A transi tomb was a rather strange church monument for the dead of the Middle Ages . It had sculptured bodies showing them in their two forms; on top was how they were seen in life; beneath was how they were seen in death, a decayed corpse.

In this respect the LGBTQ+ movement is also finding itself subject to the transience and vanity of mortal life as the original LGB part find themselves increasingly at odds with the “T’s & “Q’s” who have glommed on to the movement in the last decade, as described by Bruce Bawer:

Years ago, gay magazines and organizations routinely conveyed the message that, as a gay man, I was part of something called “the gay community.” Then, at some point when I wasn’t looking, apparently I was adopted into something called “the LGBTQ+ family.” 

Meaning that in the view of the formerly gay and now LGBTQ+ establishment—the leaders of groups like the HRC and GLAAD, editors of magazines like Advocate and Out, and assorted authors and activists and academics, all of them on the Far Left—gay men like me aren’t just chained at the hip to lesbians and bisexuals; we’re also intimately lassoed to “queers” (which can mean anything), to individuals who identify themselves with some newfangled label like “nonbinary” or “genderqueer,” and, yes, to transgender people. 

Bawer points out that this is far from being its original issue of gender dysphoria, a long identified mental issue where men think they’re woman and women think they’re men (“Key word: think.“), and that what is being dealt with now is a transgender ideology that extends far beyond that into things like “nonbinary,” and “gender fluid” (male one day, female the next):

Indeed, the current trans line on same-sex attraction and opposite-sex attraction is that both are transphobic—that it’s bigotry for a straight man or a lesbian, for example, to refuse to sleep with a trans woman (i.e., a biological man)

(Note this illuminating detail: on the one hand, trans people demand that, in determining their “gender identity,” we rely not on biology but on their accounts of what they “feel”; on the other hand, they contend that persons to whom they’re attracted must yield to their demands for sex. Their feelings, then, are of infinite value, while ours don’t matter in the least.) 

That’s actually a standard feature of the entire oppressed/oppressor basis of Woke and Identity Politics, whether we’re talking about sex, gender, race or anything else. Bawer goes into the history of how LGB got “T”, “Q”, and “T+” added. I saw one example of this several years ago when I was subscribing to the Apple +streaming network and I noticed that the “Gay and Lesbian” category of films and TV suddenly changed to LGBTQ.

As another article points out this sort of “change” began to be just as superficial in real life. We were no longer talking about mature adults making painful decisions to undergo drugs and surgery to change themselves, as had been the case for decades:

Wendy Carlos and Jan Morris come immediately to my mind. M-to-F, as was most often the case, historically. Both appear, in images discoverable on the internet, to present convincingly as female the last time anyone paid attention. Such is not often the case with individuals in a more recent surge of M-to-F transsexuals. Seriously – if you’re going to go all out claiming to be a female, guys, can’t I demand that you work harder at it? You know – extensive surgical body modification, makeup, hairstyling, presenting at least the superficial appearance of being the fair delicate flower of womanhood?

Even worse has been the F-to-M stuff, with order-of-magnitude increases in the number of teenage girls apparently convincing themselves that they’re boys, and unlike the Will Thomas’s of this world (yes, I’m “dead-naming” the narcissistic, egoistic POS) these girls are all in for the surgery and the drugs:

Being a teenage female in puberty is a miserable business, even more so now; battered from every side by the availability of grotesque porn, and the temptations of being validated by peers and supportive authority figures that all those doubts and stresses will go away once you take all kinds of hormones, cut off your breasts and excise your uterus, and have some surgeons build a quasi-penis from flesh sliced elsewhere on your body. Troubled teenage girls are so vulnerable to peer pressure, now that social media has turned the dial up to eleven.

Ugly stuff. That article points out the obvious aspects of the trans movement; that this all seems very much like past fads such as the recovered memory and Ritual Satanic abuse insanity of three decades ago, but also that, unlike those and other fads, this stuff is not reversible. Chemical and surgical mutilation can’t be walked back. To that end Bawer likens it more to “the act of self-harm known as cutting, which seemed to reach a peak of popularity a few years ago.”

Tipping Points?

So has a tipping point been reached? Hard to say yet, but there are certainly some very big cracks starting to open up – although that’s yet to reach our MSM and “Entertainment” industry figures, or our politicians, especially here in New Zealand. However:

A most unforeseen development is in the rebellion of parents and alums of a very upper-caste all-girls school against the decision by the school to admit biological males who claim that they are really girls.

That’s in the USA. Meanwhile in Britain was something more important:

“On the heels of the ordered closure of the infamous Tavistock gender clinic in London, which offered ‘gender-affirming care’ and puberty blockers to thousands of children over the years, news has broken that roughly 1,000 families will file a medical negligence lawsuit against the clinic.”

About bloody time!

Bawer points out that people are starting to lose their tolerance for the trans minority because – despite claiming to be cruelly oppressed – they have been acting like toxic, authoritarian bullies. And quite a few of these people losing patience with trans world are gay people:

To this end, concerned British gay and lesbians have founded the LGB Alliance, on whose website you can read “that sex is binary, female and male, and that (for the vast majority of people) sex is determined at conception, observed at birth (or in utero), and recorded.” Heresy! LGB Alliance co-founder Bev Jackson, now 71, is a veteran gay-rights activist and woman of the Left, having become the spokesperson for Britain’s Gay Liberation Front way back in 1970.

There are plenty of others it would seem, judging by these comments on “#LGBdroptheT”, which has been trending on Twitter:

  • “the Ts are abusive, gay denying, homophobic misogynists.”
  • “the trans movement [is] full of satanic, grooming, pro body mutilation dictators.”
  • “The T hitched a ride a few years back, invited itself for dinner, and is trying to make out that it always lived here. It didn’t. Pride marches, protests, and LGB rights happened WITHOUT the T. I remember—I was there. I also remember the T wasn’t.” 
  • “They latched themselves onto our movement and became a parasite to the equality we fought SO hard for. They’re ungrateful, smug little bastards that need to go. Fight your own battles and leave us out of the whole drag queen story time shit . . .We didn’t sign on for this shit. We don’t want kids groomed . . . You took advantage of our good will. It’s gone too far.”

Ouch. Admittedly some of this is self-preservation, as the gay and lesbian community find themselves getting dragged under in an atmosphere of fear and loathing they thought they’d escaped.

Then there’s the Gays Against Groomers, a new American group, which had “over 63,000 followers” on Twitter:

Gays Against Groomers is a coalition of gay people who oppose the recent trend of indoctrinating, sexualizing and medicalizing children under the guise of “LGBTQIA+.” . . . This includes drag queen story hours, drag shows involving children, the transitioning and medicalization of minors, and gender theory being taught in the classroom. 

The [transgender] activists, backed by school boards, government, woke media, and corporations, have been speaking on our behalf for too long. When fighting for equality, our goal was to successfully integrate ourselves into society, but now these radicals aim to restructure it entirely in order to accommodate a fringe minority, as well as seek to indoctrinate children into their ideology. 

We’re saying NO.

Matt Margolis wrote about them at PJ Media, and two days later. Twitter permanently banned them, which ties in with the following cartoon that led to its originator (not Hayward) being banned from Twitter for inciting “hate”.

WRT to the gay community getting the blame for a lot of this – gay marriage being argued as an example of a slippery slope argument being correct – Bawer makes this point:

Yes, you can blame the tiny handful of far-left gay activists who, when the gay-rights struggle was over, refused to close up shop and instead—eager to keep raking in the cash—cynically retooled their organizations so that instead of promoting gay equality they were pushing trans ideology. Hell, those activists never cared for the “assimilationist” goals of most gay people in the first place, and therefore took like ducks to water to the idea of using transgenderism to upend social norms.

But those activists aren’t the only guilty parties in this story. Trans mania would never have taken hold throughout the Western world if not for straight people—disproportionately white liberal women of a certain age—who let themselves be convinced by the mainstream media that the only proper response to transgender ideology was to embrace it unquestioningly.

It’s heterosexual women like these, not gays, who are escorting children to the chopping block—children who, if left alone, would almost certainly have grown into gay adults.

“White Liberal women of a certain age”, eh? Yeah, I know more than a few of them, and they’re also the strongest supporters of President Biden and Jacinda Ardern. Funny that.