BY GARY McGHEE
– THE RISE OF GENDER IDEOLOGY AND THE NEW HOMOPHOBIA – By Gareth Roberts
Oh, what—another book about the excesses of Gender Ideology and the ridiculousness of the Trans Lobby, I initially thought? Lots of commentators, me included (with an article I wrote for Country Squire magazine called ‘The Queer Is Dead’), have been banging on about this. However, there are several things that are great about Gareth’s contribution that make it really stand out.
He has corralled in one place all the main issues that are of particular significance to gay men in the context of this ideology. He has spelled out clearly and concisely what we are faced with and the ways in which our politics and achievements are being undermined by a powerful top-down agenda that seeks to erase homosexuality and subsume it.
One of the key things that Gareth spells out is that this has not come from grassroots gay activism but rather has been imposed by powerful interest groups like Big Pharma, the Woke Mainstream Media, leading charities, and government departments. What is particularly pernicious are gay MPs in parliament peddling an inherently homophobic and misogynistic agenda whilst thinking that they are the good guys. Gareth’s description of the key culprits is both hilariously accurate and deeply sinister in that they get a free pass and a key platform from which to spout their nonsense.
Gareth very usefully provides us with a concise run-through of the key historical moments leading up to the adoption of Gender ID, which reiterates that, far from being something established way back in the past, it has only been around for five minutes. The way in which gay history is being rewritten to shoehorn in a supposedly significant trans contribution—which was in fact virtually non-existent—is both pernicious (in that it belittles the struggles we went through to achieve our rights) and a downright lie.
He is scathing about Gender Ideology and its adherents’ influence on education and the young, and the attempt to inculcate young minds—especially young gay men—into thinking that they are born in the wrong body. There is a hilarious exposition of this regarding the idea that children and young people can know their own minds and decide their ‘gender’ for themselves. He uses the analogy of children being able to decide what to eat, which of course amounts to them opting for tons of sugar and junk food.
The thing I most like about this book is its levity. There is a laugh-out-loud quip or turn of phrase on just about every page. This is important because although we must take this ghastly agenda very seriously, we must also ridicule it and its proponents at every turn. They are literally a big, fat, stinking joke and should be treated as such.
Gareth ends with some very sound advice about how sex-realists can effectively grapple with and battle genderism. It may just wither on the vine of its own accord, weighed down by its detachment from reality and apparent destructiveness. Or it may cling on via a sort of sexual-political attrition, shored up by vested interests and those who can’t face the awful reality of what they’ve been espousing. One thing is for certain, however: We are right, and they are very wrong.
Gary McGhee is a semi-retired screenwriter, loving the outdoor life with his partner in the Norfolk countryside. Gary was ‘red-pilled’ before it became fashionable, and believes in liberty, freedom, modernism, and defying herd-mentalities.