. Then there were mainstream nationalist conservatives (or “NatCons”). These were all well known and reasonably accurate terms for talking about the various movements on the political right. And of course, if you didn’t feel like using reasonably accurate terms, you could always use the corporate left-wing media’s go-to favorites like “illiberal right” and “Christian nationalist right” — typically employed when the idea was to deplore everyone who wasn’t a liberal.

In other words, there were plenty of terms available for those anti-Marxist liberals who just wanted to criticize various factions of the right. Those terms existed, and everyone knew what they were referring to.

Why they’re using this term

So why weren’t all these existing terms good enough? Why did some of the super-geniuses who spend their time competing for the title of grand poobah in the anti-Marxist liberal camp feel like they had to manufacture this entirely new term — “woke right” — and work day and night to get it to take off?

Obviously, it was because, in the eyes of a few anti-Marxist liberals, “woke right” had advantages that more accurate terms like “alt-right” or “white nationalist right” didn’t have. Let’s count the advantages these aspiring poobahs thought they could milk out of using “woke right” instead:

1. “Woke right” is intentionally designed to be humiliating. The whole point of the term “woke right” is to target people who have devoted their best efforts for years — often with serious personal and professional consequences — to mounting a viable opposition to the “woke” left. The whole point is to tell them: Sorry, pal, but you’re not a whit better than the Maoist revolutionaries you were out there fighting. And coming out of the mouths of anti-Marxist liberals who were at least sometimes out there on the barricades with us, that is in fact a pretty demeaning thing to hear.

2. “Woke right” is perfect for virtue-signaling. Because the term “woke right” signals a rupture and a betrayal of the coalition that some anti-Marxist liberals forged with the right, it serves as proof of ideological purity. It says: As for me, I’m still untainted. I will keep delegitimizing and canceling nationalists and conservatives forever.

3. “Woke right” succeeds as a provocation where previous terms of contempt like “illiberal right” and “Christian nationalism” failed. The fact is, the term “woke right” really has outraged many nationalist conservatives. And for a small number of especially thuggish liberal trolls, causing that upset and confusion in the ranks of nationalist conservatives is a good in itself.

4. “Woke right” is a term that neutralizes the power of the term “woke” to forge a broad coalition between anti-Marxist liberals and nationalist conservatives. The term “woke right” destroys the flag and symbol of that broad, anti-Marxist coalition and makes it impossible to rally around it any longer.

5. “Woke right” is a term that actively works to destroy the possibility of mutual respect, political alliance, and friendship between anti-Marxist liberals and the nationalist right. Because of its strong connotations of intentional humiliation and provocation, betrayal, and the destruction of shared symbols, getting this term into wide circulation is the best weapon anyone has come up with yet to ensure that anti-Marxist liberals and nationalist conservatives will truly despise one another and do everything possible to avoid working together going forward.

So that’s a lot of reasons why an anti-Marxist liberal might want to use the term “woke right” instead of more accurate, established terms. But notice that he would only use this new term if his goal was to drive a wedge between liberals and the nationalist right, increase mutual distrust and mutual resentment, and cripple the ability of the two camps to pursue common aims.

That’s why I say that every one of you anti-Marxist liberals using this term is being a schmuck. Because either you are purposely trying to destroy the anti-woke coalition, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, or you are completely clueless about the damage you’re doing to the anti-woke coalition and don’t have the political sense to know when you’re being played like a fiddle and who’s playing you.

Either way, there’s an old political term for what you’re doing. You’re being a schmuck.

A common effort endangered

There are lots of things I find aggravating and distasteful about having to work with liberals to achieve common aims. But probably the worst is the way that certain big-shot liberals continue to find ever-new ways of expressing their disgust and loathing for their nationalist and conservative allies — no matter how much their nationalist and conservative colleagues may have contributed to a common political effort and no matter how recent the memory of it.

Some readers may be too young to remember the end of the Cold War. So for them, let me just add a relevant historical comment. If you want to know what happened in 1989 to transform the victorious anti-communist alliance between liberals and conservatives into a dystopian reality in which liberals worldwide ended up trying to grind their former nationalist and conservative allies into the ground — well, it looked exactly like what we’re seeing with this “woke right” campaign.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a small group of fanatical liberal commissars decided that the victory over communism was the perfect moment to try for a world without nationalists and without real conservatives in any positions of influence anywhere. When they spoke of a “unipolar” world, they didn’t mean that America was going to be the single great power on earth. What they meant was that their liberalism was going to be the single great power on earth, so that no one with any power or influence would ever be anything other than a liberal again. Francis Fukuyama’s grotesque fantasy about banishing anyone driven by “thymos” to jungles at the edges of the political world was only the best known example of this ideal.

It seems like we’re going through an attempted replay of this same liberal fantasy now, although still on a much smaller scale. A small number of fanatical liberal commissars are giddy with the feeling that the Berlin Wall has fallen again. They think (mistakenly) that the war against “woke” is basically over and that our side has already won. They think (mistakenly) that they can safely turn their attention to trying to remove nationalists and genuine conservatives from whatever positions of influence they’ve succeeded in gaining in the last 10 years.

I admit that for now, this effort still looks pathetic. The anti-Marxist liberals who really believe these things are still just a fanatical few. But when you see how quickly they’ve hoodwinked so many in their camp into embarking on an immediate war against their nationalist and conservative coalition partners, it just makes your head spin.

Donald Trump and JD Vance were right to bring anti-Marxist liberals into their coalition and into their administration. They could not have won without broadening their appeal. And that broad coalition will be needed for many years to come if any part of the nationalist and conservative agenda is going to be implemented in reality.

But there won’t be much hope of holding this coalition together if certain fanatical, anti-Marxist liberal commissars continue inflating the lie that nationalist conservatives are an imminent threat to all things good and beautiful — “just like the left.”

Editor’s note: The second edition of Yoram Hazony’s award-winning book, “The Virtue of Nationalism,” will be published in June and is available for pre-order now.

DNC moves to oust rising star David Hogg just months after he was elected



The Democratic National Convention voted to void David Hogg's election in a late-night vote on Monday, just months after he was elected to serve as vice chair in February.

Hogg has been the subject of scrutiny both on the national stage and within the DNC. In recent weeks, reports of infighting and criticisms of Hogg have circulated, indicating an increasingly tense and disorganized Democratic Party.

'I ran to be DNC vice chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us.'

Despite reports suggesting Hogg's leadership was unwelcome, the DNC said the vote to void Hogg's election was based on a procedural challenge, arguing that he was improperly elected in the first place.

Hogg disputes this claim, saying that he was challenging the status quo within the DNC and attempting to reform the party, which outraged old-guard Democrats.

"Today, the DNC took its first steps to remove me from my position as vice chair at large," Hogg said in a statement. "While this vote was based on how the DNC conducted its officers' elections, which I had nothing to do with, it is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party, which loomed large over this vote."

"I ran to be DNC vice chair to help make the Democratic Party better, not to defend an indefensible status quo that has caused voters in almost every demographic group to move away from us," Hogg added.

After the Democrats' devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election, Hogg emerged as a reformer aiming to identify the DNC's shortcomings that contributed to President Donald Trump's landslide victory. Hogg's damage control consisted of harsh pivots and even flat-out rejections of political and cultural norms, like cancel culture and wokeness, which Democrats have strongly supported in the past.

In a recent appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher," Hogg said Democrats hemorrhaged young men because their party was too judgmental and caused them to feel as though they were constantly walking on eggshells.

"We've created a culture where we say, well, if you say the wrong thing, you're excommunicated," Hogg said. "And that's just not how human beings work. Nobody is perfect."

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'A lot of people say it's not happening!' Blaze News investigates: A definitive list of men who have dominated women's sports



Sports have had barriers broken many times throughout history, and without hesitation, the accomplishments have been celebrated. For some reason, transgender women, also known as biological men, have been welcomed into women’s sports both in the United States and abroad in the same manner: as a glass-breaking moment in sports lore.

As President Trump's executive order aimed at keeping women’s sports for women — and women only — works its way throughout U.S. athletic systems, women seem to be closer than ever to getting back to fair competition.

However, once the country is on the other side, there will likely be as much denial as there has been throughout the ordeal, which to its core is a denial of reality and biological truth.

Blaze News has investigated and continues to investigate the phenomenon of men in women’s athletics and can now provide an (unfortunately) expansive list of instances where men have invaded the female divisions of sport.

Please note that some of these athletes have competed against women for multiple years, with their most recent competition listed.

United States

May 2025: Ana Caldas, a male who has gone by both the names "Hugo" and "Hannah," won five events at a women's swimming competition in San Antonio, Texas.

Caldas competed in the women's 45-49 category and won the 50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle, 50-yard breaststroke, 100-yard breaststroke, and the 100-yard individual medley. Caldas won three of the races by at least three seconds.

In Minnesota, also in May, a 6' male athlete was the starting pitcher in the season opener for a women's softball team. The 17-year-old allegedly hid his real gender from his team and was revealed through investigative journalists to have had his sex changed on his birth certificate shortly after turning 9 years old.

The male pitched a shutout with 14 strikeouts and also hit a double.

April 2025: A group of four high school girls from Oregon refused to participate against a male in track and field. The male named, "Liaa" Rose, won girls' high jump with a jump height of 4'10" and beat 18 girls he competed against.

Sophia Carpenter said she and three other females forfeited the competition after learning they would be competing against a boy.

Rose had already won a girls' high jump competition earlier in the month, despite having finished dead last in the boys' division at the same tournament a year prior.

A male athlete named Annika Rose Suchoski inspired a protest after competing in a women’s fencing event in California. The 6' 40-year-old was participating in the women’s division for the second straight year.

Suchoski made headlines in 2024 after coming in second in a women's fencing tournament just six months after taking up the sport, the Daily Mail reported.

That same month, a woman walked off a disc golf tournament platform in Nashville, Tennessee, after learning a male athlete would be competing in the women’s division.

Abigail Wilson faked an initial throw before she revealed she was abandoning the competition in protest of Natalie Ryan, a male who believes he is female.

Also in April 2025, Stephanie Turner of the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia forfeited a match just before she was set to take on a male fencer at a women’s tournament in Maryland.

Turner was matched against Wagner College's Redmond Sullivan, who approached the female and declared he was supported by the board of directors and was allowed to participate against women.

Turner said she knew this and forfeited anyway.

It was soon revealed that Sullivan had won two out of six competitions since entering female competitions but had only ever reached third place as a male.

March 2025: A high school male athlete won the girls’ 400-meter varsity race by more than seven seconds.

Aayden “Ada” Gallagher, an 11th-grade sprinter from McDaniel High School in Portland, also won the girls’ 200-meter race.

Gallagher won both races in 2024, as well, in addition to winning the girls’ 200-meter at the Oregon state finals in 2024.

February 2025: A male high school athlete in Maine took third place in girls’ Nordic skiing at the state championships.

The boy, named Soren Stark-Chessa, secured enough points on his own to ensure his school placed third overall.

Stark-Chessa was accused of cheating in 2023 when he placed fifth in girls’ cross-country running after having previously being ranked 172nd as a boy.

Also in February, a boy from Maine’s Greely High School won first place in girls’ pole vault at the Maine Indoor Track Meet. The 10th-grader previously competed against boys as John before competing against girls under the name Katie.

John/Katie jumped 11 feet, a height that would have placed him in 10th against the males at the same competition.

January 2025: A male basketball player dominated girls and almost outscored the entire competition on his own. Henry Hanlon scored 29 points to lead San Francisco Waldorf High School to a 59-53 victory over Jewish Community High School.

January also saw a male college athlete set facility records at Brockport’s Rust Buster, a track and field event in New York. Camden Schreiner, who goes by "Sadie," set records by winning the women's 200-meter dash in 24.50 seconds and the women's 400-meter dash in 55.91 seconds. The times were also program records, according to his school, the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Schreiner made headlines in January 2024 after breaking school records for the women's 200-meter and 300-meter sprints and placing first in the 4x400-meter relay. He earned a Liberty League Women's Track & Field Performer of the Week award, according to KATV.

November 2024: Two female cross-country runners from Martin Luther King High School said they wore T-shirts that read "Save Girls' Sports" on the front and "It's Common Sense. XX ≠ XY" on the back to protest a male athlete participating in female athletics at their school.

Kaitlyn and Taylor said Taylor had been bumped from the cross-country team in order to make room for the boy, who did not have to regularly attend practices or meet eligibility requirements for the varsity team. When the girls wore the pro-women shirts, they were told by their athletics director that wearing the shirts around a transgender athlete was akin to wearing a swastika around a Jewish student.

October 2024: A Catholic high school girls' soccer team in New Hampshire refused to play a game against a team with a boy on it. Bishop Brady High School refused to play against Kearsage Regional High School for having a male athlete, a violation of state law.

The male athlete named Maelle Jacques played goalkeeper on the girls’ soccer team and previously won the state championship for girls’ high jump in February 2024.

September 2024: In another high-profile instance, San Jose State University utilized a 6'1" male athlete named Brayden “Blaire” Fleming to lead the women’s volleyball team to their best season in program history.

Fleming may have caused a national movement, spawning protests and forfeits from multiple teams, and even his own teammate spoke out against him.

July 2024: In what has become a rather famous story, a 17-year-old female volleyball player suffered paralysis and brain damage after getting hit in the face with the ball by a male player.

Payton McNabb had brain damage and paralysis on her right side and also had trouble walking for some time.

October 2023: Several female athletes dropped out of a women’s jiu-jitsu tournament after they were slated to compete against males who identify as female.

Two women had previously competed against a male named Cordelia Gregory, one of several men reportedly competing in women's jiu-jitsu tournaments under the North American Grappling Association.

Toward the end of the month, NAGA officially changed its policy to remove men from women's competitions and gave them the option to compete against other men or not compete at all.

August 2023: In an exception to the rule, a transgender athlete dropped out of a competition in women’s tennis in Wyoming, but claimed it was due to a safety risk. Brooklyn Ross (a male) began identifying as a woman around 2017 and then played college tennis starting in 2019.

Ross admitted there were no direct threats to him.

March 2023: A high school basketball coach from Massachusetts admitted to having a “secret weapon” on the girls’ team, referring to a 6'3" male named Addie Ruter.

Ruter dominated the playoffs and was referred to as a girl despite obvious physical advantages that allowed him to garner at least five double-doubles in the playoffs.

February 2023: The varsity girls' basketball team at a Christian high school in Vermont forfeited a match against a team with a male athlete.

Mid Vermont Christian School refused to play against Dorset in the first round of the Vermont Division IV girls' varsity tournament after the team learned that one member of the other team is actually a male.

The team soon took the state to court after the school was banned from state-wide athletic activities as a result of the refusal to play.

May 2019: College athlete Cece Telfer won the women’s 400-meter hurdles national NCAA title.

The New Hampshire male vowed to return years later and mocked female athletes as he said he was going to take “all the records.”

International

April 2025: Two men met in the final of a women’s billiards tournament in England. Harriet Haynes and Lucy Smith, both males, beat four women each to reach the finals of the 32-player tournament.

Under the English Pool Association, in order for a male to play in the female category, the athlete must have "declared that her gender identity is female."

Unsurprisingly, the two have met in competition before.

January 2025: A transgender college basketball player was captured on video flattening female athletes and was later revealed to have broken multiple women’s records in Canada.

Harriette Mackenzie, a 6'2'' male basketball player in his third year in women’s athletics, knocked over at least six women in a physically dominating display.

Mackenzie held records in women’s basketball in the following categories: most single-season total rebounds (212), offensive rebounds in a season (86), rebounds per game (10.6), total free throws made in a season (90), playoff points in a single game (22), and double-doubles in a season (10).

August 2024: An Australian soccer team that featured five males won the league without losing a single match.

The team is called the Flying Bats and was described as soccer club for "self-identified women and non-binary people.”

The team scored 61 goals with just six against and amassed a 14-0 record. The team made headlines earlier in the season with a 10-0 victory in which one of the male players scored six goals.

July 2024: The Summer Olympics in Paris were rocked by two biological males competing, and winning gold, in women’s boxing.

Imane Khelif of Algeria and Lin Yu‑ting of Chinese Taipei (Taiwan) both were disqualified from competitions in 2023, but won against women in the 66 kg and the 57 kg categories at the Olympics, respectively.

Khelif, who has refused to come to terms with testing, was revealed by examiners in November 2024 to have testicles, a penis, and XY chromosomes. The medical technicians who revealed this were in agreement with the International Boxing Association and the World Boxing Organization, which had both previously claimed that Khelif was born a man.

May 2024: A British female dart thrower refused to compete against a male athlete in a tournament.

Deta Hedman refused to participate in a match against male Noa-Lynn van Leuven in the Denmark Open tournament. Van Leuven was actually the defending champion from 2023.

April 2024: A male won a professional women’s golf tournament in Australia and called it a “special” feeling.

42-year-old Breanna Gill first started playing in women’s tournaments in 2015 and began winning them in 2018.

The LPGA Tour added a rule against almost all males by the end of the year and declared that anyone who had gone through male puberty is unable to compete against women.

August 2023: A 40-year-old man set an unofficial women’s world record at a women’s powerlifting event in Western Canada.

Anne Andres, 40, won the Canadian Powerlifting Union’s 2023 Western Canadian Championship by lifting a combined score of 1,317 pounds, far more than the second-place finisher, a woman, SuJan Gil, who lifted 854 pounds.

It was reported at the time that Andres set a new Canadian women's national record and an unofficial women's world record.

December 2022: A transgender hockey player injured in a woman in a tournament.

The National Hockey League promoted the "Team Trans Draft Tournament," which resulted in a player reportedly named Mason "(he/him/his),” concussing a female player. One attendee cited an "enormous difference" in player size.

March 2021: A male volleyball player was named a “pioneer” in women’s volleyball and given an award.

Tiffany Abreu, a man, was heralded as standing up to “anti-transgender hate” and was applauded for wanting to compete as a woman in the Olympics.

Lia Thomas

With honorable mention, William “Lia” Thomas cannot be forgotten. The male swimmer’s success against women was unparalleled and led him to win NCAA championship races despite being ranked 554th in the 200-meter freestyle as a man. He placed fifth in the nation against women.

Thomas was the poster child for the advantages males have over women, as well as the example most have turned to when showcasing that women have been shut down when trying to stand up for themselves.

Some swimmers were told they may have psychological problems because they had issues with competing against, or changing in the same room as, a man. Others said they were bumped into by Thomas with his genitals in the locker room.

Straight denial from governing bodies like the NCAA and even politicians did not help women in their plight.

One NCAA executive pleaded ignorance over the ordeal, while NCAA President Charlie Baker said he was simply following federal law and societal norms by letting men compete against women in their sports.

Democrat Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) suggested the issue wasn't important at all when he pointed to just “10 or fewer” transgender athletes in the NCAA out of 510,000 normal athletes.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) declared in March 2025 that the issue was not an issue at all and sarcastically asked constituents to “find the little trans child” who is ruining people’s lives.

This opposition is normal for women, whether it is being told they “shouldn’t be talking” for the male athlete or being abandoned by their universities.

“People have legitimately blacklisted me for being outspoken about men in women’s sports and spaces,” said writer Natasha Biase, who writes about women’s issues. “But this isn’t because most people are genuinely passionate about trans rights. It’s because people feel like it’s the empathetic thing to say so they can avoid any type of conflict.”

“A lot of people say it’s not happening … that they are obliterating women in sports,” she added.

Former gymnast and entrepreneur Jennifer Sey agreed, saying gender ideologues and trans activists try to control language by insisting that “trans women are women.”

“They feel justified threatening me and my employees with violence.

Both women agreed that much of the sentiment is pushed by social media and educational institutions and said that some women will not stop standing up for biological reality, “no matter how loud and bullying the angry minority is.”