CHALLENGING GENDER IDEOLOGY FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
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- Self-ID versus survivors Shonagh Dillon in The Critic 27.03.24
- The nihilism of nonbinary – spiked Malcolm Clark Spiked 24.03.24
- New legal challenge aims to restrict private gender clinics for teenagers New Statesman 24.03.24
- Doctors at gender-critical conference in London ambushed by masked protesters The Telegraph 23.03.24
- CBBC medical presenter accused of ‘leading trans mob’s bid to storm conference in puberty blocker row’ Mail 23.03.24
- ‘Pro-trans’ website for children given £3m a year by NHS is under investigation The Telegraph 21.03.24
- BBC Presenters Must Beware “Transphobic” Label After JK Rowling Errors Deadline 22.03.24
- JK Rowling has exposed Scotland’s descent into dystopia Julie Bindel in The Telegraph 21.03.24
- Maya Forstater: A simple amendment to the Equality Act could protect women’s spaces. What are ministers waiting for? Conservative Home 21.03.24
- “BBC News has an Editor-in-Chief who believes his duty is to be nice to middle-aged men who imagine themselves to be women” The Critic 21.03.24
- J.K. Rowling Threatens ‘Harry Potter’ Fan With Lawsuit Over “Lies” Deadline 2o.03.24
- Schools trans guidance: Detail on informing parents is essential The Times 21.03.24
- Inside the collapse of the Tavistock Centre Hannah Barnes in the New Statesman 20.03.24
- Scotland is no longer a free country The Telegraph 19.03.24
- Lawyer sued after saying only women have periods The Times 19.03.24
- Gender-critical teacher, 60, tells tribunal he was sacked after refusing to use trans student’s preferred pronouns – and claims pupil ‘tried to subject me to compelled speech’ | Daily Mail Online Mail 19.03.24
- Justin Webb and the trans row causing a ‘meltdown’ at the BBC The Telegraph 19.03.24
- FA urged by government to consider banning transgender women from playing women’s football to prevent ‘unfair advantage’ Sky News 19.03.24
- How trans activists captured the hate crime agenda Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie in The Critic 29.03.24
- Police Scotland hate crime training leaked | The Herald The Herald 19.03.24
- Welsh Labour ‘allowing children to change gender without telling parents’ The Telegraph 18.03.24
- Puberty blocker clinic accepted £20k donation from ‘sugar daddy’ The Times 17.03.24
- How I took on the puberty blocker orthodoxy – and won The Telegraph 17.03.24
- Teacher ‘sacked after refusing to treat eight-year-old as a boy’ over concerns for child’s welfare Mail 16.03.24
- SNP’s farcical hate crime bill is an insult to nation’s intelligence The Times 16.03.24
- EHRC urgently reviews employer guidance on single-sex jobs The Telegraph 16.03.24
- Staff who promoted puberty blockers get large payouts The Times 16.03.24
- JK Rowling’s misgendering of India Willoughby was no crime, say police The Times 15.03.24
- Puberty blockers: what are they and what are the concerns about them? Guardian 15.03.24
- The evil trans ideology is in retreat, at last The Telegraph 15.03.24
- How puberty blockers for teenagers became normalised in the NHS The Times 14.03.24
- USA: Women athletes launch landmark case against transgender inclusion The Times 14.03.24
- NHS clinic ‘follows discredited trans guidelines which encourage puberty blockers and castration’ The Telegraph 14.03.24
- Scotland stands grotesquely alone in allowing puberty blockers The Times 14.03.24
- Women athletes launch landmark case against transgender inclusion The Times 14.03.24
- Trans activists ‘must stop invoking suicide in puberty blockers debate’, says government adviser The Telegraph 14.03.24
- One day, we’ll look back on era of puberty blockers with horror Janice Turner in The Times 14.03.24
- No more puberty blockers for children, says NHS England Hannah Barnes in The New Statesman 13.03.24
- NHS bans puberty blockers for children The Times 12.03.24
- The Transgender-Rights Issue The Philosophers’ Magazine 11.03.24
- Police ‘broke rules logging misgendering complaint against JK Rowling as hate incident’ The Telegraph 11.03.24
- Sir Keir Starmer backs ban on transgender athletes in female competition The Telegraph 11.03.24
- Liz Truss bill would define sex as biological The Times 10.03.24
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Peak Trans four years on
“At the end of 2021, the debate on sex and gender and the conflict with women’s rights feels very different, at least in the UK, from the way it felt at the end of 2019. There have been a series of legal wins and cultural shifts. People are finding a voice and wrenching the discussion back to reality.”
The above paragraph conveys exactly what I wanted to say in this update, and I am grateful to the legend who is Maya Forstater of Sex Matters for articulating it so well in the introductory paragraph of an article comprehensively detailing how much has been achieved in the UK while alerting us to the battle still to be won on so-called ‘conversion therapy’.
While I’ve continued to try to keep this website updated with the latest news stories and features, regular visitors will probably be aware that I have, since the start of lockdown in 2020, devoted some time to making youtube videos and I am blown away by the appreciative responses to them. Sometimes people express surprise that I don’t have more subscribers but it’s hard to promote videos when banned from social media platforms, so I am thankful to those who share them.
I currently post my latest videos at the top of the right-hand menu but the ones I want to highlight most at this time are a series of four in which I narrate what happened when, in the light of the unjust – and ultimately quashed – conviction of Kate Scottow, I decided to test our criminal justice system and report a trans activist bully to Merseyside police. The contrast between the response of Merseyside police to a woman reporting a relentless trans-identifying bully and how police around the UK have responded to gender activists reporting women for far lesser offences, is stark indeed and campaigner Harry Miller’s recent triumph over the College of Policing seems all the more crucial because of it.
Looking back at what I wrote as an introduction to this website when I launched it at the end of 2017, I am surprised to find that I can still stand by most of it. I had the feeling that my views had shifted a lot more than perhaps they have. In fact, there are only two things that I think completely differently about now, both of which I had already articulated in my update two years ago, when I said that, “if anyone I knew personally today told me they were considering ‘transition’, I would try to talk them out of it”. The second thing is more complicated. Two years ago I said I’d stopped being careful about language for fear of offending people. Over the past year I have become careful about language again but for a different reason. Whereas I was never going to be browbeaten into using silly ideological terms like ‘cis’ and ‘sex assigned at birth’ and I have long since stopped using ‘transwoman’ and ‘transman’, I have now abandoned the use of the term ‘transgender/trans’ – as in ‘trans people’ – altogether.
‘Transgender’ is a label and those who choose to apply it to themselves do so for various reasons. This is why, if it is absolutely necessary to specify that I am talking about people who claim to be transgender, I will only use ‘trans-identifying’. Otherwise I will just call them what they are: men and women. The invention of a ‘trans umbrella’ has robbed the term ‘transgender’ of any useful meaning and using terms like ‘trans people’ give credence to what I have come to see as a dangerous falsehood.
Maria MacLachlan 1st January 2022
Video: Assault on Maria MacLachlan at Speakers’ Corner and the trans activist response
Peak Trans two years on
When I started this site two years ago, I never imagined that the hate campaign against me, which had started on the day I was physically attacked by three violent trans activists in September 2017, would continue to this day.
This is why I decided to make the video above. It includes all the footage taken at Speakers’ Corner, which gives the lie to the alternative narrative spread by trans activist bullies, many of whose comments appear in the film. It will remain on the front of this website permanently.
I blogged some of the responses: Trans activist bullies who “didn’t watch” my video about them hated it
An abridged version, which leaves out the trans activists’ input and focuses on what happened and the testimony of the defence witnesses Ananya Jaidev, Kat Higgins, Laurel Uziell and Devawn Wilkinson can be seen here.
I also had no idea how busy this site would keep me. The several hundred links to news stories, articles and videos that I started with has now grown to several thousand, with new links being added on most days. I am delighted at how popular this site has proven to be and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the supportive messages, the links to articles for inclusion and the donations, which help so much to keep it running.
What I wrote on the day I launched this site at the end of 2017 was true at the time of writing but, after two years immersed in the ‘gender wars’, my thinking on some things has evolved and I wouldn’t write that same introduction were I launching this site today.
One thing that has changed is that if anyone I knew personally today told me they were considering ‘transition’, I would try to talk them out of it. The reasons are many but suffice it to say that, having learned so much from so many trans people, detransitioned people and from some whose lives have been profoundly impacted by transgender ideology, I believe that too many are making the decision to transition too lightly and on too little information and sometimes the effect on their lives and on those of their loved ones has been catastrophic.
Another thing is that I no longer care about offending people. Transgender ideology is – as evidenced by a large number of items linked to from this site – oppressive and misogynistic and those who promote it are intolerant, short on reason and often hateful. For this reason, I am far less careful about language and am more inclined to use terms like ‘trans-identifying males’, which I used to avoid for fear of offending…well, trans-identifying males.
I would like to reiterate that I support the right of adults to ultimately make their own decision on how they present themselves and on whether or not to medically alter their appearance. I also strongly believe that trans-identifying people should have the same human rights as anyone else. However, I know from experience that it doesn’t matter how often I say this, as far as trans activists are concerned, anything short of full submission to trans ideology justifies opprobrium and abuse.
There are many ways in which my thinking has changed in respect of transgenderism and I will continue to update various things I’ve said on this site accordingly but I will leave my original introduction below untouched. It is now archived here: What’s this site about?
Maria MacLachlan 3rd January 2020