Why are Gender Critical Feminists called racist?

Messaging guidance from the Transgender Law Center.(U.S.)

The Transgender Law Center (TLC) has published a document advising how to win the battle of ideas over Gender Identity Ideology. They have conducted focus groups to determine why they are losing the argument, in particular over mixed sex sport. They then recommend strategies to win over the “persuadables”, who they basically treat as the “gullibles”.

Arcus Foundation

Before I cover the document, a word about TLC and who funds them. One of the main funders is the Arcus Foundation. I have blogged about them before to expose how many organisations take the Arcus Foundation dollar. You can read that here 👇

Arcus Foundation

The foundation is based in the United States and is the pet project of the heir to a medico-industrial company. I am sure it is entirely a coincidence that there are massive profits to be made by normalising a life of medical intervention. Mining health bodies, for profit, is the new capitalist frontier. Shame so many of my fellow lefties have fallen for the big lie this is a human rights movement. It’s capitalism, stupid.

Stonewall U.K.

Arcus also fund organisations in the U.K. You may be interested in this donation, to the U.K’s very own Stonewall. This money was to persuade Stonewall to become part of the Transgender Lobby. Stonewall, as we know, obliged.

There was another donation, from Arcus Foundation, to Stonewall, to fund the rainbow laces initiative. This was a, spectacularly unsuccessful, project to make it OK to come out as gay in premiership football.

Transgender Law Center and Arcus Foundation

Below is a summary of funding given, by Arcus, to TLC since 2007.

The TLC produced a document to ascertain why they were failing to persuade sufficient people to accept some aspects of transgender ideology. This was the title of the document they produced.

For anyone paying attention a significant part of the campaigning has been focussed on violence perpetrated against trans people of colour.Males working in prostitution are over-represented in these deaths. The campaign to rebadge prostitution as “sex work” sits oddly with figures from the trans-murder monitoring project, which reported that, worldwide, 62% of trans deaths (2020) were related to engagement in prostitution. It was 58% in 2021.

There seems to be a dawning realisation, the weaponising of Black and Latina deaths aside, the rest of the movement has become associated with colour blind messaging which they now worry makes them look “white” dominated.

This was their findings about attitudes to transgender people: The focus groups associated acceptance of transgender ideology with “whiteness”. Is this why campaigns against Black women, especially Lesbians, are so virulent, on social media and in real life? Gender Critical black women disrupt the argument this backlash is emanating from white women so they must be silenced?

Moral Panic?

Below they claim the right, in the United States, are using anti-transgender legislation in a manner akin to the rights use of racist dog whistles. This is a strategic move to force an alliance between anti-racist campaigners.It seeks to impugn anyone, even on the left, who believes in a more careful approach to trans-health care, especially for children, and fair competition in sports. They create an association with racism, by linking opponents of critical race theory with anti-trans beliefs. They are the third group, I have looked at, who are claiming a “moral panic” is being whipped up by bad faith actors, by the way. These are covered below.👇

Moral Panic?

Forced Teaming.

This tactic is called “forced-teaming”. They did this first, with remarkable success, by adding the T to LGB. By co-opting LGB rights they built on the work done by Gay rights campaigners and people, superficial of thinking, accepted the T as the next civil rights frontier. In fact the campaign for Gay rights relies on acceptance that biological sex is real and same sex orientation should not be legislated against or stigmatised. The T demands that we deny biological sex is real and this has obvious implications for homoSEXuals. This is why see grown ass men claiming to be Lesbians like a bad Bernard Manning joke. Now they are wanting to use the same tactic to forced team ethnic minorities. It’s a clever tactic that has served them well for over a decade.

(AAPI stands for Asian American and Pacific Islanders)

Another example of forced-teaming is faux-concern for reproductive justice. We saw this very clearly in the Irish campaign to legalise abortion. Transgender activism is adept at hijacking popular causes and creating a false association with Trans rights.

Conversely many adopt a public messaging that claims radical feminists are anti-abortion which is one of the more bizarre accusations I have seen levelled at “terfs”.

This is Thomas Pringle, Irish representative at the Council of Europe.👇

Both those statements are from the same speech. Pringle uses sleight of hand to imply feminists are anti-abortion. This is also Thomas:

No further questions, your honour. 👆

Losing the argument: Sports.

This document suggests some panic in the ranks. Perhaps they are sensing they have over-reached themselves by the extreme, biological sex denialism, required to accept males in female sports. The opposition are winning the debate on sport. People are susceptible to arguments about fairness in women’s sport. Who knew?

The TLC decided to form focus groups and tested arguments to see which ones were more likely to shift opinion. People were analysed according to their membership of different segments of society, based on ethnic origin and age group.

The document then sets out it’s suggested messaging.

Psychological Operations:

This is what is known as Psychological Operations, commonly called “PsyOps”

More commonly associated with State Propaganda they are also used to advance Humanitarian arguments and this is the cover the Transgender movement is using. We are inculcating a bodily disassociation, via teaching from nursery to Universities, this might be the most successful psyop of our generation. Transgender Ideology is everywhere. In our schools, universities, police, judiciary and even the NHS.

The profit motive:

The process of normalising a life of dependence on cross-sex hormones and cosmetic surgeries, to undermine biological reality, is well underway. We have persuaded a generation to willingly embrace bodily modification and allow capitalists to mine profit from their healthy bodies. This is the estimated compound annual growth from the transgender branch of cosmetic surgery. Any thing about 15% is regarded as a good CAGR. Note this is just the surgeries. Big Pharma are hungry for medicines that have to be taken for life and this is exactly what cross-sex hormones are.

This estimate of the wealth growing potential contains this caveat.

Note this is a profit warning not a recognition of the harms we are doing to a vulnerable demographic.

Back to the PsyOps:

These are the messages activists are advised to use to soften the malleable. They are selling our kids the idea that they are pursuing freedom from boxes when, for our gay youth, they are really selling them faux-straight medicalised closets.

My own son uses the language of being his “authentic self”. He was 14 when he used this script on me. The use of a class narrative is particularly pernicious when this is pushed by billionaire foundations, of which Arcus is only one.

Youth are particularly susceptible. Capitalists are selling revolutionary fervour to the young to increase their profit margins. Our kids are the target. Note the professionals are testing this messaging and then tailoring it based on their research. This is not an organically emerging, grass roots movement. It’s manufactured by elite men.

“Exploit division across races”

This was one of the more egregious of the messages.

Stoking division and using the simplistic framing of “villains” 😳

Women’s sport has never been fair:

This is how they propose to manipulate women into accepting male dominance in female sports. Once again the manipulative tactic is to take a truth and twist it out of all recognition. Women’s sport has never been fair and trans women are painted as allies, not as men destroying female sports competitions. The contempt for women’s intelligence is writ large.

The follow up to this message is to use discrimination against black women to argue for male-inclusive women’s sports. Claiming to care about racial discrimination against black women is used to pave the way for males in female sports. This is a version of the frequent, and racist, argument that compare black women to trans-identifying males and compares single sex spaces to a system of apartheid.

The dishonesty in the statement below is breathtakingly arrogant. Apparently the reason we are falling for the sport arguments is we believe there are only winners and losers.Shameless binary thinking! 🤷‍♂️. We don’t care how men identify. They don’t belong in women’s sports.

They even document the success of their messsaging to predict which manipulative tactic work best. Opposition to body modification in young people is reduced when people are primed with the “authentic selves” argument.

Another message they found to cut through was talk of multiple “genders” rather than “gender” in the singular. Notice the language. People are being “primed” to accept a transgender world view.

Another recommended tactic is to personalise the debate by using people who identify as “transgender”, especially children. This desexualises adult motives, such as autogynephilia, for transition. Story telling can be very effective and this is now at saturation level in the media.

The purpose is manipulation and the Transgender Lobby are using every tool at their disposal. Taking advantage of progressive movements and human kindness, especially the female kind, to gain your assent. This is a movement based on biological sex denialism. It is based on a fundamental lie.

I have the full document. If you would like a copy you will get my email from a (free) subscription and I can email it to you. Alternatively send me a dm on twitter @STILLTish.