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Dear Sir,
What could do more to further the progressivist cause than trying to hold back this year’s variant by furthering last year’s? Graham Linehan (in The Mail on Sunday) rightly calls trans-activism madness, insane, but its mere insanity isn’t a sufficient objection to it for him. No, he’s got to have an objection more acceptable to the progressives of last year and the year before, so he makes it his concern for “women’s rights … women losing their words, safe spaces and sports.” Thinking people can change sex just by saying so might be mad but that’s not what really matters about it … No … “trans rights only become an issue when they negatively affect women’s rights.” So he adopts and promotes the expression “transphobic”, helping to place it alongside homophobic, xenophobic and all those other phobics by which the progressivists further their revolutionary morality. And what more useful an idiot could the progressivists have than one who has suffered and continues to suffer at their hands?
Yours faithfully,
Duke Maskell
Duke Maskell writes a Substack newsletter Reactionary Essays, which you can follow here.
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Spot on. And while we’re about it, let’s call out the so-called trans movement for what it really is – the synthetic sex industry (SSI for short).
The term was coined by Substack blogger Jennifer Bilek, who has been researching the subject for ten years and says,
“We’re being manipulated and groomed to accept radical changes to human evolution engineered by those at the highest echelons of society invested in the biotech, pharmaceutical, technological, and financial industries”.
Once again, as with climate change and Covid, if you really want to know what’s driving the trans cult, just follow the money!
Yes, the more common the progressivist vocabulary becomes the more it seems to make common sense, no matter what particular things are said in it: “J. K. Rowling isn’t transphobic” is just as progressive as “J. K. Rowling is.” But that’s true of a couple of other words Mr Lineham uses–‘gay’ and ‘safe spaces’–words which have so established themselves in common speech that their tendentiousness passes unnoticed. Mr Maskell overlooks them even when they’re the very thing he’s on the lookout for. They deserve scare quotes just as much as those Mr Lineham gives ‘misgendering’ or Mr Maskell gives ‘transphobic’. They are a kind of stain spreading over the language and becoming not just harder to wash out but even to see.