A Week in the War on Women: Monday 18th September - Sunday 24th September

Monday 18th September - “Both Sides” #1

DAILY MAIL: Trans rights activists stormed a feminist conference in San Francisco, vandalising property and committing physical assaults.

The USA’s Women's Declaration International (WDIUSA) held their 2nd National Women's Convention at a Hilton Hotel in San Francisco over the weekend of 15th - 17th September. The conference featured discussions on the rights of lesbians, black women, women in academia and women who have detransitioned.

Of course, trans activists just could not allow women to meet and talk in peace. On Saturday a large crowd started to congregate outside the hotel in an attempt to sabotage the WDIUSA’s event. One of the conference attendees, Brette Smith, posted videos of this mob on social media. They show trans activists making insulting and sexually aggressive gestures, chanting ‘fuck off’, ‘fuck the TERFs’ and ‘fuck you fascists’ and holding signs containing offensive and threatening slogans.

One very obviously male trans activist held a sign reading ‘millions of dead terfs’.

Speaking to Reduxx, feminist campaigner, Kara Dansky, reported that trans activists managed to get into the hotel where they were ‘terrorizing hotel guests and security alike’. This prompted hotel security staff to lock all doors and access points, leaving only the front door open to allow access for hotel guests.

Canadian journalist and feminist campaigner, Meghan Murphy, posted a video shot from the hotel rooftop, demonstrating the actions of the trans activists below. The mob screamed ‘fuck you!’ and ‘fuck off!’ and one protestor with a microphone taunted her, yelling, “Come down from your little hidey-hole. You're fucking scared”.

Murphy reported that eight trans activists scaled the fence and tried to attack her and fellow conference speaker, K Yang. “We ran”, she wrote. “It was terrifying.”

K Yang also posted a video of violent trans activists storming the hotel and trying to attack conference attendees.

Exulansic, another feminist campaigner speaking at the conference, reported that a group of trans activists tried to storm into their event via a pedestrian bridge which links the hotel to the conference centre. The San Francisco Police Department had to deal with situation, escorting women from the bathroom because of the danger caused by trans activists. Police officers then had to guard the walkway in order to prevent further invasions.

Despite a strong police presence, trans activists vandalised the hotel and its environs. Stickers and flyers bearing slogans such as ‘Arm trans women’ and ‘Fuck transphobes’ appeared on the Hilton signage and in the surrounding area.

IMAGE CREDIT: Bellisa Cohen

Trans activists tried to vandalise the large sign at the hotel entrance using a hammer. Kara Dansky reported that, when a hotel manager attempted to intervene, one of the protesters physically assaulted him, apparently punching him in the head.

Coinciding with the WDIUSA conference, a nearby gallery hosted an exhibition called ‘A Nasty Piece of Work: The Art of Dissident Feminists’. It was advertised as “The art of women who oppose the quest to construct or remake what it means to be a woman”.

IMAGE CREDIT: @WomenAreReals

Trans activists vandalised the venue, defacing the gallery windows with red spray paint and slogans such as ‘NO TERFS ON OUR TURF”.

IMAGE CREDIT: @WomenAreReals

The exhibition includes work by a number of lesbian artists such as Beverley Talbott, Laura Ichikawa and Claudia Clare, the work of Laetitia Ky, a young black African artist and activist who has used her work to protest practices such as breast flattening and female genital mutilation, and a self portrait by artist Laura Becker, a detransitioned woman who shares her personal experiences through her art.

Trying to intimidate lesbians, detransitioners and women of colour into silence… do these people honestly believe they’re on the ‘right side of history’?

Also Today - Let Women Speak

SCOTTISH EXPRESS: A venue in Rutherglen cancelled an event arranged by a gender critical feminist group leading to accusations of ‘unlawful discrimination’.

Women Won’t Wheesht (WWW) is a grass roots and non-partisan feminist group which campaigns to protect women’s sex-based rights and spaces.

Ahead of the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election, the group organised a public hustings at which they hoped to discuss female rights with the various candidates.

Number 18 in Rutherglen describes itself as “A community hub and events space” which is “Available for a range of activities delivered for the community and its residents”. WWW booked one of its rooms in which to hold its hustings.

Only a few days prior to the event, Number 18 cancelled the WWW’s booking, claiming that the group failed to ‘present a balanced view to the local electorate’.

WWW made a statement that they were ‘shocked and saddened’ by the cancellation. “We can see no reason why the hustings has been cancelled other than unlawfully discriminating against us due to our beliefs & views pertaining to sex-based rights”.

Tory candidate, Thomas Kerr, told the paper, “This decision is outrageous. There is simply no justification for the venue cancelling this event days before it was due to take place”.

A few days later, following much discussion of this story on social media and the threat of legal action, Number 18 had a change of heart and re-instated WWW’s booking. But it should never have been cancelled in the first place.

The event went ahead as planned and was a huge success with standing room only. All fourteen candidates had been invited to participate but some were conspicuous by their absence, including Gloria Adebo (Scottish Liberal Democrats), Cameron Eadie (Scottish Green Party), Katy Loudon (SNP) and Michael Shanks (Scottish Labour).

Tuesday 19th September - Leave Them Kids Alone

BBC NEWS: The re-analysis of a ‘landmark’ study on puberty blockers has shown that a far greater number of children than previously reported experienced deterioration in their mental health.

In 2011 the Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) embarked on a study of puberty blockers. It involved 44 children aged between 12 and 15 and looked at the impact taking puberty blockers had on them. When the results were finally published in 2021 the study reported there were “No changes in psychological function” to those taking them.

(When the BMJ reported on this study, it warned of the potential harmful side effects of taking puberty blockers. “The children experienced reduced growth in height & bone strength by the time they finished their treatment.”)

Professor Susan McPherson, from the University of Essex, and David Freedman, a retired social scientist, have now re-analysed the data from that original study. Their results are quite different from those originally published. They found that after 12 months of puberty blocker injections the majority of the children - ie 34% - experienced a deterioration in their mental health with 37% reporting no change. Only 29% of the children reported that they experienced any improvement.

Over 70% of the children taking these drugs either saw no change or felt their mental health deteriorated.

This is the study which resulted in the lowering of the minimum age at which puberty blockers could be prescribed by the NHS.

Wednesday 20th September - “Do Whatever You Like All Of The Time”

SCOTTISH EXPRESS: A trans-identified male would-be Scottish politician made public photographs of himself dilating in a disabled toilet.

47-year-old Heather Herbert was originally born in Leicester but moved to Scotland ten years ago. A would-be politician, he joined Scottish Labour in 2017 and stood as a candidate for the Gordon constituency in the 2019 general election. He stood again in 2021 for the Scottish Parliament constituency of Donside. He was never elected. In late 2021 he left Labour for the Scottish Green Party. He was elected co-convenor of the Rainbow Greens whee he worked alongside Beth (formerly Jack) Douglas, a trans-identified male who, earlier this year, was accused of sexual violence and suspended from the party for aggressive social media posts advocating violence against women.

Douglas is not the only dubious company kept by Heather Herbert; earlier this year he posted on social media that one of his biggest accomplishments was to gain a follow from Katie Dolatowski (who also calls himself Alyanna McKenna), the trans-identified male paedophile who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a women’s toilet.

Herbert began ‘transitioning’ around 2015 when he was in his late 30s. According to his social media content, he has just undergone ‘sex reassignment’ surgery, which he refers to as ‘V Day’. The surgical creation of a neo ‘vagina’ requires daily dilation to prevent the new body cavity from healing up.

This week, travelling from London to Scotland, Herbert posted a photograph of himself, mid-dilation, laying on the floor of a disabled toilet in Gatwick Airport.

Firstly, he posted on X (formerly known as Twitter), “Dilation, day two, let's play. Where in an airport can I locate a clean, dry, private place I can lie down, take my knickers off and spread my legs?”

In a later post he stated, “Found a disabled toilet... not the most fun I've had”. This post was accompanied by a photograph of Herbert laying on the disabled toilet floor while, apparently, using his dilator.

These dilation sessions take a minimum of 15 minutes but more usually last around 30 minutes. Herbert was clearly taking up a disabled toilet facility for a considerable amount of time.

Disabled rights campaigner, Henrietta Freeman, commented that, “A disabled person won’t be able to catheterise, empty their stoma bag, deal with bowel accidents, a parent can’t change their child”. She added, “This selfish entitled man doesn’t have to deal with this. Robbing disabled people of their dignity is a choice by him. Disability isn’t”.

Thursday 21st September - This Never Happens #1

REDUXX: In Arkansas a trans-identified male is facing charges of voyeurism after allegedly photographing a woman while she was using the toilet.

45-year-ol Cameron Pershall, who calls himself Natalie Hannah Pershall, was arrested by Lowell Police in May. He is facing charges of voyeurism and tampering with evidence following an incident which occurred at a corporate office in Arkansas in July last year.

A woman was using the female bathroom when she saw a mobile phone being held underneath the dividing wall between the stalls. She believed a photograph had been taken of her and confronted the voyeur. According to the police affidavit, the women recognised Pershall and security video footage appeared to confirm that he had been using a phone like the once she described.

Police subsequently seized various electronic devices from Pershall’s home. There was strong evidence to suggest that Pershall had attempted to ‘wipe’ his iPhone and computer hard drive. Consequently, detectives contacted Apple to restore the deleted contents of his devices. They discovered a number of photographs, including one depicting an unidentified person with their underwear down sitting on a toilet. Detectives concluded that “Pershall may have a fetish related to urination and/or bathrooms”.

Local news outlets, such as KARK and KNWA, ignored that Pershall is listed as male in police records and reported that ‘a woman’ has been accused of voyeurism.

Also Today - This Never Happens #2

REDUXX: A man has been arrested over repeated incidents of indecent exposure while using a gym’s female facilities.

25-year-old JaKorbie Dixon was arrested on suspicion of exposing himself to a 15-year-old girl in the locker room of a Planet Fitness gym in Monroe, Georgia.

As reported by the girl’s aunt, the teenagers was in the shower section of the gym’s female locker room when a male pulled back the curtain and stood right in front of her, totally naked. Shocked, she made a hasty exit but the man called after her that she could stay. When the girl’s mother went to the gym to speak to the manager the following day, she was told that staff were aware of other complaints about this man and knew who he was but maintained he had a right to use the female facilities.

The teenager’s mother then filed a police report and Dixon was arrested. Officers told the family that Dixon is alleged to have exposed himself to a 19-year-old female gym employee in the women’s locker room on two separate occasions, during one of which, ‘his penis was fully erect’. Police have charged Dixon with indecent exposure for both incidents.

Military court records show that Dixon received a bad conduct discharge from the US Air Force in 2019 after he was convicted by a court martial of breaking into the dorm room of a female cadet and threatening her.

Law firm, Benton & Benton, will now be representing the 15-year-old girl’s family in a lawsuit against Planet Fitness. Attorney, Bart Benton, commented, “We are committed to holding Planet Fitness accountable for its actions. Our early investigation has revealed that Planet Fitness knew and was on notice of this type of behavior from the perpetrator, but chose to ignore his prior conduct of exposing himself to females in the women’s locker room because he ‘identified’ as a female. This type of behavior is completely unacceptable”.  

Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone #1

THE TELEGRAPH: A GP has warned that the Scottish NHS proposals for the care of dysphoric children could be a ‘medical scandal as bad as thalidomide’.

Last November we reported on a proposal produced by NHS Scotland which recommends radical new trans treatment policies. This new protocol is referred to as SPATH (Scottish Pathway for Trans Healthcare) in what appears to be an obvious link to WPATH. It’s recommendations certainly seem to mirror those of WPATH’s deeply concerning affirmation only model.

The NHS Scotland report recommends removing so-called ‘barriers’ to surgeries such as mastectomies and genital alteration. It claims that counselling or psychotherapy ‘is not a pre-requisite for any gender-affirming healthcare’, meaning that patients could undergo life-altering and irreversible surgeries without any exploration of the reason for their dysphoria. The report maintains that detailed mental health assessments are not necessary for a patient to access hormones or surgery. It even suggests that patients can ‘benefit’ from life-altering surgery and hormone treatment even if their gender identity does not cause them ‘distress’. Furthermore, ignoring the recommendations of the Cass Review, the report calls for gender non-conforming children to be medicalised as part of an affirmation treatment model.

A female GP has written to Gregor Smith, Scotland’s chief medical officer, to express her alarm over these proposals, warning they would “Cause harm to many vulnerable young people.” She said that she had raised concerns widely with senior NHS leaders and ‘almost all’ of them shared her anxieties but were unwilling to speak out publicly.

She went on to comment, “I honestly think that the treatment of gender-dysphoric children as we are now doing –  intervention, medication and surgery rather than understanding, exploration and minimising intervention – will go down as a medical scandal as bad as lobotomy or thalidomide”.

Also Today - Witch Burning in the 21st Century

THE DAILY MAIL: A group of women from various fields have spoken out about being ‘cancelled’ by trans activists.

Six different women, whose professional lives have been adversely affected by their rejection of gender identity ideology, spoke to journalist, Jill Foster, about their experiences.

Natalie Bird, a long standing member of the Liberal Party, had hoped to pursue a career in politics. A survivor of domestic violence, she is a passionate defender of women’s sex-based rights and spaces. In 2018 she fell foul of the Liberal Party simply for wearing an ‘adult human female’ t-shirt. She was subsequently “Barred from holding or standing for election to any party office for 10 years” and “Barred from holding or seeking to be elected to any public office on behalf of the party for a period of 10 years”.

Artist, Sonya Douglas, was dropped from the Critically Speaking arts podcast after failing to provide her ‘preferred pronouns’. She was also accused of ‘sharing transphobic content’ online for expressing her support for Maya Forstater, JK Rowling and detransitioned woman, Keira Bell. Sonya, a black woman from Wales, was then dropped from a Welsh government steering group tasked with encouraging diversity. Furthermore, art world colleagues were warned against working with her, she lost out on funding opportunities and, eventually, she was forced to close her company.

Ceramicist, Claudia Clare, a survivor of male sexual violence, knows only too well how vital female-only spaces are. In recent years she found herself being excluded from exhibitions and events for publicly defending women’s sex-based rights. Earlier this year she took legal action against the Craft Potters Association (CPA) and University for the Arts London (UAL) after being barred from an exhibition in which her work had previously been included.

L-R: Natalie Bird, Sonya Douglas, Claudia Clare - IMAGE CREDIT: Daily Mail

Kelly Frost co-founded a monthly social event for lesbians and bisexual women at a local venue. When a number of trans-identified males began gate-crashing the events, resulting in complaints being made, she and fellow organisers decided to suspend the meetings. When the group relaunched, members were informed by email that the meetings would be strictly female-only. The venue was then trolled by trans activists with the usual accusations of bigotry and Nazism and Kelly was told her group could no longer meet there. She now has to operate these events in secret.

Lexi Ellingsworth is a project manager who was ousted from a supposedly female-only networking group after posting an inspirational message on International Women’s Day. She shared a picture of Solitude, a statue of a heavily pregnant female warrior who fought against French troops in the 19th century. She commented that the statue reminds her of the strength of women and what we are capable of, adding that she will always fight for women and girls. She was immediately blocked from the group and accused of transphobia because her focuse on pregnancy and ‘women and girls’ wasn’t ‘inclusive’ of the trans-identified males in the group.

Singer and punk musician, Louise Distras, was labelled ‘transphobic’ for sharing her views about gender, cancel culture and free speech online. Radio stations refused to play her songs, magazines have excluded her, and she believes that even her own live booking agency is treating her unfairly.

L-R: Kelly Frost, Lexi Ellingsorth, Louise Distras - IMAGE CREDIT: Daily Mail

Of course, the gendah lads just could not abide women being allowed to speak out about their experiences and, once this article was published, tried to belittle it.

You’d expect a self-styled social commentator and left wing activist like Billy Bragg to be outraged that survivors of male violence cannot defend female spaces with impunity, that lesbians are being forced to meet underground, that artists and musicians are punished for expressing themselves and that a black woman was barred from a government panel…

But he only seemed concerned that a woman wore clothes of which he does not approve.

Friday 22nd September - “Both Sides” #2

REDUXX: Trans activists marauded and looted in an important cultural venue in Mexico City after a trans-identified male was denied access to its female toilet.

The National Cinematheque in Mexico City is a venue of tremendous cultural and historic significance dedicated to the collation, archiving and exhibition of both Mexican and world cinema.

Earlier this month, a trans-identified male who calls himself Laura Glover had to be physically removed from the women’s toilets at the National Cinematheque. He subsequently went to complain to one of the venue’s staff members. When referred to as ‘sir’ by the employee, he raged that the man had ‘invalidated’ his ‘gender identity’.

Glover then went on to confront a male security guard outside the venue, shouting and gesticulating in a very aggressive manner. This incident was recorded by one of Glover’s friends and was later uploaded to Instagram.

After shouting at the security guard, Grover screamed “Where is that bitch?” and strode away in pursuit of the female guard who had ejected him from the women’s toilet.

Towards the end of the recording, Glover can be seen verbally attacking the female guard, shouting misogynistic insults and trailing her along the entrance path as she tried to keep her distance from him.

Within hours of the recording appearing on social media, the Cinematheque issued a statement apologizing to Glover and promising the ‘re-education’ of employees. The venue said it would send staff to “Training, awareness and professionalization courses on human rights, the right to non-discrimination and the right to equality”. According to Animal Politico, the security guards involved in the incident have been fired.

Nevertheless, Glover was still not satisfied and, in addition to demanding the resignation of the venue’s managing director, Alejandro Pelayo, he organised a mass protest of trans activists at the Cinematheque on 16th September.

IMAGE CREDIT: Animal Politco

Excélsior, reported that around “500 members of the trans and non-binary community, as well as LGBT+ dissidents” were in attendance. It also wrote that Glover used a loudspeaker to call the Cinematheque ‘transphobic’ and to encourage the assembled mob to ransack and steal from the Cinematheque’s concession stand. According to Proceso, a group of trans-identified males, including Glover himself, tried to ‘take’ the candy concession and stole its merchandise. Reduxx shared a video of Glover leading the looting and vandalism in the store.

Meanwhile, outside the venue, trans activists vandalized exterior screens and walls, spray painting slogans such as “Let us shit, Cineteca NaZional” on them.

IMAGE CREDIT: Animal Politico

“Both sides”, eh?

Saturday 23rd September - Uncivil Servants

THE TELEGRAPH: The cabinet secretary has been warned of a ‘woke takeover’ at a civil service which is completely captured by gender ideology.

Senior civil servants have written to the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, to warn that gender identity ideology being promoted by trans activists has become so ingrained at Whitehall that it risks ‘improperly’ influencing Government policy.

42 members of staff from 16 different departments, including senior managers, senior lawyers and policy advisers, signed the letter which was sent to all permanent secretaries – the most senior civil servants in each ministry - as well as Simon Case. “We are concerned that the widespread incorporation of the concept of ‘gender identity’ into the language and internal policies of the Civil Service constitutes a significant breach of impartiality”, it says.

It states that, within the civil service, the notion that ‘everyone has a gender identity which is more important than their sex’ is ‘treated as ‘undisputed fact’, that those who disagree are deemed bigoted and hateful, that staff who express gender-critical views suffer ‘serious harassment’ and live with a ‘pervasive fear’ that they will be victimised, that supposedly single-sex facilities are designated on the basis of self-declared gender and that many civil servants have experienced ‘professional disadvantage’ for suggesting that gender identity should not be prioritised over biological sex.

The letter was sent 18th April but it was 30th June before the signatories received a response. That reply did not come from Simon Case but from government’s head of HR and it was deemed completely inadequate. Together with extensive evidence of the way highly contentious beliefs are promoted throughout civil service departments, the original letter has subsequently been leaked to The Telegraph.

One of the signatories told the paper, “There has been a widespread woke takeover of Whitehall that our most senior officials have swallowed hook, line and sinker”.

Steve Edginton, one of the journalists who wrote The Telegraph story, posted a lengthy thread on social media detailing some of the evidence he unearthed while investigating the capture of the Civil Service by gender ideology. For example, the Department for Business & Trade (DBT) hosted five 90 minute long LGBT+ training sessions instructing staff not to use sex specific language such as ‘mum & dad’ and the Ministry of Justice sent a staff newsletter claiming that a belief in there being two sexes is a ‘product of white supremacy’.

Edginton also posted a DEFRA training video which promotes the use of female only facilities by biological males. In this video, a female staff member is depicted as a cruel bigot for trying to prevent a trans-identified male from using the women’s toilet and shower room.

Another article published in The Telegraph this weekend revealed that a gender critical staff group was likened to Nazis and accused of wanting to ‘destroy’ the LGBT+ community.

The Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN) is an organisation which was set up last year to support and assist UK civil servants who do not adhere to gender ideology.

In March civil servants from several diversity networks in the Ministry of Justice, including SEEN, met online to discuss diversity and inclusion. A source who participated in the meeting told The Telegraph that SEEN members were described as ‘holding views that resemble Nazism’.

During the meeting, written messages were posted online by those involved. One accused SEEN members of wanting to ‘destroy’ the LGBT+ community. Another commented, “Found a recent SEEN event… incredibly damaging and upsetting”.

Sunday 24th September - Leave Them Kids Alone

IRISH INDEPENDENT: A leading clinician has spoken out about Ireland’s ‘activist-led’ transgender healthcare that will be ‘dangerous for patients’.

Professor Donal O’Shea is an endocrinologist and the clinical lead for obesity at Ireland’s National Gender Service (NGS). He is prepared to risk his professional position to speak out against senior Health Service Executive (HSE) managers and their ‘dangerous’ approach to gender healthcare.

Earlier this month, the HSE began recruiting a clinical lead for transgender services to introduce a new model of care for both children and adults. O’Shea and his NGS colleague, psychiatrist, Paul Moran, are extremely concerned not only by the job description for this new role, but also by an HSE-promoted pathway for child patients.

Ireland has no service for dysphoric minors; children are referred for treatment abroad. The new policy endorsed by the HSE involves children being referred to a Belgian clinic by Vanessa Lacey, a former senior manager at trans lobby group, Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI).

TENI, you may remember, is the organisation which produced a petition calling for feminists who oppose gender identity ideology to be denied political representation.

Vanessa Lacey is a trans-identified male who transitioned in 2007 when he was in his mid-40s. After working with TENI for over a decade, he left his role there as Health and Education Manager in 2021 and founded an organisation called Gendercare which provides clients with “Professional development trainings, workshops and consultancy”. He has a BA (Hons) in Psychology from Waterford Institute of Technology and a PhD in loss and grief. But he is not a clinician.

Children in Ireland with gender issues used to be referred to the Tavistock clinic in London. Now they are advised to seek treatment at the Antwerp clinic and must be referred there by Vanessa Lacey.

Professor O’Shea is concerned by this policy as Lacey is not a clinician. He feels there is an ‘ideology’ at senior HSE levels which is led by transgender activists and pushes ‘affirmative’ care. “The idea that you would have an activist-driven model of care within the medical setting is just unthinkable,” he said. “There is no condition where you invite the activists to come in and direct how care should be delivered.”

Vanessa Lacey (R) - IMAGE CREDIT: Facebook

With regard to the HSE’s recruiting for a new NGS clinical lead, ​O’Shea and Moran are shocked that the job specification does not require a candidate to have clinical experience in transgender healthcare as other specialities do. The candidate requires only a ‘special interest in transgender care’ and experience of ‘working with transgender and/or gender-incongruent or dysphoric populations’. O’Shea said the design of the role is “Absolutely an attempt to have an activist-informed model of care that would be dangerous and goes against all emerging evidence of the need to be safe and careful”.

O’Shea risks being ‘silenced and sanctioned’ for expressing his concerns but says, “It’s more important to speak out when there is a culture in an organisation that is prepared to lie, intimidate, mislead and [use] funds to put vulnerable individuals at incredible risk”. He added that political party leaders in Ireland have confided in him they are afraid to publicly question the HSE’s transgender policies.

“Just how many children and vulnerable young people do you want to come to harm because of institutional behaviour before you will call time on it?”, he asked.

See you next week.