A Week in the War on Women: Monday 27th May - Sunday 2nd June

Monday 27th May - First Do No Harm

THE TELEGRAPH: A research study has demonstrated that the vast majority of trans-identified women suffer with a variety of serious health issues.

Researchers at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Brazil studied 68 trans-identified young women taking testosterone to analyse the effect of cross-sex hormones on their female bodies. Their results were published in the International Urogynecology Journal. 

The participants had an average age of 28 with the youngest being only 18 years old. Nevertheless, almost all of them - 95 per cent - have developed a ‘pelvic floor dysfunction’ which is far more usual in older post-menopausal women.

Around 87% of the participants had urinary symptoms such as incontinence and bed-wetting, 74% had bowel issues including constipation or being unable to hold in stools, and over half suffered from sexual dysfunction, such as an ‘orgasm disorder’ or pain during intercourse.

The authors of the study concluded that more research into the impact of testosterone on females is needed because the “Long-term effects are still unknown”.

Also Today - This Never Happens #1

NEWSWEEK: A man who appears to have a trans-identity has been arrested after the horrendous and unprovoked stabbing of four young girls in a cinema.

In a shocking story from Massachusetts this week, a 26 year old man, Jared Ravizza, has been arrested after two horrifically violent attacks.

Firstly, at about 6pm on Saturday 25th May, Ravizza walked into an AMC multiplex cinema in Braintree near Boston wearing a voluminous trench coat, sunglasses and a long blond wig. He is accused of stabbing four young girls, three sisters and their friend, who were watching a film. It is reported that Ravizza did not speak a word, but laughed as he stabbed them.

Lisa Dembowski, the mother of the three sisters, spoke to NBC Boston about her daughters’ ordeal. “He came up behind them”, she said. “My oldest was leaning over to get something, he got her in the back, and then my other daughter in the top chest, and then, my last daughter across her arm, laughing the whole time and then got their friend, and then ran off.” All four girls were hospitalised with non-life threatening injuries.

Police said that Ravizza fled the scene in a black SUV. About an hour later, he stopped at a rest area in Plymouth where it is alleged that he stabbed two members of staff, one male, one female, at a fast food drive-through. Both victims required hospitalisation. A witness reported Ravizza’s license plate number and he is said to have engaged in a car chase with police which ended with him crashing his vehicle.

IMAGE CREDIT: David Curran/SatelliteNewsService.com

Ravizza was arrested at around 7.15pm and taken to hospital. He has been charged with assault with intent to murder and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. According to Connecticut State Police, he has also been linked to a murder investigation in Deep River after a body was found there earlier in the day.

Most of the news outlets reporting on this story describe Ravizza as a man and use male pronouns with which to refer to him. None of them mention that Ravizza appears to have a trans identity. Apparently hedging their bets, CBS News is careful not to mention his sex and refers to him with they/them pronouns.

Ravizza being taken into custody - IMAGE CREDIT: The Daily Mail

However, that Ravizza has a trans identity has been much discussed on social media.

Certainly there is an Instagram account in the name of Jared Ravizza which indicates female pronouns.

The numerous selfies posted to this account suggest that this is the same person who was photographed while being apprehended after the car crash.

If only we had a mainstream media on which we could rely for the truth.

Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone #1

THE TELEGRAPH: An LGBTQ+ ‘educational’ group has sent wholly unsolicited books promoting gender ideology to primary schools .

We have written previously about Pop‘n’Olly which describes itself as providing “LGBT+ education for children, parents, carers and teachers”. It was founded and is run by Olly ‘he/him’ Pike, a former actor who has no formal experience or qualifications as an educator.

Olly Pike - IMAGE CREDIT: Instagram

Pop’n’Olly seems intent on pushing gender identity ideology onto young children. The group was in the news two years ago over the children’s book ‘What Does LGBT+ Mean?’ which was co-written by Olly Pike together with ‘diversity campaigner’, Mel Lane, and her son, James Canning.

This book was described by Pop’n’Olly as “An introductory guide for young people (and grown-ups) who are ready to explore identity, gender, love, sexual orientation, privilege, discrimination, pride, allyship and more” and was marketed as being “Designed for use at school and home”.

It tells children that sex is ‘assigned at birth’, claiming that a doctor or nurse “Looked at our body and gave us a label based on what they could see”. It also claims that it is possible to be ‘male, female, both or neither’ and includes instruction about the use of preferred pronouns and descriptions of various ‘gender identities’.

Social media users were encouraged to buy and donate the book to primary schools.

Furthermore, customers who bought the other featured publications on the site were given the book for free as an added bonus, along with a recommendation to consider donating it to a school.

Journalist, Shelley Charlesworth, analysed the full range of books and videos produced by the Pop’n’Olly brand.

“Pop’n’Olly materials are best described as adultification, an activity which normalises adult sexualities and niche ‘gender’ identities, and invites children to join in the discussion. Few schools are likely to say yes if an outside body offers to teach their seven-year-olds queer theory and about being transsexual. Yet this is what they will be doing if they use Pop’n’Olly resources or accept their free books.”

This week, The Telegraph reported that Pop’n’Olly is to send its anti-science gender propaganda - wholly unsolicited - to every primary school in Gillian Keegan’s constituency.

Last week, Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan, spoke in parliament about the government’s new RSHE proposals.

She said that this guidance is underpinned by three core values:

1] Parents have right to know what their children are being taught.
2] Teachers are there to teach children facts, not push the agendas of campaign groups.
3] Schools should not teach about the contested issue of gender identity.

She underlined the third point by reiterating, “We are making it absolutely clear that the contested topic of gender identity should not be taught in schools at any age… Whilst protected characteristics such as gender reassignment should be taught, they must be done so on a factual basis, at an appropriate age and not based on contested ideology”.

In retaliation, Pop’n’Olly is donating a copy of one of its LGBT children’s books to all 33 primary schools in Chichester, West Sussex, Gillian Keegan’s constituency.

The book being sent is ‘Little Red Riding Dude’, written by Olly Pike and aimed at 9-11 year old children. It talks about sex being ‘assigned at birth’ and likens gender identity to a recipe for baking a cake.

Pop’n’Olly seem determined to indoctrinate children into gender identity ideology, even against the advice of the Cass Review Final Report and even in contravention of government policy.

(Schools must comply with the RSHE (relationship, sex and health education) curriculum guidance, using materials that are factually accurate and age-appropriate. If you are concerned about the materials being used in your child’s school, the Safe Schools Alliance website has information and guidance to assist.)

Tuesday 28th May - This Never Happens #2

THE DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified female with a history of assaulting healthcare professionals has been jailed for the attempted murder of an NHS nurse.

25-year-old Kieffer Sutton is a trans-identified female from Erdington, Birmingham, who has a history of violence and aggression. Over a ten year period, she committed 46 counts of actual or threatened violence, over half of which were against healthcare professionals. Sutton, who suffers with a personality disorder, had been a patient on the high security ward at Heath Lane Hospital in West Bromwich for a year when she tried to strangle 37-year-old mental health nurse, Kazeema Afza, in July 2023.

The unit’s policy was to have two members of staff in a patient's room during observations. Due to Sutton’s ‘gender identity’ and the risk of her self-harming, her original care plan dictated that observations must be carried out by one male and one female nurse. Despite ‘identifying as male’, however, Sutton complained about the presence of a man in her room when she was changing or using the en-suite bathroom.

Consequently, a concession was made to her care plan, permitting the male nurse to step out of the bedroom at certain times - when Sutton was undressing or using the bathroom - leaving her alone with a female staff member. And this is in spite of Sutton’s history of physically attacking healthcare staff.

The NHS has not always be so concerned about the presence of males compromising the privacy and dignity of its female patients.

We have written previously about ‘Annex B’, NHS staff guidance on ‘delivering same-sex accommodation for trans people and gender variant children’ published in 2019. Directly contravening legislation providing for same-sex wards, Annex B stated that people should be accommodated in sleeping accommodation and in bathrooms “According to their presentation: the way they dress, and the name and pronouns they currently use” rather than their biological sex.

Furthermore, it pushed healthcare staff to maintain a fiction with their patients. If a female hospital patient expressed concerns over sharing a ward with a trans-identified male, for example, staff were expected to lie to her about his sex and insist that he is a woman. In March 2022, 4W published an article about a number of female NHS patients who believe they were lied to when they expressed concerns about the presence of trans-identified males in supposedly women-only spaces.

Trans-identified Sutton, however, had no problem with her request for a female-only space being granted.

Kazeema Afzal

On one occasion, Sutton pretended to need the toilet to ensure that the male nurse left her room. She was subsequently left alone with Mrs Afzal. She wrapped the drawstring from a hoody around Mrs Afzal’s neck and tried to strangle her. “It'll be fun seeing you die, you bitch”, she said. Mrs Afzal blacked out, believing that she was going to be murdered. Thankfully, other hospital staff members came to her aid.

Sutton was convicted of attempted murder at Wolverhampton Crown Court and, this week, was given a life sentence with a minimum 13 year term.

Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone #2

THE TELEGRAPH: A new report has demonstrated the disturbing extent to which Scottish schools have been captured by gender identity ideology.

Campaign group, For Women Scotland, carried out a detailed investigation into Scottish schools, issuing hundreds of FOI (freedom of information) requests. Their findings are quite shocking and demonstrate the extent to which anti-scientific and harmful trans ideology has become ‘deeply embedded’ in Scottish classrooms thanks to unsound SNP government guidance and the malign influence of agenda-driven activist groups.

Nine in 10 Scottish secondary schools teach pupils that humans have a ‘gender identity’ which can differ from their biological sex. Around 95% of Scottish secondary schools tell children they can ‘self identify’ their own gender and about the same number operate gender self-ID policies, allowing children to choose their ‘gender identity’. As a result, biological males are permitted to use girls’ changing rooms and toilets and to participate in female PE classes and on female sports teams. Furthermore, the report found that only 4% of schools will always tell parents when a child describes feelings of discomfort with their ‘gender’.

For Women Scotland’s full report is available on the website.

The SNP government has maintained its schools guidance which, drawn up in 2021, recommends an approach of affirmation and endorses social transition. This is in direct contravention of the Cass Review which highlights the potential risks of affirming a child’s self-declared ‘gender identity’.

This guidance was drawn up with the assistance of trans activist group, LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS), about which we have written frequently in the past. It preaches gender identity ideology as fact, runs a widely-adopted charter scheme in Scottish schools and seems to have carte blanche to peddle its nonsense in schools, colleges and even nurseries, all over Scotland.

Also Today - “Nobody’s Perfect!”

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST: A man discovered that his ‘bride’ of twelve days is really a man who disguised himself as a woman in an elaborate financial scam.

A 26-year-old Indonesian man known only as ‘AK’ met his future ‘wife’, Adinda Kanza (an alias), online in 2023. The pair dated for a year during which Kanza always wore a niqab, covering his entire face. Following their wedding in April, AK grew suspicious that his new ‘wife’ constantly avoided intimacy.

When AK tracked down Kanza’s former address, he discovered that his ‘wife’ is really a man who started crossdressing in 2020. Kanza admitted to police that his intention in marrying AK was to steal his family’s assets. He has now been arrested and faces fraud charges.

Wednesday 29th May - This Never Happens #3

THE DAILY MAIL: A predatory sex offender disguised himself as a woman in order to assault a vulnerable young man.

In September 2022, Wayne Rogers sexually assaulted a 20-year-old man, disguising himself as a woman and exploiting his victim’s extreme intoxication.

Rogers, then 46 years old, was wearing a wig and false breasts when he intercepted the incapacitated young man in Bishops Stortford town centre. He approached the man who was so unsteady on his feet, he had fallen over several times. Rogers guided his incapacitated victim to his car then drove him to a secluded spot where he sexually abused him, recording part of the attack on his mobile phone.

Rogers had been acquitted of offences against other men in separate trials in 2022. He was accused of performing oral sex on a drunken colleague at a Christmas party in 2019. The man in question reported being guided into an alleyway by someone had long fingernails and was wearing perfume. Rogers claimed the activity was consensual and was found not guilty. He was also cleared of engaging in sexual activity without consent in relation to a series of incidents which took place between May 2018 and April 2020. The complainant said that he believed he had been engaging in sexual activity with a woman.

Wayne Rogers - IMAGE CREDIT: BBC News

Last year Rogers was convicted of of assault by penetration, two charges of sexual assault and two counts of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent. Appearing at St Albans Crown Court this week, Rogers was sentenced to 10 years in prison and must register as a sex offender for life.

At his trial, Roger’s defence counsel said that he had described himself as being “Like a woman trapped in a man's body”. Prosecuting, Mark Trafford KC, said of Rogers, “He is a sexual predator that picks on young men and deceives them by being dressed as a woman”.

What was it the then Deputy First Minister, Shona Robison, told the Scottish parliament in March 2022? “There is no evidence that predatory and abusive men have ever had to pretend to be anything else to carry out abusive and predatory behaviour.”

Thursday 30th May - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire

REDUXX: The owner of a female-only gym has been ordered to pay compensation after refusing a trans-identified male access to its showers.

Laura Holstein is a fully intact trans-identified male who tried to join a women-only gym - Ladies First Fitness Centre - in Bavaria at the end of March this year. According to the gym’s staff, Holstein’s ID lists him as male and he offered no paperwork recognising a legal ‘sex change’.

Staff arranged a trial training session for Holstein but denied him access to the gym showers. Holstein insisted on using the showers, but offered to wear swimming trunks while doing so as a ‘compromise’. The gym owner, Doris Lange, asked staff to prepare a polite rejection of his membership request. As she explained to Nuis, many of her clients are Muslim women who require a female-only environment.

On 16th May, Doris Lange received a letter from the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS), headed by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs. It read, “The facts of the case could be a violation of the AGG [General Equal Treatment Act] in the form of direct discrimination on the grounds of gender… This applies regardless of whether the person concerned has already officially undergone a change of name and civil status and/or gender reassignment measures.” It also instructed Lange to pay Holstein compensation of €1000 (around £850).

It seems that Holstein makes a habit of barging his way into supposedly female-only environments. Last month Reduxx reported that he has been accepted to play in a women’s football league.

Also Today - This Never Happens #4

KTVQ: A trans-identified male who discharged a gun in a busy hospital emergency department and was convicted of stalking offences will serve his sentence in a women’s prison.

Despite the misleading and dishonest headline, the subject of this news story, 38-year-old Panda Emily Aradia, is not a woman. Aradia is a trans-identified male who was convicted on felony charges of criminal endangerment and assault with a weapon.

In October 2022, Aradia checked into the emergency department of Billings Clinic in Montana. He managed to smuggle a concealed Glock 19 handgun past the hospital security staff. When a nurse entered his triage room to take an assessment, he pointed the gun at her ‘for several seconds’ before pointing it at himself. He told the nurse she had three minutes to get him some help or he would shoot.

Panda Emily Aradia - IMAGE CREDIT: Montana Department of Corrections

When security staff entered the room, Aradia was still holding the gun and told them they only had a few minutes to find him assistance or he would begin shooting. A team of Billings police officers arrived soon after, responding to a 911 call from the hospital. As they approached Aradia’s room they heard a gunshot from within. There followed an altercation during which Aradia refused to surrender his weapon and he was wounded by one policeman firing a single shot in response to him making a sudden forward motion toward the officers with his weapon.

It was later determined that Aradia had shot himself in the lower abdomen, causing a non-life-threatening injury. The bullet did not lodge in Aradia's body but passed through the wall into the adjacent room from which a patient had been removed only moments earlier. A nurse was still standing in the doorway when the bullet came through the wall. Court records state that “More than 80 people were inside the Emergency Department when (Aradia) came into the hospital and fired the round”.

Panda Emily Aradia (R) at his trial - IMAGE CREDIT: Billings Gazette

At his trial last year, Aradia was convicted of criminal endangerment and assault with a weapon. This week, at a hearing in Yellowstone, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He will also serve a concurrent five-year suspended sentence after pleading no contest to felony stalking in another criminal case. In that suit, Aradia was accused of violating a protection order issued against him due to his behaviour towards ‘a younger person’ to whom he had made sexual advances.

Aradia’s defence council had argued for a reduced sentence with no prison term due to Aradia’s trans status.

He will serve his sentence at the Montana Women’s Prison.

Friday 31st May - This Never Happens #5

REDUXX: A trans-identified male has been charged with manslaughter after a security guard was stabbed to death at a refugee shelter.

Police in Potsdam, Germany, have charged a trans-identified male with manslaughter following an incident which took place at the Schloßgarten Hotel – a shelter which houses approximately 30 asylum seekers - on 30th May. It is reported that a dispute broke out within the facility leading to a 33 year old security guard being stabbed. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to his injuries. The perpetrator fled the scene.

Three hours later, the suspect called the police in nearby Schöneberg to report that he had been ‘misgendered’. Initially, police did not make the connection but, when the Potsdam police learned of the so-called ‘transphobic incident’, it provided them with essential information about the possible location of the suspect. He was eventually apprehended by an off-duty police officer and has now been charged with manslaughter.

Saturday 1st June - This Never Happens #6

THE DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male has been accused of murdering his own husband using a samurai sword.

This week a 70-year-old trans-identified male, Joanna Rowland-Stuart, appeared in court accused of murdering his husband, 70-year-old Andrew Roland-Stuart, at their home in Kemptown, Brighton.

Emergency services responded to the incident at the couple’s flat in the early evening of Monday 27th May. Andrew was pronounced dead at the scene. Joanna Rowland-Stuart appeared before magistrates in Crawley on Friday 31st May and was remanded in custody ahead of a hearing at Lewes Crown Court on 3rd June.

Described as a ‘retired LGBT rights worker’, Rowland-Stuart was a transgender rep for the Civil Service’s LGBT group, Proud.

One of Joanna Rowland Stuart’s listings on the Companies House website shows that, at one time, he was a director of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals.

Another of his Companies House entries shows that he was also a director of the Brighton-based LGBT Community Safety Forum.

According to former Chair, Billie Lewis, the LGBT CSF was “Put in place to hold the statutory authorities to account and to make sure that people can report hate crimes”. It advocated for and spoke on behalf of LGBT people wanting to reporting hate crimes to the police. In a YouTube video from an LGBT CSF event, Joanna Roland-Stuart talks about the importance of safe spaces for the LGBT community.

He also had input into a report on domestic violence and abuse.

In its press release on Rowland-Stuart’s arrest, Sussex Police erroneously stated that “A woman has been charged with the murder of her husband at their flat in Brighton”. They urged the public ‘not to speculate’ but to come forward with any information which may be able to assist their investigation. Perhaps telling the truth about the sex of the suspect would be a more effective way of gathering evidence?

When BBC News reported the story, it described Joanna Rowland-Stuart as a woman and referred to him with female pronouns throughout. There is no indication of his true sex or trans identity anywhere in the BBC article. This is our publicly funded national broadcaster, lying to its readership.

BBC Sussex reported the story in exactly the same way and also described Joanna Roland-Stuart as a ‘woman’ in the headline on its social media account.

Similarly, The Brighton Argus reported that Roland-Stuart is a woman and referred to him with female pronouns. An oblique reference is made to him being ‘a transgender rep with the civil service’ but otherwise no mention is made of his sex or trans status.

The Argus was careful to turn off the replies when posting its article on social media.

Of course, the media has been mis-reporting male violence as having been committed by women for years thanks to the malign influence of gender ideology.

Violent crime is overwhelmingly committed by men in terrifying proportion. Obfuscating the biological sex of suspects and perpetrators will not only skew crime statistics, it will affect public perception and opinion and make fighting the problem of male violence even harder than it already is.

Sunday 2nd June - Pucked Over

THE TELEGRAPH: Girls as young as fourteen are being forced to play with and against adult trans-identified males in UK ice hockey leagues.

Ice Hockey UK’s current official policy regarding trans-identified players competing in female leagues is unclear. A thread posted on Mumsnet in March last year included a link to its policy but this link no longer seems to work. However, the comments on the Mumsnet thread suggest that the policy not only allows trans-identified males to play on female teams, they are accommodated in female changing rooms and bathrooms, too. Both England Ice Hockey and Ice Hockey UK say they are currently ‘reviewing’ their transgender policies.

Ice Hockey UK also needs to ‘review’ its Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy as it misrepresents the Equality Act 2010. The document inaccurately states that ‘gender’ is a protected characteristic when it is not; the act lists sex and gender reassignment.

Under the current regulations governing ice hockey leagues in the UK, female players can play with adult teams from the age of 14. This means that, given trans-identified males are permitted to play in the women’s category, teenage girls can face adult men on the ice rink.

Ice hockey is a high-speed sport involving intentionally aggressive play and high-impact physical contact. It is fraught with danger for its players. Competitors can face blade injuries which have, tragically, proved fatal for professional players in the past. They are also at risk of concussion, brain injuries and spinal injuries. A 2020 US study in The Global Spine Journal found that the proportion of serious spinal cord injuries in ice hockey players is very high compared to other sports.

Nevertheless, it appears that even very young girls are being forced to compete with and against trans-identified males in supposedly female-only leagues.

IMAGE CREDIT: Sportsplexa

An adult female player who competes in an amateur women’s ice hockey league spoke to The Telegraph about her concerns. “I’ve heard from a woman who plays on a different team to me that the parents of a younger player will not bring that player to a game where they know a biological male is playing on the opposite team. So that girl is being excluded from her sport because of the presence of a biological male in the women’s league.”

A worried father also spoke to The Telegraph. He told the paper that his 15-year-old daughter was competing in an amateur league game when a trans-identified male player deliberately hit a female opponent around the head. “I’m watching my 15-year-old daughter taking on fully grown men and thinking this isn’t right,” he said. “Ice hockey is a physical game and if you’re going head to head with a man as a 15-year-old girl there is obviously a strength difference. There’s also much higher levels of aggression in male ice hockey and then these players go to play in women’s teams. I was seething when I saw the female player being hit.”

He added, “Any of these men could play in mixed teams that exist, but they insist on playing in the ladies’ team.”

Also Today - The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name

NOTTINGHAM POST: A post-box topper embroidered with the definition of the word ‘woman’ has been removed for ‘intimidating trans people’.

A post-box in the Nottinghamshire town of Beeston was given a knitted ‘topper’ in Suffragette colours which was stitched with the words ‘woman human adult female’. The item has been severely criticised by local councillors.

Commenting on social media, Broxtowe Borough Council’s ruling Labour group councillors praised the removal of the pro-women topper and thanked those responsible. There is “No place for this in Beeston”, they said.

Labour councillor, Helen Faccio, the council's portfolio holder for community safety, described the content of the topper - the dictionary definition of the word ‘woman’ - as an “Unacceptable act of intimidation”.

See you next week.