A Week in the War on Women Monday 22nd August - Sunday 28th August
Monday 22nd August - A Gender Agenda for the NHS
A lobby group representing the NHS is ignoring the findings of the Cass Review and promoting ‘trans and non-binary allyship’ while seeking ways to silence those who reject gender identity ideology.
Despite its name, the NHS Confederation is not part of the NHS. It is an independent organisation which represents health service bodies in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
In a tender document published on its website, the NHS Confederation is advertising a £20,000 contract for a research partner, “To conduct a review of the available trans inclusion resources and identify the gaps that exist, including a review into potentially updating the trans practical guide for the NHS”.
The intention is to create “A piece of work that will act as a practical guide for senior healthcare leaders, equipping them with the knowledge and confidence to model meaningful trans and non-binary allyship. The guide should also include ideas for supporting NHS organisations when they face opposition from anti-trans groups and individuals”.
Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend said, “The interim report of the case review into the Tavistock clinic was very clear about the failings of the Tavistock because there was an ideological approach driven by activists. It demands support from doctors for trans people but these kind of actions are not demanded for any other patient group.”
Campaign group, Sex Matters, has written to the NHS Confederation to demand this ‘partisan’ research is scrapped. “‘Trans Allyship’ should be understood not simply as consideration for transsexuals but as support for a set of beliefs termed ‘gender ideology’… Undertaking actions driven by ‘trans allyship’, such as allowing males to use women’s toilets and showers, or berating a staff member who does not wish to be referred to as ‘cis’ or who expresses gender-critical beliefs, is likely to be in breach of the anti-discrimination and anti-harassment provisions in Equality Act.”
Tuesday 23rd August - Sex Matters
THE DAILY MAIL: Exam boards may dispense with biological reality and record GCSE and A Level results according to ‘gender identity’ after advice from Stonewall.
The Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) which represents various exam boards says that a new category of ‘non-binary’ is being considered for the recording of exam results in order to ‘support the non-binary community’. This move comes after JCQ met with lobby group, Stonewall.
Such a decision would risk losing vital data based on sex and hamper efforts to recognise and address education inequalities between the sexes. Maya Forstater of Sex Matters told the paper, “Anything that you do to address inequality between boys and girls needs to be based on clear data. Schools, the Government and the exam boards all have an interest in being able to ensure boys and girls can access education and be assessed fairly”.
Also Today - Another man steals a woman’s place
A trans-identified male has just won the Women’s World Billiards Championship.
25-year-old Jamie Hunter is a snooker and billiards player. He began identifying as trans in 2019 and transitioned in 2020.
Hunter joined the women’s world snooker tour in 2021. He reached the semi-finals of the England Women’s Open and took second place on the 2021/22 EPSB Women’s Tour. He reached the quarter finals at the Eden Masters and British Open tournaments and the semi-finals of the 2022 World Women’s Snooker Championship.
Hunter has also been hugely successful playing women’s billiards; he won the 2022 Women’s European Open and has just won the 2022 women’s world championship. He is currently ranked 12th in the world in women’s snooker and 4th in the world in women’s billiards.
Only a few years ago Hunter was merely an amateur who played at most a couple of times per week in the Widnes men’s amateur snooker league. Then he transitioned. Interviewed last year, in August 2021, Hunter told Snooker Zone, “Until this year, cue sports was just a hobby, something I done once, maybe twice a week, but now finding out about the Women’s snooker tour, I believe that will change.”
Wednesday 24th August - Listen to the Detransitioners #1
THE AGE: A young Australian woman is suing her former psychiatrist after she underwent irreversible surgeries to ‘change gender’.
In May 2010 Jay Langadinos was 19 years old, living with her parents and ‘identifying as male’. She was referred to a psychiatrist, Dr Patrick Toohey, by her endocrinologist to assess if she was suitable to begin taking cross-sex hormones. Her endocrinologist had flagged that she was ‘very young’ and required a ‘thorough psychiatric work-up before embarking on hormone treatment’. After just one consultation, Toohey agreed that she was suitable for hormone therapy and she was prescribed testosterone.
In February 2012 Langadinos saw Toohey for a second time when she wanted a double mastectomy. He found ‘no contradiction’ for her to have the surgery. A month later, at another appointment, Toohey said he could not see ‘any psychiatric contraindication’ for Langadinos to proceed with the hysterectomy she wanted. Aged just 22 Langadinos had undergone irreversible surgeries to remove her healthy breasts, ovaries, Fallopian tubes and uterus.
In 2016 Langadinos began to realise that embarking on her gender transition had been a huge mistake and in 2020 she consulted an endocrinologist about ceasing her hormone treatment. She has explained that a difficult home life, a social phobia and being same-sex attracted all caused her to feel ‘defective’ and that, when searching the internet for answers to her issues, she ‘discovered transgender’.
“As my unhappiness grew, I felt the cause of my unhappiness was because I was not male, so the answer was to change my body even more,” she said. Instead, each surgery plunged her further into depression. “I had a breakdown, couldn’t function for an entire year. I couldn’t get out of bed. I wish at the time I knew how much I was hurting and why.”
As a result of her gender transition Langadinos ‘has suffered and continues to suffer from injuries and disabilities’, including complications as a result of hormone therapy, complications from early menopause, anxiety, depression, impaired psychological function and the ongoing need for medical treatment.
Langadinos is now bringing legal action against Dr Toohey, alleging that he was negligent in not recommending further evaluation. Anna Kerr, a solicitor at the New South Wales Feminist Legal Clinic, believes this legal action is ‘likely to be the tip of the iceberg’.
Thursday 25th August - Call me ‘Amber’
LA PRESSE: A convicted recidivist sex offender who raped his ex-wife at knife-point is now ‘identifying as a woman’ and seeking a lenient prison sentence.
46 year old Jody Matthew Burke is a former physical trainer and mixed martial arts specialist from Montreal. He was already on the federal sex offender registry for sexually violent crimes committed in 2005 and 2014. Last year he was convicted of sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon and sexual assault causing bodily harm after he raped his ex-wife with a knife at her throat.
Burke is now claiming to ‘identify as a woman’ and calls himself Amber. He is also filing a claim to have his sex offender status downgraded, which would reduce his sentence. The court appears to be abiding by his new-found female pronouns. He claims to have come to a realisation about his ‘gender identity’ in recent years and is talking about medical treatment, keen to undergo the gender reassignment process in a hospital rather than in prison.
Burke’s lawyer intends to argue that his violent past is linked to his ‘gender dysphoria’.
Also Today - Under His Aye
THE TIMES SCOTLAND - A male staff member at an Edinburgh theatre has been accused of harassing a group of women who were attending a female-centric event.
A complaint has been made about a male staff member at fringe venue, The Gilded Balloon, claiming that he tried to dissuade a group of women from attending Elaine Miller’s stand-up show, calling it ‘transphobic’. Elaine Miller is a pelvic physiotherapist whose Edinburgh show, Viva Your Vulva, focuses on female bodies.
According to a member of the audience who was made to feel ‘intimidated and threatened’ the man demonstrated ‘blatant misogyny’ as he harassed the female customers in question.
The complainant, a Scottish playwright, questioned the man about his behaviour. “He said that these ‘women of a certain age’ had ‘Terf vibes’ and that the show was ‘transphobic’. There was nothing else about these women through their dress, manner or behaviour that suggested anything about them or their views. They were just older gender non-conforming women and this was why he was targeting them.”
Karen Koren, the founder of the Gilded Balloon, confirmed that a member of staff had been reprimanded and moved to a different venue.
Friday 26th August - A Room of One’s Own
THE TELEGRAPH: Posters in the toilets at The Alan Turing Institute instruct women to turn a blind eye if there’s a man in the ladies’.
Posters have appeared in the toilets, both male and female, at the Alan Turing Institute in the British Museum. They tell visitors not to question or be concerned about someone they ‘feel’ is in the ‘wrong’ bathroom. By which, of course, they mean someone of the opposite sex.
So if women find a male in their bathroom, they are expected to respect his privacy, protect him from harm and not make a fuss.
A British Library spokesperson told The Telegraph that the posters were intended to make trans and non-binary people more comfortable using the toilet of their choice and “To ensure that everyone feels safe and respected”.
The sign doesn’t indicate any options for those women whose faith or culture prevents them from sharing toilet facilities with males. Nor does it explain the protocol for women who’ve suffered male violence and for whom finding a male in this space would be a terrifying experience.
The sign doesn’t explain the correct procedure for those discovering someone like Joshua Yannuzzi, a sexually violent predator who used hidden mobile phones in toilets to secretly film up to 90 women…
Or Hannah Tubbs, a male who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in the female bathroom of a fast-food restaurant…
Or Katie Dolatowski, a male who sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in a female toilet, or the man who sexually assaulted women in the toilets of a Bristol nightclub, or the man who installed a hidden camera in a Starbucks toilet, or the man who installed a camera in the toilets of a Yorkshire sports centre, or the man who sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl in the toilet of a Plymouth restaurant…
A policy of allowing anyone to enter any facility is the perfect Trojan horse for voyeurs and predators and it protects nobody. Perhaps, in addition to the male and female toilets, a third ‘gender neutral’ facility would the ideal solution. That way, ALL visitors, including women, could feel ‘safe and respected’ when using the toilet.
Saturday 27th August - Listen to the Detransitioners #2
THE DAILY MAIL: A young man says he was ‘brainwashed’ into sex reassignment surgery by trans activists and now bitterly regrets his decision to transition.
The 32-year-old gay man who lives in Massachusetts calls himself Shape Shifter. He was interviewed by transsexual, Blaire White, in a YouTube video. He described feeling like he was part of ‘some cruel medical and social experiment’.
Shape grew up in a Muslim country where being gay was problematic. He believed that he was ‘born in the wrong body’ and that transitioning would allow him to be happy with himself. He says he was encouraged in this belief by trans activists, particularly the biased pro-trans medical centre staff who referred him for surgery.
His surgery was performed in 2015 and, almost immediately, Shape, then in his mid-20s, felt he had made a terrible mistake. His depression was far worse after his surgery than before it. The procedures have left him with osteoporosis, scoliosis, issues with his newly constructed genitalia and a number of mental health conditions.
Shape mourns the loss of his penis. He explained that his ‘neo vagina’, which was constructed out of penile tissue, fell far short of expectations. It has begun to constrict and left him unable to have sexual intercourse. “I will never be able to get my penis back which is extremely traumatic for me. I want it back and I can't. Sex is traumatic for me now.”
Agreeing with Blaire White that detransitioners are seen as ‘the enemy’ by trans healthcare professionals, Sharpe believes that many people would reconsider having surgery if they understood the implications. He feels that the potential regrets and medical complications are downplayed by clinicians as discussing them with patients would be ‘bad for business’.
Shape now realises that he is not ‘in the wrong body’ but a man who enjoys dressing and presenting in a very feminine way. And that’s just fine. “I feel like my life would have been better and more productive if over the last 10 years I spent expanding the definition of what it is to be a man instead of trying to just blend in like society wants… I fucked up my life, I could have been so much more.”
Sunday 28th August - Lesbians Not Welcome At Pride
THE SPECTATOR: A group of lesbians were removed from Cardiff’s pride parade because their declaration of being same-sex attracted upset trans activists.
Lesbian campaign group, Get The L Out (GTLO), attended Pride Cymru (Wales) in Cardiff on Saturday. They were protesting their right to be exclusively attracted to females and say ‘No’ to males. This is not something that should be in any way controversial under any circumstance, especially not at a Pride event. However, the group was removed from the event by police officers.
Group organiser, Angela Wild, told Reduxx that the police had initially told GTLO that they could march at the front of the parade. That decision was soon overturned when it became obvious that their banners and flyers about being same-sex attracted had upset a group of trans activists. Officers then told Angela that GTLO would have to march at the back or be removed from the event entirely.
In this video clip the police officer can be heard telling Angela that the group were ‘causing confrontation’, warning her that they will be forcibly removed if they chose to march. Angela asked him, “You are removing lesbians from an LGBT march. Is that what you’re doing?”. The officer replied, “Yes, that is what’s happening. For your safety, and for other people’s safety”.
The clip also shows a trans-identified male confronting Lianne Timmermann, another GTLO organiser, and screaming “Fuck lesbians! Fuck off!” at her. If police were so concerned for the safety of the GTLO women, why remove them and not the aggressive males confronting them?
In this video clip an officer can be heard telling GTLO that unless they ‘do as they’re told’ they’ll be met with a ‘Section 12 order’ (part of the Public Order Act (1986) which allows conditions to be imposed on ‘public processions’ and ‘public assemblies’).
However, this solicitor does not believe that a section 12 order could be applied in this situation as it refers to a procession as a whole, not one small part of it.
Whatever their application of the law, police officers removed a group of lesbians from a Pride event because their being same-sex attracted upset the males present.
There’s been excellent coverage from Reduxx and Jo Bartosch but last word goes to Julie Bindel: “Ever since the trans movement decided that lesbians who reject sleeping with trans women are somehow morally deficient, same-sex attracted women have been harassed, defamed and abused in the name of trans equality. Get the L Out represent those old-fashioned lesbians that reject the penis and all that is attached to it… Being a lesbian in a misogynistic society is damned hard. The trans activists should know by now that us lezzers are not for turning.”
See you next week.
On the topic of recording the results of 'trans pupils', there's no such thing, but there are children or their parents with mental health issues.
Nothing, but nothing, makes a man realize he's actually a woman more than raping one at knifepoint.