The gender ideologues at the United Nations are gaslighting women on a global scale.
Now the United Nations is gaslighting lesbians. This week, the UN’s gender-equality organisation, UN Women, seized upon International Lesbian Day to admonish us. ‘Remember’, it declared in a post on X (formerly Twitter), ‘trans lesbians are lesbians, too’.
The term ‘gaslighting’ can feel overused these days. It comes from one of Ingrid Bergman’s most iconic roles in the 1944 film, Gaslight. Bergman plays Paula, the beautiful, distraught wife of Gregory, who sets out to drive her mad. He fiddles with the lights, turning them brighter and dimmer while denying he has done so – the visual metaphor for his psychological torture of her.
The film gave us the word ‘gaslighting’, where misrepresentations of reality are repeated in an attempt to make people accept lies and think they are going mad. This insidious tactic has been employed particularly aggressively by gender ideologues, who repeat the mantra that ‘transwomen are women’.
Unfortunately, the strategy has proven successful. We recently learned that a third of the UK population think that ‘transgender women’ were born female, rather than male. Or at least, they aren’t sure whether transwomen were born male or female.
To be clear, the ‘trans lesbians’ the UN refers to are men who self-identify as women and who are attracted to women. In other words, they are heterosexual men. The vast majority of them remain physically intact as males. For a supposed women’s organisation to declare that these men can be lesbians really is gaslighting on a grand scale.
R&I – TP
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