Monday 8th August - The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen In Germany UNHERD: German government plans will allow children as young as 14 to ‘choose their own gender’ and make ‘deadnaming’ illegal. Germany is to introduce legislation which will allow anyone over the age of 14 to alter their legal sex without requiring any medical diagnosis or treatment. It will also criminalise the use of a trans person’s former name.
Just briefly scanning through JL's compilation of the ever-increasing insanity of the 'gender' cult makes me ultra grateful for the brave souls pushing back against the insanity. I cannot imagine a world where all this nonsense became the never-ending law of the land. I for one could not live in such a world -- a world where the lunatics reign supreme. A world where sane people who recognize biological reality are the enemy. Deluded and bullying men thieving the very existence of women. Four year old psyches messed up. It would be unbearable. The only way it's slightly bearable now is knowing that the cult's days are numbered. Thank you to JL and Glinner for creating this invaluable archive of 'gender' insanity.
Just too fucking depressing and angering to read all at once. In order to avoid punching the wall and breaking some fingers, it'll have to be a gradual process. A photo of a bearded, balding adult male with a cock, claiming to be a woman, and people, including women accepting that would make a vaguely amusing, if tasteless piss take. And the kid being subjected to parental fantasy is being so severely abused, she should not be in their custody.
My kid is a little bit older than 4 and continually asks if X or Y is real (tigers, howler monkeys, ghosts etc). At that age they have no idea and believe whatever you tell them. Anything more complicated than 'yes, real' or 'no, made up' is too hard for them to understand. The nuance of 'used to exist' or 'exists but in a different way' (dinosaurs, pirates) is a lost cause. I guarantee this kid thinks you can just choose to be a girl or a boy and you get special celebration points and a (literal!) round of applause for choosing 'boy'.
I won't lie, that's one of the scariest editions of TWITWOW I've read.
TERF Island is right, at the rate this is going it will start feeling like 1940 for GC people soon. Thank goodness Germany is too smart to fall for lunatic totalitarian bullshit again ... Oh wait.
On one level, the idea of self-ID meaning children don't need to be permanently medicalised or mutilated sounds like a good thing, and of course on that level alone it is, at least that means if they detransition later on they can theoretically just get on with their original lives - the mental and emotional abuse notwithstanding. But of course we all know there's a damn sight more to it than that, and as this is about money, I doubt the drive to medicalise children will abate just because self-ID suggests you don't need it.
The poor little 4 year old girl in the States is a terrifying story. Again, my brother genuinely thought he was Superman when he was 4.
One other thought - the sheer volume of dark money you must have behind you to give you the nerve to say the Cass Report doesn't matter, evidence doesn't matter, we're carrying on as we please.
This is a religious war, no two ways about it. This is the rainbow brigade saying our God is the only God and if you oppose us, we will destroy you.
Damn you, 'progressive' Left. You did this, you bastards. We've got to hope Truss or Sunak can work a miracle because if Labour/SNP/LibDems win the next election, what's happening in Germany will be us.
"Troons of Tralee" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
Incidentally, there is a town in Scotland called "Troon". I was delighted to find a woman (or was it....?) with whom I was arguing that women don't have penises lived there!
If the organisers of the Rose of Tralee festival were interested in making the contest more inclusive, then of course they'd include women of 30. If they genuinely value inclusivity, why stop at 30? Why not 45? Or 55? Or 70+? And women of all shapes, sizes and level of ability.
Forget inclusivity, it's about genuflecting to extremists leading an extremist ideology. How wonderful it would be if every prospective contestant told the organisers to go and fuck themselves.
The bright spot in this bleak edition is the Rose of Tralee. Open to single women under 30. Gee I WONDER what the theme of that was..... hmmm, let me think, was it "competition for the woman in Ireland most men would like to f@ck"? Goodness, let them have it. It actually throws a wrench into the sheer misogyny of the whole thing.
No mention of 'gender dysphoria' here. According to the Barbie/G.I Joe gender stereotypes, being 'opposite gender' really just means 'gender non-conforming'. How many German children might this encompass? I feel like, for many, it's just like signing away their body parts to a butcher. What is the point of this, from the government's point of view? To pander to woke voters!?
Has Germany been medicalising kids, like we have here? HOPEFULLY our government resists all this BS, given all the controversy about Tavistock, and the potential for lawsuits.
Well that was fucking bleak. Although I appreciate JL's important work in documenting all this horror.
Germany is digging an ideological elephant trap for itself and is about to walk right into it. Technology changes, human nature stays the same. What a mess.
Yes I agree. I think it has to come down to money which is why I think the lawsuits will do some good. If Mermaids gets shut down for flouting safety / safeguarding AND we can boot gender ideology out of our schools, surely we must be some way towards getting rid!?
I wonder if the Germans will reduce the age for getting a tattoo to 14 too or is that deemed more dangerous than puberty blockers? Next all biological Frauen und Mädchen will have to wear pink stars of David!
As for the wee girl who's being brainwashed, her mother should be jailed. I'll bet it brightens up her Instagram profile though.
Thanks for this, cheered me up! We have had some huge wins! I'm looking at Germany, horrified, but do you think politicians are less swayed by other countries than I think they are? Things do "sweep across Europe" but on the other hand, our government does now seem to be doing some decent U-turns, i.e. Suella Braverman's speech on schools. Also, we've only got 2 gender clinics - Tavistock and Sandyford. America has around 300. So maybe we really did avoid a lot of the craziness.
Were the lobotomies / repressed memory thing part of a wider political movement, the same way trans is?
People I speak to who shrug when I say that male prisoners are being housed with females and that children are given experimental drugs to halt their puberty and will go on to be infertile... I can't believe how this cult has got people thinking all of that is OK. As if any civil movements (they think it is, I don't) is bound to have sacraficial lambs to equalise things. Women and child? It's quite sickening.
Do you think we'll look back on this and wonder what the hell we were thinking? As a society I mean? One of my friends suspects all of this is wrong but is too terrified to be on the wrong side of history, so she goes along with it. I'm trying to scare her just enough to discouraged from being too sucked in by it all. I just wonder how far away we are from realising the lunacy of it all!
God ,yet more horrors. My heart breaks for that little girl and all other children like her whose future health and happiness is now being threatened by evil ideologues with the eager cooperation of their ' parents '. My opinions of parents like these , especially mother's, is unprintable !! Can't believe that any caring parent would happily throw their innocent young children to the wolves ,just to validate how "inclusive and accepting " THEY are. How can an unscientific ,reality denying ideology be allowed to continue this war on women and children? Has the human race lost its mind ? Just one of many horror stories this week. Thanks ,JL ,for continuing to expose these travesties for what they are 👍❤️🙏
I really hope so! What baffles me is that I can show someone actual evidence none of this is real, especially that the "trans child" is a fabrication and they can still be so wilfully ignorant :( they think I must be the conspiracy theorist for saying it's not true. If anything is a conspiracy, it's the idea of sexed souls... I suppose we're in an era of fake news, but still, how can a new activist group with extreme views be viewed as the sensible group?
Just briefly scanning through JL's compilation of the ever-increasing insanity of the 'gender' cult makes me ultra grateful for the brave souls pushing back against the insanity. I cannot imagine a world where all this nonsense became the never-ending law of the land. I for one could not live in such a world -- a world where the lunatics reign supreme. A world where sane people who recognize biological reality are the enemy. Deluded and bullying men thieving the very existence of women. Four year old psyches messed up. It would be unbearable. The only way it's slightly bearable now is knowing that the cult's days are numbered. Thank you to JL and Glinner for creating this invaluable archive of 'gender' insanity.
Just too fucking depressing and angering to read all at once. In order to avoid punching the wall and breaking some fingers, it'll have to be a gradual process. A photo of a bearded, balding adult male with a cock, claiming to be a woman, and people, including women accepting that would make a vaguely amusing, if tasteless piss take. And the kid being subjected to parental fantasy is being so severely abused, she should not be in their custody.
I'm with a few others here. Possibly one of the bleakest serving to date. I cna;t wait for the good news supplement JL. I suspect you need it too.
So Germany has learned absolutely nothing from blindly following an extreme ideology.
My kid is a little bit older than 4 and continually asks if X or Y is real (tigers, howler monkeys, ghosts etc). At that age they have no idea and believe whatever you tell them. Anything more complicated than 'yes, real' or 'no, made up' is too hard for them to understand. The nuance of 'used to exist' or 'exists but in a different way' (dinosaurs, pirates) is a lost cause. I guarantee this kid thinks you can just choose to be a girl or a boy and you get special celebration points and a (literal!) round of applause for choosing 'boy'.
I won't lie, that's one of the scariest editions of TWITWOW I've read.
TERF Island is right, at the rate this is going it will start feeling like 1940 for GC people soon. Thank goodness Germany is too smart to fall for lunatic totalitarian bullshit again ... Oh wait.
On one level, the idea of self-ID meaning children don't need to be permanently medicalised or mutilated sounds like a good thing, and of course on that level alone it is, at least that means if they detransition later on they can theoretically just get on with their original lives - the mental and emotional abuse notwithstanding. But of course we all know there's a damn sight more to it than that, and as this is about money, I doubt the drive to medicalise children will abate just because self-ID suggests you don't need it.
The poor little 4 year old girl in the States is a terrifying story. Again, my brother genuinely thought he was Superman when he was 4.
One other thought - the sheer volume of dark money you must have behind you to give you the nerve to say the Cass Report doesn't matter, evidence doesn't matter, we're carrying on as we please.
This is a religious war, no two ways about it. This is the rainbow brigade saying our God is the only God and if you oppose us, we will destroy you.
Damn you, 'progressive' Left. You did this, you bastards. We've got to hope Truss or Sunak can work a miracle because if Labour/SNP/LibDems win the next election, what's happening in Germany will be us.
"Troons of Tralee" has a nice ring to it, don't you think?
Incidentally, there is a town in Scotland called "Troon". I was delighted to find a woman (or was it....?) with whom I was arguing that women don't have penises lived there!
If the organisers of the Rose of Tralee festival were interested in making the contest more inclusive, then of course they'd include women of 30. If they genuinely value inclusivity, why stop at 30? Why not 45? Or 55? Or 70+? And women of all shapes, sizes and level of ability.
Forget inclusivity, it's about genuflecting to extremists leading an extremist ideology. How wonderful it would be if every prospective contestant told the organisers to go and fuck themselves.
The bright spot in this bleak edition is the Rose of Tralee. Open to single women under 30. Gee I WONDER what the theme of that was..... hmmm, let me think, was it "competition for the woman in Ireland most men would like to f@ck"? Goodness, let them have it. It actually throws a wrench into the sheer misogyny of the whole thing.
Oh.............. GERMANY!
No mention of 'gender dysphoria' here. According to the Barbie/G.I Joe gender stereotypes, being 'opposite gender' really just means 'gender non-conforming'. How many German children might this encompass? I feel like, for many, it's just like signing away their body parts to a butcher. What is the point of this, from the government's point of view? To pander to woke voters!?
Has Germany been medicalising kids, like we have here? HOPEFULLY our government resists all this BS, given all the controversy about Tavistock, and the potential for lawsuits.
Well that was fucking bleak. Although I appreciate JL's important work in documenting all this horror.
Germany is digging an ideological elephant trap for itself and is about to walk right into it. Technology changes, human nature stays the same. What a mess.
Yes I agree. I think it has to come down to money which is why I think the lawsuits will do some good. If Mermaids gets shut down for flouting safety / safeguarding AND we can boot gender ideology out of our schools, surely we must be some way towards getting rid!?
I wonder if the Germans will reduce the age for getting a tattoo to 14 too or is that deemed more dangerous than puberty blockers? Next all biological Frauen und Mädchen will have to wear pink stars of David!
As for the wee girl who's being brainwashed, her mother should be jailed. I'll bet it brightens up her Instagram profile though.
Thanks for this, cheered me up! We have had some huge wins! I'm looking at Germany, horrified, but do you think politicians are less swayed by other countries than I think they are? Things do "sweep across Europe" but on the other hand, our government does now seem to be doing some decent U-turns, i.e. Suella Braverman's speech on schools. Also, we've only got 2 gender clinics - Tavistock and Sandyford. America has around 300. So maybe we really did avoid a lot of the craziness.
Were the lobotomies / repressed memory thing part of a wider political movement, the same way trans is?
People I speak to who shrug when I say that male prisoners are being housed with females and that children are given experimental drugs to halt their puberty and will go on to be infertile... I can't believe how this cult has got people thinking all of that is OK. As if any civil movements (they think it is, I don't) is bound to have sacraficial lambs to equalise things. Women and child? It's quite sickening.
Do you think we'll look back on this and wonder what the hell we were thinking? As a society I mean? One of my friends suspects all of this is wrong but is too terrified to be on the wrong side of history, so she goes along with it. I'm trying to scare her just enough to discouraged from being too sucked in by it all. I just wonder how far away we are from realising the lunacy of it all!
God ,yet more horrors. My heart breaks for that little girl and all other children like her whose future health and happiness is now being threatened by evil ideologues with the eager cooperation of their ' parents '. My opinions of parents like these , especially mother's, is unprintable !! Can't believe that any caring parent would happily throw their innocent young children to the wolves ,just to validate how "inclusive and accepting " THEY are. How can an unscientific ,reality denying ideology be allowed to continue this war on women and children? Has the human race lost its mind ? Just one of many horror stories this week. Thanks ,JL ,for continuing to expose these travesties for what they are 👍❤️🙏
I really hope so! What baffles me is that I can show someone actual evidence none of this is real, especially that the "trans child" is a fabrication and they can still be so wilfully ignorant :( they think I must be the conspiracy theorist for saying it's not true. If anything is a conspiracy, it's the idea of sexed souls... I suppose we're in an era of fake news, but still, how can a new activist group with extreme views be viewed as the sensible group?