Here is a list of key posts on this blog, organised by topic. Dates of publication are included in the URLs. A few reposts from other sites are included, and acknowledged. See also the other pages on the site menu, on women’s oppression, sex role stereotyping, and the top-down nature of the trans trend.
Elite support for gender ideology
Supporters of gender ideology downplay the support they receive from the neoliberal elite, but it is fundamental to the mainstreaming of the trans trend.
- Astroturfing: a brilliant article on the corporate funders of the trans trend
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/astroturfing/ - Trans is a top down trend: ask its lobbyists
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/05/17/trans-is-a-top-down-trend-ask-its-lobbyists/ - Maya Forstater and the enforcement of gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/maya-forstater-and-the-enforcement-of-gender-ideology/ - Trans and class politics
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/trans-and-class-politics-transgender-and-oppression-part-2/ - Liberal opposition to gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/liberal-opposition-to-gender-ideology/ - Gender ideology, the bosses and the right: a changing landscape
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/gender-ideology-the-bosses-and-the-right-a-changing-landscape/ - Is the media for or against gender ideology?
- https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/is-the-media-for-or-against-gender-ideology/
- Bosses go on strike to support trans demands
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/bosses-go-on-strike-to-support-trans-demands
How the corporate media drives the trans trend (reposting of research summary by Transgender Trend)
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/05/06/how-the-corporate-media-drives-the-trans-trend/ - Is the Murdoch media pro or anti trans?
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/is-the-murdoch-media-pro-or-anti-trans/ - Gender identity discussed in The Australian
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/06/03/gender-identity-discussed-in-the-australian/ - Making gender ideology safe for conservatives
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/12/18/separating-gender-ideology-from-the-left/ - Constricting femininity: the right, sex stereotyping and gender ideology (the Murdoch media, sexism, and gender ideology)
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/constricting-femininity-the-right-sex-stereotyping-and-gender-ideology/ - Does the elite support transgender?
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/10/27/does-the-elite-support-transgender/ - Exiles in their own flesh: A psychotherapist speaks (The bureaucratic suppression of trans-critical dissent, published on the 4thwavenow blog)
https://4thwavenow.com/2015/08/22/exiles-in-their-own-flesh-a-psychotherapist-speaks/
The left’s capitulation to gender sexism
Almost all the liberal and far Left has capitulated to gender ideology, despite its fundamentally right wing character.
- The fake radicalism of “nonbinary”
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/the-fake-radicalism-of-nonbinary/ - The SWP and Women’s Place UK
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/the-swp-and-the-wpuk/ - Transgender and oppression (part 1) A gender critical Marxist debates with the Irish Marxist Review
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/transgender-and-oppression/ - Trans and class politics (transgender and oppression part 2) The bosses, the left and transgender
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/09/02/trans-and-class-politics-transgender-and-oppression-part-2/ - Defend trans people, but fight gender ideology (transgender and oppression part 3)
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/09/15/defend-trans-people-but-fight-gender-ideology-transgender-and-oppression-part-3/ - Left wing support for gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/left-wing-support-for-gender-ideology/ - Gender ideology in the Irish Marxist Review (part 1)
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/gender-ideology-in-the-irish-marxist-review-part-1/
Gender ideology in the Irish Marxist Review (part 2): Binaries, biology, and fake radicalism
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/gender-ideology-in-the-irish-marxist-review-part-2-binaries-biology-and-fake-radicalism/ - “The war on trans”: a response to Socialist Review
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/02/16/the-war-on-trans-a-response-to-socialist-review/ - Why the Left does not challenge transgender conservatism
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/why-the-left-does-not-challenge-transgender-conservatism/ - Are trans-critical feminists actually aiding the Right?
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/are-trans-critical-feminists-actually-aiding-the-right/ - The Left and transgender: “work with trans people, not against them”?
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/the-left-and-transgender-work-with-trans-people-not-against-them/ - Are all trans critics right wingers or rad fems?
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/11/07/are-all-trans-critics-right-wingers-or-rad-fems/ - Another socialist challenging gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/another-socialist-challenging-gender-ideology/ - Socialist Review on transgender and access to women’s spaces
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/socialist-review-on-transgender-and-access-to-womens-spaces/
Soothing left wing sensibilities
- The fake radicalism of “nonbinary”
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/02/02/the-fake-radicalism-of-nonbinary/ - Awesome pink sparkles have something for everyone https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/awesome-pink-sparkles-have-something-for-everyone/
How the liberal media soothes readers who are uneasy about the sex-stereotypes and other sexism in trans ideology
The progressive side of trans, and its limits
- Left wing support for gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/left-wing-support-for-gender-ideology/ - Man wears dress: the two sides of transgender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/08/12/man-wears-dress-the-two-sides-of-transgender-ideology/
Gender-critical progressives and the Right
- Against bigotry and gender ideology: the US Supreme Court on transgender
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/the-us-supreme-court-on-transgender/ - Orban’s Hungary, liberalism, and the right wing attack on gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/07/04/orbans-hungary-and-the-right-wing-attack-on-gender-ideology/ - Liberal opposition to gender ideology https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/liberal-opposition-to-gender-ideology/
- Gender ideology, the bosses and the right: a changing landscape https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/04/11/gender-ideology-the-bosses-and-the-right-a-changing-landscape/
- Jennifer Bilek’s critique of the trans trend
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/07/09/jennifer-bileks-critique-of-the-trans-trend/ - Toxic friends: relating to trans critics on the Right (support from The Spectator)
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/toxic-friends-relating-to-trans-critics-on-the-right/ - A friend on the Right? (support from anti-abortionist Miranda Devine)
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/12/21/a-friend-on-the-right/ - Are trans-critical feminists actually aiding the Right?
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/are-trans-critical-feminists-actually-aiding-the-right/
Postmodernism
Postmodernism prepared the ground for gender ideology: it is irrationalist, anti-humanist, and hostile to materialism. Liberation for all is replaced by self-cultivation for the few. Postmodernism makes it easier to replace the material reality of sex with the sexist mysticism of gender.
- Postmodernism: the historical background
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/postmodernism/ - The core ideas of postmodernism
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/the-core-ideas-of-postmodernism/ - Nietzsche’s philosophy
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/nietzsches-philosophy/ - Nietzsche’s politics
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/nietzsche-part-1-politics/ - Structuralism
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/structuralism/ - Michel Foucault
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/michel-i-am-simply-a-nietzschean-foucault/ - Another socialist challenging gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/09/23/another-socialist-challenging-gender-ideology/
Gender identity, biology, defining women, women’s spaces
- All leftists should support JK Rowling on women’s rights
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/support-jk-rowling/ - Gender identity and the material world
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/gender-identity-and-the-material-world/
How gender identity is most commonly understood; how the British Socialist Workers Party tries to explain it in real-world materialist terms. Can “gender” be progressive? - Women, biology, and women’s spaces
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/04/26/women-biology-and-womens-spaces/
Definitions of woman, the role of biology, and entry to women’s spaces are intensely contested by the Left, Right, and gender-critical feminists. The capitalist class shapes these issues far more than is generally realised. - The Trades Union Congress endorses gender self-ID
- https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/britains-trades-union-congress-endorses-gender-self-id/
- The BBC controversy, clinicians and the politics of gender identity
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/01/19/the-bbc-controversy-clinicians-and-the-politics-of-gender-identity/ - LBC and access to female changing rooms
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/lbc-and-access-to-female-changing-rooms/ - Socialist Review on transgender and access to women’s spaces https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/socialist-review-on-transgender-and-access-to-womens-spaces/
- Bosses go on strike to support trans demands https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2016/12/24/bosses-go-on-strike-to-support-trans-demands/
The gender critical left and the new women’s movement
- All leftists should support JK Rowling on women’s rights
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/06/15/support-jk-rowling/ - Support Georgia’s Greens
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/support-georgias-greens/ - The SWP and Women’s Place UK
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2020/01/21/the-swp-and-the-wpuk/ - Transgender and oppression (part 1) A gender critical Marxist debates with the Irish Marxist Review
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/transgender-and-oppression/ - Redline: another socialist blog challenging gender ideology
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/redline-another-socialist-blog-challenging-gender-ideology/ - Left resistance to trans politics: developments in Britain 2017
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/left-resistance-to-trans-politics-developments-in-britain-2017/
2017 saw growing unease in parts of the Left in Britain at the efforts of some trans activists to “no-platform” critics, to suppress debate on issues raised by women’s liberationists and other feminists. Left wing critics of gender ideology have pushed back, and are finally making headway
No-platforming and harassment of feminist critics
- Left resistance to trans politics: developments in Britain 2017
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/left-resistance-to-trans-politics-developments-in-britain-2017/ - The Trades Union Congress endorses gender self-ID
https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/britains-trades-union-congress-endorses-gender-self-id/
See also
- https://genderidentitywatch.com/2017/11/28/london-anarchist-bookfair-uk/
https://helensteelbookfairstatement.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/statement-on-events-at-anarchist-bookfair-2017-by-helen-steel/ - https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/womens-concerns-should-not-be-minimised-harassment-of-trans-critical-feminists-in-the-labour-party-wep/
- https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/02/24/women-are-a-vital-part-of-the-socialist-movement-they-must-be-consulted-over-changes-to-the-gender-recognition-act/
- https://freerlives.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/female-trade-union-official-bullied-off-own-unions-picket-line-on-international-womens-day/
