The single most effective tool wielded by gender activists in the fight against normality is the neologism ‘transphobia’. This word is a semantic WMD that has the power to destroy everything in its orbit. It is a word that can lead to social ostracism, destroy careers, alienate parents from their children and which creates social havoc.
But as with everything to do with gender ideology the concept of ‘transphobia’ is a concoction. It is a crude method by which critical thinking is required to be suspended and any dissenting debate must be closed down. And a means by which women in particular are groomed into turning off natural survival instincts and threat-recognition systems.
First, let’s examine ‘phobia’.
Psychology broadly describes two types of phobia: simple and complex.
A simple phobia is a fear and/or aversion to an object, which is irrational and out of proportion to the real levels of danger presented by the object. For example, a fear of spiders or needles.
A complex phobia is where this fear impairs one’s ability to carry out the normal activities of daily living. For example, agoraphobia, social phobia, or fear of flying.
Most phobias have their roots in evolutionary biology. We tend to be phobic of things that can harm or kill us: snakes, insects, heights, enclosed spaces, dirt etc. In my practice as a clinical psychologist I have yet to encounter someone who has a phobia of say light switches or microwave ovens. Our brains are simply not programmed that way.
Real phobias, as defined in psychology (not sociology) do not contain moral dimensions. We do not castigate and traduce agoraphobics or claustrophobics. We do not ostracise them and destroy their lives and careers. We do not remove their children from them!
So, what is unique about ‘transphobia’?
If a person claims to be the sex they are not and then wishes to invade the spaces of their assumed sex, or compel others to participate in their delusion, a negative reaction to this behaviour is not a phobic response. Neither is it a moral wrong (as ‘transphobia’ has now been constructed).
The real question is why are TRAs so vociferous and aggressive in wielding the accusations of ‘transphobia’ against anyone who disagrees with their ideology?
In my view, the raison d’etre for the invention of the concept of ‘transphobia’ and the vicious reactions to those deemed to be ‘transphobic’ is simple: Men (in dresses) want access to female spaces. And they want society to accede to and accept their deluded fantasy that they have by means of a ‘gendered soul’, become physically female.
And to meet these ends, these men have to minimise, demonise and switch off (mostly women’s) natural reactions to a male being where he ought not be.
Furthermore, these men also have to force others in to uncritical acquiesce with their peculiar view of themselves. This why this “phobia” alone is infused with a moral component.
Women are being told to switch off a psychological and biological response mechanism that has evolved over thousands of years. When we object we are accused of ‘transphobia’. However our fear or discomfort of the unknown male is entirely rational and normative. Particularly so when we are unclothed, sleeping, sick, or otherwise vulnerable. It is not coincidental that these are the very areas of female lives that male transvestites are fighting so hard to breach. I see no hordes of ‘Transw***n’ demanding to be early morning office cleaners, meat factory workers, or fruit pickers on farms!
It is also instructive that there is zero issue with ‘trans men’ using male toilets or breaching male private spaces. Why is this? It’s because a tiny, bearded ‘trans man’ is no threat to the average male. Regardless of how much synthetic testosterone she has injected she can’t overpower or
grape him.
We humans recognise sex-based difference in biology and morphology, but because of the rise of gender ideology we’re being told not to acknowledge these differences. We must instead refute the evidence of our own eyes and minimise our emotional responses.
But it is neither irrational nor out of proportion for women to be wary of men. It matters not what that man’s ‘gender identity’ is; whether he’s wearing fake breasts and a wig or a dress. Or even if he’s had a vaginoplasty and can boast a ‘fully functioning’
tina, (whatever that may mean - the
tina is not merely a hole whose purpose is to receive a
pen). No, regardless of the transvestite’s clothing or female affectations, our brain recognises him as male and therefore when he is in women’s spaces, as a potential threat, or at least a source of extreme discomfort.
This is why ‘transphobia’ was created and is mainly directed at women: it is a means of control and by which our natural biological responses to threat have been transmuted into a moral failing that must be punished by society.
Women and girls are now being told to shut off their danger-recognition system, simply to pander to the wishes of transvestites: these men must be allowed into female changing rooms, showers, dormitories and hospital wards. Schoolgirls must be compelled to use the same toilets as ‘trans girls’ and grown men must be able to share tents with little girls at camp because they ‘identify’ as women.
As a clinical psychologist I have treated many people with real phobias, both simple and complex. ‘Transphobia’ is not such. It is a manipulative falsehood. (In reality, an unthinking, irrational and disproportionate fear or hatred of ‘trans’ people would be called ‘transodium’).
‘Transphobia’ is a concoction. A man purporting to be a woman (or vice versa) is something our brains are not programmed to recognise or to understand. Our natural responses to this new and entirely unnatural iteration of humanity are not irrational. And neither are they immoral. They should therefore not be punished or pathologized.
We need to reframe ‘transphobia’ as being a means of control and not a true phobia. It is a masterful piece of psy-ops used to silence dissent and to bludgeon women (invariably) into submission to gender ideology.
Take for example the farcical case of Pablo the ‘gender fluid’ dachshund.
Pablo’s owner ‘identifies’ his dog as ‘gender fluid’, dresses him in a pink tutu and shows him off at Zoom meetings with LGBTQIA+ members of Cambridgeshire County Council (in England). During one such meeting a social worker said, “your dog is male”. This was deemed a ‘transphobic comment’ which reportedly left the eight participants ‘shaking, feeling threatened and horrified’. This incident descended into such absurdity that it had to be eventually resolved by an employment tribunal where Cambridgeshire County Council was made to pay £63,000 in costs, loss of earnings and compensation to the ‘transphobic’ social worker who had commented on Pablo's sex.
This case whilst seeming comical further illustrates that ‘transphobia’ is not a real phobia. That it has no clinical basis and that it is merely a way to pass moral judgement on those who disagree with gender ideology.
And to further prove that ‘transphobia’ has no basis in reality, has anyone ever been known to faint or have a panic attack at the sight of a Drag Queen or of a tiny, hirsute ‘Trans man’ with a squeaky voice?
Of course not.
But we are living in an age of modern McCarthyism, where the life-destroying accusation of ‘Communist’ has been replaced with that of ‘Transphobe’.
In truth the concept of ‘transphobia’ is nothing more than a toxic and illiberal melange of propaganda, coercive control and stupidity.
Its only real power is that which we give to it.
Transphobia does not exist.
No debate.
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