Welcome to the Hammer House of Horrors. If there’s one thing that gender ideology is good for, it enables the dregs of society, the rapists, the perverts, the paedophiles, the narcissists, the sports cheats, the aggressive misogynists, the homophobes, the delusional, the virtue signalling handmaidens, the Munchausen mums and the downright thick, to play a full part in society and demand that we all rally round, placate and validate them….. I’m trying very hard to think of a positive and this is the best I’ve come up with. 🙄
It's a sad day when you have to question the sex of someone who has committed a serious crime because the media has muddied the waters by reporting a man as a 'woman' when reporting such crimes. Also, shame on the ideologically captured NSPCC.
Have none of these people read the Cass Review. As EDI Jester has been saying, if you have read that and are still pushing all this then presumably you are happy with causing catastrophic and irreversible harm to children many of whom will simply be gay or lesbian! I know it was already obvious for a very long time and many people have been saying it for years, but it is now set in stone.
they just dismiss Cass as politically motivated and move on. It sickens me Dusty. Found out today that we have non binary teacher at school. How is a teacher’s identity relevant to delivering an educational programme. When i teach i don’t slide in my belief systems, i just fucking do what i’m paid to do. Not sure how to respond to this inevitable but upsetting information.
Very sorry to hear that, CB. The children should not have to pander to the delusions of the teacher! If you have not already done so I suggest you contact Sex Matters or the Safe Schools Alliance.
thanks Dusty, not had time to respond yet or even think about it much. Tbf to the schools there’s been a complete void of leadership from dfe. Everyone’s just making it up and if a teacher comes out as whatever, what are they meant to do? Lets hope sensible policy is rolled out at some point
I still can't figure out what the hell "non-binary" is supposed to mean. That neither of the two gender roles suits you? Then why not just say that gender is nonsense and reject it entirely? That you're neither male nor female? That would mean that you're not human, either (or even a mammal, for that matter).
Would this teacher happen to be a woman, by any chance? So many "enbys" seem to be.
Hey Dusty you might know…. is there any decent research as too the demographics that make up trans and non binary etc people? I think its importabt because theres obs a massive difference between a child suffering and a middle aged man. Society needs to know the facts to make good decisions.
The Tavistock figures for children are in the Cass Review eg showing the enormous rise in girls with so called gender dysphoria.
There was an 'LGBT' question in the 2021 Census but the results from this have been much disparaged eg it appeared that the highest number of 'trans people' were in LB Newham but also there are the highest number of people with English as a second language in LB Newham. In other words it appears that lots of people (and I don't blame them) didn't understand the question!!
It’s difficult for me to understand the willingness for some parents to go through with this trans charade. But I recall, whilst still a student, that one of those stage hypnotists visited and had a routine to gather suitable victims. He asked everyone who was “feeling brave” to clasp their hands to their foreheads. He’d count to five and then those with clasped hands would be unable to move their hands back. This was a way of figuring out where the suggestible audience members were.
There’s always a percentage of suggestible. These are the ones who, when the covid show hit, ran out to stack up on toilet rolls. It wouldn’t take many of them to create a considerable gap in the shelves after which others would feel the panic and this created a snowball effect.
In short, any idiotic scam shoved out in the news will, if pushed long enough, result in a flood of the gullible. With the trans programme, it helps that the target audience are children who are naturally impressionable – and love to have an audience. And frankly there are irresponsible parents who are heady with the notion that their child will “change sex” giving them a new “son” or “daughter”.
And I keep hearing this hugely dubious noise about the “euphoria” experienced by the “changelings”.
But don’t forget that there doesn’t even have to be a majority of cases. Just one or two here and there will be enough to create the effect the media are craving.
But I dread what will happen to these poor kids when the “euphoria” wears off and they realised they have ruined themselves.
That's where the detransitioners come in. I sometimes watch them on YouTube. Their regrets are all a little different. Some cut their breasts off before coming to their senses, which reduces their sexual attractiveness and means they won't be able to breastfeed their children. Others -- and this is a particularly unhappy group -- had their voices drop into the baritone range from taking testosterone, making them women with men's voices for the rest of their lives. Other young women still have beards that may not stop growing. One young man, the moment he turned 18, started the process of transitioning by having his testicles removed, and now he is a man without all of his sex organs. In my opinion, transitioning shouldn't be legal before the age of 25. Trans-obsessed young people need to be given the maximum amount of time to come to their senses.
I remember that rush on toilet paper. I also remember that I didn't go out and buy any. It's good to know that I'm not [too] suggestible.
What you’re telling me there is terrifying and I can’t believe this is happening.
I honestly feel like the little boy in the tale of the King’s New Clothes. I wasn’t there when the swindlers convinced the crowd that the new clothes could only be seen by the clever. Unfortunately THIS tale we are in ends differently. Whereas the boy shouts out that the king is naked and the crowd, glad to be woken up, join in, I shout that the king is naked.... but everyone shushes me up and continues to admire the clothes!
It's a sad day when you have to question the sex of someone who has committed a serious crime because the media has muddied the waters by reporting a man as a 'woman' when reporting such crimes. Also, shame on the ideologically captured NSPCC.
I think that the mugshots released by the authorities, as per the case above, are blatantly trans-discriminatory. They should, at least, have the option of putting on some make-up and a bit of lippy before they have their photo taken. ;)
The thing about Becky Pepper-Jackson is that his mother is teaching him that it is okay to be unfair to other people in the world as long as your own needs and wants are being advanced. Of course, six-foot-one-inch Lia Thomas has already provided that lesson to the world, but to the best of my knowledge, Thomas didn't have his family backing him up. He came up with his unfair scheme all on his own.
It concerns me especially that the federal courts are stepping into this imbroglio on the wrong side. I am not a conservative, but I nonetheless applaud those conservative U.S. states that have legislated against boys participating in girls' sports. This court ruling could be used to kill those fairness laws in ALL the states, yet this is an area where the states should have supremacy, given that the idea that a boy can become a girl via "gender identity" is only an opinion. In other words, what we have is federal judges legislating their opinions from the bench.
I don't like the fact that Mitch McConnell pushed a conservative Supreme Court on the country, but this is one area where I expect our conservative Supreme Court to bring sanity.
As to what's happening to the NSPCC, that is also a common story. Here in the U.S. I have watched as one gay organization after another morphed into being a trans organization.
We also see this loss of sanity in the behavior of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. Back when I saw Planned Parenthood as an organization that courageously defended abortion rights, I would have given them a million dollars if I had had it. Now I just see them as drug-pushers promoting bad ideas and drug addiction an children.
As soon as I read the words "I knew from the beginning" from Heather I immediately assumed that she was another delusional Munchausen mum and she has been gaslighting her poor son to think he is a girl. Less masculine than his brothers /turning a shirt into a dress / hair clips -how similiar these women all sound ' they seem to think gender is all about clothes and accessories. Straight out of the Jazz Jenning playbook.
i knew from the beginning that i was willing to sacrifice my child’s health and wellbeing to avoid having a gay or equally embarrassing child and i could have some pretty intense personal experiences along the way with cheering bystanders
Yes, she seems to court attention over her 'trans child'. That poor kid. It's clear other children resent him in their sports (and who can blame them?). He's being harmed in so many different ways.
yes its so upsetting to see the innocent dragged into this, my heart goes out to all children indoctrinated and vulnerable adults. All this stuff about the snp- their ‘progressive’ agenda they keep talking about. How is it progressive, the opposite, i have learnt of a non binary teacher at school, not sure how to respond, a teacher’s job is to deliver education not express who they are, or validate a specific belief system. and it validates the ideology to the kids without any resistance. Institutional indoctrination. it feels like. Trying to figure it out, if men went only by Mr, and Women by Ms, i could say our titles are purely based on physical biology but men had to know didnt they in the past the marital status of a woman which complicates things a bit because they will argue a woman choosing Ms/Mrs or Miss is an expression of identity. F-ing men entitled to know a woman’s marital status, pathetic like its any of our business, but If students are pressured into using custom pronouns for some staff its basically an endorsement of the ideology. So tired i can’t think straight. Sorry JL, i make small steps towards peace and then something sets me off again. Still great GNS today.
Good points and in trying to figure all this out and what gave it such fertile ground to flourish. It's always frustrating to have an ideology so patently not progressive being declared as that. It's recidivist stereotyping to force us all back into some roles. How it magnified some strange views I thought were dying out. We're not that far from not being allowed to vote or have mortgages and viewed as more stable and 'better' members of society through being married. Having to have a man vouch for us. My grandmother had to give up her career on getting married about a century ago, and you could not take certain government postings if married (or single) until the 1970s and 80s, so very much in living memory. Many senior women in government roles speak about what they had to go through to get to where they are. There was a fuss over female teachers wearing trousers (oh the horror) in front of class until the 80s. Plus ça change. And that is why I find young women handing away and eroding all our rights so infuriating.
The loss of sanity in PP and the ACLU can be laid at the feet of their funding. They have accepted the poisoned apples of grants and low-interest funding from the large funds and they are now beholden to their agendas. Other groups such as Amnesty International have gone the same way.
Years ago, I worked at a non-profit that worked with the homeless population. It was run on a shoestring and there was never really enough money to get everything that we needed. I once asked the head of the organization why she didn't ask for funding from the major industries in our city, as Gates, Microsoft, Amazon, etc were well known for giving money to such groups. She explained that if she took any of that money she would no longer be able to run the charity the way she felt was the right way. That she would be forced to change her focus, hire people she didn't want to and assign beliefs and 'mission statements' to her organization that she disagreed with.
I wish more NGOs had been faithful to their original purposes and not so eager to secure large salaries and the trappings of wealth.
While I'm certainly relieved whenever this insane ideology encounters a roadblock, that it's coming from the political right worries me. Because they believe in gender just as much as the trans-cultists do, you know? All that separates the two camps is disagreement over whether gender must be tied to biological sex or not. But this really amounts to quibbling as far as I'm concerned.
I just hope that the right wingers who currently oppose the TRAs never realize this. Otherwise they may join forces to roll back women's rights and send LGB people back into the closet. The only reason that hasn't happened already, I suspect, is the right's mistaken belief that trans = gay. Thank goodness for their raging homophobia! (Now THERE'S a sentence I never thought I'd say...) Please, PLEASE don't let them figure out that most of the trans-cult is straight!
I'm confused by your comment. First of all, the trans movement is being fed more by liberals than by conservatives. (I'm a liberal, by the way.) It is the liberals who have glommed onto the bad idea that one's gender is a choice.
Whether our gender comes from our bodies or our gender identities is not quibbling. It is a disagreement that goes to the very foundation of what human beings are. Either we are animals, in which case our bodies determine our gender, or we are disembodied spirits, in which case our feelings determine our gender. Although I do believe we are spirits, we are animals while we are incarnate, and that reality must take precedence.
TRAs are already trying to roll back women's and gay people's right. They believe only in their own rights.
I don't have any statistics on what percentage of trans people are gay and what percentage are straight. I'd be curious to see. If you are a male with autogynephilia, you are straight.
How do you define gender? Perhaps that's the best place to begin; it may clarify my position for you.
I define "gender" thusly: "a false set of stereotypes about the sexes, defined and imposed by society, the core of which is the idea that women are inferior to men".
So the details of one's belief in the above don't mean much to me, you know? As the ideology itself is nonsense, and singularly malignant nonsense, at that. I don't care whether it comes dressed up in blue hair and a nose-ring, or thumping a bible; those are simply matters of style. The heart of it is the same either way: rotten.
Yes, I realize that the trans movement sees itself as a liberal one (more's the pity-- fellow liberal here). But I'm not sure that it's so simple. Think of all the children whose parents brought them to the Tavistock seeking to "trans away the gay", and all the funding provided by rich conservative Republican TIMs like James "Jennifer" Pritzker. If anything, the success of this cult may show that many liberals aren't really so liberal after all. Not when it comes to something as ancient, all-pervasive, and deeply-rooted as gender.
I know that some conservative parents would prefer to have a transgender child than a gay child, but generally speaking such people believe that the actual sex of the body can be changed, which it can't.
To me, the words "sex" and "gender" mean pretty much the same thing, although the word "gender" is used more often to describe secondary sexual characteristics.
I guess I'd say that such parents not believing that biological sex can be changed is something of a distinction without a difference, given how hardcore their belief in gender is; to them, a boy who wears dresses and plays with dolls IS a girl-- that's what "being a girl" MEANS. So that sex can't be changed is irrelevant to them, as gender overrides it anyway. In this, they are indistinguishable from TRAs (who effectively believe the same thing).
I definitely don't think that "sex" and "gender" are synonymous; the former is biology, the latter ideology. Gender didn't exist before we humans invented it, and will cease to exist as soon as we stop believing in it. Biological sex existed long before we humans did, and will continue to exist whether we believe in it or not; indeed, even whether WE exist or not (provided that some animal or plant species which uses sexual reproduction is still around). Therein lies the difference.
This is not to say that I agree with the "trans"ists that gender needn't be based on sex. Quite the contrary: gender is all ABOUT sex, interpreting-- or more accurately MISinterpreting-- it so as to place value judgements on it (specifically that femaleness is inferior to maleness). And ironically, the trans-cult believes this, too: just look at how, despite their incessant cries of "TWAW!!!", they fall all over themselves to grant TIMs male privilege, especially over women... even the ones who call themselves men.
oh here we are again, team fucking 1850s are at it again ruining life for everyone by re inventing humanity, i get there’s a climate emergency and no one under 100 can afford a house, and having children will destroy the planet and ai will take all our jobs and humanistic expression will be replaced by masters of the ai prompt but for fuck sake before we voluntarily replace our body parts with smart limbs can we just enjoy the gift of a physically male or female body or in some cases inter sex and just accept each other without judgement. Gender identity my unremarkable but functioning arse. sorry bit pissed, thanks JL.
The Orwellian language is everywhere and always has an air of the soulless corporate pep talk e.g. “commitment to creating an inclusive and compassionate environment”.
I’m reminded of a scene in Danny Kaye’s “Up In Arms” which is all about a compulsive hypochondriac. He gets in a lift with a gentleman who coughs casually. Kaye takes notice and starts to badger the other with questions about his cough and advice on what it might be etc. In the few seconds it takes for the lift to arrive, the other is transformed from a healthy and happy visitor to a nervous wreck half convinced he is about to die.
It is exactly this kind of reversal that the trans talk, like anti-racist talk and the various health talks, aim at. Despite the pretence at having your best interests at heart, this strategy wants to disarm you and intimidate you.
I also note this old chestnut: “Numerous complaints from staff members have been received, and a recent complaint from a patient regarding your anti-trans and transphobic rhetoric and symbols has been brought to our attention”. As always the mysterious “numerous complaints” from anonymous sources which these organisations wanted in order to apply the rough response they had already planned.
I have also noted a “reverse psychology” aspect to this very much self-conscious “all inclusive” approach. I have no wish to glamorise the past but when I saw e.g. a black person on a programme in the 70s I thought nothing of it at all. Nowadays, when I see black people on TV, I feel as if the blackness is being highlighted, emphasised and aggressively pushed at me. I have a similar feeling to what I experience when seeing the interminable “Pride” marches. Nobody cares what consenting adults do in private. But when they all bring it out and shove it in your face, it’s hard to avoid the feeling that you are being constantly poked with a big stick until, sooner or later, you inevitably respond irritably, at which point there is a gleeful cry of “See! We knew you were a bigot!”
Sentences for sexual offences need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Every week I see yet more ludicrously light sentences and now almost all of them seem to be suspended. It's obviously part of a deliberate strategy because the prison system is teetering on the edge but it's not good enough - this was a four year organised campaign of offending FFS!
Of course, if women weren't having to spend all their time having to defend their most basic rights we'd have time to tackle this!
It’s remarkable how the trans language has spread everywhere and terms such as “anti-trans” and “transphobic” are accepted without further thought. There are no “trans people” because sex is not “assigned at birth” any more than a head or a heart is assigned at birth. Everyone is born with a sex which is an essential part of them. And there is no difference between sex and gender.
Thus the word “assigned” is totally misused. You are assigned a homework exercise, a job, a role in a play etc. Assignment is always temporary. The trans ideology would have us believe our sexuality was as changeable as our hobbies or our clothes.
If ever there was a case of someone genuinely feeling that their sex was wrong (without the relentless trans-propaganda browbeating them into it) then there is little that can be done since no-one can be turned into a member of the opposite sex. All that will happen is that they become a mutilated version of the sex they started with. (Unless they are a rare case of someone bearing both genital characteristics in which perhaps something can be done.)
But ultimately I think the trans programme aims at de-sexualising as many people as possible and turning them into narcissistic hermits.
Bearing all the above in mind, I find it frustrating that many of the very people opposed to this ferocious assault on sex itself still go along with the terminology and insist that they “don’t oppose trans-people”.
And when I hear about “trans people”, it creates an odd conceptual vacuum. A person without a sex makes no sense. Thus when I hear about “those poor trans kids”, it makes no sense at all. To label them “trans kids” is already an assault on their very being. They may as well have been transformed into the pod people of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.
I admit that I use the lingo to a certain extent -- at least, I use the term "trans" even though I know that transitioning isn't possible. I don't use the term "assigned". If you don't at least use the terms "trans" and "transgender", then it just makes it harder to communicate on the issue.
And by the way Perry I am not anti trans. I am fiercely protective of women's rights and the wellbeing of children. If it's of interest the last Census in UK suggests that many people did not understand that a transwoman is a natal male .
Obviously, I don't agree. The term isn't in wide use among the general public, but most people have come to understand that "trans woman" means a "woman" who was once a man, and vice-versa for trans men. But thanks for the suggestion.
Sorry to disagree Perry. Once we use the language of gender ideology, we have capitulated to it. Without their language, they have nothing. It’s the words which are propping up the delusions. And most people don’t really understand trans woman either. What we have to do is keep using correctly sexed language until it is widely understood.
Also, we don’t regard ourselves as anti trans, just anti gender ideology which is entirely different.
Welcome to the Hammer House of Horrors. If there’s one thing that gender ideology is good for, it enables the dregs of society, the rapists, the perverts, the paedophiles, the narcissists, the sports cheats, the aggressive misogynists, the homophobes, the delusional, the virtue signalling handmaidens, the Munchausen mums and the downright thick, to play a full part in society and demand that we all rally round, placate and validate them….. I’m trying very hard to think of a positive and this is the best I’ve come up with. 🙄
Thanks as ever JL.
Perfectly put, TT
Pretty good effort there Ms Terfin. Still shite but you can’t
polish a turd, not even if it identifies as caviar
An unmatchable summary of the cohort involved. Nice one.
It's a sad day when you have to question the sex of someone who has committed a serious crime because the media has muddied the waters by reporting a man as a 'woman' when reporting such crimes. Also, shame on the ideologically captured NSPCC.
Thank as ever, JL.
Have none of these people read the Cass Review. As EDI Jester has been saying, if you have read that and are still pushing all this then presumably you are happy with causing catastrophic and irreversible harm to children many of whom will simply be gay or lesbian! I know it was already obvious for a very long time and many people have been saying it for years, but it is now set in stone.
Dusty
they just dismiss Cass as politically motivated and move on. It sickens me Dusty. Found out today that we have non binary teacher at school. How is a teacher’s identity relevant to delivering an educational programme. When i teach i don’t slide in my belief systems, i just fucking do what i’m paid to do. Not sure how to respond to this inevitable but upsetting information.
Its fucking bring your ideology to work decade.
Very sorry to hear that, CB. The children should not have to pander to the delusions of the teacher! If you have not already done so I suggest you contact Sex Matters or the Safe Schools Alliance.
Dusty
thanks Dusty, not had time to respond yet or even think about it much. Tbf to the schools there’s been a complete void of leadership from dfe. Everyone’s just making it up and if a teacher comes out as whatever, what are they meant to do? Lets hope sensible policy is rolled out at some point
I still can't figure out what the hell "non-binary" is supposed to mean. That neither of the two gender roles suits you? Then why not just say that gender is nonsense and reject it entirely? That you're neither male nor female? That would mean that you're not human, either (or even a mammal, for that matter).
Would this teacher happen to be a woman, by any chance? So many "enbys" seem to be.
Its such bullshit FTBMAY. It doesn’t even pass afternoon drinking levels of critical thinking does it. Very frustrating
Exactly Dusty, it’s sickening.
Hey Dusty you might know…. is there any decent research as too the demographics that make up trans and non binary etc people? I think its importabt because theres obs a massive difference between a child suffering and a middle aged man. Society needs to know the facts to make good decisions.
Hi CB
The Tavistock figures for children are in the Cass Review eg showing the enormous rise in girls with so called gender dysphoria.
There was an 'LGBT' question in the 2021 Census but the results from this have been much disparaged eg it appeared that the highest number of 'trans people' were in LB Newham but also there are the highest number of people with English as a second language in LB Newham. In other words it appears that lots of people (and I don't blame them) didn't understand the question!!
I reported on this here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/humpty-dumpty?utm_source=publication-search
JL, any other info here?
Dusty
just wrote to my mp again Dusty asking her to endorse/accept Cass. Its such ashame she’s good on so many issues.
Let us know how you get on , CB.
I did the same with my MP - no response as yet!
Dusty
thanks Dusty, i had a look at the census, i will review your article. Cheers
It’s difficult for me to understand the willingness for some parents to go through with this trans charade. But I recall, whilst still a student, that one of those stage hypnotists visited and had a routine to gather suitable victims. He asked everyone who was “feeling brave” to clasp their hands to their foreheads. He’d count to five and then those with clasped hands would be unable to move their hands back. This was a way of figuring out where the suggestible audience members were.
There’s always a percentage of suggestible. These are the ones who, when the covid show hit, ran out to stack up on toilet rolls. It wouldn’t take many of them to create a considerable gap in the shelves after which others would feel the panic and this created a snowball effect.
In short, any idiotic scam shoved out in the news will, if pushed long enough, result in a flood of the gullible. With the trans programme, it helps that the target audience are children who are naturally impressionable – and love to have an audience. And frankly there are irresponsible parents who are heady with the notion that their child will “change sex” giving them a new “son” or “daughter”.
And I keep hearing this hugely dubious noise about the “euphoria” experienced by the “changelings”.
But don’t forget that there doesn’t even have to be a majority of cases. Just one or two here and there will be enough to create the effect the media are craving.
But I dread what will happen to these poor kids when the “euphoria” wears off and they realised they have ruined themselves.
That's where the detransitioners come in. I sometimes watch them on YouTube. Their regrets are all a little different. Some cut their breasts off before coming to their senses, which reduces their sexual attractiveness and means they won't be able to breastfeed their children. Others -- and this is a particularly unhappy group -- had their voices drop into the baritone range from taking testosterone, making them women with men's voices for the rest of their lives. Other young women still have beards that may not stop growing. One young man, the moment he turned 18, started the process of transitioning by having his testicles removed, and now he is a man without all of his sex organs. In my opinion, transitioning shouldn't be legal before the age of 25. Trans-obsessed young people need to be given the maximum amount of time to come to their senses.
I remember that rush on toilet paper. I also remember that I didn't go out and buy any. It's good to know that I'm not [too] suggestible.
What you’re telling me there is terrifying and I can’t believe this is happening.
I honestly feel like the little boy in the tale of the King’s New Clothes. I wasn’t there when the swindlers convinced the crowd that the new clothes could only be seen by the clever. Unfortunately THIS tale we are in ends differently. Whereas the boy shouts out that the king is naked and the crowd, glad to be woken up, join in, I shout that the king is naked.... but everyone shushes me up and continues to admire the clothes!
Many thanks JL.
It's a sad day when you have to question the sex of someone who has committed a serious crime because the media has muddied the waters by reporting a man as a 'woman' when reporting such crimes. Also, shame on the ideologically captured NSPCC.
I think that the mugshots released by the authorities, as per the case above, are blatantly trans-discriminatory. They should, at least, have the option of putting on some make-up and a bit of lippy before they have their photo taken. ;)
As ever, thanks JL.
Cheers Ian!
The thing about Becky Pepper-Jackson is that his mother is teaching him that it is okay to be unfair to other people in the world as long as your own needs and wants are being advanced. Of course, six-foot-one-inch Lia Thomas has already provided that lesson to the world, but to the best of my knowledge, Thomas didn't have his family backing him up. He came up with his unfair scheme all on his own.
It concerns me especially that the federal courts are stepping into this imbroglio on the wrong side. I am not a conservative, but I nonetheless applaud those conservative U.S. states that have legislated against boys participating in girls' sports. This court ruling could be used to kill those fairness laws in ALL the states, yet this is an area where the states should have supremacy, given that the idea that a boy can become a girl via "gender identity" is only an opinion. In other words, what we have is federal judges legislating their opinions from the bench.
I don't like the fact that Mitch McConnell pushed a conservative Supreme Court on the country, but this is one area where I expect our conservative Supreme Court to bring sanity.
As to what's happening to the NSPCC, that is also a common story. Here in the U.S. I have watched as one gay organization after another morphed into being a trans organization.
We also see this loss of sanity in the behavior of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. Back when I saw Planned Parenthood as an organization that courageously defended abortion rights, I would have given them a million dollars if I had had it. Now I just see them as drug-pushers promoting bad ideas and drug addiction an children.
As soon as I read the words "I knew from the beginning" from Heather I immediately assumed that she was another delusional Munchausen mum and she has been gaslighting her poor son to think he is a girl. Less masculine than his brothers /turning a shirt into a dress / hair clips -how similiar these women all sound ' they seem to think gender is all about clothes and accessories. Straight out of the Jazz Jenning playbook.
i knew from the beginning that i was willing to sacrifice my child’s health and wellbeing to avoid having a gay or equally embarrassing child and i could have some pretty intense personal experiences along the way with cheering bystanders
Yes, she seems to court attention over her 'trans child'. That poor kid. It's clear other children resent him in their sports (and who can blame them?). He's being harmed in so many different ways.
yes its so upsetting to see the innocent dragged into this, my heart goes out to all children indoctrinated and vulnerable adults. All this stuff about the snp- their ‘progressive’ agenda they keep talking about. How is it progressive, the opposite, i have learnt of a non binary teacher at school, not sure how to respond, a teacher’s job is to deliver education not express who they are, or validate a specific belief system. and it validates the ideology to the kids without any resistance. Institutional indoctrination. it feels like. Trying to figure it out, if men went only by Mr, and Women by Ms, i could say our titles are purely based on physical biology but men had to know didnt they in the past the marital status of a woman which complicates things a bit because they will argue a woman choosing Ms/Mrs or Miss is an expression of identity. F-ing men entitled to know a woman’s marital status, pathetic like its any of our business, but If students are pressured into using custom pronouns for some staff its basically an endorsement of the ideology. So tired i can’t think straight. Sorry JL, i make small steps towards peace and then something sets me off again. Still great GNS today.
Good points and in trying to figure all this out and what gave it such fertile ground to flourish. It's always frustrating to have an ideology so patently not progressive being declared as that. It's recidivist stereotyping to force us all back into some roles. How it magnified some strange views I thought were dying out. We're not that far from not being allowed to vote or have mortgages and viewed as more stable and 'better' members of society through being married. Having to have a man vouch for us. My grandmother had to give up her career on getting married about a century ago, and you could not take certain government postings if married (or single) until the 1970s and 80s, so very much in living memory. Many senior women in government roles speak about what they had to go through to get to where they are. There was a fuss over female teachers wearing trousers (oh the horror) in front of class until the 80s. Plus ça change. And that is why I find young women handing away and eroding all our rights so infuriating.
The loss of sanity in PP and the ACLU can be laid at the feet of their funding. They have accepted the poisoned apples of grants and low-interest funding from the large funds and they are now beholden to their agendas. Other groups such as Amnesty International have gone the same way.
Years ago, I worked at a non-profit that worked with the homeless population. It was run on a shoestring and there was never really enough money to get everything that we needed. I once asked the head of the organization why she didn't ask for funding from the major industries in our city, as Gates, Microsoft, Amazon, etc were well known for giving money to such groups. She explained that if she took any of that money she would no longer be able to run the charity the way she felt was the right way. That she would be forced to change her focus, hire people she didn't want to and assign beliefs and 'mission statements' to her organization that she disagreed with.
I wish more NGOs had been faithful to their original purposes and not so eager to secure large salaries and the trappings of wealth.
While I'm certainly relieved whenever this insane ideology encounters a roadblock, that it's coming from the political right worries me. Because they believe in gender just as much as the trans-cultists do, you know? All that separates the two camps is disagreement over whether gender must be tied to biological sex or not. But this really amounts to quibbling as far as I'm concerned.
I just hope that the right wingers who currently oppose the TRAs never realize this. Otherwise they may join forces to roll back women's rights and send LGB people back into the closet. The only reason that hasn't happened already, I suspect, is the right's mistaken belief that trans = gay. Thank goodness for their raging homophobia! (Now THERE'S a sentence I never thought I'd say...) Please, PLEASE don't let them figure out that most of the trans-cult is straight!
I'm confused by your comment. First of all, the trans movement is being fed more by liberals than by conservatives. (I'm a liberal, by the way.) It is the liberals who have glommed onto the bad idea that one's gender is a choice.
Whether our gender comes from our bodies or our gender identities is not quibbling. It is a disagreement that goes to the very foundation of what human beings are. Either we are animals, in which case our bodies determine our gender, or we are disembodied spirits, in which case our feelings determine our gender. Although I do believe we are spirits, we are animals while we are incarnate, and that reality must take precedence.
TRAs are already trying to roll back women's and gay people's right. They believe only in their own rights.
I don't have any statistics on what percentage of trans people are gay and what percentage are straight. I'd be curious to see. If you are a male with autogynephilia, you are straight.
How do you define gender? Perhaps that's the best place to begin; it may clarify my position for you.
I define "gender" thusly: "a false set of stereotypes about the sexes, defined and imposed by society, the core of which is the idea that women are inferior to men".
So the details of one's belief in the above don't mean much to me, you know? As the ideology itself is nonsense, and singularly malignant nonsense, at that. I don't care whether it comes dressed up in blue hair and a nose-ring, or thumping a bible; those are simply matters of style. The heart of it is the same either way: rotten.
Yes, I realize that the trans movement sees itself as a liberal one (more's the pity-- fellow liberal here). But I'm not sure that it's so simple. Think of all the children whose parents brought them to the Tavistock seeking to "trans away the gay", and all the funding provided by rich conservative Republican TIMs like James "Jennifer" Pritzker. If anything, the success of this cult may show that many liberals aren't really so liberal after all. Not when it comes to something as ancient, all-pervasive, and deeply-rooted as gender.
I know that some conservative parents would prefer to have a transgender child than a gay child, but generally speaking such people believe that the actual sex of the body can be changed, which it can't.
To me, the words "sex" and "gender" mean pretty much the same thing, although the word "gender" is used more often to describe secondary sexual characteristics.
I guess I'd say that such parents not believing that biological sex can be changed is something of a distinction without a difference, given how hardcore their belief in gender is; to them, a boy who wears dresses and plays with dolls IS a girl-- that's what "being a girl" MEANS. So that sex can't be changed is irrelevant to them, as gender overrides it anyway. In this, they are indistinguishable from TRAs (who effectively believe the same thing).
I definitely don't think that "sex" and "gender" are synonymous; the former is biology, the latter ideology. Gender didn't exist before we humans invented it, and will cease to exist as soon as we stop believing in it. Biological sex existed long before we humans did, and will continue to exist whether we believe in it or not; indeed, even whether WE exist or not (provided that some animal or plant species which uses sexual reproduction is still around). Therein lies the difference.
This is not to say that I agree with the "trans"ists that gender needn't be based on sex. Quite the contrary: gender is all ABOUT sex, interpreting-- or more accurately MISinterpreting-- it so as to place value judgements on it (specifically that femaleness is inferior to maleness). And ironically, the trans-cult believes this, too: just look at how, despite their incessant cries of "TWAW!!!", they fall all over themselves to grant TIMs male privilege, especially over women... even the ones who call themselves men.
oh here we are again, team fucking 1850s are at it again ruining life for everyone by re inventing humanity, i get there’s a climate emergency and no one under 100 can afford a house, and having children will destroy the planet and ai will take all our jobs and humanistic expression will be replaced by masters of the ai prompt but for fuck sake before we voluntarily replace our body parts with smart limbs can we just enjoy the gift of a physically male or female body or in some cases inter sex and just accept each other without judgement. Gender identity my unremarkable but functioning arse. sorry bit pissed, thanks JL.
Getting pissed often seems like the only sensible response to this utter madness, CB!
When I look at Galligan all I can think is, "What in the zombie meth hell is that?!?"
The Orwellian language is everywhere and always has an air of the soulless corporate pep talk e.g. “commitment to creating an inclusive and compassionate environment”.
I’m reminded of a scene in Danny Kaye’s “Up In Arms” which is all about a compulsive hypochondriac. He gets in a lift with a gentleman who coughs casually. Kaye takes notice and starts to badger the other with questions about his cough and advice on what it might be etc. In the few seconds it takes for the lift to arrive, the other is transformed from a healthy and happy visitor to a nervous wreck half convinced he is about to die.
It is exactly this kind of reversal that the trans talk, like anti-racist talk and the various health talks, aim at. Despite the pretence at having your best interests at heart, this strategy wants to disarm you and intimidate you.
I also note this old chestnut: “Numerous complaints from staff members have been received, and a recent complaint from a patient regarding your anti-trans and transphobic rhetoric and symbols has been brought to our attention”. As always the mysterious “numerous complaints” from anonymous sources which these organisations wanted in order to apply the rough response they had already planned.
I have also noted a “reverse psychology” aspect to this very much self-conscious “all inclusive” approach. I have no wish to glamorise the past but when I saw e.g. a black person on a programme in the 70s I thought nothing of it at all. Nowadays, when I see black people on TV, I feel as if the blackness is being highlighted, emphasised and aggressively pushed at me. I have a similar feeling to what I experience when seeing the interminable “Pride” marches. Nobody cares what consenting adults do in private. But when they all bring it out and shove it in your face, it’s hard to avoid the feeling that you are being constantly poked with a big stick until, sooner or later, you inevitably respond irritably, at which point there is a gleeful cry of “See! We knew you were a bigot!”
It is taunting. It is narcissistic "gas-lighting". I have first hand experience and it is unbearable. Except that I had to bear it for about 8 years.
So Dennis and Morgan have got off virtually scott free with suspended sentences! Well, that’ll ‘learn’ them!
Sentences for sexual offences need to be addressed as a matter of urgency. Every week I see yet more ludicrously light sentences and now almost all of them seem to be suspended. It's obviously part of a deliberate strategy because the prison system is teetering on the edge but it's not good enough - this was a four year organised campaign of offending FFS!
Of course, if women weren't having to spend all their time having to defend their most basic rights we'd have time to tackle this!
The Colorado child abductor....
“Solomon claims to identify a woman” - phew, that's OK then. For a moment I was worried he was yet another trans sex offender!
It’s remarkable how the trans language has spread everywhere and terms such as “anti-trans” and “transphobic” are accepted without further thought. There are no “trans people” because sex is not “assigned at birth” any more than a head or a heart is assigned at birth. Everyone is born with a sex which is an essential part of them. And there is no difference between sex and gender.
Thus the word “assigned” is totally misused. You are assigned a homework exercise, a job, a role in a play etc. Assignment is always temporary. The trans ideology would have us believe our sexuality was as changeable as our hobbies or our clothes.
If ever there was a case of someone genuinely feeling that their sex was wrong (without the relentless trans-propaganda browbeating them into it) then there is little that can be done since no-one can be turned into a member of the opposite sex. All that will happen is that they become a mutilated version of the sex they started with. (Unless they are a rare case of someone bearing both genital characteristics in which perhaps something can be done.)
But ultimately I think the trans programme aims at de-sexualising as many people as possible and turning them into narcissistic hermits.
Bearing all the above in mind, I find it frustrating that many of the very people opposed to this ferocious assault on sex itself still go along with the terminology and insist that they “don’t oppose trans-people”.
And when I hear about “trans people”, it creates an odd conceptual vacuum. A person without a sex makes no sense. Thus when I hear about “those poor trans kids”, it makes no sense at all. To label them “trans kids” is already an assault on their very being. They may as well have been transformed into the pod people of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.
I admit that I use the lingo to a certain extent -- at least, I use the term "trans" even though I know that transitioning isn't possible. I don't use the term "assigned". If you don't at least use the terms "trans" and "transgender", then it just makes it harder to communicate on the issue.
Use the words trans identified male. Not transwoman
No one but anti-trans activists knows what "trans-identified male" means. That term doesn't clarify anything.
And by the way Perry I am not anti trans. I am fiercely protective of women's rights and the wellbeing of children. If it's of interest the last Census in UK suggests that many people did not understand that a transwoman is a natal male .
Yes, I understand. I just posted a response to Tenaciously Terfin which may help to clarify my position for you.
I am offering an accurate description of a male person identifying as a female person. This helps to avoid the confusion.
Obviously, I don't agree. The term isn't in wide use among the general public, but most people have come to understand that "trans woman" means a "woman" who was once a man, and vice-versa for trans men. But thanks for the suggestion.
Sorry to disagree Perry. Once we use the language of gender ideology, we have capitulated to it. Without their language, they have nothing. It’s the words which are propping up the delusions. And most people don’t really understand trans woman either. What we have to do is keep using correctly sexed language until it is widely understood.
Also, we don’t regard ourselves as anti trans, just anti gender ideology which is entirely different.