A Week in the War on Women: Monday 2nd October - Sunday 8th October GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

Another jam-packed edition just bulging at the seams with great news from the gender beat. Enjoy!

Sex Under The Tories

Lots of good news from the Conservative Party conference this week. Firstly, Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, announced a lifetime ban on sex offenders changing their name and their legal ‘gender’.

Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, then announced a number of policies returning the reality of sex to NHS hospital wards.

Under the newly announced plans, trans-identified males will no longer be accommodated on female-only wards, patients will be able to request same-sex intimate care and there will be a return to sex-specific language.

Steve Barclay said these policies would mean a return to “A common-sense approach to sex and equality”, to ensure that women’s dignity is protected and their voices heard.

Speaking to Sky News, Suella Braverman praised Barclay’s announcement. “Trans women have no place in women's wards or, indeed, in any safe space relating to biological women… This is about protecting women’s dignity and women’s safety and women’s dignity.”

Science Secretary, Michelle Donelan, announced a six-month review into the ‘utter nonsense’ of public bodies collecting data based on self-identified gender rather than biological sex. This review will be overseen by the redoubtable Professor Alice Sullivan, the head of research at UCL’s Social Research Institute.

Donelan told the conference, “To those who think they have the right to impose this utter nonsense on science, let this message go out from this conference hall today… We are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness”.

Elsewhere at the conference, Women and Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, made her opposition to Stonewall abundantly clear.

Speaking at an IEA and TaxPayers’ Alliance event, she pointed to the public subsidies Stonewall receives, arguing that charities should not be receiving public money to support ‘people’s hobby horses’.

Badenoch later made a conference speech [from 3.23.00] in which she talked about prioritising sex over gender.

Paying tribute to groups such as Conservatives For Women, Sex Matters and the LGB Alliance for ‘speaking the truth’, she commented, “I will not apologise for fighting for a society that knows what a woman is.”

Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, also referenced gender ideology in his speech, making clear that Conservative Party policies, especially those relating to health and education, will be based on reality.

“We shouldn't be bullied into believing people can be any sex they want to be, they can't. A man is a man and a woman is a woman. That’s just common sense.”

Leaving Them Kids Alone

In Wisconsin, a court ruling has prevented a school district from changing a child’s name and pronouns without their parent’s consent.

A Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge ruled that the Kettle Moraine School District's policy violates the right of parents to make medical decisions for their children and has prevented it from affirming a pupil’s change of ‘gender’ in school.

In similar news from Oklahoma, a federal judge in Tulsa has this week upheld legislation which makes it a felony crime for the state’s health care professionals to treat gender dysphoric children with medical interventions.

In issuing the order, US District Court Judge John Heil III wrote, “This an area in which medical and policy debate is unfolding and the Oklahoma Legislature can rationally take the side of caution before permitting irreversible medical treatments of its children”.

Marvellous Mandy

Journalist and women’s rights campaigner, Mandy Rhodes, has been appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission Scotland Committee.

Huge congratulations, Mandy! A very significant appointment.

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

Kudos and huge congratulations to the young women elite swimmers who took a courageous stand against trans-identified males invading their sport.

A trans-identified male student tried to force his way onto the female swimming squad at Roanoke College, Virginia, USA. When the young women of the three swimming teams voiced their objection, they were thrown to the wolves by their coach and their college.

Nevertheless, they persisted! They spoke up, they spoke out, they said “No”. Furthermore, they organised a ‘save women’s sports’ event and gave a news conference calling on the NCAA to defend female sports.

Governor of Virginia, Glenn Youngkin, congratulated the Roanoke College female swimmers in a post on social media.

Writing in The Daily Mail, Maureen Callahan ventured, “This may be, dare we hope, a revolutionary moment for women’s sports, one we'll look back on as the fight that changed everything”.

Brava to them all, especially the swimming team captains [pictured above left to right], Kate Pearson, Lily Mullens and Bailey Gallagher. Keep speaking up, sisters.

Glinner Of Hope

Our Graham’s book is released this week! His memoir, ‘Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy’, is due out on 12th October.

It has already garnered huge amounts of publicity and rave reviews and topped the Amazon ‘best seller’ charts. Excerpts have appeared in both The Daily Mail and The Telegraph and Our Graham is the cover stunner for this week’s Telegraph Magazine.

Furthermore, the audio book is recorded and ready to go!

If you haven’t ordered your copy yet, you can do so direct from the publisher, from Waterstones, from Blackwells, via Amazon and at all discerning outlets. (And readers in Australia and New Zealand can order it from any good book shop.)

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