Mick Hartley

The shamelessness of trans activists never ceases to amaze. From the Times:

The retailer Lush Cosmetics put an information leaflet that made unfounded claims of a global conspiracy against transgender people in the party bags of seven and eight-year-old children.

Young girls attending a birthday event at one of the chain’s outlets, where they made bath bombs and soaps, were handed the 24-page booklet alongside products when they left.

The document claims on its opening page that trans people have been targeted by a “calculated media assault” designed to “distract from global crises”. It explains that the media is trying to “shift attention from those nicely off, while the rest of us struggle”.

It also claims that the media is “encouraging violence” against trans people and that many lives had been devastated by a “tidal wave of hate”.

The document, which was written by the charity TransActual and produced by Lush “in solidarity and allyship with trans people”, goes on to explain some of the terms that trans people use to identify themselves.

It says: “Some may consider themselves trans. Others do not. People may also identify as gender-queer (GQ), gender-fluid, agender, nongender, third gender, bi-gender, trans man, trans woman, and neutrois.” The leaflet also explains “intersectionality”, stating that while it “sounds complicated”, it is “actually, very simple”.

“It just means that we are all subject to multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage (or privilege and advantage).”

Um…no. But really – intersectionality for seven-year-olds?

The document compares modern America with Nazi Germany. It says: “In the 1930s, the Nazis destroyed the world’s first gender clinic. They burned its books, and sent trans people to concentration camps. Much learning was lost.

“There are echoes of that in the USA today, as trans individuals see their passports confiscated, birth certificates torn up, history erased, healthcare banned and legal protections removed.”

This is historical (and current) nonsense – and utterly vile. It's always trans as the most persecuted group ever in the history of the world. Not even the Holocaust is spared from trans appropriation. [And if you're looking for Mengele heirs, it's not the side they think.]

Lush has printed 20,000 of the leaflets and distributed them to its 101 stores across the UK. Alongside the leaflet, it sells a “Liberation” bath bomb in the colour of the trans flag, for which 75 per cent of proceeds going to TransActual and My Genderation, another campaign group….

Fiona McAnena, of the charity Sex Matters, described the leaflet as “shocking propaganda” and a “shameful new low”.

She said: “The fact that Lush is presenting the story of a suicide to seven-year-old girls and telling them that puberty blockers have ‘no major side-effects’ is, frankly, a serious safeguarding matter. Parents need to know what they are exposing their children to if they let them attend events at Lush.

“The evidence runs completely counter to the alarmist and desperate claims of trans activists.”