Dennis absolutely nails it.
1/ The Peggie tribunal is an important moment in isolating the bourgeoise character of gender madness. This came from the ivory towers of Berkeley via well fed otherwise unemployable DEI drones and cheered on by the equally unemployable gendocrats of Stonewall.
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) July 23, 2025
4/ And this is the very much the story of this tribunal. A balance of poverty. On the one hand a 30 year unblemished record nurse impoverished of a much needed space. On the other a middle class transvestite impoverished of a target to visit his symbiotic need for offence on.
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) July 23, 2025
8/ You only get to pretend facts are not facts if you are well fed, well appointed and have enough space in your head that rumination on the commodity of th self is all that fills it. Such luxurious spiritual lodgings are not available to the working classes who deal in reality.
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) July 23, 2025
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This is the kind of real life drama that the BBC should be making into a television series. They do that kind of thing very well – eg The Salisbury Poisonings about the Russians who poisoned the Skripals with Novichok and the health officers and police had to shut down the town. It was very well acted by a reliable gang of character actors, and told a story of ordinary people having to cope with a crisis. Similarly, the series Mr Bates vs the Post Office told the story of the post office scandal where a faulty IT system was fingering sub-postmasters as cooking the books with lives ruined – some even by suicide. Again, ordinary people facing a crisis.
Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife would be ideal where an overbearing establishment is challenged by a brave nurse – but the BBC won’t touch this of course.
The post office one was so good I couldn’t continue to watch it. Harrowing.
Dennis Kavanagh is right: gender ideology is indeed a luxury only the cushiest elites can afford to indulge. One thing I’ll venture to add, however, is that lately I’ve noticed some of the most underprivileged people are being roped into gender ideology — street-involved, substance-addicted, low-income people, particularly youth, or disabled, or indigenous. This might be a side-effect of them being dependent on the non-profit/charity sector for so many of the services they rely on to get by. Such nonprofits are largely staffed by privileged elites who can afford to take low-paying jobs in exchange for high “moral status” — anyone who’s started out at the bottom in a charity office knows it’s a bunch of rich kids who don’t even need a paycheque, for whom a job is a thing one does for the status that’s attached to it. (That’s also why so many privileged, elite politicians come up from the nonprofit sector, at least here in Canada.)
Or perhaps it’s a kind of aspirational thinking on the part of the very poor — that if the elites believe in gender woo, maybe if we mimic them, their wealthy mojo will rub off on us. If so, then this would be yet another example of gender ideology as a left-wing mirror image of the MAGA cult: it’s hardly rocket science to observe that poor Republicans who root for Trump are clinging to a warped idea of wealth and success that’s been cynically sold to them. Ditto the low-income young Democrats who cling to bespoke pronouns even as they can barely pay the rent with their minimum-wage service job paycheques.
@ArtyMorty #3
There’s been a contingent of such people since before the current trans-mania; people like Marsha P. Johnson. Like Johnson, they were poor gay men who cross-dressed and often worked as hookers and/or dealers. Johnson never actually denied being a man, but nowadays such men probably call themselves “trans women.”
But that’s not to say there aren’t more autogynephiles calling themselves trans, or poor kids calling themselves “non-binary” or “queer.” Wouldn’t surprise me a bit.