Gender Critical Quotes

“And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences like rape, sexual slavery, female genital mutilation, honour killing, female infanticide, banishment to menstrual huts, surrogacy tourism or death by stoning for the act of adultery. Clue: it’s not possession of a female gender identity.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

Feminism Gender Critical

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

“LGBT activism also fails on intersectionality for trans people themselves. It has no interest in acknowledging the somewhat different political and social situations of trans men and trans women respectively, but insists on treating both as identical for the purposes of lobbying. As far as trans activism is apparently concerned, there is no relevant difference in the situations of a fourteen-year-old transidentifying teenage female, attracted to other females, who is crowdfunding ‘top surgery’ and self-harming in the meantime, and a forty-one-year-old late-transitioning autogynephilic heterosexual male with no intention of divorcing the wife.”

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Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

“I am against the rush to medicalize our children and young people to present as the opposite sex when they are confused or when other conditions such as autism are misattributed as trans.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“I hope to see those who participate in the gender affirming care model switch to engaging in the examination of deeper issues and the exploration of other treatment options beyond immediate transition when gender confusion presents itself. Young people may need support with counseling to understand and heal from the root cause of their feelings and experiences of dysphoria.”

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Author:Lisa Shultz

“Gender critical is not 'anti-trans', or 'transphobic', in the same way that psychiatry is not 'anti-mental illness'.”

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Book:DETRANS: When transition is not the solution

Source: DETRANS: When transition is not the solution

“Something is terribly wrong when natural and holistic measures to relieve emotional struggles are left untouched in favor of lifelong, irreversible medical interventions that are experimental, expensive, and come with a host of additional adverse effects.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“There’s no need to rush life-changing, body-altering decisions that are difficult or impossible to reverse.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Maleness means war.”

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Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Only allowing affirmation indicates that a child’s feelings are facts, and we believe that feelings, which are often transient, are not facts. One may hold respect and empathy for those suffering from gender confusion and still say no to a destructive ideology that advocates the medicalization of kids.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Why is there a perseveration on gender instead of expanding inquiry and addressing all dimensions of a being in distress? Why are we enabling kids to possibly run from something such as past trauma or encouraging distraction from emotional pain by quickly writing a prescription for puberty blockers or a cross-sex hormone on the first or second visit to a clinic?”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“Generally, once men have said that they are feminists, they feel free to behave in whatever scummy manner they see fit towards women. The reason I loathe virtue-signalling so much is not because I'm against people bigging themselves up [...] but because boasting only makes sense when it's about something you do well. People who do nothing worth talking about will invariably boast about the way they are; their virtue-signalling is not a prelude to virtue but rather a substitute for it. In fact in can encourage them to behave even worse than they would otherwise; one thinks of those men working for charities who will happily head into a disaster zone and make whores of the poverty stricken female population.”

“Wokeness is King Midas in reverse, tarnishing any noble cause it touches, but on no body of struggle has is left as many filthy finger marks in inappropriate places as on feminism. With smoke and mirrors and sleight of hand worthy of a wicked misogynist magician, it has midwifed a monstrous creature, a fauxminism which is centred solely around the stations of the hallowed penis.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“It's extremely illogical how attacking a man dressed as a women is a hate crime, but attacking an actual woman is not; many trannies are built like brick shit houses (albeit ones which have bad wigs perched atop them) and therefore more than capable of fighting back.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“Other hatreds come and go - but it's always open season on women. The threat of femicide is always there in the background, like white noise - the mood music which accompanies the danse macabre of misogyny - and authorities seem intensely relaxed about statistics which would provoke a frenzy of breast-beating if it involved any other group.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“Whenever the rights of women clash with the rights of others, those in power seem extraordinarily keen on letting the side who aren't women win - and their attitudes seem creepily in accord with those of the woke bros. For example, the British police force - PC Plod has been born again as PC PC - seem far more interested in bothering people for online "misgendering" than they do investigating threats by blokes in brassieres to rape TERFs.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“I sometimes wonder if we can truthfully call sex offenders fully human; of course they are biologically, but when ones own sexual satisfaction has become the governing principle to the extent that other people are only meat-puppets which act as objects to facilitate it, surely they lose that intangible yet recognisable quality we call "humanity" - the stranger who runs towards danger to help someone they have never met or who queues up in the rain to give a vital part of their body to some poor soul lacking a vital part.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“I can't help but think of a particularly vicious parody of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man. First, she is an aborted female foetus, then a cyber bullied schoolgirl, then a raped and trafficked victim of a grooming gang, then a adjudged predatory Lolita responsible for her own molestation by some dirty old man. And that's just before she's old enough to vote. In young adult life, at the height of her beauty, she will groped, grabbed and molested in the street as she goes about her daily business, Seeking refuge from this, she may put herself under the protection of one man through marriage or cohabitation. If he doesn't kill her, she will lose her beauty and become the despised battle axe butt of a million mother in law jokes until she will be an unwanted older woman dying for a drink of water on an NHS hospital ward. Considering that life under the patriarchy can be such a slog, it's a feat of evil genius and the throat-choking cherry on the cake that the 50 Shades of Grey franchise managed to beautify male bullying of women and sell it back to them in their millions as exciting erotica.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“It is the proud boast of many a modern man that he has never paid for porn, but he doesn't need to; women pay for it with their physical and mental health everyday. And with their lives. Whereas the average life expectancy in the USA is 78 years old, the average life expectancy of a porn star is 37 years. Not shelf life - actual life.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“Porn is a cheeky abbreviation of a long and ugly word with a history rooted in female slaves bought and sold for the purpose of sexual use, but now reborn as a lovely little chum to all.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“What pornography has done is to make life far harder for those women in the front line of sexual servitude in that men now expect prostitutes - not just *civilian* women - to act like porn stars. The repulsive reviews of punters on various online forums bear this out as women are rebuked most often for "staying still" and "looking sad" rather than pretending to enjoy being penetrated by strangers as porn performers do.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“In the age of cosplay, being a women has been reduced to the ultimate white male privilege; like Buffalo Bill from the Silence of the Lambs, a certain sort of man believes that he can construct a Woman Suit from words and rob us of the privileges which he believes we have. They are not actually murdering us in order to fashion their outfits, but they are attempting to remove our freedoms piece by piece. And they are leaving the bloodied body parts of those too young to understand what their feelings mean as their calling card.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“I am not aware of any other mental or medical condition in which a kid or young adult self-diagnoses themselves after social media and internet engagement, undergoes no objective testing, and then receives irreversible medication and surgery upon demand”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“There is a significant lack of evidence that cross-sex hormones and surgical procedures, such as mastectomies, that attempt to chemically and cosmetically alter biological sex are effective solutions to young women’s difficulties. Transgender medicalization is an experiment that might have dire consequences on the future of our children and society.”

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Book:The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology

“The word 'affirmation' is literally a 'positive' word, and so our gut instinct is that it must be a good thing. In reality of course an 'affirmation only' approach denies the person any thoughtful enquiry, which could be extremely helpful. After all, the phrase goes, 'a problem shared is a problem solved', and not merely a solution shared...'. The post op regretters were universally of the opinion that if they had been able to access an exploratory space in the first place, then they would not have pursued the irreversible physical steps, which they later came to regret.”

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Author:Dr Az Hakeem

“The Woke are by their nature young and still crave popularity to a pathetic extent, especially the young middle class women involved; thus the type of feminism they perform for male approval often appears to have been influenced more by the sex industry than by the Suffragettes.”

“There is a lost-girl quality in the nude feminists of Instagram; a topsy-turvy land where women show men their disapproval of manmade rules by delivering up exactly what men want from them. Women have spent decades protesting about wanting to be seen as more than bodies by men - and now the trend is to literally make tits of themselves in a bid to prove that they're independent women.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“If a racial or religious minority faced the same scale of ceaseless attacks that females do, we'd call it terrorism, persecution or genocide. When it happens to females, we seem to see it as the luck of the draw.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“It's worth remembering that cheap immigrant labour doesn't just damage indigenous people, but also the people doing it; the Chinese Morcombe Bay cockle pickers died because they had no knowledge of local tides, unlike the local workers, who they replaced by virtue of being paid a pittance.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“By championing racial diversity the Woke ruling class has happened upon a smart way of swerving the far greater injustice which exists in this country - the class system, which wastes more lives than any other form of oppression ever invented. So you'll hear a beautiful Bajan accent reading the BBC news - but never a pleb Brummie. Despite those expensive educations, the Woke ruling class don't understand what the uneducated UnWoke working class ask of them, simply because they talk differently; to be dismissed as a CHAV, gammon or Karen, in a milieu which would rather cut out its tongue than dehumanise any other group so, and thus have 99.9% of all life opportunities stifled at birth.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“When I see the Woke media supplicating over minorities for their own narcissistic and performative ends, I see the nihilism of white riots to match the black ones. Because the trouble with identity politics is that you make being white an identity too. And if you split yourself off from others of your class because of their colour, dismissing their lived experience as privilege, blaming them for things they haven't done, eventually those people will say "Ok you win. I'll talk to, live among, and vote only with my kind".”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“Has anyone noticed that one of the main actions which women appear to play in Woke's Rich Tapestry is ceaseless apologising? Saying sorry for their TERF words, their "cis privilege", their sheer taking up of space in a world where cocks in frocks demand access all areas? It's a wonder we ever got the vote - imagine the Suffragettes today going around apologising to race horses for being insufficiently sensitive to their shared cultural oppression.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

“The adjectives and derivatives based on woman's distinctions are alien and derogatory when applied to human affairs; "effeminate"--too female, connotes contempt, but has no masculine analogue; whereas "emasculate"--not enough male, is a term of reproach, and has no feminine analogue. 'Virile'--manly, we oppose to 'puerile'--childish, and the very world 'virtue' is derived from 'vir'--a man.”

Source: Welcome to the Woke Trials

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Book:The Man-made World: Or, our Androcentric Culture

Source: The Man-made World: Or, our Androcentric Culture

“Trans people are trans people. We should get over it. They deserve to be safe, to be visible throughout society without shame or stigma, and to have exactly the life opportunities non-trans people do. Their transness makes no difference to any of this. What trans people don’t deserve, however, is to be publicly misrepresented in philosophical terms that make no sense; nor to have their everyday struggles instrumentalised in the name of political initiatives most didn’t ask for, and which alienate other groups by rigidly encroaching on their hard-won rights. Nor do trans people deserve to be terrified by activist propaganda into thinking themselves more vulnerable to violence than they actually are.”

“I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect.”

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

“A first thing to note, in case it’s unclear, is that I am not arguing against legal protections for trans people against violence, discrimination or coercive surgeries. I enthusiastically support these protections.”

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

“In the spread of gender-identity ideology, developments in academia played a crucial role. This is not the place for an extended critique of the thinking that evolved on American campuses out of the 1960s French philosophy and literary criticism into gender studies, queer theory, critical race theory and the like. I will merely focus on what some have dubbed 'applied postmodernism' and the form of activism, known as 'social justice', that seeks to remake humanity along ideological lines. And I will lay out the key elements that have enable transsexuality, once understood as a rare anomaly, to be converted into an all-encompassing theory of sex and gender, and body and mind. Within applied postmodernism, objectivity is essentially impossible. Logic and reason are not ideals to be striven for, but attempts to shore up privilege. Language is taken to shape reality, not describe it. Oppression is brought into existence by discourse. Equality is no longer achieved by replacing unjust laws and practices with new ones that give everyone the chance to thrive, but by individuals defining their own identities, and 'troubling' or 'queering' the definitions of oppressed groups. A dualistic ideology can easily be accommodated within such a framework. Being a man or woman – or indeed non-binary or gender-fluid - becomes a matter of finding your own gender identity and revealing it to the world by the medium of preferred pronouns. It is a feeble form of dualism to be sure: the grandeur of Descartes' 'I think, therefore I am' replaced by 'they/them' on a pronoun badge.”

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

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Book:Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

Source: Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality

“As developed by trans activists, standpoint epistemology says there are special forms of standpoint-related knowledge about trans experience available only to trans people, not cis people. For instance, only trans people can properly understand the pernicious effects of ‘cis privilege’, and how it intersects with other forms of oppression to produce certain kinds of lived experience. As with some versions of feminism and critical race theory, when transmuted through popular culture this has quickly become the idea that only trans people can legitimately say anything about their own nature and interests including on philosophical matters of gender identity. Cis people, including feminists and lesbians, have nothing useful to contribute here. Their assumption that they do have something useful to contribute is a further manifestation of their unmerited privilege.”

“So straight away I want to be absolutely clear about what I’m not saying, before I go on to explain and justify these points in more detail in the next chapter. (I can anticipate a lot of these misunderstandings because they’re frequently fired at me by critics, as assumptions about what I must really be saying.) I’m not saying that to physically alter oneself to look like the opposite sex, or unlike one’s own sex, or both, isn’t ever a reasonable thing for adults to do in response to developing a misaligned gender identity. I think it can be, and have explained why in Chapter 4. More generally, I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with looking or being radically sex nonconforming, either naturally or artificially. Quite the opposite. Personally speaking, I value and celebrate sex nonconformity: masculine women, feminine men and androgyny. Indeed, it’s partly in the service of this evaluation that I’ve made the arguments I have. I’m not underplaying the psychological relief it gives many trans people to think of themselves as members of the opposite sex. Nor, perhaps surprisingly, am I saying that trans women and trans men, respectively, shouldn’t ever call themselves ‘women’ and ‘men’ or be referred to that way by those around them. I’ll explain why in the next chapter. I’m not saying trans people are ‘deceivers’, nor that they are ‘delusional’ or ‘duped’ – far from it. I’ll explain why in the next chapter, so there can be no doubt.”

Book:Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Source: Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism