20220404 Newsletter
Trans, Sexual Deception and Rape, Trans exploitation of social justice issues, "Lesbian and Gay News" shutdown, and HIV vaccine progress.
ART BUILDS IDENTITY
http://noisyrain.com/index.html
STILL WRITING ABOUT TRANS, BUT I WISH I WASN’T
Yes, I did say I wanted to write less about trans, but it is a continuing issue that has to be reported on. I am thinking about non-trans issues, but I am having what time available for Gay activism writing being taken up by trans issues.
TRANS TACTIC OF EXPLOITING OTHER ISSUES TO PUSH THE TRANS AGENDA
It has been reported that the plan of the Trans lobbyists is to mix the issues of the trans agenda into other social justice issues and try to make trans a part of a collection social justice issues. Thislink below is to a “Messaging Guide” and was issued as to do a “Race Class Gender Narrative”
It is also saved on the Internet Archive with this URL.
On the cover it has the logos of the Transgender Law Center, Lake Research Partners, and ASO Communication.
I am not so sure that it was supposed to be found by the general public so it is good that it is saved at the Internet Archive so if the originator deletes the webpage or online document, it still can be found.
I had mentioned it in my 20220103 Newsletter. I am reviewing it now.
Basically, it is a strategy to mix the issue of trans ideology with other social justice messages to make it seem that social justice for race and class and other issues includes trans ideology. That is to confuse them or conflate them. The strategy is fairly clear in the section titled, “The Opportunity: Creating a Broader ‘We,’” on page 6 which has the headline “Architecture of a Race Class Gender Narrative.”
It gives this instruction example.
1. Open with a shared value, explicitly naming or evoking race, gender and class.
Effective opening values include the following: freedom to be ourselves, treating each other with dignity and respect, and the golden rule/treating others as we’d want to be treated.
“Whether we are Black, white or brown, Native or newcomer, transgender or not, we want the freedom to be ourselves.”
So are trans groups using this tactic? At least one group Trans Army on Facebook does seem to be using this tactic.
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy
Many of their posts are not about trans.
Autism
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/525823042246212
Generational trauma
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/525822845579565
Importance of libraries
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/525404028954780
Conformation hearing for an African American Supreme Court justice nominee.
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/525291032299413
In some cases trans and an issue are mixed. Here the rich are supposed to be fearing a trans socialist.
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/525216898973493
Corporate tax strategies.
https://www.facebook.com/transarmy/posts/525152995646550
The strategy that is proposed in the messaging guide does seem to be the trans strategy being used.
LESBIAN AND GAY NEWS SHUTDOWN
The UK publication Lesbian and Gay News has been shutdown. The publication was funded by the publisher of Boyz. The trans activists intimidated the advertisers in Boyz and the revenue for Boyz dropped precipitously.
I think if you are going to have a publication against the neoliberal hegemony you need to be independent of their pressure points.
However, the larger issue is that there was no mass support for the publication. There wasn’t a base of Lesbians and Gays wanting to support the publication.
There might be a base of Lesbians who want to support a publication, but they will likely be supporting a Lesbian publication instead of a Lesbian & Gay publication. No one is Lesbian and Gay, if homosexual, they are either Lesbian or Gay. Their life paths, concerns, interests, social activities are very divergent. There are some overlapping concerns, but they are different groups. Latinos have their civil rights organizations and African have their civil rights organizations. You won’t find the National Association for the Advancement of Asian, Latino, and Colored People. (NAAALCP).
One impediment to mobilization of the Gay community is that the mobilization isn’t targeted toward Gays, but instead some composite initialism (LGBTQXYZ or LGB) which isn’t oriented to any specific group’s rank and file interests, but instead oriented to neoliberals politics and gender studies departments interests.
Also, Gay men aren’t going to be worried about some guy competing in women’s sports. If a transman can win in a man’s sporting event, it is sort of an amazing thing to do.
Also, Gay men aren’t going to be pressured to have sex with a transman. There must be a lot of easy simple ways for a Gay man to evade a transman’s scheme to get sex from him.
The worst that will happen is that a Gay man will be showing up for a meet up and then realize he has wasted his time. That Gay man won’t be that motivated over it. Surely, he will be irritated, but he will likely be more careful in the future, but not irritated enough to start or join a movement.
Also, the Gay community is likely already learning to evade transmen. The Gay transmen wouldn’t be complaining so much about rejection if they had some probability to hook up with Gays.
There needs to be a Gay movement that is centered on Gays and developing a larger agenda than avoiding transmen. Also, a neoliberal Gay movement isn’t going to defeat a neoliberal trans movement. Also, a Lesbian & Gay & Bi movement which is LGB and neoliberal isn’t going to defeat an LGBT neoliberal movement.
With what abilities I have, it is my agenda to develop the goals of a new Gay movement outside neoliberal thinking. If we had a Gay movement outside the neoliberal movement one of the results would be, as a secondary result, would be no initialism and no transmen demands for sex with Gay men being supported.
HIV TRIAL NETWORK FOR HIV VACCINES – HVTN NUMBERS
https://www.hvtn.org/
They do also support for other HIV related medicine. I discovered them when I was trying to understand what these series of numbers HVNT-XXX, (XXX is what number it might be.) I think that each study or activity is assigned these numbers. I am trying to find a confirm. I want to avoid double reporting on HIV vaccines and HIV Cures.
These numbers are useful so you know whether you are reading about the same or different clinical trial. For example the Moderna vaccine has HVTN 302 assigned to its clinical trials. I saw a press release which wasn’t clear that it was part of the Moderna vaccine effort, but since it mentioned HVTN 302, I realized it wasn’t a new effort.
In this press release Moderna isn’t mentioned at all, but the number HVTN 302 told me that it was the same study. For some reason they aren’t mentioning Moderna.
A different HVTN number doesn’t mean it is entirely unrelated either. It might be part of a series of studies in a progression, or a clinical trial for one thing which supports is preliminary, like safety testing, for a subsequent study.
For example, this has an HVTN 300 number, but is clearly part of the HVTN 302 effort.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04915768
Also, the numbers don’t follow a sequence in time. In the following paper HVTN 305 was done in 2012-2017 and HVTN 306 was done 2013-2020. It is a long history of failures to make an effective or even partially effective vaccine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7655734/
This item will be added into the HIV Page, link at the end of the article.
HIV mRNA VACCINE EFFORT ARTICLE – TITLE TOO PESSIMISTIC BUT IT IS INFORMATIVE.
The research does NOT say that it is a long way off. What the researcher said was:
“We don’t really know how far away or how close we are,” Himansu added. “We’re trying to pursue many approaches in parallel, because we don’t know what’s going to work.”
Himansu also said:
In other words, what’s being tested now is not an HIV vaccine itself but the possible eventual components of one. An effective and approved vaccine sequence could still be 10 or 15 years away, Himansu said.
The word is “could.”
Dr. Himansu is correct in what he says. Until it is done you don’t know how long it is going to take, and as with cancer and other potentially fatal diseases is you don’t want to give false hope. With the long history of HIV vaccine failures that used the usual methods of making vaccines that is also the correct response for this reason. Popular reporting on medical research often gives a lot of false hope as if the research might mean a medical breakthrough is imminent. When my mother had breast cancer she would call once a week about some development and I as a subscriber to Science magazine, which also reported on the development, I had the disagreeable task of explaining what the significance of the research was, which wasn’t an imminent, which is what she needed to save her life. Medical researchers are very aware of this type of news reporting.
However, two notable things about mRNA vaccines are how fast they can be developed and with the COVID-19 vaccine, how extremely effective both Moderna and Pfizer are, both in the 90% range. Further mRNA technology can design vaccines to do things that the other vaccine technologies can’t do and very specifically. They call mRNA vaccines the first “digital vaccines.”
Also, as the article does explain though how the HIV mRNA vaccine effort has means of progressing must faster than other vaccine efforts and is correct in this.
Perhaps the author of the article wanted to make sure people didn’t think the vaccine was going to be available Fall 2022. Given how fast the Coronavirus vaccine became available, 3 or 4 months, they might.
This item will be added into the HIV Vaccine Page. Link at the end of the newsletter.
“SEXUAL DECEPTION,” “INFORMED CONSENT,” AND “RAPE.”
See page 31 for this organization’s program on laws involving “Sexual deception” and trans individuals (Link below). It seems that for Stonewall, a UK, organization, the concept of “informed consent” isn’t well understood. If the person in which the trans person is having sex with doesn’t know that the person was trans they didn’t have informed consent. Doesn’t really matter whether or not they had surgery or what type. If I don’t know what the facts are or know what the situation is, then I am not informed and as such I can’t give informed consent. It doesn’t matter if I made a bad assumption or presumption, I am not informed in regards to a very important decision of giving consent.
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/system/files/a_vision_for_change.pdf
When someone has sex with you because you gave uninformed consent, I think it is rape.
This section on “Sex by Deception” is in a section of the report in which it states that the laws protecting trans are “outdated.” This is an area which Stonewall is concerned as to being outdated.
SEX BY DECEPTION
Recent ‘sex by deception’ cases involving trans people and gender identity issues have revealed an alarming lack of clarity around trans people’s rights and obligations to disclose or not disclose their trans history to their sexual partners. These cases demonstrate that it is possible for non-disclosure of a person’s trans status to impair the validity of consent. This leaves a great many trans individuals at risk of prosecution for a criminal offence. It is, however, still unclear as to whether the courts regard this to be the case for a trans person who has undergone medical transition, and it is further greyed by whether or not an individual can be defined as trans, based on their appearance, by the court. Clarity is urgently needed.
If the person consenting to sex with a trans person wasn’t informed, then it is a situation where it is not informed consent. It doesn’t matter if the person has undergone medical procedures of any type or their appearance, if the person having sex with them isn’t informed it isn’t informed consent. It isn’t complicated.
What is interesting in the above paragraph is the following sentence.
This leaves a great many trans individuals at risk of prosecution for a criminal offence.
However, the trans lobby has been adamant that there isn’t a problem of trans sex being pushed on to people, but here we find that a “great many trans individuals” are “at risk of prosecution for a criminal offence.” Stonewall was furious when the BBC reported that Lesbians were subject to harassment and the chief criticism they had was that it doesn’t happen or happens rarely. I provide a link at the end of this newsletter to my review of the BBC controversy over this. Also, this essay was posted as a separate item. I have a link to it at the end of the newsletter.
REDDIT VENUE GAYCENTRIC TO BE INACTIVE
I have 90 members, but I didn’t get any comments on my posts and mostly just a few upvotes if any. I had recruited the members from venues on Reddit and encouraged them to join the other platforms.
A lot of people on reddit complain, but aren’t interested in doing much more than gripping. I think one of the problems is that people don’t imagine there is much more to do than complain. However, my Substack has been discussing a larger agenda and it takes a while to get other avenues of action going. The first thing is that you have to is self-education and develop an alternative.
However, the reddit took up my time, of which I am always short, and wasn’t producing results.