Nutmeg's week

After years of criticism over BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour largely ignoring the issue of men in women’s spaces, the programme finally addressed the issue in depth this week.

And in typical BBC fashion, the first person invited on was cross-dressing man Robin Moira White - last seen only the week before on BBC’s Antiques Roadshow to discuss VE Day - who talked for more than 15 minutes about why he’s a woman.

Fortunately for reality, Helen Joyce was invited the next day, and surprised presenter Nuala McGovern with the news that people like Robin are actually men. “That’s your perspective,” said Nuala at one moment, a point she somehow forgot to make the day before to the towering White. A sign of the shifting tide: a gender-critical woman appeared in the media, and shortly after, her name was trending on X—with the overwhelming majority of tweets supporting what she said.

The trans activists responded in their usual manner. The same man, ‘Cathy’ Brennan, who physically attacked Julie Bindel in Edinburgh a few years ago, and then laughed about it, posted a picture of Helen in a Pizza Express, saying he’d randomly spotted her in London, and tweeted ‘make sure they never know peace’.

This isn’t the first time Helen has been subjected to intimidation and abuse. For example, another cross-dressing man, Layla Le Fey, posted numerous threats at women, including that he was going to pull Helen’s eyes out and break her spine. Like Brennan, Le Fey has a history of violence, including once threatening staff in a shop with a claw hammer. And like Brennan, but unlike Lucy Connolly, an actual woman, with no history of violence, who was sentenced to 31 months in jail for a tweet, Le Fey has also not served any time in jail.

Another woman had urgent surgery cancelled as punishment for knowing men are not women

Watching nurses have to beg for privacy and dignity within an NHS which seems to prioritise the feelings of disordered men has been one of the most distressing aspects of this fight. Earlier in the year, it was revealed that one of the Darlington nurses suing their NHS trust for sexual harassment and sexual intimidation suffered panic attacks due to the presence of a ‘trans’-identifying male staff member in her changing room. It’s now been revealed that the same nurse, Karen Danson, had to fight to avoid this same man participating in her own hysterectomy.

Karen bravely gave an interview outlining the sexual abuse she had suffered as a child, which heightened her fear response to ‘Rose’, a male practitioner pretending to be a woman. Karen says ‘Rose’ appeared in the changing room wearing a scrub top and holey boxer shorts, which exposed his male genitals. When Karen hesitated to remove her uniform, ‘Rose’ asked her several times why she “wasn’t getting changed yet”. Karen recognised ‘Rose’s’ expression as similar to her father’s when he was abusing her, and ‘Rose’s’ interest in Karen undressing was also familiar. The resemblance and ‘Rose’s’ odd behaviour, which included staring and smirking at her, left her ‘petrified’.

Twenty-six nurses got together to take action against the trust after they were told they needed to be re-educated to accept men as women, and that ‘Rose’ would be the one to re-educate them. Unsurprisingly, ‘Rose’, pictured here, was ‘happy to do it’.

Last year, Karen needed an urgent hysterectomy due to stage 4 endometriosis at the age of just 44. She was immediately worried ‘Rose’, a robotic theatre technician, would be present at her surgery. When she voiced her concerns about this and asked for as few men to be present as possible, she was told, ‘Rose is a woman.’ Upon taking it further, her surgery was cancelled and she was told it would be moved to a different theatre with different staff, but a new date wasn’t forthcoming.

This all seems reminiscent of the extraordinary case of Teresa Steele, who developed an abscess after delays to her potentially life-saving operation, following her request for only biological women to provide her with intimate care.

As Karen says, this felt like a punishment for the ‘trouble’ she’d caused in raising the case against the trust and not accepting ‘Rose’ as a woman. Karen was even asked, “how would Rose feel if she was asked not to come to theatre?”

Karen had to take legal action to get the trust to back down, which meant that her operation went ahead without ‘Rose’. She has had to tell her children about her childhood abuse due to the case and has suffered nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks as a result of the experience.

When asked about how the Supreme Court ruling might affect the Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, a spokesman said the trust was ‘taking time to carefully understand and consider its implications.’ In reality, the trust must now put the needs of women like Karen and her courageous colleagues before the desires of a man like ‘Rose’.

In another sign of the state of the NHS, this previously almost unknown footage from a 2019 NHS conference spread on social media this week.

It involved Leicestershire Police saying how proud they are that one of their officers - a 6 foot 8 man - is now a woman. The speaker added that he isn’t on the streets anymore as he might face transphobia, and that his story inspired two other officers to reveal that they were ‘genderfluid’. This resulted in them both being given official male and female identification, as their genders kept changing.

If you’ve got two hours spare, this is worth it

A local radio show in a small part of the USA was aired this week, and it was probably as good an example of what transgenderism is as anything you’re likely to hear or see.

KOPN 89.5 FM is a community radio station in Columbia, Missouri. Every Wednesday night it has ‘Femme FM’, a ‘show of dissent, for feminism’ as described by its host, Luna Hawk, in which music by women is played, and there is typically a female guest in the studio who might also play some of her own songs.

This week the guest was Danielle Muscato, a man who says he’s a woman. He, incidentally, hasn’t worn women’s clothing for several years now because, according to him, he’s too disabled to take cross-sex hormones, and if he doesn’t take hormones then there’s no point cross-dressing.

Despite the feminist nature of the show, no mention was made of the allegations against Muscato that he’s sexually assaulted left-wing women, or that he’s on trial this month for harassing his mother and father.

The two-hour show started with about 15 minutes of Luna playing songs and talking, before she introduced Danielle (pictured above just before he went on air) and asked him if he’d always lived in the area. This proved to be the last moment of the two hours that she had any control over her own radio show.

The next ten to 15 minutes were spent by Danielle talking about how much of a victim he is, particularly with regards to his ‘psychopath’ twin brother and his ‘transphobic’ father. However, it was his mother who he said he hates the most, and, as a 41-year-old man, rolled off story after story about how she had ‘abused’ him. This abuse included that she regularly rolled her eyes at him, she once read a magazine when he wanted to talk and that she once bought pâté for his cat’s 18th birthday, instead of tuna.

When he wasn’t ranting about his family, he would - without being invited (Luna was barely allowed to say anything for the rest of the show) - start playing songs. These were mostly also about family grievances, such as this one, which didn’t quite work, as he kept forgetting the lyrics and cannot sing.

As well as his complete domination of this women’s space, in which he expressed hatred for women and demanded that his victimhood be acknowledged, there were also repeated and obvious lies and contradictions. For example, he introduced one song by saying it was about a woman he had first been friends with, then became romantically involved with — but the relationship ended, he said, after his brother had sex with her while she was too intoxicated to consent. However, the song was entirely about how angry he was with her for preferring his brother to him.

In a final metaphor for transgenderism, Luna tried to conclude the conversation with Danielle about 15 minutes before the show was due to end, presumably so she could have some control at last, and play some songs she wanted to play. Danielle, though, simply refused to end his involvement, and said he was going to play some more songs - including a couple of covers. He added that she’d told him in advance not to play covers, but he was going to anyway.

Only after the entire farce played out was Luna permitted to spea.k She said the two hours had been a victory for feminism, and she made some vague comment in support of trans rights.

You can listen to the two hours here on post 5,368 (you’ll need a VPN if you’re based in the UK).

It’s time to kick out Kick It Out

The girl who was sanctioned by the FA for questioning the presence of a man in the women’s team she was playing against has told her story.

Cerys Vaughan, who is now 18 but was 17 at the time of her ordeal, was subjected to a three-hour interrogation and a six-match ban last year. Cerys, an A-Level PE student who is being tested for autism, raised safety concerns with the referee when she caught sight of her large, bearded opponent. She also asked the man directly if he was a man, which led to her being reported to Kick It Out, a rather sinister organisation which encourages the reporting of ‘transphobia’ in football on its website.

She was found guilty ‘by her own admission’ because she admitted to asking the man if he was a man. Thanks to her continued bravery and the help of Sex Matters, the Free Speech Union and the Supreme Court ruling, which revealed the inclusion of the male player to be unlawful, Cerys’s ban has now been quashed. Sadly, she missed numerous matches including a cup semi-final during the process of the investigation and nothing can make up for that.

During a BBC interview she was asked, as with every BBC interview on this subject, if she felt any sympathy for ‘transgender women’ who want to play on women’s teams and now feel excluded. Cerys replied ‘no… because I love football … I think, if biological males get involved it just makes the experience worse for everyone else because it’s not an even game.’ Cerys would like an apology from the FA for the treatment she was subjected to in the name of an unlawful policy.

Although Cerys hasn’t commented on the identity of the man she was falsely accused of harming, it’s thought it may be this unit: Blair Hamilton.

He thinks there’s no data proving men are a danger to women in contact sports and that inclusivity is more important than safety anyway.

Speaking of football, even when Gary Lineker isn’t involved, Match of the Day viewers have still been subjected to this lately.

This is how he sounds when he isn’t doing a lady voice.

It was, of course, another week of relentless gender propaganda at the BBC, which was BBC Wellbeing Week. That was kicked off by … a drag queen.

We then had this on Mastermind.

Followed by this on The Finish Line.

But aside from Gary Lineker, the BBC’s most insulting move this week has been I Kissed A Boy, which continues to face backlash for featuring a woman who identifies as a man on a dating show for gay men

And finally

Quite a few people and organisations didn’t have a good week. Ben & Jerry’s encouraged its customers to donate to the Good Law Project in order to reverse the Supreme Court ruling, Dove’s new advertisement, aimed at women, centres a cross-dressing man and Asda has appointed ‘Bethany’, a trans activist who wears children-themed costumes, to get involved in children’s activities.

Yet it was probably a left-wing activist tweeter called Supertanskiii who deserves some sort of award for this tweet. Also, if you can never tell, how did she know the person she complimented was transgender?

She then announced she was leaving X and the country as well. Although, at the time of writing, she still appears to be posting on the platform from the UK.

See you next week!