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May 9Liked by Jonathon Van Maren

Graham Lineham is a celebrity who has actually lost everything because of his staunch support for sex based rights. The Glinner report is one of my favourite Substack pages. He is staunch in collecting news and pointing to the madness of the trans movement.

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It's frightening how much we apparently depend on the courage and sanity of a trio of elite traitors to push back effectively against this anti-human, anti-reality agenda. What if Musk hadn't bought Twitter? What if Rowling and Rogan had bowed to elite pressure and kept silent? Where would we be now?

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And in the US, Joe Biden is either so stupid or so uninformed about the issue that he believes that mutilating gay children in the name of

"gender affirming care" is somehow like the civil rights struggle of the 1960's. He doesn't understand or care that this is exactly the approach that our sworn enemy Iran uses in its futile attempt to stamp out homosexuality.

Donald Trump is equally stupid and uninformed but he at least is surrounded by people who would do the right thing to save the children (ban gender affirming care for those under 18) even if for the wrong reasons. It's unbelievable but a vote for Trump in this case is a vote for sanity.

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It’s bizarro world for sure. A very sad state of affairs when trump ends up looking like the voice reason on important issues.

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People forget how Rowling was chasing woke applause before she started on the trans thing. This involved openly speculating whether her Harry Potter characters could be gay, black etc.

Transgenderism is downstream of feminism, and Rowling knows she has protected status in our feminist society.

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Yes, this is why I emphasize that she is in no way socially conservative in general. I do think, however, that "protected status" was completely revoked for anyone offside with transgender ideology. Even Germaine Greer got herself cancelled over it, and she was a feminist icon.

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She's still a billionaire last time I heard. What has she actually suffered?

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blaming feminism for gender ideology is like blaming gays for gender ideology. both these ideas may make sense to people from over yonder, under hills or parked on their yacht. the truth is feminism has nothing in common with gender ideology. when women suggest they be allowed to work, its nothing like allowing men to rob women of their safety by allowing them into womens spaces. when gays are allowed the right to share employer provided health benefits of their partners, its nothing like sterilizing gays to address normal issue most grow out of. but for knuckle draggers, everything in the sky is a bird, even airplanes and insects

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Thank you Kyle Reese, well said!

Left-wing radical feminists were in the forefront of the fight against gender ideology, and still are.

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You are ignorant of the intellectual roots of feminism and what feminists advocated for. You haven't considered the cumulative impact of feminism, atheism, liberalism and the feminisatiom of society.

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sounds like uv studied this a lot. yup its all them durned wumun fault. theyre the root of all eevl. weve got to thunk ways to punish dem

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Great rebuttal. Read what feminists were actually writing in the Sixties. Learn how they wanted to relegate motherhood.

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if there are 3 bad apples in barrel and you claim the entire barrel contains bad apples whats whats termed a weak argument. your argument is also anachronistic, placing past stances and ideas in the context of present day, making your claims a fantastic impossibility. whats much more common are rage junkies who blame women for every known issue of badness, even things like too much rain or too much sun

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I would have to disagree vehemently. Feminist ideology is the spawning field of gender ideology. When they separated gender and sex it was downhill from there.

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everyones entitled to their opinion! seems to me there are misogynists everywhere who are always looking to blame everything on women. when women are raped its their fault. there are 1000s of similar examples. women often go along with all the misogyny just becuase culture demands misogyny, is flooded with misogyny. some of the earliest opponents of gender ideology are feminists. certainly they would be better to answer this than me. but i know for sure feminists never intended to hand over their opportunities and safety to men. gender ideology is literially the opposite of feminists have sought

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I am not blaming women as a group just the philosophy of feminism and its adherents. Feminism has done very little good for us women. Women have been forced to work and give their children to the state so we can work.

When feminists began separating gender and sex then that began the rot. Same sex marriage and the slippery slope did the rest.

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Jillian, I suggest you have a good look at yourself and what it is that makes you so angry against feminists. Your reasons given here are very unconvincing and show a severe lack of knowledge and understanding of all that women have been, and are, doing for each other. The warm glow of conservative heterosexual family privilege is your individual right but there are plenty of women like me who recognise it as an iron cage of exploitation and degradation to please her man.

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If you tell everyone that the differences between men and women are social constructs (as feminists did), painted idylls where there was no gender segregation (feminists) and even speculated about how one day technology would be helping men get pregnant (feminists), all while rejecting traditional family models, sexual norms, gender roles and feminising everything, then you are going to get a transgender movement.

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Your brush is much too broad. Plenty of feminists strongly opposed gender ideology. Organizations such as the Women's Liberation Front and Women's Declaration International were in the fight long before you ever even heard of it.

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But when you push back against these groups then they patronisingly explain that there is a difference between sex and gender when there isn’t.

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I had heard of it before you had heard of those groups. "Left-wing" feminism (a tautology) created trans.

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‘On April Fool’s Day, the Scottish government’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021 came into effect after years of pushback from religious leaders, legal scholars, and politicians.’ Huh? You disappeared the pushback from feminists, including lesbians.

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Well granted the original aggressive pushback on trans was by feminists - half a century ago - I think your comments will be a surprise to them.

I can’t recall a prominent pushback on trans, in fact, except by prominent feminists over the last 50 years - I can’t call Jordan Peterson a feminist by any stretch of the imagination but he’s a popular figure who is male and pushes back; he’s an exception.

The pejorative is TERF not TERM.

The pseudo-science of Gender was created, and gender conflated with sex by a succession of male psychologists and psychotherapists who turned out to be charlatans.

You broke your own it men.

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I couldn't care less if my comments surprise anyone. I am right. Feminism undermined everything that could have curbed trans and supported everything that fed into it. "Own" it, feminists.

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Factually and historically incorrect. It’s not hard to educate yourself, have a go.

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What’s your problem? Why so hostile towards feminists? These are rhetorical questions as I don’t need you to engage with me and be subject to your hostility. Let’s just breathe deeply and enjoy the day.

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"Transgenderism is downstream of feminism..."

Yes thank you for stating the obvious which nobody seems to (want to) acknowledge. The current state of (supposed) 'insanity' is the inevitable conclusion of 70+ years of feminism defining 'gender' (the gender binary, gender differences) as the root of all problems in society (and in relationship and in oneself), as well as promoting the 'social construct theory' of gender that we are all born as blank slates and only adopt male/ female identities, drives and behaviours as a result of social conditioning.

The current expression of 'trans' has more to do with feminism's deconstruction of gender (and the promise of a genderless utopia) than it has to do with trans people in the old school sense.

Both Rowling and Musk are fake 'dissidents' who are put on a pedestal (a naughty pedestal) because they are doing nothing to raise people's awareness of the bigger picture (trans/ feminism paving the way for transhumanism), and instead are just encouraging emotional responses, politicisation, polarisation and a very shallow take on the whole thing.

Rowling was (is) a feminist and so is part of the problem. Every wave of feminism creates a group of old feminists who are appalled at the next wave of feminism that they helped to spawn. Rowling, Posie Parker et al are just second/ third wave feminists who are appalled at the fourth/ fifth wave that has taken over where they left off. They seem to be most offended that trans people now occupy number one spot in the victim charts, when that spot should be reserved for women like themselves!

Maybe they should have thought about the consequences of defining gender as a social construct and 'gender equality' as the most important cause in society. Gender equality can only be achieved by erasing gender differences and creating a genderless population. That is where we are now heading.

Musk is all about transhunanism and digital enslavement (he comes from a family of elite technocrats). His tweets are as transparently fake as Trumps'. Neither men are in any way opposed to 'the system' or 'the agenda'. The fact that people actually fall for their online trolling and hold them up as 'people's heroes' is embarrassing..

Musk is all about hooking people up to the cloud via brain computer interfaces and I'm sure he's all for erasing everyone's gender and letting artificial wombs and AI take over the role of reproduction and 'parenting' (Brave New World style).

TERF's are useful idiots, who refuse to acknowledge that 'their' feminist movement was always about breaking up the family, alienating the sexes and erasing gender in preparation for the current push for a transhuman dystopia.

The ONLY way to stop transhumanism (and save children and childhood) is for men and women to reconcile with one another, detox themselves of 100 years of feminist poison and join forces again as the stupendous partnership that men and women used to be before feminism appeared on the scene.

If Rowling really wants to save children (and women) the she, like all feminists, needs to renounce feminism all the way back to Seneca Falls and apologise to men for making gender 'problematic' to begin with.

Feminism defines gender as the root of all evil and suffering. We now have the technology to erase gender. We can't un-invent that technology, but we can put feminism in the trash.

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Yes, thank you to JK for seeing around the corner of trans-madness from the incept. It took me years to reach peak trans, but the seeds were planted by her resistance.

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“They are elites against the elites, and their courage shines a harsh light on the complicity of the rest of their class. “

Yes, thank you for articulating this 🙏

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For sure. The entire trans thing is a top down driven anti-democratic mess, as well explained in the Denton's Document. Completely Machiavellian.

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