From: tsm@fastmail.ca   
      
   On Feb 15, 2026 at 3:45:36 PM EST, "Julian"  wrote:   
      
   > Tug gently on a thread of the ideology and it comes apart like a jumper   
   > knitted by an imbecile   
   >   
   >   
   > At the height of the madness, from which I think we are now in merciful   
   > and terminal retreat, a Scottish schoolboy announced that he identified   
   > as a wolf and was apparently indulged in this fantasy by his teachers.   
   > There was a confusion here — a kind of ideology-versus-reality   
   > disconnect, as so often happens with lifestyle-left intersectional idiocies.   
   >   
   > If the teachers had truly believed the child was a wolf he would have   
   > been separated from the rest of the pupils by extremely robust metal   
   > fencing and thrown chunks of raw bison every few hours. Of course the   
   > school did not do that, meaning that in truth, and contrary to the   
   > approved narrative, it did not really think he was a wolf.   
   >   
   > At the same time reports surfaced of other British schools where kids   
   > were identifying as a multitude of creatures, real and imagined, such as   
   > cats, horses, dinosaurs and dragons. One assumes that in each case the   
   > schools responded similarly, by pretending to respect these expressions   
   > of the fictional condition “species dysphoria” but in reality not   
   > believing it for a minute.   
   >   
   > If only, one wished, they had taken the same approach to the suddenly   
   > booming popularity of teenage children telling everybody that they had   
   > been born into the wrong body — an impossibility — and identified as a   
   > different gender from the one they had been “assigned” at birth. Instead   
   > the schools indulged these dangerous fantasies, regardless of whether   
   > the parents approved.   
   >   
   > Fast-forward to last week and the education secretary, Bridget   
   > Phillipson, issued guidance to schools upon how to treat supposed   
   > outbreaks of gender dysphoria among their charges. This followed the   
   > Supreme Court ruling in April that under the law the terms “sex” and   
   > “man” and “woman” referred to biological sex — as we had   
   understood for   
   > the previous 20,000 years — and not to the fantasies of a deluded mind.   
   > Phillipson, unforgivably, had delayed issuing guidance for almost a   
   > year, then — to the fury of the Equality and Human Rights Commission —   
   > to avoid enraging the Stalinist wokies who preside over the country’s   
   > institutions and were busy allowing trans women into women’s wards in   
   > hospitals and women’s prisons. And to avoid annoying the teachers, too,   
   > a significant proportion of whom signed up to a counter-rational   
   > narrative that you can be whatever you want to be.   
   >   
   > And so in schools, at least, we are 90 per cent back to sanity. Single   
   > sex sports, single sex washrooms, and teachers should not initiate   
   > discussions or introduce concepts of gender identity to children.   
   > Parents are to be involved in almost all cases — but, oddly, teachers   
   > can respect a pupil’s pronouns if they want and, worryingly, can set   
   > kids as young as four on the path to “social transitioning” in “extreme   
   > cases”.   
   >   
   > This leaves far too much leeway with the teachers, whose unions   
   > clamoured for full transgender recognition and who have always been a   
   > deeply gullible lot untroubled by the concept of common sense. But we   
   > should be at least a little relieved. Now, Phillipson, roll out the same   
   > advice to the NHS and redress the years of misery endured, primarily, by   
   > female nurses. You know, proper female nurses — the ones with a cervix.   
   >   
   > How has the counter-revolution been achieved? The easy answer is that   
   > Supreme Court case of last year, but I would beg to differ. If that case   
   > had been heard in, say, 2022, I suspect the judgment would have been   
   > very different: no matter how often it tells us it is, our judiciary is   
   > no more above the political fray and the sway of fashionable ideologies   
   > than are you and I. More important were the battles of the Darlington   
   > nurses, for example, and the bravery shown by individuals who have been   
   > subjected to the most appalling abuse by the screaming mimis of the   
   > trans lobby and the blank-faced progressive commissars — pre-eminently   
   > JK Rowling, but also Graham Linehan, the brilliant Kathleen Stock, Maya   
   > Forstater, Sharron Davies and many, many more castigated as Terfs or   
   > fascists. They played an invaluable part.   
   >   
   > But so did one other ugly, reactionary interloper — reality. As soon as   
   > sporting bodies began to ban trans women from female disciplines because   
   > they feared a rapid extinction of women’s sports, you could see the   
   > entire stupid edifice start to crack under the weight of its own   
   > manifest contradictions. As ever with intersectional delusions, you tug   
   > gently on a thread of the ideology and the whole thing comes apart, like   
   > a pink mohair jumper knitted by an imbecile.   
   >   
   > In the field of trans, that has thankfully occurred, and if the figures   
   > from the US are to be believed, the number of students identifying as   
   > trans has reduced by half in the space of two years. Excellent. Now   
   > let’s tug gently on the threads of similarly counter-rational and   
   > corrosive, divisive intersectional guff, such as critical race theory   
   > and decolonisation, and watch those come apart, too.   
   >   
   >   
   > Rod Liddle   
      
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