We are in the new Dark Age. But wait, you say: what about all our technology? We have spaceships – we have the internet! Yes, and we also have inquisitors and we’ve ceded them absolute power.
The only difference between today’s inquisitors and the Dominicans of yore is that now the inquisitors wear rainbow robes instead of black. And, unlike the Dominicans, they won’t get their heretics a single chance to repent.
And they hate science and evidence with a fury that would make the Spanish Inquisition blink.
Australia’s nurses union has retracted – and apologised for – an article in its official journal that accurately summarised the research on suicide in transgender people, following complaints by the union’s “LGBTQIA+ reference group” that the paper was causing “significant distress to the transgender community”.
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation expressed its “sincere regret” for publishing the article, which outlined a number of long-term studies challenging the narrative that the risk of suicide increases dramatically if trans children and teens are not provided with gender-affirming medical treatment.
The author of the article, New Zealand registered nurse Jason Watson, is now threatening to sue the union after it accused him of “negativity and hatred” and of harming the transgender community.
Note that the paper was retracted, not because it was factually incorrect – but solely because it offended the inquisition.
This isn’t the first time, either. Bruce Gillies’ “The Case for Colonialism” was retracted, despite passing multiple rounds of peer review, solely because it so offended the inquisitors that they threatened violence against the publishers.
This was the first time a scientific paper was banned under threat of violence since Galileo. Does anyone doubt the Rainbow Inquisitors would have defaulted to violence, if the nurses’ publication hadn’t immediately issued its auto da fe?
The article summarised six long-term historical studies produced in the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Finland, which, like the Cass review in 2024, do not support the claims of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health about the increased risk of suicide.
Mr Watson, who has worked as a mental health nurse for more than 40 years and has a masters degree in education, concluded in the article that the WPATH suicide narrative was “at least tenuous and at most simply incorrect”.
“This seems to fit with the Cass review narrative that the significant majority of current transgender research is of a disappointingly poor quality and is ideologically rather than scientifically based,” he wrote.
For his crime of citing evidence, Watson was smeared as engaging in “negativity and hatred” and harming the transgender community. Despite the fact that he daily works to avert harm to gender-confused children.
Mr Watson told the Australian he submitted the piece because “I work in a crisis team for children and adolescents so suicide is our No 1 thing, we see it every day.
“I looked at the long-term follow-up studies that use 30 or 40 years worth of data. It’s research based, I haven’t muddied the data, it’s just fact.”
But the Rainbow Inquisition are as allergic to facts as a Flat Earther huffing homeopathic water.
The union’s Victorian branch even promised future articles “that directly affect” the rainbow lobby would be vetted by their own reference group first. Heresy trials have never been so efficient.
This isn’t isolated idiocy. It’s the new normal.
This grotesque episode exposes the capture of once-respectable institutions by ideology. Nursing, of all professions, should be grounded in evidence and patient welfare, not captive to lobby groups pushing experimental treatments on troubled youth. Long-term data from Europe shows the suicide narrative is overstated: comorbidities and underlying mental health issues drive the tragedy far more than “lack of affirmation”. Yet questioning the narrative is now professional suicide.
The Rainbow Inquisition demands total obedience. Dissent is hatred. Evidence is bigotry. Science bends the knee to feelings, or else. We’ve traded the lab coat for the rainbow robe and called it progress. Meanwhile, distressed children are rushed onto irreversible paths while nurses who dare cite the data are hounded.
The rainbow robes may look fabulous under the disco lights, but the fire they’re feeding will consume us all if we let it.
