Foreword to The War on Gender This is the Foreword from my forthcoming book The War on Gender in which I critique the modern movement to the deconstruction of gender. I 'm transsexual and I went through my transition from male to female in the 1980s. Things have changed a lot since then and I'm grateful for the greater acceptance that people such as myself have won over the years. Yet the genderqueer and radical trans activists who are currently seeking to destroy the model of gender which suits and satisfies over 99.5% of the population worldwide do not represent my views, or to my knowledge the views of many successfully transitioned transsexuals whose only desire was to pass in their preferred gender and disappear into society. The idea of changing societal norms about what gender is or how it should be expressed was never an intention of mine and indeed to seek to do so would be entirely antithetical to my own path of trying to find a mea...
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The Jeremy Clarkson Postulate This is an advance showing of part of a chapter from my shortly to be released book The War on Gender No offence or insult is intended to Jeremy Clarkson I n the past, trans identity was something on the edge, something which was beyond the limit of most people’s experience. And why should it have been anything else? As this phenomenon gradually climbed over the horizon of common awareness, those who found the easiest acceptance were those who, whether through good fortune from nature, or through greater diligence, have fitted best into the conventional world. I knew that the more I put into it, the more I would get out. Today however, we have devolved to a point where the mere claiming of an identity is supposed to command respect. This is why I put forward what I call The Jeremy Clarkson Postulate. Gender theorists argue th...
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