There is zero difference between people being called "transgender" & the rest of us, in the sense that we’re all biological & exist as part of a sexually dimorphic species. We're all tethered to reality by our sex. The mysterious, otherworldliness created around people who medically disown their sex is a corporate construction, a fiction. It is purposeful, powerful, and dangerous.
There is definitely a coordinated push to label the trans discussion as a left/right issue. The fact is that the trans lobby may be part of the left, but it does not own the left.
TERFs are radical feminists. And, radical feminists were never conservative. Conservatives don't like feminists at all, let alone the radical feminists. Those radical feminists come from the left. They remain part of the left no matter how much the TRAs state otherwise. Feminists rightfully call the invasion of female spaces and erasure of the meaning of womanhood by TRAs what it is: regressive, sexist misogyny.
Increasingly, we also hear complaints about gender coming from LGB folks. Lesbians are increasingly vocal about straight trans women insisting lesbians accept them in their dating pool. The lesbians aren't interested in "chicks with dicks." Lesbians rightfully call this trans behavior what it is: homophobic.
There is also a lobby of folks who like to live in scientific reality. These include academics, biologists, medical students, and atheists. They dislike being intimidated. They dislike being silenced. They dislike the infection of our culture with ridiculous nonsense like pronoun declarations. They dislike the nonsense claims that "sex is binary," "sex is a social construct," "sex is a spectrum," "trans women ARE women," and "women are whoever identifies as a woman." No.
The groups opposing gender ideology are diverse. The supporters from the left shouldn't be mislabeled as coming from the right. That makes our entire argument easier to dismiss. "Only right-wing transphobes have a problem with gender. We can ignore them outright." No. The gender critical is a broad movement that's supported beyond just conservatives.
It is imperative that this analysis and research by Jennifer Bilek reaches a broad audience. Parents, and grandparents, mothers and grandmothers, teachers and affected professionsls are floundering as they witness the trans juggernaut capturing and destroying younger generations. Without this crucial context, they lack effective means of resistance. Thank you as always Jennifer.
I could not agree more Jennifer. Really well analyzed and argued. I've only come to this topic seriously in the last few months, having spent most of my adult life deeply studying the Western propaganda operations related primarily to justifying and obscuring our illegal immoral counter-insurgency wars and regime-change wars around the globe.
One thing that area of research has made quite clear to me is the following. If all of Academia, all MSM, all of the Corporate world, all the big NGO's, and all Western governments are - ALL SINGING THE SAME SONG IN UNISON - you can damn well bet you're being lied to and gaslighted with a well coordinated propaganda operation. When that propaganda "song" literally flies in the face of material reality - well, as they say "this isn't rocket science." As you pointed out, to believe these entities somehow care about a small marginal group of people - when they clearly care nothing about the welfare of humanity as a whole - one has to have drank a whole lot of post-modern kool-aid.
I really appreciate your macro or "big-picture" approach to thinking about these issues. It is critical to really understanding where this is all going and why it is being promoted from within virtually all Western institutional structures. Thank you for your work.
I’m a working class woman of boomer age, raised by Democratic parents, a liberal although now I would say I’m socialist. And not the DSA variety who can’t seem to accomplish diddly squat for workers; not even sick leave for railroad workers. I support gay marriage and enjoy a good drag queen performance.
But I cannot support the trans agenda being crammed down our throat every where we turn. At first I thought maybe I was just becoming a cranky old fart, but when I learned how the agenda was being pushed in schools....decided I was a sane old fart. :-)
Not all kids are comfortable in their bodies and more than a few have a tough time in adolescence. But isn’t the best thing we can do for these kids is helping them become comfortable in their own skin? To see the their own worth as they move into adulthood? Hormone therapy started in adolescence impacts the maturation of all body systems, not just reproductive, and not in a good way. All I can say about surgery is even the best plastic surgeons can’t fool Mother Nature.
I live in a conservative area with lots of evangelical Christians. Usually these people drive me nuts, but they do serve to slow down school efforts to push the trans gender agenda. And no drag queen story hours at local libraries. It does seem their attitudes toward gays and gay marriage are becoming much more tolerant, especially among younger adults.
While I agree 99% with what you wrote here, I think it is important to acknowledge that aberrant BIOLOGICAL processes during gestation can leave (a few--far less than 1%) men feeling as if they are really women when their bodies and gonads are male. After all, all male fetuses start out female, and it is numerous hormone washes during the process that eventually result in a male child. This is not a "mental illness" on their part. This even more rarely happens to a female infant--the processes are different. That being said, most male children who have this happen to them eventually decide to live as men despite struggling with it as children (80%). What this means is that all people of good will should recognize that being "trans" does exist and is not some woke plot, but we should also recognize that what is going on now is a mass psychosis that has no basis in biological fact. No teen girl suddenly decides she is "trans." There are not masses of mistreated trans people whose rights are being violated. And kindergartners do not need to be instructed that being trans is one of their life choices.
I just want to say how glad I am to see this pushback at the 'gender identity" movement. I've been astonished at how many people more than smart enough to know better have been suckered into the vast edifice of lies around this sick and destructive movement, though it's not surprising what with the amount of money going to pharma from the McGender franchises and to for-profit medicine from the Surgery King franchises.
I worry, and I mean a worry a LOT, that non-Republican parents are going to vote for Republicans next year just to protect their children from the surgeons.
“ Transgender" sounds cool and edgy & feels mutinous for teens filled with the rebellious spirit of youth who are clueless about the repercussions of being sterilized by the drugs & surgeries being marketed to them”
Ask the next person you meet who is furiously angry if feelings are ephemeral. Of course they don't last forever, or we wouldn't survive. That doesn't mean they don't have a basis in biology. And yes they can be measured, and we know precisely which part of the reptilian brain produces which emotions. This is just basic biology.
Good call. The conservative establishment indeed plays along with the grotesque charade. The system is fairly united in forcing transvestism down the people's throat. Closets aren't just for size ten heels anymore, that's all I'm saying. Don't encourage the bad behavior.
There is definitely a coordinated push to label the trans discussion as a left/right issue. The fact is that the trans lobby may be part of the left, but it does not own the left.
TERFs are radical feminists. And, radical feminists were never conservative. Conservatives don't like feminists at all, let alone the radical feminists. Those radical feminists come from the left. They remain part of the left no matter how much the TRAs state otherwise. Feminists rightfully call the invasion of female spaces and erasure of the meaning of womanhood by TRAs what it is: regressive, sexist misogyny.
Increasingly, we also hear complaints about gender coming from LGB folks. Lesbians are increasingly vocal about straight trans women insisting lesbians accept them in their dating pool. The lesbians aren't interested in "chicks with dicks." Lesbians rightfully call this trans behavior what it is: homophobic.
There is also a lobby of folks who like to live in scientific reality. These include academics, biologists, medical students, and atheists. They dislike being intimidated. They dislike being silenced. They dislike the infection of our culture with ridiculous nonsense like pronoun declarations. They dislike the nonsense claims that "sex is binary," "sex is a social construct," "sex is a spectrum," "trans women ARE women," and "women are whoever identifies as a woman." No.
The groups opposing gender ideology are diverse. The supporters from the left shouldn't be mislabeled as coming from the right. That makes our entire argument easier to dismiss. "Only right-wing transphobes have a problem with gender. We can ignore them outright." No. The gender critical is a broad movement that's supported beyond just conservatives.
It is imperative that this analysis and research by Jennifer Bilek reaches a broad audience. Parents, and grandparents, mothers and grandmothers, teachers and affected professionsls are floundering as they witness the trans juggernaut capturing and destroying younger generations. Without this crucial context, they lack effective means of resistance. Thank you as always Jennifer.
I could not agree more Jennifer. Really well analyzed and argued. I've only come to this topic seriously in the last few months, having spent most of my adult life deeply studying the Western propaganda operations related primarily to justifying and obscuring our illegal immoral counter-insurgency wars and regime-change wars around the globe.
One thing that area of research has made quite clear to me is the following. If all of Academia, all MSM, all of the Corporate world, all the big NGO's, and all Western governments are - ALL SINGING THE SAME SONG IN UNISON - you can damn well bet you're being lied to and gaslighted with a well coordinated propaganda operation. When that propaganda "song" literally flies in the face of material reality - well, as they say "this isn't rocket science." As you pointed out, to believe these entities somehow care about a small marginal group of people - when they clearly care nothing about the welfare of humanity as a whole - one has to have drank a whole lot of post-modern kool-aid.
I really appreciate your macro or "big-picture" approach to thinking about these issues. It is critical to really understanding where this is all going and why it is being promoted from within virtually all Western institutional structures. Thank you for your work.
thank you Jennifer Bilek, you are the best source of analysis on this issue and I love that you keep your content free. <3
you are amazing. thank you so much for the depth and bravery of your research.
I’m a working class woman of boomer age, raised by Democratic parents, a liberal although now I would say I’m socialist. And not the DSA variety who can’t seem to accomplish diddly squat for workers; not even sick leave for railroad workers. I support gay marriage and enjoy a good drag queen performance.
But I cannot support the trans agenda being crammed down our throat every where we turn. At first I thought maybe I was just becoming a cranky old fart, but when I learned how the agenda was being pushed in schools....decided I was a sane old fart. :-)
Not all kids are comfortable in their bodies and more than a few have a tough time in adolescence. But isn’t the best thing we can do for these kids is helping them become comfortable in their own skin? To see the their own worth as they move into adulthood? Hormone therapy started in adolescence impacts the maturation of all body systems, not just reproductive, and not in a good way. All I can say about surgery is even the best plastic surgeons can’t fool Mother Nature.
I live in a conservative area with lots of evangelical Christians. Usually these people drive me nuts, but they do serve to slow down school efforts to push the trans gender agenda. And no drag queen story hours at local libraries. It does seem their attitudes toward gays and gay marriage are becoming much more tolerant, especially among younger adults.
While I agree 99% with what you wrote here, I think it is important to acknowledge that aberrant BIOLOGICAL processes during gestation can leave (a few--far less than 1%) men feeling as if they are really women when their bodies and gonads are male. After all, all male fetuses start out female, and it is numerous hormone washes during the process that eventually result in a male child. This is not a "mental illness" on their part. This even more rarely happens to a female infant--the processes are different. That being said, most male children who have this happen to them eventually decide to live as men despite struggling with it as children (80%). What this means is that all people of good will should recognize that being "trans" does exist and is not some woke plot, but we should also recognize that what is going on now is a mass psychosis that has no basis in biological fact. No teen girl suddenly decides she is "trans." There are not masses of mistreated trans people whose rights are being violated. And kindergartners do not need to be instructed that being trans is one of their life choices.
Long article.
I can make it short.
Marxism.
I just want to say how glad I am to see this pushback at the 'gender identity" movement. I've been astonished at how many people more than smart enough to know better have been suckered into the vast edifice of lies around this sick and destructive movement, though it's not surprising what with the amount of money going to pharma from the McGender franchises and to for-profit medicine from the Surgery King franchises.
I worry, and I mean a worry a LOT, that non-Republican parents are going to vote for Republicans next year just to protect their children from the surgeons.
“ Transgender" sounds cool and edgy & feels mutinous for teens filled with the rebellious spirit of youth who are clueless about the repercussions of being sterilized by the drugs & surgeries being marketed to them”
Best reason there is for shutting down TikTok.
Ask the next person you meet who is furiously angry if feelings are ephemeral. Of course they don't last forever, or we wouldn't survive. That doesn't mean they don't have a basis in biology. And yes they can be measured, and we know precisely which part of the reptilian brain produces which emotions. This is just basic biology.
Good call. The conservative establishment indeed plays along with the grotesque charade. The system is fairly united in forcing transvestism down the people's throat. Closets aren't just for size ten heels anymore, that's all I'm saying. Don't encourage the bad behavior.