1./ It's #TransAwarenessWeek; the new global festival of religious belief; a Gender Identity X-mas that celebrates performative "kindness" that's not to be confused with the similar but totally different Spring festival of #TransgenderDayofVisibility.🤷♀️👇
2./ It was David Hume who argued all religious systems require belief in miracles and vice versa. "I never read of a miracle in my life that was not meant to establish some new point of religion”. So what miracles might be at the heart of this newly established faith?
3./ Hume argued a miracle is immune from Reason (or dull facts). So this week will climax with #TransgenderDayofRemembrance, a sombre kind of Kumbh Mela when facts will be scattered to the wind to support a claim immune to Reason and rich in sacrificial religious overtones.👇
4./ The day marks the core Gender Identity belief that insists trans people are victims of an epidemic of violence that continually accelerates. Yet even a cursory glance at the stats show something different. Here are the overall homicide stats for the USA up to 2020.👇
5./ Homicides rose sharply to 21,570. @HRC notes 44 of those were trans "and gender non conforming". The same organisation calculates a US trans population of 2 million (0.6% of 330M). 0.6% of 21,570 homicides is 129 not 44. Is the truth the US is safer for trans than "cis"?👇
6./ Brazil is often cited as the dark heart of anti-trans violence. Bolsanaro is a transphobic monster but even here the stats don't support the rhetoric. There were 50,333 homicides in 2020. 0.6% of that figure is 302. The number of trans people murdered was actually 175.
7./ Any murder is one too many. That principle doesn't always seem to apply tho in reverse. Trans felon Tony McDade was shot by cops after he fled from killing in cold blood the young son of an ex-partner. McDade is listed as a 2020 trans victim. RIP Malik Jackson, his victim.👇
8./ Factual details tho seem to become irrelevant when the oceanic wave (Freud's term) of the religious experience sweeps over believers. So what are some of the other core beliefs of the 'gender identity' faith? A central one is that transition cures mental health problems.👇
9./ Truth is there have been few follow-up studies of medical transition and most don't support the notion it solves mental health issues. This despite the fact those who've changed their bodies have powerful incentives to convince themselves they did the right thing.
10./ When reality can't be ignored the faith shifts. When it became clear many who medically transition didn't achieve their dream look the answer was to promote transition including puberty blockers in children. Here's a promo in which doctors and parents embrace this idea.👇
11./ But there's a problem with the new ritual of dishing out puberty blockers like communion wafers to impressionable kids. Here's Jazz Jennings from hit TV series 'I Am Jazz' talking about the downsides: lack of "growth ..down below', making 'her' surgery much more difficult.👇
12./ Just 5 years ago Jazz -and 'her' growth problem was a rare exception. NOW the approach used for Jazz is advocated as an ideal by promoters of blockers for kids such as Mermaids or GoodLaw. Did they not listen to her surgeon describe how experimental this all is? 👇
13./ Maybe Mermaids ignored the issue. But Marci Bowers, one of Jazz's surgeons, is set to become @wpath's next leader and she's admitted to @AbigailShrier there are insurmountable problems with what Mermaids advocates. 👇 economist.com/united-states/….
14./ Animal trials of blockers prove they damage the brain. Now it's clear they stop physical development so much kids like Jazz won't go on to have adult sexual function. Somehow, this doesn't stop some parents thinking such harm is worth it. What COULD be their motiva$ion?👇
15./ One motivation may be homophobia. Newsnight discovered at the Tavi some parents wanted their kids on blockers MORE than the kids did. Parents used to try to pray away the gay. Now they have pharmacists not priests to intercede for them and remove the 'stigma' of a gay child.
16./ We're all supposed to admire the 'brave' parents who push their kids along this medicalising route to sterility. Feel free. But did you know the new name for Munchausen By Proxy is Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another? Wonder if we'll be hearing more about FDIA... soon.
17./ This strange new religion we're celebrating this week won't stop at what we used to think of as 'gender identity'. It's doing what all faiths do: fracturing, dividing, and getting more fervent. Here's some young people trying to define the miracle of graysexuality. 👇
18. The biggest miracle of all is self-identification. That won't stop at gender. Who can forget the transwoman who decided they weren't just a white person from Florida but Filipino? The Union that failed @Docstockk supports race self-ID so presumably would support that view?
19./ One hope is that, as with all religions, a spiral of belief in miracles is underway. Sex change, or 'sex spectrum' soon won't really be exciting enough. Here's a woman seriously claiming she got some telepathic message from her fetus telling her it was transgender. 👀
20./ And miracles can become humdrum. Here's a trans activist discussing with a trans ally his desire to get nullification (don't ask). In the meantime it's all been fun for him and his boyfriend just imagining it!! We've moved from the "brave and bold" to the err..null and void.
21./ And if the increasing strangeness of the 'gender identity' movement doesn't put off the public then we can at least rely on the hilariously entitled tone of leading activists. The more they tell ordinary voters what they MUST do the less they're likely to do it.👇
22./ If that doesn't work we can take the advice of Christopher Hitchens who said we have a moral duty to ridicule and deconstruct any faith that claims the authority to tell us what to do. "It's the beginning of human emancipation", he said. Amen and Happy Trans Awareness Week.
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1./ Earlier today I emailed LGBT Youth Scotland to ask if the Andrew Easton who co-wrote their 'Guide to Coming Out for Trans Young People' is the same Andrew Easton who raised funds for them on Facebook ...and was found guilty of distributing images of child sex abuse.
2./ There are many people called Andrew Easton online so this could just be a stranger than fiction coincidence. It's hard to say since there is almost no sign online of the LGBT+ activist called Andrew Easton who co-wrote the Guide in 2010. It's as if he disappeared.
3./ I assume there is an innocent explanation. The reputation of LGBT Youth Scotland could not sink any lower. 20 years ago it was the HQ of the biggest child abuse ring in Scottish history. It now encourages children to keep secrets from their parents. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…
1./ 🧵My latest article decodes the 'Queer' Olympic Opening Ceremony. The aggression, provocation and carelessness towards child safeguarding of those drag queens makes perfect sense if you know the history of France's 'queer' lobby. Click on the link in my bio to read more.
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2./ The first French gay rights group was set up in 1971. FHAR is often cited as a pioneer of queer because it had an angry self-righteous stance we now associate with all things queer. It was opposed to gays assimilating. Instead, society had to change. Or else!
Sound familiar?
3./ One of its founders Guy Hocquenghem is often described as the father of the queer lobby's gospel: queer theory. He argued radical political change could only happen after a sexual revolution that swept away traditional norms and...destroyed the family. What could go wrong?
1./ How Corrupt is the LGBTQ+ Lobby?
@glaad is an ex-gay group like Stonewall that now pushes a homophobic, misogynistic, child-harm agenda. They're so trans-obsessed they monitor @jk_rowling. 🤪They do all this to fund their lifestyles. How do we know?👉 glaad.org/gap/jk-rowling/
2./ The @nytimes revealed today the boss of @glaad spends money Davos-style. She is breathtakingly corrupt. First class air travel takes her to Zurich where a chauffeur drives her to a seven bedroom chalet that costs half a million $ a week to rent. 🤢 nytimes.com/2024/08/01/bus…
3./ The CEO's rental of the Tivoli Lodge was just one luxury excess among many; such as Cape Cod summer holidays, $20K to remodel her home and stays at the 5 star Waldorf Astoria. She lives the life of a larping larry as she crusades to sterilise kids. 🤢 tivolilodge.co.uk/index.shtml
1./ Can you guess what puberty blocker supporters said about Huw Edwards? Here's what 5 men who fiercely defend drugs that keep teenagers from physically maturing said about a presenter who now admits he shared kiddie porn. First: Peter Tatchell, martyr to his own ego.👉
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2./ In Pink News he complained speculation about who the BBC presenter might be was "steeped in homophobia". It wasn't. When Edwards was named Tatchell didn't wonder at the presenter's morals in paying a 17 year old boy £35K for naked images. Instead he denounced the @TheSun. 👇
3./ Like Tatchell, Jolyon Maugham has a lot to say about adolescents; the sterilisation of whom he loudly supports. He expressed solidarity to Edwards and denounced @TheSun for "homophobic lies". Is it homophobic to expose a rich 60 year old for exploiting a 17 year old boy?🤔
1./ The LGBTQ+ Lobby Can't Stop Lying
@HadleyFreeman skewers the refusal of self-righteous activists to admit they were wrong on puberty blockers. Sadly the LGBTQ+ lobby has a pathological aversion to the truth. It is lying about about suicide rates. And who can forget monkeypox?
2./ @benryanwriter was one of the first pundits to reveal the truth about monkeypox: it was circulating almost exclusively among gay men. He was trolled for his efforts. So was @AllianceLGB when, a month before, it went out on a limb to warn gay men. 👉
3./ After @AllianceLGB warned the disease affected gay men disproportionately and called for sex clubs to be closed, it was assailed by LGBTQ+ activists who claimed it was "insulting" gay men. Guess who led the calls and spun the biggest lies? opendemocracy.net/en/5050/lgb-al…
1./ Ru Paul's Child Harm
2 months ago a performer on @RuPaulsDragRace celebrated the removal of her healthy breasts. Next week the Teletubbies, a pre-school children's favourite, perform live at the Drag Race Convention in LA. Tickets are free for under 8s. Why does this matter?
2./ It's bad enough that stands will be selling fetish gear and sex toys. 2 years ago this idiot mother took her kids to @RuPaulsDragCon and trilled about kids including toddlers performing drag "while queer adults cheered them on." Why is this a problem? today.com/parents/parent…
3./ Misogynistic and sexualised, Drag Race relentlessly promotes the lie of the "trans child" who will one day "fix" their body medically. It's become a recruiting agent for pathological medics who cheerfully sterilise teens and is being enabled by dangerous and deluded parents.