The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Women have more strokes than men, but new European Guidelines remove 'women' bc it omits 'non-binary' & transgendered people. Medicine keeps acting irrationally in the name of political correctness Vinay Prasad For people with an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation, the risk of stroke can be substantive. For a long time, there was a risk score called CHADS-2-VASc that awards points to give you a sense of risk. More points.. more risk. Over the age of 75… 2 points. Having had a prior stroke… 2 points. Being a woman… 1 point (because women, age-adjusted, have higher stroke risk than men). Unfortunately that’s no longer PC in Europe. The European Society of Cardiology has decided to remove women as a risk factor because “The inclusion of gender complicates clinical practice both for healthcare professionals and patients. It also omits individuals who identify as non-binary, transgender, or are undergoing sex hormone therapy” Wow. The only justification ...

  Feminist gender theory is all in good fun until a woman gets punched in the nose If the boxing match between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif tells us one thing, it’s that feminists are still allergic to accountability Janice Fiamengo “Realistically, we know that a well-trained woman, a tall and muscular woman, a woman who has learned the arts of self-defense, a woman soldier, or a woman astronaut is a match for most men. If women and men of the same size and training are matched, men may not necessarily be physically superior because women have greater endurance, balance, and flexibility”  (Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin, “ The Socially Constructed Body: Insights from Feminist Theory ,” p. 242). ** A few years ago, if one had said there were vast strength differences between men and women that mattered in competitive sports and elsewhere, that was a misogynistic remark. Feminist wisdom told us that sex differences in physical ability were predominantly caused by soc...

  Women like J.K. Rowling Will Not Free Us from Gender Ideology Only men of courage can do it, and it’s not clear they will JANICE FIAMENGO The fruits of gender ideology are plain for all to see: an assault on masculinity and  marriage ; fathers cut off from their children; a  growing rift between the sexes ; the denial of biological reality; children indoctrinated to seek hormone treatments and surgeries; and the perversion of language and law. A  recent study shows women, but not men, favoring radical social policies and gender ideology . Yet it is still socially unacceptable to criticize the core dogma—feminism—that started us on this path or to observe that men are generally better suited to lead our societies than women. We’ve heard a lot lately about the courage of children’s book author J.K. Rowling, who has taken on the hate speech law of her homeland, Scotland,  and pushed the government to admit it to be unenforceable —at least against a woman of her s...