A Week in the War on Women: Monday 11th July - Sunday 17th July GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

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Another week jam-packed with good news from the gender beat. Enjoy!

Free Speech In Da House

The House of Lords hosted a free speech event.

LGB Alliance @ALLIANCELGB

We’re delighted to be taking part in an important Free Speech event at the House of Lords today. We’ll report back later 🙂

The LGB Alliance were very much in attendance.

LGB Alliance @ALLIANCELGB

We took a stand at the Free Speech event at the House of Lords today. Wherever we go we promote our key aims 👇

The event featured plenty of important voices in the gender debate, including Andrew Doyle, Maya Forstater, Kemi Badenoch, Lord Hunt, Joanna Cherry, Rosie Kay, Malcolm Clark and Trevor Philips…

LGB Alliance @ALLIANCELGB

It is fantastic to know that free speech - the freedom to assert the reality of our same-sex attraction without censure - is supported by so many friends at today's wonderful House of Lords event. Change is coming!

…And, speaking up for women in sport, were the redoubtable Sharron Davies, Dayley Thompson and Mara Yamauchi.

Sharron Davies MBE @sharrond62

Thank u to these 2 special people for having the moral compass to stand up 4fair sport4 females with me ⁦@Daley_thompson ⁦@mara_yamauchi⁩ At an important cross party event in Westminster talking about how important free speech is in a democracy, so many brave people 👏🏻

Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO

Fabulous speeches by @sharrond62 @joannaccherry @KemiBadenoch @MForstater @TrevorPTweets and @andrewdoyle_com

Professing The Truth

Leading fertility expert, Professor Robert Winston, has, yet again, made it clear that humans cannot change their sex.

Piers Morgan Uncensored @PiersUncensored

"We can change our gender by mutilating ourselves... But you cannot change your sex because that is embedded in your genes." The world's leading fertility expert @ProfRWinston answers the zeitgeist question 'What is a woman?'. @piersmorgan | #PiersMorganUncensored

Speaking on Talk TV, Professor Winston was asked what a woman is. He answered simply, “A woman is a female and the female is defined by her genes.”

Daily Mail Online @MailOnline

'You CAN'T change your sex': Fertility expert says 'we cannot escape our genetics'

trib.alFertility expert: ‘Humans can’t change sex as it is embedded in genes’Professor Robert Winston, of Imperial College London, said a person cannot change sex, ‘because it is embedded in genes in every cell in the body’.

He then expanded on his definition by explaining the difference between sex and gender. “You can’t change your sex because that is embedded actually in those genes in every cell in the body.”

An Inconvenient Truth

A poll hosted by Sex Matters earlier this year has found that an overwhelming 98 per cent of the 7000 respondents want to preserve single sex spaces such as changing rooms and toilet facilities.

Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg

Our new report on single sex services is being launched in Parliament next week - 7000 people answered our survey in a week - it provides, for the first time, evidence of the voices of thousands of ordinary people who are being ignored.

dailymail.co.uk98% of public want to keep single-sex toilets, report claimsThe public overwhelmingly wants to keep separate toilets, changing rooms and sports competitions for men and women, a report claimed today.

The report was launched in Parliament yesterday. Helen Joyce, Sex Matters’ director of advocacy, commented, “Politicians and policymakers have been swept up in a fashionable ideology that is completely divorced from mainstream opinion. This research should give them the courage to push back against gender extremists and defend the single-sex spaces and services that the vast majority of people value and rely upon.”

Auntie Says Sorry

The BBC has apologised for interviewing Fallon Fox on Radio 4 during an item about trans-identified males competing in women’s sport.

The Telegraph @Telegraph

The BBC has apologised for interviewing a transgender athlete who boasted about knocking women out, in a discussion about female-only sports

telegraph.co.ukBBC apologises after interviewing transgender athlete who boasted of violence against womenJustin Webb, who led the interview, has insisted he had ‘no idea’ the retired MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, had made such comments

Sharron Davies told the Telegraph, “I am incredibly frustrated by science deniers who abuse on social media being given air time. The BBC must do better.” Amen to that!

Awards Season

Dave Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special, The Closer, has been nominated for two Emmy Awards.

Los Angeles Times @latimes

Dave Chappelle’s comedy special “The Closer,” which ignited a massive backlash on social media and a staff revolt at Netflix last fall, has been nominated for two Emmy Awards.

latimes.comAfter a major backlash, Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ lands Emmy nominationsThe TV academy gave Emmy nominations to Dave Chappelle’s special “The Closer,” which ignited a social media firestorm and Netflix employee walkout.

The show has received nominations in the pre-recorded variety special and directing for a variety special categories.

His latest has just arrived on Netflix, an address to the Duke Ellington School in defence of freedom of speech and artistic nuance.

Royally Done

Speaking of awards, our heartiest congratulations to Kathleen Stock OBE.

Canadian Court Blasts Yaniv

Infamous trans activist, grifter and all-round knicker-sniffing creep, Jonathan Yaniv (now calling himself Jessica Simpson), had his arse well and truly kicked in a British Columbia courtroom this week.

Vancouver Is Awesome @VIAwesome

Jessica Simpson, who previously used the surname Yaniv, is well known to British Columbians for several Human Rights Tribunal cases.

vancouverisawesome.comB.C. trans activist’s defamation case against Rebel News dismissedThe judge ruled Rebel News could be seen as reporting in the public interest.

Not only did the court throw out Yaniv’s defamation claim against Rebel News, but Mr Justice Milman’s judgement utterly annihilated his character and behaviour, effectively describing him as a vexatious litigant, a racist and a predator.

Is The Penny Dropping For Labour?

Rachel Reeves, Labour MP for Leeds West and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, was interviewed in The Sunday Times this week. She made her views on the sex and gender debate abundantly clear.

Rachel Reeves @RachelReevesMP

Really enjoyed talking to ⁦@joshglancy⁩ about what drives me, and the ambition I have for this country.

thetimes.co.ukIs Rachel Reeves Labour’s secret weapon?Rachel Reeves still remembers all the men who didn’t take her seriously. She remembers the dad of one of her peers at chess club, who was amazed to find out her

She said she would ‘have a problem’ with someone with male genitals using a female space, isn’t sold on preferred pronouns and knows exactly what a woman is.

“Biology is important. A woman is somebody with a biology that is different from a man’s biology. We’re seeing in sport sensible decisions being made about who cannot compete in certain cases.”

The Spectator @spectator

Could Rachel Reeves’s comments reflect a new approach to trans issues from the Labour leadership? ✍️ James Kirkup

spectator.co.ukIs Labour changing its mind on trans issues? | The SpectatorThe shadow chancellor’s comments about trans rights may well split the Labour party

Writing in The Spectator, James Kirkup wondered about the implications of Reeves’ comments and what it means for the Labour Party.

“Rachel Reeves, the Labour shadow chancellor, has backed banning transwomen from women’s sport and excluding them from women’s spaces. And she’s rejected using gendered pronouns. By doing so, Reeves has provided yet more evidence to prove that concerns about trans rights policies and their impact on women’s rights are not right-wing or conservative. Nor are they marginal or ideological.”

And Finally…

Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet

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