The Chicago Sun Times will run all sorts of controversial opinions, but it’s apologizing for an article which pointed out that a man is not a woman. It’s 2014 and this is now a statement too controversial for newspapers to run.
After centuries of using Galileo to poke fun at pre-modernists, we’ve arrived at a time in which pointing out an aspect of the real world much less subject to debate than the movements of planetary bodies is now heresy.
Kevin Williamson’s article, “Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman: Facts are not subject to our feelings.”
Unlike a lot of people who sneer at tranny PCness and yet use the wrong gender pronoun, Williamson correctly calls Cox “he” and “him”.
But then the Chicago Sun Times came under pressure from gay rights activists and facts took second place to feelings.
“Upon further consideration, we concluded the essay did not include some key facts and its overall tone was not consistent with what we seek to publish. The column failed to acknowledge that the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association have deemed transgender-related care medically necessary for transgender people. It failed as well to acknowledge the real and undeniable pain and discrimination felt by transgender people, who suffer from notably higher rates of depression and suicide. We have taken the post down and we apologize for the oversight.”
Only one of those two things are facts. The other is a feeling.
The APA and AMA’s views are a fact only insofar as they exist, not in that they represent an objective reality. The AMA and the APA have held plenty of views that they have disavowed over the years. The idea that people who believe they’re a different gender or species should be mutilated until they can fool someone in a dark room has no medical basis. It has a political basis.
Williamson was not obligated to cite either one is an editorial arguing a particular point of view. Just as no one would expect Cox to mention that he is a man, even though that is an unambiguous fact.
Commenting on the apology, Williamson wrote, “Tom McNamee et al. are a disgrace to a proud newspaper tradition, and an unhappy reminder that post-operative transsexuals are not the only men who have had their characteristic equipment removed.”





















