A Week in the War on Women: Monday 20th March - Sunday 26th March
Monday 20th March - Men Make The Best Women #1
REDUXX: The Smithsonian will be including trans-identified males in a new museum intended to honour American women.
According to its website, “The Smithsonian is researching, disseminating, and amplifying the histories of American women through its American Women’s History Initiative in preparation for the future Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum. The Smithsonian wants the role of women in American history to be well-known, accurate, acknowledged, and empowering”.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, at least one of the ‘women’ to be featured in this new museum is a trans-identified male. Alongside pioneering and inspirational women such as women’s suffrage campaigner, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, is the designer of the pastel pink and blue ‘trans pride’ flag, Monica Helms.
The inclusion of a male in this museum is insulting enough to American women, but 71-year-old Helms even more so.
US Navy veteran and trans activist, Monica Helms, was formerly known as Robert Hogge. In his autobiography, More Than Just a Flag, Helms records that, as a young man, he would steal women’s underwear from his apartment complex laundry room and become sexually aroused when wearing it. Despite the opposition of his wife, Helms continued to pursue his cross-dressing sexual fetish when married and even after becoming a father. Eventually, in middle age, Helms abandoned his family in order to transition and began calling himself a lesbian. He has written ‘erotic’ short stories featuring narratives of the ‘forced feminization’ of men and of perpetually adolescent girls.
Yet The Smithsonian deems him suitable for inclusion in a museum honouring American womanhood.
This is how Helms reacted to the news.
Also Today - Men Make The Best Women #2
Elsewhere in the USA, a male has just been named a ‘Woman of the Year’.
Last March, news and current affairs giant, USA Today, named late-transitioning father of two, Rachel Levine, as one of its Women of the Year.
This year, it has chosen as its Woman of the Year for Minnesota, trans-identified male, Leigh Finke.
Like Levine, Finke is a politician - he was recently elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives - and the father of two children. And, just like Levine, he’s very much in favour of transing kids.
Finke is sponsoring a bill which facilitates the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children, allowing minors from other states to receive hormone treatment and surgeries in Minnesota. But he doesn’t know the first thing about the dangers and long-term side effects of the treatments he is pushing. Or at least he pretends not to.
In August 2020 Finke produced a book called Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens, the recommended reading age for which is 12 - 18. In this book, Finke conflates ‘gender identity’ with being gay, lesbian or bisexual and refers constantly to a homogenized category of ‘queerness’.
At several points throughout the book, ‘queer’ youngsters are told that parents are wrong if they ‘speak harmfully against our queerness’. By failing to make any distinction between gender dysphoria and sexuality, ‘speaking harmfully’ against ‘queerness’ could simply mean a parent who will not affirm their child’s ‘gender identity’ and/or refuses their demand for medical treatment.
Finke operates a Facebook account under the name Elle Finke. In April 2021, he shared an excerpt from his book which reads, “If your parents do not accept you and your queerness, then they do not know what’s best for you. They just don’t.” He added the comment, “Trans and nonbinary and queer and gay and lesbian and bi young people: Don’t Listen To Your Parents!”
And this is USA Today’s choice; an adult male who seeks to medicalise vulnerable youngsters and estrange children from their parents. What an insult to the women of Minnesota.
Also Today - An Unsporting Chance
A trans-identified male seems likely to compete at the next Olympics in the women’s category of a brand-new sport.
Ski mountaineering (skimo) is a relatively new sport. It involves climbing mountains on skis or by foot whilst carrying skis before a skied descent. Of course, it is a sport requiring tremendous strength and stamina. It will be included in the Olympic Games for the first time in 2026, involving three medal categories; men's sprint, women's sprint and a mixed relay.
Competing in this historic inaugural event will surely be a dream for any exponent of the sport. How galling then, that for the USA’s skimo women, one of their opportunities to do so will probably go to a man.
Trans-identified male, Wren (formerly William) Pyle, took up ski mountaineering after moving to Vermont to study at the university there. In the past he has competed in swimming, cycling and ultrarunning events but, as he told student publication, Vermont Cynic, he did not feel comfortable competing in the boys’ division.
Competing is in his own sex class is no long a problem for Pyle since taking up ski mountaineering as he is permitted to take part in women’s events.
According to USSMA, the sport’s governing body, “A male-to-female transgender athlete can compete as a female provided the athlete has been undergoing continuous, medically supervised hormone treatment for gender transition for at least one year prior to the event. The athlete should be able to provide documentation, if requested, of serum testosterone levels consistently below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to competition”.
Unsurprisingly, Pyle is doing very well in the women’s skimo category, taking first place in most of the events in which he competes. Not only was he one of the 24 athletes included in the USA Skimo 2021-2022 national women’s team, he was also the 2022 U23 women's national sprint champion. And now he has his sights set on the 2026 Olympic USA women’s team.
Even with their sport still in its infancy, the USA’s female skimo athletes are already losing records, medals and opportunities to a male. He may even steal a place at the Olympics.
Tuesday 21st March - Within These Walls
REDUXX: Two dangerous paedophiles have been moved to the female estate in the USA and Canada over the last few months.
Formerly known as Frederick Radcliffe, Carissa Marie Radcliffe is a serial sex offender from Ottawa, Canada. In 1989 and 1990 he was found guilty of exposing himself to women while masturbating. He was convicted in 1991 for sexual assaulting a 19-year-old woman. A year later he was found guilty of three counts of sexual interference and one count of sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl. During the late 90s he amassed yet more convictions for indecent exposure.
In 2007 he raped a vulnerable 13-year-old girl to whom he’d offered a lift home. In court, his victim described how Radcliffe pushed her down on the back seat of his van, ignoring her pleas for him to stop, and put his hand over her mouth. He raped her both vaginally and anally, leaving the girl bleeding and in so much pain that she was unable to walk.
Radcliffe was found guilty of sexual assault on a person under the age of fourteen. He was subsequently declared a dangerous offender and sentenced to an indeterminate period of incarceration. In 2017 he tried to appeal his conviction and sentence. After both appeals were dismissed, he began ‘identifying as female’ and calling himself Carrisa Marie Radcliffe.
A few months ago, Radcliffe was transferred from the Bath Institution, a federal prison for male inmates, to the Grand Valley Institution for Women.
Over in the USA, another vicious sex offender has recently been moved to the female estate.
57-year-old Joel Thomas Nichols was imprisoned in the mid-90s for a horrific sex attack on a little girl and the attempted abduction of another. In 1993 he perpetrated a premeditated attack on an 11-year-old girl, invading her home by masquerading as a tradesman. He forced her to wear underwear he’d brought with him which he then used a knife to cut off the child before raping her anally and vaginally.
The following year, Nichols attempted to kidnap a nine-year-old girl from a park but was prevented from doing so thanks to the bravery and quick thinking of some nearby young girls who grabbed her from him. he was subsequently apprehended by the police and charged.
Nichols pleaded guilty to first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, and first-degree kidnapping. He was given a 360-month sentence. In 1998 he attempted to appeal his sentence but was unsuccessful.
Nichols now ‘identifies as female’ and calls himself Jolene Charisma Starr.
According to a source at Washington Corrections Center for Women, Nichols was transferred to the facility within the last few months. He is now one of about a dozen trans-identified males to be accommodated there.
Wednesday 22nd March - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire
REDUXX: A female victim of male violence has been instructed to refer to her alleged assailant as ‘she’.
When Kellie-Jay Keen took Standing For Women to Tacoma, USA, in October 2022, there were violent attacks on attendees by trans activists.
Despite credible death threats made by Antifa extremists against Kellie-Jay in Portland, the Tacoma police had refused to provide a presence for the event. From the outset, protestors surrounded the women attendees, standing around the top of the amphitheater at which the event was being held. They waved trans pride flags and signs that read ‘crash the cis-tem’ and ‘no terfs in T town’ and they tried to drown out the speakers with chanting and the shouting of insults.
Some of the trans rights activists were recorded attempting to spit on the women in attendance and there are reports that some were armed with brass knuckles and wore face masks to hide their identity.
Toward the end of the event, trans activists surrounded and physically assaulted April Morrow, a lesbian in middle-age and long-time women’s rights campaigner.
April was filming the event on her mobile phone. A trans-identified male tried to steal her phone, grabbing and crushing her hand in the attempt.
April suffered broken fingers and her phone was damaged.
She described her experience to Reduxx. “The pain was excruciating and I let out a blood-curdling scream.” Scrambling to retrieve her phone, Morrow bent over and was shoved to floor by her attacker whilst surrounded by a gang of protestors. “Feeling the mob around me was terrifying”, she recounted.
April has not recovered from the attack. She suffers with polymyalgia, a chronic condition which can be aggravated by injury. Since the assault, she has been in persistent pain, lost the ability to close her hand and has been referred to a specialist. She requires physical therapy several times a week.
Following the SFW event, April filed an incident report with the Tacoma Police Department. They briefly detained a trans-identified male, Elijha Lane, who was released pending a court hearing. He is facing charges of fourth degree assault.
Posting an update about her case on social media, April explained that her alleged attacker is being documented as a woman and that, at a recent court hearing, counsel instructed her to refer to him with female pronouns. “I just found out the man who assaulted me is claiming he is a woman. I just left the courtroom shaking and holding back tears of fury. The prosecuting attorney referred to Elijah Lane as a ‘she’ and said ‘she’ has requested we use ‘her’ pronouns. I said he is not a woman; it was a man that crushed my hand!”
Thursday 23rd March - A Room Of One’s Own
THE TELEGRAPH: A London theatre has installed ‘all gender’ toilets in which women are subjected to the sight of men using urinals.
A few years ago The Lyric in Hammersmith changed its single-sex toilets into ‘all gender’ facilities. Not only does this exclude women of certain faiths and cultures for whom sharing such facilities with males is impossible, it compromises women’s privacy, dignity and safety. Worse still, the ‘old’ men’s toilet, now supposedly, ‘gender neutral’, comprises one cubicle and five urinals, meaning that women using this facility must run the gauntlet of peeing blokes to reach a loo.
Journalist and women’s rights campaigner, Joan Smith, visited the theatre last week and was left feeling ‘incredibly uncomfortable’ having to use these toilets. “I was confronted with five urinals which I had to pass to get to a single locking cubicle”, she said. “I do not wish to see a man’s penis in a public place, and I doubt whether many men want to expose themselves in this way.”
One man who would probably relish the mixed-sex toilet facilities at The Lyric featured in the news this week.
Stewart Murray is a recidivist sex offender found guilty of a ‘sex act’ perpetrated in a female toilet. He has public indecency convictions dating back to 1992. One of his previous convictions is for forcing a little girl to watch him defecate.
In 2016, one of the conditions of his release from prison prohibits him entering public toilets designated either female or unisex. However, that did not prevent Murray from offending again in March last year when he decided to masturbate in the women’s toilet at a Dunelm home furnishing store.
A female customer entered the ladies’ toilet and heard ‘rustling’, ‘heavy breathing’ and ‘sexual noises’ so she left immediately to alert store staff. Murray was subsequently arrested. Following his trial last month, the jury deliberated for just twelve minutes before finding him guilty. He was sentenced this week and described as posing, “A risk of psychological and sexual harm to all females”.
Of course, under Scotland’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill, Murray, who is from Aberdeen, would merely have to fill out a few forms to be granted unfettered access to all the female spaces he wanted.
Friday 24th March - The Art Of Stifling Free Speech
A woman is taking legal action against her former employer, Arts Council England, as she believes she was punished for her gender critical views.
Denise Fahmy worked as a grant officer at Arts Council England (ACE) for over 15 years. Although she has now resigned, she is taking the organisation to an employment tribunal, believing that she was targeted and harassed because for speaking over gender identity ideology.
In April 2022 the LGB Alliance was awarded a £9,000 ACE grant to produce a film about the lives of gay men during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. However, the grant was withdrawn soon afterwards.
A few days prior to the grant being rescinded, Fahmy attended an ACE staff meeting at which ACE’s deputy CEO, Simon Mellor, accused the LGB Alliance of being “A divisive organisation with a history of anti-trans exclusionary activity” and said it was a mistake for the grant to have been awarded. Fahmy was shocked by Mellor’s remarks and what she describes as his ‘worrying bias’. She spoke out at the meeting in support of the LGB Alliance, questioning Mellor’s negative comments and the effect of his personal views on freedom of speech.
Fahmy told The Telegraph, “The statement made at the meeting seemed to me to be a really worrying turn of events. It can’t be right that a leader of a public body distributing taxpayers’ and lottery players’ money can let their personal or political views shape funding decisions.”
She subsequently made a formal complaint about Mellor’s comments to Sir Nick Serota, ACE’s chairman. Her complaint was not upheld.
A few weeks after the staff meeting, some of Fahmy’s colleagues circulated a petition targeting her and other ‘gender critical’ ACE employees. The petition was hosted on the staff intranet, gaining the attention of 700 staff and garnering over 100 signatures. Signatories made comments on the petition, describing gender critical people like Fahmy and the leaders of the LGB Alliance as ‘parasites’ and ‘neo-Nazis’ needing to be ‘stamped out’.
Fahmy made a complaint about the petition and the harassment she was experiencing but ACE decided the abuse had not been directed at her. Fahmy had to take sick leave due to stress and described her working environment as now being toxic. She made the decision to resign from her role.
She is now taking ACE to an Employment Tribunal and her hearing begins on 18th May. (Should you wish to make a contribution to her crowdfunder, you can do so here.)
“I couldn't take this lying down. I had seen too many people's careers and their mental health ruined by spurious allegations of transphobia, especially in the Arts. If it was toxic in the office, I could only imagine what it’s like now for gender critical people and ‘the wrong kind of gays’ working in galleries and theatres across the country. Actually I know what it's like because artists, performers and venue directors have been in touch to tell me - there is real fear in the Arts…
Winning this case will mean forcing the public sector to abide by the Equality Act… making sure that no public institution, including in the Arts, can bully their staff or deprive organisations of funding because of their legally held beliefs.”
Saturday 25th March - Leave Lesbians Alone
Trans activists descended on a lesbian event in London and tried to prevent same-sex attracted women from enjoying a space of their own without males.
The newly formed organisation, The Lesbian Project, held its inaugural event, a one-day workshop called Putting Lesbians Back in Focus, in London on Saturday. Of course, trans activists can never allow the exclusion of males - not even from lesbian events and spaces - so they turned up determined to cause disruption.
According to eyewitness accounts, trans activists blocked the road outside the venue and erected tents. They tried to drown out the speakers with shouting, music, chanting, fake sirens and drumming. They also lit smoke bombs outside the building.
One of the attendees said that the man who raped her was amongst the trans activists gathered outside the venue.
A free speech campaigner who calls himself The Laughing Auditor (TLA) shot video footage of the trans activists’ behaviour. It shows them chanting, shouting through megaphones, playing loud music and interfering with people trying to use a public highway. They reacted aggressively to TLA filming them and tried to prevent him from doing so, screaming at him that he’s a parasite and a fascist. Eventually, he was assaulted by trans activists and his camera was punched from his hand.
“What started out as a good-natured experience soon took a major turn for the worse”, TLA commented on his YouTube channel. “I certainly went in there in peace with the best intentions. But I've come away from it outraged and firmly against this type of group’s activities.”
Sunday 26th March - The Right Side Of History
THE SPECTATOR: Violent trans rights activists in Auckland derailed a Standing For Women event, physically assaulting Kellie-Jay Keen and others.
Women’s rights campaigner and founder of Standing for Women, Kellie-Jay Keen, was in New Zealand on Saturday to host one of her Let Women Speak events at Albert Park in Auckland.
Even before she arrived in the country trans activists tried to smear Kellie-Jay as a fascist sympathiser, attempted to prevent her from being granted a visa, started an online petition protesting her visit, issued innumerable threats of violence and even tried to intimidate her with a threatening note left at her hotel.
The SFW Auckland event was besieged by a baying mob of violent trans activists who derailed it before it even got started. They chanted aggressive, expletive-laden slogans, held aloft signs bearing threats and insults, overturned barriers, intimidated and assaulted stewards and attendees and crowed with glee when their scare tactics proved effective. And all to suppress a gathering of women who just wanted to talk.
An eyewitness called Caitlin described the crowd as ‘feral’. Writing in a Substack post she said, “The protesters on the rotunda were overwhelmingly men. Not men in dresses as you might expect at such an event (although there were some) – just ordinary looking men. They shoved women, they screamed in our faces… I underestimated the hysteria that had been whipped up. I underestimated the police. I never seriously thought I would be in real actual danger attending a speaking event in New Zealand.”
Even senior women were not spared the violence and aggression on clear display.
Footage from the event shows an elderly woman being punched in the face several times by a bearded male.
Later, the woman was photographed with an obvious injury to her eye.
Kellie-Jay herself was attacked by a trans activist who threw tomato juice at her as she was about to address the meeting.
Eli Rubashkyn, the trans identified male responsible for assaulting Kellie-Jay, has been crowing about his actions on social media, making his identity known. (Nevertheless, Auckland police do not appear to have taken any action against him.)
He’s also been demonstrating his blatant misogyny for all the world to see.
After Kellie-Jay had been doused assaulted by a abusive male throwing tomato juice at her, the situation became extremely dangerous; the mob broke through the barriers and descended on the rotunda where Kellie-jay was preparing to speak. Video footage shows her being grabbed and jostled by a huge crowd whipped up into a baying frenzy.
Surrounded by her security personnel and volunteer stewards, Kellie-Jay had to push her way through the mob while trans activists threw liquid and projectiles and screamed abuse. She was escorted to the safety of a police vehicle and driven away from the park, later writing on social media that she had been in fear of her life.
One of the event stewards, visibly shaken and upset, described their escape from the violent horde.
“People were stomping and shouting and grabbing… The main crowd were nasty, trying to trip me up, trying to punch me, grabbing my clothing.”
As Brendan O’Neill wrote in The Spectator, “The mob could not hide its vengeful loathing of the uppity women who disagree with its ideologies… The events in Auckland should be a wake-up call for liberals everywhere. We glimpsed the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’. The misogynistic streak in trans extremism is undeniable now”.
See you next week.
Well it’s blatantly obvious now that women don’t count for shit in this war for the preservation of sanity, biological reality, safeguarding of the vulnerable, and science. Women-hatred is not only socially acceptable, it’s celebrated. My advice now is for ‘gender’ critical activists to emphasize the plight of our bewildered children.
"Bewildered" -- dictionary definition: deeply confused, utterly perplexed.
It’s going to look pretty appalling when ‘trans’ mobs go up against those who are calling for the protection of children. They will of course do so, but it’ll be a really bad PR look, and will serve to hasten the end of this psychotic ‘gender’ cult. And for god's sake -- decent men need to get involved in the anti-'gender' protests.
Awful, awful behaviour from media and politicians not just the crazy activists. By calling her a Nazi, c*** and a “thing” they dehumanised her completely making an attack almost certain. They all need sacking. Just been listening to an Australian MP criticising a female colleague for not being “teachable” in the new world way of thinking. Keir Starmer and the Greens, SNP and others are top of the class