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
A society based on lies does not deserve support . The trans ideology has so far pulled the wool over too many people’s eyes. It is high time to get back to truth and reality! Let’s hope the Cass Report will lead the way back . However, the voices of darkness are already trying to drown out truth!
It will be a long slog to overcome the darkness! Too much has been invested in the ideology of lies.
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.
Absolutely! That's my bottom line, and I feel very very hard line about it. So good to see your words. Now, when is it going to be shouted from the rooftops?!!
I'm sorry to say I don't feel that optimistic. I read a report about transactivism's campaign strategies recently, in which they were advised to avoid the media but get personnel into key positions in institutions and organisations. We now see this everywhere, trans personnel having major input into policy and practice. It's in health, education, big business, publishing.... everywhere. So, I'm not that hopeful it will collapse. Wish I was.
If someone in the 1940s had said that eventually cigarette smoking would be looked down upon, banned from nearly all public areas, that cigarette companies would be sued for billions, and the smoking rates would drop significantly, everyone would laugh. That was a time when doctors were in cigarette ads, over half the country smoked, and people could smoke on airplanes.
If someone in the 1950s had said that eventually lobotomies would be looked back upon with horror, as a medical scandal, and the doctor would just won the Nobel Prize for creating the modern lobotomy would be criticized as the worst mistake the Nobels ever made, everyone would laugh. Lobotomies were mainstream medicine and the doctor won a Nobel for it, to great acclaim.
If in 2001, barely over 20 years ago, someone said that opioids would be a great scandal, that the billionaire family behind it would be filing for bankruptcy, that it would be a huge scandal that nobody wanted to take responsibility for even though thousands of doctors would end up going to jail for the thousands of overdose deaths, everyone would laugh. Opioids were everywhere. Anyone could literally get a prescription (for heroin, basically) over a twisted ankle or any type of dental surgery.
Things change much more quickly, especially with social media nowadays. Lawsuits are already being filed. I'm not saying it will be overnight. But when this becomes a money loser rather than a money maker, the people pushing it will stop because it won't be the cash cow they think it is.
It's simply too big of a fraud to persist. It has to collapse. Something like the 2008 economic collapse or even the Iraq war can be compared to it. I'm not saying economic collapse or Iraq war lie is 100% the same, but it's comparable.
When Michael Burry went to banks in 2005/6 and bet against the housing market, people thought he was crazy. Then he wasn't. The people who warned against the Iraq war were called crazy, stupid, etc. They were right. Everyone sees that now.
It will happen. Lies cannot continue forever. Especially when it involves idiotic men who get off on wearing dresses in public and going into girls' bathrooms. There will be a reckoning, and that's why Kayla Lovdahl and Chloe Cole are filing lawsuits.
"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.
I could see the Greens doubling down as arguing it’s an establishment stitch up potentially fits with the way their members see the world.
It’s hard to see the Lib Dems doing the same as they’d like to see themselves as middle England and most of their target seats are held by Tories.
The SNP are truly in a shitty position as they’ve gone in so deep it’s hard to see how they back down without truly humiliating themselves.
If independence doesn’t come back on the agenda, this could be the issue that sinks them especially if Labour can position themselves as taking a moderate ‘follow the evidence’ position.
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.
It's like watching people shoot themselves in the head in order to please their master. I know, I know, "master" is a no-no word these days. Like "darkness" or "idiotic". I read a pamphlet about 'inclusive language' the other day. It used to mean not saying 'mankind' when you mean humanity, or using male pronouns for universal statements, like "An artist must know his materials". Now it means not using words that the writers of the pamphlet have decided might make someone with a valid victim identity uncomfortable.
It's terrible!! I work in a library and I see all of the books coming in adult and children's, that are about gender ideology. It's in children's picture books!! I just listened to a thriller by Julia Bartz, The writing retreat. It was good, but had a couple scenes where the characters were talking about their pronouns. Awful, and
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
Unfortunately, the ideology is so deeply embedded in so many of our institutions - not just classrooms - that it is hard to imagine it going away.
A society based on lies does not deserve support . The trans ideology has so far pulled the wool over too many people’s eyes. It is high time to get back to truth and reality! Let’s hope the Cass Report will lead the way back . However, the voices of darkness are already trying to drown out truth!
It will be a long slog to overcome the darkness! Too much has been invested in the ideology of lies.
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.
Absolutely! That's my bottom line, and I feel very very hard line about it. So good to see your words. Now, when is it going to be shouted from the rooftops?!!
Eventually, it must because this is the only approach that will work.
Anything else will fail. That might take stupid people a while to figure out, but this will eventually collapse.
I'm sorry to say I don't feel that optimistic. I read a report about transactivism's campaign strategies recently, in which they were advised to avoid the media but get personnel into key positions in institutions and organisations. We now see this everywhere, trans personnel having major input into policy and practice. It's in health, education, big business, publishing.... everywhere. So, I'm not that hopeful it will collapse. Wish I was.
If someone in the 1940s had said that eventually cigarette smoking would be looked down upon, banned from nearly all public areas, that cigarette companies would be sued for billions, and the smoking rates would drop significantly, everyone would laugh. That was a time when doctors were in cigarette ads, over half the country smoked, and people could smoke on airplanes.
If someone in the 1950s had said that eventually lobotomies would be looked back upon with horror, as a medical scandal, and the doctor would just won the Nobel Prize for creating the modern lobotomy would be criticized as the worst mistake the Nobels ever made, everyone would laugh. Lobotomies were mainstream medicine and the doctor won a Nobel for it, to great acclaim.
If in 2001, barely over 20 years ago, someone said that opioids would be a great scandal, that the billionaire family behind it would be filing for bankruptcy, that it would be a huge scandal that nobody wanted to take responsibility for even though thousands of doctors would end up going to jail for the thousands of overdose deaths, everyone would laugh. Opioids were everywhere. Anyone could literally get a prescription (for heroin, basically) over a twisted ankle or any type of dental surgery.
Things change much more quickly, especially with social media nowadays. Lawsuits are already being filed. I'm not saying it will be overnight. But when this becomes a money loser rather than a money maker, the people pushing it will stop because it won't be the cash cow they think it is.
It's simply too big of a fraud to persist. It has to collapse. Something like the 2008 economic collapse or even the Iraq war can be compared to it. I'm not saying economic collapse or Iraq war lie is 100% the same, but it's comparable.
When Michael Burry went to banks in 2005/6 and bet against the housing market, people thought he was crazy. Then he wasn't. The people who warned against the Iraq war were called crazy, stupid, etc. They were right. Everyone sees that now.
It will happen. Lies cannot continue forever. Especially when it involves idiotic men who get off on wearing dresses in public and going into girls' bathrooms. There will be a reckoning, and that's why Kayla Lovdahl and Chloe Cole are filing lawsuits.
You've well and truly put it in perspective. I'll keep all that in mind and use it to become a little more hopeful. Thanks 😊
"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.
I could see the Greens doubling down as arguing it’s an establishment stitch up potentially fits with the way their members see the world.
It’s hard to see the Lib Dems doing the same as they’d like to see themselves as middle England and most of their target seats are held by Tories.
The SNP are truly in a shitty position as they’ve gone in so deep it’s hard to see how they back down without truly humiliating themselves.
If independence doesn’t come back on the agenda, this could be the issue that sinks them especially if Labour can position themselves as taking a moderate ‘follow the evidence’ position.
The Greens used to be progressive. Now they’re regressive!
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??
Of course! You capture the children and you've got the next generation of progressive adults all nicely cooked and ready to continue the good work!
Meanwhile in Brazil the big press is promoting the "existence" of trans children
Oh , god help us!
Awful!
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.
It's like watching people shoot themselves in the head in order to please their master. I know, I know, "master" is a no-no word these days. Like "darkness" or "idiotic". I read a pamphlet about 'inclusive language' the other day. It used to mean not saying 'mankind' when you mean humanity, or using male pronouns for universal statements, like "An artist must know his materials". Now it means not using words that the writers of the pamphlet have decided might make someone with a valid victim identity uncomfortable.
This is what fascism is! And also the Inquisition!
It's terrible!! I work in a library and I see all of the books coming in adult and children's, that are about gender ideology. It's in children's picture books!! I just listened to a thriller by Julia Bartz, The writing retreat. It was good, but had a couple scenes where the characters were talking about their pronouns. Awful, and
irrelevant to the story.
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 ,
Fabulous idea.
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.