Summary

The International Cabal of Transgender Women (ICTW) is a satirical concept used to critique the unfounded blame placed on transgender women for various societal issues, emphasizing the desire for acceptance and peace.

Abstract

The article titled "The International Cabal of Transgender Women" employs political sarcasm to address the widespread accusations against transgender women. It humorously presents a fictional cabal of transgender women as the scapegoat for numerous global problems, ranging from historical events like the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to modern issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic. The author, a transgender woman, uses this exaggerated narrative to underscore the absurdity of such claims and to highlight the true aspirations of transgender individuals: to live authentically and peacefully. The piece calls for an end to the use of transgender people as scapegoats, urging society to focus on real issues and to foster understanding and acceptance instead.

Opinions

The author satirically claims responsibility for various historical and contemporary calamities to illustrate the absurdity of blaming transgender women for societal issues.
The article suggests that the ICTW is a secret organization with a mission to disrupt the binary gender order and recruit children into the LGBTQ community, which is a hyperbolic statement meant to mock the conspiracy theories surrounding transgender people.
It criticizes the portrayal of transgender women as predatory and a threat to cisgender women and children, emphasizing that these are fabricated narratives.
The author expresses a hope that readers will recognize the satire and understand the true intentions of transgender individuals to live as their authentic selves without persecution.
The piece advocates for the cessation of using transgender women as scapegoats for societal problems, calling for a collective effort to address actual issues and promote mutual understanding and support.
Through the article, the author aims to convey the emotional struggles of being transgender, the loneliness it can entail, and the importance of being understood and accepted by society.

The International Cabal of Transgender Women

We are to blame for everything

Writers note: Warning, the following is political sarcasm. Please treat it as such.

Welcome to the ICTW

Merriam-Webster defines a cabal as the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabal

As I continue to read the popular media from around the world regarding the numerous and vile transgressions of transgender women everywhere, including, abuse of cisgender women and children in lady’s locker rooms, kitchens, libraries, police stations, and bathrooms around the world, not to mention the theft of sporting achievements from the hands of worthy cisgender female athletes and the predatory sexual pressures exerted on young lesbians, goldfish, and altar boys by aggressive transwomen, I have decided to finally confess. As a transgender woman and a member of the International Cabal of Transgender Women (ICTW), we are responsible for it all and more.

I am a card-carrying member.

The ICTW is dedicated to the overthrow of the binary world gender order. We wish to plant the seeds of chaos among the unsuspecting cisgender world and their polarizing sense of sexual identity. We also aim to recruit unsuspecting children of cisgender parents to the LGBTQ community for our own diabolical purposes. Governments and religions have been successful in regularly uncovering our nefarious plots and have proven, over and over again, that we are responsible for every man-made calamity and misfortune that has befallen humanity, plus, we have been instrumental in causing a few natural disasters throughout history as well.

The ICTW is dedicated to the overthrow of the binary world gender order.

I confess that the ICTW is responsible for the following recent events and much, much more throughout history:

1. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

2. The San Francisco Earthquake

3. The Great Depression

3. Pearl Harbor

3. Unrest in the Middle East

4. Milli Vanilli

5. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

6. Teletubies

7. Hurricane Katrina

8. Global warming

9. The COVID-19 pandemic

10. Donald Trump

OK, maybe I am exaggerating about Donald Trump, even the ICTW is not that evil, but we did cause the rest in our relentless pursuit to undermine the cisgender world to advance the selfish agenda of transgender women everywhere.

We are to blame for everything.

I confess.

The world thought that all we wanted was to live in peace and be accepted as the gender that we were born as, not based on the sex organs attached to our body.

How naive… but you finally caught us.

So, let’s get this over with. Just like they did with the Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witch trials, let's combine the jobs of prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner in one job and teach every member of the ICTW a lesson ….

Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Flickr: Witch Burning, by mullica.

or…

COME TO YOUR SENSES WORLD!!!!

Welcome to Reality

Transgender women are not, I repeat, not, the cause of any of the problems they are accused of. They simply want to be the gender they were born with and to live a happy and peaceful life like everyone else.

So, stop using us as scapegoats. Fix the real problems and stop making up things that just don’t exist. There is so much good we can do together and for each other. Let’s stop blaming each other and start helping each other.

Fix the real problems and stop making up things that just don’t exist.

Please.

Emma Holiday

Writers Note: I wrote this as a political satire and I truly hope that my sarcasm was seen as such. I would be devastated if I found out that Fox News or the Daily Mirror was to do an expose on the ICTW. It doesn’t exist and I just made it all up!

Final Writers note: If you have read any of my writings on Medium you will have noticed a definite theme — the incredible pain of gender dysphoria and all the difficult aspects of just being transgender.

My writing has three specific goals:

1. Writing is my therapy. I have a very limited outlet for my thoughts so I write to find a way to process the most profound experience in my life. I need to understand and I need to accept myself to move forward.

2. Being transgender, for me, is a very lonely existence and if I can share some of the things that I feel and think as I go through the process of transitioning with others who are transgender and, in some way, lessen their pain and sense of loneliness, then all of this public exposure of my personal thoughts is not a waste.

3. I write to help cisgender people understand that all trans people want is to be simply understood, accepted, and treated as normal people. We are.

Thank you for reading my work.

Please also read:

The Transgender Pain

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My Transgender Manifesto

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