Trans Ideology’s Denialism of Violence
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Trans Ideology’s Denialism of Violence
On lies compared with reality
The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.
- Donald J. Trump, in Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson, “Confident Trump Says Could ‘Shoot Somebody’ and Not Lose Voters,” Reuters, January 23, 2016
I can honestly say that my sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was [sic] a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of [sic] loathed the Zodiac Children.
- Synthia China Blast, in John Marzulli, “Zodiac ‘Wife’ Curses Fate: Weird Killer Couple Separated in Prison,” Daily News, May 31, 2004
Why should I get involved when it’s quite likely you could’ve just made the whole thing up?
- a teenage boy, in Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: The Extremism Nobody Is Talking About, 2020
The many faces of a killer. Don’t think for a second I won’t again.
- Synthia China Blast, Twitter, December 9, 2022
Is this as obviously fake to everyone else? They’re claiming an alleged trans person who went to prison in 1999 [sic] got out of prison and instantly made a social media account and started saying things only GCs would say? That last screenshot, come on.
- Katy Montgomerie, Twitter, November 30, 2022
We are a culture that has been denied, or has passively given up, the linguistic and intellectual tools to cope with complexity, to separate illusion from reality.
- Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, 2009
When criticizing the doublethink of transgenderism, we may neglect the pervasiveness of eerily similar traits elsewhere in politics. I remember when, in January 2016, then-Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump said, quite confidently, that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and he “wouldn’t lose any voters.” These words seemed more like something Mussolini would have said of his own remarkably loyal supporters. And Trump was, very likely, right in his belief, not stating anything unimaginable. Typically, liberals believe, or lead themselves to believe, that only conservatives make statements like Trump made, ones that betray democratic values. But this is not so.
During an infamous 1996 appearance on 60 Minutes, correspondent Lesley Stahl asked then-U.N. ambassador Madeleine Albright about the impact of the U.N. sanctions on Iraq. “We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima,” Stahl said, adding, “And, you know, is the price worth it?” And how did Albright, a so-called champion of democracy, respond? “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think—the price is worth it,” she replied to Stahl. A member of the Democratic Party, Albright served under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997 as U.N. ambassador and, then, from 1997 to 2001 as U.S. Secretary of State. Later, in Madam Secretary, Albright’s 2003 memoir, she wrote, “I had fallen into the trap and said something I simply did not mean.”
The passage in which she discusses her remarks makes it seem like a little “oopsie” in terms of basic foreign policy commentary. But responding to the otherwise unnecessary deaths of children with “the price is worth it” does not seem like something one simply would say and not also mean. Unlike Albright, Trump never tried to say he felt otherwise about his remarks. Like Republicans, maybe even more so, Democrats have seemed more than willing to downplay the violence sanctioned by their representatives. Together, Trump and Albright represent the spectacle of modern politics and the hypocrisy of leaders behaving like totalitarians while representing the “free world.”
As we engage critically with the politics of transgenderism, we may find Trump’s and Albright’s most negative qualities in the purveyors of modern trans ideology. Trans ideology has all of the comforts of an Orwellian dystopia, some combination of Animal Farm and 1984—more the latter than the former. In particular, Orwell’s 1984 features the use of “doublethink”—reality control. What Orwell calls doublethink can be as complex as entirely rewriting historical events or as simple as persistently denying reality as it happens in real time. Many such examples may be produced among trans ideologues, but I want to use trans activist Katy Montgomerie as one example. On November 30, 2022, Montgomerie quote-tweeted a tweet of mine discussing Synthia China Blast:
Is this as obviously fake to everyone else? They’re claiming an alleged trans person who went to prison in 1999 [sic] got out of prison and instantly made a social media account and started saying things only GCs would say? That last screenshot, come on.
Montgomerie has 80.3k followers on Twitter, so his denialism has a relatively large reach.
My original tweet, dated November 27, 2022, reads:
I suggest blocking this new account. It is run by Synthia China Blast, a trans activist who murdered a 13-year-old Black girl. He is ‘post-operative’ and, still, a dangerous predator. His posts are incel-like. He uses ‘radical feminist’ and ‘TERF’ to mark women whom he hates.
I USE WOMEN ONLY SPACES BECAUSE I WANT TO NOT BECAUSE I NEED TO. I USE THESE SPACES TO HERE [sic] THE LITTLE FARTS AND THE OCCASIONAL WHISPER OF HOLY CRAP MY PERIOD DROPPED. SO I POLITELY PASS THE TERF ONE OF MINES [sic] THAT I CARRY IN MY JOCK STRAP.
Comments on Montgomerie’s tweet include fellow transgender ideologues pointing out that only a “GC” or a “TERF” would speak the way Blast does about women. No “alleged trans person” could possibly speak this way toward women. No person could be not only “trans,” whatever it means from person to person, but also misogynistic and homophobic.
One commenter pointed out that a picture Blast shared, from my screenshots, is not him. This use of another person’s image, commenters agreed, indicates the person running the Twitter account is not Blast. They neglected that Blast could simply share somebody else’s picture of a presumably trans-identified male holding a chain around a woman’s neck. The caption reads “Me in the bathroom with a TERF.” Notably, he also had been sharing images of female murders, one of which he used for his profile picture. Like men’s rights activists, transgender ideologues use crimes that women commit to argue false equivalence and trivialize male-pattern sexual violence toward women and girls.
Sharing images on social media and using them to represent oneself is commonplace. Similarly, transgender “activists” send women the “Shut the fuck up, TERF” anime girl picture with a gun pointed at the reader. Women know the men sending this image are far likelier to look like cross-dressing incels than anime girls in real life. There are many basic facts of reality being dismissed almost constantly. For example, transgender ideologues do not know (ore pretnd to not know) that puberty cannot just be paused. And they pretend that the gendered and sex-class-specific nature of male violence against women can be identified away.
Apparently, they also do not even know how Twitter works.
Among the comments on Montgomerie’s tweet, there were ones suggesting Blast actually did not exist or was made up by “GCs” and “TERFs.” One commenter expressed trying to research Blast’s case—and only finding “transphobic” sources of information. In 1996, Blast was sentenced in the 1993 murder of a 13-year-old Black girl named Ebony Williams. Women Are Human and Reduxx have both published commentaries on the case. These sources are usually what trans ideologues dismiss as “transphobic,” largely regarded as such because they do not “respect” Blast’s pronouns.
For educational purposes, I am providing newspaper clippings from The New York Times on the case, as published in 1993:
Exhibit A
George James, “Two Held in Death of Girl Found on Fire by Highway: Men Incriminated Themselves, Police Say,” The New York Times, August 30, 1993, p. B3.
Exhibit B
Michael T. Kaufman, “How Can Murdered Girl Be Missed by No One?” The New York Times, September 1, 1993, p. B3.
Exhibit C
Robert D. McFadden, “Slain Girl Is Identified as Runaway from Harlem,” The New York Times, September 3, 1993, p. B4.
Reduxx has published further coverage of Blast’s continued harassment of women as “TERFs” on social media.
On December 16, 2022, Genevieve Gluck posted a thread noting Blast’s even more recent claims:
A transgender convicted child killer [Synthia China Blast] who threatens women associated with @ReduxxMag has created a new account.
A prominent trans activist [Katy Montgomerie] framed this as a conspiracy theory started by women.
Most recently, as noted in Gluck’s thread, Blast has alleged the following in yet another fictional account of “TERFs” attacking him:
Trans Icon and Prison Survivor recently released from hospital after suffering a horrible attack by a gang of radical feminist [sic] who attempted to rape Synthia. Charges were filed againgst [sic] the three women who are obsessed with Synthia and who wanted her [sic] to impregnate all three fems.
In my research on Blast, I found a comment on a blog post from a person under the name “SYNTHIA AND HER FEMINIST BODYGUARDS”:
Innocent. I believe she [sic] was framed. So many Innocent ppl in prison today are proven innocent. Such a sad story no doubt. But the amount of obsession surrounding this poor woman [sic] is obvious by the hatred ppl speak againgst [sic] her. Those same ppl are clearly capable of M U R D E R. They should all squirm in their vile selves for trying to victimize a poor trans gal [sic] in prison. Sending love to her [sic] from the UK.
One notices the language used to describe an otherwise violent, predatory man: “this poor woman” and “a poor trans gal.” I also noticed that the Twitter accounts, whom we can presume Blast has been using, make exactly the same typo as the commenter above: “againgst.” The writing styles are basically the same as well. This man has been online, under differing accounts, claiming he was framed for murder. He says he has had a “sad story.” This same man has been part of advocacy for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) and Transgender Day of Remembrance.
Here is Blast speaking as part of the Prisoner Advisory Committee (PAC) in a video for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), dated December 3, 2019:
I came from, basically, being in a jail cell to learning about SRLP, learning about its mission, learning who Sylvia Rivera, as a person, actually was, knowing the history of Marsha P. Johnson, and I was instantly hooked into this movement. […] We all have a voice, and we live in a time, today, this time, that that voice is finally being heard. We haven’t reached that milestone yet, you know. Like, we’re all screaming together, and now they’re listening. And, whenever I do find a transgender person or TGSI person, and I ask them, “Do you know the Sylvia Rivera Law Project?” and they says [sic], “No, I don’t know what that is,” I say “Here’s the address. This is the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. Have you ever got a name change? Have you ever had any problems with housing, with an attorney, or with anybody? Did they misgender you, anything like that? This is the place where you should knock or ring their doorbell, and they will lift you up, and they will help you.”
According to Reuters, in a piece dated November 20, 2019, Blast participated in a Transgender Day of Remembrance held in New York.
At the event, Blast, named as “Synthia,” misspelled in the photo caption as “Cynthia,” alleged “she [sic] had been the victim of a hateful act of aggression in which a man pulled a gun on her [sic].” In reference to the list of names read at the Transgender Day of Remembrance, Blast said:
I survived that day knowing my name could have been on the list I just read. So for me, Transgender Day Remembrance is about living survivors that walk these streets daily just trying to survive.
Harassing women online is not “just trying to survive.” Blast seems to revel in masochistic fantasies about being mistreated—even as he mistreats women. One may recall the comment, seemingly written by Blast, saying his sentencing and imprisonment was a “sad story.” But you know what is really a sad story? The fact that a violent man named Luis Morales murdered a 13-year-old Black girl named Ebony Nicole Williams. A grown man who killed a little girl, while showing no remorse in court, has still demanded sympathy to the point of it being sickening. His enablers have covered for him, whether they are conscious of doing so or not. There should be no more of that.
Here is a passage from Zagria’s blog A Gender Variance Who’s Who on Blast, dated September 2, 2014:
Gallus Mag, Laverne Cox and Parker Molloy all have such faith in the patriarchal justice system that they do not consider that Synthia China-Blast may be a victim also. Even the SRLP seems to consider her [sic] conviction a safe conviction, and are only concerned about the extra punishment of being 23 hours a day in solitary. If Synthia China-Blast’s guilt is only that of being an accessory, and an accessory under duress at that, then her [sic] sentence is certainly excessive. If Synthia China-Blast were in the UK, she [sic] would be in a women’s prison under the 2011 New Prison Guidelines. If she [sic] is guilty only of being an accessory, then she [sic] is no danger in a women’s prison. Even if she [sic] were guilty of the murder, there are equally violent women in women’s prisons, and the system is able to manage them. Gallus Mag seems to be obsessed that a male-bodied person convicted of rape must not be allowed to have his/her penis and testosterone removed (=genital surgery). See also Sandy-Jo Battista. This is a very strange position.
Regardless of their crimes and their identities, men still pose a risk to women in women’s prisons. The now more common argument that there are “equally violent women in women’s prisons” also does not justify placing violent men into women’s prisons. Rates of violent crime among women and men also differ and occur differently between the sexes, which Zagria also neglects. Trans “activists” frequently wonder why so many feminists actually oppose castrating men—“a very strange position.” Maybe it has something to do with women respecting men’s human rights more than even quite a few men do.
Modern transgender rights activism has only enabled men like Synthia China Blast, not challenging them, enshrining their entitlement, even their violence, as “civil rights.” Abusive men like Blast have been more emboldened than ever before to abuse the gullibility of liberals. What kind of “social justice” movement facilitates male violence against women and girls? Goodbye to all that. Women need to stop believing that entitled men like Blast deserve any kindness, much less unchallenged proprietorship over womanhood. Women need to stop believing that entitled men like either Blast or Montgomerie will ever identify with women. These men have mistaken their proprietorship over women as identification with them. Men who hate women need to learn that their extremism is not tolerable in a civil society. Old woman hating has a new face, even calling itself “womanhood” and “feminism,” but the basic pattern has remained the same.
Trans ideologues have most recently seized on women’s rights activist and comedian Elaine Miller “flashing” the Scottish Parliament. They have been alleging that Miller was certainly “indecent,” conduct unbecoming a woman, and, clearly, she harmed women and children present in an otherwise criminal act of exposure. They have portrayed Miller as an example of a “TERF” or a “GC” engaging in a presumably sexual display—analogous to males “flashing” their penises at women, so they say.
What they have omitted from their story is that Miller was wearing pantyhose and a merkin stuck on the front. Perhaps this detail has simply eluded them in their faux moral outrage. Is wearing pantyhose and a merkin stuck on the front qualitatively the same as exposing a nude body to onlookers? No. Anybody who wears leggings in public, then, could be charged with exposure if we apply this standard equally across cases.
These same trans ideologues had no issue with trans-identified males, like Darren Merager and Jordan Gray, actually exposing themselves to women and girls. The state-sanctioned practice of male prisoners being housed in female prisons, at the expense of vulnerable, abused women, also does not appear to bother them at all. They also believe puberty can be paused, without any lasting consequences on physical and mental health for children and young people’s overall development. No consideration goes into what life will be like with stunted bodies and brains and lifelong medical dependency. These examples are some of the violence being denied.
Transgender ideologues believe men’s bodies can be women’s bodies, and vice versa, by a simple declaration of faith/identity. Sometimes, they claim that medical “transition” does not matter to being “trans,” and requiring any surgery for males to be regarded as “legally female” equals “sterilization.” Other times, they claim that medical “transition” does matter as “life-saving” care that prevents suicide in making the body “match” the mind.
Trans ideology consists of more contradictions than other fundamentalist religions and cult practices in existence today. Certainly, those who believe penises can be female genitalia and vaginas can be male genitalia, depending on how the person identifies at the time, may as well also believe pantyhose and a merkin are actual genitals. The above case involving Miller is not the first time transgender ideologues have deployed false equivalence and brilliantly showcases a common fallacy in their arguments.
Those who have radically disregarded human dignity, engaging in denialism around violence as they do, would be wise to sweep up their long-broken glass houses. It would be an understatement to say that “activists” like Montgomerie engage in bad faith. On the one hand, they believe males who “identify” themselves as “female” are female by the mere act of self-identification. This is to say that a man’s declaration of himself as a “woman” is fact at any time, with or without corresponding documentation. The state creating policies to defend this legal fiction from scrutiny means that the state imposes and enforces a remarkably privileged minority of men’s desires upon women.
Sometimes, transgender ideologues revise this position to a more presentable version by saying the man needs “formal” documentation. They reframe the argument to suppress valid concerns about predatory males, who may or may not “truly” be “trans,” abusing policies around self-identification. Though, the “revision” is basically the same original position. In both cases, men declare themselves “women,” actual women must regard the men as women, and the men’s claim to women’s spaces and services becomes sanctioned by authorities.
Next to women, the ones who become scapegoats for the men’s violence, reality has been most reviled. Trans ideologues refuse to engage with reality, because they have learned to live by/for/in/on/with their illusions. Thus, a trans-identified male like Darren Merager, who is “legally female,” can abuse self-identification—and they deny cases like his even happen. A trans-identified male could stand in the street and shoot a woman dead, and trans ideologues would dismiss reports as “transphobic” if they did not “respect” the murderer’s pronouns. Of course, most publications, even Fox News and Daily Mail, now enforce “respect” for pronouns, even in the most absurd cases. Trans ideologues would still question why they need to get involved in “just one” case of male violence—among others, they forget. Could she be a “feminazi” or a “TERF,” a witch like too many unbelievable women these days accusing innocent men of being criminals and sex offenders? If so, then it would be “quite likely” the murdered woman just “made up” the man who murdered her.