Monday 21st June - Faster Higher Stronger Cheater
BBC NEWS: It has been confirmed that trans-identified male, Laurel (née Gavin) Hubbard has been selected for the New Zealand women’s Olympic weightlifting team.
Writing in The Times, sports scientist, Ross Tucker, summed up the situation.
"The IOC requires a trans woman to reduce testosterone levels to below 10 nmol/L for 12 months to be eligible for women’s competition…
Is there any evidence that the required testosterone reduction removes the biological differences that create male performance advantages? The short answer is no. In 13 longitudinal studies tracking trans women who undergo testosterone suppression for more than a year, measures such as total mass, bone density, muscle mass and muscle strength are either unchanged, or removed by only a fraction of the initial male vs female advantage."
Also Today - “What Are You Gonna Do, Susan?”
Huge thanks to BerlinRadFem for bringing this Tik-Tok video to our attention.
In it, a trans-identified male gloats with obvious delight about telling his boss he has period pain so that he can leave work and her being powerless to challenge him.
“You gonna call me a liar? Nah, baby. That’s a hate crime and HR is gonna hear about this. What are you gonna say, Susan? Whatever you’re about to say already sounds transphobic. I’m going home. There’s nothing you can do about it.”
Tuesday 22nd June - The Process Is The Punishment
WOMAN’S PLACE UK: Feminist thought is being policed in the workplace.
Two years ago Lisa McKenzie gave up her job as the policy officer for the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) because her belief in the reality of biological sex provoked a breach of contract investigation and an intrusion into her life outside work.
In Spring 2019, her interest in the debate around gender identity ideology and women’s rights led to McKenzie co-authoring a paper on the implications of self ID legislation. At work she completed the necessary ‘declaration of interest’ paperwork, detailing the projects she was undertaking. She sent her manager a draft of the paper she had co-authored prior to its publication.
In June 2019, only a week after sending the draft article to her manager, McKenzie was asked to attend an urgent meeting. There she was told that she was being investigated for potential disciplinary action due to breach of contract and for failing to adhere to the declaration of interest policy. Fearing for her job, she removed her name from the article prior to its publication.
She was interviewed by a member of the RCN’s Governance and questioned about her activities outside of her job. Eventually, she was informed that disciplinary action would not be taken but that she was to enter into discussions with her line manager regarding the ‘management’ of her external work.
For the next six weeks she had numerous meetings with her manager. Despite her asking repeatedly, she was never afforded an explanation as to which of her views were problematic for the RCN. Finally, her manager suggested she should reflect on her ‘values’ - ie her belief that women are disadvantaged and discriminated against due to their sex - and their compatibility with the RCN’s equality and diversity policy. At this point, McKenzie handed in her notice.
“The two and a half month period during which I was under investigation and then subject to a vague and intrusive process to ‘manage’ my external work was the most stressful experience of my twenty-year plus working life… I know that many other women have had similar problems with their employers. I am deeply concerned that women are being harassed in their workplaces or hounded out of their jobs because of their views on women’s rights.”
Wednesday 23rd June - Big Brother At Auntie Beeb
On Wednesday the BBC’s Moral Maze discussed Laurel Hubbard’s inclusion in Olympic women’s weightlifting.
The ‘witnesses’ who appeared comprised two men and two trans-identified males. Not one woman was included on the panel.
One of the guests, Joanna Harper, a trans-identified male runner and PhD researcher, had already spoken at great length on Radio 4 earlier in the day when he appeared on Woman’s Hour. Although, refreshingly, host Emma Barnett did challenge his position - which seems to be ‘yeah, it’s probably unfair but who cares?’ - there was no other guest on the programme to offer an alternative perspective.
Dr Emma Hilton, a developmental biologist and co-author of a study on the performance advantage of transgender women in sport, had been invited to speak on the programme and was perfectly prepared to do so. They never phoned her back.
This week The Mail on Sunday published an item about trans activists at the BBC demanding to ‘vet transgender news stories’ on Radio 4’s Today programme.
Following Justin Webb’s interview with Benjamin Cohen a few weeks ago, BBC's Pride Board now wants to be involved in the production of the programme.
The minutes of a Pride Board meeting held only eight days after the Webb/Cohen item show that a 'diversity and inclusion' officer encouraged staff to complain about it. Staff were also instructed to approach the programme’s editor about being involved in Today’s commissioning meetings and editorial processes.
Furthermore, according to The Mail, the BBC has arranged for some stars to receive training on gender identity, pronoun use and 'challenges for the trans community'. The training will be conducted by trans lobby group, Global Butterflies, about whom we’ve written previously.
Thursday 24th June - Labour Losing Women
THE MORNING STAR: The Labour Women’s Declaration group describe their concerns about the handling of the Labour Party women’s conference.
Firstly, there was a great deal of confusion regarding the organisation of the conference; deadlines were unclear and subject to alteration, CLPs were either ignorant of or failed to pass on information, there were issues with ballots and women’s forums/branches were given little time to put forward delegates and motions.
Furthermore, the groups known to be critical of gender identity ideology, Lesbian Labour and Labour Women’s Declaration, were prevented from holding fringe events.
“It is hard not to have a suspicion that this choice was a deliberate way of excluding us. Such a suspicion is given considerable force by the fact that the chair of the women’s conference arrangements committee [Teresa Clark] retweeted an attack on LWD, saying that we should be boycotted and denounced as ‘Terfs’. She then blocked not only LWD but anyone who ‘liked’ the responses we made.
If the chair of the women’s conference arrangements committee cannot be inclusive of women members, it is hard to believe that the women’s conference will hear our voices.”
Friday 25th June - It’s Called Feminism For A Reason
The National Organisation for Women (NOW) is a group based in Washington DC whose purpose is (supposedly) championing women’s rights.
On Friday it tweeted to its 108k+ followers that ‘Trans women are women’ and that ‘An intersectional feminist agenda includes trans women’.
No they’re not and no it doesn’t.
Feminism is exclusively for, about and determined by females. ‘Intersectional feminism’, a term first used by Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, recognises that barriers to sex equality overlap with other areas of discrimination such as race, ethnicity, class, age, and religion. But the concept has been hijacked by gender ideologues to try and enforce a feminism that includes males.
NOW also posted an article which dictates five ways in which feminism must be more ‘trans inclusive’:
Trans women are women because being a woman is all about inner feelings.
Women and girls must allow males into their spaces, including bathrooms and changing rooms, and their sports otherwise they’re nasty bigots.
Not accepting that males can be women is the same as racism.
Males must be put in charge of the women’s political movement.
The struggles of women of colour are the same as males performing womanhood.
There was no mention of transmen, actual females who will always be included in feminism, in this brave new ‘intersectional’ world.
Saturday 26th June - “Both Sides”
At Saturday’s Trans Pride event in London, kids and vulnerable dysphoric people were offered advice on accessing cross-sex hormones without essential medical care.
Misogyny and the murder of women were being openly celebrated.
Over in Paris, a group of lesbians at a Pride rally were physically assaulted for protesting their right to be same-sex attracted.
In Spain, feminists throughout the country held legal demonstrations to protest against the proposed self ID legislation that would devastate women’s rights if passed.
Even prior to the event, trans activists had threatened sabotage and to organise contra-demonstrations in the same areas. They made good on their promise and not only crashed the protests but physically attacked a number of the women taking part.
At the rally in Murcia, feminist artist, Laura Strego, was assaulted so violently she had to seek hospital treatment for her injuries.
And look who turned up in Barcelona.
Remember him?
Sunday 27th June - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE TELEGRAPH: CBBC and the NSPCC are grooming children into believing that they’re trans, according to one mother who speaks from experience.
The mother told the paper that, as a child, her son said he was gay, eschewed traditionally male pursuits and was consequently bullied at school.
She said that the focus on gender identity at his school, online and in the media persuaded him that he is transgender and he’s been sent down a pathway to medical transition within weeks of attending an NHS gender identity clinic.
When he ‘came out’ as trans, aged 14, he used the ‘stock phrases’ employed by Stonewall whose ‘guidance’ is used at his school. The mother also blames the influence of CBBC (we’ve written about the BBC’s gender agenda in the past) and the NSPCC whose online content her son watched prior to deciding he is trans.
“The influences are everywhere”, she told The Telegraph. “Who knew that you had to protect your children from CBBC or Childline?”
See you next week.
Contrary to popular belief, misogyny has always been hiding in plain sight in the hard left of the Labour Party; now it's just ended the pretence of hiding.
You won't find a more obnoxious misogynist than Gerry Healy.
Jeezus that was a depressing read - I dont understand why any self respecting women is still paying for membership of the Labour party when they cant be clearer how much they hate us - and Cohen's interview must never be repeated so must always have a the cult in charge of any T shite broadcast?