Posted on 09/01/2021 6:56:26 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Imagine waking-up to discover oneself living in a theocracy; in workplaces and even when chatting with friends it becomes obligatory to signal one’s belief. Kids are subjected to indoctrination sessions at school. The national broadcaster schedules regular religious programmes, and the police, civil service and courts pay a tithe to faith leaders.
This isn’t the plot of some hackneyed dystopian novel — this is today’s world as described by Helen Joyce in Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality.
There are no mad mullahs to point at, no frothing rabbis and no black-clad priests condemning non-believers to an eternity in hell. And yet, just as with religion, angry men wearing dresses are compelling speech, forbidding women from meeting and excommunicating apostates. Each example in this opening scenario is happening in Britain today thanks to the extraordinary rise of trans ideology.
“Whether a religion makes its believers happy is irrelevant to the question of whether god exists, or whether everyone else should be compelled to pay it lip service.”
The origin of transgenderism is traced to the maverick theories of sexologists in Weimer-era Berlin. Today’s Gender Studies professors and their shiny-eyed acolytes might imagine the vogueish idea that “sex is a spectrum” to be a recent scientific revelation. Joyce conclusively disproves the concept, positioning it as a convenient if unscientific explanation of transvestism and homosexuality that first transfixed rogue surgeons a century ago.
Joyce does not shy away from the grubby underbelly of trans identities; exposing the pornographic fantasies that drive the desire to “change sex” for many men. One no longer has to scour the fetid recesses of the internet to find evidence of these fetishes, authors like the trans activist, Andrea Long Chu, are quite upfront about what being female means to them: “an open mouth, an expectant asshole and blank, blank eyes”.
Those who understand themselves to be more than vessels for male sexuality include transwidows, the women whose partners choose to transition. Expected to stand by their man, even when he decides he is a “she”, transwidows are relegated to props in their partner’s new identity. Trans is one of very few books to acknowledge their existence.
Joyce felt moved to write Trans after listening to detransitioners; people who, like transwidows, are collateral in the trans crusade against reality. She reports of one detransitioned woman that “the label ‘lesbian’ revolted her, since she associated the word with pornography sniggered over by male classmates”.
Unlike their male counterparts, most females referred to gender identity clinics are same-sex attracted. The procedures they undergo to become simulacrums of the opposite sex can be understood as socially sanctioned self-harm; the manifestation of internalised homophobia. Their stories are a raw reminder of the sacrifice trans ideology demands.
Joyce’s final chapters trace how a niche ideology with all the internal coherence of Scientology has come to capture institutions, governments and minds. The idea that a shadowy cabal of patriarchs is plotting to eliminate biological sex sounds like tinfoil-hat territory. Nonetheless, it is true that there are a handful of billionaire philanthropists exerting their influence on policy across the globe.
The vision of men like Jennifer Pritzker, Jon Stryker and George Soros is being pushed through human rights organisations, international law and academia. Their intentions may be benign, but their impact is every bit as devasting as earlier forms of imperialism.
The power of these men might be limited were it not for the fact they operate under the shadow of the pharmaceutical industry. Naturally, the manufacturers of drugs and implants stand to benefit from the surgical and hormonal manipulation of the human body. Joyce wryly observes that, “helping gender-dysphoric people feel comfortable in their bodies makes no-one much money; turning them into lifelong patients is highly profitable”.
The march of critical theories across institutions will continue to fuel outrage in the Daily Mail and prompt soul-searching in the Guardian. These trendy ideas will be fleeting; forgotten as quickly as the political correctness of the 1990s. But trans ideology is different, the division of organisms into two sexes can be traced to around two billion years ago — the hubris needed to imagine this irrelevant is staggering.
The quest to eliminate sex in civil society is not just well-funded and wrong-headed, it taps into a dark truth about male power and sexuality. So entrenched are positions on either side of the debate that each word becomes a tribal signifier.
Trans gives a compelling, comprehensive overview of how and why this science-denying ideology has conquered the world. Ultimately, it is a story of inequality; both economic and sexed. Trans is a book that ought to be read by every legislator, policy maker and activist. But the bleak truth is that those whose minds are already closed will never open its cover.
I cut over half of the article out, because the reviewer can't seem to stay on point. Shame, because writes well when she sticks to the subject at hand. If you want to read the entire article, go to the link.
This is the first time I've heard the phrase "transwidow", but it's a term I understand. I knew someone a couple of decades ago whose husband had sex change surgery. It was a complete disaster for the family. Not only destroying the family, but sucking them dry financially. The wife tried to deal with it, but eventually rejected her husband. The kids never accepted it. They aren't on speaking terms with their dad.
Situations such as this support encouraging people to find their "true selves" as young as possible before they can damage the lives of others, especially their children. It might be disturbing to witness those that believe they should be the opposite sex, Marilyn Monroe, a tree, or a lizard person, but the consequences of forcing them to suppress it is far worse.
Nausea from watching someone "blossom" into who they "truly are" is nowhere near the cost of what family victims of the suppressed individual experience.
Bookmark
Only male gay and trans sex.
Hetro and women? Verboten.
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I.e., Magnus Hirschfeld. His 20,000 copy porn library was the first target of the Nazi book burnings.
You've all seen the photo. You can find it and the story behind it at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings
The enablers become victims, content to play along with one who thinks outside of reality. I won’t be an enabler.
Reality is cold and hard, but crazy is crazy!
I will not play along with someone who thinks they are a boy or girl when they are not. Madness, is what it is!
I’ll be a bigot. Wait a minute, I am a bigot and what’s wrong with that?
This works so well that you need only list what God has ordained to find where the attacks from Evil is in operation.
Much simpler process than chasing every unique and idiosyncratic issue when we all know for Evil, “The issue is never the issue, the issue is the Revolution”.
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