Tea at Trianon: Justice Kavanaugh’s Transgender Ruling and the Misogyny of the Left

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Friday, July 3, 2026

Justice Kavanaugh’s Transgender Ruling and the Misogyny of the Left

From Mark Judge at Chronicles:

In West Virginia v. B.P.J. the Supreme Court has just ruled against “transgender” athletes. Boys claiming to be girls can no longer destroy female sports and traumatize girls in locker rooms.

The opinion was written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It is a reasonable ruling, although it doesn’t go far enough, in my opinion, because it’s missing something fundamental about what inspires the LGBTQ+ community to demand such things. What’s lurking behind the current transgender craze is the same thing that lurked behind the gay right movement for decades: hatred of women.

This phenomenon has been noticed not just by conservatives but by feminists and many honest gay people. In 2018, the videographer Monica Rodman published an article in the gay magazine The Advocate, in which she recalled working on the set of a film. (Read more.)