There’s been a massive and welcome addition to the fight against gender identity ideology in the form of former Sunday Times editor and BBC politics stalwart Andrew Neil. Mr Neil has quite recently publicly come out against the horrors that have been visited on far too many people because of gender identity ideology.
Mr Neil wrote a powerful piece for the Daily Mail expressing disgust and horror at what is being done to young people in the name of the gender identity ideology. He’s faced some criticism for this of course, primarily from the loony troons themselves, their female handmaidens and those who promote the cult of trans. However he’s also had some criticism from women’s rights campaigners who questioned why Mr Neil did not speak out earlier.
The first group of critics, the loony troons and their supporters are just angry that a high profile centre-right commentator has refused to support either their delusions and the troons aggressive pursuit of their aims. Their criticisms can on the whole be dismissed as merely the rantings of the deluded and be safely ignored. However the criticisms from women’s rights campaigners need to be addressed.
Whilst I can understand that to some women’s and children’s rights campaigners it might look as if Mr Neil has come late to the party, it’s more likely to be the case that the whole issue of the trans cult and its influence on wider society might have passed him by. Mr Neil is and has been very much focussed on political and economic issues rather than cultural ones like the undue influence of the trans cult. I’m going to cut him some slack about not speaking up sooner because I understand that not everyone hits ‘Peak Trans’, the point when a person finds that they’ve had enough of the trans movement, at the same point or for the same reasons. For me my peaking came about for two reasons. The first was a realisation that transition too often doesn’t seem to cure the psychological problems that manifest themselves in gender dysphoria and the second was the targeting of children with pro-gender ideology propaganda by trans activists. Mr Neil’s point where he has reached Peak Trans was when he heard the horrific tale of medical abuse that a detransitioner was telling to US lawmakers.
It’s good to have someone like Andrew Neil on board the warship in the battle against gender identity ideology. He’s a centre-right ‘big beast’ and hopefully his criticisms of the cult of trans will reach people and places that other critics of gender identity ideology cannot reach.
You can read Mr Neil’s excellent and powerfully written piece about the gender identity cult via the link below:
Yes, but hmm? Andrew Neil’s programme on Channel 4 has now been axed by funding cuts and there is no clarity yet as to when it may return. It could be quite convenient for him to say if it isn’t reinstated he was a victim of cancel culture for having joined the TERF network.
Just some thoughts….
An interesting conspiracy theory. However Mr Neil’s words do genuinely come over as those of someone for whom the trans issue was a periphery one and it is only after the gruesomeness and incoherence of the cult is presented to him in a way that makes sense to him, does he fell compelled to speak. It’s a very similar ‘Peaking’ pattern as I’ve seen elsewhere and to my own experience of becoming criticial of a lot of trans cultism.
C4 is going down the pan rapidly so I’m not surprised to find that there are cutbacks. I believe that Mr Neil probably has a lot more opportunities and platforms for his work than just C4 so your suggested motivations may not apply here.
So, you’re accusing me of being a conspiracy theorist and yet you promote the equally debatable conspiracy theory that there is a massively influential ‘trans cult’ who want to destroy womens’ rights and trans all of our gender non confirming children.
We need the evidence on both sides, and at present we’re getting only one side from the MSM and political groups promoting their own interests.
No, I didn’t accuse you of being a conspiracy theorist, only that the argument that Neil wants to cover himself with TERF camouflage was an interesting conspiracy theory. I’m not sure that the loss of his C4 programme is what motivated Andrew Neil to come out on the gender critical side. Andrew Neil is big enough and has a big enough pull to not have to worry about losing one outlet which is one reason why he feels confident enough to speak out in the manner that he has.
I’m afraid that the influence of trans activists and the ideology that they espouse is not a conspiracy theory. Just look at how many social, political and cultural institutions that now parrot the lines fed to them by trans activists and how many police forces, NHS trusts, charities and others who virtue signal about their allyship with trans. You don’t get organisations doing that unless you have significant political power. Look at the capture of women’s sports by trans activists and trans ideology, it embedded itself and took years to even partially remove. The only conspiracy theory I can see in all this is the one where trans people are facing a ‘genocide’ when they are patently not.