What if you're wrong?
The gender borg are wild with panic squealing about the LGB Alliance again. They know the game is up and soon they will have some pretty difficult explaining to do.
The moral burden of biology denial is the obligation to be correct.
If you’re not, your legacy is deep scars on the bodies of the young, wrecked lives more generally, sacked women, corrupted public institutions and schools teaching cult-like drivel about gender souls. Social revolution is a high stakes game, imagine mutilating a generation of kids for nothing? So, if you’re going to push this dogma of course you have to believe you are not just right but quite unquestionably so. You can see that in the frenetic, wide eyed TicTok videos, the strain in the voices, the pleading in the facial expressions. This lot have to be right, (in their own minds at least), because the alternative is facing the truth that they’ve wrought a social havoc and a medical scandal quite without equal. So they gotta have faith.
Such faith necessitates ignoring the evidence of their own eyes and ears of course. They must square in their conscience the existence of detransitioners by harassing them, cancelling them or saying there are so few they don’t really count as humans. They must make peace with the fact women’s sports are now of historical interest and women’s prisons are now of interest to cunning male bodied sex offenders, (or men as I call them). They must put to one side lesbians being called “sexual racists” by the CEO of Stonewall. They must treat as a sort of acceptable political necessity us gay people more generally being called “genital fetishists”. They must somewhat ludicrously believe that gay people and women who oppose them are animated by nothing less than pure hate, (even if such people in the main prior to this point were fairly harmless middle class lefties). In short, they must brutally curtail and edit their world view to the extent it hardly has purchase on reality. They must thus live in “reality-lite” and draw clear lines erasing inconvenient truths such as might give lie to the cultish creed.
But, on a basic level, when one stands back and examines the biology denial / pro-reality positions there really are two competing world views thus:
View 1: the biology denial movement is correct to say:
(i) Biological sex did not exist prior to white European colonisation
(ii) Biological sex is in itself a fiction and true authenticity is located in a gendered soul for which there is no unfalsifiable scientific test and therefore
(iii) It is responsible policy to regard the explosion in children adopting novel gender identities as proof of (ii)Or
View 2:
(i) A generation of mostly gay children have been medicalised on the basis of an unevidenced belief which relies on deeply stereotypical (and heteronormative) concepts of masculinity and femininity spread by irresponsible lobby groups and their proxies and such institutions as they capture.
One might consider that the harm of the “View 2” position was significant enough to warrant some measured and well-researched inquiry into what has every appearance of a anorexia style modern contagion fad. One might think the safety of extremely vulnerable female prisoners was important enough that some care would be given to rationally interrogating claims to novel gender identities which have the effect of bypassing safeguarding rules. One might imagine that we considered the question of what is taught to children as fact to be sufficiently important that we called for clear and solid evidence thereof. One might think we would take homophobia as a safeguarding risk seriously at the various ghoulish gender abattoirs springing up around the planet which seems to be efficiently dispatching homosexual youth back to the path of medicalisation like it’s the 1950s. One might even say, from a gay male perspective such as my own, “as the CEO of a notionally gay rights charity, I will not plunge my community into a debate about a deeply contested and radical reformation of society given the male bit of it have only just recovered from HIV/AIDS and the community more generally have only just got equal marriage - maybe they deserve a break and to just be, well, a community”.
Seems such considerations are sadly idle on my part. In the eyes of the gender borg no doubt the calculus is, “it’s only gays and women” and after all, and this is a men’s rights movement which holds us both in an abyssal depth of contempt. Gays are perverted old “genital fetishists” remember, and pesky women are “cervix havers” and other demeaning terms that reduce adult human females to linguistic walking bags of meat.
The burden of the biology denial revolution is thus to be correct in all the heavy things in which it has meddled. There damned well better be a good explanation for the 5000% increase in adolescent girls presenting to the Tavistock with novel gender identities groomed into surgery. There damned well better be a good defence to a civil action by a female prisoner raped by a male inmate. There damned well better be a good answer to detransitioners and why life under the corporate rainbow didn’t work out for them at the inevitable Royal Inquiry. There better be a good response to the many gay men who warned and warned again about homophobia at gender abattoirs.
Because we are fast approaching the day where we want answers and accountability.
Pro-biological-reality activists often lament the sequential institutional capture of various bodies, arms of government and public services but there is a symmetry to all these things. So much as they have captured is so much as they will one day be answerable for. Each bogus homophobic lesson telling camp boys they have the wrong bodies, each tweet libelling respected doctors for carrying out professional therapy, each puberty blocker prescribed after a 10 minute zoom call - each of these things happens in the public arena and the arena of social record. And biology denial is nocturnal and can succeed only in the shadows.
Each of these things and many more will one day stand like a detailed Affidavit, a clear and specific indictment of the damage this eccentric faith has caused.
I see this burden in them more and more. Their recent ridiculous howls at the (quite wonderful) LGB Alliance receiving a grant. Their silly libels against Helen Joyce.
They sound like desperate lightweights.
They sound like they’re panicking.
I would panic too if I had done this to a generation of gay kids.
They are right to imagine we who have opposed and watched this with horror will expect accountability at law.
We will.
Excellent article. So relived my daughters are old enough to see through this indoctrination. So many lives being ruined. So many drug companies, lawyers and Dr’s getting rich from human misery. Scandalous.
Brilliant as usual Dennis. Hope you are well. Miss you on Twitter.