I think this is a good discussion of the trap the rainbow people have put themselves in. Trans people are part of the movement and it is pretty clear that many trans activists are just unpleasant mentally ill men. She is correct that this is creating a backlash against the entire movement. In Canada there are now websites where parents can find out which people running for school boards are ‘woke’ so they can vote them out. The people who get voted in in many cases are going to be actual conservatives. Gay people are going to have to show some backbone and start policing who speaks for them or they risk many of the gains they have made the last 40 years.

Stunning and brave? No, when Professor Stock speaks, particularly from Hungary, she’s insightful and brave. I no longer have any time for LGBT+++, I’ll stick to the non political basics of binary biology. I’ll let those who are fixated on their fantasies, fetishises and ideologies to promote their own agendas but please leave us homosexuals out of it.

Here’s the problem: Inside every trans-woman, screaming ‘I’m a woman! I’m a woman! Do you hear me? I’m a woman!’ is a tiny little voice whispering, ‘No you’re not, and you know it.’
It drives them mad, as evidenced by their behaviour. But it’s their problem, not mine. I don’t have to play their sad, silly, dishonest little mind game.

Oceania had never been at war with Eurasia, and lesbians had never needed to politically organise away from males, just for themselves.

Brilliant. Nineteen Eighty-Four has had many guises during its lifetime. It was written as a political cautionary tale. It subsequently became literature. And most recently it has become a ‘How To’ handbook for extremist gender cult evangelists.

All of this stuff, this “activism”, looks to me like Comic Con. It’s entertainment and a social life for participants and merch hawkers. Okay doke, have a good time. Otherwise, who bloody cares?

Kathleen, I do wonder when feminists such as yourself will take some measure of responsibility. The line of biology-denial represented by trans goes back to Descartes and Rousseau via Marx, Nietzsche and Freud – but the major hinge point along the way was feminists like De Beauvoir and Firestone. The separation of sex from gender – the very idea of gender as some disembodied internal self – is a feminist idea. The reality of biological difference rooted in both evolution and natural law – was denied first by feminists. The project of destroying the family was an overt dimension of radical feminist ideology (De Beauvoir and Firestone wanted families socialized and motherhood eliminated by in vitro pregnancy – exactly what transhumanist, transactivists are gunning for now). In Soviet Russia, Alexandra Kollontai wanted children to be taken by the state at birth and raised on collective child farms. This is YOUR tradition; your literary and theoretical backstory. I don’t know any conservatives who want to make homosexuality illegal or don’t see individual rights as inviolable. But this doesn’t mean that the sexual revolution and everything that has come with it has been good for women, good for men or good for children. Women are more unhappy. Men are more feckless and irresponsible and children are sexualized – and the next stop along the way….and there is nothing in the radical gender universe that can impede this …will be the legitimation of pedophilia and bestiality. There are already gender academics who are stealthily preparing the way (we must now refer to ‘minor attraction’; children know their sexuality at the age of 2 etc etc – ). But this is only possible because of the disembodying of the gendered self on the one hand, and (as Philip Rieff described it) the separation of the social order from the sacred order – the attempt to create a society in which individual purpose, happiness, telos – is answerable to nothing; where ‘woman is the measure of woman’; where the individual psychological-self owes nothing to society; where there is no transcendent moral order. As a secularist and an atheist, you are never going to buy that. But as a conservative and a Christian, I have supported your struggle against woke academia from day one and I will continue to support gender-critical feminists. If Posie Parker stands against Eddie Izzard I will send a substantial donation. Kelly J. has been much more gracious about the support of people like Matt Walsh. Perhaps it is time that were a little more honest about where all this crap is coming from. If you are willing to look in the mirror – and you strike me as someone who values intellectual honesty – you might have a look at this book by Carl Trueman https://www.amazon.ca/Rise-Triumph-Modern-Self-Individualism-ebook/dp/B089DNYCDY/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HQZER2TKDNFB&keywords=carl+trueman%27s+%27the+rise+and+triumph+of+the+modern+self&qid=1665143015&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjI2IiwicXNhIjoiMS4zNSIsInFzcCI6IjEuMzIifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=carl+TRu%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-1

What if these ghastly right-wing types are right about the Trans thing and wrong about almost everything else. Can’t you just say so? Do people have to be right about everything or wrong about everything?

While I can understand your disquiet at being published by an “Orban think tank” you have wonder who will publish your book. Publishing is a young industry after all, and people who have chosen a career in it will–without any sense of irony–rise up against working with content they feel will soil them in some way.

I wonder if our Bronze Age ancestors were on to something when they outlawed homosexuality. Maybe in their own way they experienced an ideological turmoil similar to that of the current liberal world order and learned that it produces nothing but filth, decadence, and cultural stagnation.