Javier Milei has claimed that gender ideology, “in its most extreme forms”, is “outright child abuse”. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this morning, the Argentinian President accused advocates for gender ideology of being “paedophiles”, and said that a “victimhood narrative” underpinned the “criminal ideology”.
In a special address, introduced by WEF President Børge Brende, Milei claimed that “wokeness” was destroying Western civilisation. “These forums [such as the World Economic Forum] promote the LGBT agenda, attempting to impose the idea that women are men and men are women simply based on self-perception,” he said. “And they say nothing about when a man dresses as a woman and kills his opponent in a boxing ring, or when a male prison inmate claims to be a woman and sexually assaults a female inmate.” At last year’s Olympic Games, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif won a gold medal in the female welterweight category, following controversy over Khelif’s eligibility to compete against women. There is no documented case of a transgender boxer killing a female opponent during a fight.
Milei referred to the recent case in which two gay men in America, who he described as having “championed the banners of sexual diversity”, were jailed for sexually abusing their adopted children. “In its most extreme forms,” he went on, “gender ideology is outright child abuse. They are paedophiles. So I want to know: who would support that kind of behaviour?”
The Argentinian President added: “Healthy children are being irreversibly harmed through hormone treatment and mutilation, as if a 5-year-old child could possibly consent to such things. And should their family not agree to this, there will always be state agents ready to step in in favour of what they call the ‘best interests’ of the child.”
In March last year, Milei banned the use of gender-inclusive language in the Argentinian government, including on all official documents. Attempting to solve the country’s economic crisis, he has significantly cut government spending and scrapped a quota that required the inclusion of transgender people in the state workforce. Responding to accusations from the LGBTQ+ community that minority rights were being rolled back, a Milei spokesperson said last year: “The quota does not make much sense […] Each position will be occupied by the best, most capable person, be it a man, a woman, a transvestite or anything else.”
Milei claimed in Davos today that “the scandalous experiments in the name of this criminal ideology” will be viewed in future as akin to “those committed in the darkest periods in our history”. He continued: “Covering this multitude of abhorrent practices is the eternal victimhood narrative, always ready to hurl accusations of homophobia, transphobia and other fabricated terms whose sole purpose is to silence those of us who dare to expose this scandal.”
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SubscribeWell he is absolutely right, every word, as was Orwell in his perception of how these ideologies would be forced on us.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
“There is no documented case of a transgender boxer killing a female opponent during a fight” – I heard something similar not long ago.
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Fact-checker?
Maybe in MMA? But also, just because it hasn’t happened does not mean it is unlikely to happen. It’s like a turkey saying that it will not be killed for Xmas just because it hasn’t yet.
Sorry for my bad English. I meant that the liberal authors of this article automatically took the position of a progressive fact-checker, which looks pretty stupid here, especially since the readers understood perfectly well what Milei meant.
It’s sad to see how well trained the modern press is.
Yes. But nearly. The Italian lady boxer in the Olympics capitulated quickly under the ferocious testosterone onslaught of the Morroccan male. She said she feared for her life if she continued.
…And was forced into a grovelling apology under duress. Because God forbid that someone call out a cheating male, whose post-pubertal development means he can punch 162x harder than the average woman, and hold the blind-eyed authorities to account for not only putting a woman in danger, but making male-on-women violence PPV entertainment.
Milei is absolutely right. Since around 2013, we’ve been occupying an uncanny valley in which mentions of Christianity in school and university texts come with a trigger warning, but young children can be sterilised, rendered anorgamsic, their IQ diminished by up to fifteen points as their brain development is impaired, afflicted with osteoporosis, their hearts and livers damaged, their uteruses atrophied and requiring hysterectomies – with the enthusiastic support and affirmation of our so-called officials.
I remember reading somewhere that the trans boxer in question had actually, in a number of previous bouts, been flattened by a female boxer which, if it the case, shows how rubbish the trans boxer was in their correct sporting environment and hence the motivation to “transition.”
If you are just going to make stuff up out of thin air then at least try to make it funny or interesting.
I agree with him 100%
If he keeps going at this rate, the Falklands might end up wanting to be Argentinian. Though I suspect there’s not a lot of demand for stuff like DEI and gender ideology on small South Atlantic islands.
Only the Unherd staff would be surprised by this and the Feminist herd there.
Of course teaching children a concept which itself was invented to confuse adults is chlld abuse.
What’s going to be left of Unherd when all the progressive liberal foundations on which its contributors rely on to churn out their pap are burnt?
They will have nothing to say and we will all hear a popping sound. What was that? Unherd returning to the digital void it came from. A happy thought.
Unherd. Do the decent thing. Change your stupid name to StarmerLies.
You have my permission to use that.
Do it Unherd! It might go viral! A new cult digital magazine! StarmerLies.
I’m quite certain you’ll get more subscribers than the current 312.
Can we 312 subscribers do a reverse take over? We’ve all been sold a dud.
Uptick this if you want to join me!
Nurse !
This is a self-evident fact to anybody with a moral compass.
So, not leftists then. The irony of course is that these very same people will tell you that so much as taking a child to church is child abuse. Chemical castration, bodily mutilation and entrenched psychological confusion? That’s fine though.
He’s right, it is criminal and there ought to be a lot of people in prison for promoting such dangerous tripe that has done untold damage to not just society, but individuals who will now forever be stuck with irreversibly changed bodies and a terrible social stigma.
What the left has done with people who have problems with their identity is equivalent to taking a schizophrenic and instead of gently treating them and helping them they’ve told them “yes, those hallucinations are real, the stalkers do exist and the television is talking to you”.
Not necessarily only Leftists but certainly moral cowards. Who else could pretend that it was right and fair for biological males identifying as female to compete against women in team sport etc? I think that was another example of the straw that broke the camel’s back for those who until then had kept their heads down and/or been in denial of the direct threat this ideology poses against children and women.
As Milei points out the ideology is pushed by globalist platforms such as the WEF, including the WHO and UN amongst others. Because it is wrapped in the mask of “kindness and inclusion” it has gulled (as intended) the idealistic younger generations and those lacking in critical thinking skills or any understanding of the law of unintended consequences that so often result from their ill thought out good intentions.
Taking a child to queer Mariann Budde’s church is child abuse.
The woke have infiltrated, taken control, and corrupted churches also.
But wasn’t it funny watching Trump and his grotesque family squirm?!?!
They weren’t squirming, just trying hard not to laugh.
Watch again, Karen.
They all also looked extremely hungover. Are they all drunks?
“a Milei spokesperson said last year: “The quota does not make much sense […] Each position will be occupied by the best, most capable person, be it a man, a woman, a transvestite or anything else.”
Just this week we had MLK Day and six decades after he advocated for “character not colour”. Meritocracy after years of struggle, was mostly at the “Well, duh” stage for women and minorities but now finds itself circling back to being treated like something on the revolutionary ragged edge.
Excellent speech, bold and articulate
Claims? How else does one describe irrevocable life-altering procedures done on children who lack the maturity to give informed consent except as abuse?
On your next visit to San Francisco, plan a visit to the Historic Transgender District. Revel in the human feces and moldering fentanyl corpses on the sidewalk. Enjoy a strong-arm robbery of all your possessions and perhaps your life. Don’t you ever become transphobic!
https://transgenderdistrictsf.com/
What are the odds that our boy John has never been to San Francisco?
He didn’t mention the chocolate so probably not.
Do yourself a favor and dial back the argumentum ad hominem fallacies.
‘Been on Russian Hill since 1994, 30-years. I moved to SF in ’74 and never looked back. The Limousine Liberals, Champagne Socialists, and the absence of pluralism, aka, your Uni-Party, have utterly destroyed The City.
Still, please visit our Historic Transgender District. It is lovely this time of year.
San Francisco was recently a thriving civil society with active pluralism. It was very popular for the Republican National Conventions, the first held in 1956 and the second in 1964.
Is his position anti trans or anti woke in general. It sounds more the latter. All good news for social conservatives perhaps, but for some feminist fellow travellers they may get a bit more that they bargained for.
Quick google search suggests it’s woke ideology in general he is opposed to. According to the Guardian at least it is feminism he is really going for.
Well the Guardian would say that, wouldn’t it?
Why?
Spot on!
Gender ideology is indeed deeply harmful; it’s disappointing, however, that Milei, like many others, continues to conflate trans activism with same-sex attraction. The alphabet mishmash is a political fabrication of gender radicals seeking to hijack acceptance of gay rights; people who use it help them by perpetuating a false association and confusing the clear concern. There is no “LGBT (QIA+)” agenda; gender activism has no rational association with homosexuality. Indeed, it’s homophobic (and sexist) in its implicit enforcement of regressive gender norms.
Thinking gay people, like thinking straight people, acknowledge the immutable reality of biological sex; why would it ever have mattered that we are same-sex attracted if sex isn’t real? We don’t want to see children — many of whom are gay — indoctrinated into thinking they’re “trans,” then medically and surgically mutilated. Nor do we want to see male trespass into female spaces. Many of us are happy to see this delusional, destructive ideology called out for what it is and rebuffed in law and policy.
The woke do not talk in name, or represent in any way, gays, lesbians, immigrants, women, transgender, indigenous, muslims, disabled, children,or anybody else.
It’s a fraud. They had never been elected neither given permission to talk on their name.
And the woke do not even care for that people. They just use them to prosecute dissent, gain power, and public funds.
This week in Australia, the gulf between L and T became clear. There was a legal ruling rejecting an appeal by the Lesbian Action Group against the finding that lesbians may not hold public events unless they include men who identify as lesbians!
The T people have even presumed to redefine the terms ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’. They define lesbian and gay people as those of a certain gender-identity being attracted to others of the same gender-identity.
Lesbians and gays protest endlessly about the forced teaming represented by the acronym, but the mainstream media take not the slightest notice.
Madness, and so deeply unfair. My heart goes out to Australian lesbians.
Maybe I’m too optimistic — not a trait for which I’m known — but I sense a slight shift in mainstream America media. A federal judge scrapped Biden’s egregious rewrite of Title IX that preferenced trans-identified male interests over female rights. Then Trump issued an executive order affirming the sex binary and banishing “gender identity” jargon in federal agencies.
Neither action had anything to do with gay people (unless indirectly helping lesbians), and more journalists — not just FOX and Catholic News Agency –appear to be acknowledging this with accurate, specific language, not the alphabet mishmash. Maybe it’s just that the political winds have shifted, rather than a renewal of journalistic integrity, but I’ll take it.
There’s still a large trans flag hanging in the entrance of the elementary school in my small community in Canada. The teachers sign off school emails with their pronouns. My 12yr old son was sent to the school therapist who labelled him ‘offensive’ for calling a girl in his class a weirdo for identifying as a wolf. Every morning starts with a land acknowledgment. Canada 2025! Gender ideology alive and kicking.
TBH I have absolutely no issue with young children self identifying as their favourite animal. Children have done that probably since the human race first emerged and it forms an integral part of many religions and cultures throughout the world.
Totally different to self identification as a member of the opposite sex and then being legally entitled to the protections related to that sex (protected single sex spaces being a prime example.)
Me neither – except for when they are 12 years old, crawling around on all fours in the classroom and barking at the other students. My daughter was adorable as a cat when she was 4 years old.
It’s divide and conquer followed by indoctrination.
It’s not a ‘claim’. He’s just stating a fact.
Totally agree with him
As a gay man; completely agree.
The far right obsession with gender ideology continues. Don’t you people have anything else to get on with?!??
Its amazing to me that people like this clown and his acolytes on wackier fringe of the far right get so exercised about the sexual abuse that your fevered imaginations dream up involving gay and trans people but you don’t care a jot about the actual sex crimes of the likes of Trump, DUI Hegseth and that nitwit from Florida whose name I’ve already forgotten.
Why are you so obsessed with trans people? I am starting to suspect that there is a deeper Freudian reason for this fascination you have.
Don’t be so silly! If you think only right-wing politicians can be sexual predators, I’ll raise you Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy.
Raise me?
How many settlements for sexual assault did either of them have to pay? How many porn stars were paid hush money to keep quiet about the sordid liaisons while the wife was home with the infant child?
Keep trying though – this is quite fun!
Many men sleep with other women when their wives are pregnant.
You may not, but it could be for two reasons: either you don’t have balls, or you don’t have a wife. But most likely you have neither.
Maybe it’s a step in the right direction that we’ve moved to payoffs versus murder (RIP Norma Jean).
You are diverting. All sex crimes should be punished. One class of sex crimes do not mean we shouldn’t be looking at others. Hetero abuse does not mask homo abuse nor visa versa.