Stone the witch
From the Toronto Star:
Subhead:
The Irish singer-songwriter is facing heavy backlash following inflammatory social comments about the trans community.
Nice neutral reporting you got there – her comments are “transphobic” and “inflammatory” right out of the gate.
For the billionth time I have to point out that the news media have never reported on misogyny in this way. Femalephobic inflammatory comments and indeed whole articles are commonplace, and journalists don’t even notice, let alone shriek about phobia and inflammation.
Róisín Murphy’s record label is ceasing all marketing and promotion of “Hit Parade,” the Irish singer’s highly anticipated album just days before the project’s release date, a source told the Star.
That is outrageous and disgusting, especially since what she said isn’t even “transphobic.” She didn’t say she hates trans people, she didn’t even say men are not women, she said “puberty blockers are FUCKED” and “little mixed up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected.” None of that=hatred of trans people.
Last week, a screenshot began circulating online that appeared to show comments made on Murphy’s personal Facebook account calling young trans people “little mixed up kids,” and criticizing puberty blockers.
She didn’t “call young trans people ‘little mixed up kids,'” she could perfectly well have meant that little kids who think they’re trans are mixed up. The reporter who is busily exaggerating and hyperbolizing her putative crimes has no business tweaking what she said.
The comments quickly drew criticism from Murphy’s fans and members of the LGBTQ+ community, who called the singer’s words harmful to the trans community.
Just as the “reporter” is doing in this venomous article. The reporter is named Richie Assaly.
Ninja Tune, an independent record label based in London, U.K., will release Murphy’s album on Sept. 8, but it is ceasing all marketing and promotion activities, a source familiar with the matter told the Star on background.
Because she thinks puberty blockers are bad and kids who take them are being harmed.
Last two paragraphs of this loathsome piece:
Hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community — and specifically the trans community — have risen sharply in Canada and the U.S. in recent years.
A recent study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal found trans youth are at five times the risk of suicidal ideation as straight kids, and 7.6 times the risk of attempting suicide. The Canadian Trans and Non-Binary Youth Health Survey found that 64 per cent of trans youth have seriously considered suicide.
HINT HINT
It’s contemptible.
The statistics you cite at the end sort of prove Róisín’s point about “mixed-up kids”.
If trans activists would quit telling little kids to kill themselves, perhaps the risk would be no higher than other kids, all of whom go through the pains of growing up.
She’s not willing to agree to the lies, so she must be made an example of. Puberty blockers are not a safe “pause button” that gives anyone “time to think.” They stunt normal growth and development, which has be reframed as pathological if it doesn’t match imaginary “gender identities.” We’re not supposed to hear this or believe it. It is dangerous bigotry. Somehow.
And why is the trans “community” and its allies upset about the idea of protecting “little mixed up kids”? You’d think it would be in the interests of genderists to be certain that everyone who was put onto the path of transition would actually benefit from it. You don’t start bombarding someone’s head with radiaion, or cutting into their brain because they say they have a headache; there are tests and safeguards in place to ensure that someone receiving aggressive treatments for cancer actually has cancer. What are the tests for transness? Those who detransition should be seen as red flags on the whole process. Maybe they shouldn’t have been shunted into an affirmation-only approach to their psychological difficulties. If there’s a pause button in this process, it should be on the “treatment” itself until such time as it shows to improve the health and well-being of those who undergo it. And if it does neither, it must be abandoned. Genderists dare not look too long or too closely at the human cost of what they advocate, because it’s not really so much health care as recruitment and indoctrination. Who cares whether or not they’re happier, healthier people so long as they believe you when they’re told it will be so. It’s a numbers game, not a pathway to health and well being. “Health and wellbeing” comes from joining the group. The treatment is only a demonstration of your commitment to the community, a mark of faith and belief , a test of your ability to ignore and rise above the continuing failure of the flesh to meet the unrealistic demands being placed upon it by the Holy Gender Identity.
Detransitioners and desistors are witnesses who cast doubt on the necessity, efficacy, and ethics of “gender affirming care,” not traitors to some cause they didn’t know they were being signed up for. Rather than villification and shunning, they should be test cases used to improve diagnostic and treatment standards and guidelines. Their stories and outcomes are vital datapoints in studies that aren’t being done. Purposely not being done. Instead, they’re a risk to “gender medicine’s” customer base. It wouldn’t do to have treatments and standards improved to such a degree that “gender clinics” go out of business altogether. Their self-interest precludes their ability to give a disinterested answer as to whether their “treatments” work or help at all. We know they can’t change anyone’s actual sex; so what are they actually doing apart from promising the impossible that can’t be explained by a desperate, fleeting placebo effect? If the “gender journey” never ends, if the sculpting of someone’s body into an unconvincing, non-functioning pseudo-simulacrum of the other sex’s surface, physical appearance is a lifelong process, does that mean they don’t have worry about the end result because there is no end? Casinos hold out the constant promise of the jackpot that’s just a dice roll, or single card away. “Just one more hand….” But the only ones raking it in on this gamble are the ones pushing the hormones and wielding the scalpels. Those being treated? Not so much. “Just one more procedure….”
So, even if those suicidal ideation stats are correct, are their any studies that show that puberty blockers actually reduce the risk? Are there any studies into the actual reasons that such kids have high suicide risk? Could it possibly have anything to do with the bullying that they face for being gender non-conforming, and nothing to do with not getting puberty blockers? It’s just the default answer, to be taken on faith. STOP PUBERTY OR THE KID WILL KILL THEIR SELF? Won’t you kid!
Are their any studies looking into whether those suicidal ideations may be due to other factors such as sexual abuse?
No. When they say “Trust the science” what they mean is “we know the answer, no science needed.”