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Urine trouble now

Pee brains

What is it about cross-dressing men and urine? For example, in recent years a group of trans activists left more than 60 bottles of urine outside the Equality and Human Rights Commission to protest its single-sex toilet guidance and Professor Rosa Freedman found her office door covered in urine after she debated proposed gender law changes.

This week, Francis Bartkus appeared in court in Scotland after he was arrested for spraying a child with a bottle of urine and attacking a man with a chain. He pleaded guilty and told the court he was now a woman called ‘Francesca’, possibly in the hope of reducing his sentence. This may have worked: He received just 90 hours of unpaid work as punishment, despite previously being convicted of sexually harassing shop staff in a women’s lingerie shop.

In a sign that some parts of the media are moving away from preferred pronouns, The Scottish Sun used his real name and correct sex pronouns.

Marvellous banter, I am bereft of ribs

As Julie Burchill among others has noted, Radio 4 comedies in recent years have tended to descend into establishment comedians just saying ‘Brexit’ or ‘Trump’, which is met more by applause than laughter.

That was certainly the case during the last episode of The News Quiz, which had a segment discussing Kemi Badenoch’s recent speech, in which she said that Western civilisation is at risk from people who hate its culture.

Except the panelists didn’t discuss anything she actually said and instead spent two minutes saying that, unlike Keir Starmer, she’s not a serious politician because she also believes that men should not be called ‘women’.

Comedian Dominic Frisby has picked 30 comedians who regularly appear on BBC radio comedies and found that 28 of them, such as Nish Kumar, who’s recently been agreeing with a man who was expressing his hatred of women, are ideologically left wing.

Here is one of those comedians, Robin Ince, mocking comics, like Simon Evans, by saying there are more important issues he should be talking about, such as abortion and Gaza, instead of men in women’s spaces.

She/he/they sells sanctuary

It’s now inescapable that trans activism has links to terrorism, but this is not easy to spot if you rely on the mainstream media for your news.

It took a month for BBC News to finally report on ‘Zizians’, a group of transgender activists who have allegedly murdered at least six people in the US.

Because the members of this cult also don’t eat meat, the BBC initially called the group a ‘vegan cult’ in its headline, and referred to the male leader as ‘she / her’. Little reference was made to the members being trans activists.

The BBC did change the headline to: ‘Zizians: What we know about the ‘cult’ linked to six deaths’.

A 17-year-old has also pleaded guilty to terrorism offences related to wanting to shoot children in Edinburgh. We know that she is a girl because newspapers like The Times and The Telegraph reported that she was born female.

But you would have thought she is a boy if you read the BBC News story on her, in which the only clue that she might not be a boy comes when it’s stated that her barrister asked the judge to take into account that she is ‘transgender’ when it comes to sentencing.

Jill Foster has been writing to the BBC lately to complain about its use of incorrect pronouns, particularly for criminals, and particularly for child rapists. It’s become so ludicrous that in one case, a man, Oliver Smith, raped a 12-year-old girl at knifepoint, and was arrested shortly afterwards. The BBC reported on it at the time, correctly using he / him pronouns for Smith. However, at the trial just a few weeks later, he announced he was now a they / them, and the BBC respected that decision, stating that ‘they’ had been sentenced to 12 years in jail. The BBC has given Jill no indication that it will change this policy.

Another child rapist who the BBC is happy to pander to is, or was, Maddison Wilson, who was accused of raping one girl under the age of 13 and carrying out a sexual assault against a boy under the age of 13. He was the subject of the recent headline (which was later changed): ‘Hampshire woman appears in court charged with raping girl’. He died just before he was due to appear in court and the BBC referred to him as ‘Ms Wilson’ and ‘she / her’ throughout the report. This was despite the judge calling him ‘Mr Wilson’. It also failed to tag this story, and the two trans terrorism ones, as stories about ‘transgender people’ for some reason.

Finally (this week) on the BBC: Zebra crossings have been painted in rainbow colours in Blackpool to ‘celebrate LGBTQI people’.

BBC News has, for some reason, covered this story twice and neither time mentioned that several local people have protested them as they’re a ‘waste of taxpayers’ money’ or that they’re dangerous to blind and elderly people and animals.

A Freedom of Information request found that the six crossings initially cost the taxpayer £35,000. This excludes additional street sign painting and maintenance costs. Meanwhile, Blackpool Council has just cut adult social care and children’s services while council tax is rising due to a budget deficit. None of this was mentioned in either BBC article.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

Stonewall has become the latest unexpected victim of President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Times has reported that the charity might have to cut half of its 114 staff due to the president’s decision to freeze foreign aid. The revelation that Stonewall received £230,000 from the shady US Global Equality Fund (GEF) last year perhaps explains its laser focus on promoting the trans agenda. This withdrawal of funding along with the loss of income from the increasingly unpopular Diversity Champions workplace programme / grift means Stonewall’s power to influence UK law is vastly diminished.

As Kate Harris of LGB Alliance commented on the Times report: Hallelujah. And now let’s have a public enquiry into how Stonewall law managed to replace the law of the land for a decade. And then let’s put Ruth Hunt, Jan Gooding and others on trial for destroying the lives of so many young LGB people. It’s over, Stonewall – you have wreaked havoc and the reckoning is nigh.

According to Dominic Cummings, one major reason Stonewall had so much power was because of Carrie Johnson.

Trigger warning: Peter Tatchell

The achievement of individuals and groups like the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) in getting the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) to withdraw guidance which enabled male ‘trans-identified’ officers to carry out intimate searches on female members of the public could be undone.

Proposed new NPCC guidance states that men with a gender recognition certificate stating they are women could still conduct these searches. As Heather Binning of the WRN points out, the NPCC consultation was always geared towards empowering men with a GRC and not to protecting women at their most vulnerable.

Peter Tatchell was invited onto GB News to discuss this story with Cathy Larkman and came up with a brilliant solution if you never spend one moment empathising with women: All intimate searches should be recorded on either CCTV or body-worn cameras.

Hunted saboteur

This is from Channel 4’s reality show Hunted, which aired last year. We meet Jaxon and her sister Nicola. We're told nothing about Nicola, but Jaxon is ‘transitioning’ her gender so the entire focus of the show is on that, including promoting her double mastectomy and her injecting testosterone. Unsurprisingly, Jaxon and Nicola go on to win the show.

It’s the bloke from Only Connect

This is the start of a lecture at Oxford University this week on ‘Queerness and monsters from antiquity to today: The monsters of ancient Greek myth and literature and, through this [learning], we can explore what it means to create, to possess and to celebrate a trans body’.

See you next week!