A Week in the War on Women: Monday 3rd April - Sunday 9th April
Monday 3rd April: An Unsporting Chance #1
BUSINESS POST IRELAND: Thanks to the governing body’s new policy, trans-identified males are now permitted to play on female Gaelic football teams.
You may remember that last year we wrote about Giulia Valentino following his inclusion on the Na Gaeil Aeracha women’s Gaelic football team.
Established in 2020, Na Gaeil Aeracha (‘the rainbow Gaels’), ‘is Ireland's first explicitly LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA [Gaelic Athletic Association] team’.
Na Gaeil Aeracha’s club policy is that team members, “May play at training or in a match for the team they best identify with, without restriction”.
In August 2022 Na Gaeil Aeracha won its first trophy when its women’s team beat Na Fianna’s ladies E team at a Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) competition in Dublin. Before the game, a Na Fianna manager approached the referee to question the opposition’s inclusion of a male on the team. At the first break, the referee interrupted the game to inform Na Gaeil Aeracha “The player is a man”. The team captain tried to argue that Valentino is a ‘trans woman’.
Giulia (formerly Marco) Valentino is originally from Italy but moved to Ireland in 2019. He used to play rugby with a women’s club in Dublin. Not content with being allowed an unfair and unsafe advantage on the pitch, Valentino was angered by being prevented from using the female changing and bathroom facilities. Following an injury, he joined Na Gaeil Aeracha. His bio on the club website says that he wanted to play in the women’s game “Because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility; as a trans woman those things are very important to me”.
Sport isn’t Valentino’s only interest; he is also ‘passionate about fetish’, engaging in BDSM communities and posting photographs of himself in fetish gear on his public Facebook page. When living in Rome, he worked as a DJ at two fetish clubs, Ritual the Club and Torture Garden.
Following the controversy caused by Valentino’s participation in the August 2022 match, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) and the Ladies’ Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) promised to develop a ‘trans policy’, supposedly in consultation with legal and medical experts. According to an interview in The Guardian from September 2022, Valentino himself was a consultant on that policy review. Hardly an impartial contributor.
The LGFA published its new policy in February, explicitly allowing trans identified men and boys over the age of twelve to play on women’s teams. Those over the age of eighteen will need to demonstrate that their total testosterone level in serum during the previous 12 months is equal to or less than 10 nanomoles per litre (nmol/L).
The policy states that ‘trans women’ are eligible to play at all levels unless they are deemed to be an ‘unacceptable risk’, a situation which it says will ‘likely only arise in the most exceptional circumstances’.
Gaelic football is a contact sport played with a round football which is slightly smaller and heavier than a soccer ball. The ball can be caught, kicked and hand passed. Shoulder-to-shoulder contact is permitted and a player can slap the ball out of their opponent's hand. More than one player can tackle someone in possession of the ball.
ALL ‘trans women’ pose an ‘unacceptable risk’.
Later in the week, The Irish Independent reported that the LGFA has advised the team captains and vice-captains of eight inter-county teams playing in the league finals, “To avoid expressing opinions on its new transgender policy”.
The Sun Ireland also reported on this story, stating that Sun Sport has seen the document from the LGFA which dictates how players should players respond to media questions about its transgender policy.
Also Today - An Unsporting Chance # 2
GOLF MONTHLY: A trans-identified male golfer has won an Australian women’s championship.
32-year-old Breanna Gill won the Australian Women’s Classic at the Bonville Golf Resort in New South Wales this week. He walked away with the trophy and the lion’s share of a $150,000 (around £81,000) prize fund.
The Twitter account for the Women’s Professional Golfers Association Tour of Australasia initially celebrated this betrayal of its female players with a social media post. However, when people responded to them in protest, pointing out the unfairness of Gill’s ‘victory’, WPGA turned off the comments. This led to around 3,000 quote tweets so they deleted the post altogether.
And, eventually, they protected their account.
Tuesday 4th April - These Are Not Our Crimes #1
EDINBURGH LIVE: A man convicted for animal cruelty called himself ‘Rebecca’ and was immediately afforded female pronouns and the description ‘woman’.
In January 2021, 30-year-old Thomas Gordon was caught on CCTV drop-kicking his mother’s pet cat. The footage was uploaded to social media where it soon went viral, resulting in the involvement of the police and the Scottish SPCA. Gordon was then arrested and charged. He pleaded guilty to causing an animal unnecessary suffering at Edinburgh’s sheriff court this week.
Gordon was named on the court documents as Thomas. However, he now calls himself ‘Rebecca’ so, of course, he was referred to as Ms Gordon in court and afforded female pronouns throughout this Edinburgh Live article.
Edinburgh Evening News went even further and described Gordon as a ‘woman’.
Also Today - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire
CBA: Politicians in Canada are pressing for legal protection for drag shows.
Members of Ontario’s New Democratic Party (NDP) are pressing for the legal protection of drag performances from any criticism or protest.
The NDP’s Kristyn Wong-Tam, a woman who demands ‘they/them’ pronouns, has represented Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2022. She is putting forward a private member's bill to designate 100-metre zones around show drag show venues. The bill would allow the attorney general to temporarily designate the addresses of drag venues as ‘community safety zones’ and any so-called harassment, intimidation or hate speech in these areas would incur a $25,000 fine.
Government House Leader, Paul Calandra, said that once the bill has been tabled the house will give it ‘due consideration’.
If passed into law, it would, of course, include drag shows performed for any age group. This would mean criminalising anybody who wants to protest children being subjected to a sexualised parody of womanhood and safeguarding fails.
Wednesday 5th April - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE TIMES: The UK’s leading education union has voted to promote gender identity ideology and facilitate drag performances in schools.
The National Education Union (NEU) is the largest education union in the UK and represents almost half a million members.
This week the NEU held its annual conference and supported a motion to encourage initiatives like drag queen story time in order to supposedly, “Develop a more inclusive atmosphere in schools” and “Challenge the heteronormative culture and curriculum that dominates education”.
An amendment was successfully added to the motion which claimed the government is creating ‘a hostile environment for trans people’ by opposing Scotland’s gender recognition bill. One teacher told the conference that Rishi Sunak is encouraging ‘hate and abuse’ and accused the Prime Minister of supporting ‘far right attacks’ on drag performances for minors.
Also Today - Bloody Liberty
Liberty, the UK’s biggest civil liberties organisation, is objecting to the potential clarification of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010.
Liberty believes such a clarification in the act would constitute an ‘attempt to carve it up’ and a removal of ‘vital rights for trans people’. This is patently untrue as trans people’s rights, safeguarded by the protected category of ‘gender reassignment’, would remain intact. However, clarifying the definition of sex would ensure that the legal rights of women and girls are better protected. Rights which Liberty, apparently, does not wish to uphold.
This is not the first time Liberty has ‘misinterpreted’ the Equality Act 2010 in order to promote the rights of one protected category over another.
In July 2020 Liberty joined up with Stopwatch, an independent police watchdog, to issue information cards for people who might be stopped and searched by the police.
But the information they provided was inaccurate and misleading. The text conflates sex with gender and the information misrepresents the Equality Act; the protected characteristics are Sex and Gender Reassignment, not ‘Gender Identity’
“Know your rights” says Liberty. Without actually knowing our rights.
During the late 1970s, when it was known as the Council for Civil Liberties, Liberty supported the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), even granting the now notorious organisation affiliate status and allowing it a presence at its annual general meetings.
In 2014 Liberty’s then director, Shami Chakrabarti, apologised for the group’s former association with PIE and said this affiliation was a source of ‘continuing disgust and horror’. But it seems that Liberty is still prioritising men’s sexual proclivities over the safety of women and children.
Thursday 6th April - Just Be Kind #1
THE TIMES: Threats from trans activists have forced organisers to postpone an event intended to support Afghan and Iranian women.
The Comité Laïcité République is a French organisation which promotes secularism, ie the separation of religious faith from state and public affairs. It had organised a symposium called Woman, Life, Freedom in support of Afghan and Iranian women which was due to take place in Nantes on 15th April. This event has had to be postponed due to threats of violence by trans activists.
Marguerite Stern is a Paris-based artist, radical feminist campaigner and founder of Collages Feminicide, a movement which draws attention to male violence against women through art. She has long been the target of trans activist violence for speaking out against gender identity ideology. In 2020, for example, a female-only space Stern had set up was broken into and vandalised. In 2021 she was physically assaulted while campaigning in Paris against the sexual exploitation of women.
Stern had been one of the intended speakers at the symposium. Consequently, organisers were inundated by threats from trans activists who promised ‘rotten eggs and baseball bats’ and were encouraging counter-demonstrations at the venue.
Association chairman, Gilbert Abergel, said that the poster being used to advertise the symposium had been circulated on social media with a knife superimposed on to the image. Babacar Lame, one of the event organisers, said he had faced ‘absolutely monstrous violence’. For the safety of all involved, Comité Laïcité République had no choice but to postpone the event, a symposium designed to support Afghan and Iranian women.
Friday 7th April - These Are Not Our Crimes #2
DAILY MAIL US: A trans-identified male teenager is in police custody over his plans to carry out mass shootings in Colorado schools and churches.
19-year-old William Whitworth identifies as trans and calls himself ‘Lilly’.
On 31st March police were called to Whitworth’s home after his sister phoned the authorities, claiming that he was behaving violently and threatening to ‘shoot up a school’. Police officers discovered Whitworth drunk in his room. When they asked him if he intended to carry out a school shooting, he replied by nodding.
Officers searching the property located a notebook containing instructions on making rudimentary bombs and manufacturing firearms with a 3D printer. Whitworth had a whiteboard depicting the floor plan of a school in Colorado Springs where he was once a student and which he described as his ‘main target’. He named two other schools as targets in one of his notebooks and told police he also intended to attack churches in the area.
When police officers asked Whitworth why he wanted to commit mass murder, he replied that there was ‘no specific reason’.
Whitworth was arrested and is charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, menacing, criminal mischief and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions. He is being held on a $75,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on 5th May.
According to a spokesperson from the District Attorney's Office for the area, Whitworth is “In the process of transitioning from male to female”. He is referred to with female pronouns throughout the police arrest report.
Saturday 8th April - “Just Be Kind” #2
DAILY MAIL: Riley Gaines’ gave a first-hand account of being physically assaulted and held hostage by a baying mob of trans activists at San Francisco State University.
Riley Gaines is a twelve times All-American swimmer, a University of Kentucky graduate and spokeswoman for the Independent Women's Forum. She is a courageous young woman who, having been forced to compete against trans-identified male, Lia Thomas, now speaks out against the inclusion of males in women’s sports.
This week Riley spoke at an event at San Francisco State University. Having been subjected to threats and aggression in the past, Riley had expected campus police to be onsite but, arriving at the venue, she realised they were ‘nowhere to be found’.
Nevertheless, Riley delivered her speech to a full house. She was heckled, interrupted, and insulted throughout and could hear the loud and aggressive chanting of trans activists from outside the window and the hallway.
After Riley had finished taking questions, the mob of trans activists group outside burst into the room. They turned off the lights and barged their way to the front, forcing Riley up against the podium. “I was cornered and increasingly nervous”, she said. “A man wearing women's clothing intentionally hit me – twice. The first blow landed on my shoulder. The second one glanced off my shoulder and hit me in the face.”
Riley was jostled out of the door and into the hallway where she was cornered again. “Both sides of the hallway were blocked, there was no clear exit. We had nowhere to go. The police appeared terrified.”
Uniformed campus police officers had to hustle Riley away from the baying trans activists into a side room. She remained barricaded into this office for the next three hours as the violent mob raged outside. The trans activists hammered on the walls and screamed, “Open the door, we want Riley”, “You’re protecting a transphobe” and “This is vengeance”.
Student publication, Golden Gate Xpress, posted footage of the trans activists crowding outside the room into which Riley had been forced to take refuge and chanting “Go the fuck home”.
In other footage shared on social media, male voices can be heard shouting “Make her lose her pride” and “Don’t let her go” as trans activists crowded the corridor.
Eventually, San Francisco Police responded. They formed a cordon around Riley and she left the building, forced to a run to safety as the mob chased her into a waiting car.
“By 2:00 am I was back in my hotel”, Riley told the Daily Mail. “Shaken and exhausted, but not deterred. Because for all the rage and intimidation, that mob failed. They did not silence me, and they will not silence me. Their behaviour did not diminish my arguments. On the contrary, it proved that they are misogynists fuelled by hate.”
This young woman who speaks up for fairness in female sport was assaulted, terrorised and barricaded in by an angry mob on the campus of a US university. This is a huge and important news story but the US press has mostly ignored it and what little coverage the incident has received has been nothing short of a joke.
The San Francisco Examiner ran with the headline, “Anti-trans activist's speech at SF State ends in 'disruption' by protestors”.
Despite their being video evidence all over the internet, CNN decided to pretend that the events were in doubt. “College swimmer says she was assaulted…”
Such gaslighting was also promoted by San Francisco State University itself. A statement issued by Jamillah Moore, theVice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, claims that students ‘participated peacefully’ in events and ‘demonstrated the value of free speech’.
“Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event. It took tremendous bravery to stand in a challenging space. I am proud of the moments where we listened and asked insightful questions. I am also proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully. These issues do not go away, and these values are very much at our core.”
Sunday 9th April - The Process is the Punishment
ABC NEWS: The women taking legal action over the inclusion of a trans-identified male in their supposedly female-only sorority have been denied anonymity.
Last week we reported that a group of female students are suing their sorority society for admitting a trans-identified male to the Wyoming branch.
The complaint alleges that the male’s inclusion betrays the aims of and promises made by the sorority; that members can expect and enjoy a single-sex community. Furthermore, it claims that this male - who stands six feet two inches tall and weighs approximately 260 lbs - behaves like a voyeur, watching sorority women when they are undressed and undressing, often in an obvious state of sexual arousal.
For obvious reasons, the seven women, current and former sorority members, who are suing Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) wished to remain anonymous.
District Judge Alan Johnson has ruled that the women must refile their lawsuit using their real names, giving up their anonymity, by 20th April in order to pursue their case. The women insisted that they need anonymity for privacy and safety reasons, knowing that they will be subject to threats and harassment due to the lawsuit. However, Judge Johnson ruled that they didn't meet the legal standard for anonymity.
The trans-identified male at the centre of the lawsuit is identified by the pseudonym ‘Terry Smith’ rather than his real name. Judge Johnson did not require the disclosure of his true identity.
See you next week.
This never gets old. One of my first tweets before I was permanently suspended:
“Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious” he writes “that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes.”
Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life
Thank you JL. So that’s those women’s sports totally screwed then. With state and sporting body approval, to pander to the insane desires of the very few and the mentally unhinged. Mulling this horrorfest over, it's really as if we don't exist - women and females are just an aberration and mystical phantasm dreamt up by some men to wank off over. To imagine. We are figments they dream up and can control and dictate to. That we really truly are a bit of their rib imagined into existence. To equate a woman having the ability to have control over her own body with the ‘exclusion’ zones to ‘safeguard’ drag propaganda makes me want to vomit it is so delusional. And the clear rule now that a man kills and is referred to as a 'woman', but a woman kills and is still funnily enough a woman.
We are apparently this very strange concept and idea of what their fetish is and when we don’t fulfil their criteria and orders they get violent and even more coercive. Which stage of societal collapse is this now – older men’s fetishes being enshrined as vital education for children in schools dressed up as a progressive rights movement for mothers and children to obey.
Look how they are using 'smart tech' to crack down ever further on women. Any advancement humanity has made seems immediately twisted back to serve the interests of the very same few.