Peak Trans: Thoughtcrime and the Transgender Cult

There is a difference between my thoughts on transgender people and my thoughts on the Transgender Cult. However, these thoughts will mostly fall on indoctrinated minds and I will be TERFed regardless. I am ready for that.

These are my thoughts on transgender people.

Transgender people are people. They deserve equal opportunities and fair and just treatment. They deserve to have lives free of bullying and prejudiced attitudes. They deserve not to be treated as wrong or bad or "other." 

However, this way of thinking is not good enough for the Transgender Cult, a term I first heard used by the feminist scholar Phyllis Chesler. According to the Transgender Cult, one must speak of transgender people only in the most glowing terms, or one is a TERF. 

To repeat a phrase that I stole immediately upon hearing it, TERF is Feminazi covered in glitter. TERF is a means of admonishing women to shut up and toe the line. TERF is a gag to be shoved in the mouths of women who may dare to think critically about the ideologies of identity politics and the Transgender Cult.

Back in October, I published a short story about a young woman of size who is invited to a Halloween party at a fraternity house. Initially, she is treated respectfully and believes that her days of being bullied for her larger body may be at an end. Then one of the partygoers shouts: "take it off, Fat Girl," which is a cue for the others to begin sexually abusing their victim, groping her and exposing her breasts. One disdainful female partygoer kicks the girl in the backside and admonishes her that parties are for people, not pigs.

The young woman escapes the ordeal and hurries to inform the campus police of the assault. She is followed by the young man who invited her to the party, who begs her not to tell the police, attempting to placate her with the excuse that "things just got out of hand." She tells him to leave her alone and never speak to her again.

Both the campus police and the University president dismiss the young woman's concerns, telling her that they will have "a word" with the fraternity members. She realizes that her perpetrators will receive no punishment for their actions. She goes to the home of her aunt, a powerful Voodoo priestess.

The aunt exacts punishment on the perpetrators by casting a spell to change them into the opposite sex. I decided to put a modern spin on the story by referring to the shock of the community at the rash of gender reassignment surgeries that happened over the course of the weekend. Many key figures, including the Chief of Police, the University President, and the doctor's son were now women, much to the shock of their family members.

Pretty much to a person, all of the story's readers immediately jumped on the gender reassignment aspect of the story, a facet which only appeared briefly at the end of the tale. Rather than seeing that perhaps chauvinistic attitudes are harmful to everyone including transgender people, I was admonished that I should not have spoken of transgender people in anything but the most reverent of tones.

I had a one thousand word cap on the tale, and it is possible that I did not do a proper job of concisely executing the idea that now the people who perpetrated the assault against the heroine were being punished by having to live in a society which deems them second class citizens and, in the case of women, sex objects. The boys who abused the young woman were now women themselves and would soon see what it meant to be looked at as an object rather than a whole person. 

The girls who abused the victim were the sorts of girls who relied on their conventionally attractive appearances and would feel lost without that particular trait, now having to live life as rather ordinary young men.

I have republished the story on the Sly Fawkes blog to avoid incurring further admonitions of my terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad TERFy ways on my flash fiction site.

I in no way meant to speak ill of transgender people. We live in a world where gender reassignment surgery is a fact rather than a world where people would believe that magic had transformed their son or husband into a woman. I suppose that "it's magic, I don't have to explain shit" is the approach I should have taken to avoid being jumped on for mentioning transgenderism in anything but the most glowing light. 

The Transgender Cult has people afraid to say anything negative or even neutral about any transgender person, which brings me to the next point.

The Transgender Cult does not postulate that transgender people should be treated like people. It postulates that transgender people must be treated specially. According to the Transgender Cult, trans women are not just women, they are superior women. Cis scum women need to shut their TERF mouths and choke on a Lady-dick. 

People are afraid to question any aspect of identity politics for fear of being branded a TERF. To have reservations about any aspect of transgenderism is to be guilty of a Thoughtcrime. There is no room for any kind of discourse. 

Have concerns about whether giving puberty blockers to adolescents may negatively impact their physical and mental health later? Prepare to be howled down by the Trans Cult and their sycophants.

Biological sex is biological sex

Gender roles are a social construct

Think that it's madness for doctors to have to do "cervical smears" on people who do not, in fact, have a cervix? Prepared to be branded a TERF, even if you do not feel that trans women are lesser human beings, you simply acknowledge the biological reality that they do not indeed have a cervix and that demands that doctors do unnecessary procedures to placate them is a waste of everybody's time.

Doctors have reasons for needing to know a patient's chromosomal makeup. There are medications given to XY males for prostate issues which literally should not be handled by XX females in their childbearing years because the medication could be absorbed through the skin and interfere with fertility.

I have two medications sitting on my computer desk which carry warnings that they should not be taken by women who suspect they may be pregnant because said medications can cause birth defects or miscarriage. One of these medications is progesterone, a female hormone which can be helpful for an XX woman such as me who has endocrine imbalances, but said medication could have detrimental effects on a developing fetus or on an XY male. But I imagine that I'm a big ole TERF for even acknowledging the possibility that some medications should not be given to persons who are biologically XX females or XY males.

Do you perhaps dare to postulate that in a society without rigid gender roles fewer people would see the need to physically transition because there would be nothing wrong with being a "feminine" man or a "masculine" woman? Watch out, because gender critical feminists are the TERFiest TERFs ever to TERF. If you question the existence of pink and blue brains, you are nothing but a terrible, awful, no-good, very bad TERF.

Do you realize that there are differences in the experiences of people born into an XX female body and those born as XY males who later transition to female? There is a difference, but one dare not acknowledge such for fear of being branded a TERF. 

When anyone can be branded a TERF for simply not agreeing 100% with every single aspect of the Trans Cult's agenda, there is a problem.

When it is worse to be called a TERF (whatever that really means) than to be called a rapist or child molester, there is a serious problem. A mass murderer would probably receive more sympathy than anyone found guilty of the Thoughtcrime of critical thinking who has been branded a TERF.

Trans activist "Char the Butcher"

It is okay to call for violence, to declare DIE CIS SCUM, and encourage brainwashed followers to PUNCH A TERF. It is not okay to question the swiftness with which the modern medical establishment begins the transitioning of vulnerable adolescents, some of whom may be gay but ashamed of being so in a society which, overall, remains homophobic. To do so is to be a TERF, a nebulous term which really means "anyone who doesn't entirely agree with me on every single point."

I support the rights of trans people to have equal opportunities and to receive compassionate and respectful treatment in their daily lives.

I do not support the Trans Cult.

People need to wake up and do some critical thinking.

It's time to be truly woke, not the brand of fake and bake "woke" in which no-one dares express a thought which has not been endorsed by the puppet masters.

~Sly Has Spoken~

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The Problems With Physically Transitioning as Shared by a Trans Woman

Leanne Mills

The following is a response to Leanne Mills, who shared her thoughts on the downside of physically transitioning with the website Transgender Trend. I hope you will read the post and actually give Leanne's words some thought rather than a) attacking her as a "freak of nature" for having transitioned or b) attacking her as a "traitor" for revealing the negative aspects of gender reassignment surgery.

Thank you, Leanne, for sharing your story. It couldn't have been easy.

I sometimes think that if I had been young in this era, I would have been convinced by psychologists that I was transgender because I never liked to dress in a "feminine" fashion and I was always angry at the opportunities that boys were given. I didn't want to BE a boy. I wanted the opportunities and respect that they get, and I find feminine clothes impractical. 

I have always felt that transgender people should be treated with kindness and common decency, that no-one should be denied opportunities or be bullied and called names for being transgender. However, I cannot understand or abide by the current climate of consciousness which postulates that anyone who disagrees with the trans activist movement is a "TERF" who deserves to have physical violence done to them. It is impossible to have a conversation about identity politics or about whether transitioning is indeed what is best for a person, for the reasons you mention in your post without being shouted down and accused of being some sort of bigot. One is supposed to simply accept mantras such as "trans women are women" without question.

The thing is, I'm the sort of person to approach others from an above the neck perspective, not to obsess on what's below their belt. I'm going to treat people like people first, and if someone identifies as a woman, I will call her by her preferred pronouns (same for men.) I'm not going to demand that this person prove they have the "correct" genitalia or that they were born whatever sex they say they are. However, trans activists will nonetheless brand me a TERF because I question whether giving children puberty blockers is the right action. There is no rational discourse with these people.

We need more trans people like you who are courageous enough to speak about the downside of transitioning. Thank you for doing so.

~Sly Has Spoken~

Twitter Kowtows to "Trans Activists." Sly is Not Suprised.

Meghan Murphy, the founder of Feminist Current, has been locked out of her Twitter account for making critical statements about the behaviors of Lisa Kreut, a transgender dominatrix. Ms. Murphy never called for harassment or endangerment of Ms. Kreut, something which radical transgender activists do to radical feminists (and anyone else whom they've branded a TERF) all the time. Yet Twitter seems perfectly okay with tweets calling Ms. Murphy a "TERF cunt." It's almost as if violence against women is okay with Twitter as long as those women don't identify as transgender.

I haven't had my account shut down because I don't use it that much and, frankly, I mostly use it to poke the bear whenever our beloved Lord Dampnut says something stupid. 

Okay, I do use it at least a couple of times a month. However, although I'm not a heavy user, I get accused of "spreading TERF ideology" whenever I retweet something that is critical of the extreme trans activist agenda.

These people don't listen when I say that I don't have an issue with transgender people, that I approach people from an above the neck perspective. I really don't care what's going on below the waist. But I do have problems with giving kids hormones that are going to permanently change their bodies, I do have problems with referring to people as "menstruators" and with foolish ideas such as terms like "mother" and "clitoris" being "violence against trans women." I have problems with statements which call for violence against women, such as "punch a TERF." 

I have problems with people being completely unwilling to examine their brain-dead agenda. They want a scapegoat and are angry that the bad old Feminazis--excuse me, TERFS, are fighting against being their scapegoat. How dare we not want to be doxxed, threatened, beat up, or called vile names. How dare we not know our place.

If you sling the term "TERF" about without considering that it has become a call for violence regardless of what its original intent may have been, then perhaps you need to take a close look at your agenda. Does disagreeing with someone really make it okay to promote violence against that person?
Again, Ms. Murphy was locked out of her account for tweets which, while controversial, were not violent in nature. The following tweet, however, is deemed acceptable by Twitter. Yes, I do have a problem with that, and I have a problem with the fact that people who deem themselves "good people" are not willing to examine their use of a term which is a call for violence.
Anyone can be branded a "TERF" regardless of whether they actually want harm to come to transgender people or whether they are simply critical of certain aspects of identity politics or gender norms. Since TERF is a call to violence, why do these "good people" not have a problem with this?

~Sly Has Spoken~

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