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A group of students forced the cancellation of a film premiere Tuesday evening in Edinburgh, citing its blasphemies against their gender religion.
Several men, including ‘Robyn’ Woof, the transgender-identifying male in the photo, blocked women from entering the screening of Adult Human Female.
None of the men had seen the film, though all were sure they knew what was in it. Jerry Falwell made a similar argument when he had his believers picket movie theaters showing The Last Temptation of Christ in 1988.
In honor of Mr. Woof, Graham Linehan calls for everyone to watch the film on Vimeo and share it. Having watched it, we second the motion, and furthermore move to upload it here at Substack, which has a pretty good track record of not censoring content.
Free speech lives!
UNPOSSIBLE: I was repeatedly assured that detransition doesn’t exist!
A former Navy SEAL who spent almost a decade living as a transgender woman is warning Americans of the dangers of the transgender movement after recently announcing he is detransitioning back to a man.
Chris Beck served in the Navy SEALs for 20 years on special operations teams and also served on the famed SEAL Team Six. Through 13 deployments, he received over 50 awards and medals for his service, including the Bronze Star with valor and the Purple Heart.
But Beck became a prominent national figure after announcing on CNN's Anderson Cooper in 2013 that he had become a transgender woman named Kristan Beck.
Now nine years later, Beck says he was used by the media and psychologists to "normalize" allowing transgender people in the military and to popularize the issue.
Jamie Shupe (remember him?) was a harbinger of this cohort. Military culture is quite masculine and pornography is ubiquitous in the barracks. Lots of AGP men are going to end up like this with the connivance of the Department of Veterans’ Affaris.
PEER REVIEW IS DEAD, LONG LIVE PEER REVIEW: It was an experiment, but the experiment is over now, and the method has been proven faulty.
In all sorts of different fields, research productivity has been flat or declining for decades, and peer review doesn’t seem to have changed that trend. New ideas are failing to displace older ones. Many peer-reviewed findings don’t replicate, and most of them may be straight-up false. When you ask scientists to rate 20th century discoveries that won Nobel Prizes, they say the ones that came out before peer review are just as good or even better than the ones that came out afterward. In fact, you can’t even ask them to rate the Nobel Prize-winning discoveries from the 1990s and 2000s because pretty much nothing from that period has won a Nobel Prize.
HOW THEY HIJACKED HUMAN RIGHTS: Leor Sapir explains it all for you. This is honestly one of the best single podcast episodes about the gender identity issue that I have seen. I expect Leor Sapir will write the essential history book on the policy takeover that began with “anti-bullying” and has ended with men bullying women in hallways.
EVIDENCE-BASED CARE IS BIGOTED: There is no “gender cancer.” But what if we did treat gender dysphoria in children the way we treat cancer?
STOP MAKING MATT WALSH RIGHT ABOUT STUFF: I will never forgive Democrats for opening their goal like this and repeatedly kicking balls into it.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE QUEEN: As you will have heard by now, J.K. Rowling used her fortune to support a new single-sex rape shelter, which has the gender activists screaming mad at her again, since this whole issue is really about men like Robyn Woof demanding to be allowed in places where they know damn well they don’t belong and they hate her for saying “no.”
