A Week in the War on Women: Monday 2nd May - Sunday 8th May
Monday 2nd May - Self Identified Women First
THE TELEGRAPH: A recent report has accused the NHS in England of prioritising trans-identified males over women in access to breast surgery.
The Telegraph has discovered that an NHS report into breast surgery was published last year. This report found that breast augmentation surgery is being made widely available to trans-identified males undergoing ‘gender reassignment’ whereas women are struggling to access the same procedures.
Breast augmentation surgery for women is not always cosmetic; it can be a vital treatment for many women who suffer with painful medical conditions. For example, 32-year-old Natasha had breast implants when she was a teenager, a procedure carried out by the NHS to treat her congenital breast asymmetry. This treatment has caused capsular contracture, a build-up of scar tissue contracting around the implant. However, the NHS has now refused to replace Natasha’s breast implants, leaving her in constant pain and unable to breast feed her daughter.
The report found that over the last decade the number of admissions for gender reassignment in England had increased from 53 to 355. In comparison, admissions for surgery to treat a congenital breast condition has dropped from 1,342 a year to 506.
It states, “It is striking to note how NHS Specialised Commissioning has facilitated greater access to gender reassignment surgery for gender dysphoria – even though some of the surgical procedures involved are the same as those used to treat e.g. congenital breast developmental issues… We see it as both inconsistent and illogical that a procedure can be deemed of limited clinical value for one group of patients or medical condition, but acceptable for another.”
Also Today - Respect My Sex
THE TIMES SCOTLAND: Nicola Sturgeon has refused to define the word ‘woman’ and is denying there is any conflict between women’s rights and gender identity.
Interviewed in The Times, Sturgeon was asked to define what a woman is but refused to answer. She claimed that defining the word ‘woman’ is harmful to trans people.
She went on say that she would argue ‘until my dying breath’ there is no clash between women’s rights and trans rights as self ID legislation is being pushed through the Scottish parliament. The very fact that she refuses to define the word ‘woman’ out of deference to the trans lobby proves this isn’t true. And her claim suggests that she must be ignorant of both The Equality Act 2010 and the plethora of legal cases brought in response to the very clash she pretends doesn’t exist.
Also Today - The Right Side Of History
MICHIGAN LIVE: A trans activist has pleaded no contest to an arson charge.
Nikki Joly is a trans-identified female who was a well-known LGBTQ rights campaigner in Jackson, Michigan.
Joly lead the campaign to establish the city’s non-discrimination legislation which was approved in early 2017. She was also an organiser of the Jackson Pride Festival and Parade in 2017 and the director of the Jackson Pride Center which opened in February 2017. The local paper named Joly its ‘Citizen of the Year’ for 2017.
In August 2017 it is alleged that Joly set fire to her own home. According to the timeline of events, investigators believe it would have been almost impossible for anyone but Joly to have started the blaze. Police have suggested she did so to manufacture a grievance, frustrated by the lack of discrimination to campaign against following the successful completion of her various projects. (She rented the property which was insured by its owner.) The FBI initially investigated the fire as a hate crime.
Joly’s own pets, three cats and two German shepherd dogs, were killed in the blaze.
This week Joly pleaded no contest to third-degree arson. (‘No contest’ is a plea by which the defendant accepts conviction but does not admit guilt.) She is set to appear for sentencing on 8th June.
Tuesday 3rd May - A Room Of One’s Own
GB NEWS: Boys who ‘identify’ as girls are being accommodated in the female dormitories at a teenage summer camp.
The National Citizen Service (NCS) is a not for profit organisation offering a ‘personal and social development programme’ for 15–17 year olds in England and Northern Ireland. Launched in 2011, it is largely government-funded.
It has been revealed that 16-17 year olds signing up for NCS’s fortnight-long activity project summer camp will be accommodated according to their gender identity rather than their sex. Consequently, teenage boys will be allowed to sleep in the girls’ dormitory and use the girls’ toilets and showers if they claim to ‘identify’ as female.
One mother told The Daily Telegraph that her 16-year-old son, who recently started identifying as trans, was asked which room he would prefer to sleep in when signing up to attend the summer camp. She questioned this policy with NCS and was told, “We will allow the young people to self-ID and they will be put into whichever dorm they feel comfortable in”.
A spokesperson for Safe Schools Alliance said, “With mixed-sex sleeping, there are issues with privacy and dignity and safety. There is the possibility of sexual harassment, assault and/or pregnancy. Organisations working with children have a duty to safeguard them”.
Also Today - Join The Dots
NEW YORK TIMES: According to leaked documents obtained by Politico, the US supreme court has provisionally voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the ruling which legalised abortion throughout America.
This is what can happen when we pretend that pregnancy, maternity and birth are not issues which exclusively affect women.
This is what can happen when we rob women of the language they need to describe themselves and discuss their female bodies.
This is what can happen when we dehumanise women by calling them ‘gestators’, ‘birthing bodies’ and ‘menstruators’.
This is what can happen when we silence and demonise the women fighting for their sex-based rights.
This is what can happen when a Supreme Court justice cannot (or dare not) define the very word, ‘woman’.
Wednesday 4th May - Shooting The Messenger
THE TELEGRAPH: Broadcasters threatened to boycott the ‘radio Oscars’ following nominations for Stephen Nolan’s podcast exposé of Stonewall.
The BBC podcast, Nolan Investigates: Stonewall, exposed the power and extent of Stonewall’s influence of over UK businesses, institutions and even government departments. It was nominated in four categories at this year’s Audio and Radio Industry Awards (ARIAs) for excellence in radio.
However, a number of radio broadcasters have demanded the nominations be revoked and accused the podcast of being ‘openly transphobic’ and ‘harmful’. Over 150 radio producers wrote an open letter to the Radio Academy to protest the podcast’s award nominations and production company, Long Cat Media, threatened to boycott the Radio Academy unless the nominations are rescinded.
As George Orwell once wrote, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows”.
Thursday 5th May - These Are Not Our Crimes
THE IRISH TIMES: ‘Homicidal’ male, Barbie Kadashian, has gone on trial but his sex has been obfuscated in the reporting of it.
Barbie Kadashian, who was born Alejandro Gentile, is a 20-year-old trans-identified male. Described by the Gardaí as ‘homicidal’, he has previously faced criminal charges of sexually assaulting and threatening women. As a child, he violently attacked his own mother and, as a teenager, he assaulted a female care worker, tearing her eyelids with his nails and pulling out clumps of her hair.
This week Kardashian has gone on trial accused of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to his mother and to a man who had been involved in his care. The court heard that he threatened to stab the care worker and told him that he intended to rape and disembowel his wife and children.
This article in The Irish Times conceals Kardashian’s true sex, failing to even mention his trans status. It begins by calling him ‘a young woman’ and refers to him throughout with female pronouns, even when it describes his ‘clearly expressed’ desire “To rape and mutilate her [sic] mother’s genitals”.
Even though he has not received any hormone treatment or physical alteration, thanks to Ireland’s self-ID laws, Kardashian is legally female and was accommodated in Limericks’s female prison.
Also Today - Operation Validation
THE DAILY MIRROR: A gender surgeon in India is planning to offer experimental womb implants to trans-identified males who want to carry children.
Dr Narendra Kaushik is a New Delhi surgeon who operates a very busy gender clinic where, according to the paper, demand is high and ‘business is booming’. He is planning to offer womb transplants to his clientele so that trans-identified males can experience carrying a child. “Every transgender woman wants to be as female as possible," he said. “And that includes being a mother.”
If trans-identified males wish to become parents, they should the opportunity to do so before undergoing treatment to remove their reproductive organs and fertility.
Whilst the risks to the patient, both of the surgery and the pregnancy, are discussed in the article, no mention is made of the dangers to prognosis for the infant.
Less then three years ago the BBC reported on the thousands of impoverished young women in India who are having their wombs removed in order to seek employment as sugarcane harvesters. The article blames ‘India's very problematic relationship with menstruation’ for these women having to take such disturbing action. A few months previously, The Guardian had reported on the two women, one of whose children also perished, who had died in menstruation huts that year.
Female reproductive capacity remains such a taboo in India that women have been forced into life-altering surgery and even died as a result of the stigma. Yet trans-identified males could be allowed womb transplants and to carry children just to validate their fantasies of motherhood.
Sex really does matter when it comes to knowing which class of people to oppress and which to indulge.
Friday 6th May - This Never Happens #1
REDUXX: A trans-identified male pornographer has been sentenced for the sadistic sexual abuse of a seven-year-old girl, his own daughter.
In 2019 the New Jersey Department of Child Protection suspected pornography was being produced in premises at which a child was residing. Sexually explicit images and videos of the 7-year-old victim were discovered on electronic devices seized from the property. This led to a lengthy investigation after which four adults, including two-trans-identified males, Marina (formerly Matthew) Volz and Ashley (formerly Adam) Romero, were arrested.
The four ran what has been described as a transgender pornography production company specializing in BDSM, fetish, and taboo content. Volz and Romero had taken Volz’s seven-year-old daughter from her mother in Oregon and brought her to New Jersey in order to sexually abuse and exploit her.
During the trial, prosecutors told the court that the little girl had suffered ‘a vortex of darkness’. Judge Peter Tober did not detail the full extent of the horrors to which the child had been subjected, but he did allude to neck collars, sex toys and use of a cage. “If this was not heinous, cruel and depraved”, he said, “I don’t know what is”.
Volz was sentenced on charges of human trafficking, aggravated sexual assault, conspiracy and endangering the welfare of a child. He and Romero were both sentenced to 25 years in prison.
In 2017, only two years before his arrest, Volz was the president of the ‘Queer Student Association’ at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington.
In reporting on the trial many news outlets have described Volz and Romero as ‘women’ and referred to them with female pronouns.
A Yahoo article even contains the headline “NJ woman who forced daughter she fathered into porn”. So-called journalists tying themselves in linguistic knots to pander to the ‘gender identity’ of a sadistic and depraved man who abused and exploited his own child. What a time to be alive.
Saturday 7th May - Leave Them Kids Alone #1
THE TIMES: School children are being provided with anti-science reading materials which promote gender identity ideology.
The children’s book ‘What Does LGBT+ Mean?’ was co-written by Olly Pike together with ‘diversity campaigner’, Mel Lane, and her son, James Canning. Pike runs Pop’n’Olly, a brand which self-describes as providing “LGBT+ education for children, parents, carers and teachers”. (Pike has no formal qualifications or experience as an educator.)
This book is described on the Pop’n’Olly website as “An introductory guide for young people (and grown-ups) who are ready to explore identity, gender, love, sexual orientation, privilege, discrimination, pride, allyship and more” and as being “Designed for use at school and home”.
It tells children that sex is ‘assigned at birth’, claiming that a doctor or nurse “Looked at our body and gave us a label based on what they could see”. It also claims that it is possible to be ‘male, female, both or neither’ and includes instruction about the use of preferred pronouns - “People feel happier and included when their pronouns are respected” - and descriptions of various ‘gender identities’.
Social media users are being encouraged to buy and donate the book to primary schools. Furthermore, the book is being included when people purchase any of the others featured on the site to donate to a school.
According to The Times, the book has, thus far, been donated to over 800 primary schools. The Pop’n’Olly site features a quote from a key stage two teacher; “This book contains everything I need to cover the new RSE curriculum, with examples that make sense to children”.
Shelley Charlesworth has analysed the full range of books and videos produced by Olly Pike’s Pop’n’Olly brand.
“Pop’n’Olly materials are best described as adultification, an activity which normalises adult sexualities and niche ‘gender’ identities, and invites children to join in the discussion. Few schools are likely to say yes if an outside body offers to teach their seven-year-olds queer theory and about being transsexual. Yet this is what they will be doing if they use Pop’n’Olly resources or accept their free books.”
Schools must comply with RSHE (relationship, sex and health education) curriculum guidance, using materials that are factually accurate and age-appropriate. If you are concerned about the materials being used in your child’s school, the Safe Schools Alliance website has information and guidance to assist.
Also Today - This Never Happens #2
REDUXX: A trans-identified male who tortured and killed a four-year-old boy has been transferred to a female prison.
In 2016 trans-identified male, Kryzie (formerly known as Christopher) King was sentenced for the abuse and murder of a four-year-old boy.
Myls Dobson had been left in King’s care in 2014 following the arrest of his father. King spent weeks beating and torturing the little boy. He starved him of food, bound his hands and feet, whipped him with electrical cords and belt buckles and burned his legs with metal racks from the oven. The day Myls died, King had beaten him and locked him in a bathroom. The toddler suffered fatal injuries after falling into an empty bathtub.
King was sentenced to 22 years to life and was initially incarcerated in a men’s prison. However, last month he was moved to Bedford Hill, a women’s facility. This move was affected very quietly without media coverage or public disclosure.
King received a new identification number within the New York State Department of Corrections system which designates him as ‘female’.
Sunday 8th May - The Perfect Trojan Horse
THE TIMES: A Scottish government department with safeguarding responsibilities is prioritising gender identity over biological sex.
The government agency, Disclosure Scotland, is a government agency which assists with background criminal checks and the vetting of staff for employers and voluntary organisations. It also also runs a membership scheme for people who work with children or vulnerable adults.
It has stated that it does not inform employers or voluntary organisations of a job applicant’s true sex if they identify as trans. This means that males could be taking up roles and providing services intended to be female-only.
Disclosure Scotland claim that an individual’s ‘past gender’ is irrelevant for safeguarding purposes. Surely they must know that predatory men have built entire careers around gaining access to victims? It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that they would also claim a trans identity. Are Disclosure Scotland also unaware of all the males claiming to be transgender who’ve raped and assaulted women and girls? (Such as Karen White, Katie Dolatowski , Jessica Winfield, Kristen Lukess, Lisa Hauxwell, Davina Ayrton, Michelle Winter, Barbie Kardashian etc…)
Maggie Mellon of the campaign group, Evidence-Based Social Work Alliance (EBSWA), told The Times, “How can the Scottish government guarantee the right to single-sex service provision and safeguarding of children if employers are not to be told the actual sex of people who complete enhanced disclosure?”
Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone #2
THE DAILY MAIL: A leading child psychologist has expressed her alarm over the unprecedented numbers of youngsters wanting to ‘change gender’.
A leading psychologist with sixteen years experience of working in children’s mental health has spoken out about the burgeoning numbers of young people who are identifying as trans. (She originally discussed her concerns in an article published by TransgenderTrend earlier this year.)
The clinician, who has to remain anonymous in case of professional repercussions, fears being accused of ‘transphobia’ or even conversion therapy if she questions or tries to explore a child's desire to ‘change gender’.
Many of the children she has seen have been allowed to transition socially from as young as five or six. She warned that parents are being ‘sold a lie’ by the trans lobby that allowing their children to live as the opposite sex from a young age does not pose a psychological risk.
“Social transition isn't reversible because what we tell our children for years can't be reversed.
When we disconnect them from their biological sex we set up patterns of denial and secrets. We set them up to hate their bodies at puberty, to beg for [puberty] blockers and binders, because for years we told them they could change sex and they believed us – but their body knows otherwise.
They become desperate to go back to the years when no one knew any different, but that time will never come again. Time is not reversible. What we grow up being told in our childhood matters for our whole lives.”
See you next week.
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"However, a number of radio broadcasters have demanded the nominations be revoked and accused the podcast of being ‘openly transphobic’ and ‘harmful’. Over 150 radio producers wrote an open letter to the Radio Academy to protest the podcast’s award nominations and production company, Long Cat Media, threatened to boycott the Radio Academy unless the nominations are rescinded."
Do not say there is no cancel culture!