Sly's WTF Wednesday: The Trans Cult/Queer Kinkster Takeover of Pride

These are responses to a post on Feminist Current about how pride is no longer about fighting discrimination, it is now about kink and kissing TRA ass.

FrayedButterfly • 8 hours ago • edited

They should call Pride what it is now, "kink," and "Shame." It's painting genuine gay and lesbian, non-kool-aid drinking folks who just want to live their lives and love their partners with a nasty brush of progressive perversion, packaged up in a "virtuous" container of modern conversion therapy, and sponsored by big-pharm, politics, capitalist and government bodies. It's now a heterosexual kink show being pushed as inclusive and supportive of diversity, in the most Orwellian way. This lesbian does not support it.

Robert Gonzalez • 2 days ago

"People should be allowed to disagree with and question ideas, without being accused of opposing human rights and equality."

I feel like I'm making statements like this all the time now but I keep thinking how as recently as 15 or 10 years ago we did not have these issues with what I see as the new intolerant Left (I swing Left myself). I used to be the one telling the Right that they were judgmental and needed to be more open minded. I was never hateful, though, and oftentimes remained friends with those people. I even fought openly for trans rights as recently as 2008. Definitely one of my biggest mistakes.

What in the fuck happened since then? It's as if all of it went off the rails in a way that a lot of people on the Right said it could. I really hate thinking that they were right about anything like that. Even my workplace has transformed itself into a self-styled "no hate zone." I can't tell you how many times I've seen naive or even innocent people get pounced on by SJWs for the most minor "offenses." Didn't put unnecessary trigger warnings? Cancelled. Even sound like you are questioning anything related to trans shit? Cancelled. They will call you a bigot and they will de-platform you and no one will be able to save you. Meghan Murphy isn't the last one to go through this. This appears to be a growing plague.

therealcie  Robert Gonzalez • 5 minutes ago

Right? I've always identified as being to the left, and I've always felt that as long as no-one is being hurt, then it isn't my business to judge. For instance with trans people, I was always the sort of person who approached others from the neck up. I wasn't concerned with what was going on below the waist. Well, the current trans activists make EVERYTHING about what is going on below the waist. 

Initially, I thought I was defending the most marginalized people. After all, it can't be easy living with gender dysphoria and people calling you a "freak." Which I still think is true. However, these days if you don't agree with every aspect of the Trans Activist/Queer screed, you are a TERF. Once I saw what was really going on, I could not continue to support that.

 

Julia  Robert Gonzalez • 10 hours ago

In the United States at least, as the Right has gotten more insane and intolerant, the Left has responded in kind. We were rightfully fighting the spreading fascism of the Right, which culminated in Trump. Unfortunately, the Left is beginning to show fascist tendencies, too, in its refusal to face facts, tolerate dissent, and basically spread left-wing propaganda. The problem is many Leftist don't believe that there can be Leftist propaganda or dictators.

Unpacking TRA's

Bullshit 101

It isn't just mean old terfy-terf gender critical radfem bigots who have issues with the TRAs. The NIH does too.

Currently the predominant cultural understanding of male-to-female transsexualism is that all male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals are, essentially, women trapped in men's bodies. This understanding has little scientific basis, however, and is inconsistent with clinical observations. Ray Blanchard has shown that there are two distinct subtypes of MtF transsexuals. Members of one subtype, homosexual transsexuals, are best understood as a type of homosexual male. The other subtype, autogynephilic transsexuals, are motivated by the erotic desire to become women. The persistence of the predominant cultural understanding, while explicable, is damaging to science and to many transsexuals.

The loudest TRAs are always MtF. 

One doesn't hear from trans men a fraction as much as they hear the cries of TRA trans women loudly proclaiming that trans women are women, that words like mother, uterus, and clitoris are violence against trans women while shouting such epithets as "punch a TERF" and "choke on my ladydick."

Trans men are not loudly insisting that men should be referred to as "spermers" or that words like father, penis, and scrotum are violence against trans men. There was that embarrassing "prostate haver" and "non-prostate-haver" bit in Teen Vogue, but I imagine that was written by a libfem trying to appear "woke" to appease the TRAs.

The trans people I've known have not behaved like TRAs. I treated them with kindness and respect and they treated me in kind. 

I do not have a problem with trans people. I have many issues with TRAs, who are not only harming women but other trans people with their behavior.

TRAs behave a lot like MRAs. Both want women to shut up and toe the line.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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TERF is a call to violence

TERF is an acronym meant to silence women with dissenting opinions.

I have a big problem with the use of the term "TERF." Specifically, the fact that this term directs violence at women. There is no equivalent term for men who are deemed transphobic. Could not one simply use the term "transphobic" for anyone who was thought to be behaving in such a fashion?

I refuse to use this term. This page contains multiple examples of why it's a problem.

https://terfisaslur.com/

A woman can be branded a "TERF" for any reason from feeling that using puberty blockers on children may be damaging to their future physical health to actually hating transgender people. Keep in mind, it is not men who are being called TERFs. It is not men that statements such as "punch a TERF" are being directed against.

Read the entire page and then tell me you can continue ignoring the multiple calls to violence, the misogyny (calling women "cunts,") and the sexually abusive statements (TERFS can suck my lady-dick.)

Tell me how this is any different than MRA's proclaiming that "feminazis" just "need a good fucking" to straighten them out, that the cure for feminism is beating a bitch until she learns her place, that a feminazi will shut up if she has a dick choking her.

Go on and actually read the page from top to bottom.

This is why I can no longer support the TRA agenda.

"Radfems" are not calling for the death of trans people.

Being misgendered is rude. It isn't going to kill you.

Stomping, kicking, beating or choking people will kill them.

Why is it fine with Twitter for TRAs and their supporters to call women "cunts" and to call for violence against women, including such lovely statements as "set TERFS on fire" but "misgendering" someone is a hate crime that will get you banned from Twitter for life?

Why is everyone falling all over themselves to support these violent extremists?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I've always been the kind of person who approaches people from the neck up. I'm not going to ask you what's going on below the belt. If you say your name is Salchicha and your pronouns are they/them, I will call you Salchicha and I will try to be respectful of your pronouns. That doesn't bother me.

What does bother me is the fact that now I'm not only supposed to be polite and respectful to transgender people and to join in the fight for their rights to be treated with common decency and to have access to equal opportunity, I am also supposed to drop trou for any one of them who may demand to have sex with me. Even though I really don't like sex very much and really don't want to have sex with anybody. The fact that if I did have sex I would only be attracted to a man in a male body renders me a "disgusting transphobic TERF" who should be set on fire, beaten to death, or forced to suck someone's "lady-dick." 

You might say that I have hang-ups about having sex with people with vaginas or people with feminine breasts, and maybe I do. I have hang-ups around sex in general. Having sexual hangups doesn't mean that I hate people with vaginas or people with feminine breasts. Even only being attracted to men with male bodies doesn't mean that I hate trans people. It's just how I'm wired. 

These sorts of strange and awful assertions led to my going "peak trans."

I am a large person. Large people tend to be reviled in modern society. Trust me, I don't have the men beating down my door, and I tend to be suspicious of any man who does approach me, not only because some men are rapists, but because some men are "chubby chasers." I am a human being. I have no desire to be someone's fetish.

There are men out there who may fully believe that fat people should not be treated like shit and who will speak out against hateful memes and stereotypes of fat people, but when it comes down to the thought of having sex with a fat person, the conditioning that fat people are sexually repellant is too strong. This is a hang-up. If I were interested in a guy and he confessed that he couldn't consider it because he has hang-ups about the idea of having sex with a fat woman, I would be hurt. Depending on how he handled the situation, I might even come to think of him as a douchebag. I would not, however, call for violence against him. 

TERF is a call to violence.

TRA's have gotten away with their violent rhetoric for too long.

They are also eager to silence other trans people who disagree with them in any way.

It is time for the left to stop falling all over themselves to kiss TRA ass.

Rejecting violence is not transphobic, it is civilized.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Mermaids CEO's Questionable Behavior

I've been TERFed for saying that Susie Green's behavior is questionable. 

The idea that believing pushing puberty blockers on children is "transphobic" is one of the reasons I went from being fully supportive of the TRA agenda to Peak Trans. 

I refuse to toe the line to any totalitarian belief system. 

Read Transgender Trend's response to Mermaids questionable behavior here.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Medium Is Becoming a Cesspit for TRA's

I used to find Medium an interesting and useful site. A lot of the size acceptance activists post there. These are the people who helped me move from being yet another person caught in the impossible trap of trying to hate myself thin (something I haven't been able to accomplish in a lifetime of trying) to knowing that the multi-billion dollar diet industry thrives on making people hate themselves for "failing" at diets which work long-term for only approximately five percent of people. A lot of mental health writers share their work at Medium as well.

Then Medium became a pay site. One can read three articles per month for free, or pay $5 a month. $5 per month doesn't sound like a lot, but it is when you're living below the poverty level. So, three articles a month it is.

However, these days the Medium Daily Digest email is filled with pretty much nothing but TRA rhetoric, and I have made a pact with myself. Anyone flinging the term TERF around is someone not worth wasting my time on. I was tired of wading through links to TRA posts to find anything good, so I unsubscribed.

TERF is Feminazi covered in glitter. Both are terms used to silence women who don't toe the line. 

TRA's want to erase women.

I will not be erased.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Sly's WTF Wednesday: Queering the Primary Classroom

A response to this post at Transgender Trend.

Fantastic and terrifying information.

I've always believed in trying the least drastic intervention or treatment for any condition first rather than having a "slash and burn" approach. For instance, what if Bailey, the child making the dresses, is simply a boy who wants to wear dresses? What if Bailey is gay? Why not simply tell Bailey that it's okay to be a boy who wants to make and wear dresses? Why does wanting to make and wear dresses make you a girl?

I am an XX-chromosome heterosexual woman who despises wearing dresses. According to the twisted TRA logic, I must actually be a man because I don't like to wear dresses. After all, wearing dresses is a girly thing, amirite? I don't wear makeup either, never mind that one of the reasons I don't wear makeup is because it causes my eczema to flare up like nobody's business. Yep, totally a dude!

So much of this stuff echoes conversion therapy, except instead of trying to zap the gay out of someone's brain with shock treatments or trying to "pray away the gay," they are telling people that "you aren't gay, you were born into the wrong body. Instead of being a gay guy, you're actually a heterosexual woman who was born into a man's body. Now, all you have to do is sign up for surgery and a lifetime of hormone treatments."

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Sly's WTF Wednesday: Tra Targeting of Teens and Children in U.K. Schools

A response to this post on Transgender Trend.

I am quite sure if I were growing up now rather than in the 70's, I would have ended up transitioning and regretted it.

I realized early on that girls were treated as inferior, and it enraged me.

I didn't want to be treated like a girl. I wanted the same opportunities and respect that was given to the boys.

I was always fine with being female. I just didn't like the way girls were talked down to and not allowed to take the cool classes like metal shop. We had to take freaking home ec. I knew how to cook! Learning to weld would have been interesting to me, but I was not allowed on the basis of having ovaries.

So, of course, rather than eradicating crap gender roles which pigeonhole people into certain behaviors, I must have actually been a boy and should have been given puberty blockers.

Which would not have messed me up even more than I already was. (sarcasm)

SMDH.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Sly's WTF Wednesday: Toddlers with "Gender Dysphoria"

A response to this post on Transgender Trend.

"children “as young as two” can be diagnosed with gender dysphoria"

This is the sort of thing that made me go Peak Trans.

Children as young as two do not THINK about "gender."

If you give a child of two both "boy toys" and "girl toys" they will play with both kinds of toys.

Children of that age are not thinking about their genitals or whether they "identify" as a boy or a girl.

This nonsense is causing irreparable harm to children, and it needs to stop.  

I'd like to say that people need to stop worrying about pissing off the TRA's. Unfortunately, I know that TRAs are very intimidating.

Another factor that made me go Peak Trans is the TRA intimidation tactics. Rather than rational discussion, they encourage violence. "Punch a TERF" and "die cis scum," anyone?

Other things that made me go Peak Trans:

"Sexual dimorphism is a social construct."

Sexual dimorphism is a biological fact. Rigid gender roles are a social construct. Yes, some people are intersexed, and nobody, whether "cis", "trans", or intersexed deserves to be treated with anything less than respect and common decency or to have valid opportunities to have a successful, productive, and pleasant life. 

By insisting that medical personnel deny a person's biological makeup, the possibility for grave medical errors increases, such as the case in which a man--who turned out to be a trans man--turned out to be pregnant and the baby died because the ER staff did not know that the patient they were being presented with had an XX chromosome pattern, and therefore they should be checking to see if pregnancy might be the reason for said person's abdominal pain.

How is it bigotry to ask if a patient is man, woman, trans man, or trans woman? Each of these people presents with different medical needs which must be addressed properly. I guess this makes me a trans-medicalist.

The rest of it aside, the biggest factor in my going peak trans was the treatment of very young "trans" children: children who are too young to know anything about stupid gender roles imposed on them by adults.

Many of the parents of these so-called "trans kids" strike me as having psychological issues, most commonly Munchhausen by Proxy. Having an XX daughter or an XY son is boring and having a gay kid is so 1990s. But if you are the parent of a trans kid, you get to be Truly Extra Special and Brave, never mind that you may be screwing that kid up for life.

This is why I went Peak Trans.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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TRA Contradictions

I visited a blog that I started following back when I was trying to be super inclusive and not wanting to risk being seen as transphobic or not progressive in some way. They contradicted themselves right away by saying that they didn't want any anti-feminists following or interacting with them, and then in the next sentence saying that they didn't want any radfems or "truscum" following them. For those who don't know, a truscum is a transgender person who acknowledges that in order to be transgender, one must experience dysphoria. They tend to be critical of identity politics as well. TRA's hate them.

So, in other words, they don't want to interact with anyone who is "anti-feminist," but they don't want to interact with FEMINISTS. Got it!

Also, they support trans people, but not the ones who are rational in any way.

In other words:

Whose Interests Does the Early Transitioning of Children Really Serve?

A reply to this post from Transgender Trend.

As a gender critical feminist, I find the statement "we gender really early" appalling. I honestly think Susie Green, the founder of the Mermaids charity has Munchhausen by Proxy or at least a really unhealthy obsession with transgenderism, and her transgender daughter Jazz is the victim of Susie's obsession. 

Physically transitioning children early on by giving them puberty blockers creates a person dependent on aggressive medical interventions for life. I cannot fathom why any parent would wish this for their child.

Patriarchy says: you must change your personality to fit your sex.

TRA's say: you must change your sex to fit your personality.

Both the patriarchy and the TRA's exhibit homophobic behaviors. The patriarchy offers "conversion therapy" and "praying away the gay."

The TRA's encourage transitioning so a lesbian can become a straight guy or a gay guy can become a straight woman. 

Gender critical feminism, on the other hand, says that there is nothing wrong with being an "effeminate" or gay guy, or a "masculine" woman or lesbian.

Yet gender critical feminists are the villains.

I do not hate people who choose to transition. Far from it. However, we do have to be able to acknowledge that giving puberty blockers to children is questionable and may not indeed be in their best interests, and that we need to be working on accepting people as they are rather than encouraging them to become something else and, thereby, become a permanent patient, often at a very young age.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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TRA Cult Reinforces Rigid Gender Roles

This is a response to an interview with a young woman who has detransitioned, and her thoughts regarding the things that led her to first transitioning, and then later detransitioning.

I was one of those girls who would have been pushed to transition these days. I was branded a "tomboy" for being active, liking to climb trees and run around, preferring playing a sport to cheerleading. I hated that term. My name wasn't Tom and I wasn't a boy. I was a girl who didn't like to wear dresses. They were impractical and I always wore shorts under them so stupid boys wouldn't pull them up to get a peek at my panties.

I didn't want to BE a boy. I wanted the same opportunities and respect that the boys were given. I despised the term "penis envy." I didn't want a penis. The only thing I've ever envied about having a penis was the idea of being able to pee standing up when hiking in the woods rather than having to find a tree to crouch behind, drop trou, and risk brushing up against poison ivy.

I hated the idea of my body developing, partly because of the size shaming that had been so deeply ingrained. I desperately feared becoming fat. Fat was the very worst thing that a person could possibly be. I didn't hate fat people. I hated how they were treated. I was already bullied. I didn't want to be bullied worse.

I did end up becoming fat and it took me 33 years to accept myself as I am. At this point, people can kiss my fat ass. I really don't care what anyone thinks of my looks. Don't like it, look somewhere else.

At this point, it's a push between fat being the worst thing a person can possibly be and a gender critical feminist being the worst thing I can possibly be. I'm both, so I guess I have all bases covered. I have become the worst thing a person can possibly be!

I applaud people like Dagny who have the courage to speak out. It can't be easy, given the backlash they face from the TRA cult.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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Note: I do not hate transgender people. I endeavor to call people by their chosen pronouns. Transgender people deserve the same rights and opportunities as anyone else. I am opposed to the TRA Cult and their toxic attitudes and violent behaviors. I am a gender critical feminist. I believe rigid gender roles need to be eradicated. 

Sly Fawkes Says: Wokethink is the New 1984

This is my response to a wonderful post by Carrie-Anne about the way today's SJWs and TRAs suppress real discussion and do more harm than good with their faux "woke-ness."

Goddess have mercy, I could go on quite the rant in agreement with you. I'll try to keep it mercifully brief.

I've always tried to be considerate of what other people may be going through. I've always been aware that if I haven't experienced certain things I should probably leave the "what it's like to live life as this kind of person" narratives to those who have actually experienced life as that kind of person. 

However, to say that no-one who isn't "this kind of person" can write anything involving any character who isn't a carbon copy of the author is ludicrous and, frankly, smacks of segregation.

I can't write a true account about living as an impoverished black man in the South in the 1940's, because I am a white woman who was born in the West in the 1960s. But to say I can't have a character in a story who fits that description is strange, to say the least. It would be my hope that after reading about my character, people might be inspired to learn more about segregation in the South and to try and be more inclusive of people who may be in a different age range, a different race, etc.

As far as the TRA's go, I have always been sympathetic towards transgender people. I can't say that I know what it is to live as a transgender person. I have never had any dysphoria regarding my sex. I was always fine with being a girl, but I didn't like how girls were treated in society. I wanted the same rights and options as boys. I didn't want to be a boy.

In a story I wrote last October about a Voodoo priestess who gets revenge on her niece's assailants by switching their sexes, I tried to modernize things by saying that people at the college were surprised by the sudden onslaught of gender reassignment surgeries that had taken place. My mention of gender reassignment surgery was a neutral plot point. I said nothing negative about transgender individuals. Yet almost every comment called me out on my "transphobia." I'm surprised none of them referred to me as a TERF (aka Feminazi covered in glitter.)

I've since changed the ending of the story to have the assailants waking up and, as they go for their morning pee, realizing that they now have a hoo-ha rather than a willy. I don't think the new ending is quite as strong, but better a somewhat weak ending than being chided by people afraid of upsetting the TRA's.

TRA's, in my opinion, do more harm than good for transgender people. Instead of bringing understanding to the real prejudices faced by transgender people, they shout down anyone who disagrees with any aspect of identity politics. When there is no room for discussion, people tend to say, "eff it, then I won't discuss it."

This culture of calling out Wrongthink would be enough to have George Orwell and Rod Serling quaking in their boots. It reminds me a bit of the ending of the 1979 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers where Veronica Cartwright's character encounters Donald Sutherland's character. He recognizes her as one of the unchanged people and points at her, giving a spine-chilling screech to alert the other pod people to her presence. Anyone who questions the least aspect of the Woke screed is in danger of having the Pod People sicced on them.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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