A Week in the War on Women: Monday 13th March - Sunday 19th March
A Week in the War on Women: Monday 13th March - Sunday 19th March
Monday 13th March - Leave Them Kids Alone #1
4W: Children in Switzerland are undergoing irreversible so-called ‘gender affirming’ surgeries even as young as ten years old.
AMQG is a Swiss organisation which advocates for a ‘measured approach towards gender-questioning youth’. It has obtained information from the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics about the so-called ‘gender affirming’ surgeries being performed on minors. (The figures obtained do not include outpatient treatments or surgery performed in private clinics so are likely to be only a conservative estimate of the number of Swiss children going under the knife in the name of ‘gender affirmation’.)
According to the information published by AMQG, since 2018 at least ten girls aged between 10 and 14 have gone undergone double mastectomies to have their healthy breasts surgically removed. At least 58 girls and young women aged 15 - 19 have had ‘torsoplasty’, a surgical procedure to achieve a masculine-looking chest. Three boys under the age of eighteen underwent ‘bottom surgery’ and had their penis amputated.
These horrifying figures are being dismissed or even repudiated by trans lobby groups. In May 2022, for example, a spokesperson for La Refuge, an influential organisation which ‘supports trans kids’, denied that minors are undergoing gender-related surgeries. Similarly, Agnodice, another Swiss organization which advocates ‘gender affirming’ treatment for children and young people, claims that genital surgery is only performed after the age of eighteen.
In 2022, Switzerland passed gender self-ID laws under which children below the age of sixteen can change their legal sex with the consent of their parent or guardian. Furthermore, it has no national guidance regarding ‘gender affirming’ surgeries but relies on the heavily criticised WPATH recommendations.
Stéphane Mitchell, Vice President of AMQG, told 4W, “We want the debate to be based on facts and figures. What the data shows is that children and teenagers are being mutilated in Swiss hospitals”.
Also Today - A Room Of One’s Own
COVENTRY TELEGRAPH: A schoolgirl had to be hospitalised after a teenage boy kicked down the door of her toilet cubicle in the school’s ‘gender neutral’ facilities.
Gemma Brennan told the Coventry Echo that her 13-year-old daughter was injured after a teenage boy kicked open the door of the toilet cubicle she was using at her secondary school. She said the boy ‘donkey kicked’ the door a few times, the first time bruising her daughter’s arm and the second time causing a large gash to her forehead.
“It is an ongoing problem at that school”, Gemma told the paper. “There are unisex toilets so girls and boys have to share and the boys go in and take photos of the girls, kick the doors down and there are no locks on the doors so they are going over to the cubicles to take photos and videos which is a massive concern.”
The girl described the incident to The Daily Mail; “I was holding the door closed, but a group of boys kept trying to force their way in”. She explained that girls at the school are forced to hold toilet doors closed because the locks have been kicked off by recalcitrant boys. “It's just scary”, she said. She also spoke of being traumatised by this attack and said she was dreading her return to school.
Parents are said to have raised concerns about the unisex toilets with the school previously, especially as some teenage girls are refusing to change their menstrual products there, fearing for their privacy and safety. Gemma Brennan commented, “I have sent emails before to complain about this saying you need to do something about these toilets. Our children are not safe.”
Tuesday 14th March - This Never Happens
THE TELEGRAPH: A trans-identified male convicted sex offender has been found guilty of raping a vulnerable young woman.
In 2017, Dominic Risden, then aged eighteen, was convicted of raping a 15-year-old girl he’d met and groomed online. He took the girl to a secluded woodland spot, telling her “You are going to get laid” before sexually assaulting and raping her.
In 2019, only shortly after being released from prison on licence, Risden began ‘identifying as a woman’ and calling himself Lexi-Rose Crawford. Within weeks of his release, Crawford re-offended and raped a vulnerable young woman. The victim had visited Crawford’s home to play computer games. She described him trying to ‘cuddle’ her, which made her feel uncomfortable. Despite her repeated protestations, he then removed her clothes and raped her.
Crawford’s trial took place in Bristol this week and the jury deliberated for just two hours before finding him guilty of rape and sexual assault. He will be sentenced on 10th May.
The Daily Mail reported that Crawford was referred to as ‘Miss Crawford’ by lawyers and by Judge Michael Longman throughout the four-day trial. Even his victim was compelled to refer to him with female pronouns. The court described Crawford as committing rape with ‘her penis’.
Crawford appeared in court on the first day of the trial wearing “A small moustache and stubble”.
Wednesday 15th March - An Unsporting Chance #1
THE WASHINGTON POST: A Vermont high school has been barred from taking part in the state’s sports tournaments after its girls’ basketball team refused to play against a trans-identified male.
Vermont law allows boys who ‘identify as female’ to play on girls’ sports teams. A couple of weeks ago we reported on the Mid Vermont Christian School girls’ basketball team which withdrew from a state tournament because they refused to compete against a squad which includes a trans-identified male player.
The head of the school, Vicky Fogg, told Valley News, “We believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players. Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports.”
The school has now been banned from participating in future sporting events following an announcement by The Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA).
The VPA made a statement which read, “With feedback from membership at large, our Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Activities Committee, and our Activity Standards Committee, The VPA's Executive Council met today, March 13th 2023 to discuss the relevant forfeiture. The result was a determination that policies have been violated at the school level, thus there is an immediate determination of ineligibility for Mid-Vermont Christian in VPA sanctioned activities and tournaments going forward”.
Vicky Fogg commented, “Cancelling our membership is not a solution and does nothing to deal with the very real issue of safety and fairness facing women’s sports in our beloved state. We urge the VPA to reconsider its policies and balance the rights of every athlete in the state”.
Also Today - An Unsporting Chance #2
World Rowing has issued new regulations over trans-identified male athletes; they’re still permitted to compete on women’s teams.
World Rowing says it has adopted ‘tighter rules’ but is still allowing trans-identified males to compete in the women’s sport. Now a male rower’s serum testosterone concentration must be less than 2.5 nmol/L for a continuous period of at least the previous 24 months in order for him to compete on female teams.
Claims that “The review was based on current scientific evidence highlighting the significant performance differences between males and females in Rowing, with the core objective of guaranteeing fair competition and participation for women in sport” do not hold any water. ALL of the scientific research demonstrates that the concessions made do not prevent trans-identified males from having physical and physiological advantages over women, even post-transition. The benefits of a male puberty cannot be undone.
Thursday 16th March - Within These Walls
THE IRISH TIMES: Violent and ‘homicidal’ trans-identified male, Barbie Kardashian, has been given a prison sentence which he will serve in a female jail.
Barbie Kadashian, born Alejandro Gentile, is a 21-year-old trans-identified male with a history of extreme violence. He has been diagnosed with a narcissistic personality disorder and was described by Gardaí as ‘homicidal’. He has fifteen previous convictions for offences including sexual assault, assault causing harm, causing criminal damage to property and threats to kill.
He clearly had a horrendous childhood with a violent and abusive father who groomed him into abusing his own mother. Kardashian violently attacked his mother when he was just 10 years old and was subsequently remanded to special care at Coovagh House secure youth facility. There he displayed violent and ‘sexualized’ behavior towards the female staff.
When he was 13 years old, Kardashian assaulted a female care worker who had been driving him home from a court appearance. Without warning or provocation, he attacked the woman from the back seat of the car, tearing her eyelids with his nails and pulling out clumps of her hair. He also wrapped his legs around the victim’s head and chest and bit her on the hand. He later told Gardaí officers that it had been music to his ears to hear the woman scream and cry.
Even though he has not received any hormone treatment or physical alteration, thanks to Ireland’s self-ID laws, Kardashian was able to change his legal sex to ‘female’ shortly before he left the secure unit in 2020. Following his release, Gardaí issued a nationwide alert to warn members of the public describing him as ‘homicidal’. They referred to him as a ‘teenage girl’.
In May 2022, Kardashian was found guilty of seven counts of threatening to kill or cause serious harm to his mother. During the trial, the court heard that he detailed his plans to kill his mother during a meeting with social care workers in September 2020. A Gardaí statement by Jaqueline Bourke, a social care manager who attended the meeting, was read into evidence by prosecuting senior counsel John O’Sullivan. Ms Bourke told Gardaí what Kardashian had said to her:
“If I got into [my mother’s] house I would run towards her and put the knife into her body and into her genitalia; the thing is, I would want to prolong my mum’s suffering for as long as possible. I would stab her, but not in her heart or neck, I’d want to put her through lots of torture, fear, and humiliation.
I would bring a screwdriver to insert inside her genitalia because I am a woman and women rape using objects; it would definitely be a long, protracted incident, I would want her to bleed out after death after a number of hours, by putting objects into her vagina, pouring boiling water into that area.
I know that my mum is smaller than me, she is physically weak and she is frail. When I was living with her since I was nine or 10, I was stronger than her then, and I know she would be overpowered by me.
I would only walk away when she was dead.”
This week Barbie Kardashian was finally sentenced. He will serve five and a half years in prison with the sentence backdated to May 2022. In court, Gardaí said that they continue to have ‘grave concerns’ about his ‘motivation to carry out the threats’. Det Gda Niall Fitzgerald gave evidence that Kardashian continues to “Pose a significant threat” to the wider public.
Kardashian has, thus far, been incarcerated in Limerick’s female prison and that is where he will serve his sentence. Those poor, frightened women.
Friday 17th March - Leave Them Kids Alone #2
DAILY MAIL USA: US Assistant Secretary of Health and trans identified male, Rachel Levine, says the Biden administration has the ‘highest support’ for the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children.
Rachel (née Richard) Levine is a paediatrician and a father of two who transitioned in 2011 at the age of 53. One of President Joe Biden’s first actions in office was to nominate him as Assistant Secretary of Health.
Levine is very enthusiastic about treating gender confused kids with puberty blockers and surgery, even in the face of the ever-burgeoning evidence that such medication is untested and dangerous and despite growing opposition from clinicians and heart-breaking testimony from detransitioners.
This week Levine was invited to speak at a medical conference, the Pediatric Grand Rounds Session, at the Children's Medical Center in Hartford. He told the conference that so-called ‘gender-affirming’ treatment for children has the ‘highest support’ of the Biden administration. He praised the procedures being carried out to change children’s ‘gender’ and promised they will soon be ‘normalised’.
This is what the man in charge of the USA’s healthcare is determined to ‘normalise’ with the ‘highest support’ of the President.
Also Today - Leave Them Kids Alone #3
Two stories from The Telegraph this week demonstrate the extent to which school children are being indoctrinated into gender ideology and queer theory.
The first story features the ‘spectacular safe-guarding fail’ of allowing drag queen, ‘Aida H Dee’, to lecture children at a school in Wales.
Aida H Dee is the drag persona of Sab Samuels, the organiser of Drag Queen Story Hour in the UK. He performs for children in libraries, community centres and schools wearing clownish make-up, false breasts and a huge wig.
He also performs a salacious drag act for adults.
We have written previously about drag, a form of entertainment for adults which involves offensive and sexualised parodies of womanhood, being wholly unsuitable for minors. And we have written about the shockingly inappropriate costume Samuels wears when he performs for children.
Earlier this year Samuels was fundraising for the funeral costs of fellow drag performer, Darren Moore, whom he described as a personal friend. He failed to mention that Moore was a convicted paedophile. (In March 1999 Moore was convicted of four counts of rape of a child aged under sixteen. In 2011 he was sentenced for breaching his sex offender’s order after he was apprehended working with children as a dance and gymnastics coach.)
This week The Telegraph reported that Sab Samuels was invited to lecture pupils as young as eleven at Lewis School Pengam in Wales, giving five separate talks to the different year groups in his ‘Aida’ drag persona.
In a Twitter thread, Samuels tweeted that he’d taught children ‘to understand that queer is an identity’ and, horrifyingly, talked to them about suicide statistics. He also spoke about Marsha P Johnson, about whom Samuel’s knowledge is so poor, he can’t even get his name right.
Cathy Larkman of the Women’s Rights Network commented, “Are we really telling young men that this is what it means to be gay? That it is fair game to represent women in this way? Schools, and our children, would be far better served by bringing in strong aspirational gay role models for their pupils, such as lesbian fire-fighters or gay barristers.”
Absolutely!
A second story in The Telegraph today focuses on an LGBT ‘sex education charity’ allegedly fabricating accreditations from Ofsted.
According to its own website, Educate & Celebrate supplies training “To embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric of your organisation”. It is featured on numerous primary school websites and runs Pride workshops for primary and secondary schools. These workshops involve teaching pupils ‘how to break the binary and be gender inclusive’. As detailed by TransgenderTrend, the “Conflation of sex and gender and misreading of the Equality Act pervades all of Educate & Celebrate’s activities and publications”.
Until recently, one of its patrons was Jordan Gray, the trans-identified male comedian known online as @talldarkfriend who exposed his penis on live television last October. At the time, Educate & Celebrate claimed that Gray had never represented its organisation in schools. But there is evidence to the contrary.
Educate & Celebrate is led by founder and CEO, Elly Barnes, who has been peddling gender woo to schools for years. In 2016 she drew up ‘trans’ guidelines for boarding schools in England and Wales, advocating the erasure of all sex-specific language, even in single-sex schools. She also encouraged the use of a child’s chosen pronouns, including ‘gender neutral’ versions such as ‘zie’.
In 2020 Barnes addressed the Irish National Teachers Organisation Conference in Wexford. In a recording from that event, she can be heard advising teachers to keep parents in the dark about indoctrinating their children in gender ideology. “We’ve had to have parent consultations. The only advice I can give you around that is don’t send a letter home to say you’re about to embark on this work. That’s the worst thing you can do. Don’t hold a parents’ meeting. You don’t want 30 parents shouting at you. Who wants that in their life? That’s an awful thing to do.”
In 2022 she hosted a 90 minute training session for the NEU, the UK’s leading education union. She pushed for a ‘gender free model’ in education and advised teachers to dispense with terms such as ‘boys’, ‘girls’, ‘son’ and mother’, replacing them with ‘gender neutral’ alternatives. She also said that students should not refer to teachers as ‘Miss’, ‘Mrs’ or ‘Mr’ but should use ‘teacher’ followed by a surname. One attendee described the session as ‘propaganda for trans activists’.
This week The Telegraph reported that Educate & Celebrate has been accused of erroneously claiming Ofsted endorsement. Heather Binning, spokeswoman for the Women’s Rights Network, told the paper that some of Educate & Celebrate’s publicity has claimed that it was an ‘Ofsted and Department for Education recognised Best Practice Award Programme’ but that Ofsted have denied this. Furthermore, according to an Ofsted spokesman, Educate & Celebrate has recently removed references to Ofsted from its website after the regulator insisted it did so.
Heather Binning went on to say that Educate & Celebrate, “Promotes highly contentious theories about gender identity to children of primary school age and above, teaching them that human beings can change sex and that sexual orientation is just a matter of choice. None of this is age-appropriate or remotely acceptable, yet Educate & Celebrate has been operating in plain sight since at least 2014”.
Also Today - I Can’t Believe It’s Not Satire
LBC: Oxfam has produced a new ‘inclusivity guide’ for its staff which promotes gender ideology and erases the language of motherhood.
This week Oxfam released a new 92-page ‘inclusivity guide’ for its staff. According to Oxfam GB CEO, Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, using ‘inclusive language’ is going to help the charity end poverty. Or something.
Included in the guide is a section on ‘gender justice’ which instructs staff to ignore reality and adhere to the rhetoric of gender woo. It advises against using terms like ‘biological male’ or ‘biological female’ which, it claims, are ‘inaccurate’, but, instead, staff should use the phrase ‘assigned at birth’.
Furthermore, it promotes use of the words ‘cis’ and ‘cisgender’, insisting they must be ‘framed in the context of power’.
The guide validates so-called ‘non-binary identities’.
And, of course, it’s all about the pronouns. Oxfam says, “We avoid assuming it is correct to describe someone as ‘he’ of ‘she’ based on their name or physical appearance”. In other words, staff are expected to lie.
Staff are told that ‘parent’ is preferable to ‘mother' or 'father’ in order to “Avoid assuming the adoption of gendered roles by transgender parents”.
Maya Forstater asked, “How is ignoring and denigrating the world's mothers good for development? In Africa, women have a one in 37 chance of dying in pregnancy. But Oxfam seems to think what's really important is erasing clear language about the very people who are most at risk. Oxfam cannot safeguard women and children if they can't communicate clearly who women and children are”.
Oxfam’s woke posturing is a little hard to take from a charity which failed to take action when its aid workers were raping girls as young as twelve.
Saturday 18th March - An Unsporting Chance #3
REDUXX: A trans-identified male has stolen first place from a female athlete and then likened those criticising him to Nazis.
We have reported on 50-year-old athlete, Valentina (formerly Fabrizio) Petrillo, in the past. Between 2016 and 2018 he won 11 men’s national titles. Then he began ‘identifying as a woman’ and competed in female events. In September 2020 he won gold medals in the women’s 100, 200 and 400 metre events at the Italian Paralympic Athletic Championships. In 2021, still formally male on documentation, he was permitted to compete in international women’s events.
He has just stolen his eighth championship title in a women’s category after ‘winning’ the 200m race for women aged 50 to 54 at the Italian Indoor Masters Championship in Ancona. Statistician Marco Alciator told Italy’s Feminist Post that had Petrillo competed in the equivalent men’s race, he would have been placed 14th.
After the race, Cristina Sanulli, the female athlete who came second, expressed her disappointed in the results. Sanulli would have taken first place and set a women’s indoor running record had it not been for Petrillo’s inclusion. “We do not feel equal, precisely because [Petrillo’s] physical structure is male”, she said. “So we are not running at par… We feel very discriminated against.”
In a Facebook rant a few days after the race, Petrillo lashed out at those who criticised his inclusion, likening them to Nazis and claiming they are “On the same level as Hitler”. He compared the exclusion of males from female sport to the ban on Jewish athletes at the 1936 Munich Olympics. He was similarly enraged at being denied access to the women’s locker room, a decision he described as ‘xenophobia’.
The rights, dignity and privacy of women do not seem to cause him any concern. Nor does fairness.
Sunday 19th March - First Do No Harm
THE TIMES: The co-author of the Tavistock’s only comprehensive patient audit has described as a ‘monumental scandal’ the clinic’s failure to keep records.
In 2002, David Freedman co-authored a clinical audit of the first 124 young people referred to the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).
His subsequent report stated that “High percentages of mental and physical health problems in the families of children and adolescents referred” could be contributing to their gender identity issues. It recorded that more than a quarter of the patients had spent time in care, almost 40% came from families with existing mental health problems and more than half had relationship difficulties with their peers.
This week David Freedman has spoken out, having recently discovered that the database was not maintained, the information was not stored in an accessible format and that his clinical audit taken over two decades ago was the only one to have ever been conducted by the clinic.
“This was a service that was sailing into uncharted territory with vulnerable children and adolescents, where one has an extra duty of care, and the failure to collect any data in a coherent form to look at what they were doing… it’s pretty mind-boggling.
You expect data to be collected. The failure to collect this may well have had adverse effects on the treatment offered to young people. Clinicians had no data on which to compare clinical practice and outcomes because nothing was collected. The more I think about it, the more I think it’s a monumental scandal.”
Also Today - Glinner Of Hope
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Although an increasing number of people are becoming aware of the threats to women , children and the gay community, I’m really beginning to wonder if we are getting anywhere in this fight. Gender ideology is so deeply entrenched in virtually every institution and there are so many supposedly intelligent people who cannot see or who refuse to see the threats. People like Billy Bragg have watched women and gay people fighting for their rights for decades. He apparently stood beside us in the struggles, yet he now spouts he most offensive and vile abuse. How can these people not see that that they are now standing alongside the most misogynistic and homophobic people in decades , who are putting children in such danger. A cursory look at John Money and Queer Theory should alert people to what’s going on… shouldn’t it?
Re. Oxfam. I don't think a poor Somali woman, with undernourished child has the luxury of worrying about pronouns. All this stuff is indulgent, narcissistic, degenerate white middle class nonsense. It is like Rome in it's final orgiastic days.
And frankly it is racist. Most cultures that Oxfam works with are religious with traditional views on sex, family etc. They will find this stuff offensive. And in strict Muslim countries, heretical with all that entails. Surely Oxfam for the efficacy of it's operations and safety of it's field workers should be sensitive to local cultures and not force their weird philosophy on them.
My father worked with the Colonial Education Service in Kenya 1958 - 1963. He was required to (1) learn Swahili and (2) learn about local religions and sensibilities (He was examined - his only on-line presence is in the Kenyan Gazette from 1959 stating he had passed his intermediate Swahili exam). So teaching at an Islamic School he had to work with traditional parents with regard to the girl pupils. For for example he took 30 students on a 6 week 'safari' around East Africa. The parents of the 3 girls who wanted to come were worried about their 'honour' and would not give permission for these girls to go on the trip. My father suggested that each girl be chaperoned by a 'respectable, married woman' which they agreed to. One these was my mum, and I aged 3 and sister 6 weeks came along for the ride. If he had been a woke warrior (ooh just realised this word is probably banned in the guide) in tune with Oxfam's guide, no doubt he would have been happy to let a 'transwomen' be a chaperone. Or perhaps a 'transgirl' sleep in the girls quarters. It would have caused a riot, he would have been sacked and sent back to the UK! And the 3 girls and many others would have been withdrawn from education.