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Well, that was powerful. And most welcome.

I, and perhaps many others even more cynical and curmudgeonly than myself, am almost tempted to say, 'What took you'?, but in fact, I never would be so arrogant and perhaps disdainful of others that have clearly struggled to come to a reasonable conclusion about 'all of this'. So I shall simply just appreciate the power of the speech, and the honesty and the 'coming out', if you will pardon the use of that phrase.

I did wonder why my Twitter notifications had gone through the roof today! - and it is because of this. I helped Brandubh by making the Suffragette graphic featuring Emmeline Pankhurst and the words of her poem, for which she, and her gracious and kind mother, were both so grateful and appreciative.

Her Tweet featuring this and thanking Kelly - the time she was on the show via a phone link - has me tagged, so I see all of the grateful, yet perhaps shell-shocked, women worldwide - and especially in the US - expressing their thanks and appreciation for this young woman. And it is a pleasure to see to be honest.. and a relief.

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Jun 3, 2023·edited Jun 3, 2023Liked by mole at the counter

Let’s hope so. It had me in tears, especially when she read the wonderful poem by Brandubh.

She’s been on the same journey that many people have been on, before they realised the horror of what was happening. I hope many more watch it and realise that it is not kind to indulge gender ideology. All that does, is perpetuate the evil. We need every voice now, before more children are irreversibly damaged, women lose all rights and sports and gay people are pushed back into the closet….or worse.

Combined with the success of Matt Walsh’s What is a Woman and Musk allowing it to be broadcast, it’s been a very good couple of days… and not forgetting Kathleen Stock’s excellent work during the week.

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In common with many others, I took a fairly neutral view of 'trans' rights, basing my knowledge on those old-style transsexuals who had 'transitioned' fully through surgery. Even then, they made me uneasy, but not hostile. Again, like many others, I decided to research this stuff and read, and listened to, reams of information, studies and so on, and I was 'peaked'. Then, I listened to Jennifer Bilek's 'follow the money', and I realized that she was right because I, too, had entertained the notion that a world-wide legal firm, as Denton's is, would have needed serious money to deliver their 'Denton's Document'. That led to my asking myself why big money would back this stuff, that, superficially, appeared to be little more than a bunch of porn-sick men indulging their cross-dressing fetish to the nth degree. The answers had to lie in the medical world, the pharmaceutical, etc., and the billionaires who were invested in this stuff.

It was also very noticeable that the people in the UK pushing this stuff appeared to be mainly the comfortable middle-class who would probably never have to encounter the downside of this movement. Then, at the bottom, there were men (mainly men at this stage) who seemed to be quite unhinged by sexual fetishes that defied rational explanation. The more I looked into it, the more terrifying it became, and I could define three distinct levels: the top echelon - the corporatist billionaires; the middle echelon - the middle-class enablers, including politicians, teachers, university staff, the civil service, the NHS management, etc.; and the lowest level - the ground floor and basement sexual fetishists, many claiming gender dysphoria which is a close relation of body dysmorphia, on a par with anorexia or limb removal, and, therefore, a mental illness. Most were sexual fetishists and autogynephiles, and it became dangerous to say so.

Gradually, it became apparent that these men needed females and children to validate their fetishes with the usual tropes of "I aways knew I was in the wrong body" and "I really am a woman" to "you don't have to change yourself to be your authentic self". The female counterparts, fleeing femaleness in the main - and who can blame them considering the misogyny that exists in every part of the world, in every era, down solely to our biology - were trying to escape puberty, the male gaze that 'owns' you, when you know instinctively that you are often not viewed as an autonomous human being, but as an inferior male appendage that is useful for sex and for child-bearing . It is not difficult to see where the notion of 'transwoman' comes from.

Women and children became targets, then, to be overcome and subsumed into the movement. Young women were seduced by the appeal of escaping womanhood and its very visceral expectations, while children were subjected to a barrage of 'drag queen' events and inappropriate material in schools. It is probably more complicated than this, but these, to me, seem to be the main reasons for female participation in this nightmare The scene was set for the collision that has come between women's, girls' and children's rights, on the one hand, and 'trans' rights, particularly 'transwomen's' on the other. Essentially, it is an existential fight for the first category, and one that we cannot afford to lose. I really do not believe that the 'trans' lot believed for one second that we would fight back as we have, and the rage that this engenders - no pun intended - in these narcissistic, entitled men is on a par with the rage expressed by domestic abusers and violent sex offenders. Very male. Females are not allowed to say, no, not allowed to express any autonomy whatsoever: real "rib of my rib" stuff.

I am so glad that Megyn has turned the corner at last, and the poem by that wee lass just says it all, doesn't it? Clever girl. People who continue to believe in this nonsense really are going to have to pick a side very soon because it is all going to reach a head. It cannot be solved by holding out the hand of friendship or compromise because we are quite literally in these men's way, and they want us out of all public spaces - all of them. It is very much more than mere validation; it is a deep-rooted, visceral and entitled misogyny that has never been experienced before, and it should be documented for future generations. Similar movements have risen in the past, as ancient civilizations disintegrated and collapsed (Camilla Paglia explains this very well) but never to this extent, and the pendulum swung back, probably too far, then centred itself again.

The internet has allowed men (and women and girls to an extent, but a far lesser one) to totally immerse themselves in sexual desire of types that are deviant and dangerous, and many have allowed themselves to become addicted on the same lines as drug addiction or alcoholism, to the point where they are driven by this stuff, requiring a more base and violent type of porn each time they surface to achieve the same hit. The police always find gross pornography when they examine sex offenders' homes and computers, and it is always there in 'transwomen's' computers and homes, too, when they transgress. It parallels and fuels rapes, sexual assaults, paedophilia, even domestic abuse, some of which is now recognized as 'transwomen' and cross-dressers forcing their wives and partners to submit to the humiliating fantasies of their husbands and partners, albeit the majority of domestic abuse is perpetrated by heterosexual men with a control obsession. The vast majority of men are decent people, but enough of them, the minority, make the lives of females a hell on earth, and it has to stop.

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Jun 3, 2023Liked by mole at the counter

This is spot on and I have shared it on FB along with the ‘I am not a dress’ poem copied in comments

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Jun 3, 2023Liked by mole at the counter

She spoke so well! I hope she doesn't suffer as a result.

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Jun 3, 2023Liked by mole at the counter

Powerful stuff. Shared on Twitter. Thank you Mr L and God bless you.

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i had to turn it off when she started talking about children being mutilated.

No doubt the trans community will state that she’s jumped ship because she’s siding with the political right in preparation for interviews with the next line of republican presidential hopefuls.

Trans rights= big profits for pharma.

Trans rights= broken homes

Trans rights= broken bodies

Trans rights= men’s rights above women’s rights

Trans rights= men’s rights above children’s rights.

Trans rights= men’s rights.

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Hurray for Megan Kelly! She is wonderful ! I hope she gets protection, because the transmaniacs are out there with their fangs !

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Any voice is welcome if it informs the public re. the never ending horrors of 'gender' ideology. It's one the most devastating mass psychoses ever. Flying its flags over every bloody institution, governmental, educational, not to mention corporate. All hands on deck.

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I was listening to it yesterday, she's excellent.

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Yes, huge congratulations to Brandubh for having her poetry recognised. What a superb poem. Every now and again I replay her Belfast reading of I am not a woman, and I cry every time

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I was really moved and that doesn't happen often. Thank you for posting.

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Can't believe I'm now a MK fan, growing up in Canada, believing Fox News was the worst of the worst. Mind you, she left them but there you go, the world has changed so much in 10 years. This sums it up pretty well for me...follow your heart, not your allegiances.

https://youtu.be/X3CeQ6qQlJ8

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Megyn Kelly has fully peaked since having KJK on her show after NZ and boy, is she pissed off, big time. It's fabulous to behold the rage of a woman who's scales have fully fallen away from her eyes. She's a big asset to the side of sanity. And Matt Walsh's film on Twitter, all at the start of 'Pride' season. What a hoot and how infuriating for the alphabet mafia 😅

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I admit that I don't know who Megyn Kelly is, nor how influential she is, but I do know that she's a woman who is angry enough to blister paint at 30 paces! She has realised that trans advocates do nothing but pee in her ear and tell her it's raining (to use a great saying of my granddad's). I hope that this video reaches many others who need to hear it, and that @Brandubh2 gets lots of well-deserved exposure from it.

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