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Not least because of all your work, dear Glinner. You are a hero.

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Sep 5, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

Sadly, they're awakening only after hundreds of THOUSANDS of children have been mutilated and sterilized, drugged and emotionally scarred and tens of thousands of people, mostly women, have been doxxed, censored, threatened with rape, death lost their livelihoods trying to fight against these money-grubbing predators. These trans cult people are monsters.

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Indeed. Though sadly there are too many "useful (useless) idiots" who are party to that crime out of "good intentions" or for even less "salutary" "reasons":

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/blaise_pascal_133606

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Exactly!

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It's nice to see GC people support others, especially on Twitter, but is the spell broken? I work in the civil service. It's National Inclusion Week at the end of the month and already they are advertising an event: "The history of LGBTQ+ community... and common LGBTQ+ identities, terminology, labels and language." Yup, it's yet more indoctrination into the cult via work as if we didn't have enough already during Pride month.

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I wonder if the organisers of this event will be focusing on the very recent history of the LGBTQ+ community, when a group of lesbians were excluded from a Pride march. Or the more well established hostility and threat *some* transwomen identifying as lesbians present to the freedom and potentially the safety of lesbian women. It is the embodiment of an attitude not only sanctioned by Stonewall, but some coming directly from the organisation via its CEO.

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I strongly suspect that won't make the cut for the event and they will neatly skip past the cotton ceiling issue and it will be the usual talk about what "cis" people need to do to become an ally. Allyship is pushed hard still. Like the rest of us are unsafe to be around.

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I believe one Jacob Rees Mogg is in charge of the Civil Service. Maybe you'd like to whistleblow to him that your higher ups think they're working for a supreme child grooming Soviet? Perhaps so many civil servants are working from home so they don't have this bilge poured down their throats?

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Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

Simon Case is the head of the civil service and is the PMs most senior policy advisor. Jacob Rees-Mogg is in charge of governmnet efficiency - hence he is stripping out woke training as being a waste of tax payers money (it is). However, each branch of the civil service has it's own head of establishment and some have their own ministers too so it's not quite as simple as whistleblowing to JRM sadly. It would be far more successful to send in FOI requests asking about membership of Stonewall diversity champions and the amount spent on inclusiveness training etc. to highlight the issue. If many of the folks here bombarded the civil service with these requests, then if someone like Graham could highlight here and an open letter could be drafted to JRM and Simon Case asking for better spending of tax payers money and policy that is not ideologically captured.

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Great idea I’m up for this

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Could you create a small storm - say something like that’s all great but lots of people don’t hold the belief and are likely to be self censoring. People will smile at you in a benign way but behind the scenes the captured ones will act like someone stamped on their ant nest and tell on you to someone senior. You will be spoken to but hold your ground calmly. Practice with a friend before hand and speak from notes. Good luck if you do. I’ll contribute to any fund raiser but think of lots did this the whole thing will go away quicker

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Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

The result would be instant career end. Nothing less. Oh, I might not be dismissed, but I would likely be given a formal warning and re-educated. However, it would be noted and the chances of me getting any decent opportunities or promotion in future would be minimal. I do not trust that people would contribute to any fund raiser for me if it came to that as I would still have my job but I would still have sacrificed my career and everything I had worked for. I will remain, quietly peaking people doing what I can while protecting myself. You can call me a coward if you want, but I am hopeful that the tide will turn with a new PM who is unequivocally pro the reality of biology and with Jacob Rees-Mogg stripping away woke training from the civil service. Sometimes just doing what we can is enough.

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I don’t think you are a coward at all. I think people less at risk should speak out. I have spoken out twice and just about got away with it because of being older. Not many years of work left and not looking for promotion so thought what the hell. Maya F inspired me. It did make a bit of a difference - they/thems were told they could only do Alphabet soup awareness during pride month ( the June one) - not all the time 🙄. They are utterly shocked when anyone dares to confront them. None of them seem to notice their colleagues eyes glazing over when they are expounding Stonewall law. I think anyone thinking of leaving their job should do it for the hell of it. Hopefully Liz Truss will rescue you. I hope so x

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Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

Thank Clothes Moth. Yup, if I was leaving soon they wouldn't shut me up. As it is I do what I can. If more people called out the civil service departments that are still members of Stonewall adn wrote to the head of the civil service highlighting the issues and asking if membership was in the best interest of tax payers and a good use of their funds, then more would be forced to leave. The issues is that currently the ideology is still being pushed in the civil service and these people make policy about how our country is run and influence what is prioritised (dependent on department). Less cult grooming in the civil service would weaken the hold they have in British politics (at least for England and Wales). It comes to something when people who do not have their pronouns in their signature block are characterised as non allies, and therefore unsafe (so actually seen as a threat). The winter olympics will be held in hell before I comply.

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Come up with a “how to” to make it easy for us to target them and ask Glinner or JL to include it in the updates. If there are links people will send stuff

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I'll do so.

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"The spell is breaking and the kingdom is awakening." What a beautiful sentence.

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It is, and I hope it's also an accurate one.

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Just read the first trans widow memoir, Sex Change, by Christine Benvenuto, about her husband announcing, after they'd just had sex, that "well, this is the last time I'll do this as a man." Then he proceeds to defame her in their Massachusetts college town, almost ruin her writing career, and abandon their 3 children. Published by St. Martins.

Now, you can't get published as ex-wife of this special category.

However, some of us self-publish, in the interest of protecting other women from hanging on to an untenable situation. Soon out, 18 Months by Shannon Thrace (Amazon, Oct. 16, 2022)

Mine: In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com

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Hi Ute. I am sorry you and so mnay others are betrayed in this way. Perhaps write an article and send it to Graham as he might include this in his substack. Trans widows need to be heard.

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Thanks! Earlier, I had a regrettable association with a YouTuber named Karen Davis, whose abrasive style I tried to moderate and inform in a science-based foundation. I interviewed with her many times and helped her build her following. She went after Arty Morty, Graham and many others, then came after me a few months later, with ferocity. I've disavowed her and her style. She used me and my story to build her channel, which is monetized. I've written to glinner and apologized, Arty as well. I don't know if they'd host me, despite my open regret. Karen Davis succeeded in convincing her subscribers to harass me and contact my sons, which one of them did. I think my former spouse was also contacted. I wouldn't be surprised if my sons and Neddy (my ex) are responsible for the 10 day suspension Davis got from YouTube, as what she openly and publicly told her subscribers to engage in is actionable harassment, cyberbullying and invasion of privacy. I published my book a month later, with all references to Davis scrubbed.

The value of my testimony is my direct contact with the mental health practitioners and the sworn affidavit I have from the psychologist who diagnosed Neddy in one appointment. The other practitioner was a non-licensed groomer. Their coercive tactics and politically motivated efforts to groom me into the spouse "who stays," is the shocker that I and other trans widows can expose. These groomers made a case for my participation in sexual role play for my husband's pleasure, which I flat out refused. No woman should "try it out," it's demeaning and harmful.

The betrayal is as much from the field of psychology where Ray Blanchard's protocols and theories were never challenged, because the "true life test" is a fallacy.

Thanks for your compassion. Ute Heggen

Women's Declaration International YT channel, "Female Erasure by Ute Heggen" Aug. 27, 2022

In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com

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Oh I’m sorry to hear this! Of course I completely accept the apology and I’m sure Arty will too. You’re still with friends here Ute xxxx

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I saw she was awful quite early on, extremely egotistical and maniacally aggressive. When she tried to slag off Graham and Arty I was out. I hope Graham gets you on, as its a story people need to hear.

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Thanks so much. While GL and I do not agree on everything, he is facilitating the debates needing to be aired. I didn't research KD enough before I agreed to appear there. I no longer believe that songs and chants, rants and vocal anger are going to make change in the cross-sex ideology. As Helen Joyce has said, its the doctors who have to sort it out. Giving trans widows a voice, and focusing on our tangential experience of the excesses of the "sexologist" field through focused investigations is the way to get information from former spouses.

One question that's quite important for the practitioners to face up to is:

Did the therapist(s) encourage your partner to be deceitful and secretive? The misogyny of their stance on that as the "true life test," is not ethical or professional. I was subjected to this collusion for a year, then he detransitioned for 8 months or so, then 26 months of further fake business trips and enabled deceit, viewed as more important than the safety of my little sons and myself, alone in the middle of Brooklyn.

Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com (I can be contacted through the form there)

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Yes ,I felt the same way and got contradicted by others when I defended Graham in the comments !.

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I would very much hope that such an important story wouldn't be silenced due to past personal differences. It is just disgusting what they tried to groom you into being - basically a validating sex toy for your deluded ex. It is demeaning and harmful and the fact that women are being coerced into things they want no part of should be amplified. Womens feelings and needs should never be second place to that of men. Thank you for your book information. I do hope that writing it was cathartic for you.

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Thanks, BlackieKat. It is cathartic to write about past traumas, and I highly recommend it. While the process is difficult and brings back memories you wish you'd forgotten, afterward the pots that were simmering on the back burner of your mind are shut off. I'm able to think much more clearly about what happened to me in the context of the rising tide of a movement that piggybacked on gay rights and racial equality, despite the fact that most of these men were wealthy, white, educated and had agency. The researcher bias, which developed in the ranks of mostly male "sexologists," comes from the shock they felt regarding patients who claim they want to be castrated. The social impact on families isn't usually considered, and estrangement in many ways was encouraged. My ex said he never considered "doing anything" about his feelings until he heard that the surgeries were getting more common. The financial conflicts of interest were cultivated by the separation of "expert surgeons" from the mental health practitioners, who simply write a letter, attesting to a diagnosis that generally occurred in one appointment. It's completely spun out of control, filtering down to children, on the premise that puberty has to be subverted, in order for the individual to "pass" more convincingly as the opposite sex. Please watch Jalisa Vines YouTube channel chronicling her Detransition Diaries, for a window into how this insidious cult has filtered into minority children's lives.

Ute Heggen, author, In the Curated Woods, True Tales from a Grass Widow (iuniverse, 2022)

uteheggengrasswidow.wordpress.com

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It's all such a mess isn't it? I'll have a look at your blog when I have more time and Jalisa Vines channel - thank you for highlighting these. I hope more people find them too. I'm sorry for all you have been put through. As you say in this cult, no-one considers the impact on families, wives, partners, children and you can see it spreading outwards from that to not considering women in general and children and their families in society. It's insideous.

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Next Saturday, Sept. 5, Women's Declaration International is hosting a speaker on the topic of familial estrangement. The sessions are for women only, and have break out sessions after the presentations. Then the presentations are put up at WDI YouTube channel. Anyone can subscribe and it will help our reality-based cause if more subscribers are joining. Positive comments and likes are also helpful. Ute Heggen

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"...how tightly this debate is policed by He/Himmlers"

LoL - indeed; far too many psychotic thugs in amongst the transgendered, their fellow-travelers and "useful (useless) idiots".

But I see that one of those tweeters - "TrixyMalixy" - uses a "Three Sides to Every Story" image that I've found remarkably relevant, particularly these days of Hatfield & McCoy feuds, of pots calling the kettles black.

https://imgur.com/gallery/7eF4H/comment/830790324

Gender by itself - at least as a synonym for personalities and personality types - is a useful and more or less durable concept: feminine males, and masculine females shouldn't be anathematized, much less crucified for "unorthodox" variations thereof. The problems with transgenderism and gender ideology seems to devolve, if not pathologically degenerate from an "idea" that those with such unorthodox personalities, particularly autistic and dysphoric children, need to be butchered to change their bodies to comport with those particular personalities. Bloody criminal - in more ways than one.

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I feel a little bolder these days thanks to standing behind Glinner while he takes the flak. I've just gone public on social media, fb sharing Glinners 4 minute open call to the odious Lee. God save me from other social medias Twatter, Snapchat Grinder or whatever. I don't want to waste my time arguing in a vacuum. I prefer the real world, but sadly we can't turn the clock back and ' influencers' are here to stay.

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Message getting through...your work is reaping a good harvest.

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Thank you so much again Graham and many thanks to Christian Henson for posting on this. Who the fuck is Axel Stewart telling him to 'look beyond the fear to the facts'? What facts is Axel talking about? These people have no arguments which is why they need to drown out women with megaphones at 'Let Women Speak' events. Those of us who have been following this closely and fighting against the erasure of women and resultant horrific child abuse know the facts. Christian has obviously looked into this deeply and is one who really understands what the Hell is going on.

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I see that the "be kind" mob has descended on the tweet now. They have not one word to utter concerning the threats against JK Rowling, concern for the practices at the Tavistock and the experience of any detransitioners, or the cancellation of the Sadowitz show (I.e. the loss of his income).

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Also, there are quite a few people (including a blue tick account) saying that the number of 1000 lawsuits isn't verified. Well, what is the acceptable number of children who may be adversely affected by this then? 300? 500? 700?

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"Please look beyond the fear and find facts."

Or Axel could helpfully present these facts in a twitter thread? If Christian has "rock solid good intentions" he'd be happy to engage, no?

There's the extent of the gender "debate" in a nutshell. Alex knows he has no facts but he doesn't need them - he just needs to tweet the right sentiment and leave the herd to fill in the blanks. But it looks like it's back-fired on him - I sincerely hope Christian's bosses consider the majority of replies.

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Your 4 minute video was a tour de force. It was a real 'Viva le France! Viva la democracy!' moment. For those who might not know what I'm referring to ...

https://youtu.be/Zpw_zMQoQp4

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I see the trolls still live under the bridges.

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I'd cut down on the medicinal compound.

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Living up to your namesake.

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"He/Himmlers" Pissing myself!

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I signed up for Tw*tter yesterday morning. CH's tweet was one of the first I saw. Within 24 hours he's "on a break". But absolutely Stewart Lee, keep telling us how cancel culture doesn't exist...

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Lee on Sadowitz and cancel culture is a confused mess of contradictory nonsense.

16/04/2013

"Sadowitz is one of the most complete and perfect stand-ups in history"

05/05/2022 live recording of Snowflake special in York, now on BBC Iplayer

"get all the things that you can't say, put them all together and say them and you find that you can say them after all and that's called 'being cancelled'"

20/07/2022 (pre cancellation)

"Sadowitz’s schtick made conceptual sense when we all lived in a supposed liberal consensus, but now we are in the foothills of Phil MacIntyre-promoted fascism-lite will it read differently? He is one of the great stand-ups but we are in a different world to the one that gave us the classic ‘80s opening line, “Nelson Mandela! What a cunt!” I wish I could see it nonetheless, but he won't let me.

20/08/2022 (post cancellation)

"Last time I saw him ten years ago, [his act] was still really good. But it’s a different world, unfortunately.”

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I am truly haunted by your comment about the game Werewolves. A small informed group can beat a much larger uninformed group. We need to inform more people.

And I want to know how the game works plz

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