Peaked

A podcast about gender identity ideology, women's rights, and free speech in the EU. peaked.substack.com

What's wrong with Belgium? 02/11/2026

What's wrong with Belgium? 🎙️ Peaked — Episode 3 What’s Wrong With Belgium? Host: Róisín Michaux Guest: Suzy Eeckelaerts Full Episode: https://peaked.substack.com/p/premium-belgiums-vip-knickerhon-cant Episode Overview In this episode of Peaked, I speak with Suzy Eeckelaerts, a Belgian lecturer in biotechnology, about how gender identity ideology became embedded in Belgian law, public institutions, and cultural norms and why resistance to it has taken a markedly different shape than in other European countries. Our conversation explores Belgium’s legal framework on sex self-identification, the country’s distinctive culture of non-interference, and a recent controversy at Ghent University that raised questions about academic integrity, leadership accountability, and media silence. We examine how law, education, medicine, and journalism interact in practice and why Belgium’s response to these issues can feel opaque or immovable to outsiders. A central section of the episode focuses on Petra De Sutter — Belgian politician, former Deputy Prime Minister, fertility specialist, and appointed rector of Ghent University — and a controversy surrounding an acceptance speech containing incorrect quotations later linked to AI-generated text. Key Topics Discussed Belgium’s 2007 and 2017 gender recognition laws Legal sex versus biological sex in policy and institutions Cultural norms of “live and let live” in Flemish society Why public opposition looks different in Belgium than in Ireland or the UK Women’s sport, single-sex spaces, and institutional obligations Academic freedom and governance at Ghent University The AI-generated speech controversy involving Petra De Sutter Media framing, avoidance, and limits of public debate About the Guest Suzy Eeckelaerts is a Belgian lecturer with a focus on biology, reproduction, and scientific reasoning. In addition to her teaching and research work, Suzy has contributed to public debate in Belgium on sex-based rights, women’s sport, and the relationship between biology and public policy. She has written opinion responses in the Belgian press and has collaborated with contributors associated with Athena Forum, a European network focused on evidence-based policy and sex-based rights. Suzy speaks in a personal capacity in this episode and distinguishes her own views from those of the host where they differ. Historical & Legal Context: Gender Law in Belgium The episode references two major legal developments: the 2007 Transsexual Law and the 2017 Gender Recognition Reform, which removed medical requirements and introduced legal sex change by declaration. 🔗 Overview (historical context): 🔗 Administrative explanation (Flanders): 🔗 Legal overview: Key References 🔗 Petra De Sutter — Public Profile 🔗 Ghent University official response to incorrect AI quotes Statement by UGent about the incorrect quotations in the speech. ➡️ 🔗 Brussels Times — AI Quote Controversy 🔗 Apache (Investigative Journalism, Dutch) 🔗 VRT News (Public Broadcaster, Dutch) Dutch language video reporting that the Rector used AI-generated quotes. ➡️ Guest Resources & Links 🔗 X (Twitter): @SEeckelaerts Webinar on women in sports 🔗 Athena Forum Host — Róisín Michaux 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and all major podcast platforms. If you value careful, independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/40069190

Why Do So Many Trans Women Have a Humiliation Kink? 02/03/2026

Why Do So Many Trans Women Have a Humiliation Kink? 🎙️ Peaked Why Do So Many Trans Women Have a Humiliation Kink? Host: Róisín Michaux Guest: Sissy JoyceSubstack: 🎙️ Episode Overview In this episode, I speak with Sissy Joyce, a Belgian sissy fetishist, content creator and self-identified trans woman, about the uncomfortable and unspoken overlap between identifying as a woman and masochism. We talk openly about humiliation kinks, submission, pornography, sex self-ID laws, single-sex spaces, sports, prisons, and why so many women feel instinctively alarmed by the cultural direction of gender identity politics. This is not a neat or polite discussion. It is a necessary one. 🔍 Context & Analysis This episode reflects a core concern running through Peaked: that women’s material reality is being overridden by the needs and demands of men like Joyce, who insists that being trans is separate from sexual fetishism, including in public policy. Women who object to sex self-ID are often portrayed as hateful or fearful, yet many objections stem from long-standing safeguarding norms, lived experience of male violence, and an understanding of sexual dynamics. This episode is not about personal animosity. It is about consequences. ⏱️ Episode Structure (Approximate) 00:00–06:00 – Introduction and framing of the conversation 06:00–15:00 – How Joyce and I came into contact and early disagreements 15:00–25:00 – Trans women in sports and the meaning of fairness 25:00–35:00 – Sex self-ID, legal documents, and unintended consequences 35:00–50:00 – Bathrooms, public spaces, fear, and safeguarding 50:00–65:00 – Fetishism, humiliation, pornography, and identity 65:00–85:00 – Passing, public perception, and psychological strain 85:00–110:00 – Final reflections on sexuality, boundaries, and reality 🧠 Key Themes & Discussion Points What a “sissy” humiliation or submission kink is and how it manifests The overlap between sexual fetishism and gender identity narratives Why many men begin their gender journeys through erotic role-play The symbolic role of women as “submission” within certain male fetishes Whether gender identity is rooted in evidence or belief Why women object to sex self-ID laws beyond personal prejudice Single-sex spaces, toilets, prisons, and safeguarding concerns Trans-identified males in women’s sports and the limits of fairness “Passing”, visibility, and the psychological toll of public performance Why women’s objections are often framed as hatred rather than boundaries Pornography’s influence on modern gender ideology ⚠️ Content Note This episode contains explicit discussion of sexual fetishes, pornography, gender identity, and violence. Listener discretion is advised. 📝 Editorial Note This episode is presented in full, without sanitisation. The views expressed by the guest are his own. The purpose of this conversation is critical examination, not endorsement. 🔗 Guest Resources — Sissy Joyce 📸 Instagram: (personal social profile) 🛍️ The Sissy Market (store): (online shop with apparel & accessories) 📍 Store address: Vaartstraat 163, 2490 Balen, Belgium (physical store location) 📧 Store contact: Support@sissymarket.com (store support email Host — Róisín Michaux 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and major podcast platforms. If you value independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/39979325

The Conversion Therapy Vote 01/24/2026

The Conversion Therapy Vote 🎙️ Peaked Reports of conversion therapy are "completely exaggerated" Host: Róisín Michaux Guest: Kurt Krickler Link (free version): https://peaked.substack.com/p/reports-of-conversion-therapy-are?r=1numbu Episode Overview Kurt Krickler is a lifelong gay rights advocate who worked with the lobbying organisation ILGA-Europe from its earliest days. He was an ILGA volunteer before they even added the L, never mind the T, the Q or the I (or the worryingly ambiguous “plus+”). He watched the organisation’s evolution from a group of scrappy activists to what it is today: a multi-million euro, multi-tentacled monster that fights to deny sex-based protections, where Kurt once fought to establish them. Having left ILGA when their mission creeped, Kurt has been pulled out of activist retirement to try to undo some of their more recent damage. He is one of the founding members of Athena Forum, a Vienna-based organisation that seeks to play ILGA at their own game: namely, lobbying the institutions that have been completely captured — inside and out — in order to return some sense to policy and law on a European level. In particular, there’s a vote coming up in the next few days in the Council of Europe on a , introduced by a UK Labour MP, to ban “conversion therapy”. This conversion therapy ban gambit is now a long-standing LGBTIQ+ advocacy goal, and it’s not what it looks like. In the crudest terms, this resolution, if it were to be obeyed by Council of Europe member states, would make it extremely difficult to talk to a young person who has fallen into the gender identity trap. As such, it is a menace to young same-sex attracted (and gender non-conforming) people. Read more about the campaign on and if you’re in one of the 46 member states implicated, you can get involved. What we talked about What the Council of Europe is and how it differs from the European Union Why non-binding resolutions still matter politically and legally How “conversion therapy” has expanded far beyond its historical meaning The chilling effect on therapists working with gender-distressed patients How activists use things like non-binding resolutions to influence national legislation Problems with data integrity in EU-funded LGBTIQ discrimination research The institutional evolution of ILGA and the emergence of alternative advocacy voices Why Kurt co-founded Athena Forum and what it seeks to change About the guest Kurt Krickler is an Austrian gay rights activist who has been involved in European and international advocacy since the late 1970s. He co-founded Homosexuelle Initiative Wien (HOSI Wien) in 1979 and later served on the board of ILGA-Europe, including as Co-Secretary General from 1996 to 2003. After ILGA-Europe shifted its focus to gender identity to the detriment of its gay rights focus, Kurt helped co-founded Athena Forum in 2025, an organisation focused on sex-based rights, evidence-based policy, and engagement with European institutions. During the conversation, we reference a key moment in EU legal history: the inclusion of sexual orientation as a protected ground in the Treaty of Amsterdam, which came into force in 1999. A widely cited ILGA-Europe publication from that period, (1999), documents how this treaty change transformed LGBT advocacy in Europe and enabled EU-level anti-discrimination legislation and funding for NGOs. This shift marked the beginning of ILGA-Europe’s permanent institutional presence in Brussels and fundamentally changed the scale and scope of European LGBT lobbying. Why This Vote Matters Although Council of Europe resolutions are not legally binding, they are routinely used by advocacy organizations and policymakers to justify: National legislation Professional and regulatory guidelines Criminal sanctions Litigation strategies As Kurt explains, once such resolutions exist, they become reference points in parliamentary debates, ministerial briefings, and court arguments across Europe. Key Organisations & Resources 🔗 Peaked (Podcast & Writing) 🔗 Athena Forum 🔗 Council of Europe – Draft Resolution on Conversion Practices 🔗 ILGA-Europe – After Amsterdam: Sexual Orientation and the European Union (1999) 🔗 EU Fundamental Rights Agency – LGBTIQ Survey (2024) Host — Róisín Michaux (Verified Links) 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 PayPal donate link 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and major podcast platforms. If you value independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/39862510

Faika El-Nagashi: former Green MP goes TERFing in Brussels 03/14/2025

Faika El-Nagashi: former Green MP goes TERFing in Brussels You wait and you wait and you wait for some handsomely-subsidised professional EU woman’s rights organisation to invite gender critical women to the table for a discussion, and then a beats them to the chase. Oh well. I would have much preferred the “gender mainstreaming” people of the (€12 million in EU funding, at ) to pull on their big girl pants and address the most important women’s issue of the past few decades, but nah. Too busy putting together powerpoints on the meaning of “gender budgeting”. And what about the women’s rights committee in the European Parliament? Women got a massive dopamine hit when the Spanish socialist party came out last year with a new “roadmap” that suggested they were in favour of the old-fashioned “women-are-real” political position (how far we’ve fallen). The document even mentioned protecting women’s sports categories. Even better, a member of that party, Lina Galvez, was selected to lead the women’s committee in the EU parliament in Brussels. The fact that elected alongside her is swivel-eyed trans rights fanatic Irene Montero means that any pro-reality positions will likely be tempered. But after years in the desert, it was still very cheering to see a left wing organisation of any type saying something sensible at the EU level. We can thank Spain’s formidable and long-standing (and loud) second-wave feminists for the pressure they applied on the Socialists. Well done, ladies. Who is Faika El-Nagashi? Faika is an Austrian member of the Green party who lost her seat in her national parliament in the most recent elections. She has been unpopular among her Green party colleagues ever since she started to terf out on main, starting when she where she laid out the problem with ceding women’s words and identities to men with a paraphilia called transvestic fetishism. She is a constant target of the pro-gender activists in her home country. She was even that she helped build. Faika is a difficult one for the identity-obsessed Left because she ticks all their favourite intersectional boxes: lesbian, “rainbow parent”, with a migrant background, lefty in all the ways that matter except this one…. She’s also been an activist for progressive causes her entire adult life, having even worked for the demonic ILGA-Europe (before they turned demonic). That means the usual smears of racism, anti-gender conformity etc. etc. simply roll off her (such an immature way to do politics — I can’t wait for this dumb era to be behind us). Faika wants to bring criticism of transgender ideology to the European institutions. She’s coming to Brussels next week to talk about it, alongside Stella O’Malley of Genspect and Ashley Frawley, a fellow of the Hungarian think-tank MCC Brussels who are hosting the event. Yeah yeah MCC are linked to the Hungarian government. The radfem WhatsApps are aglow with hand-wringing. But the women we elected to represent us have shunned us for years. It’s important to note that not all women in this big, hodge-podge, cobbled-together TERF movement are left wing (one of our biggest strengths, tbf) and most of us have had all our f***s depleted after years in the wilderness. In short: I don’t care. Many thanks to MCC Brussels and director for hosting us and letting Faika and Stella get their voices out there. If you can help Faika get an audience with some of the women’s rights orgs and individuals who have chosen to remain silent on the most egregious affront to women and girls of our lifetimes, and who are finally ready to face the issue, please do get in touch. Enjoy the interview, and please share widely if you can. : MCC Brussels livestream link (event Monday 17/03 at 6.30pm Brussels time): Get full access to Peaked at /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/39810155

Tribe Over Truth in Taiwan 09/22/2024

Tribe Over Truth in Taiwan 🎙️ Peaked Tribe Over Truth in Taiwan Host: Róisín Michaux 🎙️ Episode Overview I have a daily Google alert for online mentions of the phrase “” and a couple of weeks ago, I got an alert that . Fresh off the Taiwanese boxing Olympic scandal, I was curious to see if it was being used in the context of noted bloke Lin Yu Ting’s defeat over female boxers in Paris. An American expat called Jaclynn Joyce was mentioned in the article as one of Taiwan’s “anti-gender movement actors”. When I looked her up, I found out she’s a feminist academic. , , and she’s opposed to the erasure of women as a sex class, just like me. . So I contacted her to tell her she had been listed as a major player in the anti-gender movement of her adopted country, and it turned out it’s a concept she had never even heard of. Fellow professional bigotress then spotted that the article had been sponsored by a (I don’t know his real name but all transvestites are “Dave” until proven otherwise.) Stryker is a big wheel down at the gender factory. He wrote some important that gets cited a lot. Also, in the early aughts, he teamed up with Wythenshawe’s hardest-working lesbophobe, a lesbian called Stephen Whittle, and together that atempted to blend rabildly horny transvestites and Vichy lezzers into one big vague “transgender” puree. So what is the “anti-gender movement” that Jaclynn was unknowingly the ringleader of? It is (or was) a kind of catch-all term for anyone with conservative views of the family, reproduction, and sexuality. The term started to be used in the 90s when conservatives were confronted with feminists’ use of the analytical concept of “gender” to talk about the causes of inequality between men and women. Gender was gradually being introduced in the context of the huge UN conferences that dealt with population “management” aka women’s fertility, and the poverty that comes with failing to control it. The Vatican delegation to these conferences had been keeping an eye on family-wrecking feminists, and they called this newfangled idea “gender ideology”. They came out firmly against it, claiming men and women were sorted by God and nature into Tarzan (capable, strong, rational, finds food) and Jane (little, quiet, simple, organises food into sandwiches) and the idea that anything about society was artificially constructed was laughable. Feminists, in turn, started to call the conservative protagonists “anti-gender actors”. Which is weird, because you would think they would also be against gender, being as it is a set of suffocating and limiting stereotypes and expectations? It’s complicated. Indeed, many people have wondered why feminists stopped talking about women and men and start talking about gender instead. One explanation I’ve read is that it was an effort to de-shrillify the discourse, and get taken seriously by the men in suits who had controlled the conversation since basically forever. Gender took the nagginess out of describing male dominance over women, in that it’s very polite about the perpetrators of a problem. It would be like rebranding femicide simply “murder” because you don’t want to nag the femicidaires. You wouldn’t want to remind the master of the universe of his bitch wife, would you? (“I get enough of this from ‘er indoors!” the men exclaim, filling the Geneva conference chamber with cigar smoke and spittle.) Whatever. It was a gradual takeover: the word gender (a kind of international bill of women’s rights) — though in that instance, it seems to have been used to refer to biological sex. By 1994, the was gender-free. But by the time the Beijing conference on women came around the following year, in 1995, the word was dotted all through the conference declaration. In the annex to the Beijing declaration, however, conservatives made sure to note that it had been agreed that gender referred to the ye olde binary of men and women, aka a polite synonym for sex. But ever since Beijing, all bets are off. It’s now wall-to-wall gender. As we all know, today’s elite-overproduced professional feminists have fallen back in love with stereotypes and rather than tear them down , they build entire careers by signing on to the troonterpretation of gender, which is: girl is when skirt go spinny. So while gender once denoted roles imposed on people with female bodies, it now refers to putting tits on men so they can act out feminine social roles. For boners. This is shit for women, but it makes autogynephiles feel less bad about their weird sexual kink, and it gives young girls a way scarier way to act out their angst than even cutting or anorexia, given that neither of those social contagions involved anyone else’s misery beyond their own. Anyway, up until very recently, “the anti-gender movement” had a fairly fixed cast of characters: Vatican movers and shakers, Eastern European hard men, as well as American evangelicals and their neocolonial African prey. But since 2020-ish, this group of baddies has been expanded to scoop up all kinds of people who object to progressive overreach in the “sexual and reproductive rights” domain. It now includes people like me; gender critical feminists, non-compliant gays, even older castrati who think non-binary is nonsense. I have seen it also being used to describe anyone opposed to things like decriminalisation of prostitution, the mainstreaming of sexual fetish movements, or commercial surrogacy. It gets bundled in with , too. Someone even claimed that the anti-gender movement is a against the devolution of power from countries to internationalbodies. First of all, I am a total EU-tard. Secondly, what the fuck does my extreme ick about men like or have to do with international diplomacy? Do they think people jump from: “I read an article about (a facility she would never have the joy of using) to: the UN security council has too much power, we need to return sovreignty to the states! This mission has creeped. Taiwan So anyway, the article from New Bloom alleged that Taiwanese researchers had committed ethical and methodologial misconduct relating to a paper published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour. What was the problem? The research paper had revealed that Taiwanese people are underwhelmed by the idea of self-ID, to put it very gently. This is a very bad outcome for genderists, obviously, and they attacked the survey the authors had used (claiming it was a biased sample). But the article was peer reviewed, the journal is pretty respected (as far as I am aware), and Jaclynn contacted the lead author who confirmed that she had not heard of any issues from the editors or reviewers. The fact that the article was in some way sponsored by an American philanthropic organisation to spread the “anti-gender movement” narrative to Taiwan is very worrying but not surprising. Because about 2 years ago, when I first found out that researchers and activists were beginning to fold TERFs into the retro anti-gender actors trope, I started to see the phrase popping up in funding programmes. Philanthropic organisations were starting to hand out cash for NGOs to study us, and the only handy conceptual nook they could find into which to shove us was this pre-existing conservative one (the main org involved in this is the ). This is despite the fact that many of the very same women who are being called “anti-gender” were the same crewcut lesbians that proposed and championed “gender” in the first place. It’s such a crazy stretch, but how else can we be categorised without ruining the LGBTQ globo-troon brand? The . The ads looking for “anti-gender” consultants are also on the rise. And every time I get an alert for this phrase, I check if TERFs are included in the definition, or if it’s the old school holy rollers. Overwhelmingly, we are included. The same trans derangements are replicated in rich countries all over the world, and Taiwan is no exception. Jaclynn very patiently gave me an overview of the local trans-TERF scene and told me that, despite popular opposition to self-ID (it’s a big sauna culture), Taiwanese people will not hear a single bad word spoken about Lin Yu Ting, the male Olympic FOMP (female on my passport) boxer who is very much a female woman with XX chromosomes, according to the very sensitive penninsular plebs. Very disappointing, obviously, but it’s clear that there are some things that are more important than being reasonable, and even more important than being considered part of the cultural elite: national identity (especially given - gulp - China) Myself and Jaclynn talked about how it’s practically impossible to break down this tribal barrier and then we ended up getting into it about how homophobic the “third gender” cultural concept is, the mahu in Jaclynn’s home turf of Hawaii, GAMPs, and how (according to JJ) giving men everything their groin desires is never a good idea. By the way, I tried to find out if gender was borrowed directly from sexology’s study of men who claimed to be women (), which is just too fucking horrific to think about. What’s clear is that in her very famous 1970 PhD dissertation, Sexual Politics (waaaay before Judith Butler types). What, exactly, was the influence of the study of autogynephiles on feminist theorising of gender? Was it already a synonym for sex by the 70s, related as it is to feminine and masculine nouns in language? Please do let me know if you have any knowledge on the subject. Having avoided feminist theory and writings forever, I would love to have the TLDR. Time is (John) Money. Host — Róisín Michaux 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and major podcast platforms. If you value independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/40017265

Ireland: new priestly caste, new child abuse scandal 09/17/2025

Ireland: new priestly caste, new child abuse scandal Maryann’s 15-year-old daughter is currently deep in the grip of a delusion that she is a boy. She, along with some of her friends, has been like that for two years already, but Maryann, a no-nonsense mother from working-class Dublin, has made absolutely clear to her little girl that she was having none of it - no binders, no hormones, no fake names. She was the second Irish woman I had met who had a daughter in this situation (the other mother’s child desisted, thankfully) and I think her testimony is useful for others who are perhaps under the impression that the ROGD phenomenon is not affecting Irish kids. Maryann agreed to talk to me because she is starting to feel really desperate. She has lost some of the fear that speaking out would alienate her daughter and make the situation worse (you hear about this ever-present fear often from women in the same situation). She said something during our interview that I really hadn’t considered before: I assumed that the biggest threat to these girls (and, less obviously, boys) was that as they approach 18, they would be scheming and planning to procure hormones and surgeries for the moment they are beyond the legal guardianship of their parents (they “hit the ground running,” as I’ve heard describe it). And yes, that danger is very real; there is an Irish Facebook group for dysphoric girls and it is full of “trans mascs” and “non-binary” girls arranging for the day they turn 18 and can start shopping for GPs, endocrinologists and psychiatrists who will grant them their diagnoses and T shots. One of the most popular discussions revolves around plans to fly abroad, most often to Spain, Poland, Greece and Lithuania, to get their breasts removed. Madrid is home to the most popular (read: cheapest, closest, and least scrupulous) plastic surgeon, Dr Jesus Lago, who will operate on young women without a psychiatric diagnosis. Dr Lago and his “informed consent” grift is such a hit among Irish trans youth that someone even set up a separate Facebook group called “Dr Jesus Lago’s Disciples”, where you can learn all about the procedure and recovery, and check out all the gruesome healing scars and choose which “style” of nipple placement is your fave. You can also find out where to get a decent Air BnB, and all about the public transport and sightseeing options near the clinic. Dr Lago does a roaring trade among young autistic Irish lesbians. Not dystopian at all. Irish patients often discuss paying for these procedures with financial help from the cross-border directive, an EU-derived law that allows patients to claim insurance reimbursement for surgical procedures not available at home, whether because they are not carried out or because the waiting list is too long. There are indeed surgeons who will carry out mastectomies on young Irish women convinced they are men, but they seem to require a doctor’s sign-off, according to the members in the Facebook group. But Maryann’s daughter is only 15, so all of that is a long way off, surely. There are a whole three years left for her to snap back to reality, saving her from Dr Lago’s butchering block - a promising potential luxury that mothers of 17-year-olds don’t have. Surely, then, there’s nothing immediate to worry about? But what does it do to a child, during one of the most important stages of her brain and identity development, to be plugged into a deep-set delusion - for years - that she is the opposite sex? To be convinced that she is moving through the world in the incorrect body, and that her parents are evil for not seeing it, for not accepting it, and for not making an effort to help her “fix” nature’s error? This is what scares Maryann, and it’s what reduces her to tears. What state will her little girl’s mental health be in if and when she crashes? What is happening inside her poor, confused, vulnerable brain? Why is her school, the state, the media, corporations, the entire non-profit sector colluding to mentally torture her - and thousands like her - in this bizarre, unforgivable way? It’s child abuse. At a recent conference in Dublin organised by the , the mother of a desisted girl spoke about the “deprogramming” process her child went through. The girl thought she was a boy for three whole years; it took 18 months, her mother said, to bring her back to reality. She was able to do this by feeding her daughter testimonies from detransitioners, as well as videos by the wonderful on the non-airbrushed reality of the graphic nature of “gender affirming care”. But she also spoke about a phenomenon in cult deprogramming whereby the deprogrammee seems to “float” sporadically back into the delusion, thanks to perhaps a memory or a snippet of a song or other signal that relates to their former beliefs. It sounded terrifying. Where are all the women’s mag editors? Not a single parenting magazine, mommy blogger or family lifestyle weekend supplement editor has dared broach the very real phenomenon of the isolated, scared mother of the sudden-onset “trans kid”, who is forced to watch as her beautiful child gets sucked into this pervasive cult of self-deception. The , and any resistance to the constant, state-sponsored propaganda to do so is vilified by polite society. The non-affirming moms keep quiet about how they feel, for fear that they’ll lose everything: their job, their social circle, and not least, their relationship with their child. That’s a clue that the ROGD issue in Ireland is probably vastly underestimated. Hopefully will burst some bubbles, and more parents will come forward and speak about Ireland’s shameful new child abuse scandal, one that maims the bodies and destroys the minds of children and young people - every single one of whom is perfect exactly the way they are. The priests of the new cult- the autogynephilic men who require the existence of the “trans child” to legitimise, destigmatise and defetishise their own sexual predilection - will one day be exposed for what they are. As will the new nuns - the pious #BeKind maidens who cane the knuckles of anyone who questions the (frankly, increasingly evil-sounding) “kindness”, “tolerance” and “inclusion” dogmas. Irish society had just broken free from the perverted, robed patriarchs of the past. Here come the new crop. Can’t wait to watch them all squirm during the public inquiries and tribunals. And I hope people like Maryann will have the strength left to take a front-row seat so that everyone can learn what Ireland’s newest priestly caste has inflicted on women like her. I’m certainly not the first to compare wrongbodyism to religion. Irish academic . But I think the coverup of abuse is one facet that is often forgotten. If you ask a lapsed Catholic like meself about their biggest takeaway from Ireland’s centuries-long capture by the Catholic church, they’ll likely say the hush-hushed abuse scandals stick foremost in their minds. That’s where the trans cult is headed, too. Mark my words. I met Maryann when I flew to Ireland to document the first homegrown Let Women Speak-style event, called Women Are Speaking (yes it was a shitshow, no we were not permitted by the home-haircut crew to speak - check out some coverage of it under the #WomenAreSpeakingLimerick hashtag). My trip was supported by normies like you who help pay for my flights and hostels. Please donate to fund my jet-setting lifestyle keeping record of the grassroots TERF movement - for your granddaughters’ reading pleasure. Get full access to Peaked at /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/39810145

Germany to Vote on the Wildest Weirdest Self-ID Bill Yet 04/11/2024

Germany to Vote on the Wildest Weirdest Self-ID Bill Yet 🎙️ Peaked Germany to Vote on the Wildest Weirdest Self-ID Bill Yet Host: Róisín Michaux 🎙️ Episode Overview I reached out to and to talk about the historic vote taking place in the German Bundestag tomorrow that will allow parents to choose the sex of their newborn babies. That might sound crazy but don’t fret: the child zirself can confirm their parents’ selection once they hit the ripe and mature old age of five. This insane iteration of “legal gender by self-determination” (the news is so fresh I can’t even find an official source to link to) comes after years of intense, secretive lobbying by perhaps Europe’s most determined army of activists. They have so much money, so much access to influence… it was always going to be an uphill battle. But the activists and their mates in the legislature seem to have managed to sneak in some of the maddest provisions in any self-id law yet proposed. According to Rona, there will be new non-binary option - coupled with allowing parents to select their child’s legal sex, I think we can expect lots of woke weirdos declaring the arrival of their enby offspring. I’m cringing already. The law will also allow you can change your “gender” as often as you want - but you must wait a sensible (?) 12 months in between each change, and there are “forced outing” provisions that conceal the identity of criminals that would send a shiver down any normal person’s spine. They also told me about proposed updates to the conversion therapy law that will go after parents, and the introduction of new tattle-tale centres where you can go and report a non-crime hate crime, similar to the UK’s “non-crime hate incidents”. I suspect these non-crime recordings are a ploy to gather data on the prevalence of hurty-feels-type crimes (calling a man a man, for example), setting the stage for criminal charges to be introduced further down the line. It’s all very Stasi, as Rona pointed out. For L Squad, who has been a grassroots campaigner for women and lesbian’s rights for decades, she sees it as nothing less than the demolition of German democracy: if the lawmakers put in place legislation to forbids us from saying a man is a woman, she says, where do we go from there? The developments in the UK since the release of the Cass Review have not penetrated German discourse. The two countries might as well be two different galaxies. The German medical institutions are either captured, they said, or if not captured, forced by conversion therapy bans to go along with whatever nonsense their patients come up with. It’s terribly doom and gloom. During the conversation we talked about “what happened to Rona”, so here’s the context: she is relentlessly targetted by trans activists who are trying to destroy her. She suffered a horrific time due to spurious criminal complaints - however, it galvanised people to support her. . Anyway, they will be there in force tomorrow outside the Bundestag to tell the gender-fetish-industrial-complex that they have no plan to shut up. I can’t make it because I’m going to Ireland’s first homegrown LetWomenSpeak-type event, called . Follow me on Twitter from noon tomorrow 12 April to follow shenanigans in Berlin. Courage, German women. Things are going to get worse before they get better. Woman-hate is zeitlos. Host — Róisín Michaux 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and major podcast platforms. If you value independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/40017230

Italian Girls Haven't Escaped the Gender Meatgrinder 03/17/2024

Italian Girls Haven't Escaped the Gender Meatgrinder 🎙️ Peaked Italian Girls Haven't Escaped the Gender Meatgrinder Host: Róisín Michaux 🎙️ Episode Overview Why are some countries more susceptible to the transdemic than others? There are some things about Italy, British transplant Agata Rossi told me, that might protect the country from the worst excesses of this bizarre global mind virus. Strong family bonds, lower levels of depression thanks to a healthier diet and more exposure to the sunshine — all these things might make kids more resilient to a phenomenon that preys on the already-unwell. Another anon activist told me that this only really holds true in the south of the country; the north is much more “modern”, with smaller, overworked nuclear families spending too much time indoors, staring at screens and eating trash. It is indeed, in the north of the country that the burgeoning paediatric gender medical scandal is concentrated, which Agata thinks could also have something to do with language: there are more English speakers in the north, who are thus more exposed to a trend that emerged and blossomed in the anglosphere. It was during the country’s COVID lockdown, one of the harshest in the world, that Italian girls disappeared into their bedrooms in droves and emerged claiming to be in the incorrect bodies. It raises an interesting point: there is plenty of anecdotal evidence in TERFworld that as the coronavirus circulated in the physical realm, a digitally-driven social bug was jumping from host to vulnerable host online. If academia hadn’t been so completely captured, along with the media, we might have some data on how lockdown severity correlated with the number of teenage girls deciding they’re now boys. Earlier this year, authorities in Florence opened an investigation into a duo of rogue doctors in the Careggi hospital, a psychotherapist and an endocrinologist, who were doling out triptorelin, a puberty blocker, with no psychological evaluation. Both doctors, whose names have been shared with me but who, I’m told, haven’t been named yet in the press, are members of WPATH. Just after I spoke to Agata, another story emerged from Rome wherein it was revealed that an Italian hospital had commenced prescribing triptorelin without prior approval from the ethics board. After a journalist called Assia Neumann Dayan about the Careggi case in February this year, a number of parents of trans-identifying kids wrote letters to the paper (), expressing gratitude and desperation. Other giornalistas have bravely taken on the story, too, despite the usual transphobia taunts, and you can find their Twitter handles below if you want to follow developments in the investigation. One of the people flying the flag highest for the sexual stunting of the country’s youth is an Italian mother living in Spain called Camilla Vivian, Agata tells me, who has not one but two children whose bodies suffered some kind of cosmic mismatch, ending up in the erroneous corpus. What are the chances. These woman will wreck everything not to be wrong, as . Transmomhausen is featured in , with a professional puberty-stunter whose non-trans-related academic output focusses on taming the urges of paraphiliacs using the same drug. Isolated cases, or a sign that Italy is badly infected? The country’s rainbow lobby is big and organised, though there is a decent fightback in the form of radical feminists (), an NGO that is (mercifully) full of TERFs. No-nonsense mothers, who play an important role in education as parent representatives (there’s one in every class) are another formidable firewall. In 2022, a socialist MP called Alessandro Zan introduced a self-ID bill that ultimately got rejected in the senate. Then the conservative Giorgia Meloni took power, and all bets were off. Meloni’s rise was the result of what my anon activist friend claims was the first time Italians chose their own government since the EU maneuvered Berlusconi out to make way for someone more Brussels-friendly, more than a decade ago. The cause for this latest rightward turn wasn’t just woke, or gender, or immigration, she told me. It was all of the above. People are fed up. Whatever the cause, now matriarch Meloni is here and she doesn’t fuck around. She has thwarted Zan’s gender dreams and the dreams of the organisation to which he belongs, Italy’s Stonewall — Arcigay — which seems like yet another cabal of power-gays with an inexplicable desire to erase sex from law. But the wily activists and their allies in the institutions are not going down with a fight. Despite the failure of self-ID on a federal level, a rogue Sicilian judge recently christened a man legally female, thus overriding the country’s established legal gender recognition procedure. There have been other scandals involving the introduction of woo-woo in school administrations that were quickly swatted away by the authorities. Agata also talked to me about Italy’s well-established population of Latin American transvestite prostitutes, and I posit to her my HIV/”shemale” theory of the institutionalisation of genderism. Yes, it’s my theory and I’m sticking with it (for now). Agata is a good follow. Her Twitter handle is also below. Enjoy another no-frills recording! Host — Róisín Michaux 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and major podcast platforms. If you value independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/40017200

Ireland's constitutional woman-ectomy 03/16/2024

Ireland's constitutional woman-ectomy There are many seriously insulting things about the transvestification of womanhood - one of my chief beefs is the way the acronym HRT, used to describe hormone replacement therapy for women going through the menopause, has been stolen and repurposed by men who use it for aesthetic enhancement (not that it works). First they hijacked the HRT name, then they ; the increased demand for synthetic female hormones has put intense strain on an already patchy supply. In the past few years, hormones intended for sweating, sleepless women have been rerouted to autogynephiles convinced that synthetically-induced breast buds will help them reach that gender high. (They even to complain about the shortages.) But probably even worse than all that is the way that the most vile trolling of women happens on the day purportedly to be for us and about us. Yes, we’ve reached the eve of International Women’s Day (IWD) and I am already on high alert for all the men in party shop wigs who will appear on panels, in videos, and in newspaper articles, making statements about how the day is for them, actually. The theme of IWD this year is “inclusivity”, which almost guarantees a man in a dress will be celebrated as the very bestest of women. Deep breaths, ladies. I feel like this one’s gonna be rough. Taking the trolling to never-before-achieved levels, the Irish government and its NGO army announced a few months ago that it was time to excise the Irish constitution of any mention of women - and that the referendum on the issue would be held on IWD. The reason? For 100 years or so, the text has contained a reference to women’s “duties in the home”, which at first glance seems mighty sexist. I grew up knowing vaguely about misogyny in the constitution. But I was also told that it didn’t have any real effect in the real lives of women, and that it was simply - symbolically - not ideal. But as we are learning, the offending text has a progressive interpretation that could have been deployed in legal cases throughout the decades by women who didn’t want to be pushed out to work after they had kids. The text actually makes it possible to make the case that a woman’s duties to her kids are more important to society than working (hard to argue with that). . It certainly seems part of the international effort to chip away at any and all mention of sex in law and policy. The Countess have already run to stop the removal of sexed language in Irish law before, but it’s happening in other countries too. Just this week from a piece of legislation, claiming they were just cleaning up the grammar, when someone spotted by chance that “mother” had been replaced with “parent from whom the child is born”. The pols claimed it was simply a mistake, but it seems like they thought they could get away with it. The backlash unequivocally proved they could not, and the change was undone. I spoke to Sandra Adams, the spokeswoman for the Countess, who told me that the government could have, for example, made the text less sexist by proposing to edit it to simply add fathers alongside mothers. (Another Irish campaigner, Sarah Holmes, combed through the constitution text and found 114 references to male sex pronouns that nobody seems bothered about). So is it really about evening the playing field, about making our founding legal document symbolically more egalitarian? Or does it have something to do with international pressure to gender-neutralise everything, or maybe the upcoming legal changes to surrogacy laws - or something else? Sandra and I thrash out a few theories, and she tells me why, without clarification on a few essential points, the best thing for the people of Ireland to do tomorrow is to #VoteNoNo. Enjoy agus beannachtaí. Grift: I take days off to TERF, which affects my income. Some people give me donations and it really helps. Just dropping this button here apropos of nothing: Get full access to Peaked at /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/39810150

Wilders or Women - Who Saved the Dutch from Genderwang 02/23/2024

Wilders or Women - Who Saved the Dutch from Genderwang 🎙️ Peaked Wilders or Women - Who Saved the Dutch from Genderwang Host: Róisín Michaux 🎙️ Episode Overview I fangirled a bit hard while talking to , aka The Dutchess, aka Insufferable TERF, who talked to me about the fate of the various gender laws in the Netherlands, which have been mercifully shunted aside for now. The Dutch had been facing the same unholy throuple of genderwangery as the rest of Europe: hate speech, conversion therapy, and of course, the king of gender absurdities, sex falsification (euphemised as “legal gender recognition by self-determination” by the activist class). All those laws are on the backburner for now, says Lydia, because there’s no longer a majority in the kamer that will support them. And let me tell you, the green-haired brigade are fuckin seeeeeethin lol. It all went tits-up after the electoral success of Geert Wilders, who got famous for his disdain for the Muslim faith and his mission to erase its visible manifestations from Dutch public life. Lydia reckons the very visible pro-Palestine marches might have scared people into voting for Wilders, infused as they are with proudly Islamic symbolism (basically just Arabic writing, big beards, and Yasser Arafat scarves). These visual cues don’t go down well with people who have difficulty untangling them from images of mangled metro carriages, beheaded reporters and so forth (this is my dumb-guy interpretation, at least). Anyway, what of the women? Did the Dutch TERFs - of whom there are many - have anything to do with the demotion of the genderwhackery laws? How influential were they in alerting the voting populace to the dangers of erasing sex as a valid and important legal category? What about the heroinic work of Caroline Fransens, who laboured for years as the lonely frontwoman of ? She was one of the earliest to raise the alarm about the sex-falsification movement. Or the Insufferable Lydia herself, a relative latecomer who went viral on social media when she invaded the safe space of the ruling class to point a finger in their faces? If you haven’t already, please enjoy the video below of anti-woman “feminist”, leader of the liberal loons, Sigrid Kaag, getting told (swoon). Kaag tells Lydia to come up on stage, saying “I can’t hear you sweetie” (condescending bitch amiright), and Lydia is majestic as she lists the duplicitous Kaag’s crimes against women such as destroying our sports leagues and letting men into our changing rooms. Lydia gets a few very loud male boooooos from the crowd, of course, before flouncing off in her flowing satin white attire, which I mistakenly assumed was a nod to the suffragettes. What’s next? But what dangers for women lurk under the Geert Wilders political platform? Will he send us back to the kitchen right after he’s finished sending the migrants back to MENA? What does right wing mean these days? Are we all right wing now? If everyone is right wing, do I have to still keep hating everyone? We also talked about the effect of the Zembla documentaries (see below), the absolute sham that is Amsterdam Pride now, and why gender critical “Ultras” might end up clearing a path for normies to take a reasonable-sounding, less “extreme” TERFy position. Sorry for the crap quality of the recording, if anyone can help me figure out how to keep the podcast low-effort while improving its sound, I’m all ears. Apropos of nothing, here’s Host — Róisín Michaux 🔗 Substack / Podcast Home 🔗 X (Twitter) 🔗 Apple Podcasts — Peaked Listen & Subscribe 🎧 Peaked is available via Substack and major podcast platforms. If you value independent analysis of European policy, free speech, and institutional power, consider subscribing. /episode/index/show/47e5929f-4b89-40f4-b1cf-1b4416b0cd5b/id/40017175

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