A Week in the War on Women: Monday 23rd December - Sunday 29th December
Monday 23rd December - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE TELEGRAPH: A father is taking legal action against the NHS after his teenage son was prescribed cross-sex hormones.
A father in Sussex is taking legal action against a Brighton clinic following the medicalisation of his 16-year-old dysphoric son. The boy, known as Child O, was prescribed cross-sex hormones by Dr Sam Hall, a GP at Brighton’s WellBN Clinic.
The father’s legal team maintain that the clinic acted unlawfully in prescribing the drugs and that the NHS Sussex Integrated Care Board should not have funded the treatment. Court documents state that Child O was prescribed the cross-sex hormones “Without any diagnostic process compatible with the Cass Report nor NHS England’s clinical commissioning policies”.
Child O’s father told The Telegraph that his family had asked for support for his son who was working with therapists to resolve his gender issues. However, he then discovered that Dr Sam Hall had issued the 16-year-old boy with prescriptions for female oestrogen and for medication which blocks the normal production of testosterone in males. The father commented, “This is not a safe treatment for adolescents with gender dysphoria, not compliant with the recommendations of the Cass Review, and unlawful. We have therefore requested a judicial review of Dr Hall’s actions.”
The WellBN Clinic was in the news in March 2024 when the paperback version of Hannah Barnes’ ground-breaking book, Time to Think, was published. This new version of the book included an epilogue in which a Brighton mother revealed that her severely autistic teenage daughter had been prescribed testosterone after just one appointment at the clinic. Furthermore, the woman had spoken with at least ten other families whose children were prescribed cross-sex hormones at just 16 years old by Dr Sam Hall.
Paul Conrathe of Sinclairslaw, the firm representing Child O’s father, commented, “It would appear that WellBN Surgery and the Sussex ICB which pays for their work have been operating in a parallel universe, as if the Cass Review and changes in NHS commissioning guidance had not happened. It is plainly unlawful for clinical practice to disregard these highly significant developments and requirements in treating a vulnerable cohort of children with an irreversible novel treatment.”
Tuesday 24th December - Germany’s State-Funded Misogyny
REDUXX: The German government funded ‘research’ which was conducted by trans activists and labels women’s rights as a threat to democracy.
Germany’s Institute for Democracy and Civil Society (IDZ) is, according to its own website, “A social scientific research institute dedicated to the strengthening of democratic culture and civil society in the German state of Thuringia and beyond”. The IDZ recently undertook a research project on ‘Organized Transphobia: Concepts, Actors, Narratives, and Counter-Strategies’.
Unsurprisingly, most of those involved in this project have self-declared transgender identities. They claim the research was conducted using a ‘scientifically grounded foundational work’ and empirical surveys in the form of interviews with so-called ‘experts’ who were all part of the ‘queer community’.
One of those involved in the study is a trans-identified male called Mine (formerly Benjamin) Wenzel. He is a DJ and trans activist who uses the pseudonym Mine Pleasure Bouvar and describes himself as a ‘non-binary lesbian femme’. He has publicly advocated violence against feminists who defend women’s sex based rights and insists that lesbianism must include males. During a recent episode of his podcast, he admitted to masturbating while wearing his own sister’s clothes.
In collaboration with the Federal Association for Transgender People (BVT), the IDZ has now published the results of its project in a 92-page document. The so-called ‘research’ concludes that ‘transphobia’ poses a danger to ‘democratic co-existence’. It deems that those who criticise Germany’s controversial gender self-ID laws are ‘enemies’ of society. The report also outlines strategies to thwart German feminists who adhere to the reality of biological sex.
The German federal government funded this IDZ ‘research’ to the tune of €228,833 (almost £190,000).
Wednesday 25th December - Christmas Is A Drag
The BBC’s Christmas output has been drag queen-heavy with even supposedly family-friendly shows featuring drag performers.
The BBC is obsessed with drag queens. Not only does it broadcast a high number of drag-themed ‘entertainment’ programmes, such the UK version of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, Smoggie Queens and Ginger’s House, its website and iPlayer facility include hundreds of programmes, features and clips focusing on drag and drag performers. Furthermore, as detailed by @ripx4nutmeg, the BBC’s news and documentary output has featured over 50 drag queen-related stories this year alone.
Even over Christmas, the BBC has put drag performers at the forefront of its schedule. Its flagship and hugely popular show, Strictly Come Dancing, supposedly family viewing, featured the drag queen, Tayce. From Newport in south Wales, Tayce reached the final of Ru Paul's Drag Race UK in 2020. Like the vast majority of drag queens, his act involves a highly sexualised and offensive parody of womanhood and is not suitable for children.
Nevertheless, he was a contestant on the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day Special which was broadcast in the afternoon at 3.55pm. Of course, when reporting on Tayce winning the show, the BBC referred to him throughout its article with female pronouns.
The very next day, another drag queen, The Vivienne (also a former contestant on Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK), appeared on BBC1’s Boxing Day edition of Blankety Blank.
On Saturday 28th December, Scottish drag queen, Lawrence Chaney (yet another contestant from Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK), appeared in a repeat of The Wheel on BBC1. This primetime Saturday night programme aired in a pre-watershed slot at 8.15pm. Chaney’s specialist subject was listed as ‘drag’.
But it doesn’t end there, drag performer, Kate Butch, will be appearing on BBC2’s special New Year’s Eve celebrity edition of Mastermind.
Is there any programme the BBC won’t try and shoehorn a drag queen into?
Thursday 26th December - This Never Happens
GLOBAL NEWS: A sadistic and remorseless trans-identified male who murdered his own wife and two children has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
In 2022, Mohammed Al Ballouz murdered his wife, 38-year-old Synthia Bussières, stabbing her 23 times. At least 11 of those stab wounds were classified as defensive wounds, demonstrating how desperately Synthia fought for her life. Al Ballouz then murdered his two little boys, Eliam (aged five) and Zac (aged two). The victims were discovered at the family home by firefighters who had been responding to a fire alarm. Al Ballouz had set the apartment alight in an apparent attempt to destroy the evidence of his horrific crimes.
Following his arrest, Al Ballouz began claiming a trans identity and called himself Levana Ballouz. At the outset of his trial, prosecution counsel, Laurence Lamoureux, felt obliged to apologise to the court for referring to Al Ballouz as male. “On the day in question, the evidence will reveal the accused presented himself as a man”, he said. “So don’t be surprised if we, or witnesses, refer to the accused as a man. It isn’t out of a lack of respect or intended to shock people.”
Al Ballouz represented himself in court. According to media reports, he ‘presented as female’, and was described as being dressed in a woman’s plum coloured suit, wearing a wavy brown wig to his shoulders, and sporting varnished red fingernails. Throughout his trial, he was incarcerated at the Leclerc women’s detention centre.
Last week, Ballouz was found guilty of one count of second-degree murder, two counts of first-degree murder and one charge of arson. Quebec Superior Justice Eric Downs called Al Ballouz ‘sadistic and remorseless’ and handed him a sentence of life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 25 years. Downs said that there is little reason to believe Al Ballouz can be rehabilitated and described him as ‘a deeply narcissistic person’ who has shown ‘no remorse, no empathy’.
AL Ballouz had filed a motion requesting to be sent to the Joliette Institution for Women in the event of his conviction. However, the court ruled that the Correctional Service of Canada must determine where he will serve his sentence.
In reporting on the guilty verdict and sentencing, CBC News called Al Ballouz ‘Levana’ and referred to him with female pronouns throughout its article.
KTVZ described Al Ballouz as a ‘Quebec woman’.
What a vile insult to Synthia Bussières and her two little boys. They were not murdered by a woman, they were killed by a man. A sadistic, brutal, remorseless, dangerous man.
Friday 27th December - CPS Sanctioned Sex By Deception
THE TELEGRAPH: The CPS has issued guidance which states that trans-identified people who deceive sexual partners about their true sex may not be prosecuted.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the publicly-funded body that prosecutes serious crime in England and Wales. It has just published new guidance regarding the crime of sex by deception.
The guidance makes clear that rape or sexual assault charges may be brought if a victim was not aware of the suspect’s true sex and could not, therefore, give informed consent. However, it goes on to say that decisions on whether to prosecute in such cases will be taken on a case-by-case basis. It describes as ‘complex’ the way in which trans-identified people ‘express their gender’ and details a long list of circumstances under which they may be excused their deception.
The CPS guidance states:
How a trans or non-binary person experiences and expresses their gender can be a complex issue. The decision on whether to prosecute must be based on the evidence in each individual case, but the following information is provided for background context, as it may assist prosecutors to make more informed decisions:
Many people who have transitioned may not regard themselves as trans, but simply as a man or a woman.
Gender identity can be fluid and/or emergent for some persons, particularly for young persons, who may be exploring the nature of their identity and/or sexuality, or for non-binary people, who may identify as a man and a women or neither.
A person whose gender identity isn’t the same as their sex may express their gender through their speech, dress, gestures, mannerisms etc, without this being a fabrication, a performance or a deception. (It is important to recognise that non-trans people may also have a multitude of ways to express themselves, even if their gender identity is the same as their sex.)
To acquire a Gender Recognition Certificate, a person is required to live in the acquired gender for 2 years. To meet this condition, some may think it necessary to conceal their sex.
Some trans people may be wary of revealing their birth sex due to social stigma, transphobia or safety considerations, which may produce high levels of anxiety.
Maya Forstater told The Telegraph that the CPS guidance suggests people may avoid a conviction for sexual assault based on deception if they say they are transgender. “A person who fails to be clear and honest about their sex when seeking a sexual relationship is behaving in a way that is at a minimum creepy and may, at worst, be engaging in deception and assault”, she said. “If there is a complaint of rape or sexual assault by deception, this guidance offers the suspect a get-out-of-jail-free card, namely declaring they are trans”.
She added, “It says that a decision on whether to prosecute should take into account how the suspect feels about revealing their sex and gives weight to excuses such as that they believe they should ‘conceal their sex to obtain a gender recognition certificate’ or because of ‘social stigma, transphobia or safety considerations’. This approach is not grounded in law, and shows no recognition of ordinary standards of consent to intimate contact or sexual relations.”
Legal expert, Dr Michael Foran, has provided a detailed analysis of the CPS guidance. He explains:
“This guidance begins by drawing an important distinction between sex and gender identity but then proceeds to treat cases involving transgender defendants as if the only relevant deception here relates to gender identity. This is done by presenting the deception as being about whether the defendant is ‘not trans’ rather than ‘male’ or ‘female’. But these are not mutually exclusive categories in law and should not be treated as such in this guidance…
Transgender people are free to disclose or withhold information about their gender identity without any fear that it will constitute a deception that could vitiate consent to sexual activity. They should be much more careful about misrepresenting or withholding information about their natal sex because that has the potential to constitute an element of a sexual offence. Any guidance purporting to assist in understanding this area of law should be very clear about that distinction…
I can’t explain why the CPS uses gender identity alongside sex throughout this guidance. My suspicion is that guidance relating to people with transgender identities which only mentioned sex would be seen as offensive or invalidating of transgender identities. That is simply no excuse for getting the law wrong.”
Saturday 28th December - Men Make The Best Women
THE DAILY MAIL: Controversial Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif, took third place in the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year Awards.
We have written previously about Imane Khelif, a 25-year-old welterweight boxer from Algeria, who stole a gold medal in women’s boxing at this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris.
In 2023, Khelif was disqualified from the women’s World Championship run by the International Boxing Association (IBA). He failed a ‘gender test’ which was performed by CAS (court of sports arbitration) accredited laboratories. Khelif chose not to appeal the result of this test.
It seemed likely that Khelif was born with a DSD (difference of sex development) which may have lead to him being mistaken for a female as a baby. However, as detailed in this excellent interview with developmental biologist, Dr Emma Hilton, he will have experienced a normal male puberty and now enjoys all the usual physical and physiological advantages which men have over women.
At the outset of the games, István Kovács, the European Vice President of the World Boxing Organization and former Secretary General of the International Boxing Association, gave a statement to the Hungarian press, confirming that Khelif is ‘biologically male’. The Telegraph reported that the IOC were informed that Khelif has ‘the DNA of a male’ well over a year before the Games. Furthermore, Khelif’s own trainer gave an interview to Le Point magazine in which he revealed that Khelif got independent confirmation of IBA’s sex test and that he does have a Y chromosome.
Nevertheless, the IOC refused to recognise the validity of the sex tests carried out by the IBA and continually tried to defend its decision to let Khelif compete in women’s categories. The women’s welterweight boxing Olympic final saw Imane Khelif fight China’s Yang Lui. Oliver Brown described the match for The Telegraph: “The fight assumed a now-familiar pattern, with Khelif peppering Yang courtesy of a clear advantage in reach and punching power. Outclassed in the first, Yang staggered back under the force of one juddering blow in the second and could do nothing in the third to claw back in the deficit”.
In November 2024, Algerian-French journalist, Djaffer Aït Aoudia, wrote about a leaked 2023 medical report which proves unequivocally that Imane Khelif, is male. The report was produced by endocrinologists, Soumaya Fedala and Jacques Young, and reveals that Khelif is affected by 5-alpha reductase deficiency, a disorder of sexual development that is only found in males.
According to Aoudia’s article, this clinical report involved an MRI which showed that far from having any female reproductive organs, Khelif has internal testicles. A hormone test discovered that he has a testosterone level usual in males and a chromosomal test confirmed that he has an XY karyotype.
This week the Associated Press announced its Female Athlete of the Year award winners. A group of 74 sports journalists from the Associated Press voted on the award. Basketball star, Caitlin Clark, was the clear winner receiving 35 votes and Olympic gymnast, Simone Biles, was the runner up with 25 votes. Unbelievably, Imane Khelif was awarded third place with four journalists voting for him.
What a punch in the face to female athletes the world over.
Sunday 29th December - And Nothing But The Truth
BELFAST NEWS LETTER: Northern Ireland’s courts and prison service will pander to the self-declared gender identity of criminal defendants.
Last week we reported on 63-year-old Michelle James, a trans-identified male from Cloughey in Northern Ireland, who has been charged with threats to kill. It is alleged that James, a retired chef, threatened the life of a neighbour, stating that he would be happy stab the man. It is reported that these threats were a result of James’ neighbour referring to him by his original male name.
Following his arrest, James was initially held in the male estate at Maghaberry Prison. However, James’ successful legal challenge in the High Court meant that the Department of Justice consented to him being accommodated in a female prison. Consequently, prior to his being released on bail, James was placed among the female inmates in Hydebank Wood.
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) is the principal prosecuting authority in Northern Ireland, with responsibility for making prosecuting decisions in all cases investigated by the police. As a result of the Michelle James case, the Belfast News Letter contacted the PPS to ask about its policy towards defendants who self-identify as transgender.
The PPS stated that “The PPS respects the right of any individual, irrespective of their status as defendant, victim or witness, to be referred to by their stated gender and to use their preferred pronoun in the course of proceedings”. This seems to imply that men being tried for rape or sexual assault will be referred to with female pronouns if they claim to ‘identify as female’.
When The News Letter approached the Department of Justice about its policy for housing trans-identified inmates, it was told that people who identify as transgender are dealt with on a case-by-case basis. A statement from the NI Prison Service said that guidance on the management of trans prisoners had been introduced in August 2022. “A person-centred and risk-based approach is taken on decisions around accommodation and care, informed by advice from colleagues in The South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust… The Prison Service is at all times committed to ensuring that people in prison are held safely and securely and treated with dignity and respect.”
In other words, it will allow men to be accommodated in women’s prisons.
See you next year.
Thanks for your hard work during the year,JL.
The CPS gets the law wrong and the NI Prison Service puts men in women’s prisons. Nothing to worry about then!!!
As for the judges who voted for Khelif in the face of incontrovertible evidence!!
Bring on the GNS!
Dusty
I said, partly in jest, a while ago, that I blamed Ru Paul's Drag Race for the explosion in trans-identification in males It seems that when something is normalised, it then becomes lionised and aspirational! Heaven help us all when drag goes down the porn route, as it surely will.