Pornography is not only, as Andrea Dworkin observed, where the Left went to die. It’s also where the trans-identified generation was born—and where their ghoulish cheerleaders reside. From girls binding and cutting their way out of womanhood to boys who find arousal and solace in cross-dressing, the architects of pornography’s mega-platforms program both its viewers’ desires and their very identities.
The idea that pornography is a tool to help people uncover their true sexuality is an inversion. Armies of developers like Rice are paid to sustain users’ attention, to keep them online, and thus to pull them away from who they are, locking them into niche fetishes that can never be realized with a real person.
Our society has utterly failed to protect the first generation to have come of age under the pornocracy. Though it may be uncomfortable, we must listen to their stories—and then take steps to make sure today’s children and adolescents aren’t lured down the same path.
Efforts to engineer tastes have been phenomenally successful; the market for trans porn is booming. Pornhub’s 2024 Year in Review reports that interest in the “Transgender” category is rising worldwide: “Trans” was the sixth most-searched category among men and the ninth among women. Many users of this content are now attesting that it changed them—and not for the better.
Ascribing trans identities to children is in itself a sexual fetish. So-called “egg chasers,” often older, predatory men, give advice to “crack the shells” of youngsters they consider latently trans, encouraging them to come out as the opposite sex. Details from the trial of queer activist Stephen Ireland revealed that the convicted child rapist—sentenced to thirty years—shared grotesque fantasies with his boyfriend about dosing boys with estrogen and using suction cups on their chests to mimic breast growth.
Investigative journalist Genevieve Gluck, co-founder of Reduxx, has documented pornographic subcultures in which men share these dark desires. She has uncovered forums devoted to the castration of children—some advocating chemical means, others orchidectomy—and traced links between figures in these circles and policy-work that has influenced global clinical guidelines for trans-identifying patients. In Gluck’s view, transgenderism and pornography are aspects of the sex industry—the former sells sex as an act; the latter sells sex as a product.
Today’s newest “dolls” have been failed by older generations too timid to take a moral stance on pornography. They have been preyed on by pornographers and exploited by a minority of men pursuing their twisted fantasies about “trans” children. If there is a duty of care, it is first to the children being targeted and then—reluctantly—to the men already captured by this machinery, to stop them doing further harm to themselves and others. That means saying no to policies that turn womanhood into a fetish and rejecting the idea that men who perform fragility are in any way vulnerable.
Protect the dolls, yes—but from themselves. And protect our kids, full stop.
Source: “Protect the Dolls”: The Porn to Trans Pipeline – Fairer Disputations