A Week in the War on Women: Monday 28th March - Sunday 3rd April
Monday 28th March - Twitter Hates Women
Milli Hill is a pregnancy and birth specialist, journalist, author, psychotherapist, founder of The Positive Birth Movement and a tireless campaigner for women’s reproductive rights.
Last week she tweeted about a BBC article on endometriosis which referred to the condition affecting ‘people who are assigned female at birth’. Following Milli’s tweets, a number of people complained to the BBC and the article was altered.
The following day, Milli’s Twitter account received a 12-hour suspension.
I spoke to Milli who told me the following:
“I have reported countless tweets and accounts during my time on twitter, some of which have been absolutely appalling. Recently there was one which threatened to scrub me against the floor until I was torn up into shreds. But that one, and many others I've reported, have not been taken down and apparently don't violate any twitter policies.
And yet I've been locked out of Twitter for 'hate speech' for a very calmly worded tweet in which I explained why some people object to the wider ideology that comes as a package deal with the phrase 'assigned at birth'. I simply told the truth that this ideology wants to claim that a person can be a woman simply by saying they are one. And that although we are told this is 'inclusive', many women don't experience it as such. In fact, it has a ripple effect that, for obvious reasons, ends in a 'situation like Lia Thomas' as I diplomatically put it in my tweet.
I can't really see how my tweet can be hate speech but someone threatening my slow, painful and violent death is not - but unfortunately, it does seem to have become 'hate speech' to speak the truth, in particular in relation to women's rights. This is not the first time people have tried to silence me and I'm almost certain that there was a concerted effort to report my tweets and get me banned for a tweet about the BBC's endometriosis article.”
Tuesday 29th March - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE POST MILLENNIAL: A middle school in New Jersey held a lesson about gender transition without the knowledge or consent of parents.
Pearl R. Miller Middle School hosted an assembly at which a trans-identified female, Aydian Dowling, spoke to the pupils aged 10-14 about her gender identity and transition. Parents had been informed before the event and offered a choice in their child’s attendance.
However, parents were not informed about a social studies lesson during which pupils were taught about gender ideology and shown a video Dowling made 10 years ago. Much of the video focuses on pursuing happiness through physical alteration and Dowling is seen injecting testosterone and talking positively about taking cross-sex hormones and undergoing a double mastectomy.
When outraged parents contacted members of the school board, it became obvious that they had also been kept in the dark over this lesson.
Meanwhile, in Washington state, the Edmonds School District is pushing gender identity ideology onto first grade pupils.
Edmonds Online Academy is a remote learning organisation created during the pandemic. Its first-grade students, aged six and seven, were given an assignment on gender ideology and instructed to make a ‘snowperson’ to demonstrate how they ‘identify’. They were provided with a diagram suggesting that they could identify as male, female, both or neither.
Pupils were also told to read Jamie and Bubbie: A Book About People’s Pronouns, in which a grandmother is schooled on the importance of ‘not assuming one's gender’.
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REDUXX: A trans-identified male took a seat in the German parliament intended for a female politician and was a speaker at an event for women in politics.
Markus Ganserer is a father of two and a German politician with the Alliance '90/The Greens party. He began ‘identifying as a woman’ at the end of 2018 and calls himself Tessa though he has not formally changed his name or his sex. He campaigns for self-ID legislation in Germany and claims that ‘a penis is not a male sexual organ’.
He was elected to the Bundestag, Germany’s federal government, in September 2021. The Greens’ own rules allow males to self-identify into roles designated for women so, even though he is still legally male, he took a seat reserved for a female politician. (Women currently make up only one third of Germany's parliament.)
On 2nd April Ganserer spoke at an event called Women*. Power. Politics. (Note the use of an asterisk after the word woman, apparently meaning ‘all women are welcome’ though clearly denoting that ‘woman’ now includes males, too.) The event used the tagline, “Time for new perspectives, time for more women* in politics and business”.
Wednesday 30th March - Get Out Of Sleaze Free Card
Jamie Wallis, Conservative MP for Bridgend and father of two, has ‘come out’ as trans.
In a statement posted to social media Wallis said, “I’m trans. Or to be more accurate, I want to be. I’ve been diagnosed with gender dysphoria…”
Of course, gender dysphoria is a serious and debilitating condition and anyone it affects deserves support, understanding and the best medical care. However, in a follow-up statement, Wallis commented that he will continue to ‘present’ as male and use male pronouns.
You may be wondering, therefore, what it is that makes Wallis ‘trans’. Could it be expediency? His reputation isn’t exactly untarnished.
Wallis was elected to Pencoed town council in 2017 but ejected the following year having not attended any meetings for six months.
He claimed that he’d resigned by letter because he had such a bad relationship with other councillors he did not wish to communicate with them by telephone or email. However, the council never received the letter Wallis said he wrote.
Shortly after his election in 2020, concerns surfaced over Wallis’ business dealings and he resigned directorship of at least seven different companies.
A Freedom of Information request revealed that over 800 complaints were made to trading standards about a group of companies that Wallis ran and that they had been the subject of 20 enforcement visits.
One of the businesses, Action Direct, represented people at employment tribunals. Following an investigation by the Ministry of Justice Claims Management Regulator, Action Direct was ordered to remove all its advertising and websites from the internet and banned from advising any further claimants.
Wallis was also listed at Companies House as the ultimate owner of a Thailand outsourcing company that paid staff the equivalent of £2.49 per hour.
Furthermore, the company offered higher salaries for ‘native English speakers’ (often a euphemism for paying British ex-patriots higher salaries than local employees) and advertised certain positions for ‘female-only’ applicants.
Wallis was also linked to an ‘exploitative and demeaning’ website called Sugar Daddy.
The now-defunct Sugar-Daddy.net business offered to introduce skint students to wealthy ‘sponsors’. “We can introduce you to your very own sugar daddy and solve your money worries. Whether you're a boy, girl, straight or gay, there's a sugar daddy for you.”
Wallis initially denied any involvement in this site. However, information held at Companies House showed otherwise. The site was owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited with which Wallis claimed he had no connection.
Companies House lists Fields Group Ltd the sole shareholder of SD Billing Services between October 2007-October 2010. Throughout that period Wallis was listed as director and a shareholder of Fields Group Ltd and named as a person with ‘significant control’ of the company.
A few months ago Wallis was fined after crashing his Mercedes into a telegraph pole and causing enough damage that a village was left without internet for several days. He was originally arrested on suspicion of being unfit to drive and, by his own admission, he fled the scene.
And now the Tory MP with the dubious and exploitative business interests and driving conviction is identifying as trans. Or rather wanting to be trans. Gullible blue ticks queued to lavish praise for his “searing leadership” (Michael Cashman), “bravery” (Benjamin Buttergasp), and his “courage” (Ash Sarkar). Owen Jones wants to offer him “the love and solidarity they (sic) deserve”.
Do you remember the Women’s Equality Party sending a message of support and empathy to JK Rowling in the wake of all the rape and death threats she received? Nor do I. And yet….
(Note: We have a special report on Wallis coming soon from Nutmeg)
Thursday 31st March - Leave Them Kids Alone
REDUXX: The UK branch of United Nations Women is funding an exhibition that is donating a percentage of its proceeds to Mermaids.
UN Women UK is sponsoring an art exhibition called Hysterical at a gallery in London. 20% of the proceeds will be donated to Mermaids, a trans lobby group which promotes the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children.
Last year Mermaids was fined £25,000 for failing to keep the personal data of its users secure. It has been linked to disgraced GP, Helen Webberley, and offshore clinic, GenderGP, in the news recently for selling puberty blockers to minors online without parental consent. It has also been criticised for touting the hyperbolic slogan ‘better a trans son than a dead daughter’, spreading spurious suicide statistics and peddling gender identity ideology in schools using a Barbie-GI Joe ‘gender scale’.
Can UN Women really be unaware of the controversy surrounding Mermaids and the irreversible medical treatments it pushes on vulnerable kids?
Friday 1st April - These Are Not Our Crimes
THE DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male waiting for sex reassignment surgery has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment after sexually abusing two children.
47-year-old father of two, Marcus Aitken, was convicted of three charges of sexual assault and one of exposure in a Manchester court this week.
Aitken abused two little girls, then aged just five and six, when they visited his home between July and September 2012. They described him poking his genitalia through the letterbox when they knocked on his door.
One of his victims said in a statement, “I suffer flashbacks… What happened has affected my ability to form and maintain relationships with friends and family and the abuse has caused me to struggle with anxiety and anger management”.
Aitken now identifies as trans and calls himself Britnee. In court, he was referred to by his female name and with female pronouns throughout the proceedings, a final, nasty insult to his victims.
Saturday 2nd April - Follow The Money
THE TIMES: Family doctors in Sussex will be paid to prescribe cross-sex hormones to patients struggling with their gender.
The new programme is being operated by the Tavistock & Portman clinic and is intended to tackle the ever-burgeoning number of patients waiting for treatment at gender clinics after referrals have soared 240 % in five years.
GPs in Sussex will be paid £178 a year for every adult to whom they prescribe cross-sex hormones. For providing an annual health check to a ‘transgender, non-binary or intersex’ patient, they will also be able to claim a further £91 a year. Participating GPs must undertake two and a half hours of online training.
Debbie Hayton, who transitioned in 2012, described the scheme as ‘desperate measures for desperate times’ and questioned its level of psychological support. “When I transitioned I had an hour with a therapist every week for months. That’s what I needed to understand myself. An annual review is a pale shadow of that.”
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THE DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male has just been selected to play on the England Universities Sport women’s football team as its goalkeeper.
32-year-old Blair Hamilton already plays on a female football team, Hastings United Women. Now he has taken a coveted place on the England Universities Sport women’s football squad as well.
Hamilton is the lead investigator of the Tavistock Transgender Athlete Study at the University of Brighton’s School of Sport and Health Sciences. His primary research interests are the effects of testosterone suppression or supplementation on the athletic performance of Transgender Athletes.
You would think, therefore, he’d be well aware of all the scientific evidence which demonstrates that, even after reducing testosterone levels, males retain numerous physical and physiological advantages over women and any loss of muscle mass and strength is negligible. But Hamilton, who is six feet tall, claims he has no advantage over female players.
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THE DAILY MAIL: Women involved in amateur sport are quitting due to the inclusion of trans-identified males.
Far too few women and girls are involved in sport and physical exercise with participation rates much lower than among men. According to Sport England, “39% of women aged 16 and over are not active enough to get the full health benefits of sport and physical activity.” In recent years a number of initiatives have been launched to encourage women to become more active, “Because not only does regular activity improve women's own physical and mental health; women have a strong influencing role within their own families”.
Now, however, women and girls are dropping out of recreational sport because they are expected compete with and against trans-identified males.
Campaign group, Fair Play For Women, have compiled a dossier of examples which includes the following:
A female hockey player in an amateur league left the pitch when she had to ‘mark’ a 6” 4’ transgender opponent. She felt unable to complain for fear of being branded a transphobe. “I was in tears. I came to play against a female opposition and there was a male on the pitch.”
A parent and cricket coach was concerned about the safety of girls, one as young as 12, asked to play against a team containing a trans identified male. “I find that unacceptable, uncomfortable and dangerous, both morally and physically.”
A female cyclist stopped attending women-only road-cycling sessions when a trans-identified male started leading the group. “It was advertised as leisure rides for women in small groups led by a woman. But a male-bodied person was leading the group... He was much stronger than the rest of us and went too fast." Her complaints were ignored so she left.
Members of a women-only 'walking football' club for older and less mobile players were dismayed when a trans identified male joined. “The person was a 60-year-old with a male body.. Some of us were in shock but felt we were not allowed to say anything.” The charity running the club told the female group members that they had to accept this player or leave.
Fiona McAnena, director of sport campaigns at FPFW, told The Daily Mail, “This issue is hitting women's sport right across the UK, and sadly it is pushing some women to completely drop out… If you think this is a very small problem, think again”.
See you next week.
I think it is now fair to say that sport will be the key to peaking a hell of a lot of people in general.
But sadly, how many women will miss out on a spot on a team, or a podium, and how many will be told to 'shut up and accept it'. And how many will feel unwelcome or even unsafe in their own sports clubs and teams and changing rooms. And how many will feel that they must take a stand and not compete or even leave the sport - before things change for their benefit and not the males'?
I cannot believe Jamie 'now im trans stop looking into my dodgy past' Wallis is allowed to remain an MP!! where are the checks and balances?? JFC whoever is in charge should be giving him his marching orders right now!