The Weekly Peak #9
MEPs shy about child sex swaps, WHO trans team scrap over evidence, and Belgian gender docs have no scruples
Trans activists ask politicians to defend toxic trans laws
Advancements in “trans rights” were, by necessity, planned in secret meetings, smothered in obfuscating vagueries, forced through the courts on the downlow, and protected from scrutiny by a strictly enforced No Debate media strategy.
However, with legal victories piling up, trans activists are ready for their friends in the legislature to be a bit more frank about what they have achieved together.
Earlier this year, the trans activist lobby group, ILGA-Europe, sent a memo to members of the European Parliament (see screenshots above) urging them to fight back against the shock and disgust circulating in the Parliament, the international press, and on social media about the European Commission’s stated support for legal sex changes for children. The outrage followed the publication of an EU strategy document that stated the following:
“The Commission will facilitate exchanges of best practices among Member States to support the development of legal gender recognition procedures based on self-determination that are free from age restrictions.”
This dickish doublespeak is par for the course in trans land. The text makes very clear the legal direction of travel the member states are expected to follow, while embedding enough plausible deniability that the Commission can keep its hands clean of the whole thing. The wording allowed Anna Gray, Commission spokesperson, to respond to the online frenzy in this way, without actually lying: “To suggest that the Commission would impose such measures on member states is simply false.”
She’s not wrong. The Commission cannot currently impose such a thing via the regular channels. But they are imposing it via a longer, round-about route: beyond just passing the buck to the wokest (and most obedient) member states to “share best practices”, as outlined in the paragraph above, they have also been paying ILGA-Europe (and others) to seek out and support legal cases that will force sex self-ID on EU countries by manipulating freedom of movement rights and GDPR rights.
ILGA-Europe and its satellite of funded activists all over the continent (many or most of whom are also funded by the EU) have been extremely successful in this regard. And while there has not yet been a Court of Justice case that explicitly instructs member states to provide for sex self-ID for minors, recent freedom of movement-based “mutual recognition of documents” rulings mean that as long as a kid can falsify his or her sex in one country, it can be argued that he or she should have the right to falsify it anywhere in the EU.
Anna Gray is unlikely to tell you any of this. And if you write to her to ask her: is the EU funding court cases to erase sex in law? Or: is the EU funding a gazillion trans rights NGOs all over the EU (and beyond) to create the illusion of popular support for sex erasure? she’ll move your email to the trash bin and pretend she never saw it. Or, she’ll answer something like: “The EU fosters the facilitation of empowering marginalised communities by engaging in human rights-aligned best practices and international standards.” Okaaaaaayyyyyy.
On paper, member states have sovereignty over delicate issues relating to family and national identity. But the Commission is currently challenging Slovakia for cheekily declaring its intention to maintain this right. ILGA-Europe called this “a constitutional coup”.
What’s interesting about the memo above is that it wouldn’t have been advisable ten years ago to advertise openly any of the specifics of “trans rights” blather. The need for secrecy when dealing with trans bullshit was made abundantly clear to members of the EP before they even got elected: Remember when ILGA-Europe asked candidates to pledge to keep quiet about their work whenever necessary? Now that it’s too late to stop it, and trans kids are a legal reality in multiple European countries, ILGA-Europe would like officials to show a bit more pride in these achievements.
The memo has a list of ready-made, full-throated defenses of trans insanity that ILGA-Europe would love to see circulate in the press. They want their allies to tell journalists that it’s totally good and super normal and also excellent that kids can pretend to be the opposite sex, and that it’s mega awesome that civil registries now have to record this lie as fact. They’d love statements from their backroom buddies openly declaring that social and legal transition doesn’t fuck up a child psychologically (it does), and that puberty blockers are really really cool and reversible (they are not).
But that defense is not coming. Not now, and probably not ever. The strategy of No Debate was necessary precisely because this trans bullshit is an impossible sell. No politician, no matter how hard they worked to get ILGA’s hush-hush legal wish list over the line, seems willing to stand up and admit it.
Once the flattening language of “human rights for all” is removed, and everyone learns the details, nobody wants their name attached to it.
What they’ve pushed through looks barbaric to anyone who isn’t caught up in the mass psychogenic illness that is the sex-erasure project. Even MEP Marc Angel, the biggest ally of the queer project in Brussels, gave this extremely lukewarm defense during the brouhaha over the trans kids thing: “This is a recommendation whose aim is to encourage member states to exchange information on their practices and legislation with the idea of advancing the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.”
This blaah is not quite a ringing endorsement, is it? He did not say, to the chagrin of his ILGA buddies: “Changing sex is a great thing for kids to do, and stopping their natural development by castrating them chemically is a wonderful plan that I am happy to contribute to.” He and other turbo gender loons like MEP Kim van Sparrentak know they would nuke their political prospects by taking responsibility for this dangerous elitist nonsense.
If anything, trans superfans are getting even more vague. “LGBTIQ+ rights” has now to be further obscured under the label of, simply, “democracy”, such is its plummet in popularity. This moves the discussion even further away from the important specifics of this deranged political movement.
But somebody, some day, is going to have to take responsibility for the specifics, in all its plain-spoken glory. Who will it be?
World Health Organisation group squabbles over evidence versus “experience” in design of gender-affirming care guidelines
I spoke to someone involved in drafting the WHO’s much-anticipated guidelines on transgender-affirming care. The Guideline Development Group (GDG) is due to release the results of its work by the end of this month, according to this anonymous source who is close to the discussions.
The GDG, which is made up of public health experts and activists, is set to recommend that governments mainstream gender-affirming hormone therapy access in the public health system, and set up centres of excellence and/or knowledge hubs to provide the required training of medical staff. Just like regular primary care practitioners can learn to handle the diagnosis, screening and monitoring of diabetes, they can take on the same tasks for patients who wish to change their secondary sex characteristics by taking cross-sex hormones, the source explained.
The development of the guidelines has not been easy, I was told. While the clinicians and public health professionals have been carrying out systematic reviews and data analysis to support their decisions, activist members of the group have been frustrated, as they insist that the guidelines should reflect the personal preferences of “the community”.
A significant proportion of the clinicians involved in the process work in the HIV/AIDS field. Providing gender affirming care to male transvestite prostitutes as an incentive to engage with the health system is considered essential to ending the AIDS epidemic, as the rates of HIV infection in this group are staggeringly high. In some countries, up to 30% of all transgender-identifying males have HIV.
The overall objective of the different factions that make up the GDG — clinicians in the HIV or public health fields, or the ideology-driven “rights” activists— may appear to be the same on the surface, but they don’t all really want the same thing. One group wants hormones on demand as a fundamental human right. That is the endpoint. The only “evidence base” they consider relevant is: “I want it”.
The other group wants to end the AIDS epidemic, and one of the ways they think that can be done is by offering hormones to “key populations” on demand. Improvements in quality of life, overall health, and ultimately, lower HIV numbers via higher PrEP uptake are relevant endpoints in this context.
The guidelines are intended to cover all transgender-identifying people (male and female), but clinicians will have to make sure that whatever they produce will lead to increased access to HIV/STI services, uptake, adherence, and retention in HIV care for “trans women” in prostitution.
The activists want to put the system in place and use it to collect the data. More sensible heads want the data first. So far, the systematic reviews conducted by members of the GDG on the ability of gender affirming care to improve quality of life have shown that the evidence is weak at best.
This was part of what has been holding up the guidelines, if my source is to be believed.
It’s worth pointing out that if trans women were not so susceptible to HIV infection, there is little chance that the WHO would care about meeting the aesthetic desires of trans mascs and autogynephiles from the Global North. If AIDS disappeared tomorrow, institutional support for “trans rights” would likely disappear with it.
Belgian trans clinic: extreme mental illness, even self-cutting, no reason not to transition kids
Ever since the UK’s notorious Tavistock clinic stopped offering gender services to children after the Cass review, neighbouring Ireland has had nowhere to send kids who believe they have wrong-sex souls.
As a stopgap solution, the Irish Health Service Executive has been sending kids to a Belgian clinic. I happen to live here, so in February 2025, I put my name down on the waiting list to be seen by their gender team. I presented myself as the mother of a sad autistic daughter who insists she is a boy.
Last week, my fake (14-year-old) daughter’s turn finally came round, so I went to the clinic to ask about getting her doped up on testosterone so she could “turn into” the boy she believes herself to be. I told the gender clinic nurse at the intake meeting, which my daughter was far too anxious to attend herself, that she is bedroom-bound, barely talks, has mostly quit school, hates herself so much she has showers in the dark, is deeply depressed, cuts herself, and is autistic and probably a lesbian. She has intense social anxiety, barely any friends, and had a very traumatic incident in her youth.
The nurse told me that none of this would prevent her from transitioning into her true self. In order to beat back some of that dysphoria, the first thing we could consider is puberty blockers which would be prescribed after she had seen a psychologist. But don’t worry, the psychologist just wants to get to know her “trans story”. We don’t deal in rejection, he told me.
More on this story coming soon.
Child sex abuse material: which platforms are the most popular in your country?
The US-based National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children has an open data website listing the stats for child exploitation found and flagged on social media platforms and websites, broken down by country.
A note on these stats: some countries flag way more incidences of CSAM than others, but higher numbers don’t necessarily mean more CSAM is uploaded in that country. It could just mean that the flagging system is better, the rules are stricter, or some other reason. What can be gleaned from the data, however, is which social media platform(s) predators tend to gravitate towards in different countries. For example, Irish paedos love TikTok, while Belgian sickos seem to prefer Snapchat.
I was shocked to see the number of reports for child sex abuse material on TikTok, so I went on the platform and typed in “little girl dancing” and found very disturbing content within seconds. Roblox, to my extreme surprise, was very low down on the list for the number of reports. This could be because the company has had to clamp down after negative attention. Or perhaps, the company and its users are simply not alerting the authorities of the images and videos of CSAM that they come across. Either way, keep your kids off these apps. Nightmare juice.
Albania has two legal gender recognition court challenges ongoing. This matters for EU accession
Luana Myrto is an Albanian man who claims to be a woman. In 2025, he caused drama when he went on TV and alleged that he had been taken into care as a minor by LGBT support groups and shelters (including the EU-funded Aleanca LGBT), who then manipulated and pressured him into hormone therapy and transition. He also said that he was made promises of educational support that were not kept, and that the activists isolated him from his family.
This kicked off a storm, with LGBTIQ support groups denying his claims. Conservative groups saw him as a kind of whistleblower, revealing the sneaky tactics of the rainbow lobby.
However, Myrto still insists he is a trans woman (though he does not deny his biological reality) and is currently taking legal action against the Albanian civil registry for legal gender recognition. He is being supported by the (EU-funded) Helsinki Committee.
Simultaneously, Aleanca LGBTI started their own strategic litigation case seeking legal recognition of a trans woman’s gender identity before in a court in Tirana.
The lack of any kind of legal gender recognition in Albania has been highlighted as a potential blocker for EU accession negotiations. A positive outcome in either of these strategic cases will advance the country’s EU membership ambitions, which are under pressure to succeed thanks to the EU's current, ahem, geopolitical concerns.
Who can we thank?
This is a new feature in which I put a face and a name to the faceless nameless people responsible for removing women and girls’ sex-based rights in Europe, and/or for advancing the destruction of gay and lesbians’ rights (and bodies, and mental health) and everyone’s ability to speak freely about how dumb and dangerous it all is.
First up is Susanne Knoefel, head of unit in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers, JUST D.1. This is the unit responsible for non-discrimination, LGBTIQ+, age, and “horizontal matters”. During her tenure, Knoefel has overseen the production of several extremely damaging and anti-woman, anti-gay initiatives, including the LGBTIQ Equality Strategies of 2020-2025 and 2026-2030, various publications monitoring trans mania implementation across member states, the transing of national equality bodies, and lots of intersectional nonsense. She’s a close buddy of the folx over at ILGA-Europe, to the point where she doesn’t even list all their little get-togethers, soirees, chit-chats and chummy chinwags.
What’s a transparency register between friends!
In other news…
No jail for rapists (France)
No jail for rapists (Belgium)
No jail for rapists (Belgium again)
No jail for rapist (Germany)
Irish government wants to help get rainbow families bill over the line during Council presidency
German court currently considering whether calling a man a man is a civil rights violation
You cannot convince me the Belgian kit for the World Cup is not a sneaky trans promo
Another sex clown likes collecting, watching child rape (Germany)
Bulgarian woman challenges “gender-based” domestic violence law that excludes lesbian couples
Man in woman’s eSports (Germany)
Euractiv asks: are EU’s Citizens’ Initiatives a crock of shit? (spoiler: yeah)
Rome Pride bans Jewish groups for not distancing themselves from
Criminal charges against Budapest mayor for organising Pride events have been dropped
A law blog is claiming that the Slovakian government told the EU to “piss off” (paraphrasing) interfering with national identity issues including sex self-ID
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A roll call of the transgender steamroller moving remorselessly through our European societies, but pleased to read of the reluctance of some politicians at least to shoulder the responsibility for the damage that will be created by its progress. Thank you for all your work in assembling this evidence,
It looks like Slovakia is a place I want to visit.