Mick Hartley

Genevieve Gluck, normally at Reduxx, has a long piece at Spiked on How pornography forged the trans movement, as "womanhood has been turned into a fetishised commodity".

It is impossible to separate the influence of pornography from the gender-identity movement, as both are aspects of the sex industry. The gender-identity industry sells ‘sex’ as a noun – supposedly allowing a male to ‘become’ a female (and vice versa) through surgeries and hormones. Whereas the pornography industry sells ‘sex’ as a verb.

Gender identity conceptually reduces women to sexist stereotypes, or a fantasy in a man’s head. It is also an ideology that uniquely redefines womanhood – and to a lesser degree, manhood – as the living embodiment of pornography.

Read on. It's important….though not an easy read.

Through pornography, it is not only the act of sex that becomes a product: the sexed body itself becomes both spectacle and commodity. As we turn to screens for human interaction, and as pornography increasingly substitutes real relationships, fetishism emerges as a powerful social contagion that its practitioners praise as a conduit for self-determination: an end, rather than the means.

Gender-identity philosophy, as Martha Nussbaum wrote in her critique of Judith Butler, ‘The Professor of Parody’, is a belief system that ‘collaborates with evil’ – it supplants an authentic self for a manufactured version…

Gender ideologues tell confused individuals that this external and purchasable identity will confer freedom. But they fail to mention the impact this pornified process has on both our collective humanity and on women and children in particular. Through transgenderism, women’s identity, dignity and safety is being fragmented – and sold as scrap to the highest bidder.