Draaamaaaaa
Helen Webberly:
Said with extreme clarity and precision and nodding:
Ethnic cleansing, that’s what this is.
[Drama pause for everyone to gasp and flinch and send money]
Just like wartime, where you had to queue up and prove that you were pure enough to be able to live.
Except not like that at all. There are no extermination camps for trans people. There are no calls for extermination camps for trans people. There is simply the refusal to agree that people are whatever they say they are (in all circumstances no matter what) and the refusal to agree that sex is something anyone can swap out as easily as returning one library book and checking out a different one. There is simply profound anger at the contempt and hatred for women that so many trans activists share.
And now we have to queue up and have a test to see whether we’re female enough to take part in female sports.
Who is “we”? In other words no we don’t. The vast majority of us don’t have to do any such thing. Some athletes have to do that, that’s all, and the reason they have to do it is because of the cheating by men like “Lia” Thomas. It’s not life or death, it’s not Zyklon B, it’s not starvation and typhus, it’s just a cheek swab. Even the queue is not likely to be very long. Really not at all like ethnic cleansing.
The ridiculous stagey fervor with which she informs us of the ethnic cleansing is quite repellent. When you remember she’s doing it for the sake of wrecking women’s sports, it’s repellent squared.
The entire concept of people being more female, less female, and yes, female enough, requires that sex is a spectrum. Guess which side is insisting that sex is a spectrum — and which side is saying no, you’re either female or you’re not?
I love when they end up insulting their own beliefs.
In the United States, with Trump now targeting DEI in any and all forms, and having issued the EO about keeping men out of women’s sport, trans activists are finally getting to cash in on the Holocaust envy they’ve been wallowing in this whole time. It will now likely be much harder for those trying to persuade parties on the left to disengage from trans ideology to make any headway at all. Nominally progressive parties will now feel even more duty bound to remain loyal to this self-proclaimed “progressive” movement, allowing the Right to continue to convincingly brand them as irredeemably dishonest and untrustworthy. “Yes, but…” can only go so far, and it goes a lot less farther when you choose to defend obvious lies, however well intentioned and “principalled” you claim to be. A lie is a lie; when you’re fighting the flood of dishonesty of rapidly metastatizing authoritarianism, insisting on defending your own lies will turn in your hand and cut you very quickly, sunk cost fallacy or no.
The same might apply to captured media as well, though being businesses, they might be more inclined to knuckle under, and bow down to the new reality on the ground, giving up a lot more than just the defence of genderism in the process. Think Bezos’ refusal to allow the Washington Post to endorse Harris. He didn’t attend Trump’s inauguration for nothing. He was paying court and mending fences, not delivering an ultimatum on the sanctity of the First Ammendment. I mean who wants to volunteer to be a hero, a martyr, or slightly less obscenely rich? Rather than use his wealth as a shield, or insulation, he’s allowing it to hold him hostage. Bezos knows what side his bread is buttered on; everyone else can eat cake.
And thanks to the magic of forced teaming, LGB rights will be rolled back along with trans “rights”. On top of that, as ever, women will pay the price for both the continued, performative, “progressive” trans-allyship-as-resistance on the Left, and the assult on women’s rights (and on women, period) from the Right as American fascism spreads and entrenches itself.
Jane Clare Jones’ new Substack project, Culture War Blues, is dedicated to looking at this crunch between Left and Right in which feminists find themselves: https://culturewarblues.substack.com/
I don’t understand why more people aren’t publicly complaining about Webberley’s disgusting appropriation of the suffering of the Nazis’ victims.
And why would anyone take Webberley seriously anymore? She’s lost her licence to practice medicine:
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/doctor-who-gives-puberty-blockers-to-trans-children-loses-licence-gj5633j09
She has no more medical credibility than Andrew Wakefield.
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Gah, sorry for omitting the source. I was all thumbs yesterday.
Bruce, your comment makes me sick . . . because you’re right.
I’m feeling compelled to write another article about this, this time featuring my lesbian niece who played on the boys football team when she was a freshman . . . but not “trans.” No, the remarkable thing is that she did this AS A GIRL.
@Mike B, #6
Did your niece dress out in the boys’ locker room?
Oh, please, the transperbole is insane. Take a simple chromosomal test. What happens if the athlete can’t prove that he’s a woman? Does he get exterminated? Gassed? Of given a hangnail? How about prevented from participating in sports? No! He just goes into the more popular, more powerful, more heavily financed men’s or boys’ division. “Ethnic cleansing” my ass.