#transgenderism is a violent ideology

[radmalenia]

You're such a transphobic piece of shit and you deserve every horrible thing that comes your way

Everything I say about transgenderism and gender ideology and the behavior of trans identified people and "trans activists"... everything I say about all that is based in reality. It comes from stuff that frequently happens. It breaks down very serious issues that actually exist.

People like me are like a mirror, a mirror with a voice; too - one that reflects this stuff back at you instead of letting you just sweep it under the rug; instead of letting you command people to believe and act how you'd like without letting them voice their disagreements or stand up to you and resist.

If these things are so horrible to you, stop being so mad at the messenger. Stop calling the messanger a POS just because you can't handle the truth they bring. Instead, look at yourself in this mirror and see what an atrocious ideology you're defending. Break out of the delusion. Apologize to the world, and go be a better person.

[radmalenia]

The trans community can absolutely go fuck itself.

How many damn times now have we seen instances of their members being the worst sorts of people imaginable?? Too many to count...this is just the latest example at the bottom of a long list.

thank you, trans community! thank you for absolutely STUPID and USELESS act of so-said "trans activism" you are MORONS. As an ukrainian, I hate you even more after that.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: The Heretical Liberal

Published: Jun 18, 2024

Lots of responses to this post I made the other day laying out the case for why trans activism is homophobic, most of them supportive. For the few that weren't, here's a thread where I brought the receipts. If my earlier post was opening arguments, consider this the full case: 🧵

First up, the charities, such as Stonewall and GLAAD. These are the groups that were originally set up as gay rights advocates, but were retooled around 2015 into trans rights advocates, and - since trans activism seeks to erase homosexuality - promptly began to do exactly that

With the anti-gay activists now in charge and setting the tone, media now takes the reins and begins subtly erasing the very notion of same-sex attraction, suggesting that lesbians who don't want to date ppl with penises, and gay men not interested in vaginas are hateful bigots

And more of the same nonsense:

With the activists dictating, and the media following their lead, the homophobia inevitably trickles down. This manifests in different forms, but one of them is the psychological torture of homosexuals, some of whom have come to believe their innate orientation means they're bigots

But mostly the biggest effect is in the trans community itself, who have increasingly internalized the idea that same-sex attraction doesn't exist, and thus, any ppl who claim to be exclusively same-sex attracted are actually just transphobic bigots who can be abused at will

The rest is just gonna be a firehose of hate, as I try to dispel the idea that this homophobia is "just a few bad apples" instead of the truth: it's a core component underpinning the entire ideology transgenderism, as are the violent threats that often accompany it:

I could go on and on, but I think the point here is made. Homophobia doesn't just exist in the trans community, it's RIFE in it. It's a feature, not a bug, the erasure of sex (and by extension, homosexuals) is a core goal of trans activism. Hopefully this has opened some eyes /end

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Firstly, if you're shocked by this, then you haven't been paying attention.

This is what it looks like when the mentally ill use academic gobbledygook to pathologize the normal and normalize the pathological.

You're not crazy: same sex attraction and opposite sex attraction are real things and completely normal. You may have either or both (bisexual). Their stupid buzzwords don't - and can't - change that. Nor turn it into a "genital preference."

If you take away nothing else, know that an accusation of being "transphobic" is a predator trying to emotionally manipulate and blackmail you into allowing access by the predator beyond your boundaries. Whether that be sexual boundaries, to simply how you address others, and anything and everything in between.

You never have to justify your boundaries. Someone who tries to make you, or who tells you that you need to "rethink" your boundaries, or particularly who acts morally superior about their purported higher evolved absence of boundaries is a full-blown predator. No, I'm not being hyperbolic. When I say "predator," I mean they're a predator. You're talking to someone who is dangerous and not to be trusted, because they see your boundaries as something to be overcome, circumvented or "fixed." They do not respect you and they feel entitled to what they want from you. They are dangerous. They are a predator. By definition.

In the very definition of an abusive relationship, these virulently anti-gay fanatics also won't let LGB operate without them. Because they'll lose their human shields and their stolen valor they've misappropriated from the gay rights movements. Which is the point in the movie where the abuser shouts, "without me, you're nothing! I won't let you leave! If I can't have you, no one will!" And then something horrible happens.

[hard--headed--woman]

one anonymous thing a follower wants to know: when did you get into radical feminism?

Ohh I am glad someone asked haha. The truth is I was kind of a born radfem. I realized early in life that the world was deeply sexist and misogynistic. Even when I was 11/12yo in middle school, I hated makeup, cosmetic surgery, and the beauty industry in general. I was very critical of it, saying it was misogynistic, and that I was against the idea of altering our faces to fit the box of the perfect woman, to be beautiful in the sexist eyes of society. As soon as I knew what prostitution was, I was against it ; I already thought women weren't products you can buy and that prostitution and consent couldn't coexist. I was also a raging misandrist kid, I realized very young how sexist and misogynistic our society was, and how terrible and violent men were. I was already annoyed by the way everyone defended men despite everything they do. I knew what transgenderism was, but I didn't really care back then, and actually I never thought about it.

Then when I was 12 I started to read feminist things. I of course didn't read Andrea Dworkin right away, I started with smaller books and magazines, and soon enough I was reading bigger books, Simone de Beauvoir, for example. I didn't know there was several branches of feminism, to me there was only one. I knew a lot of things about feminist history, it was just kind of mixed up in my mind. I mainly focused on books and ressources about male violence, domestic violence, unpaid labor, mothers and marriage, sexual violence, and women's rights outside the West (Afghanistan, Iran, Korea...). I didn't read anything about beauty industry and prostitution at that time ; no special reason, I guess I just didn't see any book about it that I wanted to read, or almost no book. I still held the same beliefs about it, however. Bref, it was from by 12 to my 17 (and I was already the annoying and angry feminist for my family and friends).

At 17 I started to get into fandom culture, and as you know, fandom culture is very, very liberal. There I saw people totally disagreeing with me about "sex work" and the beauty industry, literally calling women who were against it "anti feminists". I started to doubt (I was very young, remember this), what if I was just a conservative after all ? I slowly became a bit more liberal, still not wearing makeup but not criticizing it anymore and laughing with "girlboss" comments at shit like "my makeup is powerful enough to destroy the patriarchy". I still hated prostitution, but started to agree that OnlyFans was a cool and easy way to make money. I started to agree with gender ideology, though it never made sense to me before and I had never really thought about it (I had a trans friend and I used her preferred pronouns and all but honestly I just didn't care enough to think about if it was right or not).

Deep down, I still held the same beliefs, I just didn't want to admit it, because I was afraid of being a bad person and because it's hard to accept that you are against things everyone support. It's easier to follow the others, and I was young and a bit brainwashed to be honest (brainwashed against, as I understood later, the evil TERFs !).

At 18, I started to read more and more books against beauty culture and prostitution. I quickly felt confident enough to accept and express my real beliefs. While I was doing so, I became more and more critical of many things in liberal politics, makeup, porn, prostitution etc... and gender ideology. I realized it didn't make sense AT ALL to me. I hid these beliefs because I was genuinely very scared of being a horrible person or becoming one. I didn't want to agree with the evil terfs, right ? I didn't want to become one of them ? But I kept seeing TRA stuff and it all seemed so stupid and ridiculous to me. Plus, I was also starting to see how misogynistic and homophobic this ideology is. For almost a year, I tried to push these doubts away, finding TRAs excuses, trying to find other explanations for their misogyny and homophobia... I was terrified of becoming a bad person. I thought, what if I am being brainwashed ? And kept reading TRAs stuff to try to force myself to believe and accept them. But the more I read, the more I realized that it was nonsense, and rooted in misogyny, homophobia, racism. It was during the time I was starting to accept my homosexuality (and by the way, gender ideology made it 100× harder. I already had a hard time admitting I was a lesbian, but their nonsense made me even more ashamed of it as I felt disgusting for not liking dicks and male bodies. It made my feeling of "damn, there is something seriously wrong with me" even more serious and deeper), so seeing their lesbophobia didn't help their case. I doubted for almost a year, until I made a post that became quickly famous (now deleted on my main, but the reblogs still exist) in which I forced myself to include trans people because I was afraid everyone would call me a TERF if I didn't.

Radfems saw it and replied, being a bit angry at me for what I had said of course. It made me feel soooo bad because I actually agreed with them but couldn't say it on main ! (My online friends of the time could see it, and I didn't want to lose them, back then). So, I didn't reply to them or just blocked them because I was afraid of myself for agreeing with them.

But out of curiosity, I read some posts in the radfem tag after this post. And what a great surprise ! There was a lot of women agreeing with me about makeup and the beauty industry on here ! I wasn't alone ! Not gonna lie, it made me feel so good. For years I thought I was alone, everyone around me didn't see any issue with makeup or prostitution, everyone around me called me crazy, paranoid, boring or stupid for criticizing these things. And now I had found a community of women who agreed with me, and were so smart about it. Their posts were so well written, full of wisdom. They agreed with me, and believed there was nothing wrong with me not liking dicks and males. What a relief and what a wonderful thing to find out. After that, I was almost ready to just call myself a radfem. My ex helped a bit, since she was gender critical.

At first, I just followed radfem blogs through my main, agreeing with everything they said and realizing that "terfs" didn't exist, and that radfems/gender critical feminists weren't evil at all. I read a lot of radical feminist books in six months ; then, around april, I think, at 19, I created this blog, fully accepting my beliefs.

Since then I keep learning everyday, about radical feminism theory and history, about other branches of feminism and their history. I read a lot of books, watch a lot of docs, and write a lot about it in my little notebooks. I don't wear makeup, don't encourage the beauty industry, I volunteer as much as I can, I try to have the most separatist lifestyle as I can, I talk about radical feminism around me (I even have my stickers! I am pretty proud of them haha)... bref, I try to actually be a radfem and not just to criticize gender ideology online.

I am so grateful and happy I found radblr and online radfems !

[burningtheroots]

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[radmalenia]

It's fascism and terrorism.

And everything they say is projection when they scream about how the people who disagree with them are fascists; but yet not one of us has ever done anything to them like this.

Meanwhile they're out here doing this bullshit to people, to good normal people, too. And they're always threatening to do it to many more.

https://twitter.com/JustMisogyny/status/1639950189585678338

[coochiequeens]

The violent altercation resulted in police intervention. At first, Smith’s boyfriend claimed she had been abusive towards him. But later, Smith says he tried to blame it on his gender identity issues.“ While she was checked into a hospital to heal from the abuse she was reported to the police for stating that her abusive ex was transgender.

A UK woman has been summoned for an interview by Derbyshire Police over alleged “transphobic” behavior during her hospital stay at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

Toni Smith* says she received the notice just after being released from the hospital’s mental health unit where she had been seeking treatment following a traumatic episode related to her past abuse by a trans-identified male.

Speaking to Reduxx and The Publica for an exclusive joint report, Smith explained that she was voluntarily admitted to Chesterfield’s Herrington Unit in January after contacting emergency services herself and explaining that she had self-harmed.

Smith is a survivor of repeat sexual and physical abuse — abuse she says she suffered at the hands of her transgender ex-boyfriend.

“When we met, he was a bodybuilder. His biceps were bigger than my head. I’d never met anyone as big as him.” Smith says, explaining that the two became an item in 2017.��

Just over one year into the relationship, Smith says she discovered that her partner had a proclivity for wearing women’s clothing and expressed a desire to transition.

“It completely blindsided me. I had thought for a while that he had [body] issues… at first, a lot of the habits he had were similar to the issues my body dysmorphia caused me. So I thought it was similar.” 

Smith notes that while she was not hostile to her boyfriend’s decision, she was not interested in affirming his declaration.

Given the gender ideology debate was still far-removed from mainstream popularity at the time, Smith says she had never given too much thought to the politics surrounding transgenderism 

However, her feelings about her partner’s “transition” were mixed.

“I knew straight away that I would not stay in the relationship. But I felt sorry for him, I wanted to help him feel comfortable with whatever life he was living, and I thought we could part as friends after that.” 

But it wasn’t long after that Smith says her partner became physically abusive towards her and their disagreements would often turn violent.

“He abused me horrifically,” Smith alleges. “One time, he sat on my chest and strangled me until I passed out.” 

The violent altercation resulted in police intervention. At first, Smith’s boyfriend claimed she had been abusive towards him. But later, Smith says he tried to blame it on his gender identity issues.

“He told me that the reason he’d strangled me and was so horrible was because he was jealous of me,” she explained.

Smith says the abuse continued to escalate, with her boyfriend’s gender identity becoming a catalyst for the continued deterioration of the relationship and her mental health.

“He would take my make-up and accuse me of cheating. He controlled the money but would message his family claiming I was spending it on myself or drugs. He also began coercing me into having sex with other men for money,” Smith says, explaining that “at first” he didn’t force her, but would instead invite men over and put her on the spot.

“One of them, near the end, injured me quite badly. [My partner] knew it was too much because it was the last time he made me do it. I think with others he told himself he wasn’t abusing me because I eventually gave in. He thinks that’s consent,” Smith says. “There was a lot of blood. I started getting pains after that low down in my stomach. After I left him one day I collapsed and started convulsing and the hospital found my birth control coil had been dislodged and was basically stabbing into my cervix and embedding in the inside of it.”

Smith provided Reduxx and The Publica a number of covert videos she had recorded while in the relationship. In one, he admitted to spraying a household cleaning disinfectant down her throat because she accidentally got facial toner on him while she was spritzing it on her face. 

In another video from April of 2020, Smith captured an interaction with her partner, who is seen wearing long red-dyed hair and pink pajama pants, becoming angry at her for singing in the bedroom — something Smith says she was doing to block out the verbal abuse he had been directing at her.

The interaction ends with him storming out to shut the house’s electricity off, leaving Smith in pitch-black darkness while he calls her “abusive.” 

Smith alleges that after she stopped recording to go turn the electricity back on, he kicked her into a wall.

Disturbingly, Smith says her partner then reported her for a “hate crime” for not sufficiently affirming his gender identity — something she says had happened multiple times before in their relationship. 

Police attended the residence, but classified it as a simple domestic dispute with no intervention needed.

The next day, Smith decided to end the relationship.

“The day I left, I was begging him to get help. He told me he wouldn’t … so my friend called me a taxi and I left. I went up to the north of England, at which point I suppose he realized I was not actually going to come back to him. He started threatening to kill himself unless I did, but I refused.”

Over the coming week, police contacted Smith with questions about the relationship, clearly concerned about the distressing number of calls that had come out of the residence over time. 

Smith finally opened up to officers about the abuse after the relationship ended. Merseyside Police arranged for her to record a video statement, and Derbyshire Police took over the case.

In June of 2020, two months after Smith left, her ex was arrested while police investigated Smith’s claims of having been sex trafficked by him.

“The reason it took them so long between my statement and arresting him was because they went through every report he’d made against me. He’d been reporting me without my knowledge and there were so many reports it took them a couple of weeks to make sure they’d closed all of his, which they said they now regarded as malicious and false,” Smith explained.

Reduxx and The Publica reviewed communications exchanged between Smith and a constable with the Derbyshire Police, in which “she/her” pronouns were used for her abuser.

No charges were ultimately pursued and minimal details were provided to Smith on why that decision had been reached.

“[The constable] came and said that his superior felt there wasn’t enough evidence and refused to even ask the crown prosecution service for a decision. He just closed it with no further action.”

Though Smith expresses her relief that the relationship had ended, she continued to struggle with her mental health even after the break-up. 

She experienced depressive episodes, self-harm, and severe anxiety. At times, Smith says she was scared to leave the house out of fear she would see one of the men who had been apart of the sexual abuse she endured while with her ex.

In January of 2023, Smith says she had a severe self-harming episode, and contacted her local hospital for help. 

She was directed to the emergency room at Chesterfield Hospital due to a lack of space, and was ultimately admitted to the Hartington Unit, the hospital’s psychiatric facility. Smith was placed in the female section for treatment, where she would spend the next few weeks rehabilitating. 

While there, Smith befriended a few other female patients in the unit — one of which, unbeknownst to Smith, identified as non-binary.

“There was no mention of her being non-binary. I didn’t know. I had heard her make a comment about another patient, saying that she was ‘transphobic and no mental illness causes that,’ which I thought was strange,” Smith says, continuing: “But there was no mention of her identity specifically. She seemed to be on a low-end of having a mental illness and was very functional.”

While the two had an amicable relationship at first, things went downhill after the non-binary individual overheard Smith discussing her ex-partner with another patient.

“She heard me talking to this other lady in the common area … I was opening about my ex and mentioned he was transgender,” Smith explained. She says that after she came in from an evening cigarette break, the non-binary patient was “screaming at the top of her lungs” about trans rights.

“She was standing in the communal area, shouting ‘trans women are women,’” Smith says. “She was shouting it. This wasn’t a private conversation.”

Smith explains she immediately perceived the outburst as being directed at her, and approached the young woman to relay her own experience.

“I told her, ‘go and get raped by one and tell me how much of a woman they are,’” Smith says. “I didn’t shout at her, and then I walked off and went to bed.”

It was the next day that the incident occurred which was ultimately reported to police.

“I got into an argument with a nurse who kept insisting the shouting patient was non-binary, not female. That gaslighting affects me in a strange way, because of my experience. [The nurse] told me, ‘they’re not a woman,’ and I said, ‘yes she is, she’s on a women’s ward, for a start.’”

Smith says she got very upset, and the non-binary patient overheard the conversation and began shouting from another area, recognizing the conversation had been about her.

Smith’s new partner would later call the hospital to complain about the nurse’s conduct, concerned that they had caused her emotional distress.

“We could not work out how this hospital was, on one hand, supposed to treat me for my trauma which they understood was caused by a transgender male, and on the other, argue with me that a woman was not a woman.”

Smith says the incident made her  want to leave the hospital because she felt increasingly distrustful of the staff. 

She was discharged at the end of February, and, approximately one month later, was issued a notice from Derbyshire Police informing her she was required to attend the station for a formal interview.

In the letter, police explain Smith was alleged to have “performed a public order offense” in which she “directed words deemed offensive towards another individual on the ward.” 

The date on the letter corresponds with the conversation Smith had with the nurse in the kitchen about the non-binary patient.

Smith explained that she was incredulous about the letter, taking particular issue with the fact police issued it despite knowing she had been a patient on a psychiatric ward receiving treatment for her mental health.

“This specific thing does not frighten me. I know they won’t be able to prosecute me. I know the law well enough… but the fact that the police are able to harass women because of their speech is frightening,” Smith says. “There’s nothing I said that is criminal. But it does worry me that they are doing this to women.”

Reduxx and The Publica reached out to Derbyshire Police for comment but did not receive a response to the inquiry.

In the interim, Smith says she has no intention of contacting police, noting that they have her contact information but have yet to reach out to establish a date for her station interview.

“If they want me to come down, they know where I am. This whole asking me to be proactive to arrange for my own police interview… I’m not going to do that. I shouldn’t have to.”

Smith only recently became more involved in discussions surrounding gender identity through online communities, seeking support for her past experience having been abused by a trans-identified male.

“This whole movement… it’s a misogynistic men’s movement, I feel. It has nothing to do with ‘trans rights.’ They’re going after vulnerable women, and demanding we change the way we see the world.”

Disturbingly, Smith is not the first woman in the United Kingdom to face police intervention after “offending” a transgender individual.

In January of this year, a disabled woman in South Wales had her home searched and was subjected to police detention after being reported for committing a “transphobic hate crime” for putting up stickers raising awareness about domestic violence. 

The next month, Caroline Farrow, a mother of five who has been outspoken against gender ideology, had her house forced into by Surrey Police after her social media activity was reported as criminal. Farrow had previously been investigated by police in 2019 for misgendering a trans-identified male on Twitter.

*Smith’s surname has been changed to protect her identity.

[partly-hueman]

Stonewall History

The newest teaching from The Church of Transgenderism is that "Trans" people were a vital part of the uprising. That from the beginning of gay liberation to equal rights to marriage equality was ushered in and done by "trans" people.

This is just a lie. Their entire ideology didn't even take form until the 90's. "Cis", a slur, wasn't even used as it pertains to humans until the early 1990's. I think in order to be a cult member of transgenderism you have to first lie to yourself to the point where truth does not matter.

So I missed Stonewall day on the 28th but I want to remind some of the truth of the story of Stonewall.

The night of June 27, 1969 is a historic turning point for contemporary LGB rights in the United States. A routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn in New York City, because it was a gay bar, resulted in a push back by the LGB community. It was a violent response to the long history of getting beaten and assaulted with impunity by the police and community at large.

We often hear "Marsha threw the first brick at Stonewall" but that is a myth. In a later interview with gay historian Randy Wicker, Marsha said that he was not at Stonewall in the early hours when the riot first exploded on June 28, 1969. He was uptown at a party. When he arrived at Stonewall, it was already, in his words, "on fire." Sylvia Rivera was not there the first night at all. He was asleep in Bryant Park.

The truth is that while patrons were being escorted out of the bar all beaten and bloody someone yelled, "Why don't you do something?" and that was the catalyst for fighting back. The person who said and began the fight back was Stormie DeLarverie. A butch bi-racial drag king. Charles Kaiser's 1995 book, The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America, Kaiser makes a case that DeLarverie deserves the credit for mobilizing the patrons of the Stonewall Inn to fight back.

Stormé has been almost entirely erased from the Stonewall narrative. Isn't that odd? It's like the TQ just want to center men. A few years ago, a group of lesbians wanted to march in NYC Pride with a banner that read: "Everyone knows Stormé started Stonewall." The group was banned by NYC Pride and unable to march.

Marsha and Sylvia deserve some credit for later on organizing and protesting but to tie them to Stonewall is disingenuous.

[swingleftnewsjunkie]

At CPAC over the weekend, right-wing columnist and podcaster Michael Knowles told the assembly, “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely.” The crowd erupted in applause. Like many crises today, this escalation of rhetoric by the right is both a five-alarm moment and entirely, terrifyingly predictable. 

News organizations and activists denounced the statement as genocidal in its language and intent, and there is no doubt that it was, even though Knowles now denies it. After all, you can’t have transgender people without transgenderism, and one need only substitute another “-ism” to see why: “Judaism must be eradicated from public life” also means exactly what it sounds like.

How should we interpret Knowles’s horrific pronouncements? And why is the right targeting trans people in particular and at this moment? 

It’s admittedly difficult to talk about “genocide” in America without being dismissed as having a Cassandra complex, so let’s turn to history as a useful and distressingly on-point guide in this case. Let’s also examine the recognized societal indicia that tip nations into violent and hellish “final solutions.” 

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Attacks on trans identity kicked off German extremism

Those warning of the dangers of genocidal language deployed openly against an entire community have some disturbing history on their side. When Hitler rose to power as German chancellor in 1933, he enacted policies to rid the country of Lebensunwertes Leben, or “lives unworthy of living.” His targets included Jews, Roma people, disabled people and communists—but also specifically homosexuals and transsexuals.

We hear echoes of “lives unworthy of living” in the rhetoric of the right today. Radical podcaster and columnist for the Daily Wire, Matt Walsh, who has amplified Knowles’s attacks, recently told his listeners that he would rather be dead than have a trans kid. Knowles himself has argued on his podcast (which until recently he co-hosted with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)) that words like “genocide” do not even apply in the first instance, because being trans “is not a legitimate category of being.”

While many are familiar with haunting images of the first book burnings in Germany, which took place in May of 1933, most aren’t fully aware of their origin story.From https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa4530

The books and texts that provided the fuel for that first bonfire came from the library of the Institute for Sexual Research, founded in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld, a gay, Jewish doctor. As Scientific American notes, the Institute was “full of life everywhere” and provided incredible and groundbreaking gender affirmation care to trans individuals. Its mission was to provide a center for “research, teaching, healing and refuge” that could “free the individual from physical ailments, psychological afflictions and social deprivation.”

In other words, the first book burning in Germany, which led to copycat bonfires around the country, was an attack on a trans care institution. There are echoes of this today: The far-right has specifically chosen to target trans care centers in America, including repeated bomb threats to Boston Children’s Hospital, for providing gender affirming medical care. 

Yes, a call to eradicate “transgenderism” is a call for genocide

When news organizations such as Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast ran headlines that Knowles had called for transgender people to be eradicated, Knowles called the headlines libelous and had his PR department at the Daily Wire threaten to sue for mischaracterizing his statement. Knowles insisted he wasn’t calling for the eradication of people, just an ideology. (Rolling Stone responded by changing its headline to an even better one: “CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of ‘Transgenderism’ — and Somehow Claims He’s Not Calling for Elimination of Transgender People.”)

Dangerous semantics aside, even if we were to look at Knowles’ statement as a call to eradicate an “ideology”—which of course logically would mean the eradication of the practice of transitioning and therefore the eradication of all trans people—we very quickly run into problematic history. As author Brandon Friedman notes, 

In fact, during the six years of Hitler’s dictatorship prior to the outbreak of war in 1939, as the Holocaust Encyclopedia cited by Friedman notes, Jews felt the effect of 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives. This is what it meant in real terms to “eradicate Judaism” from society. Similarly, in America the internment of Japanese Americans began with the freezing of bank accounts, a curfew past sunset and sharp restrictions on travel.

Today, that same dire historical pattern could not be clearer. So far this year alone, there have been over 300 anti-LGBTQ+ bills proposed, some of which are now signed into law, with a particularly cruel emphasis upon trans identity and trans kids. As trans rights activist Erin Reed observes, such legislation is surfacing in a majority of states in the country: 

In sum, the push to eradicate “transgenderism” and erase trans people is in fact already fully underway in much of the country.

We are on the doorstep of something truly terrible. But we can turn back.

Genocide Watch lists the 10 stages that that historically lead to genocide. Importantly, the group writes, “At each of the earlier stages there is an opportunity for members of the community or the International Community to halt the stages and stop genocide before it happens.”Image from https://www.hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/what-is-genocide/the-ten-stages-of-genocide/

As LGBTQ+ activist Alyssa McKenzie notes in a powerful thread, we have already gotten to eight of these steps with respect to the trans community:

This is why it is so vital, at this moment, for us to understand where we are in historical terms and what we must do to protect vulnerable minorities like the LGBTQ+ community. We must do so not only for their sakes, but because we know that this kind of hatred and targeting is a test: If the far-right can drive a wedge and cause a majority of the population to turn away from one vulnerable community, either through indifference or pure fatigue, then it also knows the country is susceptible to other forms of autocracy, madness and violence. 

Our first obligation as citizens of a free and, yes, liberal democracy is to guarantee the full participation of every member, and not ever allow demagogues and hate-mongers to silence any part of it, whether they call any of us communists, “woke,” or queers. We are not without power in the face of these attacks. We can lift up trans voices, call out trans hate, oppose anti-trans legislation, offer trans sanctuaries and donate to organizations fighting on the front lines.

The same right wing groups have already come not only for LGBTQ+ people but for women’s reproductive rights, for minority voting rights, and for press and academic freedoms. So this isn’t a drill. We know from history where this could lead if we fail to take a stand now.

The main difference between pre-war Germany and America today is that we have the benefit of their painful, devastating history. Our duty is to demonstrate that we have learned those vital lessons. When we hear that “trans rights are human rights,” we must not only concur loudly and with all our voices, but actively identify and teach the terrible mistakes from the past so that we never repeat them.

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[bighermie]

IN-DEPTH: Experts Link Transgender Ideology to Elevated Risk of Violent Radicalization

IN-DEPTH: Experts Link Transgender Ideology to Elevated Risk of Violent Radicalization https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/in-depth-experts-link-transgender-ideology-to-elevated-risk-of-violent-radicalization_5204395.html?utm_source=andshare

[arcadiaberger]

The Transgender Agenda in School

There IS a troubling transgender ideology targeting children, of course.It would be appropriate to call it "Transgenderism", the way other political ideologies are identified.

That ideology is the irrational, often violent, hostility toward people who are trans.

[justiceheartwatcher]

"I was part of the problem": Read Megyn Kelly's apology for participating in the trans insanity

If you've been tricked into thinking this is a good, compassionate, moral thing to support, you have been fooled. Transgenderism is a violent, degrading ideology that is causing little children (and adults) to poison themselves and ruin their bodies. It's horrific at every level. It deserves to be rejected wholesale.

[originalleftist]

(Content Warning: description of domestic abuse).

I don't suppose it'll mean much to anyone here, but since I am tired of cowardly and complicit silence, but don't yet have the nerve to destroy a bunch of relationships in real life by posting this under my actual name or telling it to a cop:

My brother* is a violent alcoholic who's offences include death threats, assault, extensive property destruction, theft, arson, defamation, and blackmail. Examples of specific threats he has made toward me include threatening to smash my bedroom window (which he did), to burn the house down (he has set small fires repeatedly), and to slit my throat. He has been known to dump a bottle containing his urine down the stairs at me. He also viciously torments, manipulates, and financially exploits our mother, using typical abuser tactics including DARVO, gaslighting, and threatening to kill himself to get his way. This is by no means a comprehensive list of his offences.

More generally, he is one of the most profoundly selfish and cruel people I have ever known.

Unfortunately it has not been practical for me to move as there are few to no places I could afford the rent for in our city, and my mother has thus far been unwilling to evict him.

He is also virulently bigoted, particularly toward trans and autistic people as well as fat phobia. Some examples:

-When I was discussing the death of Nex Benedict with my mother, he thought it was appropriate to laugh at and mock the term "Two Spirit".

-He uses the term "transgenderism", painting being trans as an ideology rather than a gender identity.

-Calling me a "fat fuck" or similar is one of his favourite insults.

-He has characterized autistic people as inherently psychopaths or bad, and said all autistic people should be killed (also another of his threats toward me, since he claims I'm autistic). This is much in line with the rhetoric of the Nazi Regime, which murdered autistic children.

*I use the term "brother" in a purely genetic sense as, for reasons that I hope are obvious, I no longer regard him as family in any other sense.

[boyswillbedogz]

heyyyy heres a script for a speech on trans rights i have to give in class soon

any suggestions or criticisms are helpful, it has to be between 2-3 minutes and rn measures at roughly 2:50

There are ten stages of genocide. I was nine years old when I realized for the first time that I was in the middle of number six, and a just a few months ago it dawned on me that we’re now in stage eight: active genocide. They. Are. Killing us. And you – yes you –  can do something about it, but are making the active choice not to. 

Us being transgender people. Transgender is defined by the American Psychological Association as “an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.”

My name is {irl name}. I’m trans, I know, looking back, that I always have been but when I was nine I gained a word to put to it. I use he/him pronouns even though my birth certificate says I’m a girl. But I’m so much more than that simple contradiction. I’m a person. I like sharks and drawing and playing doom. I want to be a tattoo artist when I’m older. I laugh and I cry and I’m a human being.

But some people don’t see it that way.

A conservative political action conference speaker, Michael Knowles, said this year on camera; “Transgenderism must be eradicated.” Yet, he goes back. Claims that when he says this he’s not saying that trans people should be eradicated, just the ideology. 

But that’s simply not how it works, and this is the leadup to the excuse of a literal mass murdering. You can’t kill the idea of being gay, only gay people. And that’s what they’re doing, and that’s what they did.

And they have no arguments except the ones being recycled from the attack on gay people. We’re not delusional, a study by the National Institute of Health shows that the brains of trans women more resemble the female sex. And even if that wasn’t the case: gender isn’t real. Sex is but even then it’s not that black and white because there are women with XY chromosomes and high testosterone and vice versa. Gender is a social construct just like money and language and therefore is flexible. DIfferent countries have entirely different ideas of sex and gender. There is so much evidence against transphobic arguments that prove It’s not because you are thinking of the children or because we wish you harm, it's because you are scared of what does not align with your concept of normal. 

This basic, basic level of respect that we have to stoop down to beg people for is something that can literally save lives. And they turn their heads and say we’re throwing a fit over nothing.they call it ‘trans activists throwing fits over nothing’ even though The National Institute of Health tells us that data indicates that 82% of transgender individuals have considered killing themselves and 40% have attempted suicide, with suicidality highest among transgender youth. Is that something enough or do you not care for the lives of our youth? What happened to think of the children?

I’m one of the children. Just last year I was violently suicidal because I could not see my future in America as a trans person, especially not a black trans person. My future looked bleak in a country where police brutality, homelessness, poverty, bullying, depression, and violent discrimination were all things I’d probably be subject to. Thursday, February 10th, 2022, I tried to kill myself. I went to school the next morning without telling anyone, stuck with this horrible dread in my stomach. I’m in therapy now and doing hugely better, but that doesn’t negate the point that I was so painfully aware that my country actively hated me that I wanted to kill myself. 

But it’s not inevitable. You don’t have to go give speeches in front of courts, but you can do something. Support the trans people in your life, be a safe space as a person because there are people in this very school genuinely scared to come out because of the environment we have created. Do research, care. Donate to things like The Trevor Project which will do the talking for you and put money towards mental health for queer teens. We are dying but we are not a hopeless cause. You can do something. Doing nothing will lead to some poor child sitting and watching the news and realizing that we are in stage ten of transgender genocide. Doing nothing will kill us.

[radmalenia]

#or the special group of spiders who are five times as likely to be sexual offenders than the regular ones are?

The special group where, out of the ones who are in prison; over half of them are there for sexual crimes - many of which are against children?

Oh, but NOTHING HAPPENED? I suppose the law enforcement records and prison records just made up all of these offenses and inmates, then 🙃

[rjhamster]

IN-DEPTH: Experts Link Transgender Ideology to Elevated Risk of Violent Radicalization

Ideology currently permeating the political movement around gender and transgenderism drives its adherents into psychological corners and makes … — Read on www.theepochtimes.com/in-depth-experts-link-transgender-ideology-to-elevated-risk-of-violent-radicalization_5204395.html