The NY Times is the most online and offline newspaper/news source in the US, and I subscribe. Multiple times here in the GC circle articles from the NYT have been posted but I don't see them on the front page of my online subscription and I have to do a search for the article. There have been other times that I have seen an opinion article on transgender news in the NYT and when I go back 20 minutes later, it has disappeared.
So maybe this is crazy-- but are there algorithms that curate articles to individual subscriptors? Certainly I know that my comments to opinion articles about transgender issues are generally not accepted. That's the NYT's choice but if they are picking and choosing which articles I can read that's another matter.
Does anyone know more about how these things work?
Didn’t Wikipedia used to keep a list of cross dressing serial killers, but then that got scrubbed out, too?
It’s not just silence of the lambs, I believe a handful of serial killers were either adult cross dressers, or, their mothers dressed them up as girls. If memory serves, Ed Gein’s mother dressed him up as a girl and fawned over him when he was a child.
Not sure if it's the same one, but I remember that a brain scan study was comparing women to TiMs by having them look at pictures of men and comparing brain activity. Apparently the same areas of the brain lit up? But here's the thing, that just as easily was showing that those subjects were equally attracted to men, not that the TiMs were somehow women.
I don't think the name of the authors of this purported paper/study was ever revealed.
IIRC, the incident you're speaking of - a post on social media a couple of years ago announcing that a study would soon be published proving that TIMs' claims of having "lady brains" is rooted in clearly-delineated, very distinctive inborn neurological physical features that can be easily seen via brain scans - was the doing of crackpot British TRA Steph Richards. Richards is the AGP head of a UK-based trans website, campaign org and training institute set up mainly to advance the interests of AGP men who've decided to indulge their fetishistic cross-dressing kink FT.
The org Richards founded and runs used to be called Steph's Place, but it's now been rebranded as Translucent.
https://translucent.org.uk/stephs-place/
https://www.nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/2022-nda-shortlist/steph-s-place/
ETA: I just checked and found that my original recollection that the person who announced the study on Twitter and then got dog-piled for doing so was Steph Richards of Steph's Place/Translucent is correct.
https://debbiehayton.com/2022/12/28/trans-organisation-pulls-biological-condition-article/
https://unherd.com/newsroom/trans-organisation-pulls-biological-condition-article/
Here's more about creepy naricisstic Steph. He has form for not being able to "read the room."
https://translucent.org.uk/stephs-place-uk-my-trans-woman-story
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/stephsplaceuk
https://www.gendergp.com/my-story-steph/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12748391/transgender-endometriosis-charity-ceo-steph-richards-hits-critics.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12746773/mother-slams-endometriosis-south-coast-charity-appoints-trans-woman-ceo-steph-richards.html
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/11/16/why-is-a-militant-trans-activist-running-a-womens-health-charity/
https://diva-magazine.com/2022/02/04/stephs-place-releases-statement-on-research-carried-out-into-transphobia-in-the-ehrc/
Today, Steph posted this on X/Twitter:
https://x.com/PompeySteph/status/1867119855708639597?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
Steph's org has recently come out with a new "briefing note" for UK MPs advising them that the UK's Gender Recognition Act must be reformed so that AGPs and other men with distrubing sex fetishes are given freer rein to ride roughshod over women's and girls' rights. Steph and Translucent's new briefing note are discussed on this new Mumsnet thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5227975-mps-are-being-briefed-that-the-gra-needs-to-be-reformed-to-align-with-other-european-countries
Some Mumsnetters' comments:
Wow, thanks a lot for your detailed answers and all the sources!