Why the Trans Cult governs Iceland

Iceland’s Foreign Minister calls Trump's EO “Protecting Women from Gender Ideology Extremism” a “setback.”

President Trump’s executive orders protecting women and children against the extremes of gender ideology are long overdue and should be celebrated, regardless of politics. They confirm the meaning of “sex” in law, that sex is binary and immutable, and that public policy shall be based in reality, not the citizens’ subjective definition.

Hospitals that receive federal funds will no longer be able to use drugs and surgeries to sexually mutilate and sterilize children in the name of gender religion. Men are no longer allowed to compete in women’s sports; male criminals can no longer claim to have court-onset “gender dysphoria” so they can do their time in women’s prisons; and men are not allowed to use changing rooms, toilets, and other private spaces designated for women.

Overwhelming majority of Americans support these orders, but according to the Icelandic Foreign Minister, Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, they are “a setback.”

“No human should have to live with insecurity or persecutions because… of how she identifies,” Gunnarsdóttir recently wrote on Facebook. She sees nothing paradoxical about the fact that gender ideology is based on imposing the feelings and definitions of “trans people” on others, who risk insecurity or persecutions unless they agree to turn a blind eye to biological facts.

The minister’s party, Viðreisn, which split from Iceland’s Independence Party in 2016 over the latter’s lack of support for globalism, is supposedly a “center to center-right” political party, but its policy statement, like those of all but one Icelandic political party, are soaked in gender ideology junk science. Even the Independence Party’s manifesto says “individuals should decide their own sex.” The only Icelandic political party that didn’t descend into gender ideology mass psychosis was the “populist, conservative” Centre Party. In an article for the British magazine The Spectator, the party’s chairman, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, asked, “How did I get into this position, having to spend my time excusing my commitment to free speech and pointing to what I suppose we might now call ‘the general theory of reality’?”

Why are almost all Icelandic political parties and institutions still kneeling at the altar of gender ideology? Like other “noisy pioneers of ‘trans rights’ – Malta, Scotland and Argentina” before Milei – Iceland is “run by arrogant political elites who loathe scrutiny, avoid transparency and have used performative LGBTQ+ baloney to try to rainbow wash their corruption and/or incompetence.”

However, nothing better explains Iceland’s trans support than the fact that Iceland is, as we often point out with pride, the world’s “most equal” country. No other country has a greater number of women in positions of power and politics. Worldwide support for trans ideology is greater among women than men. Some blame third wave feminist theories that claim sex is immaterial or that women may be attracted to the idea of a sexless utopia. But this hardly explains why women are in the majority of those who support castrating, sexually mutilating, and sterilizing children.

The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung wrote that the greatest danger to man is “not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes… [but] psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes.” The most dangerous of such epidemics is “the mass psychosis… an epidemic of madness… when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions” and believes outrageous ideas, like the one that humans can change sex.

In mass-psychotic movements, from the Salem witch hunts to the Satanic panic and the “recovered memory syndrome” of the 1980s and 1990s, “the common ingredients… throughout history,” to quote Joshua Slocum of the show Disaffected, “are young, emotionally troubled women… and crazed, power-hungry, narcissistic adults, abusing them while disguising themselves as [saviors]. In particular… the beating heart of this kind of social and religious lunacy is always crazy women.”

Gunnarsdóttir writes that she will place a special emphasis on “trans rights worldwide [which] are among Iceland’s most important topics on the United Nations Human Rights Council” (UNHRC). She says she will “encourage the United States to respect and protect human rights…” but doesn’t say one word about Quatar, where the punishment for being gay is death by stoning. Or Sudan and Bangladesh, where the punishment for homosexuality is death and/or life in prison. The minister doesn’t seem to understand that these countries’ mere presence on the UNHRC is a sick joke that makes a mockery of human rights: the majority (60%) of the council’s 47 member countries are either full-blown dictatorships or non-democratic and systemic human rights abusers. As British writer Douglas Murray puts it, an “ordinary day at the UNHRC consists of rogue states and failed states ganging up on a variety of liberal democracies.”

Icelandic trans-activists have been successful in restricting Icelanders’ freedom of speech in law and society, but according to Gunnarsdóttir, “as elsewhere, there’s still… work to do in Iceland.” But like organizers of Iceland’s 2023 “non-binary” (formerly women’s) strike couldn’t name one example of what rights Icelandic women had yet to achieve when asked by an NPR reporter – except that “there’s still a long way to go” – the minister doesn’t mention what rights trans-identifying individuals lack. Neither did she mention the special rights and privileges they enjoy, such as the right to taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgeries and state-issued falsified identity papers.

Future generations will no doubt wonder why 21st century western nations came to believe in theories that would have been laughed out of their Dark Ages ancestors’ hovels; why descendants of the generation that sent men to the moon were half a century later castrating and sterilizing their children. As an example of this epidemic’s intractability, scholars will be able to quote a public official from a small Nordic country, who promised to “reinforce the fight” against the West’s long-awaited return to common sense and sanity and against women’s safety and children’s human rights to health and puberty. “Reinforce the fight” against truth and reality.