A Week in the War on Women: Monday 29th January - Sunday 4th February

Monday 29th January - Leave Them Kids Alone #1

THE TELEGRAPH: Children are encouraging each other into harmful practices in unregulated NSPCC online chatrooms, it is alleged.

James Esses was a volunteer counsellor at Childline for five years. For voicing his concerns about the influence of gender identity ideology on vulnerable children, he was dismissed from the organisation.

Last week he posted on social media platform X about an online chatroom in which, he said, children and young people are swapping advice about dealing with gender issues and encouraging each other into potentially harmful behaviour. Esses was concerned that the chatroom is un-moderated and that potentially damaging comments are allowed to remain.

A dedicated ‘gender identity’ chatroom is hosted by Childline, a subsidiary of the NSPCC, and intended for use by children and young people aged nineteen and under. There are over 15,000 posts on the message board.

In October last year, a young person describing themselves as ‘afab [assigned female at birth] non-binary’ recommended testosterone for another user who ‘identifies as male’ and was distressed by having recently started menstruating. She added, “When I feel dysphoric, especially about my breasts, I constantly remind myself that one day I’ll get top surgery and never have to feel it again… Just constantly tell yourself that when you’re older, you’ll be able to get treatments that mean that you won’t feel dysphoric”.

In another post from November last year, a young girl expressed suicidal thoughts and spoke of her homophobic father and her desire to wear a breast-binder without her parents’ knowledge. Another user responded by telling her that there are ‘ways to get free binders’ and recommended that she research how to do so.

A Childline spokesperson said:

“The Childline message boards are a space where young people up to their 19th birthday have the opportunity to express themselves and seek as well as offer support to each other on a wide range of topics.

“These discussions are led by young people and reflect their varied viewpoints and experiences, and it is not unusual to find diverse or conflicting opinions, as you will find on any public forum. It is important before making a judgement on individual posts that the messages and subsequent responses are read in full.

“All posts are carefully reviewed before they are published online. We are confident our system of monitoring posts ensures the safety of the young people who use our service.”

(So the chatroom is monitored but Childline moderators are still allowing these messages, which encourage minors to take testosterone and wear binders without their parents’ knowledge, to be published on it?)

Also Today - The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name

THE TIMES: NHS England has expunged references to women from its staff domestic abuse policy due to Stonewall’s influence.

NHS England has revealed that its staff domestic abuse policy does not include the words ‘woman’ or ‘women’ but, instead, uses only ‘gender neutral’ language. The policy’s wording came to light when NHS managers used it is an example of inclusivity in their application to join Stonewall’s ‘Top 100 Employers’ list.

You may recall that in 2017 Stonewall was allowed to police NHS England’s maternity, adoption and related parental support policy to ensure ‘gender-inclusive language’ was used. As a consequence, phrases such as ‘pregnant woman’ were replaced with ‘pregnant employee’ and the word ‘mother’ was replaced with ‘birthing parent’.

Karen Ingala Smith, creator and compiler of the annual Counting Dead Women record and Chief Executive of Nia, domestic and sexual violence charity, criticised Stonewall’s influence over NHS England. She said, “If the NHS is content to let Stonewall reframe policies, especially those which have a disproportionate impact on women, then it’s creating conditions where sex discrimination can at best go unchecked and, at worst, put women at risk.”

Tuesday 30th January - Leave Them Kids Alone #2

REDUXX: A Montana couple lost custody of their mentally distressed teenage daughter after objecting to her ‘gender’ transition.

Todd and Krista Kolstad live in Glasgow, Montana. 14-year-old Jennifer (a pseudonym), Todd’s daughter from a previous relationship, used to live with them. Jennifer had a traumatic childhood dealing with a sporadically absent and allegedly abusive mother and being bullied in school. She has suffered with poor mental health and engaged in troubling behaviour such as attention-seeking and dishonesty. At thirteen she began to claim a trans identity and expressed a desire to be a boy.

In August 2023 Krista received a phone call from Jennifer’s school to say that her step-daughter had spoken to friends about wishing to commit suicide. That night Child Protective Services (CPS) arrived at the Kolstad's home to speak to Jennifer. During the interview, Jennifer claimed to have consumed toilet cleaner and an overdose of painkillers in an attempt to commit suicide. The Kolstads were certain that Jennifer had no access to such substances and she had not exhibited any symptoms of having consumed them. Nevertheless, to be safe, they took her to the local hospital. Jennifer’s blood tests subsequently confirmed that she had not consumed any toxic substances.

Krista Kolstad with step-daughter, Jennifer

Jennifer’s medical notes recorded that she identified as male and wished to be called ‘Leo’. Consequently, the hospital staff rushed to affirm Jennifer’s ‘gender identity’, calling her Leo and referring to her with male pronouns. Of course, the Kolstad’s objected, explaining that they did not support or allow their daughter’s social transition. Their instructions were ignored and they were told that hospital staff will respect the patient’s wishes. Although the medical transition of minors is banned in Montana, the hospital told the Kolstads that social transition is a legal ‘grey area’ and advised them to call their lawyers if they had an issue with their daughter’s care.

Todd and Krista Kolstad felt that Jennifer would benefit from specialised treatment and counselling at a mental health hospital. There are six such facilities in Montana and one in Wyoming, a state which allows medical interventions for gender confused minors. Obviously, the Kolstads were concerned about their daughter being placed in the Wyoming hospital, fearing that Jennifer would be offered so-called ‘gender affirming’ medical treatment without their permission.

When they were informed that there was a bed available in the Wyoming Behavioural Institute and that Jennifer would be taken there immediately, they expressed their concerns and asked for some questions to be answered before they gave permission. Just ten minutes later, Child Protection Services arrived at the Kolstad home, flanked by police officers and bearing documents removing their daughter from their care.

Wyoming Behavioural Institute

Jennifer remained at the Wyoming facility for a month. While there, she was given men’s hygiene products, such as body wash and deodorant, allowed to shave her head and dress in men’s clothes and permitted to attend all-male groups. She was even allowed to wear a breast binder. She was later moved to a Youth Dynamics group home in Montana where she has remained ever since.

On 19th January the Kolstads lost custody of their daughter. CPS claim that allowing Jennifer to socially transition is ‘in her therapeutic interest’ and that her parents are ‘not following recommended therapy’. CPS have legal custody over Jennifer for the next six months after which they intend to place her in the care of her birth mother in Ontario, Canada. Jennifer’s birth mother has not been involved in her life in any meaningful way since she was a baby and both Jennifer and her sister have alleged that she is uncaring, abusive, and ‘crazy’.

Todd and Krista Kolstad have chosen to defy a court order forcing them to remain silent about their case and they spoke to Reduxx about losing custody of their daughter. “We will continue to fight. We will never give up on our daughter and for what we believe is morally right. We will continue to tell our story, even though we are currently in contempt of court, and try to keep other families from going through this. Our greatest fear is that our daughter is now going to become a victim of this system and eventually take her own life.”

UPDATE: They’ve been arrested.

Also Today - This Never Happens #1

KKTV 1 NEWS: A trans-identified male has been sentenced to six years in prison after plotting to carry out mass murders in schools and churches.

On 31st March 2023 police were called to the home of 19-year-old William Whitworth. His sister had phoned the police saying that he was behaving violently, had punched holes in the walls of the home, and was threatening to ‘shoot up a school’. Police officers found Whitworth drunk in his room and, when they asked him if he intended to carry out a shooting, he nodded in reply.

Officers searching the premises discovered a ‘manifesto’ containing instructions on the making of bombs and firearms with a 3D printer and photos depicting make-shift explosive and detonation devices. Whitworth also had a whiteboard containing drawings and floor plans of several schools he intended to target in Colorado Springs. While speaking to police, Whitworth stated he had used YouTube for information on making bomb detonation devices and told them he also intended to target churches.

When police officers asked Whitworth why he wanted to commit mass murder, he replied that there was ‘no specific reason’.

Whitworth was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, menacing, criminal mischief and interference with staff, faculty or students of educational institutions. He was originally held on a $75,000 bond but, while in prison it is reported that he told a prison official he intended to carry out his plans if out on bond. Consequently, his bond was increased to $750,000.

In November 2023, Whitworth accepted a plea deal and pleaded guilty to Second-Degree Assault, a felony offence. This week, in a courtroom in Elbert County, he was sentenced to six years in prison with 306 days credit for time served.

Whitworth identifies as trans and calls himself Lily. He was referred to with female pronouns throughout the police arrest report. Similarly, most media outlets - such as The Daily Mail, KKTV 11, Newsweek and The New York Post - have referred to him with female pronouns in their reporting of his case. But we recognise male violence when we see it.

Wednesday 31st January - This Unsporting Life #1

REBEL NEWS: At a recent varsity women’s volleyball game in Toronto, five of the players on court were trans-identified males.

Last week David Menzies, a Rebel News journalist, attended a women's college volleyball tournament in Toronto. The Centennial Colts women’s team was hosting the Seneca Sting women’s team. However, five of the players participating were trans-identified males, three on Seneca’s team and two on the Centennial’s team.

Menzies reports that the male players were on the court throughout the game, meaning some female athletes remained on the bench, with no opportunity to play, for the entire match. “At times it was hard to watch”, writes Menzies. “The men were definitely the dominant players on the court – especially when it came to spiking the ball. Indeed, our volleyball insider told us that the situation is so dire that it is no longer safe for biological women to compete.”

The five trans-identified male players on court in a female varsity match

A source close to this situation, who wishes to remain anonymous for obvious reasons, told Rebel News that there are currently six trans-identified males playing in the The Ontario Colleges Athletic Association (OCAA), five of whom have had no surgery or hormone treatment. (The OCAA does not appear to be making public any information about its rules on the eligibility of trans males to play on female teams.)

The source went on to describe two serious head injuries caused by trans-identified males to female players in the OCAA recently. The first was caused by CL Viloria who plays for Centennial College. During a game against La Cite Collegiate, Viloria hit a La Cite volleyball player in the head with the ball, causing a concussion. The second injury was caused by Franz Largadas who plays for Seneca College. Playing against La Cite Collegiate, Largadas struck the ball with heavy force and it hit a La Cite player in the head. (Largadas played for the Seneca College men’s volleyball team during the 2022-23 season but this year has a place on the women’s squad.)

Rebel News were clearly unwelcome spectators at last week’s Centennial v Seneca match. Menzies reports that “Rebel News employees were continually harassed, our cameras were blocked, and at one point, security guards told us we had to leave”.

Also Today - This Unsporting Life #2

WPDE ABC15 NEWS: A trans-identified male runner broke two records competing in the female events at a collegiate athletic meet in New York.

Trans-identified male runner, Sadie (formerly Camden) Schreiner, competed in a number of women’s events at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)’s athletics meet last week. Unsurprisingly, he did rather well.

He broke the 300-metre record with a time of 40.78-seconds. He also set the 200-metre record with a time of 25.27 seconds, meaning that he has qualified for the Atlantic Region Championship. Furthermore, he was also placed first in the 4x400-metre relay, stealing the Liberty League Women’s Track & Field Performer of the Week award.

IMAGE CREDIT: The Daily Mail

Schreiner is no stranger to snatching women’s sporting victories and records. In December last year he ‘stormed to victory’ at a college track and field event at Nazareth University in New York, stealing the 300 metres women’s race and setting a record of 41.8 seconds. He competed in the men’s category at the same meet only a year before, placing 19th in the 100 metre race.

Also Today - This Unsporting Life #3

ANTENA3: A man who claims to be ‘gender fluid’ but only when running, ‘won’ a Spanish mountain race in the women’s category.

La Cursa de NaDalt is a chrono-climbing race held annually in Catalonia. In December 2023 the women’s category was won by a 48-year-old man, Quim Durán Pradas, who, despite having fathered children, claims to be ‘gender fluid’. Of course, he has not undergone any surgery nor is he on any hormone therapy.

He entered the women’s category after finding the men’s event was fully subscribed. (Had he competed in the men’s category, he would have been placed 55th.) He appeared at the awards ceremony sporting earrings, lipstick and a ponytail. When organisers questioned his eligibility, it is reported that he became aggressive and threatened to sue them.

Quim Durán Pradas (L) at the La Cursa de NaDalt awards ceremony IMAGE CREDIT: Gil Ayats

This week Durán Pradas appeared on Más Espejo, a Spanish morning television show. He explained that he is ‘gender fluid’ but only develops a ‘feminine’ persona when running in outdoor surroundings. “When I run in the mountains”, he said, “I feel like a woman, I feel like the other female runners. I have been to an inclusive psychologist who told me that this is not a disorder. I am simply a person who, depending on the situations, is gender fluid. In my day-to-day life, at home when I’m with my children, I feel like a man. In my leisure time, in contact with nature, I feel like a woman.” How convenient.

Quim Durán Pradas racing in April 2023 - IMAGE CREDIT: @trailvallribes

He refused to answer any questions from the programme’s presenters and when one of the panel challenged him over his cheating, Durán Pradas accused them of hate speech. “People who do not understand [gender fluidity] and ridicule it as you are ridiculing it… it can become a hate crime”.

Thursday 1st February - This Never Happens #2

REDUXX: A recidivist paedophile, released early from prison due to his ‘gender transition’, has now been incarcerated indefinitely.

In 2015 Joseph Matthew Smith received an indefinite prison sentence after being found guilty of sexual offences against children. He confessed to sexually abusing fifteen children, including a one-year-old baby. Two years into his prison sentence, Smith started ‘identifying as a woman’ and receiving cross-sex hormone treatment. He called himself Josie Maria Dunham.

In 2020, less than five years after being given an indefinite sentence, Smith was released from prison. He made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic because his early release was said to be due to his ‘gender transition’. The Metro reported that “Lowering Smith’s testosterone has also diminished her [sic] sex drive, and thus dramatically decreased the risk of her [sic] re-offending, according to officials”.

The Iowa Attorney General’s office filed a motion to dismiss a petition which requested that Smith be deemed a sexually violent predator. Attorney General spokesperson, Lynn Hicks, commented, “An offender’s hormone levels are an important part of substantiating an offender’s likelihood of recidivism.” Hicks also claimed that an expert had determined that Smith was not at a risk of re-offending due to his gender identity. An Iowa district court judge subsequently granted the motion to dismiss.

In October 2021 Smith violated his parole conditions by using an unauthorised electronic device to watch pornography and try to procure sex. He was not, on that occasion, returned to custody. In January 2022 Smith was, again, found in violation of the terms of his parole. He accessed child sexual abuse materials on another unauthorised electronic device. The materials depicted children between the ages of five and eight. On that occasion, Smith was returned to prison.

This week, thanks to the influence of newly-elected Iowa Attorney General, Brenna Bird, Smith has finally been deemed a ‘sexually violent predator’ under state law and a court has determined that he will be incarcerated indefinitely.

Also Today - Zine Of The Times

Glasgow “Women’s” Library has lesbophobic material on display as part of an exhibition of ‘trans zines’.

The erroneously named Glasgow Women’s Library is part-funded by the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council. It boasts that it is “The only accredited museum in the UK dedicated to women’s lives, histories and achievements”.

As we have previously reported, however, it includes males in its definition of ‘women’ and is inclusive of ‘transgender women and other marginalised genders’ at supposedly female-only events. In November, the library marked International Day to End Violence Against Women with an exhibition of ‘protest placards’ which promoted gender ideology and prioritised trans-identified males over the rights of women.

Throughout February and March, the library is hosting a display called ‘Trans Zines’ which, it says, is “Showcasing the ways the trans community have used zines to show solidarity, share information and express their creativity and joy”. One of the ‘zines’ being exhibited is ‘Lesbians are Dying Out - A Comic About Transphobia’ produced in 2018 by Kay Hyatt.

Many thanks to Scottish Lesbians for documenting this ‘comic’ (which, incidentally, is also part of the Wellcome Collection).

The zine vilifies women for wanting to protect their sex-based rights and mocks lesbians for defending their sexual boundaries.

It also portrays lesbians as ‘transphobic’ for excluding people with a penis (ie men) from their sexuality.

On its website, Glasgow “Women’s” Library proudly proclaims, “We provide a safe welcoming space”. But not for lesbians, apparently.

Friday 2nd February - No Sex, Please: We’re The EA

THE TIMES: The Environment Agency altered the vocabulary of its staff policy to render it ‘gender neutral’ in an attempt to curry favour with Stonewall.

The Environment Agency (EA) is a non-departmental public body established by Parliament in 1996 and sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). It has around 10,600 employees at offices across England and with twin head offices in Bristol and London.

A freedom of information request has revealed that in 2020 and 2022, the EA applied for Stonewall’s annual ‘Top 100 Employers’ list. In the six months prior to the first application the EA re-wrote its staff policy to ‘ensure it is non-gendered’. For example, its maternity, paternity and parental leave policy was stripped of the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’.

In its application, the EA boasted of busting myths ‘within the civil service HR community’ about the legal status of a person’s title and of allowing staff to access its sites using multiple pass-cards to express different identities on different days. The EA’s application also detailed its support on ‘how to be an ally’ which recommended the championing of mixed toilets and facilities.

Saturday 3rd February - Football Brutes

THE TELEGRAPH: A female football fan has been banned from matches until 2026 after a sinister premier league department investigated her for wrong-think.

Linzi Smith is a 34-year-old lesbian who lives in Newcastle. In October 2023 she received an email from Newcastle United - the football team she has supported all her life - suspending her membership. NUFC told Linzi her that account had been ‘temporarily suspended’ while she was being investigated by Northumbria Police. She had no idea to what the email referred.

Two days later, two police officers turned up at Linzi’s home and told her that they were obliged to interview her and threatened her with arrest if she did not comply. Frightened and with no idea of what crime she was being accused, she agreed to attend an interview at the police station. As advised by Fair Cop, she recorded this interview. The transcript is below and the so-called ‘malicious communications’ of which she was accused are highlighted. Linzi was simply expressing her (perfectly legal and reasonable) views - that ‘transwomen’ are men and gender diverse children should not be medicalised - on X (Twitter).

Two hours after this interview, Linzi received a phone call confirming that police would be taking no further action because she had not committed any offence.

Nevertheless, in November 2023 she received a letter from Newcastle United telling her she was banned from the club’s St James’ Park stadium for the rest of the existing season and for two subsequent seasons, and that her membership had been revoked. She was also banned from buying tickets for any away games. “I just cried,” she said. “I’ve been a Newcastle fan my whole life and I’ve spent thousands over the years on tickets, shirts, everything. What was happening just seemed surreal.”

Despite there being no suggestion that Linzi has ever offended anyone inside the stadium and/or during a match, NUFC said that she had breached the equality and diversity section of its membership rules. Furthermore, the club claimed Linzi had breached section 12 of its ground regulations, which prohibit ‘any conduct, act or statement… that is discriminatory’.

Linzi Smith

After submitting a subject access request to NUFC, Linzi discovered that she had been the subject of a long and detailed investigation by a shadowy department of the Premier League which had been trawling through her social media posts and digging into her life. It had compiled an eleven-page ‘target profile’ dossier on her, detailing where she lives, where she works and even where walks her dog. This sinister document also included data on her ‘associated aliases’ and ‘vulnerabilities’.

Linzi told The Telegraph, “They kept telling me they want everyone to feel included – but it appears you’re only welcome if you follow their thought process on everything, and if you don’t you are banned. It is sinister and I feel violated”.

Sunday 4th February - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire

THE DAILY MAIL: A Labour MP believes the law should be changed so that the dead can ‘change their gender’.

Charlotte Nichols, Labour MP for Warrington North, believes the deceased should be able to ‘change their gender’ after death. She submitted a question to Minister for Equalities, Stuart Andrew, requesting that the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) 2004 be edited “To allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by”.

Sir Liam Fox, Conservative MP for North Somerset, said, “It is patently absurd, factually inaccurate and a statistical distortion. We should not be encouraging the idea that people can simply choose to change their biological status nor should we bend truth to accommodate an ever more extreme and dangerous ideology”.

Quite.

See you next week.