A Week in the War on Women: Monday 14th February - Sunday 20th February
Monday 14th February - To Zie, With Love
THE TELEGRAPH: The UK’s leading education union hosted an online training event that encouraged schools to dismiss and ignore biological sex.
The National Education Union (NEU) is the largest education union in the UK and represents almost half a million members.
It funded and hosted a webinar training session called ‘Getting the language right for 2022’ that was provided by LGBTQ+ charity, Educate & Celebrate. According to its own website, Educate & Celebrate supplies training “To embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric of your organisation”.
The 90 minute training session was led by Elly Barnes, Educate and Celebrate’s founder and CEO. She pushed for a ‘gender free model’ in education and advised teachers to dispense with terms such as ‘boys’, ‘girls’, ‘son’ and mother’, replacing them with ‘gender neutral’ alternatives such as ‘pupils’, ‘child’ and ‘parent’. She also said that students should not such refer to teachers as ‘Miss’, ‘Mrs’ or ‘Mr’ but should use ‘teacher’ or ‘headteacher’ followed by a surname.
One attendee told The Telegraph that Barnes instructed teachers to ask pupils for their chosen pronouns. She described the session as ‘propaganda for trans activists’ and commented, “Teachers will take what this woman says as fact because the training was organised by the NEU and they’re not going to question their union”.
Barnes has been peddling gender woo to schools for years. In 2016 she drew up ‘trans’ guidelines for boarding schools in England and Wales, advocating the erasure of all sex-specific language, even in single-sex schools. She also encouraged the use of a child’s chosen pronouns, including ‘gender neutral’ versions such as ‘zie’.
In 2020 Barnes addressed the Irish National Teachers Organisation Conference in Wexford. In this clip of video on Streamja she can be heard advising teachers to keep parents in the dark about ‘this work’.
“We’ve had to have parent consultations. The only advice I can give you around that is don’t send a letter home to say you’re about to embark on this work. That’s the worst thing you can do. Don’t hold a parents’ meeting. You don’t want 30 parents shouting at you. Who wants that in their life?”
And look which other organisation has been lapping up Elly Barnes’ particular brand of instruction.
Tuesday 15th February - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE DAILY MAIL: A Church of England school threatened to brand a six-year-old boy as transphobic if he did not validate his classmate’s new ‘gender identity’.
Nigel and Sally Rowe who live on the Isle of Wight removed their two children from a Church of England primary school due to its ‘transgender guidelines’. A little boy in the same class as their six-year-old son had begun ‘identifying as a girl’. His new ‘gender identity’ was affirmed by the school and he was permitted to wear a skirt and use a new name and new pronouns etc. This greatly confused the Rowes’ son as he could not understand how a boy can suddenly become a girl.
The Rowes received a letter from the boy’s headteacher and the chair of school governors, threatening that their 6-year-old son would be deemed transphobic if he demonstrated “An inability to believe a transgender person is actually a ‘real’ female or male”. Failure to use the new name and preferred pronouns of a trans person would also be deemed ‘transphobic behaviour’. Furthermore, the letter stated that the Rowes themselves would be deemed to be transphobic if they refused to accept this position.
The Rowes, who now home-school their children, have been granted permission for a judicial review of the Cornwall Schools Transgender Guidance. A hearing will take place later this year.
Educators tried to bully a six-year-old boy into lying, ignoring his instincts and suppressing the evidence of his own eyes and ears. When did it become acceptable to gaslight primary school children and contradict every safeguarding protocol they’ve previously been taught? The emperor is truly naked.
Wednesday 17th February - This Never Happens
CBC NEWS: A 22-year-old male has pleaded guilty to filming a female student in ‘gender neutral’ bathroom facilities on a university campus.
Sari Siyam, who studies at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus, admitted filming a female student in a ‘gender neutral’ bathroom. He pleaded guilty to one count of voyeurism in the BC Supreme Court on Friday.
The victim caught Siyam filming her in March 2020 when she saw the camera on his iPhone pointing at her from underneath the stall divider. Siyam later admitted to filming another 5 or 6 students in the same way the previous day.
This is why women need single-sex facilities.
Thursday 17th February - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
Fair Play For Women have, for the moment, failed in their judicial review. The Scottish Court of Session has ruled in favour of the Scottish Government with regard to the ‘sex question’ on the forthcoming 2022 Scottish census.
In September 2021 National Records Scotland (NRS) confirmed that respondents to Scotland’s 2022 census will be able to answer the question about sex based on self-identification, not reality.
Participants can complete the male/female question according to their self-declared gender identity, regardless of their biological sex or legal status. The guidance notes advise that, “If you’re transgender the answer you give can be different from what is on your birth certificate. You do not need a gender recognition certificate”. Following the question on sex, there will also be a voluntary question about transgender status.
Fair Play For Women brought a legal action to oppose this policy.
Despite EHRC intervention and FPFW having been successful in a similar case against the ONS last year, The Scottish Court of Session has sided with the Scottish government in allowing the census to be completed dishonestly.
Fair Play For Women are appealing this decision and will be back in court on Wednesday. You can donate to their legal crowdfunder here.
Friday 18th February - These Are Not Our Crimes
THE DAILY RECORD: A male sex offender who now claims a trans identity has pleaded guilty to exposing himself, using a sex toy and masturbating in public.
Andrew McNab is a former soldier who was convicted of sexually assaulting a pre-teenage schoolgirl in 2011.
He now calls himself Chloe Thompson and claims to ‘identify as a woman’.
This week he pleaded guilty to exposing his penis, using a sex toy and masturbating in public. He committed these ‘grossly offensive’ acts in broad daylight and in view of members of the public, including three children. He has 17 previous convictions and was still under a suspended sentence order at the time of committing these crimes.
Both The Daily Record and Teeside Live describe McNab as a woman and refer to him with female pronouns. Both reports contain the phrase ‘exposing her penis’.
According to Reduxx, McNab had a profile on dating app, Badoo, claiming to be a lesbian.
Saturday 19th February - This Never Happens
REDUXX: A convicted sex offender is demanding to be removed from the state sex offender registry, claiming that his inclusion is transphobic.
A convicted male paedophile has taken legal action to remove his name from the Wisconsin sex offender registry.
In 2016 the man, known only as ‘Ella’ in court documents, pinned down and sexually assaulted a 15-year-old boy who is partially sighted and has autism. Department of Corrections records show that, despite being a juvenile, ‘Ella’ was 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 345 lbs at the time of the attack. ‘Ella’ was convicted of one count of sexual assault of a child under 16 years of age and one count of disorderly conduct.
‘Ella’ subsequently developed a new ‘gender identity’ and now claims to ‘identify as a woman’. He has filed a lawsuit claiming that being listed on the Wisconsin state sex offender registry violates his Eighth Amendment rights and prohibits him from exercising his ‘right to self-expression as being a female’.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court debated the case earlier this week but a decision is not expected for several months.
Sunday 20th February - Taking Names
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Activists at Cardiff University have tried to silence and intimidate academic staff concerned about links with Stonewall.
Sixteen academics at Cardiff University signed a letter asking the university to review its association with Stonewall. They are concerned about Stonewall’s ‘no debate’ policy and its effect on freedom of speech on campus.
Their letter prompted a demonstration at the university where protesters circulated leaflets featuring the names and photos of the signatories. One leaflet, titled Act Now, warned that no one could be “A transphobic prick without repercussions” and included an illustration of a smiling woman aiming a gun.
Also Today - Sting In The Tale
THE INDEPENDENT: A Facebook executive is no longer in his post following allegations that he was ‘caught’ by an amateur paedophile sting operation.
35-year-old Jeren Miles was the head of global community development at Facebook/Meta. However, it has been officially confirmed that he left his post this week after news reports emerged alleging that he communicated with someone he believed to be an underage boy. (It is not known whether he left of his own volition or was forcibly removed from his role.)
The story, first broken by Andy Ngô, suggests that Miles fell prey to an amateur vigilante group that exposes sex offenders. ‘Predator Catchers Indianapolis’ live-streamed footage on YouTube in which, it is alleged, Miles admits to sending sexually explicit texts to and ‘flirting’ with someone he believed to be a 13-year-old. The group claims that Miles arranged a rendezvous with the boy at his hotel and that this is where and how they intercepted him.
Prior to these allegations emerging, Miles was on the board of directors at LGBTQ+ group, Equality California. As such, he was a signatory to a letter that was sent to West Hollywood City Council and pressed for the installation of ‘gender neutral’ bathrooms.
It must be noted that Miles has not been arrested for or charged with any crime and it remains to be seen what, if any, legal ramifications there will be arising from this story. The allegations against him are just that; allegations.
But whenever we read a story such as this, it’s hard not to see a pattern emerging. So many of the men who seek to dismantle basic safeguarding protocols, such as sex-specific spaces and boundaries, seem to have ulterior motives for doing so.
Gender ideology provides predatory males with the perfect Trojan horse. And it gives predatory males and their enablers in big tech corps the perfect tool with which silence the non-compliant women who seek to shine a light on their behaviour.
See you next week.
Thanks so much for finding the clip of Elly Barnes (Educate and Celebrate) talking about circumventing parents. I knew it existed but couldn't find it. As I said before, she at least appeared to good work addressing homophobia as a music teacher in my local Secondary School in the early 2000's; won awards; was feted and then left to earn ££ as a 'Consultant'. Can't bear the smugness and sanctimony of her 'we know best' attitude, and its reflection in now touting total lies about gender identity and 'trans children.
Those guilty of targeting the cardiff academics need investigation and consequences...I really hope they are not allowed to get away with it...they are arresting women for expressing safe guarding concerns and stickers but these kids are allowed to intimidate and threaten with pics of guns...makes me want to scream with frustration! Why is no-one with the power and authority to do so doing anything about this utter obvious ludicracy!!