Sarah, fyi, I was one of the speakers at the Aug 28th meeting, and I’m just writing to say that if you want to stay with the story of this school district, I should introduce you to the Spanish teacher who organized the group from WAR to show up. She’s brilliant — a union rep and savvy communicator whose son was trans-ID for awhile. Just want to make sure she doesn’t get overlooked, as whatever wonders occur there start with her (imho). Love this analysis, btw!!
No surprise the blobs would name a minor and put a target on her back since this entire blob is bent on hurting minors. Respect for Jacobson and her colleagues willing to speak reality.
“There is a political party and professional apparatus that put male rapists and murderers in women's prisons, propagandized kindergartners that any of them could change sex, forced taxpayers and insurance customers to fund electrolysis and facial feminization surgeries, put any boy or man who claimed to be female into changing rooms with your daughters, forced you to declare the gender identity of your toddler at the doctor's office, deceived parents about the social transition of their children at school, banned psychological exploration of the mental health comorbidities that manifest as trans-ideation in the midst of an online social contagion generating 5000 percent increases in trans identification among youth, fined all-female nude spas run by immigrants for excluding men with penises who claimed to be women for violating the human rights of those men, imposed men on the athletic playing fields with your daughters, told thousands of parents to submit to the chemical castration of their children to avert imminent suicide risk for which no evidence has ever existed, subjected thousands of children to macabre sex changes procedures while lying about the existence of an evidence base where none ever existed while claiming on the basis of no evidence that the procedures were life-saving, investigated parents who refused to put their children on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalized self-harm by pretending they had changed sex and sought to seize custody of them, and threatened to unperson you, attack your livelihood and leave you ostracized if you resisted it in any way with the aid of the monopolistic tech platforms that control the circulation of speech and money around the globe in a new surveillance and censorship regime that sought to dismantle biological reality in the name of narcissistic fantasies that it intended to entrench as the only truth while corrupting the truth-seeking apparatus of science itself -- and there is a majority of normal people in both parties who oppose this nonsense and want it stopped.”
6/20/2025
“Transgenderism must revert to being a form of private eccentricity. Recognition as one's preferred gender can be privately negotiated but with no coercion by any entity private or public. We all have an absolute right to affirm or not affirm, believe or not believe, that gender identity exists, that no one can infringe.
Sex segregated spaces and activities remain segregated by sex, not "gender identity."
Adults are free to inflict bodily self-harm on themselves in pursuit of an appearance they like but outside of any pretense of a medical protocol -- these are cosmetic procedures that come with no promises to relieve dysphoria or unlock an authentic self and the cost is borne solely by the person seeking them. Any such promises constitute consumer fraud. Children are of course unable to consent to such procedures.
The state has no role in affirming any aspect of cross-gender ideation, avoids proselytizing to children in schools or to anyone else in any interface it has with the public. The person who has inflicted bodily self-harm on his sex traits is no more a distinct class of person to whom special privileges or protections can be conferred than a person who has covered his face in tattoos. The person who believes with all his heart that he is a woman at heart and would die if others don't recognize him as such imposes no duty on any other person to share in that belief or to pretend to share in it. That person must develop resiliency about living in a pluralistic, liberal, democratic society where every person has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.
Any and all deviations from this resolution are morally illegitimate and practically untenable.
The attempt to turn a private eccentricity into a social cause that justified the remaking of society was a ghastly and destructive mistake. It was made inevitable by certain facets of the culture and certain aspects of our politics. We must learn the lesson that experience has now taught us.”
Heh, I wish Wesley would open up a bit. I think he's repressing his feelings with bothersome facts ;) I can smell the smoke coming off his keyboard. Incendiary
“This was the guidance that was given to women if they saw a man in the ladies room.
But after a decade or so ago, this guidance changed. The new guidance told women that if a man was dressed as a woman (or merely claimed to be one, the sufficient condition for actually being one according to transgender dogma) that he had as much right as they did themselves to be in the ladies room. Indeed, if the women felt threatened or even discomfited by the presence of a male person in an enclosed space with one exit where women get half-naked while attending to intimate bodily functions, this was a sign of their emotional or psychological issues that would have no standing before the law. Such emotions, if acted upon, could in fact serve as the basis of a harassment charge against the woman herself. Many women's bathrooms in Blue America began to feature placards with pious little homilies sternly lecturing prospective women that it was their duty to "mind their own business" when confronted by strange men who claim to be women in their bathrooms.
It quickly proceeded to the point where a male sex offender was given license to loiter naked for hours in a high schools girl's room in Virginia in front of young girls over the course of months. When women complained to the staff about a naked man in the girl's room they were told (quite correctly) that Virginia state law gave the man equal standing to be present in the girl's room because he said that he was a woman -- a requirement that Joe Biden's Department Education tried to impose on every school in America, and that every House Democrat in the country has repeatedly voted to impose as a rule on every public accommodation in America.
And now @glinner is facing a criminal charge for trying to re-establish the prior guidance about how to react to a man in a woman's room in a tweet. Glinner's advice on how a woman could defend herself against a member of the stronger sex is an "incitement to violence." His attempt to reformat public expectations in conformance with a recent UK Supreme Court holding that "woman" is a category grounded in biological sex rather than subjective feelings was framed -- by the British police -- as a crime meriting arrest at Heathrow by five armed and uniformed officers.
This is where the transgender movement was always headed -- toward arresting people for rejecting its dogmas and speaking in ways that treated men who claim to be women as a subcategory of men rather than a subcategory of woman. This is what decades of steady marching through legal and governmental institutions by transgender activists always targeted: the overt criminalization of non-affirmation of transgender dogma.“
Ms. Jacobson’s statement is a perfect expression of the issues and the media misrepresentation of her points is all too typical of the silencing of those who dare to tell the truth. The point that protecting girls’ rights should be as important as protecting trans students from discrimination and that the two goals are not mutually exclusive is a point well taken, and that taking rights away from a majority to cave to a minority is never right. The revelation that a male is playing on both a girls’s lacrosse team and at the same time playing for a boys’ volleyball team is a perfect example of the way girls and women have been treated over history that males can have it all while females get trampled. It is a disgrace that ms. Jacobson’s daughter was revealed by the same misguided newspaper.
Thank you for this accurate and factual piece on what actually went on. I am the mother of a student and graduate in the district and I spoke at the Sept. 11 meeting. The large group of Trans Rights Activists that had been amassed for the meeting (mostly teachers) loudly "boo'ed" my remarks. They continued to wave flags and make thumbs down gestures when anyone spoke on the opposing side. They laughed and mocked a woman who spoke with an accent. Board president Bob Griffen had to call for decorum. The Daily Journal did not report on this, nor quote a single one of the half dozen or so speakers who supported Truste Jacobson's position.
I am going to send your article to DJ Editor Jon Mays. Completely shameful that he allowed Jacobson's daughter to be "outed" (especially following the Charlie Kirk assassination!) Also wildy inconsistant: last year when the paper reported on the Half Moon Bay High school Volleyball team's sucessful season, I mentioned in the online comments that no one was talking about the elephant in the room (that a boy "identifying" as a girl played on that team.) My comment was removed by Mr. Mays as "targeting a minor" (even though I never mentioned the kid's name, though it had already appeared in other press and received nationwide attention.)
I too wrote to Mays pointing out that not only was he not doing journalism, as in, objectively reporting what went on, but his ethics with regard to a minor were beyond questionable
Big respect to Ms. Jacobson for Her courageous and articulate stand. Courage calls to courage everywhere.
Yes, that was real courage.
Sarah, fyi, I was one of the speakers at the Aug 28th meeting, and I’m just writing to say that if you want to stay with the story of this school district, I should introduce you to the Spanish teacher who organized the group from WAR to show up. She’s brilliant — a union rep and savvy communicator whose son was trans-ID for awhile. Just want to make sure she doesn’t get overlooked, as whatever wonders occur there start with her (imho). Love this analysis, btw!!
I didn't know you spoke (right on!) or about the organizer/teacher. Yes, would you introduce us? Appreciate it
Just emailed you both.
No surprise the blobs would name a minor and put a target on her back since this entire blob is bent on hurting minors. Respect for Jacobson and her colleagues willing to speak reality.
These are a series of posts by Wesley Yang on X:
1/29/2025
“There are no "anti-trans extremists."
“There is a political party and professional apparatus that put male rapists and murderers in women's prisons, propagandized kindergartners that any of them could change sex, forced taxpayers and insurance customers to fund electrolysis and facial feminization surgeries, put any boy or man who claimed to be female into changing rooms with your daughters, forced you to declare the gender identity of your toddler at the doctor's office, deceived parents about the social transition of their children at school, banned psychological exploration of the mental health comorbidities that manifest as trans-ideation in the midst of an online social contagion generating 5000 percent increases in trans identification among youth, fined all-female nude spas run by immigrants for excluding men with penises who claimed to be women for violating the human rights of those men, imposed men on the athletic playing fields with your daughters, told thousands of parents to submit to the chemical castration of their children to avert imminent suicide risk for which no evidence has ever existed, subjected thousands of children to macabre sex changes procedures while lying about the existence of an evidence base where none ever existed while claiming on the basis of no evidence that the procedures were life-saving, investigated parents who refused to put their children on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalized self-harm by pretending they had changed sex and sought to seize custody of them, and threatened to unperson you, attack your livelihood and leave you ostracized if you resisted it in any way with the aid of the monopolistic tech platforms that control the circulation of speech and money around the globe in a new surveillance and censorship regime that sought to dismantle biological reality in the name of narcissistic fantasies that it intended to entrench as the only truth while corrupting the truth-seeking apparatus of science itself -- and there is a majority of normal people in both parties who oppose this nonsense and want it stopped.”
6/20/2025
“Transgenderism must revert to being a form of private eccentricity. Recognition as one's preferred gender can be privately negotiated but with no coercion by any entity private or public. We all have an absolute right to affirm or not affirm, believe or not believe, that gender identity exists, that no one can infringe.
Sex segregated spaces and activities remain segregated by sex, not "gender identity."
Adults are free to inflict bodily self-harm on themselves in pursuit of an appearance they like but outside of any pretense of a medical protocol -- these are cosmetic procedures that come with no promises to relieve dysphoria or unlock an authentic self and the cost is borne solely by the person seeking them. Any such promises constitute consumer fraud. Children are of course unable to consent to such procedures.
The state has no role in affirming any aspect of cross-gender ideation, avoids proselytizing to children in schools or to anyone else in any interface it has with the public. The person who has inflicted bodily self-harm on his sex traits is no more a distinct class of person to whom special privileges or protections can be conferred than a person who has covered his face in tattoos. The person who believes with all his heart that he is a woman at heart and would die if others don't recognize him as such imposes no duty on any other person to share in that belief or to pretend to share in it. That person must develop resiliency about living in a pluralistic, liberal, democratic society where every person has a right to belief and a corollary right to unbelief that no one may legitimately infringe.
Any and all deviations from this resolution are morally illegitimate and practically untenable.
The attempt to turn a private eccentricity into a social cause that justified the remaking of society was a ghastly and destructive mistake. It was made inevitable by certain facets of the culture and certain aspects of our politics. We must learn the lesson that experience has now taught us.”
Heh, I wish Wesley would open up a bit. I think he's repressing his feelings with bothersome facts ;) I can smell the smoke coming off his keyboard. Incendiary
A more recent post by Wesley Yang on X:
9/3/2025
“This was the guidance that was given to women if they saw a man in the ladies room.
But after a decade or so ago, this guidance changed. The new guidance told women that if a man was dressed as a woman (or merely claimed to be one, the sufficient condition for actually being one according to transgender dogma) that he had as much right as they did themselves to be in the ladies room. Indeed, if the women felt threatened or even discomfited by the presence of a male person in an enclosed space with one exit where women get half-naked while attending to intimate bodily functions, this was a sign of their emotional or psychological issues that would have no standing before the law. Such emotions, if acted upon, could in fact serve as the basis of a harassment charge against the woman herself. Many women's bathrooms in Blue America began to feature placards with pious little homilies sternly lecturing prospective women that it was their duty to "mind their own business" when confronted by strange men who claim to be women in their bathrooms.
It quickly proceeded to the point where a male sex offender was given license to loiter naked for hours in a high schools girl's room in Virginia in front of young girls over the course of months. When women complained to the staff about a naked man in the girl's room they were told (quite correctly) that Virginia state law gave the man equal standing to be present in the girl's room because he said that he was a woman -- a requirement that Joe Biden's Department Education tried to impose on every school in America, and that every House Democrat in the country has repeatedly voted to impose as a rule on every public accommodation in America.
And now @glinner is facing a criminal charge for trying to re-establish the prior guidance about how to react to a man in a woman's room in a tweet. Glinner's advice on how a woman could defend herself against a member of the stronger sex is an "incitement to violence." His attempt to reformat public expectations in conformance with a recent UK Supreme Court holding that "woman" is a category grounded in biological sex rather than subjective feelings was framed -- by the British police -- as a crime meriting arrest at Heathrow by five armed and uniformed officers.
This is where the transgender movement was always headed -- toward arresting people for rejecting its dogmas and speaking in ways that treated men who claim to be women as a subcategory of men rather than a subcategory of woman. This is what decades of steady marching through legal and governmental institutions by transgender activists always targeted: the overt criminalization of non-affirmation of transgender dogma.“
Ms. Jacobson’s statement is a perfect expression of the issues and the media misrepresentation of her points is all too typical of the silencing of those who dare to tell the truth. The point that protecting girls’ rights should be as important as protecting trans students from discrimination and that the two goals are not mutually exclusive is a point well taken, and that taking rights away from a majority to cave to a minority is never right. The revelation that a male is playing on both a girls’s lacrosse team and at the same time playing for a boys’ volleyball team is a perfect example of the way girls and women have been treated over history that males can have it all while females get trampled. It is a disgrace that ms. Jacobson’s daughter was revealed by the same misguided newspaper.
Brava to this courageous woman. She will be on the right side of history,
from the meeting
https://amandakovattana.substack.com/p/speaking-to-school-board-part-two
Thank you for this accurate and factual piece on what actually went on. I am the mother of a student and graduate in the district and I spoke at the Sept. 11 meeting. The large group of Trans Rights Activists that had been amassed for the meeting (mostly teachers) loudly "boo'ed" my remarks. They continued to wave flags and make thumbs down gestures when anyone spoke on the opposing side. They laughed and mocked a woman who spoke with an accent. Board president Bob Griffen had to call for decorum. The Daily Journal did not report on this, nor quote a single one of the half dozen or so speakers who supported Truste Jacobson's position.
I am going to send your article to DJ Editor Jon Mays. Completely shameful that he allowed Jacobson's daughter to be "outed" (especially following the Charlie Kirk assassination!) Also wildy inconsistant: last year when the paper reported on the Half Moon Bay High school Volleyball team's sucessful season, I mentioned in the online comments that no one was talking about the elephant in the room (that a boy "identifying" as a girl played on that team.) My comment was removed by Mr. Mays as "targeting a minor" (even though I never mentioned the kid's name, though it had already appeared in other press and received nationwide attention.)
I too wrote to Mays pointing out that not only was he not doing journalism, as in, objectively reporting what went on, but his ethics with regard to a minor were beyond questionable
I'm amazed and glad that this could be discussed at not one but three, if I follow correctly, school board meetings without being shouted down.
It was so amazing, reading that brief content that was clear headed, sensible and made complete good sense. It was hard
To believe I was reading content about a high school in California commenting on something so outrageous as girls sports.