If you had have asked me five years ago what a “trans person” is, I would have told you that a trans person is a person who has taken on a gender identity of the opposite sex to their own. The person I would have in my mind would be much to be pitied, because I would have assumed they have a condition called “gender dysphoria”.
I knew a guy once who was an expert in gender dysphoria in children, and from talking to him was about all I ever knew about gender dysphoria.
But I have come to find, that these are not the people we are talking about. I’ve come to discover that trans rights activists (TRAs), if we can consider them experts on the matter for a minute, have a rather different perspective on what a trans person is. If I could tell you what I think a TRA would define a trans person as, I would say that “a trans person is a special kind of person who is innately trans”.
Trans, is depicted as something that is either an innate kind of uniquely wired biology or and ethereal “self”. Trans is often related to the idea of who a person IS, in essence or, as it were, “on the inside”.
Of course, it is mostly what we have on the inside that does determine our sex and the reproductive path our bodies are assigned to offer to the continuation of the human race. Reproduction, as a topic among trans ideology, is much downplayed in importance in self-discovery and in life in general. The exception to this, is when people in the gender identity religion engage in reproduction, that is universally considered and medically ground-breaking and immensely brave.
After three years of study into modern gender identity ideology, the only 100% solid thing I know about trans is that all trans women are male and all trans men are female, but you are not allowed to say that. One of the ways we definitely know that trans women are not women and trans men are not men, is that as soon as you claim a gender identity that is the same as your own sex, you are classified as “cis” and you are definitely not trans, and you cannot claim a gender identity that will be protected by gender identity legislation.
Of course “cis” is not a self-identity category, it is assigned to you by the trans movement, whether you believe in the gender religion or not. People who claim not to have gender identity are also assigned “cis” but additionally they are additionally called “transphobes”. A transphobe is a non-believer in the gender identity religion.
Gender identity has no material or measurable indicators that can be easily codified in law to verify a claim of a particular gender identity apart from a faith confession.
Anyone who fails to acknowledge this confession, with or without legal recognition is called a transphobe because they are a heretic from the gender identity religion. In essence the gender identity religion is the belief in a gender soul or a gendered biology exist apart from the human reproductive system and this gender identity, is so much more powerful than the human reproductive system a person may have to remove their reproductive system to keep the soul of gender identity alive. The mortality of the gender soul is intrinsically linked to the safety of the trans person themselves.
The gender identity is considered the real or the true sex and it can be the opposite to the sex of the person’s body but it can also be some random thing that is to do with kink or made up nonsense. The people who believe in this religion and are not completely at peace with the sex of their body, they are what is now called “trans”. Trans is essentially the adverse relationship between your gender soul and your material sex.
Saying this out loud is like the mythical photograph of the indigenous person that removes the soul. If you deny the supremacy of trans over sex or say it isn’t true, it is called “literal erasure”. Saying that gender identity is a religion, literally kills the existence of the trans soul (and by extension the trans person) because it denies their right to be seen in the way they insist they are seen. And trans politics is almost all about how the trans person is seen .
We are supposed to see and talk about the gender soul like it is a discovery of modern science, a revelation that has been handed to us by technology and progressivism. In some way the trans activists are correct, in that “trans people” disappear when we deny them, because they are very much an invention of the mechanisms of state and a creation of law and regulatory mechanisms.
Trans kids are the cruellest invention of the gender identity state religion. To validate the religion that is giving trans activists massive power to write laws, there has to be a soul that people are born with, logically then, there must be presentation in childhood. But the search for the trans child has marked for medicalisation the same kids who would have once been bullied and targeted as “gay”, gender non-conforming children.
The only way to materially verify “trans” identities is via a faith confession via declaration. As the gospel of gender identity is sweeping through the internet and warmly embraced by states, more people are coming into the religion. This growth is seen by trans activist as the awakening of gender souls in an accepting society.
Engaging in trans politics is like negotiating a real time hostage situation with religious zealots in a kind of Machiavellian candy lane. You are constantly trying to speak with what appear to be reasonable people talking about human rights and kindness, but the same people openly refuse the most vulnerable of people the most basic of dignities.
Self ID, the legal ability of humans to change the sex on their birth record via a declaration, is the state adoption of the gender identity religion. Shannon Fentiman introduced self ID legislation in Queensland saying it was for the affirmation of the trans people in the gallery that day, many of whom were trans activists.
The opposition to this legislation not only makes me a dissident and an apostate, but a heretic and a target of social shame. Many people are non-believers in the gender identity religion, like the church-going agnostics who opt for an easy life, but I actively oppose the gender identity religion at every level because I know it is hamful.
With the introduction of new legislation to increase penalties for “offences that are motivated by hatred or serious contempt”, I am now facing the prospect of becoming a criminal. The statement that was recently released from the Queensland Government last week came with a warning that “crimes motivated by serious hate and prejudice against specified groups will face tougher penalties.”
I not only refuse to recognise the gender soul but as a political practice I would refuse to refer to what are called trans people in the exact way they prefer. I would actively attempt to remove a man from a women’s change room where women and girls are in states of undress. I will point out the safeguarding failures in forcing women to pretend a man has a gender identity that is more powerful than his sex in all circumstances. I would call that rape culture, also institutional rape culture, also rape culture that both Annastacia Palaszczuk and Shannon Fentiman actively promote in negligence of the high office they are supposed to serve.
If trans was a brand it might be Smiggle, it markets itself as kind of sexless and prepubescent, but unlike Smiggle, it has a massive smack of kink. The trans branding, flag and associated paraphernalia makes many of us inherently uncomfortable, we are told is bias and hate, but I now know for certain it is alarm bells, protective instincts and rational thought.
I am astounded by the misogyny and homophobia in the trans political movement. Most days I’m still astounded that they are able to perform this right out in public and actively influence the education of children.
I am not even going to fill these statements out with references, you can read what I have written, or not, but I am thankful that others see what I see and I have that to keep me from the loneliness that can be real political dissent.
I am deeply resentful that women and gays have to defend rights that we have already won, the social understandings that we already enjoyed, like the right to have sexual boundaries, the dignity in a single sex space for women, the knowledge that gender non-conforming children my grow up to be gay and they should be treated with the dignity and respect of other children.
We cannot talk about trans in a critical way without getting attacked as a hater because, like the worst dictators, the trans activists place their most vulnerable out front.
In the gender critical movement, we do talk about our vulnerable, women, children, homosexuals, detransitioners, and they are significantly greater in number than the vulnerability that trans activists claim protections for, but we also try to protect these people. I feel sorry that we don’t always succeed in protecting people who stand up to state tyranny and institutional corruption. This year I have been quite changed by some of the failures in our movement, by my own weaknesses and by the weaknesses in well meaning humans.
But ultimately, I know we are right about this, and that’s all I need to know right now.
Very good Eddie. I think my answer, should I meet these lunatics in person is always going to be ‘I do not follow the Trans religion’. Alternatively ‘I am a Post-Trans’ person. I have moved beyond the cult’. But luckily I am u likely to bump into them as I don’t go near any universities these days. I have seen a couple of them In rest-rooms. That seems to be like a Temple for them, the Ladies’ loo. They can stand for hours looking at themselves in a mirror and applying their make-up. But I wouldn’t take on a male weirdo in a secluded space. I don’t want my head smashed in. I’ve given up going to the gym because there are no safe changing facilities any more. But I like a good long walk...hey ho.
“Trans, transgender” is a FEELING, like everything after LGB. Feelings should not be a protected civil rights category.