Culture Scott Howard’s The Transgender-Industrial Complex - “If man will strike, strike through the mask!” — Moby Dick

https://counter-currents.com/2021/05/scott-howards-the-transgender-industrial-complex/

In March, South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem vetoed House Bill 1217, an act designed to “promote continued fairness in women’s sports” by prohibiting biological men from playing in girls’ sports leagues. In April, Arkansas Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson vetoed House Bill 1570, titled the Save Adolescents From Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which prohibits gender reassignment surgeries and the use of hormone blockers for minors. [1]

Transgender ideology is unpopular, especially with Republican voters, [2] so Tucker Carlson invited Noem and Hutchinson on his show to justify their actions. In his sardonic and relentless style, Tucker accused Noem of caving to pressure from the “NCAA, Chamber of Commerce, and Amazon.” [3] And, when Hutchinson explained with a smirk on his face that he vetoed the bill because it “was overbroad, it was extreme,” Tucker insinuated that the governor was lying and brushed aside the governor’s excuses, asking him instead if he had done so at the behest of Walmart.

Tucker has earned enormous clout as one of the leading conservative opponents of “radical Left” agendas like transgender ideology, which he criticizes as a “boutique issue” pushed by “rich people” and big business. However, by telling this truth, even Tucker is slipping his audience a lie.

For example, Hutchinson justified his veto because the bill represented “a vast government overreach” that would cause “legislative interference with physicians and parents.” A far more effective use of Tucker’s airtime might have been to ask Hutchinson how preventing child genital mutilation is a “vast government overreach,” while Hutchinson’s 2017 bill prohibiting the state from contracting with and investing in companies that “boycott Israel” is not. And, rather than asking Hutchinson if he had been approached by a nebulous corporate entity like Walmart, Tucker could have asked the staunch Zionist governor if he had perhaps been contacted by his largest donors, the Jewish Jacobs family.

In his attack on trans ideology, Tucker is ultimately obscuring the key figures and sponsors of this demented social agenda behind nebulous and amorphous corporate abstractions like “Walmart” and generalizations like “the rich” (a common phenomenon in the conservative media sphere). Trans ideology is not just a rich issue; as Scott Howard shows in The Transgender-Industrial Complex, it is a Jewish issue.

In The Transgender-Industrial Complex, Howard exhaustively documents the vast and dizzying constellation of figures and organizations spearheading the transgender cause. Howard’s study shows that the movement is not at all organic, but is rather a pet project of the perverse Western ruling establishment that has been artificially manufactured and propagated from the top down during the latter portion of the 20th century, and is intricately intertwined with “other [unpopular] agendas being implemented by the Establishment such as mass migration/’diversity,’ climate change,” etc. [4]

Demonstrating how the program works, Howard demonstrates that the implementation of the transgender agenda follows a predictive model also seen in other social activist movements and color revolutions. It begins with enormous amounts of money, or “so-called philanthropy,” from a series of billionaires and corporate sponsors who “launder millions of dollars to infuse [a panoply of activist] organizations with cash to [perform] behind-the-scenes machinations,” including everything from public advocacy work and astroturfing pressure campaigns, legal activism, influencing and buying elections, etc. [5]

It is an incredibly well-oiled machine, as LGBT strategists reveal:

The LGBT movement maintains significant assets which it has been able to leverage for real progress, including engaged donors and funders; strong national organizations; and politically savvy, visible, and influential leaders across a variety of sectors, particularly the entertainment, media, and, increasingly, political arenas. Strategically, these assets have been deployed with a laser-like focus to address specific policy and legislative wins either nationally or in certain parts of the country. [6]

It is also noteworthy that the activities of LGBT activist organizations are supplemented by tremendously powerful institutional pressures from a variety of international organizations, among which are:

Conditional loans from organizations like The World Bank and the IMF ​

These loans encourage developing nations to integrate with international legal frameworks like the Council of the European Union’s LGBT Toolkit and the Yogyakarta Principles. The Yogyakarta Principles, concerned primarily with transgender rights, are “a universal guide to human rights which affirm binding international legal standards with which all States must comply.” Affirmed as a global charter by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2007, the Yogyakarta is essentially the “gay version” of the Magna Carta. [7]

Pressure from investors and investment banks to “diversify”​

For example, firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase are withholding investments from companies without diverse boards, and firms like BlackRock (Larry Fink) and State Street “are voting against directors at companies” without adequate diversity. As Goldman Sachs proclaims, “If the board has all white males, that’s a big negative”; “Being diverse is not optional; it is what we must be.” [8] [9]

Enormous grants from extremist transgender ideologues to educational institutes like Harvard Medical School​

An excellent precis can be found here. This also coincides with generous grants and subsidies for gender reassignment “therapies” to provide very lucrative profit incentives for medical firms to offer these “services.” [10] Regarding a similar phenomenon caused by generous grants from such foundations, Howard points out that there is some $2,583 in funding available annually for individuals with HIV/AIDS, vs. a paltry $418 for individuals suffering from cancer. [11]

Boycotts from corporations and national organizations​

For example, Kristi Noem implied that the NCAA would “bully” her state if she passed an anti-trans bill (the NCAA pulled several championship events out of North Carolina in 2016-2017, in response to the state’s anti-trans washroom bill), and there was also the implication that Amazon and other corporations might retract business opportunities from the state if the bill were passed. Similar forces were at work in 2016, when CEOs from more than 80 major corporations descended on North Carolina to rescind the state’s prohibition on transgender “women” from using women’s restrooms. That same year, “Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce would impose economic sanctions on Georgia if controversial religious freedom bill passes,” demonstrating a new form of corporate tyranny in which corporations do not need to lobby legislators but can simply threaten states with economic devastation should they not comply to their demands, like some sort of cutthroat, international transexual mafia.

Sanctions and regime change​

If bribes from The World Bank and IMF don’t succeed, then the United States will leverage sanctions and other pressures against your country (for example, the Trump administration succeeded in pressuring Botswana to decriminalize homosexuality). As Howard notes, there is significant overlap between the military-industrial complex and the “diversity and inclusion” project, and NATO is “fully committed to spreading the gospel of tolerance at gunpoint.” [12]

In the GloboHomo empire, reality mirrors fiction.

So, in this regard, Tucker Carlson is right in that the transgender-industrial complex is very transparently a project of the oligarchs. However, as Howard connects the many pieces and entities comprising the vast transexual international network, a familiar pattern emerges. Just like with mass migration and a dozen other harmful, antisocial agendas being foisted on the West, the key figures of the transexual agenda — from its pseudoscientific pioneers to the private sponsors and philanthropic benefactors funding its implementation, from the activist organizations and NGOs to the judges and legal activists drafting landmark legal opinions — are Jewish.

At the top of the pyramid rests a series of charming Jewish billionaires like George Soros, Paul Singer, Dan Loeb, Seth Klarman, Jennifer Pritzker, David Gelbaum, Andrew Shechtel, Sheldon Adelson, Loren Schecter, Martine Rothblatt, David T. Rubin, and Mark Hyman, to name a few. Even Haim Saban, the infamous “I’m a one-issue guy, and my issue is Israel” donor, is connected through his Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, which overlaps with various “prepubescent transgender” research programs. [13]

Many of these plutocrats might already be familiar to readers as hedge fund managers and vulture capitalists. Soros, who made billions short-selling currencies and profiting from market collapses, has achieved a comical bogeyman status with the Right, though there are also charming figures like Paul Singer, who built his fortune on the misfortune of others by buying the debts of countries like Argentina and then crucifying them in international court. During the court proceedings with Argentina, Singer had Ghana seize an Argentinian navy ship to use as leverage in his extortion of the Latin American country. Singer also destroyed the small, white Nebraska town of Sydney when his hostile takeover of Cabela’s cost the thriving town more than 2000 jobs. After making billions through antisocial financial activity centered around destroying and liquidating the livelihoods of ordinary people, these entrepreneurial Jewish business geniuses inject their stolen wealth into perverse social agendas like the trans movement to help demented transsexual perverts get access to your children.

In his popular piece on vulture capitalism, Kevin MacDonald noted how many of the financial vehicles and hedge funds used by these Jewish vulture capitalists are often “blankly nondescript.” Similarly, Howard summarizes how the sponsors of the transgender movement funnel their ill-gotten wealth through “donations” to nondescript and anonymous financial vehicles, foundations, and trusts, such as:

• The Open Society Foundation
• The Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation
• The Walter and Elise Haas Fund and Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund
• The Zellerbach Family Foundation
• The Klarman Family Foundation
• The Adelson Family Foundation
• The Shack Sackler Foundation
• The Matan B’Seter Foundation (meaning “anonymous gift” in Hebrew) [14]

Additionally, note that essentially all of the foundations which were not directly founded by Jews have a significant Jewish presence. For example, the Arcus Foundation, one of the top donors to LGBTQ+ causes founded by the homosexual billionaire Jon Stryker, is managed by its Jewish Vice President of Social Justice Programs Jay Michaelson, who got his PhD in Jewish Thought from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [15]

These funds then distribute large sums of money to hundreds of transgender activist groups, NGOs, legal funds, etc. One notable example is the abominable Drag Queen Story Hour event, which was created by RADAR Productions, a “queer literary arts organization” that is bankrolled by the Zellerbach Foundation and the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation. [16] Jews also happen to be overwhelmingly present within leading “LGBTQ-focused organizations” (which just happen to simultaneously “prioritize combatting anti-Semitism”), [17] among which are

• Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership For Justice
• The J Street Education Fund
• The New Israel Fund
• Keshet
• The Southern Jewish Resource Network for Gender & Sexual Diversity
• The American Jewish World Service
• Carolina Jews for Justice
• The Asheville Jewish Community Center
• The National Council of Jewish Women

Ad nauseum.

Again, this is not notwithstanding the significant Jewish presence within non-explicitly Jewish LGBTQ+ activist organizations.

As Howard illustrates, the organizations constituting the transgender-industrial complex are essentially just smaller nodes within the massive spiderweb of international Jewish finance and shadow banking, and trans activism appears to be one of the pet projects of the Jewish community at large.

Rachel Levine, Jewish transgender Assistant Secretary for Health of the United States of America

Of course, both bankrolling and leading antiwhite and transexual activist organizations is not the end of Jewish involvement within this agenda. Jewish figures have also been overwhelmingly overrepresented within the army of legal funds and activist lawyers fighting for the cause, right up to the creation of crucial landmark legal opinions at the level of the Supreme Court. For example, Kagan, Ginsburg, and Breyer opened “the transgenderism floodgates” with “the one-two punch of United States v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).” (Kagan is also known for “queerifying Harvard,” and for introducing “transgender law courses” for training activist lawyers.) [18] Of interest is also the U.S. District Judge David Nye who recently blocked Idaho’s transgender sports ban on the grounds that it “stands in stark contrast to the policies of elite athletic bodies that regulate sports both nationally and globally.”

National Socialists raid the library of Magnus Hirschfeld and burn his assorted collection of research and pornography in Berlin, 1933.

And finally, Jews have featured prominently amongst the supposed “doctors,” “researchers,” and “medical professionals” that pioneered the movement, beginning with the infamous Magnus Hirschfeld, whose infamous Institute of Sex Research preceded John Hopkins as the “sex change Mecca” of the world. [19] In Hirschfeld’s honor, the Magnus Hirschfeld medal has since been given to figures like John Money (whose horrific sex reassignment experiments on David Reimer caused Reimer to blow his brains out with a sawed-off shotgun), Money’s Jewish colleague Richard Green, who authored Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment, the Jewish Jonathan Ned Katz, who authored The Invention of Heterosexuality, and the appalling Jewish sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, i.e., Dr. Ruth. [20] Howard also has a chapter that traces elements of modern transgender ideology to the Boasian school of anthropology, which was a Jewish intellectual movement parallel to the Frankfurt School and Freudian psychoanalysis aimed towards the “undermining of white Gentile culture and solidarity.” [21]

Jewish organizations and leaders themselves admit that the Jewish community is the driving force behind the progressive LGBTQ+ agenda in the United States today; the Jewish Amy Dean writes that “Jews can claim a fair share of the credit for bringing Americans to a tipping point.” [22]

To contextualize, here is a series of headlines I have recently encountered from Jewish publications:

• “Since I came out as transgender, I’ve never felt more Jewish“
• “This Day in Jewish History | 1868: The ‘Einstein of Sex’ Is Born (And Dies)“
• “Access to puberty blockers is a Jewish issue: The UK’s ban is transphobic, unscientific, and in opposition to core Jewish values.“
• “Racial Justice and LGBTQ Equality Are The Same Fight. It’s A Jewish Fight.“
• “Israel Makes the Hormones I Need, But I Support Palestinian Liberation” (Most of the hormones for gender reassignments are produced by an Israeli company, Teva)
• “The 8 Genders of the Talmud“
• “This Jewish day school is hosting a drag queen Shabbat ceremony“

What is it with Jews and transgenderism? Howard identifies two motivations.

The first reason is pragmatic.

For example, as the Jewish LGBTQ+ activist Frank Kameny, who fought to remove homosexuality from the DSM in the 1970s, writes: “there is but a short step from prison sentences for homosexuals to gas ovens for Jews.” [23]

Or, as Diane Ehrensaft explains her involvement on the board of The Trans Teen and Family Narratives Project (among several other Jews): “I grew up in a very left-liberal Jewish household in Chicago. We understood what it was to be part of a minority, and [so] we were very focused on social justice.”

Or, as Alex Soros (son of George Soros, and Founding Chair of Bend the Arc Jewish Action), explains his father’s actions: “his philanthropy [is] ultimately an expression of his Jewish identity. . . The reason you fight for an open society is because that’s the only society that you can live in, as a Jew.”

However, as Howard notes, there is a further reason beyond the strategic advantage that secular Jews identify within diversity and intersectionality. In an eye-opening chapter, Howard also identifies precedents for gender ideology within Judaism itself (which has been embraced particularly within Reform Judaism).

For example, Howard brings attention to rabbi David J. Meyer, who writes that “Jewish legal tradition identifies no fewer than six distinct ‘genders,’” and that “the Jewish understanding of gender is neither binary nor even a grid into which every person must be forced to fit. . . rather, we see gender diversity as a spectrum.” [24] Further, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’s official position on transgenderism is as follows: “the Talmud also recognizes that an individual’s gender orientation does not necessarily match his or her sex organs. . . the mitzvah of healing is not limited to health professionals; it is incumbent upon every Jew. . . [and] supporting transgender people in who they are is part of that mitzvah” (mitzvah is Hebrew for a duty, or “good deed,” commanded by God). [25]

Additionally, as an interesting sidenote, Howard also finds in Jewish traditions the argument that “an erotic relationship. . . is what connects yeshiva students to one another and to their rabbi.” [26] I was immediately reminded of the “child-rape assembly line” within fundamentalist Jewish communities, and of which even secular Jews are not guiltless. For example, Sigmund Freud’s father Jacob Freud sexually abused his children, so one wonders to what extent the appalling theories of 20th-century Jewish sexologists were the product of child sexual abuse. [27]

So, Jewish involvement within the transgender movement is not motivated by purely cynical and strategic aims. Rather, to some extent, Jewish activism appears to reflect the sexual depravity inherent within the Jewish community itself.

For example, Bend the Arc Chief Executive Officer Stosh Kotler (who literally refers to gentiles as goyim) stated that she got into activism after table dancing for some fellow Jews at a sex club in Portland, who then invited her over for the Passover Seder feast. For Cotler, this event “marked my return to Judaism and the beginning of my conscious and proud identity as a Jew,” after realizing “that being Jewish was a revolutionary spiritual and political path.” [28]

In 2018, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs stated that “Trans Rights is a Jewish Issue.” [29] Indeed.

The Transgender-Industrial Complex is an excellent resource on both the transgender movement, and Jewish influence and power within revolutionary movements during the 20th and 21st centuries.

Its documentation of the various transgender ideologues and organizations is exhaustive, such that some chapters feel almost encyclopedic. Of course, these chapters can be overwhelming and require some perseverance to read through. In this regard, the text might have benefitted from rearranging certain sections of information into charts or diagrams to serve as visual aids. Additionally, some sections rely very heavily on quoted material, with several exceedingly extensive quotations that could be abbreviated. Generally, however, these issues are not shortcomings on part of the author, but the inevitable consequence of synthesizing such a comprehensive deluge of information. In any book attempting to document the transgender movement, some pages will read like a phonebook from Tel Aviv.

Howard more than makes up for the dry sections by interspersing the material with many interesting connections and observations. For example, Howard traces the “trans” concept within the Western world to a 1322 poem by the Jew Kalonymus ben Kalonymus, in which he refers to his penis as “a lasting deformity” and expresses the desire to be a woman. [30] Additionally, Howard finds links between the trans movement and the Irgun, the Zionist paramilitary that perpetrated the King David Hotel bombing in 1946, and weaves comparisons between the trans movement and other Jewish projects, from the demoralizing Jewish abstract expressionism movement in the arts, to other Jewish intellectual assaults on the Western intellectual traditions and on truth and beauty generally. [31] Additionally, Howard’s portrayal of the transexual movement as a way for Jewish oligarchs to “enact strange and perverse revenge fantasies on the Gentile population” [32] by empowering the transgender lumpenproletariat janissary class as shock troops in the war on traditional white society contains relevant parallels to other recent works, such as Josh Neal’s American Extremist: The Psychology of Political Extremism. Neal’s repurposing of Andrzej Łobaczewski concept of the “pathocrat,” the psychopathic and subversive technocrat who “cannot function in a healthy society, and feel(s) wronged by it,” is an excellent characterization of Jewish oligarchs and technocrats like Rachel Pritzker and Rachel Levine.

And finally, Howard situates the transgender movement within neoliberal imperialism by linking his narrative on the transgender movement to other projects of international elites, like The Great Reset, making it a comprehensive and useful study for understanding the broader strategies and objectives of capitalism and American imperialism in the 21st century.

Eustace Mullins likened the liberal internationalist world order to a Venetian masquerade ball, the success of which hinges on the fact that few participants know “which masque hides the face of the King, which costume is that of the Grand Vizier.” By dogmatically refusing to address the Jewish question and instead of blaming nebulous and faceless corporate entities for the massive transexual blitzkrieg that has been launched against the West in recent years, conservatives are playing along with the masquerade by further obscuring the issue. By attributing causes to unfalsifiable abstractions, they are effectively exonerating any individual actors of responsibility for their actions, or worse, from having any definite phenomenological presence within reality. Conservatives who claim to oppose transgender ideology while simultaneously refusing to broach the Jewish problem are running cover for the very same Jewish transexual mafia they claim to oppose.

As Howard writes, the system’s “very genesis, adoption, and propagation can all be traced to primarily Jewish or Jewish-connected figures”; “Without the Jewish role. . . the system would not actually exist.” [33] The transgender-industrial complex is a Jewish phenomenon. And as Greg Johnson writes, “one cannot defeat an enemy one will not name.”

The Transgender-Industrial Complex is a revolutionary work because it pulls no punches in exposing the hideous faces behind the trans agenda. A huge repository of research and analysis, it would make an excellent addition to any dissident rightist’s bookshelf, and will certainly be of interest to the researcher and to the general reader alike for years to come.

 

[Baroque]

I wish the jew-hating conspiracy theorists would keep their "fan theories" out of the gender debate. TRA ideology is too insidious to risk obscuring the very real scientific fact of sexual dimorphism from the very bizarre (((and delusional))) Jewish conspiracy theories.

 

[CaesarCzech]

The useful idiots rise up again to malign being against SRS and HRT with Neo-Nazism. I'd be surprised if they weren't being paid to do exactly that.

It started out good, too.


More like "Jew Money".

Good the bigger the lie the bigger the storm of fire when the lie collapse and the truth lights up the dark as the degenerates that belong on the cross are swatted aside and burned in the fires of conflict.

 

[frozenrunner]

If we don't want people being obsessed with Jewish "overrepresentation" in the intelligentsia, in entertainment, in industry, and in other general positions of power, then honest, public discussion needs to be had about why Jews are so often in these positions disproportionate to their numbers in the population.

Frustratingly, the people who bitch about obsession with the Jewish issue are the same people who refuse to allow discussion of that general topic. I guess they just like to bitch about anti-Semitism and want to do that forever.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Jew Derangement Syndrome is a thing, unfortunately. Symptoms include a belief in the supremacy of the white race and a belief that a people that have been systematically expelled from every country of residence have been able to seize total power of all First World governments. Why yes, those two appear to be highly contradictory. How could you tell?

The wingnuts, if they had a brain, would realize that the best way to fix any anti-white rhetoric would be to accept Jewish people as white. I guarantee you most minorities already see them as such.

 

[Snekposter]

If we don't want people being obsessed with Jewish "overrepresentation" in the intelligentsia, in entertainment, in industry, and in other general positions of power, then honest, public discussion needs to be had about why Jews are so often in these positions disproportionate to their numbers in the population.

Frustratingly, the people who bitch about obsession with the Jewish issue are the same people who refuse to allow discussion of that general topic. I guess they just like to bitch about anti-Semitism and want to do that forever.

Indeed. You want to know what the head of Harvard said in response when he was asked why he had such strict quotas on Jewish admittance way back when? "If we admitted purely on merit, there'd be hardly any room for whites."

EDIT: No different from Asians. The head of Harvard had to pull a similar argument when it came to Asians trying to get in with that recent case. The baseline SAT score for an Asian to get in to a big-name university is utterly ridiculous compared to any other ethnicity.

 

[Syntaxion]

If we don't want people being obsessed with Jewish "overrepresentation" in the intelligentsia, in entertainment, in industry, and in other general positions of power, then honest, public discussion needs to be had about why Jews are so often in these positions disproportionate to their numbers in the population.

Frustratingly, the people who bitch about obsession with the Jewish issue are the same people who refuse to allow discussion of that general topic. I guess they just like to bitch about anti-Semitism and want to do that forever.

Yeah, it's supposedly a conspiracy, but no one is disproving that those Jewish families in the OP are actually behind those organizations and groups.
Apparantly just calling something "a conspiracy" means your argument is now invalid

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

These autistic wignat retards are not only their own worst enemy, they're the enemy of all the sane people who are trying to protect their kids from the trans madness.

They’re the perfect heels for progressivism. They do more damage to the right than they ever do to the left.

I don’t think they really care because many are content to burn us all down because Germany dindu nuffin and the allies defended itself.

 

[Terrorist]

I wish the jew-hating conspiracy theorists would keep their "fan theories" out of the gender debate. TRA ideology is too insidious to risk obscuring the very real scientific fact of sexual dimorphism from the very bizarre (((and delusional))) Jewish conspiracy theories.

I wish the serial harassers at Kiwi farms would stay out of the gender debate too. TRA ideology is too insidious to risk associating criticism of it with the Christchurch shooting and suicides of trans game developers.

 

[RichardMongler]

Wasn't aware of this until recently, but apparently, this book has also drawn a WOW JUST WOW response from this gentleman:

The Transgender Industrial Complex: Racist, Anti Semitic Nonsense

A deep dive into dark corners of hate

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The Transgender Industrial Complex: Racist, Anti Semitic Nonsense

A deep dive into dark corners of hate

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https://archive.md/c3QIG

I just took a journey that has left me cold and frightened​

I’ve never known much about white supremacists, anti-semitic conspiracists, or “Christian” nationalists. I’ve had no personal contact with the Proud Boys, neo-nazis, militias or similar movements, even though such ideologies are supposedly prevalent in rural Michigan where I live.
I know lots of transgender people, though.
I know many of them live with pain and fear caused not by their gender presentation but by the hostility and hatred of strangers. I have a trans friend in liberal Ann Arbor who looks over his shoulder when he walks his dog. His fears are well founded; trans people in the US are harassed, attacked, and murdered at frightening rates.
I have read that emerging white supremacist organizations praise a certain “European chauvinism” that targets people of color and people of different cultures and religions like Muslims and Jews. I know these groups also promote sexist and misogynistic ideas, but until last week, I didn’t know how far they go to incite hatred against transgender people.
When a Twitter follower alerted me to The Transgender Industrial Complex, a newly published book making a big splash in far-right and alt-right circles, I took a deep dive into bigotry that has me breathless with astonishment and disgust.

What’s the book about? One Amazon reviewer sums it up concisely:​

Not only is the narrative it claims historically revisionist and entirely false, it is deeply dangerous to trans and Jewish people. There is no historical basis for the sweeping claims it makes about a global Jewish cabal using gender to destroy white, Christian, European society.
This is not history, it is just transphobia and antisemitism. Trans and Jewish lives are at stake.

That review is not hyperbole​

Based on my own reading, The Transgender Industrial Complex makes the following claims:

1. Modern “Transgenderism” (the author’s term) began with surgical experimentation on children in the 1960s by child-molesting doctors, but its roots are Jewish and date back to the 14th century.
2. Gender theory grew out of child sexual abuse and remains sexual abuse at its core.
3. Rates of anti-trans violence are actually very low, and where violence does exist it’s merely a subset of Black-on-Black violence, which exists because Black people are innately more violent and less civilized than white/European people.
4. People who call themselves transgender are mentally/physically ill, requiring the support of medical professionals and therapy to feel comfortable with their “true” sex.
5. “Transgenderism” is not a grassroots phenomenon, but an international conspiracy directed by Jews in Davos, Switzerland who provide most or all funds needed to run transgender education campaigns and gender-affirming clinics.
6. This cabal of Jews, in order to enrich themselves and become more powerful, are bent on destroying White/European/Christian values and civilization. “Transgenderism” is one of an assortment of their tools, which include multiculturalism, mixing of the races, and popularization of secular or atheist government.

The author’s claims are largely incoherent. Typical of conspiracy theorists, he cites lack of evidence as evidence of conspiracy while failing to provide positive evidence for his outlandish assertions.

The sneering and hatred felt like a form of raw othering I haven’t experienced since I was in school surrounded by bullies.

He ignores the transgender experience as lived by actual transgender people, ignores the prevalence of gender-variant people throughout human history, and barely contains an apparent personal animosity toward people of color and Jews.
His assertions of worldwide funding of transgender education and medical/surgical treatment are preposterous, based on innuendo, supposition, and misdirection rather than data. He doesn’t “follow the money,” he just tosses out ideas he says must be correct because so many people are trying to hide evidence that would prove his case — if only they weren’t hiding it.
He does follow one “Money trail,” however, focusing hard on a psychologist he paints wrongly as having invented “transgenderism.”

The tragic case of Dr. John Money and the Reimer twins​

The author rests much of his foundation on criticism of the controversial New Zealand/American psychologist John Money, who infamously experimented on a pair of twin boys, one of whose penises was severed in a botched circumcision in 1966.
Money convinced the boy’s parents to have his testicles removed surgically and to raise him as a girl with the aid of hormone treatment. The boy, however, resisted feminization, never identified as a girl, and withdrew from treatment at the age of 14 when he finally learned the truth. He and his brother both committed suicide as adults, and their parents blame Dr. Money, whom they accuse of taking sexually inappropriate photos of both of their sons as children and of forcing them to engage together in simulated sexual activity.
Dr. Money’s work with the twins has been condemned as unethical, although he apparently met ethical standards of his day. His work is one of the reasons why medical standards for experimentation on humans have been strengthened and made subject to more stringent oversight.

The author’s claims that Dr. Money founded “transgenderism” are false​

While it’s true John Money did pioneering work in gender, possibly (but not certainly) being responsible for popularizing the term “gender identity,” no one serious claims he invented the idea of transgender people or created a popular movement.
In fact, his ideas about gender and gender-identity formation have come to be recognized as incorrect. He argued a child’s gender identity is fluid up to a certain age, influenced by behavior and experiences, and then becomes consolidated and more-or-less immutable. This is the theory he was attempting to support with his experimentation on the Reimer twins.
His ideas are not supported by gender theorists or by transgender people today, most of whom point to research that suggests gender identity has a biological basis and for reasons we don’t yet fully understand sometimes does not match external genitalia. They say the Reimer experiment demonstrates that gender identity is strongly fixed in the brain and that attempts to change it are ineffective and harmful.

Right Wing Reaction to The Transgender Industrial Complex​

The author’s Reimer/Money proposition is the only part of the book I am rebutting in this article. His ideas about Dr. Money are based on wrong assumptions about transgender people and gender identity, but they’re coherent enough to discuss. The rest of the book is an absurdist flight of fantasy that deserves to be ignored — one of the reasons I’m not quoting any passages or even using the author’s name.
I would not be writing at all if it were not for a deep dive into hate I encountered after reading. I wanted to know how the far/alt right has reacted, and what I’ve learned has been sobering.

I started with the publisher​

An Antelope Hill pro-fascist reprint
Antelope Hill Publishing, which prints hardcover books and sells e-books via Amazon, say they seek “to ensure history, culture, and revolutionary ideas will be preserved in the written word and made easily accessible, fairly priced, and professionally published. The best refutation of historical revisionists is a clear statement of primary accounts.”
Their offerings seem primarily if not exclusively dedicated to reprints of decades-old books that praise Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, the pre-WW2 British fascist movement, and vaguely homoerotic Wehrmacht workout manuals for young men.
The Transgender Industrial Complex, soon to be available in hardcopy, appears to be their only contemporary offering.

Then I turned to the world of video​

My explorations led me to Bit Chute TV, a hosting service notorious for accommodating far-right views, conspiracy theories, and other content YouTube rejects as hateful or violent toward classes of people.

The author gives a disjointed interview to Red Ice TV, a slickly produced opinion channel full of videos that promote anti-vax ideology, assert covid-19 is a hoax, claim a global conspiracy cheated Donald Trump out of a second term, and praise the superiority of white/European culture.
The author begins his audio-only appearance in a bizarre growling tone, claiming he’s using technology to disguise his voice because transgender people will try to kill him for his views.
The rest of the interview goes much like the book. He repeats all the main points in a very hostile tone, appearing to feel personally threatened by or fearful of ideas about transgender people.
He wrongly claims modern “transgenderism” was invented by John Money, getting into a lot of lurid sexual details about the Reimer twins, implying that Money (rather than a botched circumcision) was responsible for the removal of one twin’s penis. He calls Money an evil child abuser and claims that “evil” is the only possible explanation for the international Jewish cabal that promotes transgenderism:

The people at the top [at Davos] know what they’re doing. It’s a dark energy that’s directing them… These are deeply corrupted, very sinister people who are aware of what they’re doing, and this kind of experimentation benefits them by giving them more data. They also have a phalanx of ideologues who do their bidding.

The host, a young white woman with impeccable dress and grooming, alternates between looking shocked and sneering about transgender people. She frequently plays videos of drag queens, mocking them while conflating them with trans folks. Then the two segue into discussing covid-19, agreeing it’s a Marxist/Jewish hoax similar to “transgenderism.”
The hour-long video left me feeling like I needed a shower.
The sneering and hatred evidenced by both the author and the host, combined with their misrepresentations and factual errors, felt like a form of raw othering I haven’t experienced since I was in school surrounded by bullies.

Next, I started looking for reviews​

I wasn’t shocked to find articles or reviews of the book mentioned in ultra-right blogs alongside links to the Daily Stormer and other Nazi publications. I wasn’t surprised to find it featured all over Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan, where hardcore militia types and Proud Boys are gushing about it.
I WAS a little shocked to find a positive review in The Occidental Observer, an alt-right journal the New York Times has described as a haven for right-wing “intellectuals.”
According to the Anti Defamation League, The Observer serves as a platform for white supremacy, racism, and anti-semitism, promoting views that “Jews want to exterminate American whites” and impoverish them through organized ponzi scams like the one Bernard Madoff was convicted of orchestrating.
The Times observes that the publication is intensely racist, “couching white nationalist arguments as academic commentary on black inferiority, the immigration threat to whites and other racial issues.”
Indeed, in one recent editorial, an Observer columnist sings the praises of the Jim Crow South, suggesting BLM protests in the US stem not from oppression of Black people, but from “mixing of the races.” He goes on to blame Black people for ruining white society:

I’m not suggesting that the lives of the Blacks were in some way marvelous [during segregation], or even implying that they somehow should have been. But I do remember coming to the conclusion that a sense of peace was abroad in my part of the state simply because people were “keeping to their own,” and that things were existing in large part as they were meant to.
For those Whites unfortunate enough to be poor, the Southern public schools have undoubtedly been catastrophically ruined by integration. A little over a decade ago, I got to know a North Carolina family with three sons. The older two had been through the public school system and emerged as rap-loving delinquents who spoke in an Africanized dialect.

I’m not certain what makes this intellectual other than an odd quote from Thomas Carlyle, an obscure 19th-century British philosopher/theologian who argued in favor of slavery and feudal serfdom as the natural order of the universe, encouraged forced labor and execution for even minor criminal offenses, and opposed parliamentary democracy.
After poking around, I learned Carlyle has become something of a hero/saint in white supremacist circles, where references to him are far from rare.
Bertrand Russell and others have called him a “forerunner or intellectual ancestor of Nazism and Fascism.” Critics observe he often described Jews in hateful terms, calling them “insatiable” as money lenders, “horseleeches sucking the life out of honest men.”
His writings are liberally populated with such terms as “ravening flights of Jews,” “Jew harpies,” “Jewish jackasseries,” “cunning Jew,” “that lying Jew,” and “cursed old Jew.”
While he did not call for extermination of Jews or for restricting their civil liberties, his modern white supremacist devotees seem largely not to understand that.
I spend the better part of an afternoon reading alt-right sources that praise Carlyle not despite, but because of his strong personal antisemitism. I ended the afternoon feeling shocked and horrified to realize hatred of Jews still exists today at such toxic levels, and that it’s boiling barely under the surface of polite society.

My deep dive into hatred was fiercely personal​

My late partner and de facto husband of a decade was Jewish. I read and speak a fair bit of Yiddish because of him. Our LGBTQ friends, including transgender people, sometimes attended services with us in a Manhattan Reform Jewish synagogue.
I lived in Detroit for many years where most of my neighbors were Black — and who experienced systemic racism and personal racist hatred at astounding levels. I have trans friends today who live in fear and fight depression because strangers hate them for no reason.
My deep dive this week exposed me to levels of such hatred that I haven’t seen expressed so baldly and brutally in years. I’ve never understood why certain groups of people become scapegoats. Become others. Become enemies to be fought against even in the absence of personal connection.
But reading The Transgender Industrial Complex, I met an author willing to invent nonsense just so he can hate people he’s never met. I encountered people willing to credit and promote his nonsense without genuine analysis, thoughtfulness, or meaningful criticism.

I pulled the covers off the bed and stared at the snarling monsters underneath. Now I feel cold, frightened, and all too aware of the human tendency to hurt people we don’t understand.​

James Finn is a former Air Force intelligence analyst, long-time LGBTQ activist, an alumnus of Queer Nation and Act Up NY, an essayist occasionally published in queer news outlets, and an “agented” novelist. Send questions, comments, and story ideas to jamesfinnwrites@gmail.com.

 

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No, it's not frickin' Jewish space lasers, it's just stupid crazy people.

The problem with all conspiracy theorists is they always default to assuming an agenda or objective instead of just recognising that everyone dumb. Dumb, catastrophic shit happens all the time and it doesn't need Emperor Palpatine to make it happen.

I listened to the audiobook of Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters". It's everything thats consistent with what we know just by looking at society - a mixture of greed, arrogance, gullibility ignorance and ego. That's all this is. The wheel turns and the spokes just change colour.