So how's the gender debate playing out in Europe? Well...not so good.
In Germany:
Student activists successfully pressured administrators to call off a public lecture on the evolution of binary sex, which was due to take place at Berlin’s Humboldt University at the weekend. The lecture was programmed as part of “Long Night of the Sciences”, an established public science event that has taken place in Germany since 2000.
Though the agenda for the event had been available online since May, left-wing activists began to apply pressure on the organisers just two days before Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, a PhD student and research associate, was due to give her talk. She had planned a 30-minute “basic school textbook biology lesson,” intended for a young and non-expert audience.
But a group of law students called AKJ (Working Group of Critical Lawyers), led the call for the event to be scrapped, saying Ms Vollbrecht’s views were outdated and unscientific, as well as “inhuman and anti-queer and anti-trans.” They claimed that the institution was turning a blind eye to her transphobic assertion that there are only two biological sexes.
And in Spain:
On June 27, 2022 Spain came closer to legalizing “gender self-determination” (self-ID) when the country’s Cabinet sent the “Trans Bill” (Ley Trans) to the lower chamber of the Spanish parliament. If passed, Ley Trans would allow anyone aged 16 and older to change their name and legal sex with a written statement...
If the Spanish parliament approves the bill in the current version, children as young as 12 will be able to access a legal sex change with a judge’s approval and minors between 14 and 16 with the consent of their legal representatives.
People aged 16 or older could change their legal sex and name by simply stating their desire to do so twice within a period of four months. Therefore, if the bill passes, applicants for a legal “sex change” will no longer need a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
And the old "conversion therapy" con is out in full force.
Spanish feminists have already experienced “LGBTI” anti-discrimination laws being used against them. This February, psychologist Carola López Moya found out that the Spanish autonomous region of Andalusia had started a sanctioning process against her, accusing her of performing conversion therapy.
Andalusian “LGBTI” anti-discrimination law, established in 2017, similarly to the proposed Ley Trans, considers conversion therapy a serious infraction, with fines ranging from 60.000 to 120.000€, as well as a 3-5 years long suspension of therapeutic license.
The sanctioning process against Ms. Moya was the result of Association of Transsexuals of Andalusia-Sylvia Rivera and the Spanish Association against Conversion Therapies filing a complaint against her based on her tweets.
Moya's "conversion therapy", of course, merely involved her treatment of people with gender problems through psychotherapy rather than affirmation and drugs - something that Spain, as well as America, seems set on banning.
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