A Week in the War on Women: Monday 27th September - Sunday 3rd October
Monday 27th September - At Their Majesty’s Pleasure
THE DAILY MAIL: HMP Isle of Wight is distributing pronoun badges to inmates as part of a ‘gender identity inclusion drive’.
HMP Isle of Wight is a high security men’s prison comprising HMP Albany and HMP Parkhurst. It houses around 1000 inmates, including rapists, sex offenders and paedophiles. Former inmates include Gary Glitter and the Kray twins.
Its ‘equalities team’ has been handing round badges with ‘preferred gender pronouns’ as part of National Inclusion Week. The range involves six purple badges reading 'he/they', 'her/they', 'she/her' 'they/them' etc and one that says ‘Ask me!’.
Ask an inmate at a high security men’s prison what his pronouns are?
Tuesday 28th September - Leave Them Kids Alone
Delegates at the Labour Party annual conference in Brighton passed a number of policy motions, one of which upholds an affirmation-only only treatment model for gender non-conforming children and also erases female-only spaces.
Composite Motion 13, which received the backing of conference, makes a number of resolutions.
Throughout this motion, gender identity is conflated with sexuality and/or ‘intersex’ (ie DSD) conditions, both of which are entirely unrelated. (It’s as if they’ve been studying the Denton’s document.)
Note the wording, “Supporting LGBT+ people, specifically transgender and intersex people, ensures the liberation of all.” Not only are those who identify as trans aligned with LGB people, they now require elevation within the movement.
The motion also demands that the party “Assert trans people’s same right for self-determination as anyone else”. (As anyone else? Nobody else has that right; legislation is based on reality.) It goes on to state that “This should include safeguarding equal access to domestic abuse/rape support and shelters, with particular improvement needed for trans women and ensuring that steps to prevent violence against women includes all women”.
In other words, the sex class ‘women’ must include males so it’s goodbye to vital female-only spaces.
The pronouncements on conversion therapy are carefully worded to conflate gender identity with sexuality, meaning that two cannot be considered separately.
“Conversion therapy refers to any form of treatment or psychotherapy which aims to reduce or stop same-sex attraction or to suppress a person’s gender identity based on the premise that being: Lesbian, Gay, Bi or Trans is a mental illness that can be ‘Cured’… Conversion therapies are both unethical and harmful; and also promote hateful values in society that homosexuality/bisexuality and being transgender is an illness.”
Perhaps of most concern is the resolution that, “The use of conversion therapy on persons under the age of 18 is a form of child abuse”.
As far as the Labour Conference is concerned, any clinician treating a dysphoric child MUST affirm their ‘gender identity’, thus putting them on a pathway to medicalisation, and any other approach will be illegal. And if parents want to explore non-invasive treatments, they risk being accused of abusing their children.
Wednesday 29th September - This Never Happens
TORONTO SUN: A convicted rapist and murderer now ‘identifies as a woman’ and seeks a transfer to the female estate.
In May 2018 Yostin Murillo raped and murdered a woman in her own home while her children slept in the next room.
Together with his accomplice, David Beak, Murillo broke into the home of 41-year-old nurse, Rhoderie Estrada. The pair raped her and then killed her by beating her head repeatedly with a metal bar. She had been so badly beaten she was unrecognisable.
The two men were both found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. They are currently awaiting transfer to a federal prison.
Yostin Murillo now claims to ‘identify as a woman’ and is seeking detention in the female estate. While he was awaiting trial, provincial corrections allowed him to be accommodated in a women’s prison.
“Like a lot of other enterprising jailbirds playing Corrections Canada like a fiddle… Just the latest violent criminal who wants to do their time in a women’s prison.”
Also Today - These Are Not Our Crimes
Thank you to Professor Alice Sullivan for drawing attention to this staggering statistic. Between 2012 - 2018, 436 individuals prosecuted for rape in England and Wales were recorded as women.
The crime of rape is defined specifically as penetration with a penis. So either those individuals were females abetting a rapist (a very rare occurrence) or they were males masquerading as women.
Professor Sullivan made an FOI request to the CPS asking for information on how many of these cases refer to female accomplices and how many are males who ‘identify as women’.
The CPS replied that they were unable to provide this information as collating the data would require manually examining all the case files.
“In other words, police forces have introduced self-id for crime reporting, and this means that the CPS are unable to provide the data which would allow the effect of self-id on data quality to be assessed and monitored.”
Thursday 30th September - Stonewall’s Unsporting Meltdown
The Sports Councils Equality Group published new guidelines for transgender participation in sport which conclude that current policies are not fit for purpose. "For many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model".
Of course, Stonewall reacted with predictable science-denial and hyperbole.
No, the report does not ‘make assumptions’, it reaches a conclusion based on facts. There is plenty of evidence that trans identified males ‘already participating in sports’ have not only stolen medals, opportunities and places from women, they’ve seriously injured them. Yes, sport is for everyone. That includes women. Nobody is suggesting the exclusion trans-identified males from sport; they can compete in the appropriate class for their sex.
Over a year ago I wrote about Stonewall going into a tailspin over a similar story. After a landmark workshop to research the inclusion of transwomen in the female game, World Rugby announced that it would review its transgender policy.
"The latest peer-reviewed research confirms that a reduction of testosterone does not lead to a proportionate reduction in mass, muscle mass, strength or power. These important determinants of injury risk and performance remain significantly elevated after testosterone suppression… This presents a clear safety risk when transgender women play women's contact rugby”.
Despite unequivocal evidence that the inclusion of trans identified males in women’s rugby is not only unfair, it is extremely dangerous, Stonewall foamed at the mouth about their ‘exclusion’.
And now they’re at it again, proving, were further proof required, that their trans agenda is more important than women’s lives.
Friday 1st October - Anyone For Dentons?
It’s not just the Labour Party supporting a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ in order to medicalise healthy children.
Nick Herbert (Lord Herbert of the South Downs) was a conservative MP until taking his seat in the House of Lords last year. He was recently appointed Boris Johnson’s special envoy on LGBT rights and will be working with Liz Truss on LGBT issues. He seems to embrace gender identity ideology; in an interview for Times Radio, he praised Stonewall’s work and, talking about the current debate around gender ideology and women’s sex-based rights, he stated, “I wouldn’t like to see the government in any way take a side on what some are seeing as a culture war”.
On Friday he expressed his support for The Cooper Report, the Ozanne Foundation’s newly published recommendations to the UK government “About how to effectively legislate against all forms of ‘conversion therapy’… using both the criminal and civil law”.
You will notice that the ban on ‘conversion practices’ extends to ‘gender identity’ as well as sexuality.
Again, a very clever conflation of gender identity with sexual orientation, (and again, a deliberate tactic straight out of the Denton’s playbook).
Hardly surprising given some of the names that appear on the Ozanne Foundation’s legal forum.
Saturday 2nd October - No Thank You
THE DAILY MAIL: Trans identified male, Laurel Hubbard, has been named New Zealand’s sportswoman of the year.
43-year-old weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, began his sporting career as Gavin Hubbard competing in the men’s division. He didn't have much success. Once he began ‘identifying as a woman’ and competing against females, he won medals at the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
Despite being overweight, out of shape, injured and much older than all the other competitors, he was given a place on New Zealand’s women’s Olympic team. He crashed out of the games, failing to register a successful lift.
He has just been named New Zealand sportswoman of the year by the University of Otago, picking up the title at the Blues awards on Tuesday.
What a kick in the teeth for every sportswoman in New Zealand.
Sunday 3rd October - Labour Losing Women
SUZANNE MOORE: Reality and the Labour Party; the week in which the cervix became ‘the new clitoris’ (“Men have heard of it, but where the hell is it?”).
The Labour Party’s conference week began with Keir Starmer stating that Rosie Duffield was ‘not right’ to say that only women have cervixes.
Shadow Justice Secretary, David Lammy, went on national radio to confidently assert that trans identified males can develop cervixes with hormone treatment after which he denigrated feminists by describing them as dinosaurs hoarding rights. Emily Thornberry, Shadow Secretary of State for International Trade, appeared on BBC television claiming that it’s ‘factually inaccurate’ to say that only women have cervixes.
Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chancellor, appearing on Nick Ferrari’s LBC programme, was asked if it’s transphobic to say that only women have a cervix. She finally, after much incoherent spluttering and evasion, gave her opinion that people can identify as ‘any gender’ regardless of their ‘body parts’.
As Suzanne Moore says, “What is happening when women have to meet secretly at a Labour Party conference for fear of intimidation? Screaming ‘transphobe’ at anyone who wants to protect women’s spaces is simply mad.”
Before I sign off, can I just clarify that I am not Julia Long. Apparently, there’s been some rumblings on social media that she and I are one and the same. We’re honestly not. We’ve even been seen in the same room together!
See you next week.
Being trans is NOT a mental illness? Wait up a tick here. Weren't we all supposed to feel sympathy for the poor people who were unbearably tortured by their 'gender dysphoria'? Driven to suicide, even? So much that we all had to affirm their reality and stuff down our perception of our own so that they wouldn't be so tortured by the excruciating pain of seeing evidence that their insides and outsides did not match up? But now we're supposed to believe that this is perfectly natural and normal and will all be okay if we keep pretending black is white because the trans are JUST LIKE the gays. Whatever, Labour, you bunch of misogynist homophobes. None of US ever ran around screaming that if you didn't pretend our gay relationships were straight we'd hold our breath until we passed out.
Has anyone seen the movie "The Game" with Michael Douglas? His life is turned upside down by a series of implausible events which all turn out to be part of a game - but to him it's real.
I'm reading Helen Joyce's Trans and read above that "HMP Isle of Wight is distributing pronoun badges to inmates as part of a ‘gender identity inclusion drive’." and I'm wondering if someone has created an alternative reality just to mess with me!
So much of this is objectively, obviously insane that it makes no sense on any level! These people should exist as a small, lonely cult of wierdos, not be driving the agenda on the world stage. How do sensible people get dragged in and convinced by this???
Michael, pronouns Baffled/Confused