Chicago Sun-Times Apologizes for Controversial Article Suggesting a Man is Not a Woman

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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.”

  • mendezjb

    If someone thinks they’re a squirrel, does that mean we should surgically add a tail and feed them acorns?

    • john spielman

      yes and they are called “furries”

      • tagalog

        I always was partial to calling them “tree rats.”

        • joba

          st

          • joba

            stupid thing to say

          • tagalog

            You mean “st?” I agree.

    • Race_Dissident

      Or better yet, if he claims to be a ’68 Bonneville, must we implant a steering wheel on the chest and a bumper on the tukhas? America in 2014 is every bit as loony as the USSR in 1924. And we’re headed down the same path.

    • Softly Bob

      How dare you? Apologise now!
      I’m a squirrel. I’m six feet tall. I have two arms and two legs and a human body, but nevertheless, I’m a squirrel
      That’s not a fact – it’s a feeling.

    • carpe diem 36

      if someone gets paid for this i guess it will be done.

  • tagalog

    “…the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association have deemed transgender-related care medically necessary for transgender people.”

    What’s their definition of “medically necessary?” How does a doctor determine whether or not a person is a transgender person? What are the criteria for such a determination?

  • mmichlin

    “post-operative transsexuals are not the only men who have had their characteristic equipment removed”
    That’s one great line!!!

  • De Doc

    If they have a Y-chromosome, they are genetic males. End of debate biologically speaking.

    • Spinyanteater

      Sadly these misfits don’t understand logic or any form of rational thinking. They are truly the ‘me’ generation. A lesbian couple in the Australian State of Queensland fought with the gay sperm donor over who was to be listed as the father on the birth certificate the lesbian won.

  • LudicrousSextus

    Get back to us when the ‘lady’ in question can insert a Tampon in ‘her’ urethra. Until then, it’s all make believe – and the AMA and APA both pander to it because they can scam insurance monies out of it.

    Can’t wait until somebody somewhere decides their civil rights require their recognition as another species…

    • Daniel Greenfield

      give it a few years

    • FrontandCenter

      Guess nowadays you can stuff a sock in your a** and call yourself a shoe.

    • carpe diem 36

      now Medicare will help change men into women or vice versa, no questions asked, they will pay for such a change. is this a great country or what?

      • Spinyanteater

        We in the Soviet Socialist Australia already have this.You don’t realise how bad things have gotten in Australia, since Greens Labor stuffed the place up. We even have the defence chief’s speech writer wearing female uniform.and being referred to as she despite having the opposite equipment. Defence now has special moslem dress even though allegedly they are only 2.2% of the population. Most people believe it is 5% and they’re not telling us. God help us, at least the Abbott govt stopped the boats.

  • Marsha

    Oh yes, of course. A woman is a man, minus the tool. Right.

    • Chavi Beck

      Amazing to me how none of these PC wackos seem to realize the total insult to womanhood.

      • Spinyanteater

        Absolutely spot on! I watched a so-called debate on the transgender issue many yrs ago on our public broadcaster. I nearly fell on the floor laughing when this very masculine bloke in drag was telling his heartrending story of how he always knew he was a woman trapped in a man’s body because he liked to play with dolls! What a load of dingo droppings! I used to play cowboys and indians, climbed trees, and preferred to hang with the boys- didn’t mean I thought I was a boy! Very happy to be a female and thoroughly enjoyed being a girl in my teens and twenties.
        PS apparently the BBC now considers the word “girl” offensive now! Perhaps they would prefer us to use the term heiffer instead.

        • Chavi Beck

          Yeah these days they like to talk about “young women” when they actually mean twelve year olds who have been successfully programmed into ‘maturity’ (which of course is a word with exactly one meaning).

          Used to be feminism meant nobody’s going to dictate any rules of behavior or social role to women. Just like freedom of religion, this nice idea has now been turned completely on its head and instead is used to define femininity into the most insanely crudely specific box.

          The original Kevin Williamson article is fantastic and well worth a read… and one of the comments there was so good I’d like to quote it here.

  • Lanna

    Some people refuse to admit that how they are made and many tend to believe the lies that reinforce their own selfish personal beliefs. God’s plan for natural relationships is his plan for his creation. Sin often means not only denying God, but also denying the way we are made.