A Week in the War on Women: Monday 1st August - Sunday 7th August
Monday 1st August - This Never Happens
NEW YORK POST: A trans-identified male was issued with a police citation after an altercation at a cheerleading camp during which he allegedly choked a teenage girl.
Twenty-five-year-old Averie Chanel Medlock, formerly known as Dmontrey Duval Satchell, was taking part in a Ranger College cheerleading camp at the end of July. It is alleged that he became embroiled in an argument with another attendee, seventeen-year-old Karleigh Jones, during which he physically assaulted her.
Medlock claims that Jones made ‘transphobic’ comments to him; telling him that he is a man with a penis and shouldn’t be on the team. Jones denies being transphobic and claims that Medlock put his hands around her throat and tried to choke her. According to Jones’ father, Mike Jones, his daughter phoned him at 1am having barricaded herself into a room with a number of other girls, fearing for her safety following the incident.
Medlock later posted a video to his Facebook page. It shows him knocking on the door of a room on campus and talking to the girls within. Initially, the girls refuse to open the door and won’t let him in. Eventually, the door opens briefly but the girls insist that Medlock remains outside to say his piece.
He challenges anyone with ‘a problem’ to come outside, tell him to his face and “Stop being a little scared bitch”. He tells a girl called Courtney that she needs to ‘watch her tongue’ because ‘bitch, this has nothing to do with you’. When a young female voice responds, he shouts at her, “Bitch, come outside then”. She replies to him, “You’re a man!”. He tells her, “I’m not a man, bitch, I’m a girl. My life is all female, bitch.” She tells him, “You have a penis!” and he retorts, “And what are you going to do about it?”.
Someone within the room then talks about Karleigh having been ‘terrified’. Medlock responds that he ‘barely touched her’ and that ‘it was a fucking joke, bitch’. (These comments seems at odds with his insistence that no physical contact ever took place.) He then calls Courtney a ‘little cry-baby bitch’ and, addressing Karleigh directly, tells her, “Don’t fuck with me, I won’t fuck with you”. That’s where the video ends.
Police were called to the scene. Medlock was issued with a citation for ‘Assault by physical contact’ and then removed from the campus.
Tuesday 2nd August - Listen to the Detransitioners #1
THE DAILY MAIL: A woman who began gender reassignment after just two hours of counselling is now speaking out about her experience in the hope of helping others.
During her teenage years, Sam struggled with her sense of self and ‘fluctuated’ around different gender identities. Aged 21 she discovered an online ‘community’ of trans-identified people who were sharing videos about their transition. This resonated with Sam who was struggling to understand herself and she came to believe that she must be transgender. She went to her GP who referred her to the local NHS gender clinic.
In order to avoid the NHS waiting list, Sam paid to see a specialist privately. After just two hour-long appointments, she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and prescribed cross-sex hormones. “It was crazily fast, but there was such a sense of urgency because I was feeling distressed and I didn't want things to get worse.”
After just a few months of taking testosterone, Sam’s voice dropped, she developed facial and body hair and her hairline began receding. She also noticed a huge change in her personality, now feeling emotionally numb. “Nothing made me feel incredibly happy, and nothing made me incredibly sad any more.” Less than a year after her first appointment, Sam underwent a double mastectomy.
Just two years after her surgery, aged 24, Sam began to suffer from vaginal atrophy. She was in crippling pain and discovered she had an increased risk of cancer. When NHS clinicians told her the only treatment solution was a hysterectomy, she realised that she did not want to have full SRS surgery. She was extremely distressed and felt that the side effects of taking testosterone had never been fully explained to her.
Sam has now stopped taking cross-sex hormones and has detransitioned. She said she lost friends because of this decision and that her doctors advised against it. But she is learning to love her female body and speaking out in order to prevent other people from making the same mistakes she did.
“The industry is under huge pressure from the trans community to move things along quickly… I do still feel regret towards medical steps I took during my transition but I am working on loving and accepting my body for how it is rather than how it used to be.”
Wednesday 3rd August - A Room of One’s Own
PORT TOWNSEND FREE PRESS: An 80 year old woman was banned from her local pool for objecting to a male in the women’s changing room.
Port Townsend is a small Victorian city on the west coast of America. 80-year-old Julie Jaman has lived there for half her life. For much of that time she has been a regular at Mountain View Pool, a facility now operated in partnership with the YMCA.
On 26th July Julie was taking a post-swim shower after in the women’s changing room where shower cubicles are clustered around a communal area. She heard a man’s voice and, looking around her shower curtain, saw a male in a female swimsuit in close proximity. She told the paper she was shocked. “There were gaps in the curtain and there I was, naked, with soap and water on me, and this guy, right there very close to me.”
Julie said that there were several little girls in the changing room and that the man was watching them as they stripped off their bathing suits. She asked him, “Do you have a penis?” and he replied “That’s none of your business.” Julie then told him, “Get out of here, right now”.
At this point, Julie noticed that the pool’s aquatic manager, Rowen DeLuna, was also in the changing room and so she asked to her to remove the male from the area. However, according to Julie, DeLuna replied, “You are being discriminatory, you are banned from the pool, and I am calling the police”.
Feeling shocked and vulnerable, Julie got dressed and hurried out of the pool. She was prevented from leaving by DeLuna and another member of pool staff. They shouted at her that she wasn’t abiding by YMCA principals and that the police were on their way. Julie refused to be detained and went straight to the Port Townsend Police Department, later filing a report about the incident.
The trans-identified male who had been present in the women’s changing room was identified by the Port Townsend Free Press as Clementine Adams, a member of YMCA staff. (Julie says that Adams had nothing to identify him as an employee at the time of the incident.) Adams set up a GoFundMe site in February 2022 to raise money for ‘gender affirming’ surgery. The Post Millennial reported that they had received an email from the YMCA confirming that Adams was escorting the little girls to the women’s bathroom when Julie saw him.
Julie spoke to Wendy Bart, the CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA. However she felt that Bart was dismissive of her concerns and commented “That’s not what I’ve been told” when she tried to explain what had happened. Bart claimed that, according to Mountain View staff, Julie had been vulgar and abusive about Clementine Adams, an allegation which Julie vehemently denies. Bart said that she stood by her staff’s actions, including the barring of Julie from using the pool again.
On 1st August Julie addressed a city council meeting to describe her experience at Mountain View Pool. She told the meeting, “It is ironic that women who discriminate when a situation threatens their safety or their children - a message from our ancestors - are now accused of discrimination as if they have made someone else a victim. We need to be much more intelligent and wise about applying the rules.”
Thursday 4th August - Men Make The Best Women
THE GUARDIAN: Trans-identified males can continue to compete in the women’s category in elite international triathlon competitions.
World Triathlon, the sport’s international governing body, has voted to allow trans-identified males continued participation in the female category at international elite competitions.
The rules have been made slightly more stringent - testosterone must be lowered for two years rather than one and at least four years must have elapsed since transitioning if the competitor previously competed in any sport in a male category.
Nevertheless, the new regulations ignore “The science that overwhelmingly shows that transgender women retain significant advantages in speed, strength, lung capacity and endurance even after testosterone is reduced”.
Leading sports scientist, Ross Tucker, has indicated that World Triathlon ignored the views of athletes but was, instead, influenced in its policy by trans activists.
The statement published on its website lists all the trans-identified males World Triathlon consulted in the reaching of its decision. One of those is Veronica Ivy (aka Rachel McKinnon), the trans-identified male competitive cyclist who happily steals titles and opportunities from female athletes…
…And thinks the women who protest should ‘die in a grease fire’.
Friday 5th August - Leave Them Kids Alone
A prominent US trans activist is offering to supply prescription cross-sex hormones to ‘trans youth’ with ‘no questions asked’.
We wrote last year about trans activist and she/her du jour, Eli Erlick. According to his own website, he is “An internationally-awarded writer, activist, and public speaker” who co-founded “An organization dedicated to transforming the educational environment for trans students through collective action”.
He’s a 27-year-old student who has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and Teen Vogue and involved with various LGBT youth organisations.
In recent years he has also been the subject of rape and sexual assault accusations.
Over a year ago Elick posted a video to YouTube in which he advocates for cross-sex hormones to be available over the counter. He comments, “Every month for the past several years I’ve ordered a double dose of hormones and testosterone blockers. I save all the extra pills for my best friends, my closest lovers and my worst enemies.” He discusses an incident during which he posted on Instagram asking for testosterone ‘for a friend’. He acknowledges that this practice is illegal but likens it to jaywalking. “Don't let the law dictate your morality”, he says.
This week it has been revealed that Erlick has been offering to provide cross-sex hormones - ‘Testosterone, Estradiol and Spironolactone’ - to ‘trans youth’ and ‘trans teens’ with ‘no questions asked’. On a recent Instagram post, now deleted, he bemoaned the restrictions being placed on the medicalising of trans-identified teenagers and offered to supply them.
“If you need hormones, I’m working with a network of distributors to give you access. Everything is free, no questions asked… DM me if you need HRT.”
Saturday 6th August - Listen to the Detransitioners #2
THE TIMES: A detransitioned woman has called for the closure of Scotland’s Sandyford gender clinic to stop treating under-18s.
Sinead Watson was 24 years old when she referred herself to Glasgow’s Sandyford Clinic, Scotland’s equivalent of the Tavistock. She had struggled with her body image and mental health since puberty and, after being bombarded with gender identity ideology on the internet, had come to believe that she was trans.
Her clinicians at the Sandyford had access to all her medical records but did not investigate her history of depression, anxiety and self-harm, nor did they question why she had never suffered with dysphoria prior to her teens. Instead, they just affirmed her gender dysphoria. Within months of first visiting the clinic, after just three or four appointments, Sinead was prescribed and began injecting testosterone. Two years later, then living as ‘Sean’, she had a double mastectomy.
Aged 27, Sinead began to realise that she’d made a terrible mistake and was so depressed she tried to take her own life. She later made the decision to de-transition.
Now, following the announcement that the Tavistock is to close in the spring, Sinead believes that the Sandyford children’s gender service should also be shutting its doors.
Dr David Bell, consultant psychiatrist and a former governor at the Tavistock, has also called for the immediate closure of the Sandyford’s gender services for children. He warned that they are based on a very similar model to those now deemed ‘not a safe or viable option’ by the Cass Review.
Bell also counselled that the Scottish government’s stance on affirming gender transition is “Likely to make it more difficult for them to see the damage that is being done to children by inappropriate, experimental treatment”. He believes that a significant proportion of the SNP leadership has been influenced by ‘trans ideology’ which could affect the provision of child gender services. “It does indeed make them more reluctant to address these issues” he told the paper.
Earlier this week, columnist Alex Massie wrote in The Times about the continued prescribing of puberty blockers at the Sandyford.
“On the one hand, trans activists insist that the state of being a trans adult should be de-medicalised — removing the requirement for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to be recognised as fully trans — even as, on the other, they insist trans children be put on to a medical pathway of uncertain utility but lifelong consequence.
When ideology trumps medical prudence, calamity typically follows. The rush to ‘be kind’ and ‘affirm’ any and every piece of gender-questioning is, at best, highly questionable. No country is an island and the Scottish government’s pretence that there is nothing to see or be concerned about here is at best naive but, more probably, startlingly irresponsible.”
Articles published in The Irish Independent this week show that Ireland’s Health Service Executive was warned about the treatment provided to Irish children by the Tavistock clinic over three years ago.
“Senior doctors in the National Gender Service (NGS) warned the HSE in 2019 that it would face a wave of patients who would regret medical gender reassignments due to the poor level of care given to Irish children by the Tavistock clinic.
Paul Moran, a consultant psychiatrist at the NGS which treats over-16s in Loughlinstown, and his colleagues set out their concerns over the Tavistock’s ‘unsafe’ Irish children’s gender clinic in writing and at a number of meetings since 2019.”
Of course, these warnings were ignored. 234 Irish children were sent to the Tavistock Clinic for ‘gender affirming care’ between 2011 and 2021. The youngest, referred in 2019, was only five years old.
Sunday 7th August - The Emerald Wile
IRISH INDEPENDENT: A trans-identified male played on a women’s team in a Gaelic football competition final.
Established in 2020, Na Gaeil Aeracha (‘the rainbow Gaels’), ‘is Ireland's first explicitly LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA [Gaelic Athletic Association] team’.
Last week 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 one of the opposition team’s players, a male called Giulia Valentino, playing at number 21.
At the first break the referee interrupted the game to inform Na Gaeil Aeracha of ‘a problem with your number 21’. He told them “The player is a man”. The team captain tried to argue that Valentino is a ‘trans woman’.
The referee pointed out that ‘this is the Ladies’ Gaelic football association’ and advised Na Gaeil Aeracha that their opposition would have the right to appeal the result over Valentino’s eligibility.
Valentino was removed from the pitch as a blood substitute. He was later returned to the game and played until half time when he was fully substituted. Na Gaeil Aeracha won the game 7-11 to 1-5.
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.
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”.
Valentino is originally from Italy but moved to Ireland in 2019. He used to play rugby with a Dublin club but joined Na Gaeil Aeracha following an injury. His bio on the club website says that he wanted to play a women’s game “Because of sisterhood, validation and political visibility; as a trans woman those things are very important to me”.
See you next week.
God. In what world can an 80 year old woman now be bullied and banned from a pool ,for trying to protect female spaces from men pretending to be women and also protect little girls from the risk of abuse ? Completely abhorrent on every level to all right thinking people.!! As for Eli Erlick, his actions are unspeakable. He's an evil pervert who's been given permission to prey on women , by the most evil ideology imaginable, so why oh why do the people warning about him refer to him using female pronouns.? That's CRAZY. Women are not rapists !!Thank you ,JL ,for your hard work uncovering all this horror !❤️💔👏👍
Sad, puny, pathetic men...I have no respect for them!
The women who agree with them are just as sad, puny and pathetic and I have no respect for them either!