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That was bracing, and I really needed to hear it! Thank you so much for summing up what so many of us have felt over the last several years. I, too, grew up with a mentally ill relative, and gender ideology set my alarm bells ringing non-stop as a result. Those of us who have been through that experience know first-hand that indulging delusion is to feed it and allow it to become truly monstrous.

I also found very insightful your commentary on left-wing men: "Left-wing men adore it because, after years of frustration at not being able to publicly hate women in the way their porn tells them to, they can scream in women’s faces, protest their gatherings, even assault them (after all, none of that is as bad as denying someone’s right to exist – these men are punching up!)." That is so, so incisive. You can really feel that hatred oozing out after years of being pent up . . .

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Kate Bromwich Alexandra's avatar

"Light, to trans activism, is an existential threat." I want to have this tattooed somewhere. It's brilliantly succinct. This has been such an awful decade, watching the creeping and malign influence of Queer Ideology morphing into Gender ideology. The Cass Review has done something I barely believed could happen. Watching the reverse ferreting of individuals who have previously made some of the most spectacularly ludicrous comments about what it is to be a woman, that mostly illuminated their own staggering ignorance of human biology, has been both infuriating and hilarious. However, nobody is apologising.

What has followed Cass, however, is some of the most wonderful, eloquent, articulate, passionate writing it has been my absolute pleasure to read. I can feel, and share the deep rooted anger lying just beneath the surface of these sentences, many of which I've gone back and read over several times, just for the sheer joy of reading them.

I thought Suzanne Moore's magnum opus, "What do we want? Medical Malpractice " had reached the pinnacle of polemic, with its quiet, seething elegance, giving vent to the rage we've all been suppressing in order to produce thoughtful responses to ludicrous accusations. Then Victoria produces this. My favourite fiction writer, Kate Atkinson produces sentences, paragraphs, which send my eyes back to the beginning where I can enjoy their deliciousness over and over.

This very classy piece of writing does exactly that, whilst also exposing the myths that have so effectively silenced the most unexpected people, whilst giving voice to some of the worst informed.

Glory be to you both. I wish we hadn't had to live through the awfulness of the last few years, but gracious me, the writing is something else. Thank you ❤️

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