I Got Banned

I'm surprised. Not.

I don't often check my website. Sometimes, after making a fresh post, I'll obsessively check my statistics pages, eager to find out if anyone out there has read anything I wrote. As it turns out, hundreds of thousands of people read my work on Medium. They no longer can.

You see, because I don't often check my websites, I found out that I was banned second hand. A friend messaged me a screenshot of someone saying I was banned. Banned, you say? That's unpossible. I then I logged into Medium to find out that I was banned for hate speech. Flushed down the misbegotten toilet of censorship.

You see, some of my longer articles took months. Everything was sourced, researched, and then written up. All of that is now gone, thousands of words flushed down the metaphorical toilet. As if it was never there, as if Medium had never published it. Nothing you read in those articles wasn't sourced. Even the opinion articles were fact checked. Nothing stated was false. However, those facts do not agree with the prevailing ideological religion on the left - hence why they are facts that deserve the censor’s flush, even when they are vindicated in British courts.

It is ironic then, that only a week or two after publishing a nine minute read on my concerns about censorship and free speech, that I too am censored. Ah, ‘but Medium is a private company. They're perfectly within their rights to ban you’ I can hear my critics saying. Wait, didn't I warn this was a possibility before? Oh I did, didn't I? Private companies shouldn't have veto powers over the town square. Particularly when they are vetoing facts they don't like, but nevertheless, are in fact the truth.

Nor should presenting a well argued case against prevailing orthodoxy be described as ‘hate speech’. I am bewildered as to how what I wrote was ‘hate speech’. How is quoting scientific papers, at length, and pointing out the homophobic intentions and poor quality research within ‘hate speech’? Or discussing the research of noted sexologist Ray Blanchard? Or God forbid, pointing out that lesbians don't have penises? Is that hate speech now? What about pointing out that homosexual people have no major platforms that accept honest discussion of our lives as exclusively same sex attracted individuals? Is that hate speech?

When was it decided my articles were hate speech? Inauthentic Selves is nearing three years old. So too is Elephant In The Room. Was it when I questioned private duopoly power on the online town square, or was it decided retroactively that pointing out the bad science, misogyny, and complete and total homophobia that powers the modern trans rights activist is ‘hate speech’?

Sigh. It is likely we will never know the answer to those questions.

What's the future? I suppose I'll write as Sue here for now. My older articles will be reuploaded here - I have copies. All is not lost.

On some level, I am somewhat surprised it took quite this long to find me objectionable for stating the truth. Banning me does not take away the truth. It doesn't change the facts. It just means you can't hear them being pointed out anymore by a pseudonymous, old school homosexual Cassandra on Medium any more. I'm still here, and I'll keep plugging away.

And to those who banned me?

Lesbians don't have penises. Suck it.