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Brad Jacobs on identifying A players: "I do a mental exercise where I picture the person coming into my office and saying, 'Brad, I quit.' And then I try to feel and visualize what would be my reaction if that person came in to me and quit. If my reaction to that is, 'Yes! I don't want to smile, so I don't want to act like I'm happy about this. Nobody likes firing people. No problem at all, we'll replace them'—that's a C player. That's someone you should get the courage to get off the team right away. On the second category, if my reaction to it is, 'You know, it kind of sucks. I would've preferred that person stayed, but it's not the end of the world. We'll hire a headhunter. We'll get someone as good, maybe someone even better, and things will work out'—that's a B player. But if when I visualize that person quitting, my reaction to that is pure terror and absolute panic, and like somebody took a baseball bat and just whacked me in the stomach and then punched me in the face. I'm going, 'Oh my God! Like I'm never going to find someone as good as her. No way. I'm never going to have someone as talented as that person. I'm never going to have someone who brings to the table their particular superpower.' And I can't even hear what they're saying anymore because I'm just having this internal panic dialogue going on—that's what you call an A player. So I want all A players around me. I want people whose relationship with me I value so much that if it was terminated, I would be lost."

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David Senra

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The horror of the US physician residency system aside, I feel like people need to remember that everyone has different goals as a streamer?! Because of its roots, VTubing always seems to idealize going corpo or "making it big" but there are still people who genuinely DO NOT CARE. I am a vtuber because it's fun, streaming is a hobby, and I would prefer to hang out with friends who share my interests rather than my boomer doctor coworkers who only talk about boats and golf?? I've streamed this sporadically for the past eight years, and becoming an anime man on the internet did not change anything about that. I quadrupled my follower count in the past few months from some silly posts, and yet I have zero desire to chase growth as a metric for my own personal achievement. I already have a career that I enjoy and dedicate myself to, and vtubing is something that will always take a backseat to that. But I can certainly still enjoy my time as doctor irl doctor vtuber saikenMD without having to submit to this notion that my investment needs to pay off in sponsorships, networking, or scheduled content creation. Joining a company to control my brand, hiring a manager to give advice on things I do not care about, or using my name as a code to get 10% off on whatever, is not something that is going to help me accomplish what I want to do here. Sometimes, I'm just answering medical curiosities for people who do not have anyone else in their lives whom they can ask. I do not need to turn a profit to consider my creative outlet "worthwhile," I literally waste money doing this stuff; but that's okay BECAUSE IT'S GENUINELY A GOOD TIME!!!!! like just let me live damn

saiken, M.D. 💜🩺 doctor irl & vtuber

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NEW: 🚨Tucker Carlson admits he has anger management issues when explaining why he said he “hates” Christian Zionists and then causally slips up and admits he didn’t fear for his life in Israel despite his previous claims 🚨 Tucker Carlson Tucker Carlson began his interview apologizing to US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Ambassador Mike Huckabee “I don't think people should be going immediately to motive, calling each other Nazis or anti-Semites. I said I hate the Christian Zionists. I lost control of myself. Of course, I don't, and I apologize for that. I have problems with my anger, and so I just want to apologize to you, since you are a Christian Zionist." It's an understatement to say that Tucker Tucker Carlson has an anger problem and loses all sense of control. Just look at his drinking record and the continued interview, as Tucker slipped up and admitted he didn't leave the airport in Israel out of fear for his life, but because he just had a busy schedule! “Of course, and I'm only staying a couple of hours, unfortunately, because I kind of shoehorned this in. But I hope that I will be back soon, and I hope that I can come back soon, because I want to. I actually, like, despite what you may hear, actually like the country." Post interview, Tucker is now claiming he feared for his life, which is why he didn’t leave the airport. Tucker Carlson is a pathological liar!

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Red Media

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Martin Nebelong

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Jon Lai

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Take 29 minutes to listen to this 1956 radio transmission that has haunted me for decades. — The one thing that is guaranteed is bureaucrats will create unintended outcomes. In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One's "Skulking Permit." First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley's short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one's true origins can shatter a civilization's self-image. Today, as we stand on the cusp of an Al-mediated Great Forgetting, I chronicled in my writings on the Amnesia Generation, this story reads less like quaint 1950s satire and more like a warning siren for our own era. It is the companion to the latest 5000 Days Series at Listen in and read with us…

Take 29 minutes to listen to this 1956 radio transmission that has haunted me for decades. — The one thing that is guaranteed is bureaucrats will create unintended outcomes. In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history quite like X Minus One's "Skulking Permit." First broadcast on NBC on February 15, 1956 (and rebroadcast on July 4, 1957), the episode adapted Robert Sheckley's short story from the December 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. It remains a razor-sharp parable about how autocratic thinking devours memory, how isolation can breed innocence or oblivion, and how the rediscovery of one's true origins can shatter a civilization's self-image. Today, as we stand on the cusp of an Al-mediated Great Forgetting, I chronicled in my writings on the Amnesia Generation, this story reads less like quaint 1950s satire and more like a warning siren for our own era. It is the companion to the latest 5000 Days Series at Listen in and read with us…

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This is the most brilliant answer Spencer Pratt has given during his campaign. An ABC reporter asked Pratt, "Are you a big MAGA person?" Here's how Pratt responded: "I'm a big nobody person. I'm a big Spencer Pratt Angeleno person. I only represent myself, my community, Angelenos. I'm not part of any political party. I'm running a nonpartisan race. I'm supposed to represent all of Los Angeles, not either political party, and that's the problem. Everyone has lost the plot. The mayor is supposed to be a nonpartisan race. That's why there's no letters next to anyone's name. The mayor currently has hijacked the position and the chair, made it a political seat. It's not supposed to be. Anybody can say I'm connected to whoever they want, and I'm fine with anybody saying I like Spencer Pratt. Great. Spread that message because my message is common sense, basic human quality of life. So it should be everyone. Obama should love me. The president should love me. Biden should love me." In refusing to allow the mainstream media associate him with the Republican brand and paint. him asa MAGA figure, Pratt is giving Democrat voters in Los Angeles an off-ramp to vote for him. He's welcoming Democrat voters, giving them the permission, and making it easy to vote Pratt, even though he's a registered Republican. He's not repudiating what Republicans like you and me stand for. He's saying instead of thinking of me as a member of a political party, which you may have negative feelings feelings about, think of me as someone who's identifying a problem that's hurting you and offering a solution. And it's working—from April 19-May 16, Pratt raised $2.72 million while his opponents Nithya Raman and Karen Bass raised only $401,000 and $283,000, respectively. You can bet your bottom dollar that the Democrat political strategists for Pratt's opponents are shell-shocked by this. They don't know how to deal with this.

Liz Wheeler

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American shares an absolutely correct point of view on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis This post got over 136k likes in 24 hours for a reason “I do know one thing. Y'all don't care about y'all kids enough like I care about mine. I'm not putting my life on the line for no stranger. I got somebody depending on me. My family's depending on me to come home every day. I'm not putting my life on the line for no strangers. Yet alone people that's not even from here. If somebody told me ICE is coming to my city, which is already happening, I'm staying out the way. What do I look like, going in the streets trying to protect people that's not even from here or whatever the situation is? They could be from here. I'm still not protecting a stranger in general. I got people depending on me. Don't forget that. So in this situation, they say, Isis coming to your city in Minneapolis to figure out what's going on with the Somali fry. Thank you. Why in the world would I need to hit the streets and stop that? I don't know. I just know it don't seem like y'all care about y'all kids enough. I don't need my child to be fatherless. And I definitely don't need him to understand that he lost his father because his father was out there defending somalis.”

American shares an absolutely correct point of view on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis This post got over 136k likes in 24 hours for a reason “I do know one thing. Y'all don't care about y'all kids enough like I care about mine. I'm not putting my life on the line for no stranger. I got somebody depending on me. My family's depending on me to come home every day. I'm not putting my life on the line for no strangers. Yet alone people that's not even from here. If somebody told me ICE is coming to my city, which is already happening, I'm staying out the way. What do I look like, going in the streets trying to protect people that's not even from here or whatever the situation is? They could be from here. I'm still not protecting a stranger in general. I got people depending on me. Don't forget that. So in this situation, they say, Isis coming to your city in Minneapolis to figure out what's going on with the Somali fry. Thank you. Why in the world would I need to hit the streets and stop that? I don't know. I just know it don't seem like y'all care about y'all kids enough. I don't need my child to be fatherless. And I definitely don't need him to understand that he lost his father because his father was out there defending somalis.”

Wall Street Apes

514,264 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

👼🏼👹 Pasulka: It Could Be Angels and Demons 👹👼🏼 This segment was really good. Excellent job, Diana! Force dwpasulka (DP) to make a bet on what the phenomenon represents, and she'd say... DP: "It's a variety of things." Ross Douthat (RD): "It's more than one thing?" DP: "It appears to be." RD: "Okay. Give me two examples of what that thing is. It's a variety, just two. Two different things. What is it?" DP: "It appears to be a perennial thing (lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time). So there appears to be something that interfaces with humans, and has been identified in the various traditional religions." RD: "Identified as what?" DP: "Well, I'm not going to name it, because in some traditional religions it's named in different ways. So it could be bodhisattvas, angels, demons, things like that." (A Bodhisattvas is, "a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others and is worshipped as a deity in Mahayana Buddhism." ~Merriam-Webster) RD: "No, that's good. So it is intermediate intelligences between God and human beings, some of whom have our best interests at heart and some of whom don't?" DP: "And those different religious traditions have protocols for dealing with these." RD: "But that was a yes? You agree. That's part of what you think it is?" DP: "I think some of the phenomena is that, not all of it. Then there appears to be some type of technology that is either, in my opinion - this is the truth serum, in my opinion - either is ours, or if it's not ours, it's amazing." RD: "So in that theory, you would have a kind of loop of, on the one hand, authentic experiences that map onto the great religious traditions, and at the same time, some kind of government cover up or secrecy around remarkable technologies that we aren't aware of. Are those two things linked, or is it just a marriage of convenience, then? That the government is happy that people have these kind of supernatural experiences because it makes it easier to cover up the amazing technology?" DP: "Yeah, that's the question I ask myself. I don't know if they're linked (laughs)." (I suspect that they're linked. At this point in time, my leading theory is that what we're experiencing is what people in ancient times referred to as Angels, Demons, Jinn, etc., but it has nothing to do with evil, which is a human label. I just think it's part of the natural, non-physical world that we usually can't perceive. And some of it may be helpful to humans and some of it is harmful. Seems like the harmful is more prevalent. Either we just get in the way and it doesn't care if we get hurt, or us getting hurt is somehow beneficial to it. Like, we're a resource somehow. Just like how we see cows, pigs and chickens. And I think it may have the ability to create what looks like technology. Materialize and dematerialize "stuff." And also, we may have our own tech that we back engineered from "their" tech or developed on our own. Just opinions.) RD: "All right, so last question, because you have been trying to pull me away from the government and back towards the personal experiences and so on. What can, you know, nice secular readers of The New York Times who have been baffled by this conversation (laughs), let's say, take away from the personal side of it, the direct encounters that people report having?" DP: "Okay. So I think what's really important is that most of us grew up with and were educated within this worldview, and I call it the Thomas-Jefferson worldview. And Thomas Jefferson didn't believe that Jesus was divine. He believed that Jesus was a really good person. And he even went so far as to rewrite the New Testament, and he took out all the references to miracles and all the things that, you know, all the references to angels and demons and exorcisms and healings and things like that. And there was the Jeffersonian Bible, okay? "So, I would say that, for me, what these experiences did was it... I was a, you know, I had a Jeffersonian worldview. I was a secular Catholic, okay? What these these experiences did was they jolted me out of that worldview and into the Shakespearean worldview. Where, you know, there are things that we don't understand, and why don't we, you know, understand that we don't understand them? Instead of just doing like the Wall Street Journal did, and just say 'No, nothing to see here.' Well, the world and the cosmos is a really beautiful place with a lot of mystery. So that's what I would suggest." (Well said, and I appreciate the shot at the WSJ.) RD: "Okay, I endorse that take very strongly. I'm gonna give you one more chance to tell me who it was who told you they had seen an alien spacecraft and where? Because, you know, it's the New York Times. It's an audience of at least dozens, if not millions. Don't you want to be the person who blew the lid off, you know, the secret government conspiracy, Diana?" DP: "No, I don't aspire to that." (Both laugh)

👼🏼👹 Pasulka: It Could Be Angels and Demons 👹👼🏼 This segment was really good. Excellent job, Diana! Force dwpasulka (DP) to make a bet on what the phenomenon represents, and she'd say... DP: "It's a variety of things." Ross Douthat (RD): "It's more than one thing?" DP: "It appears to be." RD: "Okay. Give me two examples of what that thing is. It's a variety, just two. Two different things. What is it?" DP: "It appears to be a perennial thing (lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time). So there appears to be something that interfaces with humans, and has been identified in the various traditional religions." RD: "Identified as what?" DP: "Well, I'm not going to name it, because in some traditional religions it's named in different ways. So it could be bodhisattvas, angels, demons, things like that." (A Bodhisattvas is, "a being that compassionately refrains from entering nirvana in order to save others and is worshipped as a deity in Mahayana Buddhism." ~Merriam-Webster) RD: "No, that's good. So it is intermediate intelligences between God and human beings, some of whom have our best interests at heart and some of whom don't?" DP: "And those different religious traditions have protocols for dealing with these." RD: "But that was a yes? You agree. That's part of what you think it is?" DP: "I think some of the phenomena is that, not all of it. Then there appears to be some type of technology that is either, in my opinion - this is the truth serum, in my opinion - either is ours, or if it's not ours, it's amazing." RD: "So in that theory, you would have a kind of loop of, on the one hand, authentic experiences that map onto the great religious traditions, and at the same time, some kind of government cover up or secrecy around remarkable technologies that we aren't aware of. Are those two things linked, or is it just a marriage of convenience, then? That the government is happy that people have these kind of supernatural experiences because it makes it easier to cover up the amazing technology?" DP: "Yeah, that's the question I ask myself. I don't know if they're linked (laughs)." (I suspect that they're linked. At this point in time, my leading theory is that what we're experiencing is what people in ancient times referred to as Angels, Demons, Jinn, etc., but it has nothing to do with evil, which is a human label. I just think it's part of the natural, non-physical world that we usually can't perceive. And some of it may be helpful to humans and some of it is harmful. Seems like the harmful is more prevalent. Either we just get in the way and it doesn't care if we get hurt, or us getting hurt is somehow beneficial to it. Like, we're a resource somehow. Just like how we see cows, pigs and chickens. And I think it may have the ability to create what looks like technology. Materialize and dematerialize "stuff." And also, we may have our own tech that we back engineered from "their" tech or developed on our own. Just opinions.) RD: "All right, so last question, because you have been trying to pull me away from the government and back towards the personal experiences and so on. What can, you know, nice secular readers of The New York Times who have been baffled by this conversation (laughs), let's say, take away from the personal side of it, the direct encounters that people report having?" DP: "Okay. So I think what's really important is that most of us grew up with and were educated within this worldview, and I call it the Thomas-Jefferson worldview. And Thomas Jefferson didn't believe that Jesus was divine. He believed that Jesus was a really good person. And he even went so far as to rewrite the New Testament, and he took out all the references to miracles and all the things that, you know, all the references to angels and demons and exorcisms and healings and things like that. And there was the Jeffersonian Bible, okay? "So, I would say that, for me, what these experiences did was it... I was a, you know, I had a Jeffersonian worldview. I was a secular Catholic, okay? What these these experiences did was they jolted me out of that worldview and into the Shakespearean worldview. Where, you know, there are things that we don't understand, and why don't we, you know, understand that we don't understand them? Instead of just doing like the Wall Street Journal did, and just say 'No, nothing to see here.' Well, the world and the cosmos is a really beautiful place with a lot of mystery. So that's what I would suggest." (Well said, and I appreciate the shot at the WSJ.) RD: "Okay, I endorse that take very strongly. I'm gonna give you one more chance to tell me who it was who told you they had seen an alien spacecraft and where? Because, you know, it's the New York Times. It's an audience of at least dozens, if not millions. Don't you want to be the person who blew the lid off, you know, the secret government conspiracy, Diana?" DP: "No, I don't aspire to that." (Both laugh)

Joe Murgia

23,954 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Dear Woke Right morons, If you think Trump sold out to Israel, you’re an idiot. Trump has had the same position on Iran for over 40 YEARS. Donald Trump in 1980: "When you get the respect of other countries then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do and you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages to my way of thinking is a horror and i don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries." Rona Barrett: "Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops et cetera and brought our boys out." Donald Trump: "I absolutely feel that yes. I don't think there's any question in it, there's no question in my mind.I think right now we'd be an oil-rich nation and I believe that we should have done it and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it and i don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us and we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity." It’s your own fault that you’re surprised this is happening only because you didn’t do your homework, or you are just pushing propaganda.

Dear Woke Right morons, If you think Trump sold out to Israel, you’re an idiot. Trump has had the same position on Iran for over 40 YEARS. Donald Trump in 1980: "When you get the respect of other countries then the other countries tend to do a little bit as you do and you can create the right attitudes. The Iranian situation is a case in point. That they hold our hostages is just absolutely and totally ridiculous. That this country sits back and allows a country such as Iran to hold our hostages to my way of thinking is a horror and i don't think they'd do it with other countries. I honestly don't think they'd do it with other countries." Rona Barrett: "Obviously you're advocating that we should have gone in there with troops et cetera and brought our boys out." Donald Trump: "I absolutely feel that yes. I don't think there's any question in it, there's no question in my mind.I think right now we'd be an oil-rich nation and I believe that we should have done it and I'm very disappointed that we didn't do it and i don't think anybody would have held us in abeyance. I don't think anybody would have been angry with us and we had every right to do it at the time. I think we've lost the opportunity." It’s your own fault that you’re surprised this is happening only because you didn’t do your homework, or you are just pushing propaganda.

Jacktron

421,409 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

#REI #레이 Ending Ment for Tokyo Dome 🩵 🐥 tokyo dome really went by in the blink of an eye. looking back to when i was saying, “we’re going to tokyo dome for the first time!”, i feel like i’ve grown at least a little since then, and after the two days we recently spent at kyocera dome, the fact that we get to come back to tokyo dome for a second time, it really feels like a dream, doesn’t it..? 💭 🐥 i truly believe that the reason we were able to make this dream come true is because of DIVE's presence and support. thank you so much! 🙇‍♀️ 🐥 ever since my debut, from the moment i met all of you, i’ve always tried to be honest in front of DIVE while carrying out my activities. but... how should i put this? even when i had to take a little break, DIVE always told me, “we’ll be waiting for you,” didn’t you? 🐥 i still think about those moments from time to time, and because DIVE told me, “rei-chan, we’re waiting for you,” i’m able to stand here now, happily performing on stage with the five members, and today too, i feel like we were able to spend another wonderful time together with DIVE ☺️ 🐥 DIVE, did all of you have fun too? 🤿 we did!!! 🐥 i'm glad to hear that! thank you so much for choosing to support us and for making us a part of your lives 🫂 🐥 we’ll work even harder this year, and we want to become an even more wonderful group that can perform in even bigger venues in the future ( ๑ ˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡ 🐥 you’ll continue to support us, right? thank you so much, and DIVE, i love you~ 🥹💗

#REI #레이 Ending Ment for Tokyo Dome 🩵 🐥 tokyo dome really went by in the blink of an eye. looking back to when i was saying, “we’re going to tokyo dome for the first time!”, i feel like i’ve grown at least a little since then, and after the two days we recently spent at kyocera dome, the fact that we get to come back to tokyo dome for a second time, it really feels like a dream, doesn’t it..? 💭 🐥 i truly believe that the reason we were able to make this dream come true is because of DIVE's presence and support. thank you so much! 🙇‍♀️ 🐥 ever since my debut, from the moment i met all of you, i’ve always tried to be honest in front of DIVE while carrying out my activities. but... how should i put this? even when i had to take a little break, DIVE always told me, “we’ll be waiting for you,” didn’t you? 🐥 i still think about those moments from time to time, and because DIVE told me, “rei-chan, we’re waiting for you,” i’m able to stand here now, happily performing on stage with the five members, and today too, i feel like we were able to spend another wonderful time together with DIVE ☺️ 🐥 DIVE, did all of you have fun too? 🤿 we did!!! 🐥 i'm glad to hear that! thank you so much for choosing to support us and for making us a part of your lives 🫂 🐥 we’ll work even harder this year, and we want to become an even more wonderful group that can perform in even bigger venues in the future ( ๑ ˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و ♡ 🐥 you’ll continue to support us, right? thank you so much, and DIVE, i love you~ 🥹💗

썬기니

20,215 Aufrufe • vor 20 Tagen

I wanted to explain to the broader transgender community what happened that ultimately made me leave the "true trans" HBS social circle. Some people have expressed interest in hearing this story, and I do think it's worth discussing because of the social and group psychology dynamics that were at play. That said, this will be as far as I go in publicly discussing the situation. Where to start? The reality is that this eventually became a situation where it was Brianna Wu, Marzi, Allysa, and Willow versus myself. The events leading up to the actual breaking point are important. After Willow broke up with me, she told me that I was not the ideal version of a transsexual. In particular, she told me that, using the antiquated HBS scale, I wasn't a Transsexual VI, but more like a IV or V. The reasoning largely came down to the fact that I had different opinions from the rest of the group on issues such as stealth. The rest of the group found my views offensive. This opened the door to what I came to understand as legitimacy testing. This isn't unique to trans spaces either. It involved the systematic questioning of virtually every aspect of my life: my transition, my dysphoria, how I grew up, my experiences, and what I value today. To give you an idea of how extreme it became, Marzi seriously asked me whether I had only pursued SRS to satisfy a sexual fetish. This was after learning that I had been capable of having sex prior to transition. Apparently, that fact alone was enough to cast suspicion on my entire transition history. This legitimacy testing continued for roughly two and a half weeks. Every day. For most of the day. It became increasingly distressing and isolating. And remember, at this point, I was emotionally dependent on these people. The day everything finally came to a head started with a discussion about transgender women in sports. Brianna entered the group chat and asked if any of us would be willing to debate Blaire White on the issue. People immediately began sharing their positions. As the only former NCAA athlete in the group, I chimed in and stated that I supported transgender women participating in women's sports and that it was not an issue I was willing to move on. That triggered a cascade of responses. I was repeatedly told that the issue was insignificant, that it only affected a tiny number of people, and that sports were ultimately just a hobby. I pushed back. I tried explaining that NCAA athletes are not hobbyists. Their sport is often their entire life. They spend years training, watching film, practicing, traveling, competing, and structuring their entire identity around performance. I also tried explaining that sports had been the medium through which I survived to adulthood. School was not safe for me. Home was not safe for me. The track was. Track and field was the one place in my life where I felt safe, valued, and understood. My relationship with sports was deeply personal. Yet every time I tried explaining this, I was met with the same response: "It's just a hobby." They genuinely did not seem to understand. Eventually, I decided to show them a video of Yaroslava Mahuchikh breaking the women's high jump world record. I wanted them to see what elite competition actually looks like. I wanted them to understand the pressure, the emotion, the adrenaline, and what it means to dedicate your life to something. High jump was my best event. I explained how, at the end of a meet, all eyes are on you. Entire stadiums can clap rhythmically to help carry you over the bar. The pressure is immense. And honestly? I lived for that feeling. So I showed them the video. They dismissed it entirely. Then Brianna commented that when she was in high school, she was simply focused on fitting in and being one of the girls. Immediately afterward, Marzi told me that being a competitive athlete was "male-coded." That was my wake-up call. In that moment, I suddenly snapped out of everything. I realized what had been happening to me psychologically. I realized this was no longer a discussion. This was an attempt to socially discipline me into conformity. It was another attempt to reshape my views and my identity to fit within the group's expectations. For the first time, they had collided with something I was unwilling to surrender. An immovable force had met an immovable object. Sports were not just a hobby to me. Track and field helped me survive. It shaped my values. It shaped my sense of pride in myself. It shaped who I became as a person. Those experiences and values were not something I was willing to compromise on. The "male-coded" comment affected me more deeply than I can adequately explain. By that point, I had become so emotionally dependent on these people that comments like that carried the implicit message that I did not belong. That I was an outsider. That I was somehow less of a woman. The experience left me feeling suicidal. I drove to my local riverfront park to ground myself and reflect on how I had ended up in that position. The following day, I removed myself from the group entirely and publicly called out what had happened. Willow attempted to reframe my lived experiences in private messages. Brianna attempted to downplay the situation and position herself as a motherly or managerial figure trying to bring everyone back together. I wanted no part of it. The weeks of legitimacy testing, the constant questioning of my transition, the attacks on a core part of my identity, and the repeated implication that I was somehow a man ultimately took a tremendous toll on me. Unfortunately, my therapist and psychiatrist believe it contributed to what has become a trauma response. Today, I struggle at times with tunnel vision, sensory overload, shaking, racing thoughts, a racing heart, and panic attacks. I'm working closely with my care team to recover and return to equilibrium. I share this story because I think it highlights how powerful social and group dynamics can be. No one sat me down and brainwashed me. What happened was far more subtle. When your entire social world becomes concentrated in one place, the pressure to conform can become overwhelming. It can make you doubt your own judgment. It can make you question your own experiences. And if left unchecked, it can leave very real psychological scars. This will be the last time I discuss the inner workings of that group publicly. I will simply note that many neutral observers witnessed these events unfold in real time and have since independently acknowledged that they occurred. Also, please, for the sake of my health, please don't try to liken my experiences to leopards. I'm aware of what it looks like, but that's not helpful to me at this moment. So, I beg you, please reserve that kind of talk. Bonus: The video that I attempted to show them. Please watch it. It gives me tears of joy for the athlete in question. It's something we all live for to experience. And she did it at the highest level.

I wanted to explain to the broader transgender community what happened that ultimately made me leave the "true trans" HBS social circle. Some people have expressed interest in hearing this story, and I do think it's worth discussing because of the social and group psychology dynamics that were at play. That said, this will be as far as I go in publicly discussing the situation. Where to start? The reality is that this eventually became a situation where it was Brianna Wu, Marzi, Allysa, and Willow versus myself. The events leading up to the actual breaking point are important. After Willow broke up with me, she told me that I was not the ideal version of a transsexual. In particular, she told me that, using the antiquated HBS scale, I wasn't a Transsexual VI, but more like a IV or V. The reasoning largely came down to the fact that I had different opinions from the rest of the group on issues such as stealth. The rest of the group found my views offensive. This opened the door to what I came to understand as legitimacy testing. This isn't unique to trans spaces either. It involved the systematic questioning of virtually every aspect of my life: my transition, my dysphoria, how I grew up, my experiences, and what I value today. To give you an idea of how extreme it became, Marzi seriously asked me whether I had only pursued SRS to satisfy a sexual fetish. This was after learning that I had been capable of having sex prior to transition. Apparently, that fact alone was enough to cast suspicion on my entire transition history. This legitimacy testing continued for roughly two and a half weeks. Every day. For most of the day. It became increasingly distressing and isolating. And remember, at this point, I was emotionally dependent on these people. The day everything finally came to a head started with a discussion about transgender women in sports. Brianna entered the group chat and asked if any of us would be willing to debate Blaire White on the issue. People immediately began sharing their positions. As the only former NCAA athlete in the group, I chimed in and stated that I supported transgender women participating in women's sports and that it was not an issue I was willing to move on. That triggered a cascade of responses. I was repeatedly told that the issue was insignificant, that it only affected a tiny number of people, and that sports were ultimately just a hobby. I pushed back. I tried explaining that NCAA athletes are not hobbyists. Their sport is often their entire life. They spend years training, watching film, practicing, traveling, competing, and structuring their entire identity around performance. I also tried explaining that sports had been the medium through which I survived to adulthood. School was not safe for me. Home was not safe for me. The track was. Track and field was the one place in my life where I felt safe, valued, and understood. My relationship with sports was deeply personal. Yet every time I tried explaining this, I was met with the same response: "It's just a hobby." They genuinely did not seem to understand. Eventually, I decided to show them a video of Yaroslava Mahuchikh breaking the women's high jump world record. I wanted them to see what elite competition actually looks like. I wanted them to understand the pressure, the emotion, the adrenaline, and what it means to dedicate your life to something. High jump was my best event. I explained how, at the end of a meet, all eyes are on you. Entire stadiums can clap rhythmically to help carry you over the bar. The pressure is immense. And honestly? I lived for that feeling. So I showed them the video. They dismissed it entirely. Then Brianna commented that when she was in high school, she was simply focused on fitting in and being one of the girls. Immediately afterward, Marzi told me that being a competitive athlete was "male-coded." That was my wake-up call. In that moment, I suddenly snapped out of everything. I realized what had been happening to me psychologically. I realized this was no longer a discussion. This was an attempt to socially discipline me into conformity. It was another attempt to reshape my views and my identity to fit within the group's expectations. For the first time, they had collided with something I was unwilling to surrender. An immovable force had met an immovable object. Sports were not just a hobby to me. Track and field helped me survive. It shaped my values. It shaped my sense of pride in myself. It shaped who I became as a person. Those experiences and values were not something I was willing to compromise on. The "male-coded" comment affected me more deeply than I can adequately explain. By that point, I had become so emotionally dependent on these people that comments like that carried the implicit message that I did not belong. That I was an outsider. That I was somehow less of a woman. The experience left me feeling suicidal. I drove to my local riverfront park to ground myself and reflect on how I had ended up in that position. The following day, I removed myself from the group entirely and publicly called out what had happened. Willow attempted to reframe my lived experiences in private messages. Brianna attempted to downplay the situation and position herself as a motherly or managerial figure trying to bring everyone back together. I wanted no part of it. The weeks of legitimacy testing, the constant questioning of my transition, the attacks on a core part of my identity, and the repeated implication that I was somehow a man ultimately took a tremendous toll on me. Unfortunately, my therapist and psychiatrist believe it contributed to what has become a trauma response. Today, I struggle at times with tunnel vision, sensory overload, shaking, racing thoughts, a racing heart, and panic attacks. I'm working closely with my care team to recover and return to equilibrium. I share this story because I think it highlights how powerful social and group dynamics can be. No one sat me down and brainwashed me. What happened was far more subtle. When your entire social world becomes concentrated in one place, the pressure to conform can become overwhelming. It can make you doubt your own judgment. It can make you question your own experiences. And if left unchecked, it can leave very real psychological scars. This will be the last time I discuss the inner workings of that group publicly. I will simply note that many neutral observers witnessed these events unfold in real time and have since independently acknowledged that they occurred. Also, please, for the sake of my health, please don't try to liken my experiences to leopards. I'm aware of what it looks like, but that's not helpful to me at this moment. So, I beg you, please reserve that kind of talk. Bonus: The video that I attempted to show them. Please watch it. It gives me tears of joy for the athlete in question. It's something we all live for to experience. And she did it at the highest level.

Jenna Taylor ♀️

30,095 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat