A Week in the War on Women: Monday 31st August - Sunday 6th September
By JL
Monday 31st August - Say The Pronouns, Or Else
Northern Ireland’s civil servants are being forced to use ‘preferred pronouns’ or risk losing their jobs.
During the three years Northern Ireland was without a government, the civil service amended regulations to force its 23,000 staff to use whatever vocabulary is demanded of them by those colleagues who consider themselves transgender.
A new section of the staff handbook states that staff must abide by the preferred names and pronouns of anybody who is trans. Moreover, it defines trans as anyone, “Including (but not limited to) transgender, transsexual, gender-queer, gender-fluid, non-binary, gender-variant, crossdresser, genderless, agender, nongender, third gender, two-spirit, bi-gender, trans man, trans woman, trans masculine, trans feminine and neutrois”.
The regulations also call for the creation of ‘gender-neutral’ (ie mixed-sex) bathrooms and toilets. Where this is not possible, “Trans people should be able to use the facilities allocated to their affirmed gender”. Since anyone can affirm their own gender, female staff will end up having to share their toilets and bathrooms with intact males.
Staff not abiding by these rules can face disciplinary action and might even lose their jobs.
Tuesday 1st September - This Never Happens
THE DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male has pleaded guilty to drugging a vulnerable 14-year-old girl.
The teenager approached 61-year-old Susan (formerly David) Willan in the car park of a Hungry Jacks restaurant in Geelong, Australia, and asked to borrow his phone. Willan asked the victim if she’d ever used drugs before then fed her four Valium tablets and took her back to his home. Three days later the girl collapsed as a result of consuming the Valium and had to be taken to an intensive care unit.
Willan pleaded guilty to supplying a drug of dependence to a child. His defence lawyer argued against a custodial sentence, claiming that he would be at risk in prison because he is transgender.
Is there any other scenario in which an adult male who drugs an underage girl can be presented as the vulnerable one who needs special protections?
Wednesday 2nd September - A Fly On The Stonewall
FAIR COP: Lies, gaslighting and pronouns are taking over the workplace.
Earlier this year a Fair Cop representative attended a Stonewall training session and witnessed first hand the pseudoscience and compelled speech it peddles to various businesses and organisations under the guise of “inclusivity”.
“I now understand how Stonewall has completely captured schools, universities, sport, government, the NHS and businesses in every sector. Stonewall’s training is very clever. It is also manipulative, coercive, contradictory, regressive, deeply narcissistic and, fundamentally, based on lies.”
In addition to the presentation of gender identity ideology as fact, the imposition of the label ‘cis’, the adherence to harmful and regressive gender stereotypes and the enforcement of preferred pronouns, this training also insists that men can be women if they say they are, without requiring any medical diagnosis or treatment. Stonewall seems determined to give males unfettered access to women’s spaces.
“Stonewall has been so astonishingly successful precisely because people are too frightened to challenge them… We must break the conspiracy of silence. Write to your MP, demand to know what your kids are being taught in schools and universities, challenge your workplace policies if you feel safe to do so... They cannot sack us all.”
Thursday 3rd September - Witch Burning Down Under
An Australian senator is facing a charge of discrimination after publicly supporting women’s sex-based rights and spaces.
Claire Chandler is the senator for the Australian state of Tasmania. Since her election she has been a passionate advocate of women’s sex-based rights.
Earlier this year she wrote an op-ed for The Mercury newspaper about the erosion of free speech in which she stressed the need to talk about biological sex. More recently, she spoke in the Senate to support World Rugby's plan to maintain the safety and integrity of women-only teams.
Last week a complaint was filed against Senator Chandler under Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Act and she has been summoned to attend a conciliation conference at the Tasmanian Equal Opportunity Commission.
On Thursday 3rd September Chandler addressed the Senate and spoke of this attack on free speech and the attempt to silence her.
"It is yet another example of the assault on truth and the assault on the very meaning of the word women by activists who are determined to remove every sex-based right that women around the world have”.
Friday 4th September - Maajid Gets It
LBC: Broadcaster Maajid Nawaz asked why transgender self-identification is any different from people claiming to be of different ethnicity.
American academic, Jessica Krug, had previously built her career on claiming to be a black woman. Earlier this week she admitted in a blog post that she is white and has been lying about her ethnicity. Following Krug’s revelation, LBC radio’s Maajid Nawaz discussed the parallels between transracialism and gender identity ideology. He said that he finds it hard to see a distinction between race and sex where self identification is concerned.
“What a transwoman or a transracial person like Rachel Dolezal or Jessica Krug should not do and should not say and should not assume or presume to know is the experience, the lived experience, of growing up in that position… You mustn’t appropriate an experience you haven’t had.”
Oddly enough, Maajid has not been the subject of rape and death threats or demands for his job as women expressing such opinions seem to be.
Saturday 5th September - The Spectator Will Not Co-operate With Bullies
The Co-op needs to explain itself after caving in to trans activist bullies on social media.
Last week Twitter user, Lisa Fajita, accused the Co-op of funding transphobia by advertising its supermarkets in The Spectator.
On the basis of one tweet from one anonymous account, the Co-op’s social media representative promised that they wouldn’t be doing this again and anyway it wasn’t their fault in the first place. (This tweet has since been deleted.)
The Co-op clearly did not count on the reaction from The Spectator’s Chairman, Andrew Neil.
Cue some spectacular backtracking from the Co-op.
As for Lisa Fajita’s accusation that The Spectator is transphobic, the first example she/her cites is an article by transwoman, Debbie Hayton, a regular contributor.
Hayton writes: “The Spectator can hardly be described as transphobic when it puts inclusion into practice and commissions work from a transgender writer. But this is not about me. It is about society. The ideology that has risen to prominence in the transgender debate – that men and women are defined not by sex but by gender identity – affects everyone because it challenges the very foundations of human society.”
Sunday 6th September - Teenager Challenges The CPS Stonewall Bias
Back in May, we reported on Miss A, the 14-year-old girl taking legal action against the Crown Prosecution Service because of its association with Stonewall.
Miss A was responsible for Oxfordshire County Council withdrawing its ‘trans toolkit’ schools guidelines. Her lawyers argued that the guidelines failed to recognise girls’ sex-based rights which are protected under the Equalities Act 2010. The CPS promised to review these guidelines but Miss A has no confidence in their impartiality to so.
The CPS is part of Stonewall's “diversity champions” programme and, as such, is expected to extend its support for LGBT staff outside the workplace. Stonewall encourages members like the CPS to be “advocates and agents of positive change”.
Miss A’s Lawyers have already issued a pre-action letter to the CPS, maintaining that its association with Stonewall and its participation on this programme puts it in breach of the law by failing to demonstrate impartiality. The CPS refused to withdraw from the programme.
This week Miss A’s lawyers applied to the High Court for a Judicial Review.
“I do not believe the CPS can be fair as they are listening to Stonewall who are misrepresenting what the law says. I do not trust them to focus on the safety, privacy and dignity of girls, or to balance the rights of all young people in schools.”
If you would like to make a contribution to Miss A’s legal fees, please see her Crowdjustice fund.
We’ll keep you posted as the case progresses.
See you next week.