Feminists paved the way for the arrival of Trans

Thankfully, not all the courageous women campaigning for a return to common sense are feminists or TERFs.

A couple of weeks ago, I went to what I thought would be a hilarious night of free-speech comedy at Comedy Unleashed. I’ve discovered some of my favourite London comedians there, including Nicholas de Santo, Lewis Schaffer, Jonathan Kogan, and Leo Kearse, to name a few so you can check them out. None of them was in the lineup that night, nonetheless, the comedians were quite good.

Yet, the evening was slightly less funny than usual because of the large contingent of TERFs in attendance to see Graham Linehan (of Father Ted fame) who has been very vocal about the topic of transsexualism and has paid a high price for presenting his views. (you can read his very informative Substack pieces here)

Don’t get me wrong, I think Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (TERFs) are probably one of the most courageous — and vociferous — groups involved in the ‘culture wars’. Some of them are fearless women who have learned the hard way not to be silent and who have seen through the Trans/LGBTQIA2S+BS.

But I believe the reason TERFs made the evening less entertaining was due to the fact that like regular feminists — and like many left-wing ideologues — TERFs have their sense of humour extirpated during their undergraduate courses in Gender Studies and Sociology at UCL, Middlesex or Goldsmiths and are therefore unable of figuring out when to laugh — never mind finding a joke at their expense funny under any circumstance.

During the show, laughter was forced and operatic and relied on the audience reacting loudly whenever anything slightly TERFy was said. It reminded me of 1990s sitcoms when actors paused for a moment after something funny was said so that pre-recorded chuckles could be played to fake a live audience.

Anyway, enough of un-funny jokes.

TERF is a neologism meant as an insult to feminists who do not want women's spaces to be infiltrated by men pretending to be women. TERFs deserve a lot of credit for facing the “progressive” trans activists and the violent Antifa determined to silence them. If I critique those who are now adopting the label, it is not because I want to silence them, but because I think they should drop the feminist trash.

My problem with the label is that women who do not agree with the academic nonsense of feminists are being lumped together with the latter. I find this quite unfortunate. I believe feminism is the enemy of women and also of men who want to protect the concept of sex, protect the place of women in society, prevent language from being manipulated to deny reality, and protect children from being mutilated at the Altar of Trans.

Truly, feminism has paved the way for the arrival of Trans.

You don't need to dig too deep to see how feminist beliefs eventually led to people claiming that sex is “assigned”. It started with their push for the abstract concept of gender in feminist theory. Take for instance the words of one of the most famous feminist academics, Germaine Greer, in The Whole Woman (1999):

"Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act or a series of acts, a performance, a ritual, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid and enforced regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being."

Greer has been pushing these ideas for over half a century. In the Female Eunuch (1970). Greer already promoted the idea that gender is an imposition and that it is separate from sex:

"The imposition of gender is such a profound act of violence that it never escapes its influence, never becomes a fact that can be taken for granted, never ceases to be a source of anguish and pain."

Feminists believe in a victim narrative in which the patriarchy imposed gender roles disadvantageous to women. As a result, they were chained to the social role of their gender from the start of civilization. It follows then that, if gender is a social construct — as Greer and all feminists claim — then it can be changed. Consequently then, the right thing to do for women is to rebel against it and smash the patriarchy.

Over the decades, the list of things that form part of the mythical patriarchal social construct has continually grown. Feminists started demonising women who did not reject the ideal of being "stay-at-home mothers”. Then they attacked the idea of marriage. Progressively, the idea of being a normal person, “gender-conforming” or “cis-gendered” (the antonym of trans-gendered) was seen as enabling the patriarchal social construct.

This intellectual onanism seeped into the real world and into our institutions. Today even “conservative” politicians call themselves feminists.

Our politicians have caved in to feminist ideology to such an extent that they now claim that “women” and “legal women” are two different things — none of which can they can define (with notable exceptions such as Kemi Badenoch MP). Fortunately, with the recent ousting of Nicola Sturgeon for pretending she didn’t know the gender of a man who raped two women, shows that people are not buying into the feminist theory.

Where does this leave young men and girls who have been raised by the academically-trained feminists who taught in their schools and sold them the nonsense that gender is separate from sex? Why wouldn’t boys, deprived of a positive male role, seek to become allies to the feminists and avoid being the baddies? Why wouldn't girls want to rebel against the idea of being the main victims of patriarchy? As the struggle against “gender roles” grew, so did the rejection of things that were considered to be elements of the patriarchy, including “traditional women”. This is how we have ended up in a ridiculous situation in which the dictionary definition of woman has become a hate crime.

This has not been without disastrous results (Graphic content) for young people who have been radicalised to later regret getting operations that have left them mutilated and in many cases unable to procreate.

Fortunately, not all courageous women who campaign for a return to common sense are feminists. One such woman is Kellie-Jay Keen. I intended to mention Keen in this article given that I remembered her saying that she is not a feminist. Imagine my surprise when I found a video in which she makes the exact point I’m making here. She says:

You don’t need feminist theory to understand what a man is […] you don’t need feminism. As far as I’m concerned academic feminism actually brought that stuff into our universities, and gender studies, and all that crap.

I am glad that so important people such as JK Rowling continue to speak against the fantasy of “trans-people”. Their effort will lead to fewer youngsters falling prey to ideologies originally pushed by feminist academics, yet of equal importance are those shining a light on the original ideas that led us to where we are.

I would like to conclude this article by saying that those who are arguing in favour of common sense, should be careful not to fall into the same trap of joining yet another group of academics or campaign groups that continue to perpetuate the idea that all social norms and values are the result of social constructs. Society might be partially ‘self-constructed’, but not every norm, value, tradition, or biological reality is up for deconstruction and replacement, failing to ditch feminism could be a big mistake.

Germaine Greer and the TERFs are now very much against men identifying as women, but they will never accept that it was feminism that led to the arrival of Trans. They will never own the consequences of decades of pushing dangerous constructivist ideology through academia. They have given all the ammunition needed to those who want to do away with the concept of Woman.