Transgender advocates are taking the Government to court
Transgender advocates are taking the Government to court, and officials are gritting their teeth over the Governmentโs directives about transgender healthcare and sports.
In 2014-2020 the middle class woke ruled the cultural roost with their cancel culture social media Lynch mobs alienating everyone who didnโt agree with their pure temple identitarianism.
The wokeโs cancel culture bullshit alienated vast groups of voters and drove them into the arms of the reactionary right.
It was madness because no family in poverty is sitting around the kitchen table cancelling each other for misusing pronouns, they are trying to work out how to pay the fucking bills.
Our Middle Class woke with their fourth wave feminist allies and non-binary activists ย turned the trans debate radioactive with a humility bordering on Mฤoโs cultural revolution.
I was one of the few on the NZ Left to point this all out, for which I have been cancelled by the Wellington Woke a dozen times.
The cultural backlash to woke victimhood and intersectionalism erupted with Trumpโs victory and the woke fever over the Left finally broke but we are all living with the hangover.
When it comes to the trans debate, Iโm old fashioned.
Being comfortable in your own skin and knowing oneself is one of the most important human journeys there is. The idea that there are some men who believe they are women and some women who believe they are men is as uncontroversial to me as the range of eye, skin and hair colour in the human species.
I of course will respond to anyone by the pronouns and names they request out of basic human decency, but where I detract from the woke, and where I get threats to my pets from trans activists, is my position that you canโt actually force trans people into spaces for biological women.
I have no issue sharing prison, toilet or changing room spaces with a Trans person because most women transitioning into men donโt physically intimidate me, but I certainly see how that could be very intimidating to biological women.
For this position I am apparently transphobic according to the Wellington Woke.
This poisoned chalice of toxic culture war hate, that the middle class woke personally contributed to, has now been spat back by this Culture War Government with the decision to stop puberty blockers.
I absolutely agree that there needed to be more checks and balances on Puberty Blocker useโฆ
โฆand the Cass Review successfully argued that there needed to be more research into puberty blockers, but the Cass Review also took into account the regret of those who had surgically transitioned and thatโs just not something we have a hell of a lot of in NZ. Puberty Blockers alongside other treatments are the main โtransitioningโ in NZ, where as the Cass Review had to take into account the growing number ion mostly young women who had transitioned surgically.
The reality is we donโt have the problems the UK had because we donโt have that many surgical transitions.
The pro-Trans groups argue that puberty blockers are used for other ailments so they are safe, but those other ailments arenโt about changing your gender, they are for cancer treatment or precocious puberty, so itโs not the same issue.
So yes, we need more research into puberty blockers and how they impact while limiting surgical transition to only those who truly require it, but what the Government has done here isnโt a medical decision, itโs a political one.
Only you, your guardian, your psychologist and your dr should be ย involved in this discussion, what the fuck is the Government doing getting involved in medical care?
This is about using the resentment the middle class woke have generated and manufacturing that into a toxic culture war political attack on the trans community for the lowest gutter politics dog whistling.
This Government doesnโt give a shit about Trans Kids, they care about dog whistling to their reactionary right voters while pretending to care about Trans kids.
I am the first to argue that the way the Trans and their woke middle class allies have gone about trying to secure their rights has been counterproductive and deeply alienating, but we canโt allow their idiocy to doom an entire group of people.
This is a political culture war attack and the State shouldnโt be deciding your medical needs, thatโs between you and your dr!
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https://segm.org/Italy-Puberty-Blockers-Therapy-Bioethics
The fact is these drugs have lasting effects on people who are still developing (both sexually and mentally) because they are underage. The massive issue is that these drugs can cause permanent sterility which is obviously irreversible if you come to change your mind (as you get older and mayhap grow into your body) about your “gender identity”. I, for one, fully support the banning of these drugs in minors.
Prescribing them for gender dysphoria would never have been legal had not our legal system been penetrated & co-opted.
The UK Supreme Court has reversed some of the more egregious excesses, but NZ is trailing the UK, and it is still for the moment legal to lie to children that changing sex is possible, and further, that it can ever be desirable.
It will take a while to extract the responsible fanatics from their undeserved sinecures, but public support for the lies is zero. Trans advocates have chosen to make themselves pariahs.
Puberty blockers is only part of the argument is seems. The whole caboodle is contentious and always heated to say the least.
Some DB readers may have seen this, although most likely not in msm. The view presented is vehemently anti-trans identity – well, the author does concede a kind of ‘live and let live’ attitude but not in the so-called protected spaces that biological women have set aside for them – and by association is against puberty blockers – but real message is perhaps pushback against what the author see as woke capture of the trans-identity space and its implications for free speech (in the context of journalism). I thought the author has a point. And in that regard – and its distain for the woke – it shares something in common with MB, but perhaps that’s where the resemblance ends.
Reposted here with the authors stated permission. Usually behind a paywall but as its an Open Letter to Minister of Justice, Paul Goldsmith, its free, as are three other articles on the topic the author has penned. Make of it what you will, whatever side you take – if indeed that’s your preference.
https://justthebusinessjennyruth.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-justice-minister-paul
I think that it is dangerous to go banning things too much. Lessen use, insistence on counselling, talking and discussing with others of same age, and transitioning without blockers, and see if the freedom to consider them in a year or two will allow less concern and relaxation of mind to become certain. Just because some activist gets stirred up and reacts to someone else’s situation and attempts a takeover of their inner being is no reason to give such individuals rights over the vulnerable.