It's also worth pointing out that the hatred people like Graham and his fellow "gender-crits" have for trans people is born largely (though obviously not entirely) of antisemitism.
As a group, transphobes are convinced that there's some giant, nebulous, global moneyed interest that's bent on redefining womanhood for...some reason?
None of them can explain what possible motivations might propel such an initiative. They just know it's happening. Definitely.
None of them can explain what possible motivations might propel such an initiative. They just know it's happening. Definitely.
You can see this reflected in almost everything they post. Entire forums and facebook groups, whispering in hushed tones about lost jobs, lost friends, lost opportunities, all because they dared to speak the "truth." Because they dared to "defend women."
It's the same shtick fascists, fundamentalist christians, and neo-nazis love to pull whenever anyone challenges their fucked up, social-Darwinist bullshit on any sort of a systemic level. It's a gambit as old as time, and we've all seen it play out over and over again.
The next time some social media platform bans a right wing grifter or asserts even a tepid commitment against allowing the use of their service for the dissemination of hate speech and propaganda, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about:
That entire political sphere will explode in a collective fit of indignant, diaper-filling rage.
"You're silencing conservatives!" They'll scream in unison. "This is censorship! What about my free speech?!"
"You're silencing conservatives!" They'll scream in unison. "This is censorship! What about my free speech?!"
The objective is retaliation. It's the behavior of a petulant child who, as they stomp away with a dramatic flourish, tries to make you feel guilty by passive-aggressively grumbling that you not letting them have cookies before dinner means that you hate them.
They've found that they can strike a blow against the credibility of their opposition by responding to any criticism, censure, or consequences for their actions by loudly and vocally positioning themselves as the victims of establishment bullying.
This is where phrases like "liberal media" and "fake news" were born, and like the true reactionaries they are, TERFs are gleeful to embrace the same strategy:
What both groups are doing is pushing a narrative that there's some mysterious 'other' lurking behind the proverbial curtain, pulling on everyone's strings and making the mean old tech companies ban them for terms of service violations.
That mysterious other is jews.
That mysterious other is jews.
This kind of fanatical self-assurance is ubiquitous among the followers of certain conspiracy theories. Pizzagaters, anti-vaxxers, holocaust and climate change deniers - they're all certain that they have the right of things, that everything else is nothing but lies, lies, lies.
For transphobes especially, it doesn't matter what any medical, psychological, or scientific authority has to say on the issue, because they're ostensibly all in cahoots with the secret trans cabal and necessarily part of the "globalist" (jew) conspiracy:
The belief that powerful jews are manipulating world politics is a very convenient one for people who have no interest in self-examination or confronting the harm they cause.
For example, here's Jennifer Bilek fingering several jews for funding the "transgender lobby" and retweeting some deranged bullshit about how moneyed interests are behind a UW study confirming the validity of trans kid's identities. Definitely nothing to unpack there. 🙄
Posie Parker says that the trans rights movement is "tangibly organized and sinister."
"Pots and pots and pots of money," she says.
HMMMMM. 🤔
HMMMMM. 🤔
Graham finds it "extremely odd" that more people aren't vocally opposed to trans rights, because he is a very rational man who sincerely believes in a global tech, academic, and pharmacological conspiracy to silence dissenting opinions on the matter. To what end? Nobody can say.
I mean, I could provide more examples, but I think I've made my point. Obviously there's more to transphobia than simple antisemitism, but the two are undeniably linked, and the fact that I can't ever recall seeing a cis person acknowledge this is disturbing in the extreme.
