The Silencing Of The Gender Lambs

A review of 'Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology' by Anita Bartholomew

A theme is emerging. As the decade of ideological transgenderism dissolves, books on the topic now consistently resemble horror fiction on the subject of ‘trans kids’. Parent stories about clinics, schools, and whole communities ‘affirming’ their children on the flimsiest of ‘identity’ pronouncements have too much in common with films like Wicker Man, or Rosemary’s Baby, or Village of the Damned to ignore the commonalities.

When I started writing about these topics after 2017, I put a framed 8x10” publicity still image from the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, autographed by Dana Wynter and Kevin McCarthy, next to my my screen. I kept it within eyesight until moving to California this year, glancing at it a few times every day whenever I was reminded that we all currently live in an upside-down world of genderwoo. I cannot speak to Anita Bartholomew’s writing method, but she clearly understood the assignment. Available for pre-order.

A journalist, Bartholomew wrote this book because she got curious about what was happening to the children of her peer group. Upon investigation, she was alarmed to discover a pervasive, unscientific ideology harming children. “This is authoritarian. It’s tyrannical. It’s cult-like”, she writes. “Public fetishism, under a pastel rainbow banner, is re-making our society.” The children are the sacrificial lambs of her title. In that sense it is closer to a true crime book than a horror novel, since its topic is horrifyingly real.

Curiosity led to shocking discoveries. By her own account, Ms. Bartholomew’s politics began to the left of Bernie Sanders, yet in her subtitle she indicts “the Progressive Left” for harming children with genderwoo. “Racial and gender identity were being treated as intertwined social justice issues. This wasn’t the social justice movement of my youth, of crusading for peace and for the rights of the downtrodden.” It is instead a sinister cult belief, propagated by disturbing people, that inscribes adult desires on the bodies of children.