Trans politics ‘is the brand new patriarchy’

Transgender ideology is “deeply misogynistic” and Christians should work to guard the preciousness of girls and femininity, a convention has heard.

Glenn Stanton, of Focus on the Family, advised a gathering of Christian therapists in Poland that the LGBTQ+ motion had developed to such an extent that it was now “anti-woman”.

Furthermore, it’s “cannibalising itself” because of the “inner logical incoherence of gender id” and deep divisions over transgenderism which have led to a break up between the LGBs and the TQs.

“And girls are the victims right here,” Stanton mentioned.

“Trans politics is the brand new patriarchy. It is males telling girls how it is going to be. It’s the brand new misogyny. And actually it is misogyny on steroids as a result of it erases the female in any significant sense.”

He continued, “When an embodied male goes right into a feminine area, whether or not it is a sports activities fitness center or a lesbian bar, every part adjustments for ladies and that is as a result of femininity is a really particular human high quality that should be protected and cared for and cherished and nurtured.”

Stanton expressed disbelief on the stage of violent threats brazenly directed at feminists and ladies who dare to problem transgender ideology or dangerous insurance policies like the location of ‘trans girls’ in feminine prisons. Men claiming to be girls simply in order that they are often positioned in feminine prisons are “gaming the system”, he mentioned.

“They’re males and we simply have to say that … And the ladies do not get to complain about it … It’s the worst sort of patriarchy,” he mentioned, noting that girls who dare to talk out can anticipate to be cancelled or subjected to threats of dying or sexual violence by trans activists.

“Classic liberalism was: ‘dad, I disagree with what you say however I’ll defend to my dying your proper to say it.’ That’s gone now,” he mentioned, including that his personal expertise of being cancelled was “extremely painful”.

He mentioned it was laborious to foretell how issues will develop within the subsequent few years however added that it was going to be “laborious to place the genie again within the bottle and return to the way in which issues had been”, and that within the meantime there could be many “harm” individuals.

At a time when the “guidelines are consistently altering”, he mentioned that Christians should communicate the reality and resist stress to make use of language that goes towards their beliefs, whereas additionally offering assist to people who find themselves genuinely battling gender dysphoria.

“We have moved from gender dysphoric people who find themselves actually struggling and actually need compassion, to a state of affairs the place persons are pretending. And that can’t maintain itself,” he mentioned.

Stanton was talking on the ultimate day of a convention organised by the International Federation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice (IFTCC) bringing collectively over 140 therapists from 28 nations to debate how they will assist individuals who need assist to depart behind undesirable same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria.

Speaking earlier within the convention, Stanton mentioned {that a} “unisex tradition” was being imposed on society “by drive” and that transgenderism and gender fluidity now loved the standing of a “spiritual dogma that’s way more fundamentalist than any spiritual conservative fundamentalist that I do know”.

“How did we get right here? We obtained right here by separating intercourse and gender” he mentioned, including that the answer now should be “reconnecting sexuality and gender again collectively”.

Addressing the stress on individuals to undertake most popular pronouns at work and elsewhere, he mentioned, “We should refuse at each flip to play together with that.”

Other audio system addressed challenges to civil liberties ensuing from gender self-identification legal guidelines and bans on so-called conversion remedy.

Felix Boellmann, of the Alliance Defending Freedom International, mentioned he was involved about gender self-identification legal guidelines coming into drive in Germany subsequent month. Under the German regulation, there isn’t a age restrict to altering authorized gender, however under-14s should obtain parental consent. However, if parental consent is withheld, the court docket has the ability to step in and override the dad and mom’ resolution whether it is deemed to be in the very best pursuits of the kid.

Boellmann mentioned it was presumed that folks knew what was in the very best pursuits of their little one and that the burden of proof was on others claiming to know higher.

“With this regulation, that will get twisted. The burden of proof is now not on the opposite aspect. It is the court docket who shall by definition have a say on whether or not a change will not be towards the very best pursuits of the kid. It’s a really low threshold in comparison with what we initially had,” he mentioned.

Boellmann shared a “heartbreaking” case he’s engaged on in Switzerland the place dad and mom are preventing the elimination of their little one from their care after refusing to affirm their gender transition. The value of the authorized battle has left them “dealing with monetary damage and there’s no finish in sight”.

He mentioned {that a} widespread development round gender transition legal guidelines is the younger age limits – in Switzerland the age restrict of gender self-identification is 16.

“No one is exerting warning and the dad and mom are prevented from stepping in,” he mentioned.

“It can’t be that we don’t permit youngsters to get married or to drink alcohol or to smoke at a sure age however they will go forward and proceed on that trajectory [of changing gender].”

Ole Gramstad Jensen, a lawyer from Norway, spoke of the challenges arising from the “vast” definition of so-called conversion remedy beneath his nation’s ban, which incorporates prayer.

“I discover it astounding {that a} little one who’s 16 years previous or older can search out any sexual avenue however not pursue heterosexuality. And in terms of gender and gender id, it will get even worse. They can get assist to vary their our bodies however not their minds [despite] the latter being far much less invasive,” he mentioned.

Dr Paul Sullins, a researcher in same-sex parenting and little one growth, advised the convention {that a} liberal tutorial bias has led to a “double customary” and “two-tier system” in tutorial analysis and publishing, and “the censorship of concepts that they only do not like”.

He likened tutorial publishing to a “spiritual cult” by which solely “sanitised, pre-approved concepts may be mentioned”, whereas proof that challenges the dominant narrative is “suppressed even whether it is true”.

Dr Sullins mentioned that conservative lecturers face a “gauntlet of obstacles to publication” and that there’s a “blatant” and “large double customary” in direction of pro-life analysis particularly. If a research does make it to publication, stress is instantly placed on the publishers to retract it.

“Studies which might be retracted are usually very sturdy [in their data]. Why? Because in the event that they had been weaker, somebody may write a refutation, it would not be that tough to do,” he mentioned.

“But if they can not refute it, then they’re going to attempt to retract it. They additionally will not cite it and so they’ll bury it as a lot as they will.”

Dr Sullins blamed the censorship on the rise of “large science conglomerates” which might be “vulnerable to activist stress” and are extra involved about “fame” and the “backside line”.

British human rights barrister, Paul Diamond, who has spent years serving to Christians battle spiritual freedom instances within the UK, mentioned that variety and inclusion phrases are getting used to “silence” traditionalist viewpoints, and that hate crime and hate speech legal guidelines boil right down to “I do not like what you are saying, I disagree with what you are saying, and I’m not going to let you say it”.