A Week in the War on Women: Monday 23rd October - Sunday 29th October
Monday 23rd October - Leave Them Kids Alone #1
THE TIMES: The new gender clinics being set up to treat dysphoric children and young people are still being heavily influenced by gender lobbyists.
Last week Professor Kathleen Stock wrote in UnHerd about the new regional hubs which will replace the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) and are due to open next year.
Not only did her investigation reveal that these centres will include staff who worked at the Tavistock, but that trans lobbyists still have influence over the NHS trusts involved. “Her findings suggest that the NHS gender services are yet to become a clinically safe space for children and teens, with senior figures still pushing an activist ideology.”
Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend commented, “It feels like there is Dr Hilary Cass, on the one hand, trying to get the service back to normal standards of paediatric care and evidence-based medicine. And on the other hand, you seem to have a completely ideologically-captured NHS and regional trusts who are undermining that work”.
Also Today - “Both Sides”
A male trans activist violently assaulted a gender critical woman at a rally in Canada.
Feminist campaigner and writer, Meghan Murphy, reported on yet more violence from the ‘be kind’ crowd this week.
The ‘1MillionMarch4Children’ campaign advocates for the elimination of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) curriculum, the use of ‘preferred pronouns’ and mixed sex bathrooms in Canadian schools. Its mass protest across Canada on Wednesday 20th September was a huge success and people gathered in their thousands to raise their voices against the harms of gender identity ideology.
This week the campaign held more protest events around the country, including a rally in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
The erroneously named ‘No Place For Hate’ group held a counter protest at Nanaimo City Hall where a man carrying a rainbow banner violently assaulted a 52-year-old woman.
Although she wishes to remain anonymous, the victim, being referred to as ‘Tara’, described her horrific experience to Reduxx. She explained that the man had singled her out and pursued her, pushing his sign into her face. Even though she was extremely scared, she tried to push the man’s sign away. It was then he punched her in the head. “In that instant, his fist exploded into my face so fast. I felt myself flying and falling… I hit the sidewalk and froze.”
Even though the police were on the scene and dozens of people witnessed the assault, the perpetrator wasn’t detained. Tara told Reduxx that law enforcement officers took his information but then allowed him to leave. (She intends to pursue charges against him and a court date has been set for 19th December.)
Speaking to Kellie-Jay Keen on her YouTube channel, Tara spoke of being contacted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who told her that the man who assaulted said he’d done so because he’d felt ‘vulnerable’.
Both sides, eh?
Tuesday 24th October - This Never Happens
REDUXX: A Spanish sex offender who abused an underage girl has been moved to a mixed sex prison and classified as ‘female’ after a sudden change in his ‘gender identity’.
A 48-year old man known only as ‘Hilario’ is currently serving a four-year prison sentence for sexually abusing a minor. In December 2022 he was found guilty of abusing a teenage girl, the daughter of a female friend with whom he briefly cohabited. According to court records, he impregnated the girl in question and she later gave birth to a son.
Despite living with the girl’s mother, Hilario claimed that he was not aware of her age. The court rejected this claim, stating there was ‘no doubt’ that he knew the girl was under sixteen years of age. However, the court did accept Hilario’s assertion that he was ignorant of the age of consent because he “Grew up in a marginalized environment” where adults sexually abusing minors was commonplace. Consequently, he received only a four year prison sentence, the minimum term possible.
In February, the Spanish government passed ‘La Ley Trans’ (the trans law) which allows anyone over the age of sixteen to self-declare their own gender. Someone’s legal sex can be changed on all official documents with nothing more than a bit of form-filling. It seems Hilario is taking advantage of this legislation and, according to El Norte de Castilla, requested a change of his registered sex just a few weeks ago.
After this request was approved, Hilario was formally reclassified as a ‘female’ convict by the governing body of Spain’s correctional system. Hilario then requested a transfer to the female estate which was duly granted in accordance with ‘la ley trans’. He has now been transferred from the Segovia Penitentiary Centre in Torredondo, to the Madrid VII mixed-sex prison. It is believed he is being accommodated in the female wing. The man who raped and impregnated an underage teenage girl.
Wednesday 25th October - Fox In The Hen House
REBEL NEWS: A 50-year-old trans-identified male has been allowed to participate in a swimming competition intended for pubescent girls.
Nicholas Cepeda, who calls himself Melody Wiseheart, is a 50-year-old trans-identified man in a heterosexual marriage. He works as a professor in the Department of Psychology at Toronto’s York University. His areas of research include children, education and youth.
According to his own website, “Melody spends time playing piano, singing in an Anglican church choir, swimming, weight lifting, loving her [sic] wife Sandi, learning about Buddhism, and spreading, love, kindness, and compassion to those around her [sic] —especially her [sic] students”.
Last week Wiseheart was allowed to participate in a swimming race intended for young girls of thirteen and fourteen years of age.
Concerned parents contacted Rebel News about Wiseheart’s involvement in the Richmond Hill Aquatic Centre’s Fall Classic swimming competition which was being held at the Markham Pan Am Centre just north of Toronto.
One of the races involved young girls aged thirteen and fourteen. With one exception; 50-year-old male, Melody Wiseheart.
When questioned by a Rebel News journalist, competition organizers initially denied that Wiseheart competed at the event. When shown a copy of the schedule which proves otherwise, the organizers back-peddled and had to admit that he did, in fact, participate. However, they would not comment further as they ‘didn’t want to get into a debate about gender and age’. Rebel News could not ascertain whether or not Wiseheart had been permitted to use the same changing areas and bathroom facilities as the teenage girls.
Swimming governing bodies, Swim Ontario and Swim Canada, were unavailable for comment.
Thursday 26th October - To Be Blunt
Gender zealot, Crispin Blunt, has been arrested on suspicion of rape.
Crispin Blunt is the Conservative MP for Reigate and the former Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global LGBT+ Rights. In 2010 Blunt separated from his wife of 20 years in order to ‘Come to terms with his homosexuality’.
He has appeared on these pages in the past over his vociferous support for gender identity ideology and his attempts to silence and smear the women who defend their sex-based rights and spaces.
In September 2020 he called for Liz Truss to be removed from her role as Minister for Women and Equalities after she spoke out against self-ID legislation.
He then attempted to stop Lisa Townsend, Surrey’s Police and Crime Commissioner, from speaking out against the harms of gender ideology. On two separate occasions, Blunt contacted her and warned her to keep quiet. Townsend says that when she refused, “He responded with something that sounded like a threat”.
Townsend then discovered that Blunt had submitted a complaint about her to the Surrey Police and Crime Panel, carping bitterly that his attempt to ‘counsel’ her into silence had been ignored and claiming that she abused her role as an elected official.
A few months later, in early 2022, Blunt was involved in Lisa Townsend being reprimanded over her sharing a comment that male rapists are not female.
Townsend had retweeted a post by JK Rowling which criticised Police Scotland’s policy of recording male rapists as female if they ‘identify as women’. Rowling wrote, “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Penised Individual Who Raped You is a Woman.” Townsend retweeted this comment with her own words, “It’s not a ‘niche’ issue, it’s not hysterical for women to be taking to the streets about it. We will not accept this gaslighting from men who keep telling us they are women, or from those who enable them.”
Three men complained about this to the Surrey Police and Crime Panel. One of those men was Crispin Blunt.
In March 2021, Blunt was forced to apologise for breaching parliamentary rules over an attempt to make a secret deal on gender self-ID legislation in collusion with trans lobby groups.
Last year Blunt repeatedly defended former Tory MP and convicted sex offender, Imran Ahmad Khan, claiming that Ahmad Khan’s conviction for sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy was ‘a serious miscarriage of justice’ and stating that he was ‘appalled and distraught’ over the verdict.
Blunt is in favour of encouraging gender confusion in children and, in 2021, together with trans activist, Sue Pascoe, he authored an article arguing for the social transition of ‘trans kids’ in schools.
We have written previously about men who use ‘trans rights’ to shill for the removal of the laws, protocols and spaces which keep women and children safe. Now that Blunt has been arrested on suspicion of rape and the possession of controlled substances, charges he denies, there might be more scrutiny for those who pour their efforts into such causes.
Friday 27th October - The Long Harm Of The Law
LEICESTER MERCURY: A trans-identified male police officer has been sacked over his abuse and smearing of gender critical campaigners on social media.
Linsay Watson was formerly known as Alexander Horwood and is originally from Kirkcaldy in Scotland. As a young man he joined the Army’s Royal Signals where, a keen bodybuilder, he excelled as a boxer, becoming his unit's welterweight champion. In 1989 he joined the British Transport Police. During the mid-90s, Watson began ‘identifying as a woman’. According to a 1996 article in The Scottish Daily Record (archived by the Free Library), he was calling himself Susan at this time. This article refers to Watson as ‘burly’ and quotes one of his then work colleagues who describes him as being ‘built like a tank’.
In 1998, as reported by The Herald, Watson took legal action against the British Transport Police when the force refused his request to ‘assume a female role’, insisting that he undergo sex reassignment surgery before he could wear a WPC’s uniform to work. The tribunal rejected Watson’s case and he was ultimately dismissed from his role as a constable. Watson then took his former union to a tribunal, claiming sex discrimination as it had failed to cover his legal expenses. Again, he was unsuccessful.
According to an article from the Scottish Daily Record (archived by The Free Library) Watson was back in court in 2000. He brought a legal case against the Military Police, claiming sexual discrimination, after he was refused a job. He told the paper, “I won't be happy until I get my job back as a police officer. When that happens I will have been accepted for what I am - a woman”.
This article also describes Watson’s attempts to pursue a career in nursing. He enrolled in Dundee as Linsay Watson and failed to disclose his true sex. “I didn't tell them that I had been a man. I shouldn't have to walk around with the label transsexual on my forehead. It is a private thing”, he said. However, Scotland’s National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting recorded his sex as male, causing Watson to leave the profession ‘in disgust’.
In 2004, an article in The Mirror reported that, by then living in Skipton in Yorkshire, Watson had joined the police force ‘as a WPC’.
This week Linsay Watson faced an accelerated gross misconduct hearing after he spent 18 months creating fake and anonymous social media accounts in order to abuse and defame gender critical campaigners with a barrage of harassment.
The hearing learned that Watson not only set up a number of anonymous Twitter accounts to hide his identity but also created false personae deliberately intended to deceive and conceal his own identity. On one account, for example, he claimed to be a retired police officer from a different force and, on another, he pretended to be a legal expert with a masters degree. Two of these fake accounts were set up after he received a formal warning for his online behaviour.
Watson constantly attempted to defame and abuse Harry Miller and the Fair Cop organisation, sending around 1,200 messages over an 18 month period. He smeared Harry as a ‘Nazi’, a ‘fascist’ and a ‘bigot’ and claimed he had a history of violence against women and against trans people. He also doctored photographs of Harry to try and support his own lies.
Watson made numerous spurious and, frankly, ludicrous allegations against both Harry and Fair Cop, including claims that they are international terrorists and guilty of both perjury and blackmail.
He also targeted gender critical writers and campaigners, Helen Joyce and Sonia Poulton.
At the hearing this week, PC Watson was found guilty of gross misconduct and dismissed without notice.
Leicestershire Police themselves are also culpable in this case; not only did the force ignore Watson’s behaviour and the complaints made against him for over a year, it appears that a senior officer tried conceal Watson’s online behaviour by advising him to use anonymous social media accounts.
Saturday 28th October - Leave Them Kids Alone #2
THE TELEGRAPH: Testimonies from the LGB Alliance conference revealed the extent to which schoolchildren are being indoctrinated into gender ideology.
Parents and former teachers spoke at the LGB Alliance conference this week, revealing some very disturbing examples of ‘activist’ school staff pushing gender woo onto their pupils.
A former history teacher at a rural state school told the conference he regretted inviting a facilitator from an LGBTQ+ charity to speak to pupils. “She [the facilitator] came in and said, ‘Are you being attacked? Are they using the right pronouns? Are you being supported? Is the bullying being taken seriously?’ The kids got whipped up and it became a whole victim thing for the pupils.”
He said he believes the rapid rise pupils questioning their gender identity is linked to the influence of social media sites where kids get drawn into trans ideology. “I’d be in a class thinking, what on earth is going on? You were a lesbian yesterday. Now you say you are a gay boy… There were very distressed children, looking for belonging, looking to understand why they feel the way they feel.”
It seems Brighton schools are particularly prone to gender ideology. One parent spoke of a young girl who had attended a school in Brighton where, thanks to her teachers’ constant ‘gender surveys’, she was groomed into believing she was a boy. “The reason I was gender confused was because we were surveyed by the teachers at least every term, if not every month. And every single one of those surveys would say, ‘Are you confused about your gender?‘ Don’t you really think you should be a boy? Are you worried you might be a boy?’”
A mother who runs PSHE Brighton, a campaign group for concerned parents, spoke of other Brighton schools awash with gender koolaid. At one, she said, 11-year-old pupils are punished for ‘misgendering’ their teacher and, at another, a teacher ‘identifies as non-binary’ and tells her pupils she is neither male nor female.
This parent also described the experience of an 11-year-old girl with gender issues. The girl’s teacher sent her to an ‘unqualified male’ who suggested she ‘try living as a boy’ and helped her to purchase a ‘penis packer’.
In July concerned parents tried to express their fears about gender ideology at a Brighton and Hove City Council meeting. Two of the parents were concerned about their own daughter who, they said, had been wearing a breast binder - a dangerous practice - to school, a fact concealed from them by their child’s teachers. (The school’s head teacher has subsequently conceded this to be the case.)
Adrian Hart, a community activist who belongs to PSHE Brighton, addressed the meeting and asked the council to respond to parental concerns about the teaching of gender ideology in the area’s schools.
Council leader, Bella Sankey, dismissed these concerns, insisting that the “Claims and accusations are baseless smears”.
Sunday 29th October - Back Door Man
THE TELEGRAPH: The Welsh government plans to redefine the word ‘woman’ in an apparent attempt to introduce gender self-ID legislation by stealth.
The Welsh government plans to introduce a ‘Gender Quotas Bill’, the purpose of which, it claims, is to increase the number of women in the Senedd. The planned law proposes that half of the candidates in any list to be members of the Senedd must be women. Sounds like a good idea, right?
However, a leaked draft of this bill suggests that, far from being positive, its effect on women’s rights could be devastating. For the purposes of the proposed legislation, the definition of ‘woman’ includes ‘transgender women’ ie males. Furthermore, the term ‘transgender’ can include “A person who is proposing to undergo, is undergoing or has undergone a process (or part of a process) for the purpose of reassigning [their] sex to female by changing physiological or other attributes of sex”.
But the proposed legislation doesn’t stop there. The draft bill also states that a constituency returning officer could not challenge or make any inquiry with regard to a statement made by a candidate. Put quite simply, any male could claim to be a woman and it will have to be accepted that he is one.
Cathy Larkman, of Women's Rights Network Wales, commented, “The Gender Quotas Bill should be about improving the representation of women on electoral lists and potentially selection for the Senedd. However, what it will actually achieve, based upon the detail of the draft Bill we have seen, is likely to be males self-identifying as women in order to greatly improve their chances of selection, and thereby muscling actual women out”.
Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales and the Leader of Welsh Labour, has made it quite clear in the past that he believes women should be forced to accept males into their sex class.
In June 2022 he decreed that women must make room for men in their sports. When questioned about trans-identified males competing in women’s events, he responded, “Transgender women are women. That’s my starting point in this debate”.
Earlier this year, at First Minister’s Questions, Laura Anne Jones MS questioned Drakeford about women’s rights.
Laura Anne Jones asked:
“Which statement from your UK Labour leader do you agree with? Do you agree that biological men can be women and therefore enter vulnerable women only spaces, changing rooms and participate in women only sports? Or, do you agree with his statement that biological women and girls rights should not be rolled back and therefore you’ll be rewriting your LGBTQ action plan, dropping your gender recognition reform plan and contracting fact based sex education in schools to reflect that?”
Mark Drakeford replied:
“I’m simply not going to get drawn into the shrill and deliberately divisive debate that the member continuously attempts to raise on the floor of the Senedd… The member and people like her spent the whole of April trying to raise these dog whistle concerns.”
And now it looks like the Welsh government is trying to sneak in self-ID law by hiding it in a totally different and seemingly innocuous piece of legislation.
Heather Binning, UK founder of the Women Rights Network, told The Daily Mail, “Attempting to bring gender self-ID in on the back of another imminent piece of legislation that purports to benefit women is devious and disingenuous”.
Has the Welsh government been reading the Dentons Document by any chance?
See you next week.
All those men are the dregs of society!
That lump who punched the woman!!!
Aghhhh thanks for your hard work as ever JL!
The Scottish Bill got challenged by Westminster so presumably the same should happen to the devious Welsh Bill if it gets passed?
One mistake- the sacking of the awful PC Watson should be in the Good News Supplement 😀
Now they need to go after the senior officer.
The 50 year old man in the swimming contest for girls is so ridiculous that it brings to mind the Monty Python sketch where John Cleese is boxing a schoolgirl!
Looking forward to the relief of the GNS
Dusty