1/ There is no "moderate" trans position, what there is instead is a cynical political repositioning forced on TRAs by reason of complete political defeat. As ever, it is really a demand, a demand we all forget the worst excesses of this dangerous, intolerant movement. It's a con
2/ There is no reasonable middle ground in the number of autistic/effeminate boys to be castrated. There is no half way point in the number of female prisoners you are prepared to put at risk of state approved rape. There is no percentage of acceptable cancellations.
3/ The new prominent "moderate" voices make no real concessions on these matters and in reality they seek to turn the clock back to less turbulent days before trans activism where exceptions were made. Trans activism changed this entirely. Genie. Bottle.
4/ This position is non sensical. Exceptions in the past were drawn by custom, not laws, and any law now trying to navigate some middle ground would be exploited by trans activists with claims of medical gatekeeping, denying existence, genocide and usual hyperbolic bullshit.
5/ This is all on you trans activists. You have exhausted the patience and good will of decent people with your ceaseless appetite for cancelling mainly women, inflicting your vile regressive ideology on mainly gay/autistic youth and your taste for and arrogance in power. Own it.
6/ The rest of us cannot be expected to pretend trans activism did not happen. You will not force a collective amnesia upon us-we are entitled to take your rotten movement at its own word and conclude your real ambition is "no debate" and no such thing as a woman or a homosexual.
7/ I will not be pathetically grateful for "moderate voices" on the basis we've finally found some cross dressing men who will sit opposite us and not scream "Bigot terf scum" or in my case "genital fetishist". No. That means no. You lot blew it. Not interested. This is zero sum
8/ You lot have wrought a bitter schism in the gay community we may never recover from. You have ruined the lives of children because they were different. You have prompted a generation of women who might otherwise have been sympathetic to you to regard you with fear and contempt
9/ You have done all this because you could and at the height of your power because you held us all in contempt as non believers in your new eccentric religion seeking to reshape society according to your bizarre belief that reality does not apply to you.
10/ The epitaph of your movement will, in the end, be that you were your own worst enemy. You have managed to alienate and anger people who would otherwise say "live and let live". We know what living with your demands looks like.
11/ And it's over. Your eccentric, nasty, cancel hungry gender borg rein is over. Your zombie movement is a dead man in heels walking.
So you can shove your "moderate" position.
It is a lie.
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1/ The modern, identitarian, chemically castrate your child type "left wingers" are in fact a consumerist schism in right wing politics, the only real dispute is whether you have a body as commodity or you believe in a body politic. There's nothing authentically left wing here
2/ Modern "left wingers" seem to care more for the identity de jour and the maintenance of their social media status than they do for the hard work of classic Marxism or making a moral case for the evils of poverty and the reality of class exploitation.
3/ The dictatorship of the gender proletariat is the ultimate expression of this bourgoise hopelessness. This is unreal politik. Any time "left wing" gender loons get near power their legislation is dross, dangerous, incoherent and always advantageous to corporate power.
1/ An AGP who seeks out disgust as part of his fetish can hardly complain when he meets it. This is the paraphilic panopticon I'm afraid, your disgust is actually what he wants and your manifestation of it part of his enjoyment. Humiliation fetish is an essential part of gender.
2/ I'm afraid this means to some extent there is no way out other that return to a Dr Hakeem sensible analysis of the role of post-mass consumption of pornography paraphilias. Dr. Hakeem asked whether a paraphilic nudist would be permitted to cross dress at work and our reaction
3/ If you analyse the "civil rights" claim in this fashion it all becomes clear. Of course you would not allow a nudist to enjoy their fetish at work, why should AGP be different? It's a good question. Paraphilic transvestites enjoy the status they do for obvious reasons.
1/ If you want to understand the modern day you have to understand the primacy of aesthetics, or more accurately visuals over the word.
The modern child has seen a million more images than his parents, the modern world is visual and relies on porn as a dominant aesthetic.
2/ It should be enough in the puberty blockers debate to say "Don't give those to your child, they harm bone density, cognitive function and social ability"
The compelling answer politically has been "But he'll look more like a woman" - an aesthetic / cosmetic response.
3/ And here is the rub. This is a society of looks. Of aesthetic. Of "passing". Of images and definition by images being definitive. Of snapchat. Of Instagram. Of the life lived by a million more images than before.
1/ The Secretary of State for Health Wes Streeting MP has extended his predecessor's ban on the private provision of puberty blockers and has worked with Northern Irish Authorities to ensure Ulster cannot be used as a backdoor to poisoning children. This is a hopeful moment.
2/ Victoria Atkins properly introduced this ban in the teeth of fierce opposition and a judicial review threat from the Good Laugh Project. It is to her credit she did so and to Wes Streeting's credit he supported it. This is sensible governance.
3/ Wes Streeting ensuring that NI cannot become a backdoor for poisoning mainly gay, mainly autistic children with experimental drugs is a masterstroke and an agile political response to Susie Green/Gender GP and the Good Laugh Project.
1/ In a era where you watch a remake of a remake of a superhero movie, it's apt the gender emerges as the ultimate empty political recursion, it claims to be a repeat of gay rights because repeat is what it does, whether that's memes, mantras or downloaded identities. It's empty.
2/ This is why it has to backwards engineer itself into existence, it's why the very much intact AGP implausibly insists he would have had puberty blockers and that gay (mainly girls) must take them, it's why they say gays didn't win gay rights robbing us of history.
3/ It does these things because it's the paradigm naff re-make of a super hero story. A civil rights claim so absurd it must distort history, language, social norms, etc. All must be distorted/distended in service of a philosophical claim to shroud the pronographic genesis.
1/ Allow me to introduce you to the "Forstater Paradox" which is what I call a profound legal problem with any conversion legislation. It works like this. Following the case of her name, you have a civil right to not believe in gender identity ideology.
2/ Your expressions of that belief, in law, are a "protected characteristic" under the Equality Act 2010. There's some debate about what sort of expressions cross the line into unacceptable, but the basic point is you have a right to disbelief.
3/ Now, let's imagine a red in tooth and claw conversion ban is implemented which criminalises any attempt to change someone's "gender identity".
See the problem? This law would require you to accept GI as the basis for your prosecution. It would be written into the law.