Absolutely! SURELY, we should now start seeing the dark shadows of gender ideology leaving classrooms, books and children alone! The terminology used in the report made for difficult reading, for a terf! Thank you for all you're doing, Julie B xx
There is no such thing as "trans." There is no such thing as "gender identity." None of this exists, for kids, adults, senior citizens, or anyone else.
The whole thing is a fraud. It is untreated mental illness.
That is the only logical conclusion that will work. Until we're brave enough to say that, nothing will work.
"Cass’s conclusions will be contested by ideologues of course, but as even Stonewall is slightly reverse-ferreting on their previous position, it seems that both government and opposition parties, in England at least, will accept them". Not so fast...The Greens, Lib Dems and SNP who have all been well and truly captured by the "transwomen are women" gender ideology in particular have not yet responded officially. The SNP has been led by the nose by the Scottish Greens on this and the Green Party of Engand and Wales is run by its own pro trans lobby from the leadership team down to its disciplinary committee. The all powerful LGBTIQA+ Greens has already expressed its disappointment to the NHS stopping the prescrition of puberty blockers when this was announced.
Thanks again Julie for revealing another area where the sneaky little blighters have been working hard at their lies and pretence. Nothing is sacrosanct, for heaven's sake, children's books??
I work in the books/publishing world. Publishing is totally captured by genderist ideology. A good friend of mine just met with her new (adult fiction) agent and asked if her age/sales track record would be a problem from the point of view of selling her book. Her agent said, 'No, not at all - but...you haven't ever publicly expressed support for JK Rowling or Kathleen Stock or anyone like that, have you? Or had friendly exchanges with them on social media? Because that would be a problem. No one would take your book if you had, and they might well look and find anything like that.' The agent didn't say this as in 'And isn't that ridiculous and terrible?' He presented it as if it were an obviously understandable fact of life because of course who'd want to sign a new author who had ever 'had friendly exchanges' with Rowling or Stock?! Also, my friend's book is a psych thriller and nothing to do with gender issues at all.
Another example of the total captured-ness of publishing: an MD of a very commercial adult fiction list said to me the other day, 'No one at Viking Penguin who's under 40 would ever take a book represented by (gender critical literary agent) Caroline Hardman - it might not be official policy but it's kind of an open secret. And generally, most editors under 40 in mainstream publishing pride themselves on rejecting Hardman's submissions as a matter of course.'
Both of these conversations happened in the last 7 days. Cass report is having no impact, as far as I can tell, on the gender ideologues in publishing - they are deciding to ignore and discredit all the findings in order to justify continuing to think of anyone concerned about any of these issues as a 'hateful bigot'.
Another example: an editor who works for a big 5 publisher has had more than one author (I think two, but it could be more since I last heard) ask to be assigned to a different editor within the imprint because she (their original editor) publishes and edits some gender-critical writers. The publishing house has agreed and allowed those writers to switch editors rather than say 'Sorry, no - our editor has done nothing wrong and we are not indulging anyone who won't work with them simply because they disagree about an issue.
What can be done? I don't know. All I know is that 90% of the writers and agents and publishers I speak to would agree that this kind of McCarthy-ite cancellation is awful. But/and, they're all also too scared to stand up and say something -- and I get that. Eg, the MD I referred to above is the main breadwinner in her household and already suffers from quite serious anxiety. Being the subject of a witch-hunt/hate campaign might destroy her mental health. I don't blame her for being too scared to do it. Not sure what the solution is, just wanted to rant and make people aware of just how bad it all is.
In the meantime - I'd go for extended borrowing at all public librarys of such books by gender realists like me - simply to keep those "pro trans" lets' all be "nice" and you can be anything you want to be "children's" book and the constant rewriting of history and science out of the hands of their target audience which our vulnerable kids. It has always had the target of recruiting the next generation of trans ,
These books are right through schools up and down the country- we are going to need strong guidelines from gvt and unions to change how this is taught in schools and a thorough revision of all teaching materials (including library books etc) in this area.
Absolutely! SURELY, we should now start seeing the dark shadows of gender ideology leaving classrooms, books and children alone! The terminology used in the report made for difficult reading, for a terf! Thank you for all you're doing, Julie B xx
There is no such thing as "trans." There is no such thing as "gender identity." None of this exists, for kids, adults, senior citizens, or anyone else.
The whole thing is a fraud. It is untreated mental illness.
That is the only logical conclusion that will work. Until we're brave enough to say that, nothing will work.
"Cass’s conclusions will be contested by ideologues of course, but as even Stonewall is slightly reverse-ferreting on their previous position, it seems that both government and opposition parties, in England at least, will accept them". Not so fast...The Greens, Lib Dems and SNP who have all been well and truly captured by the "transwomen are women" gender ideology in particular have not yet responded officially. The SNP has been led by the nose by the Scottish Greens on this and the Green Party of Engand and Wales is run by its own pro trans lobby from the leadership team down to its disciplinary committee. The all powerful LGBTIQA+ Greens has already expressed its disappointment to the NHS stopping the prescrition of puberty blockers when this was announced.
Thanks again Julie for revealing another area where the sneaky little blighters have been working hard at their lies and pretence. Nothing is sacrosanct, for heaven's sake, children's books??
Meanwhile in Brazil the big press is promoting the "existence" of trans children
I work in the books/publishing world. Publishing is totally captured by genderist ideology. A good friend of mine just met with her new (adult fiction) agent and asked if her age/sales track record would be a problem from the point of view of selling her book. Her agent said, 'No, not at all - but...you haven't ever publicly expressed support for JK Rowling or Kathleen Stock or anyone like that, have you? Or had friendly exchanges with them on social media? Because that would be a problem. No one would take your book if you had, and they might well look and find anything like that.' The agent didn't say this as in 'And isn't that ridiculous and terrible?' He presented it as if it were an obviously understandable fact of life because of course who'd want to sign a new author who had ever 'had friendly exchanges' with Rowling or Stock?! Also, my friend's book is a psych thriller and nothing to do with gender issues at all.
Another example of the total captured-ness of publishing: an MD of a very commercial adult fiction list said to me the other day, 'No one at Viking Penguin who's under 40 would ever take a book represented by (gender critical literary agent) Caroline Hardman - it might not be official policy but it's kind of an open secret. And generally, most editors under 40 in mainstream publishing pride themselves on rejecting Hardman's submissions as a matter of course.'
Both of these conversations happened in the last 7 days. Cass report is having no impact, as far as I can tell, on the gender ideologues in publishing - they are deciding to ignore and discredit all the findings in order to justify continuing to think of anyone concerned about any of these issues as a 'hateful bigot'.
Another example: an editor who works for a big 5 publisher has had more than one author (I think two, but it could be more since I last heard) ask to be assigned to a different editor within the imprint because she (their original editor) publishes and edits some gender-critical writers. The publishing house has agreed and allowed those writers to switch editors rather than say 'Sorry, no - our editor has done nothing wrong and we are not indulging anyone who won't work with them simply because they disagree about an issue.
What can be done? I don't know. All I know is that 90% of the writers and agents and publishers I speak to would agree that this kind of McCarthy-ite cancellation is awful. But/and, they're all also too scared to stand up and say something -- and I get that. Eg, the MD I referred to above is the main breadwinner in her household and already suffers from quite serious anxiety. Being the subject of a witch-hunt/hate campaign might destroy her mental health. I don't blame her for being too scared to do it. Not sure what the solution is, just wanted to rant and make people aware of just how bad it all is.
In the meantime - I'd go for extended borrowing at all public librarys of such books by gender realists like me - simply to keep those "pro trans" lets' all be "nice" and you can be anything you want to be "children's" book and the constant rewriting of history and science out of the hands of their target audience which our vulnerable kids. It has always had the target of recruiting the next generation of trans ,
These books are right through schools up and down the country- we are going to need strong guidelines from gvt and unions to change how this is taught in schools and a thorough revision of all teaching materials (including library books etc) in this area.
Rachel Rooney deserves an apology.