Maybe i can write it! good idea! I'd suggest Janice Dean's book in the meantime, "I Am The Storm." Not specific to the past 2-3 years but inspiring. Individuals who took on organizations bigger than themselves. Persevered. Triumphed.
Thank you for sharing your story, experience, wisdom, heart, vision, and the video. It brought goose-bumps and tears. Very powerful!
I want to introduce something into this conversation that is a major contributing root cause of the transgender epidemic, and that is Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs). Hormones regulate everything in the body. EDCs disrupt hormones in unhealthy ways. EDCs affect behavior, fertility, metabolism, weight, sleep, immune system, intelligence, stress response, temperature, etc.
EDCs twist and confuse X and Y chromosomes. EDCs are passed down through your genes
into your babies’ genes and into their babies’ genes. EDCs are nicknamed gender-bender chemicals because they cause early puberty and gender dysphoria. EDCs are everywhere affecting every age, but are most toxic in utero.
Synthetic fragrances contain EDCs. When you smell a fragrance, the chemicals are already in your bloodstream. Frangrance, 'second-hand fragrance' is present on clothing and hair and bodies;
in homes, yards, schools, churches, gyms, salons, car washes, boutiques, offices, restrooms, and restaurants. Fragrance is in perfume/cologne, body lotions, hair products, anti-perspirant/deodorant, flame-retardant pajamas, scented soap, scented trash can liners, candles, air freshener gels/sticks/plug-ins/pop-ups, insect repellent, sunscreen, etc. Scented laundry soap, fabric softener and dryer sheets - which also contain silicone, or cationic oil that coats fabric fibers - is absorbed through your skin, and inhaled by you and everyone around you, your children, your pets, and all your neighbors outside your dryer vent.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
-Honor God’s divine design. Live simply, naturally. Humanity is being separated from family and nature.
-Read labels - purchase unscented products, or scented products containing only organic or wild essential oils.
-Avoid labels with the words ‘parfum’ or ‘fragrance’ as an ingredient, which can include up to 500 toxic chemicals. (The Fragrance Industry is 'self-regulated'.)
-Use your consumer dollars wisely. Promote products and companies that promote life.
-Avoid hand-sanitizer containing triclosan. (Anti-bacterial is NOT anti-viral)
-Go natural. Avoid nail salons, especially with children, or if you plan on having children.
Riley Gaines, you are headed for the history books, the strength of character that made you a champion athlete is going catapult you into success on this issue. It won't happen fast, but it will happen. You give me faith in this younger generation.
So many of us are cheering you on. The video linked below demonstrates the abuse that the "Lia Thomas types" force on their girlfriends/wives. Autogynophiles is the category L Thomas belongs to. They are coercive in "romantic" relationships and young women are being damaged. It might not seem related to the issues in women's sport, but what's happening to women when they're involved with an L Thomas type must be spoken of in order to warn women away from these dangerous dudes who only care about their "feels."
We didn't compete in the same years, but imagine if we had to compete against a man on floor ex or vault? I suppose it is the inevitable straddling of the balance beam that prevents men from taking over women's artistic gymnastics.
Ms. Jennifer, I was very touched by your conversation with Efrat Fenigson - when you mentioned the hostile and truncated family relations after your personal vision and politics shifted. Many of us have experienced like fractures and they are not pleasant, to understate. We are scattered and so must work at making a community. Meantime, I have found certain books helpful, companionable and entertaining; see: "Mea Cuba" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. This book charts GCI's journey from artist-supporter of the Castro revolution in Cuba to, fairly early on, disillusioned artist, ex-supporter - a wise man and great writer (along similar lines, see: Carlos Franqui's "Family Portrait with Fidel"). I'm convinced that much of the current 'anti-whiteness' has literary roots (as well as flim-flam philosophical); to wit, check out D.H. Lawrence's "Studies in Classic American Literature" with special attention to his essay on Melville. Lawrence's study of Whitman is howlingly funny - especially if you love Whitman as he did. I don't know if the book is available; I found a large section of it in Edmund Wilson's compilation, "The Shock of Recognition". Best, Dex Q
p.s. I know this post was about Riley Gaines. Thank you for celebrating her and her courage. I have a granddaughter in high school track - praying an L Thomas dude doesn't come along to smash her dreams ...DQ
My contribution to your righteous cause:
https://mikebond.substack.com/p/have-women-become-second-class-citizens
Thanks for taking a stand.
I hope soon there will be a book that
will showcase those who exemplify this era’s “Profiles in Courage.” Hopefully Jen, you will be a chapter telling your story.
Maybe i can write it! good idea! I'd suggest Janice Dean's book in the meantime, "I Am The Storm." Not specific to the past 2-3 years but inspiring. Individuals who took on organizations bigger than themselves. Persevered. Triumphed.
Well done!
This stops when WOMEN say it stops. Not before, not until.
Thank you for sharing your story, experience, wisdom, heart, vision, and the video. It brought goose-bumps and tears. Very powerful!
I want to introduce something into this conversation that is a major contributing root cause of the transgender epidemic, and that is Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs). Hormones regulate everything in the body. EDCs disrupt hormones in unhealthy ways. EDCs affect behavior, fertility, metabolism, weight, sleep, immune system, intelligence, stress response, temperature, etc.
EDCs twist and confuse X and Y chromosomes. EDCs are passed down through your genes
into your babies’ genes and into their babies’ genes. EDCs are nicknamed gender-bender chemicals because they cause early puberty and gender dysphoria. EDCs are everywhere affecting every age, but are most toxic in utero.
Synthetic fragrances contain EDCs. When you smell a fragrance, the chemicals are already in your bloodstream. Frangrance, 'second-hand fragrance' is present on clothing and hair and bodies;
in homes, yards, schools, churches, gyms, salons, car washes, boutiques, offices, restrooms, and restaurants. Fragrance is in perfume/cologne, body lotions, hair products, anti-perspirant/deodorant, flame-retardant pajamas, scented soap, scented trash can liners, candles, air freshener gels/sticks/plug-ins/pop-ups, insect repellent, sunscreen, etc. Scented laundry soap, fabric softener and dryer sheets - which also contain silicone, or cationic oil that coats fabric fibers - is absorbed through your skin, and inhaled by you and everyone around you, your children, your pets, and all your neighbors outside your dryer vent.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
-Honor God’s divine design. Live simply, naturally. Humanity is being separated from family and nature.
-Read labels - purchase unscented products, or scented products containing only organic or wild essential oils.
-Avoid labels with the words ‘parfum’ or ‘fragrance’ as an ingredient, which can include up to 500 toxic chemicals. (The Fragrance Industry is 'self-regulated'.)
-Use your consumer dollars wisely. Promote products and companies that promote life.
-Avoid hand-sanitizer containing triclosan. (Anti-bacterial is NOT anti-viral)
-Go natural. Avoid nail salons, especially with children, or if you plan on having children.
-Sign up to attend or host a screening of PaintedNailsMovie.com
-Watch The Story of Cosmetics and other films at the very creative TheStoryofStuff.org
-Watch StinkMovie.com – A single dad orders jammies from Justice™
-Do more research
- https://www.ewg.org/ for brand name safety ratings
-http://endocrinedisruption.org/
-https://www.healthandenvironment.org/
-For a deeper dive: https://www.coreysdigs.com/health-science/exploiting-transgenders-part-1-manufacturing-an-industry/
Thank God.
Riley Gaines, you are headed for the history books, the strength of character that made you a champion athlete is going catapult you into success on this issue. It won't happen fast, but it will happen. You give me faith in this younger generation.
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So many of us are cheering you on. The video linked below demonstrates the abuse that the "Lia Thomas types" force on their girlfriends/wives. Autogynophiles is the category L Thomas belongs to. They are coercive in "romantic" relationships and young women are being damaged. It might not seem related to the issues in women's sport, but what's happening to women when they're involved with an L Thomas type must be spoken of in order to warn women away from these dangerous dudes who only care about their "feels."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xlGIu8XKg
We didn't compete in the same years, but imagine if we had to compete against a man on floor ex or vault? I suppose it is the inevitable straddling of the balance beam that prevents men from taking over women's artistic gymnastics.
Ms. Jennifer, I was very touched by your conversation with Efrat Fenigson - when you mentioned the hostile and truncated family relations after your personal vision and politics shifted. Many of us have experienced like fractures and they are not pleasant, to understate. We are scattered and so must work at making a community. Meantime, I have found certain books helpful, companionable and entertaining; see: "Mea Cuba" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. This book charts GCI's journey from artist-supporter of the Castro revolution in Cuba to, fairly early on, disillusioned artist, ex-supporter - a wise man and great writer (along similar lines, see: Carlos Franqui's "Family Portrait with Fidel"). I'm convinced that much of the current 'anti-whiteness' has literary roots (as well as flim-flam philosophical); to wit, check out D.H. Lawrence's "Studies in Classic American Literature" with special attention to his essay on Melville. Lawrence's study of Whitman is howlingly funny - especially if you love Whitman as he did. I don't know if the book is available; I found a large section of it in Edmund Wilson's compilation, "The Shock of Recognition". Best, Dex Q
p.s. I know this post was about Riley Gaines. Thank you for celebrating her and her courage. I have a granddaughter in high school track - praying an L Thomas dude doesn't come along to smash her dreams ...DQ
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr.