Dominic Cummings claims ‘trans does not exist’ in online tirade on Trans Day of Visibility
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Dominic Cummings made several conspiratorial claims in an Easter Sunday post. (Getty)
Political advisor and pro-Brexit pundit Dominic Cummings marked Transgender Day of Visibility by launching into a tirade about trans people.
The former chief advisor to Boris Johnson marked Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) over the weekend by claiming that trans people are part of a “psyop” from “deluded and/or evil people.”
The term ‘psyop’ is short for ‘psychological operation’ – a term typically used in the modern day to claim that the public is being targeted with propaganda.
In a post on X/Twitter shared on Sunday (31 March), Cummings wrote: “My message of hope on Trans Day of Visibility: ‘trans’ does not exist, the sex you were born with is your sex, calling yourself something else is self-delusional words infinitely weaker than biology & evolution, ‘trans’ is a psyop from deluded and/or evil people, but it’s only a feeble trendy psyop doomed to fade so you can escape it by the power of thought alone!
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Cummings went on to claim that one could be “cured” of what he described as the “LGBTQ+ cult” by reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1872 novel Demons – a book about Russian revolutionaries attempting to overthrow the Tsar, which has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ people and is instead a commentary on nihilism and the politics of late 1800s Russia.
“The fact that this person had significant influence over government policy is deeply alarming,” wrote one X user in response to the post.
Others pondered whether Cummings might have better things to do with his time on Easter Sunday than rant about trans people online.
“It takes a rare depths of obsession and hate to wake up on the morning of Easter Sunday, and think that you need to rant from your position of influence about a vulnerable minority group,” one user wrote.
“I hope everyone is having a more peaceful Easter and [Trans Day of Visibility] than Dominic Cummings is.”
Dominic Cummings is notorious for having been at the centre point of a scandal involving a trip he took to Barnard Castle during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, claiming he had gone for an eye test.
He also worked heavily on the Vote Leave Brexit campaign as campaign director from 2015 to 2019.