Time to get out the blue war paint.

“Putin brags his new nuke is UNSTOPPABLE: Russian warmonger boasts his ‘Satan II’ nuclear missile ‘can break through ALL modern defences’… and will be aimed and ready to strike Britain ‘by AUTUMN'”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10747929/Putin-brags-new-Satan-II-nuclear-missile-break-modern-defences.html

In any event, the US military had better expedite that “preferred-pronoun” training. PRONTO…. (That means, by yesterday.)
“Russian Airlines Told To Prepare For World Without GPS”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-airlines-told-prepare-world-without-gps

It may actually be a factor underlying the urgency with which Progressives in the US have been attempting to institutionalize their Child Sexuality & Gender Identity agenda.

The reforms discussed in that article were set in motion about a year ago with the Bell v Tavistock ruling and the revelations arising from that investigation. Those were soon confirmed by investigations and clinical reviews in the EU resulting in changes to pediatric care in line with the UK’s.

There’s been almost no acknowledgement of this fact in the US media, nor has there been a response from the NIH that I’m aware of – though it was the NIH that funded the development and promotion of the ‘affirmation model’ as well as the primary hormone therapy protocol for minors. They also launched the clinical network that implements it domestically, through the SGMRO.

Instead we’ve seen intensified efforts to expand and compel the inculcation of Gender Identity ideology in schools and Federal intervention to prevent states from regulating those treatments.

https://quillette.com/2020/08/05/at-the-nhs-and-bbc-important-steps-toward-restoring-balance-in-the-gender-debate/

I continue to be intrigued by this common characteristic of Woke complaints: omitting the actual language or action or behavior that is said to be so horrific it merits ostracism from public life forever, if not incarceration (and for some execution).

PA Cat’s link to an article on Sensitivity readers — which is frightening, by the way — led to another Quillette post remarking on one of those omissions, in the process of detailing a long list of attacks on Wokism’s heretics.

https://quillette.com/2021/06/24/standing-up-to-the-gender-ideologues-a-quillette-editorial/

On June 23rd, Britain’s Royal Academy of Arts put out a carefully worded five-paragraph media statement regarding German-born textile artist Jess de Wahls. “We have apologised to Jess de Wahls for the way we have treated her and do so again publicly now,” read the RA communiqué. “We had no right to judge her views … This betrayed our most important core value—the protection of free speech.”

The controverted speech in question was contained in a 2019 blog post, in which de Wahls wrote that “a woman is an adult human female (not an identity or feeling),” and that trans women are “biological males [who] choose to live as a woman, or believe they actually are women.” These are statements that almost every person knows to be true, but which have become unfashionable to say out loud in highly progressive subcultures. And so, when a handful of people raised a fuss about de Wahls’ work being sold in the RA gift shop, Academy officials not only purged de Wahl from their inventory earlier this month, but peacocked their reasons for doing so.
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In backing down from its attempted cancelation of de Wahls, the RA now claims that “[a] plurality of voices, tolerance, and free thinking are at the core of what we stand for and seek to protect.” Whether or not this Road-to-Damascus conversion is sincere, these high-flown words glide over the fact that de Wahls’s views were never remotely “transphobic” to begin with, no matter what standard of “tolerance” one might choose to apply.
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But the very fact that she had to defend her reputation in this way shows how deeply embedded gender dogma has become in the world of arts and letters. This includes journalism, too: Even after the Academy apologized to de Wahls, news reports described the artist as being marked by “accusations of transphobia,” without plainly noting that these accusations are baseless. And thanks to Google, these smears will follow de Wahls throughout her career.
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One reason these milieus have succumbed so readily to gender cultism is that activists have successfully weaponized a definition of “transphobia” that now encompasses virtually any acknowledgment of the biological facts concerning human sexual dimorphism.
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While each of the controversies discussed herein may seem small and inconsequential—the contents of a museum gift store, a deleted Twitter account, a canceled university event, a muzzled author—the larger issue at play is not. The “final, most essential command” of any coercive movement is, as George Orwell once put it, “to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.” Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.

Re Pullman: I read the first volume of his series. It had some rather intriguing and appealing features, but the extreme anti-Christian and specifically anti-Catholic theme made me uninterested in reading further. Basically a somewhat shallow village atheist type, I thought, despite the imaginative scope of the fantasy.

Wendy Laubach:

Nine years later with an American novel, you’re talking about “The Sun Also Rises” and I’m with you on that count too…

Damn good novel, chaps.