In the wake of the Arday affair, Tanya de Grunwald who is an HR person fighting to expose the problems of DEI in the UK has done a piece on the 'lived experience' motivational speaker market. Apparently it is quite the cottage industry. Someone on the FP should investigate this market where people are apparently good livings recounting their 'triumphs over adversity'. Arday was a fixture on this highly lucrative circuit. He was by all counts very good at describing his own trials and tribulati

In the competition between sex-based rights and gender identity, a striking asymmetry has become apparent: institutional, media, and cultural empathy flows heavily toward males claiming to be female, while complaints about the measurable losses imposed on females (displaced athletes, unsafe prisons and shelters, lack of dignity in single-sex spaces) are minimized, pathologized, or dismissed as bigotry. How did protecting the female category become secondary to affirming male identity claims? Wh

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