Blue Ridge Style & Beyond
“Taken to the woodshed” by someone who could never be accused of being a fascist, or right-winger. Allison Bailey is suing Stonewall, the LGBTQ+ rights organization in the U.K. Bailey is a Lesbian, a political leftist, and fed up with the idea that we must replace the concept of sex with gender.
You might not agree with everything she says, but she highlights many of the concerns I’ve blogged about in the past year.
Here is her scorching criticism of the New Trans-Activism.
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The pushback from Gay men continues. Gender Critical Lesbians, especially in the UK, have been raising red flags for some time now by suggesting that misogyny is at the heart of Gender Ideology. And they have been denounced as TERF’s (Trans-Exclusionary-Radical-Feminists) for doing so.
[See my post about Philosopher Kathleen Stock.]
Here is a 13 minute video interview where two Gay men express their deep concern about Gender Identity Ideology and how it has captured important institutions.
The Gay Men’s Network was founded by Dennis Kavanagh – who is the legal commentator for Lesbian and Gay News. He says “gender identity ideology is a perfect vehicle for homophobia.”
"At the core of gender identity ideology is a simple proposition: if you're a gender non-conforming boy, if you're artistic or autistic, not big & macho, that's evidence you are in fact a female." - Dennis Kavanagh
The Queer Theory inspired abolishment of sex and sexuality is behind the Gender Identity and Expression movement. And more and more people are catching on….
For years Stonewall in the UK was considered by homosexuals as the premier gay rights advocacy organization. But not any more. According to the interviewer (who is a gay man):
Stonewall on their website and in their promotional materials, they've changed the definition of homosexual to say that this doesn't mean same-sex attracted this means same gender attracted and what they're meaning by that is that actually biology has nothing to do with same-sex attraction. Where of course I would argue that at the core of the gay rights movement is an acknowledgement of biology. [5:25]
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Here is a 2018 YouTube video (approx 17 minutes) of Professor Michele Moore (Univ of Essex), editor and chief of Disability & Society, a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of disability studies.
Moore has been a warrior for children and young people yet has been harshly denounced for disagreeing with Gender Identity activists who claim that self-identified “transkids” are always right and should always be “affirmed” in their belief that they are Transgender.
She touches on several topics discussed by this blog.
This is about inclusion. Listen….
Here are some of her final words in the video….
I argue that self identity is brought on by the things people say. A backdrop of media, the internet, the increasing role of trans affirmative ideas in schools for children that affect our teachers and the parents....uncritical medical practice is recycling the idea that the cause of misaligned gender resides in the body. Even though medical interventions bring lifelong physical and psychological difficulties that will actually deepen gender-based dissatisfaction and never actually change a person's biological sex.... It's not coincidental that children's interests are being undermined by the idea of self-identification. There are a lot of stakeholders including Big Pharma who want them to identify as transgender and who don't want anybody to ask any sensible questions. Very conveniently puberty blockers and hormone therapy compounds gender confusion. First the child misses out on the puberty of their peers. Next an already confused girl has a vagina and a beard. The only way forward is more treatment, more treatment. Allegedly to relieve gender-dysphoria. But the DeTransitioners that I'm working with and the people who regret transitioning tell us that gender-dysphoria doesn't go away with medical intervention because the problem doesn't reside in the body. My critique is not about exclusion. It's about inclusion. It's about allowing every girl to live her own kind of femininity without being excluded from her own body and without being excluded from a female sex class. And it's about inclusion so that any boy wants to wear pink dresses to school can do that and not be excluded from his own body. And his own sex class. The idea that children are born in the wrong body, that gender is biological and sex isn't, and that children should be allowed to self-identify their sex and their gender, functions as a tool for adult self interest. Children are being confused in terrible ways...
Professor Moore puts her career and reputation on the line by saying what she says. She has “nerves of steel.”
Gender Ideologues animated by Queer Theory want to abolish the concepts of sex and sexuality. And they want to start teaching this to our kids at the earliest possible age. Please refer to the following “category” of posts: Schools and Gender Ideology for more information.
You can read about Queer Theory in the previous post: The New Homophobia, LGBTQ Activism & Queer Theory.
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As a Classic Christian I encourage everyone to “Embrace, Don’t Affirm.”
Individuals with a Gender Identity Disorder (Gender-Dysphoria) need Truth-filled Love. Please read this post for more details.
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