Silenced

Dissident MD Touches the Transgender Third Rail

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I wasn’t actually silenced. More accurately, I was cancelled. Cancelled by Eventbrite for my talk “Truth or Consequences?” at Calvary Chapel of the Canyons in Silverado, California. According to Eventbrite, my event “is not permitted” because “it violates our community guidelines and terms of service,” which includes “events that discriminate against, harass, disparage, threaten, incite violence against, or otherwise target individuals or groups based on…gender identity.” Eventbrite went on to threaten Calvary Chapel, my host, with “suspension or termination” of its account for any further “violations of our guidelines.” Apparently, I had touched the transgender third rail.

I immediately knew why Evenbrite got its panties in a bunch because the summary of my topic begins with “Transgender or realism?” and continues with “We will live in a world full of confusion…gender confusion, parental confusion, sexual confusion…a time when right is wrong and wrong is right.” Couldn’t be more clear than that. And I stand by it. Every word.

The same thing happened to Riley Gaines. Soon after Dr. Jeff Barke and I interviewed her on our podcast, Informed Dissent, she announced that Eventbrite had removed her “Protecting Women’s Sports with Riley Gaines” event at UC Davis from the Eventbrite marketplace calendar. She received a message from Eventbrite identical to the one I did, including the threat to permanently ban her from the Eventbrite platform.

Who knew that protecting women’s sports could incite violence?

You might say that Eventbrite is a private business and has the right to set policies that ban events from its site when they violate those policies, even when those policies are silly, counterproductive, or overly restrictive. After all, in my case, I certainly do discriminate against the ideology of transgenderism. Riley certainly disparages the predatory narcissists who use transgenderism to prey on women, invading locker rooms and stealing both trophies and scholarships from female athletes. Riley and I both speak the truth righteously against this moral outrage—both the ideology and those who traffic in it at the expense of women and children of both sexes.

How to explain, then, that even after cancelling my and Riley’s event that targets transgenderism and its destructive effects on American society, Eventbrite continues to host and market events by the group Tempest NYC such as “Stop the Genocide! Free Palestine?” Here is how that event is described:

"Early on Saturday, October 7th, Palestinian resistance fighters broke through Israel's siege of Gaza. In response, Israel has declared total war against the people of Gaza, completely cutting off access to food, water, and electricity, while bombing the Strip and killing entire families," they posted on Eventbrite. "This attack on Gaza takes place after 75 years of settler-colonial violence conducted by the Israeli state." Apart from the factual inaccuracies, this language and that of many other recent “Palestinian resistance” events express de facto anti-Semitism, pursuit of the annihilation of an entire people and their state (the Jews and the state of Israel), and the full of a terrorist group (Hamas) that recently baked infants alive in an oven, decapitated babies, gang-raped teenage girls before setting them on fire, and burned entire families sheltering in their homes, among other atrocities. Eventbrite is the perfect example of moral confusion and the obfuscation of truth.

I believe that how one views the transgender movement is perhaps the most reliable way of assessing the moral clarity of an American today.

The same can be said on an international scale regarding the recent Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians. It simply isn’t possible to advocate for transgender ideology or support a terrorist group without exposing one’s moral confusion and utter disregard for truth.

In response to her cancelation by Eventbrite, Riley said, “If being pro-woman in women’s sports is deemed anti-trans, then being pro-trans in women’s sports is inherently anti-woman.”

As a physician, if being pro-child in child psychiatry and pediatric medicine is anti-trans, then being pro-trans in child psychiatry and pediatric medicine is anti-child.

On hearing the news of Riley’s event cancellation, her followers began flooding her phone with screenshots of their cancellation of their own Eventbrite accounts, as customers. “Let’s make Eventbrite the next Bud Light.” Indeed. There are many alternatives to Eventbrite, just as there are many alternatives to Bud Light. Let the morality of the market determine winners and losers. So far this year, it seems to be doing quite a good job.