Documentary review: Beyond The Aggressives: 25 Years Later

Despite Peddle’s flex that the progressiveness of gender identity ideology (aka queer theory) liberated these women, they are just older and a little bit wiser. Less angry. Time has worked its natural effect, basically. Obviously Chin Tsui has fared worst, since, as a direct result of trans activism’s impact on detention policy, she experienced 18 months of unnecessary solitary confinement. These women, born with the deficits of poverty plus childhood trauma, ran head first into queer theory when they came out. ‘Beyond aggressive’ they might be, but they’re still chasing their own tails.

‘Learn what life is like for transgender teens’

Lambeth Libraries have made the documentary shorts of The Youth and Gender Media Project, an initiative founded by filmmaker Jonathan Skurnik, free to view for library members and invited him to talk on the topic. Skurnik started the project because he wanted children who didn’t conform to ‘gender roles’ to feel valued, the upshot of which is that he was probably the first filmmaker to spread uncritical information about medical and surgical transition for children across North America. He made four films on this subject, as part of the Youth and Gender Media Project, over a ten year period, starting in 2010.

Documentary review: Heightened Scrutiny

Beginning with portentous music and court scenes, Heightened Scrutiny follows the story of pip-squeak lawyer, Chase Strangio, a trans-identified female working for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as she attempts to persuade the courts – and us – that GnRH agonists are, in fact, life saving healthcare for pre- and -pubescent children. A vast array of talking heads are employed throughout, who are mostly media persons, all onside the trans activist narrative. The main message: Bodily autonomy, first. Of course, the nebulous-sounding ‘trans bodies’ are under attack and the threat of violence and suicide ever present.

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