Transing Away The Gay

There's a point in the confusion between sex and gender when you realise that it is all on purpose. We are a sexually dimorphic species and all of us are either male or female and it shows in every cell of our body. We are mammals. There is no trans. Woman is simply the adult human female, the same as we give different words to the male and female of all animals we closely interact with (horse-mare, ram-sheep, drake-duck, cockerel-hen, dog-bitch, lion-lioness, stag-doe...). What 'woman' is NOT is a gender identity in one's head, as the trans lobby would have you believe.

Deconstructing sex in order to substitute one's subjective fantasies (and they are ALL about sex, or the lack of it, in the trans group) for reality is much more than a rights question for a vulnerable minority. It IS a tiny minority, but they have the same rights as everyone else, plus some fundamental extra ones now. They demand the right to force everyone else to accept their fantasies as reality, to gaslight us all till we no longer remember what is true; and, in this post-truth world, where memory extends to no more than a day ago, where logic no longer reigns and where group-think is everything, they demand to have their delusions taken as fact.

Everyone born was born to a woman, their biological mother, and until very recently everyone knew this. In our civilisation's death throws, we have been gaslighted and threatened with hate crime sanctions if we do not learn random people's absurd and often contradictory pronouns.

There is, without a doubt, a young generation containing many confused and unhappy people. It could not be otherwise in a constant climate of fear and paranoia, mad terrorists, constant propaganda, the war on 'terror', the war on a 'virus', the incapacity to talk about death and the incapacity not to talk about sex. TV and Tik Tok videos are full of fetish. The Trans Lobby is busy transing away the gay, telling young gay, bi or not- interested younsters that they were born in the wrong body, as though the body were a container and one rattled around inside it and could, and should, change it on a whim. The timing was perfect, as a generation brought up on excessive eating and lack of exercise looked at their bodies in dismay.

Many men, in particular, have lost their role in our society, which has no biological use for their larger size or musculature, their deeper voices, their testosterone. So, deeper voices are being used to shout women down, and deny women their own spaces. Having no new territory to move on to, a small and unpleasantly vociferous group of men are trying to take over women's reproductive capacity, and inundating our culture with unhealthy fetishes, normalising them and preying on young people. It has also allowed men within the trans-identified movement, to behave towards women with breathtaking misogyny, under the guise of 'trans rights'. 

It is all very Big Business with the added attraction of allowing Big Pharma to medicate youngsters for the rest of their (predictably shortened) lives with hormones and Frankensteinian surgeries AND with the bonus of leaving many of them sterile, which fits in nicely with the UN's 2030 Population Agenda being rolled out in all of the Western World.

Additionally, since adopting identity politics and wokeness, the Left is now a sorry shadow of its former self, defanged, stuck in subjectivity and only focused on defending groups of competing special interests, the smaller the better. It no longer poses a threat to rampant capitalism, which thrives on opposing one individual preference against another very well.

Our Godless, Gordon-Gekko 'Greed is good', late-stage capitalistic culture is so very bereft of ethics, so monetised, so lacking in meaning that to live life proclaiming your identity has become normalised. We no longer just are but can, we are told, assume an identity, as though the very serious business of life were merely a performance. The trans lobby will have you believe you can live life with one identity one day, another the next, transitioning from one to another seamlessly if you want. This make-believe is just that, and it is a lie when taken seriously, and gaslighting when imposed on others. Facts and logic matter.

Laws made in all our Western countries to reify the lie and ban reality are just another sign that our civilisation is in free fall. 

There is one good thing that comes out of this. It has given women (not the absurd and insulting 'cis' women epithet, but real women, the only kind) the opportunity to step up, organise and fight for the health of our society (half of which is us), as we have done so many times in the past.

More Thoughts on the Trans Law (II)

What's not to like about trans rights, right?

However, the problem is not trans rights as such, but rather that the Trans laws being approved all over the Western world are a huge step backwards for women, children and homosexuals.

And one of the most galling aspects is the de facto nonchalance about violence against women that arises if, as a woman, one questions the Trans laws. The general reaction is not conducive to debate, but rather real women are being shouted down by trans women, that is, men. Many of whom are behaving like typical narcissists, hating those who don't cooperate with their unhinged worldview. Women are being cancelled and literally threatened with real violence, and yet those same women are being accused of hate speech by their aggressors. 

The small print in the Trans laws being approved is horrific: men in women's spaces, the assumption that surgical enhancement actually makes you the other sex, irreversible treatment and surgery for children and the removal of their parents' rights to have a decisive say in their welfare in this matter, the psychological warfare being used to make perfect people feel unhappy about their bodies - these are just some of the actual terms of these laws. All of this is being cloaked as trans rights, when in fact deep psychological disorder is being left untreated and actively encouraged. 

Current trans laws push many vulnerable, unhappy people who are not very good at relationships into thinking that the problem is not our society, nor a phase they are going through, but their bodies. And those of us who want a proper debate before these laws are rubber stamped are being called ignorant, hateful, extreme and transphobic. And these terms are being specifically hurled by very unhinged, and often violent, men, frequently following their takeover of feminist forums, as men impersonating women, often in the most grotesque and sexist way possible. 

Which makes me, as a woman, feel that all of this reinforces what I've been saying all along: that we definitely need female safe spaces where men (whatever sex they say they are) are simply not allowed. And we definitely need to be able to ban violent men at women's rights events. And just because you say you are something that does not mean that you are. Can I be a 22-year-old, black hen, please? I didn't think so. Not matter how many feathers I dress in.

In this current horribly binary and simplistic worldview, if you are a man, say, and want to wear pink floaty dresses and loads of make-up, trip around in ballet shoes and carry a handbag, it must be because you are in the wrong body. How stereotypically sexist is that? So from this point of view, wearing loads of make-up and high heels is something innately female. 

Very many of these trans women (ie men), whether surgically enhanced or not, then prey upon that most vulnerable of collectives, homosexual women, ie lesbians. Who might like to end up dating a woman, but may unwittingly end up being preyed upon by an autogynephile instead. An autogynephile who pretends to be a lesbian, but is a man. Similarly, women who want to wear typically male clothes (ie comfortable clothes) and eschew make-up and feminine wiles (ie sensible women) are now being told that they are really men. So that real lesbians are being told they are in fact men in women's bodies, and should accept a sexual partner who is in fact a man pretending to be a woman. And the man who is chasing after these women, thinks he is a woman, so he must naturally be a lesbian. (You really couldn't make this up.) And all this, if it weren't already enough, is also a really horrid, misogynist trope: that lesbians just haven't met the right man yet or, in this case, the right penis-toting woman!

All of which is definitely backed up by Big Pharma because what could be better that someone taking hormones and other medication for the rest of their life for no good reason whatsoever? Not to mention the synthetic estrogen-related strokes and heart attacks.

And, as Orwell would have appreciated, a society is in dire straights when saying something is true means it literally becomes true. 

Repeat after me: women are NOT "validation stations" for those who have beliefs not based on material reality.

Feminism and Trans Rights (I)

Many feminists of a certain age have grave reservations about the new trans rights laws. Traditionally, we have understood that women collectively form a class, specifically an under-class, although we make up 50% of the population. And, as such, we have class interests.

In the past feminism was generally understood to be aligned with the Left, although socialist parties only paid, at best, lip-service to women's interests. The glass ceiling and the unacceptable fact that the jobs predominantly carried out by women pay less and that women also earn less in the same job were never at the top of the left-wing agenda. 

Right-wing politics and Capitalism itself favour a Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest that places brute strength (economic or otherwise) above all other considerations. Our times have shown in crude terms how money purchases power (Citizens United, in the US, bought elections in general, bought judges...) and how late-stage Capitalism brings out shocking levels of inequality.

Jeff Bezos is, as I write, worth a whopping $200 billion. There is no doubt that his work, as such - paid however you like -, cannot be worth this sum. He is interesting in that he is responsible for producing almost nothing tangible. The possible exception, the Alexa and Kindle devices, are a very mixed blessing; their downside being control over what you see or read - your understanding of the world, if you like. They also bring us mass-surveillance and military AI that, together with climate change and nuclear arms, are THE threat to humankind, imminent, so immense and so hidden from us behind the noise of unimportant trivia that fills up our screens that we are individually and collectively incapable of even thinking about it.

The Left used to fight for collective, rather than individual, solutions, solidarity and compassion towards others. Now, the Left has disassociated itself from seeing women's rights as a class issue. In these neo-liberal and individualistic times, women are merely viewed as individuals with a uterus, with no need for specific consideration. In fact the very words 'man' and 'woman' are about to become meaningless. Yet, as so many studies and experiences have shown, words are important and, in a male-dominated world, excluding the word 'woman' excludes many real women from real consideration.

The trans movement is totally in line with our times, tremendously individualistic and a sort of I'm-worth-it badge for a culture that that failed to understand the difference between sex and gender, and has misunderstood form for content. We had decades of misguided women (and a few men) who paid good money to have silicon (and other poisons) pumped into their body, in some instances paid for by the NHS, which had confused true wellbeing with a sort of phycological aspiration created by propaganda and social programming. (Not talking here about beneficial cosmetic procedures due to accident and illness). A man who wears high heels is still a man.

We have a society that re-enforces mind-numbing conformity and only permits those differences that are extremely superficial. Whether Democrat or Republican, they are both pathological lying, warmongering factions of the Corporate Class. Try to explain that ETA in Spain never killed anything like as many people as the illegal invasion(s) of Iraq, in 2003 backed by the right-wing Spanish PP party, and you'll be met by hysterical shrieks of being a terrorist. A culture that confuses the symptom with the disease.

Our binary vision is essentially a reflection of our masculine, patriarchal world. The threat to the neo-liberal, ever-expanding, Capitalistic state is feminist and collective.

The trans movement is a reaction to this hyper-masculine culture, seeking a spectrum of personal experiences and modes of being - but it is the wrong one! Of course, gender should be viewed as a spectrum, and it is high-time that women ditched foot-deforming high heels, time-wasting make-up and feminine wiles. Why any man would want to go down this path is beyond me. 

It is a reflection of how artificial our culture is that in our Western society it is the female that decks itself out in fine colours in order to attract a mate, and not the other way round.

And, of course, we need safe places for all, which really means safe places for women and gender non-conforming people, from those men that are predatory or violent.

And, now we are talking about this, we need less children, because there ARE an awful lot of us, so an increase in the percent of gay people might be a good thing too for the planet.

But from there to the idea that it is a good idea to medicate people, to artificially delay puberty, to operate on them in order to give them artificial body parts or take others out, to give them hormones for their entire life, simply because those people seem to demand it, is bad thinking, superficial and harmful. People are extremely malleable, which is why the advertising industry is worth $560 billion in the US alone. If you normalise something and propagandise it, it will be wanted. Think of back-deforming, body-poisoning breast implants, trout pouts, botox, or indeed smartphones (changed every 2 years, or every year in some countries). Anyone who has had holiday time in a rural area without phone coverage finds that in a couple of days you do not miss it at all.

The incursion of males into female competitive sports is unpleasant and unfair, but probably we would be a lot better off if all remunerative, competitive sports were to go. Just think of how every major male sport (football, cycling, even tennis for God's sake!) has been plagued by doping and corruption scandals over the last decades. The cases of violent men who have been allowed into female-only hospital wards or prisons is also indicative of the fact that most violence, and virtually all rape, is carried out by men. But, once again, the problem is deeper down: prisons are not fit for purpose and hospitals are so underfunded that privacy and security cannot be guaranteed. 

The problem of the disappearance of safe places for women points to a wider problem: ALL places should be vigorously made safe for all.

However, these non-representative instances of abuses, tiny in number, show a real aspect of the trans movement - the invasiveness of men in female areas of life. I say men because the focus of current trans laws benefits men, both trans and non-trans, not women. In this sense the trans movement is behaving exactly how men collectively have typically behaved in our society.

But to go back to the Trans Laws. The fact is that everyone should be able to be as they want to be (without harming others) and call themselves any name they want. But you cannot choose the sex with which you are conceived, and should not confuse the way you want to dress and act with your body's sex. Women and men ARE generally different, they have different hormones, and different biological responses to many situations. Ask a man to close the car window a bit and he'll close it entirely - men are far more binary, which is a good thing in many situations and a bad thing in others. In general women are biologically more careful of life than men and the vast majority of vegetarians and vegans are women for a reason. If a woman wants a female midwife, for example, there are good reasons for this. Perhaps we need a third and fourth gender for trans people, but a man in a skirt with heels, operated on or not, is still a man and should not be legally designated a woman. Desire should not be confused with fact. I may wish to be a millionaire but that does not, and should not, make me one.

The Trans movement is not addressing the underlying sickness in our society (Patriarchy), limiting itself to treating the symptom (pretending to be a woman, instead of being able to be a man and dress and be as you want - and vice versa). With its demand that children be allowed to take puberty-blocking hormones, or undergo surgery, is is serving trans-identified people very badly and children, many autistic, disgracefully. There will be a huge wave of depression from those people who regret their decisions, irreparable later on, and their bad health.

The Trans movement is additionally acting in an intolerant way, implementing what is called the cancel culture, under the guise of not allowing 'intolerance'. This is reminiscent of the political correctness that so enthralled the likes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. It was not what you did, but how you spoke about it, that was the problem. Women who voice doubts about trans laws and about the wisdom of society sanctioning harmful surgical interventions or "chest-feeding" for babies are simply shouted down or cancelled, in a way that is identical to how traditionally women's voices have been silenced by louder male ones.

Trans-identified people are not the problem - this should not need saying -, but our patriarchal system, by hiding the full spectrum of gender and reducing our lives to binary options within a tiny spectrum of possible life experiences, has misled people into thinking that aggressive surgery and drugs are the solution to a problem that is in fact psychological. The problem of society rejecting one's non-pathological personality is not solved by changing one's body, but by changing society. 

Feminism, instead of demanding parity of economic entitlement, parity of salaries and jobs in medium to large companies, parity in public employment and government, stays distracted with the question of equal maternity and paternity leave. Of course fathers should get paternity leave, and the opportunity to spend time with their babies and children. But much more urgent is ensuring that all women who give birth can stay with their babies until the latter are at least a year and a half; without this breastfeeding, the baby's most basic right, is almost impossible for working mothers. Feminism remains distracted with identity politics, distracted with anything but taking on the root of all these problems - the economic system.

Patriarchy, the enemy of all but the elite, and especially the enemy of women as a class and trans-identified people, has defanged the Feminist movement, and the Left is once again divided, actually excluding many women (even expelling many feminists), and offering us, yet again, individualism rather than collectivism.