A Week in the War on Women: Monday 5th December - Sunday 11th December
Monday 5th December - Follow The Money
THE TIMES: Five of the six organisations which rushed to defend the SNP’s gender bill are in receipt of Scottish government funding.
A few weeks ago, Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur for violence against women and girls, wrote a damning condemnation of the Scottish government’s gender reform bill in a scathing 4,500 word letter. She described the proposed legislation as ‘a danger to women’ and said it was open to abuse by predators.
Six charities then wrote to Alsalem attempting to defend the bill. This letter was signed by Engender, Scottish Women’s Rights Centre, Rape Crisis Scotland, JustRight Scotland, Scottish Women’s Aid and Amnesty International Scotland.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that five of the six organisations which leapt to the defence of the SNP gender reform bill have received funding from the Scottish government in recent years. Of the five signatories, only Amnesty International Scotland has not trousered any government cash.
When the Scottish Conservatives made public this information, Shona Robison, the SNP minister responsible for overseeing the gender reform bill, described it as a ‘disgraceful smear’.
Reporting the truth is a smear now? Under his aye.
Also Today - The Clocks Are Striking 13 At The Guardian
BBC RADIO 4: Journalist, Hadley Freeman, told BBC’s Woman’s Hour about the censorship of gender related content at The Guardian.
Former Guardian journalist, Hadley Freeman, explained why she left the paper and described the ‘atmosphere of fear’ which has governed its coverage - or rather its lack of coverage - on gender issues.
Freeman says that she was specifically instructed not to write about gender related issues by a member of senior management who also told her that only men, not women should, not write on the subject.
Her repeated requests to report on the unfolding Mermaids scandal were refused, even after the expose in The Telegraph. Freeman and multiple other reporters were prevented from interviewing gender critical campaigners such as Maya Forstater, Jess de Waals and Allison Bailey while, at the same time, The Guardian published ‘glowing profiles’ of trans activists such as Munroe Bergdorf and Paris Lees. Similarly, gender critical authors such as Abigail Shrier and Helen Joyce were ignored while the paper published reviews of and extracts from numerous trans memoirs etc.
Freeman said she was told by a colleague that lobby group, All About Trans, had visited the Guardian in her absence. In a presentation to staff, the group had used two articles Freeman had written as examples of transphobia. One of these articles was about author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the other discussed misogynistic men using trans activism as a means to abuse and silence women. When Freeman asked the HR department to take action over this slur, her request was refused.
“Only one side of the argument demands censorship” she said, describing the fear which pervades not just The Guardian but other left-leaning and progressive organisations and prevents people from speaking out against the claims made by gender activists. Freeman pointed specifically at Stonewall and its conflating of trans activism with gay rights, thus propagating the notion that anyone contradicting gender ideology is a homophobe.
“There is this fear on the left, particularly in progressive circles, of getting it wrong because the worst thing to be would be a bigot. My personal feeling is if you have fear, if you are scared of saying what is literally in front of you, if you’re scared of voicing doubts because of what people in the office might say, because of what strangers online might say, then you probably shouldn’t be a journalist.”
Also Today - “Both Sides”
A group of women protesting the housing of males in women’s prisons were physically attacked by trans activists in California.
A group of women gathered outside the Alameda County Court House on Monday to protest against the possible housing of triple murderer, trans-identified male, Dana Rivers, in a women’s prison.
After speaking on the courthouse steps the women moved on to a nearby park. There they were attacked by masked Antifa activists who had followed them from the courthouse. Black-clad trans activists ripped away and stole the women’s signs and threw eggs and other foodstuffs at them.
Kara Dansky was physically attacked and hit in the face by a raw egg. She described what had happened in The Post Millennial. “All of a sudden, without any provocation at all, a group of men came toward us and shoved an open umbrella into my body… I got hit in the head by a raw egg. And I've got egg dripping all down my shirt inside and outside”.
Tuesday 6th December - A Level Playing Field
THE GUARDIAN: Sport New Zealand has ruled that simply ‘self-identifying’ as a woman is sufficient for any male to compete in women’s sport at a community level.
Sport New Zealand has published its new guidelines on ‘transgender participation’. This policy allows individuals to participate in sport as their ‘self determined gender’ rather than their sex. “It does not ask people to prove or otherwise justify their gender, sex or gender identity”.
Furthermore, SNZ said that community sport leaders must demonstrate their commitment to trans inclusion by using pronouns in their email signatures and other communications and by appointing inclusion officers.
This policy also dictates that changing rooms and shower facilities should be altered in order to accommodate ‘all genders’ and that it may be necessary to remove urinals from bathroom to make them ‘gender neutral’. In addition, gender-specific uniforms must be redesigned in order to accommodate ‘different body types and shapes’.
In other words, males wanting to bully their way into female sport must be pandered to at all times but women’s safety, comfort and inclusion is of no importance.
This news comes just days after US Rowing issued its new policy allowing trans-identified males to compete on women’s teams.
Not only does US Rowing’s new policy allow athletes to compete based on their ‘gender identity’ instead of their sex, it also allows for them to do so by stealth: “If an athlete wishes to change gender identity as listed in the membership profile in order to participate in an activity in a manner consistent with their gender identity, all discussion and documentation will be kept confidential, and any proceedings will be sealed unless the athlete makes these records available.”
You will notice that simply ‘identifying as a woman’ is enough qualification for a male to enter female events and no there is no minimum requirement of participants ‘assigned as female at birth’ for women’s boat entries.
However, for the category in which males might be affected by this self-ID policy, boat entries require 50% of the athletes to be biologically female. It appears US Rowing are happy to throw women overboard except when doing so might result in it disadvantaging men.
Also Today - This Never Happens
EDMONTON SUN: A social worker claims she was sacked from her job after raising concerns about a trans-identified male who is a convicted murderer.
Harvey Marcelin is an 84-year-old trans-identified male who has served time for killing two women. In March this year, he was arrested a third time following the discovery of dismembered female body parts.
In 1963 Marcelin was convicted of shooting and killing his girlfriend, Jacqueline Bonds, at their home. He was sentenced to 20 years to life. Following his parole in 1984, he killed another girlfriend, stabbing her to death and dumping her body. He was convicted of first-degree manslaughter. Despite telling a parole hearing that he has ‘a problem with women’, he was released from prison in 2019.
In March 2022 Marcelin was arrested in connection with the death of another woman, Susan Leyden. It is believed that she was last seen alive entering his apartment on 27th February. Dismembered body parts were subsequently discovered in areas very close to Marcelin’s address. According to The Daily Mail, a human head and electrical saws were discovered in Marcelin’s home and he was allegedly caught on surveillance cameras discarding of human remains.
Monica Archer was a social worker who worked at George Daly House, a short-term housing shelter for elderly residents in New York. She has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, claiming that she was dismissed after trying to voice her concerns over Harvey Marcelin being a resident.
Marcelin was accommodated in the shelter earlier this year shortly prior to his arrest for the murder of Susan Leyden. While he was there Archer says that he made constant threats to kill her and other staff members and began following her home after she left work in the evening and she claims that he had a firearm on the premises.
She tried raising her concerns with her employers, suggesting that Marcelin be transferred to a facility specializing in mental health disorders where his issues could better be properly dealt with. She was ignored.
Consequently, still troubled by Marcelin’s ‘dangerous’ and ‘erratic’ behaviour, Archer filed a complaint against George Daly House with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration. It was then, she alleges, that her employers retaliated by putting her on janitorial duty and refusing to allow her to work remotely. Several months later, Archer was fired from her job for insubordination. She believes her sacking was in punishment for raising concerns about Marcelin.
On 4th March, just one week after moving out of the shelter, Marcelin was arrested for Susan Leyden’s murder and dismemberment. Susan Leyden had been a fellow resident of Marcelin’s at George Daly House.
Wednesday 7th December - Today Of All Days
REDUXX: A Canadian college deemed a trans-identified male to be the most appropriate person to speak at an event commemorating victims of femicide.
The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada is 6th December. Parliament inaugurated this date in 1991 in order to commemorate the female victims of a senseless massacre two years earlier.
On 6th December 1989, a man called Marc Lépine walked into a mechanical engineering class at Montreal’s École Polytechnique with a semi-automatic rifle. He separated the men from the women and then instructed the men to leave. He declared that he was ‘fighting feminism’ and opened fire on the nine women who remained. He killed six of them.
Lépine then wandered the building for 20 minutes, targeting and shooting women. He murdered a further eight women before finally killing himself. His page-long suicide note made clear that his barbaric actions had been motivated purely by his hatred of women. “Feminists have always enraged me. I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker.”
Thirty-three years later, on the anniversary of this tragedy, Durham College in Ontaria had the breath-taking effrontery to tweet that the victims ‘self-identified women’. What an unbearable insult. It’s extremely unlikely that, in 1989, long before the madness of gender ideology swept the county, these women had any sort of self-declared ‘gender identity’. Most importantly, no ‘gender identity’ would have made any difference to their murderer who despised and raged against them specifically because they were female.
To exacerbate this barb, Durham College then decided that the best person to speak at an event supposedly in honour of Lépine’s female victims is a male.
Fae ‘She/They’ Johnstone describes himself as ‘trans feminine and non-binary’. But he’s a man. He is the Executive Director and co-owner of Wisdom2Action, a ‘consulting firm’ with a focus on the ‘2SLGBTQ+ community’. He is listed on the company’s website as a “Public speaker, consultant, educator and community organizer on unceded, unsurrended Algonquin territory”.
Johnstone gave a keynote address at Durham College as part of the school’s National Day of Remembrance Ceremony.
What an insult to the women murdered by a man who hated feminists, that the principal speaker at their memorial was a man who hates feminists.
In response to the criticism of his appearance at Durham College, Johnstone attacked those protesting his presence as ‘disgusting’ and ‘deluded’. He claimed that, had he been in the École Polytechnique on that fateful day, he too would have been gunned down by Marc Lépine.
To exploit a memorial for murdered women as validation for your ‘gender identity’ is pretty low. But to appropriate their deaths and claim hypothetical victimhood is beyond vile.
Women cannot have anything of our own that males like Johnstone will not take from us. Not even a few moments of solemnity in which to remember our sisters, killed by a man that despised us all.
Thursday 8th December - These Are Not Our Crimes
RIVERFRONT TIMES: A trans-identified male rapist and murderer is ‘identifying as a woman’ in what appears to be an attempt to escape the death penalty.
In November 2003 Scott McLaughlin ambushed 45-year-old Beverly Guenther in the car park outside her place of work. He raped her, stabbed her to death and then dumped her body near the banks of the Mississippi River in St Louis.
Guenther had, for a brief time, been McLaughlin’s girlfriend. But she had come to fear him to such an extent that she was forced to take out a number of restraining orders against him.
In 2006 McLaughlin was found guilty of first-degree murder and forcible rape and sentenced to the death penalty. He tried, unsuccessfully, to appeal his sentence on numerous occasions. In 2016 he was granted a stay of execution but this was rescinded by a Federal Appeals Court in 2021.
Recently, McLaughlin has begun ‘identifying as a woman’ and calling himself Amber. In December 2021 mugshots of him were released in which he looks very different from previous photographs; he is now feminized in appearance, wearing make-up, nail polish and long hair.
McLaughlin’s new ‘gender identity’ seems to be a dominant factor in the reporting of his forthcoming execution, scheduled for 3rd January 2023. Media outlets are referring to him with female pronouns and pretending that he could be the “First woman’ to be executed in Missouri since 1976”.
Of course, we can understand the desperation and fear felt by anyone on ‘death row’ and sympathise with their plight. But male violence is male violence and should always be reported as such, however vehemently one may oppose the penalty it has incurred. McLaughlin is a man who raped and murdered a woman and under no circumstances should we ever pretend otherwise.
Friday 9th December - Dire Man Sam
LGBTQ NATION: In the wake of a second felony charge, journalist Wayne Besen examines Sam Briton’s rise to prominence in LGBTQ activism.
34-year-old Sam Brinton serves under the Biden administration and was appointed the Department Of Energy's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in February 2022. He is bisexual, uses they/them pronouns and ‘identifies’ as ‘non-binary’ / ‘gender fluid’. He is known for his ‘kink lifestyle’ and openly discusses his various fetishes - which include BDSM, pup play, diaper play, adult babies, humiliation and choking - at universities and events all over the US.
Until very recently, Brinton was the they/them du jour of US politics and wielded considerable influence both at LGBT organisations and within the government. He was a nuclear waste adviser during the Trump administration and, speaking at an event in 2020, he bragged that his work in nuclear engineering gave him an opportunity to influence political decision-making.
In 2019 Brinton was appointed as the head of advocacy and government affairs at The Trevor Project which describes itself as “The world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning) young people”. He’s also worked with National Centre for Lesbian Rights.
A prominent trans activist, he is a vehement supporter of the affirmation-only model for dysphoric children. He is one of the people driving US ‘conversion therapy’ legislation. He conflates sexuality with gender identity to push vulnerable children and teens towards medicalisation and irreversible surgery.
Since his first coming to public attention in 2010, Brinton promoted himself as a conversion therapy survivor and claims to have suffered barbaric experiences in childhood after telling his parents about his bisexuality.
However, LGBT rights journalist Wayne Besen, has written an article in LGBTQ Nation questioning the veracity of Brinton’s story and censuring the organisations which were so quick to make him their darling. He points out various inconsistencies in Brinton’s story and suggests it could have been ‘contrived or embellished’ in order for him to achieve celebrity by becoming part of ‘the upper echelons of LGBTQ+ activism’.
In recent months Brinton has been twice accused of stealing women’s suitcases from airports and he now faces two felony charges.
Besen comments, “While this is a personal calamity for Brinton, the fallout faced by the LGBTQ+ community could have easily been avoided. The red flags regarding Brinton were overwhelming and obvious to all who cared to see them. Unfortunately, some of America’s top LGBTQ+ activists and organizations were willfully blind to Brinton’s shortcomings… While these advocates were well-intentioned, they took a shortcut, looked the other way, and elevated them [sic] without ever asking: Is Sam Brinton’s story too good to be true?”
Saturday 10th December - The Clocks Were Striking 13 On Campus
THE TIMES: UCU Edinburgh staff are trying to prevent the screening of a film which examines the effect of gender ideology on women’s rights.
A group called Reality Matters has produced a documentary film which examines the clash between women’s rights and trans ideology. Human Adult Female explains how gender identity ideology erases women’s rights, safety and spaces. It features contributions from Rebekah Wershbale of KPSS, Professor Jo Phoenix, novelist, Simon Edge, Shonagh Dillon, Karen Ingala Smith, Lisa Mackenzie of MurrayBlackburnMackenzie, Joan Smith, Jane Clare Jones, Shereen Benjamin and Sarah Survivor.
Obviously, trans activists don’t want anyone to see it.
The film is due to be screened on Wednesday evening at Edinburgh University’s George Square Theatre with a post-film Q&A session and discussion.
Edinburgh’s UCU, university and college union, is ‘appalled’ that the university has sanctioned the film screening and is trying to shut it down.
Posting a hyperbolic statement on social media, the UCU accused the film of containing transphobic language and spreading misinformation. It claimed that the film screening will “Endanger trans people on campus and beyond, erasing their identities and encouraging hateful portrayals”.
These wild accusations are, of course, denied by the film-makers and indicative that the UCU has no knowledge of the content they’re so determined to ban.
UCU Edinburgh also alleges that the film will be “Detrimental’ to the safety and wellbeing of LBGT staff” and is demanding that the university cancel the screening.
If you want to see the film for yourself, all the necessary details are here.
This week The Telegraph reported on newly published guidance which ‘urges Britain’s universities to silence gender-critical speakers’.
The report was written by Daragh ‘He/His’ Murray and Emily ‘She/Her’ Jones, both academics at the University of Essex, and David Renton, a barrister at Garden Court Chambers.
You will remember that the University of Essex no-platformed two feminist speakers, Professors Jo Phoenix and Rosa Freedman, in 2020 and subsequently faced scathing criticism over its relationship with Stonewall in Akua Reindorf’s independent review.
Garden Court Chambers, of course, was at the centre of Allison Bailey’s successful employment tribunal and was found to have discriminated against her because of her gender critical views.
This new report produced by Murray, Jones and Renton claims to “Explain to students, lecturers and other university staff” how free speech legislation operates in relation to ‘transgender debates’. It asserts that universities are entitled to cancel events involving gender-critical speakers because they could ‘contaminate student life for hundreds if not thousands of people’.
Dr Bryn Harris, the chief legal counsel at the Free Speech Union, told The Telegraph: “This paper ought to come with a prominent disclaimer, ideally along the lines of ‘Ignore this paper – it’s largely wrong’”.
Sunday 11th December - Literally Hitler
THE TIMES: An NHS Scotland policy likens women concerned about female-only wards to racism and homophobia and advocates gaslighting and lying to patients.
An NHS Ayrshire and Arran policy, ‘Supporting Trans Service Users’, has come under fire due to its treatment of women who express concerns about trans-identified males being accommodated on single sex wards.
If a woman has concerns over sharing a ward with a trans-identified male, this policy erroneously compares the situation to racism and homophobia. It states, “If a white woman complained to a nurse about sharing a ward with a black patient or a heterosexual male complained about being in a ward with a gay man, we would expect our staff to act in a manor that deals with the expressed behaviour immediately.”
The policy also instructs staff to gaslight and lie to patients over the sex of the people with whom they’re sharing their sleeping accommodation. Should a female patient complain about a male on their ward, nurses are told to ‘reiterate’ to them, “That the ward is indeed female only and that there are no men present”. It continues, “Ultimately it may be the complainant who is required to be removed.”
Furthermore, the policy also contradicts current legislation by claiming that “Patients with the protected characteristic of gender reassignment are protected by law in terms of their rights to receive care that meets their current gender identity”. However, The Equality Act 2010 specifically allows for single sex spaces in the provision of services such as hospital accommodation.
Dr Kath Murray of Murray Blackburn Mackenzie criticised this policy and told the paper, “The equivalence between a female patient expressing unease at the presence of another male patient on a nominally single-sex ward and racism is not only offensive, but fails to understand the law.” She added, “In the context of hospital accommodation, sex is relevant to patient privacy, dignity, modesty, and safety”.
See you next week.
So ‘Anastasia’ and ‘Fae’ have both spoken at commemorations of the Montreal massacre -- a day held sacred by Canadians. And both feel that ‘for decades, trans women have been kept out of the conversation about gender based violence’. Perhaps because these men refuse to acknowledge that women suffer sex-based violence? Perhaps because they refuse to admit they're not actually women? Where’s the sick bucket? Seriously. How much longer can this nonsense be tolerated? Brava to the courageous woman who called out the travesty.
Remember that groundbreaking book -- Men who Hate Women and the Women who Love Them. Now what do we have decades later? Men who Hate Women and the “Women” They Become.