You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Apat 3:33 pm and is filed under Economics, Health Service, Industry, LIterature, Politics, Psychology, Welfare Benefits. Tags: Clive Simpson, Conservatives, Conversion Therapy, Dennis Kavanagh, EDIJester, Feminism, Gays, Helen Joyce, Liz Truss, NHS, NHS Privatisation, Tavistock Clinic, Think Tanks, Transgendered People, Tufton Street, Welfare State I think they have a point, and the similarities between the modern transgender ideology and the old, pseudoscientific homophobic view about gays does seem to support this. Their argument, and that of the feminists, is that a man or woman, who doesn’t conform to gender stereotypes, is nevertheless a genuine man or woman, who should be allowed to continue to act and dress how they want without being made to feel that they are somehow members of the opposite sex. They are alarmed at how many of the children transitioned by the Tavistock clinic were gay, and see the movement as a form of gay conversion therapy. Gender critical gays like the EDIJester and Clive Simpson and Dennis Kavanagh are partly motivated by their feeling that the trans ideology is a profoundly homophobic movement. I think you could probably trace that attitude back to the 18th century, when gays were described as ‘amphibious’, presumably meaning they occupied an intermediate position in the same way amphibians are both water and land creatures. It’s a return to an old, long-discredited view of gays and transvestites that defined them as ‘psychic hermaphrodites’. One of the points she made is that the view that non-gender conforming people aren’t proper members of their biological sex, and so should transition is actually regressive. But Joyce’s views on the transgender ideology and its malign affect on society and to people’s minds and bodies are worth listening to. They and the other think tanks were responsible for Liz Truss’ disastrous government which damn near wrecked Britain before those evil lefties – the Conservative party – turfed her out.
They’re one of the Tufton Street think tanks who’ve been pushing a pro-privatisation, anti-welfare state, anti-NHS agenda since the 1970s. I don’t have any time for the Institute of Economic Affairs. I was watching a video this afternoon of gender critical feminist and author Helen Joyce speaking at an IEA event.
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