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Myself and Ashley had a conversation that went all over the shop: from the suffocating political consensus, to the roots of social contagions, to why autogynephiles want to wear the frilly apron but don’t want to do the cooking. Listening back (don’t ever listen back) I can hear my brain desperately trying to connect synapses and failing, and I speak far too fast, so I apologise for all the brainfarts (especially to all the non-English speakers trying to keep up with me). Ashley is so interesting that all the questions I ever had came tumbling out all at once. An awesome woman. Enjoy.Do you think it matters that sex is being replaced by self-declaration of something called ‘gender identity’? I do, and I was fired for it. I made a bet that other people care about it too. So this newsletter is my new job. If you think my work is important, please take out a paid subscription.Show notes (AI generated)Episode OverviewIn this episode of Peaked, Róisín Michaux speaks with sociologist, writer, and editor Ashley Frawley about therapeutic culture, social conformity, identity politics, family life, citizenship, and the social dynamics underlying contemporary gender ideology.Drawing on her work in sociology, social problems theory, and the medicalisation of social life, Frawley examines how particular ideas become dominant within institutions and public culture, how social movements emerge and evolve, and why certain forms of identity and vulnerability have become culturally privileged in contemporary Western societies.The conversation explores the “Brussels consensus” inside European institutions, the changing relationship between capitalism and family life, therapeutic models of citizenship, historical moral panics, social contagion, the rise of gender identity ideology, and the social conditions that make particular belief systems culturally persuasive.Throughout the discussion, Frawley argues that contemporary social conflicts cannot be understood purely through biology or psychology, but must also be understood as products of wider historical, cultural, political, and institutional processes.Ashley FrawleyTwitter 🔗https://x.com/AshleyAFrawleyPatreon🔗 https://www.patreon.com/AshleyAFrawley🔗 Compact Magazinehttps://www.compactmag.com/contributor/ashley-frawley/Frawley serves as Senior Editor at Compact, a publication focused on politics, culture, economics, and contemporary social debates.🔗 Bloomsbury Author Pagehttps://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/ashley-frawley/Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age🔗 Bloomsburyhttps://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/significant-emotions-9781350026810/🔗 Google Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1q-G24wAAAAJAshley Frawley is a sociologist, author, and editor whose work focuses on social problems, therapeutic culture, wellbeing discourse, family policy, emotions, and contemporary political culture.She is Senior Editor at Compact Magazine, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Kent, and Visiting Research Fellow at MCC Brussels.Organizations & InstitutionsMCC Brussels🔗 Official Website https://brussels.mcc.hu/Jonathan Haidt🔗 Official Websitehttps://jonathanhaidt.com/Referenced during a discussion about social science, moral psychology, and the replication crisis.Daniel Kahneman🔗 Nobel Prize Biographyhttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/facts/Referenced in relation to behavioural science and contemporary psychology.🔗 Michelle Remembershttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembershttps://www.amazon.com/Michelle-Remembers-Smith/dp/0722179588The Replication Crisis🔗 Nature Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Remembershttps://www.nature.com/articles/533452aThe discussion examines methodological and reproducibility problems affecting psychology and related social sciences.The Communist Manifesto🔗 Full Texthttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/Referenced during discussions about family structures, labour mobility, and capitalism.David Goodhart — The Road to Somewhere🔗 Publisher Pagehttps://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-road-to-somewhere/Referenced during discussion of “Somewheres” and “Anywheres”, mobility, local attachment, and identity.John Stuart Mill — The Subjection of Women🔗 Full Texthttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27083Referenced during discussion of women’s citizenship, reason, education, and public life.Historical Parallels & Social ContagionThe Satanic Panic🔗 Encyclopaedia Britannicahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic🔗 Repressed Memoryhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8935987/Ian Hacking🔗 Encyclopaedia BritannicaGender, Citizenship & VulnerabilityHow Society Got a Sex Change🔗 Compact Magazinehttps://www.compactmag.com/article/how-society-got-a-sex-change/Frawley references her essay examining changing social ideals surrounding sex, gender, citizenship, and identity.Topics discussed include:• stereotypical femininity• vulnerability as a social ideal• masculinity and socialization• changing gender norms• citizenship and identityThe “Women Are Wonderful” Effect🔗 APA Recordhttps://psycnet.apa.org/record/1994-33384-001Discussed in relation to cultural expectations surrounding femininity, morality, accommodation, and vulnerability.HostRóisín Michaux🔗 X (Twitter)https://x.com/RoisinMichaux🔗 Apple Podcasts — PeakedListen & Subscribe🎧 Peaked is available on Substack and major podcast platforms.🔗 This is a public episode. 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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.peaked.newsI spoke to Dora right after she was found by a Paris tribunal to have committed a grave offense against transvestites simply for stating something all female mammals have taught their young since the rise of mammalia: “as women, we are obliged to be wary of people with penises”. Interestingly, her condemnation revealed not just that the Paris judiciary …

Alexa Faucher is a former chief of staff to a Communist mayor in a town in the Paris suburbs (Chevilly-Larue) who lost her job for sharing her gender-critical views online. A bleeding-heart lefty, an atheist, and a feminist — but none of that counted for anything, ultimately, because she also knows that humans come in two sexes, regardless of what anyone’s legal document says.Enjoy our mutual outpouring of woe.By the way, Alexa can’t get a job despite her decades of experience in politics. As you can hear, she is a brilliant, smart, hard-nosed b***h. If you need someone like that, please let me know and I will pass on the message. Send me your stories, I’m all (t)ears: [email protected]. I’m also on X/Twitter: https://x.com/RoisinMichauxDo you think it matters that sex is being replaced by self-declaration of something called ‘gender identity’? I do, and I was fired for it. I made a bet that other people care about it too. So this newsletter is my new job. If you think my work is important, please take out a paid subscription.Show notes (AI generated)Episode overviewIn this episode of Peaked, Róisín Michaux speaks with Alexa, a former chief of staff to a Communist mayor in the Paris suburbs who says she lost her political role following her public feminist and gender-critical views online.The conversation explores ideological conformity within left-wing political culture, institutional responses to gender-critical speech, tensions between feminism and gender identity ideology, and the psychological experience of becoming socially and professionally ostracized as a “TERF.”Drawing from experiences in French municipal politics, feminism, psychiatry, Covid-era social compliance, and online political culture, the discussion examines broader themes including class politics, secularism, postmodernism, collective rights versus individual identity, institutional capture, social conformity, and the cultural influence of American identity politics on Europe.Alexa also reflects on French republican secularism, anti-racism politics, feminism, social welfare, and the contradictions she sees within contemporary left-wing movements around religion, sex-based rights, and gender ideology.Key Topics Discussed* Alexa Faucher’s dismissal from Chevilly-Larue* Jérôme Martin’s online denunciation campaign* French public-sector contracts and “devoir de réserve”* “Fired TERFs” and institutional retaliation* Helen Joyce and UK legal developments* Covid-era conformity and institutional obedience* Didier Raoult and anti-establishment scientific dissent* Finland’s reassessment of youth gender medicine* Keira Bell and the Tavistock case* French secular feminism and laïcité* Planning Familial and “men can get pregnant” activism* Marguerite Stern, Dora Moutot, and French feminist fracture* Identity politics vs materialist feminism* “Women with penises” and compelled language* Surrogacy and commodification of women’s bodies* National gender-critical figures across EuropeFrench Political & Institutional ContextStéphanie Daumin — PCF Mayor of Chevilly-LarueWebsite: ville-chevilly-larue.frAlexa explains that she served as directrice de cabinet for Stéphanie Daumin, the Communist mayor of Chevilly-Larue, a historically left-wing suburb in the Paris “Red Belt.”The political context matters because the episode repeatedly contrasts:* older class-based Communist politics,with:* newer activist and identity-centered ideological frameworks inside the contemporary left.Jérôme Martin’s denunciation campaign against Alexa FaucherWebsite: x.comReferenced in relation to the activist campaign that followed Alexa Faucher’s tweet asserting the immutability of biological sex.Jérôme Martin publicly denounced Faucher online, helping escalate the controversy surrounding her employment.Follow-up thread:The episode repeatedly returns to:* online activist escalation,* public denunciation,* and institutional pressure campaigns following ideological dissent.Chevilly-Larue cabinet dismissal controversyWebsite: frontieresmedia.frOne of the primary French-language reports documenting the controversy surrounding Alexa Faucher’s dismissal after her tweet regarding biological sex.The Tweet Referenced in the EpisodeThe controversy centered around Alexa Faucher’s reply concerning biological sex and legal identity changes:« Votre sexe n’a jamais été, n’est pas, et ne sera jamais féminin. Les stéréotypes de genre que vous choisissez, et qui nous sont imposés, si. Bisous. »The tweet became widely circulated in activist and political networks following Jérôme Martin’s denunciation campaign.UK Gender Politics & Institutional ConflictHelen Joyce discussing the UK Supreme Court rulingWebsite: youtube.comReferenced when Róisín discusses listening to Helen Joyce following the UK Supreme Court ruling on sex-based legal protections.The ruling is discussed less as a narrow legal issue and more as:* a test of institutional compliance,* ideological capture,* and whether public bodies will obey legal definitions of biological sex.Keira Bell and the Tavistock caseWebsite: wikipedia.orgReferenced during discussion of safeguarding concerns surrounding youth medical transition.The Bell case became internationally significant because it challenged whether minors could meaningfully consent to puberty blockers and medical transition pathways.The Cass ReviewWebsite: cass.independent-review.ukReferenced in broader discussion of:* evidence standards,* youth gender medicine,* and institutional reassessment of pediatric transition pathways.The review became internationally influential after concluding that the evidence base for pediatric medical transition remained weak and underdeveloped.Finnish study on psychiatric morbidity and youth gender servicesWebsite: onlinelibrary.wiley.comReferenced during discussion of the “Finnish study” mentioned by the speakers.The April 2026 Finnish register study:Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019was discussed as evidence of increasing institutional doubt emerging from inside youth gender medicine systems themselves.The speakers specifically emphasize that skepticism is now increasingly coming from:* clinicians,* researchers,* and medical systems previously aligned with affirmation-based treatment models.Covid, Conformity & Institutional TrustDidier Raoult and France’s Covid divideWebsite: france24.comReferenced during discussion of:* conformity,* institutional trust,* and scientific dissent during Covid.For many French listeners, Didier Raoult became symbolic of:* anti-establishment scientific dissent,* distrust of centralized expertise,* and collapse of institutional legitimacy during the pandemic.The speakers use Covid primarily as:* a psychological analogy for ideological compliance.Retracted hydroxychloroquine study associated with Didier RaoultWebsite: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govReferenced indirectly during discussion of:* early contradictory Covid messaging,* institutional confusion,* and scientific authority.The Raoult controversy became one of France’s defining symbolic conflicts over:* expertise,* media trust,* and anti-establishment dissent.National Gender-Critical Figures ReferencedThe episode repeatedly returns to the idea that:“every country has one”meaning a nationally recognizable gender-critical feminist figure or activist.Ireland — Laoise de Brún/CountessWebsite: laoisedebrunUK — Kelly-Jay Keen / Standing For WomenWebsite: x.comUK — J.K. RowlingWebsite: x.comGermany — Rona DuweWebsite: ronalyze.deAustria — Faika El-NagashiWebsite: substack.comFrance — Marguerite SternWebsite: wikipedia.orgFrance — Dora MoutotWebsite: wikipedia.orgThese figures are discussed as examples of:* feminist opposition to gender ideology,* online harassment campaigns,* institutional retaliation,* and ideological fracture across Europe.Dora Moutot 🔗X/Twitter: https://x.com/doramoutot🔗 Co-author page / Book: Search “Transmania” on Éditions Magnus or Amazon.fr🔗 Femelliste YouTube (joint): https://www.youtube.com/@femellisteMarguerite Stern 🔗 Personal website: https://www.margueritestern.com/🔗 X/Twitter: https://x.com/MargueriteStern🔗 English Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_Stern🔗 French Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_SternJoint Work🔗 Femelliste official: https://www.femelliste.com/🔗 Transmania (book): Widely covered; see Wikipedia entry for details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransmaniaOrganizations & ActivismAct Up-ParisWebsite: actupparis.orgReferenced because Jérôme Martin previously served as president of Act Up-Paris between 2003 and 2006.The discussion repeatedly returns to:* activist pressure,* public denunciation,* direct-action political culture,* and ideological enforcement mechanisms.Planning Familial’s “inclusive sexual health” campaignWebsite: planning-familial.orgReferenced during discussion of ideological changes inside French feminist and reproductive-rights organizations.The campaign became controversial among some French feminists because it adopted:* gender-neutral reproductive language,* “inclusive” terminology,* and messaging interpreted by critics as replacing sex-based language around women’s bodies.Alexa contrasts this with earlier feminist traditions centered on:* abortion rights,* material sex differences,* and secular feminism.Guest — Alexa Faucher🔗 X (Twitter)https://x.com/alexafaucher🔗 LinkedInhttps://fr.linkedin.com/in/alexafaucher🔗 Novel — Puisqu’on a marché sur la lunehttps://www.amazon.fr/PUISQUON-MARCHE-LUNE-Alexa-Faucher/dp/2367951535Alexa Faucher is a French law graduate, political communications professional, author, and materialist feminist.She served as directrice de cabinet for the Communist mayor of Chevilly-Larue until July 2025 following controversy surrounding her tweet about biological sex.The episode also references her:* public-sector communications background,* strategic political work,* feminist activism,* and experience inside French municipal political structures.(Her X/Twitter account was reportedly made private following the controversy.)Host — Róisín Michaux🔗 Substack / Podcast Home🔗 X (Twitter)https://x.com/RoisinMichaux🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked🔗 NewsletterListen & Subscribe🎧 Peaked is available on Substack and major podcast platforms. 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In order to capture what it’s been like for female homosexuals in the era of gendercultism, Tonje Gjevjon (Norway) and Alison Ellis (UK) collected the stories of 19 lesbians from around the world and not only is their book, Kindred in Chaos, an insightful read, it’s also extremely valuable as receipts, which we TERFs never tire of collecting. Here’s one of the women describing what it’s been like watching young butches try to turn themselves into men: “I have seen many handsome butch women destroy their bodies with levels of testosterone their system was never meant to accommodate. These changes cannot be undone. I have watched healthy young women decimate their cardiac systems with these drugs… all in pursuit of something impossible.”Another one writes:“Because (lesbian spaces) don’t exist, it's much harder for lesbians today to accept their homosexuality. Many force themselves to date trans-identifying males and don’t call themselves lesbians because it’s a «TERF dog whistle». The trans movement has been incredibly effective in erasing women and lesbians, making us believe who we are is wrong and needs changing. It is wide spread conversion therapy essentially.”And another one describes the moment the AGP penny dropped: “…I connected one idea after another: cross-dressing serial killers, exhibitionism, true crime, paraphiliacs, autogynephilia, men who harass lesbians with the «I’m a lesbian in a man’s body» joke, men who deliberately try to get lesbians to talk about sex for their sexual titillation, men who harass lesbians by talking about porn... I peaked in rage and disgust… every major gay rights organisation had betrayed homosexual people. It was like the world was collapsing.”You can read all the stories by buying the book hereProfessional lesbianswithanasterisk-ismMeanwhile, if you’re a European taxpayer, you should know that you are paying a lot of money for a big party currently taking place on the Greek island of Lesbos, organised by the professional LGTBIQ+ class to celebrate a group of people called lesbians-with-an-asterisk. The word “lesbian” has a meaning. It means women who are sexually attracted to other women. The Official Meaning of lesbian*, however, has evolved to include straight men who wish they could be lesbians. It also includes women who claim to be men, and women who claim to be something called “non-binary”. I strongly suspect that most of the women working for EL*C (Eurocentralasian Lesbian Community), the ones hosting this week’s island get-together, and who claim to represent European lesbianswithanasterisk, know that it’s all nonsense. But it’s lucrative nonsense. They get more and more money each year from the EU to keep the charade in perpetual motion. “LBQ women”, we’re told, are under attack by the “anti-gender movement” (it me, and proudly so) but what’s really under attack is the ability to name reality. Lesbians, meanwhile, the TERFY ones, are completely unmoored from the money machine, and the parades, and the DEI panels, and the projects, and the boards, etc. And they are monstered. If you’re a young woman who is attracted to women, the current scene — the one that women fought hard to build — is an absolute landmine. If you say you don’t like “girldick”, or that you don’t identify as a woman (but that you just are one) you’ll quickly find yourself on the wrong side of the aggressive autogynephilic men who the EL*C now represent. You can follow the asteriskas and their publicly-funded jolly by going to their Facebook account (link in caption) where I’m sure they’ll be posting about their hard work on Lesbos. It’s not easy stroking your master’s balls in the hot sun all day.Show notes (AI generated) Tonje Gjevjon is a Norwegian lesbian activist and artist and Alison Ellis is a British lesbian commentator. Kindred in Chaos is a collection of first-person testimonies from 19 young lesbians navigating contemporary gender identity politics.The discussion explores lesbian identity, youth alienation, puberty, online trans-identification, institutional LGBT culture, social conformity, detransition narratives, online radicalization, lesbian erasure, activist networks, puberty dysphoria, and the broader political and psychological dynamics surrounding gender identity ideology in Europe. Drawing from personal experience, online activism, lesbian organizing, Scandinavian politics, youth LGBT groups, social media culture, feminism, and gender-critical organizing, the conversation examines why some young lesbians resist trans-identification pathways while others become absorbed into them. The episode also situates Kindred in Chaos within a wider international network of lesbian, feminist, and gender-critical activism across the UK and Europe.Julie BindelTonje Gjevjon references feminist writer and activist Julie Bindel as one of the earliest figures who alerted her to ideological shifts inside progressive politics.🔗 Official Website🔗 X/Twitterhttps://x.com/bindelj🔗 Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_BindelMagdalen Berns🔗 YouTube Archivehttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=magdalen+berns🔗 Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalen_BernsMagdalen Berns is repeatedly referenced as a major influence on Alison Ellis.Ellis describes discovering Berns’ videos after searching online for the term “TERF” and realizing:* she was not alone in her views* other lesbians shared similar concerns* factual/direct language resonated more strongly than identity-centered discourseThe episode frames Berns as an important early online gender-critical voice, particularly among young lesbians.Organizations & Activist NetworksLGB Alliance🔗 Official Websitehttps://lgballiance.org.uk/🔗 Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGB_AllianceWomen’s Declaration International🔗 Official Websitehttps://www.womensdeclaration.com/Let Women Speak🔗 Standing For Women / Let Women Speakhttps://www.standingforwomen.com/Norway Legal Gender Recognition🔗 Norwegian Government Informationhttps://www.regjeringen.no/en/topics/families-and-children/equality-and-social-inclusion/innsiktsartikler/legal-gender-recognition/id2481746/Norway’s legal gender recognition framework allows individuals to legally change gender without surgical sterilization requirements.The law became an important reference point in broader European debates surrounding:* self-identification* youth transition* administrative gender policy* legal sex classificationGender-Neutral Pronouns & Inclusive Language🔗 Gender-Neutral Language Overviewhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_language🔗 Norwegian Language / “Hen” Pronoun Contexthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_languageThe discussion references institutional language shifts including:* gender-neutral terminology* pronoun normalization* “parent 1 / parent 2” style frameworks* avoidance of sexed language in some institutional settingsThe speakers frame these changes as examples of top-down ideological restructuring.The European Lesbian Conference (EL*C)🔗 Official Websitehttps://europeanlesbianconference.org/Phalloplasty & MetoidioplastyCleveland Clinic — Phalloplastyhttps://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/procedures/21585-phalloplastyUCSF Gender Carehttps://transcare.ucsf.edu/guidelines/phalloplastyJohns Hopkins — Metoidioplastyhttps://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/metoidioplasty-for-gender-affirming-careThe speakers reference two forms of gender-affirming genital surgery:PhalloplastyConstruction of a penis using tissue grafts, often from the forearm, thigh, or abdomen.MetoidioplastyA procedure using hormonally enlarged clitoral tissue to construct male genitalia.Róisín Michaux specifically references observing extensive discussion around these surgeries inside online trans-masc communities, particularly in Belgium.The conversation frames breast removal as a central fixation among many young female transitioners.Belgium & European Gender ClinicsGhent University Hospital Gender Teamhttps://www.uzgent.be/patient/zoek-een-arts-of-dienst/centrum-voor-seksuologie-en-genderGhent University Hospital is one of Europe’s most recognized gender clinics and research centers. The speakers reference Belgium as an example of broader European gender medicine infrastructure.The Swedish Documentary — The Trans TrainGenspect Overviewhttps://genspect.org/swedish-documentary-stopping-the-trans-train/YouTube Playlist / Documentary Uploadshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvATEhXWd8uF7dT3g-jXBmYY7PPfSQZSsGB News AppearanceGB Newshttps://www.gbnews.com/Tonje Gjevjon and Alison Ellis reference appearing on GB News to discuss Kindred in Chaos following their appearance at the LGB Alliance conference.GuestsTonje Gjevjon🔗 X/Twitter: https://x.com/tonjegjevjon🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonjegjevjon/🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kjendisgjevjonAlison Ellis🔗 TikTok: Alison Ellis Listen & Subscribe🎧 Peaked is available on Substack and major podcast platforms.🔗 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

For legal/safety reasons, it wasn’t possible to release this recorded interview before last week’s EU announcement about banning ‘conversion therapy’ in the EU. It’s an interview with an anon paediatric psychiatrist who practices/practiced in Belgium, a country that has already enacted a ban on conversion therapy — despite having found almost no evidence it is happening. Conversion therapy bans make it legally risky to try to talk a kid out of their wrong-body distress. At the very least, it makes doctors scared to try it. But some therapists, like ‘Sarah’, are braving it anyway. Unfortunately they are few and far between. While activists — across Europe — failed to find much evidence of pray-away-the-gay type torture (which is the image your brain is intended to conjure up when it hears the term ‘conversion therapy’) there is plenty of trans skepticism about, and criminalising this skepticism is the intended effect of conversion therapy bans. Such legislation essentially performs the same function as hate speech laws that make it very legally dangerous to refute transgender core beliefs. However, this one has a particularly chilling influence on the psycho-medical profession. Conversion therapy bans are about coercion, because transgender wrongbodyism does not have popular support. Making non-compliance illegal is how its advocates get around the unpopularity problem.The soft-power machinery non-ban banI had been hoping to get this doctor’s experience out there before the decision was made by the EU as to whether or not to make a law against conversion therapy enforceable in all EU countries, but she is under (stalled) criminal investigation for conversion therapy herself (she refuses to affirm the gender delusions of her young patients) and as we spoke, she was literally trying to keep a low cover as she escaped the country. Ultimately, last week, the European Commission decided not to issue a legally binding directive telling EU countries to ban conversion therapy. But the outcome was hard to decipher based on the mixed reactions to the announcement. Messaging from activists was schizophrenically lopsided. At first, both sides — the activists making demands of the legislature, and the legislature itself — seemed to be celebrating their joint victory. But then a lot of people on the activist side decided that, in fact, there was nothing to celebrate, and that they had lost the fight. That’s because the EU’s self-trumpeted proposal, in the end, was non-binding. It was just vibes. Or soft power machinery, as Athena Forum called it. Things got weird online: on the one hand, members of the NGO that had organised the campaign — which amassed 1 million citizen signatures — were filmed smiling and laughing in photos with EU officials. At the same time, their allies were posting Instagram reels about how disappointed they were. So what happened? The EU concluded that it can’t legislate in this area. But the fact that the petition even happened in the first place is evidence that they were chancing their arm, as we say back home. Getting caught mid mission-creepIt’s not an ‘EU competence’ to get involved in criminalising talk therapy for genderfeelz. However, what is considered an EU competence has been subject to extreme mission creep in recent years*, and issues that you would imagine should remain national have become Brussels’ business.The whole conversion therapy thing was born out of a petition launched in 2024 that was actually an EU-branded, EU-supported ‘citizens initiative’. This bit is important: this petition would not have been possible — it would not have been allowed to go ahead — if what it was asking for was not considered part of the EU’s mandate. So why did it go ahead? How did it get this far?A few years ago when I noticed the petition campaign getting off the ground, I wanted to know how the organisers — a couple of skinny young gay chaps from France — were paying for the legal advice that they would need to determine whether or not what they were asking for was even something the EU can legislate on. So I contacted the official EU petition people to ask about their funding declarations, but there were none. So how did they pay for the legal advice? Surely they got legal advice? These details are boring and finnicky but they’re kind of important: it turns out that the legal experts in the EU Commission itself have to decide whether or not the subject of your demand is something the EU can make binding legislation on, before anything else can happen. (No doubt the vast EU network of NGOs are ready to help out with free legal consults, but it’s the Commission that decides on the legal basis for your request, if there is one). Let me spell it out: the EU told the activists they could make a binding law banning conversion therapy. They said: go ahead and get your signatures, we can legislate on this. But they have since decided that they cannot make such a law. What changed between 2024 and now? (Awaiting a response from the press contact, will update).I suspect that the EU bureaucracy was creeping the mission, and got caught mid-creep. Time was, anything gender-y was waved through the EU bodies — because who cares amiright — but those days are over. The reality is that everyone’s on high alert for social issues in a way they might not have been before. Turns out people do care about what constitutes reality and about keeping their kids out of the hands of state-mandated ideologues. Shocking.A legally-binding ban on sex-swap talk therapy would never “get past the Council” which is eurospeak for “it would fail to be approved by the more conservative countries’ leaders”, who are growing wiser and wiser to the social engineering schtick by the day. This is none of your business, the heads of state would have told the Commission, and they would have been right. I’m not a specialist so I’m just spitballing here, but I think that something that has been until now a bit of a grey area has just been shoved firmly into the black.So the Commission came out and told the gathering of disappointed youngsters last week that nope sorry, no law, we can’t actually do that, but here’s a non-binding vibes-setting document instead (I don’t think the lads should worry, it still looks great on their CVs. I’m proud of them in a twisted maternal way). The NGOcracy and their buds in-state just got too brazen, got some backlash full-force in the face, and knew such a law would never get anywhere. Officials were forced to (sort of) concede: nobody wants this, so it’s shelved. One of the ILGA-Europe enbies was clear-eyed about it. She said the decision “accounts for the limitations of the EU legislative process’“. She also described the setup as a “tyranny of the majority”, which is apparently not the same thing as a democracy? I also think ILGA-Europe, who astro-turfed the whole petition thing in the first place, lost interest, and have shifted their energy and focus towards rule-of-law stuff. Enforcing case law is where it’s at, because nobody can do much about stopping that. There’s always the possibility that Commissioner Hadja Lahbib (with whom the conversion therapy buck stopped) and her friends realised that they will one day be the hook for the inevitable fallout of the trans scandal. I guess we’ll find out eventually, whether it be via tell-alls or tribunals. Looking forward to it.*(I am trying hard to ignore the fact that the EU now wants to govern that extremely intimate part of a sexual encounter where you and someone else decide whether or not you want to shag each other. The EU parliament wants you to make a contractual agreement before you f**k, and if the deal’s not inked in the way the EU wants it inked by the f*****s, one of the two fuckees could go to jail. Yeah I know that rape is a problem. Yeah I know consent is important. That doesn’t mean either will be fixed by making sexual foreplay sessions subject to EU legislation. I mean what the everloving christ? The Heavy Petting Regulation? The Sustainable Dry Humping Act? The Third Base Protection Directive? I oppose this solution to the problem. I do not deny there is a problem — just to make it clear for the anti-gender movement academitards out there compiling lists of my crimes against the Borg.)If you appreciate my work, please take out a paid subscription or share this newsletter with your contacts. Please get in touch if you have any feedback, or corrections, or if you just want to call me a c**t. roisinmichaux at gmail dot com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

I love the term ‘Department of Conclusions’, and I apologise to whoever I forget I stole it from. It describes perfectly my cynical view of the cargo-cultish academic and policy departments involved in creating the data that legitimises already-made government decisions.This pantomime involves a lot of cogs and props, and transmogrifying ideology into The Evidence is not easy. There’s a lot of effort involved in reaching a conclusion and then leading raw numbers and survey responses, gently by the hand, in the direction of that conclusion, all while pretending to be a neutral conduit for the truth.One of the foregone conclusions that I come across a lot in my research is the claim that the situation for LGBTIQ+ people is so bad that More Must Be Done, in particular, done by the EU, such as clamping down on hurty words, criminalising TERFs, and forcing more queer theory garbage down the necks of European children. There is reason to believe that gay or gender-non-conforming people have it rougher than many others in society. After all, many people with immigrant backgrounds in Europe absolutely detest gays and lesbians. There has been a sharp rise in the number of honey pot Grindr traps, at least in Belgium and France, whereby North African lads trick gay men into meeting in secluded spots for sex, and then rob them, beat the s**t out of them, or even kill them. And things aren’t going so well for male transvestite gooners either. They have been destroying women’s rights to sport, dignity, and privacy for more than a decade now. What’s not to hate? And what about all the green-haired freaks piling into your kids’ classrooms, telling autistic loners that the cause of all their problems is their ‘wrong body’? And the gaudy rainbow bunting absolutely f*****g everywhere, all year round? I’m filling up with hate just thinking about it. But the issues that are really causing problems for the LGBTIQ+ ‘community’ (not a real thing) are never hinted at in any official datasets. That would involve admitting to activist overreach, or violating the sacred lib code never to notice the unique quandaries caused by the mass immigration of men from patriarchal shitdumps into gay-friendly cultures.By far the most-cited data that EU government and NGOs use to justify things like hate speech laws, digital censorship, and trans-queer-themed comprehensive sexuality education, is the 2023 LGBTIQ Survey III from the Fundamental Rights Agency. The FRA is basically a factory for churning out evidence that just-so-happens to justify the decisions of the European Commission and all the similarly-minded political actors in that entourage. If the Fundamental Rights Agency didn’t produce the required facts and figures, it wouldn’t exist. But it does, so it does. The Commission drives the policy and political direction, and then requests backup from the arm’s-length FRA. The data is then put to work to justify the new policies. The setup should raise alarm bells, but without hard evidence that the Commission is actually instructing the FRA on what the data should ‘reveal’, the least we can do is examine the quality of the study design. I’m not a expert myself, but I knew there was a problem when I saw that they had managed to find nearly 2,000 people claiming the ‘intersex’ label, even though I know it has been very difficult to do intersex activist movement-building based on how few people actually use that label for themselves. How exactly was this cohort being defined?So I farmed the job out to some TERFs who know about research practices and standards, and they told me that the survey contained a considerable amount of what could reasonably be described as pure garbage. In the survey we find that ‘trans’ and ‘intersex’ people are disproportionately affected by violence, discrimination, and victimisation. But what is ‘trans’? And what is intersex? Does the survey at least attempt to define gender? Yes. Is it a circular definition? Also yes. Are crossdressers and transvestites, who don’t claim to be trans women, included in the definition of ‘trans’? Is it considered discriminatory to get the ick from them because everyone knows it’s a fetish? Yes and yes. Does the survey contain data on the number of natal males who claim to have had a cervical smear test in the past five years? Uhh, yes.As consumers of this official data, I guess we are just as much to blame for gobbling up the numbers we find on official glossy factsheets. Surely in the internet age we’d be better at spotting elite misinformation? The phrase “According to figures from the…(INSERT ACRONYM)” should not fool anyone anymore.But whatever about normies, journalists, surely, should be doing their due diligence and checking the stats to make sure they’re not rehashing activist or government propaganda. But I have never seen anyone examine the quality of these numbers or analysis that justify so much of the EU’s policies and laws related to LGBTIQ rights, as a whole, and sex erasure in particular. Every instance I have found where the FRA survey is cited in the media, it is cited as though it was sent from God herself.So I invited a lovely TERF and retired science communicator, Ruth Parry, to give me her expert opinion on the survey design. She’s got a background in clinical research, and she talked to me about the recruitment methods, self-reporting, and ambiguous definitions that likely affected the outcomes. We chatted about the clinically-sound DSD Life study, also funded by the EU in parallel, and how it contrasts with the FRA activist-driven one, and how embedding “inclusive gender” into research grant criteria will flub scientific processes, to the benefit of no-one. Enjoy.Take out a paid subscription if you think it’s worth it. And please get in touch with feedback/comments if you’re so inclined. [email protected] notes (AI generated) Guest: Ruth Parry Twitter/X: https://x.com/CACEnotesKey Topics Discussed* EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) LGBTIQ Survey III* Survey design: sampling, self-reporting, and recruitment bias* Activist involvement in data collection* Intersex vs DSD (Differences of Sex Development)* Clinical vs identity-based classification* DSD Life study and evidence-based research* Medical ethics in early-life interventions* Use of statistics in policy and law* EU funding frameworks and gender equality requirements* Ideological influence in academia and institutions* Interpretation of discrimination and violence data* Feminist and scientific critiques of gender identity frameworksCore datasetEuropean Union Agency for Fundamental Rightshttps://fra.europa.eu/enEU LGBTIQ Survey IIIhttps://fra.europa.eu/en/project/2022/eu-lgbtiq-survey-iii* Large-scale online survey across Europe* Used in EU policy frameworks, national strategies, and legal contextsScientific benchmarkDSD Life Study (EU Project)https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/305373* Clinical research with medically verified participants* Focus: long-term outcomes, quality of life, treatment impactMedical contextCongenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH)https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000411.htmHypospadiashttps://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001286.htm* Referenced in discussion of early intervention, functional vs cosmetic treatment, and long-term outcomesClinical frameworkChicago Consensus (2006)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16882788/* Established modern classification of DSDJohn Moneyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money* Early theorist influencing gender identity modelsLegal ReferenceBell v Tavistockhttps://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Bell-v-Tavistock-Judgment.pdfTavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust* Case concerning medical transition of minors and consentEU Policy & Funding ContextHorizon Europehttps://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe_enMarie Skłodowska-Curie Actionshttps://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/Erasmus+https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/* EU funding programs requiring Gender Equality Plans, including “inclusive gender” frameworksAcademic & intellectual ReferencesHelen Joycehttps://sex-matters.org/Kathleen Stockhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_StockBook: Material GirlsAlice Dregerhttps://alicedreger.com/Book: Galileo’s Middle FingerJ. Michael Baileyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_BaileyLouis Goorenhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Louis+GoorenHistorical ReferenceIan Huntleyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Huntley* Referenced as an example of how awareness of risk develops only after exposure to real casesRelated Discussion Referenced in EpisodeStephanie Winn — Intersex / DSD Discussion* Referenced by Róisín as a prior discussion covering:* intersex conditions* surgical ethics* clinical vs activist perspectivesResearch Methods ReferenceRandomised Controlled Trialshttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1706053/* Gold standard in clinical researchCultural ReferenceTurf Rocks* Grassroots activist example mentioned in discussionX (Twitter): https://x.com/RoisinMichaux This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

You may disagree with my claim that Sara Morrison’s was the most vicious TERF witchhunt of them all — but it’s definitely among the gnarliest. I called Sara up to swap notes about our professional houndings. Like so many women, I too was unceremoniously removed my duties because of my non-belief in gendershite. But the behaviour of Sara’s hounders — the crème de la crème of the Northern Irish cultural elite — gave me goosebumps for its sheer psychopathy. I was unpersonned like a princess, in comparison.The people who targetted Sara are the #Kindest people in society: the publicly-funded ‘non-government’als involved in woke civil society charities. These are the people who are paid to ‘foster’ the warm-and-fuzzies: inclusivity, diversity, acceptance, tolerance, empathy, openness, fairness, equality, and equity, via public-facing cultural, advocacy and media organisations. In return, they get multi-annual operational grants. But the temporary nature of the arrangement means that Kindsters are permanently only precariously employed, a destabilising and competitive setup that creates perverse incentives (not just in Northern Ireland — the business model is the same everywhere and it’s terrible). It pushes people to exaggerate a problem that needs to be solved, while simultaneously pretending to be solving it. This leads to some crazy hijinks, a perfect example of which we saw this week with the story of the Southern Poverty Law Centre’s self-generated racism problem that they pretended to donors to be fixing. It also produces only a small pool of jobs, and the prestige that goes with these jobs serves to amp up the stakes for everyone involved. The model is the same everywhere, as I said, but Northern Ireland is …different … from other places, to put it mildly. In terms of vibes, the place always felt to me a bit like if Bosnia married and divorced Scotland, and they got shared custody of 1.93 million fearful-avoidant kids.The country has a higher-than-average number of charities working on community projects because, you know, which is typical in post-conflict places. Many of them started out thanks to 'peace money’ that came from the EU, the UK and Irish governments and the Americans. And while a lot of them do very good and vital work (especially in the form of providing essential services), there’s also the usual parasitic gay-race-communism NGOs staffed by people who have to aggressively advertise their virtue in order to stay ideologically kosher in the tight-knit non-profit circle. The trans issue is an extremely touchy subject at the best of times, but throw that grenade into an already fraught and fearful crew of purity-spirallers, and you’ve got the ingredients for the most violent non-violent hate mob I think I’ve ever heard of.Northern Ireland is full of things that are unsayable. Sara’s bold assertions about our right to our own rape crisis centres free from crossdressing blokes seems to have provoked a repressed frustration around the trigger theme of identity that exploded with bizarre ferocity. It’s not good, folks. But you’ll be happy to hear that Sara's really doing well, finally. Perhaps her employment tribunal case, the result of which is out in the next few weeks, should give her former colleagues, friends, and tattoo artist (who also denounced her) pause for some self-reflection. But we should probably not hold our breaths for any peace and reconciliation talks. As Sara said in the speech that caused all her problems: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket.” You are here. Read this excellent story by Rosie Kay on Sara’s intervention at a recent event on censorship in the arts in Belfast. Here’s Sara on Substack and here she is on TwitterShow notes (AI generated)In this episode of Peaked, Róisín Michaux is joined by Sara Morrison to explore the social, political, and cultural landscape of Northern Ireland in the post-conflict era.The discussion examines how the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement shaped a funding-dependent NGO ecosystem, particularly in the arts and voluntary sectors. Through Sara’s firsthand experience working in these sectors, the episode explores how economic structures, institutional incentives, and cultural pressures contribute to ideological conformity and risk-averse environments.The conversation also moves into feminist politics, gender policy conflicts, and Sara’s personal experience of workplace cancellation following her participation in a public event, leading to an ongoing employment tribunal.Topics discussed: · Post-conflict Northern Ireland economy and society· NGO funding and “peace money” dependency· Arts and charity sector employment structures· Public sector dominance vs private industry· Violence against women and policy failures· Gender ideology and feminist conflict· Workplace cancellation and tribunal case· Protest culture and ideological enforcement· “Militant kindness” and social conformity· Cross-community identity vs modern inclusion frameworksHistorical & Political ContextThe Good Friday Agreement (1998)https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-belfast-agreement· Ended major violence during The Troubles· Led to significant international funding and NGO expansionThe Troubles (Background Context)https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Troubles-Northern-Ireland-history· Sectarian conflict shaping modern Northern Ireland· Long-term impact on identity, politics, and economyPost-Conflict Funding & NGO EconomyPEACE PLUS Programmehttps://www.seupb.eu/peaceplus· Cross-border EU, UK, and Irish government funding programme· Supports community, reconciliation, and economic projectsInvest Northern Irelandhttps://www.investni.com/· Economic development agency focused on business growthArts Council of Northern Irelandhttps://artscouncil-ni.org/· Primary funding body for arts and cultural sectorBelfast City Councilhttps://www.belfastcity.gov.uk/· Referenced in building-use controversy and policy criteriaPolitical LandscapeSinn Féinhttps://www.sinnfein.ie/Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)https://mydup.com/Alliance Partyhttps://www.allianceparty.org/Social Issues & PolicyViolence Against Women Strategy (Northern Ireland)https://www.justice-ni.gov.uk/publications/stopping-domestic-and-sexual-violence-and-abuse-strategySexual Violence & Support ServicesNexus NIhttps://nexusni.org/Women’s Aid NIhttps://www.womensaidni.org/The Rowan Sexual Assault Referral Centrehttps://www.southerntrust.hscni.net/services/the-rowan/Sara Morrison — Case & ContextBBC Coveragehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0gj42l4zeoCase Briefinghttps://sex-matters.org/case-briefings/sara-morrison-v-belfast-film-festival/Let Women Speak Eventhttps://www.standingforwomen.com/J. K. Rowling Support Contexthttps://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/trans-child-women-only-spaces-skdtl3bcx· Public support and financial contribution to Morrison’s caseFeminism, Gender & PolicyNordic Model (Sex Work Policy)https://nordicmodelnow.org/what-is-the-nordic-model/Repeal the 8th Amendment (Ireland)https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/justice/civil-law/repeal-of-the-8th-amendment/Emma Watsonhttps://www.unwomen.org/en/goodwill-ambassadors/emma-watson· Referenced in context of funding support for servicesArts, Culture & InstitutionsImagine Belfast Festivalhttps://imaginebelfast.com/Northern Ireland Screenhttps://www.northernirelandscreen.co.uk/Media & Cultural ReferencesElephanthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_(1989_film)Van Morrisonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_MorrisonProtest Culture & “Militant Kindness”Northern Ireland Protest Coverage (Context Referenced in Episode)https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/· Referenced discussion of protests and counter-protests· Highlights tension between grassroots groups and activist responsesGay Not Queer (Referenced by Sara)https://x.com/gaynotqueer· Referenced directly in episode· Source of “militant kindness” framing· Critiques contradictions within activist cultureOrganizations & NetworksNIPSA (Trade Union)https://nipsa.org.uk/Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)https://www.flac.ie/Key Figures MentionedJim Gamblehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gamble🔗 X (Twitter)https://x.com/RoisinMichaux🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked This is a public episode. 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Every country’s got at least one: a national sad-trans blackmail story. Sometimes it’s a little pre-gay boy who liked dresses so much he had to be castrated (aaaw that’s so sweet!), while other times it’s a secret crossdresser who turned up to the construction site one day SURPRISE! looking like a cross between an anime slut and a rotisserie chicken.These people often get plucked out and refurbed by state-paid NGOs who use them as a propaganda canvas upon which they create heart-warming bargain-bin civil-rights kayfabes, with the sole goal of shoving them down the necks of plebs so they can blackmail our natural instincts out of us. The sad-trans sympathy merchants themselves are part-victim, part-perp. They repeat prepared lines about their life stories that somehow align perfectly with the demands of their politically-motivated patrons. All sense of actual personality gets wiped off their storyboard in favour of the same old manipulative script. They become walking-talking messaging machines for self-interested vultures who wheel them out whenever you’re considering having an original thought like I think women’s sports should be for women. Go on, tell them you were suicidal because your library card had an M on it! you can hear the strategists whisper from somewhere offstage. But much like penile-inversion “vaginoplasty” surgery, sometimes there’s just not enough penis to work with, and the propagandists have to instead source materials from the colon, the actual shitter, to create a passable-ish stapled-together Humanising Case Study. Lydia Foy — the real one, not the shiny booklet version — is one such case. He is an extremely unlikeable character, as is often the case with men who fall in love with porn versions of themselves. He’s a narcissistic, extremely spergy autogynephile who is completely immune to other people’s existence, and as such, he’s a very unlikely national avatar for The Most Marginalised Group To Have Ever Lived. But he was the best tissue the surgeons could find. Foy’s elevation to shero was not entirely his own doing, to be fair. As you’ll hear in this recording, he could almost (almost) be considered a victim of the lawyers who scavenged his family’s tragedy to make names for themselves in the strategic litigation history books. His personal tale of woe was an absolute dud, the lawyers found, in that most of the woe emanated not from him, but from everyone around him — particularly his wife and young daughters. But those grabby f*****g b*****s get no glory. There are no awards for supporting the women and kids who fall victim to a man in the grip of an out-of-control sissy fetish.As a result of Foy’s legal entreaties, which started in the 1990s, as well as other cases around Europe, Ireland got some stern tellings-off from the european court of human rights (not capitalising those b******s anymore). The Irish government was thus forced to introduce some type of gender law, but then spent years trying to figure out which type of law it should be. It was all happening during the heady apotheosis of the activist switch from demanding ye olde medico-surgical model of gender identity disorder, or whatever the DSM was calling it in by the early 2000s, to full sex self-identification with no conditions attached. Mental cases, gorged on Chuck Feeney money, with the help of ILGA-Europe, decided to make a big push for the latter, and they got their way in the end. Foy’s case was a big part of that. Thus accelerated a global cascade: if backwards Oirish Catholic small-islanders can do it, so can we, thought lots of other governments, coming to the pre-defined conclusion that the NGOs had laid out at their feet.Anyway, a filmmaker called Caleb J Roberts has just made a short film called “Lydia” that further murks up the waters about the real story behind Ireland’s path to legal sex falsification for sissy fetishists and sad, round, autistic girls. You’ll be shocked to learn that this film got made, and distributed, thanks to state subsidies, particularly funds related to producing “diverse” fare. I’m not dissing the filmmaker him/herself at all. That’s how things get made these days, and I don’t know anything about films, but Lydia certainly looks quite beautiful, and there are some nice metaphors in there (I think?) It would do the job of AgitSlop quite well on anyone who isn’t a raging contrarian, and it looks like that could be the intention: the film looks suspiciously like it could be a pilot. As it was screened on TV (like, the old-fashioned telly), it may be getting lined up for maximum normie-saturation. I discussed the film and Foy with my favourite Resistance Gay, journalist Sean Atkinson, and Catherine, an anon Irish TERF who hates the faking of Foy’s sob story almost as much as I do. Enjoy, and please take out a paid subscription if you feel like helping me make more like this. I’m clearly not getting any state subsidies anytime soon lol. To those who are already paying subscribers, a massive heart emoji to you utter bigots. Episode overview (generated by AI):* The life and legal case of Lydia Foy* Irish High Court proceedings and European human rights attempts* Role of FLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres) in public interest litigation* The European Commission of Human Rights (1997 application)* Gender Recognition Act (Ireland and UK comparisons)* Medical evidence and brain-based theories of gender identity* Media narratives vs court-record facts* Cultural references including Orange Is the New Black* Activism, legal advocacy, and institutional influence* Amnesty-related activism and legal disputes* Historical analogies and media impact (Emmett Till case)Irish High Court Judgment (Primary Source)https://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2002/116.htmlEuropean Human Rights Attempt (1997)Pre-1998, cases were submitted to the European Commission of Human Rights (not the Court directly).This included:* Application involving legal aid refusal* Attempt to reopen domestic proceedings* Procedural dismissalFLAC (Free Legal Advice Centres)https://www.flac.ie/FLAC played a central role by:* Taking the case as public interest litigation (mid-1990s)* Shifting focus to birth certificate recognition* Supporting long-term legal strategyLegislative ContextUK Gender Recognition Act (2004)https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/contents* Introduced legal gender recognition framework* Highly debated in ParliamentParliamentary Debate (Norman Tebbit)https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/2004/jan/29/gender-recognition-bill-hlKey themes:* Legal vs biological sex* Concerns about long-term implicationsMedical & Scientific ReferencesBrain Structure Research (BSTc Studies)https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/85/5/2034/2660626https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995Natur.378...68Z/abstractThese studies:* Examined brain structures (BSTc region)* Suggested differences aligned with gender identity* Became influential in legal and medical discussionsResearcher: Louis Goorenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Goorenhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Louis+Gooren* Endocrinologist* Specialist in hormone therapy and gender dysphoriaRTÉ Documentaryhttps://www.rte.ie/radio/doconone/646740-radio-documentary-my-name-is-lydia-foy-transgender-transsexual“My Name is Lydia Foy” (2011)* First-person narrative* Covers childhood, marriage, transition, and legal struggleShoutOut Serieshttps://www.shoutout.ie/know-your-queer-historyLydia Foy episode:Cultural and media referencesOrange Is the New Blackhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Is_the_New_BlackCharacter reference:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Burset* Used as a comparison for family dynamics and transitionMichael Farrellhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Farrell_(activist)Council of Europe involvement:https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-commission-against-racism-and-intolerance/ecri-bureau/-/asset_publisher/TlH7DYDQnFdQ/content/farrell-michael* Human rights lawyer* Connected to Strasbourg institutionsBill Shipsey & Art for Amnestyhttps://artforhumanrights.org/about-us/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_ShipseyLegal dispute:https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2022/09/18/group-founded-by-bill-shipsey-shocked-at-amnesty-legal-action/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/amnesty-international-sues-ex-irish-chairman-in-trademark-row/41992774.html* Trademark dispute over “Amnesty” name* Lawsuit initiated in 2022, later haltedhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/billshipsey_dr-lydia-foy-i-never-got-an-apology-actually-activity-7299369043466088448-6-HPHost https://x.com/RoisinMichaux🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked This is a public episode. 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This episode is a free preview. Please take out a paid subscription to hear the second half. Your support is very very very much appreciated. The activities of the acronymic institutions that macro-manage our European lives are a big black hole to everyone but a small circle of insiders. Their purpose is vague, their processes boringly impenetrable, and even the purported benefits of membership are ill-defined.Nobody really knows what goes on inside “supranational bodies” like the UNHCR, OHCHR, the OECD, the ODHR, the CJEU, ECHR, the FRA, and all the various Committees, Commissions and Councils on the prevention or promotion of whateverthefuck. But we are all aware that these entities are necessary and Good in some unspecified way, because they get cited all the time when our domestic governments and their lackies in the NGO sector try to sell us on unpopular social changes. Many of these “bodies” produce nothing of legal import, and are essentially just advocacy-toolmakers for activists and politicians, creating elite-driven, fake consensus that is then presented to the rest of us as '“international standards”. Such decrees and decisions, resolutions and recommendations are non-binding soft law. But soft law is a bit like currency — it has no intrinsic value beyond the value we collectively agree to assign to it; its power is reliant on network effects, with compliance self-enforced via more people buying-in. Everyone agrees because everyone agrees. And we currently assign a lot of value to soft law that comes from the Council of Europe.For a very long time, it was understood that we should all respect and adhere to these soft laws because this institution, the COE, is a particularly strong bulwark against a return to the kind of savagery that led to the Second World War. The institution itself was born of post-Hitler Never-Againism, with the stated aim to “promote cooperation on human rights and the rule of law”. But how does “human rights”, as understood in rubble-ravaged Dresden, compare to our understanding of the term in 2026? Did the war-weary decision men of the 1950s ever envision that safeguards against ethnic cleansing would one day be re-interpreted to include safeguards against, uh, psychologists telling a child the painful truth that humans can’t change sex?The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) churns out advocacy material at the behest of some of the most deranged activist extremists on the continent. If you’re a lobbyist who can’t get the legal changes you want at home, you can go to the swivel-eyed militants of the COE to help you generate some kind of guideline, or even judicial outcome (via the ECtHR, another nightmare) that you can then use to browbeat the plebs back home with. The various bodies within the Council of Europe will even do a name-and-shame every so often, to call out, country-by-country, who is adhering to their instructions. Bad grades are further used by activists to apply political pressure. Non-compliance can damage a government’s reputation not just in the COE, but also among peer governments of nations with whom they are considered ideologically aligned. The opacity of these institution very much benefits the extremists and their unpalatable demands. The less you know, the better. The media can’t figure out how to report on the goings-on here, because it all seems so boring and inconsequential. The activists wouldn’t alter this setup for the world.In an effort to get a better understanding of what goes on, Annette Pacey from Athena Forum shared with me all the goss about what she saw when the spent a few days in Strasbourg to follow the PACE vote on conversion therapy bans. She tried to sus out how it all works, but also attempted to convince visiting delegations that sex falsification is not, in fact, a universal human right or a “European value”. It was an enlightening conversation. Enjoy! Show notesTopics discussed· The structure and function of the Council of Europe versus the European Union· The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and its political groups· The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination· The resolution “For a ban on conversion practices” and its legislative trajectory· The role of rapporteurs, including UK MP Kate Osborne· Political group strategy, amendments, and voting coordination· Attendance patterns and procedural dynamics in Strasbourg· The distinction between sexual orientation and gender identity in law· The concept of “affirmation” in policy frameworks· The broader impact of Council of Europe resolutions on national legislationAbout the GuestAnnette Pacey is a writer and policy commentator affiliated with Athena Forum, a European network focused on evidence-based policy and sex-based rights. She also has a Substack/podcast called Gender Lupa (see links below).She attended the January 2026 session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, where she engaged directly with delegates across political groups regarding the draft resolution on conversion practices.Annette speaks in a personal capacity in this episode and reflects on her observations of institutional process, political negotiation, and advocacy dynamics inside PACE.Institutional Context: The Council of Europe and PACEThe Council of Europe is a pan-European intergovernmental organization founded in 1949 and headquartered in Strasbourg, France. It currently has 46 member states and is distinct from the European Union.🔗 Council of Europe — Official Websitehttps://www.coe.intThe Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is composed of sitting national parliamentarians from member states. Delegates are not directly elected to PACE but are appointed from their domestic parliaments.🔗 Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)https://pace.coe.intPolitical groups within PACE include:· SOC — Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group· EPP/CD — Group of the European People’s Party· ALDE — Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe· EC/DA — European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance· UEL — Unified European Left🔗 Political Groups Overviewhttps://pace.coe.int/en/pages/political-groupsThe Conversion Practices ResolutionThe episode centers on the resolution titled:“For a ban on conversion practices”The report was prepared by Kate Osborne MP (UK, Labour), serving as rapporteur for the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination.🔗 Resolution Text and Report (Doc. 16315)https://pace.coe.int/en/files/35742The resolution calls on member states to:· Introduce legislative bans on conversion practices· Provide criminal sanctions where appropriate· Prohibit so-called “conversion practices” affecting sexual orientation and gender identity· Implement awareness campaigns and support mechanismsAs discussed in the episode, Council of Europe resolutions are not binding law. However, they are frequently cited as human rights standards and can influence national legislation.Legal Precedents ReferencedMalta — Affirmation of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression Act (2016)Malta was the first European country to introduce legislation addressing conversion practices.🔗 Malta Legislation Overviewhttps://legislation.mt/eli/cap/540/engSpain — Law 4/2023 (Ley para la igualdad real y efectiva de las personas trans)Spain’s 2023 reform includes provisions addressing conversion practices.🔗 Spanish Official Gazette (BOE)https://www.boe.es/eli/es/l/2023/02/28/4Political Dynamics DiscussedThe episode examines:· Amendment strategies within the EPP group· Pre-agreed amendments negotiated with the rapporteur· The role of party leadership in shaping final votes· Attendance patterns on the final day of plenary· Strategic considerations among center-right delegatesThe conversation reflects on how procedural decisions and group coordination can affect the substance of policy outcomes.Individuals referenced🔗 Kate Osborne MPUK Labour MP; Rapporteur on conversion practiceshttps://members.parliament.uk/member/4657🔗 Helena DalliEuropean Commissioner for Equalityhttps://commission.europa.eu/persons/helena-dalli_en🔗 Thor Bjørn JaglandFormer Secretary General of the Council of Europe (2009–2019)https://www.coe.int/en/web/secretary-general/former-secretaries-generalAthena ForumAthena Forum is a European civil society initiative focused on evidence-based policy and sex-based rights.🔗 Athena Forumhttps://athena-forum.eu/https://x.com/RoisinMichaux👤 Annette Pacey• LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/in/annette-pacey-6a159b3a• X (Twitter): https://x.com/annettepacey?lang=en• Substack (Gender Lupa): https://genderlupa.substack.com/podcast🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked This is a public episode. 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In this podcast episode I interviewed Flemish lecturer and scientist Suzy Eeckelaerts, a very polite feminist who chatted with me about a recent scandal concerning her country’s most high-profile transvestite, and the AI hallucination scandal that has engulfed him. We also talked about the Belgian public’s reaction to it, and what it says about how different cultures deal with trans madness. You get half the episode; upgrade to premium to hear the rest! Before I get 15 emails asking me what “knickerhon” means, I guess I should show my work to the class: “knickers” is the Irish word for pants/panties/underwear, and in this context, it refers to the tendency of crossdressing men to start their gender careers stealing the knickers of their female family members. “Hon”, sometimes referred to as a “gorillahon”, is a brick. A brick, of course, is the opposite of a doll. Bear with me. A doll is the name given to a passing(ish) femme gay male (think Elon Musk’s attention-desperate son), while a brick is his less graceful heterosexual analogue, meaning an autogynephilic straight male crossdresser. Both sub-types of “trans woman” pretend to be women, for different reasons.While a doll will often closely resemble a lasciviously pornified woman (albeit a woman with a torso shaped like an iPhone), bricks are more likely to be very unfeminine clunkers who, in middle age, uncannily resemble a slutty grapefruit that has been violently thrown against a wall. I hope I haven’t lost you.Belgium is home to a high-profile political knickerhon called Petra de Sutter, a well-known public figure who makes everyone pretend he’s a woman. He wears a wig, you see. That’s how you know he’s a woman. Not by his chromosomes, not by his gametes, not by his male-pattern everything. Not his apparent paraphilic “interest” that only occurs in males. Wig. My mate Suzy came on the podcast to tell me about the recent snafu that has ensnared De Sutter, and it’s a story that demonstrates the narcissistic fantasyland that hons like him create for themselves (and force us all to live in), as well as the weird cultural quirks that cause Belgians to go along with his b******t. De Sutter gets a steady flow of validation for his fraudulent identity in the Belgian press, and even takes roles reserved for women with no pushback because, again, he wears a wig. Nobody really says anything about it except me and my harpy and shrill clique of internet friends, though the occasional trashy normie will leave devastating comments on Facebook posts that mention him. Media and political figures all play along with it. Again, like most countries, social class play a big part in whether or not one acquiesces. But generally, Belgians seems to be shockingly blasé about it all. That might be because it is proud of its reputation as the most socially progressive country in the world. Most countries — you brutish bigots — would never put a knickerman in such a prestigious, internationally-oriented role. But Belgium’s brand is progressive overreach, a kind of social libertarianism that gave the word assisted suicide for 9-year-olds. Round here, wigman is woman because progress.This weird psychotic feature of the culture came into sharp relief recently when De Sutter got caught being dishonest about something completely unrelated to his woman larp, and it produced reams and reams of opinions and Content. Yet everyone continued to tip-toe around the big lie. Here’s what happened: De Sutter, who is a gynacologist by trade and a transhumanist by nature, has held big political roles (deputy PM, member of the European Parliament, Green party committee chair) and last year he was elected on a woman’s ticket as Dean of the University of Ghent (home of the infamous gender butchers). So far, so goed.In September, he stepped up to the lectern to give his inaugural speech, but sleuths later found it to be full of faked quotes: it was peppered with AI hallucinations copied wholesale from the mouths of bots. The most circulated fake-quote was one attributed to Albert Einstein, the wordsoupy ResistanceLibby “Dogma is the enemy of progress”. But the other two quotes give a glimpse not just into his politics, but his shitlib social constructionist worldview: “Knowledge describes and controls reality,” De Sutter said, attributing that quote to a Belgian psychoanalyst called Paul Verhaeghe, who apparently never said that.The third fake quote is even worse: “The imperative of responsibility demands that scientific progress be guided by ethical considerations.” De Sutter claimed that these were the words of Hans Jonas, spoken during his “rectoral address” at the University of Munich in 1979. But not only did Jonas not say those words, there was no such speech. Hans Jonas was never even appointed rector. It was all an AI hallucination. And the quote itself: yeesh. Whatever AI chatbot De Sutter was using, it obviously invented quotes that it knew its master would vibe with. The head of a university tying the truth to ethics might sound nice on the surface, I guess, but it seems to suggest that science has a duty to be #BeKind. It’s a dodgy position for a university head to hold, and the Belgian chatterati knew it. He has form: another incident last year saw him make comments about Gaza that threw academic-freedom fans into a tizzy. He essentially said researchers at the university cannot question the genocide framing of the conflict. Which, regardless of your position on the Gaza issue, is a fucked thing for a university dean to say. And despite all this, he is still in the job. Nobody linked this academic fakery to the other glaring fakery that he imposes on everyone around him, every day. If I am being charitable, I might speculate that critics of his ideological biases and fraudulent practices didn’t want their sternly-worded condemnations tainted by accusations of transphobia. Suzy and I get into the details of it all in the episode. Enjoy! (By the way Paul, if you’re reading this and thinking about dragging me to court for hate speech, I look forward to “knickerhon” entering the public discourse.)Show notes: Topics: * Belgium’s 2007 and 2017 gender recognition laws* Legal sex versus biological sex in policy and institutions* Cultural norms of “live and let live” in Flemish society* Why public opposition looks different in Belgium than in Ireland or the UK* Women’s sport, single-sex spaces, and institutional obligations* Academic freedom and governance at Ghent University* The AI-generated speech controversy involving Petra De Sutter* Media framing, avoidance, and limits of public debateAbout the GuestSuzy Eeckelaerts is a Belgian lecturer with a focus on biology, reproduction, and scientific reasoning. In addition to her teaching and research work, she has contributed to public debate in Belgium on sex-based rights, women’s sport, and the relationship between biology and public policy. She has written opinion responses in the Belgian press and has collaborated with contributors associated with Athena Forum, a European network focused on evidence-based policy and sex-based rights.Suzy speaks in a personal capacity in this episode and distinguishes her own views from those of the host where they differ.Historical and legal context: Gender law in BelgiumThe episode references two major legal developments: the 2007 Transsexual Law and the 2017 Gender Recognition Reform, which removed medical requirements and introduced legal sex change by declaration.🔗 Overview (historical context):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBTQ_rights_in_Belgium🔗 Administrative explanation (Flanders):https://www.vlaanderen.be/en/change-in-gender-registration🔗 Legal overview:https://tgeu.org/belgium-legal-gender-recognition-law-2017/Key References🔗 Petra De Sutter — Public Profilehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_De_Sutter🔗 Ghent University official response to incorrect AI quotes Statement by UGent about the incorrect quotations in the speech.➡️ https://www.ugent.be/en/news-events/incorrect-quotes-reaction-petra-de-sutter.htm🔗 Brussels Times — AI Quote Controversyhttps://www.brusselstimes.com/1909581/ugent-chancellor-petra-de-sutter-caught-using-ai-in-opening-speech🔗 Apache (Investigative Journalism, Dutch)https://apache.be/2026/01/08/rector-petra-sutter-gebruikte-door-ai-gehallucineerde-citaten-openingsspeech/🔗 VRT News (Public Broadcaster, Dutch)https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/01/08/petra-de-sutter-ai-toespraak/Dutch language video reporting that the Rector used AI-generated quotes.Guest Resources & Links🔗 X (Twitter): @SEeckelaertshttps://x.com/SEeckelaertsWebinar on women in sports 🔗 Athena Forumhttps://athena-forum.eu/🔗 X (Twitter)https://x.com/RoisinMichaux🔗 Apple Podcasts — PeakedListen & Subscribe🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and all major podcast platforms.If you value careful, independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. 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This interview is a free preview. Upgrade to become a paid subscriber to hear the rest.Sissy Joyce is a Belgian man who creates online content around his sissy fetish. He also claims to be a woman.He came to my attention when I got fed a Facebook ad for a meet-n-greet out in his physical shop, the fetish-themed “Sissy Market”, which is a sex shop that caters specifically to men with the same type of paraphilia.I wanted to talk to him because, despite his apparent view of women as airheaded jiz-receptacles, he comes across as weirdly naive about why he might give people the night terrors, or why women might not want him in our changing rooms. And his naivety seems real in a very autistic way, and not just as a contrived part of his performance.I decided to approach the interview in good-faith and openness (but firm truthfulness), despite knowing what I know. Firstly, because I just really want to get to the bottom of what the fuck is going on with these men, and secondly, he seemed genuinely to think that TERFs are hateful people. I also didn’t want to be mean to him because ultimately, he has a kink for that and, like, you know.His shop is located quite literally in Buttfuck, Nowhere, in the north of Belgium. It’s in the quiet town of Balen, which sounds a bit like ‘balls’ in Dutch (I wish I was making all this stuff up) and it sells things like little girls’ school uniforms, cheerleading outfits, and cutesy fluffy pyjama onesies — all in sizes big enough to fit a horse. It also sells all the necessary accessories that go with being a sissy — such as XL tubs of ‘Fist Butter’ which help you get your fist into someone’s arse while you are pretending to be a little schoolgirl at a pyjama party, one assumes.I originally wanted to go out to his shop not to see and talk to Joyce himself (I’m pretty confident I know his type well enough already) but I was, at the time of the interview a few months ago, still hanging on to my pet theory that ‘bisexual’ male chasers (known in HIV research as MSTW, or men who have sex with trans women) are major drivers of trans madness, due in no small part to the HIV that they help pass to the heterosexual (female) population (sometimes called “bridge theory”).I was curious to go see the people who consume Joyce’s content; perhaps they would be manly-men with shemale kinks, perhaps they would all be costumed Lolita cosplay sissies…. Perhaps a mix of both. I wanted to hide in a nearby bush like a weirdo and just try to get an eyeful of what these men look like. It’s very difficult to picture the chaser cohort because they are so incredibly secretive about their desire for shemales. Do you know anyone who admits to being a chaser? No you don’t. And yet a lot of porn, prostitution and increasingly, mainstream cultural output, exists to cater to their niche needs.(FYI I haven’t completely abandoned the HIV/chaser theory of trans mania, but I think ultimately it’s just one cause among many in a big multi-dimensional Swiss Cheese model-type clusterfeck of circumstances. The money poured into HIV/AIDS activism, and the availability of PreP, were very much drivers of the NGO/activist rainbow ramp-up of the early 2010s, which is apparently so obvious it’s barely worth going on about — nobody seems very interested in reading about it. Too boring, perhaps. No paedo islands or celebs involved.)The most lowly role in the world Sissy fetishism is a very specific type of sexual kink that involves being ‘feminised’, which, in turn, makes some men feel humiliated. This humiliation — of being seen as a lowly woman — makes them sexually aroused. It’s a manifestation of masochism — the M in ‘BDSM’. The fantasy, regardless of the finer print of any individual’s fave humiliation/degradation scenario (they tend to differ in the hyper-specificities), is about turning into a female, whether it’s via clothes or body alterations or even functions. You know what other societal role is considered lowly? Domestic servant. That’s why the combination of two roles — a female and a cleaner, known in the genre as a ‘sissy maid’ — is such a popular boner-generator. Is there anyone more worthless than a stupid whore who cleans other people’s toilets? If there is, these men haven’t figured it out yet. They get off on feeling worthless, and their lizard brains can’t come up with anything more worthless than you, dear female reader, your mother, your daughter, your sister, or your wife. It’s nothing personal, we are all just cum whores to these men, at the deepest level of their psyche, and they want to be just like you. Isn’t that flattering? In my forays in hundreds of “trans woman” Facebook groups and Discords, I have noted that this view of women is a very common animating theme. However, it is not always explicitly stated that this is the motivation that underlies male-to-female trans larpery, and this is particularly true once a man decides to ‘come out’ as a woman. Once he makes the leap to being a public paraphile, all previous posting about being a silly little slut with boingy boingy boobies gets wiped off the internet.They don’t hate us, they don’t rate usMany TERFs talk about how autogynephiles hate us, but honestly, I don’t agree. They mostly just do not rate us. We do not exist. Where we exist, we are merely props, at most. We are objects. They do not talk about us in their online communities. The only time we get a mention is A: when they tell the others whether their wives are on board/not on board or B: to mention occasions when female handmaidens compliment them on their hair/dress/makeup, which happens far more often than it would if we could inform everyone what is really going on (men seem to instinctively know something is up with these men).I cannot emphasise this enough: women mean less than nothing to the autogynephile. We do not factor in their consciousness except as gatekeepers to spaces reserved for women. They spend no more time thinking about you than you think about the person who checked your ticket on your way into see the movie at the cinema. If a man has another paraphilia (don’t forget, these things cluster) then he might want more from your participation, but usually you are not required to be anything other than be a passive prop.Having said that, you might be wondering: surely all masochism ultimately requires an other? If a sissy fetishist wears his frilly knickers and GG silicone implants in the woods, and nobody is around to find him pathetic, does he even get off? Maybe. But I think ‘hate’ is too strong a word to use to describe the autogynephile’s attitude to women. It’s definitely misogyny not to be considered worthy of consideration, I guess, but can you really be said to hate someone if you never even think of them? If they are not any more real to you than a metal sissy chastity cage, a pair of pretend cheerleader’s pompoms, or a tub of Fist Butter?The next time you see AGP Jim, who is now Jillianne (or some other elaborately porned woman’s name) know that he is skulking around in a gingham dress in your staff canteen not because he wants to demonstrate how much he hates the female sex, but because he thinks women aint shit and it makes him horny to feel as disempowered as he thinks you must feel.Contagion or creep?The argument that autogynephilia is innate is an extremely touchy subject, because then it might be assumed to apply to the behaviour of some male children; if you have met the mother (or even worse, the father) of a male non-gay teen who is pretending to be a woman, you will understand the desire to come to the conclusion that your son has been steered in this direction by forces beyond his control (porn is the common culprit); no parent wants to conclude that they created a creep. Since woke took over everything, many people don’t want to even accept that a ‘creep’ is a natural kind. Yucking yums has become the ultimate liberal social faux pas.It would be much more preferable for many of us (me included) to think that this tendency can be uniquely blamed on external factors like porn, but I think that porn merely entices an innate tendency out into the open. Enacting the fantasy, of course, reinforces its power. That’s porn’s fault. And it’s undoubtedly true: if sissy/tranny porn didn’t exist, the phenomenon would go back to being much more marginal. Of course it’s also the fault of the stunningandbrave-ification of the behaviour. The sad fact is that guys who would otherwise grow up normal, but with an inexplicable attraction to wearing their wives’ knickers at different times in their lives (especially during/after very stressful life-changing events like the death of a parent or, bizarrely commonly, major traffic accidents), are now leaning into it full-time because everyone — from their favourite kink content creators to their fucking school curriculum — is encouraging them to think of their paraphilia as something they should share with the rest of us.What can be done about itDespite all my poking fun and fury at public perverts, I actually don’t care what weird and whacky shit people do with their bodies in private. Humiliation, degradation, pretending to be a baby and paying a prostitute to mock you for pooping your pants — none of this exists in my sphere of control. I couldn’t do anything about it even if I wanted to try. It’s none of my business. However, ‘transgender rights’ has made various paraphilias everyone’s business. And none is more visible and public than ‘trans women’ masochists. These men made a choice, and make a choice every single day, to use society as their unpaid dominatrix. Autogynephiles and their defenders will often say that once they ‘transition’ (surgically or chemically) they lose the sexual excitement associated with the larp. But there’s no way of knowing if a man is actively gooning in the supermarket queue, or if he long ago medicated away/chopped off his capacity to goon, and you’re just seeing the sad, sexless aftermath.Don’t make us try to figure it out. Just fuck off.A horrible personLife got in the way and I ended up not going up to Sissy Joyce’s shop. But a few months later, he slid into my DMs wanting to know: why am I such a horrible person?Why are you? I responded. I explained gently that it’s insulting that he has built a life around pretending to be a woman because the idea of us is so embarrassing it causes him to ejaculate out of the sheer humiliation of it. I thought it would easy for him to figure out why so many people find this hateful. But other people’s feelings, and safety, and dignity are so unimportant — so insignificant in the pursuit of his dreams — that he couldn’t even fathom it. What I really never thought I would have to say is this: I don’t see being a woman as anything lowly or degrading at all. The opposite, in fact. I know females are technically nature’s ‘bottoms’ but I never saw myself the way these men apparently see me: an inferior, subordinate, gaping sex-hole in heels. They might deny that they think this, but their id tells a different story.Perhaps autogynephiles reveal something about how all men see women? Or is it more an indication of how we all see ‘femininity’?Help me quit my day job so I can write full-time. Become a paid subscriber.Show notes: ⏱️ Episode Structure* 00:00–06:00 – Introduction and framing of the conversation* 06:00–15:00 – How Joyce and I came into contact and early disagreements* 15:00–25:00 – Trans women in sports and the meaning of fairness* 25:00–35:00 – Sex self-ID, legal documents, and unintended consequences* 35:00–50:00 – Bathrooms, public spaces, fear, and safeguarding* 50:00–65:00 – Fetishism, humiliation, pornography, and identity* 65:00–85:00 – Passing, public perception, and psychological strain* 85:00–110:00 – Final reflections on sexuality, boundaries, and reality🔗 Guest — Sissy Joyce📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sissyjoyce (personal social profile)🛍️ The Sissy Market (store): https://sissymarket.comHost — Róisín Michaux 🔗 X (Twitter)https://x.com/RoisinMichaux This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

IGLYO is a Brussels-based NGO that has raked in millions of euro in public money to represent the interests of a group of people it calls “queer youth”. Outside their bubble, they’re best known as the organisation that commissioned the infamous “Denton’s document,” a how-to manual for activists that recommends secrecy and subterfuge as best practice for passing sex self-identification legislation for children in Europe.The IGLYO/Denton’s document was a bombshell because it was the first time anyone in the movement had admitted to the centrality of stealth to the increasingly unpopular mission to replace the two human sex categories with a range of new categories based on a dissociative psychological coping mechanism known as “gender identity”.Though the Dentons text is padded with all the standard flattening doublespeak of inclusivity and equality, the drafters were unequivocal about how activists should achieve their aims: hijack more popular ones, nurture behind-doors relationships with (young) progressive politicians, and whatever happens, keep the public in the dark. It’s nothing like the vague mush you can find on IGLYO’s website, and it’s hard to imagine their in-house staff being so forthright about the queasy unacceptability of the de-sexing society project. But the Denton’s document wasn’t an IGLYO production; it was a freebie from media monster Thomson Reuters’ tax-diddly side gig, the (non-profit) Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dentons law firm, the biggest in the world, was one of the companies that signed up to the Reuters scheme to provide free legal services to woke NGOs, presumably as a way of boosting their ESG score (or CSR, as it was called back then). And unlike activists, lawyers don’t trade in vibes. They use straightforward language because words are central to legal matters: “keep press coverage to a minimum” stands in comically stark contrast to the careful NGO slop of “strategising visibility among key stakeholders.” Self-ID stock-take While it’s often described as an instruction manual (and it is) in terms of format, the IGLYO/Dentons document is actually an inventory of tactics that had worked in countries where sex falsification had already been passed into legislation.Ireland features heavily. The Irish activists who shared their tips and tricks with the Dentons lawyers, among whom the how-to-hide-your-binder lads at TENI, bragged about their ability to hoodwink society into clapping along for something they didn’t really understand. One of the guide’s most scandalous tips — to smuggle sex falsification inside something more popular — offered up Ireland’s gay marriage referendum as a case study. The people running the Irish marriage equality campaign knew that proximity to the T — a community that, at the time, was heavy populated by male crossdressing fetishists of a certain age — was likely to put people off. So they sought to keep their association with the transvestites — and their new collaboratrices, the emerging cohort of tiny trans-identifying posh girls — to a minimum. “We snuck it in by the back door,” said transvestite Philippa Ryder about the covert operation, during a 2024 trans love-in organised by the Irish government. Another activist, Sara “Big Dave” Phillips has also admitted, butt-hurtedly, on multiple occasions, how trans activists were silenced by the mainstream movement, and even that they stopped getting invited to coalition meetings after attending only twice.It begs the question: if Ireland is so progressive that gay marriage was a popular decoy, why wouldn’t the population be chill about the demands of “trans rights”, too? The shopfront slogan “legal gender recognition by self-determination” sorta-kinda fits with the gay rights demand to be left alone to “be who you are”, but only subliminally. Closer inspection reveals it actually means “let people be what they are not.” This would quickly emerge in any public debate, of the type that was a prominent feature of the marriage campaign.I imagine that the marriage equality campaigners were concerned about optics not just in the metaphorical PR sense, but in the actual eyes sense: compared to the cute gayboys and mild-mannered lesbians who fronted the marriage effort, trans rights activists are trying to trick your brain into thinking they are the opposite sex, which results is some very oddly-proportioned people. The Uncanny Tranny Valley causes conflicting sensory and cognitive cues that lead to a feeling of unease (don’t blame me, blame a billion years of sexual selection). Cognitive unease it the last thing you want to stimulate when you’re working on a marketing campaign. And I suspect the regularly-proportioned gays and gals knew it. That’s why the persuasion campaign was focussed in the smoke-free backrooms of government buildings, while out in public, sex falsification was bundled in with the rest of the rainbow and drowned like a kitten in a sack of acronym and euphemism. The marriage referendum ultimately passed with 68% of the vote. In the self-congratulatory haze of the result, pliant legislators added sex-falsification to the books with minimal fanfare. Post-church Ireland was so caught up in a frenzy of acceptance and toleration that few stopped to wonder how the slogan “love is love” related to the demands of middle-aged knickermen.That was the level of deception required back in 2015, way before the ugly predictions about sex falsification had even come true. The “Denton’s document” gets rolled out by Irish TERFs all the time — especially in conversations with the uninitiated — to make the point that laws that have to be forged in secret are self-evidently not popular. As far as I can tell, IGLYO never officially responded to any criticism. All the better to stop the conversation in its tracks. “More subversive ways of implementing the work plan”The best evidence that no-questions-no-conditions sex-falsification laws are being introduced by stealth is, of course, the fact that the average person on the street has no idea they exist. The Denton’s incident merely provided hard evidence that secrecy is a deliberate strategy.Three years before Dentons, however, the tactic had already been revealed — only this time in relation to duping IGLYO’s funders.In 2014, a PhD researcher called Raili Uibo shacked up with IGLYO to study how their increasingly “anti normative and radical” mission was going down with the stiff and stodgy EU bureaucrats from whom they were soliciting grants.A bit of necessary background: the EU treaty includes protection from discrimination on the bases of sex and sexual orientation, two categories that are (or were) understood as fixed. This is ostensibly why IGLYO — and all the other big money-sucking rainbow NGOs that make up the EU’s LGBTIQ lobby — get millions in cash installments every year from the EU budget. In the lingo, these “framework partnerships” are made with “civil society actors” whose missions “align with EU values” and help the EU “meet their commitments” vis a vis “the community”.But LGBTIQ rights have moved on since the drafting of the 1999 treaty. The people who man the movement now no longer advocate for protections on the basis of same-sex sexual orientation because they no longer think that attraction is based on objective sex, but on subjective gender. The movement, in other words, has done a complete 180.Contemporary guardians of the gay rights legacy have queered sex and sexuality to a degree that they have rendered the categories of male and female, gay and straight, null and void. They merely use the vibes, colours and popular nostalgia of gay rights to promote instead a mishmash of utterly bonkers academic theories that have been combined into a confusing and stupid gloop we’ll just call queer. Legal sex falsification is just one of queer’s manifestations.But how is this volte-face reconciled with the requirements of fuddy duddy EU funding rules that still exist in the realm of legal texts, categories, and reality generally? According to Uibo’s observations, all the way back in 2014 already, there was a lot of dishonesty involved: “IGLYO used the discourse of LGBT in their communication with the European institutions while hoping to introduce an alternative discourse of queer,” Uibo claimed.“One way of balancing out the conservative expectations was using general and non-controversial topics in their funding applications.” “The wide yet mainstream topics could then serve as a disguise for more subversive ways of implementing the work plan that they received funding for.”Uibo included a direct quote from an unnamed IGLYO staffer: “…the fact that we have thematic areas starting now in 2014 that are social inclusion and intersectionality, which are quite broad themes, which gives a lot of leeway. [---] And within that we can work with more queer issues.”In other words, in order to promote (fluid, boundless, structureless) queer precepts for all, IGLYO pretend they are talking about the (fixed, named, immutable) identities of a few. And the EU, like all Western governments, are pretending that they haven’t noticed the switcheroo. Queer in the acronymIGYLYO added queer to their name (though not their acronym) in 2005 at a meeting in Krakow, Poland. There’s no evidence to suggest that they were doing anything other than simply catching up with a trend set by other global activists. The reclamation of queer had begun many years before. The first time a gay rights activist group used it was in 1990: San Francisco’s Queer Nation’s manifesto is a bolshy screed about reclaiming the slur in response to straight society’s expectation for gays to be discrete about their lives and desires.Queer had been picked up by academics — particularly in the literary criticism and feminism fields — who thought it was a good “lens” through which they could interpret other social phenomena with the same insider/outsider, normal/stigmatised dynamic. They were tickled by Michel Foucault’s view that identities related to sex and sexuality were actually just a kind of social control, self-enforced by sheep-like normies. Homosexuality, Foucault had claimed, is not an innate identity that one has, it’s just a thing one does. Whether or not you do it (and get condemned for it) is a product of the social forces prevalent in your lifetime. He was particularly incensed at the medical pathologisation of homosexuality, transsexuality, hermaphroditism, and paedophilia that was dominant while he was alive. But he also probably had a personal interest in absolving himself for his alleged rape of poor boys in Tunisian graveyards. It’s not that having sex with children is airquotes bad, he posited, it’s just that contemporary society has artificially labelled it so. Something something Greek and Roman pederasts. Indeed, Foucault’s ideas appealed (and appeal) to all kinds of wrong’uns who are only too happy to “problematise” widely-held moral judgments about their own personal perversions. The year he died of AIDS, 1984, Gayle Rubin published an essay about the forces of normalisation who greedily hoard power for themselves by inorganically assigning values like “natural” and “sinful” to things like sadomasochism and “cross-generational” sex (extreme side-eye emoji).After that, the problematising just kept coming. In 1990, the same year that Queer Nation launched its rhetorical offensive, the term queer theory was used in a university setting for the first time. At some point, the ultimate luxury belief began to crystalise: what if it’s not just straight and gay, deviant and vanilla, child rapist and non-child rapist that are social constructs — but the very categories man and woman, too? Ur-gender goblin Judith Butler took this to the extreme, suggesting that even biology — not just behavioral norms and identity labels — is also just a phantasm invented by people trying to kill your buzz.Women and men are performances, and they can thus simply stop performing, if they wish, said Butler et al. And many of them did wish, for all kinds of reasons, including of course, my personal faves: autogynephilic males who would swear allegiance to any batshit academic waffle if it would allow them to be the porn they wish to see in the world. Butler wrote the worst book ever in which she tortuously revealed the theory that we have all come to know and love: woman is heels giggle giggle, man is motorbikes vroom vroom.She thinks that the preponderance of male violence against women and girls, abundantly evidence in statistics, is simply a product of us all collectively assigning too much power to the penis. We all just have to make an agreement with each other that males are not, in fact, more likely to be murderously horny, and it shall be so.That’s just a quick contextual background on queer’s embryonic phase. Lots of people seem to love it, to the extent that it has taken over not just the professional LGBTIQ class, but has seeped into pretty much every academic domain you can think of. Yes, even forensic science, gardening, and drone warfare.The acronym takes off It was also in the 1990s that the use of an acronym-as-shorthand kicked off in earnest. “Gay” was associated more with men than with lesbians, and so the alphabet soup began to bubble: from G to GL to LG to LGB. By the turn of the millennium, it was common to see the LGB with the T. By the mid-2000s, it was standard. Adopting an acronym and gradually admitting a limited number of specific fixed sexual identities is extremely contra-queer: it’s using the master’s tools (protected categories) to dismantle the master’s house (the very concept of categories). It is also anathema to the original sexual liberationist hope of sexual freedom for everyone. The post-1960s expectation was that all sexual preferences would eventually be allowed to be freely expressed, but the acronym actually just represents a slowly-expanding list of the individual identities that ended up being deemed okay for general public consumption. A lot of the things that liberationists expected would be normalised — pederasty, BDSM, public sex, to name but a few — never got added to the soup.I think trans represents a demarcation line simply because it’s not one thing. People didn’t agree to giving free rein to cross-dressing fetishists to do their weird crap out in public. But it got added to the acronym because not all transvestites are crossdressing fetishists: some of them are femme gay lads like Marsha P. Johnson of “first brick” fame — which is why that f****r is so important to the narrative of trans-rights-as-LGBT-rights.Funky flamboyents like Johnson — a gay man who sometimes did drag — bridged us to married dads pretending to be sissy schoolgirls in supermarkets. Anything more radical than the T is still in the sexual liberation waiting room flipping through old copies of Business Week, queuing up for their turn at acceptation and institutionalisation. But the slope is not eternally slippery. There will always be a line (please let there always be a line).Zoophilic furries, diaper boys and other degenerates seem hopeful that they are next in the queue. But they are unlikely to ever find a Marsha P. Johnson type who can be reverse-engineered to make them more palatable.Queer gendershite These two different strands evolved in parallel: the highfalutin queer theory for elite funsies, and the politically necessary acceptability politics of LGBT acronymism. But something very bizarre happened: a hybrid model of the two has emerged. While sexual orientation and sex/gender are still considered fluid and changeable, as per queer theory, one thing is fixed: the trans person, including the trans child. But if we follow the ideas of Foucault and Butler et al, a fixed inner gender identity is the opposite of queer.You can hear Butler herself complain gently about this development in various recent appearances. She calls herself non-binary now, but she gets upset when this is taken to mean that she has an inner identity that is non-binary. Rather she’s trying to advertise to you that she has no inner identity. Nobody has one, is her point. But the kids, she says, don’t seem to get this. Indeed, Judith, they do not. Fourteen-year-olds don’t understand how “repetition, convergence, and rearticulation bring the question of temporality into the thinking of structure" because fourteen-year-olds are fourteen. They certainly do like the funky colours of the enby flag, though. What did you f*****g expect?Gender now means merely a performance of man, woman, both or neither, as well, somehow, as an innate and permanent sense of masculinity or femininity. And this sexed soul is considered natural (and not socially constructed!)? What’s more — Foucault rolls in his grave — being trans is so fixed within us that it needs medicalisation to be manifested for reals.This is the most obvious pileup at the intersection: the contradictory demand to depathologise trans, while also making sure trans people can have their bodies corrected by surgery and hormones.The permanence of inner gender is the reason the modern movement goes to such great lengths to pretend detransitioners don’t exist. But if they were following queer theory to the letter, detransitioners would be held up as the kings and queens of queer — even sexed souls sometimes decide to switch things up.The beginnings of IGLYOBy the time IGLYO incorporated queer into their name, the organisation had already existed for more than 20 years. It had started life as an international gay and lesbian meetup called “Friendships and Desires” in 1984 in Amsterdam. That event was an initiative of a Dutch gay rights organisation called COC (cock teehee) and I’m not trying to imply anything, or actually maybe I am, but when you look back through the history of pederast/paedophile inclusion in the gay rights movement, the early 1980s was its peak and the Netherlands was its HQ.COC, which had existed since 1946, had always had a hard time separating “man-boy love” from homosexuality, but they divorced the two under public pressure in the late 1950s. However, thanks to the influence of some nonce members, they reverted course in 1980, and adopted the official position that paedophilia must be considered a gay rights issue. It was in the midst of this paedo revival, in 1984, that COC decided the time was ripe to invite a roomful of “girls and boys” (ages 16- 27) to talk about their “friendships and desires”. The following year in Dublin, the youth gathering published a resolution calling for the abolition of age of consent laws. All age of consent laws. IGLYO currently advertise this resolution on their website. The youth group became IGYLO (the International Gay and Lesbian Youth Organisation) at their third event in Oslo in 1986. From the very beginning, they have been funded by the Dutch government and the Council of Europe (not an EU body). It was not until the 2010s that they began to get the first regular installments of megabux for the day-to-day running of the organisation from the EU budget.The world has moved on since 1985 and paedophile-emancipationists are back to plotting in the shadows of COC. There is zero evidence, to be clear, that IGLYO have any mission to change age of consent laws. They simply want an army of adults to go into your children’s school and talk to them about their sexual identities, behind your back, which is totally different.I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about.Fast forward to gender In 2004, the year before they took on queer, IGLYO announced plans to discuss how all this newfangled gender and gender identity stuff applies to LGBT rights. According to the documentation I can find from the time, the subject seemed very new to them and they clumsily stumbled over its meaning (didn’t we all, mate). “If I am a certain gender, will I still be regarded as part of the human/community/society I belong to?” they wondered adorably, a unsafe-spacism that could get them mass-reported on BlueSky if they wondered it out loud today. And get this: they wondered if subjective gender identities would “be recognised to the others upon whom I depend for social existence?” Ha! All such consideration for reality and the existence of others has since vanished.What do IGLYO do? Nowadays, IGLYO functions as a factory for churning out activists who can lobby their domestic governments for legislative changes based on this bastardised queer gendershite philosophy, under the guise of LGBTIQ rights. They run a travelling roadshow called the Activist Academy in which they teach under-30s from all over Europe how to run these decentralised queer lobbying franchises.Another major axis of their activities is a lobbying tool that “rates” countries on the degree to which their legislation and, in particular, education policy, has been queered.The country-ranking gimmick is standard NGO fare, and it involves surveying members on the state-of-play in their home countries according to a bunch of set criteria. The results are used by activists to bludgeon lawmakers into doing something about their “bad grade”. It essentially allows them to generate data that says whatever they want it to say. Like, hilariously, the UK got the same score as f*****g Moldova this year, a country where only 9% of young people in the capital (I repeat: young people in the capital) have a positive view of LGBTIQ people. On what planet is Moldova on an equal footing with the UK, a country whose state broadcaster’s incessant ball-cupping of transvestites has become a national embarrassment? It was simply IGLYO’s way of wagging their finger at the UK Supreme Court ruling that the word “woman” means “woman”. This scoreboard, a very real reflection of reality, is faithfully rehashed by policymakers and obedient truth-seekers in the press, who love a ready-made LGBTIQ ranking story. The multiple meanings of queer When IGLYO adopted the word queer in their name, there is no hint that they knew they were on a slow roll towards abandoning material reality in favour of a weird, wordy French post-structuralist philosophy. As the academic concept of queer continued to evolve, university graduates who had been exposed to it via humanities subjects began to take up policy and communication positions in European governing, funding and philanthropic institutions. The brainrot began to spread to other organs.Throughout, queer has remained flexible enough that it can be quirked up or down according to a given audience’s sensibilities. Sometimes, it’s merely shorthand for all the letters in the acronym. Elsewhere it means all the other letters that don’t fit but that are just as Valid. Sometimes, it’s the f**k-you Queer Nation version of the word, and sometimes it’s the classic academic one. How very queer that queer has multiple interpretations! Queer as a catchallThis first explanation — that it’s just a handy catch-all to describe all the identities in the rainbow — seems plausible, considering the movement’s permanent expansion of who it claims to represent. After about 50 years of tacking identity groups on to the G, things got seriously unwieldy, and political messaging became a conceptual and actual mouthful. From gay men to gay women to bisexuals, to the TS/TV/CD/AGP paraphiliacs, to the gay boys groomed into GAM girlhood by chasers on platforms like Reddit, to drag queens (those guys are really milking it), it has even expanded to include people who just don’t like having sex, and even people who were born with extremely rare genetic disorders that can affect the appearance of their genitals at birth.As queer essentially just means “weird”, the label has also eased the adding of “generic misfit teen” to the pot, an innovation that has bulked the movement’s numbers by orders of magnitude. And it’s been a boon for heterosexuals who are eager for oppressed status but who aren’t willing to put in the required suffering. It’s especially been a hit with straight women I like to call “CV bisexuals”. You know the type. Not only have all these new identities been added to the acronym, the meanings of the old identities have been flipped. It’s a bit like Trigger’s sweeping brush in the Only Fools and Horses joke: he won an award for saving the council money by using the same broom for twenty years. Mind you, he’s changed the head 17 times and the handle 14 times. Queer as a reclamation That queer is just a way of saving on ink and acronym when describing this endlessly-expanding motley assemblage is the neatest telling. The other most common claim — that it’s being taken back on behalf of the people it was originally intended to denigrate — does not stand up to scrutiny.“Cis white gay men” have fallen out of favour in the movement they spearheaded and are now as hated as any another oppressor in the queerocracy (“genital preference” lesbians having been dumped by the roadside ages ago). They’re the in-house enemies number one, especially if they’re not immigrants/homeless and/or drug addicted, and extra-specially if they’re hot.Bottom of the gay male heap are the men who treated equal marriage as the be-all and end-all of LGBTIQ rights. These straight-laced acceptables who garnered normie support tend to live unremarkable lives, regularly wash their balls, and put out the bins on the right day. Just like you. The freakytimes greasylocked polyeverything “sexual minorities” who neither get the bins right nor tend to their undercarriages are furious at the bourgeois arrogance of the suggestion that equal marriage changed anything for them.It’s not a coincidence that another academic theory — intersectionality — began to be applied to sexuality around 2012 when assimilation was reaching its peak as a gay rights goal. It was a fancy way to problematise (moan about) the male, pale and stale integrationist message of mainstream organising. The rise of victimhood culture Intersectionality posits that having more than one marginalised identity creates a whole new third category of combo-marginalisation (wow such theory). It really is no more complicated than that. It offers no wisdom as to what you should do about it except, perhaps, use it to get grant money to hire a black transvestite prostitute, or a wheelchair-bound gypsy with impetigo.However, it is presented as some kind of profoundly knotty scholarly concept that requires a guru who can grift off, I mean explain, its perceived complexity. Suffice to say there’s a lot of hand-waving involved in the 1.5-hour workshop your HR manager booked to explain it. In practice, intersectionality is a bonobo-level hierarchy-wrangle dressed up as a fancy critical social justice theory. And if you don’t have oppression, it must be you who is the oppressor. That’s why young people these days (shakes fist at the sky) are adopting labels that are as far from the hegemonic standard as possible, because it helps them rack up social capital. Luckily for all you fat f***s out there, being unable to stop overeating is a type of oppression, imposed by man-made beauty standards (also something to do with white supremacy, I’m hearing) and it has nothing to do with human pattern recognition that helps identify healthy mates to share your genetic material with. Bon appetit! The amalgamation and elevation of compounded victimhoods has resulted in the celebration of some of the worst things in the world: dysfunction, narcissism, self-pity, laziness, fragility, perversion, self-hatred, the traffic and sale of women’s bodies, mental illness, incivility, obesity, ugliness, and extreme racism. It pits persecution pyramid climbers against an invisible universe of trads and chads, the people who call themselves “normal”, who terrorise and subjugate them for falling outside the rigid bounds of normalcy. Might I speculate: all this crowing about intersectionality might explain why some elder gays are such obnoxious promoters of sex-denialist trans nonsense. They had the public at their feet for decades, relatively speaking, and now they’re getting a lot of internal flack for platforming the particularities of their own issues (AIDS funding, marriage rights) as all that mattered. Sometime around 2012, as part of an EU funding programme called PROGRESS, IGLYO got money for anti-discrimination work which required them to incorporate intersectionality into their workplan. It was with this cash that they produced an Intersectionality Toolkit in 2013 and in October of the same year, the sidelining of beige gays intensified when they made it a strategic focus area. TLDR: the level of scorn for the grayscale OG homosexual activist discredits the theory that the resurrection of the word queer by today’s activists is intended to restore dignity to the men who originally suffered under its contempt. What IGLYO mean by queer These are tame explanations for queer, the ones that are suitable for prime time. But what do IGLYO mean by the word? While they may use a subdued version in front of funders and officials, a closer look under the hood reveals that they are adhering to the bastardised fixed-yet-fluid queer/trans/intersectional patchwork of barmy beliefs as described earlier. It’s the queer theory hypothesis favoured by sickos and scholars (identities are constructed, in flux), combined with self-indulgent, power-obsessed intersectionality theory (you are your grievance labels), all topped off with the notion of the immovable trans soul. In other words, men are sometimes lesbian women, women are sometimes actually gay men, men and women can be neither men nor women, they can be both men and women at the same time. Penises are not male organs, if the wielder wants, and fannies are not just for females. Sexual orientation is just a vibe that changes throughout your lifetime (and is largely hair-length-preference dependent, as far as I can tell) and you’re a genital fetishist if you have a preference for a particular sexed body. Oh, and sexual dimorphism is just a tool of racist and colonialist control.And at the same time, all people have a fixed inner sexed soul, called a gender identity, that never changes. This identity is expressed outwards using irreversible body modifications, clothes, intense cognitive self-deception, and constant external validation-seeking as well as — and this part is most crucial — hair length modification. How we got here This fixed/fluid hybrid model of queer emerged, I suspect, simply because of political coalition-building.Pre-social media, queering everything was not at all a goal of the “transsexual” activists who dealt with the European institutions — the people who laid the legal groundwork in European courts that led to the rejigging of “sex” to include “gender reassignment” in equality law.Ye old transsexuals very much believed in the primacy of the binary. There are two human sexes, they knew, and they had a deep desire to be the other one.Starting in the 2010s, with the rise and rise of social media, girls began finding out online about transsexuals’ cool sex-escape game, and they flocked to it. They learned that courts and governments were endorsing the delusion that you could abandon the painful reality of your sex, and they spread the news of this contagious cop-out. Meanwhile, male transvestites had long wanted permission to take their sexual fantasy public without committing to the chop (or the divorce). As such, they had an interest in challenging the existing legal and medical model that had been built up over decades. However, by doing so, they would make the long-standing TS/TV distinction defunct, much to the chagrin of the original sex mimics who were worried that their carefully crafted fiction would go down the toilet.An odd new throuple — young women with dissociative identities, non-op transvestites, and poor gay male prostitutes larping as sex dolls (read more on those guys here) — needed a mutually coherent and broader theory of “trans” to replace the established medico-legal fiction. What origin story could they tell themselves, each other and the world? Queer theory was right there.But in order to accommodate the beliefs of the understandably cranky OG transsexual in the new “trans” cohort, they would have to somehow shoehorn in the idea that some women are not performances at all, but real women who somehow managed to get trapped inside men’s bodies (and vice versa). You can hear Judith Butler struggle sometimes over this corruption of queer, but she’s decided it’s not worth haggling over it.Queering education On the surface, IGLYO claim that their work aims to protect gay kids from being bullied, and to spread the message that being same-sex attracted (or a butch girl/feminine boy) is normal and fine, which it is. However, everything they do is underpinned by this utterly warped hodge-podge view of reality. “Bullying” and “exclusion”, as per IGLYO, refers to anything that impedes a young person’s descent into this utterly head-melting ideology. “Inclusive education” requires not just adapting school admin policy and procedures to reflect a trans-identifying student’s newfound sexed soul i.e. their new chosen name and preferred pronouns. It also includes granting them access to school facilities that “match” their fake new identity. It requires teachers, admin and service staff to collude in the lie, and to admonish or even punish students who refuse to go along with it. This “gender affirmation” should be done regardless of the student’s state of mental health, regardless of their parents’ opinion on the topic, and regardless of what other students think, want or need. “Achieving” inclusive education also involves embedding all this into the teaching curriculum — not just the existence of gays and lesbians, gender stereotype non-conformists, and non-traditional families — but all the Tumlbr-inspired identity wishcasting, power-knowledge queer precepts, and intersectional point-scoring.And you don’t have to wait for teacher training to be officially queered, says IGLYO’s Jeremy Gobin — you can just go right ahead and introduce your own materials.Turning pupils into activists Last month, IGLYO advertised a job opening for a consultant who can help them create a programme to tackle “anti-gender discourse”. The consultant is expected to “identify strategies to empower students, including through media literacy and youth-led initiatives, to enhance their resilience against anti-gender discourse.”“The anti-gender movement” is the Fancy Name given at an institutional level to anyone who objects to queer. The term strategically wraps rational opposition to the ideology inside opposition to unobjectionable things like women’s basic rights. Sold as one package, it’s easier to make you seem like a bad person for opposing it. Humans should be able to decide whatever sex category they belong to, including psychopaths, criminals and perverts (aka exactly the types of people you don’t want “living their lives as their true authentic selves”), and if you oppose this, you are anti-gender. This is the message the consultant’s work will transmit to children, though they probably won’t put it like that. Toryn Glavin, a particularly vindictive Irish transvestite, is a comms officer for IGLYO. He has been giving activist training sessions on defeating the anti-gender movement and transphobes like me. It’s a topic about which he can be considered a subject matter expert. Glavin, a Disney Adult and Star Trek AGP, whose girlfriend is also pretending to be the opposite sex, doxxed female mental health professionals who questioned the wisdom of banning exploratory therapy for gender-confused kids. He helped animate a major smear campaign against them that, one of the women said, badly derailed her personal and professional life.I wonder if doxxing will be part of the anti-gender “resilience” school resource?The best practice database IGLYO has also created a database of best practices for teachers and schools.Bear in mind as you read this partial list that these resources are being presented as appropriate for children going through the most intense period of identity formation of their lives. Also remember that the children most receptive to the ideas contained within are often suffering from mental illnesses and other vulnerabilities: children referred to the disgraced Tavistock gender identity clinic were ten times more likely than the national average to have a parent who was a registered sex offender. 97.5% of them had been diagnosed with either autism, depression or some other mental health issue.The Dutch best practice resource, to which IGLYO points, addresses kids directly. It not only states outright that some people are born in the wrong body, but that they can “stop/and or delay” their puberty if they wish. Horrifyingly, it links straight to the infamous Amsterdam “Dutch protocol” gender clinic. Belgium’s teacher guide for 12-14-year-olds claims that “it is necessary for (the children) to have knowledge of the possibilities of voluntary body modifications in the event that they are planning to undertake a gender transition”, among many, many other horrors.The most recent article on the website of a recommended UK resource, Diversity Role Models, talks up the importance of chosen families for kids who “feel misunderstood or become estranged” from their actual families. It links to an article on the topic that claims that, in such a context, “those who fill this void (are) even more special”. I actually agree with IGLYO that this is a brilliant resource — for groomers.Diversity Role Models also offer teachers a library of inspiring videos, including one of Petra, the Women’s Institute troon, a man who gave in to his fetish at 68 after a bad bout of colitis (many such cases). Petra has deemed it necessary in multiple interviews to insist, without being asked, that he’s not pretending to be a woman for the sexual thrill. Weird thing to keep bringing up, Dave! The French best practice sends us to SOS Homophobie, the organisation that orchestrated a complaint against a gynecologist for refusing to see a male patient pretending to be a woman. The gynecologist told the man he only treats real women and not men who have shaved their beards (lol), a reasonable reaction to a bad review left by one of the SOS Homophobie activists. The doctor was suspended for a month with no pay, and a criminal complaint is pending. SOS Homophobie also organised exhibitions this summer in Paris and Lyon about “genital preference” within the LGBTIQ movement. The ad for the event shows a naked woman covered in thick hair from synthetic testosterone treatment, with her breasts surgically cut off, and her legs spread open. Under her mastectomy scars are the words “not a man without a zizi?” — zizi being the word children use for penis. One of the lesson plans promoted by the German NGO, Queer Format, involves sitting the kids in a circle and throwing a ball to each other. When each kid gets the ball, they have to announce the name they want to be known as in class. The same organisation has a module on queering the biology curriculum.IGLYO staff and statementsA number of the school guides, like this Portuguese one, strongly imply that transition should be kept from parents if the child requests. This is also the position of IGLYO, as subtly suggested in the material they created for teachers.Last year, they were one of the signatories of a letter condemning the UK for putting the brakes on the prescription of puberty blockers. The letter cites WPATH, an activist NGO larping as an evidence-based medical association, whose most recent standards of care recommend the castration of men and boys who identify as eunuchs. Feminist writer Genevieve Gluck later discovered that WPATH was working with a fetish website for self-identified eunuchs that features pornographic stories about castrating children. In 2022, IGLYO hosted a workshop on BDSM to “look into the wide array of fetishes and discuss common misconceptions …. and explore if BDSM can be categorised as an orientation in and of itself.” The IGLYO member association that made the presentation once invited a BDSM group into a secondary school where they had a “munch”. Current IGLYO deputy director, Ru Ávila Rodríguez, once wrote a research paper called “Bareback Sex Sexualities” in which he claimed that safe sex is a social construct (how very Foucauldian). The person who managed the organisation before the current director took over runs a literal BDSM sex dungeon about an hour’s drive from Brussels. She’s also pretending to be a man, of course. IGLYO are also great mates with the European pimp lobby, ESWA, naturally.The public comments of the current executive director, Bella Fitzgerald, also give a good idea of IGLYO’s ideological direction of travel. She issued a personal statement on their website in 2023 saying children should not be “outed” to their parents if they are socially transitioning in school (the fact that it wasn’t signed off by IGLYO is perhaps a reflection of how their sponsors might feel about promoting such obvious safeguarding risks). She wants schools to be places of radical change and thinks that the world — a broken place — should be “child-led”. When giving a talk at Google (the marginalisation!) she said she liked being referred to as she/her because she wants you to perceive her as a woman, suggesting that it is a role that she is performing. (The thought of such retrograde ideas being presented to children as progressive makes me so angry I could launch a thousand plates at a wall.)Fitzpatrick also wants everyone to stop using words like brother and sister because they imply that old oppressive binary. “The younger you get them, the more cool they are with everything,” she has said about children, who “have a completely fluid sense of gender. They are obsessed with it.”You don’t say?Bring your hole self to work More worryingly, I looked into the organisation she ran in Ireland for years, an NGO called ShoutOut, who have given workshops to 84,000 secondary school children to date. ShoutOut’s volunteers emphasise bringing their own personal stories into the classroom. The person who currently runs it is the newly-trooned Ruadhán Ó’Críodáin (translating your name into Irish is like a pheromone that helps the Irish gentry recognise each other). She’s the one who retweeted Toryn Glavin’s doxxing screenshots (see photo above) and she’s now an IGLYO board member. Ó’Críodáin wears the pink triangle of 1980s AIDS activism because she thinks her funky moveable identity feast is related to that tragedy in some way. In this photo, it looks like she’s even put a fake penis-shaped thing down her trousers for extra LARPery. This woman has been going into Irish secondary schools in her Freddie Mercury Halloween costume telling teenage girls that she is actually a man, and that they might be too. And she’s not even the most mentally ill posh woman giving these workshops, some of whom have claimed that volunteering for ShoutOut helps them feel better about their maladaptive identity fantasies.I managed to get in touch with someone who participated in one of their volunteer training sessions. This person told me: “There was not much about LGB. We were told we can use whatever acronym we want but make sure we don’t cut it off before the T,” and “The overall opinion was that there are not enough labels.”“Everyone (at the training) was queer. Lots of them were what we used to call DFM (desperate for mates), people looking for a community and are using labels to make friends. Arrested development, neurodiversity and rumination were all prevalent. “Oh and literally everything is fluid.” “Overall I came out entirely confused, and thought how the f**k are they allowed near children who are going through the most confusing developmental time in their lives. If a child latches on to it, there is no off-ramp for them unless they are willing to lose friendships.” When discussing objections or incoherencies at the ShoutOut training, the volunteers are told to always bring it back to accepting people as whatever they say they are. You can see this in Bella Fitzpatrick’s response to a skeptical-sounding questioner during at a talk she gave to a roomful of people from the organisation TIGALA, who work with extremely vulnerable children going through the Irish courts system (for f***s saaake!!!)“Who assigns it?” asks an off-camera TERFy questioner, referring to Fitzpatrick’s assertion that sex is assigned at birth. Fitzpatrick waffles and quips about midwives and vaginas for a bit before ultimately settling on: just Be Kind. The person who attended the ShoutOut training also told me that the trainer was bullied in school for being a nerd. The impression they got was that this was “a way to vent and get paid for it.” Indeed: claiming to be queer has given a lot of status-obsessed nerdy faulx a way to get their own back on their bullies in the uncoolest way possible: they’re here, they’re queer, and they’re betting on a high-status human rights career.I was so alarmed at what I found out about ShoutOut that I wrote to the Irish ministry for education and asked if they were aware of what’s going on. Do they know that ShoutOut don’t even police vet their volunteers? They just passed the buck back to the schools. The receipts pile grows higher.Focussing inward This franken ideology, and its dubious adherents, have no place in a school environment because it plunges children into a dangerous sense of unreality. It also celebrates transgression, destabilises identities, and deligitilimises boundaries that are required to keep kids safe. IGLYO’s recommendation to teach kids critical theory concepts about power systems invites kids to laser-focus inwards and find characteristics about themselves that become central to their developing idea of who they are. If they identify a disadvantage, something counter to the norm, or an advantage, something that puts them in the majority, this influences their feelings of worth and incentivises victimhood. Fitzpatrick, for example, is obsessed with her body size and thinks fat people should be considered as attractive as thin people (in this video she calls people who are not overweight “straight-sized” people lol). She is also angry that bisexuals don’t get enough attention and recognition for their speshulness.This narcissism is being passed off to children as virtue. It’s so dumb and dangerous. Consider the concept of “queering consent” in sex education, featured at a recent IGLYO conference: it suggests that consent should be seen through the prism of power relations. According to the workshop facilitator, consent is “the absolute antithesis to ideologies of mastery, of imperialism, to the police, to punishment, to surveillance and oppression.” What?Sure, some people submit to sex due to a power dynamic that makes them feel unable to say no. But the last thing you want your daughter to be thinking of when she’s being subjected to unwanted sexual advances is where she sits in the power pyramid of privilege. She could be thee Queen of f*****g Sheba and it should still play no part in the decision to tell a creep to f**k off. This is all utterly confusing tosh for teenage girls, who are both intensely eager to Be Kind and the target of a level of sexual objectification that they are not yet habituated to.Whether or not a child gets exposed to this kind of derangement depends entirely on the luck of the draw i.e. the ideological positioning of an individual teacher or administration. TERFs have long been knowin’ this. IGLYO know it too, which is why they are trying to make it compulsory in education at all levels.I went to the conferenceI’ve always wanted to know how they tiptoe around the horror of what they are actually advocating for in real life. So when I learned that they were having an in-person "queering education” conference in Barcelona, called Proud Pupils, and that some EU and local government officials were on the programme, I nearly smashed my phone screen booking a ticket (thanks for your support!)I’ve worked in Brussels for nearly 20 years, so I am aware that conferences and seminars hosted by government-funded NGOs (an oxymoron) exist for their own sake, not because there is an urgency for their contents. It’s just what NGOs do in a Potemkin participatory democracy. The requirement to throw some sort of a regular shindig fits into the “dissemination” section of the grant application, and you’ve got a full-time events officer to feed. Gather all ye stakeholders. My intention was to find out how the conceptual and linguistic straitjacket would be maintained in situ over three whole days plus networking parties in front of normie officials. It’s easy to spoof your way through your “About us” page. But what if someone asks for specifics?I recently met up with a devastated mother who found out her daughter was going by a different name at school — and the teachers were in on it. She told me that she suspected, but couldn’t be sure, that there was some level of coordination between the staff. Would there be a workshop at the Proud Pupils event about what this behind-the-scenes coordination between teachers should entail?Would anyone share their favourite transable historical heroines, women we can tell children were actually men-after-all, because they were smart and strong and brave? Would anyone explain how, exactly, one should go about weaving polyamorous family setups into the geography curriculum? What about “undoing” the concepts of mother, father, sister, brother in the brains of kids, who had been exposed since birth to these oppressive concepts?Or how should one counter religious objections to teaching 14-year-olds about “transactional sex” as my kids will be subjected to in the Belgian public school system?How cardboard would the conversations at this conference be, if we’re avoiding details? How wooden the panel discussions, how painful the pauses? Would anyone actually admit what we’re really talking about?Almost inside Dentons DenI never got to find out, because I was thrown out of the conference before it even started.I had managed to make it to the opening ceremony, which was a bizarre mix of formal PowerPoint presentations interspersed with awkward jokes from the host, a horrifically unfunny local sex-clown. I was with my friend Annette, a Barcelona-based kiwi TERF who has a really good podcast on Iberico-troonism (subscribe now!) She managed to evade detection, and made it to the conference for the entire three days. We talked about it in a podcast episode we recorded shortly after the event. You can listen to the episode here.The morning after the opening ceremony, as I was entering the plenary, I was approached by Bella Fitzpatrick, who was replete in the uniform of the queer elite (technicolored clothes, lanyard, posh accent, obese, zany tattoos). I had registered under a different name, but Fitzpatrick had figured out who I am. She asked: have I no concern for “their humanity”? It was a question that was easily returned to sender.I was very happy to talk to Fitzpatrick because people like her never agree to talk to me. But during our short conversation, I did some wrongspeaks, using words that go against IGLYO’s code of conduct. This was the excuse to throw me out — but I suspect the whole thing was a setup, judging by the gotcha expression on Fitzpatrick’s face when I used the word “cult” to describe the cult she’s in. The last thing a cult wants, of course, is someone wandering around accurately observing what’s being said and done, so I was led out by Fitzpatrick and a cute young guy who I later found out is one of IGLYO’s in-house racists (European NGOs are still burning through those George Floyd-era race-bait grants).On the walk to the exit, Fitzpatrick said something like: you don’t get any money to host your own conferences (the nee-naw nee-naw nee-naw was implied, but unspoken).Later, the more I thought about it, the more I thought about it: what an incredible admission of the David and Goliath-nature of the situation. I suspect it was intended to remind me of the completeness of the dominance of the queer lobby over the levers of European government. And this coming from the oppressor-oppressed-obsessed! She was absolutely correct. Despite how dirt-common my opinions are (women are real, perverts are too, and children are not mature enough to decide to sterilise or permanently modify their bodies), people like me have been completely shut out of the decision-making process. Last year, the bolts got twisted even tighter when EU financial rules changed to exclude anyone for consideration for financial support if they “incite hatred” against a group, which is how criticism of queer gendershite is always framed. If ever there was a chance of a grant for e.g., LGB Alliance Germany, Voorzij, or Isomer getting support for their work with gender-questioning gay people, that’s probably all over now.Out on the streetsOnce I had been thrun out on the street, I went to the police to report this breech of muh rights on the advice of Feministes de Catalunya. I went up to the tourist-friendly copshop at Las Ramblas where people go to report getting mugged, shot, stabbed and raped. “Um, I was forced to leave a conference because of my opinions,” I told the heavily-armed police woman at the barricaded entrance of the station. She was like ñah.Feministes de Catalunya immediately put together a press release to lament — yet again — the lack of protections for women who speak up against the queer lobby in Spain. They were particularly incensed because the event was attended and sponsored by the regional government. I emailed Fitzpatrick to ask if we could go have a chat together to hash out our different worldviews, perhaps over a beer when we were both back in Brussels. No response. I later found out from Annette that she said I am “right-wing” and “funded by a Hungarian think-tank,” and “very fascist.”This idea that women can’t come to our own conclusions about gendershite without Daddy Orban offers a neat peek into the misogyny of this ideology — critical thinking and opinion-having are male traits that people with the gender identity “woman” have no access to.I’m very fond of Frank Furedi who runs MCC Brussels, aka “Orban’s think tank” (he has a good Substack). I’ve been to his organisation’s events when they pertain to women’s rights, not just because it’s the only GC game in town but because Furedi is a very interesting person and the staff there are an all-round lovely bunch of chaps (lots of chaps!) They’re far too conservative for my personal politics, though.My attendance at MCC Brussels events is supposed to discredit me, or perhaps prove that women do, in fact, have dicks. But it’s entirely unnecessary to spread the lie that I am working for the Hungarian government. The respectability larp that applies to IGLYO doesn’t apply to me because I’m free. I’m not running a multi-million euro scam that requires lying about my objectives. I can say it loud and say it clear: ultra-conservative opinions are welcome (and carefully considered, and politely declined) here. But I did write to Fitzpatrick again to ask her to tone down the defamation — not only did she imply that I’m some sort of paid-up Putinista, she also said I was aggressive during our conversation at the conference. I told her my secret recording of the incident disproves that. I never heard back.Misrepresenting the interests of the public What should get on your tits is that IGLYO is very generously funded with EU money on the basis that they represent the interests of the public. All of the big queer NGOs that get operational money from the EU budget — IGLYO, ILGA-Europe, ILGA-World, TGEU, ELC, and OII — claim to act as “civil society” bulwarks against corporate influence and institutional indifference that would otherwise tilt laws and policies too far in the direction of profit maximisation. But riddle me this: what claim do they have to represent the interests of the public if they have to go to great lengths to keep said public from finding out what they do? They’re no different from corporate lobbyists who represent a niche special interest that serves only a small number of stakeholders — one that is heavily weighted towards its own self-perpetuation. The tobacco industry went to great lengths to keep the public from finding out the consequences of using their products. They pretended for decades that sucking on burning cancer sticks was a harmless fun thing that hot people do. Likewise, producers of forever chemicals don’t get into the details of their wares. They sell innovation, a strong economy, and eggs that don’t stick to the pan.Gender vendors do the same thing. They are selling a world in which nobody bullies the sissies anymore, and the word f****t is relegated to the same disgraced place in history as the word nigger (yeah, I typed it). Who would be against that? Their actual agenda only emerges in the finer amendments of legislative drafts and in private meetings with EU officials that they keep failing to list in the transparency register. People chose freely to smoke, but what happened when they were told in plain language (and plain images) what these products actually contain?An unearned haloThe thing that fundamentally differentiates IGLYO from corporate lobbyists is not their salary ranges or their governance structures, but their halo. IGLYO has a halo. ILGA-Europe has a halo. TGEU, ELC, OII — all of them have unearned halos so nobody looks closely at what they’re up to.But it’s not goodness that’s emanating from their heads. It’s an anti-scrutiny forcefield. No other “minority group” has the level of influence and cashflow that the queer lobby has. No other “underrepresented community” gets as much money for project grants, operational grants, and salaries for full-time pronoun w*****s to put their fingers in every legislative and policy pie, including those with nothing to do with social issues.The dependency of queer NGOs on Brussels has intensified since the shuttering of USAID at the beginning of the Second Trumpocene. In private meetings and undeclared drinkypoos, EU officials are currently being lobbied pick up the slack now that the bizarre, 14-year American GloboHomo project is over. The announcement for the next operational grants are out soon. Watch this space. The courts coercionThe most frighteningly effective way that this weirdo ideology is being coercively enforced in the EU is via court cases brought before two supranational court systems: the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg.As of the end of 2024, there were 10 pending cases (and 7 closed) that concerned gender identity. Gender identity didn’t appear in any EU text of any type until 2011 and it’s still not a grounds of discrimination in any law. It would never get through because the final stop in the life of an EU law is via ministries of the EU countries (called the Council of Ministers) which includes, of course, all the homo-skeptic brutes from the churchy East.That’s why it’s up to activists in the courts to coax gender identity into being as a real thing that really exists, and legal sex falsification as a European value or even a right, via downlow legal shenanigans.You’ll hear very little about these cases in the press, but their consequences are huge because some of the outcomes are enforceable by law. The photo below show reps from ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe celebrating the outcome of the Mirin case in late 2024. The complainant in the case, Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, is the bearded lady second from your left. To woman in the middle is her lawyer from the (EU-funded) ELN legal network, Iustina Ionescu. The Mirin ruling essentially means that Romania, and all EU countries, have to grant legal sex falsification to any EU citizen who has had it falsified in another EU member state. Effectively, it forces sex self-identification even on countries that haggled over it and decided against it. So does the outcome of the Shipov case, also ruled this year. Since those rulings, an Austrian woman whose legal sex was falsified as “X” or “non-binary” in Germany has since been able to force the Austrian admin to fake her documents there, too.The money for this “strategic litigation” also comes from the EU budget through NGOs and legal networks, and it is justified as “holding member states to account” for upholding EU law.But EU law says absolutely nothing about sex falsification. Such matters have always been left to member states. The laws upon which these recent victories have been won are: free movement (your documents issued in one place must be accepted in another — Mirin and Shipov), data privacy (the right to have incorrect information about you corrected — Deldits) and again, data law (not to have to choose between Mr. and Mrs. because it’s discriminatory against something called “non-binary people” — Mousse).The last one, the Mousse case, is bananas: the very reasonable-sounding Trojan Horse (rail companies don’t need to know your sex to sell you a train ticket) hides the army within (“non-binary people”, who definitely exist, are discriminated against by the lack of a third option, according to the judgement). I tried to see which European media covered the non-binary train ticket story and found nothing outside legal or Brussels press. There was zero reporting on Mirin, even in Brussels media, and even the right-wing, Eurosceptic Brussels Signal pooh-poohed my insistence that the ruling matters. The utterly cowed mainstream media has not only shied away from reporting on the duplicitous legal maneuvering around the most contentious social issue of our time, they have also kept the most egregious (and utterly predictable) consequences of legal sex falsification out of mainstream consciousness. I’m talking about the prison attacks, sports cheats, children taken from non-affirming parents’ homes, European refugee status granted to a TERF for misgendering a man in Brazil, or the reported 700% rise in penetrative rapes committed by “women” in Spain.Here’s how the intrepid reporters at Investigate Europe (finally, finally, finally) tackled the trans issue: stunning and brave trans people were forcefully sterilised for decades, and may be entitled to compensation. Nowhere in the report, which came out last week, does the truth-seeking journalist mention that the practice of castration didn’t arise originally because of oppressive regimes, but because these “poor victims” were men with such deep genital dysphoria (castration fetishes?) that they threatened to resort to DIY de-bollocking in the bath so desperate were they to remove their junk. Instead, the writer is trying to pretend it’s a similar kind of scandal to the one in which Irish women were subjected to symphysiotomies. I can’t tell if the journalist, Ella Joyner, is just advertising her status-boosting Kindness credentials, or if she actually didn’t do enough research to know about it. The beclowning of the field of journalism continues.It all makes sense when you remember that the media is just another part of the corporate sector, and the corporate sector is completely trooned out and DEIified. Combine that with the fact that the editor’s sister’s best friend’s daughter is now a boy called Noah and you will all bow to the adolescent angst of this quirky chungus or your future on the news team is in question.Things can only get worseIt wouldn’t matter to me what the guiding philosophy of all the rainbow NGOs is, or how the influence saucisse is made, if the result was that young gender non-conforming people were doing well.It’s difficult to get data on this because the people in charge of generating it, like IGLYO, have every interest in convincing their funders that their constituency is in a bad state. That’s just an unfortunate feature of the donor-dependent NGOcracy. This doom-loop will intensify now that the EU is embarking on a mental health strategy because, as with every new initiative, funding opportunities follow. This will incentivise IGLYO to insist that everything is going very very badly for LGBTIQ kids so that they can get their hands on them grants. But if your central claim is that sex is a phantasm, and that disagreeing with that statement constitutes a hate crime, then of course things are getting worse and are unlikely to ever get better. The marginalisation is limitless if those are your terms. Even the EU admits that their strategy (due to be renewed any day now) has been a bit of a flop, acknowledging in 2023 that there had been a rise in “anti-gender” rhetoric since it launched. The young people who need gay rights advocacy the most — those who live in deeply conservative cultures in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia — are suffering the worst fallout of the queering of the movement. Their societies were not very receptive to even basic civil rights for gays to begin with, even less so now that it’s been bundled up with queer gendershite. The backlash is directed against the whole package, and even the EU itself, is forcing activists have to adhere ever more closely to Denton’s advice.Resistance to all-the-thingsThe specifics of what IGLYO want would fit on a banner. But while “trans rights are human rights” is a message everyone can get behind, “block sexual and brain development at Tanner Stage 2” is not. Compare the information-density of even just the name of British charity Sex Matters and IGLYO, the forgettable acronym-with-hidden-extras. Sex Matters put their entire philosophy right there in the name. Or check out the difference between the concrete statements of TERFs versus the Stepfordisms of the “LGBTIQ+ community” and their “allies” who responded to the EU’s public consultation on an upcoming strategy. Vague niceties like “inclusive education for all learners” are essential for giving EU officials cover to support this bedlamic woke crap. It gives them permission to accept invitations to their events. It allows them to pretend that they don’t know that under the tower of “anti-bullying” mattresses lies the pea that (hopefully) keeps them all awake at night: activist doctors are blocking little boys’ puberty so that when they grow up, chasers will find them more f******e. They won’t tweet the hashtag that most closely corresponds with IGLYO’s mission, #TransitionWithoutParentalConsent or #PubertyIsAChoice. They’ll tweet #TransRightsForAll instead and in, oh I don’t know, ten years from now? they can plausibly say that they had no idea when they keynoted all those events and signed off on all those grants that what they were really supporting was the destruction of the minds and bodies of a few generations of tomboys. If only IGYLO would rename themselves Sex Doesn’t Matter perhaps everyone might realise they are not Gay Rights Two Point Oh.This is not what anyone thought they were gettingAll this delusion and grievance dressed up as peace-n-love acceptance is not what anyone thought was meant by “equal rights”. Equal rights means the right not to be beaten up, fired, not-hired, harassed, bullied, excluded from services, or denied benefits on on the basis of particular characteristics. Most people who go to Pride think that’s what the party is about. The straight women in rainbow cowboy hats sipping 2pm Caipirinhas don’t know that they’re celebrating, inter alia, the right of an autistic lesbian teenager, gruesomely disguised as a boy, to force her school mates not to perceive her as female, under threat of sanction.Public skepticism is forcing queer NGOs like IGLYO to camouflage themselves behind not just gay rights, but also women’s rights, children’s rights, and even democracy as a whole, risking backlash against all. The next step, which is already well underway, is criminalisation of dissent.How real can any social change be if it has to be snuck in like a nighttime hostage transfer? Hillary Clinton sort-of kind-of promoted the strategy when she introduced Obama’s GloboHomo project in Geneva in 2011. She advised activists to win hearts and minds by changing the law first. “Laws have a teaching effect,” she told the Borg. That was back when everyone still thought we were talking about gay rights, and particularly, the decriminalisation of homosexuality. But Clinton was suggesting that legislation was a first step in the process of winning over the public. If IGLYO thought their ideas were capable of ever garnering public support, they would come out and clearly state what they are. They don’t, so they don’t. They obfuscate, lie, dilute, and emotionally manipulate instead. GloboHomo is over (for now)Trump’s people bulldozed through the stock phrases. They dismantled the bureaucratic deep state (it’s real, folks) that had been conjuring, encouraging, and channeling cash and status to increasingly warped queer gendershite operations all around the globe.When I was in the U.S. earlier this year for a family holiday, I snuck out of my D.C. hotel at 5am one morning as my children were sleeping, and I went to watch USAID staffers for the Europe programme get the chop. I sat in the cold with a coffee and looked on as stunned-looking office monkeys got saluted by performative street-libs as they deserted their cubicles. I wondered if they even knew how far '“gay rights” had mission-creeped, or if they were the creeps who made it so.Whatever. Trump mercifully turned the tap off. It’s time for Europe to follow suit, and get real about what LGBTIQ really means. It’s time to pull these weirdos’ noses out of the trough. TERFing aint free, nor is it cheap. Should you be feeling generous, please take out a paid subscription to this newsletter. Peace. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

Alessandra Asteriti is an Italian academic who got cancelled back when it really was a professional death sentence. She eventually ended up back home in Italy, where she has settled into a new teaching gig in Perugia (yes, that Perugia. The worst place in the world to be the closest witch at hand when everyone loses their collective marbles). Last week Alessandra spoke to me from her new life beyond the cancellation grave which, despite the unfair circumstances, seems like quite the heavenly upgrade, let’s be honest. Her witch-burning took place not in her native country, or even in TERF Island; she was hounded out of a university located up in the cold, dark north of Germany, where the weather, combined with the eternal diet of spuds n’ pork, are so depressing I can only imagine her new life is not the L her troon detractors had hoped it would be. You can read all about the saga below, which is similar to all terfcancellations — you just have to picture the dungareed, obese enbies and aggrieved AGPs with umlauts over their stupid fluorescent haircuts. Funnily enough, Alessandra’s dark past doesn’t come up in her new life because nobody bothered asking her why she left Germany. But the language difference has also helped in the effort to start over: it turns out that being multilingual is a great benefit when you’re a non-grata EU TERF, in that some of the nicest places to live have a pitifully low uptake of English, the vernacular of TERF Island and other anglospheric hotbeds of hatred. So please bear that in mind if you get cancelled, dear ëurotérven: you can start afresh in Lisbon, Seville, or Rome because your future employer won’t understand any of the results when they Google your name. I met Alessandra in real life once, at the Women’s Declaration International conference in a sweltering London July, where she delivered a rip-roaring presentation of her book on gender in international law, a fat and pricey academic tome that is apparently the only one of its kind in the world (buy it!)During our conversation, we spoke mostly about the legal shenanigans that got us here, and by “us” I mean 449.3 million EU citizens spread across 27 countries, all of which (except Hungary) are under one or another gender regime. Alessandra has famously disagreed with the approach of Sex Matters and others over which way is best to legally dismantle sex fraud, but happily, Europe’s 27 different legal setups regulating genderbollicks will allow us to test out everyone’s preferred strategy! Broadly speaking, though, it will have to be done one of two ways: legally or politically. Either we do what For Women Scotland did and take our tormentors to court (and hope the judges haven’t been afflicted by Non-Binary Niece Disorder, or enbicus niecocopathy), or we elect politicians who are ready to throw the whole sex falsification shitepile in the bin in one fell swoop (aka repeal). The latter sounds cheaper and more satisfying, and perhaps even more feasible than ever now that hardworking British gals and gays have laid the groundwork that make it possible to actually have conversations about this topic. Free movement of goods, capital, and autogynephilesGender recognition is not an EU competence but activists have been trying hard to twist it into one: a recent legal case called Mirin (which Alessandra wrote about, see below) successfully argued that self-ID is a right linked to free movement (free movement — of people, things and money — is the pillar of the whole EU project). I saw that the free movement framing was also recently used to claim that banning Pride marches in Hungary inhibits citizens’ ability to move freely around Europe because it’s discriminatory to be able to celebrate Pride in one place but not in another. According to some legal contortionist called Attila Szabó, “if a non-Hungarian EU citizen can enjoy the right to participate in an LGBTQ+ rights march in every EU country then she can not freely choose this given country” (scrape scrape). That’s a stretch, but Alessandra said that indeed, free movement is a slippery slope that could lead to all kinds of weird rights claims. For now, the Mirin judgement will be used by activists to fingerwag their governments but it probably won’t go much further than that. The EU has famously got its plate full with existential crises at the moment (even more than usual) and it seems like an inopportune moment to start bullying the Romanian government into mainstreaming perverts. Romania has an official pathway to legal gender change, but some countries are still operating according to the old informal nod-and-wink system. Some countries allow you to get your documents faked as long as you have undergone “sterilisation”, which was the way activists began to spin the “gender reassignment” requirement once they figured out its admittedly barbaric implications. Ireland is the only country, as far as I am aware, that has a system of gender recognition certificates similar to the UK, but it’s combined with de jure self-ID, which was won by stealth back in 2018. That Irish law is also called the Gender Recognition Act, which pisses me off anew every time I hear it because grá (sounds like graw) is the Irish word for “love”. It would obviously have been more practical to give the legislation a name different to the one in the neighbouring UK, as is usually done to avoid confusion, but the activists couldn’t pass up a chance to name their stupid legal subterfuge after such a nice word. Of course they did. It’s all word games, after all. There’s a whole ‘nother conversation I hope will one day be had about the way “gender” got translated, transliterated, or transposed into the legal texts of 23 different languages of the EU, and what it can tell us society’s understanding of the concept. Enjoy my conversation with Alessandra, and please share if you think it’s worth it. Paid subscriptions help keep me in Birkenstocks and Stella Artois. I deeply appreciate all of you disgraceful bigots who already pay for a subscription. Follow Alessandra on Twitter This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

You wait and you wait and you wait for some handsomely-subsidised professional EU woman’s rights organisation to invite gender critical women to the table for a discussion, and then a Hungarian think tank beats them to the chase. Oh well. I would have much preferred the “gender mainstreaming” people of the European Women’s Lobby (€12 million in EU funding, at most recent count) to pull on their big girl pants and address the most important women’s issue of the past few decades, but nah. Too busy putting together powerpoints on the meaning of “gender budgeting”. And what about the women’s rights committee in the European Parliament? Women got a massive dopamine hit when the Spanish socialist party came out last year with a new “roadmap” that suggested they were ready to ditch queer theory in favour of the old-fashioned “women-are-real” political position (how far we’ve fallen). The document even mentioned protecting women’s sports categories. Even better, a member of that party, Lina Galvez, was selected to lead the women’s committee in the EU parliament in Brussels. The fact that elected alongside her is swivel-eyed trans rights fanatic Irene Montero means that any pro-reality positions will likely be tempered. But after years in the desert, it was still very cheering to see a left wing organisation of any type saying something sensible at the EU level. We can thank Spain’s formidable and long-standing (and loud) second-wave feminists for the pressure they applied on the Socialists. Well done, ladies. Who is Faika El-Nagashi? Faika is an Austrian member of the Green party who lost her seat in her national parliament in the most recent elections. She has been unpopular among her Green party colleagues ever since she started to terf out on main, starting when she gave an interview to a magazine where she laid out the problem with ceding women’s words and identities to men with a paraphilia called transvestic fetishism. She is a constant target of the pro-gender activists in her home country. She was even banned from an annual lesbian conference that she helped build. Faika is a difficult one for the identity-obsessed Left because she ticks all their favourite intersectional boxes: lesbian, “rainbow parent”, with a migrant background, lefty in all the ways that matter except this one…. She’s also been an activist for progressive causes her entire adult life, having even worked for the demonic ILGA-Europe (before they turned demonic). That means the usual smears of racism, anti-gender conformity etc. etc. simply roll off her (such an immature way to do politics — I can’t wait for this dumb era to be behind us). Faika wants to bring criticism of transgender ideology to the European institutions. She’s coming to Brussels next week to talk about it, alongside Stella O’Malley of Genspect and Ashley Frawley, a fellow of the Hungarian think-tank MCC Brussels who are hosting the event. Yeah yeah MCC are linked to the Hungarian government. The radfem WhatsApps are aglow with hand-wringing. But the women we elected to represent us have shunned us for years. It’s important to note that not all women in this big, hodge-podge, cobbled-together TERF movement are left wing (one of our biggest strengths, tbf) and most of us have had all our f***s depleted after years in the wilderness. In short: I don’t care. Many thanks to MCC Brussels and director Frank Furedi for hosting us and letting Faika and Stella get their voices out there. If you can help Faika get an audience with some of the women’s rights orgs and individuals who have chosen to remain silent on the most egregious affront to women and girls of our lifetimes, and who are finally ready to face the issue, please do get in touch. Enjoy the interview, and please share widely if you can. Faika on TwitterStella O’Malley on TwitterAshley Frawley on TwitterMCC Brussels on Twitter: MCC Brussels livestream link (event Monday 17/03 at 6.30pm Brussels time): This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

I have a daily Google alert for online mentions of the phrase “anti-gender movement” and a couple of weeks ago, I got an alert that the phrase had been used in a Taiwanese online magazine called New Bloom. Fresh off the Taiwanese boxing Olympic scandal, I was curious to see if it was being used in the context of noted bloke Lin Yu Ting’s defeat over female boxers in Paris. An American expat called Jaclynn Joyce was mentioned in the article as one of Taiwan’s “anti-gender movement actors”. When I looked her up, I found out she’s a feminist academic. She’s written for 4W, just like me, and she’s opposed to the erasure of women as a sex class, just like me. She’s also a Substacker.So I contacted her to tell her she had been listed as a major player in the anti-gender movement of her adopted country, and it turned out it’s a concept she had never even heard of. Fellow professional bigotress Genevieve Gluck then spotted that the article had been sponsored by a new-ish American NGO, spawned by nasty lesbian-fetishist Dave “Susan” Stryker (I don’t know his real name but all transvestites are “Dave” until proven otherwise.)Stryker is a big wheel down at the gender factory. He wrote some important trans retcon canon that gets cited a lot. Also, in the early aughts, he teamed up with Wythenshawe’s hardest-working lesbophobe, a lesbian called Stephen Whittle, and together they wrote up a piece of scholarship (scoff) that atempted to blend rabildly horny transvestites and Vichy lezzers into one big vague “transgender” puree. So what is the “anti-gender movement” that Jaclynn was unknowingly the ringleader of?It is (or was) a kind of catch-all term for anyone with conservative views of the family, reproduction, and sexuality. The term started to be used in the 90s when conservatives were confronted with feminists’ use of the analytical concept of “gender” to talk about the causes of inequality between men and women. Gender was gradually being introduced in the context of the huge UN conferences that dealt with population “management” aka women’s fertility, and the poverty that comes with failing to control it. The Vatican delegation to these conferences had been keeping an eye on family-wrecking feminists, and they called this newfangled idea “gender ideology”. They came out firmly against it, claiming men and women were sorted by God and nature into Tarzan (capable, strong, rational, finds food) and Jane (little, quiet, simple, organises food into sandwiches) and the idea that anything about society was artificially constructed was laughable. Feminists, in turn, started to call the conservative protagonists “anti-gender actors”. Which is weird, because you would think they would also be against gender, being as it is a set of suffocating and limiting stereotypes and expectations? It’s complicated. Indeed, many people have wondered why feminists stopped talking about women and men and start talking about gender instead. One explanation I’ve read is that it was an effort to de-shrillify the discourse, and get taken seriously by the men in suits who had controlled the conversation since basically forever. Gender took the nagginess out of describing male dominance over women, in that it’s very polite about the perpetrators of a problem. It would be like rebranding femicide simply “murder” because you don’t want to nag the femicidaires. You wouldn’t want to remind the master of the universe of his b***h wife, would you? (“I get enough of this from ‘er indoors!” the men exclaim, filling the Geneva conference chamber with cigar smoke and spittle.)Whatever. It was a gradual takeover: the word gender appeared only once in the 1979 CEDAW convention (a kind of international bill of women’s rights) — though in that instance, it seems to have been used to refer to biological sex. By 1994, the very important Cairo population conference declaration was gender-free. But by the time the Beijing conference on women came around the following year, in 1995, the word was dotted all through the conference declaration. In the annex to the Beijing declaration, however, conservatives made sure to note that it had been agreed that gender referred to the ye olde binary of men and women, aka a polite synonym for sex. But ever since Beijing, all bets are off. It’s now wall-to-wall gender. As we all know, today’s elite-overproduced professional feminists have fallen back in love with stereotypes and rather than tear them down , they build entire careers by signing on to the troonterpretation of gender, which is: girl is when skirt go spinny.So while gender once denoted roles imposed on people with female bodies, it now refers to putting tits on men so they can act out feminine social roles. For boners. This is s**t for women, but it makes autogynephiles feel less bad about their weird sexual kink, and it gives young girls a way scarier way to act out their angst than even cutting or anorexia, given that neither of those social contagions involved anyone else’s misery beyond their own. Anyway, up until very recently, “the anti-gender movement” had a fairly fixed cast of characters: Vatican movers and shakers, Eastern European hard men, as well as American evangelicals and their neocolonial African prey. But since 2020-ish, this group of baddies has been expanded to scoop up all kinds of people who object to progressive overreach in the “sexual and reproductive rights” domain. It now includes people like me; gender critical feminists, non-compliant gays, even older castrati who think non-binary is nonsense. I have seen it also being used to describe anyone opposed to things like decriminalisation of prostitution, the mainstreaming of sexual fetish movements, or commercial surrogacy. It gets bundled in with racism and anti-immigration protests, too. Someone even claimed that the anti-gender movement is a backlash against the devolution of power from countries to internationalbodies. First of all, I am a total EU-tard. Secondly, what the f**k does my extreme ick about men like Lia Thomas or Isla Bryson have to do with international diplomacy?Do they think people jump from: “I read an article about a breastless female who made a hospital remove the word “mother” from it’s breastfeeding facility (a facility she would never have the joy of using) to: the UN security council has too much power, we need to return sovreignty to the states! This mission has creeped. TaiwanSo anyway, the article from New Bloom alleged that Taiwanese researchers had committed ethical and methodologial misconduct relating to a paper published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour. What was the problem? The research paper had revealed that Taiwanese people are underwhelmed by the idea of self-ID, to put it very gently. This is a very bad outcome for genderists, obviously, and they attacked the survey the authors had used (claiming it was a biased sample). But the article was peer reviewed, the journal is pretty respected (as far as I am aware), and Jaclynn contacted the lead author who confirmed that she had not heard of any issues from the editors or reviewers. The fact that the article was in some way sponsored by an American philanthropic organisation to spread the “anti-gender movement” narrative to Taiwan is very worrying but not surprising. Because about 2 years ago, when I first found out that researchers and activists were beginning to fold TERFs into the retro anti-gender actors trope, I started to see the phrase popping up in funding programmes. Philanthropic organisations were starting to hand out cash for NGOs to study us, and the only handy conceptual nook they could find into which to shove us was this pre-existing conservative one (the main org involved in this is the Global Philanthropy Project). This is despite the fact that many of the very same women who are being called “anti-gender” were the same crewcut lesbians that proposed and championed “gender” in the first place. It’s such a crazy stretch, but how else can we be categorised without ruining the LGBTQ globo-troon brand? The daily alerts for “anti-gender movement” are ramping up. The job ads looking for “anti-gender” consultants are also on the rise. And every time I get an alert for this phrase, I check if TERFs are included in the definition, or if it’s the old school holy rollers. Overwhelmingly, we are included. The same trans derangements are replicated in rich countries all over the world, and Taiwan is no exception. Jaclynn very patiently gave me an overview of the local trans-TERF scene and told me that, despite popular opposition to self-ID (it’s a big sauna culture), Taiwanese people will not hear a single bad word spoken about Lin Yu Ting, the male Olympic FOMP (female on my passport) boxer who is very much a female woman with XX chromosomes, according to the very sensitive penninsular plebs. Very disappointing, obviously, but it’s clear that there are some things that are more important than being reasonable, and even more important than being considered part of the cultural elite: national identity (especially given - gulp - China)Myself and Jaclynn talked about how it’s practically impossible to break down this tribal barrier and then we ended up getting into it about how homophobic the “third gender” cultural concept is, the mahu in Jaclynn’s home turf of Hawaii, GAMPs, and how (according to JJ) giving men everything their groin desires is never a good idea. By the way, I tried to find out if gender was borrowed directly from sexology’s study of men who claimed to be women (gender identity theory certainly was), which is just too f*****g horrific to think about. What’s clear is that feminist heroine Kate Millett defo cited John Money and Robert Stoller in her very famous 1970 PhD dissertation, Sexual Politics (waaaay before Judith Butler types). What, exactly, was the influence of the study of autogynephiles on feminist theorising of gender? Was it already a synonym for sex by the 70s, related as it is to feminine and masculine nouns in language? Please do let me know if you have any knowledge on the subject. Having avoided feminist theory and writings forever, I would love to have the TLDR. Time is (John) Money. Check out Jaclynn’s writing here!Donating helps help fund unapologetic bigotry. A big thanks for your support. Thank you for reading Peaked. This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. 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Maryann’s 15-year-old daughter is currently deep in the grip of a delusion that she is a boy. She, along with some of her friends, has been like that for two years already, but Maryann, a no-nonsense mother from working-class Dublin, has made absolutely clear to her little girl that she was having none of it - no binders, no hormones, no fake names. She was the second Irish woman I had met who had a daughter in this situation (the other mother’s child desisted, thankfully) and I think her testimony is useful for others who are perhaps under the impression that the ROGD phenomenon is not affecting Irish kids. Maryann agreed to talk to me because she is starting to feel really desperate. She has lost some of the fear that speaking out would alienate her daughter and make the situation worse (you hear about this ever-present fear often from women in the same situation).She said something during our interview that I really hadn’t considered before: I assumed that the biggest threat to these girls (and, less obviously, boys) was that as they approach 18, they would be scheming and planning to procure hormones and surgeries for the moment they are beyond the legal guardianship of their parents (they “hit the ground running,” as I’ve heard Stella O’Malley describe it). And yes, that danger is very real; there is an Irish Facebook group for dysphoric girls and it is full of “trans mascs” and “non-binary” girls arranging for the day they turn 18 and can start shopping for GPs, endocrinologists and psychiatrists who will grant them their diagnoses and T shots. One of the most popular discussions revolves around plans to fly abroad, most often to Spain, Poland, Greece and Lithuania, to get their breasts removed. Madrid is home to the most popular (read: cheapest, closest, and least scrupulous) plastic surgeon, Dr Jesus Lago, who will operate on young women without a psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Lago and his “informed consent” grift is such a hit among Irish trans youth that someone even set up a separate Facebook group called “Dr Jesus Lago’s Disciples”, where you can learn all about the procedure and recovery, and check out all the gruesome healing scars and choose which “style” of nipple placement is your fave. You can also find out where to get a decent Air BnB, and all about the public transport and sightseeing options near the clinic. Dr Lago does a roaring trade among young autistic Irish lesbians. Not dystopian at all. Irish patients often discuss paying for these procedures with financial help from the cross-border directive, an EU-derived law that allows patients to claim insurance reimbursement for surgical procedures not available at home, whether because they are not carried out or because the waiting list is too long. There are indeed surgeons who will carry out mastectomies on young Irish women convinced they are men, but they seem to require a doctor’s sign-off, according to the members in the Facebook group. But Maryann’s daughter is only 15, so all of that is a long way off, surely. There are a whole three years left for her to snap back to reality, saving her from Dr Lago’s butchering block - a promising potential luxury that mothers of 17-year-olds don’t have. Surely, then, there’s nothing immediate to worry about? But what does it do to a child, during one of the most important stages of her brain and identity development, to be plugged into a deep-set delusion - for years - that she is the opposite sex? To be convinced that she is moving through the world in the incorrect body, and that her parents are evil for not seeing it, for not accepting it, and for not making an effort to help her “fix” nature’s error?This is what scares Maryann, and it’s what reduces her to tears. What state will her little girl’s mental health be in if and when she crashes? What is happening inside her poor, confused, vulnerable brain? Why is her school, the state, the media, corporations, the entire non-profit sector colluding to mentally torture her - and thousands like her - in this bizarre, unforgivable way? It’s child abuse. At a recent conference in Dublin organised by the women’s rights group The Countess, the mother of a desisted girl spoke about the “deprogramming” process her child went through. The girl thought she was a boy for three whole years; it took 18 months, her mother said, to bring her back to reality. She was able to do this by feeding her daughter testimonies from detransitioners, as well as videos by the wonderful Exulansic on the non-airbrushed reality of the graphic nature of “gender affirming care”. But she also spoke about a phenomenon in cult deprogramming whereby the deprogrammee seems to “float” sporadically back into the delusion, thanks to perhaps a memory or a snippet of a song or other signal that relates to their former beliefs. It sounded terrifying. Where are all the women’s mag editors?Not a single parenting magazine, mommy blogger or family lifestyle weekend supplement editor has dared broach the very real phenomenon of the isolated, scared mother of the sudden-onset “trans kid”, who is forced to watch as her beautiful child gets sucked into this pervasive cult of self-deception. The pressure to “affirm” is overwhelming, and any resistance to the constant, state-sponsored propaganda to do so is vilified by polite society. The non-affirming moms keep quiet about how they feel, for fear that they’ll lose everything: their job, their social circle, and not least, their relationship with their child. That’s a clue that the ROGD issue in Ireland is probably vastly underestimated. Hopefully the Cass report will burst some bubbles, and more parents will come forward and speak about Ireland’s shameful new child abuse scandal, one that maims the bodies and destroys the minds of children and young people - every single one of whom is perfect exactly the way they are. The priests of the new cult- the autogynephilic men who require the existence of the “trans child” to legitimise, destigmatise and defetishise their own sexual predilection - will one day be exposed for what they are. As will the new nuns - the pious #BeKind maidens who cane the knuckles of anyone who questions the (frankly, increasingly evil-sounding) “kindness”, “tolerance” and “inclusion” dogmas. Irish society had just broken free from the perverted, robed patriarchs of the past. Here come the new crop. Can’t wait to watch them all squirm during the public inquiries and tribunals. And I hope people like Maryann will have the strength left to take a front-row seat so that everyone can learn what Ireland’s newest priestly caste has inflicted on women like her. I’m certainly not the first to compare wrongbodyism to religion. Irish academic Colette Colfer has been pretty prolific at drawing very accurate parallels. But I think the coverup of abuse is one facet that is often forgotten. If you ask a lapsed Catholic like meself about their biggest takeaway from Ireland’s centuries-long capture by the Catholic church, they’ll likely say the hush-hushed abuse scandals stick foremost in their minds. That’s where the trans cult is headed, too. Mark my words. I met Maryann when I flew to Ireland to document the first homegrown Let Women Speak-style event, called Women Are Speaking (yes it was a shitshow, no we were not permitted by the home-haircut crew to speak - check out some coverage of it under the #WomenAreSpeakingLimerick hashtag). My trip was supported by normies like you who help pay for my flights and hostels. Please donate to fund my jet-setting lifestyle keeping record of the grassroots TERF movement - for your granddaughters’ reading pleasure. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

I reached out to Rona Duwe and Judith (L Squad Berlin) to talk about the historic vote taking place in the German Bundestag tomorrow that will allow parents to choose the sex of their newborn babies. That might sound crazy but don’t fret: the child zirself can confirm their parents’ selection once they hit the ripe and mature old age of five. This insane iteration of “legal gender by self-determination” (the news is so fresh I can’t even find an official source to link to) comes after years of intense, secretive lobbying by perhaps Europe’s most determined army of activists. They have so much money, so much access to influence… it was always going to be an uphill battle. But the activists and their mates in the legislature seem to have managed to sneak in some of the maddest provisions in any self-id law yet proposed. According to Rona, there will be new non-binary option - coupled with allowing parents to select their child’s legal sex, I think we can expect lots of woke weirdos declaring the arrival of their enby offspring. I’m cringing already. The law will also allow you can change your “gender” as often as you want - but you must wait a sensible (?) 12 months in between each change, and there are “forced outing” provisions that conceal the identity of criminals that would send a shiver down any normal person’s spine. They also told me about proposed updates to the conversion therapy law that will go after parents, and the introduction of new tattle-tale centres where you can go and report a non-crime hate crime, similar to the UK’s “non-crime hate incidents”. I suspect these non-crime recordings are a ploy to gather data on the prevalence of hurty-feels-type crimes (calling a man a man, for example), setting the stage for criminal charges to be introduced further down the line. It’s all very Stasi, as Rona pointed out. For L Squad, who has been a grassroots campaigner for women and lesbian’s rights for decades, she sees it as nothing less than the demolition of German democracy: if the lawmakers put in place legislation to forbids us from saying a man is a woman, she says, where do we go from there? The developments in the UK since the release of the Cass Review have not penetrated German discourse. The two countries might as well be two different galaxies. The German medical institutions are either captured, they said, or if not captured, forced by conversion therapy bans to go along with whatever nonsense their patients come up with. It’s terribly doom and gloom. Read the full Cass Review on paediatric gender transition. During the conversation we talked about “what happened to Rona”, so here’s the context: she is relentlessly targetted by trans activists who are trying to destroy her. She suffered a horrific time due to spurious criminal complaints - however, it galvanised people to support her. You can read more on her Substack. Anyway, they will be there in force tomorrow outside the Bundestag to tell the gender-fetish-industrial-complex that they have no plan to shut up. I can’t make it because I’m going to Ireland’s first homegrown LetWomenSpeak-type event, called Women Are Speaking. Follow me on Twitter from noon tomorrow 12 April to follow shenanigans in Berlin. Courage, German women. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Woman-hate is zeitlos. Please donate to help me pay for my jet-setting lifestyle (travelling around documenting the TERF movement for your granddaughters’ reading pleasure). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

Lina (a fake name) got a new dishwasher delivered while we were on the phone together. I heard the delivery guy asked loudly “Are you « INSERT NAME » and I covered my ears, like we live in some creepy communist spy-era paranoialand and I was worried I would one day be forced to give up her name under torture. Once again: what the f**k is going on. I am fearful of Lina being exposed as the sale terf that she is mostly because she has a particularly sensitive position; she works for an ultra-woke American tech company based in Dublin, one of the big trans-appeasing platforms that polices what people say. Though she’s not a moderator herself, she told me about the platform’s “slur list” which, as the name suggests, is a list of words that are verboten when used in certain contexts. Would you believe me if I told you that it’s perfectly acceptable to call a woman a dirty f*****g TERF on this platform? Of course you would. Even more directly annoying for Lina, a radfem, is the fact that the day-to-day workplace is just as bad. Her colleagues and her HR hierarchy are just as insufferable and authoritarian as you would imagine them to be. In her home country, resistance to the institutionalisation of trans nonsense has been met with violent tantrums, just like everywhere else. The most famous women’s rights activists in the country are self-described femellistes Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern, who have endured extreme harassment since they came out as defenders of women’s sex-based rights a few years ago. Moutot, who got famous as an Instagrameuse who blogged about female sexuality, has a criminal complaint pending for saying a man called Marie Cau is a man. He’s the absolute unité in the video linked below. Moutot was invited on a talk show to discuss a controversy involving an advert put out by a national family planning organisation. The ad contained misinformation (disinformation?) about men being able to get pregnant. When asked if Moutot thought “Marie” is a woman, she said he was a transfeminin man, which is way nicer than what I would have called him. Cau, en ravenche, said Moutot was part of something called the “faschosphere”. A bunch of NGOs subsequently went after Moutot with a criminal hate complaint for saying Cau is male, while ignoring his defamatory insults against her. The outcome of the complaint is en route.Marguerite Stern was one of the original members of Femen, the much-publicised group of tits-out militante feministes. She was once imprisoned in Tunisia, and ran a street collage campaign to raise awareness about femicide. She was supposed to come to Brussels last year to the delight of TERFS belges, but she had to cancel because there’s a particularly cranky generation of spoilt humanities w*****s in this city who hate her guts. There are lots of young French people here because of more lax university entry requirements, thus the city is full of bedraggled and bepierced French kids desperate for a 1968-type cause. They will smash the f**k out of everything in sight at the mere mention of biological sex. I still can’t believe the French didn’t shut this nonsense down right out of the gate.In my personal experience, there is no culture more politically engaged than young French people. Strong Opinion-having is a national sport; forceful indignant reasoning is a staple of every French dinner table I’ve ever been invited to. That so many young people rolled over so thoroughly for transvestite illogic, for the commodification and corporatisation of body parts, for the total usurpation of a proud feminist tradition - I still don’t really get it. I don’t think it’s #BeKindism: that’s much more of an anglospheric thing. Lina says it might be French libertarianism that’s to blame. But I thought rational disagreement was more acceptable and even expected. I have been disabused. The fightback: there is an organisation of mental health professionals and parents working behind the scenes to stem the tide of shite, called 'l’Observatoire de a la petite sirene (they also have a Belgian branch). The national health authorities are also on the case. Members of the French senate (not the parliament as I mistakenly said in the recording with Lina) announced last week that they will propose a law to ban all gender “care” for minors. They said there was a risk that it was one of the “biggest ethical scandals in the history of medicine”. It’s not clear how successful the Republicans’ proposal for a new law will be; as usual, the public debate has been reduced to “right-wing-ergo-bad”. This week we also found out that the French dictionary gods have added “mégenrer” (the verb “to misgender”) to their updates (boooo) and that Dora Moutot and Marguerite Stern have just announced they have a book coming out. Keep an eye out on their Twitters (linked below) for updates. Not sure yet if there will be an English translation. Grift: I take days off to TERF, which affects my income. Some people give me donations and it really helps. Just dropping this button here apropos of nothing: Lina on Twitter Marguerite Stern on TwitterDora Moutot on TwitterLa Figaro announcing the new legislative proposal This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

Why are some countries more susceptible to the transdemic than others? There are some things about Italy, British transplant Agata Rossi told me, that might protect the country from the worst excesses of this bizarre global mind virus. Strong family bonds, lower levels of depression thanks to a healthier diet and more exposure to the sunshine — all these things might make kids more resilient to a phenomenon that preys on the already-unwell. Another anon activist told me that this only really holds true in the south of the country; the north is much more “modern”, with smaller, overworked nuclear families spending too much time indoors, staring at screens and eating trash. It is indeed, in the north of the country that the burgeoning paediatric gender medical scandal is concentrated, which Agata thinks could also have something to do with language: there are more English speakers in the north, who are thus more exposed to a trend that emerged and blossomed in the anglosphere. It was during the country’s COVID lockdown, one of the harshest in the world, that Italian girls disappeared into their bedrooms in droves and emerged claiming to be in the incorrect bodies. It raises an interesting point: there is plenty of anecdotal evidence in TERFworld that as the coronavirus circulated in the physical realm, a digitally-driven social bug was jumping from host to vulnerable host online. If academia hadn’t been so completely captured, along with the media, we might have some data on how lockdown severity correlated with the number of teenage girls deciding they’re now boys. Earlier this year, authorities in Florence opened an investigation into a duo of rogue doctors in the Careggi hospital, a psychotherapist and an endocrinologist, who were doling out triptorelin, a puberty blocker, with no psychological evaluation. Both doctors, whose names have been shared with me but who, I’m told, haven’t been named yet in the press, are members of WPATH. Just after I spoke to Agata, another story emerged from Rome wherein it was revealed that an Italian hospital had commenced prescribing triptorelin without prior approval from the ethics board. After a journalist called Assia Neumann Dayan published a story about the Careggi case in February this year, a number of parents of trans-identifying kids wrote letters to the paper (some of which were published), expressing gratitude and desperation. Other giornalistas have bravely taken on the story, too, despite the usual transphobia taunts, and you can find their Twitter handles below if you want to follow developments in the investigation. One of the people flying the flag highest for the sexual stunting of the country’s youth is an Italian mother living in Spain called Camilla Vivian, Agata tells me, who has not one but two children whose bodies suffered some kind of cosmic mismatch, ending up in the erroneous corpus. What are the chances. These woman will wreck everything not to be wrong, as Helen Joyce has repeatedly noted. Transmomhausen is featured in a video, screengrabbed below, with a professional puberty-stunter whose non-trans-related academic output focusses on taming the urges of paraphiliacs using the same drug. Isolated cases, or a sign that Italy is badly infected? The country’s rainbow lobby is big and organised, though there is a decent fightback in the form of radical feminists (Radfem Italia), an NGO that is (mercifully) full of TERFs. No-nonsense mothers, who play an important role in education as parent representatives (there’s one in every class) are another formidable firewall.In 2022, a socialist MP called Alessandro Zan introduced a self-ID bill that ultimately got rejected in the senate. Then the conservative Giorgia Meloni took power, and all bets were off. Meloni’s rise was the result of what my anon activist friend claims was the first time Italians chose their own government since the EU maneuvered Berlusconi out to make way for someone more Brussels-friendly, more than a decade ago. The cause for this latest rightward turn wasn’t just woke, or gender, or immigration, she told me. It was all of the above. People are fed up. Whatever the cause, now matriarch Meloni is here and she doesn’t f**k around. She has thwarted Zan’s gender dreams and the dreams of the organisation to which he belongs, Italy’s Stonewall — Arcigay — which seems like yet another cabal of power-gays with an inexplicable desire to erase sex from law. But the wily activists and their allies in the institutions are not going down with a fight. Despite the failure of self-ID on a federal level, a rogue Sicilian judge recently christened a man legally female, thus overriding the country’s established legal gender recognition procedure. There have been other scandals involving the introduction of woo-woo in school administrations that were quickly swatted away by the authorities. Agata also talked to me about Italy’s well-established population of Latin American transvestite prostitutes, and I posit to her my HIV/”shemale” theory of the institutionalisation of genderism. Yes, it’s my theory and I’m sticking with it (for now). Agata is a good follow. Her Twitter handle is also below. Enjoy another no-frills recording!Grift: I take days off to TERF, which affects my income. Some people give me donations and it really helps. Just dropping this button here apropos of nothing: Agata Rossi on TwitterThe Careggi case, as reported by Assia Neumann DayanRadfem Italia Generazione D (parents group)Transahausen blogmomJournalists on the Italian gender beat:Assia Neumann Dayan on TwitterMarina Terragni on TwitterMonica Ricci Sargentini on TwitterOther stuff:Vladimir Luxuria, the first ever trans-identifying MP This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

There are many seriously insulting things about the transvestification of womanhood - one of my chief beefs is the way the acronym HRT, used to describe hormone replacement therapy for women going through the menopause, has been stolen and repurposed by men who use it for aesthetic enhancement (not that it works). First they hijacked the HRT name, then they hijacked the HRT supply chain; the increased demand for synthetic female hormones has put intense strain on an already patchy supply. In the past few years, hormones intended for sweating, sleepless women have been rerouted to autogynephiles convinced that synthetically-induced breast buds will help them reach that gender high. (They even wrote to the UN high commissioner of human rights to complain about the shortages.)But probably even worse than all that is the way that the most vile trolling of women happens on the day purportedly to be for us and about us. Yes, we’ve reached the eve of International Women’s Day (IWD) and I am already on high alert for all the men in party shop wigs who will appear on panels, in videos, and in newspaper articles, making statements about how the day is for them, actually. The theme of IWD this year is “inclusivity”, which almost guarantees a man in a dress will be celebrated as the very bestest of women. Deep breaths, ladies. I feel like this one’s gonna be rough.Taking the trolling to never-before-achieved levels, the Irish government and its NGO army announced a few months ago that it was time to excise the Irish constitution of any mention of women - and that the referendum on the issue would be held on IWD. The reason? For 100 years or so, the text has contained a reference to women’s “duties in the home”, which at first glance seems mighty sexist. I grew up knowing vaguely about misogyny in the constitution. But I was also told that it didn’t have any real effect in the real lives of women, and that it was simply - symbolically - not ideal. But as we are learning, the offending text has a progressive interpretation that could have been deployed in legal cases throughout the decades by women who didn’t want to be pushed out to work after they had kids. The text actually makes it possible to make the case that a woman’s duties to her kids are more important to society than working (hard to argue with that). Tucker Carlson (I know) and founder of the Irish women’s rights advocacy group the Countess, Laoise de Brun, explain this nicely here.It certainly seems part of the international effort to chip away at any and all mention of sex in law and policy. The Countess have already run successful campaigns to stop the removal of sexed language in Irish law before, but it’s happening in other countries too. Just this week the Dutch government tried to remove mention of mothers from a piece of legislation, claiming they were just cleaning up the grammar, when someone spotted by chance that “mother” had been replaced with “parent from whom the child is born”. The pols claimed it was simply a mistake, but it seems like they thought they could get away with it. The backlash unequivocally proved they could not, and the change was undone. I spoke to Sandra Adams, the spokeswoman for the Countess, who told me that the government could have, for example, made the text less sexist by proposing to edit it to simply add fathers alongside mothers. (Another Irish campaigner, Sarah Holmes, combed through the constitution text and found 114 references to male sex pronouns that nobody seems bothered about).So is it really about evening the playing field, about making our founding legal document symbolically more egalitarian? Or does it have something to do with international pressure to gender-neutralise everything, or maybe the upcoming legal changes to surrogacy laws - or something else? Sandra and I thrash out a few theories, and she tells me why, without clarification on a few essential points, the best thing for the people of Ireland to do tomorrow is to #VoteNoNo. Enjoy agus beannachtaí. Grift: I take days off to TERF, which affects my income. Some people give me donations and it really helps. Just dropping this button here apropos of nothing: The Countess on Twitter The Irish constitution This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

I fangirled a bit hard while talking to Lydia, aka The Dutchess, aka Insufferable TERF, who talked to me about the fate of the various gender laws in the Netherlands, which have been mercifully shunted aside for now. The Dutch had been facing the same unholy throuple of genderwangery as the rest of Europe: hate speech, conversion therapy, and of course, the king of gender absurdities, sex falsification (euphemised as “legal gender recognition by self-determination” by the activist class). All those laws are on the backburner for now, says Lydia, because there’s no longer a majority in the kamer that will support them. And let me tell you, the green-haired brigade are f****n seeeeeethin lol. It all went tits-up after the electoral success of Geert Wilders, who got famous for his disdain for the Muslim faith and his mission to erase its visible manifestations from Dutch public life. Lydia reckons the very visible pro-Palestine marches might have scared people into voting for Wilders, infused as they are with proudly Islamic symbolism (basically just Arabic writing, big beards, and Yasser Arafat scarves). These visual cues don’t go down well with people who have difficulty untangling them from images of mangled metro carriages, beheaded reporters and so forth (this is my dumb-guy interpretation, at least). Anyway, what of the women? Did the Dutch TERFs - of whom there are many - have anything to do with the demotion of the genderwhackery laws? How influential were they in alerting the voting populace to the dangers of erasing sex as a valid and important legal category? What about the heroinic work of Caroline Fransens, who laboured for years as the lonely frontwoman of Voorzij? She was one of the earliest to raise the alarm about the sex-falsification movement. Or the Insufferable Lydia herself, a relative latecomer who went viral on social media when she invaded the safe space of the ruling class to point a finger in their faces? If you haven’t already, please enjoy the video below of anti-woman “feminist”, leader of the liberal loons, Sigrid Kaag, getting told (swoon). Kaag tells Lydia to come up on stage, saying “I can’t hear you sweetie” (condescending b***h amiright), and Lydia is majestic as she lists the duplicitous Kaag’s crimes against women such as destroying our sports leagues and letting men into our changing rooms. Lydia gets a few very loud male boooooos from the crowd, of course, before flouncing off in her flowing satin white attire, which I mistakenly assumed was a nod to the suffragettes. What’s next?But what dangers for women lurk under the Geert Wilders political platform? Will he send us back to the kitchen right after he’s finished sending the migrants back to MENA? What does right wing mean these days? Are we all right wing now? If everyone is right wing, do I have to still keep hating everyone? We also talked about the effect of the Zembla documentaries (see below), the absolute sham that is Amsterdam Pride now, and why gender critical “Ultras” might end up clearing a path for normies to take a reasonable-sounding, less “extreme” TERFy position. Sorry for the crap quality of the recording, if anyone can help me figure out how to keep the podcast low-effort while improving its sound, I’m all ears. Lydia on TwitterLink to the first Zembla documentary on the Dutch ProtocolApropos of nothing, here’s a story about Sigrid Kaag’s party’s advocacy for teaching kids that paedophilia is normal and cool This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

I met David Allison and his missus last year at a Let Women Speak event in Vienna. We packed into a bier hall with about 70 TERFs and he told me about the time he tried to subvert the German Green Party by running for a woman’s quota’d election spot (he lost, but his point was made).Chaos ensued, of course. Now he fronts an advocacy group for German parents who are losing their kids to the cult. He brought me up to speed on the situation with the German self-ID bill, which is so pRoGgReSiVe it would allow parents to change the sex of their newborn. And then change it again a year later, for whatever reason. Normal!Below is the video David references it in the discussion. It’s the Green Party Group’s meeting at the Bavarian State Assembly that peaked him. David says, “When I saw this video, I knew I would not have gone along with this. I immediately felt a certain contempt for the Greens in this room. I am just not someone who goes along with obvious b******t.”It shows the stunningest/bravest autogynephile in German public life, Tessa (Markus) Ganserer. Since this vid, he has had a lot of “gender-affirming” facial surgery but he’s still a proud penis owner and he refuses to even go through any legal procedures: he is legally, biologically and genitally a man.In our discussion we also touch on the TERF scene in Germany, the depth of media capture, the nascent gender-critical left party run by celeb Marxist Sahra Wagenknecht and even how putting the verbs at the end of your sentence might be the reason German society is so well-run. Happy listening, and please tell me if you’d like to tell me about trans capture in your country. One last look at this f*****g chancer: Links:Here’s the advocacy group David is spokes of: Transteens Sorge BerechtigHere’s the parents support group called Parents of ROGD KidsMore about Sahra WagenknechtDavid’s very popular story in EMMA magazine about his political escapadesIf you’d like to support me, I have PayPal account. Every crumb counts: This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

Here’s the first in a series of podcast episodes on transmanifestations in different countries of the EU. I spoke to a TERF buddy Dana Vitaslova from Slovakia, who has joined the Dark Side (conservatives) so that she doesn’t have to be the the only sex realist in the village. We disagreed on gay marriage, but let it be known that such views are pretty common in central and eastern Europe.The bit about the EU-funded project “Dragtivism” is pretty f*****g wild! She shared the video of the young women (kids?) doing strip shows but I’m not going to share it because (obvious reasons). If you’d like to help me make more of these, please donate (heart emoji) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

There’s a Pride event happening in the northwest of Ireland this week, in a small Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) town called Falcarraigh. It’s not the first Pride event in the region but it’s the first bi-lingual (English and Irish).Sounds good! Except the organisers have invited Transgender Equality Network Ireland to host an event billed as “tea and a chat” with “pháistí agus daoine óga” (kids and young people).The MC of the TENI event seems to be Tara Hewitt, an avowed furry, BDSM fetishist and AGP (you can read about Hewitt here and here.) The event agenda suggests the usual homosexuality-denying queer progress-pride nonsense and the town has been draped in trans flags.Questions abound: will Hewitt or other TENI staffers tell the kids and their parents about DIY self-injection with testosterone bought through the notorious GenderGP, an online vendor of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones?I asked a famous local TERF called Jenny to fill me in on the event and the people involved. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe

This doctor’s name gets shared in a private Facebook group for parents of “trans” kids because he’s allegedly incredibly cavalier about handing out hormones to prepubescent kids. I went to see him. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.peaked.news/subscribe