Amongst the many possible motives why a man might wish to magically transform himself into a woman, being able to contract the highly painful womb-related disease of endometriosis is not one you may think ranks highly amongst them. Yet this was the initial impression given by medical charity Endometriosis South Coast (ESC), which last week announced the appointment of a transgender woman now known as Steph Richards as its new head.
Alongside a fetching image of Steph in a dress, ESC also posted a short quote: “Isn’t it ridiculous that I’ve got to my 40s, before any medical professionals even mentioned endometriosis?” The natural conclusion most readers may have drawn would be that Steph himself was asking this, and that the answer to his question would in fact be: “No, it’s perfectly logical, as endometriosis is primarily a disease of the female womb, which you don’t have, because you are a man.”
However, it turned out the quote in question was really from an authentically female member of “the endo community” who had previously made use of the charity’s services, not 71-year-old Steph at all. Apologising for the “misunderstanding”, ESC explained Steph had been hired due to his alleged past background in the general field, not “because they [sic] have their own endo journey”. But, according to critics, Richards allegedly has no meaningful medical background, apparently being an ex-hairdresser and beautician. Still, a nice new haircut and some lipstick are all you need to become a woman these days, aren’t they?
Endo the Line?
In response to widespread criticism, ESC released this statement: “Helping those in need has nothing to do with ‘sex’ – proven by the fact there are thousands of cisgender male gynaecologists and midwives based in the U.K. and beyond.” Besides the fatuous use of inverted commas around the word ‘sex’ there – implying such a crude phenomenon no longer even exists – this is not a wholly unreasonable point. As Steph further explained, the CEOs of homeless charities “don’t live in tents”.
That isn’t really the main problem here, though. If you read ESC’s PR material, the charity was willing to call a man like Steph Richards a ‘woman’ (there are some inverted commas of my own), but actual women were merely called ‘people’ by it: it is as if Richards is considered more authentically female by the organisation than, you know, actual females, or something. Indeed, its website specifically carries material saying that using “gendered language” like ‘woman’ in relation to the disease is something “steeped in racialised and heterosexist stereotypes of female passivity”.
Steph Richards called criticism “transmisogyny”, but the true danger is the perplexing mixed messaging being sent out. If Steph had been quietly appointed purely because of his ability to perform an effective job, with no reference made to his transgender status, then it may not have been as much of an issue. However, his self-evident constant campaigning stance could end up overcomplicating actual health messaging, thereby harming the charity’s actual main supposed purpose: to help women suffering with endometriosis.
The head of his own organisation, TransLucent, Richards is also a Women’s Officer for Portsmouth Labour Party, which says everything, and formerly operated a ‘safe space’ where grown men could come and dress up as schoolgirls or brides in wedding dresses without being laughed at by the general public. As ESC’s current Chief Executive, Jodie Hughes, a (real) woman with her own personal ‘endo journey’ herself, also has a background in trans activism, it seems highly likely Richards’ appointment possessed some deliberate political purpose to it. After all, Steph has in the past posted tweets like this:
I’d rather not “see you in the loo” if it’s all the same with you, Steph, thank you very much. Back when you were still called ‘Stephen’, I might have expected to have seen you occasionally standing around using a urinal, though.
In a subsequent interview on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – which, despite its name, does allow male guests – Richards defended using the generic word ‘everyone’ to describe sufferers, rather than the word ‘women’, as this was more inclusive of the “something like 5,000 to 5,500 trans men [i.e., women pretending to be men] who have endometriosis who probably feel rather left out”.
His boss Jodie Hughes, meanwhile, a self-declared “cis heterosexual woman”, told Woman’s Hour that “I was brought in… to raise awareness of endometriosis full stop. … It’s pretty amazing that within five days [of ostentatiously appointing a transgender person] I have achieved that and the vehicle that’s done that is transphobia”. That sounds perilously close to saying Steph Richards’ whole appointment was a publicity stunt. But, even if Steph’s appointment did “raise awareness of endometriosis”, in what precise way did it do so? If it did so in a fundamentally inaccurate and confusing fashion, then that’s not actually much real use, is it?
Womb for Confusion
Plenty of people – including many women – don’t know what endometriosis is, allowing unsympathetic doctors to dismiss patients as neurotic, a successful diagnosis sometimes taking years. They need to know it is a condition where womb-like tissue grows in places it really shouldn’t, like the fallopian tubes or ovaries, causing symptoms like period pain, discomfort during vaginal penetration and difficulty getting pregnant, symptoms that can only ever be experienced by actual women.
Yet some generic symptoms – generalised abdominal pain, queasiness, etc. – can be felt by men too, during innumerable other illnesses. So: can you actually join up with ‘the endo community’ if you’re biologically male? According to this online guide from U.S. “queer sex educator and wellness journalist” Gabrielle Kassel, who also has a sideline in “reviewing pleasure products” (which I think means she gets paid to use dildos), such a miracle is actually possible.
Kassel explains that “prolonged exposure to oestrogen therapy”, traditionally during prostate cancer treatment, can sometimes give a man endo. And yet, despite this fact, “it can be tricky [for a man] to get an endometriosis diagnosis” – even more so than for a woman.
Can this be true? Sort of. See this genuine 2018 medical paper, where it is shown that, on extremely rare occasions, “endometriosis has been found in the lower genitourinary tract of men”. How often, though? Well, at point of the paper’s publication, there were 17 known such cases in all of recorded history, whereas perhaps one in 10 women of reproductive age on the planet currently have it: about 190 million women vs 17 men. This is clearly characteristically a female disease.
Possibly transgender ‘women’ of tomorrow, pumped full of oestrogen not merely for an unavoidable condition like cancer, but as part of their voluntary and medically unnecessary gender-transition, may one day begin to muddy the waters a bit. Indeed, may it not be guessed that the current boom in sex-changes might actually fuel an unwanted future increase in endometriosis amongst males? By promoting transgenderism, misguided bodies like ESC could well end up inadvertently causing a rise in cases of the condition they ostensibly seek to abolish.
Men-Struation
The whole situation gets worse when we consider the even greater impossibility of male periods and related problems. I well remember some schoolboy bullies once convincing a particularly effeminate male classmate of ours that they had all had their first period already, and wanting to know if he had too, and if not, why not? Eventually he caved in and ‘admitted’ he had, to much cruel laughter all round. These days, an activist teacher might have stepped immediately in to affirm the poor boy’s delusions with a box of free Lil-Lets.
Cases are now on record of transgender women claiming to suffer common PMS-like symptoms like sore nipples, mood shifts, irritability, tiredness, bloating, cramping, nausea, headaches and so forth. What is unclear is whether these have any genuine physiological basis, perhaps triggered by some male-to-female wannabe sex-changers being fed HRT doses, or whether they are purely psychosomatic in nature. Such broad indicators could be simply self-imagined due to a pathetic desire to undergo an imaginary period on any such individual’s behalf; I’ve had most of the above-listed symptoms myself at some point in time, but I’ve certainly never needed to wear a tampon.
Nonetheless, you can now easily discover bizarre Blue Peter-style online guides for men in dresses who want to fake having heavy periods using spoonfuls of food-colouring and Ribena, despite this being wholly impossible: “Here’s a mess I made earlier.” According to one online trans activist – who also speaks of men he knows who have had “a lot of really bad period shits” too – “periods aren’t just for vaginas any more”.
Neither is endometriosis, it would appear. Apparently, this is called ‘medical progress’. They said that about lobotomies and leeches once, too, you know.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s and Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets, which is out now.
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Aren’t Budweiser sponsoring this geezer as well.
Sort of ironic, fake beer for a fake women.
Geezer, Yes!
Not bowing to the thought police.
Nor am I.
Kid Rock perhaps says it for us?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ19c16nZOQ
Plus I think Candace Owens nails it…!
Apparently they lost $800 million of market cap value as their shares nose-dived.
Nike. Me no likey.
Really like what Jessica Rose has to say on what the definition of a woman is and the whole trans ideology thing coming at us from all angles;
”I want to now transiently examine the ‘transgender movement’ (‘activists’) and the way in which, well, the movement (not to be confused with individuals) is pretty much being shoved in our faces and down our throats at every turn lately – and not just on social media. This ‘movement’ is appearing in public settings and even more disturbing to me, in strange and inappropriate settings that are aimed at children. I am seeing a lot of irrational violence associated with these so-called activists, as well.
These ‘movements’, among many things, are tricks – imposed propaganda-style – to try to convince you that we’re all separate, different and in a big stupid constant fight. We’re not. Don’t fall for it. War gamers are devious. And their pawns are clueless. See them for what they are. Many of the victims of these tricks are the young. They need good role models and good guidance. Away from predators. It’s always been like this. Be a good role model.
Ultimately my philosophy is this, do what you want, but don’t shove it in my face and tell me I have to like it or even put up with it. Especially if you’re preying on children. I have fought bullshit my entire life and I am not stopping now. I am woman. Hear me roar. And as much as many people would like to pretend that there are no lines to cross: THERE ARE.
So what is a woman? I am a woman: an adult female human being carrying two X chromosomes.”
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/i-can-define-what-a-woman-is
At a school recently, someone gave a talk about freedom of speech and gave as an example of freedom of speech the freedom from coercion to call people by chosen pronouns. In other words, freedom of speech entailed not being forced to use a pronoun just because someone demanded it.
The reaction afterwards:, on the whole, the boys thought it.made.perfext sense and the girls were appalled and thought the speaker was a transphobe.
There is something that those who want to make this an assault on women are missing and that is that this ideology is most appealing now to teenaged girls.
Until that is paid attention to, understood why and addressed the problem is just going to get worse.
I think you make a very good point. Perhaps the girls’ interest and support is linked to a reaction to the girly girl porn style which was offered to little girls until quite recently (all clothes pink and purple, glitter and stars for toys) and a return to a sort of tom boy option that many of us leaned towards when we were growing up (think Famous Five – George was one type of girl and Ann another). If you want to hide your sexuality at school and not be the object of boys unwanted attention then perhaps now young girls choose to hide behind the trans idea.
Watching France 24 recently when abroad I was very intrigued to see that in a piece about Drag in France they also interviewed a Drag King – woman with painted on black moustache – who made the point that this is just/still the patriarchy in a new version which women are not allowed to object to because it is “unfair”. A very valid observation.
That’s a very fair point. I agree over sexualisation of women and young girls in particular is very corrosive.
I would just point out that much of the pressure on women comes from other women. At least that is what I’ve heard many say.
The advertising and entertainment industry doesn’t help at all obviously. It’s a bad cocktail.
Not surprising. Wimmin have been forcing down our throats their World view of their eternal fight against the Patriarchy, toxic masculinity, I’m a Ms not a Miss, women and men are equal – but not in sport apparently – women should have access to men’s spaces, but woman should have spaces reserved just for them.
It’s natural that the little, maids would identify with fellow victims.
“Movement” used to refer to bowels.
And the product.
Just read this … excellent and beautifully written … thanks for the pointer.
This is really a come to Jesus moment for feminism.
After decades of flirting with the notion that the differences in behaviour and outcomes between men and women are not biological but socially constructed, the idea has gone half a step further and spawned an ideology in which gender is a social construct. Men can chose to be women at any time and vice versa. Why not, they’re basically the same, right?
Feminism has spun out of control and we now have a new ideology, even more hateful, destructive and insane.
How to get the cat back in the bag.
I’m pretty sure that more feminist self victimisation is not the answer. Men, especially young boys being bludgeoned with this ideology in schools, are equally being assaulted by this madness.
Sorry, are we reading the same thing? Sharon Davies, who I suspect considers herself to be a feminist and standing in defence of the integrity of actual women…..is the one asking people to boycott Nike…
Dylan Mulvaney is a man..the President and CEO of Nike is a man …the eight most senior executives behind him are men.
Dylan Mulvaney also advertises Bud Light…. The president and CEO of Anheuser Busch is a man….there are 15 executives in the ‘Leadership Team’…14 of them are men….….…..
…….and femenists have a problem?
As usual I don’t recognise any women I know as the type of ‘feminists’ you always describe…..Where the hell do you meet these women?
So men bad, woman good? Gotcha.
Ebygum was simply stating the facts about who is making decisions in those companies. Your response seems to say more about where you are coming from than anything else.
Point …missed..whoosh!!
Yes and I’ve given examples of women driving this too.
It’s complex.
Large corporations are adopting climate nonsense and the whole woke agenda for very devious reasons. They are forming a coalition with their biggest traditional enemy, the far left, who would normally be after them for being capitalists, but because then left is now all about climate change and wokism, they’ve become allies.
So companies can continue to make enormous profits and expand their power with the support of the left, as.long as they play the woke game.
Some feminists like Sturgeon or those crazy Kansas women law makers are pro-trans agenda. Others, like Rowling, are against.
And that is basically like Sunni vs Shia or Catholics vs Protestants. The trans agenda is basically the radicalisation of the feminist agenda.
That’s how I see it. And that would explain how teenage girls are so for trans rights, why teachers unions are for trans rights, why the teaching profession as a whole, so dominated by women, is allowing its.proliferation in schools and how radical feminists like Sturgeon are for it too.
The problem of trans ideology needs to be understood properly, not superficially, from news headlines.
I don’t consider Sturgeon to be a feminist of any sort … she’s an awful person, in every way, and just clearly following the nutty agenda..you seem to think all women are feminists, particularly the bad ones. They aren’t….
it’s just a label you smear most women with…as in your other post you think women are to blame for the notion that “the differences in behaviour and outcomes between men and women are not biological but socially constructed”…good one, except which women are these, as I don’t know any that would agree with that sentence?
And as it’s men..being trans-women, who are making all the fuss, and expecting the rules to be changed for them???
There are as many men involved in this as women, so what are we going to call them..radical misogynists? Every time these stories crop up shall we just blame it on the radical misogynists?…it is after-all about trans women..who are biologically male….not the other way around..
Yes it’s a big subject, yes it’s more complex, but the issue in this report is that trans-men are being ‘favoured’ over actual women…
…trans-women are infiltrating women’s spaces, which means women can’t feel safe in jails, hospitals or any ‘shared space’….trans women are invading women’s sport…Fallon Fox, the MMA fighter, and a trans-woman, has just fractured the skull of a second female opponent…..and while it might be a side show to you, it’s very real to the women involved…
You’ll notice I don’t bring up women or feminism in any other context other than the trans problem. So, no, despite your insistence I am not a misogynist. It’s simply that current trans ideology has its origins in feminism and I’m calling it out, not to have a go at women or any nonsense like that but because I want the problem solved.
Just because you don’t consider Sturgeon a feminist doesn’t mean she isn’t. She thinks she is and says so. Just because you don’t recognise the feminism I describe it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist and it doesn’t mean it doesn’t have enormous influence on the social discourse. It does exist and the influence of more extreme feminist views is clear.
How many people believe in extreme gender ideology, male or female? Few. And yet there you have the results affecting our society very profoundly. With organisation, influence, funding, powerful allies and zeal few people can accomplish a lot.
I’ll repeat, having to make this point over and over again is like trying to get the idea of “safe and effective” out of the mind of someone who thinks modern medicine is one of humanity’s greatest achievements and that our medical establishment would never do that to us.
I have never said you are misogynist..just asking why women you think are guilty have a name and the men don’t?
I don’t agree that trans ideology comes from the original genuine feminism that I know and believe in. So we won’t ever agree on that…and I would say, as it seems to be your ‘safe and effective’ mantra..you have the problem, not me.
The expansion of trans rights has gone more in hand with state and institutional regulation of speech and behaviour….not just in relation to women and men but calling Welsh people Taff, or people of colour certain names, or calling gay people ‘poofs’ etc…not having hot-cross buns…because?…..celebrating Eid, but not St George’s day…etc…etc…this has been going on for years, and this is sadly an extension of it in my opinion…
…..and even though the trans lobby are small, people in positions of power…(just as many of them men) in the media, academia, law, the medical profession, police, Government both local and National have gathered around the ‘cause’….and now try to legislate the behaviours of all of us, rather than that tiny minority…
The why is something I don’t know….
I don’t know if you have read Lindsay and Pluckrose’s analysis of feminism, gender studies, queer theory with marxist and postmodern influences, in their ‘Cynical Theories‘? They trace the evolution of marxist feminism modified with queer theory and postmodern Derridean analysis of language to deconstruct the meanings of “man and “woman” whereby a dominant view within marxist feminism had it that “man” and “woman” were to be regarded as “constructions or representations – achieved through discourse, performance and repetition – rather than real entities”(P141).
The shift away from sex to gender was documented in Candace West and Don H Zimmerman’s 1987 paper Doing Gender in which they have a shift away from sex and towards gender, they “explicitly reject biology as a source of differences in male and female behaviours, preferences or traits”(P147)
This change was documented in a 2006 essay by Judith Lorber and followed up by further accounts of gender studies coming out of that by Judith Pilcher and Imelda Whelan ‘Key Concepts in Gender Studies’ 2017.(P144).
The page numbers refer to Lindsay and Pluckrose’s book.
Needless to say, coming out of STEM, I find this wild theorising coupled with reification utterly fascinating – and frightening.
Lindsay and Pluckrose also look at liberal feminism also diverting into intersectional or diversity feminism concerned with identity.
I am interested to know why you clearly take feminism so personally.
I don’t take it personally. I think the trans problem is being completely misrepresented and misunderstood.
Some women are trying to male this about them, a new form of misogyny. But it isn’t. The men in women’s loos and women’s sports is a sideshow. The real problem and danger is in schools. Driven by women, and taken up mostly by men.
If you aren’t involved in schools in some way you probably aren’t seeing it. But it’s a dangerous problem.
And it is linked to feminism. Its a kind of spin off from it. It appeals to many ultra.feminists and to teenage girls.
I always thought the point of support bras was for support.
I am looking forward to seeing Nike’s advert for jock straps.
It’s just nonsense, but so very few seem brave enough to say so.
My lady is fairly busty and a sports bra holds everything still while she’s active. I’m told they’re quite heavy and without one exercise would be painful for her.
Dylan’s plainly a boy, with (a pathetic attention-seeking complex and…) nothing whatsoever that requires the support of a sports bra. No matter what the activity nothing will bounce and nobody will know if the garment works or not.
I doubt he’s likely to get the snip, I hear that not many do – that requires true commitment and bravery. But if he does, then he can also model the jock strap for Nike and demonstrate it’s ability to hold a load of absolute bllx
Maybe we need to set up a truss fund.
Old news. Anyone with a moral compass will have been boycotting Nike since they started paying professional knee taking and perpetually whingeing victim Colin Kapernick to promote their sweat shop output.
Wasn’t Nike a goddess?
Yes..the Goddess of victory…I saw her beautiful statue in Warsaw once….
but you know, myth, history, stories…it can all be re-written can’t it?
People like an easy lie rather than the hard truth these days….
This makes perfect sense for the fashion industry, I don’t know why they didn’t think of using trans models to replace women sooner instead of forcing women to starve themselves to be a boyish shape. I always assumed the fashion houses needed women to be emaciated because they weren’t talented enough to design clothes to fit female curves. Nike has proved you don’t have to worry any more.
Is a boycott really necessary? Seems like Nike are sh*tting in their own nest.
One could easily form the opinion that Nike does not know or care about the difference between sexes. As a sports ware brand (I almost write in error “manufacturer”) one would have thought they knew the difference.
What next, Buck Angel being sponsored to advertise jock straps?
Another entity added to me ‘boycott’ list – from Paypal to Walkers crisps, to Penquin Books, the list just keeps expanding. Helping me save.
Matt Walsh is making the point that the mass boycotting you refer to is ineffective. Better to ‘flash’ target woke companies one by one, starting with Anheuser Busch. A list of their products … https://twitter.com/Travistritt/status/1643773257206693888
Thank you Nike for telling the female population that a man without breasts who tells you he is a woman is so much better at being a woman than the real thing.
In order to prove that you as a company actually believe in this “its what you say you are rather than what biology says” When can we expect to see a white person dressed as a black man rather like the minstrel show from the 70’s used in one of your ads for sports gear? After all if a man can profess to be a woman and its not allowed to be offensive to real women, surely a white person can put black make up on, claim to be black and it not be considered acceptable for black people to find it offensive.
So go on show us just how serious you are and not just a craven money grabbing go along with anything for the cash company
spot-on Hester…
An excellent suggestion
It is up to each individual ofcourse, but I will never purchase from any company that tries to stuff any ideology down my throat. The woke capitalists will not get any of my money if I can help it. I already asked my wife not to buy any DOVE products because of their TV ads that have black women in business suits staring in utter contempt at the camera. But when you take a look at TV ads these days all they seem to care about is putting as many different races on the screen as they can stuff in there. If a husband is white his wife will be black and vice versa. It seems these days that the woke capitalists pretend that they care about something other than profit and power precisely to gain more of both.
Seems to me that the black and other coloured people in tv ads and programmes are indicative of a slave market emerging to make up the numbers for an ever reducing pool of suitable, willing but unambitious white actors and actresses.
Well done Nike, for showing us that your sports bras are absolutely crap and not fit for purpose: you’ve had to use a flat chested bloke to advertise them! Great job.
It’s very difficult to argue with the logic of that argument.
Is it just me, but Dylan looks a bit like a brave little toaster, dancing around with a rictus grin, pretending everything is fine, when they are dying inside ?…
..plus he’s a funny looking little gink! LOL!
Fake beer, fake America, crap expensive shyte, made in Indian! Go campaign for sales there! Bunch of f-ing idiots!
Put your cock where your mouth is and get it cut off! Then I might believe you, freak
Not sports bra’s, Breast binding! Why doesn’t…it..bind its head and feet too? and then p*#s off!
Products to abandon!
Nike
Budweiser Family
•Budweiser
•Bud Light
•Budweiser Select
•Budweiser American Ale
•Bud Dry
•Bud Ice
•Bud Ice Light
•Budweiser Brewmaster Reserve
•Bud Light Lime
•Budweiser & Clamato Chelada
•Bud Light & Clamato Chelada
•Bud Extra
– Michelob Family
•Michelob
•Michelob Light
•Michelob Honey Lager
•Michelob AmberBock
•Michelob Golden Draft
•Michelob Golden Draft Light
•Michelob Bavarian Wheat
•Michelob Porter
•Michelob Pale Ale
•Michelob Dunkel Weisse
– Ultra Family
•Michelob Ultra
•Michelob Ultra Amber
•Michelob Ultra Lime Cactus
•Michelob Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry
•Michelob Ultra Tuscan Orange
– Busch Family
•Busch
•Busch Light
•Busch Ice
– The Natural Family
•Natural Light
•Natural Ice
– Specialty Beers
•Bud Extra
•Bare Knuckle Stout
•Anheuser World Lager
•ZiegenBock
•Ascent 54 (Colorado only)
•Redbridge (gluten-free)
•Rolling Rock
•Landshark Lager
•Shock Top
•Skipjack Amber Lager
•Wild Blue
– Seasonal Beers
•Sun Dog (spring)
•Beach Bum Blonde Ale (sum)
•Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale (fall)
•Winter’s Bourbon Cask (wntr)
– Non-alcoholic
•O’Doul’s
•O’Doul’s Amber
•Busch NA
•Budweiser NA
•Budweiser NA Green Apple
– Energy Drinks
•180 Blue
•180 Sport Drink
•180 Energy
•180 Red
•180 Blue Low Calorie
•180 Sugar Free
– Specialty Organic Beers
•Stone Mill Pale Ale
•Wild Hop Lager
– Specialty Malt Beverages
•Bacardi Silver
•Peels
•Tequiza
•Tilt
Also Stella Artois
Weak fizzy p*ss each and every one of them. & almost certainly turning boys and men into women and girls due to the hideously unnatural ingredients.
People who drink these products will not live long and happy lives. The manufacturers know it. The whole thing is based on contempt for customers and profiteering. See vaccines.
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weak fizzy p*ss! 
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You are so right
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I’m mad Jack Daniels has joined the ‘in crowd’ as well as I always liked it …luckily I’ve discovered Buffalo Trace….LOL!
There’s always an alternative!!
This is what Ted Nugent and Kid Rock think of the Bud Light et al campaigns. Definitely worth a watch…
https://youtu.be/ipElQEzsWKs
Brilliant…I put the Kid Rock on earlier, but the more the merrier and I like Ted Nugent…’truth, logic and common sense is Kryptonite to our governments, media and big tech’… absolutely….!
Since I don’t and never have bought a Nike product, and in any case likely never would, I find myself unable to boycott them.
How annoying.
There’s an American YouTube channel I occasionally watch where the presenter was commenting on the latest school shooting.
The assassin / terrorist was trans so he suggested that their pronouns should now be “was” and “were”.