175 days since some other random thing happened

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175 days since some other random thing happened

Feb 12th, 2024 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Gather round everyone, it’s time to CATASTROPHIZE.

Ten days since the judge at the trial of Brianna Ghey's killers identified transphobia as partial motive for the murder, the University of Edinburgh announces its new Rector is a founder of LGB Alliance, an organization categorized in Ireland as an "anti-transgender" hate group. https://t.co/6mP1965Wcm

— Dr. Gina Gwenffrewi (@GinaGwenffrewi) February 12, 2024

Ten days after random thing happens, unrelated thing happens in another part of the forest. BE APPALLED. Also, here’s this fella, that someone in Ireland said was something. ARE YOU APPALLED YET?

You’ll be surprised to learn that the person who composed that ridiculous sentence has a PhD. You’ll be less surprised now that I tell you it’s in “transgender studies.” What is there to study? Besides rampant narcissism and entitlement?

Anyway, the point is, it’s never the right time to do anything, because The Trans CommuNinny is always traumatized, so just shut up forever, all of you.

Last year it was the showing of the anti-trans documentary Adult Human Female. Now this. Appointing a co-founder of an organization that campaigns to block a conversion therapy ban on trans youth. An organization whose conference speakers include Graham Linehan.

— Dr. Gina Gwenffrewi (@GinaGwenffrewi) February 12, 2024

Oh oh oh the horror, people argue that it’s risky and abusive to push children to try to stop their own puberties via dangerous chemical interventions. It’s much better to urge children to mess up their bodies and thus their minds before they’re old enough to evaluate the risks.

And to sum up:

An organization that venerates Magdalen Berns, who described trans women as 'men who get sexual kicks from being treated like women.' This, so soon after Brianna Ghey's trial. This is an outrageous declaration of contempt by the University of Edinburgh for trans people.

— Dr. Gina Gwenffrewi (@GinaGwenffrewi) February 12, 2024

Magdalen Berns! So soon after a random murder trial! Add them all together and you get the magic secret cryptic number!

7 Responses to “175 days since some other random thing happened”

#1
ibbica
February 12, 2024 at 9:16 am

Not unrelated at all… I mean, of course women who want to retain spaces safe from men are to blame for a man’s desire to murder. /s
#2
NightCrow
February 12, 2024 at 10:02 am

… a founder of LGB Alliance, an organization categorized in Ireland as an “anti-transgender” hate group

Dr Gwenffrewi is apparently referring to a report issued in 2022 by an outfit called the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE), founded a couple of years earlier. The Irish Examiner was unimpressed:

Another outfit apparently posing a threat to democracy is LGB Alliance Ireland. This group, the report states, is the Irish chapter of the UK’s LGBA, which describes its objective as “asserting the right of lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men to define themselves as same-sex attracted”.

… LGB Alliance Ireland take issue with theories around gender dysphoria, and as a result they are labelled in this report as transphobic and by extension a far-right group.

One wonders what fascist organisations around the world would think of making common cause with same-sex activists. Perhaps they would consider it an Irish joke. …

The whole thrust of the GPAHE report is to amplify, conflate, and basically big-up the threat of far-right extremism in this country. Presenting such work to gullible Yanks who believe Ireland to be a kind of 51st state might be harmless, but it is also deeply dishonest.
#3
Ophelia Benson
February 12, 2024 at 10:16 am

Well said Irish Examiner.
#4
Blood Knight in Sour Armor
February 12, 2024 at 2:03 pm

Isn’t the convention that the trial belongs to the defendant and not the victim? Not much point in trying a corpse…
#5
Acolyte of Sagan
February 12, 2024 at 2:53 pm

This is an outrageous declaration of contempt by the University of Edinburgh for trans people.

I wasn’t aware that there exists a ‘University of Edinburgh for trans people’.
#6
Ophelia Benson
February 12, 2024 at 4:14 pm

Heh.
#7
Lady Mondegreen
February 12, 2024 at 5:06 pm

These ghouls were terribly disappointed when Ghey’s murder turned out to not be about transphobia. But still they carry on, bravely using the dead child as a symbol. A symbol of the murderous hatred we’re supposed to believe exists ready to erupt any time anybody fails to agree with the proposition “TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.”