Dr. Rachel McKinnon / Dr. Veronica Ivy / Rhys McKinnon / Rachel Veronica McKinnon / Foxy Moxy / SportIsARight - failed out of a tenured job, fat man who competes in womens sports, bougie landlord, ex"platonic life partners" with a fat pedo- moved home to canada in 2021

[techno-confederate]

Well, looked at a certain way, everything in nature is a spectrum. But what the people pushing this interpretation ignore is that it doesn't matter. Suppose we invented the perfect society where all of our social institutions are minutely calibrated to your position on the infinitely gradated sex spectrum. The right bathroom for everyone, the right sports league, the right pronouns in the language, everything.

Even then, you'd still have people at point A on the sex spectrum who have a fetish for being treated like point B. You'd still have the strong (however defined) who long to run with the weak. And we'd have the people whose fetish is simply browbeating well-meaning society into tying itself in knots for them.

Which is to say: troons will always be with us.

To add to this, your ordinary male hormones permanently change the body over time even if you aren't working out. That is why it gets progressively harder for transwomen to pass based on when they decided to transition. The way your muscles and body develop can't be undone because you started taking estrogen and got castrated, that's just not how human biology works and every honest person is already aware of it.

Consider that TERFs are a reactionary group that could only exist within a society that permits men to call themselves women. There is no definition for sex/gender beyond biology, which is why "trans" is necessary, but Post-Modernists have thrown away the biology textbooks and replaced them with fantasy novels about how pretending you are x means you are x even if every cell in your body, even your hair, has a y in it. If modern feminists don't like trannies moving in on their "terf", maybe they shouldn't have made up nonsense rules about gender to try unsuccessfully to revise biological reality.

To be fair, radical feminism isn't really connected to postmodernism or deconstructionism per se. You can hold feminist views and being a postmodernist, but the postmodern thinkers didn't write about feminism or think about it as anything but an afterthought, if that. I'd say TERFs are more influenced by traditional forms of Marxism and see gender as a form of class.

 

[Jack Awful]

I legit feel bad for these athletes.
They're getting fucked out of wins and I guarantee all of them are aware of how unfair and tarded this shit is, but they can't do anything about it because transphobia ruins careers.

 

[Eryngium]

I no longer define a woman as “having a vagina”
I now just define a woman as something that makes me want to fuck it.
Through this philosophy one may come across a few unexpected penises over the years but that’s okay because I still got to smash.
The point I’m trying to make is if everyone was assigned base on how much blood flows to my penis, the world would be a better place.

 

[Stock Image Photographer]

I used to think TERFs, actual TERFs like Cathy Brennan, 4thWaveNow, etc., were a bunch of thin-skinned crybabies. Shit like female athletes literally having their heads caved in makes me wonder. It also makes me mad on the internet, so I'm gonna quit before I get to worked up.

It's not wrong to get mad on the internet over genuine injustice. I'm neither a woman nor do I compete in high-level sports, but Rhys here still makes me a bit mad because the concept of being cheated out of something you've trained long and hard for is just terrible.

I no longer define a woman as “having a vagina”
I now just define a woman as something that makes me want to fuck it.
Through this philosophy one may come across a few unexpected penises over the years but that’s okay because I still got to smash.
The point I’m trying to make is if everyone was assigned base on how much blood flows to my penis, the world would be a better place.

But what would happen after you died?

 

[Salt_Merchant]

How come its always random sports no one really cares about (unless its an olympic year) like cycling and weightlifting these troons all pick up.

imagine the shit storm if some random bottom 100s ranked male player trooned out and just dominated womens tennis for the next 8 years.

 

[Eryngium]

It's not wrong to get mad on the internet over genuine injustice. I'm neither a woman nor do I compete in high-level sports, but Rhys here still makes me a bit mad because the concept of being cheated out of something you've trained long and hard for is just terrible.

But what would happen after you died?

I would clone my penis and people will hang it on their walls like a thermometer.

 

[Jaimas]

Why are they all ugly

Because none of them put in any effort to pass, none of them care about their appearance, and none of them will face any repercussions unless they're like Jake Alley and fuck up to competition standards.

 

[GreenJacket]

How come its always random sports no one really cares about (unless its an olympic year) like cycling and weightlifting these troons all pick up.

imagine the shit storm if some random bottom 100s ranked male player trooned out and just dominated womens tennis for the next 8 years.

You mean Serena Williams?

 

[Ted_Breakfast]

I legit feel bad for these athletes.
They're getting fucked out of wins and I guarantee all of them are aware of how unfair and tarded this shit is, but they can't do anything about it because transphobia ruins careers.

I wish they'd come out against it regardless. Their careers aren't going to really blossom anyway unless people like this selfish ass are shunned by polite society.

 

[trannyfucker]

I can't honestly swear this troon was never a professional poker player but

Spoiler: powerlevel

In addition to the fact that I know a *lot* of Canadian poker players and the ones I asked don't know who it is

no variation of his name has ever cashed a live tournament or has been a known player online in cash or tournaments.
Partial source: http://www.thehendonmob.com/search/?q=mckinnon&search=

There's a typically arrogant bit on his blog where he says he only played online, and he went once to play in a casino and obviously he crushed it because he's so awesome, and then some guy checked him out because 'passing privilege' (lolololol), and said 'where you get those chips from sexy babe'.

http://metamorpho-sis.net/2013/07/43-tales-from-the-poker-tables/

Check-Raising Tourists

The subtitle is a reference to the famous poker movie Rounders. Now, to "real" poker players, there are just a tonne of flaws in the realism of the movie (the underground clubs are somewhat accurate; the betting patterns in the key hands are not), but with that said, it's still a favourite. Only a few friends and colleagues know that I played poker professionally for six years. I started at the end of my undergraduate degree, through my masters, full-time for two years between my MA and PhD, and then for the first year and a bit of my PhD. This post is about some of the differences I noticed at the poker table when I finally played again for the first time after transitioning.

For most of the years that I played, it was either my only or primary source of income. Thankfully, in Canada, poker winnings are tax-free, and I made very good money, especially considering that I typically only "worked" for about 3hrs/day. Of course, in order to do well, in a game that changes rapidly, one has to spend a few hours/day studying and thinking about strategy and analyzing one's play (we have software that helps us with this). So I typically worked 4-5hrs/day, but it was still pretty cushy. In my years between graduate degrees, a typical day would have me play from 10am – 12pm, and then go golfing.

Now, this isn't to say that it was always rosy. Although in six years I never had a losing month, there were some rather large swings day to day, and even within a day. I played 95%+ of my poker online, and at my peak I was playing 10-12 tables at a time (and about 1000 hands/hr). To put that in perspective, the typical number of hands/hr one can play at a casino (or "live" game, as we call them) is around 20. And while my win rate (measured in number of big blinds per 100 hands) was much higher live, my hourly rate, since I could play 50x hands/hr, was much higher online. So I mostly played online.

However, I loved live play. Online, there isn't much psychology. Sure, there's learning the patterns and tendencies of different people — recognizable by screen name, and with the help of our tracking software — but there isn't the same ability to see and talk to your opponent, and really get inside their head. I was a real student of poker, and especially the psychology of it, so going to play live poker was a treat that I really enjoyed. (The problem is that most live games run from 10pm – 6am, which isn't conducive for a rich home life.) and I only played live every once in a while.

There are a couple tricks that I picked up on how to manipulate people in their decision making. Don't worry! I don't use them day-to-day any more. I got good at, for example, realizing when someone had made a decision (whether, say, to fold on the river when I want them to call), and making them re-start their thought process hopefully coming to the decision that I wanted them to make.

Now, I quit — full stop — about 4 years ago. I threw a little celebration when I was able to quit. It got too stressful, and it was becoming too difficult to focus both on staying current on poker developments while also doing my PhD coursework. So as soon as I was making enough money from research and teaching, I quit. And because at that point it was such a job, I didn't enjoy it any more, so there wasn't any desire to pick it up again.

That changed back in March, when it came out in conversation that I'd like to play poker (live, just once) sometime, and my my best friend suddenly suggested we go to the casino (approximately a 1.5hr drive away) to play poker. I was game, and so we both got dolled up and went. This would be my first time playing poker — let alone live poker — since the transition. So I was curious if and how it might be different.

It was definitely different!

Before, if you start winning a few hands, and it's not clear that you got incredibly lucky in doing so, then there's this default respect that you get if you're a guy (or at least perceived to be one!). In fact, there's some default competence assumed just for being a guy. That's not true for women. Even after I was winning for hours — and winning a lot — I still noticed less respect for my bets as a woman than when I was perceived as a guy. I got called down more often — which makes it harder to bluff.

Another thing I noticed is that if I won a pot, the guys at the table were often out to get me: they didn't want to give up a chance to get their money back from me, so they often re-bought (usually after I busted them!) more times than I think they otherwise would have. I think this had to do with their (unconscious, perhaps) refusal to extend me credit for, oh I don't know, having any skill at this game.

Having been someone who did this for a living for years, the level of game that we were playing in — a casino 1/2 no limit hold 'em game — is really easy for me. I often refer to it as "whiffle ball." There was very little chance of me losing in that game, even with some bad luck. There are a few things that skill let one do in a poker game against less skilled players. For example, I can play a wider range of hands: I can call a raise with 73 suited, which is an automatic fold normally. I can raise in late position (close to the button) with K3 suited, which is also normally an automatic fold. A consequence of *this* and being able to play the hands well post-flop is that I often showed up with the best hand on the river, and they had *no idea* what I had. They didn't think I'd call a raise, for example, with 73 suited.

Another thing I can do better than these sorts of players is to manipulate my bet sizes. If I have a vulnerable hand (say, top pair, top kicker), and I think they're on a draw, I can bet hard to make them pay to draw. But if I have a speculative hand — maybe a draw myself — I can bet small to prevent them from betting more and making me have a tough decision. And if I hit my hand, I can bet big and get paid off. This means that my good (winning) hands tend to have big pots, and my losing hands tend to have small pots. But they never notice this!

Instead, what they see is this girl, who calls raises with garbage hands like 73 suited, and raises with K3 suited winning pot after pot after pot. And so when I get a very big hand (like three of a kind on the flop), I take all their money. And then they re-buy for revenge. …and then they lose it again. And even though my stack of chips ($950 in a $200 buy-in game, at the end) was triple the next biggest stack, I never got respect for being a good player. They'd continue to call, when pre-transition, people were more likely to fold. And I'm *fine* with that! If they respect me, it's harder to get good hands paid off. So their lack of respect made me more money.

Thanks boys. *smile*

And, of course, my acquisition of skill wasn't particularly gendered (although my inclusion in poker communities may have been), but the perception of my skill sure is.

By the end, it got to the point where it was really obvious that they just had no idea how to handle me. They tried betting into me, and I'd raise, and they'd fold, because they were bluffing or had a weak hand. (And I should note that I can often tell when they're making this play, so I can bluff raise them, and I did a couple times. I pick my spots, though.) They tried calling (instead of folding or raising), and then I'd win with the best hand. They threw everything at me, and just ended up losing faster. They were completely confused: not only did they not know what I'd have, but they didn't know what to do at pretty much every stage of every hand that I played. I've never felt that before. It was a good feeling, because when you have your opponents that confused, you win. (As a side note, because of the skill disparity, I made sure never to put myself in a position where I had to make a tough decision — not one! But I put them in plenty.)

One final thing, while walking from the table (which was at the back) to the cage to cash out, I had over two racks of chips (a *tonne* for a 1/2 NL game) and a guy at one of the other tables excitedly asked "Hey, where'd you get all those?!" while (my friend tells me) checking me out. I said, "Over there," pointing at my table, and he said, "Wow, they must be giving them away!" I smiled and walked away. A little casual sexism, you know, just to cap the night.

 

[Haesindang Park]

This is what liberals are fighting for in the name of "equality". This doesn't look like equality to me. And seeing it has a PhD, I shudder at the thought of living in a world where troons are allowed to teach students that taking hormones and mutilating their own genitals are okay.

 

[Positron]

This is what liberals are fighting for in the name of "equality". This doesn't look like equality to me. And seeing it has a PhD, I shudder at the thought of living in a world where troons are allowed to teach students that taking hormones and mutilating their own genitals are okay.

Not only does this obvious nutjob allowed to teach; he wants to gather runaway LGBT kids in his "glitter family" and his department supports him!

Philosophy? More like Philotranny.

You mean Serena Williams?

This is Animal Control material.

 

[Haesindang Park]

Not only does this obvious nutjob allowed to teach; he wants to gather runaway LGBT kids in his "glitter family" and his department supports him!

Oh yay more new material for TLC!

 

[VoreDoggy]

I no longer define a woman as “having a vagina”
I now just define a woman as something that makes me want to fuck it.
Through this philosophy one may come across a few unexpected penises over the years but that’s okay because I still got to smash.
The point I’m trying to make is if everyone was assigned base on how much blood flows to my penis, the world would be a better place.

That's called homosexuality.

 

[Save the Loli]

I legit feel bad for these athletes.
They're getting fucked out of wins and I guarantee all of them are aware of how unfair and tarded this shit is, but they can't do anything about it because transphobia ruins careers.

Not being transphobic would ruin your career if you're Kenyan, Ethiopian, Jamaican, etc. like some of the top women athletes in the world. In those countries, Rhys is nothing but a gay cross dresser who would be locked up in jail if he ever went for a visit (assuming locals didn't beat him to death in the streets for no doubt creeping on their prized female athletes).

 

[MetalParakeet]

My favourite is when he says something like "if I win, they say it's becauseI'm trans. If I lose, they say it's because I'm no good."

Uh yeah buddy. Because you're biologically Male. Why is he surprised people are saying that? Why does he use it as if he's proving some point that supports his cause?

 

[Sissy Galvez]

My favourite is when he says something like "if I win, they say it's becauseI'm trans. If I lose, they say it's because I'm no good."

Uh yeah buddy. Because you're biologically Male. Why is he surprised people are saying that? Why does he use it as if he's proving some point that supports his cause?

Because he’s an insane tranny?

 

[Admiral Rice]

And yet another degenerate who's blowing the "if you don't think the same way I do, then you're a nazi" whistle. This should be a trademark at this point for this kind of trash.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Ah man, if only Juwana-man could have waited a few years, that mother fucker could be dunking on bitches 24/7 Scott-free without shame.

 

[Strine]

To be fair, radical feminism isn't really connected to postmodernism or deconstructionism per se. You can hold feminist views and being a postmodernist, but the postmodern thinkers didn't write about feminism or think about it as anything but an afterthought, if that. I'd say TERFs are more influenced by traditional forms of Marxism and see gender as a form of class.

It is certainly true that Marxism is the dominant ideology at the present, and Foucault et al have been misappropriated more by "queer" theorists in their sophistry. However, Foucalt's unending discourse on power - namely that a suited, heterosexual They is in possession of it - is abundantly present everywhere you look among modern - i.e. intersectual - feminism, because of its idiotic decision to ally and alloy itself with a poorly defined, expansive, us-and-themming group of the formerly oppressed and currently "oppressed" - including queer theorists. "Intersectional" feminism has arranged a marriage between solipsistic, unlearned Foucaldian theory and à-la-carte Marxism, and the only people invited to it are unoppressed bourgeoisie. The fatuous notion that we are only the result of social pressures meshes well with bastard-Marxist class theory: biology isn't real, gender is a social construct: we can become what we desire, and since I'm no longer claiming to be a white male I'm now the proletariat du jour. Stop oppressing me.