Everywhere one looks, the trans movement is marching on apace across the Anglosphere. Trans rights, trans marches, trans lobbies, trans philosophy, trans everything...
Although the transsexual movement is a defensive response to pan-Anglosphere misandry and heterophobia, it has proved incredibly effective at highlighting the intellectual absurdities and hypocrisy of modern Anglo-feminism. Since feminists think gender is a 'social construct' and completely unrelated to hormones, chromosomes and other organic differences between men and women, they necessarily have to accept the transsexual agenda. However, in doing so they merely highlight the absurdity of their own position: since the practical application of their crazy ideas means hulking rapists undergoing 'transition' now have the right to use female washrooms and changing rooms, merely because they decided they were 'female' or 'non-binary' during their last jail stint. However, when feminists protest against this insanity they automatically contradict their own anti-essentialist agenda. A brilliant ruse! Either they defend their own ridiculous viewpoint and admit rapists into washrooms, or they invoke reality and transform into oppressive, essentialist gender-fascists of the type despised by the liberal establishment: a pincer movement worthy of Napoleon.
Why Are Some Feminists In The UK Freaking Out About Trans Rights?
The protesters who hijacked and led the London Pride parade over the weekend represent a worrying trend of anti-trans feminism in the UK
While anti-trans sentiment from within the lesbian and feminist communities has continued to be a problem in the United States — anti-trans protesters recently crashed Baltimore Pride — it’s reached particular heights in the United Kingdom. Anti-trans sentiment among feminists here in the UK has long been a problem, inflamed by the popularity of affluent white columnists like Julie Bindel and academics such as Germaine Greer, and taken to dizzying extremes by users of popular online parenting forum Mumsnet. While second-wave feminism has largely lost its luster in the United States, prominent second-wave academics like Greer maintain a strong hold over feminist thought and politics here in the UK. Plus, it seems that all sides of UK media are intent on taking a swipe at trans lives — with even progressive publications like the Guardian giving platform to anti-trans fearmongering. And this isn’t the first time anti-trans bigots have derailed a pride celebration in London, either — they previously attacked London’s Dyke March in 2014 for including a transgender speaker.
With the GRA consultation set to continue into the fall, the anti-trans protesters holding up Pride in London are surely only the beginning of a new wave of hostility sweeping across the nation toward vulnerable trans communities. In such a heated climate, one would assume that LGBT organizations like Pride in London would take a firm and unequivocal stance in solidarity with the trans community.
Morgan M Page, Buzzfeed, 18th July 2018
The success of transgender athletes renders the feminist perspective even more ridiculous. Again, trans athletes place Anglo feminism into an impossible position: either it acknowledges that gender is not a social or psychological construct, or trans athletes win all the medals. However, such acknowledgement immediately taints feminists as 'gender-fascists':
Trans athletes make great gains, yet resentment still flares: “As soon as they start winning, that’s when the vitriol comes out about how they’re really still a man."
Overall, supporters of increased trans inclusion are heartened by the pace of progress for trans athletes. A growing number of state high school athletic associations in the U.S. enable them to play on teams based on their gender identity, and the NCAA has trans-inclusive guidelines for all its member schools.
The International Olympic Committee has allowed trans athletes to compete in its affiliated sports since 2003, but until 2016 it required them to first undergo sex-reassignment surgery. Under the new rules, which resemble the NCAA’s guidelines, transgender male athletes can enter men’s competitions without restrictions, while transgender female athletes need to demonstrate that their testosterone level has been below a certain point for at least a year before their first competition.
Associated Press, February 2019
While we might laugh, this strategic infiltration demonstrates the absurdity and hypocrisy of Anglo-American feminism far more effectively than a million words by Warren Farrell, Angry Harry or the 'old school' Men's Rights crew. The puritanical hostility with which the Anglosphere views men means that MRA arguments are reflexively ignored, however rational or well-evidenced. However, by imitating women these trans males have effectively bypassed institutional misandry and entered the innermost sanctum of Anglo culture, where their views necessarily have to be acknowledged. It is a brilliant Trojan Horse strategy akin to the British Army's infiltration of the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. Despite their skill and motivation, the IRA was eventually unable to function due to the huge numbers of British Army informers infiltrating their ranks.
Unwittingly, the trans movement has opened giant cracks in the edifice of Anglo-American feminism like a wrecking ball. In doing so, it has shown there is more than one way to resist the feminist juggernaut, for those who wish to resist it; subterfuge and infiltration can be far more powerful than debate or argument. Most important, it shows that such resistance can be fun (or at least amusing). One problem with the Manosphere is its relentless lack of humour and over-reliance on rationale; irony and wit are not just equally valid tools of resistance and subversion, but much more enjoyable to deploy.
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