A Week in the War on Women: Monday 26th August - Sunday 1st September
Monday 26th August - This Unsporting Life
THE DAILY MAIL: In Australia a supposedly women’s soccer team which features five trans-identified male players has won the league grand final.
We have written previously about Sydney soccer team, Flying Bats FC, which bills itself as “Sydney’s premier LGBTQIA+ football (soccer) club for women & non-binary people”. It comprises five trans-identified male players.
One of the five males on the Flying Bats FC team is none other than Riley J Dennis, a vociferous trans activist originally from the US who pretends to be a lesbian, preaches that ‘genital preferences’ are transphobic and advocates for the medicalisation of gender-confused children.
We reported 18 months ago that Dennis was playing on an Australian women’s football team, dominating the league and allegedly causing injury to other players. One player who came up against Dennis during a match reportedly required hospitalisation. And it seems he is still being allowed to rob women of fairness, safety and opportunities on the football pitch.
Earlier this year, Flying Bats FC dominated at a women’s football tournament, the pre-season North West Sydney Football Beryl Ackroyd Cup. Over the four weeks of the competition, the Flying Bats defeated the other teams with scores of 6-2, 10-0 and 5-1 before winning the final 4-0 and taking home the $1000 prize money. Unsurprisingly, one of the team’s male players was the tournament’s top goal scorer.
It is reported that the players on the other teams had no idea they’d be expected to compete against males. Some female players refused to play against the male competitors and withdrew from the competition. Furthermore, with many of the female players taking part still in their teens, some parents were so concerned for their daughter’s safety that they would not allow them to participate.
On 17th March 2024, six of the other teams competing in the Beryl Ackroyd Cup held an informal meeting to discuss their concerns over having to play against Flying Bats FC. They were concerned over fairness and for the safety of their players. The North-West Sydney Football Association (NWSFA) got wind of this meeting and instigated a formal meeting on 20th March.
Kirralie Smith, spokeswoman of Binary Australia, reported on this formal meeting. She wrote that Matthew Geracitano, CEO of NWSFA, warned the clubs not to take any action, citing a Human Rights Commission ruling that “Players in grassroots football are free to play in competitions where they identify.” Furthermore, Chris Salmon, the Chair of the Board of NWSFA, told the meeting that “A trans woman just wants to be seen as a woman” and he dismissed concerns around safety and fairness.
John Ruddick is a member of the NSW Legislative Council and a stalwart defender of women’s sports. He reported on the formal meeting, sharing leaked audio recordings of the proceedings. In one recording an audience member asked about the consequences for teams who forfeit games rather than play against Flying Bats FC. The response was that clubs forfeiting games could face disciplinary action. According to Kirralie Smith, clubs were also threatened with being reported to the anti-discrimination commissioner for forfeiting games and told they could face a serious fine.
In a second recording shared by John Ruddick, a team president told the meeting, “A couple of years ago one of the Flying Bats players broke one of our players legs in two places. She’s no longer playing football. As a small club I’ve lost 24 players and that’s a direct result of not wanting to play against the Flying Bats”. The Telegraph also reported on this meeting at the time, providing further details of these accusations of injury. The paper stated that it was “A 6ft 2in, 14 stone Bats player who had broken the leg of ‘a 5ft 6in, nine-and-a-half stone opponent”.
This week the Daily Mail reported that Flying Bats FC won the final of the North West Sydney Football Women’s Premier Competition after going through the entire season undefeated. Six of the team’s ‘victories’ - including the two semi-final games - resulted from opposition teams forfeiting the matches.
On reaching last week’s final, the Flying Bats played West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Football Club at Christie Park in Sydney. They stole the game 5-4. One of the trans-identified male players was issued a yellow card during the match while another was named ‘best on ground’ at the close of play.
There were security guards at the ground during the final, apparently ‘discouraging’ the use of professional photography equipment. Ben Fordham, a talk radio presenter on Sydney’s 2GB station, spoke with a man who had been at the match. The caller told him, “They were actually doing bag checks to make sure no one had brought in any sort of device to film the game any bigger than a mobile phone. I was told by security that they’d had to ask one person who refused to let them into their bag to leave the premises... So they were clamping down on people there trying to take footage”.
Could it be images like this they were trying so hard to suppress?
Tuesday 27th August - The Process is the Punishment
REDUXX: A Hobart city councillor faces a discrimination tribunal over a social media post ‘mis-gendering’ the trans-identified male who threatened her with violence.
Louise Elliot is a city councillor in Hobart, Tasmania. In March 2023 she gave a speech at the Standing For Women event there, stating that it is not possible to change sex and that ‘trans women’ remain biological men. Since speaking at this event, she has been subjected to numerous warnings and investigations. Only six weeks after the SFW rally, for example, Louise was placed under investigation for supposedly ‘inciting hatred’ under the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Act.
Louise has also endured hostility and bullying from her Hobart City Council colleagues, being singled out because she refutes and challenges gender identity ideology. In September 2023 Louise tried to book Hobart Town Hall (as a private citizen) for a women’s rights and free speech event. Hobart’s lord mayor, Anna Reynolds, leaked news of this request to a trans activist who then lodged a complaint and Louise’s booking was subsequently refused.
In July, Louise was campaigning at a shopping centre in Hobart. An unnamed trans-identified male, reportedly an employee of the Coles supermarket chain, walked past Louise and threatened to assault her. He told her, “I’m going to rip you to shreds”. He then made a ‘strong arm’ sign, shouted “Trans rights!” and finally made an insulting hand gesture. Louise posted a comment on social media about this nasty encounter.
The following day Louise learned that, yet again, she has been placed under investigation because the anonymous male who had harassed and threatened her, reported her social media comment for ‘mis-gendering’ him.
Documentation seen by Reduxx states that Louise is being accused of “Possible incitement to hatred, serious contempt, or severe ridicule on the basis of gender identity” by “misgendering and insulting transgender women”. It is further claimed that Louise’s language may “Go further… and may have the effect of inciting hatred towards transgender women and transgender people more generally”. On 13th August Louise received notification via her legal team that the complaint against her is set to proceed to the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
A referral report from Sarah Bolt, the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, contains a glaring error; it falsely accuses Louise of producing a ‘candidate report card’ which she had no involvement in. This leaflet was created by the Australian Christian Lobby. It praises Louise and states that she ‘supports parental rights’ and ‘will protect vulnerable and sex-confused kids’. Despite not being responsible for the wording or production of this material, Louise is being accused of inciting hatred by “Making a negative association for access to gender affirming hormone replacement therapy for transgender youth”. (Presumably, Sarah Bolt hasn’t bothered reading The Cass Review?)
Speaking to Reduxx, Louise described this complaint as ‘absurd’ and a ‘waste of resources’. She said, “Yet again the law is being weaponized and significant taxpayer money wasted attacking people who tell the truth”.
Wednesday 28th August - Sex Matters
SPOTLIGHT NEWS: A young trans-identified woman housed in an all-male campus dormitory has reportedly been raped by her own roommate.
The Glenmont Jobs Corps Academy offers free residential training and education to young people 16 to 24 years old. It has 120 locations around the US. A 23-year-old man, Demetrius Fair, has been charged with the forcible rape of a trans-identified female student at the Job Corps campus in New York state.
Although female, the alleged victim was accommodated in the school’s male dormitory and Fair was her allocated roommate. It is reported that Fair propositioned her early one evening while she was eating her dinner. She declined but, it is alleged, Fair became intimidating and forced her to engage in sexual activity, first coercing her into performing oral sex and then pinning her down and raping her.
According to Job Corps’ own website, “Most campuses offer separate male and female dorms, and place students based on their gender identity”.
Thursday 29th August - This Never Happens
THE DAILY MAIL: In Australia, a trans-identified male convicted sex offender has been accused of operating a paedophile ring from within prison.
Despite this ridiculous headline, 31-year-old Dean Angus Bell (now calling himself Jessica Isabelle Rose) is not female. He is a man. Bell is a convicted sex offender, a high risk recidivist paedophile, and he is serving time in a male prison.
Bell has been in and out of prison since he was a teenager. In 2013, when he was 20 years old, he sexually abused a 13 year-old boy after grooming him via social media. The following year, Bell tried to abuse another 13-year-old boy by bribing him into sexual contact. He was also discovered in possession of child sexual abuse material and was found to have been taking photographs of children in public.
Within hours of being released from prison in June 2017, he attempted to contact another young boy he had groomed online. He was incarcerated for a further 13 months. A risk assessment report on Bell’s behaviour conducted by expert psychologists at this time concluded, “Compared to other adult male sex offenders, Bell’s score is in the 99th percentile,” and it labelled him a high-risk sex offender.
He is currently serving a prison sentence at the Junee Correctional Centre in New South Wales for various offences, including the use of a carriage service to access child sexual abuse materials and breaching an extended supervision order. During his incarceration, Bell began ‘identifying as a woman’ and he now calls himself Jessica Isabelle Rose.
Bell has just been arrested following a four-month investigation into the production and dissemination of child abuse material at the Junee Centre. Investigators have uncovered a group called ‘The Pack’ which allegedly shared letters detailing real-life experiences of abusing children and planned to commit further crimes upon release.
It is claimed that Bell is the self-styled ‘Leader of The Pack’ and the head of this paedophile operation. NSW Police believe he directed the group from his prison cell, composing letters detailing child abuse which he then circulated to other prisoners. Bell appeared in Wagga Wagga Local Court this week.
The investigation continues and the case is set to return to court in October.
Friday 30th August - A Fox in the Hen House
THE TELEGRAPH: Scotland’s leading domestic abuse charity is advertising a supposedly women-only vacancy to trans-identified male applicants.
Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) is an umbrella organisation for 33 women’s aid groups across Scotland. SWA is currently recruiting a new head of policy. Clearly, this role should only be undertaken by a woman and, quite rightly, the job is being advertised as such. “Applications will be accepted from women only under Schedule 9, part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.”
However, the job advertisement goes on to state that “Scottish Women’s Aid is an equal opportunities employer, all women, including women with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, may apply for women-only roles”. So this role is open to males who identify as trans.
Clare Blom, of the group Women Won’t Wheesht, told the paper, “We are deeply disappointed by this wanton disregard for women’s privacy, safety and dignity, not to mention their profound lack of understanding of anti-discriminatory legislation”.
Saturday 31st August - The Clocks Are Striking 13 in Germany
REDUXX: Podcast hosts face a €250,000 fine for referring to a trans-identified male with accurately sexed pronouns.
We have written previously about Laura (formerly Nicholas) Holstein. He is a fully intact trans-identified male who tried to join a women-only gym, the Ladies First Fitness Centre in Bavaria, earlier this year. According to the gym’s staff, Holstein’s ID lists him as male and he offered no paperwork recognising a legal ‘sex change’.
Staff arranged a trial session for Holstein but denied him access to the gym showers. Holstein insisted on using the showers, but offered to wear swimming trunks while doing so as a ‘compromise’. The gym owner, Doris Lange, asked staff to prepare a polite rejection of his membership request. As she explained to Nuis, many of her clients are Muslim women who require a female-only environment.
In May, Doris Lange received a letter from the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency. It read, “The facts of the case could be a violation of the AGG [General Equal Treatment Act] in the form of direct discrimination on the grounds of gender… This applies regardless of whether the person concerned has already officially undergone a change of name and civil status and/or gender reassignment measures.” It also instructed Lange to pay Holstein compensation of €1000 (around £850).
It seems that Holstein makes a habit of barging his way into supposedly female-only environments. In May Reduxx reported that he plays on a female football team, sharing the locker room with women and young girls.
Holstein was the subject of a recent episode of the podcast Hoss and Hopf. The hosts, Kiarash Hossainpour and Philip Hopf, quite rightly, referred to Holstein with male pronouns and accurately described him as a man who ‘identifies as a woman’, pointing out that his male genitalia remains intact.
Thanks to an order from the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court, Hossainpour and Hopf have been forced to delete this podcast episode. The letter they received from the court prohibits them from “Distributing, publishing or having third parties distribute or publish” any reference to Holstein’s true sex. This letter also accuses the two hosts of violating Holstein’s ‘personal rights’ by referring to him as male, because he is “Legally and socially recognised as a woman”.
Not only have Kiarash Hossainpour and Philip Hopf been forced to delete their podcast episode, they are also facing a fine of €250,000 (approximately £210,600) for violating German law. If the fine cannot be paid, they face up to six months in prison.
Hossainpour posted a question to his audience; “The questions that arise are as explosive as they are uncomfortable: How should a society function in which biological realities and legal fictions come into such a blatant contradiction?”
Also Today - Men Make the Best Women
Elle Canada published a piece about eight Canadian ‘women’ who have ‘broken the glass ceiling’. Two of the so-called ‘women’ featured are trans-identified males.
Originally founded in France, Elle is an international women's magazine with content focusing on fashion, beauty, society, popular culture and lifestyle. This week, Elle Canada published an article on women who have “Broken the glass ceiling paving the way for those behind them”. Two of the so-called women who appear in Elle’s list are male.
‘The glass ceiling’ is a metaphor used to describe the invisible barriers which prevent women from progressing beyond a certain level in a male-dominated hierarchy. It is particularly applied to professional/work environments and systems of authority and power. The claim that males are the victims rather than the beneficiaries of a glass ceiling would be laughable were it not so insulting.
At the very top of Elle Canada’s list is 43-year-old Vivek Shraya.
A writer, musician and artist, Shraya enjoyed a successful career for years before he began ‘identifying as a woman’ and demanding she/her pronouns in 2016.
Perhaps even more insulting than Shrava’s inclusion on Elle’s list is that of Fae (formerly Zac) Johnstone.
Fae ‘she/they’ Johnstone describes himself as ‘trans feminine and non-binary’. But he is a man. He is the Executive Director and co-owner of Wisdom2Action, a ‘consulting firm’ with a focus on the ‘2SLGBTQ+ community’. He is listed on the company’s website as a “Public speaker, consultant, educator and community organizer on unceded, unsurrended Algonquin territory”.
Johnstone is a feminist-hating misogynist who reacts with rage when women refuse to bend to his will.
When women speak up to defend their sex-based rights, Johnstone wants to ‘shut down’ their voices and he longs to create a political environment which makes them feel “So vilified they don’t dare speak their views publicly”.
Johnstone was the subject of a War on Women item in December 2022. He gave a keynote address at Durham College as part of the National Day of Remembrance, a ceremony intended to honour the fourteen women murdered by Marc Lépine at École Polytechnique in 1989. Lépine’s suicide note made clear that his barbaric actions had been motivated purely by his hatred of women. “Feminists have always enraged me. I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker.”
When he was criticised for appearing at the ceremony, Johnstone attacked those protesting as ‘disgusting’ and ‘deluded’. He claimed that, had he been in the École Polytechnique on that tragic day, he too would have been gunned down by Marc Lépine. This is a blatant lie; Lépine ordered all the male students to leave the room before he opened fire on the women. Only the women.
To exploit a memorial for murdered women as validation for your ‘gender identity’ is low. But to then appropriate their deaths claiming hypothetical victimhood is beyond vile. Yet Elle have deemed this man a worthy representative of Canadian womanhood.
Sunday 1st September - Jobs for the Boys
THE TELEGRAPH: The trans-identified male manager of a women’s football team has replaced its female goalkeeper with a trans-identified male.
Sutton United Women FC is a supposedly female football team which plays in the London & South East Regional Football League. Earlier this year, despite his lack of experience in women’s football, the team appointed trans-identified male, 51-year-old Lucy (formerly Nick) Clark, to be its manager.
Clark, who is married and has fathered three children, began transitioning in his mid-40s, just as his career as a football referee was coming to an end.
As we have come to expect from such trans-identified males, Clark reacts angrily when women refuse to kowtow to his ‘gender identity’. For example, he called Lisa Townsend, the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner, ‘Terfy Townsend’ and he described her as ‘not fit for office’ because she speaks out in defence of women’s sex-based rights and spaces.
On social media he frequently insults and attacks JK Rowling, seemingly furious that she refuses to pretend he is anything other than a ‘straight, white, middle aged bloke’.
In 2019, Clark appeared on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire Live programme. Discussing sporting legends, Martina Navratilova and Sharron Davies, and their defence of female sports, he commented, “They need to be careful what they tweet”.
This week The Telegraph reported that Lucy Clark has replaced Sutton Utd Women FC’s female goalkeeper with a six foot tall trans-identified male called Blair Hamilton.
While studying at Aberdeen University, 34-year-old Blair Hamilton played for the men’s football team. In recent years, however, he has played on several women’s teams. Hamilton featured in the War on Women over two years ago. At the time he played on a supposedly female football team, Hastings United Women, and had just taken a coveted place on the England Universities Sport women’s football squad.
A research student at the University of Brighton, Hamilton is the lead investigator of the Transgender Athlete Study at the School of Sport and Health Sciences. You would think, therefore, he’d be well aware of all the scientific evidence which demonstrates that, even after reducing testosterone levels, males retain numerous physical and physiological advantages over women and any loss of muscle mass and strength is negligible. But Hamilton claims that he has no advantage over female players.
On Sunday, Sutton were scheduled to play against Ebbsfleet Women. However, only hours before the game was due to start, Sutton emailed their opponents to cancel, stating that they were not able to field a full team.
A Daily Mail article has suggested that unease among the Sutton players over Hamilton’s appointment may have been the cause of this match cancellation. “Although not confirmed, it is thought that Sunday's game may have been postponed after some of Hamilton's team-mates refused to play in protest at her [sic] signing.”
Posting on X/Twitter, Sharron Davies revealed that she had received an email - sent anonymously out of fear of reprisals - expressing concern over the involvement of Clark and Hamilton in the team. “Please can you highlight Sutton united football club on your platform. The women’s team turned down a female manager at the club for 9 years to hire transgender referee Lucy Clark with no previous experience in Women's football... the female manager left the club... Now Lucy Clark has signed Blair Hamilton a 6ft 34 year old trans goal keeper who was a man for 27 years and the female goalkeeper has been let go... This club need to be held accountable for pushing women out of women’s football it’s disgusting...”
In 2022, before joining Sutton Utd Women FC, Clark boasted on social media about replacing all of the female players on a women’s football team with trans-identified males. “At some point we will field a team solely of trans women for the first time in history”, he wrote. “How good is that?”
Looks like he’s already made a start on achieving his goal.
See you next week.
People have to stop using Muslim women and their religion and culture as an excuse to not allow men into women's changing rooms. It implies that non-Muslim women would be ok with it. It is irrelevant whether you're Muslim or not. NO woman should have to put up with it.
The females in the Flying Bats should be ashamed of themselves for winning by cheating. How can they not see this?
And how can so many not see that we are reconfiguring society around delusion, fetish and aggressive narcissism? Im so angry at the people propping it all up or deliberately looking the other way. I really hope that guilt and shame will eventually catch up with them if they ever realise the harm they are enabling.
Thanks JL as ever.