I have been working since 2012 on the regressive concept of “gender identity”. I first found out how far it had gone on Pride in a gay club in Soho. I was stunned & mostly I thought the person telling me about the trans encroachment of women’s rights was exaggerating. The next

>day I went home & read & read some more. I was in disbelief. I thought, “How had a theory which initially addressed homophobia & the repression of homosexual desire now the mouthpiece for misogyny?” I didn’t want to believe it but the evidence before me was too great to ignore.

>So, I started meeting people from both sides of the debate to include doctors and psychiatrists. It became quickly clear to me that there were business interests caught up in this as much as a need for people to feel in community with each other. I saw the youth ensnared by this

>narrative as being lost, in search of validation and a raison d’être to provide a larger context for their lives devoid of constructive relationships focussed on collective good. There was a clear narcissism within this movement that set each person up as a de facto victim such

>the subject insisting that they “feel like” the opposite arc was incontestable since their feelings were couched in terms of self harm or personal awakening. It was as if the middle aged crisis had hit the young because they had no socioeconomic foothold in the world. Pronouns

>became currency &each newly devised ID with increasingly complex sounds attempted to replace the aporia left by zero IRL asocial relationships. It is no wonder this movement moved at jet fuel speed online since it was sold specifically who were “protected” by the internet bubble

>where “street cred” is simply laying on another sob story of social rejection or parental hated. Two things that adolescence would not be adolescence without. Now youth had a mandate for specialness as they wielded their new IDs to pump up what they did not have—emotional depth.

>That this movement clings to the lives of children speaks volumes as to its corruption in the very same way that this movement struck out to shrink & eviscerare women’s rights and lives. Acronyms used to refer to adult women who say “sex is immutable” or “I am NOT a feeling.”

>I was gutted to read of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death yesterday, yet elated to know that all my sisters who joined in this fight, we have perfectly emulated RBG’s spirit and resilience in the face of sheer unadulterated misogyny. To you, my sisters and brothers who fought this, I

>thank you. To those who are on the fence or playing the nice game, I urge you to rethink. Rights are won because we must demand them in clear & unwavering terms. We get nowhere by pretending that men are women. That is how we got into this mess. Let’s not get into it again.