CHALLENGING TRANSGENDERISM FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
LINKS TO LATEST NEWS STORIES ADDED TO THIS SITE
- Scotland: Women’s abuse charity ‘lost council contracts for excluding men’ The Times 27.02.21
- How children can order life-altering transgender drugs from their bedroom The Telegraph 26.02.21
- Liverpool John Moores lecturer bullied by trans activist morons The Tab 26.02.21
- The Trans Lobby Has Found Its Next Target Critical Thinking in a Passive World 25.02.21
- Women’s abuse charity Rise loses £5m contract for not supporting men The Times 24.02.21
- Civil servants ‘caved in to trans lobby over census sex question’ that will make it easier for people to pick their gender in the UK Mail 21.02.21
- Scotland: Mandarin Leslie Evans faces sack over Salmond debacle The Sunday Times 21.02.21
- Court challenge over census sex question The Times 20.02.21
- Home Office women driven out of mixed lavatories The Times 17.02.21
- Trans identity becomes an issue in Britain’s census The Economist 16.02.21
- Gender identity question on ONS census for first time The Times 15.02.21
LINKS TO LATEST FEATURES, BLOGS OR VIDEOS
- Dogma is destroying women’s safe havens Janice Turner in The Times 27.02.21
- Transition and Detransition: A conversation between sisters Transgender Trend 26.02.21
- Why I joined the trans debate James Kirkup in The Spectator 26.02.21
- Words matter: The press must stop misreporting a persons sex Fair Play for Women 26.02.21
- Policing offence Harry Miller in The Critic 26.02.21
- There’s nothing equal or fair about your transgender ‘equality’ order, President Biden – all it will do is destroy women’s sports, damage women’s rights, and turn people against the trans cause Piers Morgan in the Mail 25.02.21
- Little is known about the effects of puberty blockers The Economist 20.02.21
- Video: Response to Amelia Abraham on feminism and trans rights Maria MacLachlan 19.02.21
- Transgender people need better services, not self-ID Debbie Hayton 19.02.21
- I will do whatever it takes to make sure the new free speech laws are upheld Rachel Ara in The Telegraph 17.02.21
- Does the SNP really want to copy Norway’s gender revolution? Debbie Hayton 16.02.21
The census is coming!
“Answering clear questions about your biological sex, where this matters, is something everyone has to do at times, whether for their own health and safety or because it touches the lives of other people.
We think the census, which happens once every 10 years, and which is confidential for 100 years is one of those situations.”
Read more on the new website: Sex in the census 2021
Some new recommended videos
TERF WARS: The true story of the women fighting the transgender agenda (2021)
Dysphoric (2021) – a four-part documentary series
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 taking 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 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.
Maria MacLachlan 3rd January 2020
What’s this site about?
Like all decent people, I care about human suffering. I want to be compassionate, I want to challenge prejudice and fight discrimination against others, especially on grounds that they can’t help. That includes having gender dysphoria or other medical conditions that might lead one to reject the gender roles and expectations associated with their biological sex. People can’t help how they feel and if they are so unhappy with their body and their lives that they feel they have to have surgery and/or take hormones for the rest of their lives, I’m not going to judge them for that. On the contrary, I try to empathise and show love and support to those I know personally who are in that position.
But when such people lack the empathy to understand why a woman who’s been abused by a man doesn’t want to share a room in woman’s shelter or shower communally in a prison with somebody who has a penis, when they express classic sadistic male sexual fantasies to try to belittle and humiliate women, when they resort to bullying and violence to try to intimidate women who disagree with them – as they did with me at Speakers Corner – that’s when I start fighting back and this website I am creating is part of my personal fightback as well as a way of channelling my anger over what happened to me. For those who don’t understand the name of this website, ‘peak trans’ – a term originally coined by a radical feminist named Jane Crafts – is the moment when you realise that much of your sympathy and support for transgenderism has evaporated.
Mine came early in 2017. At that time I had bookmarked under the trans topic maybe twenty articles, comments and videos that had made some kind of impression on me. Now I have collected a few hundred more and they are getting unwieldy, so I decided to put the ones I found most interesting on a website as a resource for others.
On many pages, I have included some of my own thoughts, which reflect where my head is at now and which I will update as my ideas evolve and change or become consolidated.
Where I’m at now is that, in spite what many transgendered people seem to think about those of us who challenge their ideas, I categorically believe that transgendered people matter as much as everyone else and are entitled to the same human rights. I do not accept that those who “identify” as women are the same as those of us born female and should have free access to all sex-segregated spaces and sports. The same goes for those women who identify as men.
I completely reject the claim that those men who have raped or been violent in any other way towards women and those who joke about, promote or applaud violence against us for any reason are themselves women. That is what it’s all about as far as I am concerned. If it wasn’t for the hatred towards women standing up to trans ideology that I see displayed every day on social media, I wouldn’t see the trans agenda as dangerous and I wouldn’t be devoting any time at all to fighting it.
I have read many blogs and articles by transgender activists and have found the majority to be poorly argued and unpersuasive. I’ve also read several books including Excluded by Julia Serano and Transgendered Voices by Lori B. Gerschick. Let nobody accuse me of not trying to understand.
A major headache I’ve had in writing for this website has been about language and choice of words. I don’t want to offend anyone, except for the violent males who claim to be women and the women who shield them, all of whom I hold in contempt. But I can’t please all the people whose feelings I care about. For this reason, I have decided to do what feels most comfortable to me and mostly use male-born/female-born trans or MtT and FtT (male to trans and female to trans) for those who usually describe themselves as ‘trans women’ and ‘trans men’ respectively. There is a glossary in the menu bar above.
Also, I sometimes refer to those trans people plus allies who are basically Men’s Rights Activists and enemies of women and progress and who behave in a cultish manner as the ‘trans cult’ or ‘trans cultists’, which are terms I have learned from certain trans folk I am happy and privileged to count as friends.
There is much more in the pipeline to add to this site and it will continue to be a work in progress for the foreseeable future. But I’ve decided it to launch it now as 2017 – which I will always think of as my year of peak trans – comes to a close.
Maria MacLachlan 27th December 2017