A Week in the War on Women: Monday 7th March - Sunday 13th March
Monday 7th March - Literally Hitler
THE TELEGRAPH: The SNP have likened women’s concerns over GRA reform to segregationist racism.
Following the introduction of its controversial Gender Recognition Reform Bill last week, the Scottish Government has seemingly tried to justify its proposed legislation by conflating those who oppose it with racist segregationists of 1950s America.
In an Equality Impact Assessment which was published alongside the bill, the government cites a paper written in 2017 by an Indiana University academic. It draws parallels between current concerns over girls being forced to share school toilets with males and resistance to the racial integration of public restrooms in 1957 America.
Also included is a paper which equates trans-identified males with women who have undergone a double mastectomy due to breast cancer.
Edinburgh-based policy analysis group, MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, criticised the inclusion of these controversial papers. "The analogy between women's discomfort at male presence in spaces such as changing rooms, and racial prejudice, was both false and offensive… It is worrying that officials are still relying on these problematic papers to dismiss concerns about the impact of reform on single-sex services and spaces."
Tuesday 8th March - Women Aren’t Allowed Anything Of Our Own
On International Women’s Day, a hashtag prioritising trans-identified males was trending on Twitter.
Social media was awash with examples of males being placed front and centre even on the one day that is supposed to celebrate women.
One of TIME magazine’s so-called women of the year is trans-identified male actor, Michaela Jae Rodriguez.
Wales Online featured trans-identified male activist, Shash Appan, ‘to mark #IWD2022’.
Stonewall, of course, couldn’t allow women to have the day to ourselves.
Neither could The Guardian.
The Vagina Museum reinforced its slavish devotion to people with penises.
And over at Pink News, to nobody’s surprise, SIX of the fifteen ‘women’ chosen to celebrate IWD were trans-identified males.
These supposedly ‘inspiring and fearless’ individuals include two males that have stolen titles, medals and opportunities from females in sport and one whose contempt for women is well documented.
Apparently, there were no female officers from the Staffordshire and West Midlands police forces available to speak on International Women’s Day.
Wanting to platform and celebrate trans people is laudable, but there are numerous other opportunities to do so; Trans Day of Visibility (31st March), Transgender Awareness Week (13th-19th November), Transgender Day of Remembrance (20th November) and LGBT History Month (February). That’s an entire 37 days during which it is fitting and appropriate to feature trans people and their stories.
Why can’t women be allowed ONE DAY that’s just for us?
Wednesday 9th March - The Process Is The Punishment
THE DAILY MAIL: Lisa Townsend has been reprimanded over sharing a tweet stating that male rapists are not female.
Lisa Townsend is Surrey’s Police and Crime Commissioner. Last year she retweeted a comment by JK Rowling criticising Police Scotland’s policy of recording male rapists as female if they ‘identify as women’.
Rowling wrote, “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You Is a Woman.” Townsend retweeted this comment with her own words, “It’s not a ‘niche’ issue, it’s not hysterical for women to be taking to the streets about it. We will not accept this gaslighting from men who keep telling us they are women, or from those who enable them.”
Three men complained to the Surrey Police and Crime Panel. One of those men was Crispin Blunt, Conservative MP for Reigate and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights.
Since her election last May, Townsend has defended women’s sex-based rights and spaces and criticised Stonewall’s influence on policing policies. On two separate occasions, Blunt contacted her and warned her to keep quiet on these issues. When she refused, “He responded with something that sounded like a threat”. Soon after, she discovered that he had complained about her to the Surrey PCP.
Blunt has form in this area; in September 2020 he called for Liz Truss to be removed from her ministerial role after she spoke out against self-ID legislation.
It is ridiculous enough that three men complained about Townsend’s words but even more so that their complaint was upheld. The male-dominated panel of local councillors found Lisa Townsend had not been ‘dignified or respectful’ to trans people when she supported the view that men who rape women are not female just because they claim to be. They stated that she broke the code of conduct for her office and have demanded that she explain herself to the men who had reported her.
Townsend told The Daily Mail, “These three men who complained, and a panel full of men who investigated it, have decided they must police a woman’s language about an issue of great concern to many women.”
Also Today - These Are Not Our Crimes #1
THE DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male has been arrested in New York after a man was attacked on the subway with a hammer.
On Tuesday 8th March a young Asian man was victim to an unprovoked attack when travelling on the NYC subway. A male wearing a wig and purple lipstick smashed him in the head with a hammer, leaving him dazed and bleeding. The victim described his attacker as ‘aggressive’ and ‘looking for trouble’.
The attack was caught on a camera by another passenger using a mobile phone.
The following day 48-year-old Christian Jeffers was taken into custody and a hammer was discovered in his handbag. He was charged with assault, aggravated harassment and menacing — all as hate crimes — and criminal possession of a weapon.
According to The New York Post, Jeffers has 47 prior arrests, including for grand larceny, public lewdness and criminal possession of a controlled substance. He was released from prison last year after serving almost six years for second-degree robbery.
Jeffers ‘identifies as a woman’. He is referred to with female pronouns throughout the articles in The Daily Mail and The New York Post.
Thursday 10th March - These Are Not Our Crimes #2
REDUXX: A trans-identified male who served time for killing two women has been arrested following the discovery of dismembered female body parts.
In 1963 Harvey Marcelin was convicted of shooting and killing his girlfriend, Jacqueline Bonds, at their New York home. He was sentenced to 20 years to life. Following his parole in 1984, he killed another girlfriend, this time stabbing her to death and dumping her body. He was convicted of first-degree manslaughter. According to the New York Post, he told a parole hearing that he has ‘a problem with women’. He was released from prison in 2019.
Now 83 years old, Marcelin has just been arrested in connection with the death of another woman. She is believed to be a 68-year-old who was known to Marcelin and was last seen alive entering his apartment on 27th February. Dismembered body parts, a headless torso and a leg severed at the knee, were subsequently discovered in areas very close to Marcelin’s home.
According to The Daily Mail, a search warrant for Marcelin's apartment led to the discovery of a human head and electrical saws and he was allegedly caught on surveillance cameras discarding of human remains.
Marcelin ‘identifies as a woman’ but, until his 2019 release, he was incarcerated in the Cayuga Correctional Facility, a male prison. The Daily Mail and The New York Post refer to him with female pronouns, the former even describes him as ‘a woman’. A Channel 7 journalist reporting on the crime initially referred to Marcelin as ‘he’ then immediately corrected herself and reverted to using female pronouns.
Kudos to CBS New York for accurately reporting Marcelin’s sex. Other media outlets take note.
Friday 11th March - These Are Not Our Crimes #3
BIRMINGHAM LIVE: A trans-identified male physically assaulted pub staff, damaged a pub door and then exposed his penis to members of the public.
In June last year, 31-year-old Shay Sims was asked to leave a pub in Stoke because he was contravening Covid regulations. As he was escorted to the exit, he spat at and assaulted the pub landlord and two members of staff. One security guard reported that Sims punched him and his colleague then shouted homophobic slurs at them. Sims also kicked the pub’s revolving door, removing it from its axis.
After fleeing from police, Sims paraded up the street, raising his skirt and pulling down his underwear to expose his male genitalia to shocked onlookers.
He has just been sentenced to five months in prison, suspended for 12 months. This is not the first time Sims has fallen foul of the law; in 2021 he was convicted of being involved in the supply of cannabis and amphetamine.
Despite reporting that Sims exposed his penis, The Birmingham Mail refers to him with female pronouns throughout this article and describes him as a woman, as do similar reports in The Daily Record and The Mirror.
The Star reports on this case without mentioning that Sims is male or indicating his trans status. The article uses female pronouns and describes him as a woman. It refers to Sims’ public nudity but fails to mention that the ‘private parts’ he exposed are male. Consequently, readers are left believing these crimes were committed by a female.
Saturday 12th March - Labour Losing Women (Whatever They Are)
THE TIMES: Labour leader, Keir Starmer, believes that the sex class of women can include males and has publicly misrepresented equality law.
Earlier this week Labour MP, Anneliese Dodds, appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She was asked to define the word ‘woman’. She couldn’t.
“There are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is. I mean, you look at the definition within the Equality Act, and I think it just says someone who is adult and female, I think, but then doesn’t see how you define either of those things… I think it does depend what the context is surely. I mean surely that is important here.”
The Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities cannot define what a woman is.
Appearing on Times Radio, Yvette Cooper, the Shadow Home Secretary, similarly refused to explain what the word means. “I’m avoiding going down a rabbit hole because I just think this is pointless.”
Now the Labour leader has failed to acknowledge the female sex class. When asked to define what a woman is he replied, “A woman is a female adult, and in addition to that trans women are women, and that is not just my view, that is actually the law.”
Not only is this comment contradictory, it is inaccurate; current legislation does not define the term ‘trans woman’. The Gender Recognition Act 2004 does allow some people to change their legal sex, but only those in possession of a GRC, an extremely small number. Furthermore, the law allows for female-only spaces and roles etc to exclude even GRC-holders under certain circumstances.
Starmer seems to be quoting Stonewall Law rather than the existing legislation.
Sunday 13th March - Reckless Endangerment
THE DAILY MAIL: An NHS funded clinic is promoting prostitution to trans-identified females and encouraging deception in their sexual encounters.
According to its own website, CliniQ is “A holistic sexual health, mental health and wellbeing service for all trans people, partners and friends”. It is run in partnership with King’s College Hospital.
CliniQ has produced a booklet, part-funded by King’s College NHS Trust and three London local authorities, called “Cruising: A Trans Guy’s Guide to the Gay Sex Scene”. It suggests that trans-identified females can conceal their sex when visiting gay sex parties and advises them to circumvent male-only rules at gay saunas by engaging in sexual acts ‘without others seeing your genitals’.
The booklet, targeted at pre-operative trans-identified females who are usually in their teens or early 20s, also encourages prostitution. It tells readers that being a so-called ‘sex worker’ can be ‘useful and sometimes empowering’ and will help pay for medical treatment.
Kate Barker of the LGB Alliance commented, “The fact that this ugly and demeaning guide wraps itself in the rainbow flag is an insult to all the same-sex attracted people who are as horrified as we are by the casual homophobia of CliniQ. Encouraging young women to believe they are really gay men is cruel, dangerous and deeply wrong”.
See you next week.
Vagina Museum now trading as Mangina Museum.
Am all for breaking down the stereotypes of what makes a man and what makes a woman (after biological sex realities which no one can do anything about) but it's still baffling how Gender Ideologes cannot see that by claiming to 'break down the barriers' they're actually re-enforcing them.