So-called ‘gender criticals’ are currently melting down over the ‘recently announced’ puberty-blocker trial for kids as young as 10. I get why to many it looks grim. But let’s not forget these same people spent 18 months treating the Cass Review like Holy Writ when the aforesaid trial is literally Cass Recommendation 5. Indeed, the only individual I could immediately see who’d railed against it previously was @Con_Tomlinson who wrote a well thought out piece back in March (linked). So, kinda struggling to see how people can one minute coronate a supposedly ‘gold-standard’ Report and then the next scream when it’s actually implemented. That said, I also think we’re missing a far bigger and massively important picture… 🧵
courage.media/2025/03/25/bri… 2. What am I getting at? Well, in terms of Cass and the trial, I don’t think the important issue is one of hypocrisy (though hypocrisy there certainly is). No, I think the deeper mistake is the fantasy that Cass (and other so-called ‘victories’ seen along the way) are ‘kill-switches’ that will eventually rewind us to a pre-2015 normality. I simply don’t think that’s true. I think that ship sailed ages ago. Things like the Yogyakarta Principles together with an entire generation raised on social media mean ‘identity’ has become performative and infinitely editable. Remember, this drift has been running for two decades.

🧵Been down a few rabbit holes lately which have gotten me wondering if we’re not living through an actual Apocalypse (in the literal sense of the word meaning 'uncovering' or 'tearing the veil'). Like, zooming out, what have we got? Gender boundaries blurring, political systems convulsing, UFOs/UAPs & other anomalies back in respectable discourse, fractured shared realities, scientists telling us space-time is just a user interface. It's a lot, and kinda hard to shake the sense that something in the ontology's slipping. Here are a few thoughts.... 2. Could just be me of course, but right now I’m of the opinion something in the way ‘reality’ presents itself is behaving very oddly indeed. Maybe a phase transition (in the noosphere and everyday world) where the membrane between symbol, matter, and whatever-we-call-the-daemonic is starting to get thinner and thinner? And yes, in case you hadn’t noticed, people have been talking about demons *a lot* lately…