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Paul Stanley of KISS fame slams transgender propaganda

The LGBT lobby

Published 4 May 2023
– By Editorial Staff
Paul Stanley during a KISS concert in Malmö, 2010.
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KISS co-founder, frontman and lead guitarist Paul Stanley, 71, recently went on the offensive against the increase in transgender medical procedures on young people’s genitals in the last few years. In a recent tweet, he criticized parents who are considering having their children undergo a so-called sex change.

Paul Stanley has caused a minor storm on Twitter over a politically incorrect contribution to the infected trans debate. He writes that “There is a BIG difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification“.

Stanley added that he believes that some children get caught up in “the fun of using pronouns” and that although “there ARE individuals who as adults may decide reassignment is their needed choice” their “struggle” has turned the issue “into a sad and dangerous fad“.

Stanley’s remarks coincide with a series of legislative measures in at least 10 Republican-led states aimed at imposing restrictions on the use of puberty blockers and genital surgeries for people under the age of 18. At least 385 bills had been introduced by the 7th of March this year, according to data analyzed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Paul Stanley of KISS
Paul Stanley during a concert with KISS, Malmö, 2010. Photo: Jan Sundstedt

Stanley has previously engaged in controversial public topics. For example, in 2017, he openly criticized NFL player Colin Kaepernick for kneeling before the violent black power movement BLM during the performance of the US national anthem.

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Swedish Liberals propose €200,000 for Pride crosswalks

The LGBT lobby

Published today 13:32
– By Editorial Staff
LGBTQ+ issues are close to Jan Jönsson's heart, and to the general public he is perhaps best known for his habit of dressing up as a drag queen.
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With less than a year until the election and polling around two percent voter support, the Liberal Party in Stockholm is proposing that the city paint more crosswalks in rainbow colors to show support for the LGBTQ movement.

Taxpayers are expected to cover the total cost of approximately €200,000.

Currently, there is only one rainbow-colored crosswalk in the Swedish capital, located outside Stockholm City Hall. According to the Liberals’ budget proposal, this number should be significantly increased through the project “Proud streets in rainbow colors”.

Opposition city councilor Jan Jönsson (L), who is driving the proposal, argues that the initiative would clearly signal that Stockholm is a city that stands for “love, openness and inclusion”, reports Samnytt.

The proposal comes as the Liberal Party faces the threat of being voted out of the Riksdag. With polling around two percent – far below the four percent threshold required for parliamentary representation – the party is now seeking attention through symbolic policy proposals ahead of next year’s elections.

Drag queens – a cause close to the heart

Jan Jönsson has previously attracted attention for a series of attention-seeking initiatives in recent years. He has called himself “the gangs’ worst enemy” in a campaign about gang crime, although his proposals in practice mainly involved sitting down and having serious conversations with criminal youth.

He has also advocated for men dressed as drag queens to be allowed to read stories to children at libraries. According to Jönsson, it is of utmost importance to protect drag queens’ rights, and he considers it an “art form” that must be defended.

— We want to defend drag queens and everyone else’s right to express themselves. No one should have to hesitate to exercise their right to freedom of expression out of fear of reprisals of any kind, he declared in connection with putting on makeup himself, dressing in women’s clothing and organizing his own drag queen story time in support of the group in question.

— It’s about how people try to restrict people’s right to express themselves and be who they want to be. Especially this art form. This applies to Sweden and not least other countries where increasingly cold winds are blowing, Jönsson warned, claiming that many European countries are moving in an “LGBTQ-hostile direction”.

Swedes will soon need only digital healthcare visit to “switch genders”

The LGBT lobby

Published 14 May 2025
– By Editorial Staff
The Gender Reassignment Act pushed through by Ulf Kristersson is seen as a major victory by LGBTQ organizations.
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The much-criticized Gender Reassignment Act (Könsbyteslagen) comes into force on 1 July – and it is clear that, in practice, a single digital healthcare visit will often be enough to “change” legal gender.

The Nordic TImes has previously highlighted the law which was pushed through by Ulf Kristersson with the help of Moderate MPs who were actually against it but who still voted yes in the end, because they were afraid of otherwise losing their jobs or risking other reprisals.

The newspaper has also highlighted criticism of the law – including from Jovanna Dahlgren, professor of pediatric endocrinology, who believes that the amended legislation risks having a very large negative consequence for vulnerable young people.

– There is more and more information and facts that indicate that the sharp increase in gender dysphoria in the last 15-20 years is largely due to the fact that many girls have an identity crisis, and it comes quite suddenly in adolescence, she argued.

Dahlgren also points out that “very many” young people who are reported to suffer from gender dysphoria also have autistic traits or diagnoses, and that it often seems to be a temporary identity crisis which is why a quick gender change is not an optimal solution.

“Based on individual self-determination”

However, the criticism was dismissed, and in a month and a half the new legislation will come into force. One major change will be that a diagnosis of transsexualism will no longer be required to “change” one’s legal gender only a “simpler medical examination”.

The “assessments” will not only be carried out by psychologists or psychotherapists, but also by health care counselors. According to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare’s guidance, in most cases a single online medical visit will be sufficient to obtain a certificate that can then be used to change a person’s gender in the national register

– It’s important to remember that this is a regulation that is largely based on the individual’s own self-determination and where the process should also be simple, says Pär Ödman, chief legal adviser at the National Board of Health and Welfare, to state radio SR.

“Completely unreasonable”

Another major change will be that you no longer need to be an adult to undergo the “sex change” as long as you have parental consent, this process can be carried out as early as the age of 16.

Linda Lindberg, leader of the Sweden Democrats, calls the new law “completely unreasonable” and notes that it is a very vulnerable group that now risks feeling even worse.

– These are usually people who are questioning their identity and who are certainly not feeling very well. This is not the right way to deal with this type of care issue, absolutely not.

However, Ulrika Vesterlund, spokesperson for the Green Party on LGBTI issues, disagrees with this criticism and instead says that it “sounds good” that the legal gender reassignment processes are now being simplified.

UK Supreme Court: Womanhood is something one is born into

The LGBT lobby

Published 17 April 2025
– By Editorial Staff
Many British women consider the court's decision a great victory.
2 minute read

The UK Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that the term “woman” in the country’s equality legislation refers to biological sex and nothing else.

The ruling rejects the Scottish Government’s interpretation, which included trans women in the definition and quotas for biological men who have “changed sex” as women in the workplace.

A panel of five judges, led by Justice Patrick Hodge, ruled that the words “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

The ruling means, among other things, that transgender people should not be counted as women for the purposes of the Equality Act’s quotas although the court was careful to emphasize that they should continue to be protected from discrimination on the basis of their gender identity.

The case stems from a 2018 Scottish law requiring public authorities in Scotland to have at least 50% women on their boards. According to the Scottish Government’s interpretation, trans women were included in this quota. However, the women’s rights group For Women Scotland (FWS) disputed this, arguing that the definition of woman cannot be extended beyond biological sex.

“Refers to reality –  not to paperwork”

An early court ruling in 2022 was appealed to the Supreme Court, which has now agreed with FWS.

Maya Forstater of the group Sex Matters considers the ruling a “great victory”:

– The court has given us the right answer: the protected characteristic of sex – male and female – refers to reality, not to paperwork, she says.

FWS director Trina Budge previously warned that a broader interpretation of gender risks filling quotas with “50% men, and 50% men with certificates”, which would undermine the purpose of the law.

Supported by J.K. Rowling

The group also highlighted that transgender access to women’s toilets, women’s prisons and women’s wards in hospitals can have very negative consequences and create insecurity.

FWS lawyer Aidan O’Neill argued during the trial that gender must be understood in law as a “expression of one’s bodily reality. It is an immutable biological state”.

For Women Scotland has received support from well-known author J.K. Rowling, who has reportedly donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to the group. Rowling has long argued in the past that it is unreasonable for trans women’s rights to be at the expense of biological women.

However, not everyone is applauding the ruling on the contrary, the human rights organization Amnesty International is highly critical and claims that transgender people now risk having their human rights violated.

EU grants hundreds of millions to gender ideology organizations

The LGBT lobby

Published 21 March 2025
– By Editorial Staff
“NGOs have played a direct role in drafting EU gender policies”, the report's author stresses.
3 minute read

The European Union has long provided over €200 million in grants to organizations promoting gender ideology, according to a new report by the think tank MCC Brussels. This has raised questions about the EU’s priorities and use of citizens’ tax money.

The report, authored by sociologist Ashley Frawley of MCC Brussels, shows that between 2014 and 2021, the EU has funded 258 organizations working on LGBTQ issues and the promotion of gender ideology, UnHerd reports.

Based on figures for the period 2014 – 2023, the organizations have received around €221 million in grants.

The largest grantee for the period 2014 – 2023 was ILGA Worldwide, which received €64.95 million for its advocacy work on gender identity. Other recipients included its European branch, ILGA-Europe (€16 million), the international LGBTQ organization IGLYO (€6 million), Transgender Europe (TGEU) (€4.6 million), the Lesbian Feminist and Intersectional Network (€6.2 million) and Intersex International Europe (€1.2 million).

Ashley Frawley commented on the report: “NGOs use EU funding to pressure national governments into adopting gender identity laws, bypassing national sovereignty”.

“Dictated by unelected activists”

Frawley argues that EU policies, originally designed to protect women and girls, have been reshaped to prioritize gender identity issues instead. Frawley believes that the policy has been “dictated by unelected activists rather than open national debates”.

– NGOs have played a direct role in drafting EU gender policies, frequently operating without public transparency.

The report highlights that many of the funded organizations are actively working to influence EU policies and legislation. This raises questions about potential conflicts of interest and democratic legitimacy.

Among the largest recipients of EU funding is the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which has received over €30 million. IPPF is controversial because of its involvement in abortion issues and sex education for children.

– They have redefined gender to have a very weak relationship with biological sex, and then they emphasize gender over sex, Frawley told The Epoch Times.

MCC Brussels: Violating the principle of neutrality

The think tank argues that funding organizations like these goes against the EU’s principle of neutrality on ethical issues. They argue that the Union should focus on more pressing economic and social challenges.

The conservative think tank ECLJ is also critical of EU policies in several areas and has previously published expert reports on freedom of expression, digital laws and EU climate policy. The MCC Brussels report is thus part of ECLJ’s ongoing review of EU policies and priorities.

The debate on the EU’s funding of gender ideology organizations is expected to intensify in light of the report, with questions of transparency, accountability and priorities in the EU’s budget allocation coming into focus.

It is worth noting that MCC Brussels is a think tank linked to the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), which has received funding from the Hungarian government under Viktor Orbán.

Critics, such as Corporate Europe Observatory, have questioned the independence and transparency of the think tank regarding its funding and lobbying activities.

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