The Weekly Peak #4
French court rules gender surgeries are #humanrights, the EU's rainbow regime expands, and Malta's Power Gays grease up the grift machine
Whistleblower: the EU expert evaluation process is a “fiction”
Romeo Kodra, an Albanian researcher living in Finland, says he spent 9 years reviewing funding applications as an expert evaluator for the EU Commission. But one day he discovered that a project he had rejected was declared to be a winner on the Commission website, contra his recommendation. The project received €2 million in EU funding.
What’s more: the text and scoring of the evaluation had been altered, but was still being attributed to him.
“Not only had the scores been changed,” said Romeo, “the justification had been rewritten. My name remained publicly attached to the evaluation, but the evaluation itself no longer reflected my professional judgment.”
When he asked questions about it, he was told the process had undergone some changes. He was also told he would no longer be invited to work as an expert. Many months and many emails later, he’s still not received an answer to the question: are experts just window dressing in decisions about who gets EU money?
Creative Europe, the programme for which Romeo was a for-hire expert, will be merged with the CERV (human rights/equality) and MEDIA+ programmes in the next big propaganda slush pit, called AgoraEU. Is the ‘expert evaluator’ system a fake-out? And how much of the €11 billion euro dedicated to the AgoraEU programme will be spent on this transparency/accountability cosplay? This adds to the accusation that the Commission is not reducing its staff numbers — it’s outsourcing policy work to external NGOs.
Romeo’s experience suggests that whatever or whoever the Commission wants to give money to, gets money, regardless of the merit of their project. You can read the story in this LinkedIn post. I’ll be talking to him in depth about the shambolic system this week, so stay tuned for more.
French court: medical evaluations for gender transition violate human rights
If you want to maintain your faith in supranational institutions, I suggest you look away now: citing the European Convention on Human Rights, a judge in Lyon has decided that public health insurance funds’ requirement that girls go through some medical gatekeeping before they lop their breasts off is a breach of their human rights. Specifically, it is a violation of a girl’s right to private life to put safeguards in place before letting a surgeon remove her perfectly healthy breasts and dump them in a medical waste disposal unit.
To be absolutely clear: the case was about insurance coverage. It’s already possible to surgically and medically trans your kids, or yourself, in France (with the very low lower age limit of 14, according to this doctor quoted in Politco). As long as you have the funds and you can get a surgeon to agree to it (you can find their names on Reddit, Discord and Facebook), all you need to do is help your little chouchou lace up the back of her medical gown.
The issue at hand here is whether or not the state should pay for it, and if so, whether that means the authorities can/should impose some due-diligence before doling out public money for vagina-closing surgeries and other totally normal interventions. In the ruling, these procedures were compared to surgeries for cancer, and the judge decided that it’s unequal treatment to make ‘trans people’ jump through more hoops than ‘cancer-people’.
As a reminder, another prestigious institution, the European Court of Justice, recently ruled that Hungary can no longer stop lunatics from spreading the message to children about this ‘solution’ to body-hatred. Kids in Hungary must be allowed to learn that amputating their breasts, or sewing shut their vaginas, are perfectly reasonable fixes for sex-related distress.
French elites love queer shit, and their ANTIFAs are deranged and establishment-approved, so it’s only a matter of time before this takes off all over France, which until now has had fairly stringent conditions for reimbursing trans ‘care’.
Conversion therapy bans could be risky for ‘trans affirming’ doctors
Conversion therapy bans could, in theory, come back to bite trans activists in the arse.
A same-sex attracted person, medically, socially, legally transed with the help of an ‘affirming doctor’ or other person in position of authority, could potentially use the same law to make the accusation that attempts were made to de-gayify him or her.
Many Brussels policymakers and politicians are throwing their weight behind ‘conversion therapy bans’ for the kudos they think it will earn them among the yoof. They seem to think the bans are an easy win, all symbol and no substance, considering that coercion and violence and abuse are already illegal. And who would disagree with the (apparent) premise of such a law?
But say a gay lad or a lesbian ‘detransitioned’ after realising they can’t actually change sex and become a straight person. Who will they blame for convincing them they could? Helping a patient to ‘convert’ to heterosexuality would fit most people’s understanding of conversion therapy. Indeed, it is not uncommon for conservative parents to want to turn their twinky gay sons into girls.
But isn’t the Borg too smart, and their lawyers too numerous and too well-paid, for such a clumsy oversight? The laws introduced in the EU (in chronological order: Malta, Germany, France, Greece, Spain, Belgium, Cyprus and Portugal) either explicitly or implicitly place gender-affirmation and medical transition outside the conversion therapy ban. To varying degrees, the texts make a distinction between suppression (of your delusion, which is BAD) versus support/affirmation (of your delusion, which is GOOD).
Malta has some of the most advanced (read: mental) sex-fake laws in the EU and their conversion therapy ban goes the furthest in making clear that transing someone gay will never get you in legal trouble.
Malta doesn’t have ‘progressive’ laws, by the way, because the country is progressive. On the contrary, it’s because it’s such a basket case: the Labour party wanted to give the island a makeover and move away from its image as a self-dealing backwards shithole. They wanted to paint a picture of openness and modernity, so they thought they could take a shortcut by just introducing loads of queer shit. A bit like Ireland.
But rather ironically, Malta’s conversion therapy ban’s exclusive carve-out for transing away the gay is a blunt hint at the truly conservative nature of its lawmakers and citizenry. Gender transition for too-feminine men has long been a thing. Meanwhile, abortion is still illegal in the country, in almost all circumstances, and divorce was illegal until 2011. It reminds me of a scene in the 90s ’s Bill Murray movie, Curly Sue, where the little homeless girl has learned how to spell “asphyxiate” but it turns out she can’t spell simpler things like “cat”. It’s a ruse to make the welfare inspectors think she’s attending school.
It’s all kayfabe, babe.
With transgender ideology, the entire system — medical, legal, social, state, educational — is conspiring to turn same-sex attracted people into heterosexuals. A too-enthusiastic ‘affirming’ doctor’s over-eagerness to help a boy castrate himself and turn him into a simulacrum of a ‘straight woman’ could be interpreted in the wrong direction. Words like ‘suppression’ and ‘support’ could eventually become contentious when put in front of a judge.
Anyway, there’s pressure to get the conversion therapy ban passed at EU level, and for some reason, France has recently gotten really into it, rallying official forces behind a citizens petition launched by two French gay guys. The petition of one million signatures was helped over the finish line at the last minute by the better-organised and better-funded abortion rights campaign, because no major NGO, according to the post linked above, wanted to support it. That suggests, as I had expected, that ILGA-Europe have largely washed their hands of the conversion therapy stuff — they are busy tying all LGBTIQ+ to democracy itself via rule of law, which is much more damaging.
Maltese affirmation-focussed conversion therapy ban
Update: doctor shopping for paediatric trans butchery in the EU
Here’s another brief update on my doctor-shopping adventures in the EU for my imaginary ‘transgender’ daughter: the Madrid clinic has told me my daughter’s imaginary dad can sign her breasts away over Zoom (and not in person, as they first said was required). “He’s away a lot for work,” I told the clinic worker about imaginary-Dad, and it would be very difficult for him to make it to to Madrid that day. Sure, whatever, she told me over the phone.
Also, they will go ahead with the surgery even though my fake-daughter’s psychiatrist has now decided she no longer wants to be implicated in this shitshow and has suddenly refused to provide a letter attesting to the severe gender dysphoria of my very mentally ill 15-year-old.
Below are the screenshots of the exchange:
Also, a Maltese clinic has nonchalantly told me that it would be good to have psychiatrist letter before they remove my fake-daughter’s breasts, but she’ll see what she can do wink wink. My takeaway is this: private clinics do not give a flying fuck as long as the parents sign the dotted line, and as long as there is no national prohibition on the surgery, which in most places there simply isn’t.
A Swedish NGO got €200k for kids with autism and genderfeels
When I discussed buying testosterone for my fake daughter from an EU-based online trans affirming company over Zoom, I told the rep (an autogynohilic male in a dress, sitting in a gamer chair in what appeared to be his bedroom — I am 100% not exaggerating) that my child is so severely autistic and socially anxious that she couldn’t even join the call.
When I asked if this — the fact that she was so wildly mentally ill — might prevent her getting the testosterone injections that she so desperately desires, he laughed and told me that basically all ‘trans people’ are some type of neurodivergent. Indeed.
Keeping that little vignette in mind, here’s something from Sweden: the association Transammans, the biggest trans association in the country, got €200k from a state fund to meet the ‘needs’ of children who have autism and who identify as trans. The target audience is anyone over 12 years old and their families.
This seems like a contradiction in policy: Swedish trans treatment guidelines were updated in 2022 to reflect the high comorbidity between autism and gender ideation, calling for thorough neuropsychological evaluation and a restriction on trans treatments for minors. Meanwhile, this project seems to want to ‘improve care’ for trans youth, which means the opposite. Even the name is deceptive: “Learn more” suggest it’s about information gathering and not affirmation, which is what these trans organisations do. One of the stated aims of the project is to find out “what people need to feel good.” I mean, come on.
“Learn More” is a two-year project funded by the Swedish Inheritance Fund.
Kvartal: Trans lobby receives millions to reach autistic children
Czech ‘trans man’ prisoner had to be segregated from males BUT WHY
I came across this research paper that mentioned a woman (pretending to be a man) who was held in a men’s prison in the Czech Republic (2017). The researchers said that this transgender man (that’s trans-speak for a woman with a buzzcut) was held in a cell for 23 hours a day, where she ate and showered, and her only social contact was a female prison officer who played table tennis with her, a chaplain and a psychologist. Unless the authors are getting their sexes confused, this is anecdotally incredibly rare.
Now why would this woman-with-short-hair be segregated from the ‘other’ men? You know what, you guys, I’m starting to think that maybe sex matters?
Maltese gender goblin Silvan Agius: new DEI consultancy, new buzzword
Silvan Agius was one of the key players in the early days of Europe’s subsumption into the Obama Globohomo project, which started with micro-grants funelled to local activists via US embassies all over the world.
Agius, a shiny careerist, was working for ILGA-Europe in Brussels when they fully trooned out in the late 2010s. It suspect it was he who kickstarted (or at least managed, as advocacy lead) the organisation’s marketing around intersex — i.e. putting the concept of being between-sexes (not a real thing) to work in service of trans theory-building.
He helped to troon poor Malta up the hooooooooop, getting involved in drafting and promoting all kinds of insane gender shit as a government staffer, before coming to Brussels to head the cabinet of the Ekwality Kween Helena Dalli, in 2019.
Agius has now teamed up with a guy who was once convicted of spreading revenge porn of his ex-boyfriend, the former MEP Cyrus Engerer, and together they have established a DEI consultancy. The boys no doubt have their eyes firmly fixed on those upcoming juicy human-rightsy grant programmes. They have already ‘set up’ addresses in Geneva (UN grants), Brussels (EU grants), and Valetta (Maltese government grants).
Agius and Engerer have added ‘disability' rights’ and ‘belonging’ to the menu of feelgoods that they’re selling, because there are big disability and mental health funding opportunities coming over the Horizon (you may have even noticed an increase in wheelchair/vitiligo/bionic leg-related corporate comms lately).
‘Belonging’ is the corporate sector’s effort to rid itself of the stink of ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’, terminology which has suffered some negative PR in recent times.
(Silvan, if you’re reading this, you can’t blow up my car because I don’t have one.)
Yet another new LGBTIQ+ lobbying organisation thanks to EU funds
I bet you were thinking to yourself: what Europe really really really needs right now is another generously-staffed LGBTIQ+ organisation to complement the other generously-staffed LGBTIQ+ organisations, on top of the gazillion LGBTIQ+ projects that feast on EU and national budgets like rainbow-coloured maggots.
Here’s one with a brand new flavour: bisexual.
A bunch of quirky Dutch women teamed up with a bunch of quirky French women, and upgraded this biPLUSEQUAL EU-funded project to a more permanent thing, officially registered in the Netherlands a few weeks ago. They represent “the bi+ umbrella” which I think basically includes everyone except normal gays. Join me in welcoming this new squad of She/Theys to the Lobbysphere. Another one!
So tired ya’ll.
Rapist too retarded to be punished
A Norwegian court decided that a man who raped a 13-year-old girl in a bike shed should get off lightly because he’s thick. He only got 6 months in prison. If he was smart enough to manage the trip from Syria to Oslo, surely he’s smart enough to serve a proper custodial sentence for ruining a girl’s life?
I’m not fucking raging, you’re fucking raging.
70 Bulgarian police officers just got trained up in dealing with transphobic hate crimes
Both the Council of Europe and the OECD have done a lot to institute transgender ideology in various professional domains over the years. One of their targets is the police, who they train to dealing with transphobic hate crimes.
The usual presentation of a transphobic crime is male violence against a male prostitute who sells sex to GAMPs. These men don’t really think they are women, they enhance their feminine features because it helps them sell their sexual services (please don’t contact me about this) to straight male customers.
Apart from the training sessions, the Council of Europe created a manual for police officers, and some of the stuff in it is bananas but also unintentionally funny, such as “keep facial expressions neutral” when dealing with transgender people. What do they mean by that LOL I think I want to report a transphobic hate crime.
The tone of the manual is posh and aggrieved female policy dork who pretends to be a man (the Council of Europe is riddled with such women) and it reads like an IN THIS HOUSE lawn sign or an attention-seeking TikToker making a video in her car, jabbing her finger at her phone screen in anger.
“The role of a professional police officer,” when dealing with trans-identifying people, the guide claims, “is to be supportive and empathetic”. I’m not quite sure that that is the role of the Bulgarian police actually, but carry on:
Make sure to use neutral pronouns, she jabs in the air, and if you can’t, then ask for preferred pronouns. And if you get the pronouns wrong then CLAP! apologise CLAP! and CLAP! move CLAP! on CLAP! There’s also some stuff about transgender people who are neither male nor female and are therefore ‘non-binary’, and I would pay good money to see the look on the battle-scarred face of a Bulgarian organised crime squad officer reading that.
The guide was already mental in 2017. Bask in the brainrot, especially the bit about detention of ‘intersex people’ (not a real thing).
Doesn’t this sound suspiciously like sponcon to you? It sounds suspiciously like sponcon to me.
I wrote to Politico Europe and asked if they are featuring ads for the European Commission without declaring them as paid advertising. Listen to the clip from 10.00 minutes onwards and tell me if you don’t hear a paid ad masquerading as editorial content.
This is exactly the kind of ad the Commission would, well, commission. I know because I worked in comms there for a decade. I asked the two journalists in the episode it if it was a paid ad but they didn’t answer me (sent the question 3 weeks ago).
Am I right or am I right? People talk all the time about Brussels media being in the pocket of the EU institutions (access, innit) but this is a bit much, girls.
I got barred from an EU event on workplace diversity due to my workplace diversity
This is so darkly funny: I was working for the European Commission on a fake-freelance (also known as bogus self-employment) contract for the past three years but they fired me for being a TERF, and they also *may have* blacklisted me with the contractor agencies. TBC.
So my interest was piqued when I saw they were having a big bash to celebrate the start of European Diversity Month, and that the theme is labour market diversity ha ha ha why am I crying.
So, of course I registered to attend, hoping to learn how to better conform to workplace diversity requirements. Lo and behold the registration suddenly became retrospectively CLOSED after I had signed up. Funny thing that. So I wrote to ask why, and then poked some holes in the mealy-mouth response. Then the assigned the dirty work of dealing with me to some poor young trainee god bless his little tucked-in shirt.
I subsequently saw someone involved in a Greek “diversity charter” posted photos of the event on LinkedIn and I was shocked to see empty seats.
It’s all just fun and games, isn’t it?
In other news…
The German government has also abolished the title (but not the job) of Queer Commissioner
One of the women running for UN sec gen is a self-ID/trans true believer
French mayor cancels Pride, the glitter zombie posse showed up anyway
Madelaine McCann’s alleged murderer might not get extradited to Britain
UNFPA merging with UN Women because they’re broke, thanks to Trump
Call for expansion of menstruation to include actual males who ‘experience cycles’ due to the synthetic hormones they take to grow titties
Is this German neo-Nazi abusing the self ID law, or is he using it exactly as intended?
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"When I discussed buying testosterone for my fake daughter from an EU-based online trans affirming company over Zoom, I told the rep (an autogynohilic male in a dress, sitting in a gamer chair in what appeared to be his bedroom — I am 100% not exaggerating) "
alas we know you are not exaggerating alas alas alas
Where is Romeo Kodra's Gofundme that we might contribute to his legal challenge to this outrage? He is challenging it, yes?