Thursday, 16 June 2022

Brainwashed


"No more lies and fairy tales."

Answering a question at the Senedd about the inclusion of trans athletes in sport, the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, acknowledged it was an "argument that divides people" but confirmed that he believes "transgender women are women" after being pushed to define what a woman is during a session at the Senedd.

Mr Drakeford said: "My starting point is the same as Penny Mordaunt’s – the UK minister responsible at the time – who said that the UK Government’s starting point was that transgender women are women. That’s my starting point in this debate...I do not understand the point that the member makes that you can be too inclusive. To me, inclusivity is absolutely what we should be aiming for here.

He is wrong. Inclusivity has become a nightmare, forcing people to accept what logic dictates is absurd. It is imposed in the workplace and in schools with individuals demanding the use of preferred pronouns. Everyone is being caught up in a charade that attracts accusations of homophobia if there is any hint of dissent as J K Rowling discovered for tweeting that 'transgender women cannot change their biological sex'.  

A man may go through various procedures to make him appear to be a woman but male cannot be changed to female or vice versa. 

Some poor souls embark on irreversible procedures which they later very much regret. The above video was posted in support of a Twitter thread by @TullipR which reads: "I want to tell everyone what they took from us, what irreversible really means, and what that reality looks like for us. No one told me any of what I’m going to tell you now." The description is heart-rending as is the video.

All the more disturbing, then, to read that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health  has lowered its recommended minimum age for starting gender transition treatment, including sex hormones to 14 with some surgeries done at age 15 or 17.

According to a trans activist woman who detransitioned in 2018 many people who have gender reassignment regret the decision and want to return to their original sex. Charlie Evans says that hundreds of people who want to return to their original gender have contacted her since she announced her de-transition and stopped taking her hormone therapy. 

She said, "The number of young people seeking gender transition is at the highest it has ever been, but little is reported about how many of them regret the decision later, finding they are unhappy with their new gender."

Others counter that it was the best thing they ever did. One trans woman speaking on the BBC's Prejudice and Pride programme claimed just that, largely it appeared because she was able to buy and wear a pair of women's suede boots which she had coveted for years, a relatively harmless desire compared with the trauma of a penectomy. 

She had been married and had a family before transitioning but the happiness felt by her and those like her is no excuse for expecting the rest of us to accept self identification theories made fashionable in gender studies .

But where is the leadership?

We should be able to expect more from our political leaders than a nod to what is trendy in defiance of the facts.

NHS miscarriage statistics illustrates the absurdity of pandering to the few. In this example 'Women' was changed to 'people' because "the word woman in the eyes of the NHS is a word which dare not speak its name all because they are afraid of upsetting a tiny minority in the intolerant trans activist cult."

We should expect more not only from our political leaders but our religious leaders, trendy bishops who preach inclusivity and diversity contrary to biblical teaching. 

As one commentator put it, bishops these days are more likely to be informed by the Guardian than by the Bible.

Postscript [18.06.2022]

From The Telegraph (£): "We are sacrificing our children on the altar of a brutal, far-Left ideology. The medical profession is crumbling in response to radical transgender activists" - JORDAN PETERSON

Video reading here:

98 comments:

  1. Th e Church needs to back-pedal urgently on its LGBT compliance and call it out for what it is before it leads to more personal unhappiness and dangerous friction in society.
    Note that in Saudi, LGBT rainbow colours on children's toys and clothing have been taken from the shelves.
    LW

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    1. 'Th e Church needs to back-pedal urgently on its LGBT compliance'.

      It cannot do that. It is beyond the point of recall.

      As the Roman historian Livy observed:

      We can no longer endure our vices, nor tolerate their cures.

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    2. Draconian.

      TP

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  2. Lux Et Veritas17 June 2022 at 01:20

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61834511

    Welby busy virtue signalling once again.
    If he was serious then the Church of England would surrender something like £500 million in reparations and maybe more.
    But will that happen?

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    1. Of course not.
      Bristol Cathedral might have removed the stained glass windows gifted by the Colston family but they haven't been refunded their money!

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  3. 'the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, acknowledged it was an "argument that divides people" but confirmed that he believes "transgender women are women" after being pushed to define what a woman is during a session at the Senedd.'

    The fact is that at present most of us are largely out of our depth on this issue - politicians no less than the rest of us. But inevitably it's the politicians, much more than the rest of us, who find themselves under pressure to 'take a position'.

    Good luck to them there; they'll find it no easier than I would to arrive at a coherent and consistent conclusion.

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    1. That's genuinely a very helpful contribution - thank you for posting that.

      TP

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    2. "The fact is that at present most of us are largely out of our depth on this issue."
      Meanwhile more vulnerable young people are subjected to appalling pressure, particularly from the trans community. See also 'Former Transgender Teenager Shares POWERFUL Story About Going In and Out of Transgenderism' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwVyozpWWAU. Thanks to Dr Jordan B Peterson for this: ttps://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1537824368289583105

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    3. Speak for yourself John, the only fact is that you don't even know "most of us" but it really is very straight forward.

      XX = menstruation.
      XY = ejaculation.
      TP = Two Planks on end.

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    4. YYY = Delilah
      🤣

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  4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/61843636

    Sex and gender now reduced to the number of nanomoles of testosterone per litre of blood.
    Whatever happened to common sense?

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    1. It's a peculiar feature of the debate over "Trans" athletes seems to be all in one direction.
      There's a lot of hand-wringing over men becoming "women" and having an unfair advantage over biological women, but I haven't seen a single story concerning women becoming "men" and competing with biological men.
      I can only assume this is the case because they would have zero chance of winning anything.

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  5. @ Martha:

    I notice, though, that you allow no room for psychology and emotional self-understanding in your rather bald definition and characterization.

    Don't you conceive that some human beings - OK, arguably relatively few - might feel themselves to be something other than what they appear physically to be?

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    1. Some people feel themselves to be a cat or a pony. Do you pander to their delusions too?

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    2. @ Cymru'r Groes:

      I've never encountered one of those in real life, or even heard of one? Have you?

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    3. Open your eyes John and try putting Google and youtube to some use.
      Cats, horses, dogs, vampires, you name it.
      Sadly it's all too easy to stumble across all sorts of weird and sick.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmwLcLikXQ

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/femail/video-2038394/Video-Woman-identifies-cat-help-true-self.html

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-B1M6pjLLg

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW1qiyp-tVM

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    4. I'd gently suggest that if you rely on googling and on Youtube to glean a sense of what significant numbers of folk think and believe, you've set yourself on the road to paranoia! Search the internet and you can find - or think you've found! - all sorts of idiocies which are in reality maintained by a minute number of crazies.

      To earth this discussion in greater reality, the small Welsh market town nearest to where I live - no names, no pack drill, as the saying goes! - has somewhere within it a middle-aged person with legs like a boxer, a masculine jutting jaw and a voice at the deeper end of baritone, who goes about, and travels on the local buses, in a dress or skirt and in - mildly! - high-heeled shoes.

      Why on earth would anyone invite likely derision and insult by doing that if they weren't driven by some internal compulsion to assert an identity different to that which to all outward appearance they appear to possess?

      Personally, I don't pretend to even begin to understand it. But I'd suggest to you that John 8:10-11 might have some relevance here.

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    5. You issued the challenge.
      I met it.
      If you don't like the answers then you had better ask different questions.
      As for your man in high heels I suggest you watch M*A*S*H and Corporal Klinger..
      Mental illness seems to me to be a more likely explanation than "gender dysphoria" which had only existed for the last twenty or thirty years.

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    6. Also, we all know we're not talking about "significant numbers" but very vocal militant tiny minorities insisting that the rest of us accept their delusions or else they get triggered by pronouns.

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    7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-57739132
      Some sad food for thought but the facts speak for themselves.

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    8. @ Enoch & Cymru'r Groes:

      The numbers are indeed very small indeed, and I can see some force in the contention that the amount of attention accorded to the issue is disproportionate to the actual numbers of people affected.

      But I recall listening to a radio interview only a week or two back with a guy who'd begun to go through what they seem now to term 'gender reassignment'. The interviewer asked him how old he was when he first began to feel uncomfortable in his body. He responded that from memory he'd been about five or six, but that back then he simply didn't have the words to explain what he was feeling.

      And it struck me that, though the numbers of people affected are very small and the rest of us might quite easily characterize their unhappiness with themselves as an indication of delusion, the unhappiness is none the less real for that.

      And the interview put me in mind of a news story a few years back of a couple of young Iranian women in their 20s who'd lived their entire lives as conjoined twins - joined at the head. They'd both reached the conclusion that despite the risks involved they preferred to undergo separation surgery rather than continuing their lives the way that they were. They'd come to the UK because there was a surgeon here with the necessary skills and experience who was prepared to attempt the operation.

      And it occurred to me that the rest of us, quite understandably, find it easier to understand those twins' distress and dilemma because the reasons for it are all too visible. And that the fact that someone else's distress and dilemma is entirely invisible to the rest of us, and might indeed be characterized as a mental disorder, doesn't necessarily make it any less real.

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    9. Lux Et Veritas19 June 2022 at 09:47

      @John
      Ancient Briton regularly posts links from YouTube, Instagram, Twitter etc, are you suggesting we're all "on the road to paranoia"?
      Which sources of information meet with approval, which do not, and why?

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    10. @John
      What you describe as a rather bald definition and characterisation seems to me to have the benefits of being coherent, consistent and conclusive.
      I understood that to be what you were seeking.

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    11. @ Martha:

      I'm suggesting that there should scope for nuance, and that coherence and consistency alone don't necessarily, of themselves, result in conclusivity.

      @ Lux et Veritas:

      Since you can find arguments for and against virtually anything on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, along with instances of outright misinformation, I don't look to any of them as sites to rely on for anything I'd trust as authoritative. I'd YouTube's superb for church music, but that's the limit of its use for me.

      And I notice that an an earlier point someone suggested the 'Daily Mail' as a reliable authority, which strikes me as hardly a serious suggestion!

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    12. Are you allowed to use the word "crazies" John?

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    13. I don't believe any child of five or six years of age would even have any concept of feeling "uncomfortable in their body".
      This sounds more like the BS churned out by "social scientists" and the BBC.

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    14. @ Laughing Gas:

      Well, it seems that I may do so on this thread, given that my post using that term hasn't been taken down!

      D'you think that I shouldn't use it?!

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    15. @ Enoch:

      I was simply quoting what a man in early adult life said in response to a question from an interviewer as to when, from memory, he first began to feel uncomfortable about himself.

      I don't believe that either you or I are qualified to pontificate about the veracity of his response. And indeed he himself said that at that young age he lacked both the vocabulary and the concepts to put into words what he was feeling.

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    16. So it's perfectly acceptable for you to quote what a man reportedly said during an interview with another third party but not for a Daily Mail journalist to quote from a woman claiming to be a cat?

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    17. If he lacked the concepts how could he conceive of the idea?

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    18. @ Enoch:

      I presume that he conceived of the idea in the same way that most of us make sense of childhood feelings and memories: by recalling the feelings from those distant days and, with the advantage of maturity and greater powers of expression, trying to make sense of them and speak of them once he could do so.

      A sort of variant on St Anselm's 'fides quaerens intellectum' ...

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    19. @ Cymru'r Groes:

      The problem for me there is that the source is a 'Daily Mail' journalist.

      This is a newspaper that back in 1938 was campaigning strongly against Britain welcoming any Jewish refugees - even Jewish children - from Nazi Germany.

      And suggesting that the UK should be ignoring Churchill and co-operating collegially with Nazi Germany in order to oppose the malign influence of Stalin's Soviet Union.

      The 'Mail' in my view is still what it always has been - an utterly loathsome rag tailored for, and taken seriously by, a dismal coalition of ghouls and fools.

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  6. @ AncientBriton:

    'Meanwhile more vulnerable young people are subjected to appalling pressure, particularly from the trans community.'

    I've no direct experience, but my impression is very much that you're wholly right in what you suggest.

    What worries me most in the context of this issue is that people's agonizing dilemmas - especially rather young people's agonizing dilemmas - get seized on by people with an ideological axe to grind.

    On all sides of this debate.

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    1. What is "ideological" about basic science?
      It seems to me that the biggest axe being ground is that of the publicly funded BBC. They never miss an opportunity to push their queering LGBTQIA+ agenda, even to the point of the propaganda directed at young children, like their fantasy that over 100 genders exist, each with their own individual little right-on symbol.

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    2. Nonsense - but as you rightly say, you don't have the experience to illegibly comment on this. You're right, so why comment at all?

      TP

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    3. This dyslexic believes in Dog18 June 2022 at 14:53

      You lack the skills to comment on anything intelligibly so why comment at all?

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    4. I generally try to avoid posting insultingly and personally in posts which I submit to this website; but your comment strikes me as so patently absurd and mindless that I have to say that I find myself in agreement with 'This dyslexic believes in Dog'.

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    5. And you lack nothing? Arrogant!!

      TP

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    6. This dyslexic believes in Dog18 June 2022 at 21:41

      You lack everything, Total Pipsqueak.

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    7. Churlish.

      TP

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    8. You're the expert on that level.

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    9. Thank you John Ellis for your thoughtful and compassionate posts - genuinely helpful and a much welcome contribution to this site.

      TP

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    10. @ TP:

      I simply post my own 'take' on how the matters under discussion appear to me to be.

      After all, I assume that to be the purpose of threads on blogs such as this one.

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  7. I agree. From umpteen recent AB postings and 'big boy' discussions, TP's IQ 10- interventions suggests he ought to keep out of issues which are as serious as they are worrying. But - and it saddens me to say it - so too should the 'church'. My church (the Anglican church) lost the plot on matters of morality, ethics, youth-development, sexuality etc., years ago and there's not one of their leaders that I can identify in any recent volume of 'Crockford's' who comes even close to having an 'academic' thinking, rational brain. ++Rowan was probably the last.

    They're still pondering and unable to explain that earliest depiction of gender-confusion and trans-hybrids by that master of hidden-meanings and secret-messaging Leonardo da Vinci in his 'Last Supper'. Was Mary Magdalene (f) a man (m)? If neither, who was the disciple/apostle in 'drag' so close to Christ that caught da Vinci's curiosity?

    No. I think we should leave this to the medical community to define and guide on. My only observation is that while the Church-in-Wales ignorantly faffs around like headless chickens (or roosters) the traditional hetrosexual 'straights' are leaving their pews but not being replaced by the 'Gays' they hope to recruit and cuddle despite Gay Pride flags on cathedral towers and vicarages handed over to same-sex married priests. Oh for Charles Darwin and the theory of (human) evolution.

    Ad Clerum

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    1. You show yourself to be an intellectual dinosaur - Darwin’s theory was not as binary or static as you misunderstand it to be.

      TP

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    2. You pretty much express how I think about this issue too.

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    3. Glad you agree John.

      TP

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    4. Somehow, despite our differences of opinion, I seriously doubt John is agreeing with you TP.
      In fact, I doubt anyone else on this blog would ever do so.

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    5. I take that as an accolade. Thank you Enoch. If ever I found myself agreeing with the small minded misogynistic and utterly cruel sentiments of most entries on this site, I would despise myself more than you despise me.

      TP

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    6. Unsupported accusations as ever TP. If you have nothing constructive to add your further contributions will not be published.

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    7. This dyslexic believes in Dog19 June 2022 at 11:30

      It occurs to me that Darwin's theory is not only binary but really very straightforward.
      Species evolve either to survive or become evolutionary dead-ends and extinct.
      It is patently obvious that in the natural order of things, in mammals at least, homosexuality and transitioning are both evolutionary dead ends.

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    8. Censorious of you AB - truth is never afraid of being questioned.

      TP

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    9. Fair enough but we've all had more than enough of your drivel. It's worthy of the Llandaff pulpit!
      . 27/21-_=-_-_-

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    10. You couldn’t be more wrong Dyslexic Dog - you need to read The Descent of Man - Replete with observations of intersexuality and variegated queerness, albeit couched in heavy Victorianisms. It’s more nuanced than your binary naivety.

      TP

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    11. This dyslexic believes in Dog19 June 2022 at 15:21

      Hilarious.
      I recall sexual selection being described by Darwin as a combination of male competitiveness and female choosiness.
      Not much help in your distorted little world.

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    12. @ Enoch:

      You got it right. I posted with the intention of saying that I was in principle broadly in agreement with Ad Clerum.

      I agree with him (or her?) on the suggestion that '... we should leave this to the medical community to define and guide on'. I don't think that most of us - Anglican clerics included - are sufficiently equipped to take a view which can claim credibility by virtue of that view providing an adequately informed opinion.

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    13. Baptist Trainfan20 June 2022 at 08:06

      While I agree that "we should leave it with the medivcs", I fear that (a) even they aren't always disinterested and unswayed by public opinion on matters - after all, unless they are totally reclusive they are members of society just like the rest of us; and (b) subjects such as this are already being so openly discussed in the public square that the Church, among many others, cannot say nothing. The problem, as you state, is knowing what to say (and where to find the best information to inform what is said).

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    14. The "woke" crowd have already dictated to society that we must all draw on our "own lived experiences" for everything and that nobody has the right to question or challenge us on it, ever.

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    15. Jordan Peterson seems to be warning us against just that, with the brutal left wing lunatic fringe allegedly taking over the field of Psychology.

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    16. @ Enoch:

      True enough: for sure we all have 'our own lived experience'; but there's no reason at all that I can see why the lessons of one person's lived experience should of necessity coincide with that of someone else.

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    17. Neither should the "lived experiences" of one individual trump or overrule the "lived experiences" of another and even more so when it comes to a tiny minority versus the vast majority.

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    18. @ Enoch:

      But it doesn't, does it? No one - fortunately! - attempts to constrain you and I to adopt for ourselves other people's lived experience.

      Which, since we're perfectly content with the gender which we happen to have derived, is just fine.

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    19. Doesn't it?
      Facing pressure to change pronouns to meet someone else's demands (to play along with and engage in their delusions) or being subjected to allegations of homophobia or transphobia when refusing to do so isn't constraining or worse?
      It's the same abuse heaped upon anyone who sincerely holds beliefs that women should not be ordained as priestesses or bishopesses.
      The attitude is either conform to the new way of thinking, be ostracised or worse.
      Personified by Peggy the Pilate, the coven and Barry Morgan.

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    20. Text book examples of the illiberal "liberal elite" who believe they know best despite any and all evidence to the contrary.

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    21. @Ad Clerum

      Here's at least one reason I don't trust the medical community either.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61970235

      Even some of the medical community are biased, have their own axes to grind or are just plain wrong.

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  8. @D.Singh
    You are quite right in your quotation. A Church which contradicts God's clear intention of Man and Woman is lost and as Institution or public body it is already dead here in Wales.

    LW

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    1. Then leave it.

      All that will be left is the dead.

      Let the dead, bury the dead.

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  9. This has hardly been a secret but the BBC push it for all they're worth.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61854980

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  10. Future Reference ye all: Ad Clerum Him-Him Man Person who Mrs Ad Clerum and kids will vouch for. No Him or Her question about it. Him-Him has 'Y-Fronts'. Him-Him-Clerum-Sing-Hymns (Baritone voice not Soprano).

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    1. I'll remember, for future reference!

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  11. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/swimming/61853450

    Perhaps some common sense has been found at last.
    Have a separate category for the "trans" athletes and let them compete against each other.
    Now hopefully all can be happy.

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    1. Indeed. That always seemed the obvious and most fair resolution of the matter.

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    2. That idea works perfectly well for Parasports and Paralympics so why not for the tiny "trans" community?
      The alternative would be to lump everyone into the same competition for truly totalinclusiveness but they won't want that anymore than female tennis players want to be in the same competition as the men for five set matches even though they demand and receive equal prize money.

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    3. Good news. Perhaps a virus of common sense is spreading. What a welcome change that would make.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/61865789
      Get it done Seb.

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    4. Now Rugby League down under.
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/61875651

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    5. And so the counter attack begins. It didn't take long, did it?
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/61948675

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    6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61958346
      The outcome of this dispute should also prove to be very interesting.

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  12. BBC TV Sport would have a field-day with 'Trans-Games'. What would they be TV-listed at? 'Sport' or 'Entertainment'? And a whole new Sports Council funding department created to finance their steroids programmes, new politically-correct rules etc. And who on earth from the corporate sector would provide the sponsorship funding upon which most if not all competitive sports depend? Para-Games absolutely well deserved, but I'm not too sure how much enthusiasm within the 'common man' will be mustered for Transvestite 'games'
    And how many Trans swimmers, cyclists, runners, weightlifters etc., will countries already wholly hostile to anything smacking of LGBTQ++ send to Trans Olympics etc.

    But good luck to them.

    Old Bill

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  13. In the sexual/gender interpretation of Trans and for fear of opening old wounds, dare I suggest that 'TP' might also be a Trans Person ??? Only polite and courteous people need reply.

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    1. Does Two Planks also struggle with the meaning of the word "irreversible"?

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    2. Twisted Perspective is at least as likely.

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  14. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-61670667
    The Japanese are facing the same arguments and battles.

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    1. Thank you for that interesting link: that was a news report that I hadn't come across at all in anything which I'd read elsewhere.

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    2. Similarly with the reports of some people claiming to believe that they are cats, horses and ponies etc?
      Tut tut John, you're losing your grip.
      🤣

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    3. Not really. I recall, many years ago, an elderly woman who would tell anyone and everyone willing to listen that she was the queen of Denmark. And I don't doubt that there will be the occasional person around who will resolutely - despite the absence of fur, whiskers, tails and hooves - maintain that they're cats or horses, though I've never encountered one.

      Whereas I've certainly on several occasions come across people who were uncomfortable in their own gender. One was a relative of a church member, back in my Anglican days, and, more recently, another lived in a flat close to the house where I then lived. That latter person didn't, I would say, exactly look good in a dress, but the compulsion was evidently strong enough to drive persistence in wearing one, even when it gathered him (or her?!) the local nickname 'She - It'. You can perhaps imagine how that was pronounced when said quickly!

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    4. @ Laughing Gas:

      I've just spotted this strap-line on the 'Independent' website, and immediately thought of the discussions on this thread. It occurred to me that you, and perhaps one of two others, might appreciate it!

      Meet the UK’s real-life mermaids.

      All over the UK, a growing number of women – and some men – are adopting a ‘mersona’, donning half-fish costumes to splash about in the waves ...

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    5. Have you come across any Unicorns 🦄 yet?
      It must only be a matter of time.

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  15. I once had a dog ['Gilbert'] who was convinced he was human. Drank beer, entertained itself by switching on the TV remote controller, burped in loud manly fashion, 'spoke' in human sounding 'yawling', thought chasing sticks was sissy-stuff but loved football and even taught himself to sit on his hind-legs at the dinner-table to be closer to 'humans' plates of dinner. Neither of us in those days had heard of 'trans' so poor Gilbert wasn't referred to doggy pychotherapy, the concerns of modernists, the prayers of the church or the earmarking of special areas of the local dog-park where gender/specis confused dogs could pee/poo in standing, sitting or crouching position without causing offence to anyone. Poor Gilbert. He missed out.

    Ad Clerum.

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    1. This dyslexic believes in Dog21 June 2022 at 13:14

      I'd bet four tins of Pedigree Chum Gilbert didn't need a "safe space" either!

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  16. Memo to Mr. Ancient Briton:

    It might appear that ++Andrew has, like one other deranged of history who took to his bunker thinking that all was rosy in the Diocese of Berlin as the Russian artillery blasted his ego and demolished his 1,000 Year Riech, has become somewhat paranoid and fearful of his inner circle.

    It appears (on excellent authority of one who sat in on a recent Bunker tirade) that clergy - and especially new clerics to the diocese - are being warned by the Kilted Lunatic that should he hear any whisper, or suspect that any of them read or repeat anything written in 'Ancient Briton' that there will be "serious repercussions"!!! (Presumably Anna Morrell who monitors AB daily and feeds her Boss with summaries is exempt).

    But my 'dog collar' in the Bunker informs that across the diocesan border in St. Asaph one of AB's most avid and delighted readers is none other than +Gregory. What's apparently wonderful about ++Andrew's dictat is that many of the young priests-in-training, ordinands and new-boys to the Diocese of Bangor had never heard of Ancient Britain before. But now, like the forbidden fruit, their appetite is awakened!!! A surge of new AB readers curious as to what their Bishop is so afraid of!!!

    Readers must trust me on this one. My 'source' being impeccable and long-serving (if not long suffering) provides more evidence of ++Andrew's feeling of insecurity but to detail it would identify his/her personage.

    All this might also explain why ++His Grace has curiously gone rather silent both in the media and within his parishes. Cyanide Sue might have a spare ampule to insert under that now famous tongue of his .... !!!
    Ad Clerum

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  17. Defund the BBC25 June 2022 at 00:16

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61913667
    The BBC continue to plug their political agenda at the public's expense.

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    1. Menai Straight1 July 2022 at 10:59

      And again.

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61994277

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  18. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62034932

    At last some common sense is breaking out!
    What a novel idea, single sex toilets in public buildings.

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  19. Here's the latest victim of the brainwashing and BBC can't get enough of such headline "stories" .
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-62041127
    School boy goes to Prom in a dress having wanted to do so from the age of 12.

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    1. Have you seen this little gem?

      If a place of worship is allowed to have prayer and worship that's coercive and manipulative says gay (father of four) Methodist minister!

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-61816257

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    2. School Proms.
      Another dreadful import from the USA and the American nightmare.

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    3. Disturbed and disturbing.
      Bewildered

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  20. Some good news for a change.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62061929
    Good for Maya for sticking to her guns.
    Common sense making a comeback hopefully.

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