WHERE DID 'GENDER THEORY' ORIGINATE?

I’m more and more convinced we’re drowning in a wave of madness, akin to the witchcraft lunacy which terrorised European and American societies for centuries.

Where did it start? It was a mistake to pay any attention to the ‘Gender Theory’ argument (actually a command), that sex is biological but gender is fluid. The two terms were - until the madness broke - synonymous. One was regularly asked ‘Sex?’ on forms, to which some wags replied ‘Yes, please’.

Apologies for restating the basics: your sex is fixed at birth; its social and cultural manifestation is often called gender. You can superficially alter the latter - in terms of presentation - but the former is immutable. A tiny number of individuals (about 0.02%) are born neither XX (female) nor XY (male). This doesn’t constitute a third sex.

Because of connotations around the word ‘sex’, the term ‘gender’ became more widely used, but this in no way corresponded with any conceptual shift or changed understanding in society. The controversial ideas behind ‘Gender Theory’ in fact originated in scientific fraud, particularly in the well-documented and undisputed activities of one man.

Enter New Zealand sexologist - or ‘fuckologist’ as he insisted - Professor John Money. He sounded (and behaved) like a Martin Amis character, but unfortunately existed and wrecked many children’s lives. This founder of the John Hopkins’ Gender Identity Clinic was the true originator of the transgender movement. His ideas are mainstream in British schools, which have inadvertently entered his dangerous world.

This is from his entry on Wikipedia. Note, no one has flagged any of the content as contentious. Given how incredible are these details - and how obsessively the trans-movement patrols this debate - that says everything:

Money pioneered drug treatment for sex offenders in order to extinguish their sex drives. He began testing anti-androgen medications on offenders as early as 1966, which yielded successful results.

Starting in the 1990s, the work and research conducted by Money has been subjected to significant academic and public scrutiny. A 1997 academic study criticised Money's work in many respects, particularly in regard to the involuntary sex-reassignment of the child David Reimer, and Money's sexual abuse of Reimer and his brother when they were children. Some of Money's sessions involved Money forcing the two children to perform sexual activities with each other, which Money then photographed. David Reimer lived a troubled life, eventually committing suicide at 38; his brother died of an overdose at age 36.

Starting when Reimer and his twin Brian were six years old, Money showed the brothers pornography and forced the two to rehearse sexual acts. Money would order David to get down on all fours and Brian was forced to "come up behind [him] and place his crotch against [his] buttocks". Money also forced Reimer, in another sexual position, to have his "legs spread" with Brian on top. On "at least one occasion" Money took a photograph of the two children performing these acts.

When either child resisted Money, Money would get angry. Both Reimer and Brian recall that Money was mild-mannered around their parents, but ill-tempered when alone with them. Money also forced the two children to strip for "genital inspections"; when they resisted inspecting each other's genitals, Money got very aggressive. Reimer says, "He told me to take my clothes off, and I just did not do it. I just stood there. And he screamed, 'Now!' Louder than that. I thought he was going to give me a whipping. So I took my clothes off and stood there shaking."

Money's rationale for his treatment of the children was his belief that "childhood 'sexual rehearsal play'" "at thrusting movements and copulation" was important for a "healthy adult gender identity".

Both Reimer and Brian were traumatized by the "therapy", with Brian speaking about it "only with the greatest emotional turmoil", and David unwilling to speak about the details publicly. At 14 years old and in extreme psychological agony, David Reimer was finally told the truth by his parents. He chose to begin calling himself David, and he underwent surgical procedures to revert the female bodily modifications.

Despite the pain and turmoil of the brothers, for decades, Money reported on Reimer's progress as the "John/Joan case", describing apparently successful female gender development and using this case to support the feasibility of sex reassignment and surgical reconstruction even in non-intersex cases.

By the time this deception was discovered, the idea of a purely socially constructed gender identity and infant Intersex medical interventions had become the accepted medical and sociological standard.

Incredibly, this appalling abuse lies behind the transgender ideological madness seen in our schools and wider society. This disgraced figure originated the nonsense which led to two 13-year olds in Sussex being bullied by their teacher, for bravely refusing to accept that a fellow pupil could identify as a cat.

If there was any doubt of the horror lurking behind ‘Gender Theory’, Money had this to say on paedophilia:

‘If I were to see the case of a boy aged 10 or 12 who's intensely attracted toward a man in his 20s or 30s, if the relationship is totally mutual, and the bonding is genuinely totally mutual, then I would not call it pathological in any way.’

This is a scandal which will run and run. There are so many pupils who’ve been actively encouraged to ‘transition’, without anything like enough professional concern about the damage they and their families will suffer, now and in the future.

At a vulnerable and uncertain age, confusion and anxiety have been relentlessly sown in all our young people, to satisfy a few fanatics. Teachers raising doubts have been bullied, insulted, defamed, ostracised - even fired. Pupils have been bombarded with an insane ideology, but denied the right to question it through their free speech.

This has caused widespread bullying and classroom turmoil. Unsurprisingly, random allegations of ‘transphobia’ are rampant, amongst kids barely old enough to understand the term. Indeed some teachers - notably the one in Sussex - equate questioning of trans-ideology with homophobia.

In summary, this is a safeguarding failure active inside schools, through a shocking mix of negligence, wilful ignorance, complacency and cowardliness. I doubt many teachers are aware where this dangerous nonsense originated, or bothered to investigate. I’d say any professionally competent teacher should have, when the huge upturn in pupils transitioning became obvious. Muted surprise was expressed by many teachers, but most preferred to keep quiet and look the other way. A depressing number collaborated in the madness, to curry favour and to be seen ‘on the right side of history’. A few actively promoted the scandal.

To add a final note of absurdity, many of these ‘Gender Theorists’ have now done a complete about-turn. Biological sex is now trivialised as merely ‘assigned at birth’ but gender is supposedly an inner truth, manifested under the term ‘biological destiny’.

In other words, the scientific observation of XX and XY is your sex being ‘assigned’, to imply an arbitrary process of minor bureaucratic box-ticking. Whereas gender (the important one) is inner destiny, brought out by some Wittgenstein-level teacher in Sussex.

As before, the over-reliance on terminology - their hope that controlling the language controls the reality - doesn’t work. These people simply aren’t bright enough, whatever silly semantics they attempt.

The word ‘assigned’ doesn’t prove something is trivial. In this case, there’s a basic scientific truth behind it. We assign the word ‘gravity’ to the force which pulls us down to earth. It could be assigned the words ‘Brainwashed Sussex Teacher’ or ‘Raving Sexologist Pervert’.

Go to the top of the Shard and jump off, to see how that affects its underlying power.