A Week in The War on Women: Monday 19th July - Sunday 25th July
Monday 19th July - Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been…
4W: Two women have been sacked from their jobs at an Oregon middle school after speaking out about the erasure of female-only spaces.
In May we reported on Rachel Damiano and Katie Medart, educators at North Middle School in Grants Pass, Oregon. Concerned about legislation which will allow ‘gender identity’ to supersede biological sex in the use of school bathrooms and changing rooms, they set up a website called I Resolve and posted a video to YouTube.
They never mentioned their employer but a local parent recognized them and made a complaint to the school. Damiano and Medart were placed on ‘administrative leave’ while the school hired an external investigator to look into the matter.
Both women were sacked last week by a school board vote of 4-3.
They spoke to 4W about the ‘disheartening, unjust, and surreal’ decision and described the abuse and threats they have received. “Our goal was to provide a reasonable, loving and tolerant solution to a matter of public concern facing our youth organizations today… We were called paedophiles, transphobic and told we don't deserve to live.”
Tuesday 20th July - Witch Burning In Maternity Care
THE TIMES: Pregnancy and birth specialist, Milli Hill, describes the abuse she received after speaking out against the erasure of women in maternity care.
Last week we reported on Milli Hill, childbirth campaigner, bestselling author, psychotherapist and founder of The Positive Birth Movement.
Last year she made comments on social media objecting to the term ‘birthing people’ to describe pregnant women. She was immediately subjected to a barrage of abuse and dropped by charity, Birthrights, with which she had worked for a over a decade.
Hill has now spoken out about the abuse she received. It began when a professional doula posted screenshots of her comments on Instagram. She was called ‘trash’, ‘toxic’, ‘extremely dangerous’ and ‘vile’ and described as ‘anti LGBTQ’ and ‘transphobic’. There were calls for her books to be cancelled and there was even a hashtag; #DontBeAMilli.
Hill told the paper that much of the venom came not from random trolls, but from prominent figures within her professional community.
“They were doulas, hypnobirthing teachers, antenatal teachers, midwives, birth trauma specialists… There were a few accounts doing a shitty post about Milli Hill and the next thing on the grid was, ‘Oh by the way, I’ve only got three spaces left on my hypnobirthing course’...
“I was made an example of. And if you drag one witch out to the pyre, in front of everybody else, no one is necessarily going to step forward to say, ‘I don’t think you’re right to put Milli Hill on that bonfire.’”
Wednesday 21st July - This Never Happens
THE IRISH TIMES: A cross-dressing man caught masturbating in department stores has been jailed for eight months.
38-year-old Bo Yu pleaded guilty to public masturbation on charges relating to four separate incidents in three different stores in Dundrum, Ireland. On each occasion, he’d made little attempt to conceal himself and was ‘manifestly in a state of considerable arousal’.
One incident took place in the women’s changing rooms and another in the lingerie department. On a third occasion, a security guard spotted Yu wearing a wig and a dress whilst masturbating in the store’s women’s section. At his trial it was claimed that he dresses as a woman as a means of dealing with ‘stress and anxiety’.
One of the stores in which Yu was caught masturbating was Dundrum’s branch of Marks & Spencer. M&S allows customers to use whichever fitting room they wish according to their self-defined gender identity rather than their sex.
A policy which, of course, is an absolute gift to men like Bo Yu.
Thursday 22nd July - Stacking The Odds
HUFFINGTON POST: Actor Tommy Dorfman now identifies as trans.
Dorfman discussed his new ‘gender identity’ in Time Magazine. He spoke of always having felt ‘incredibly feminine’, of being in the ‘wrong body’ and of his new ‘true self’. He said, “I view today as a reintroduction to me as a woman”.
This ‘reintroduction’ seems to involve Dorfman performing a parody of womanhood based on regressive stereotypes; revealing clothes, sexualised poses, winsome facial expressions and pouting infantilization etc etc.
When discussing his future career, Dorfman talked about being ‘excited’ to play ‘women, transwomen, women in general…’ He commented that he has already been cast to play a female role in Lena Dunham’s forthcoming movie.
Last year Halle Berry was cast in a trans role (as a trans-identified female). This caused such an outpouring of anger and accusation that Berry was forced to pull out of the film and issue a fulsome apology for even considering the job.
See how this works?
Also Today - Physician Heal Thyself
DAILY MAIL: Helen Webberley’s tribunal takes place this week.
Disgraced doctor, Helen Webberley, ran an illegal gender clinic, GenderGP, prescribing ‘sex change’ hormones to children as young as twelve. Following complaints from NHS clinicians, the General Medical Council began an investigation in 2017 and Webberley received a suspension notice in November 2018.
She will now appear at a Medical Practitioners Service misconduct hearing. The charges concern her alleged failure to provide good clinical care to three child patients, inappropriately prescribing drugs to two other patients and attempting to avoid regulations following her conviction for illegally operating a gender clinic.
GenderGP was moved offshore meaning it doesn’t require any regulation in the UK and can circumvent the NHS checks and safeguards usually required for the prescribing of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. The clinic continues to prescribe drugs to minors, without even needing to meet them and, apparently without requiring their parents’ permission or even knowledge.
Yet despite all of this, just a few months ago, Mermaid’s CEO, Susie Green, was complicit in getting a GenderGP prescription filled, providing hormone blockers to a 14-year-old dysphoric child.
The association between GenderGP and Mermaids goes way back. Webberley told Gay Star News herself that she prescribed puberty blockers to a 12 year old referred to her clinic by Mermaids. Indeed, Mermaids used to link to GenderGP’s webpage from its own site. That link was removed in 2019 following advice from The National Lottery which had just granted the organisation £500,000.
The following extract comes from the National Lottery review of its funding to Mermaids.
As you can see, Mermaids claim that they do not encourage families to use private medical practices nor do they ‘point anyone’ to information on private healthcare providers unless ‘expressly requested’.
So what’s this?
Furthermore, there are serious safeguarding issues with Mermaids’ online youth forum, as demonstrated by this terrifying thread from Danial Webb.
If you would like to contact the National Lottery, you can do so here. The Charities Commission can be contacted here.
Friday 23rd July - Labour Losing Women #1
Many thanks to Nina Killen, Labour councillor for the Ravenmeols ward in Formby, Merseyside, for drawing our attention to yet another Labour Party attempt to erase females as a sex class.
The application form for potential candidates in next year's local elections asks would-be councillors, "For the purposes of positive action do you identify as a woman?" There is nowhere to record biological sex.
We already know that Keir Starmer has committed the party to self-ID legislation, that all-women shortlists are open to males and that males have even been appointed to Women’s Officer roles.
Within the Labour Party, males like Heather Peto and Anna Lee are being allowed to steal the roles and opportunities intended for women.
Just who is this ‘positive action’ supposed to benefit?
Saturday 24th July - Within These Walls
THE DAILY MAIL: A woman who was sexually assaulted by a trans-identified male in a female prison spoke to Julie Bindel about her experience.
Amy is the brave woman behind the legal challenge to the MoJ policy which allows high-risk trans-identified male prisoners to be accommodated in female prisons.
In 2017 Amy was sexually assaulted in prison by a ‘transwoman’ who is referred to in this article as ‘J’ as he cannot be named for legal reasons. J is an intact male who was convicted of sexually assaulting a child. He has a gender recognition certificate.
J was accommodated in the female estate where he intimidated female prisoners by rubbing up against them with an erection, wearing a skirt then sitting with splayed legs to display his genitals and exposing himself in the shower etc. Amy said that, despite this behaviour, the prison officers would protect J and afford him privileges denied to the women inmates as they feared accusations of transphobia.
At HMP Bronzefield J was given a job as a cleaner in the prison gym. It was in the gym toilets that he assaulted Amy. Having already suffered male sexual violence as a child, Amy was terrified and traumatised. When she reported the attack to a prison officer she was told ‘everyone deserves a second chance’.
Sunday 25th July - Labour Losing Women #2
GB NEWS: Feminist and mother, Rebekah Wershbale, found that her name and image are being used in Labour Party training material which labels her as transphobic.
Two years ago Rebekah Wershbale was barred from a pub in Macclesfield for wearing a t-shirt on which was printed, “Woman: Adult human female”.
Recently, Rebekah discovered that her name and photograph are being used in a Labour Party training video called Tackling Transphobia 101. She is accused of having a ‘history of transphobic behaviour’ and is used as an example of a ‘dogwhistle’.
This training course was produced by Hackney North and Stoke Newington Labour Party and organised by LGBTQ+ officer, Liam Davis. One of the presenters, Teresa Clark, has already made her slavish adherence to gender ideology and her propensity for throwing other women under the bus abundantly clear.
Official Labour Party training materials are, without any foundation, accusing a young woman of transphobia, thus leaving her open to abuse, threats and even worse.
We spoke to Rebekah who told us:
“I left the labour party because of the disgraceful way they've maligned women's rights. I expect nothing from Starmer except total capitulation to trans ideology, following his simpering promise to Pink News that he intends to continue to back self ID despite ongoing protestations from women within labour.
Labour have either not considered the impact of self ID on women's rights, or they're choosing to blithely ignore it. Neither possibility fills me with hope that there'll be a place in the party for women in my position in the foreseeable future.
The fact that labour are comfortable green lighting a video specifically naming a woman and thusly putting her in the firing line of trans activists is extremely alarming. We know very well what happens to women deemed guilty of wrongthink, and so labour's decision to approve these materials makes them complicit in the torrent of abuse levelled at them.”
See you next week.
Rebekah should sue the Labour Party. I can't believe they still take membership fees from the sex class they clearly despise.
What really gets me is how “you are not really the sex you larp as” is taken to mean “you don’t deserve to exist”.