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Gender critical beliefs propagate terrorism
Terrorism evokes a sense of fear every time it is used, ranging from the attacks on the Twin Towers to road vehicles driving through crowds of innocent people. In the UK terrorism is defined under the Terrorism Act 2000 Section 1 as the use or threat of violence to influence the government or to intimidate the public or section of the public. This use or threat of violence is made to advance a political, religious, racial, or ideological cause. With gender critical beliefs I would suggest we have stepped beyond stochastic terror into the realm of promoting threads against trans people to the point it could be considered actual terrorism.
There are plenty of people who would accuse me of hyperbole, stating that I am rehashing trans genocide rhetoric to accuse innocent women who are simply fighting for their rights. Let me introduce you to the Terrorism Act 2006 Part 1 (2): the encouragement of terrorism. Gender critics would commit an offence of encouraging terrorism if anything they publish intends for members of the public to prepare, commit, or instigate a terrorist act or is reckless as to whether people will be directly or indirectly encouraged or otherwise induced by the statement to commit, prepare or instigate such acts or offences.
Helen Joyce’s 2022 comment about reducing the number of trans people in society bordered on genocidal. J K Rowling’s decent into the alt right promoting vicious trans mockery and dehumanising. Michael Knowles stated: “for the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely”. When you have trans teenagers being stabbed in West London carparks in 2024, then victim blamed for this crime; when you have Brianna Ghey’s murderers clearing planning and committing an act of terror designed to scare as much as brutalise their victim. When does it stop being treated as random acts of violence and start being treated as acts of terror and gender critics start being called out for encouraging terrorist acts?
Far right militias, Islamic terrorists, and disillusioned lefties rarely have anything in common, yet gender critical beliefs have bridged the toxic divide. Maya Forstater’s 2021 appeal tribunal decision accepting that gender critical beliefs should be upheld as protected under UK law does not stop them from being used and weaponised against…
