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Eva Kurilova #transphobia evakurilova.com

The Bad Theology of Gender Ideology

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In relation to gender ideology itself, the ideologues champion exactly this kind of reversal—that the interior is real and the exterior is unreal. “Gender identity,” when its proponents deign to try to define it, is described as an inner knowing or a strongly held belief or feeling. This turns into not only a decreased focus on the physical (and hence absurdities like men on women’s sports teams) but often a downright hatred of it (via barbaric surgical procedures).

The “perfect realm of abstract ideals” in gender ideology is the realm of soul-like “gender identities” that supersede the sensual and the material. These gender identities are supposed to override people’s sexual orientations, our sense of fairness and safety, and even our very eyes. The actual physical bodies of others are not supposed to matter in any way whatsoever.

If you think that physical bodies do matter, then you are accused of hatred. It can be shocking the first time one encounters this histrionic accusation, but it makes perfect sense when you see it as projection. The people who ascribe reality only to their subjective internal reality have contempt, as Merton says, for the external world. Because you acknowledge and live in the external world, they hate you too.

Gender ideologues and the woke have no right to force this religious stance on us and act like we are bad people if we don’t accept it. No, I don’t accept it. The external, physical world matters, whether you want to look at it from a spiritual, realistic, or purely practical lens.

At its core, this elevation of the internal over the external is Gnosticism, whether the attitude is displayed by monks or trans activists. It is a rejection of reality and life in favor of an idealized world that isn’t actually real. It is a rejection of reality that has the potential to leave devastation in its wake.

At least with the wayward monk, this error stops on a personal level. The postmodern Gnostics, however, want to hasten the destruction of this world to make way for the new, perfect world created in their highly disordered internal image.

Eva Kurilova #transphobia evakurilova.com

The Far Left Only Tolerates Trans Because It is a Force for Destabilization

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The same is true for opening up women’s private spaces, like washrooms and changing rooms, to these fetishistic men. It isn’t about securing a safe place to pee and change for a vulnerable population (or else radical leftists would actually care about keeping these spaces exclusively for women), it’s about toppling boundaries, breaking conventions, and tearing the social contract.

Trans-identified men are agents of subversion and chaos. Their presence in women’s spaces and, increasingly, in everyday public spaces, causes tension and often demands special accommodation. They are forcing society to rewrite rules that, prior to now, didn’t even need to be written down. As they like to point out, society did not generally have laws in place that actually prohibited men from entering women’s private spaces. Because we didn’t have to. In general, trust was high enough and we valued safety, privacy, decency, and common sense enough not to spell it out in law. It is a bad sign that we now have to.

I often get accused by queer and trans activists of aligning myself with the right and cryptically told that they will come for me next, but I am not the one they need to be worried about.

Dear trans and queer activists: the radical leftists are using you because your derangement is exactly what they need to undermine Western society. If they manage to achieve this goal, then you’ll be the first of the revolution’s children to be devoured.

Radicals of all stripes are not your friends, nor mine. A moderate society of small L liberals and small C conservatives who aren’t looking for revolution and who take a “live and let live attitude” is your best bet for actually being able to live your life in peace. But you fight these people. You accuse everyone who doesn’t take the most radically leftist position of being a far-right literal Nazi. You call free speech, open debate, and tolerance of different viewpoints bigotry. But societies that champion these values are the only ones that actually allow you to exist as you do.

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Eva Kurilova #wingnut #transphobia evakurilova.com

The Far Left Only Tolerates Trans Because It is a Force for Destabilization

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How is it possible that the extreme left has come to support both fetishistic men in dresses who talk about their ladydicks and militant Islamists at the same time?

It might seem confusing at first, but only until you realize that the goal of these radicals is the destruction of Western society. Everything that they champion, including gender ideology, critical race theory, and decolonization, seeks to destabilize and deconstruct Western values. This is the main project of the radical left, and it will embrace anything that helps further its aims.

This explains why the radical left, despite claiming to be feminist, has absolutely zero problem with tossing women to the wolves—the wolves being fetishistic men who demand access to women’s spaces. It’s not because they believe these deranged and failed men are really women, it’s because these men are a highly effective force for disruption.

Consider the havoc caused by men in women’s sports. Not only are they destroying opportunities and the experience for the women involved, but they are also hurting public trust in sports governing bodies and the fairness of the game. “It’s just sports,” doesn’t cut it as an excuse, and accepting it harms society at all levels. It harms the importance of trust and fairness in society as a whole, which is exactly what radical leftists want. They may talk a lot about “equity,” but equity is not fairness, it is about the politics of power and the hierarchy of oppression. They were able to get away with it in sports by insisting that privileged “cis” female athletes had to shut up and make room for poor oppressed trans women, and this is reflective of the way these radicals operate throughout society.

Men in women’s prisons is another good example. Not only is it inhumane to house male prisoners with female ones, but trans-identified male prisoners are actually even more dangerous than other male inmates, with roughly half incarcerated for sex crimes. If you can get a radical leftist to admit that these men are indeed dangerous and aren’t just poor, misunderstood, vulnerable trans women who wouldn’t hurt a fly, they usually pivot to arguing that none of it matters because prisons should be abolished anyway. [...]