One of the stock phrases to come out of the mouths of those who are part of the Cult of Trans is one that is used to try to shut down debate about gender ideology is ‘but that never happens’. This phrase is used to make the hearer feel that they are overreacting when they voice their concerns about biological men, which is what trans women are, being allowed unfettered access to women’s spaces or to vulnerable people.
The trans activist, at least in my experience, wants to make those who have concerns about gender ideology believe that they are making mountains out of molehills.
Trans activists also do not want to acknowledge that whilst there are hundreds of decent transsexual individuals and even more relatively harmless ‘Saturday Night Trannies’, there are also predators and abusers who find the whole cult of trans very much to their liking. Predators like what the cult of trans has brought because it increases their access to potential victims, provides an intellectual and social cover for their activities, especially where boundaries are seemingly weak and grey, as in the area of paediatric gender transitioning. Also, if the predator is apprehended by the authorities then identifying as ‘trans’ provides the sort of mitigation at sentencing time that is right on political trend.
Trans activists who believe that predators will never exploit the amazing social and cultural advantages that our political classes have granted those who call themselves trans, advantages that are increasingly at the expense of women’s rights, are either naive or thoroughly dishonest. The problem for trans activists is that what they claim ‘never happens’, seems to happen an awful lot when compared to the general population.
Those who claim to be trans are a very tiny minority of the British population. There are only 262k people who claim some sort of different gender identity from the one on their birth certificate, that’s less than the number of Jews in Britain which is 271k. I reckon the last time and place that had more Jews than trannies was East London in the early 20th century.
I’d bet that the vast majority of those in the ‘non birth gender’ category in the latest census are those who claim they are non binaries, which is not a gender but an example of attention seeking behaviour. This leaves a much smaller number of people who genuinely have the delusion that they are of the opposite sex and a vastly smaller number of them who fully engage, with all its costs and few it seems benefits, of drugs and surgery to make themselves a simulacrum of their desired sex. However although the 262k alternative gender group is very small, only 0.5% or so of the British population, it does seem to produce an awful lot of disturbed individuals and more than a few predators. A good place to see just how many and how disturbed some of those trans predators are would be Trans Crime UK which keeps a good record of those who’ve been through or are going through the courts and where some form of gender claim by the defendant is present.
But it appears that the United Kingdom is not alone with accusations that those involved in the trans cult in one way or another are also predators or alleged predators.
A big trans related story coming out of the Irish Republic concerns allegations being made against one Owen Hanley, a councillor on Galway Council that are so grave that he has decided to step down whilst what is expected to be a lengthy investigation goes on. Hanley is intimately connected to a network of LGBT organisations in Ireland and is very much concerned with stuff like ‘trans healthcare’ and appears to be connected to a group called Teach Solais which provides ‘youth LGBT services to young people and children aged from twelve years old. The Irish state broadcaster RTE is covering this case but is being quite coy about details possibly because when elected as the first gay councillor in Galway, Ireland’s liberal media and intelligentsia, of which RTE is a part, celebrated and feted him and his election.
RTE said:
A Galway city councillor has resigned his seat following serious allegations made about him on social media.
Owen Hanley said that the allegations would take a considerable length of time to investigate and so he believed that resigning from the council was the correct course of action.
Mr Hanley had represented the Social Democrats party on Galway City Council since 2019.
It’s probably good to note here that the Irish Social Democratic Party is nothing to do with the British party of the same name. The Irish SDP are a pro-EU, left wing party that from what I can gather is made up of defectors from other left wing parties, totally unlike Britain’s SDP, which is much more conservative.
I should probably also say, at least for forms sake, that Owen Hanley should be treated as innocent until proven guilty. However judging by what has been published elsewhere about this case and the various rumours going around, it don’t look good for either Hanley or his party.
Other publications, such as the student publication The Burkean, have not been as reticent as RTE have been in their reporting of the Hanley case. The Burkean seems to a whole lot more information than has gone out via the MSM.
The Burkean said on the second of January of this year:
Earlier today, videos were posted to Twitter in which a teenage man accuses Social Democrats councillor for Galway City East, Owen Hanley, of sexually grooming him on social media when he was underage.
Hanley has been accused by this teenager of sexual abuse, catfishing and grooming. Allegedly, Hanley posed as a teenager and reached out anonymously to the victim on Twitter. Allegedly, Hanley successfully encouraged the victim to send explicit images around February of 2022. When confronted by the individual with this information, according to the video accusation, Hanley denied the allegations. However, following when this alleged interaction would have happened, all traces of Hanley’s anonymous social media presence were deleted. His profile pictures were removed from his personal Twitter and the account made private.
Of course we should remember that false accusations of abuse get made. But the abrupt removal of Hanley’s social media presence is more than a little suspect. It makes it looks as if Hanley has something that he doesn’t want to come out. Couple that with the fact that his party, when made aware of the allegations, which came to light in August 2022, swiftly voted in a brand new safeguarding policy and contacted the relevant authorities, doesn’t make this case look good for either Hanley or his party. There could be, as the Burkean said, ‘a serious political scandal’ for the Irish SDP over all this.
If there turns out to be a sufficient quantity and quality of evidence against Hanley to ensure his conviction for the grooming allegations then it will be yet another example of something,the targetting of young people for nefarious reasons, that the trans activists say ‘never happens’ happening again. In the wacky world of trans and the wilder shores of related movements, what never should happen seems to be happening on a remarkably and worryingly frequent regularity.
