Part 1: Trans Rights? Yes. Toxic In Your Face Activism? No / A Strange Kind of Liberalism / Detail Free Slogans / When Reality Wins / Stonewall
Part 2: The Problem with Self-ID / Women’s Rights Are Human Rights / Public Opinion
Part 3: Individuals with a Cervix (nee Women) / Biology 101 / Gender Identity
Part 4: Medical Negligence and the Betrayal of Children
Part 5: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Transphobe? / Lesbians and the New Homophobia / LGB Alliance / Kathleen Stock / J.K. Rowling / Dave Chappelle
Part 6: Peak Trans / Logical Inconsistencies in Gender Identity Ideology
PEAK TRANS
You can find all sorts of mad takes on all sorts of issues these days. The thing is, when it comes to the ‘trans debate’, some of this stuff is coming from those who really should know better. Here’s more than 30 examples – most of them are quite recent (really, this blog pretty much wrote itself).
Journalist Laurie Penny telling a mother that it would be rude for her daughter to stare if somebody with a penis undressed in front of her in a women’s changing room. This was in the context of the Wi Spa incident.
Trans academic and self-ID advocate Sophie Grace Chappell arguing on Radio Scotland that if men pretending to be trans in order to access women’s spaces caused an increase in murders, “it wouldn’t matter if there was a slight spike”.
Labour MP Dawn Butler telling Richard Madeley on Good Morning Britain that “a child is born without sex”. Her interpretation of the word ‘debate’ was almost as strange but largely overshadowed.
Ellie Mae O’Hagan of the CLASS think tank going one better on BBC Politics Live by pretending not to know where babies come from. She said “I actually don’t know why some people are women and why some people are men. No one on this panel does and anyone who claims to know the answer to that question is a liar”. Labour MP John McDonnell later praised her performance on social media.
The influential trans activist Katy Montgomerie in one of her many attempts at explaining why she thinks biological sex isn’t immutable.
Oxford University’s submission to Stonewall’s workplace equality index which included these highly scientific infographics. Who knew that elves kept their gonads in their knees?
SNP councillor Mhairi Hunter, daughter of the party’s former national organiser Allison Hunter, suggesting that the word ‘female’ is some kind of transphobic dog whistle.
The Lancet describing women as ‘bodies with vaginas’ on its front page, whilst days earlier consistently using the word men in an article about prostate cancer (The two sexes according to The Lancet: Men and Fuckholes, as some critics put it). They later issued an apology.
The ACLU literally changing the words of Ruth Gader Ginsberg, by removing all references to women in a quote about abortion. They also later apologised.
The American Booksellers Association issuing a bizarre public apology for including Abigail Shrier’s ‘Irreversible Damage’, an Economist and Times book of the year, in a monthly mailing to its members – going so far as to describe it as a ‘violent incident’.
Lawyer and self-identifying good guy Jo Maugham denying the existence of cancel culture and threatening to destroy the career of a journalist in the same breath – this was in response to a Nick Cohen article in The Observer (which touched upon the trans debate).
Teesside Live trolling the public with this headline. The story goes on to say “She is charged with committing a public nuisance by indecently exposing her penis to other members of the public, whilst masturbating from a property window.” Presumably, the journalist was following editorial guidelines.
Trans author Juno Dawson, telling Attitude Magazine that “A lot of gay men are gay men as a consolation prize because they couldn’t be women”.
Transgender University of Kent Chaplain, Joy Everingham saying at a trans pride event in 2019, “It’s quite challenging to LGB people, because if gender is on a spectrum then homosexuality doesn’t really exist because it can only exist in a binary… sexuality is redundant”
Mridul Wadhwa, the transgender chief executive of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre telling rape victims that in the service of trans inclusion they might need to “reframe their trauma” and they should expect any “unacceptable beliefs” to be challenged as part of their recovery.
Victim Support, an independent charity (though proud member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champion scheme) for people affected by crime in England and Wales, reversing victim and perpetrator with this insane tweet.
High street retailer Boots publishing a rather questionable claim about the lifesaving power of pronouns in its monthly magazine.
Journalist Owen Jones celebrating [to his one million Twitter followers] a gay man being robbed and pursued by a chanting mob at Manchester Pride for wearing a t-shirt, before having to be led away by police for his own safety. This is the same Owen Jones who has been beaten up for being gay and who seems to get mugged every other month, so you’d think he might know a little bit about how it feels to be targeted by strangers. This isn’t even close to the worst thing he’s done.
Deranged quack and prominent trans activist Dr Adrian Harrop not only giving an interview to a supportive Vice News at the start of his professional misconduct tribunal over allegations he cyber-bullied, doxxed and intimidated multiple people because of their gender critical views, but also providing them with the full tribunal documents, including confidential witness statements – which they did him no favours by somehow thinking it sensible to mention in the article.
The women’s officer (who doesn’t actually identify as one) for Cambridge University’s Students’ Union, producing a document that advises students on how to “keep an eye out” for women who believe in biological sex and how to avoid “falling prey” to their “talking points”. Dominic Raab will also be very pleased to know that he was right after all, as the document helpfully states that “some people who experience misogyny are not women”.
Labour MP Barry Gardiner comparing women who want to keep single-sex spaces, as provided for in UK law, to the race-classification boards of apartheid-era South Africa.
Trans woman and former broadcaster India Willoughby offering to come on Andrew Marr’s programme to show him the cervix that she doesn’t have. She was being serious.
And here she is with some flat out homophobia – but that’s okay apparently.
The Chair of LGBT Conservatives saying that she had received abuse and death threats (from trans activists) after the LGB Alliance were given a stall at Conservative Party conference – yet still seeming to think that the LGB Alliance are the problem.
Eleanor Neale, a YouTuber with nearly two million subscribers to her channel, pandering to people who are more concerned about pronouns than murder. Randy Stair (who called himself Andrew) killed three of his co-workers and then himself in 2017 in order to ‘cross over into an animated afterlife’. Apparently, he wore makeup occasionally.
LGBTQ Nation writing a story based on “Two incarcerated women listed as plaintiffs in WoLF’s lawsuit alleged that transgender or gender nonbinary inmates sexually assaulted them”, yet turning the women into the villains.
The Labour party taking disciplinary action against a member for saying that “only women experience the menopause”. After Guido Fawkes embarrassed them by running the story and pointing out that no less than seven Labour MPs made similar statements during the World Menopause Month Debate only a month prior, their party HQ decided to blame it on an ‘admin error’.
Essex Police commemorating the zero murders of trans people that have occurred in the UK for nearly three years. And when this fact was pointed out to them, then threatening to ‘investigate’ anybody that did so – because the statement that ‘more women have been killed by policemen in the past year than trans women have been killed by anybody’ is apparently ‘unkind, unpleasant and hurtful’.
The co-chair of the National LGBT Network for police officers giving this flippant response to government plans to ensure accurate crime statistics after a growing number of instances where sexual offences by men had been recorded as being committed by women (rape by definition can only be committed with a penis).
Mermaid’s CEO Susie Green retweeting a call to make access to puberty blockers as easy as access to the contraceptive pill – so on-demand and without parents being told for the under 16s because, obviously, they are exactly the same thing…
The U.S. and World Professional Association(s) for Transgender Health putting out a joint statement in October 2021 that seemingly demands they be exempt from journalistic scrutiny.
The organisers of a campaign to boycott nightclubs after a reported (though unverified) surge in women being spiked, deciding that the name ‘Girls Night In’ just wasn’t intersectional enough – effectively making the campaign utterly meaningless.
Kirsty Blackman MP pontificating on whether discrimination on the basis of sex even exists, solving the problem of gender balance on public boards, and going to bat for homophobia. Kirsty is an elected politician and at one time was the SNP’s Deputy leader in Westminster.
Senior Lib Dem councillor Rodney Berman making an analogy between the toilet in your own private home and public ones that anybody can use in order to justify removing single-sex spaces for women – on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women no less. The ratio is strong here.
See blue-tick author and economist Professor Danny Blanchflower make the same point. The ratio is even stronger, but of course, everyone else must be the ones who are wrong…
It’s hard to know where to even start with the Green Party…
But we’ll go with this – here’s Green Party Women’s co-chair Kathryn Bristow’s cunning plan to evade scrutiny by simply removing the ability for anybody to post comments on an internal party forum.
Emma Bateman, the other Green Party Women chair had been suspended for this (she has since had her membership restored):
And this by Veronica Ivy (who went by Rachel Mckinnon as a competitive cyclist) speaks for itself.
This is absolutely batshit stuff – at best.
At worst, some of it is deeply disturbing and in some cases extremely nasty.
Those so-called ‘transphobes’ – this is what they can see. This is what I can see. If this is the ‘right side of history’, I’d like to know on what planet? And what colour the sky is there?
Honestly, there’s a constant stream of this sort of stuff and it’s just maddening to witness the level of dissonance employed by otherwise rational people pretending they can’t see it.
How is an approach to ‘rights’ and ‘inclusivity’ so detached from reality and so devoid of even a basic moral compass of genuine long-term benefit to anybody?
LOGICAL CONTRADICTIONS IN GENDER IDENTITY IDEOLOGY
- How can it be the case that everybody supports trans rights apart from a minority of bigots, but trans people are also the most marginalised group in society because nobody accepts them?
- How can there be anti-trans hate everywhere, but the massive surge in teenagers identifying as trans is due to increased societal acceptance?
- How can gender be a social construct but also an innate and immutable thing known only to the person themselves?
- How can gender be both an innate and immutable thing but also potentially fluid and subject to change?
- If sex and gender aren’t the same, how can referring to somebody’s biological sex be misgendering them?
- If sex and gender are the same and trans women/men are no different to biological women/men, then what’s the trans part for?
- If everyone can self-identity and it’s wrong to refer to anybody as something they don’t want to be called, why can’t the word ‘cis’ be rejected by those who simply describe themselves as a man or woman?
- If trans women are women and trans men are men, why the need for ‘cis’ anyway – isn’t that acknowledging that there is in fact a difference?
- If women talking about their rights infringes on trans rights, doesn’t it follow that trans rights must also infringe on women’s rights?
- Why are trans women’s fears of male violence in bathrooms justified, but women’s fears of male violence in bathrooms are mocked and derided as bigoted?
- If it is impossible to tell someone’s sex without asking, why would trans women be at risk in male toilets?
- If ‘transphobes’ are trying to remove rights that trans people have always had, why the need for Self-ID?
- If Self-ID means somebody does not need to have gender dysphoria to legally change sex, then what harm is being done to trans people by not letting them self-ID?
- How does threatening to punch or orally rape ‘TERFs’ demonstrate that trans women are no threat to women?
- Why must everyone who says they are trans be believed, unless they’re somebody like Karen White (who sexually assaulted inmates after being moved to a women’s prison) who must have been faking it?
- If feminists are the ones obsessed with genitals, why are trans activists the ones insisting they be reduced to their anatomy or bodily functions – ‘bodies with vaginas’, ‘vulva owners’, ‘menstruators’, ‘individuals with a cervix’?
- How can having female biology, including the ability to give birth, not make a person a woman, but research into uterus transplants is needed as trans women being able to give birth would enhance their feeling of womanhood?
- If somebody can be transgender because they feel like a different gender, why can’t somebody be transracial because they feel like a different race?
- How can everyone who says they are trans be trans, but detransitioners weren’t really trans to begin with?
- If detransitioners don’t matter because they are only a tiny minority, why should trans people matter?
- How can lesbians be bigots for not wanting to be pressured by trans people with penises into sexual activity but also liars because it isn’t happening?
- How can non-binary people be transgender if they don’t believe in gender?
- If agender means someone who doesn’t have a gender identity, doesn’t that include gender critical people and mean they can be trans too?
- If pansexual is not the same as bisexual because it means attracted to all gender identities including trans people, doesn’t that imply that trans women are not women and trans men are not men?
- If all it takes to be a woman is to simply say you feel like one, why are hormones and surgery necessary at all?
- Why are breasts considered feminine but not vaginas?
- If the word female triggers dysphoria in trans men by reminding them that they are biologically female, why wouldn’t pregnancy do the same?
- Why are hormones and surgery ever necessary for non-binary people if: (a) these identities are about how somebody feels inside and have nothing to do with the physical body (b) we have no way of knowing what a non-binary body is supposed to look like?
- How can puberty be an irreversible process, yet at the same time trans women should be allowed to compete in women’s sport after just 12 months of hormone therapy on the grounds that it fully reverses the advantages of male puberty?
- If gender dysphoria is not any sort of medical condition, why is any medical intervention required at all?
- How can gender dysphoria not be any kind of mental health condition, but if those who have it don’t get treatment they’ll kill themselves?
Part 1: Trans Rights? Yes. Toxic In Your Face Activism? No / A Strange Kind of Liberalism / Detail Free Slogans / When Reality Wins / Stonewall
Part 2: The Problem with Self-ID / Women’s Rights Are Human Rights / Public Opinion
Part 3: Individuals with a Cervix (nee Women) / Biology 101 / Gender Identity
Part 4: Medical Negligence and the Betrayal of Children
Part 5: Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Transphobe? / Lesbians and the New Homophobia / LGB Alliance / Kathleen Stock / J.K. Rowling / Dave Chappelle
Part 6: Peak Trans / Logical Inconsistencies in Gender Identity Ideology
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