How pornography forged the trans movement

It is impossible to separate the influence of pornography from the gender-identity movement, as both are aspects of the sex industry. The gender-identity industry sells ‘sex’ as a noun – supposedly allowing a male to ‘become’ a female (and vice versa) through surgeries and hormones. Whereas the pornography industry sells ‘sex’ as a verb.

Gender identity conceptually reduces women to sexist stereotypes, or a fantasy in a man’s head. It is also an ideology that uniquely redefines womanhood – and to a lesser degree, manhood – as the living embodiment of pornography.

So intertwined are transgenderism and pornography that the man responsible for coining the term ‘gender identity’, John Money, argued that young children should be shown explicit pornography in order to assist them in their ‘transition’, despite his somewhat contradictory assertion that one’s sense of being male or female becomes innate and fixed at an early age. For Money, the concept of a ‘gender role’ relied heavily on what feminists had previously called ‘sex-role stereotypes’, but also on sexual interactions themselves.

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