Here in Morgunblaðið, an article by Helga Dögga Sverrisdóttir, a primary school teacher, appeared Friday 14th April 2023
In it, she wondered whether the education of the National Queer Association of Iceland complied with the Child Protection Act.
The Teachers' Association of Iceland condemned the teacher's alleged views, and many transactivists took to the pitchforks and demanded that the city of Akureyri and others would condemn the teacher. However, Alliance 22, which I am representing, expressed support for the teacher, as nothing in her speech is classified as prejudice or uninformed opinions. However, we as a society have a very serious problem. It is the systemic intolerance for the diversity of thought and the suppression of opinions with the help of the media, and especially with the help of the Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation and Vísir.
The National Broadcasting Corp. has covered our organization and our sister organisation in the UK, the LGB Alliance, without speaking to us or responding to our emails to correct misleading reporting. But as soon as we say something, the national Queer Organisation of Iceland has easy and unrestricted access to the state media. That is the balanced and neutral approach it has. Alliance 22 has never been invited to speak to the Icelandic Broadcasting Corp. It should be noted that Alliance 22 is a registered charity and equal to other interest organisations in the sense of the law. We are 100% independent of taxpayer money. We are all volunteers. We are an authentic grassroots association of gays and lesbians. Those who founded the LGB Alliance at the time were the founders and women of the gay rights movement in Great Britain and the founders of Stonewall, which is a sister organisation of national Queer organisation of Iceland, in Great Britain, and both organisations members of a larger bureaucratic organisation that calls itself ILGA. ILGA publishes the famous Rainbow Map, which the Prime Minister is desperate to rank first.
We have advice from various professionals in our work. One of the trustees of the LGB Alliance, and a personal friend of mine, Robert Wintemute, professor of human rights at King's College in London, is a special adviser to Alliance 22 when it comes to human rights issues. He did legal work for ILGA without a fee until he was no longer welcome within the movement due to the invasion of followers of Judith Butler's far-reaching cult. Judith Butler is one of the main heroes of devout gender ideologues. Her theories and others have started to find their way into our children's teaching materials at all school levels. There is e.g. no more talk about boys and girls. We are "those with pussies" and "those with testicles" according to a lesson from the 6th grade of elementary school. For example, the Women's Rights Association of Iceland and others have recently concluded that gender studies should be included in elementary schools as a compulsory subject. In other words, one religious group considers itself to be above the others. Gender studies is religious in nature and has all the characteristics of a cult. Followers are intolerant of other people's opinions, they instill an irrational fear of the outside world and the social structure, and they have adopted cult-speak, words and phrases which only they understand. Children are told that the doctor guesses the baby's sex at birth and babies are assigned sex at birth. In my column in Morgunblaðið on April 11 last, I mentioned that we had asked for teaching materials and public agreements between local authorities and the National Queer Organisation, precisely because of the fear that controversial ideas and theories are now being taught as facts in schools.
Everyone knows that sex is observed in the womb before birth, and at birth and it is recorded. These are the facts. There are also many other phrases and words that followers of Judith Butler and fans of queer studies themselves have made up. There are idioms like kvár (non binary adult) and stálp (non binary child). There are two sexes. We are either women or men, girls or boys. These, again, are facts. Children have the right to be taught facts at school, not the controversial ideas of a very small, limited group who may be struggling with reality. There is no "middle ground" when it comes to reality. Men cannot become women because humans cannot change sex. This is a fact. No one has succeeded in changing sex.
We are obviously lucky enough to live in a country that allows us freedom of religion so you can believe whatever crap you want. You can even believe in Santa Claus or that somehow some men can turn into women. This also means that we also have the right to reject that belief. There is no legal or ethical requirement for anyone to play along. However, it is possible to respect people regardless of this. But if the same people who want the respect from us declare war on reality, then it is not possible to participate. There is too much at stake.