A Week in the War on Women: Monday 24th May - Sunday 30th May

Monday 24th May - The Office For Women Is Not Just For Women

In Australia, Tasmanian Senator, Claire Chandler, chaired the Finance and Public Administration Budget Estimates Hearing this week. During the hearing, she asked the Office for Women what definition of ‘Women’ they use.

This should be a simple question. However, a very uncomfortable First Assistant Secretary, Catherine Hawkins, asked for context. Senator Chandler spoke about the office overseeing a range of initiatives and funding programmes specifically for women and asked how ‘woman’ is defined with regard to eligibility and to providing advice on women’s policy to government.

The answer was, “We recognise individuals who identify as women in accordance with the Australian government guidelines on the recognition on the basis of sex and gender”.

Senator Chandler asked, “So, to be clear, then, the Office for Women is not focused exclusively on policies for the betterment of biological women?”

Hawkins replied, “We follow the Australian government guidelines”.

So that’s a “No”, then.

Tuesday 25th May - The Cereal Grooming Of Children

The Kelloggs company has teamed up with LGBT lobby group, Glaad, to groom kids into believing in gender identity ideology.

A limited edition cereal called Together With Pride has been launched across the USA using the slogan ‘Boxes are for cereal’. Furthermore, ‘fans’ are being urged to get involved in the promotion and for every receipt uploaded via TikTok, Kellogg will donate $3 (up to a total of $140,000) to Glaad.

Glaad is a hugely influential US-based LGBT organisation which describes itself as “Leading the conversation. Shaping the media narrative. Changing the culture.” You may remember that it featured on this site a few months ago due to its sinister ‘Accountability Project’.

In a press release promoting the collaboration with Kellogg, Glaad’s CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, stated, "Kellogg is not only building on an ongoing commitment to support the LGBTQ+ community, but initiatives that spotlight the importance of using correct pronouns to create safe and welcoming spaces for trans and nonbinary people."

Wednesday 26th May - The ‘Get Out Of Jail Free’ Gender Card

WOMEN’S LIBERATION FRONT: A letter from a woman whose abusive brother is able to behave with impunity because he claims to be trans.

WoLF @WomensLibFront

"Gender ideology mandates that women like my sisters and I stay silent about sexist abuse and male violence at the hands of trans-identified males. We are expected to ignore the way they treat women because they identify as women."

womensliberationfront.orgLetters From the Front: From a Silenced Sister — Women’s Liberation Front“When my sisters and I attempt to address the sexist abuse we faced at the hands of our brother, we’re told that we’re ‘transphobic.’”

For over a decade the woman and her sisters suffered horrific verbal abuse and threats from their brother who would scream misogynistic slurs into their faces. His behaviour escalated and he was found filming girls in the female bathroom at his school. He also filmed one of his sisters in the shower with the intention of putting the footage on a pornography website.

He got away with all of this because he identifies as a transwoman.

“Because gender ideology states trans women were never men, his behaviour is no longer considered male violence. His filming of girls in women-only spaces and private settings is excused as curiosity and ‘gender envy’ rather than sexual abuse.

Gender ideology mandates that women like my sisters and I stay silent about sexist abuse and male violence at the hands of trans-identified males. We are expected to ignore the way they treat women because they identify as women.”

Also Today - It’s Called “Acting” For A Reason

THE GUARDIAN: UK Theatres pledge to cast only trans actors as trans characters.

The Royal Court, The Oxford Playhouse, The Contact and The Royal Exchange are amongst the prominent UK theatres pledging only to cast ‘trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming actors’ as characters who share those identities.

Last year a non-trans actor was cast as a trans character in a West End production of Breakfast on Pluto. This caused actor, Kate O’Donnell, a trans-identified male, to drop out of the show.

Kate O’Donnell, however, had previously felt no qualms accepting the role of a non-trans female character when he was cast in the play. (See how this works?)

In recent years, male performers, Craig Revel Horwood and David Suchet, have been cast in female roles in large-scale theatre productions. Revel Horwood played Miss Hannigan in Annie and Suchet played Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest. Where was the outpouring of rage over these casting choices?

Thursday 27th May - It’s About Ethics In Sports Journalism

USA Today has surrendered editorial integrity to trans activism and hurled female athletes under the bus.

Abigail Shrier @AbigailShrier

Outrageous. @USATODAY changed Mitchell's words, post-publication, on the grounds that the word "male" is hurtful. The activists know well that Mitchell can't make her argument without that word. Shame on the useful idiots of USAToday. If only they had half Mitchell's courage.

Christiana Holcomb @ChristianaADF

.@USATODAY published our client Chelsea Mitchell’s opinion about the unfairness she experienced being forced to compete against male athletes. But after backlash from the woke mob, editors unilaterally changed Chelsea’s words & called them “hurtful language.” 1/3 https://t.co/tAtzrZgPzt

Last week USA Today published an opinion piece by Connecticut high school athlete, Chelsea Mitchell. She described the unfairness of being forced to compete against male runners and detailed the occasions on which she’s lost titles and medals to them.

Following the inevitable outpouring of fury by trans activists, USA Today changed the word ‘male’ to ‘transgender’ throughout the piece. Furthermore, the article had been amended with the following editor’s note:

“This column has been updated to reflect USA TODAY’s standards and style guidelines. We regret that hurtful language was used.”

Terry Miller & Andraya Yearwood, two of the MALE athletes female runners are expected to compete against.

USA Today then supplicated even further. They published an article by Jennifer “she/her” Grosshandler, the crux of which is “Transgender athletes aren’t a threat to women’s sports”.

USA TODAY @USATODAY

From @usatodayopinion: "All kids need to move. And all kids need to feel that they belong."

usatoday.comI’m a lifelong competitive athlete and a mom: Transgender athletes aren’t a threat to women’s sportsA group of athletes, coaches and advocates are calling on the NCAA to take a more strident stand against states that adopt laws banning transgender athletes from competing in organized sports. (April 9) AP

You can read Chelsea Mitchell’s original article here.

Friday 28th May - Just Call It Men’s Hour

BBC WOMAN’S HOUR: Trans-identified male, Paris Lees, was interviewed about his newly published memoir, What it Feels Like for a Girl, which covers his life between the ages of 13 and 18.

BBC Woman's Hour @BBCWomansHour

Journalist and anti-bullying campaigner @parislees joins @itsanitarani to talk about her new memoir What it Feels Like for a Girl which covers the period between 13 to 18 years of age, a turbulent, heady time full of adventure and disaster bbc.in/3vtSjG3

Paris Lees is male. He was never a girl. Yet he feels entitled to represent his teenage experiences, which involved being a rent boy and having sex with men in public toilets, as female.

When women, not unreasonably, expressed their opposition to Lees being included in the programme, Woman’s Hour presenter, Anita Rani, labelled them transphobic and said she was ‘disgusted’ by their views.

anita rani @itsanitarani

I’m disgusted by the levels of transphobia on here. @BBCWomansHour is a space to discuss everything including LGBTQ+ issues. Listening to people’s stories helps us understand something and hopefully empathise. Ditch the hate 🌈

Paris Lees advocates for prostitution, fetishizes the sexual objectification of women, feels entitled to dictate to women about feminism, promotes pornography and is all in favour of housing violent male criminals in women’s prisons.

But he’s the one Rani fawns over (“You’re brave, bold and beautiful… I had a visceral reaction to your book…”) while women are being told to ‘ditch the hate’.

Also Today - This Is Not Sport, It’s Cheating

WOMEN ARE HUMAN: An athlete who is still formally male on documentation is to compete internationally in women’s events.

Women Are Human @women_are_human

First Male Athlete With Male Documents to Compete in International Women’s Sports Category

womenarehuman.comFirst Male Athlete With Male Documents to Compete in International Women’s Sports Category | Women Are Human. On 17 May, 2021, it was announced that Valentina Petrillo is set to create a world record as the first, and so far only, male to participate in a female sports competition with male documents. The software programmer and divorced father, who identifies as a woman and has not undergone cosmeti…

Last year we reported on trans identified male Paralympic athlete, Valentina Petrillo. He won 11 men’s national titles between 2016 and 2018. Now, aged 47, he ‘identifies as a woman’ and is competing in female competitions. Unsurprisingly, he’s cleaning up.

In September 2020 Petrillo won gold medals in the women’s 100, 200 and 400 metre events at the Italian Paralympic Athletic Championships.

It has just been announced that Petrillo is among the athletes chosen to compete in the European Paralympic Athletics Championship in Poland at the beginning of June. In the women’s events, of course.

Last week Petrillo was boasting on social media that he’d set a new national record in the women’s 400 metres. He’s also determined to compete at the Tokyo Paralympics.

The fact that he is both physically and legally male with a massive physical advantage clearly doesn’t bother him. Nor does it worry the regulatory authorities who keep allowing him to compete in women’s events.

Saturday 29th May - Anyone Who Disagrees Is Literally Hitler

BBC: Stonewall head, Nancy Kelley likened the holding of gender critical views to anti-semitism.

Kelley told the BBC, "With all beliefs including controversial beliefs there is a right to express those beliefs publicly and where they're harmful or damaging - whether it's anti-Semitic beliefs, gender critical beliefs, beliefs about disability - we have legal systems that are put in place for people who are harmed by that.”

The knowledge that biological sex is real and immutable is neither controversial nor damaging, Nancy. And it’s a pretty widely held view outside your little rainbow bubble.

Kelley went on to misrepresent the Equality Act 2010 by claiming that gender identity is a legally protected characteristic. Which it isn’t.

Sunday 30th May - It’s Fahrenheit 451 At Halifax Pride

GLOBAL NATIONAL: The organisers of Halifax Pride are severing ties with the town’s library because it stocks books of which they do not approve.

Global National @GlobalNational

In a statement, Halifax Pride said it won’t be booking library spaces until there is a review, policy change, and internal training.

trib.alLGBTQ group boycotts Halifax Public Library after decision to keep alleged transphobic book‘I do want to have a community-centered space...taking a stance to protect marginalized voices and say that they’re not going to carry it.’

In a statement posted on social media, Halifax Pride said it had ceased working with the public library because of “A newly acquired book that jeopardizes the safety of trans youth through unsupported medical claims.”

The statement doesn’t name it, but the book in question is Abigail Shrier’s Irreversible Damage, a meticulously researched examination of rapid onset gender dysphoria and the reasons for huge numbers of adolescent girls suddenly identifying as trans.

“We reached out to the library to understand their acquisition process and urge them to take corrective action to remove the book… Yesterday, representatives of the library communicated to members of our community, and to us, that they have decided to keep the book in their collection without further review of their policies.”

Outraged that a library should insist on stocking books, Halifax Pride cancelled all of its forthcoming events and have said it will no longer use library spaces, “Until this issue is addressed with some combination of internal review, policy change, and training.”

Halifax Pride’s sudden need to pre-approve the books available in a library was sparked by a petition launched last month. This petition was started by Mila McKay, pictured below.

See you next week.