Nutmeg's week

Do you remember the time when the left worried about ‘fake news’? It was quite big when Trump was first elected, but these days, disinformation results in ovations from certain party loyalists. At the Lib Dem spring conference, the ‘Free To Be Who You Are’ motion was passed following speeches by women like this, in which every point she makes about transgenderism is either partially or wholly untrue.

The third nursing scandal so far this year

Yet another nurse may lose her career because NHS managers prioritise the demands of disordered men over the safety and dignity of their female employees. This time the nurse didn’t come second to a male ‘trans-identified’ employee, as in the cases of the Darlington nurses and Sandie Peggie, but a male ‘trans-identified’ convicted paedophile who racially abused her while he was her patient at St Helier hospital.

Nurse Jennifer Melle has been given a final written warning and referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for calling the convicted paedophile ‘Mr’ and ‘he’ in a conversation with a colleague to whom the sex of the patient was relevant. As Jennifer says, ‘this was a real-life medical scenario that required accurate terminology to avoid any doubt between medical professionals.’ The paedophile, who had been escorted for treatment from a men’s prison and was male according to his medical records, overheard the conversation and angrily demanded to be called ‘she’.

Jennifer calmly replied, ‘sorry I cannot refer to you as “her” or “she”, as it’s against my faith and Christian values but I can call you by your name.’ The paedophile lunged at Jennifer, who is originally from Uganda, shouting several times that he was a woman and would call her ‘n*****’ if she ‘misgendered’ him. The abuse of Jennifer was witnessed by several other patients and staff, and a white colleague who also called the paedophile ‘he’ was not subjected to the same vitriol. After this traumatic and distressing event, Jennifer should have been offered support at work. Instead, an NHS manager took her to one side and told her that she ‘had to respect equality and diversity’ according to the NMC code of conduct. She has been placed on restricted duties, thereby effectively depriving the public of another dedicated senior nurse. She has also been referred to her independent regulator, who is investigating her fitness to practice because ‘she referred to a patient in a manner inconsistent with their gender identity.’

While the convicted paedophile has been given the protection of anonymity, details of his crimes have been revealed. ‘Patient X’, as he is referred to in materials relating to disciplinary action taken against Jennifer, was jailed for multiple counts of grooming young boys while posing as a teenage girl. Maya Forstater outlined the many possible ‘trans-identified’ convicted paedophiles who fit this profile.

Like the Darlington nurses and Sandie Peggie, Jennifer Melle has bravely decided to sue the hospital trust (Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust) for harassment, discrimination and human rights breaches. She has also joined the Darlington Nursing Union.

A tale of two Jennifers

Another ‘Jennifer’ in the NHS has been afforded the utmost protection and support and even given the power to affect policy in the organisation, despite a worrying approach to women’s safety and boundaries. Perhaps this preferential treatment has something to do with the fact that this Jennifer is a man. ‘Jenny’ Harvey is a seconded trade union representative (UNISON), based within the North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare Trust. It’s thought he also writes ‘trans’ inclusion policies for UNISON, which recently allowed ‘anyone who identifies as a woman’ to attend its women’s conference and passed the motion that ‘trans women are women.’

He recently shared his very long story during a two and a half hour staff conference on ‘LGBT activism and social change’ that was attended by dozens of managers in the NHS. The entire conference was posted on YouTube but the video was removed shortly after people started watching it. He comments during it that much of his work at the moment concerns dealing with policy on ‘gender critical beliefs’ in the workplace and, interestingly, he seems to have alluded to both Sandie Peggie and Jennifer Melle’s cases. He states that it is not acceptable to take the route of using a patient’s first name and that the patient’s gender must be affirmed through the use of pronouns.

It’s unclear whether he has ever been patient-facing and what his NHS roles have been. All his online profiles say he’s been with his NHS trust for decades but he does appear to refer to himself as a nurse in the most recent video. Here he is with an earlier incarnation of his ‘transition story’, again being vague about his role in the NHS but very clear about the compulsion that drove him to steal his mother’s clothing as a child and then dominated his ‘every waking minute.’

As StillTish discovered, he is very invested in the ‘transitioning’ of children and continued to share posts by GenderGP and Helen Webberley until he left X (Twitter) last year.

Kellie-Jay Keen’s parody / analysis of the video is worth watching.

Last week was drag week at the BBC

Just kidding! Every week is, of course, drag week at the BBC, but last week surely broke its own records for drag representation.

It was the fifth anniversary of the first Covid lockdown, so there were various programmes remembering what it was like. And they all seemed to include drag queens. For example:

BBC News published its third obituary for a drag queen in ten days while BBC Sounds promoted a ‘one woman show’ in Norwich, in which the ‘woman’ is a drag queen and the show is him telling us that we should all be more kind.

The BBC also announced that it would be recommissioning Smoggie Queens for a second series, despite it being a total flop with viewers. It wasn’t exactly critically acclaimed either, as this conversation can testify.

But it isn’t just drag that the BBC is fixated on - there are other aspects of gender ideology that it is promoting at the same time. That’s presumably why it has this week produced a 30-minute documentary on ‘the fight for acceptance for Bangladesh’s transgender women’ and why the BBC cartoon, Hey Duggee, which is aimed at five-year-olds, included a segment in which a non-binary racoon was introduced. This comes as the BBC introduces a game in which children draw trans colours into a heart.

It also emerged this week that the BBC has emailed all its staff to remind them that it has a ‘Pride network’ in which ‘LGBTQ+’ employees can share negative thoughts about some of President Trump’s executive orders that state that men are not women.

Not content with trashing its reputation with its trans obsession, there is still more to come from the BBC. This week, it was also announced that ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’ will be out later this year. It will be a drama based on the memoir of Paris Lees. Despite claims of budgetary issues at the BBC, well over 100 people are working on this eight-part series about a celebrity transvestite.

But it isn’t all just the BBC. ITV News ran a nine-minute interview with one of the ‘ten female leaders’ in the history of Medway in Kent. This ‘female’ is a man who spent the entire interview talking about being ‘transgender’. The female interviewer fawned over him throughout, and posted on LinkedIn that she spoke to him because, being ‘transgender’, he is from a group that is ‘under-represented on television’.

Meanwhile, Channel 4 and HBO have broadcast the drama Get Millie Black about a detective who emigrates from London to Jamaica to reconnect with her brother and solve crimes. But her brother is now her sister and we’re told the bigotry he faces for being ‘transgender’ is due to Jamaica's colonial past.

The latest on Pride in Surrey

Just days after its founder and chairman, Stephen Ireland, was convicted of numerous paedophile offences, including the rape of a 12-year-old boy, and a senior volunteer was also found guilty of child sexual abuse offences, Pride in Surrey opened ‘Pride Hub’ in Egham. It was created by Stephen Ireland, who described it as the place to go to get ‘sweeties’, and opened by members of the crystal meth smoking polycule he was in. At the same time, a Pride in Surrey group has helped launch the petition ‘Stop gender critical beliefs being protected under the Equality Act’, saying it ‘hinders progress towards equality’. It doesn’t feel that much is being learnt from the scandal - Surrey Police, for instance, which chauffeured Ireland around in rainbow-painted police cars, still have images of him on their social media.

Incidentally, another LGBT organisation aimed at children that was run by a convicted paedophile is LGBT Youth Scotland. It has a section on its website about its history, which mentions some of the child abusers it has employed and adds that the media makes its work difficult by sometimes mentioning them.

‘It wouldn’t matter, actually, if there was a slight spike’

Cross-dressing man Sophie-Grace Chappell, who made the above comment, has posted an invitation to one of Elon Musk’s children to get in touch with him. Chappell read about this young person in Teen Vogue, and has said he would like to be their ‘trans parent’. Reminder: The ‘slight spike’ he was referring to was in the murder of women if self-ID became law.

And finally

During a phone-in about cross-dressing men in women’s spaces on LBC, a seemingly disordered man spoke to presenter Shelagh Fogarty, which resulted in her saying “trans women shouldn’t be in women’s toilets”. LBC posted about it and then deleted the post from social media. We don’t know why - some think it was a prank call, but how do you distinguish between a man pretending to be a woman and a man pretending to be a man who’s pretending to be a woman? Others believe LBC is authoritarian about issues such as ‘misgendering’ - in 2023 it sacked presenter Steve Allen, after 44 years, shortly after he had mocked Sam Smith.

Either way, it’s quite funny, and Shelash dealt with it well.

See you next week!