The anti-trans groups have taken what’s left of their masks off: in a joint letter to the head of NHS England and to trans-hating health minister Wes Streeting, Sex Matters, the LGB Alliance, Transgender Trend and Genspect claim that because they’ve achieved a legal victory that will make life much harder and more miserable for trans people, the justification for transition-related healthcare “has fallen away”.
Or to put it another way: “it’s unethical to expose trans people to the hatred, misery and discrimination we’ve campaigned to inflict on them, so they shouldn’t be helped to transition.”
This particular letter is about puberty blockers for trans kids, and demands that the NHS trial to assess their safety should be halted. But the same argument will be used to demand the end of all healthcare for all trans people. Other key figures in the “gender-critical” movement, people who have the government’s ear, are now arguing that trans people should be considered criminals committing “gender fraud”.
It was never about protecting women, or protecting children.
It’s about eliminating trans people.
There’s a word for that.
As the Lemkin Instutite for Genocide Prevention said of the “gender-critical” movement in 2022:
The gender critical movement simultaneously denies that transgender identity is real and seeks to eradicate it completely from society…
The ideological constructions of transgender women promoted by gender critical ideologues are particularly genocidal. They share many features in common with other, better known, genocidal ideologies.
Transgender women are represented as stealth border crossers who seek to defile the purity of cisgender women, much as Tutsi women were viewed in Hutu Power ideology and Jewish men in Nazi antisemitism.
Trans people in general are framed as figures that threaten the wholeness of the patriarchal nuclear family as well as the strength and vitality of national communities, much in the way that ethnic and national targets of genocide are viewed as cosmic enemies of the perpetrator group.
Like the religious targets of genocidal violence, trans people are often described as somehow polluted, sinful, or against God. They are blamed for a host of social problems that have nothing to do with them or with the free expression of their identities.
The Lemkin Institute reminds readers that one of the first libraries to be burned under the National Socialists in Germany was the library and archive of Magnus Hirshfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, a groundbreaking research organization studying human sexuality and gender. The Nazis, like other genocidal groups, believed that national strength and existential power could only be achieved through an imposition of a strict gender binary within the racially-pure “national community.” A fundamentalist gender binary was a key feature of Nazi racial politics and genocide.
Don’t ever claim you didn’t know, or that nobody tried to raise the alarm.