Thread by @FrancisAaronUK

The transgender medical experiment will be recalled as one of those grand delusions that appear every now and then in history; a mass delusion that kidnaps the minds of people who are otherwise usually sober and responsible, but for whatever reason take leave of their sanity.
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This experiment has its roots in a troupe of twentieth century philosophers and sexologists. They adopted Sartre’s idea that a person has no real fixed identity, and pilfered Nietzsche’s concept of “affirmation.”
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These philosophers believed that binary oppositions, things such as male/female are unstable, unfixed, and that the body is without meaning. Meaning is projected onto it. This was “identity projection”. Gender is “a free-floating artifice” they suggested.
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Therefore one’s ‘gender’ could be out of kilter with one’s sex. They invented a psychological entity and called it – “gender identity.” They felt this “desire” to be the opposite sex was achievable – the binary might be broken, through drugs and surgery.
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The gender identity that one desires could be “affirmed” onto the body. Or so they supposed. And so followed the transformation of this into a medical ideology. Many “charities” sprung up that further developed this idea. They had the temerity to call it – "science."
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By the 2010s an online youth movement, cloistered on sites such as Tumblr and Reddit, adopted and reconstructed this chimera of gender. This subterranean creed gained many converts and garnered immense and unthinking popularity. It seeped into the mainstream.
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Many of those who subscribed to it did not recognise its roots. The transgender “umbrella” came to replace older terms such as “transsexual” or “androgynous”, and we started to hear a lot about pronouns, ‘non-binary identities’ and a whole swathe of new gender identifications.
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Most were sucked into its spiral, on the basis they were a part of the next great push for minority rights – “trans rights”. Many high-profile celebrities donated thousands to "charities" – to drug-reliance and the amputation of sex organs in the name of “gender identity.”
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Corporations hopped on the bandwagon. Like mechanical dolls, politicians jumped at the chance to repeat, drone-like, falsehoods such as “transwomen are women.” The average onlooker was confused. These ideas required a conceptual framework to understand and accept.
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Activists called the medical procedures – “life-saving.” They played to emotion, indoctrinated “allies”, and manipulated the well-intentioned masses into believing those who questioned this dubious dogma were evil, “transphobes”, “TERFs”, “bigots”.
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The vast majority were concerned with the fact children were having illness induced into them and having body parts sliced off under the pretext of solving a vague and ill-defined neurosis they had only recently started calling – “gender dysphoria”.
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At some indeterminate point in the future, when the lightning of reality strikes – and reality always strikes eventually – it will turn out they aligned themselves with a drive to medicalise and modify the bodies of many autistic and gay kids on the basis of an error.
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There are tens of thousands of children being pumped with cross-sex hormones, who are not the opposite sex and never will be, being pandered and lied to by adults.

#IStandWithKeiraBell

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This was a song I made on the topic.



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Here are some more threads I posted a while back on the issue. This first one is about the song.

https://twitter.com/FrancisAaronUK/status/1289955612038586368?s=20

This thread was on Nietzsche's idea of "becoming" which influenced Simone de Beauvoir, and later made its way into gender theory.

https://twitter.com/FrancisAaronUK/status/1295319622523195394?s=20

This thread was on Sartre's idea of "the subject." The title of Judith Butler's book Gender Trouble came from him. The early parts of the book are awash in his ideas also.

https://twitter.com/FrancisAaronUK/status/1301890994657521664?s=20