How the Trans Lobby Weaponised Drag.
The TV series 'Pose' appropriated drag and used it to mainstream misogyny. The project was driven by two woman-hating trans activists and the most powerful trans lobby group in America.
Part One: The Rise of Mister Mock
It’s tempting to dismiss the story of a television series as trivial. Even more so if it features that most over exposed minority of self-obsessed bores….drag queens. Yet the story of ‘Pose’ is an extraordinary one that helps lay bare the sinister nexus of influence trying to normalise trans ideology.
At Pose this nexus united unbelievably wealthy lobby groups, malign trans activists and the medium that shapes the attitudes of young people like no other: television.
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A starring role in this nexus would be played by the trans activist Janet (aka Charles) Mock, a key creative at Pose, as both writer and director.
Mock (his real surname apparently as well as his shtick) is the epitome of how American trans activism enables grifters. He shot to trans fame when he “came out” in 2011 in an article he wrote for the magazine Marie Claire.
Note how Marie Claire’s introduction wonders at Mock’s “fabulous head of hair”. Clearly a woman then.
Mock’s account of his life is full of disturbing hints of something amiss. The hanging out at the age of twelve with adult transwomen for example. The fact these adult men supplied him with street hormones from the age of thirteen, you might think would have raised eyebrows.
As for Mock paying for his castration and mutilation at the age of eighteen by prostituting himself to wealthy men you and I might be shocked. In 2011 the sound of alarms was notable by its absence. Instead the media greeted these nuggets of information as part of a tapestry of brave self-actualisation.
Mock’s story became such a phenomenon it catapulted him to the giddy status of what we might call today ….a trans influencer. His Marie Claire story even won him a bauble at the GLAAD awards in 2012.
Mr Mock used his time on stage to deliver a bitter denunciation of what he labelled the bigoted and hateful misrepresentation of trans people in the media. The tirade hinted at the stance he would take when he got to Pose.
In particular he complained about the reporting of the murder of …Lorena Escalera.
Escalera was a drag performer and male prostitute who considered himself female. Mock was indignant that the New York Times in its coverage of his murder dared to mention Lorena “was born male”.
The Times also suggested his killer was one of the johns his neighbours complained were constantly turning up at all hours.
“She was always on her laptop posting ads about herself,” the Times reported a neighbour saying.
“Still, she was a nice person.”
Escalera featured in a social media campaign Mock launched earlier that year against the evils of media organisations telling the truth about men who think they are women. It came with the hashtag: #girlslikeus.
The hashtag was enthusiastically embraced by the trans lobby and its many friends in the media. At first glance the hashtag is hardly surprising. Mock thinks he’s a woman and he thinks other men like Escalera are women so …da nah….: #girlslikeus.
It’s obviously creepy as hell that he would refer to himself as a girl but with these guys that’s kind of par for the course.
On his website though Mock expanded on what he meant by #girlslikeus and unwittingly offered a little gem of self-exposure. One that reveals the misogyny that seems to have motivated his trans activism from the start and would positively blossom at Pose. For my money it may even be the perfect summary of what drives the entire trans movement.
Under a fetching picture of himself and two other lads, Mock explored the significance to him of the hashtag’s slogan.
The slogan, he says….
“celebrated who we were as trans women: We have something extra. You can take that literally or figuratively, which is how I choose to read it: We are extra, we are more, we are special, we are everything.
For Mock then ….transwomen are by definition more, special, everything.
“I was a girl, with something extra: extra going beyond my genitals; extra as in sass, extra as in a killer volleyball approach, extra as in the bounce of my curls, extra as in my refusal to be a victim just because people chose not to get me, extra in the sense that I had a dream and sacrificed a lot to ensure I made those dreams my reality.”
Those sad biological women, you see, don’t have to make any effort to…..become women. They just are. What pathetic failures. Unlike Mock who on the receipts of prostituting his teenage body and at the urging of a bunch of adult groomers got his genitals sliced off.
Mock’s toxic sense of superiority permeates Pose which was applauded by the mainstream media when it launched in 2018 as the first TV series that not only featured a largely trans cast but also trans creatives.
At last, the commentary ran, trans people and their absolutely fascinating lives were being portrayed authentically for the first time.
If only.
What none of the legacy pundits revealed was that Pose represented the culmination of five years of relentless agitation by the biggest trans lobby groups in America, above all the wealthiest: the Arcus Foundation.
I’m instinctively suspicious of conspiracy theories but the case of Janet Mock challenges even my skepticism. In 2013 the Arcus Foundation appointed Mock to its Board as its first trans Director.
This strange man who thinks real women aren’t as special as he is would now spearhead the campaign by Arcus Foundation and its vast wealth to undermine women’s rights, erase the definition of homosexuality and endanger the mental health of children.
Pose would provide him with a global platform to popularise his contempt for women who were not #girlslikeus.