A Week in the War on Women: Monday 25th December - Sunday 31st December
Monday 25th December - An Unsporting Chancer
REDUXX: A trans-identified male professional disc golf player has succeeded in his legal bid to play on the women’s tour.
Disc golf, formerly called frisbee golf, is usually played on a course of nine or 18 baskets. With similar rules to standard golf, competitors throw a disc from a tee toward a basket, throwing again from wherever the previous throw landed, until the basket is reached. Courses average 200–400 feet (61–122 metres) per basket. Played in over 40 countries, it is a rapidly growing sport with top professionals able to play full-time and earn their livings through tournament winnings and sponsorship.
Last year, the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) tightened its regulations to prohibit trans-identified males from competing on the women’s tour.
Natalie Ryan is a trans-identified male player who had previously played in the women’s category. Of course, he had a great deal of success, beating the top-ranked female players and trousering thousands of dollars in prize money. Following the introduction of the new policy he was, quite rightly, excluded from the women’s category. So Ryan filed a discrimination lawsuit against the PGDA. He was successful in a district court but a circuit court of appeals overruled that decision and he was removed from the women’s tour.
However, Ryan was determined to invade women’s sport and he continued in his legal action against the PDGA. This week a settlement between Ryan and the PDGA was announced. The full terms are not publicly available but part of the agreement requires the PDGA to renege on its policy which prevented males from competing in female events. Consequently, any male who has undergone two years of hormone treatment will now be eligible to compete on the women’s tour.
The PDGA issued a statement revealing that financial considerations meant they were unable to fight Ryan’s various legal actions. “The PDGA is not financially or logistically in a position to take the lead in multi-state litigation on this topic. For the first time in recent memory, the PDGA will end the year with a net operating loss, and it is not in the best interest of our members to continue to allocate resources to further litigation.”
The rule revision will remain in place at least until the end of the 2025 season.
On Instagram Ryan boasted of his ‘victory’ and of being ‘ruthless’. He has already signed up for a 2024 Tour Card and intends to play at most Disc Golf Pro Tour major events. In the women’s category, of course.
Tuesday 26th December - School For Scandal
THE TELEGRAPH: A teacher has been banned from the profession after he expressed concerns over validating the new ‘gender identity’ of a 17-year-old girl.
Last year we reported on Kevin Lister, a maths teacher with a previously unblemished 18-year career in teaching who was sacked for ‘gross misconduct’. He was working at a further education college in Croydon when confronted with a sudden instruction to use male pronouns and a male name for one of his A Level students, a 17-year-old girl.
His immediate concerns were the safeguarding issues of this situation, the pupil having parental consent and the possibility of her taking cross-sex hormones. He told The Daily Mail, “I wanted at least to make sure that my student had parental support and was making an informed decision. As a parent myself, I would have been furious if my child had taken this step and I hadn’t been told”.
Lister was shocked to be told by the school’s safeguarding officers that the girl’s parents would not be informed that their daughter now identifies as male. According to the school’s guide on supporting trans-identified students, “Staff should maintain confidentiality and only tell others about the person’s trans status with their permission”.
This put Lister in an impossible position but he tried to be as ‘gentle and polite’ as possible by avoiding use of the pupil’s male name and pronouns. A few weeks later the pupil decided she wanted to take part in a female-only maths competition. When making a list of those interested, Lister used her female name. (Not unreasonably, since the competition was open only to females.)
Lister was suspended and escorted from school grounds after some of his students made allegations of transphobia against him. A disciplinary hearing then upheld three complaints against him; that he had ‘subjected a gender-transitioning student’ to ‘transphobic discrimination’ and ‘harassment’ and had ‘refused to use’ the student’s preferred name and pronouns. He was subsequently sacked from his job.
He discussed his position on GB News and told Andrew Doyle, “The whole ethos of this movement is to accuse people who question it of transphobia”.
Last week Kevin Lister was permanently banned from the teaching profession by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Ironically, he was informed of this ban on the same day the Government issued its trans guidance for schools which includes that provision that teachers should not be compelled to validate a pupil’s ‘gender identity’ by using names and pronouns of the opposite sex.
Lister told The Telegraph that the DBS decision undermined this new guidance. “Any school, anywhere in the country, now can do to any teacher who decides to follow the guidance… what they’ve done to me. Sack them, send them off to DBS and have them basically disbarred. This guidance has been undermined on day one… while the guidance is just guidance and not statutory then this situation can continue.”
Wednesday 27th December - The Clocks Were Striking 13 In Belfast
NEWSLETTER: Queen’s University’s revised code of conduct means that failure to validate someone’s self-declared ‘gender identity’ is now a disciplinary matter.
Queen’s University Belfast has issued a new code of conduct which compels speech and enforces adherence to gender identity ideology. The new regulations mean that staff, students and even outside contractors are forced to validate someone’s self-declared gender identity - including so-called ‘non-binary identities’ - using whatever names and pronouns are demanded. Failure to comply will be regarded as bullying and/or harassment and subject to disciplinary action.
The new code covers not just staff and students but any visitor on campus, including outside contractors, such as caterers, builders, suppliers, cleaners, and anyone hired by the contractors.
Newsletter imagines a hypothetical situation in which a construction firm is hired to work on-site and then hires a subcontractor to supply the scaffolding. “If this hypothetical scaffolder were then to encounter a 7ft tall, balding, bearded student who demanded to be referred to as a female, they would be under an obligation to accept that person’s declared gender identity without question, despite not even having signed a contract with Queen’s.”
Thursday 28th December - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE TELEGRAPH: Hundreds of children aged six and under were referred to the Tavistock and Portman gender clinic.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has released figures regarding the number of very young children who were referred to its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS). The clinic had no lower age limit on referrals.
In total, 382 children aged six and under were referred to GIDS. Of these, 169 were six years old, 40 were five years old and over 70 were aged just three and four years old.
Former health minister, Jackie Doyle-Price, told The Daily Mail that part of problem was with activist groups referring children to GIDS. “There needs to be a clear message that goes out to let kids be kids"“, she said. “Let them play and use their imaginations. We shouldn't be medicalising something which is just growing up”.
Friday 29th December - This Never Happens
A trans-identified male is in custody having been apprehended in a vigilante paedophile ‘sting’ operation.
Aaron ‘Alice’ Blaze Clark is a 27-year-old trans-identified male from Ohio. According to Reduxx, Clark has a profile on the supposedly lesbian dating app, Her.
This week it was reported that Clark has been arrested on charges of child molestation and child solicitation after being caught in a sting operation by an organisation called Predator Catchers Indianapolis (PCI).
Posting on their Facebook page, PCI reported that Clark drove from Ohio to Indianapolis in order to meet someone he believed to be a 13 year old girl with the intention of sexually abusing this child. Instead, he was confronted by PCI paedophile hunters and local police officers.
In the video of the confrontation, Clark admits to being attracted to very young children and to using ‘lolicon’ pornography which features pre-pubescent girls. He was subsequently arrested and is set to face trial next year.
Saturday 30th December - Men Make The Best Women
A Tate Britain exhibition supposedly dedicated to female artists and the women’s liberation movement features work by trans-identified males. (Huge thanks to @Sorelle_Arduino for drawing our attention to this enraging story.)
Tate Britain is currently hosting an exhibition entitled ‘Women in Revolt! Art & Activism in the UK 1970-1990’. According to the gallery’s website, “This exhibition is a wide-ranging exploration of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It shines a spotlight on how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture. Their art helped fuel the women’s liberation movement during a period of significant social, economic and political change.”
Sounds brilliant, doesn’t it? Just one problem; this exhibition, supposedly focusing on the women’s liberation movement and the work of female artists, includes several trans-identified males. Like the example below, in which a male whining about his wife and boasting about wearing female clothing has his words displayed alongside newsletters from women’s liberation groups in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Birmingham.
Another of the artists featured is Erica (formerly Eric) Rutherford. Born in Scotland in 1923, Rutherford enjoyed all the opportunities and privileges afforded to his sex. He pursued a career in the Royal Navy and, having enrolled at the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, he then served onboard HMS Conway in Liverpool. At the end of the Second World War, Rutherford worked work as a Public Relations Officer for ENSA (Entertainments National Service Association) with the British Occupation Army of the Rhine in Europe, a role that allowed him to travel extensively.
He trained at RADA and worked as an actor and film-maker for several years. Turning his attention to art, he then studied drawing, sculpture, and theatre design at the Slade School of Fine Art and attended l’Académie Julien in Paris. He married no less than four times and fathered two children.
In the early 1970s, then in his mid-50s, Rutherford began ‘presenting as a woman’ and eventually embarked on medical transition. Around this time he produced numerous self-portraits in which he fantasised himself as female. Two of these works - The Bed and Red Stockings - were deemed appropriate for inclusion in Tate Britain’s exhibition which supposedly centres on feminist art.
To compound this insult, The Tate Britain is displaying these works, of a male depicting himself as woman by performing stereotypical femininity and sexualised poses, directly adjacent to Monica Sjöö’s iconic feminist work, Wages for Housework.
Sunday 31st December - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire
DAILY MAIL: USA Boxing is going to sanction trans-identified males competing against women in its new ‘transgender policy’.
USA Boxing is the governing body which oversees America's amateur and Olympic-style boxing. It has just introduced a new policy that will allow trans-identified males to compete against women boxers.
Boxers over the age of eighteen will be permitted to fight in the sex category of their choice. Trans-identified males must demonstrate that their total testosterone level in serum has been below 5 nmol/L for at least 48 months prior to their first competition and their testosterone level in serum must remain below 5 nmol/L throughout the period of desired eligibility to compete in the female category.
However, these regulations are of little consequence; all of the scientific evidence demonstrates that, even long after reducing testosterone levels, males retain numerous physical and physiological advantages over women and any loss of muscle mass and strength is negligible.
And we already know what can happen when a trans-identified male steps into a ring to fight with a woman.
In March 2013 Fallon Fox took just 39 seconds to defeat Ericka Newsome in an MMA bout, whacking her in the face with this kneecap and rendering her unconscious. She never fought professionally again. A year later, Fox crushed Tamika Brents' skull in an MMA fight which lasted less than three minutes. Fox landed a blow to Brents' face which broke her eye socket, caused a concussion and ended her career.
How many more women will have to be seriously injured - or worse - before USA Boxing are forced to rescind this ludicrous policy?
See you next week.
I think it's time the punters started boycotting fights where men are allowed to play against women.
I am so sick of governing bodies, boards, officials and anyone else pandering to these larpers. Please can they stop perpetuating the lie that they are women. Enough already! Stop placing male need ahead of females. Here's hoping 2024 will see more good news than bad in your round-ups JL!