The liberal capitulators

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October 11, 2025

Julie Bindel on the fad for bullying women:

As I headed to the conference, I saw the news on social media that trans activists had, in the middle of the night, smashed one of the large front windows of the conference centre, daubed slogans in paint, and put out warnings that they were having a call to arms. We walked past the usual array of blue-haired idiots shouting, “trans women are women”, “sex work is work”, “blowjobs are real jobs”, and “from the river to the sea”. Anything that is bad for women – be it prostitution, Islamic fundamentalism, or trans activism – these people support it.

Islamism and transism make strange bedfellows, and yet, the marriage is going strong.

Since the Supreme Court ruling, these men have become more and more aggressive, and their tactics ever more outlandish, for example, demonstrating in central London against the Supreme Court ruling, during which trans-identifying men urinated in public to make the point about them being “excluded” from women’s bathrooms.

But police almost always do nothing to deter them. Whilst they have arrested or issued warnings to women over the past decade for the terrible crime of “misgendering”, or posting criticism of gender ideology on social media, they don’t do the same [to men] even when the bar is raised much higher – when there are actual violent threats against women, and property destroyed.

There was no police presence this morning at the venue, and throughout the day trans activists have been posting self-congratulatory films of themselves committing criminal damage on the venue.

Because they’re trans and trans people get to do whatever they want all the time. It’s the law.

The liberal capitulators – those that have been going along with the demands of the “Trans Taliban” for all of these years – imploring feminists to “be kind”, or bleating about having a non-binary child who must not be offended, need to recognise they are enabling the worst kind of illiberal, autocratic behaviour. It is high time that all decent people speak out against this behaviour towards women.

Will they?

Nope.

Comments

11 responses to “The liberal capitulators”

Papito

Oct 11, 2025 10:48 AM

Apropos of strange bedfellows…

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/middleeast/iran-transgender-surgery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU8.g-3O.JT56D_3S2Uvo&smid=url-share

Now, faced with an economy crippled by war and sanctions, the Islamic republic is promoting its expertise to a global audience, hoping to attract transgender foreigners with the promise of inexpensive surgeries packaged with luxury hotel stays and sightseeing tours.

Desperate for foreign investment, Iran’s theocratic government has set a goal of generating more than $7 billion from medical tourism annually, according to Iranian state news media, about seven times as much as it earned last year. That objective has resulted in the proliferation of medical tourism companies, marketing not just nose jobs and hair transplants, but vaginoplasties, mastectomies and penis constructions through glossy English-language websites.

The article is full of the sort of pandering we’re used to – calling men “she” and women “he” if they want that, and bemoaning the terrible suffering of the “non-binary.” But the reality peeks through: Westerners are going on medical tourist junkets to Iran to get operations on their sexual organs because Iranian surgeons do this more than anybody, and do it for cheap. They’ve been practicing on all the gay people in Iran for decades.

I wonder what’s next for Iran. Perhaps they can start doing implants. They could match the organs they forcibly remove from the nation’s gays to Western sex surgery tourists and do simultaneous surgeries to maximize success. A unconscious gay tied to bed one, behind a curtain, and a self-hating Western lesbian getting the medical bargain of her life in bed two. Everybody wins, the trans and the theocrats. Well, except the gays. they don’t win.

Of course, the trans recipients would feel sad about the butchered gays for a couple days, but on the other hand, they’d be happy too.

Eric, a 45-year-old trans man living in Canada who requested anonymity to protect himself and his family from reprisals, said he had sought treatment in Iran because it was cheap. But he acknowledged the tension in seeking treatment in a place where others have it forced on them.

“I have heard a lot, especially among trans women, that because they are gay, and they cannot be gay in Iran, they try to do the surgery,” said Eric. “I’m really sad that gays and lesbians are not recognized in Iran, but on the other hand I’m happy for trans people because they can do what they’re willing to do.”
Mostly Cloudy

Oct 11, 2025 10:50 AM

The ‘Bash Back’ group involved in Brighton have just posted a statement,.’Welcome to a new era of trans rage’

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5425523-welcome-to-a-new-era-of-trans-rage
Your Name’s not Bruce?

Oct 11, 2025 11:00 AM

’Welcome to a new era of trans rage’

I’m guessing it’s just a continuation of the ‘old era of trans rage.’ When you can’t articulate your agenda because of its incoherence and impossibility, rage (and bullying, and intimidation…) is all you’ve got.
Acolyte of Sagan

Oct 11, 2025 2:18 PM

At least Brighton city Council haven’t held a tearful emergency meeting, apologised to the letters communinny and disavowed feminism. Well, not yet, anyway.
Ophelia Benson

Oct 11, 2025 3:13 PM

The venue has been apologizing to the trans communinny though.
Acolyte of Sagan

Oct 11, 2025 5:07 PM

I’m not sure I’d hold it against them, though, considering they have an El Jibitiqu terrorist unit on their doorstep and plenty of expensive windows still intact.
Freemage

Oct 11, 2025 7:09 PM

But he acknowledged the tension in seeking treatment in a place where others have it forced on them.

That sentence is incomplete, solely due to cowardice. Even if one buys fully into the trans ideology, the sentence should read: “But he acknowledged the tension in seeking treatment in a place where others have it the same procedure forced on them as a form of mutilation and oppression.

(Crossing my fingers that openbracket-s-text-closebracket gets you strikethru text….)
tigger_the_wing

Oct 12, 2025 2:19 AM

OH, FFS!!!!!

Computers are getting too smart for their own good.

First type a less-than sign immediately followed by a lower case s then a greater-than sign.

Then type the word(s) you wish to strike through.

Then type a less-than sign immediately followed by a forward slash, then a lower case s then a greater-than sign.
tigger_the_wing

Oct 12, 2025 2:25 AM

In any case, what we have in the El Jibitiqu is yet another violent patriarchal religion. They all hate women. The only difference between El Jibitiqu and most others is that they openly treat men as supreme beings, to be worshipped and obeyed directly, instead of pretending that men are the Earthly representatives of a male supernatural being and therefore ought to be worshipped and obeyed directly.
Ophelia Benson

Oct 12, 2025 8:26 AM

tigger, Freemage’s strikethrough worked. The “it” is crossed out.
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