Transgender Movement Has Corporate, Profit-Based Origins, Activist Says
Market forces, not natural phenomena, created the transgender movement, research by pro-reality activist and journalist Jennifer Bilek suggests.
Ms. Bilek has been researching the transgender activism movement’s connection to corporate interests for years in her 11th Hour Blog. What she’s learned is that the transgender movement is the latest step in treating women as a commodity, she said.
Corporations, she said, have found a lucrative new industry. It all focuses on modifying the human body with expensive procedures and drugs.
“This is really just capitalism,” Ms. Bilek told The Epoch Times. “And it’s absolute genius. [Powerful corporations] have run over the planet. There’s really no place else to go but humans. We’re the last hurrah. And they’re coming for us.”
The transgender movement offers an exciting new profit center. Body modification can now be sold like any other accessory, she said.
“This is really an escalation of sexism as it’s tied to the market and also technology,” she said of the transgender movement.
Ms. Bilek, who once considered herself politically liberal, traces the beginning of modern body commodification to the birth of the modern pornography industry in the 1950s. This industry created and encouraged a market for objectifying women, she said.
“It’s rooted in this fetish of appropriating womanhood for male compulsion, and it has escalated because the porn industry basically sells women as sexual entertainment to the tune of billions of dollars every single year,” Ms. Bilek said. “And it’s accessible to every young person.”
According to research website EarthWeb, the porn industry is likely worth $97 billion worldwide, and 4 percent of the internet consists of porn.
The sex trade has always existed, but the porn industry is on a new scale, Ms. Bilek said.
“We’re in an environment where more and more, sex comes to the fore in the culture. Yesterday’s porn is now on every music stage.”
The Demand
Pornography has also become more sexually explicit, Ms. Bilek added. In 1950, Playboy centerfolds would include barely-clad women, but modern porn websites often show women experiencing degrading or abusive acts, she said.
“At a very young age, anybody with a cell phone can just open it up and see these kinds of images.”
The Barna Group research firm found that 81 percent of young men watch porn at some point, and 56 percent of young women watch porn.
Porn has also gotten increasingly violent. Researchers at the University of Indiana found that 45 percent of Pornhub videos included physical aggression.
“Women were the target of the aggression in 97 percent of the scenes, and their response to aggression was either neutral or positive and rarely negative,” the study reads.
These changes have had immense social impacts, Ms. Bilek said. They have taught men and women that women should be objectified.
That has led, she said, to the second step toward transgenderism—technology that can make the female body a commodity.
Transgenderism allows men who objectify women to buy “womanhood,” Ms. Bilek said.
“First, you take women’s clothes—you dress in their clothes,” she said. “Then you have synthetic simulacrums of their actual biology, reducing them to parts. Then you have the reproduction market, which reduces them to parts, as well—their eggs, their wombs, their breasts—which is why actually we’re being called ‘cervix havers’ and ‘menstruating, birthing people.’”
Until recently, most people trying to change genders were men, federal government surveys show. These men were the first wave of customers for a new transgender industry, Ms. Bilek said.
The second wave of customers is young girls.
A study of 250 families with transgender-identifying children published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, psychologist Lisa Littman discovered that more than 80 percent of children who identified as transgender were “born girls.”
Parents of the girls said they had seen no transgender behaviors from their daughters in early childhood, the study revealed.
The Supply
The transgender movement spread from men to girls through extensive “propaganda,” Ms. Bilek said.
“It’s in books, it’s in movies, it’s everywhere.”
The celebrity world has recently seen a number of transgender-identifying individuals rise to prominence.
A man claiming to be female won the Miss Netherlands beauty pageant. Another man, Kim Petras, appeared dressed as a woman on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Ellen Page, a Canadian actress, announced a gender transition to male and is now known as Elliot. Transgender model Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time Magazine.
Under this influence, young girls have turned transgender in unprecedented numbers, Ms. Bilek said.
For the medical industry, each one hoping to “transition” to male represents the potential to make $20,000 for breast amputation, about $100,000 for genital surgery, about $50,000 for facial reconstruction surgery, and monthly costs in cross-sex hormone use for the rest of their lives.
The offer to change the body interests girls more than it interests boys, usually, Ms. Bilek said. She blames a more difficult time of puberty.
Sex change can be just the beginning, she said.
“If you get a whole lot of children on technology believing that they can transcend their sex, they’re going to be open to far more advanced invasions and assaults on their physical bodies, intrusions into their DNA and their genes,” Ms. Bilek said.
She blames wealthy people interested in promoting transgenderism who have worked to create, then satisfy the desires of the transgender market.
On Twitter, Marc Benioff, owner of Time Magazine, has urged boycotts against North Carolina if the state passes a law against men using women’s bathrooms.
“I’m doing this, really, on behalf of my employees,” Mr. Benioff told CBS News in an interview.
Research from Ms. Bilek shows that Benioff donated millions to the Oakland Public Education Fund. This fund had a page promoting education in “gender diversity,” but the page has since been removed.
Jennifer Pritzker, a man who identifies as a woman, operates the Tawani Foundation. Through it, Mr. Pritzker donated $1.4 million for research for “gender and human sexuality” in 2022.
Corporations like BlackRock have also backed transgenderism, Ms. Bilek said.
“You have to force behaviors,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at a 2017 conference. “And if you don’t force behaviors, whether it’s gender or race or just any way you want to say the composition of your team, you’re gonna be impacted.”
He made the remark in a discussion on changing the company’s gender makeup. Although his 2017 remarks mostly referenced hiring and promoting women, BlackRock has strongly supported transgender gender representation, too.
Since then, BlackRock has partnered with activist group LGBT Great to “to spearhead and lead the agenda across the investment, wealth management, and savings industry.” BlackRock also has an “Out and Allies” group for LGBT employees and has placed its company support behind LGBT pride.
Remaking Humanity
Historically, the human species has been defined by the division between males and females. This difference is key to human biology, Ms. Bilek said.
If companies use technology to change human biology in significant ways, they will create something different from the human species, Ms. Bilek said. This idea is called “transhumanism,” or going beyond human.
“It’s a transhumanist agenda. We’re being usurped—women’s reproductive capacities and womanhood,” Ms. Bilek said. “Womanhood itself is being usurped by the techno-medical complex as a means towards pushing us towards transhumanism.”
Activists in the transgender movement often try to replace the word “woman” with a reference to body parts rather than the whole individual, Ms. Bilek said.
They may refer to women as “breast owners” or “cervix owners,” she said. Processes already exist to create womanlike breasts for men. So now this descriptor can equally apply to men.
