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Lucy Leader's avatar

This is the same "groupthink" mentality that Orwell wrote about so convincingly. Even in circumstances where language can be compelled, beliefs do not automatically follow.

If the trans lobby was subject to truth in advertising legislation, we wouldn't be talking about this, because their pathological mission would be banned, despite the obscene amount of money being funnelled into this cult: https://lucyleader.substack.com/p/truth-in-advertising

Chris's avatar

I was a tomboy who desperately wanted to be a boy in a sexist world. A child of the generation who were sent to the second world war. I did everything I could not to wear girls clothes when I was growing up to the despair of my poor mother and my indifferent father. My friends and playmates were boys because their toys were much more interesting and I fought and held my own just as well as they did. As it was I turned out gay but I didn't want to accept it as homophobia was as bad as the sexism then. As a young adult in the 70s I went to Sydney and encountered an ageing crossdressing University Professor (he was a close friend of the drag queens at Les Girls)who by influence and pressure turned a disturbed friend of mine who had a 6 year old daughter (as her father was not active in her life, I spent many years worrying about her as her mother was all she had) from a failed marriage into a transman (NZs first on hormones to my knowledge). He had the medical knowledge to do it. Then he and his friends turned their attention to me. Flattery was one of the common denominators. You are very good looking, you would make an incredibly handsome man. However I'm the kind of person who digs their toes in and resists when people try to put pressure on me to do what they want. My reaction was to return to NZ and become a young active feminist involved in both womens and gay rights movements. I finally accepted what I was and came out to my family. Feminism saved us all. I still remember the last luncheon a very upset Henry aka Harriet cooked for me at his place when he knew I was leaving. The ageing grandfather provided a desert which after one taste I knew was heavily laden with some kind of alcohol. I chose not to eat it. I later found out from my friend who transitioned that it had a lot of his homemade alcohol in it. This cult has been around a long time and is very insidious but now it has the money to spread its influence deep into our society. Parents beware. If your child doesn't have a strong secure personality they can be easy meat for these people.

Katrina Biggs's avatar

There’s a heck of a lot of underhandedness in the ‘trans’ world. I agree that insecure kids are prime targets, especially the ones who might be a bit different to the norm, or for whom puberty hits hard.

Chris's avatar

Yes. I told my mother puberty wasn't going to happen to me. When it did I had a really bad time. Just made everything worse. Couldn't go shirtless anymore and as for the rest!!!!!!!!! All we can do now is keep on speaking truth to power. In some respects I have an advantage having experienced the pressure of the movement in its early days. If I had been young now and less stubborn I shudder to think of what I might do. Decided to share that to warn any parents out there. These people play on confusion, coming across as able to support and help.

Chris's avatar

Funny enough Internet NZ has also been censoring free speech and comments this week. The Free Speech Union has alerted its members to it. Sometimes I wonder if the conspiracy theorists are right and there really is a whole raft of corruption and weirdness in these organisations and into Government and its bureaucracies. For those of us who try to remain on the side of sanity and commonsense (a much undervalued quality these days) it's a mind bending thought.

Verena Watson's avatar

It will be interesting to see any changes at Internet NZ now that Jonathan Ayling (ex-FSU) is now on their board ...

Terf vibes's avatar

Harassed not into believing it but into shutting up about it. They know we can't be turned, but they want to make sure the women who are turning are put off.

J.M.Venning's avatar

Yes Dentons law. Also Money in San Fran in 50s. Martine Rothblatt also Gates and Soros ...transhumanist ideology billionaires influencing Obama (Change to title IX) Biden trans in bureaucracies and governorships and military, Harris paying for prisoners surgeries to 'trans' when she was governor. UCLA interviews and Genevieve Gluck's research.

Voices of Strength's avatar

The courage to be cast out of the Matrix speaks to a deeper truth: that women's liberation requires us to reject the very systems designed to contain us. When we refuse to comply with language that erases our sex-based reality, we're not just defending words—we're defending the material conditions that make female solidarity possible. The men policing our speech know that controlling language is the first step to controlling consciousness. Every woman who speaks biological truth becomes a crack in their manufactured reality. 💪 More analysis on dismantling linguistic colonization at https://vostrength.substack.com/

Dusty Masterson's avatar

Hi Katrina

Excellent interview with Yvonne.

Have cross posted

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-hurt-locker

Dusty