“Is the trans movement anti-gay?” In honor of Pride Month, Peter Boghossian begins this conversation with an investigation into the increasing rejection of trans ideology by the LGB (without the T) community. Peter’s guest is Andrew Doyle, acclaimed author, comedian, and host of Free Speech Nation on GB News. Here’s an important piece of information to better understand this conversation: Andrew is gay.
Andrew explains the impact the trans movement has inflicted on gay people over the last several years, including the rise of abusive language toward gays he “hasn’t seen since the ‘80s." Lesbians are labelled “sexual racists” or “transphobes” if they reject trans women as partners. (The same is true for gay men rejecting trans men—that is, women—but the abuse is not as pervasive.) Peter and Andrew discuss the incoherence of gender ideology, the nature of sexual attraction, how predators manipulate gender self-ID, and the sterilization of gay youth.
Also discussed: Bad woke art, sensitivity readers, primary education, censorship, standpoint epistemology, critical thinking, the long history of human fantasy and folly, and more.
Andrew Doyle is a journalist, playwright, satirist, and comedian. He is the creator of Titania McGrath, “a radical intersectionalist poet committed to feminism, social justice and armed peaceful protest.” He is the host of Free Speech Nation and an unabashed lover of art and literature.
Further reading:
The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World by Andrew Doyle
The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of Modern Witch Hunt by Richard Webster
Truckers by Terry Pratchett
Lesbians pressured to have sex with trans women: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385
UK Ministry of Justice rates of sexual assault among incarcerated trans women https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/18973/pdf/
Hospital told police a patient not raped because alleged attacker was trangender: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/17/hospital-told-police-patient-not-raped-alleged-attacker-transgender/
Tavistock tried to erase gay people: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tavistock-gender-clinic-tried-to-erase-gay-people-kh6bzj65k
Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I nonbinary https://www.thecollegefix.com/joan-of-arc-elizabeth-i-may-not-have-identified-as-women-scholar-suggests/
Elephants need a father figure: https://www.bbcearth.com/news/teenage-elephants-need-a-father-figure
Titania McGrath is the funniest satirist of woke culture. Big fan of the street epistemology too!
Thank you for having such an enlightening discussion with Doyle. You’re both two of my faves.