So, by way of introduction, I’m Paul Chase and my background is in operating clubs and bars and also a large hospitality-based training company that I retired from three years ago. Around 2005 I started writing articles on alcohol policy and public health, wrote two books on the subject of Temperance, and gained wide recognition as the leading industry commentator on alcohol and associated issues. For 10 years I wrote a fortnightly column for the hospitality blog Propel Opinion, and during this time they published 259 of my articles without demur. Then, on January 6th of this year I wrote article number 260 and all hell broke loose.
The article was titled ‘Enough is enough’ (see below) and addressed the issue of transgender ideology. What prompted me to write on this subject was the Scottish Parliament passing a law that enabled anyone to change their legal sex by self-declaration after living for three months in their preferred gender, and without a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. This has obvious relevance for operators of hospitality and leisure venues dealing with trans customers, particularly transwomen, demanding access to women’s spaces such as female toilets, changing rooms, shower facilities, etc.
I’m not qualified to give detailed legal advice on these issues, so my article concentrated on the sexual politics of the transgender issue and iterated 10 trans myths and the antidotes to them. Pointing out that sex is binary, not a spectrum; that human beings cannot change their sex by any combination of chemistry or surgery; that ‘intersex’ is not a third sex; and that a woman is an adult human female – all seemed to me to be simple facts that no one with a rational mind questioned until about five minutes ago. But transgender ideology is not a rational creed and the responses to my article were swift, outraged, and hysterical.
Before its publication I discussed the article with Propel’s publisher, Paul Charity, who is a veteran journalist and former editor of licensed trade paper the Morning Advertiser. We both anticipated the article would generate more than the usual volume of comments, and Paul joked that he would need to do an audit of his stock of tin hats. The column was published online on Propel Opinion at 11am on the January 6th and 18 minutes later Paul received his first email response. It was from a director of a pub operating company and was favourable, describing it as a “brilliant piece”. The responses then came thick and fast – some favourable, congratulating Paul and me on having the courage to tackle such a difficult and toxic issue. But then the Gender Borg kicked in and the shrieks of hysteria began.
I won’t identify any of the complainers, but here is a flavour of some of the responses: the first complaint was from a woman who works for a temperance organisation and who complained: “Why do you allow someone with such right-wing views to have a column every week and never offer any diversity or alternative view?” Apparently, believing in the binary nature of sex is ‘right wing’! When offered the opportunity to write an alternative view, she declined, saying she was “too busy”. Ah well.
Then we had a variety of responses via email and twitter that took aim at me personally – describing me as right-wing, transphobic, hate-filled, bigoted, ignorant, misinformed, small-minded, and unqualified to comment. A repeated theme was my age – I’m 73 – and one reader suggested I had deliberately set out to offend and upset people and called me a “horrid old man” and suggested I take a long, hard look at myself and spend “a long stint in the corner staring at the wall”. So, off to the naughty step then.
The best ageist comment of all was from a woman who accused me of being a “misinformed, geriatric white man”. If someone who was young and black had written this article, can you imagine her describing him as a “misinformed, paediatric black man”? No, of course not. It seems ageism is the only prejudice to retain respectability and all you have to do is shout “Boomer!” at someone and you can dismiss their point of view without the inconvenience of intellectually engaging with it. Indeed, all of the critics limited their remarks to personal attacks on me and not one of them engaged with the substance of the article.
Another recurring theme of the responses was their interpretation of my criticism of transgender ideology as an expression of hatred for trans people. If you criticise gender ideology ergo you hate trans people and want to deny their right to existence. This is a device that enables the Gender Borg to avoid the need for debate by dismissing critical articles like mine as hateful attacks on a marginalised group. Since I came out as a gay man 52 years ago I have known many trans people and have nothing but empathy for the position they are in. My objection is to a belief system that takes gender dysphoria out of the clinical context and into the social justice context. This involves making the rest of society conform to compelled speech – pronouns – and requires us to collude with the delusional architecture of gender dysphoric people and push them down a lifelong and irreversible surgical and medical path.
At first, when the responses came pouring in, Paul Charity defended my article, stating that Propel Opinion is a free speech platform and that if anyone disagreed with my opinion they could write a rebuttal. But then some of Paul’s big corporate sponsors threatened to withdraw support and a number of speakers withdrew from an upcoming conference he’s organising. Paul felt under siege and that his business faced an existential threat. He was advised he needed a sacrificial lamb and so just before 5.30pm – six and a half hours after he published my article – Paul caved in, bent the knee to the Gender Borg and threw me under the bus. He published an open letter to all his subscribers apologising for the anger and upset the article had caused and stating that he was parting company with me as a columnist. Last Friday’s Propel Opinion has now been taken down in its entirety. I’ve been cancelled!
The only way those opposed to the publication of my views could get at me was through Paul Charity, and the vulnerability of his business to corporate censorship. That is how cancel culture works. For those who wonder why I wrote this article it’s because I’m appalled at the way gay history is being erased by a pernicious, anti-gay, misogynistic gender ideology that brooks no dissent; that won’t engage in debate but seeks only to censor and cancel.
I won’t be silenced.
Paul Chase is the leading industry commentator on alcohol policy and public health. He is the author of Culture Wars and Moral Panic – the story of alcohol and society. He is regularly published in industry journals and is frequently a speaker at industry events.
This is the piece that was published by Propel Opinion on January 6th and then unpublished six-and-a-half hours later.
Enough is Enough
So, this is an article about the transgender issue and trans ideology. A lot of my friends advised me not to touch this issue with a bargepole, because it has become so toxic that rational discussion between people of different viewpoints has become extremely difficult.
The issue of how to treat transgender customers in hospitality venues is not a new one, but has come to prominence again recently with the Scottish Parliament voting in favour of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. This Bill enables anyone aged 18 or older to change their legal sex by self-declaration provided they have lived in their preferred gender for three months or more (six months or more if you are 16 or 17), and without a diagnosis of gender dysphoria. This Bill has yet to receive Royal Assent. The U.K. Conservative Government has said it might block this legislation, although the Labour opposition supports this reform and would introduce it, if elected to government.
It is startling how much public discourse is being driven by trans activism and trans issues and those managing licensed premises may well feel they are treading on eggshells when dealing with emotive issues such as the access of transwomen to female toilets. I’m not qualified to give detailed legal advice on such access, but I set out here my general viewpoint on the whole trans issue:
So, to help you navigate the sexual politics of this, here are 10 trans myths:
Myth #1: Sex is a spectrum – we’re all a mix of male and female.
Fact: Sex is not a spectrum. Like all mammals, reproduction is predicated on a binary model where males impregnate females. Humans cannot change sex. There are:
• 2 sexes
• 3 sexualities, and
• 7.9 billion personalities
You get one from each row. Anyone who suggests otherwise has been sold a lie or is selling you one.
Myth #2: Intersex people are a third sex.
Fact: Sex is binary. There are two sexes. There are atypical anomalies to this model and ‘intersex’ is an umbrella term for over 150 disorders of sexual development all of which are atypical anomalies of male or female.
Myth #3: Some people are born in the wrong body and need surgical correction.
Fact: Everyone is born in a body that developed in the womb of a female after fertilisation by a male. You may not fit a societal stereotype as you grow up, but you were not born in the wrong body – no one is. To suggest otherwise to children or young people is a toxic lie that has led to a form of gay conversion therapy that ‘transes away the gay’ by convincing gay youth they need corrective surgery. The rendering of gay youth in gender abattoirs, particularly in the United States, is a monstrous medical scandal that future generations will view with utter disbelief.
Myth #4: Gender is assigned at birth.
Fact: No one is assigned gender or sex at birth. Sex is identified and recorded by medical professionals and this process starts with the 20-week scan and ends with the arrival of a male or female child.
Myth #5: Gender dysphoria is not a mental health disorder – we should refer to it as gender diversity.
Fact: Gender dysphoria is a mental health disorder as listed in DSM-V. As such, any expressions of gender dysphoria should be assessed by a mental health practitioner, and not just nodded through. This is to ensure the patient receives the right treatment.
Myth #6: It is okay to give puberty blockers to ‘trans children’ because their effects are reversible.
Fact: Puberty blockers are a controversial, experimental treatment. They interrupt a biological process that occurs for everyone. The preponderance of evidence is that they cause irreversible changes and are a risk to health. And there is no such thing as a ‘trans-toddler’ and claims to the contrary are a giant red flag and should be a matter for the safeguarding authorities.
Myth #7: ‘Non-binary’ is a gender.
Fact: Non-binary is not a gender it is a rejection of gender. The genders match the sexes male/man, female/woman.
Myth #8: The biological advantages of males over females have been exaggerated and can be countered by taking drugs that reduce testosterone.
Fact: Women are more vulnerable than men not only because they experience greater reproductive risks, particularly in childbirth, but because men are, on average, taller and larger than women, with bigger hearts and lungs, and heavier bones. The average male has 41% more non-fat body mass than the average woman, his legs are 65% stronger and his upper body 90% stronger. And rape is a male pattern behaviour. This is why women need separate toilets, shower and changing room facilities in public places like pubs and bars – and why we have male and female sports categories.
Myth #9: Sex change hormones and surgery can change a man into a woman.
Fact: The proposition that a man can change into a woman via a process of chemistry, surgery and cosmetics is a delusion. Denying the binary nature of sex categories is science denial.
Myth #10: If you deny that transwomen are women you are ‘transphobic’.
Fact: A woman is an adult human female. A transwoman is not a real woman, he’s a man engaged in live action role play – regardless of whether this happens as a result of a mental health disorder, such as gender dysphoria, or a fetish such as transvestism or autogynephilia. Imputing hateful motives to those who disagree with you, or pathologising dissent, is the hallmark of an extremist. If you’re happy pretending to be a woman, I’m happy for you. You don’t need to resort to science-denial to justify your self-presentation.
As the trans issue builds up political steam operators should beware of the possibility that activists will want to test their diversity policies by demanding use of the ‘right pronouns’ and access to women’s only spaces like toilets and changing rooms.
As if you don’t have enough to contend with. Enough is enough.
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Cock-up or Conspiracy on the massive over-purchase of vaccines?
“Liberal Elite Have Captured the Conversation – Expect a Revolt”
I’ve got some space in my diary next week. Tuesday afternoon or any time Thursday.?
“CDC Warns of Marburg Virus After Deadly Africa Outbreak”
Monkeypox is dead then…
Good 2min video from my favourite Dutch MP;
”Roos has called for insect-based food products to have clear labeling, with the normal name of the insect listed in plain language and an icon on the package to alert consumers that the product contains insects. He believes this will prevent anyone from accidentally consuming insects if they are unable or unwilling to do so.”
https://rairfoundation.com/dutch-mep-demands-insects-in-food-are-clearly-marked-and-no-longer-hidden-video/
Why not imitate the fag packets and have a photo of the bug itself? Nice juicy mealworms in close-up should certainly tickle the taste buds.
It has always puzzled me why the vegans and vegetarians have made no comment on this. They of all people should demand labelling to avoid it.
I checked on the Food Standards Authority website in the UK – insects not currently listed, so I contacted Trading Standards (who contacted Food Standards) and got this reply:
“Please see our combined response ….. :
‘The FSA has undertaken specific work to assess potential food safety risks arising from edible insect products. In May 2022, a generalised risk assessment was conducted by the FSA and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) and found that the safety risks associated with edible insect products are likely to be low, provided the appropriate measures are in place (i.e., labelling on potential allergy risks).
It is a statutory requirement that all relevant edible insects need to undergo a robust safety assessment stage as part of the novel food’s authorisation process. If we find credible evidence to say that edible insects could be unsafe, we will not authorise them; and local authorities, who are responsible for enforcing food law, have the power to remove them from sale.
Under food law all ingredients must be clearly labelled including edible insects. The FSA encourages food businesses to follow relevant industry guidance and good practice to appropriately label their products. Food law requires that any labelling provided must be accurate and not be misleading to consumers. However, it is possible to add specific labelling requirements, over and above food law, as part of the authorisation process if required. We will continue to consider these as the individual assessment of each application progresses.
I do hope this explanation is helpful in relation to your concerns.
You might also find our risk assessment on consumption of edible insects a useful reference:https://www.food.gov.uk/research/novel-and-non-traditional-foods-additives-and-processes/rapid-risk-assessment-what-is-the-risk-to-consumers-from-consumption-of-the-seven-edible-insects-products-currently-available-in’ ”
If you want to contact the FSA directly the email address is helpline@food.gov.uk
I also asked about the new law on genetic foods and ‘precision technology’ (on the grounds that gut biome/allergy studies have not been undetaken) but was directed towards DEFRA – haven’t done that yet. defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk
Many thanks for undertaking this chore and posting the response.
Watch this EMA Director blatantly lie about how long the mRNA stays in the body. She’s dithering enough so you can tell a lie is coming a mile away.
https://twitter.com/Rob_Roos/status/1641586067609464832
This is contradicted completely by the scientific literature which tells a very different story;
”Fertig et al found lipid nanoparticles with mRNA were measurable in plasma for—15 days. Recently, Castruita et al demonstrated mRNA in blood out to 28 days. Roltgen et al have found mRNA in lymph nodes 60 days after injection. None of these studies demonstrated complete clearance of mRNA from a group of patients. This is worrisome since injections are recommended in some populations just a few months apart implying there will be stacking of long-lasting mRNA in the body without adequate opportunity for clearance and elimination.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/critical-role-of-pseudouridine-in
I think this substacker ( Psychiatrist ) nails it;
”Dr Mike Yeadon quite flatly states that he does not believe there was ever a covid virus, while Igor Chudov clearly states that Sars-Cov-2 was a deliberately engineered pathogen. Citing the work of Ralph Baric, Chudov concludes that ‘high pathogenicity is not necessary for a perfect bioweapon: instead, what is important is that the bioweapon creates fear.’
Thus we have two widely diverging opinions from two quite respectable and diligent people.
In fact, we also have a plethora of different opinions from other respectable and diligent people about the jab, the jab’s contents, about covid variants and even the very existence of viruses. Was the pandemic a statistical rather than medical phenomenon created by dubious PCR testing, was it merely a mislabeled flu? And on and on.
If you are not confused, you should be, because creating confusion is a hallmark of every successful operation to control the masses, and the perfect biopsychosocial operation will create confusion in spades. It’s not a matter of covering tracks to make an investigation into the origins or other parts of an operation impossible – it’s a matter of deliberately creating many tracks, tracks that run in various directions and lead to questionable conclusions.”
https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/deliberately-engineered-confusion?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
Related to this is the Part 2 of immunology from JJ Couey presentation he gave yesterday evening. He clearly explains how a “pandemic” could be created using sleight of hand & dodgy testing to create the crime scene which we are witnessing. He cuts through the above argument with evidence stating that both of those positions are wrong.
Explains natural immunity clearly &, for such a complex subject, simply to enable one to understand how stimulating the production of serum level antibodies via injection is just so wrong on so many levels.
JJ Couey’s presentation is well worth the investment of time.
Part 1 can be viewed here & Part 2 will be posted here shortly:
https://rumble.com/user/cbkovess
I watched most of Part 1 but gave up because he’s a piss-poor presenter/ speaker.
He seems to believe that the “high” death toll was essentially created through a combination of (1) getting deaths up through neglect and mistreatment and (2) miscategorisation. But I’ve known that the pandemic was a lie since the rules were changed to make it very much easier to categorise deaths as being caused by Covid and the government then began terrifying people, so why has it taken him so long?
If he thinks Yeadon is wrong about Covid not existing, Chudov wrong about it being designed, mustn’t that mean he believes it exists but is natural? But then why was it necessary for governments to wait for a new but trivial coronavirus to come into existence before hatching their plans?
JJ wouldn’t argue with your analysis of his speaking/presentation abilities as he himself says that he’s not a natural at this. He’s held this opinion from the start & lost his job because he spoke up from the start of it all in 2020, so he’s not late to the party.
His argument is that the no virus argument does not explain the whole issue. SARS-CoV-2 is synthetic, it has been sequenced & made into a reproducible format. It’s more nuanced than an either or scenario which is what the media narrative is.
JJ Couey’s applied his knowledge of biological immunity to the covid situation to expose the lies we’ve been told.
And why did the ordinary ‘flu disappear?
It’s worth persevering with JJ’s analysis because he explains why he believes the biology underlying RNA virology, immunity and vaccines has been corrupted. He argues that RNA particles, described by virologists as “viruses” can’t replicate without making mistakes, hence don’t have ability to produce sufficient exact copies of themselves to cause pandemics. He has various theories about how the apparent Covid pandemic occurred, including initial release of lab created infectious clones of the so-called Covid virus, existence of background coronaviruses and non-specific PCR test, denial of standard treatment for colds, flu and pneumonia for the vulnerable. When it comes to the mRNA jab he goes into the detail of why tranfection is dangerous. It is hard going and I struggle to understand the biology but I respect JJ for laying it all out and trying to explain his analysis to non-scientists like me.
I think the ‘mass psychosis’ – I can’t call it anything else – also shows the impact of the loss of individual courage/autonomy and critical thinking?
I definitely got an infection like none other in the summer of 2021 – likely picked up at the big northern agricultural show finally ‘allowed’ to run – I was quite poorly with something odd for a few days – but the thing that makes me think it was a ‘new’ bug – AKA likely engineered – is that I lost my taste and smell and have never got it back. In my 68 years that has never happened.
So for me – individually – it was a nasty bug and not one my immune system had encountered before. Something circulated and existed that I suffered from that was real. The likelihood of it having escaped from a lab doing gain of function work is also – IMO – high.
Thanks for your post, which is pretty persuasive in support of the position that this was a new virus and not simply re-badged influenza. And sorry to learn of your loss of taste and smell…
Same for me ! I just posted before reading yours ! There was something going around & it wasn’t normal Flu !
What did I catch in August 21 ? Right on cue a couple of days in my taste & smell went ( & it’s still not what it was ) just like they said it would ! How did they know ?
“Transgender Americans shaping the “nation’s soul”,
Joe Biden
This is the most sick statement from a so called leader I’ve ever heard!
So if your trans and you kill 3 Christian adults and 3 children your an American hero?
I’ve always been uninterested in how people live their lives, trans has never crossed my mind, live and let live!
Well since the posies Parker attack and now this inhuman statement my mind is changing to hatred!
they,the trans, are forcing this!
But Biden is not Trans ! It’s being used to crush our old way of life!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-jab-victims-denied-heart-treatment-and-the-remedies-the-nhs-wont-even-consider/
A terrific article from Neville Hodgkinson taking apart the C1984 “vaccine” industry. It ends with this para:
“The pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Pfizer have made well over $100billion so far from their Covid vaccines. Tens of thousands of deaths have been reported to regulators in the wake of the jabs, and millions have suffered adverse reactions, but for as long as medical professionals, politicians, journal editors and most of the mainstream media continue to insist the products are ‘safe and effective’, the tragedy continues.”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/when-political-correctness-stifles-reporting-a-mass-murder/
A first rate article which lays bare the destruction that so-called political correctness is causing to this country.
“Political correctness is polite lying. Saying something you know is not true, or denying something you know is true, for the sake of politeness. It sounds innocent enough, and is for the most part when individual citizens are conversing amongst themselves, but is one of the most malevolent processes imaginable when adopted and enforced by authorities.”