Dr. Rachel McKinnon / Dr. Veronica Ivy / Rhys McKinnon / Rachel Veronica McKinnon / Foxy Moxy / SportIsARight - failed out of a tenured job,man who competes in womens sports, gained like 100 lbs in 2022 (page 813), comically fell off bike before a race (page 830)

[Meriasek]

Rhys would be the worst choice as the speaker for trains in sports. Not just because of his his abhorrent physical appearance but his awful personality.

I also wonder if Soule's appearance scared him off?

My first theory was that he refused because he knew how utterly terrible his appearance would be, and that him being there would work against troons in sports, but then again, it's hard to imagine Rhys Lightyear having that much introspection.
I mean, most of his troony exploits seem very calculated. He does 200 m sprint races because it has the maximum advantage for him, he doesn't need to do too much pesky cardio and can just do a basic gymbro routine. He does Twitter activism and stickers and T-Shirts, so there's no legal liability or anything to put the blame on him when something fails, but he can always put the blame on the legislators.
Him going out to speak for troonsports in a way that can and will fall back on him? Where he could fail publically and brutally, causing lasting damage to his own pastime of bullying middle-aged women on the track? He's not gonna risk that. He will posture that he's a super duper lawyer at heart and whatnot, but I suspect he might actually know how he looks to the world. He enjoys pissing people off, it fuels his narcissicism. Failing in a real legal matter will ruin it all.

 

[Cycleye]

My first theory was that he refused because he knew how utterly terrible his appearance would be, and that him being there would work against troons in sports, but then again, it's hard to imagine Rhys Lightyear having that much introspection.
I mean, most of his troony exploits seem very calculated. He does 200 m sprint races because it has the maximum advantage for him, he doesn't need to do too much pesky cardio and can just do a basic gymbro routine. He does Twitter activism and stickers and T-Shirts, so there's no legal liability or anything to put the blame on him when something fails, but he can always put the blame on the legislators.
Him going out to speak for troonsports in a way that can and will fall back on him? Where he could fail publically and brutally, causing lasting damage to his own pastime of bullying middle-aged women on the track? He's not gonna risk that. He will posture that he's a super duper lawyer at heart and whatnot, but I suspect he might actually know how he looks to the world. He enjoys pissing people off, it fuels his narcissicism. Failing in a real legal matter will ruin it all.

A bully and a narc can survive ery well on twitter where there is very little risk and it can hide behind mods.
In the real world, but only if it has the upper hand, can get away quick, and not get beaten up by a big sister.

Pathetic.

Of course; the invite might have actually been because they wanted some handrails put up, or a new handle on a door.

 

[Clem Fandango]

He will posture that he's a super duper lawyer at heart and whatnot

Oh man, I'd forgotten all about the "I would make a scary good lawyer" claim! Thanks for the laugh

 

[nicetry]

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Because much of the Jerry Springer Show was scripted. People still don’t know this?

and on top of that the whole kayfabe premise in those episodes was like 'lol at these dipshits that thought an obvious man was a woman'. lol that came across to me as a teenager. our phd doc was closeted bc of that?

 

[Amphitrite]

Hmm. I am tending to agree with those who have said he is lying about being asked to participate. What I have gleaned from looking at the twitter account I posted earlier, and from a couple of others that have testified at this hearing according to their live tweets, is that this is not an event to which one would be invited.

As far as I can see, (I'm not in the US so not sure if I completely understand how it works, so please correct if wrong) the bill was proposed last year, and supported by many other ?senators? ?legislators?

Once accepted for debate, it was basically thrown open for other ?legislators? to show support or opposition to, and for any interested parties to APPLY to give evidence at the actual hearing. So many people applied to give evidence that each speaker was restricted to a 2-minute slot otherwise they couldn't have heard them all.

All of this has been ongoing for 6 or 7 months looking at the timeline. So in that time, despite this potentially being a landmark case and involving Selina (who generated a lot of press when she got beaten at racing by two boys), the prof has not managed to apply to be involved. Even though this topic is literally his specialist subject, his raison d'etre.

Surely he was aware that this was happening in his own back yard? Surely he would have been involved at the earliest stages, lobbying for the inclusion of trans in womens' sport and directing all and sundry to the many words he has written and re-written on the subject? Coaching the other speakers and supplying them with the wealth of data he has collected on the topic in case his own 2 minutes wasn't long enough?

Surely he wasn't too lazy and self-involved to even notice that this was all happening right on his doorstep until the last minute, when he had to hastily make up an excuse for why his voice, the world expert on the topic, wouldn't be heard?

I think you'll all be needing one of these: [x]

 

[realGay]

I don't know how these kind of testimonies work in the US but can't he simply request a spot if he wants to speak? Why even wait to get invited in the last moment?

 

[Lord Xenu]

his poker playing began shortly before he earned his bachelor's and extended past getting his doctorate. It's more like concurrent

Have you seen any evidence that he has played any poker anywhere (other than his dubious claims)? About a year ago I looked around and didn't find anything at all outside of his assertion. We all know Rhys doesn't think the truth has any relevance to whether or not a fact can be asserted, the only thing that matters is if it is plausible (and he can get away with it).

And in fact, if that claim is not true, he asserts that the claimant does not even merit criticism.

There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of assertion. Most writers on the topic have consequently proposed factive norms of assertion – ones on which truth is a necessary condition for the proper performance of an assertion. However, I argue that this view is mistaken. I suggest that we can illuminate the error by introducing a theoretical distinction between the norm of a practice and its goal. In light of this distinction, we can see that proponents of factive norms tend to mistake the goal of a practice for the norm. In making my case, I present an analogy between the norms and goals of placing wagers and the norms and goals of assertion. One may place a bet and lose without being subject to criticism, while one may win and be worthy of criticism. Whether one wins or loses is irrelevant to the normative evaluation of a bet. What is relevant is whether the bet maximizes the bettor's expected value, which is a function of what might be lost, what might be gained, and how likely those prospects are, given the bettor's evidence. Similarly, I argue, whether one's assertion is true or false is not strictly relevant to the normative evaluation of an assertion. What is relevant is whether the speaker has adequate supporting reasons for the assertion, and that the necessary conventional and pragmatic features are present. However, context will determine what count as supportive reasons for a given proposition, what counts as relevant, and what count as conventional and pragmatic elements possessing that relevance. My proposed norm, the Supportive Reasons Norm, is thus sensitive to the context of assertion and shifts from context to context.

(Abstract from his paper The Norms of Assertion).

Lying is integral to Rhys' core philosophy.

 

[nicetry]

Have you seen any evidence that he has played any poker anywhere (other than his dubious claims)? About a year ago I looked around and didn't find anything at all outside of his assertion. We all know Rhys doesn't think the truth has any relevance to whether or not a fact can be asserted, the only thing that matters is if it is plausible (and he can get away with it).

And in fact, if that claim is not true, he asserts that the claimant does not even merit criticism.


(Abstract from his paper The Norms of Assertion).

Lying is integral to Rhys' core philosophy.

rate me late on this but holy shit that exerpt reads like a 17 year old trying to sound smart on his ap english essay. Jesus christ that was hard to read

 

[OttoWest]

Have you seen any evidence that he has played any poker anywhere (other than his dubious claims)? About a year ago I looked around and didn't find anything at all outside of his assertion. We all know Rhys doesn't think the truth has any relevance to whether or not a fact can be asserted, the only thing that matters is if it is plausible (and he can get away with it).

And in fact, if that claim is not true, he asserts that the claimant does not even merit criticism.


(Abstract from his paper The Norms of Assertion).

Lying is integral to Rhys' core philosophy.

My assumption, and I could be wrong, is that he played online under a pseud.

 

[Lord Xenu]

My assumption, and I could be wrong, is that he played online under a pseud.

I agree, and my other assumption is that he got few paying positions (like top 50 pay out or something) in these huge $2 tournaments that are basically a lottery.

According to Rhys' "norms of assertion", I too am a world champion poker player.

 

[JY's Tampon]

This is a triple crossover and given what going on with Billy over at Assigned Male we should take note that Rhy just liked this.

Tweets liked by Dr. Veronica Ivy (@SportIsARight) / Twitter

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[AnOminous]

I agree about him never been asked. I think if I were the ACLU or any of these other organization bent on destroying women's sport, bringing any MTF ogres would would be a huge misstep.

I agree. Rhys is just lying again. No way would they pick an obviously male hulking ogre to testify in a hearing like this.

 

[Clem Fandango]

This is a triple crossover and given what going on with Billy over at Assigned Male we should take note that Rhy just liked this.
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Yeesh, Rhys is really solidifying his status of "pedo adjacent" here. Wise move sir, wise move.

 

[REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]

This is a triple crossover and given what going on with Billy over at Assigned Male we should take note that Rhy just liked this.
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All of these fuckers are diaper freaks. I should have known.

Makes me feel religious. Let us read from the book of Rat King 6:9-11

(9) And the good Lord Spaghetti Monster said "Soon cometh the Troonpocalypse, where Billy and Rhys and Johnathan and Bradley will all be proven pedophiles! (10) Put not your faith in autists, but ho and look to the Kiwis for they shine the light of truth upon the unclean." (11) And Null looked upon the thread and saw it was good.

 

[bored loser]

This is a triple crossover and given what going on with Billy over at Assigned Male we should take note that Rhy just liked this.
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Don't normal people get fired or lose job opportunities for posting and liking stuff like this?

I may have said this before, but godspeed to any curious student who wants to look for their professor's research.

 

[craven rutherfordium]

Here's how I could see it being real:

"Oh shit our expert witness had something come up and he was supposed to testify in 3 hours!"
[Googling]
"Looks like there's someone right in town who works on this kind of thing!"
"Hell, call... her? up and see if... she????? will testify."
[Rhys declines, lawyers google for two more seconds and realize they've dodged a bullet.]

 

[Mr Snoid]

Have you seen any evidence that he has played any poker anywhere (other than his dubious claims)?

Haha, nope! The absence of his poker exploits sits in a larger void than his (un)heralded record as a provincial-national athlete. Surprise, surprise!

However, he did once write a ludicrous account of a casino trip with a friend (Poker ninja annihilates the dudebros!). It's a nearly perfect troon glurge, only lacking the Einstein twist. Check out the finale:

Can you hear the triumphant soundtrack as Rhys smirks his way to the cashier? Rhys certainly could.

Oh, and that dude checking him out -- what did he see that was so alluring?

This is how Rhys got dolled up for the night:

Looks like a class pic, circa 1953. Irresistable.

........

 

[ScouseGobshite]

I’m torn. OTOH it’s pleasing to see how Rhys’s Twitter reach is steadily shrivelling up and dying, not because he’s been cancelled or deboosted but simply because everyone has seen through his pompous, egotistical male lies. His President Plump I’M TEH BIGLY BESTEST! routine is just so... tired & old-fashioned. For a guy with supposedly 10k followers, his posts now only get a handful of nibbles from those desperate troons who are even bigger attention whores than he is. And that’s a rare thing.

OTOH, the few snivelling simpletons still talking to him are too stupid & brainwashed to notice it’s been three weeks since he boasted about that third job interview. It’s a shame they can’t remember, or don’t give a toss, to ask him how it’s going - because clearly he can’t yet come up with the right kind of lie to explain why he failed to get the ~magical new job~ but that hey, failure wasn’t actually his fault whatsoever, like it is for any normal mortal who applies for a job and loses out to someone else who put in a more successful bid.

Guess he’s just hoping everyone who isn’t a farmer will quietly forget, and he’ll never mention it again. That’s a pity for the lols. If it’s the price of seeing him fade into complete irrelevance on social media, though, I reckon it’s worth it. Bye Bye Fatman!

 

[AnOminous]

All of these fuckers are diaper freaks. I should have known.

Between this pervert and Guillaume LaBelle, this has been a pretty bad week in the road to peak trans.

 

[Norman B. Normal]

Minor PL, but I have a friend who often testifies before our state legislature on matters that concern their line of work. It's certainly an honor to be asked to testify, but it's not nearly as momentous as it might seem. Rhys would in all likelihood be testifying before committee as part of a panel, which in the before time would mean sitting at a long table with three or four other people, each of whom delivers their prepared remarks for about 5 minutes or so, and then the legislators ask the panel any questions they might have. (These days it mostly works the same way except over Zoom, so you don't even have to travel to the state capital to testify.) For most matters, the entire panel might have to field two or three questions at most, and it's not uncommon for the entire panel to be dismissed without any questions at all if the committee has to bring in another panel or needs to head to the floor for a vote. Your appearance won't air on television, even if you live in one of the few states that has a local equivalent of C-SPAN, but if you're lucky the legislature will put video of the committee hearing on its website so you can call your mother and tell her to watch.

For a contentious matter like troons in sports the process would probably be a bit more high-profile than that, but it's still pretty small potatoes compared to basically anything on the federal level. When was the last time you saw video from a state legislative hearing on TV, except maybe during a late night comedy show when one of the legislators audibly farts while speaking? If Rhys is telling the truth about being asked to testify and turning it down, he probably felt the whole thing was beneath him. What's more likely, though, is that someone told him that the Democratic caucus was trying to put together a panel to testify and that he should get in touch with them, and he blew it off and spun it like they came to him and he turned them down.