A Week in the War on Women: Monday 11th September - Sunday 17th September GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

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This week’s edition is absolutely bulging at the seams with good news from the gender beat. Enjoy!

Bookin’ Brilliant News!

Of course, the best and biggest news of the week is Our Graham’s new book!

His memoir, ‘Tough Crowd: How I Made and Lost a Career in Comedy’, will be published by Eye Books and is due for release on 12th October. (It can be pre-ordered direct from the publisher, from Waterstones, from Blackwells and via Amazon.)

Less than 24 hours after its publication was announced, Tough Crowd was an Amazon No 1 Best Seller in three different book categories and ranked No 7 overall.

By the following day, it was also an Amazon No 1 bestseller in the Hot New Releases and Movers and Shakers categories and had shot up the charts to be ranked the site’s No 2 bestseller in the overall books category.

Selling quicker than hot takes… 😏

Top Of The Hit Parade

Despite the best efforts of trans activists to have her ‘cancelled’, Róisín Murphy has achieved the biggest chart success of her entire career with her newly released album, Hit Parade.

Within days of its release, Hit Parade was No 3 on the official UK album chart.

It ended the week at No 2.

It garnered a shed-load of 4 and 5 star reviews.

And Róisín is taking the album on tour early next year.

Bog Off

Thanks to complaints made via social media, a Croydon arts venue cafe has abandoned its ‘gender neutral’ toilets and restored the single sex facilities.

Tory councillor, Alasdair Stewart, posted on X (formerly Twitter) about the ‘awful misogyny’ of Fairfield Hall’s Cube Cafe having mixed-sex signs on the female toilet door whilst retaining a single sex male facility. Other X users also commented on this policy and, within a week, the centre’s management abandoned the idea and removed the offending sign from the door. The women’s toilet is strictly female-only again.

Keep raising your voice.

Leaving Them Kids Alone In Missouri

Thanks to legislation passed a few months ago, the controversial Washington University Transgender Center at Saint Louis Children's Hospital will no longer be prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to minors.

In May Missouri law makers passed legislation which bans medical interventions for dysphoric children and prevents Medicaid (health insurance) from covering the cost of ‘sex change’ surgeries throughout the state.

Leaving Them Kids Alone In California

A federal court has issued a Preliminary Injunction preventing California's Escondido Union School District from forcing teachers to lie to parents about a child’s gender identity and/or preferred pronouns.

Paul M Jonna, the lawyer who represented teachers Lori West and Elizabeth Mirabelli, said that this “Is a victory for parents, teachers, and students across the country”. He added, “It’s hard to overstate the significance of this ruling: there’s nothing like it nationwide. It could serve as the framework for undoing these dangerous and unlawful gender policies at schools at a much broader level”.

Leaving Them Kids Alone In Scotland

Holyrood has postponed a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ over fears it could criminalise parents and therapists of gender dysphoric children.

The Scottish government had previously promised that this legislation would be published by the end of 2023, however, it was not included in last week’s programme for government (the equivalent of the King’s Speech). Instead, there is to be a consultation with a report due out next year.

Oh, Canada

At Canada’s Conservative Party convention this week, delegates passed two resolutions which challenge the dogma of gender ideology.

The first resolution, C-7, would prohibit medical interventions for children with gender issues while encouraging ‘positive mental and physical health support’ for all Canadians suffering with dysphoria.

The second resolution, C-15, adds to the party’s policy declaration that “Women are entitled to the safety, dignity, and privacy of single-sex spaces (e.g., prisons, shelters, locker rooms, washrooms) and the benefits of women-only categories (e.g., sports, awards, grants, scholarships)” and it also enshrines in party policy the definition of a women as ‘(a) female person’.

Sex Matters In Education

Schools in England have been instructed that they must record the sex, not ‘gender identity’, of their pupils for the ‘schools census’.

Every term schools in England must submit data to the Department for Education for the ‘School Census’. In recent years, data on sex has been replaced by self-declared ‘gender identity’. However, thanks to the hard work of Fair Play For Women lobbying the government to prevent this practice, new guidance has been published stating that English schools must submit data on sex ie ‘the sex of a person as recognised in law’ for all pupils.

In more big education news, the EHRC has admitted that its advice about socially transitioning pupils in the 2014 Technical Guidance for Schools was wrong.

This outdated advice claims that referring to a ‘previously female pupil’ as a girl would be ‘direct discrimination’.

However, in a letter responding to Sex Matters, the EHRC has conceded it is wrong. “It may not be directly discriminatory for a school not to refer to a child by their preferred gender (where it differs from their legal sex)… We recognise that since that time, several areas of policy and law, including in particular considerations around sex and gender such as those you raise, have evolved”.

The EHRC’s letter also pledged to correct the inaccuracies in the 2014 guide. “We are currently undertaking a rapid review of this guidance and intend to publish a revised version, correcting the inaccuracies which have been highlighted to us, within the coming weeks”.

The Boyne Is Back In Town

Just when we thought we couldn’t like him more, John Boyne posted this, The Ballad of Owen Jones Aged 39¼, in response to Talcum X’s latest tantrum.

And speaking of John Boyne, just how did one Dublin pub manage to contain so much incredible writing talent??

As Boyne himself put it, “The start of a beautiful friendship…”

And Finally… (Especially For Graham)