`Ello, me lads! Mouse here, weighing in from jolly old Folkstone, where the illustrious torch of Advent sentiment burns brightly, still.
Thanks to the Coronavirus lockdowns—an artifact of perennial stampcrabs Boris Johnson and Sir Keir—I’ve spent the last several months hunkered down increasing my wordpower. Unfortunately I’ve also increased the old beltline a bit—weighing in at 13 stone plus. Now that we Brits are free to hug and swan about again, perhaps those excess kilos will melt away like an unwelcome shot-clog. But I digress.
It’s getting a bit pear-shaped out there. The intellectually and biologically malnourished transgender crowd are on a crash course with feminism to claw their way up the intersectional feather tree. The Church of Sweden, for instance, just announced that it is trans. The entire Church.
They published a statement declaring itself transgender and condemning the media, ‘right-wing’ groups and even feminists for allegedly discriminating against people with different gender identities.
Published on the Vasteras diocese's website, the declaration, titled ‘Personal letter to you who are trans,’ states that the Lutheran national church could arguably identify as transgender because of its diverse array of priests, employees and parishioners.
The letter goes on to state that it could no longer remain silent as media outlets, “radical right-wing Christian groups” and “trans-excluding” feminists allegedly conspire to deprive transgender people of their rights and human dignity. It’s a bit unsettling that this country lies just to the north east of jolly old England.
Notice the burgeoning animosity betwixt transfolks and feminists. Yes, they are turning on each other, proving the old stalwart William F. Buckley (and Danton) correct when he said liberalism will eventually consume itself. I fear both groups have had a bang on the head.
Trans Folk
Trans people (hereafter referred to as the chronically confused) are those who pretend they are a gender they are not. For instance, your sweet niece who bakes superb cookies, goes to Liberal University and gets a degree in bitterness studies. While there, she decides she might be a man and pretends to be a hairy lumberjack.
All of her equally confused peers affirm her in this courageous decision “You’re sooooo brave!” She feels special. But there’s a problem.
Feminists
Feminists, after all, made a cottage industry out of exalting womanhood as the ultimate…err… personhood. In order to uplift womanism, they made it quite distinct from manhood. Then the chronically confused transgender crowd—who observe no distinctions whatever—began to infiltrate women’s sports and bathrooms, though not in that order. And the feminists—who first flung open the door to gender confusion in the 1970’s said “You are going too far.”
The letter from the Church of Sweden that was published on the Västerås diocese’s website decried the fact that some feminists are trying to protect female spaces from biological men, such as female sports or changing rooms, for which they are often denounced as TERFs (trans exclusionary radical feminists) by LGBT campaigners.
And behold, it was very bad. Now, back to my dieting.
Cheerio,
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