A Week in the War on Women: Monday 29th August - Sunday 4th September
Monday 29th August - Women Can’t Have Anything Of Our Own #1
THE MIRROR: The WPBSA has thrown women under the bus as a trans-identified male takes a major female title.
Last week we reported on Jamie Hunter, a 25-year old who transitioned in 2020 and began playing snooker and billiards in elite female competitions only a year later.
For five years Hunter played snooker in the Widnes amateur men’s league. Following his transition, however, he joined the women’s world snooker tour, reaching the semi-finals of the England Women’s Open, the quarter finals of the British Open and the semi-finals of the world championship. He’s also been very successful playing women’s billiards; he won the 2022 Women’s European Open and the 2022 women’s world championship.
This week, Hunter won the US Women’s Snooker Open in Seattle. This has caused some controversy with many voicing criticism of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA)’s policy which allows him to play in the women’s sport.
WPBSA chairman, Jason Ferguson, can’t see the issue. “It essentially comes down to the physical aspect not being such a big problem”, he said.
Perhaps Ferguson has not considered that increased bone density, muscle strength, heart and lung capacity and stamina could influence the outcome of cue sports, particularly in long and protracted matches. Or that increased height, arm and shoulder length, hand size and reach could give males an advantage. Perhaps it has not occurred to Ferguson that snooker and billiards are traditionally male pursuits so girls are far less likely to be exposed to them or encouraged to play them.
However, whatever the other factors, Hunter should not be included in women’s sport for one simple reason only; he is not a woman.
Maria Catalano, ranked seventh by the World Women’s Snooker organisation, does not believe males should play in women’s competitions. She told The Daily Telegraph, “I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport… I do believe 100 per cent there is an advantage there even in snooker after transition. There is a reason why they started a women’s tour.”
As Debbie Hayton writes in Unherd, “The WPBSA needs to take urgent action. Partly to protect their transgender players from taking the brunt of possible push-back, but mainly to protect the integrity of the women’s tour. Being a woman is far more than a feeling in anyone’s head, and the WPBSA owes it to their female competitors to recognise that fact”.
Tuesday 30th August - Meet The New Priests
RTE: A teacher at a Church of Ireland school has been suspended after he refused to co-operate in the social transition of a pupil.
Enoch Burke teaches at Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath, the Church of Ireland's diocesan school for Meath and Kildare.
He was suspended from the school when he refused to address a pupil with they/them pronouns and spoke out against the school collaborating in the pupil’s transition. He has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process into allegations of wrongdoing.
Last June, to mark its 260th anniversary, the school held a service which was attended by clergy, staff, board members, alumni, parents and pupils.
The school claims that Burke interrupted this service to say that transgenderism is contrary to the Church of Ireland’s teaching and the school’s ethos and he stated that principal, Niamh McShane, should withdraw her demand regarding the transition of the pupil in question. It is alleged that at the dinner following the service, Burke approached the principal and, again, questioned her over this issue.
Following this alleged incident, a disciplinary process was instigated and the school board decided to place Burke on administrative leave pending its outcome. However, it is claimed that, despite his suspension, Burke has visited the school. Consequently, an injunction was sought and secured, preventing him from being on the premises.
Wednesday 31st August - These Are Not Our Crimes
REDUXX: A German sex offender who abused two young girls was convicted ‘as a woman’ at his trial and is probably being held in a female prison.
Due to Germany’s strict privacy laws, the convicted sex offender is known only by his first name and initial; Klaus T. The 63-year-old was convicted of charges of sexually abusing two girls aged nine and ten. The youngest girl was his own granddaughter, the other was a neighbour’s child. When police officers investigated, they discovered child sexual exploitation material in Klau T’s apartment depicting both of the girls.
German media reported that Klaus T had been ‘living as a woman’ at the time of the abuse. At his trial he appeared in female apparel with long blonde hair and painted red fingernails. Although he had not formally changed his name or identification documents, the court referred to him by a female name and with female pronouns.
In May Klaus T was convicted of child abuse and sentenced to five years imprisonment. German magazine, BZ, reported that he was convicted as a woman.
It also seems likely that Klaus T will be in a women’s prison; in September last year Berlin’s House of Representatives announced major prison reform which would allow males who ‘identify as women’ to be accommodated in the female estate, even if they have not formally changed their name or official documentation.
Thursday 1st September - Why We Separate By Sex #1
LEEDS LIVE: A man who photographed a woman as she used a female public toilet has been jailed for 14 months.
25-year-old Jordan Foster photographed a woman in the ladies’ toilet at Leeds railway station at about 9.30 pm. The 20-year-old women saw him leaning into her cubicle from the one adjacent to it with his phone in his hand.
British Transport police said that Foster had entered the women’s toilets on the railway’s main concourse at 9.30pm. The victim spotted him just after 10.30pm. She challenged him but he ran away, being apprehended following a British Transport Police investigation.
Foster already had a sexual harm prevention order for previous offences. He pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism at Leeds Crown Court on 31st August and, in doing so, breached his Sexual Harm Prevention Order. He was sentenced to 14 months imprisonment, handed a further Sexual Harm Prevention Order and must sign the Sex Offenders Register for seven years.
Investigating officer DC Gregg Whittaker commented, “This was a disgusting invasion of privacy. The victim was justifiably left shaken, upset and violated by Foster's actions.”
This is why ‘gender neutral’ toilets really don’t work for women; this is what men are capable of even in spaces from which they know they are prohibited. Let’s not make life easier for them.
Friday 2nd September - Why We Separate By Sex #2
BBC RADIO DERBY: A man who works for Derbyshire police has been charged with filming children in public changing rooms amongst numerous other sexual offences.
37-year-old Matthew Shaw was a Police Community Support Officer with the Derbyshire force. He was arrested by Nottinghamshire Police following a ‘complex and large-scale investigation’ and charged with a total of 29 sexual offences including voyeurism, engaging in sexual communication with a child, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, causing a child to watch a sexual act and possession of indecent images of children.
One of the offences for which he has been charged involved filming children in a swimming pool changing rooms.
Saturday 3rd September - Tragedy In Münster
A young transman was killed by a male at a Pride event in Germany after courageously defending two lesbians from homophobic abuse.
Malte C was attending a Münster Pride event, Christopher Street Day, last weekend. On the periphery of the parade two lesbians were being threatened by a man who, according to police, had harassed other women earlier in the day, yelling “Lesbian whores” at them.
Malte C intervened to defend the women from the homophobic abuse, telling the man to stop insulting them. But the man suddenly lashed out, punching Malte twice in the face. Malte fell to the pavement, sustaining a head injury, and the assailant fled.
Malte C died in hospital six days later aged just twenty-five. A 20-year-old man has now been arrested for the murder.
We mourn the tragic death of Malte C, killed by male violence, and remember the tremendous courage Malte showed in defending lesbians from homophobic abuse. We extend our sincerest sympathy to all of Malte’s friends and family.
Also Today - Follow The Money
THE TELEGRAPH: Trans lobby groups are receiving tax payers’ money not approved for them thanks to a legal ‘loophole’.
Trans activist groups that advocate and promote ‘dangerous’ agendas have been accessing public money through funding provided to them by third party charities.
One of the groups being publicly funded in this way is controversial charity, Gendered Intelligence, which ‘works to increase understandings of gender diversity’. It has drawn criticism for its promotion of gender identity ideology, including from parent groups for operating school seminars on ‘changing gender’ to children as young as four. Sport England, which receives government grants and National Lottery funding, paid Gendered Intelligence £140,000 over the course of two years to provide it with ‘transgender inclusion training’.
Furthermore, Mermaids has also been highlighted as one of the groups receiving public money via this method. Mermaids has spent years promoting and facilitating the pushing of vulnerable kids into drugs and surgery. It even promoted the services of the disgraced doctors Webberley and their offshore clinic, Gender GP.
During the 2019-2020 financial year, Mermaids received £10,000 from a fund administered by UK Youth, a charity which receives hundreds of thousands of pounds per year in government grants and lottery funding.
Sunday 4th September - Bank Advert Goes Tits Up
THE DAILY MAIL: Barclays Bank has been criticised for an advert featuring a trans-identified male who is saving for ‘big tits’.
Barclays Bank has partnered with Channel 4 for a series of televised advertisements depicting ‘authentic and heartwarming’ stories of customers who require financial advice. One of those stories involves Luna, a 30-year-old trans identified male who wants cosmetic surgery to ‘appear more outwardly feminine’. Luna is saving to pay for what he describes as ‘big tits’.
Critics have accused the bank of double standards saying that a woman saving for breast augmentation would not be featured in these adverts. Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend said a biological woman saving for a similar operation would have been ‘dismissed or ridiculed’.
Barclays is one of Stonewall’s corporate sponsors and has been listed as a ‘star performer’ on Stonewall’s workplace equality list since 2017. Barclays is currently listed as one of Stonewall’s top 100 employers for 2022.
Also Today - This Never Happens
REDUXX: A recidivist paedophile, released early from prison following his ‘gender transition’, is back behind bars.
In 2015 Joseph Matthew Smith received an indefinite prison sentence after being found guilty of sex offences against children. He confessed to sexually abusing fifteen children, including a one-year-old baby.
Two years into his prison sentence, Smith started ‘identifying as a woman’ and receiving cross-sex hormone treatment. He called himself Josie Maria Dunham.
In 2020 Smith was released from prison. Several news outlets reported that his early release was a result of his ‘transition’ and that, according to officials, lowering Smith’s testosterone diminished his sex drive and thus reduced the risk of him re-offending.
In October 2021 Smith violated his strict parole conditions by using an unauthorised electronic device to watch pornography and procure sex. He was not, on that occasion, returned to custody. In January 2022 Smith was, again, found in violation of the terms of his parole. He accessed child sexual abuse materials on another unauthorised electronic device. The materials depicted children between the ages of five and eight. Smith has been returned to prison.
Also Today - Women Can’t Have Anything Of Our Own #2
THE TELEGRAPH: A university feminist society has been ‘purged by trans activists’ with female members intimidated into leaving and the organisation all but shut down.
Swansea University’s Feminist Society is, not unreasonably, only for women. Dozens of female students have attended its meetings having been promised a ‘space away from men’ in which to discuss issues important to their sex.
Of course, the university’s trans activists couldn’t allow women to have this space of their own and there was ‘a frenzied backlash’ against it. There were allegations of ‘transphobia’ and the society’s Instagram account was inundated with abusive comments. The society’s leader was pressured to resign and her personal social media accounts were shared online.
Swansea University Student Union launched an investigation into alleged ‘transphobia’ over the society’s social media posts. Almost a year later, that investigation remains ‘ongoing’. Over the summer vacation the feminist society’s profile page was removed from the SU’s website and its email account was deleted.
When the society elected its committee for the 2022-23 academic year, it was instructed that it must ‘re-conduct’ the election on a date to be decided by the Students’ Union. Then, without releasing the results, the union claimed the election had ‘failed’. The future of the feminist society is now in limbo.
The outgoing president of the society, Abby Claron, described this behaviour as ‘appalling’. “What has happened to us is concerning for freedom of speech more generally, and the academic climate of Swansea University”, she said.
Claron told the paper that feminist society committee members were intimidated into quitting and that the incoming officers are frightened of the consequences should they try running the society on their own. She commented, “We have been purged by trans activists for openly supporting women’s sex based-rights and sex-based spaces”.
See you next week.
All of this melts my brain. How TAF did we get to this point and why are so many capitulating so quickly and without any pushback? As a friend of mine used to say “it kettles my swede!” It’s like all the lads who were unpopular through school and could never get a girl to look at them have embarked on some twisted revenge crusade. I would speak out and post on social media more about this but I’m in the tricky position of my niece coming out as trans a few years ago and she is not militant or an activist. I have to refer to her as my nephew when pushed and try to get around the pronouns issue by using her name instead. Thankfully she uses her nickname so that was a bullet I managed to dodge. Her Mum and Dad fell over like a cheap pack of cards but, having read Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage” I’m convinced it was an over reaction to a undiagnosed MH condition (the most likely condition being EUPD which, incidentally, I also have), being bullied at school by other girls for being different e.g. short hair, retro cutting-edge fashion etc, having a serious spinal malformation which required drastic surgery, and also possibly being a lesbian. But, of course, there are no lesbians now, unless they have a cock. Reading the intro to Shrier’s book was like a tick-box list for my niece. She went through the Tavistock, is on testosterone, recently had top surgery, and I’m just praying that that is as far as it will go. A big thank you to you Graham (if I may) for all you have done and endured to try and highlight what is actually going on.
Thanks JL. Barclays is run by big boys for big tits. In 2021 their sex pay gap widened. No surprise they think an advert where a male wants a loan for "big tits" is appropriate.
https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/barclays-female-bonus-gap-widens-to-70-in-sign-banking-is-worst-for-women-20220223