A Week in the War on Women: Monday 11th January - Sunday 17th January
Monday 11th January - These Are Not Women’s Crimes
HULL DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male has been sentenced to 5 years in prison after trying to frame his former lover as a paedophile.
The headline reads, “Woman’s ‘Fred West’ revenge prank saw ex hounded by paedo hunters”. Just one problem; Amy Gray is not a woman.
Gray is a trans-identified male with previous convictions for sexual assault. Seeking revenge for being jilted, he hacked into his former boyfriend’s Facebook account and gave the impression the man was arranging a sexual liaison with a 14 year old. The ex-boyfriend and his new partner were then hounded by members of a vigilante gang until police intervened and discovered that Gray was the real culprit.
The newspaper article continually refers to Gray as a woman, using female pronouns throughout, and only mentions his transgender status towards the very end. This Daily Mail article does exactly the same thing.
These comments on The Daily Mail article demonstrate how important it is to report a criminal’s biological sex accurately.
Obfuscating the true sex of perpetrators like Gray affects public perception and makes fighting male violence even harder than it already is.
The independent press regulator, IPSO, is currently reviewing its transgender policies. Now might be a good time to get in touch.
Tuesday 12th January - CPS Ties To Stonewall Are To Go Unchallenged
Last year a teenage schoolgirl mounted a legal challenge to the Crown Prosecution Service having a close association with Stonewall.
The CPS is part of Stonewall's Diversity Champions Programme which, the girl’s lawyers maintained, puts it in breach of the law by failing to demonstrate impartiality.
According to Stonewall’s website, one of the key benefits of being a diversity champion is that members, such as the CPS, can “Benefit from our expertise”.
No ‘expertise’ demonstrated in this wholly inaccurate and misleading comment.
Despite appearing ignorant of women’s sex based rights, Stonewall campaigns to erase them. Its submission to the Women & Equalities Select Committee Inquiry called for the Equality Act 2010 “To include ‘gender identity’ rather than ‘gender reassignment’ as a protected characteristic and to remove exemptions, such as access to single-sex spaces”.
And this is the organisation with which our Crown Prosecution Service is so cosy.
At the hearing on Tuesday the judge decided that the judicial review should not go ahead. In a statement on this decision, Safe Schools Alliance commented:
“We are very concerned by the lack of transparency in the relationship between the CPS and Stonewall... Further, we are disgusted at the CPS’s attempt today to depart from normal practice and seek punitive damages against a 15 year old girl. We believe this is intended to have a silencing attempt on others seeking to oppose Stonewall’s anti-women and anti-safeguarding ideology.”
Wednesday 13th January - NatWest Knows Best For Trans Widows
For some reason, the NatWest Group was given an opportunity to participate in the Government’s consultation process on the reform of the Gender Recognition Act.
NatWest told the inquiry that it would be 'supportive' of removing the erroneously named ‘spousal consent’ law which protects the spouses of those wishing to transition.
In English and Welsh law marriage is a legal contract between two people of different sexes or two people of the same sex. Any change of status to the marriage contract requires agreement from both parties.
Consequently, when one partner transitions, thereby altering the contract, the other must consent to that change before a full Gender Recognition Certificate can be issued to the transitioning partner. If consent is not given, the marriage must be dissolved by divorce or annulment prior to a GRC being issued. It’s not a veto, just an opportunity for a partner to withdraw from a relationship / contract to which they never agreed.
This law is particularly important for women whose husbands transition as they are far more likely to be impacted financially and it is a vital safeguard for women whose faith or culture mean they are not able to easily exit their marriage.
Baroness Sheila Noakes, a former director at NatWest, has criticised the bank for intervening in the gender debate, saying it was not the role of large corporations to spread 'woke nonsense'.
Thursday 14th January - Data Collection & The Importance of Sex
BBC RADIO 4: Professor Alice Sullivan of UCL’s Social Research Institute described the importance of recording biological sex in data collection.
Earlier this week The Times reported on a paper produced by Roger Halliday, the Scottish government’s chief statistician, and his astonishing claim that only rarely is a person’s sex necessary in the recording of data. His draft guidelines on data collection encourage public bodies to pose questions on the basis of gender identity rather than sex, advice which appears to be upheld by an accompanying government summary.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Professor Sullivan refuted Halliday’s policy. “Those of us who use quantitative data overwhelmingly believe that sex is important. It matters across a wide range of domains: education, wages, crime, political attitudes, religion - you name it, sex is almost always a big predictor.”
Friday 15th January - This Never Happens
THE CAMBRIDGE INDEPENDENT: A trans-identified male has been jailed for charges of rape and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
49 year old Michelle Winter is a trans identified male. In May last year he raped a woman in his town of Godmanchester. The ordeal left the victim covered in bruises and now she suffers terrible nightmares.
Judge David Farrell sentenced Winter to 15 years imprisonment at Cambridge Crown Court on Friday and described him as a dangerous individual with a clear propensity to violence.
He was referred to by female pronouns throughout the court proceedings.
(Kudos and many thanks to The Cambridge Independent for their accurate reporting of Winter’s sex.)
Saturday 16th January - The Harsh Reality Of Being Female
THE SCOTSMAN: In light of recent news stories, Susan Dalgety considered the stark and inescapable reality of being born in a female body.
Dalgety highlights the report published this week on Ireland’s mother and baby homes. 56,000 young women were forced to give birth in institutions, usually operated by the Catholic Church, where conditions were frequently horrendous and infant mortality rates were heart-breakingly high.
“The harsh fact of life is that for every one of those 56,000 young women in Ireland who were treated so cruelly because of their biology, there were 56,000 men who suffered no consequence because of theirs.”
The article then considers two recent news stories concerning the Scottish government; the redefining of the word ‘woman’ to include males and chief statistician, Roger Halliday, deeming sex irrelevant in the collection of data.
“The economic and cultural oppression of women and girls throughout history and across the world is predicated on biology... If sex no longer matters when collecting data for public services, then the distinct needs of women and girls – rooted in our biology – can be ignored, just as those 56,000 Irish girls were hidden away for the sin of being female. Is that really the kind of country the Scottish government wants?”
Sunday 17th January - Mouncey’s Unsporting Demands
THE DAILY MAIL: Trans-identified male, Hannah Mouncey, is suing the Australian Football League because it barred him from playing on women’s teams.
Mouncey, who weighs over 15 stone and stands 6 foot 2 inches tall, played on the Australian men’s handball team before ‘identifying as a woman’ and embarking on hormone treatment in 2016. He then switched to the women’s national team and competed in the 2018 Asian women’s handball championship.
Mouncey also turned his attention to Australian football, the women’s league, of course. But he was barred from playing in the women’s game in 2018 because his testosterone levels were too high. In 2019 he was prevented from competing because he refused a request to use separate changing and bathroom facilities. (Imagine those silly women not wanting to shower or change with a male!)
In recent years there have been a number of high-profile studies and papers, all of which demonstrate unequivocally that trans-identified males retain their physical advantages over women ever after transition and hormone treatment.
Nevertheless, Mouncey is still suing the AFL because he’s determined to play on a women’s team. But that’s male entitlement for you.
See you next week.
The netball picture of Mouncey is so powerful. Those women are oppressed by their own religion/culture which mandates their wearing of headscarves, even when competing in sport. And by Western culture which doesn't protect them from competing against biological men.
Ugh. That Mouncey guy. I've read about him before--he seems like a real jerk. Maybe he and American 'Gabrielle' Ludwig can start their own sports team for giants and leave women alone.