A handful of the good news stories from the gender beat this week. Enjoy! Talking Sex In Westminster The Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has written to Women and Equalities Minister, Kemi Badenoch, to provide advice on the clarification of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.
Here's something I wrote just this morning. It's for a friend who's been tasked with holding the line in her workplace against the dark tide of 'gender ' ideology. She's fairly new to the ins and outs and ups and downs of the nonsense, so I've written some bare bones guidance for her.
"Some things to consider.
Mind you, this is but the tip of the iceberg.
Make no mistake. It’s the ‘trans’ ideology that is driving the ‘LGBT + alphabet to infinity’ movement. It’s an authoritarian, ‘no debate’, anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-human, anti free-speech, woman-hating, child-hating, homophobic and misogynistic ideology. It’s a top down ideology, whose policies were cooked up in back rooms without any public input. Its tenets and mantras spread like wildfire via social media. An inordinate number of troubled, or autistic, or previously traumatized children and teens saw it as an explanation for their problems — they were born in the wrong body.
Unfortunately, ‘gender’ ideologues have infiltrated every level of government, educational institution, think tank, NGO, etc. Their policies reign supreme. It will take years to unpick the policy damage, and the psychic damage wrought upon several young generations. Not to mention the tide of upcoming court cases on the horizon. There’s a huge medical scandal brewing in the background. I think these are the cases that will ultimately bring down the entire shaky (no foundation in reality) nonsensical ‘gender’ ideology.
The very meaning of woman is being erased along with her refuges, hospital wards, crisis centres, prisons, schools, awards, sports, etc. etc. etc.
Children in their very earliest years are being indoctrinated with ‘gender’ nonsense in schools, even in library story hours.
More and more, lesbians and gays want to be unhitched from the alphabet train. LGB is sexual orientation. Any letter after it is a self-declared ‘identity’. The word ‘sex’ has been co-opted by the utterly meaningless and undefinable word ‘gender’.
This deliberate obfuscation of language has consequences. Insightful LGB people are rightly concerned that they are experiencing, and will continue to experience, more prejudice from the wider community because of the destruction caused by the ‘trans’ ideology (which has glommed onto LGB in order to ‘pass’ as a civil rights movement). It is not possible for men to be lesbians, nor for women to be gay men — yet this is the insane stance of ‘gender’ ideologists.
In Britain, two lovely lesbian women started LGB Alliance, a group set up to defend gays and lesbians from their erasure by the TQ+. This newly formed group has naturally been labelled a hate group, which they ARE NOT. Any pushback against the TQ+ is automatically labelled as hateful, ‘transphobic’, bigoted, and get this — fascist. People who push back are labelled as Nazis. (A bit of classic projection going on here.)
Keep in mind, a lot of LGB people have been indoctrinated into the ‘gender’ cult. Because it IS a cult with its mantras and mandated thought and speech. It ‘shuns’ desisters and de-transitioners. Ideologues refuse to debate. But many gay people think they are supporting a righteous civil rights movement, little knowing they are supporting their own erasure. If there is no such thing as a sex category, there is no such thing as homosexuality.
You’ll see all kinds of letters from the TQ+ brigade now demanding governments to stop the ‘anti-trans tide of hate’. There is no such tide of hate. There IS an increasing awareness (so long held back by ‘captured’ mainstream media, ’captured’ big tech, and ‘captured’ social media) about the immense damage being done in the name of ‘gender’ ideology.
Children’s and young people’s bodies and psyches are being ruined with experimental hormones, surgeries, and psychological indoctrination.
The general public is being compelled to deny biological reality.
Families and friendships are being torn asunder.
Workplaces are fraught with anxiety— people are afraid to offend, or to say the wrong thing. They are walking on eggshells. Many have lost their single sex bathrooms. Let alone their jobs.
Courts and police have been unduly influenced. Traumatized women, in court, have been compelled under legal threat to use feminine pronouns for their rapists.
So many officials in so many institutions have been forced to sit through hours and hours of
'gender' spun EDI indoctrination. Consequently, police in Britain have arrested and interviewed people for ‘gender’ critical tweets, while turning a blind eye to the aggression of ‘gender’ ideologues towards women fighting for their ever-diminishing rights. Police cars are painted with ‘trans’ flags.
Careers are ruined. People are terrified to say what they really think because of the cancellation consequences. There is so much Fear.
Keep in mind there is no ‘trans’ ‘community’. The ‘trans’ ‘umbrella’ contains every silly or dark ‘identity’ under the sun. What does a thirteen-year-old girl, who is being daily convinced she’s actually a boy, have in common with a middle-aged man with a cross-dressing fetish? None. There is no ‘community’.
As they sense the beginnings of public knowledge, disapproval, and pushback, ‘gender’ ideology’s extreme adherents are becoming more and more violent against the necessarily increasingly courageous pushback."
“You can’t enforce reality denial without authoritarianism. It’s not possible.” -Dr. Jane Clare Jones (a well known British feminist)
Thank you. Very kind. If I were not so far away (here in Canada) I would love to go to one of their events. Such a brilliantly simple and effective movement -- a true civil rights movement.
If your colleague enjoys a story....A fox identifies as a chicken and vets can see some distress and attempts at paw flapping behaviour. The farmer thinks that this fox can go in the hen house. Nobody asks the chickens. A bunch of animals (including some bad foxes) persuade the farmer that it would be really kind to let any fox who says he’s a chicken into all the hen houses. Some chickens have no idea what is happening. Some chickens are concerned but their views are not valid because they are obviously bigots. Any concerns are irrelevant because some chickens peck other chickens, some foxes don’t harm chickens and anyway most fox attacks happen outside a hen house so why make a fuss about who gets into a hen house? Also foxchickens are more like chickens than biological chickens so there’s no need to describe a chicken anymore (and foxchickens are much better athletes). For some reason, no one is interested in asking foxes to be kind and to stop bullying foxchickens.
Well, there's the great Radical Cartoons cartoon with the alligator approaching a pool full of newts saying he identifies as a newt! For that, that spineless newspaper The Morning Star fired her!
Is there a word limit now for responses? This is a long entry I know, but the whole entry is not showing. There may have always been a limit, I don't know. First time I've encountered it.
Kind of. It used to randomly, so you could tag a comment after a comment in order to continue. Your excellent comment has an expand full comment bit highlighted to click and when I do that the last text I can read is the JCJ quote. Substack has tweaked this I think, so if you hit an unknown word limit it may appear cut off then if you refresh the page the whole lot is there. Or a response may appear as a clickable link to expand thread, then that opens separately and you have to navigate back to the main comments thread.
It's lovely to have some good news stories, the EHRC is great, the garda stance is better, the BMJ loved their response to the genderborg, the NZ Cruz bar gives you hope altogether with the fact that Europe is correct to say the evidence is weak for t healthcare and affirmation only in my opinion is just conversion therapy. Thanks JL 😊
I'm just wondering is it that they don't want to be disciplined or they will use your pronouns if you give them and treat you like a woman with a body search by women, garda? Or if a trans garda says he is a woman will he be able to body search women? If that they won't gender people its fantastic, I dont want this crap pabdered to is all and we have had what seemed good news and then turned to bad before. I'm so cynical now
The good news always perks me up, after the bad news knocks me to the ground. I salute the gay bar in NZ. Very brave of them. And good on the BMJ. Just don't apologise, stop it altogether. Thanks for all the good news.
I’m still fuming that the teaching union is supporting gender bullshit but
Thanks JL,
Any sporting body that doesn’t allow a level playing field for all competitors regardless of level of competence should simply be boycotted. once again easy for a man to say as as usual it doesn’t effect me. but if a sporting body was to arrise in any field i’d be more than happy to support it with quids.
F-ing men, f- off. I’m sick of you. that italian bloke. what a f-wit. sorry i’m 2 beers in.
Did a post last night on someone who is going a bit under the radar ( as far as I can make out) : Brittney Griner in American women's basketball . I was doing my regular trawl through the net about reports on this gender madness and came upon a report on a basketball player getting detained in Russia for having a small amount of cannabis on her. I thought 'ok that's interesting' and trawled on - shortly afterwards, I thought 'hold on!' I went back to look at the photo which I had just glanced at in passing. Yup, it's definitely a bloke! 6'9", built like he could give Tyson Furey a run for his money and got an Adam's apple.
No, I don't think so. Brittney Griner is extremely tall, but she is female. And regarding drug possession, some countries take it very seriously unlike the U.S. which has parts of the government bringing drugs into the country. Very depressing.
Hi again, Susan. OK well sorry if I'm wrong but in most of the posts I have looked at there is sheer disbelief in the comments and in some of the articles there is a strange passing reference to transgender?? But I may be barking up the wrong tree. You don't come across many 6'9" women!!!!
The only thing I can think of is the same idiots who said Serena Williams looked like a man. Not in any world in which I have lived!
If you are a 6'9" woman, you are DOOMED to be a basketball player! It's been lucrative for her, especially playing in Russia where she was paid a lot more money than playing for the WNBA,. But I don't imagine she'll be flying east anytime soon! [tongue in cheek]
I was picking up on uncertainty in the posts I was reading some of which, in the main article itself, mentioned transgender. But I'm sure you're right. I never thought Serena Williams wasn't a woman BTW!! :)
An American comedian -- who did not have a good reputation with women -- was quoted by feminists when he said Serena Williams looks like a man? and Bruce Jenner is a "gorgeous woman"? One wonders where people keep their eyeballs!
I remember signing that EHRC petition and thinking it was probably a total waste of time but here we are - must remember to stay positive. The BMJ response is such a joy to read. It's like the adults have finally returned and explained to the spoilt brats that no-one cares if they throw a hissy fit.
OMG the good news at last, JL :) Thanks as ever. Especially happy to hear about the Gards. Loved the dog and cat vids as ever. Been working on the great stuff coming from Michael Biggs on the misleading census question. Alice Sullivan who did important paper in 2021 on this has lovely quote at beginning of her report from Humpty Dumpty: ‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is’, said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that's all.’
I'm standing in Norwich as an Independent candidate (Mile X) and because on my blurbs I have said 'I will defend women's right to single sex spaces" I'm now going 'after the transphobic vote" ! Do support me if you can Graham...
Thank you thank you thank you. Thank you JL.
Here's something I wrote just this morning. It's for a friend who's been tasked with holding the line in her workplace against the dark tide of 'gender ' ideology. She's fairly new to the ins and outs and ups and downs of the nonsense, so I've written some bare bones guidance for her.
"Some things to consider.
Mind you, this is but the tip of the iceberg.
Make no mistake. It’s the ‘trans’ ideology that is driving the ‘LGBT + alphabet to infinity’ movement. It’s an authoritarian, ‘no debate’, anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-human, anti free-speech, woman-hating, child-hating, homophobic and misogynistic ideology. It’s a top down ideology, whose policies were cooked up in back rooms without any public input. Its tenets and mantras spread like wildfire via social media. An inordinate number of troubled, or autistic, or previously traumatized children and teens saw it as an explanation for their problems — they were born in the wrong body.
Unfortunately, ‘gender’ ideologues have infiltrated every level of government, educational institution, think tank, NGO, etc. Their policies reign supreme. It will take years to unpick the policy damage, and the psychic damage wrought upon several young generations. Not to mention the tide of upcoming court cases on the horizon. There’s a huge medical scandal brewing in the background. I think these are the cases that will ultimately bring down the entire shaky (no foundation in reality) nonsensical ‘gender’ ideology.
The very meaning of woman is being erased along with her refuges, hospital wards, crisis centres, prisons, schools, awards, sports, etc. etc. etc.
Children in their very earliest years are being indoctrinated with ‘gender’ nonsense in schools, even in library story hours.
More and more, lesbians and gays want to be unhitched from the alphabet train. LGB is sexual orientation. Any letter after it is a self-declared ‘identity’. The word ‘sex’ has been co-opted by the utterly meaningless and undefinable word ‘gender’.
This deliberate obfuscation of language has consequences. Insightful LGB people are rightly concerned that they are experiencing, and will continue to experience, more prejudice from the wider community because of the destruction caused by the ‘trans’ ideology (which has glommed onto LGB in order to ‘pass’ as a civil rights movement). It is not possible for men to be lesbians, nor for women to be gay men — yet this is the insane stance of ‘gender’ ideologists.
In Britain, two lovely lesbian women started LGB Alliance, a group set up to defend gays and lesbians from their erasure by the TQ+. This newly formed group has naturally been labelled a hate group, which they ARE NOT. Any pushback against the TQ+ is automatically labelled as hateful, ‘transphobic’, bigoted, and get this — fascist. People who push back are labelled as Nazis. (A bit of classic projection going on here.)
Keep in mind, a lot of LGB people have been indoctrinated into the ‘gender’ cult. Because it IS a cult with its mantras and mandated thought and speech. It ‘shuns’ desisters and de-transitioners. Ideologues refuse to debate. But many gay people think they are supporting a righteous civil rights movement, little knowing they are supporting their own erasure. If there is no such thing as a sex category, there is no such thing as homosexuality.
You’ll see all kinds of letters from the TQ+ brigade now demanding governments to stop the ‘anti-trans tide of hate’. There is no such tide of hate. There IS an increasing awareness (so long held back by ‘captured’ mainstream media, ’captured’ big tech, and ‘captured’ social media) about the immense damage being done in the name of ‘gender’ ideology.
Children’s and young people’s bodies and psyches are being ruined with experimental hormones, surgeries, and psychological indoctrination.
The general public is being compelled to deny biological reality.
Families and friendships are being torn asunder.
Workplaces are fraught with anxiety— people are afraid to offend, or to say the wrong thing. They are walking on eggshells. Many have lost their single sex bathrooms. Let alone their jobs.
Courts and police have been unduly influenced. Traumatized women, in court, have been compelled under legal threat to use feminine pronouns for their rapists.
So many officials in so many institutions have been forced to sit through hours and hours of
'gender' spun EDI indoctrination. Consequently, police in Britain have arrested and interviewed people for ‘gender’ critical tweets, while turning a blind eye to the aggression of ‘gender’ ideologues towards women fighting for their ever-diminishing rights. Police cars are painted with ‘trans’ flags.
Careers are ruined. People are terrified to say what they really think because of the cancellation consequences. There is so much Fear.
Keep in mind there is no ‘trans’ ‘community’. The ‘trans’ ‘umbrella’ contains every silly or dark ‘identity’ under the sun. What does a thirteen-year-old girl, who is being daily convinced she’s actually a boy, have in common with a middle-aged man with a cross-dressing fetish? None. There is no ‘community’.
As they sense the beginnings of public knowledge, disapproval, and pushback, ‘gender’ ideology’s extreme adherents are becoming more and more violent against the necessarily increasingly courageous pushback."
“You can’t enforce reality denial without authoritarianism. It’s not possible.” -Dr. Jane Clare Jones (a well known British feminist)
*LOUD APPLAUSE*
This would make a great speech for a Let Women Speak event.
Thank you. Very kind. If I were not so far away (here in Canada) I would love to go to one of their events. Such a brilliantly simple and effective movement -- a true civil rights movement.
If your colleague enjoys a story....A fox identifies as a chicken and vets can see some distress and attempts at paw flapping behaviour. The farmer thinks that this fox can go in the hen house. Nobody asks the chickens. A bunch of animals (including some bad foxes) persuade the farmer that it would be really kind to let any fox who says he’s a chicken into all the hen houses. Some chickens have no idea what is happening. Some chickens are concerned but their views are not valid because they are obviously bigots. Any concerns are irrelevant because some chickens peck other chickens, some foxes don’t harm chickens and anyway most fox attacks happen outside a hen house so why make a fuss about who gets into a hen house? Also foxchickens are more like chickens than biological chickens so there’s no need to describe a chicken anymore (and foxchickens are much better athletes). For some reason, no one is interested in asking foxes to be kind and to stop bullying foxchickens.
There is a cartoon exactly on this point but I can't find it. Anyone? Something like 'don't worry, ladies. I identify as a chicken'
Dusty
Well, there's the great Radical Cartoons cartoon with the alligator approaching a pool full of newts saying he identifies as a newt! For that, that spineless newspaper The Morning Star fired her!
Yeh, thanks Susan, that one is great. They should apologise to Radical Cartoons. I will keep trying to find the fox one!
Dusty
Drunk Octopus- Brilliant!
Drunk octopus spoiling for a fight!
Those foxchickens seem very familiar.
Is there a word limit now for responses? This is a long entry I know, but the whole entry is not showing. There may have always been a limit, I don't know. First time I've encountered it.
Kind of. It used to randomly, so you could tag a comment after a comment in order to continue. Your excellent comment has an expand full comment bit highlighted to click and when I do that the last text I can read is the JCJ quote. Substack has tweaked this I think, so if you hit an unknown word limit it may appear cut off then if you refresh the page the whole lot is there. Or a response may appear as a clickable link to expand thread, then that opens separately and you have to navigate back to the main comments thread.
It's lovely to have some good news stories, the EHRC is great, the garda stance is better, the BMJ loved their response to the genderborg, the NZ Cruz bar gives you hope altogether with the fact that Europe is correct to say the evidence is weak for t healthcare and affirmation only in my opinion is just conversion therapy. Thanks JL 😊
The Garda's reaction amazed me. I'm so pleased.
Likewise :)
I'm just wondering is it that they don't want to be disciplined or they will use your pronouns if you give them and treat you like a woman with a body search by women, garda? Or if a trans garda says he is a woman will he be able to body search women? If that they won't gender people its fantastic, I dont want this crap pabdered to is all and we have had what seemed good news and then turned to bad before. I'm so cynical now
Pleasure!
"we do not agree with your criticisms of the articles and we will not be apologising."
Ahhh ... like a breath of fresh air.
Wonderful to see something like this, rather than the usual pathetic boilerplate about being "deeply sorry", "vowing to do better", etc.
It is good news but also infuriating that we had to go around in a vast circle to state what was, from the very beginning, the bleeding obvious.
The good news always perks me up, after the bad news knocks me to the ground. I salute the gay bar in NZ. Very brave of them. And good on the BMJ. Just don't apologise, stop it altogether. Thanks for all the good news.
I’m still fuming that the teaching union is supporting gender bullshit but
Thanks JL,
Any sporting body that doesn’t allow a level playing field for all competitors regardless of level of competence should simply be boycotted. once again easy for a man to say as as usual it doesn’t effect me. but if a sporting body was to arrise in any field i’d be more than happy to support it with quids.
F-ing men, f- off. I’m sick of you. that italian bloke. what a f-wit. sorry i’m 2 beers in.
I understand completely! But take heart, CB... plenty of good news and the tide is on the turn! Chin up, chest out and on we bloody well go!
I take it you're not drinking Bud Light 😁
SNORT!!
Did a post last night on someone who is going a bit under the radar ( as far as I can make out) : Brittney Griner in American women's basketball . I was doing my regular trawl through the net about reports on this gender madness and came upon a report on a basketball player getting detained in Russia for having a small amount of cannabis on her. I thought 'ok that's interesting' and trawled on - shortly afterwards, I thought 'hold on!' I went back to look at the photo which I had just glanced at in passing. Yup, it's definitely a bloke! 6'9", built like he could give Tyson Furey a run for his money and got an Adam's apple.
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/stats-matter
Dusty
Dusty
No, I don't think so. Brittney Griner is extremely tall, but she is female. And regarding drug possession, some countries take it very seriously unlike the U.S. which has parts of the government bringing drugs into the country. Very depressing.
Hi again, Susan. OK well sorry if I'm wrong but in most of the posts I have looked at there is sheer disbelief in the comments and in some of the articles there is a strange passing reference to transgender?? But I may be barking up the wrong tree. You don't come across many 6'9" women!!!!
Dusty
The only thing I can think of is the same idiots who said Serena Williams looked like a man. Not in any world in which I have lived!
If you are a 6'9" woman, you are DOOMED to be a basketball player! It's been lucrative for her, especially playing in Russia where she was paid a lot more money than playing for the WNBA,. But I don't imagine she'll be flying east anytime soon! [tongue in cheek]
I was picking up on uncertainty in the posts I was reading some of which, in the main article itself, mentioned transgender. But I'm sure you're right. I never thought Serena Williams wasn't a woman BTW!! :)
Dusty
An American comedian -- who did not have a good reputation with women -- was quoted by feminists when he said Serena Williams looks like a man? and Bruce Jenner is a "gorgeous woman"? One wonders where people keep their eyeballs!
For what it’s worth, many American kids are super tall, especially athletes. A 6’ tall girl volleyball or basketball player is not unusual these days.
Calm yourself cb 😂
Calm yourself cb 😂
Ooops posted twice
Thank you JL - much appreciated.
I remember signing that EHRC petition and thinking it was probably a total waste of time but here we are - must remember to stay positive. The BMJ response is such a joy to read. It's like the adults have finally returned and explained to the spoilt brats that no-one cares if they throw a hissy fit.
Thank you JL, your good news supplements are a sanity saver.
My pleasure! x
Many thanks. Great to see some good news.
Ah. The British Bulldog headbutting snow. What a darling!
I suspect it may be having a hot flush 🥵
I know how he feels. I have about ten a day at the moment.
Might keep the video to help me cool down!
Glad I’m over that !
And the grunting joyously along with it. Fab.
Thanks, JL.
My pleasure!
OMG the good news at last, JL :) Thanks as ever. Especially happy to hear about the Gards. Loved the dog and cat vids as ever. Been working on the great stuff coming from Michael Biggs on the misleading census question. Alice Sullivan who did important paper in 2021 on this has lovely quote at beginning of her report from Humpty Dumpty: ‘When I use a word’, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is’, said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is’, said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that's all.’
Thanks again, JL
Dusty
My pleasure, Dusty!
I know I’m always late to the party but wtf were Nike thinking of
They won’t miss my money but I’m going to be wearing a sackcloth and be minging at the rate of brands I’m having to boycott
Buy Standing for Women sports bras - just out :)
Maybe they'll pick up the fallout from Nike :)
Dusty
I’ve been having to wear a back brace for months hoping to never wear a bra again 🤣
As always 🌹
Wee kitty 😀 my two idiot dogs go nuts if they hear a dog barking or a doorbell ringing when I’m watching something on iPad
Oh bless em! Give em a big kiss from me! x
I don’t know how to post a pic but given and gratefully received 😊
Awwww! ;-)
hurrah 🎉
I'm standing in Norwich as an Independent candidate (Mile X) and because on my blurbs I have said 'I will defend women's right to single sex spaces" I'm now going 'after the transphobic vote" ! Do support me if you can Graham...
I so appreciate the good news version, as it gives me hope in this ridiculous fight.
Ah I'm glad to hear that, Page! Stay positive - we are winning! x