A Week in the War on Women: Monday 9th August - Sunday 15th August
Monday 9th August - The Stonewall Grift
LESBIAN & GAY NEWS: Tax payer funded public bodies are paying Stonewall around £1 million per year for its illegal ‘advice’ and dodgy ‘training’.
Research has revealed the vast sums of public money which are being paid. Since 2018 Stonewall has received well over £3M from 327 public sector organisations. Its Diversity Champions scheme accounts for around £2.5M with a further half-million being generated by conferences, events and training programmes.
Almost half a million of the Diversity Champions revenue came from the NHS and related bodies. In total 58 health service organisations were signed up to the scheme during this three year period. Stonewall’s influence may well explain why NHS policy prioritises gender identity ideology over women’s safety.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is one of the government departments signed up to Stonewall’s training and membership schemes. It has paid Stonewall £376,087 in the three years to March 2021. Stonewall is a lobby group masquerading as an adviser so when government offices sign up to its ‘services’ they are funding the very organisation that seeks to influence them. With tax-payers’ money.
And lets not forget that one of Stonewall’s aims is the erasure of women’s sex-based rights and spaces.
Tuesday 10th August - Leave Them Kids Alone #1
YAHOO NEWS: A Texan court has awarded full custody of a nine-year old boy to the mother determined to ‘trans’ him.
Ever since he was three years old and expressed a liking for Disney princesses, Anne Georgulas has insisted that her son, James Younger, is transgender. She dresses him in girls’ clothes, calls him Luna and is intent on him starting medical transition.
James’ father, Jeff Younger, maintains that his son’s so-called ‘gender identity’ is entirely contrived by his ex-wife and that James prefers boys’ clothes and male pronouns when staying with him. Moreover, he says that he has a video of 3-year-old James declaring that it was his mother who told him he’s a girl.
The pair have been fighting for custody of James and his brother, Jude, for several years with Georgulas accusing Younger of ‘child abuse’ for refusing to affirm James’ gender identity.
A court has now awarded Georgulas ‘exclusive rights on a temporary basis’ with Younger only able to see his sons for two supervised hours twice a month. Judge Mary Brown did specify that “Neither parent may treat a child with hormonal suppression therapy, puberty blockers and/or transgender reassignment surgery without the consent of the parents or court order”. Georgulas, however, has exclusive control over James’s primary residence, extracurricular activities, medical treatment and, most importantly, his counselling.
That poor child. He doesn’t stand a chance.
Wednesday 11th August - Leave Them Kids Alone #2
NBC NEWS: A teacher in Loudon County, Northern Virginia, resigned from her job in protest over the school board’s policy to enforce gender identity ideology.
When the Loudoun County Public School Board met to debate its policy on ‘the rights of transgender and gender expansive students’, hundreds of people turned up to speak at the meeting.
The policy in question allows students to “Use their chosen name and gender pronouns that reflect their consistently asserted gender identity” and it mandates that staff must play along. Of course, it permits students to use school facilities in accordance with their ‘gender identity’ rather than their sex.
One of the speakers at the school board was teacher, Laura Morris. In an emotional speech, she quit her job, citing among her reasons the board’s attempts to silence any dissenting voices among the staff and its lack of regard for the growing number of concerned citizens.
"School board, I quit. I quit your policies, I quit your trainings and I quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized agendas on our most vulnerable constituents — the children."
Thursday 12th August - Witch-Burning On Campus
UNHERD: The University of Essex has caved in to gender ideologues and reneged on its former apology to two gender critical feminist academics.
Last year the University of Essex no-platformed two feminist speakers, Professors Jo Phoenix and Rosa Freedman, amid unfounded allegations of ‘transphobia’. In May the university offered both women a public apology and released Akua Reindorf’s independent review that had been commissioned to report on their cancellation. This report was scathing of the university’s relationship with Stonewall.
Shortly after the report’s publication, staff and students sent an open letter to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Anthony Forster, claiming that it would have a ‘significant negative impact on student and staff wellbeing’.
Six weeks later, Forster issued an obsequious, back-peddling statement in which he made various grovelling apologies, including to ‘anyone having been made to feel unsafe as a result of the review’. He said that the university will continue to work with Stonewall in order to ‘repair relationships’.
Now, the University of Essex has informed Professors Freedman and Phoenix that it plans to publish their personal data which had previously been redacted from the review. The two women issued a joint statement, describing the bullying and harassment they have experienced as a result of this situation and protesting the release of their personal data.
As Julie Bindel writes in Unherd: “This is part of an ongoing pattern of behaviour from many universities across the UK and elsewhere. Feminist and human rights academic experts are routinely hounded, cancelled and even blacklisted. They deal with calls to have them fired from their jobs and face Kafkaesque trials based on pernicious and spurious complaints to their employers… What has happened to Freedman and Phoenix shows how much power the trans lobby has when it comes to academic institutions.”
Friday 13th August - Leave Them Kids Alone #3
THE DAILY MAIL: According to new guidelines, Scottish schoolchildren as young as four will be able to ‘change gender’ even without their parents’ consent.
The Scottish government have implemented new guidelines for schools which promote the unscientific and dogma-based tenets of gender identity ideology. This guidance will apply in primary schools, so children as young as four will be affected.
Both primary and secondary schools have been instructed to put books featuring transgender people on the curriculum.
One of the books recommended for primary school children is Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl? which features a child who enjoys dressing up but will not disclose their true sex. It’s co-authored by vociferous trans activist, Fox Fisher, who works with murky charity, Mermaids.
Another contentious book on the list is I Am Jazz, about the life of Jazz Jennings, the teenager pushed down the pathway to medical transition ever since he was a toddler. The synopsis reads, “From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl’s brain in a boy’s body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn’t feel like herself in boys’ clothing. This confused her family until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born that way.”
The grooming, sorry, reading lists aside, these new guidelines allow pupils to use toilets and changing rooms based on their self-declared gender identity rather than their sex. Even a residential involving an overnight stay could have a male teenager sleeping in the girls’ accommodation. Safeguarding will be impossible.
Perhaps most shockingly, teachers are being told to not question any child who decides they want to ‘switch genders’; they must ask their name and preferred pronouns and affirm their new gender. Even without their parents’ consent. Even if the child is only four years old.
Saturday 14th August - The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen In Illinois
CBS CHICAGO: An Illinois court has ruled that a trans-identified male’s rights were violated by him being prevented from using the women’s toilet in his workplace.
52-year-old Meggan Sommerville began working for arts and crafts company, Hobby Lobby Stores, in July 1998. In 2007 he began ‘identifying as female’. According to the court documents, in 2009 Sommerville “Began medical treatment that resulted in female secondary sex characteristics such as breasts and the absence of facial hair”. There is no mention of him undergoing SRS so we can assume that he remains an intact male.
Hobby Lobby required Sommerville to use the male toilets. At the Aurora store, where he works, customers and staff share the same bathroom facilities. In court, the company argued that its policy of regulating bathroom access is based upon users’ biological sex.
However, the Illinois Second District Appellate Court declared that Sommerville’s sex is ‘unquestionably female’ and ruled that Hobby Lobby violated ‘anti-bias laws’ by refusing him permission to use the women’s bathroom. “Sommerville is female, just like the women who are permitted to use the women’s bathroom.”
Isn’t lying in court illegal?
Sommerville’s attorney, Jacob Meister, stated, “This decision will have national implications and start the process of courts around the country addressing the issue of bathroom access”.
Sunday 15th August - Sex Matters
THE DAILY MAIL: As the Taliban seizes back control of Afghanistan, women and girls in the country face a terrifying and unimaginable future. Afghan politician, Shukria Barakzai, describes their horrifying reality.
In the early 1990s, women were largely treated as equals in Afghan society; they were educated, pursued their own careers, had independence. But in 1996 the Taliban swept to power and, though everyone suffered under its brutal regime, women paid the heaviest price, degraded, dehumanised and stripped of all their rights and status.
Over the past two decades, since international military action finally forced the Taliban from power, Afghan women have been clawing back a little of what was lost. Now, yet again, they are to be marginalised and brutalised, little more than chattels, under a new Taliban regime.
“In Malistan, Ghazni, one group cut out a woman’s eyes in front of her husband and children, before slaughtering her for a ‘crime’ that was never revealed.
In northern Afghanistan, Jihadist commanders are ordering imams to bring them lists of unmarried women and girls aged 12 to 45. They are viewed as qhanimat — spoils of war to be divided up among the victors.
In some villages, Taliban recruits are going door-to-door looking for young girls to marry against their will, forcing them into a life of sexual servitude. It is the stuff of nightmares.”
This week the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) issued a statement condemning the Labour Women’s Declaration and its defence of women’s sex-based rights.
“We don’t believe the oppression of women derives primarily from our biology but from (anti-)social factors which lead to women being treated as second class.”
I have a question for the LRC (and all other gender ideologues); is it their ‘gender identity’ or their biological sex which means the women and girls of Afghanistan now suffer this living hell - stolen, raped, enslaved, abused, murdered - at the hands of the Taliban? Look this girl in the eye and explain to her that her sex is irrelevant.
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See you next week.
There is an interview with Younger out there somewhere that I watched when his story first broke. By his account, his wife is extremely homophobic and part of her accusation against her ex husband is that he's gay because he once protested the dishonorable discharge of a fellow soldier while in the army (or marines, I forget which). Her homophobia is a driving force in the transition of their son and obsession with his alleged non conformity.
Having a listen to this nice Scottish accent, Neil Oliver calmly telling it like it is: https://youtu.be/eIX19h9aprk Well, GBNews, how refreshing.