Nutmeg's Week: 7 days of self-owns

Kate Nash, Topless Protests, Union shenanigans

If you don’t know who Kate Nash is, then congratulations. In a rough week for pop stars and common sense, she’s managed to distinguish herself

Kate Nash is a one-hit wonder whose song Foundations got to number two in 2007. Her act, which wore thin almost immediately, involves the very middle-class-sounding Nash talking in a mockney accent over a synth beat. Despite releasing several songs since Foundations, she hasn’t made the top 200 since 2008. Perhaps realising her music career was over, she has marketed herself as a feminist activist celebrity ever since. This included fronting various campaigns on ‘gender equality’ in the 2010s and releasing songs such as ‘Free My Pussy’. Thankfully, both this and a duet with Billy Bragg bombed.

These days, she’s turned her attention to promoting prostitution and cross-dressing men.

In April, she appeared on BBC Woman’s Hour to talk about her OnlyFans account, which she set up last year to “inspire young people”. The account mostly sells pictures of her backside. She’s also posted numerous messages on social media over the years about ‘trans people’, including, for example, a post about Marsha Johnson, a gay man who did not identify as a woman, but who trans activists like Nash persist in misrepresenting.

This week she released her new song, GERM, and while it’s not completely clear from the lyrics, this appears to stand for Girl Exclusionary Regressive Misogynist. In other words, she’s calling women who are concerned about cross-dressing men in women’s spaces, ‘germs’, instead of ‘terfs’. This is the level of argument last seen in about 2019 from teenage trans activists - Kate Nash is in her late 30s. The song is entirely about trans activism and has been ridiculed online, not just for how bad it is, but for how confused the person who wrote the lyrics must be.

For example, the song states that “91 percent of pеople prosecuted for sеxual offences are cis men.”

Even if we assume that the figure is correct and pretend that ‘cis’ is a real word, that would mean that nine per cent of sexual offences are carried out by ‘other’, which includes men who don’t identify as men. Women, incidentally, however they identify, only make up about two percent of pеople prosecuted for sеxual offences.

How many ‘trans people’ are there in society, then? Kate Nash helpfully answers this question in the same song by saying “Trans people make up roughly 0.5 per cent of the UK population.”

Even though this figure doesn’t take into account the fact that there are more ‘trans men’ (women) than ‘trans women’ (men) ", Nash reminds us that cross-dressing men are far more likely to commit sex crimes than other men—and hundreds of times more likely than women.

Madonna is another singer who has turned to trans activism in a desperate attempt to revive a career that she can no longer accept is over.

Meanwhile, Mel B has become the second Spice Girl in less than a year to reveal that she has a ‘trans child’. According to AI, the odds on two members of the Spice Girls both having a transgender child are about 0.13%, or a one in 768 chance.

Still, at least these acts all waited to have success first before ruining their legacies via trans activism. Here last year are the Lambrini Girls, featuring Phoebe Lunny, who describes herself as a she / they lesbian with ADHD (her grandfather is a famous music producer) and Lilly Macieira Bosgelmez, a she / they bisexual who says she’s bipolar and autistic. You’d have no idea they were two extremely privileged women.

In years past, Kate Nash might have won some sort of Idiot of the Decade award for her self-own of a song, but in this era she barely cracks the top ten. For example, this is Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - a human adult who thought it would be a good idea to say on live television that “most rapists are male men-men”.

We also had the new Lord Mayor of Belfast, who showed off that he’d used taxpayers’ money to remove a £25,000 stained glass window from an A-listed building and replace it with a ‘Pride window’ featuring messages such as ‘Save Sodomy From Ulster’.

And here’s footage from a conference of UK academics, which took place this week.

Top man

The manly howl of outrage about the Supreme Court ruling continues. Topless men marched from Marble Arch to Downing Street to demonstrate their immense vulnerability since it’s been confirmed that they can’t invade women-only spaces legally. Sadly for them 1) the general public didn’t notice or care and 2) their nipples alone betray them as unmistakably male.

The London protest, organised by STRIVE (Standing for Trans Rights, Inclusion and Visibility Everywhere) was dominated by Alan ‘Sarah Jane’ Baker. Thanks to Baker, the movement now has a clear figurehead and slogan: ‘Be Afraid.’ Baker embodies the ‘transgender rights’ movement and the elements we have all been warning about for years: anger, violence, instability, misogyny, narcissism, fetishism.

While the topless protest backfired hilariously due to the categorical maleness of the participants, the threat Baker poses shouldn’t be underestimated. He is currently out of prison on life licence after serving time for kidnap, torture, attempted murder, drug dealing and general violence. He breached the terms of his licence and was recalled to prison after telling the crowd to punch ‘terfs’ in the face at a Trans Pride event in 2023. He was cleared at trial when the judge concluded Baker probably said it for publicity. Baker is a man who claims he cut off his own testicles while in prison and ate them so they couldn’t be reattached. He does love publicity, but he’s also one of the most disordered men in a movement of disordered men and undoubtedly belongs behind bars. The Women’s Rights Network (WRN) has written to the probation service to inform them of Baker’s recent apparent incitement to violence, which includes specific threats to JK Rowling and Kellie-Jay Keen. As Rita Rake pointed out on X, Baker’s behaviour is noticeably escalating and, so far, the police and probation service appear to be turning a blind eye.

Union of the snake

Many of the larger trade unions have spent the last six weeks letting their members down by misrepresenting or denying the clarification of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act (2010). Several seem to think internal consultation within the union will somehow change the law, while the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) went as far as implying they recommend breaking the law to remain ‘on the right side of history.’ The University and College Union (UCU) spent part of its recent annual conference ‘reaffirming its commitment to trans rights’, which is a motion that has no basis in law. As SEEN in Journalism pointed out, this kind of thoughtless statement is likely to make the union vulnerable to future legal proceedings.

Every union should be interested, and many should be nervous, about Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie’s decision to sue her union, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN). Sandie, who is already bravely taking action against her NHS Trust for suspending her when she objected to sharing changing rooms with a male doctor, is taking the RCN to court for its failure to protect her. Sandie’s solicitor says her client expected the RCN to ‘exercise its industrial muscle to challenge the decision which was adversely impacting her and other female union members’ and was disappointed at the lack of action.

Rebecca Says No outlined the RCN’s religious approach to gender ideology on this Substack a few months ago. RCN documents revealed by Rebecca demonstrate just how captured the union is by the dangerous idea that nurses must play a key role in ‘affirming the true gender identity of trans and non-binary people.’ Sadly, they include ‘gender variant’ children in this context and signpost charities such as Mermaids and Gendered Intelligence in their documents. The RCN has been slightly more measured than other unions since the Supreme Court ruling and perhaps this is a positive sign that recent events have been a wake-up call.

Leave them kids alone

Unusually, the police didn’t turn a blind eye to a ‘trans rights’ protest in Glasgow. Aiming to ‘end segregation’ (by allowing men into women’s spaces), some middle class former climate protestors occupied the balcony above the offices of the EHRC. Trans Kids Deserve Better, the organisation allegedly founded by one of Jolyon Maugham’s allegedly transgender children (‘Grin’), was behind this farce. They also claimed responsibility for releasing live crickets at the LGB Alliance’s annual conference in 2024. This time, at least five activists were arrested, and one has been charged with alleged assault and remanded in custody. Footage of the arrests shows a huge aggressive man being dragged into a police vehicle while a young woman screeches ‘let her go!’ and another protestor spits on officers. While those arrested were adults, Trans Kids Deserve Better is a youth network in which under-17s regularly mix with disturbed adults who cannot accept being told ‘no’.

Speaking of children, Pride in Surrey continues to be ignored by the mainsteam media when it really shouldn’t be. The aforementioned Sarah Jane Baker sang for them recently, while this week it shared a video talking to ‘trans kids’. That’s Pride in Surrey, where next month its founder will be sentenced for child rape and a senior volunteer will also be sentenced for paedophilia offences.

Meanwhile, Girlguiding has appointed another cross-dressing man into a senior position. Youth worker ‘Stone’, who is also a member of the board at Gendered Intelligence, works in ‘inclusion’ for Girlguiding. It previously appointed a rifle-wielding ‘male dominatrix’ as a commissioner.

Absolute nonsense

Four people complained to the BBC that its report in February that President Trump had banned ‘transgender athletes from female competitions’ was misleading because ‘trans men’ can compete in female competitions.

This is a fairly cut-and-dried case, in which BBC News covered an issue poorly and stated something that wasn’t accurate. But, incredibly, the BBC decided to not uphold the complaint. It admitted that its statement was not true but said its guidelines do not require ‘absolute accuracy’.

Meanwhile, its partner, Welsh public broadcaster S4C, has issued an apology and said ‘immediate steps’ have been taken to make sure this doesn't happen again - after its subtitles said a cross-dressing man was “a man”. This was in a news story about the legal fact that men are not women.

Other BBC news:

• We had another Bank Holiday Monday in the UK this week and that seems to be the day when BBC radio is most likely to profile a ‘trans person’. In early May we had all of BBC local radio showcasing a man who had to battle ‘living with gender dysphoria’ until he bravely ‘came out’ as a woman. In late May, BBC Radio Sheffield profiled a woman who decided she was a man after hearing voices in her head. She revealed she’s taking testosterone - even though she has cystic fibrosis. At no point did the BBC interviewer ask if that might be a bit dangerous, or if she’s had any psychiatric support, instead all her decisions were affirmed and the listener is told that her story is ‘wonderful’.

• BBC Sounds has a ‘Families and Relationships’ section, which only has about 60 broadcasts. They include ‘Misgendered at my Wedding’, ‘Trans dad Freddy McConnell: How to prepare a kid from a queer family for a straight world’, ‘The Book of Polyamory’ and ‘Paris Lees on Fangirling’.

• Earlier this year BBC News ran an article on the importance of cancer screening for ‘trans men’. This was at least the fourth BBC News article about the importance of just cervical screening for women who pretend they’re men. This week, they published another article advising ‘trans men’ to undergo women-only cancer screening.

However, next week promises to be an even bigger week for the BBC when it comes to its gender agenda.

It will begin airing ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’, an eight-part drama about the life of transvestite Paris Lees. This trailer for it has been running at peak times.

Not only that, but the BBC has written an 8,500 word article to promote the series. It says the high-budget show, which has a cast and crew of more than 150 people, ‘humanises trans people’. It would be nice to see a show that humanised the elderly victim of the crime that landed Lees in a young offenders’ institution for eight months.

See this and you next week!