A Week in the War on Women: Monday 9th May - Sunday 15th May GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT
Just a few of the good news stories for the gender beat this week. Enjoy!
Queens Of The Silver Screen
Despite having their Arts Council funding withdrawn, LGB Alliance’s short film, Queens, is still going to be made.
A few supportive donors have saved the day and ‘Queens’ - which celebrates the changing lives of gay and bisexual men over the last 70 years - is going ahead.
A Level Playing Field
The issue of trans-identified males competing in women’s sport has been covered in the news again this week.
Two current elite female athletes told BBC Sport that trans-identified males should compete in an ‘open category’ to ‘protect women's sport’.
Olympian swimming legend, Sharron Davies, spoke to The Daily Mail about the need to ensure fairness and safety in women’s sport.
“No one wants to ban people from sport. They just have to race where their biology fits the category… It just needs to be fair. And fairness needs to come before inclusion.”
Swimming World magazine published an article citing scientific research and data and quoting experts, Emma Hilton and David Handelsman, on the unfairness of male participation in female sports.
“Female athletes should not be forced to assume the burden of competing against unfair male physical advantages in the name of inclusion.”
Gender Is On The Agenda
Gender seemed to be all over the media this week, with various aspects of the debate getting some much-needed sunlight.
Fiona McAnena of Fair Play For Women appeared on Talk TV and spoke to Julia Hartley-Brewer about excluding trans people from the ‘conversion therapy’ ban.
The New York Post published an article about 4th Wave Now, a group of parents who fight the cult of gender the medicalization of gender non-conforming children.
Helen Joyce wrote in The Express about the dangers of teaching gender ideology in primary schools.
The Times Higher Education wrote about the University College Union’s attack on gender-critical academics and the impending ‘showdown’.
Charlotte Lytton interviewed James Esses for The Telegraph.
Co-founder of Stonewall, Simon Fanshawe, wrote in The Daily Mail about Allison Bailey, the tribunal and how trans activism is wrecking all the good work Stonewall once achieved.
Joan Smith interviewed Holly Lawford-Smith about her new book, Gender Critical Feminism, and the attempts of trans activists to cancel it.
Speaking of Holly Lawford-Smith’s book, respect to her publisher, Oxford University Press, for this response to the TRA bullies.
Joan Smith @polblonde
I talked to Holly Lawford-Smith for @Telegraph. Her book Gender Critical Feminism is published by the OUP this week. https://t.co/N1Txkd3lrrLet Women Speak
Despite the beset efforts of the milky bar militia, Sunday’s Speaker’s Corner event in Manchester, organised by Kellie-Jay Keen, went ahead and proved a huge success.
There were a range of brilliant speakers.
Plenty of dancing, laughing and un-wheeshting women were in attendance.
There was even a terfosaurus in attendance!
And Emmeline was reclaimed!
Charlotte 🦖Vulvasaurus 💜🤍💚 @Charlot31500813
#EmmelineReclaimed https://t.co/c3UU2R8vnX
Thanks JL it is all encouraging and hopefully Graham will take heart from it too. His work underpins what the rest of us try to do in our small way.
This supplement is so uplifting! That Terf-osaurus wearing those colorful sneakers made me laugh out loud. Animal video was funny as usual, too. Thanks for posting!