“The force said complaints had been received but no action would be taken,” reports the BBC, referring to a statement released by Scotland Police letting the public know that JK Rowling tweets describing several transgender women as men were not criminal.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act makes it an offense to stir up hatred with absusive or threatening behavior on the basis of characteristics including religion, sexual orientation and transgender identity. The maximum sentence is seven years in prison. (Racial hatred was banned under a 1986 law. A law against misogyny is forthcoming.)
“I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women—irrespective of profile or financial means—will be treated equally under the law,” Rowling tweeted, adding, “If they go after any woman for simply calling a man a man, I’ll repeat that woman’s words and they can charge us both at once.”
Why is JK Rowling’s defiance of Scottish law so important? Because there is nothing more fundamental to freedom than the rights to speak the truth and not have to tell lies. The United Declaration of Universal Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil And Political Rights affirm the right to conscience and speech. It’s affront to human dignity that the Scottish law exists, even if the police have declined to arrest charge Rowling with a hate crime.
But the influence of the queer lobby has proved itself powerful. The gender ideologue hates correct gendering because it represents active resistance to the demand that others participate in deception or affirm delusion. Since a man knows, or at least suspects, that he is not nor can ever be a woman, he depends on others to suspend their disbelief for his sake—whatever his motive (gain access to women’s spaces, sexual gratification, etc.). He demands others live in his world by his rules. If he cannot count on the emotional blackmail of dysphoria or suicide, he attempts to arrange for the state to punish dissenters.
This is why Rowling’s defiance is so moving and powerful—and necessary. Just as we must openly defy demands that we accept the doctrines of Christianity and Islam, we must openly defy the demand that we accept the doctrine of the queer religion. Rowling is a role model.
Perhaps the gender ideologue might consider respecting the right of others to speak freely and be free from compelled speech. After all, freedom of speech and conscience are fundamental human rights. But the gender ideologue cannot respect the rights to speech and conscience because, like Islam, the techno-religious cult of gender ideology is a fundamentally authoritarian.
And like Islam, gender ideology is nonsense through and through. There is no gender identity apart from gender itself (which is the same thing as sex)—or at least the believer must be forced to admit that there is no evidence for such a thing beyond his subjective feeling. How could a man know how it feels to be a woman? The brain of a man is a man’s brain—just as are his hands and every other part of him. Gender is binary and immutable.
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The White House was in for some criticism on March 31 for proclaiming on Easter Day “Trans Day of Visibility.” Biden later denied he did that. But he did. In his defense, we are told, the trans holiday was established in 2009. You’d think, though, that one would check to see, since it is a floating holiday, whether Easter would fall on the last day of March. Or maybe that was known and intended. Whatever. I am not one to get too worked up over religious days of remembrance.
More interesting is the fact that there are nearly thirty days devoted to sexual minorities in the United States. Indeed, there are entire months devoted to LGBTQ causes or commemorations: Pride Month in June, LGBTQ History Month in October, and Transgender Awareness Month in November. The queer agenda is pursued in public institutions across the nation, its flags flown over government buildings. Streets are painted in queer colors. DEI training at universities and in corporate offices conditions students, employees, administrators and managers in the doctrine and encourages—sometimes demands—they rehearse the slogans and perform the conventions. The queer agenda is pushed out by the culture industry and embraced by the health care industry.
America’s culture and institutions have been commandeered by the queer movement. Either that or elites have coopted the queer movement to disorganize society and disorder the public mind—albeit these are not mutually exclusive developments. Either way, society is being disorganized and the public mind disordered. If the former, then the motive is not hard to discern—it’s a desire to depathologize what has heretofore been regarded as sexual deviancy, enlarge the congregation of the queer church, and use the institutional apparatus to force everybody to obey the dictates of the new (state sanctioned) religion. If it is the latter, then the motive becomes perhaps a little harder to infer, or at least explain, as it goes to the elite imperative to remake the world in the image of the queer agenda. Why would they want to do that?
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NOW responded to the news that several former and current college athletes are suing the NCAA for violating their Title IX rights. The law suit concerns the NCAA’s decision to let Lia Thomas compete in the 2022 national championships.
“Repeat after us: Weaponizing womenhood against other women is white supremacist patriarchy at work,” the post from NOW said. “Making people believe there isn’t enough space for trans women in sports is white supremacist patriarchy at work.”
Factcheck: Trans women are men. There is no room in women’s sports for men. The National Organization of Women is part of the establishment disorganizing Western civilization.
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And there is this:
freedom and reason 