A Week in the War on Women: Monday 15th March - Sunday 21st March
Monday 15th March - An Unsporting Advantage
THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Track star dreams dashed by transgender sport rules.
Alanna Smith is a 17-year-old high school student who has hitherto been very successful in athletics. Thanks to Connecticut law allowing trans-identified males to compete as women in high school sports, the odds are now stacked against her.
“Whether I came in first or fifth place, I knew that was the spot I deserved. Now it’s dispiriting to know who is going to win.”
Not all states follow Connecticut’s policy. Over two dozen states protect women’s sports from male participation. However, these state laws will be irrelevant if the Equality Act succeeds; all schools and public bodies etc that receive federal funding will have to allow trans-identified males to compete in women’s sports.
Tuesday 16th March - No Science, Please; We’re The Green Party
Emma Bateman has been a Green Party member for over a decade. In December she was elected co-chair of Green Party Women.
On International Women’s Day, 8th March, she was suspended from the party for voicing the unequivocal fact that transwomen are not female.
That’s the same Green Party whose manifesto describes a long-term plan to tackle climate and ecological damage “At the scale and speed set out by science”.
SCIENCE.
Now Green Party Women has only one chair. And he’s a man. Kathryn Bristow describes himself as a “Polyam ace pan enby woman” and uses Fae/Faer/Faers/Faerself pronouns. But he is a man.
As we reported a couple of weeks ago, Bristow tweeted from both his personal and ‘political’ Twitter accounts of his intention to lie on his census form.
Apparently, a public statement of intent to falsify information on a government form (which can carry a £1000 fine) is not deemed worthy of a suspension from the Green Party. But stating an irrefutable biological fact is.
Wednesday 17th March - The Clocks Were Striking Thirteen in British Columbia
THE POST MILLENNIAL: A Canadian father has been jailed for trying to save his child from the irreversible harm of medical transition.
Rob Hoogland is a father from British Columbia who, for the past few years, has been battling school administrators, medical professionals and the Canadian legal system, trying to protect his teenager daughter.
At the age of thirteen Rob’s daughter began identifying as trans. Unbeknown to Rob, his daughter’s school had shown her SOGI 123 materials, which promote gender ideology, and actively encouraged her new ‘identity’ and social transition.
It was at her school’s recommendation that Rob’s daughter visited psychologist, Dr. Wallace Wong. Author of the book When Kathy is Keith and proprietor of a children-only gender clinic, Wong has been caught advising kids that they should make false suicide claims in order to access transgender medical treatment.
After her visit to Dr Wong, Rob’s daughter was immediately put on a pathway to medical transition. When she was prescribed cross-sex hormones, Rob refused to sign the consent forms and there followed a lengthy legal battle with Canadian authorities.
A court hearing ruled that the girl should be treated without her father’s consent and she began taking testosterone. A few weeks later Rob was convicted of ‘family violence’ because he refused to affirm his daughter’s ‘identity’. The judge even signed a protection order, authorising the police to arrest Rob if he continued to refer to his daughter as a girl and use female pronouns when talking about her.
Rob tried to stop his daughter’s treatment at an appeal but the court ruled that she should continue to take testosterone. It also placed a conduct order on Rob, demanding that he refer to her as male and use male pronouns. Furthermore, he was issued with a gagging order which prevented him from discussing his situation. When he continued to speak out, he was threatened with severe legal consequences and the interviews he gave were suppressed.
On 4th March Judge Tammen issued a warrant for Rob’s arrest for being in contempt of court. On 16th March Rob surrendered himself to the authorities and was arrested and imprisoned. He now faces a criminal trial in April and has been refused bail.
Also Today - Don’t Pretend You’ve Achieved A Human Rights Victory
In the USA the Democrat’s Equality Act was discussed at the Senate judiciary committee. If passed into law, ‘gender identity’ will be a protected characteristic and intact males will be allowed access to women’s spaces, roles and opportunities.
Abigail Shrier spoke very powerfully at the hearing about the act’s potential impact on women and girls.
“Being a woman is lifetime commitment. It entails profound blessings but also physical vulnerabilities. For generations, women like the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg fought to create sex base protections to make life safe and fair for women. If you vote to take away those rights don’t pretend you’ve achieved a civil rights victory.”
Also Today - Stacking The Deck
In the UK the Women & Equalities Committee continued its inquiry into reforming the Gender Recognition Act. Lobby groups Stonewall, Mermaids and Gires UK were invited to speak. Notice anyone missing from this discussion at the Women & Equalities Commission?
Thursday 18th March - Yet Another Drag Story Hour Scandal
GATEWAY PUNDIT: The former president and CEO of a drag story hour provider has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.
Until recently Brett Blomme was the president and CEO of LGBTQ+ group, Cream City Foundation, which organised and sponsored the Milwaukee Drag Queen Story Hour for local children.
This week Blomme was arrested for allegedly uploading 27 videos and images depicting the sexual abuse of children.
The foundation has purged its website of all content except for a brief statement about Blomme’s arrest. However, prior to this, the site contained articles written by Blomme on subjects such as ‘trans cultural competency training’ and it advertised Drag Queen Story Hour events.
Anyone surprised by this latest revelation? It’s hardly unprecedented.
A drag queen story event in Portland involved small children laying on top of an adult male stranger.
A drag queen exposed himself to a group of toddlers at a library in Minnesota.
Two separate drag queen storytime events have been hosted by convicted child sex offenders.
Drag is an adult form of entertainment involving highly sexualised parodies of womanhood performed by males. It is in no way suitable for children. It’s time for children’s services, groups and libraries, on both sides of the Atlantic, to wake up and smell the coffee.
Friday 19th March - On A Similar Theme…
Many thanks to Danial Webb for drawing our attention to Fantabulosa, an interactive drag show celebrating ‘self expression’ and specifically aimed at children.
According to its own publicity, the ‘queer positive’ show (which receives funding from Arts Council England) is a world of ‘imagination and glitter’, “Where boundaries are forgotten and everyone and anyone can be whoever they want to be”.
One of the founder members of Fantabulosa is a drag performer with the stage name Fatt Butcher whose adult shows appear to be very risqué in content. As do the photographs he posts on his public social media accounts.
Any kid who’s seen the Fantabulosa show and goes looking for its performers on Twitter and Facebook may well stumble across these photographs…
Also Today - Hey, Stonewall, Leave Them Kids Alone
LESBIAN & GAY NEWS: Sex, money and alternative truths; Stonewall’s latest champions awards scheme.
Stonewall is about to relaunch its School & College Champions Awards. Membership doesn’t come cheap; it will cost most schools between £330 and £540 per year to sign up. But, as Jo Bartosch discusses in this article, the training and advice they’ll receive in return are of very ‘questionable quality’ and send troubling messages. They may even fall foul of Department for Education guidelines.
You may remember that Graham reported on Stonewall’s intention to target primary schools earlier this year. And now their schools awards scheme is about to relaunch.
If you are a parent, please contact your child’s school to find out who is providing their Relationship, Sex and Health Education resources and training and ask if they’re signing up to Stonewall’s propagandist schemes.
Saturday 20th March - How The ONS Took Leave Of Its Census
THE TIMES: Janice Turner writes about the recent legal action against and subsequent climb down of the Office for National Statistics over sex and the census.
The ONS had planned to allow people to self-identify their sex when completing the census, thus affecting vital data needed to protect women’s sex-based rights and spaces.
It’s not hard to see what led to this policy.
Last June, the ONS organised a discussion at which he main participants were LGBT lobby groups. Stonewall had privately insisted that it would be too stressful for trans activists to have their ideas challenged so each group gave a three-minute presentation after which no debate was permitted. Furthermore, when the ONS held a consultation it heard only from groups who already supported a self-ID response.
Campaign group, Fair Play For Women, brought a legal challenge to the ONS policy. In court the government’s QC tried to argue that sex is an ‘umbrella term’ which includes ‘lived experience’ and ‘self identity’. The judge did not agree. Consequently, people will be required to record their legal sex (as it appears on their birth certificate or gender recognition certificate) with a supplementary question on ‘gender identity’.
“It exposes the depth of civil service policy capture. Self-ID on the census was supported by the ONS, the Cabinet Office, NHS England and even the Equality and Human Rights Commission, whose whole purpose is to uphold “protected characteristics” under the 2010 Equalities Act, including sex… Policy of this magnitude should not be made in back rooms.”
Also Today - Census & Sensibility
THE TELEGRAPH: Transgender charities are advising people to ignore the high court ruling and answer the question on sex however they like.
These are the very people schilling for self-ID legislation who continually wave away women’s concerns. There is no way, they tell us, any trans person would ever complete a legal document dishonestly. But that’s exactly what they’re advising.
Sunday 21st March - A Warning From Herstory
FAIR PLAY FOR WOMEN: An open letter to public sector organisations, warning them against doing Stonewall’s dirty work.
Many organisations believe they’re doing the right thing in trusting Stonewall to dictate policy on LGBT issues. They do not realise that they are helping to push Stonewall’s own agenda and collaborating in the removal of women’s sex-based rights.
FPFW’s letter highlights a number of ways Stonewall are able to achieve their aims by using unwitting organisations:
They are wrongly considered experts rather than a lobby group with their own specific aims and priorities.
They extend their reach from LGBT issues into policies affecting women’s rights and spaces.
Their ‘no debate’ policy is used to silence any dissenting voices and challenges to their policies.
Stonewall control stakeholder debate by being the only group at the table.
Lawyer, Naomi Cunningham, recently published a detailed analysis of Stonewall’s ‘Champions’ schemes. She strongly recommends against any organisation signing up for them:
“If you are a public body, it will distort your policies and decision-making in ways that will expose you to judicial review, and embarrassing and expensive climb-downs… But worst of all, depending on the nature of your functions, it may cause you to infringe liberties, mis-state the law, commit or condone criminal offences, and put children and vulnerable adults at risk of serious harm.”
See you next week.
I am despondent. Again...
As I have said before, but not here - I am convinced that we have all been asleep, and have woken up inside a Stephen King novel, but one that has not been published because it is too bizarre - even for King.
This is bad enough, but when I think that King seems to have collaborated with so-called gender luminaries (read: demented bores and irresponsible fuckwits) like Judith 'WTAF?' Butler, Katy 'Atheist Experience' Montgomerie and Layla 'Wendolene Ramsbottom' Moran then I think we have little hope.
Especially when you realise that King has never written a decent ending yet...
These weekly updates show how this is a no-holds-barred war upon those who want to protect children and preserve sex-based rights for women! How, how are they winning??