(Reading note.)
The book published by François Rastier at Intervalles seems "small", but it is of an incomparable density both in the number of points addressed and in the breadth of the author's culture, which takes us into the labyrinths of the occult to arrive at state propaganda in favor of transgenderism.
Right from the introduction, the author shows how, in the “LGBTQIA+” movement, gays and lesbians are now socially accepted (which is necessary), at least in the West, but without forgetting that forty-six countries still criminalize homosexuality… Bisexuals, asexuals, intersex, non-binary and undecided people are not talked about and live their sexuality as they wish; trans activists, on the other hand, occupy the center stage, impose their aggressiveness in any discussion on sex, infiltrate state agencies and seek to “cancel” the thinking of those who do not support them – or whom they suspect of not supporting them…
François Rastier reveals to us that the unsuspected roots of "gender theory" are already present in the hodgepodge of theosophists who, following Helena Blavatsky, have developed a surprising mixture of ancient gnosis, spiritualism, various superstitions and other "thought movements", who have amalgamated all the more or less "spiritualist" wacky ideas of their time, seeking mysterious correspondences in Egyptian, Hindu and other tantric yoga religions to develop a "secret doctrine" (which is only hilarious in the second degree). The author shows that wokism, the vehicle, among other things, of this gender ideology, is not really a Religion, according to Jean-François Braunstein, but rather a mystical. The supernatural children produced by theosophy are, the author tells us, ariosophy, anthroposophy and New Age where the wokies come to draw without even realizing it.
François Rastier thus evokes the Platonic myth of the lost original androgyny; the myth of the hermaphrodite, present both in Greek mythology and in the Bible where the "sex of angels" (or rather their absence of sex) is evoked; the Gnostic ideology of the "astral gender" of these boys "born in a girl's body" and these girls "born in a boy's body"; and even the lucubrations of certain Anglican bishops who see an androgynous Christ bearing a "mystical vulva" drawn on his side by the holy lance. He thus highlights these often unconscious roots of the movement queer and its latest avatar, transgenderism, which finds many of its references and vocabulary there, in particular the distinction between sex and gender, which has become a “spiritual sex”.
Objective biological concepts are diverted to accord them with the "feeling", the "sensation", the subjective, and even the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders developed by American psychiatrists falls into the subjectivism that is usually banned in medicine: transsexuals have become affected by "gender dysphoria", then "gender incongruence" and are " cruelly " imprisoned in a body incompatible with their gender identity. We are far from evidence-based medicine, which does without adverbs relating to the register of emotion.
François Rastier reviews the incomprehensible support that transgenderism encounters in state agencies and even in ministries, in particular that of national education. The Hippocratic doctrine of non-nocturnal primum is flouted, the law prohibiting conversion therapy is diverted, and even turned inside out so as to make people believe that it is those who ask that the bodies of adolescents not be touched who are accused of promoting these therapies! Fear rules everything, wrote Carine Azzopardi recently: the heads of these agencies or ministerial services have fear : fear of not following fashion, fear of being vilified by hotheads, fear of being treated as "reactionaries" by these "progressives"... "Republican wokeness" has imposed itself on questions of "gender" as it has done on questions of religion and "race".
This book, small in format but rich in content, firstly provides an original perspective on the links between occultism and wokism and also brings together a large amount of information scattered across multiple press articles: this is to say its usefulness for anyone who wants to engage in the fight for reason and the rescue of democracy endangered by the ideology of deconstruction.