The Weekly Peak #10
More EU cash splashed on gender crap, Europe's tenth ban for trans non-belief, and a neo-Nazi *fake* fake woman
Contents:
€2.4 million in EU money to “end the categorisation of humans into men and women and the gendered social order”
Netherlands becomes the 10th EU country to adopt a conversion therapy ban
It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the identity of gaybashers
German neo-Nazi is not really a fake woman, insist trans activists. He’s a fake fake woman
Vienna: protestors shout at British diplomats over their government’s defense of women-only spaces
Child Focus is warning sex buyers not to pay for sex with children
Latest podcast: A project proposal failed the experts’ evaluation. The EU funded it anyway.
Who can we thank? Lina Gálvez Muñoz
In other news
€2.4 million in EU money to “end the categorisation of humans into men and women and the gendered social order”
The European taxpayer is funding a research project that will help create a world in which sex is considered irrelevant outside narrow applications relating to reproduction, and where we no longer give credence to the words and concepts “man” and “woman”, “boy” and “girl”. The ultimate objective of the project, for which we’ve forked out 2.4 eye-watering millions, is to banish gender — the sometimes oppressive and often inaccurate traits we associate with the two sexes. And then we can all live happily ever after.
Unlike trans activists, the brains behind the project, Daphna Joel, doesn’t make the batshit claim that sex doesn’t matter ever. She’s TERFy in the sense that she acknowledges that biological sex is real, does matter sometimes, and is relevant in reproductive medicine (the bar is so low.)
But she thinks that our practice of separating men and women conceptually, outside of this narrow field of medicine, is not just pointless, but that it is causing harm. She asks: if men and women (specifically, men and women’s brains) are so similar in so many ways, and so many individuals don’t match the stereotypes projected upon them by the labels “man” and “woman”, then what’s the point of giving these labels any weight in our culture? There is, she says, nothing that can be accurately called a “male brain” or a “female brain”, because the brains of the two sexes overlap so much as to make the distinction useless.
As if humans — a species that reproduces by seeking out the opposite sex and fucking it — could possibly wean itself off noticing who is male and who is female just by stopping using certain words. Beyond vocabulary, how would we phase out our conception of male and female? Even if it is laudable to train ourselves to be critical of broad and not-very-useful associations (like: all men are brutes who want sports cars, and all women are small-brained yoghurt obsessives), average traits and behaviours do exist, in our current human configuration, and they would take millions of years to change.
It’s an interesting idea to think about, however, and Joel’s research presents some fun thought exercises. The over-emphasis of sex leads to an over-emphasis of stereotypes, which are often not accurate, and they can be very limiting on individuals (think of the fate of the poor wimpy lads in macho cultures. Leave the gay spergs alone!)
But then the theory goes off the rails. First of all, to take a random example, male violence is not simply the result of social conditioning. The uneven statistics on sexual offences are not caused by observing this violence as having been committed by males, which is the gist of her argument. Of course, a cultural expectation to be violent will result in more violence. But the statistics are universal: from Norway to Chad, meaning from the most “gender equal” utopias to the most patriarchal shitholes, it’s men doing the violence and the rapes; only the volume differs. Men are great but they are also the ones who have bizarre violent sex fetishes. Sorry, and thank you, lads, for all the bridges, the internet etc. But it’s true. Women don’t rape babies and pretending we sometimes do in your quest to even out some score in your theory-melted head is unlikely to entice us into doing so.
Secondly, and this really gets on my tits, I suspect that Joel, like many people — both on the political left and right — associate being physically smaller with being inferior, being more physically vulnerable with being inferior, being more people-oriented with being inferior, and even being less rape-y with being inferior. This is real lizard-brain stuff. They make a value judgement on innate characteristics like having the physical girth to wrestle someone to death. Yes, that can be very useful. We can all agree. Why have you decided that it is better than not being able — or inclined— to do so? That’s all on you.
Lots of women who want to deny the differences between men and women do so because underneath it all they think women ain’t shit, and the things that we are on average innately prone to do, or to like, ain’t shit, either. I reject this.
To want to rid oneself of any indication that one is a woman is actually a desire to stop being considered less-than. This may be the Freudism lurking underneath the trans masc social contagion. I, for one, think women’s innate, on-average traits are actually good-to-neutral. You can thank your on-average personable, nesty, catty, gossipy, caring, but also — and this is important — largely non-violent — female ancestors for doing such a good job at staying alive. I’m shit at parallel parking, and what’s worse, I have no interest in getting better at it, and even less interest in one day becoming the best parallel parker in the world. I will not lean in.
This is a weird, twistedly anti-woman non-science larping as liberatory. If you watch this conference video, you may notice how Joel, a smart person, exhibits what looks like a nervous twitch when her theory hits a bump in the road. That flick of the hair may be a tell. I think she knows she’s trying to spoof her way out of a hard reality.
Anyway, the EU has dedicated €2.4 fucking million in public money so that this zany scheme can be spread to the masses. The project BeyondGenderBinary has been going since 2022 and still has two years left. The money might ironically be worth it in the sense that it helps us get inside the brains of those bewildering souls who make it their life’s work to promote sex denialism to the detriment of everyone around them. Joel articulates well what many people think: that when a midwife announces to the room “It’s a boy!” what she is really saying is “This baby will play Xbox, have no interest in clothes, and fail to enjoy long phone conversations with his best friend!” thus imposing limitations on the poor baby just as he takes his first breath.
This is how these people think. It’s good to be aware of it.
So we should be thankful to the European Research Council for beclowning its own illustrious name by backing this project. We just have to hope that dimwits don’t get hoodwinked into thinking it’s the emancipatory solution to gender angst that Joel wants them to think it is.
Netherlands becomes the 10th EU country to adopt a conversion therapy ban
Yesterday the Dutch senate adopted a “conversion therapy” ban which will make it a criminal offence to attempt to talk a child — even your own child — out of their mental distress related to disassociation from their sex.
The bill punishes any “systematic and intrusive attempt to change or suppress sexual orientation or gender identity to conform to the prevailing norm”.
This will put parents as well as therapists at risk of prison if they try to deal with the socially-mediated wrong-sex psychological delusions of kids in any way that is not “affirming”. This is an absolute horrorshow. Imagine your anxious teenager “discovers” on an endometriosis subreddit that she’s “actually a boy” inside. You can’t tell her she’s not.
Advertising a service that claims to help sufferers down from this dangerously delusional ledge is also going to be being criminalised. It’s all wrapped up in the language of anti-gay torture tropes, so nobody really gets that it’s criminalising non-belief in transgender ideology.
57 members of the Dutch senate voted in favor of the bill, while 15 members voted against. A motion from the conservatives to request more information and advice from the Council of State (some kind of high-level advisory institution) was rejected. The people who supported the bill believe that it was necessary even though the individual actions like coercion and abuse are already illegal, and even though it denies fundamental right to freedom of religious belief and most importantly, parents’ right to deal with their children’s depersonalisation crises in a way they think is best, even if the enbies on Reddit don’t agree.
Finland is likely to be next on the list, then Ireland, as their governments have promised to go ahead with bans. I can’t see Irish TERFs taking this lying down, and I’m almost looking forward to the scrap.
Here the senators are, having a bit of craic after the vote:
It’s increasingly difficult to ignore the identity of gaybashers
There are more and more reports in European countries of violent homophobic attacks against gay men, but LGBTIQ+ NGOs, politicians and the media have been reluctant to draw attention to a defining feature of the phenomenon: the attacks are very often (though not always) committed by men of Muslim/North African background.
Rather, the far-right is much more likely to be blamed for “rising homophobia”, despite the overwhelming evidence that violence from this group is a less common occurrence. Islamist ideology explicitly condemns homosexuality, often with extreme penalties. Meanwhile, a lot of people who would be called fash in the current political climate (basically, 2008 liberals) are gay af.
This reluctance to stigmatise Muslims has led to some extremely wishy-washy and practically unactionable reporting of a type that echoes the UK authorities’ shyness about mentioning the demographics of the people carrying out the mass rape of young girls in the “grooming gangs” scandal.
It’s not a new story, but the anecdotes are piling up and it’s beginning to look a lot like data. Whether they’re getting lured by fake Grindr profiles and then being attacked (or even killed), or just getting assaulted (and even killed) while walking down the street, not making a point of the pattern may well be getting in the way of doing something about it.
“Homophobic attacks on the rise”, you’ll read in the news and annual reports, with little or no qualifying information. Who is doing the attacking, where, and why? You’re much more likely to hear about violent misgenderings than stories of gangs of Maghrebians hunting down gay guys. But just because it’s not getting reported in the media or via the publicly-funded NGOs who purport to protect the rights of the “LGBTIQ+ community’“, doesn’t mean gay men are not well aware of it. Homonationalism, of the kind typified by my fave Gaystapo operative, Sean Atkinson, is on the rise.
To stray from the mainstream narrative would be to betray woke orthodoxy. Some violent attackers are eternally-blameless victims of colonialism or something, and so they have little or no personal agency to not gaybash (sounds pretty racist!).
Woke ideology is predicated on accumulating fake spiritual purity points by finding ever-more deplorable categories of people you can pretend are hapless victims of The System. Then you lift these gross scumbags up like Simba, and someone gives you a colourful lanyard so everyone knows you’re a faithful adherent. It’s very churchy, and this may just be what happens when you take organised religion away from gormless retards.
Here’s the problem in all its glory, laid out by Green party gay, Bruno De Lille, after a spate of such attacks back in 2020: “I see no reason why I should mind a slap from a Moroccan citizen of Brussels any less than a slap from a citizen of Brussels with Flemish or Walloon roots.”
Sure. A slap is a slap. A stab is a stab. But perhaps the slaps and stabs could be prevented by naming the people who are administering them? On French Twitter there’s a meme, accompanied by the cartoon character Bouli. “Tout le monde sait” or just “TLMS” and all its memefied variations.
“Everybody knows”.
German neo-Nazi is not really a fake woman, insist trans activists. He’s a fake fake woman
Sven Liebich is a German neo-Nazi who has been having some fun with gender. In 2023, after being convicted of incitement to racial hatred and defamation, he changed his legal sex to female (and his name to Marla). Then he failed to show up to a women’s prison where he was to be placed, and instead went on the run in the Czech Republic. He got caught and was extradited back to Germany a couple of weeks ago. And now everyone is waiting to see if he will be granted his wish to be placed in the female estate.
He’s obviously not a woman, but neither are any of the other transvestites. Yes, even the ones who claim to be very very sad.
His trollish shenanigans have highlighted the silliness of Germany’s sex self-ID law which was introduced in 2024. Trans activists have accused him of deliberately abusing the process to mock the law and/or to avoid male prison. At the same time, they use his new name, Marla-Svenja Liebich, and female pronouns while referring to him, which is very odd.
But how do they know he doesn’t think he is a woman? Going through his social media accounts, I couldn’t find any outward indication that he is any different from the hundreds of thousands of other German males who now claim to be women, whether they proclaim it at the town hall or keep it on fetish sites.
How can anyone tell that he doesn’t have this deep conviction?
The incident has prompted justice ministers to entertain the idea of weakening the self-ID law to address “obvious cases of abuse” and some authorities are trying to reverse Liebich’s sex change entry through the courts. They say it is fraudulent. (How do they knowwwww????) Queer groups, meanwhile, have warned that this would place transgender people under suspicion and undermine the law’s purpose. My heart bleeds.
I personally have always been “convinced that the sex mentioned on my birth certificate does not correspond to my intimately experienced gender identity”, as the Belgian declaration to change your legal sex puts it. I have never felt very girly. In that way, my sex and my “gender identity” do not match. So like Sven, I have started the process to correct this error, filling in the declaration and sending it off to my local council so that I can turn into a man. I will keep you posted.
Liebich is apparently still posting on his Twitter account (@MarlaSvenjaL), and I noticed he was following me, so I followed him back and DM’d him asking for an interview. To be continued.
Vienna: protestors shout at British diplomats over their government’s defense of women-only spaces
A group of activists in Austria made a big banner expressing their displeasure that the UK Supreme Court, and the UK government, because they made the bigotted clarification that when you come across the word “sex” in UK law, you have to interpret it in the biological sense. This infuriated Austrian activists (and activists all around the world, d’ailleurs) who see it as an affront to people who are sad they are the sex that they are and not the sex that they are not.
This was posted on Reddit. Apparently, they tried the same stunt last year but got manhandled out of the parade by bouncers. This year, they managed to walk near a “rainbow-coloured Union Jack” that was part of the “Diplomats for Equality marchers. I’ve written about this group before. They are a vital cog in the global LGBTIQ+ machine and the pressure to put on a good show was on this year after the devastating effects of the Trump de-gayifying of American foreign policy became clear.
In fact, a woman from the Dutch wealth fund, DreiLinden, revealed on a podcast last week that the US State Department was paying for 70% of global LGBTIQ+ advocacy and campaigning, which is just incredible. She also said the region most affected by this is Central Asia, and the identity group most harmed is — surprise! — trans and intersex people. Now that the Americans have abandoned the globohomo project, it’s European taxpayers who have to step up and pay the PrEP bill for all those Uzbeki femboys.
Child Focus is using pimping sites to warn sex buyers not to pay for sex with children
I was checking out the huge, bulging, ever-growing number of Latin American transsexual prostitutes being pimped in Belgium on the website RedLights.be when a popup from Child Focus came up that tested me, a punter, on my ability to identify a child when I see one (as if the problem of child sex trafficking is caused by men who don’t know what a child is).
The phenomenon known as loverboy pimping (Romeo-pimping) is the term used in Belgium and the Netherlands to refer to the phenomenon more commonly known in the UK as grooming à la grooming gangs, though the scale of the networks is much smaller. The core tactic is the same: boy meets girl, girl thinks she’s in a romantic relationship, boy pimps out girl, at first in a close circle and eventually to a wider network. Sometimes, they end up on site like RedLights.
In Belgium, the entire industry operates openly and legally because the government went along with the campaigners’ (including Amnesty) argument that criminalising prostitution drives it underground, making it harder for women and girls to report that they are being exploited (for fear of being prosecuted themselves). So instead, Belgium has driven the whole thing overground, and there’s nothing to hide, nothing to monitor, and nothing to investigate. You can’t tell what’s consensual and what’s coerced because it’s all supposed to operate as an industry like any other. Women are not applying for employment contracts, and pimps are not registering their brothels, as the utopians pretended to believe would happen. Read Julie Bindel’s investigation about it here.
You could argue — and I do! — that this has made it easier to hide the exploitation of women and children.
In case you’re wondering: I check these websites on a regular basis because I suspect that the demand for shemales is driving the supply of shemales. Muh economics.
Why I care enough about this to spend my time cruising for big-boobied Brazilian boys with boners: one of the drivers of transgender mania is the apparent very popular preference for gynandromorphs — essentially, pornified men with breasts. And you can’t ever get a man to admit that he’s into this, so you have to glean whatever information you can from the supply side. You can also tell a lot from what these men advertise in their service menus.
Anyway, it’s all so incredibly wholesome.
Latest podcast: A project proposal failed the experts’ evaluation. The EU funded it anyway.
Who can we thank?
Lina Gálvez Muñoz really doesn’t get enough credit. She’s a Spanish socialist who has been the chair (and rapporteur) of the committee on women’s rights and gender equality in the European Parliament since 2024. These are very influential positions.
When she got the job, TERFs were excited because her party had just announced at a congress that they would return their focus to the material realities of women and girls and stop huffing the gender nitrate. Specifically, her party said they would ditch the Q in LGBTIQ, and they would reserve women’s sport for women. However, the backlash must have been severe, because we never heard much about it after that and Gálvez, a big fan of “the gender lens” as they call it in academia, has never publicly defended women as a real material thing that exists, as opposed to some wankfest in a transvestite’s head.
Au contraire. Gálvez, a self-styled champion for feminist policies, has supported resolutions and reports that prioritise gender identity alongside/over biological sex in access to single-sex spaces, shelters, sports, and services. Under her watch, biological males have been included in women’s protections and equality measures, essentially helping to erode female-only provisions. She frames any opposition to these changes as a right-wing backlash, rather than legitimate concern linked to material reality.
She knows what’s going on. TERFs have told her. And yet the day the European Parliament passed a resolution that asserted that “trans women are women”, she could be seen squirming in her seat with utter glee. She reportedly recently said that left can’t be seen to be infighting (over trans nonsense) or the right-wing will use it to their advantage. She might lose her very important job. The thought!
Here she is. Say thanks to Lina.
In other news…
Czech Republic is planning a strict trans bill but activists claim it’s largely for show
FLINTA is getting cancelled! This weird Germanophone acronym (Frauen, Lesben, Intergeschlechtliche, Nicht-binäre, Trans, Agender) was supposed to include everyone except “cis men” but it’s not pure enough. Nothing is ever pure enough
Berlin Pride lost two-thirds of its funding (€200k) when sponsors pulled out after Trump spooked them over DEI. I once went to Berlin Pride and there was a big group of adult men in nappies and they had an adult-sized nappy changing table
Right-wing protests at Pride parades in both Romania and Bulgaria Pride marches. In Bucharest they called it the “March for Normality” lol.
Finland’s big LGBTIQ lobby organisation, SETA, is at risk of losing its funding. The minister for social affairs and health is targetting organisations whose activities are focused on a single identity group
LGB International are doing an Explain the Plus campaign. I like this.
I interviewed Paddy O’Gorman about AIDS statistics and all kinds of other stuff
Ireland: transvestite loses discrimination case against creche
IGLYO breaks Belgian employment law by advertising for LGBTIQ people for board chair job
Musk takes legal action against German paper over Belfast riot comments
EU “Women on boards” law: 30 June is the deadline for transposing into national law. This is what feminists championed while handing our single-sex spaces to crossdressers
EU “equality bodies” transposition deadline this Friday — another potential nightmare for the rights of women/reality that nobody saw coming until it was too late
Trusted flaggers public consultation (part of DSA) open until 10 July
Fetish Pride Amsterdam: under 16s are allowed in with an adult. The Netherlands is so fucking weird man.
Brussels: homophobic hooligans tear down 15 big posters for LGBTIQ choir
Film in Madrid this Saturday: being a woman is not a feeling
Son of Norway’s crown princess convicted of rape and sentenced to four years in prison
Police Pride 2026 Amsterdam: two full days on LGBT+ issues in police work. “This is an important event for those working within law enforcement who are committed to advancing equality, inclusion”. The agenda is not available online.
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