FACT; Covid Vax KILLS or maims pregnant women or/and their unborn babies! The poisonous crap doesn't stop the man-enhanced virus - but undermines natural resistance/immunity with each extra top-up (called a 'BOOSTER'). It's really 'a depopulation regime', backed by injection-induced INFERTILITY!
NO LIABILITY for BIG PHARMA for 'VAX DEATHS or/and VAX INJURIES is the first clue to consider! This fact was seemingly unimportant to every Government that signed the bizarre onerous CONTRACT!
IVERMECTIN SAVES LIVES but Big Pharma can't profit from this WHO-approved medicine. There's NO PROFIT in HEALTHY PEOPLE! Join the dots!
Please stop pretending the entire left agrees with this current insanity. It's getting old and it's inaccurate. It's like saying every conservative is a Christian. Perhaps it's time to refer to specific beliefs during discussion instead of using false stereotypes of right and left.
They may not agree with it, but by remaining silent about it they tacitly endorse it. It's a delusion that everyone must participate in, the first one to stop clapping gets a struggle session.
Oh, good Lord Trish. I was just starting to recover from the image of the man in the UK ‘breastfeeding’ a baby (what an absolutely evil and vile fetish), and now I have to process the ‘woman suit’. As disturbing as it is though, I am glad I am now aware of it. This ideology needs to be fought back every step of the way, and the more information at our fingertips, the more effective we’ll be. I also loved this bit from the podcast, that trans-activism is a cult/religion masquerading as a civil rights movement. Spot on!
Trish, thank you so much for the work you so. First-time commenter on Substack, long-time listener here, based in the UK.
I want to weigh in to share a sad anecdote about my first exposure to trans as a social contagion, in summer 2019. A British friend who had married a Canadian guy years before and moved to Canada was in town visiting. We met up and I asked how her step kids were doing. I'd met them the summer before when they did a family trip to Europe and remembered she'd told me the two eldest (a boy and girl aged 17 and 15, respectively) were gay. They seemed sweet and well-adjusted.
Now, a mere year later, my friend announced that her stepson was still gay, but her lesbian stepdaughter was now a "trans boy". I had never heard of a teenage girl suddenly identifying as trans -- but my friend seemed unfazed.
"I've read all the testimonies, watched all the influencer videos, and you know? It's a completely normal thing," she assured me. (As you might have guessed, my friend is a Guardian-reading, lifelong leftist type.)
When I probed a bit more, I learned that the stepdaughter's girlfriend was also saying she was a boy. Odd, I thought: a teen lesbian couple are suddenly and simultaneously identifying as trans boys but it's "completely normal"? My friend and I had lots to catch up and only touched on this briefly, but it stuck with me.
I didn't offer the challenges and objections that I would do so now, although I do remember pushing back on any medicalised pathways. "Sounds like it's just a trendy identity of sorts," I remember telling my friend. "Your stepdaughter isn't considering any surgeries or anything?"
"Oh, she is," my friend answered matter-of-fact (she was still correctly sexing the kid at this stage, but that would soon change).
I felt alarmed but didn't know what to say. "How does their father feel?"
"It's been harder for him to wrap his head around, but he's slowly accepting it. He already went through this when the kids came out, so it's not so different." Two gay kids vs one gay kid and one formerly-gay-turned-trans kid. It didn't seem quite the same and as an LGB woman myself, I couldn't square trans being just another version of gay.
As I said, we didn't stay on this topic too long and I really thought that when I next spoke to her she'd tell me it was a phase and all was back to normal. I had, at this point, never heard of ROGD and had no idea that trans ideology was fully embedded in Canada. I didn't even realise it was an ideology, truth be told.
When I next spoke to my friend it was summer 2022. She was in town again, on a whirlwind visit, so I only had about an hour with her over a coffee. Covid took up most of our time (she is a Trudeau supporter who 100% supported every covidian narrative -- she even fell for the truckers-being-right-wing thing!). She listened to me and then essentially refuted every point I made. She even boasted that she got her 8-year-old vaccinated. It was a heartbreaking exchange.
Finally I asked for an update on the other kids. "Oh, well, ___ is now living as a man!" My face fell. "Really? She still identifies as a boy?"
"Yes, HE does," my friend corrected me. "Started T two years ago, had top surgery last summer, and yeah, just lives as a normal bloke."
_But she's not a normal bloke!_ my mind immediately screeched. I felt powerless to say it, though. My brain was exhausted from our heated debate over covid and I lacked the resilience to challenge her on trans, especially realising how deep in the madness her family had plunged.
"Is he happy?" I mustered.
"He just wants to fit in. He's tired of this culture war stuff. He doesn't want all this attention on trans people! He just wants to be accepted as a bloke."
So... she's not happy. My heart sunk. My friend could not see the absurd contradictions in what she was saying. Society making a fuss about trans ideology was making her child angry, but without trans ideology she would never have been at odds with society.
I don't know what state the kid is in now, but it wouldn't surprise me if one of these days she wakes up, regrets everything, and feels betrayed by her dad and stepmum for going along with it.
Wow....what a sad story. I do care deeply for these children. "Trans" is the only malady we allow kids to self-diagnose. And then we stop professionals from probing further under threat of criminal penalty. I think our kids are screwed up and tansing is seen is the sparkle pony for attention and acceptance in a culture that idolizes this new trend. I hope there is an adult in her family who will be around and supportive when she crashes.
“We know it when we see it” and we might also awaken to knowing it is a type of psychic murder...perhaps not punishable by death, but certainly punishable. I challenge the notion that porn has ANYTHING to do with free speech!
Back in the day when the new Trudeau government expanded human rights legislation to protect transgender people I was pleased. My few interactions with trans people indicated that this was a much maligned and very small minority who deserved equity in healthcare, education, employment. So I was happy the government had taken this step.
It wasn’t long after that Jordan Peterson came to prominence with his warnings on enforced language. He was right, of course. And I knew it.
Look where we are now. We have a PM who seems to privilege “trans rights” above everything. To what end?
What an amazing piece on this debauchery we are dealing with in our society today. And sadly for Canadians our pro-trans Prime Minister is all in on this. First telling Muslim parents who are protesting their kids being indoctrinated in trans ideology at school, that they are simply reacting to 'misinformation' from American right ring anti-trans activists. Such nonsense coming from him, it is not surprising, almost everything he says is nonsense. He also had the audacity to label New Brunswick Premier Blaine as far-right political actor because his government has amended a policy that requires that teachers must inform parents if their kids declare themselves as trans and change their names and prounouns. How crazy is that, because most schools in Canada have specific policies that schools not inform parents in their children decide to change their gender. Trudeau did end his criticism of Higgs there, we went on to say these 'far right actors --are trying to outdo themselves with the types of cruelty and isolation they can inflice on these already vulnerable people, ' adding right now trans kids in New Brunswick are being told they don't have the right to be their true selves.' Trudeau doesn't seem to have the intelligence or accumen to wonder why, all of a sudden are so many kids coming out as trans. Is it perhaps because they are being steeped in this ideology at school, when their young impressionable minds can barely grasp the complexity or ramfications of changing their 'gender'. Unfortunately most of our legacy media are also captured by this insanity. This is demonstrated in a disgusting manner in which CBC journalist--and I hestitate to use the word jounalst Rosemary Barton attacked Premiere Higgs in a one on one interview on her show. I was so angered by her actions I wrote a piece on it on my substack The Intrepid Viking https://roxannehalverson.substack.com/p/cbcs-rosemary-barton-hits-all-the
Where and how do those who declare themselves trans make money? A good majority, Twitter, Only Fans, YouTube, Tik Tok , porn industry with an occasional foray into mainstream TV and even the movies if they look after the right person who will give them a part. Imagine being a parent thinking your trans kid is so cute and butter would not melt in their mouth and someone sends you a link which opens up their latest porn clip on Only Fans.
What is incredibly sad is that there is a nascent but growing population of trans-identified females going into porn. Some call their genitalia their "bussy" (a contraction of "boy p*ssy"). They engage in sex acts with men but because of their "transman" identity consider themselves gay, not straight. I've come across their profiles and content on Twitter and it is very disturbing.
Why are they choosing this path? In my opinion porn narratives are also influencing confused young women and girls who spend copious amounts of time online, but in a different way to how they influence men and boys. In a nutshell, straight and bisexual women are choosing pornified transition pathways not because they have sexual fetishes or fixations but because they seek validation through self-harm. It is nothing but the usual self-effacing, performative, attention-seeking, self-destructive behaviour that insecure and troubled women have engaged in since forever -- but it's at the extreme end of it and comes wrapped up in a new presentation.
Who will tell these women that the men who desire them through a screen do so because they are pornsick and depraved? That the sex partners they film with only see them as objects? The porn industry made "chicks with d*cks" a thing -- which continues to distort the aspirations of many hyper-feminine gay men who become trans-identified as children or teens. Is it any surprise they're now turning "men with bonus holes" (or whatever the jargon is) into a thing?
It's been said that testosterone can numb female-typical emotions and feed male-typical ones, meaning some women on cross-sex hormones become more willing to take risks and be sexually impulsive. The possibility that "transmen" are influenced into making irrational and extreme sexual choices because of the harmful experimental drugs (sorry, "gender-affirming treatment") they're on should be seriously considered.
Haven't we always pitied the drug-addicted women who go into sex work to fuel their habit, or conversely, those who start clean but end up relying on drugs to tolerate the depravity they're subjected to? Today a new cohort of drug-dependent young women is getting into sex work, but instead their choices are lauded as "sex positivity" and "queer liberation". They're "living their best lives" while "being their authentic selves", don't you know?
We are facing a generation of heartbreak. Porn has ruined our culture. When doing research for this article -- I just Googled the terrible porn search terms and without any blockage or warning things appeared on my screen that still haunt me. Imagine what our poor children have been viewing.
At Nuremberg, we executed Nazi's who had performed so-called medical experiments on children. Now, 77 years on, western governments and the medical community openly support equally diabolical mutilation. I agree with many of the commentators, the trans debacle is a hill to die on. Too much is at stake and losing this battle will leave us a society too horrible to contemplate.
We must be smart about it. Armed with facts and stats. What I see in researching this is that there is no actual medical or psychiatric paradigm. Nothing. Anyone who claims a gender can have it and be recognized. Even if their motive is nefarious or fetishistic. Anti-science, anti-medicine --same old C-19 paradigm. Captured professions who must be called to account. Where are the voices of the gay men whose rights I fought for? Why are they selling women and children out?
Your pod with Helen Joyce was an eye (ear?) opener re the misogyny among portions of the gay male community. That said there are also plenty of gay male allies in this war.
Trish, when my daughter began dating, my best advice to her was, " follow your heart but don't leave your brain behind". To some degree, that principle applies to mainstream, liberal women who defaulted to caring and empathy when these issues first emerged. To be fair, the descent to where we are now was insidiously incremental. Very few people, of either gender, saw the clever manipulation being orchestrated by the activists. Societal traditions and due process evolved for very good reasons. We've reached the point where misplaced feelings need to be put aside in favour of facts and reality. Otherwise, the concessions demanded by the trans zealots will have tragic consequences for our kids.
Thanks for all you do Trish. One of the best perspectives I've encountered on this topic is from the Catholic writer E. Michael Jones, in "Libido Dominandi : Sexual Liberation and Political Control". His basic thesis is that a society ruled by passion, particularly sexual passion, is easier to control, and therefore dominate than one ruled by reason. Also, I'm reminded of the quote, I'm not sure from who, that 'those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities'. Hope you have a great holiday Trish!
Arguably the worst leadership on COVID and the Trans narrative were the female PMs of Scotland and NZ. Masculine Men are never The enemy of women, we're your partners and are disgusted by the misogynistic narrative disguised as tolerant accepting behavior. IMHO, the ruling classes who've always ruled by by creating fantastical rubbish narratives and dividing the people lost the homosexual culture War and rightly so. They came up with the Trans narrative to replace the gay narrative. I admit that I am baffled at how easily and completely this rubbish has taken over our sick and getting sicker western societies. Like the COVID fraud narrative it's achieved the control the ruling classes wanted. Women fought so hard for an equal, not same place in society and to surrender to the social sickness speaks volumes on how easily Homo sapiens is to control. Harari was right, we can and do believe anything the ruling classes conjue up.
I agree in part with you that Liberal women have embraced this nonsense in ways I don't understand. But old-school feminists have literally been taking beatings to speak up. This is what prompted J.K. Rowling. The mush-headedness of be kind is a danger to us all. It is unkind and in some cases deadly.
Several years ago, I went to a Calgary City council meeting to present on some land development in my community. Our presentation was delayed by several hours, as apparently it was more important to have a resolution on "Conversion Therapy". It seemed very strange at the time.
First, as a citizen I had to take an entire day, and did not get to present until after supper, when we were scheduled to present in the morning. It felt like they (City Council) were not interested in the views of constituents, and that they had already made up their minds.
Secondly, I did not see how this in any way was the responsibility of City Council. Nothing to do with land use, roads, or sewers.
Thirdly, if there are people who are being forcibly converted from gay to straight, I believe that there are criminal laws that can be applied. (Kidnapping would come to mind)
At that point in time, it never even occurred to me that this was about the Trans agenda.
What did know at the time, was that city hall had agendas, and they were thinking 10 steps ahead of the citizens. City Hall employees knew that they could out wait us as citizens, because we have jobs, and other concerns. Fundamentally, this meant that I did not trust City Hall. I felt that Mayor Nenshi (and then counselor Gondic) had agendas not being stated but I had no idea what they were.
At this point in time, perhaps we need to be talking about if Mayor Nenshi is guilty of pursuing Conversion Therapy. Since Mayor Nenshi seems to be certain that he is the smartest man in the room, he already has 25 reasons why he is not guilty. What I do know is that by pursuing these agendas he has divided our community and city hall has lost the trust of many Calgarians. Interestingly, more and more it is Counselor Shaun Chew with his lack of social graces and politically incorrect views who Calgarians seem to trust.
This is smart. We have let the pols create the agenda. They do not care what we think. And now we must wrestle democracy back to mean that our elected officials respond to OUR agenda.
As a native Calgarian long living on the wet coast, I had, some years ago, the impression that Nenshi was a little eccentric, but popular and effective. The election of the obviously woke Gondek was a head-scratcher, and to me, a poor choice for the kind of city I believed Calgary to be.
To learn from your comment that Nenshi had himself been a wokester with his own agenda and compliant bureaucrats answers my question of how Gondek came to be mayor. I will check out Shaun Chew. Thanks.
Don't know if it's just my old Android phone or what but your weblink didn't connect me through to Genevieve Gluck's very revealing "smart summary" pornification article. The most generally informative essay on this topic that I've read to date. But I had to search the author's name and article title to read it.
FACT; Covid Vax KILLS or maims pregnant women or/and their unborn babies! The poisonous crap doesn't stop the man-enhanced virus - but undermines natural resistance/immunity with each extra top-up (called a 'BOOSTER'). It's really 'a depopulation regime', backed by injection-induced INFERTILITY!
NO LIABILITY for BIG PHARMA for 'VAX DEATHS or/and VAX INJURIES is the first clue to consider! This fact was seemingly unimportant to every Government that signed the bizarre onerous CONTRACT!
IVERMECTIN SAVES LIVES but Big Pharma can't profit from this WHO-approved medicine. There's NO PROFIT in HEALTHY PEOPLE! Join the dots!
Mick from hooe (UK) Unjabbed to live longer!
Please stop pretending the entire left agrees with this current insanity. It's getting old and it's inaccurate. It's like saying every conservative is a Christian. Perhaps it's time to refer to specific beliefs during discussion instead of using false stereotypes of right and left.
They may not agree with it, but by remaining silent about it they tacitly endorse it. It's a delusion that everyone must participate in, the first one to stop clapping gets a struggle session.
Oh, good Lord Trish. I was just starting to recover from the image of the man in the UK ‘breastfeeding’ a baby (what an absolutely evil and vile fetish), and now I have to process the ‘woman suit’. As disturbing as it is though, I am glad I am now aware of it. This ideology needs to be fought back every step of the way, and the more information at our fingertips, the more effective we’ll be. I also loved this bit from the podcast, that trans-activism is a cult/religion masquerading as a civil rights movement. Spot on!
Trish, thank you so much for the work you so. First-time commenter on Substack, long-time listener here, based in the UK.
I want to weigh in to share a sad anecdote about my first exposure to trans as a social contagion, in summer 2019. A British friend who had married a Canadian guy years before and moved to Canada was in town visiting. We met up and I asked how her step kids were doing. I'd met them the summer before when they did a family trip to Europe and remembered she'd told me the two eldest (a boy and girl aged 17 and 15, respectively) were gay. They seemed sweet and well-adjusted.
Now, a mere year later, my friend announced that her stepson was still gay, but her lesbian stepdaughter was now a "trans boy". I had never heard of a teenage girl suddenly identifying as trans -- but my friend seemed unfazed.
"I've read all the testimonies, watched all the influencer videos, and you know? It's a completely normal thing," she assured me. (As you might have guessed, my friend is a Guardian-reading, lifelong leftist type.)
When I probed a bit more, I learned that the stepdaughter's girlfriend was also saying she was a boy. Odd, I thought: a teen lesbian couple are suddenly and simultaneously identifying as trans boys but it's "completely normal"? My friend and I had lots to catch up and only touched on this briefly, but it stuck with me.
I didn't offer the challenges and objections that I would do so now, although I do remember pushing back on any medicalised pathways. "Sounds like it's just a trendy identity of sorts," I remember telling my friend. "Your stepdaughter isn't considering any surgeries or anything?"
"Oh, she is," my friend answered matter-of-fact (she was still correctly sexing the kid at this stage, but that would soon change).
I felt alarmed but didn't know what to say. "How does their father feel?"
"It's been harder for him to wrap his head around, but he's slowly accepting it. He already went through this when the kids came out, so it's not so different." Two gay kids vs one gay kid and one formerly-gay-turned-trans kid. It didn't seem quite the same and as an LGB woman myself, I couldn't square trans being just another version of gay.
As I said, we didn't stay on this topic too long and I really thought that when I next spoke to her she'd tell me it was a phase and all was back to normal. I had, at this point, never heard of ROGD and had no idea that trans ideology was fully embedded in Canada. I didn't even realise it was an ideology, truth be told.
When I next spoke to my friend it was summer 2022. She was in town again, on a whirlwind visit, so I only had about an hour with her over a coffee. Covid took up most of our time (she is a Trudeau supporter who 100% supported every covidian narrative -- she even fell for the truckers-being-right-wing thing!). She listened to me and then essentially refuted every point I made. She even boasted that she got her 8-year-old vaccinated. It was a heartbreaking exchange.
Finally I asked for an update on the other kids. "Oh, well, ___ is now living as a man!" My face fell. "Really? She still identifies as a boy?"
"Yes, HE does," my friend corrected me. "Started T two years ago, had top surgery last summer, and yeah, just lives as a normal bloke."
_But she's not a normal bloke!_ my mind immediately screeched. I felt powerless to say it, though. My brain was exhausted from our heated debate over covid and I lacked the resilience to challenge her on trans, especially realising how deep in the madness her family had plunged.
"Is he happy?" I mustered.
"He just wants to fit in. He's tired of this culture war stuff. He doesn't want all this attention on trans people! He just wants to be accepted as a bloke."
So... she's not happy. My heart sunk. My friend could not see the absurd contradictions in what she was saying. Society making a fuss about trans ideology was making her child angry, but without trans ideology she would never have been at odds with society.
I don't know what state the kid is in now, but it wouldn't surprise me if one of these days she wakes up, regrets everything, and feels betrayed by her dad and stepmum for going along with it.
Wow....what a sad story. I do care deeply for these children. "Trans" is the only malady we allow kids to self-diagnose. And then we stop professionals from probing further under threat of criminal penalty. I think our kids are screwed up and tansing is seen is the sparkle pony for attention and acceptance in a culture that idolizes this new trend. I hope there is an adult in her family who will be around and supportive when she crashes.
Archived URL for How Pornography Forged the Trans Movement:
https://archive.li/QI9FC
“We know it when we see it” and we might also awaken to knowing it is a type of psychic murder...perhaps not punishable by death, but certainly punishable. I challenge the notion that porn has ANYTHING to do with free speech!
Back in the day when the new Trudeau government expanded human rights legislation to protect transgender people I was pleased. My few interactions with trans people indicated that this was a much maligned and very small minority who deserved equity in healthcare, education, employment. So I was happy the government had taken this step.
It wasn’t long after that Jordan Peterson came to prominence with his warnings on enforced language. He was right, of course. And I knew it.
Look where we are now. We have a PM who seems to privilege “trans rights” above everything. To what end?
What an amazing piece on this debauchery we are dealing with in our society today. And sadly for Canadians our pro-trans Prime Minister is all in on this. First telling Muslim parents who are protesting their kids being indoctrinated in trans ideology at school, that they are simply reacting to 'misinformation' from American right ring anti-trans activists. Such nonsense coming from him, it is not surprising, almost everything he says is nonsense. He also had the audacity to label New Brunswick Premier Blaine as far-right political actor because his government has amended a policy that requires that teachers must inform parents if their kids declare themselves as trans and change their names and prounouns. How crazy is that, because most schools in Canada have specific policies that schools not inform parents in their children decide to change their gender. Trudeau did end his criticism of Higgs there, we went on to say these 'far right actors --are trying to outdo themselves with the types of cruelty and isolation they can inflice on these already vulnerable people, ' adding right now trans kids in New Brunswick are being told they don't have the right to be their true selves.' Trudeau doesn't seem to have the intelligence or accumen to wonder why, all of a sudden are so many kids coming out as trans. Is it perhaps because they are being steeped in this ideology at school, when their young impressionable minds can barely grasp the complexity or ramfications of changing their 'gender'. Unfortunately most of our legacy media are also captured by this insanity. This is demonstrated in a disgusting manner in which CBC journalist--and I hestitate to use the word jounalst Rosemary Barton attacked Premiere Higgs in a one on one interview on her show. I was so angered by her actions I wrote a piece on it on my substack The Intrepid Viking https://roxannehalverson.substack.com/p/cbcs-rosemary-barton-hits-all-the
Where and how do those who declare themselves trans make money? A good majority, Twitter, Only Fans, YouTube, Tik Tok , porn industry with an occasional foray into mainstream TV and even the movies if they look after the right person who will give them a part. Imagine being a parent thinking your trans kid is so cute and butter would not melt in their mouth and someone sends you a link which opens up their latest porn clip on Only Fans.
What is incredibly sad is that there is a nascent but growing population of trans-identified females going into porn. Some call their genitalia their "bussy" (a contraction of "boy p*ssy"). They engage in sex acts with men but because of their "transman" identity consider themselves gay, not straight. I've come across their profiles and content on Twitter and it is very disturbing.
Why are they choosing this path? In my opinion porn narratives are also influencing confused young women and girls who spend copious amounts of time online, but in a different way to how they influence men and boys. In a nutshell, straight and bisexual women are choosing pornified transition pathways not because they have sexual fetishes or fixations but because they seek validation through self-harm. It is nothing but the usual self-effacing, performative, attention-seeking, self-destructive behaviour that insecure and troubled women have engaged in since forever -- but it's at the extreme end of it and comes wrapped up in a new presentation.
Who will tell these women that the men who desire them through a screen do so because they are pornsick and depraved? That the sex partners they film with only see them as objects? The porn industry made "chicks with d*cks" a thing -- which continues to distort the aspirations of many hyper-feminine gay men who become trans-identified as children or teens. Is it any surprise they're now turning "men with bonus holes" (or whatever the jargon is) into a thing?
It's been said that testosterone can numb female-typical emotions and feed male-typical ones, meaning some women on cross-sex hormones become more willing to take risks and be sexually impulsive. The possibility that "transmen" are influenced into making irrational and extreme sexual choices because of the harmful experimental drugs (sorry, "gender-affirming treatment") they're on should be seriously considered.
Haven't we always pitied the drug-addicted women who go into sex work to fuel their habit, or conversely, those who start clean but end up relying on drugs to tolerate the depravity they're subjected to? Today a new cohort of drug-dependent young women is getting into sex work, but instead their choices are lauded as "sex positivity" and "queer liberation". They're "living their best lives" while "being their authentic selves", don't you know?
It is an extremely sad state of affairs we're in.
We are facing a generation of heartbreak. Porn has ruined our culture. When doing research for this article -- I just Googled the terrible porn search terms and without any blockage or warning things appeared on my screen that still haunt me. Imagine what our poor children have been viewing.
At Nuremberg, we executed Nazi's who had performed so-called medical experiments on children. Now, 77 years on, western governments and the medical community openly support equally diabolical mutilation. I agree with many of the commentators, the trans debacle is a hill to die on. Too much is at stake and losing this battle will leave us a society too horrible to contemplate.
We must be smart about it. Armed with facts and stats. What I see in researching this is that there is no actual medical or psychiatric paradigm. Nothing. Anyone who claims a gender can have it and be recognized. Even if their motive is nefarious or fetishistic. Anti-science, anti-medicine --same old C-19 paradigm. Captured professions who must be called to account. Where are the voices of the gay men whose rights I fought for? Why are they selling women and children out?
Your pod with Helen Joyce was an eye (ear?) opener re the misogyny among portions of the gay male community. That said there are also plenty of gay male allies in this war.
I know, but they need to step up now. They too are being erased.
Trish, when my daughter began dating, my best advice to her was, " follow your heart but don't leave your brain behind". To some degree, that principle applies to mainstream, liberal women who defaulted to caring and empathy when these issues first emerged. To be fair, the descent to where we are now was insidiously incremental. Very few people, of either gender, saw the clever manipulation being orchestrated by the activists. Societal traditions and due process evolved for very good reasons. We've reached the point where misplaced feelings need to be put aside in favour of facts and reality. Otherwise, the concessions demanded by the trans zealots will have tragic consequences for our kids.
Thanks for all you do Trish. One of the best perspectives I've encountered on this topic is from the Catholic writer E. Michael Jones, in "Libido Dominandi : Sexual Liberation and Political Control". His basic thesis is that a society ruled by passion, particularly sexual passion, is easier to control, and therefore dominate than one ruled by reason. Also, I'm reminded of the quote, I'm not sure from who, that 'those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities'. Hope you have a great holiday Trish!
God bless you
Shawn
Voltaire
Yes, thanks Irene!
I will look him up. Thank you! At the lake now.
Arguably the worst leadership on COVID and the Trans narrative were the female PMs of Scotland and NZ. Masculine Men are never The enemy of women, we're your partners and are disgusted by the misogynistic narrative disguised as tolerant accepting behavior. IMHO, the ruling classes who've always ruled by by creating fantastical rubbish narratives and dividing the people lost the homosexual culture War and rightly so. They came up with the Trans narrative to replace the gay narrative. I admit that I am baffled at how easily and completely this rubbish has taken over our sick and getting sicker western societies. Like the COVID fraud narrative it's achieved the control the ruling classes wanted. Women fought so hard for an equal, not same place in society and to surrender to the social sickness speaks volumes on how easily Homo sapiens is to control. Harari was right, we can and do believe anything the ruling classes conjue up.
I agree in part with you that Liberal women have embraced this nonsense in ways I don't understand. But old-school feminists have literally been taking beatings to speak up. This is what prompted J.K. Rowling. The mush-headedness of be kind is a danger to us all. It is unkind and in some cases deadly.
Spot on. Be a good girl. Don’t question. Gender ideology is a cult.
Several years ago, I went to a Calgary City council meeting to present on some land development in my community. Our presentation was delayed by several hours, as apparently it was more important to have a resolution on "Conversion Therapy". It seemed very strange at the time.
First, as a citizen I had to take an entire day, and did not get to present until after supper, when we were scheduled to present in the morning. It felt like they (City Council) were not interested in the views of constituents, and that they had already made up their minds.
Secondly, I did not see how this in any way was the responsibility of City Council. Nothing to do with land use, roads, or sewers.
Thirdly, if there are people who are being forcibly converted from gay to straight, I believe that there are criminal laws that can be applied. (Kidnapping would come to mind)
At that point in time, it never even occurred to me that this was about the Trans agenda.
What did know at the time, was that city hall had agendas, and they were thinking 10 steps ahead of the citizens. City Hall employees knew that they could out wait us as citizens, because we have jobs, and other concerns. Fundamentally, this meant that I did not trust City Hall. I felt that Mayor Nenshi (and then counselor Gondic) had agendas not being stated but I had no idea what they were.
At this point in time, perhaps we need to be talking about if Mayor Nenshi is guilty of pursuing Conversion Therapy. Since Mayor Nenshi seems to be certain that he is the smartest man in the room, he already has 25 reasons why he is not guilty. What I do know is that by pursuing these agendas he has divided our community and city hall has lost the trust of many Calgarians. Interestingly, more and more it is Counselor Shaun Chew with his lack of social graces and politically incorrect views who Calgarians seem to trust.
This is smart. We have let the pols create the agenda. They do not care what we think. And now we must wrestle democracy back to mean that our elected officials respond to OUR agenda.
As a native Calgarian long living on the wet coast, I had, some years ago, the impression that Nenshi was a little eccentric, but popular and effective. The election of the obviously woke Gondek was a head-scratcher, and to me, a poor choice for the kind of city I believed Calgary to be.
To learn from your comment that Nenshi had himself been a wokester with his own agenda and compliant bureaucrats answers my question of how Gondek came to be mayor. I will check out Shaun Chew. Thanks.
Your article on the trans topic, was riveting, thought provoking and infuriating, all at the same time! The fact that these young males are
being manipulated and exploited in such a cruel
and inhumane manner, is incomprehensible.
Their lives are being turned upside down
perhaps permanently, to seemingly satisfy
the self-serving interests of a small but
powerful group on the left. In addition,
females are being disproportionately and negatively impacted at the same time. What
a tragic combination to effect so many people,
so that a small minority coordinating this
may benefit , at the expense of a much larger
group.
Thank you Trish for having the courage and conviction, to bring this article and the
important information it contains, into the
public sphere. Only by being well informed,
can any of us make appropriate decisions
that will significantly effect our lives, going
forward. You are one of a courageous
minority in the field of investigative journalism
that does whatever it takes to uncover the
truth. You clearly embody some of the finest
traits and qualities that a true investigative
journalist must have , to effectively do their
job! Bravo to you Trish, and keep up the good
work. Now more than ever we rely on those in
the media to inform us, as to the realities
currently confronting us. You are an example
of one of the best at your craft! Thank you for
all your hard work and efforts. Only by digging
below the surface, do any of us stand a chance
to uncover the truth. Your thought provoking
articles and podcasts , greatly benefit us all!
Thanks for the kind comments. They mean so much!
Don't know if it's just my old Android phone or what but your weblink didn't connect me through to Genevieve Gluck's very revealing "smart summary" pornification article. The most generally informative essay on this topic that I've read to date. But I had to search the author's name and article title to read it.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/16/how-pornography-forged-the-trans-movement
Thanks, will check and fix if I can.
Tx
Unfixable. I changed the copy to encourage that readers Google it as you did. Thanks for the heads up! Perhaps the link is being blocked.
I just listened to the song at the end of your recent article, WOW!!! Thank you for bringing
his message and song into the public domain.
Truer words and sentiments were never sung!
Please keep your audience informed about
gems like this. We all need a wake up call
to see where we are, and make changes so
that a better future is possible.
Bravo to you Trish!!! A job well done!