The Oxford elite vandalising women's rights
This has always been a top-down revolution
In recent years a number of brave and principled people - journalists, clinicians, social workers, teachers, parents, children’s authors, therapists, barristers, and more - have been speaking out against the prescribing of puberty blockers to minors. They sounded the alarm over the appalling lack of research into their use and efficacy, over the homophobic parents using them as a form of gay conversion therapy, over the thousands of kids being robbed of their future fertility and sexual function, over the risks of serious and permanent health problems, over the one-way path to surgery and a lifetime’s dependency on synthetic hormones, over the huge numbers of adolescent girls presenting with these issues, and finally over the burgeoning number of detransitioners.
We think it’s fair to say that they have all been vindicated this week.
Meanwhile, a group of Oxford graduates did everything they could to prevent this moment from happening.
From left to right, standing
Josie Long, tweeted support for Mermaids UK, the organisation that had most influence over the Tavistock centre. Joined in the harassment of Rosie Duffield.
Stewart Lee: Expressed support for Joylon Maugham, whose only problem with the Tavistock was that they weren’t harming more kids with greater efficiency.Â
Phillip Pullman:Â Wrote about a religious movement mutilating children and then failed to notice when it started happening for real. Told women to fuck off when they pointed out his disgraceful incuriosity on the matter. Never defended JK Rowling.
Russell T Davies: Thinks straight actors shouldn’t play gay characters (because ‘acting gay' is a bunch of codes for a performance) and white actors shouldn’t play black characters, yet believes that fully intact straight men can play women so convincingly that lesbians should just shut up about it.
Jeanette Winterson: Just days after other authors signed a letter condemning the violent abuse of JK Rowling, Winterson signed this one, pointedly and disgracefully set up in response to it.
Ruth Hunt: CEO of Stonewall who betrayed lesbians by adopting ‘transwomen are women’ as official Stonewall policy. Tried to trick the British public into thinking that Self ID was a matter of ‘admin’.
Owen Jones: Bullied female colleagues and a schoolgirl among countless other women. The most cynical gay political operator since Roy Cohn except with no political acumen.
Left to right, seated:
Emma Watson. Betrayed JK Rowling to further her career. One of the worst examples of ingratitude and misogyny from a young woman towards an older one in many years
Laurie Penny: The ultimate Pick Me Girl. Said this to working-class lesbian, Julie Bindel.
To which the answer might be: not getting married to a bloke?
‘Grace’ Lavery
Born without a chin. Provided ANOTHER straight relationship for Laurie Penny.
Chickened out of a debate with Helen Joyce then called her a fascist.
Haha, love it Moley and Graham. Top down indeed. Signed, sealed, and delivered in backrooms everywhere with zero input from the public. The complete opposite of a civil rights movement. How dare they try to frame this as a movement for claiming rights, when in fact they are determinedly stealing rights. Not only from women, but from children and men too. The most basic right to speak of the reality before our eyes was very nearly taken. It's the Patriarchy's final and most dangerous thievery -- the theft of the existential meaning of 'woman'. Thank you to all the brave people who pushed back. i shudder at what the world could have become without all of you.
Laurie Penny, straight woman in a heterosexual relationship desperately trying to be relevant because she once fkd a guy who's now a transvestite. As my old mum would say " she's more to be pitied than laughed at".