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In March, our friend Jennifer Sey, the former Levi’s exec and Covid-19 lockdown critic, told us she was starting an apparel company for women athletes, and since then she’s done exactly that. Her company XX-XY Athletics has put leggings, t-shirts, tank tops, and hats on the market, with both women’s (XX) and men’s (XY) collections. XX-XY Athletics counts its mission, according to Sey, as “protecting women’s sports and spaces and encouraging others to do the same.”
“If you want your daughters to have the same opportunities you had, stand up,” a recent XX-XY ad says, adding, “If you don’t think it’s fair or safe to allow men to play women’s sports, stand up.”
It turns out that this is not the sort of thing one is allowed to say on TikTok. The Chinese-owned social media platform quickly banned the ad on the grounds that it “may violate TikTok’s advertising policies by featuring offensive content.” Sey posted on X, “When you run an ad standing up for women and girls’ sports, you get banned for life from @tiktok_us.”
Sey, who was a champion gymnast herself, told me that the ads were on TikTok for less than a week before they were taken down—and that XX-XY’s account has been suspended from posting any ads on the platform. “They offered no reason for how we violated their policies,” Sey said. “Despite the fact that I find the ad quite uplifting, it’s anodyne.” (Watch it for yourself here.)
Sey’s team will likely appeal TikTok’s decision, which has become a critically important platform for reaching young people. “Fifty percent of people under 30 are on TikTok,” she said. “You gotta fish where the fish are.” At the very least, Sey wants an explanation of what policy she violated.
Julia Steinberg is an intern at The Free Press. Read her piece on the college dropout who unlocked the secrets of ancient Rome using AI. And follow her on X @Juliaonatroika.
If TFP cares, they can do a huge exposé on the censorship of women and women's voices in this toxic trans issue on all social media, and especially Reddit. What's happening on Reddit, now a public company, is a gold mine. It's wild to me that no one yet has reported on it. Not even conservative media. Some of the most insidious things happening there:
1. All sub-reddits for women, women's right, lesbians, have all be taken over by "transwomen". Actual women who voice any mild dissent are immediately banned. Actual women who voice dissent on other unrelated subreddits are also preemptively banned. All women-related subreddits must be inclusive of trans. However, all porn subreddits are explicitly allowed to be exclusive of transwomen.
2. All subreddits for women, particularly tiny lesbian subreddits, no matter how minuscule the following, are immediately banned if they want to keep it strictly for actual women, or if they support gender critical views and reject trans and gender ideology. But dozens and dozens of subreddits for various types of violent porn are allowed, and all of them explicitly allowed to be trans exclusive.
3.The biggest subreddit for women against trans BS, r/gendercritical, with over 50k members, was banned. The SuperStraight subreddit, which started as a joke to celebrate "cis people' relationships, where people post totally family-friendly picture of gay and straight couples of all races and stripes in love, and quickly went viral gaining over 100K members, was banned when lesbians started telling real stories of their distress (or can I say oppression by the trans cult) that all lesbian spaces have been shut down everywhere because none are allowed to be exclusively female anymore. Lesbian bars have become obsolete because of trans. Also lesbians are being forced to accept "girl-dicks" and generally accept dicks because if they don't they're deemed bigots and would be cancelled and threatened physically. This was circa 2020 and 2021.
4. The subreddit r/feminist is moderated and run by a known Men's Rights Activists. It's been so for years. He admits to being an MRA activist and is also moderator for MRA subreddits. The subreddit r/lesbians is not for lesbians but a porn subreddit.
5. Though unsubstantiated, some reddit sleuths have found what they believe to be evidence that Ghislane Maxwell was a reddit moderator under the name u/maxwellhill. One of the worse kept secrets about Reddit is that it is a breeding ground of pedophile predators to prey on and groom minors. Ghislane Maxwell being a moderator for 14 years would directly show the depth of the problem. The sleuths on reddit themselves have gathered evidence to prove their suspicion. Here's the link to what they found. I'll include also a link from a little-known site that looked at this objectively:
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/?
https://wegotthiscovered.com/true-crime/was-ghislaine-maxwell-really-one-of-reddits-top-moderators/
6. While the Ghislane Maxwell thing can be disregarded as internet conspiracy, what is fact is that Reddit hired as a paid staff former UK politician Aimee Chanellor ("Aimee" is a trans) was a partner of someone (a man to be clear) who was a reddit power-moderator under the account u/nekosune. Nekosune moderated 70+ subs, including r/lgbt, r/actual lesbians, and r/transgenderteens and r/lgbt_kidszone. He is a pedophile apologist who has preferences for adult diapers and porn with underaged characters. Aimee Chanellor's father is a also a convicted serial child rapist. Chanellor's hiring led to a mass revolt by a number of subreddits, and officially Channellor was terminated. U/nekosune closed his account. However, it is not known if Channellor was ever rehired under a different account name, or if u/nekosune remain a power moderator under a different account name. They may still be there and the termination was only to stop the PR controversy.
Grahame Linehan talked about this: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/ashton-challenor-the-boy-who-disappeared
https://www.reddit.com/user/Blank-Cheque/comments/mc9ave/list_of_protesting_subreddits/
7. While people were sleuth investigating the Channellor hiring, they also discovered at least two other power moderators who were moderating teen subreddits and at the same time grooming kids. At the time, U/drewiepoodle moderated 84 subs, had openly posted about talking to underage kids on reddit, inviting them over to his place so he can give them drugs to help with their "transitions" without their parents knowledge.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MisterMetokur/comments/bgwsbu/how_reddit_powermods_are_unethically_grooming/
OTOH, he himself had said the reddit admins know who he is and what he did, and bragged about it. On this post of Reddit official announcement about the Aimee Channellor scandal, see the first comment by u/drewiepoodle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/mcisdf/comment/gs4ocoo/
I'll add a reminder how this is related to the subject of this article. All these power-mods are there for the work of shutting down women's dissenting voices against gender ideology and conflicts of women's rights and trans ideology. Grooming kids is their personal pastime.
For the record, Reddit's CEO is Serena William's husband and a father of two girls.
The problem is not just a TikTok problem. It's a all-tech/social media problem (Twitter/X excepted post Elon). Reddit happens to be under the radar but may be the biggest problem of all.
I fully support anyone's desire to present various avatars of their own identity.
But... 23+23=46, and XX/XY in the 23rd pair is basic biology and changes who you are physically.
I should never be told I have to endorse someone else's mental illness or delusion.
This isn't a big deal for me - unless the new Scottish laws that give jail time for "misgendering" people infect our country as well. It's toughest on children. They are bombarded with propaganda about having to make a "choice" that simply isn't. So any little boy or girl who doesn't conform to a narrow set of traits is intentionally confused and pressured.
In the past, we just let kids be kids and we recognized that adolescence is a time of enormous change and really obnoxious self-centered behavior. Now, we medicate them into strict obedience and "choices".
This seems quite regressive. And downright Stalinist for gay people.