As Twitchy reported Wednesday, “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling said she’d be the first to sign a petition if the trans charity Mermaids wanted to take her to court for bad-mouthing them. Fox News has picked up on the Mermaids story:
Trustee of transgender kids' charity resigns after unearthed speech to group for 'minor-attracted persons' https://t.co/vtVizqNLOE
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 6, 2022
Jon Brown reports:
A trustee on the board of a U.K. charity for transgender children resigned Monday following an unearthed speech he had given to an organization that promotes services to people sexually attracted to minors.
Dr. Jacob Breslow, who serves as associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), tendered his resignation to Mermaids, a nonprofit whose website says it “has been supporting transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children, young people, and their families since 1995.”
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According to his website, Breslow’s research “brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the gender binary, the queer life of children’s desires, and the precarious status of migrants.”
In his 2011 presentation before the B4U-ACT symposium, titled “Sexual Alignment: Critiquing Sexual Orientation, The Pedophile, and the DSM V,” Breslow said in part, “Allowing for a form of non-diagnosable minor attraction is exciting, as it potentially creates a sexual or political identity by which activists, scholars and clinicians can begin to better understand Minor Attracted Persons.”
“This understanding may displace the stigma, fear and abjection that is naturalized as being attached to Minor Attracted Persons and may alter the terms by which non-normative sexualities are known,” he continued.
Slate has been trying to destigmatize “minor-attracted persons” since at least 2017, and asked again in 2019 if pedophilia is a crime to be punished, or is it just another sexual preference.
Rowling wasn’t finished:
I note the genderists are now arguing that it doesn't matter that a paedophilia apologist was a trustee of a trans children's charity, because he was 'only one'. You know, I thought things were pretty bad when you were arguing to put convicted rapists in women's jails, 1/3
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2022
when you shrugged off masked men roughing up lesbian protestors and tried to shout down detransitioners talking about what was done to them by ideologically-captured doctors. Women, gay people and vulnerable kids have suffered real harm and you? You cheered it all on. 2/3
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2022
You still prefer wilful blindness and four word mantras to considering you might have got this badly wrong. You became part of an authoritarian, misogynist, homophobic movement and you didn't even notice. Enjoy the sense of your own righteousness while you can. It won't last. 3/3
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2022
Perfect example. The problem isn't that a man who wrote sympathetically about orgasming 'on or with' a child was made trustee of a children's charity, but that the TERFs might 'twist' his appointment. Then straight back to the self-soothing mantras, with a glow of inner virtue. pic.twitter.com/KwDWSK2B79
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 5, 2022
Here’s writer Andrew Doyle:
Even now, when it is revealed that one of Mermaids’s trustees is an apologist for paedophilia, many of its supporters are doubling down.
This is what is known as “belief perseverance”.
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
“Belief perseverance” is when people are presented with evidence that disproves their views but, instead of revising their views accordingly, they hold fast.
It explains a good deal of what is happening here.
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
There is a lot at stake for those who have cheered on the Tavistock Clinic and groups like Mermaids. Many of the cheerleaders have encouraged the transitioning of children, sometimes their own.
Many of these kids will have been autistic, or will have grown up to be gay.
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
Even after the Cass report revealed that the Tavistock was unsafe for children, did any of its supporters admit they might have been wrong?
Did any of them acknowledge that, for all their good intentions, they were endangering vulnerable children?
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
Have any of the politicians who called for a ban on “trans conversion therapy” conceded that they had been hoodwinked by linguistic wordplay? That they were, in effect, supporting the “fixing” of kids who didn’t conform to gender stereotypes?
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
For people to admit that they supported the sterilisation of children would be to face a terrible reality.
Decent people have been captured by an ideology, and the result has been one of the biggest medical scandals of our time.
Little wonder they prefer to double down.
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
So while it becomes increasingly obvious that gender identity ideology is a reactionary force that represents a direct threat to the rights of women and gay people – and an outright denial of reality – there will be many who simply will not be able to admit the truth.
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
There will be more denial and obfuscation.
Mermaids and similar groups will continue to claim they’re the victims of “anti-trans” campaigns, and dismiss legitimate concerns as “hate”.
These ideologues have invested too much in their fantasies to give up without a fight.
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— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) October 5, 2022
They’re both right. Performing double mastectomies on 16-year-old girls is a legitimate concern, but the Biden administration itself has come out against “conversion therapy” as harmful and gone all-in on gender-affirming care. But the Babylon Bee makes a joke about Rachel Levine and is permanently banned from Twitter. You can’t talk about it because you might expose the rickety frame holding it all up.
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Related:
J.K. Rowling says she’ll be the first to sign a petition if children’s charity Mermaids wants to take her to court https://t.co/dRHs6qy5hN
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 5, 2022
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