A Week in the War on Women: Monday 6th February - Sunday 12th February
Monday 6th February - Uncivil Servants
THE TIMES: An LGBT staff network group which deems women’s rights, spaces, and language to be ‘transphobic’ has influence over the HM Prison and Probation Service.
In November we reported on the attempted indoctrination of Ministry of Justice employees by an official LGBT staff network.
Las year thousands of Ministry of Justice staff members received a communication from the official email address of the HM Prison and Probation Service LGBT staff network, Pride in Prison and Probation (PiPP). This email, marked ‘official sensitive’, was subsequently leaked to The Telegraph.
Staff were told that to be an ‘active trans ally’, they must recognise ‘transphobic coded language’. They were provided with a glossary containing 35 perfectly innocuous phrases which, the email claimed, are “Turning what would be considered overt discrimination into covert behaviour”.
The organisation Keep Prisons Single Sex published the document. The shocking contents deemed discussing ‘the safety of women and girls’ to be transphobic and stated that phrases such as ‘protecting women’s spaces’ are a ‘dog-whistle’ which will ‘play on unfounded fears’. It also said that referencing the sexual assaults committed by trans-identified males in female prisons relies on ‘selective information’.
Also included in the list of verboten language were the phrases ‘adult human female’ and ‘same-sex attracted’. The document instructed staff that, “It is important to recognise these words and phrases, understand their context and educate those you hear using them… Whilst passing uses of these phrases might not be considered misconduct, the importance of challenging their use cannot be overstated”.
The Times has revealed that this same network, Pride in Prison and Probation, is part of HM Prison and Probation Service’s Transgender Advisory Board, which, among other things, advises on ‘the allocation policy of transgender prisoners’. The board gives advice to HM Prison and Probation Services ‘to inform policy and best practice’.
Also Today - Theatre of the Absurd
THE IRISH TIMES: A venue at a university in The Netherlands has cancelled a theatrical production because it only auditioned male actors for the all-male roles.
Samuel Beckett’s 1952 play, Waiting for Godot, is an icon of Irish literature. It calls specifically for five male actors to play the five male roles. Beckett was definite that these roles should only ever be played by men, a stipulation which is still upheld by the Beckett estate whenever the play is performed.
A production of Waiting for Godot was due to be staged at the University of Groningen’s student cultural centre in March.
But the performances were canceled after the venue discovered that casting for the play’s five male roles had only been open to male actors, contrary to the university’s ‘inclusivity policy’.
University press officer, Elies Kouwenhoven, commented, “We as a university stand for an open inclusive community where it is not appropriate to exclude others, on any basis.”
Tuesday 7th February - This Never Happens #1
REDUXX: A trans-identified male has been caught apparently trying to solicit underage teenage girls for sex in two separate paedophile sting operations.
30-year-old Danielle Edney is from Crawley in West Sussex. He is the director of an organization called Transgender Trust for which he has previously attempted to raise funds via Just Giving. He claims the trust is a ‘charity’, but no such organisation is registered with the Charity Commission.
In May 2022, Edney was caught in a sting operation after communicating with a decoy he believed to be a 13-year-old girl. He arranged to meet the girl, allegedly telling her to bring her school uniform and a bikini. When arriving at the agreed rendezvous, Edney was confronted by predator hunters from a group called STOP Sting. Those involved in the sting passed the evidence they had gathered to the police and Edney was subsequently arrested.
In December 2022 Edney was apprehended by another and unrelated group of volunteer paedophile hunters called PEST (Predators Exposed Sting Team). A source at the group told Reduxx that he had spent seven months building a case against Edney throughout 2022. During this period Edney had communicated online with numerous children, including multiple accounts from decoys operated by PEST’s own investigation team. Edney became particularly interested in one decoy whose account gave the appearance of being operated by a vulnerable 14-year-old girl.
Edney arranged to meet the girl in person but when he arrived at the rendezvous two PEST operatives were waiting for him. Their information has been passed onto the police and, again, Edney has been arrested.
Wednesday 8th February - This Never Happens #2
THE DAILY RECORD: A trans-identified male who has ‘lived as a woman’ for years has been charged in connection with the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl.
On Sunday 5th February an 11-year-old girl was reported missing in the Scottish borders. A huge search was launched involving specialist divers, a police helicopter and mountain rescue teams. The girl was eventually found at a property in Galashiels on Monday night, apparently unharmed.
Police have now charged Andrew Miller, a 53-year-old man who ‘identifies as a woman’ and has been calling himself Amy George for several years.
According to The Telegraph, people in his local community say that Miller ‘transitioned’ around six years ago when he changed his name and hairstyle and began ‘dressing as a female’. One person commented, “Transgender butchers in the Borders are not exactly common”.
He has Facebook profiles using the names Andrew Miller and Amy George. On the latter profile he describes himself as a ‘single female interested in single females’. He used social media to express his support for the SNP’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill. When the legislation was vetoed by the UK Government, he warned that Westminster should “Never mess with Scottish transgender issues”.
In their articles on the subject, both The Guardian and the BBC refer to Miller as a ‘man’. This seems in direct contravention of previous reporting policies. Why this blatant mis-gendering of Miller who has ‘identified as a woman’ for several years?
Indeed, the only indication of Miller’s trans status in either report is the coy little phrase ‘also known as Amy George’.
Also Today - Schools Out
THE DAILY MAIL: A Canadian teenager, suspended from school for refuting gender ideology, was arrested when he tried to attend classes.
16-year-old Josh Alexander was suspended from his Roman Catholic high school in Renfrew, Ontario, in November 2022.
He had told his peers that he believes there are only two sexes, that it is not possible to change sex and that male students should not be permitted to use female bathroom facilities. For this, he was suspended from the school.
The school claimed that Alexander was refusing to call refer to ‘trans students’ by their chosen names and accused him of bullying. He was told he could only return to school if he agreed to sit out the classes attended by so-called ‘trans’ students.
He was arrested when he tried to return to school.
The school principal is excluding Alexander from attending for the rest of the term, claiming that “His presence in the school or classroom would be detrimental to the physical or mental well-being of the pupils”.
Alexander commented, “I expressed my religious beliefs in class, and it spiraled out of control. Not everybody's going to like that. That doesn't make me a bully. It doesn't mean I'm harassing anybody. They express their beliefs and I express mine. Mine obviously don't fit the narrative”.
Also Today - This Never Happens #3
LIVERPOOL ECHO: A trans-identified male paedophile who shared vile images of child sexual abuse with other men has walked free from court.
42-year-old Ketan Shende is a male paedophile who shared category A images of child sexual abuse on social media with other men. Nevertheless, The Liverpool Echo described him as a ‘woman’ in their headline and referred to him with female pronouns throughout their article on his trial.
Acting on information received, in March 2020 police officers raided Shende’s home and seized his electronic devices. They discovered 84 indecent images deemed category A - those showing the most serious forms of abuse - which included pictures and videos of children as young as four years old being abused. They also discovered 30 category B images and 35 category C images.
Shende admitted four counts of distributing indecent images of children, one of possession of indecent images and four of making indecent images. He was given a two-year suspended sentence.
When sentencing him, Recorder David Knifton KC commented, “The trade in child pornography is a disgusting and evil trade. It results in misery to the children who are victims”. Nevertheless, he allowed Shende to walk free from court, telling him, “"I note you have a history of depressive illness, a mixed personality disorder and gender dysphoria… I have thought long and hard as to whether an immediate custodial sentence should be imposed. In the event, I have drawn back from that course”.
Thursday 9th February - Leave Them Kids Alone #1
THE DAILY MAIL: A 14-year-old schoolgirl has spoken out about the extent to which gender identity ideology has engulfed her school.
The girl, who wishes to remain anonymous, told The Daily Mail “It feels like trans is all anyone talks about” and she spoke of how gender ideology has saturated every aspect of school life.
She said that 1 in 10 of her fellow pupils now identify as ‘trans’ or ‘non-binary’, the vast majority being adolescent girls. “11-year-old girls in my class began asking to be called ‘he’ or ‘them’. Soon afterwards a number of others were doing the same. It felt as if they joined in because it meant they were seen as cool. You get special treatment if you say you are trans or non-binary and suddenly become the centre of attention.”
The school’s Equality Club discusses nothing but trans issues. “Coming out as a lesbian or gay doesn’t have the same effect, but barely any students do, in my experience… The kids in my year don’t say they are lesbian or gay, because those words are thought to be an insult.”
The girl told the paper about the teachers who are terrified to do or say anything which could be construed as ‘transphobic’. “There’s a rule against wearing badges in school but some students wear trans flag and pronoun badges and nobody tells them off.” She spoke of other teachers who tell children that literary character, Lady Macbeth, is ‘neither a man nor a woman’ and that Greek god, Zeus, could have ‘identified as non-binary’.
She said that most of her fellow students are indoctrinated into gender ideology, with non-believers being accused of bigotry and hate. The girl questioned one of her friends who called JK Rowling ‘anti trans’. “I asked in what way J.K. was transphobic but this friend couldn’t give me an answer, she just said: ‘I hope all TERFS drop dead.’ I was shocked by her anger.” She said fellow pupils have also made threats of violence on social media towards so-called ‘transphobes’.
“That’s why I’m writing this piece anonymously, although I believe I should be able to say these things without fear of attack. I want adults to know what it’s really like in schools like mine now.”
Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone #2
One of the books nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize promotes gender identity ideology and the medical transition of minors.
Welcome to St Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure is by writer and illustrator, Lewis Hancox, a trans-identified female. The Waterstones website states, “Hancox's trailblazing graphic memoir tracks his younger self's troubled journey to discovering who he really is” and describes Hancox as taking a path “To become the man he was meant to be”. It recommends the book as being suitable for those aged fourteen and above.
The book includes a full-page cartoon diagram of a young girl’s body which references her ‘imaginary willy’ and describes her breasts as ‘fatty lumps that need to be gone’.
Elsewhere in the book, two teenagers enthuse over hormone treatment and wearing a breast binder. One describes puberty blockers as the ‘best thing I ever did’. In another scene, a young girl boasts about taking testosterone.
Think-tank, The Family Education Trust, said of the book, “The Trans Teen Misadventure contains obscene adult imagery and gives vulnerable children the message that taking puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones is a normal part of growing up, rather than causing irreversible harm and possible infertility and the inability to have a normal sex life as an adult.”
Also Today - This Never Happens #4
THE MAINICHI: A trans-identified male in Japan has been charged over the sexual assault of two women and is facing further allegations.
55-year-old Kazumi Watanabe is a trans-identified male who owns a business in Osaka providing services to disabled and vulnerable people. On 7th February Watanabe was indicted on charges relating to the sexual assault of two female staff members.
Both women have accused Watanabe of assaulting them in the spring of 2021. Both report that he used his ‘gender identity’ to lure them into situations which made them vulnerable, assuring them there could be no threat because his ‘heart is a woman’.
The first of Watanabe’s alleged victims had only been working at the company for few months when he offered to give her a massage. As she was reluctant, he told her, “I have gender identity disorder. I’m not interested in female bodies.” She says that, while massaging her, Watanabe assaulted her. A second victim says Watanabe lured her to a hotel, again claiming to be a trained aesthetician and stating that he could give her a massage. Both women reported the alleged sexual assaults to the police.
According to The Mainichi, other women have also come forward to allege that Watanabe assaulted them. Some of these women have disabilities and are users of the service provided by Watanabe’s business. Police investigations are ongoing.
Friday 10th February - Fox In The Henhouse
EASTERN DAILY PRESS: A woman has twice reported seeing a naked male in the female changing rooms at UEA Sportspark.
A woman, who did not wish to be named, told the paper that she visited UEA Sportspark in Norwich on two consecutive weeks. On both occasions she encountered a naked man, exposing his male genitalia, in the female changing rooms.
She says that when she brought this to the attention of the centre’s staff, she was told that it would be discriminatory to query the person in question.
Also Today - Girl Gaslighting
REDUXX: An Australian mother has spoken out about a trans-identified male taking part in a Girl Guides jamboree.
The Australian Girl Guides holds an annual week-long Jamboree described as “A chance for Guides to come together to have fun, make new friends and challenge themselves with new and exciting adventures”. In January over 1,000 young girls aged between 10 and 17 attended the event in Ballarat, Victoria.
Participants, many staying away from their home and parents for the first time, were accommodated for the week in tents. They had a range of activities to choose from, including a variety of water sports, theatre, cookery and science. 14-17 year olds also enjoyed an overnight activity away from the main camp.
Parents were assured that “We will have a complete welfare team who is caring for your daughter”. With parents barred from visiting the camp and discouraged from contacting their daughters by phone, they were expected to put a great deal of faith in the volunteer guide leaders.
One parent, a mother called Sadie (not her real name), contacted Reduxx after her 14-year-old daughter attended the jamboree. Soon after her arrival at the camp, her daughter texted Sadie to tell her that one of the adult volunteers was a man “Pretending to be a woman, wearing a Guide shirt”.
Sadie immediately contacted the camp leader and was told that the man was probably part of a Scout group assisting with the set-up and would not be staying onsite. (A Guide leader usually chaperons any male volunteer at the camp.) However, Sadie continued to receive messages from her daughter and learned that the man, who was dressed as a woman, was participating directly in activities with the young girls and appeared to act in a supervisory capacity. Sadie received photographs from her daughter showing the man performing onstage alongside a local guide troop.
Similar to that in the UK, Australia’s Girl Guides’ inclusivity policy allows trans-identified males to join, either as members or as adult volunteers. “Membership of GGA and SGGOs is limited to girls and women. Under the terms of this policy, ‘girls and women’ includes persons who identify as, and live their lives as, females.”
Again, Sadie contacted Camp Leaders who told her they would ‘talk’ to her daughter. She forbad them from doing so, fearful that her daughter would be singled out and/or punished.
Sadie was concerned about the young girls at the jamboree being gaslit, told that someone obviously male is actually a woman. And she was right to be worried. After returning home, Sadie’s daughter told her, “We could all see he is a man, he had facial fluff, but nobody dared say anything.”
Saturday 11th February - Censorship Is No Laughing Matter
A female comedian had her stand-up gig cancelled because she refuses to believe that men can be women.
Samantha Pressdee is comedian who has performed at the Edinburgh Festival. Choosing to leave the industry because of what she describes as the ‘middle-class moral gatekeepers’, Pressdee was due to play her farewell gig at the Knight & Garter pub as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival on Friday 17th February.
Ahead of the gig, she wrote an article on the Chortle website to explain her decision. “Comedy has been castrated. There is no potency, no joy, no truth, no risk or substance… An Orwellian nightmare where many comedians call themselves artists, while pushing an ideology that aims to curtail freedom of expression (and women’s sex based rights!).”
She wrote of her opposition to self-ID legislation and the ‘evangelists of identity politics’ in comedy who attack women expressing such views. “Many comedians are compromising artistic integrity for industry popularity. Impotent men have pandered to warped ‘feminist’ ideals to avoid the fear of being labelled a misogynist. Mollycoddling women have bowed down to the trans lobby pushing the utopian ideal of self ID for fear of being labelled a Terf.”
At the end of Pressdee’s article, Chortle added a scornful disclaimer, sneering at and completely misrepresenting her words.
Ironically, almost immediately after her piece on censorship in comedy was published, Pressdee’s gig was canceled.
Promoters, Furthest from the Sea, contacted her to say that the ‘tone and conflict’ within her article “Is just not something our organisation would want to be associated with… We cannot absorb the negative impacts that we will face in the short and long term through continuing with your performance”.
It seems that three of Pressdee’s fellow performers - all of whom are male - were responsible for her cancellation. Rather proving her point, magician, Eden (‘they/them’) MW, LGBTQ+ poet, Dan Webber, and comedian, Friz (‘they/them’) Fizzle refused to play at the venue if it staged Pressdee’s gig.
They succeeded in having Pressdee’s performance cancelled and, coincidentally, got their own show put on instead.
Sunday 12th February - We Told You So
THE SUNDAY TIMES: The full horror of the Tavistock scandal is finally coming to light in Hannah Barnes’ forthcoming book, Time to Think.
Glen Keogh reported on the book which blows the lid off the medicalisation of hundreds of vulnerable children at the NHS Gender Identity Development Service.
Former clinicians at the Tavistock and Portman Trust spoke to Hannah Barnes about their ‘regret’ over routinely putting children on puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones when there was no real data on the treatment’s long-term effects. Some compared it to the doping of East German athletes in the 1960s and 1970s.
The book describes how some ‘incredibly complex’ children were medicalised after just one face-to-face assessment, despite many having a variety of co-morbidities such as mental health issues and family problems. More than a third of young people referred to the service, for example, had moderate to severe autistic traits and some identified not just as a different ‘gender’, but as a different ethnicity.
The book details how children as young as three, already with a changed name, appearance and pronouns, were referred to the clinic, how Mermaids former CEO, Susie Green, was allowed to influence its operation, how very rushed the patient consultations were and how any staff who spoke out were ‘demonised’.
Family therapist, Anastassis Spiliadis, spoke to Barnes about the influence of outside groups and parents on the treatment of vulnerable kids. There were concerns that parents were pushing children into transitioning in cases of fabricated or induced illness (FII), previously known as Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy. In one case, a child told Spiliadis, “My mum wants the blocker more than I do”. He revealed there was sexual abuse and domestic violence in the family so he and a colleague agreed that they would not refer the child for puberty blockers. This decision which was allegedly overruled by clinic head, Polly Carmichael.
Whistle-blowers also allege that the clinic was ‘institutionally homophobic’ and bowed to pressure from parents who preferred their gender non-conforming children to be medically transitioned rather than grow up lesbian or gay. Former GIDS clinician, Matt Bristow, told Barnes, “Despite the obvious complexity of all these cases, sexual abuse, trauma, potential FII, the answer was always the same. That the young people eventually get put on the blocker.”
Dr Anna Hutchinson, a senior clinical psychologist at GIDS, describes as a ‘holy fuck’ moment her realisation that almost all of the children prescribed puberty blockers went on to take cross-sex hormones. “What are the chances of 100 per cent of people, offered time to think, thinking the same thing? If the service was getting this wrong, it was getting it wrong with some of the most vulnerable children and young people.” She said the service was “Scandalous in its negligence and scale”.
Now might be the ideal time to remind the editor of Newsnight that, when Graham appeared on the programme over three years ago, he tried to discuss this scandal happening at GIDS but he was talked over, sneered at and denigrated by the host.
If you wish, you can crib my letter:
Stewart Maclean
Editor of Newsnight
Third Floor
BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
LONDON
W1A 1AA
Dear Mr Maclean,
RE: Newsnight interview with Graham Linehan February 2020
In February 2020 Newsnight interviewed writer and director, Graham Linehan, over his speaking out about the harms of gender identity ideology.
From the outset, Mr Linehan was treated in a hostile way by the presenter, Sarah Smith. She constantly interrupted him and spoke over him, thus preventing him from making his point and putting across vital information.
Mr Linehan tried to discuss the urgent situation at The Tavistock & Portman child gender clinic. He explained that untested cancer treatment drugs were being used to halt the puberty of vulnerable children, that gay and lesbian youngsters were being persuaded they need medical intervention and that dozens of concerned clinicians who tried to raise the alarm were being silenced and resigning from the clinic in protest.
Only a few months after this interview, two of Newsnight’s own journalists, Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes, broke a story about the Tavistock clinic, reporting on leaked documents which revealed the extent to which serious staff concerns over patient welfare were being shut down and dismissed.
When Mr Linehan tried to make these same points to Ms Smith, however, she scoffed at him, dismissed his comments, questioned his evidence and described his view of the Tavistock as a ‘ridiculous exaggeration’. She also accused him of extremism. Smith’s priority seemed to be to denigrate and berate Mr Linehan rather than investigate what has become the worst medical scandal of the century.
When the Cass Review Interim Report was published in March last year it highlighted significant concerns about the treatment provided at The Tavistock. It acknowledged the significance of rapid-onset gender dysphoria, the link between dysphoria and co-morbidities, the rapid increase in teenage girls experiencing gender issues, the concerns of the therapists and clinicians who warn that a holistic approach to treatment is required, the limitations of an 'affirmation-only' approach, the lack of evidence regarding medication and the insufficient follow-up information on patients. Furthermore, the Cass Review has advised that the Tavistock is ‘not a safe or viable long-term option’ for the treatment of gender-confused children and the clinic will be closing imminently.
As you are no doubt aware, Hannah Barnes’ forthcoming book, "Time to Think”, has received much press coverage over the weekend. The book highlights the full horror of the Tavistock scandal. With input from GIDS clinicians, it describes the experimental nature of the treatment, the lack of follow up information and the fact that almost 100% of children prescribed untested puberty blockers then went on to take cross-sex hormones, the effects of which - sterility and loss of sexual function - are permanent. It describes the rushed medicalisation of many vulnerable children and young people, a disproportionate number of whom had co-morbidities such as autism and mental health issues and underlying issues such as family problems and a history of abuse, none of which were addressed or explored prior to treatment. It also reveals the undue influence on the clinic by unqualified lobbyists and the homophobic parents who preferred their child to be trans rather than gay.
Former GIDS clinicians have likened the medical treatment of vulnerable gender non-conforming children by the Tavistock to the doping of East German athletes in the 1960s and 1970s. Dr Anna Hutchinson, a senior clinical psychologist at GIDS, has described it as “Scandalous in its negligence and scale”.
In short, yet again, Mr Linehan has been completely vindicated and his warnings about the harm being caused to children at the Tavistock have been entirely corroborated.
Your programme owes Mr Linehan, at the very least, a public apology. You should also invite him onto Newsnight again to affect that apology and, this time, your presenter could listen to what he has to say.
Yours sincerely etc.
See you next week.
Shocking about the schoolgirl’s account (I have teens same age and I can relate to everything she describes re the trans quicksand in school from classmates & teacher virtue signalling (many are just silent no doubt, trying to survive it all)). The Canadian school boy situation is appalling! Still all the evidence through prison service capture, courts etc that trans are still somehow ‘the best of us’ when infact the evidence has been out for ages that the opposite is true. Yes definitely will write to BBC about the apology due to Graham .. so far all articles have been silent acknowledging the truth tellers. An article with Kemi Badenock photo & quote in the times today that people must stand up for the truth. Much more needs to be said repeatedly about the people who have been doing this for years, against the endless bullying. And it’s not over yet.
Theatre of the Absurd is no longer relevant, nor does it work, when we live in the truly Absurd “reality” where a man can become a woman.