A Week in the War on Women: Monday 31st July - Sunday 6th August
Monday 31st July - Within These Walls
DAILY MAIL US: Dana Rivers, the trans-identified male who brutally murdered a lesbian couple and their son, is ‘preying on inmates’ in a women’s prison.
In November 2022, trans activist, Dana Rivers, was finally found guilty of murdering Charlotte Reed, Patricia Wright and Benny Diambu-Wright six years earlier.
Formerly known as David Warfield, Dana Rivers underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1999. He became a trans activist and focused his attention on MichFest, an annual female-only lesbian festival held in Michigan. That he was not permitted to attend this women-only event enraged him. He could not allow lesbians to exclude trans-identified males from their festival so he picketed the event to vent his fury and resentment at the women who dared to defend their boundaries.
Married couple, Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright, were regular MichFest attendees. Shortly after midnight on 11th November, 2016 police received reports that gunshots were heard at the couple’s home in Oakland, California. When they arrived they found Rivers covered in blood and in possession of knives, metal knuckles and ammunition. The house was ablaze. The couple’s son, Benny Diambu-Wright, lay outside the house. He had been shot dead. Inside the house, police found the bodies of Charlotte Reed and Patricia Wright. They had been shot and stabbed numerous times.
Rivers was charged with the murders but the case was years in the hearing. The endless delays and deferrals in proceedings were detailed meticulously by Kara Dansky. Six years after he committed the murders, Dana Rivers was finally convicted. The silence of the mainstream media on his conviction was deafening. At Rivers’ sentencing last month, judge Scott Patton said the murders were “The most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years”.
Rivers has been accommodated in the female estate, the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), which houses roughly half of California's female inmate population. He was able to choose incarceration in a female prison thanks to Senate Bill 132 which was passed in 2021 and allows convicted criminals to request their choice of facility based on their ‘gender identity’.
The Daily Mail has reported that Rivers is now terrorising the women held in the CCWF and boasting to them of his special privileges. Inmates have complained that Rivers has been leering at them in order to make them uncomfortable. He’s also lauding the facility’s ridiculous transgender policies over the female inmates, allegedly forcing them to push him around the prison in a wheelchair.
Later in the week, The Daily Mail published another article on the same subject. Tomiekia Johnson, a female inmate at the CCWF, is a former policewoman who was jailed for shooting her abusive husband. She has spoken about her experiences of being imprisoned with trans-identified males. She told the paper she has been ‘ogled and tormented’ by several transgender inmates, including most recently by Dana Rivers. This has been particularly traumatic for her as a survivor of domestic violence.
Johnson described how female inmates at CCWF are ‘afraid to speak out’ about the trans-identified males incarcerated there as prison officials punish those who do so. She says that, after filing a report about Rivers, she was dismissed from her role as an educator at the facility and put into solitary confinement for eight hours.
Women's prison reform activist, Amie Ichikawa, echoed Johnson’s words and said that transgender inmates are definitely treated differently by officials. She told the paper that she is aware of at least 100 individual cases of trans-identified male inmates targeting women in the female estate.
Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE TELEGRAPH: Oxford City Council is funding a week-long drag event aimed at teenagers as young as fourteen.
Oxford City Council have sponsored a ‘drag camp’ aimed at 14 - 18 year olds. The event was operated by an organisation called T(ART) Productions which describes itself as a ‘queer not-for-profit community events company’ that is ‘led by trans people’. With an apparent emphasis on promoting gender ideology, T(ART) hosts a range of ‘queer’ events which, it says, “Say boo to cishet normativity”.
One of its regular events is ‘OxPHWOARd’, described as ‘showcasing drag and burlesque’ and featuring ‘fierce, funny and frisky’ acts. Another regular show is a cabaret/striptease event called ‘Toxic MasculiniTease’ which appears to feature only trans-identified females; “With dazzling showboys, innovative drag kings and just a dash of circus… showing there’s more than one way to be sexy and masc!”
Its monthly Fruit Salad social group is aimed at the “Trans, non-binary and intersex folks of Oxford” and free breast-binders are available to attendees.
There’s also a bi-monthly Queer Life Drawing class.
This week T(ART) operated a 5-day ‘drag camp’ for kids aged between 14-18 which was sponsored by Oxford City Council.
In advertising this event, T(ART) said “This course is for everyone, including all genders, and is a space to explore self-expression. You'll dive into the history of drag and learn about this dynamic, boundary-pushing art form”. It invited children to “Create your own daring stage persona” and told them that, thought they did not need to be ‘queer’ to attend, they must “Respect that this is a space by queer people celebrating a queer artform. Try to avoid assuming anything about a person’s gender or sexuality”.
The course was run by a drag performer called Ginger Tart.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Stephanie Davies-Arai commented, “Why is Oxford City Council encouraging children to participate in the world of adult entertainment? The aim of queer activists is clear in the blurb: to subvert and destabilise boundaries, under the guise of being empowering for children. Encouraging children to create a 'daring' stage persona means only one thing in the drag world: to push sexual boundaries. Blurring the boundaries between adult and child in this way is a safeguarding red flag”.
Also Today - Ssssshhhhhhh!
THE TELEGRAPH: Public libraries in a North of England borough have been removing ‘gender critical’ books from their shelves and hiding them in storage.
Calderdale is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire which has a population of around 211,400.
Books critical of gender ideology and the medicalising of gender distressed children were the subject of an internal ‘grievance’ within Calderdale Council’s library service. Consequently, certain ‘gender critical’ books - including Trans by Helen Joyce, Material Girls by Kathleen Stock, Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, Trigger Warning by Sheila Jeffreys and Transgender Body Politics by Heather Bunskell-Evans - were removed from library shelves and placed in storage.
Calderdale Council stated that, while no books are actually banned by its library services, “Following consideration of a formal grievance internally” a number of titles were “Placed in the lending store”. Consequently, the censored books still appear in the catalogue and can be requested by readers, but the council confirmed that they “Are not visible on our library shelves”.
Of course, Calderdale Council is a Stonewall diversity champion.
Later in the week The Telegraph reported on another story which suggests that libraries in other areas may also be censoring books on gender critical themes.
Book 28 is an LGBTQI+ library based in the London borough of Islington. In 2022 it produced a 77-page document titled ‘Welcoming LGBTIQ+ users: advice for public library workers’. This guidance has been provided to staff working for local authorities around the country. It has also been shared on the websites of professional body, the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland, and Libraries Connected, an organisation whose membership includes every library service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The guidance advises that, in order to be inclusive, libraries should provide a gender neutral toilet or consider ‘gender neutralising a toilet’. It also recommends hosting ‘drag storytimes’ for young people and dedicates an entire section to their provision.
Furthermore, the guide suggests that staff should limit the number of gender-critical books the library stocks. In a section about so-called ‘transphobic’ titles, it states, “There have been a few titles published which claim to be ‘gender critical’ and argue for removal of trans rights. These authors and their work can be labelled transphobic, and the writers themselves Terfs (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists). We, along with many in the LGBTIQ+ community, find these books offensive.”
While no specific titles are mentioned, the guidance continues, “We would recommend to be mindful of and not promote these books. Think carefully about how many you want to buy, perhaps based solely on individual requests”. It goes on, “Be especially careful to make sure you do not make mistakes such as putting them on LGBTIQ+ displays or sections where they might cause upset”. It recommends ‘interfiling’ these books with general stock so that “Those who want to seek out these titles can always do so via your catalogue without the risk of a LGBTIQ+ person coming across the book in a way that looks like it may be being endorsed.”
Clearly they have forgotten that, as Jo Godwin wrote, “A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
Tuesday 1st August - Wake Up & Smell The Coffee
UNHERD: Costa Coffee is normalising elective double mastectomies for gender confused girls with an image on one of its mobile outlets.
Costa Coffee has faced a barrage of criticism over its glamorisation of irreversible so-called ‘top surgery’. A cartoon illustration on a Costa Express van in the UK depicts a young trans-identified woman with double mastectomy scars who is posing on a surf board with a cup of takeaway coffee.
A spokesperson for Costa Coffee said, “We celebrate the diversity of our customers, team members and partners. We want everyone that interacts with us to experience the inclusive environment that we create, to encourage people to feel welcomed, free and unashamedly proud to be themselves. The mural, in its entirety, showcases and celebrates inclusivity”.
The artist is 23-year-old ‘non-binary’ painter and illustrator, Ashton Attz.
Costa Coffee aren’t alone in jumping on the gender bandwagon.
In July an installation by Ashton Attz was exhibited at Hebden Bridge town hall as part of its Pride Youth Engagement Programme. This installation also depicted of a trans-identified woman with mastectomy scars. (Hebden Bridge comes under the authority of Calderdale Council, the book-disappearing subject of the item above.)
Only a week ago, Dr Martens USA was advertising a customized pair of boots ‘inspired by the queer community’ which features a trans-identified female with double mastectomy scars.
Last Month we reported on a video released by Oxfam for Pride Month which included a very young ‘trans man’ with mastectomy scars.
US based Razor company, Harry’s, has advertised its products using a trans-identified female model with mastectomy scars.
Early this year publishing giant, Penguin, released ‘Bodies Are Cool’. The book is specifically aimed at pre-school children and yet depicts trans-identified females with double mastectomy scars.
Similarly, in June, Hatchette published ‘You Grow Girl!’, a book about puberty aimed at girls aged 9+ which features a female wearing a breast binder on its cover.
These organisations are collaborating in a medical scandal which is pushing vulnerable young girls into unnecessary, irreversible surgery.
A decade ago there were just under 250 referrals to the NHS child gender clinic, GIDS, most of which were boys. According to a study commissioned by NHS England, last year there were more than 5,000 referrals to GIDS, around two thirds of which were girls. The Cass Review noted the huge increase in adolescent girls now seeking treatment from GIDS. “The largest group currently comprises birth-registered females first presenting in adolescence with gender-related distress”.
Indeed, this issue was being discussed four years ago and deemed a serious cause for concern even then.
Joan Smith, writing in Unherd, commented:
“Cutting off a girl’s healthy breasts is an act of mutilation. Putting a cartoon version of the scars on the side of a van, to advertise a coffee chain, is a new low even for a movement that long ago lost touch with reality. Post-operative pain, rigid scarring, a profound sense of loss: none of these feature in the image of a ‘trans man’ approved by Costa Coffee, which appears to treat the visible effects of surgery as a desirable fashion accessory”.
Courageous de-transitioner, Sinead Watson, addressed this issue in the Daily Mail. “When is the madness going to stop?”, she asked. “I'm talking about the latest attempt to pretend it's normal for young women like me to have our healthy breasts surgically removed.”
Sinead went on to describe the devastating affect of her own double mastectomy. “My chest displays two angry red wealds under where my breasts were and two slightly smaller scars under my ribcage. I have ugly creased skin under my armpits where the flesh has been pulled. That's the brutal, unvarnished truth. My entire chest is totally numb with zero sensation… I will never be able to breastfeed… What terrifies me most is that other girls, just like me, are being propelled down this same route. It really has reached a terrifying point when a mainstream coffee chain thinks this is a bandwagon it has to jump on.”
Wednesday 2nd August - This Never Happens #1
DAILY MAIL: A trans-identified male serial killer was ‘jealous’ of his victims, according to a new crime documentary.
Douglas Perry murdered three women during a 4-month killing spree in 1990. The naked or partially exposed bodies of his victims - 26-year-old Yolanda Sapp, 34-year-old Nickie Lowe, and 38-year-old Kathy Brisbois - were found dumped on the banks of Spokane River in Washington state.
Perry later began ‘identifying as a woman’ and calling himself Donna. He underwent ‘sex reassignment’ surgery in 2000. When finally arrested for his crimes in 2014, he claimed his male persona was responsible. According to an affidavit, he told police, “Douglas didn't stop, Donna stopped it. I'm not going to admit I killed anybody, I didn't. Donna has killed nobody”. During his trial prosecutors contended that Perry had only undergone SRS to avoid suspicion for his brutal crimes.
In 2017 Perry was finally convicted of three counts of first degree murder. He was sentenced to life without parole. In 2022 he was housed in a women’s prison, after securing a transfer thanks to the state’s self-identification laws.
Criminology expert, Brian Frederick, has spoken to Channel 5 about Perry’s possible motivation for the murders in a new documentary series about serial killers. He told the programme makers that he thought Perry was jealous of his victims. “He picked some attractive victims, perhaps more attractive than he could ever plan to be as Donna and he felt that they were squandering this beauty”, he said.
Frederick also denied the theory that Perry began ‘identifying as a woman’ in an attempt to escape conviction. He believes that transition was ‘the end game’ from the outset. “In Perry's mind, Perry was killing the thing that he hated and then trying to become the perfection of it”, he said.
Thursday 3rd July - “Just Be Kind”
R£EDUXX: A breast cancer patient has been denied treatment and accused of ‘transphobia’ because she objected to the trans flag being on public display at her health clinic.
Marlene Barbera and her family had been patients at the Richmond Family Medicine Clinic in Portland, Oregon, for thirteen years. She is a liver transplant recipient who is currently being treated for breast cancer and she was scheduled to undergo a mastectomy later this month. The clinic has terminated her medical treatment, claiming she made ‘hurtful remarks’ about the ‘LGBTQ community’.
Last year, Marlene contacted her doctor to protest the displaying of a trans pride flag in the clinic’s reception area. Her message read:
“I have been threatened on Twitter by trans activists with rape and death — so it is daunting to go for medical treatment with that banner proclaiming that what I am, an adult human female, is a mere opt-in category for any gender non-conforming male and not a reality. May I please have a telephone appointment to discuss how I may access your medical care without walking under a banner that seeks to negate all I am?”
Marlene’s doctor replied, “Well, I am not gonna go out there and take it down”.
Marlene had sent her message via MyChart, an app with which patients can access and manage their personal health information and communicate with their medical care providers. She understood that it was private but later discovered that other staff had seen the mail she sent to her doctor.
In June Marlene telephoned the clinic to leave a private message for her clinician regarding her blood test results. The receptionist refused to take a message, insisting that she make an appointment. When Marlene wouldn’t do so, the receptionist terminated the call. Marlene phoned back and was told she could only speak to the person who had just hung up on her. Assuming this attitude had something to do with her message about the flag in reception, Marlene asked, “Did I hurt the trans person’s feelings?” The receptionist replied, “What did you say?” with what Marlene describes as ‘great emphasis’. Marlene ended the call.
Several weeks later Marlene received a message from the practice manager of the Oregon Health Science University (OHSU), Stein Berger. He stated that, “Richmond is an all-inclusive clinic and we value and advocate for diversity” and claimed that she had made ‘transphobic remarks’. The same day, Berger also sent Marlene a formal email, informing her that the clinic was dropping her as a patient.
“Effective immediately, you are discharged from receiving medical care at the Richmond Family Medicine Clinic. This action is being taken because of ongoing disrespectful and hurtful remarks about our LGBTQ community and staff… Please note that you are also now dismissed from all OHSU Family Medicine clinics, including Immediate Care clinics.”
Marlene told Reduxx that this situation has triggered her long-standing struggle with chronic depression. “Now I have no primary care doctor and no where else to go”, she said.
The right side of history, eh?
Also Today - The Never Happens #2
TELE1 TV: A trans-identified male physically attacked a woman at a veterinary clinic in Turkey after the death of his cat.
Serin Eroglu owns a veterinary clinic in Ankara, Turkey. A cat owner, a trans-identified male known only as AK, sought treatment for his pet after she gave birth to her kittens prematurely. Sadly, Eroglu was not able to save the cat’s life as the animal was suffering from too severe an infection.
AK telephoned Eroglu on a number of occasions to threaten her. Together with four of his friends, AK then stormed into the clinic where, firstly, he began throwing things around. He then physically attacked Eroglu, slapping her full in the face then pulling her hair, violently yanking her head around and hitting her in the head.
The horrifying attack was recorded by the clinic’s security camera.
AK was taken into police custody but, despite the irrefutable evidence of the CCTV footage, he was later released without charge.
Eroglu told Tele1 TV that, not only has the clinic lost business as a result of this incident, she now fears for her safety. “We cannot feel safe. Moreover, I have very serious material loss. I want something done for that… I am still in shock for the first time in my life because I was attacked like this”.
Friday 4th July - A Room Of One’s Own
THE DAILY MAIL: An NHS hospital trust in the North East is prioritising trans-identified male staff over the privacy and safety of the women who work there.
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has issued a ‘Transitioning at Work and Gender Diversity Policy’ to its staff.
It advises that employees who ‘identify as a different gender’ should be permitted to use the toilets, changing rooms and showers of their choice, even if they have no plans to medically ‘transition’.
Furthermore, staff members who object to sharing intimate spaces with the opposite sex are to be ignored. The policy states, “Managers must not make supportive comments such as ‘I understand your concerns’ to staff who, for example, complain about Trans or Non-Binary [their capitalisation] colleagues having access to gendered spaces”.
Maya Forstater told The Daily Mail, “This policy is a recipe for bullying women out of the workplace and making it hostile and intimidating for them”.
Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone
THE POST MILLENNIAL: A Canadian academic has suggested that children should be exposed to adult genitalia in order to prepare them for seeing naked trans bodies.
Dr Katja Thieme teaches journalism at the University of British Columbia. She recently posted a lengthy Twitter thread attacking swimmer, Riley Gaines, over her campaigning to protect women’s sports and female-only spaces.
In response to Gaines’ emotional testimony that she’d been forced to share a locker room with trans-identified male, Lia Thomas, Theime accused her of being a ‘transphobe’. She commented that women who are uncomfortable encountering biological males in their spaces are fuelling what she called ‘anti-trans activism’.
Shockingly, Theime suggested that children should be exposed to naked adults of both sexes. “Hey, want to know one of my all time excellent parenting ideas?” she said. “Let. Little. Children. See. Penises. And. Vulvas. Of. Various. Ages. And. Sizes. In. A. Casual. Normalized. Totally. Safe. Way.”
Theime went on, “Just imagine if the Riley Gaines of this society could totally keep their cool at the sight of a trans dick”.
Saturday 5th August - This Never Happens #3
GLOBUS: An eighteen year old trans-identified male has confessed to murdering the 62-year-old widow who welcomed him into her home.
The body of 62-year-old Nilza Costa Pingoud was found buried in the garden of her own home in Barrestos, São Paulo, Brazil. A neighbour, worried for her wellbeing, had alerted local police who subsequently discovered the newly dug grave in her backyard. Pingoud had been asphyxiated.
18-year-old Leonardo Silva was apprehended in Frutal, Minas Gerais, about 50 miles away a few days later. As he was led from a police vehicle and escorted into a station, he smiled at TV cameras and even blew kisses. He has reportedly confessed to the crime since his arrest. It seems that he was able to access and steal from the victim’s bank account, purchasing a motorcycle with the funds.
Nilza Costa Pingoud, a widow, took Silva into her home and offered him somewhere to live. Barretos Civil Police Chief, Rafael Faria, said Silva had led Pingoud to believe that he was a woman, implying that his ‘gender identity’ might have been the reason that Pingoud trusted him enough to allow him into her home. Faria added that Silva does not currently ‘present as a transvestite’.
According to Brazilian news outlet, Record TV Interior SP, Silva has presented himself on social media with female personas. In one profile he posed as a young woman called Mirella Ferrazi.
A male using a trans identity in order to predate on a woman? Something the gender zealots constantly insist could never, would never and has never happened.
Sunday 6th August - Sting In The Tale
THE SUNDAY TIMES: Hadley Freeman’s column highlights the consequences faced by women who voice gender critical views.
Quite recently, Hadley Freeman was commissioned to interview music industry luminary, Sting. She was then informed that she was being replaced by another writer because of her ‘controversial views about gender’.
“Sting once played a concert for the daughter of the former Uzbek president Islam Karimov, who was accused of boiling his political opponents alive. But apparently he can’t bear to be interviewed by me because of my ‘controversial views’? Incidentally, these controversial views are — and buckle up, folks, because they might shock you — that trans people deserve compassion as much as anyone else, and a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina. Sting, send me your mate’s number because I deserve to be boiled alive!”
Also Today - This Unsporting Life
Social media user, @luluchops1, shared an email she has received from sporting body, Try Tag Sports, about the inclusion of males in women-only tag rugby sessions.
Tag Rugby is a team game similar to touch rugby and it is becoming increasingly popular. Players wear tags attached to Velcro patches on their shorts. Attacking players try to dodge, evade and pass a rugby ball, while defenders attempt to prevent them from scoring by ‘tagging’ them, ie pulling off their Velcro tags. The organisation, Try Tag Rugby, is responsible for the sport in the UK and runs leagues and events throughout the country.
Luluchops wrote to Try Tag Rugby to ascertain whether or not women’s tag rugby sessions are genuinely female-only. She made the point that Muslim women like her would need such an assurance in order to attend. She received a reply from Ben ‘he/him’ Shanahan-Sanders, the Programme Lead at Tag Sports. He told her that ‘trans women are women’ and that if Muslim women have to self-exclude because of a male’s presence, “That is outside of our control”.
Obviously, it is not only Muslim women who are prevented from participating if the women’s sessions can’t be guaranteed female-only; women from a number of faiths and cultures will be excluded, as will the women who’ve suffered male violence and need a female-only space. “Sport is for everyone”, says Ben Shanahan-Sanders. Except, that is, for all the women who cannot or do not want to play sports and/or share changing and toilet facilities etc with males. But he doesn’t seem to care about them.
Of course, Try Tag Rugby is a member of Stonewall’s ‘diversity champions’ scheme.
Try Tag Rugby already operate mixed-sex sessions in which transgender people can participate. However, the organisation still insists that trans-identified males must be included in the female category, too.
Women really aren’t allowed anything of our own, are we?
See you next week.
Apparently a survey has been done which shows that about a third of people don’t realise that trans woman means a biological man, with the blame being put on the MSM for not clarifying language or even reporting the subject at all. We need people to see this stuff and wake up to the ongoing horror. And we need to use the correct language and push for news reports to do the same.
Plus, surely the drag thing for children is breaking a law?
Hard to believe that the much discredited (by anyone with a brain cell) Stonewall cult is still receiving new cult members. Tag Rugby’s Ben Shanahan-Sanders (he/him/bigoted misogynist/possibly racist) seems like a real charmer who is clearly fully enjoying his power to put down, diminish and exclude actual woman from entering his safe for trans only sporting spaces. The arrogant and patronising certainty that his own “beliefs and opinions” trump that of women who hold deep religious beliefs, or simply don’t want to lose their women only spaces, is hard to stomach. What a complete arse. I might drop him a line and point out his hypocrisy.