A Week in the War on Women: Monday 19th September - Sunday 25th September GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

Sep 29, 2022

Hello and welcome to another very positive week on the gender beat. Here are just a few of the good news stories. Enjoy!

Bluskye Thinking

The legend that is Allison Bailey is appealing the decision of the Employment Tribunal to dismiss her claim against Stonewall.

Allison Bailey @BluskyeAllison

1/ BREAKING: I have appealed the decision of the ET dismissing my claim against Stonewall for causing a basic contravention of the Equality Act 2010. The appeal has been lodged at the EAT within the deadline. It will almost certainly be heard in the new year.

We wish her every success with this case.

World Rugby Tackles Legal Threats

World Rugby is standing firm and will not be intimidated into a backtrack on its ‘transgender policy’.

Despite the threat of legal action, World Rugby Chief Executive, Alan Gilpin, insists that women’s rugby will remain female-only. “The safety of the players is the number one priority of the sport”, he said.

Wooden Spoon For Scotland

And speaking of rugby, Scottish Rugby is under great pressure to follow the example of England, Ireland and Wales and bar trans-identified males from the women’s game.

The Telegraph @Telegraph

Ban male-bodied competitors or risk women suffering serious or life-changing brain injuries, an MP has said

telegraph.co.ukTransgender players in Scottish rugby ‘putting females at risk’Ban male-bodied competitors or risk women suffering serious or life-changing brain injuries, an MP has said

Tonia Antoniazzi, a Labour MP and former women's rugby player with nine caps for Wales, told The Telegraph, “The fact that there are trans women in Scotland playing women’s rugby I find absolutely appalling. It should not be happening… They need to come to a decision - based on fairness and safety of women and girls in sport - and soon.”

This story made it into the Mail Online, too.

Pointing To The Naked Emperor

Elsewhere in politics another indomitable female MP has been speaking out. Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge in South Yorkshire, hit out at the ruling of an employment tribunal that an NHS manager discriminated against a trans-identified male when she questioned him about displaying his genitals in the women’s changing room.

Conservatives for Women @CforWomenUK

Miriam Cates asked: “Why are women being re-educated to suppress their natural and understandable discomfort about being forced to share intimate facilities with a man?” #SexMatters

thetimes.co.ukMiriam Cates MP condemns trans woman’s victory in hospital changing room caseA ruling that an NHS manager discriminated against a transgender employee by asking if they took off their underwear in a women’s changing room has “deeply worrying” implications, an MP has said.The worker, who was born a man, successfully sued Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for g

Cates called the implications of this ruling ‘deeply worrying’ and has written to the chief executive of the hospitals trust about the possibility of an appeal.

Smelling The Coffee

The number of British people who are in favour of trans people being able to change the sex marker on their birth certificate has fallen sharply in the last two years.

NatCen @NatCen

Support falls for trans people to change sex on birth certificate @JamesSBeal @thetimes story on our new British Social Attitudes report Full report: bsa.natcen.ac.uk/latest-report/… thetimes.co.uk/article/suppor… #BSA39

thetimes.co.ukSupport falls for trans people to change sex on birth certificatePublic support for transgender people being allowed to change the sex on their birth certificate has fallen sharply in two years.The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found that 39 per cent of people were now opposed to the idea. The proportion supporting the idea has dropped by 21 points in two

“The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey found that 39 per cent of people were now opposed to the idea. The proportion supporting the idea has dropped by 21 points in two years, from 53 per cent to only 32 per cent.”

It sounds like the era of ‘no debate’ is over and the public is starting to understand the implications of gender identity ideology.

The People Have Spoken

RTÉ, Ireland’s national broadcaster, received only nine formal complaints over its ‘controversial’ Liveline programmes on transgender issues which were broadcast earlier this year.

The Irish Times @IrishTimes

RTÉ received nine formal complaints about Liveline shows on transgender issues

irishtimes.comRTÉ received nine formal complaints about Liveline shows on transgender issuesBroadcaster insists station was fully compliant with broadcast statutory and regulatory obligations

RTÉ’s head of editorial standards, Brian Dowling, wrote to an Oireachtas joint committee on media about the Liveline broadcasts. He said, “RTÉ received approximately 110 contacts (emails and phone calls) regarding the three programmes and around two-thirds were positive and one-third negative. RTÉ responded comprehensively to nine formal complaints”.

Goodbye, Mr Tits

Pupils and parents turned out in force to protest the blimp-boobed teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School.

Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres

Students at Oakville Trafalgar High School protest teacher who wears giant prosthetic boobs to school: "This is our school. It's time to make a stand. Enough of this. I come to school everyday to learn, not to be distracted."

True North @TrueNorthCentre

Parents, students and local residents converged outside Oakville Trafalgar High School on Friday to protest the high school and school board for defending the giant prosthetic breast-wearing transgender shop class teacher. @Harry__Faulkner reports from Oakville.

And on that subject, we shouldn’t laugh, but…

Ben Bankas @BenBankas

Oakville Teacher speaks out against transphobia

One For The Reading List

Swimming legend and stalwart defender of women’s rights, Sharron Davies MBE, is co-authoring a book about her fight to protect female sport.

Sharron Davies MBE @sharrond62

Forum snaps up Davies’ account of women in sport

Forum Press is going to publish Sharron’s account of the struggle for women in sport which will be co-authored with award-winning journalist, Craig Lord.