A Week in the War on Women: Monday 29th May - Sunday 4th June GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

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Another week jam-packed with good news from the gender beat. Enjoy!

Murray’s Mint

Tennis giant and maker of champions, Judy Murray, has, again, spoken out in defence of women’s sport. In an interview with The Times she talked of the need for inclusivity but also for fairness.

“Categories have been created in sport for a reason to create fair and safe competition. If there is clear, unfair physical advantage then it is going to be incredibly tough on women’s sport and women’s sport is in the best place it has ever been.”

TERF Revolution Down Under?

One of the Australia’s biggest medical insurers has announced that it will no longer cover private practitioners providing so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to minors.

MDA National is one of the four major medical indemnity providers in Australia which insure GPs and other private practitioners against legal claims. It has updated its policy to exclude cover for claims “Arising from aspects of gender transitioning treatment for under 18-year-old patients”.

Furthermore, Australian Federal Circuit & Family Court judges are being urged to consider important new evidence regarding the harmful ­effects of hormone treatments and puberty blockers on children and adolescents.

Reem Still Rocks

In other news from Australia, Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, has expressed her support for Moira Deeming.

In an interview on Sky News she told host, Peta Credlin, that there are concerns about ‘due process’ regarding Moira Deeming’s expulsion from the Victorian Liberal Party. “I haven’t seen that there has been a proper investigation into these allegations before she was dismissed”, she said, adding, “Deeming appears to have been unfairly called a Nazi for expressing her concerns re women's rights… Where is the evidence?”

Alsalem went on to comment, “It's very convenient to brush everybody with the stroke of Nazi/bigot/genocidaire...It serves as a green light to say you should hate those being smeared, they have nothing to contribute, their issues are trivial & that closes the door on any meaningful engagement”.

Something Elon’s Not Buying

Twitter boss and business behemoth, Elon Musk, continues to speak out against the harms of gender ideology. Last month he tweeted that he regards ‘cisgender as a slur’ and voiced his concerns about the medicalising of trans-identified minors.

This week he has gone even further and has committed to ‘actively lobbying’ to criminalise the practise of transing children.

And he shared Matt Walsh’s documentary ‘What is a Woman’.

Sunak On Stock

Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, supported free speech in the gender debate saying that Professor Kathleen Stock had a right to speak at the Oxford Union and that others had a right to hear her.

He told The Telegraph, “University should be an environment where debate is supported, not stifled. We mustn’t allow a small but vocal few to shut down discussion… Agree or disagree with her, Professor Stock is an important figure in this argument. Students should be allowed to hear and debate her views. A tolerant society is one which allows us to understand those we disagree with, and nowhere is that more important than within our great universities.”

And while we’re on the subject of freedom of debate on campus, the government’s new free speech tsar is already speaking in unequivocal terms about its protection.

Professor Arif Ahmed, the new director for freedom of speech and academic freedom for the Office for Students, wrote in The Times this week. “A university is not a club. It is not a political lobby. It is not a seminary. It is not a ‘brand’. It exists to seek and speak truth, whatever it costs and whoever it upsets. Therefore, without freedom to explore controversial or ‘offensive’ ideas, a university is nothing… There are urgent threats to free speech and academic freedom in our universities and colleges. We must use all means necessary to address them. Free speech matters beyond the campus.”

First Do No Harm

In very big news, courageous detransitioner, Ritchie Herron, has announced the launch of a judicial review over NHS treatment of adults with gender dysphoria.

The court will be asked to declare that the NHS service specifications which determine the treatment of dysphoric adults to be unlawful and to extend the Cass Review to cover young people up to the age of 25 years old. You can find more information and support this case here.

We wish Ritchie and the team the very best of luck.

Moore Of This Please

Don’t miss the incomparable Suzanne Moore in blistering form, writing in The Telegraph this week about the crumbling cult of gender.

“None of this is really about the trans rights of adults. It is about the pushing of extreme gender ideology on to distressed children. Any basic model of safeguarding has gone out of the window. It is a complete negation of the duty to ‘Do No Harm’ and at its centre is a woman who should never, ever have been given any authority. I really hope that for Susie Green, the game is finally up.”

Justice Is Served

A Vermont school district has paid out $125,000 in damages after taking punitive measures against a female pupil and her father for defending female spaces.

Last October we reported on Blake Allen, a 14-year-old girl, who was suspended from her school in Vermont after protesting that a male pupil was permitted to use the female changing rooms. Her father, Travis Allen, was then fired from his job as the school’s soccer coach after defending his daughter on social media. The Allen family subsequently brought a lawsuit against the Orange Southwest School District Board.

The school district has now agreed to a settlement with the Allens, which requires the board to reinstate Travis Allen to his coaching job, scrub the disciplinary marks from Blake Allen’s school record and pay the family $125,000 in damages and legal fees.

As JK Rowling so rightly remarked this week, Karma’s a terf.

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