20220307 Newsletter
Mr. Menno discusses the claim that there are Gay men with Vaginas? The therapy establishment, cranky anti-modernism isn't useful to oppose trans extremism.
LGBTQ+ THERAPY INC.
I think we need to consider the cash flow involved in supporting trans. They have dysphoria, they need counseling services. They need medical services including surgery and hormones.
I think we need to consider that the terms “queer” and the expanding initialism is basically an expanding portfolio of services. That is there is a financial incentive to add letters and to see the expanding initialism as an expanding cash flow.
With the term “queer” it is a broad portfolio that can be claimed. For academics it is also an expanding portfolio. It is also a portfolio you don’t want to be fragmented either. It is a portfolio that conceptualizes and focuses on sexual identities as personal psychological realities and not in other social dimensions.
I don’t think we should think that this is the only thing driving the neoliberal management of desire or the trans extremism, but it is likely a component.
I think that this portfolio is also augmented by the whole establishment to treat HIV in Gay men. They are in need of medical care and counseling also. I am not against the services to support HIV patients, I am glad they exist. There is a side consequence though of there being an expanded ranks of social workers and others which will have a tendency to want to manage Gay life.
This also drives an advertising for publications read by the Gay community which doesn’t include just advertising for bars and services by local merchants, but now has corporate advertising for HIV medication and HIV prevention medication like PreP. Social welfare services and psychologists and counseling services also provide advertising either individually or through institutions.
With other corporate advertising, the publications are not that dependent on acceptance by the Gay community and its institutions. Now how much does all of this drive the current neoliberal management of desire, I don’t know. I just have some stray thoughts in my head.
This is why I think getting both a vaccine and a cure for HIV is critical for the Gay community. Though an appreciable effort is underway, I would be interested in some analysis whether the effort is enough or should more be done.
I think we need to be thinking about what other driving forces are behind the term “queer” and its agenda which includes trans absurdities.
Unless we can identify the sources of the empowerment of the neoliberal management of desire and come up with counter-strategies we won’t be able to change things.
MR. MENNO VIDEO, “DO GAY MEN HAVE VAGINAS” & BILL ROUNDY
He has a video channel and he reviews the excess of trans ideological craziness. Though it is good, I think that another twenty videos of trans extremist absurdities and another twenty tweets isn’t going to really change the situation that much. It helps some, and if that is your talent, then certainly you should do it, but that isn’t what is going to win the struggle.
The link below is to the Bill Roundy cartoon to which Mr. Menno is referring. It is inane, but it shows what type of rhetorical tricks and contrivances are used to push the idea of Gay men with vaginas. It was done in 2013. In 2021 some Facebook friends were sharing Bill Roundy cartoons and that is how I discovered this whole thing about transgender and I decided that the neoliberal management of desire had gone too far, and I started my Gay liberation activities.
https://comics.billroundy.com/?p=1116
It is the usual world of delusions where a dildo is the same as a penis and things like that.
I discovered Roundy when I saw a comic he had, in which the story line was that at a Gay bar one Gay person was informing another Gay person that the person he was thinking was cute was a transman. Then in the next panel, when the transman went to join the two Gay guys in conversation, the two Gay guys aggressively explained they were Gay.
It was somewhat a contrived conversation where not wanting to be sexually interested in a transman was conflated with being rude.
What it does suggest to me is that transmen had been complaining to Bill Roundy that Gays are alerting their friends that someone was a transman. Also, that when they had been trying to pick up a Gay man, the Gay person brought closure to the conversation quickly or had made it clear that they weren’t interested as if the person had already known that the transman was a transman.
It also suggests that Gay men understand that trans disclosure might occur after a considerable amount of time involving cruising a person only to find out later that it is a no go. Understanding that disclosure might not be upfront makes it important to share information about who is a transman with your peers.
Seeing this Roundy cartoons is when I realized that the Gay community was under attack and there was an effort to push heterosexual sex onto Gay men.
I haven’t been able to find this comic again. Perhaps it has been pulled offline. If you do find it let me know.
PAVING THE WAY FOR TRANSLESBIANS
This is the article I reviewed.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/30/women-gayrights
This is the link to my review on my Substack. I made some corrections of simple errors and some unclear or confuses sentences.
The scolding intolerant Alphabet Soup regime didn’t just drop out of the sky. It developed out of various trends that were underway. I think I am still discovering the roots of the trans intolerance.
I think also, the radfems and others need to recognize their own involvement in creating a regime in which trans can dominate and push their ideology on others.
CRANKY ANTI-MODERNISM AND TRANSPHOBIA DOESN’T HELP FIGHT TRANS EXCESS
I can see some who are opposing some of the trans craziness are also just cranky about some progressive social developments and do have some aspects of transphobia.
It is one of the modern discoveries in science that people don’t automatically recognize the body as self. Though I think that some persons claiming to be trans are confused or involved with some stuff and nonsense, but I also think there are also people who really imagine they are in the wrong sexual body.
There is a type of affliction in which people think some part of their body isn’t them, and is alien. It is called Body Integrity Identity Disorder and they want to amputate the part of their body which they feel is alien. They often do terrible things to themselves to require doctors to amputate, since doctors are unwilling to just amputate a limb to please a person with Body Integrity Identity Disorder. I don’t know if there is any treatment even now.
There are other neurological anomalies. Some people can’t recognize faces. The only reason they know looking in a mirror that they are looking at their own face, is that they are the only one in the room and so by deduction it must be themself. There are variations in this disorder. Sometimes they can’t identify gender or race.
It seems to me that some people are born and their mental maps of their own bodies says that they are another sex than what they are. Just because it is some condition in their minds doesn’t make it any less real in their feelings. I don’t think there is anything doctors can do about it and I suspect it is likely that there isn’t going to be anything that can be done any time in the foreseeable future. However, part of existences is that there is variation and maybe it isn’t necessarily something that can be treated.
The problem with trans is that medical science really can’t do much. They can have some surgeries and at the most end up not really being the desired sex.
I think some of their language is unscientific though. There isn’t some cosmic gender identity out there like a soul or something. This language about being assigned at birth presumes that there is assignment at all, or some cosmic record keeping.
Of course, there are faux trans individuals and various idiots, but there are real trans people. They are trying to make their way in the world.
My objective is to be supportive of trans where it doesn’t infringe on myself or the Gay community, but defend some boundaries against the excess of some trans. My objective isn’t to be just against them in general.
I am not interested in being allies with those whose opposition against trans is based on cranky reaction. I think for trans extremists cranky reactionaries are something which benefits them to characterize all those who oppose them as being such.
WRITING THE GAY BOOK
I simply haven’t had the time.