A Week in the War on Women: Monday 19th February - Sunday 25th February
Monday 19th February - This Unsporting Life
OUTKICK: A trans-identified male collegiate swimmer has smashed yet another female record and ‘won’ yet more female races in New Jersey.
We have reported previously on trans-identified male, Meghan Cortez-Fields, a senior chemistry major from Ramapo College in New Jersey. For three years he raced on the men’s swimming team, putting in rather average performances. In November 2023, however, he began competing in women’s events and, in just three months, he has, unsurprisingly, been winning races and smashing records.
In November 2023 he competed in the women’s categories at The Cougar Splash Invitational, a two-day meet for US student swimmers. He set a school record in the women’s 100-yard butterfly, won the women’s 200-yard individual medley race and took second place in the women’s 200-yard butterfly.
Last weekend Cortez-Fields competed at the NJAC Championships, in the women’s category, of course. He finished the 200-yard individual medley race in 2:08:20, the fastest time ever for a Ramapo College women's team swimmer, funnily enough.
In October 2022, Cortez-Fields was interviewed in student publication, Ramapo News. At the time he was still swimming on the men’s team but he spoke of his determination to swim in female categories and cited Lia Thomas as his inspiration.
In the Ramapo News article, Cortez-Fields complained that he was not permitted to wear a swimming costume that covered his torso as doing so would disqualify him from the men’s events. “I choose to tape my breasts because I feel it is very uncomfortable and kind of dehumanizing to swim without a top”, he said.
He does not seem to have a problem with the discomfort and ‘dehumanizing’ of the women against whom he competes and who are forced to share changing and bathroom facilities with him.
As if his mockery of women wasn’t already galling enough, Cortez-Fields sports a tattoo on his forearm depicting a naked female body, (seemingly a parody of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus) with bare breasts and male genitals.
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REDUXX: A trans-identified male LGBTQ+ activist and ‘family photographer’ is facing charges of neglecting his 10-year-old autistic son.
Robert Eugene Plummer is a 45-year-old trans-identified male who uses the name Kirstyn Piper and describes himself as a ‘lesbian woman’. He and his wife, 46-year-old Amy Plummer, are vocal trans activists and have frequently used social media to promote gender identity ideology and ‘LGBTQ+ issues’.
Robert Plummer is a freelance photographer and the owner of a business called Puzzling Moments, the website for which promotes him as a ‘Family / Events Photographer’.
The Plummers used to operate a website and blog called Raising Ninja Baby where they documented the parenting of their young son who is on the autism spectrum. In recent posts they discussed the importance of exposing children to ‘LGBTQ+ issues and transgender rights’ from an early age. The website has now been deleted but the Facebook page of the same name remains active and contains photographs of the Plummers with their child when he was a toddler.
The couple were recently arrested in Ocean County, New Jersey, on charges of child endangerment.
The New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency (DCPP) was approached by a nurse at an elementary school attended by the Plummer’s 10-year-old son. The nurse had grave concerns about the child’s hygiene and appearance. DCPP staff visited the Plummer home and deemed the residence to be in ‘deplorable conditions’, recording a number of safety issues. Police were notified and the child was immediately removed from the house.
When interviewed by a detective with the Ocean County Police Department, the child revealed that he had been living in squalid conditions for a whole year. He told officers that the toilet did not flush so his parents would wait for it to fill with faeces before scooping the waste into buckets. He was unable to bathe because the bath was full of human waste and there were buckets filled with human waste all around the house. He told police that had been bullied at school due to his poor hygiene.
Amy Plummer told police that, when possible, she had taken her son to a nearby convenience store for him to wash and use the toilet. She said that she suffered from various physical disabilities which affected her mobility and had no income so was prevented her from hiring a plumber. She explained that her husband, Robert Plummer, had ‘taken control’ of the situation and refused to seek assistance.
Both Robert and Amy Plummer were charged with Endangering the Welfare of Children on 12th December 2024. They were later released pending trial. Their next court hearing is scheduled in March.
Tuesday 20th February - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE DAILY MAIL: A couple in the US are taking legal action after the state took away their son because they refused to affirm his gender identity.
Mary and Jeremy Cox are a Catholic couple from Indiana. In 2019, their young son told them that he ‘identified as a girl’ but the couple would not affirm this new ‘identity’. They refused to use his female name and would not refer to him with female pronouns. This was not just due to their Christian faith; the Coxes believed that their child was struggling with mental health problems and an eating disorder and they sought therapeutic help for these issues.
In 2021, the Indiana Department of Child Services began an investigation into the Cox family following a report that they were abusing their son by refusing to affirm his ‘gender identity’. The investigation subsequently established that these allegations of abuse against Mary and Jeremy were unsubstantiated. Nevertheless, the state still removed the Cox’s son from his family home and placed him in accommodation where his ‘gender identity’ was indulged.
The Indiana Attorney General's Office claimed that the Cox’s son was taken from them because they had not dealt effectively with his eating disorder. However, the child’s eating disorder only worsened after he was taken from his parents.
The Coxes took their case to a trial court but the decision to remove their child and restrict their visitation rights was upheld. The Court of Appeals also upheld the decision. The couple are now taking their case to the Supreme Court. They say, “We love our son and wanted to care for him, but the state of Indiana robbed us of that opportunity by taking him from our home and banning us from speaking to him about gender. We are hopeful that the Justices will take our case and protect other parents from having to endure the nightmare we did”.
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EL PERIODICO: A trans-identified male in Barcelona has been given a six month suspended prison sentence for denying that another trans-identified male is female.
A court in Spain has convicted a trans-identified male of committing crimes “Against fundamental human rights and public freedoms” after he made so-called ‘transphobic’ comments on social media.
In 2020 the man posted remarks regarding another trans-identified male on X (formerly Twitter). His comments were aimed at so-called ‘influencer’, trans activist and former prostitute, Violeta Ferrer Micó. The man called Ferrer Micó a “Prototype of a f*ggot with tits” and stated “He can’t stand that I’m a woman”. The man believes himself to be a ‘real woman’ because he has undergone ‘gender reassignment’ surgery unlike Ferrer Micó who has not had any surgery.
The Barcelona High Court was seemingly unconcerned about the man’s use of offensive and homophobic language but took issue with his ‘transphobic’ comments which, it ruled, ‘outed’ Ferrer Micó as not having had ‘gender reassignment’ surgery. Other comments posted by the defendant and deemed ‘criminally transphobic’ included ‘there are only two sexes’ and ‘transwomen are transvestites’.
The court handed the man a suspended six month prison sentence and he will have to pay €3,850 in compensation to his ‘victim’. Furthermore, he will have to undergo ‘equal treatment and non-discrimination’ training which he must complete or will face incarceration.
Wednesday 21st February - A Room Of One’s Own #1
THE TELEGRAPH: Trans-identified males serving in the Armed Forces can share supposedly women-only accommodation with female personnel.
Official government guidelines regarding the recruitment and management of transgender personnel in the Armed Forces, states that the ‘determining issue’ for the allocation of Single Living Accommodation (SLA) is the ‘affirmed gender’ of the applicant. The guidance states that, “As soon as the transition process begins the person should be provided with accommodation that is appropriate to their affirmed gender”. It goes on to say that, “From the date of transition, the person should also have use of the toilet and changing room facilities appropriate to their affirmed gender”.
Consequently, fully intact trans-identified males are permitted to share living accommodation, toilets and changing rooms with female personnel.
A woman serving in the RAF told The Telegraph that trainees are housed in female-only accommodation blocks and spoke of her concern that a male could be billeted with them. “Trainees are considered our most vulnerable as they are the youngest, most inexperienced”, she said. Another woman currently serving in the forces, told The Telegraph that she had raised concerns with her superiors after a trans-identified male joined her squadron but that her worries were dismissed. She was told that his presence wasn’t an issue because ‘you can tell who are predators’.
There is an ongoing problem of female military personnel suffering sexual assault and harassment while serving in the forces. In September 2022, The Military Times reported on “More incidents, less reporting, plummeting confidence in the system”.
In 2021 the government undertook an extensive inquiry into the lives of the women in the armed forces. As reported in The Guardian, “Evidence was heard of rampant misogyny, bullying, harassment, discrimination and criminal behaviour, including gang rape, sexual assault, male soldiers ejaculating into the pockets of female personnel and sex for favours, much of it unreported for fear of retribution and loss of a career.”
How do the armed forces hope to address this problem when female personnel aren’t even allowed the safety and dignity of women-only accommodation?
Sarah Atherton MP, who oversaw the 2021 report on sexual assault and harassment in the military, told The Telegraph, “Having done extensive work around women in the armed forces, I am fully aware of the extent of sexual abuse that has gone on and continues to go on. Women need to have secure accommodation where they feel safe.”
Also Today - Men Make The Best Women #1
In recognition of This Girl Can Week, Goldsmiths University Student Union chose to celebrate four cheating males.
Launched in 2015, the This Girl Can campaign is intended to “Celebrate a realistic vision of women and exercise in England and to tackle the gender activity gap” by encouraging women to be more active. “To achieve this”, says the website, “We launched a nationwide campaign featuring real women – on TV, in cinemas, across social media, in print and on billboards – with the aim of motivating as many women as possible to share their experiences and empower them with the confidence to exercise on their own terms”.
It is, therefore, beyond contempt that Goldsmiths University Student Union has chosen to celebrate This Girl Can Week by profiling four trans-identified sportsmen who have all stolen medals, records and opportunities from women.
Thursday 22nd February - These Are Not Our Crimes #1
KPTV: A trans-identified male has been convicted of the brutal and unprovoked murder of a Portland cab driver.
In April 2023 Moses Jacob Lopez murdered 43-year-old Reese McDowell Lawhon, a Radio Cab driver in Portland, Oregon. Lopez was a passenger in the back seat of Reece’s cab and, in a wholly unprovoked attack, plunged a knife into his neck. He then fled the vehicle and police found Lawhon dead in his car. Lopez was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon.
30-year-old Lopez told police that he had experienced a mental health crisis while out partying so called 911 for help. At the suggestion of the dispatcher, he phoned for a cab to take him home and, when his driver, Reese Lawhon, accidentally drove him to the incorrect address, Lopez stabbed him in the neck with a bladed brass knuckle.
This week, having agreed a plea deal to avoid a murder conviction, Lopez pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and unlawful use of a weapon. Just days before killing Reece Lawhorn, Lopez had been arrested for threatening two employees at a supermarket. These charges were dropped as part of his plea deal.
Multnomah County judge, Heidi Moawad, accepted his guilty plea and sentenced him to 22 years in prison. According to The Oregonian, Lopez refused to take any responsibility for his actions and would not apologise to his victim’s family. He even smirked while Lawhorn’s mother was speaking of her sorrow in court.
At the time of his arrest, the Multnomah Sheriff’s Office issued a statement that, “Lopez reported during the booking process that they identify as a transgender female”.
When reporting this story, KPTV described Lopez as ‘a woman’ and referred to him with female pronouns throughout its article. There is no indication of his true sex or trans identity in KPTV’s shamelessly dishonest report.
Friday 23rd February - A Room Of One’s Own #2
REDUXX: In Canada a trans-identified male has been accused of exposing himself to young girls in the female changing room at a recreation centre.
Amanda Wilson is a 67-year-old trans-identified male who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 300 lbs. In January he was using the female changing room at Vernon Aquatic Centre where he upset two 14-year-old girls.
One of the girl’s uncle complained to the centre’s manager but was told that Wilson is entitled to use the women’s facilities. The uncle told local news outlet, Castanet, that Wilson had ‘stripped naked’ in front of his niece and her friend and he was shocked by the manager’s reaction to his complaint. “He basically said that the kids have no rights and that the transgender person’s rights take precedence… But this guy was naked in front of teenage girls and that’s just not right”.
Reduxx discovered a Facebook account belonging to Wilson to which he has posted profile pictures heavily edited to resemble a very young blonde girl. His friends called out this behaviour as ‘creepy’.
Wilson has now been given a sympathetic platform in the media, giving interviews and having letters published trying to excuse his behaviour. He says that he is post-operative and has ‘some breast growth’ and he claims that the girls didn’t see him ‘fully naked’. The fact that he upset and distressed two young girls by his presence seems not to concern him and he likens their discomfort to racism. “Should we also force people of other races to use separate change rooms?” he asked.
Saturday 24th February - Men Make The Best Women #2
WALES ONLINE: An exhibition supposedly celebrating the women of Newport features a trans-identified male who campaigns against women’s rights.
The Pierhead Futures Gallery in Cardiff Bay is hosting a photography exhibition called Newport Community Champions. Opening in April and part-funded by the Nation Lottery, “The exhibition celebrates the achievements of local women who support others, connect their communities and bring positivity to Newport”. It features portraits supposedly of 21 ‘remarkable’ women from Newport.
One of the ‘women’ featured in the exhibition, however, is not a woman at all but a male trans activist called Katie Solomon.
His inclusion would be inappropriate enough, but even more so because Solomon has made his opposition to women’s rights abundantly clear. He deems women-only spaces to be ‘transphobic’, for example.
You may remember that disabled women’s rights campaigner, Jenny Swayne, was arrested by Gwent Police in 2022 for placing feminist stickers around Newport. Solomon bragged on X that he had covered up Jenny’s stickers with his own.
One of the stickers Solomon posted threatened violence against women.
And now he’s featured in an exhibition of ‘remarkable women’.
Saturday 24th February - These Are Not Our Crimes #2
BBC NEWS: A trans-identified male obsessed with cruelty and killing has been convicted of the murder of a young man in Oxford.
26-year-old Scarlet Blake is a trans-identified male who has called himself by various aliases including Candy, Alice Wang and Blood Moth. He began to experience gender dysphoria during adolescence and, following a referral the Tavistock & Portman gender clinic, was prescribed puberty blockers aged seventeen. A year later he began taking cross-sex hormones.
This week, following a trial at Oxford Crown Court, he was found guilty of the brutal murder of 30-year-old Jorge Martin Carreno, a man hitherto unknown to him. The court heard that Blake had a long-standing obsession with death and violence and was determined to find out how it felt to kill someone.
In the early hours of the morning on 25th July 2021, Blake was roaming the streets of Oxford dressed in a camouflage jacket and face mask, seeking out a victim to murder. He targeted Carreno as he walked home after a night out with friends. Blake lured Carreno to Parsons Pleasure, a popular bathing spot for males on the River Cherwell, where he hit him over the back of the head with a vodka bottle. Blake then strangled Carreno with a homemade garotte before pushing him into the water to drown.
Prior to being convicted of murder, Blake had pleaded guilty to criminal damage after stealing and killing a cat. He used food to lure and steal the family pet which had belonged to his neighbours. He then dissected and skinned the animal before putting it into a blender, livestreaming the entire horrific event on the internet.
Claiming he’d been coerced into this grisly behaviour, Blake told the court that he had killed the cat to please his former partner, a trans-identified male prostitute called Ashlynn Bell who lives in the US. The court also heard that, during their relationship, Blake had messaged Bell, “I'm a borderline psychopath, I love death lol”. It was Blake’s confession of murder to Bell which prompted the police investigation into his involvement in Carreno’s brutal death.
In its reporting of this case, from Blake’s initial arrest to his conviction for murder, the media has consistently misled the public, describing him as a woman, referring to him with female pronouns and, in most cases, failing to mention his true sex or trans status.
When originally reporting on Blake’s arrest, for example, ITV described him as ‘a woman’ and referred to him with female pronouns throughout its article, never revealing that Blake is male.
When reporting on his murder trial, The Oxford Mail described Blake as a ‘woman’ and referred to him with female pronouns throughout its daily coverage, only very occasionally referring to his transgender status because it was mentioned in court.
The Independent, the BBC, The Daily Mail, Sky News, The Belfast Telegraph, Bracknell News, ITVX and Yahoo also described Blake as a ‘woman’ and referred to him with female pronouns when reporting on his trial.
Even after his conviction for murder, The Daily Mirror, The Independent, iNews, BBC News and Sky News all continued to describe Blake as a woman and refer to him with female pronouns, most failing to mention his true sex or his trans identity.
Similarly, The Guardian described Blake as a woman in its headline and referred to him with female pronouns throughout its article. Although it has now edited its article to briefly mention his trans status, the original version failed to mention that Blake is a man, misleading its readers into believing that a woman committed these horrendous crimes.
The Metro’s social media post on this story also describes Blake as a woman and fails to mention his true sex in its minute-long video.
Such dishonest and deliberate obfuscating of male violence is not only offensive to women, it is dangerous and irresponsible. And to lie so blatantly about the man who killed him is a despicable insult to the memory of Jorge Martin Carreno.
See you next week.
The segment on UK military housing contains this statement: “Women need to have secure accommodation where they feel safe.”
Isn’t the main point that women have a right to BE safe? Feelings aside? If we center feelings, then no material conditions need to change, only our feelings about them.
Wow. So much here that melts any sense of sensible into a deeply unsavoury soup.
Obviously not the most disturbing story here by a long way, but it took a while to process this gem:
This Girl Can.
Stated Mission: “[To] celebrate a realistic vision of women and exercise... and to tackle the gender activity gap.”
Reality: "Let's showcase four blokes."