Reality's Last Stand

Reality's Last Stand is a hub for great writing on science, free speech, sex and gender, and related topics. If you'd like to publish your writing in RLS, please send your submission to: realityslaststand at gmail dot com realityslaststand.com

"If you speak publicly about this subject, you’re expected to have exactly the right opinions, expressed in exactly the right way... If your views deviate from the prevailing orthodoxy, you’re expected to recant and fall in line." –@becomethesignal realityslaststand.com/p/caught-in-th…

"To a significant degree, is the persistence of blank slate views of masculinity and femininity...that accounts for why our societies have been failing boys and young men for decades now." -@jburgo55 realityslaststand.com/p/we-are-not-h…

"If Democrats wish to 'dominate this debate,' they will need to return to reality. They will need to acknowledge that sex matters, that evidence must guide medicine, and that the rights of women & children deserve protection against ideological crusades." realityslaststand.com/p/the-bulwarks…

"Democrats can champion whatever causes they like, but the Trump administration’s intervention in the trans sports debate offers them a quiet off-ramp from an issue that has become a major electoral liability, even among their own voters." @SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/upenn-bans-m…

"That many of the safety signals are only now becoming detectable—because so many people have recently been exposed to these interventions—should be a sobering wake-up call." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/the-long-ter…

"The memes about gassing Jews or the singing of 'Heil Hitler' aren’t the product of a thoughtful and considered political ideology; they’re eruptions of inner anguish spilling onto the screen." –@Julian_Liberty realityslaststand.com/p/how-to-defea…

"This kind of paper isn’t just a harmless one-off. It represents an entrenched genre of scholarship where activism and identity politics are mistaken for intellectual rigor... It’s no wonder public trust in universities is eroding." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/the-revoluti…

"These activists would have you believe that [abusive and exploitative] programs are still widespread, and that if you’re not vigilant, your struggling child could be the next to be abused, traumatized, or even die. The reality is quite different." realityslaststand.com/p/paris-hilton…

“[Democrats] can try to understand what masculinity is actually about… or they can continue down their current path: blaming ‘toxic masculinity’ for everything from Trump’s election to climate change to Brexit.” –@Julian_Liberty realityslaststand.com/p/if-democrats…

"Critics like @Riley_Gaines_ are trapped in a rhetorical bind: if they lose to a trans-identified male, they're told they're 'sore losers.' If they win, the system must be fair after all and they have no right to complain." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/simone-biles…

Thanks @SwipeWright and @RealLastStand for publishing this. Looking at the current research, a boy who uses puberty blockers and estrogen not only does not change sex but he will end up with a body that appears to be neither that of a man or a woman open.substack.com/pub/colinwrigh…

Khelif is a male, which is “… plainly observable to anyone who hadn’t outsourced their critical thinking to ideological dogma.” Well said @SwipeWright writing in @RealLastStand open.substack.com/pub/colinwrigh…

"The IBA’s definition of a female athlete, per their technical rules, requires XX chromosomes. There is only one way to fail that test: by having XY chromosomes. You didn’t need a PhD in biology to figure this out." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/imane-khelif…

"'Targeted Universalism' is not a new idea. It is the same divisive ideology, softened in language but unchanged in substance, trying to survive a shifting political landscape." – @SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/dei-is-rebra…

"Unless more people are willing to speak plainly—to call this what it is: nonsense—we’ll keep sliding toward a future where even ice need trigger warnings, and cooking bacon near an ice sheet might count as a microaggression." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/the-paper-th…

"Subjecting healthy reproductive systems to irreversible damage in pursuit of psychological relief raises serious ethical questions." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/fertility-pr…

"Republicans were generally thoughtful, well-informed, and grounded in biological reality. Democrats seemed more interested in political posturing than in protecting fairness and safety for women and girls." –@SwipeWright realityslaststand.com/p/california-h…

Half of people on the left believe m*rdering Trump & @elonmusk is at least "somewhat" justified. "Our political system cannot endure if millions of Americans genuinely believe that vigilante justice and political violence are justified." –@Julian_Liberty realityslaststand.com/p/political-vi…