Tiles, bricks and cement

My gender journey continues apace, ready to report my findings

I have a folder on my desktop that features over 7,000 screenshots, taken off my various screen devices over a 4 year period. It started when I thought I should educate myself. And so I started talking with people, and reading what other people think. Every time I read something about trans that I thought was interesting, or I should take a closer look closer at, or I should try and talk with someone about, I took a screenshot.

Some people might think I’ve collated a “little black book” – a list of vile outrages, featuring outrageous people, saying outrageously obnoxious things that anger and annoy me. Some people might assume my little black book is some kind of revenge repository, or a hitlist of bad stuff to deal with and people I’d like to destroy.

In fact, all I’m really doing is sharing my “education” with you; in the absence of any meaningful discussion with our trans-identified daughter who had already been groomed and indoctrinated by the cult, before we ever really knew what was happening. The speed with which she left home for uni; refusing our support and concerns for her welfare, was staggering. This turned into the estrangement we have suffered now for 4 years as she became increasingly radicalised. It’s all in my main story: We Used To Have A Daughter.

Many of these screenshots contain the words spoken by people who operate from a place inside the cult(ure) that radicalised her and cemented her beliefs.

Other comments and opinions appearing in the screenshots seemed to me to be the voices of reason, sanity, rationality, knowledge, compassion, understanding, or beliefs that are deeply held but never forced on others to comply with. Each screenshot tile therefore represents a tiny piece in a kind of jigsaw, whether it be a statement of fact, an inspiring idea, or a downright provable lie. They have all played a small part of my education.

The screenshot seems to be the perfect medium for the artworks I’m developing. In one quick burst, a screenshot can communicate an awful lot very speedily. I have screen shots of people and opinions I strongly agree with, and people and opinions that I strongly disagree with. I will use them all – as tiles, if you like, or as pixels that build a bigger picture as you start nudging them together, like mosaic pieces, like bricks that build a greater structure. These pixel tiles are very diverse in the range of opinions expressed, but they will be representative of the deep dive I’ve taken, into the murky puddle of gender ideology - & it is literally bottomless.

These artworks will be, loosely and generally, Things We Need To Discuss, Learning Points, Screen Tests, Knowledge Boards, Educational Resources for teachers AND students. Parents might like to distribute them in school corridors, for example.

I will use other screenshots with captions that I’ll edit, in order to reflect what I feel is the truth about what the screenshot purports to describe or show. For confirmation, I won’t edit anything of the content of these screenshots, although I may anonymise or obscure some of the tweet screenshots if I feel a user might be a target for unfair treatment or doxxed or piled-on if found. I’ll apply this to trans people just as much as gender critical. I may also do it randomly – just to add a flash of rainbow colour in there to make it look pretty or to draw in the eye to the words contained in the screenshot. I won’t do much to obscure the politicians identities at all, or the TRA’s, for that matter. There’s only one side that’s “toxic”.

Fact is though, if one was really determined to take ONE tile out of a thousand, and go after someone who’s said something you don’t like, you really do need to grow up and get a life. It’s all out there, in the public domain already. All the twitter stuff is searchable, it’s already been written, read, and said, many times over.

In other cases, I might well over-compensate – and obscure the identity of an original poster when they feel they may need no obscuring at all; that they’re perfectly happy to say what they have said and see no reason to limit other peoples view not them. These people may be blue ticks or well-known individuals with a robust platform and an audience who have their backs. These people may have more resilience and understanding of the nature of the threats – to women overwhelmingly, and have the capacity to withstand the TRA reporting and doxxing and all the fascistic ferreting around they do, in a way that some people new to the debate might not yet have endured.

The key takeaway here is that these are WORDS, that have been voiced, on public record, and are all searchable in any case. Sometimes it’s only when you put some things together with other things, you get a more rounded picture. Otherwise it’s like you’ve only read one book, and that one book becomes the benchmark by which you measure all others. Cults, in any case, can’t stand books. Book are dangerous because you might learn something, and that could be catastrophic, for a cult.

But I’ll just let the TRA’s speak for themselves. These voices are the voices that the largely indifferent public will never ever hear if they only get their news and propaganda from Pink News, Mermaids, The Labour Party, The BBC, Stonewall, or the like.

I also have thousands upon thousands of bookmarks in my web browser – articles, academic papers, media features, blog entries, statistics, reports, and so on. Again these were all collected over the 4 years of my education. These will remain as bookmarks as they’re very difficult to turn into visuals with anything like the immediacy and impact of a single, simple screenshot.

I have conversations, and real-life experiences from real-time interactions and discussions too, to draw on. Such as occasions where I attended a Women’s Party meeting, or where I’ve attempted to debate something in person. But these don’t really make the cut for an easy visual form to use either, which is why I write about them instead.

So screenshots will form the bulk of my artworks going forward. I will produce artworks that contain material that we should discuss, as a society, not close down debate on.

As is already apparent, it will show anyone who remains indifferent to the issues that transitioning and affirmation raise, that (generally speaking):

• • It is not toxic on both sides, it is toxic on ONE side only

• • Men Gain, Women Lose. Gender ideology only benefits men. All the time, every single day

• • Children are being harmed and abused, while we do nothing about it

• • Women deserve to have their rights, spaces, privacies and dignities respected

• • Transing young people is a cult, funded by an industry

• • Science and reality hold the key

• • Queer Theory is dangerous and nonsensical bollocks and everybody knows it, even queer theorists

• • Transwomen are not who they say they are

• • Silence is Complicity

• • Gender ideology is an authoritarian, fear-mongering pseudo-religion

• • The Trans “movement” is incapable of policing itself (big clue: Queer Theory)

• • Institutional and Organisational Capture is rampant and worldwide

• • Predators & groomers are forcing splits and divisions between child/parent

• • Top Guys get Top Jobs

• • We have ALL, at some point been gender non-conforming

• • People generally don’t have a clue, indifference is rife

• • Detransitioners are a rapidly-growing population

• • We are knowingly sterilizing and castrating a generation of young people

• • Transition doesn’t really seem to work, except for a tiny few

• • Gender Dysphoria is just a label

• • Transing Away The Gay is homophobic

• • Suicide is a manipulative threat with no basis in truth

• • Celebrities are cowards

• • Handmaidens are the worst

• • Politicians are useless

• • Parents are silenced

• • It’s all about Money and Men and Power

• • Child abuse has a long history of being ignored

• • The hatred for J K Rowling is a modern-day witch hunt

• • People Lie – a lot

• • Schools need to do their homework, and that includes the teachers

• • “Trans Kids” is an adult invention

& plenty more besides

Having said all that, some screenshots seem to embody the nature of the cult so succinctly, they are stand-alone masters of the art. They need nothing further to amplify their meaning or relevance. Like these:

Or this one, Phobic Indoctrination anyone?