The Imperial War Museum has been accused of 'reframing history' to give it 'woke appeal' in a new tour featuring trans people in conflict.
When are they not in conflict, you might ask, Reader?
Created to mark the 25th anniversary since the Government lifted its ban on gay people serving in the Armed Forces, the new digital tour tells ‘personal stories from the LGBTQ+ community’ in times of war. But alongside stories documenting the struggles of gay and lesbian service personnel, more than a third of all the exhibits are about transgenderism.
And they've achieved this by making unlikely historical links and references that would make Erich von Däniken blush with shame.
Examples include a dress worn by a man for a ‘show’ in a deadly Japanese prisoner of war camp during the 1940s, as well as a Land Army girl who liked to be called ‘John’.
Tour curators also claimed reconstructive surgeries for injured soldiers in World Wars I and II ‘laid the foundation for the future of transgender medicine’.
The guide says that one such worker was Enid Mary Barraud, who ‘challenged gender norms’. It notes: ‘Enid preferred to identify as male, known to friends as “John”, and she lived with her female partner “Bunty”.
So, soldiers doing whatever they can to make captivity less horrific, a lesbian Land Girl and the fact that advances in medical procedure might have helped create transgender operations after the war... somewhat pathetic, wouldn't you say, Reader?
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And, naturally, what they have removed in order to create space for this blatant gaslighting is the astounding and inspirational Ashcroft Collection of VCs and GCs.
A truly inspirational exhibition, so obviously that cannot be allowed.
Not just pathetic, but pathetically woke so a double top there for the alphabetically challenged managers who OK'd it.
The bottom of the barrel scraped through to the bedrock below the London clay. It's all made-up bollocks distorting things that never happened, but that's the modus operandi of the T & Q fetishists
Is it out of order to call them Mutants? Is that not done?
It is well documented that women served alongside men during the Napoleonic wars , as well as being below decks on naval ships.
What about corporal Klinger?
Ugh, There are no words...
Who will no doubt face no consequences for it, even if it's a flop
It's getting to the point museums are no longer where you go for education. Unless they are niche ones, like York Castle Museum.
Morlocks is more accurate.
And defended Isandlwana too, when they remake 'Zulu' on Netflix
Ah, yes, a man who dressed as a woman to prove he was mentally ill. No wonder 'MASH' is left out of most nostalgia trips these days....
"more than a third of all the exhibits are about transgenderism". But we are often told (when it suits the narrative, that is) that trans people only account for one third of one percent of the population. By this logic, exhibits regarding white, male, heterosexuals should account for about 417 percent of the installation.
Steven
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