Our Rally to Defend the "Naked Lady Spa" Went Well Today!
The Trans Mob was not able to shut us down or drown us out.
I write with great relief this Saturday evening, because our protest in defense of the Olympus Spa in Lynnwood, Washington went well today! I had been in a state of high adrenaline anticipating it because our experiences with vicious counterprotestors at two prior gender critical events in the state had been so traumatic.
In Port Townsend and Tacoma, our hearty band of gender critics, mainly women, had been pushed around pretty badly by huge crazed mobs of so-called “trans rights activists.” The police had provided very little help in those situations. The lead organizer of Sovereign Women Speak will be recovering from severe damage done to her hand at the Tacoma event for many more months to come.
In Port Townsend, I and other speakers yelled our speeches at the top of our lungs, but could not be heard over the eardrum-breaking din of the counterprotestors. We often couldn’t even be seen as the mob pressed into us and held signs in front of our faces. In Tacoma, we were routed from the park by the mob, and most of us weren’t even able to try shouting out our speeches.
So I was pretty nervous about what would happen today.
Background for those who haven’t heard: the Olympus Spa in Lynnwood is a female-only spa where nudity is required in the hot tubs and saunas. It’s fondly referred to as the “naked lady spa” by many. Services like body scrubs are provided to naked women by female workers, many of whom speak limited English. I’ve gone to the spa once a year ever since my sisters and mother joined together to give me a gift certificate for a major birthday. (I’ve got two gift certificates to use right now, but I fear naked men will be there when I go.)
A trans-identifying man filed a complaint with the Washington State so-called Human Rights Commission, demanding that he (and his intact male anatomy) be allowed into the spa. The Commission decided that the spa must let him and other trans-identifying men in. The Korean family that owns the spa sued the Commission. And last week a US District Court ruled in the Commission’s favor.
The Stranger, a Gender Identity Ideology-pushing Seattle magazine, wrote a typically biased story entitled Trans Woman Faces Death Threats After Right Wing Blows Up Olympus Spa Lawsuit. The Bigots Are at It Again on June 13th. And an alert went out to the Gender Identity Borg urging people to come out today en masse to shut us down, labeling us fascist TERFS, and telling everyone to “mask up/umbrella up.” (Their alert is pasted below.)
Today, turned out to be wonderful, however. Those organizing our protest did a great job. Lynnwood police officers were present in significant numbers and kept the mob a safe distance away from us. Officers and people in our group also escorted individuals back to their cars when the event was over to make sure we got there safely. This all made a huge difference.
We also had an excellent sound system. And our numbers were bigger than at previous events. Moreover, the mob that showed up to “shut us down”, while large, wasn’t as huge as anticipated. I’m eager to see others’ crowd size estimates, but my general impression was that we had at least as many people there as the mob this time.
So, it’s good news from the Seattle area today! Take hope, people standing up for sanity, material reality, women’s rights, children’s rights, gay rights, and free speech! May we have more and more successes like this one. May the Olympus Spa win their appeal. And may that appeal be rendered unnecessary by legislative and regulatory changes that ensure that women-only spaces are indeed women-only.
Below is a video of the speech I gave, followed by the transcript.
TRANSCRIPT OF MY SPEECH TODAY IN LYNNWOOD
Hell no! Men don’t get to be in women’s spaces. Men don’t get to be in women’s spaces. Period.
Lots of people in the mob over there claim that the spa is still female-only because they claim the men who want to intrude are really women. That they “feel” like women, so they are women. What a lot of nonsense.
And the people in this mob attacking us, they belong to the Gender religion which trades away science-based, rational, consistent objective meanings for vital words. But guess what? We don’t belong to your religion. And for good reason, most people don’t. It is not okay to force your religion and its anti-science sexism-drenched beliefs on others.
What’s happening here is part of a much bigger picture. When mobs and captured commissions impose on others the mystical belief that people can be born in the wrong body, that men can declare themselves women, as is happening here, this fuels massive destruction of fundamental rights absolutely everywhere.
Right now in female prisons in Washington State and across the U.S. women are forced to endure the presence of male prisoners which is tantamount to torture, particularly since most incarcerated women are survivors of male violence.
In female sports, women are losing titles, records, spots in key races, and more, to men.
In schools, children are taught that men can have babies and other blatant biological falsehoods. They’re told that it is up to them to decide whether they’re a boy, girl, neither, both, or something else, all of which is anti-science nonsense. Children have a right to not be sterilized. Yet, in the name of Gender Identity, countless numbers are losing their fertility, and their future sexual functionality, including the ability to ever experience orgasm, before they can possibly fathom what any of that means.
Lesbians are being pressured to have relationships with men who claim to be women. They are shamed and they’re canceled if they won’t. Gender Identity is elevating homophobia to new heights, and it is eviscerating all of the gains that the LGB community has made over a century.
So, when complaints to the so-called Human Rights Commission lead to atrocious outcomes like what we’re witnessing at Olympus Spa, the damage isn’t confined to Lynnwood , this spa, and to women’s rights here. It fuels the destruction of the rights of women, lesbians and gay men, and children everywhere.
Human Rights Commission? Anti-Human Rights Commission is more like it.
And here is my message to the vicious authoritarian mob seeking to shut us down: How dare you claim to wear the mantle of civil rights and justice! How dare you!
You are saying that women can have no boundaries. That your religion trumps our sex-based rights. That the women who work here have to give body scrubs to naked men. That anyone who defends women’s rights, workers’ rights, anyone who doesn’t agree with your ideology, should be silenced and canceled.
You’re not advancing civil rights. You’re destroying them.
Now I shouldn’t have to do this, but I would like to mention that I am a left-wing person, and have been my whole life. And I’m an atheist. And I say this because if there’s any media coverage at all, they always portray opposition as only from among right wing people, and people with religious views. Which is not true. There are tons of us from the left here and people who are not religious. We see Gender Identity Ideology as the hoax it is…a regressive hoax.
So I stand with Olympus Spa! I stand with the women who work there. I stand for my own right to be able to go to this place that has been so important to me and for the right of all women to have spaces where they can be with only women.
A woman isn’t a state of mind. A woman isn’t a feeling.
A woman isn’t a state of mind. A woman isn’t a feeling.
A woman isn’t a state of mind. A woman isn’t a feeling.
And we will keep fighting on. We will not be intimidated by mobs like this.
{NOTE: At the end of the speech, I talked briefly about this substack and mentioned working on Gender Identity Ideology in the schools. I hope to soon post here materials related to getting this toxic ideology out of curricula and school policies that I’ve been toiling away on for many months. It’s coming soon!]
Reproductive biologists define sexes by which "primary sex organ" (gonad) is present at birth; i.e. is a person of body type associated with sperm or with eggs? They don't define sex by chromosomes. Chromosomes DETERMINE which pathway an embryo is on, but don't DEFINE sex Just as temperature DETERMINES alligator sex, but reproductive anatomy DEFINES it. As a practical matter, chromosomes and gonads, lead to the same conclusion regarding whether someone is male or female, except in an extremely small number of cases. But I'd rather stick with saying "women only", not "people without a Y chromosome only." In addition to not being technically accurate given how biologists define sex, "people without a Y chromosome" or "people who just have X's" is dang cumbersome. Sounds a bit like what the Gender Cult folks do when they refer to "people with a cervix" etc.
Thank you for standing up for truth and justice.