“Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has come out in defense of traditional gender distinctions. On November 12th, the head of the party, Jarosław Kaczyński, gave a speech in Wadowice during which he harshly attacked the LGBT movement’s effects on children. ‘We do not want, ladies and gentlemen, a country in which twelve-year-old girls declare themselves lesbians, although unfortunately these things are already spreading in Poland,’ said Kaczyński. Kaczyński also spoke out against the transgender movement, to which his country has become increasingly susceptible. Polish universities, Kaczyński asserted, were implementing policies friendly toward an agenda, in which normative behavior and honest debate were punishable. On college campuses in Poland, if a student, ‘a boy, two meters [6 feet] tall and 120 kilos [264 pounds] in weight with a beard says he is Zosia [a female name], then the teacher has to call him that or be fired. This is madness, ladies and gentlemen, and this madness must be fought. What is in the genes cannot be interpreted,’ the party leader warned. Kaczyński’s colleague and Polish Minister of Education Przemysław Czarnek urged Poles to take responsibility for the unique role they play in staving off the destructive ideologies of the West, warning them they ‘must be counter-revolutionaries’. To him, gender ideology ‘destroys the family, destroys common sense.’”
“PiS Party Leader,” The European Conservative, Nov. 12, 2022
