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Jan 11, 2022Liked by Eliza Mondegreen

Very insightful! Another, related, frame of reference is religion. This particular delusion is part of a larger modern religious revival, in which personal identity has been deified, in the guise of the "true self." As is always the case with religious doctrines, truth and falsity are not ascribed on the basis of evidence and reason, but as a matter of faith. It matters little what source may be postulated for that faith. What does matter is conforming to the liturgical prescriptions, dogma, and the sanctioned, orthodox creeds.

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For me it is about power and domination, reciting the absurd upon request. I made the analogy somewhere of bigger child at infant school sitting on top of a smaller peer and punching him repeatedly until he admits to something he didn't do, or say.

Earlier today I read about "biofouling" where invasive species potentially cling to the hulls of ships cruising the Antarctic and this will become my preferred term for trans women, as opposed to males who self-identify. Biofoulers.

Drugged up with oestrogen, sliced open, chopped and changed surgically, nursing open wounds, taking a copious amount of drugs.

The problem is that the term "trans women" is almost perfect to go into language war with because it befuddles and confuses people who are not invested in the issue to a great extent, its origins are in the 90's I understand. It is aspirational for any ideologue to be called any form to type of woman, and "trans woman" smack of entitlement and licence to invade women's spaces and privacy, I avoid at all costs.

"Biofoulers" properly conveys my contempt for those who go beyond GNC or Transvestitism and seek to convince everyone else what their deluded and drug-fuzzled minds tell them, fuelled by the grotesque ideology that is Gender Identity.

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This is why I'm always suspicious of slogans and rallying cries. They are designed to circumvent rational thought.

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Really good piece.

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Wasn't there a scene in "Taming of the Shrew" wherein Petruchio forces Kate to say that the sun is the moon, or vice versa? And, her willingness to do so was a test of...something. Perhaps, not loyalty, but of...submission, willingness to submit to his authority and his authority alone?

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Trans is a cult, as false as "trans-racial" like racist Rachel Dolezal claiming to be Black. And countless more girls and women are being assaulted, raped, murdered as a result. So those going along with the lie are accomplices, betraying all females.

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"There are four lights."

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BRILLIANT

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