The mother who defeated woke. Twice.

Now she coaches parents on how she did it. Gabrielle Clark is a key fighter in the battle to save the children of the west.

It’s Mother’s Day here in the United Kingdom today, and of course Friday was International Woman’s Day. So it seems like a good time to revisit a theme I find myself returning to often: strong women. Ball-busting women are my favourite kind of women, and I have written about them multiple times — most recently here.

My last two posts were about the fight against trans-mania and how therapeutic culture is hurting American kids because it takes the locus of authority away from the parent and gives it to a stranger. That role of moral authority in the family has been stolen from mothers. So today I want to share with you a woman whose life has been deeply affected by contemporary trends, and who herself is very much in the ball-busting tradition. Her name is Gabrielle Clark, and she has very successfully and publicly fought back against the neo-Maoist, child-abusing cult that is woke ideology, which attempted to break not one, but two of her children. The cult lost. Gabs won.

Because of the intense cognitive dissonance of living in a world where so many people seem fine with the industrial-scale gaslighting and genital mutilation of minors and young adults, and are happy enough to go along with race-hatred as long is it just focuses on white people, sometimes I wonder if I am just stuck in a red-pilled bubble and these problems don’t really effect wider society. But when you hear Clark’s story, it is a salutary reminder of just how pervasive and successful the progressive left’s war on American children has been. And it gives me sympathy for the millions of American parents who have tried to muddle through the scorched battlefield of childrearing when schools, doctors, peer groups and media are aggressively pushing insane ideas. It takes balls of steel — which Gabs Clark has — to stand up to it. 

If you look her up on social media, you will find videos of her excoriating school board officials for forcing political indoctrination onto kids, disguised as education. I’ll say this (and only this) in their defence: I personally would not like to be at the receiving end of this woman’s ire. 

I first heard of Clark about two years ago, when she began speaking out about her mixed race son being punished by his school for refusing to participate in a struggle session. For one of his classes, as a senior in a Nevada high school, he was told to confess to his white dominance, or fail the class altogether. When Clark sued the school, they backed down. “There is nothing oppressive about my son,” Clark — who is black —  firmly told Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show in 2022. 

But that was not the end of Clark’s troubles. She began to notice that her daughter was spending more and more time on TikTok and less and less with her family. After a while, it became clear that this was not the natural teen inclination to separate from the nest — it was cruel behaviour and self-harm. Then — upon hearing a school administrator call her daughter by a boy’s name — it became fully clear that it was not just a mixture of TikTok and teen angst that was to blame. It was even more sinister: the adults at the girl’s school and their Social Emotional Learning propaganda campaign were brainwashing the teen. 

If you don’t already, I encourage all of you to follow Gabs on Twitter and watch her interviews on YouTube. She is one of many, many, American mothers who have rearranged their lives to protect their children from being devoured by an ideologically driven society. But she is particularly interesting to me because so much of her power comes from the fact that she is regular, plain-spoken, salt-of-the-earth woman. She is the definition of what I think of as populist: a savvy and articulate woman in possession of abundant good sense and a temperament fiery enough that she does not need permission from the credentialed class to live her life and raise her children. Not only that — she has developed her own success in pulling her daughter out of the trans cult into a coaching programme to help other families similarly stricken. When all professions have failed us, we need to figure this shit out for ourselves.

I thank the internet for giving people like Clark a platform. In another time, their abundant talents would have been mostly restricted to those in their immediate communities — but now, we can all benefit from the wisdom of their experiences. I don’t fully understand how so many upper middle class American women became so cowed, so craving of the approval of their children and their peers, that they completely lost themselves — but thankfully women like Clark (and this woman, Tatiana Ibrahim, who I wrote about three years ago) exist to model brave and fierce motherhood for liberal mom. Because those liberal moms also love their kids and want the best for them, but can’t see their way out of the ideological jungle.

I have always seen the value of the difficult, ball-busting woman. But Clark’s advice on how to de-trans a teen is a lot more than just ripping someone a new one — it’s thoughtful and wise. It is patient and generous — the very definition, if I’m not mistaken, of love. Especially a mother’s love.

In an interview last year, she gave a helpful reminder to those of us who are intensely angry at the trans insanity and its malevolent purveyors, to not be harsh judges of the young people who have been sucked into it.

“Ultimately, this was not her fault. She was captured by a cult,” Clark said. I feel this way about all the young people who I see on social media maiming and humiliating themselves in service to a lie that they were too young to see through.

Of course, the pits of hell await those adults who promoted, carried out, and encouraged the Mengele-like business of child sex change. If you haven’t seen the WPATH files yet, check them out. Today.

But those children and young people who have fallen prey to it, and the parents who are waking up daily to a nightmare but don’t know where to turn, I hope they find Clark and learn from her hard-earned advice.