So much good news on the gender beat this week. It is my great pleasure to present this absolutely bulging-at-the-seams jam-packed edition for your delectation. Enjoy!
Stonewalls Come Tumbling Down
In very big news, the Information Commissioner has instructed Oxford University to reveal the details of its Stonewall membership.
The university will have to make public the scores and feedback it received from Stonewall having previously claimed that doing so would breach confidentiality. The Information Commissioner concluded there was “An unusually strong public interest in such a scheme being transparent” and ordered the data to be released.
This is a huge win for Legal Feminist and Sex Matters who instigated mass Freedom of Information requests during their ‘Don’t Submit to Stonewall’ campaign.
According the The Times, “The report puts pressure on the dozens of other universities and public bodies that have also used commercial confidentiality as a reason not to disclose scores and feedback from Stonewall.”
The Dominoes Continue To Fall
While we’re on the subject, the Department For Education is pulling out of Stonewall’s ‘diversity scheme’.
Telegraph journalist, Christopher Hope, reported in his newsletter that the DFE will not be renewing its Stonewall membership. A DFE spokesperson commented, “We do not feel it provides value for money for the service it provides, and we shared wider concerns across government about the charity’s stance on free speech.”
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And still on the subject, please vote for Nolan Investigates Stonewall, Stephen Nolan’s excellent podcast expose, in the British Podcast Awards.
The Adults In The Court Room
A study by the journalism department of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has produced guidance for journalists reporting on court cases that involve a transgender defendant.
The report urges IPSO to provide updated advice for journalists on ‘transgender reporting’ and concludes:
“Courts do not exist to serve as stages on which the players perform an affirmation of a person’s chosen identity. Court reports are not a public record of such a performance, or a form of validation.
Some male offenders are falsely claiming to be transgender. There is no way for a journalist to establish whether someone making that claim is genuinely transgender or not. This is partly due to conflicting definitions of transgender, and partly due to the practicalities of establishing the reality behind the claim. In these circumstances, it is important that the journalist makes clear this is a claim, not an established fact.
Representing defendants claiming to be transgender as biological women, or as transwomen without any caveat, is to give an inaccurate report of both an individual crime and a more general picture of offending patterns. This may have long-term effects on safeguarding and women’s rights. It may distress victims. Lack of clarity about the identity of defendants may enable them to commit further crimes in the future and prevent further witnesses to past crimes coming forward. It erodes trust in the media generally and exposes journalists to abuse and ridicule.”
(GL: The report has now been taken off the University of Lancashire’s website after TRA complaints. You can complain to them here.)
Yes, Minister
In extremely important and very welcome news, Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, has begun the legal process which will allow Cass Review researchers to scrutinise the medical records of all the children treated at the Tavistock over the last decade.
Currently, such research is prevented by medical confidentiality laws under which people are given a new NHS number when they legally change their sex. Javid will effect changes which will allow researchers to study data on about 9,000 people treated at the Tavistock.
A Sporting Chance
Elsewhere in Westminster, Nadine Dorries, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), met with relevant governing bodies to discuss the protection of female sports.
“Asking women and teenage girls to compete against someone who was biologically born a male is inherently unfair. I have made my position absolutely clear: I expect sporting bodies to follow the policy that competitive women’s sport must be reserved for people born of the female sex.”
And she means business! She’s threatening to cut funding to sports such as cricket and tennis if they continue to allow trans-identified males to play on women’s teams.
The fabulous Sharron Davies, former Olympian and swimming legend, shut down Tom Daley after he expressed his ‘fury’ that FINA will prevent males from competing in female sports.
Appearing on GB News, Sharron told Dan Wootton, “Tom is male and this doesn’t affect him in the slightest.” Amen to that, Sharron.
The wonderful Mara Yamauchi, former Olympian and marathon goddess, wrote a blistering article for The Guardian.
“This issue affects 51% of the population; it is a public health matter, and millions of tax-payers’ money is spent on sport annually. I am glad to see what I hope will be the beginning of the end of this ideological assault on fair and safe sport for women and girls.”
MSP and former Olympian, Brian Whittle, is also determined to defend women’s sport and will challenge the Scottish goverment’s proposed gender identity bill.
“When the bill comes in front of the Scottish Parliament I will be making the argument for fairness & making amendments to the legislation. ‘I will..be doing that & they will have to turn them down.. & when they do, they will go against a million women and girls who play sport in Scotland. They will have to do that publicly - and there will be no hiding place from that.”
Auntie Shows Some Spine
Despite the best efforts of the gender stasi to have her sacked, the BBC is refusing to remove Sharron Davies from its Commonwealth Games commentating team.
“In recent weeks, pro-trans lobbyists have been contacting the Beeb asking them to sack the former British Olympic swimmer… However, the corporation have backed Davies and she will take up her usual role as poolside reporter in Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games.” (Hatrick, please take note.)
SuperNature Sets Records
Ricky Gervais’ SuperNature Netflix special, the infamous ‘women with beards and cocks’ show, is proving very popular with the British viewing public.
The show was watched by more than 3 million Netflix account holders in the UK in its opening week alone, breaking streaming records. (Hat Trick, please take note.)
Women Won’t Wheesht
Huge congratulations to our sisters in Scotland who pulled off some brilliant feminist activism this week. Protesting Holyrood’s proposed self-ID laws, they wore t-shirts and displayed posters and banners etc reading “Sturgeon destroyer of women’s rights”.
Some tried to gain entry to the Scottish parliament and, though most were prevented from entering, put on a splendid show of strength outside instead.
One wonderful shero did make it into the committee meeting!
Greyfriars Bobby also got in on the act.
But it wasn’t just in Edinburgh; women all over Scotland made their feelings plain )see this wonderful thread of photographs); women won’t wheesht.
Brava, sisters!
They See Her Rowling
Warner Bros has conceded that its PR representatives should not have prevented a reporter from asking actor, Tom Felton, about JK Rowling in an interview last week.
A spokesperson for Warner Bros gave a statement admitting it was ‘wholly wrong’ to censor the question and that they are ‘proud’ to work with “One of the world's most accomplished storytellers”. (Hat Trick, please take note.)
A Convenient Truth
Single-sex toilets are to be compulsory in new public buildings.
Government sources have confirmed that new offices, schools, hospitals and entertainment venues will have to install separate male and female toilet facilities in a move to curb the provisiton of solely gender-neutral facilities. An official announcement is expected this week.
It feels like an evil spell is lifting…..
It's been an incredible week in England. Not just in the detail but on a broad scale. Scotland is still a worry, of course. Let's hope this changes soon.
Miriam Cates, as well as Nadine Dorries, has been out and about to protest transgender ideology but also the grooming of young children in schools. Whatever we might think of Nadie Dorries, she's doing the right thing and it's more than just a broken clock being right twice a day.
I saw today that Bette Middler is also on our side. I've always liked her so it's pleasing.
Brent Green Party are explicitly accepting gender critical members and that's got the trannies foaming at the mouth. Maybe some Green Party members will start seeing who the true haters are.