Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭

Welcome and celebrate difference. Will never be perfect. Non partisan. Mostly Harmless. Biotransmasc. Pronouns Beardy/Hairy/Metal/Folk/Groove/Aaarr/Cap'n

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

May we interest you in joining the Brotherhood of Beard?

Addition to the list will be by invitation or considered request only.

Non beards welcome, though it's polite to cultivate one's inner beard.

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[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@SamA111202 @jk_rowling @ConservativeDeb I'm a 53 years old actual man. You've been lied to if you think any of us actually believe you're a man and can be in our gang as anything other than an honorary man, or a mascot.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

Oh no! Someone might raise an eyebrow slightly if they use the gent's! They may even hear a chap go "huh..." Oh calamity!

[Trish Denning @TrishDenning]

@MrTCHarris @SonyaDouglas @BBCNewsnight @UKLabour @Jonathan_Hinder No but it's not reasonable, or humane, for women to insist trans women risk their own safety and well being every time they eant the toilet either.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@ok_post_guy Your religion and its overlapping ideological attitude is the reason many media ventures are failing. Her current name is irrelevant. Having a tiny woman playing Achilles will be the reason the movie fails.

Grow up and have a word with yourself.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@jk_rowling @Keir_Starmer How to lose votes and influence over people.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@LGBTQPrideUK @jan_murray Hey there fella. Have you tried *not* being a knobhead?

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@moss_gossip @DailyMail Physical advantage is irrelevant, especially since he's won the championship six times - denying the position to actual women on each occasion.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@richardpbacon You're a coward and a liar.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

That's because you are one.

[Thel 🏳️‍⚧️🦌 @EPM106]

she personally called me a man in a dress last year

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

Why do you feel the urge to pretend to be a woman and insist that everyone agrees?

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

What she said 👇

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I'm thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV as she tried to avoid admitting he was a man; of the five survivors of male violence who were ready to give evidence to Sturgeon's committee on gender self-ID, but were told to put their concerns in writing while seventeen trans-identified people appeared in person; of the mother of a young girl with a learning disability who campaigned against self-ID because she wanted her daughter to be guaranteed same sex intimate care, should she need it (the mother was presumably one of those female opponents Sturgeon calls 'shrill' and 'hysterical' in her memoir); of the ten-year-old girl sexually assaulted in a public bathroom by a 6'5" paedophile who served his jail sentence in a women's prison because he called himself 'Katie'; of Sandie Peggie, forced to discuss her own menstrual history in public to justify not wanting to undress in view of a 6ft straight cross-dresser in the nurses' changing room; of Marion Millar, dragged into court because she tweeted a picture of suffragette ribbons; of the Scottish rape crisis centres reliant on government funding who were pressured to admit trans-identified males into their services if they wanted funding to continue.

When Sturgeon refers to an 'elevated debate', she means a discussion that takes place within a tiny, smug bubble from which regular women suffering real life consequences of her policies are firmly excluded. These faceless ants are loftily dismissed as bigots, or, to be more precise: 'transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, maybe racist as well.'

Nicola, you hated the T-shirt picture because you couldn't ignore it, as you'd ignored so many other women trying to make you understand their concerns. Appeals to your empathy, your intelligence and your compassion all failed. Apparently the only way to get through to you is through your vanity.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

Why don't you just give it a rest, man? All these legal cases you've been involved in have been well documented and it's been beyond creepy a long while now. It's as if you get off on it all, you massive perv.

[Morgane Oger @MorganeOgerBC]

LOLz
Ignorance of the law is not a valid defense. I hope he seeks a judicial ruling to really cement in the win. If we're lucky it'll go to the Supreme Court

Yes, I know Mia. The things Barry Neufeld said, you said. Don't complain you weren't warned. Because you were.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

The Tale of Two Contagions

In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.

This was an entirely new patient population.

Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.

The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.

Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social media–induced illness — a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.

Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls — another entirely new patient population — “gender-affirming” clinicians didn’t even bother to look for the trigger.

And it wouldn’t have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.

Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: America’s Next Civil Rights Frontier.

And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.

Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in children’s books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.

And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.

The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean you’re trans.

And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.

Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social media–induced illness.

Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.

And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts — while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@KirstieMAllsopp @ballmarc418 @CamillaTominey Sure, let's "be kind". 🙄

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[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

Not just men. The worst men.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@jk_rowling He'll be rummaging around in his sock drawers...😐

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@BrianRoemmele @dunce_scotus_ The internet is not the world.

[Gareth @GarethNotGarth]

Christmas didn’t go so well for one person in Scotland.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@nyaraV2 Regardless of the semantics, neither of the terms are magic words that alter physical reality. In the context they are used, the "trans" element will always mean "not actually".

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@deesnider Well that's us told. Good work there, Jerry.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@daniellismore Your lies become longer and more elaborate because you're trying to convince yourself more than anybody else.

[Father Jack's Brick🔬🔭 @Jacks_Brick]

@DreyfusJames That whole "gatekeeping" thing has never made sense. Like, nobody is telling them they're *not allowed* to change sex.