Jolyon jumps the shark - is trans a cult?

Evangelical is the perfect description.

Ritchie Heron has always called it a death cult.

Dear God. Four?

I dare say a case may be made either way as to whether of not trans ideology is a cult, but what is in no doubt whatsoever is that the leading proponents of this hatstand bollocks are an absolute shower of cults.

If you are emoting right left and centre, if you are hysterical with fear that society is out to kill you - then you are unable to think. Thinking must be the activity that TRAs fear most because a clear mind will see through the ideology in jig time.
Hysteria is catching too. TRAs keep stirring the pot to maintain it. This has caused the "decline of thinking into feeling" .

It's also not reality.

Thanks for this and I think he still hasnt sold the windmill...I wonder if he paid back the 500,000 he owed builders...

It's been said in Parliament by Lords Young (Lab) and Blencathra (Con):

"is a cult that has invaded a lot of the institutions of government and other institutions. It is not going to just lie down quietly"

hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-04-17/debates/F0250D61-D285-4B3E-A14F-9E7CB3AC7820/CassReview?highlight=cult#contribution-5A06894D-22E4-46D9-A733-4D43EB39F93B

"Perhaps it was scrapping the words in the Hippocratic oath, “First do no harm”, that led to doctors neutering thousands of children, or perhaps they were captured by the ideologues of the transgender cult, led by the discredited organisation Mermaids, which advocates the cruel breast-binding of girls—it is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission, following safeguarding allegations. I exempt the courageous whistleblowers at the Tavistock who exposed this scandal and were vilified for it.

Only cult capture by the trans zealots can explain why 138 children were referred in 2010 for genuine gender dysphoria but that this had rocketed to 3,585 in 2021, as the fad for converting children from one sex to another took hold."

hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-02-09/debates/DB690A34-D945-4EDA-9178-DD6357498F45/ConversionTherapyProhibition(SexualOrientationAndGenderIdentity)Bill(HL)?highlight=cult#contribution-44EC249F-CF74-45DA-B85F-C543819605BE

So I don't think we should be deleted for use of the c-word.

Our daughter has no recollection of living as male, as this has not reflected her lived reality for the last 10 years, since age four. It is not a reality we, or she, would have chosen, but it is one we have come to accept and defend, because the alternative would have undoubtedly caused her harm.

They say "It is not a reality we ... would have chosen", but they did choose it. At four, this wasn't coming from the child, it was all done by the parents.

Some of this stuff is appalling! Four!? That's horrific.

In answer to the OP, I had a comment removed from MN when I likened the behaviour to a cult. To me everything about these extremists behaviour is exactly the same as a cult, (especially the fury invoked when anyone suggests that's what it is) and that makes it a cult IMO

Maugham publishes a letter from a parent who transed their kid at age 4

They should be prosecuted for child abuse.

What are the parents regulatory bodies doing about them?

Not difficult to guess, given his unfortunate but IMO not accidental choice of the ashes metaphor to make his tasteless and low point.

The rhetoric is unmistakeable, as is the Lobby's constant reference to any opposition as in 'alignment' with far right politics.

There don't seem to be any depths to which this excuse for a man won't sink.

548 replies. Over 190,000 views. 479 likes. Ratioed, I'd say.

Responses are mostly from well-known GC accounts who tend to be quick off the mark replying to these type of tweets, doesn't seem to be much criticism outside of this. I suppose most normal people aren't aware of this.

Likely causes of child death are on p36 here. I can't remember why the data is a year behind. It might be impacts from Covid but I can't remember.

12 female suicides
6 male suicides

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65bce1df7042820013752116/ChildSafeguardinggReviewPanellannualreportt2022too2023.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-safeguarding-practice-review-panel-annual-report-2022-to-2023

Thank you, Gasp.

It's really rather petrifying that he thinks this would be considered persuasive.

"As professionals, practicing in social work and emergency medicine, we are well-versed in informed decision-making and risk management, and we have always been careful, curious, open-minded and questioning in our approach to parenting a trans child."

This is appalling.

Here you go, @Datun. Lots more like this.

Thanks for that @fromorbit
That spreadsheet is quite something.

I'm not on Twitter, if anyone can C and P a couple of the responses, I'd be grateful. I have to hope people are seeing through this nightmare.

This child must have a penis, no?

unless they are kept completely isolated from society and every human being, they must know they are male.

Horrifying though it is, letters like that really highlight the utter scandal of transing children.

So that child was transed in 2014. His parents were one of the early uptakers. 'Social work and emergency medicine', Jesus Christ!

Well her biology lessons will be interesting.

Most teens learn their parents are not perfect - but imagine discovering they'd told you a whopper like that. How could you trust them again?