12 April

I was called ‘transphobic’ and unfriended by somebody for posting on transgender issues. It’s too important for people not to speak out, children are being harmed, sometimes irreversibly, by these theories that few have even read. It’s just ‘trending’, which is all most need to fall in line behind something now. In the UK the edifice of trans-fundamentalism is crumbling, with puberty blocking drugs now (thankfully) themselves blocked in most cases in children. To be clear, absolutely some (very small) number of people have gender dysphoria and need to be treated. But the idea that somebody’s actual identity is transformed just because they find current gender roles limiting is dangerous nonsense. A gender role is a social thing, not an individual identity. People should play with gender roles all they like, I for example find much modern masculinity ridiculous. It doesn’t make me think I’m a woman or non-binary, or whatever. That comes from social media, where in increasingly broken societies people look to find an identity society no longer provides for them. So they invent new ones, which then become teams on social media that they become part of.