This is the 3rd in my ‘time savers’ series, for activists who are horrified to see the same hollow arguments of the gender ideology cult doing the rounds again. Thanks to JH for drawing my attention to this one.

As always seems to happen, an example turned up on a local page and exasperated a friend of mine within a few hours of my reading that. The culprit in this case posted a whole series of statements that have been demonstrated to be false time and time again, each followed by a link to what they thought was ‘proof’ of the point.

In this case, it’s a technique rather than a dodgy fact we’re looking at — the point being, although they are familiar fallacies (you’ve been on the campaign for the last decade. They are old news), you can’t be expected to spend hours and hours wading through a load of articles to refute them, even though we know you could refute them all.

[No, seriously, if you think there’s still any doubt, you simply haven’t looked into the matter yet. Those of us who’ve been on the campaign have the receipts. No-one is born in the wrong body, puberty blockers for gender-confused kids have been a disaster and the ‘transwomen are women’ line has been an invitation to frauds and predators, who have created well-documented nightmares for everyone from hostel and refuge managers to prison governors, as well as for those trans sexual people who were just getting on with life their own way before the gender-ideology cult reared its head.]

If one of those desperate screeds turns up on a page you care about, first consider this: no one is any more likely than you are to click all those links and spend the whole day reading. If a True Believer sees the post, they’ll run their eye down it and go ‘yeah’. No change there. Anyone else is just going to think the culprit must be pretty obsessive, and ignore it. If however, it’s someone you would like to persuade — or the page has users you don’t want to see fooled — here’s the quick fix:

They’ve posted all those links because they either can’t be bothered to, or else know they’re not capable of, actually explaining all those points themselves so you just need to choose one point and put one simple statement or question that counters it in as a comment. Insist on having that conversation on the page — “no, I’d really like to know what you think about X”, or “how you came to believe Y…”

Make sure it’s a topic you know well, so you can argue it out if they take it up but they probably won’t, so you can then cast doubt over the whole screed by putting a (nice, short, straightforward) refutation of that one point on the page where it can be seen.

This is the third of the time savers series. Here are numbers one and number two…

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