Nutmeg's week: Ann Widdecombe; Roxanne Tickle; Doctors.

This never happens, part one

A Teesside paedophile who sometimes says he’s a woman repeatedly used female aliases to breach a sexual harm prevention order and register on pornography sites. Luke Hardy, who also goes by the names Lucy or Zoe, was referred to with female pronouns in court.

This never happens, part two

The former head of a large LGBT organisation, Ryan Anthony Weyand (Twitter link, as it seems no-one has picked the story up) has been charged with possession of images depicting children being sexually abused. He recently resigned as the CEO of a prominent American body that’s ‘dedicated to promoting inclusivity, equality and support for LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies’. He has been charged with multiple felonies.

This never happens, part three

Duper’s delight: ‘Sophie Grace’ Chappell

Sophie Grace Chappell is the cross-dressing academic who’s appeared a few times on BBC radio, and most famously said on one appearance that it wouldn’t matter if there was a spike in murders of women due to self-ID.

He’s become the latest trans-identified man to crash his car in the early hours of the morning in a small village. It’s similar to the case of Jamie Wallis MP, who deprived a village of Wi-Fi for a few days after crashing his car at 1am, while dressed in women’s clothing, in 2021. Chappell crashed his car through a garden fence and smashed into two parked cars in Perthshire at 4.35am, causing ‘significant damage’. He was fined but not given a driving ban.

Ann Widdecombe is a trans activist

Reform UK tied itself in knots this week over the issue of allowing male prisoners to serve sentences in female prisons if they say they are women. On Monday, party leader Nigel Farage introduced his new justice tsar, former prison governor Vanessa Frake, during a press conference. When Farage was asked whether ‘transgender women’ (men) should be held in women’s prisons he deferred to Frake’s ‘expertise’, but she simply agreed with him that it was a ‘relatively small’ problem which can be dealt with through ‘risk assessment’.

Earlier in the day she had given the same answer on Times Radio and made it clear she did not agree with the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex or the automatic exclusion of all male prisoners from the women’s prison estate. She later told The Times ‘there are equally vile women as there possibly are trans women. So it’s all about the risk assessments for me, and each has to be done on an individual basis. People who want to just say a blanket ban clearly have never stepped foot in a prison and seen how prison runs and how risk assessments on individuals happen.’ As Keep Prisons Single Sex outlined in 2023, risk assessment is not the same as safeguarding and should not be a substitute for it.

The reaction to Frake’s comments was such that frenzied backtracking was required. Farage immediately denied he had ever supported men being held in women’s prisons. Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice also confirmed that Reform policy does not support Frake’s statements. Unfortunately, Ann Widdecombe, who is currently Reform’s immigration and justice spokesperson, didn’t get the memo. She said any man who’d had surgery and ‘looks like a woman’ should probably be held in the women’s estate because there ‘aren’t enough of them to make creating a special unit worthwhile.’

This will make the ECHR even more popular

An American man who says he's non-binary is to file an application to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to have his identity legally recognised in the UK. If successful, this could effectively overrule British law as clarified by the Supreme Court.

Refugee status for misgendering

A Brazilian woman who was facing up to 25 years in prison for ‘misgendering’ a politician has been granted full refugee status in an unnamed European country. In a world first, Isabella Cêpa has won the right to be considered a victim of state persecution because of the consequences she faced after making a video in which she said she was disappointed that the ‘most voted-for woman in São Paulo’ was actually a man.

Put on the red light

The notorious Australian legal ruling which resulted in the founder of an all-female networking app being ordered to pay damages to a man because he was refused membership was challenged in court this week. Sall Grover, the founder of Giggle for Girls, appealed the original judgement which found she had indirectly discriminated against ‘Roxanne’ Tickle and stated that sex can change because it ‘is not confined to a biological concept’.

This week Tickle’s lawyer argued that he is a woman ‘for the purpose of the Sex Discrimination Act’ because he ‘presented [his] gender identity to the world and to the Giggle app as a woman’, has long hair and position on a women’s hockey team. Tickle’s legal team has even filed a cross-appeal, stating that the judge should have found direct discrimination in the original case.

The on-going Giggle crowdfunder outlines the high stakes involved in this legal action: ‘This case is about more than an app. It is about whether women in Australia can lawfully create and maintain single-sex spaces - online, in public life and in law. A negative outcome risks redefining the meaning of “woman” under Australian anti-discrimination law and weakening the ability of women to organise on the basis of sex. That’s why we’re fighting.’

We haven’t forgotten about Doctors

You may remember that, last year, the BBC medical soap opera Doctors ended after a quarter of a century. And it dedicated the last few months to a storyline in which a ‘transphobic bigot’, who might have been based on Graham Linehan, joined the surgery, and slowly but surely destroyed it. The last episode ended with the other staff at the surgery joining forces to defeat him.

Recently, the television channel U, which is owned by the BBC, started airing every episode of Doctors from the year 2000, and is already up to 2007. It’s maybe quite interesting to chart the BBC’s transgender propaganda through the show, as it started a lot earlier than you might think.

The Gender Recognition Act was first debated in parliament in 2003 and, perhaps not coincidentally, the BBC dedicated five episodes of the show to the issue in the run-up to it becoming law in 2004.

The first ‘trans’ storyline involved a man who had become suicidal over his transition, and decided to detransition to save his life. Except his doctor turned up at his house at night to scream at him to start wearing women’s clothing again, as he was a “grown woman betrayed by her ugly man’s body”. He agreed to do this and the episode reached a happy ending with him cross-dressing again.

Then that same doctor educated her colleagues about what being trans is. She said (and this was presented as scientific research): “Transsexualism starts in the womb - when the area in the brain responsible for gender develops in a different way from the sex organs.”

In another episode in 2003 we’re told there is nothing parents can do if their children start believing they were born in the wrong body, and they’re bad parents if they tell them they’re not the sex they’re pretending to be.

Still in 2003, a doctor laughs when he discovers a war hero now wants to be called Alison. But he’s educated by his colleague, and then Alison’s fiancée, whose grandfather was also a cross-dressing man.

In early 2004 the BBC broadcast an episode in which there was a twist - the viewer was meant to believe that the woman they’d been watching in the episode was actually male, and regularly has to battle bigotry.

The Gender Recognition Act then became law and, all of a sudden, the trans storylines stopped for two years. They then returned in 2006 with exactly the same storyline as in the last episode - the woman we’d been watching all episode said she was male.

We’ll probably return to this in the future as, apparently, there are many, many episodes to come featuring blatant trans activist propaganda.

The BBC in 2025

It is, of course, even worse in the present day. It was Brighton Pride earlier this month and BBC News wrote at least 10 articles promoting it, including its annual story about how successful it was and another annual one saying several people attended it. The number of articles don’t include the television news stories about it or the radio shows broadcasting from it. Bizarrely, BBC News published an article (written by two people) about Mariah Carey thanking the crowd at Brighton Pride, and then four days later, using the same picture, published a different article (written by at least one person) about Mariah Carey thanking the crowd at Brighton Pride.

Elsewhere this week:

• In Touch is a BBC Radio 4 program about blindness. Its latest episode is about how difficult life is for a cross-dressing blind man now that the Supreme Court in the UK says that legally he's not a woman.

• Radio 4 also thought a cross-dressing man (Juno Dawson) talking about himself was a good way to inspire its listeners to read more.

• BBC Radio Ulster ran a discussion about transvestites in women’s spaces. It featured two cross-dressing men and a woman who has ‘transgender relatives’. In fact, only one person on the panel wasn’t a trans activist, and when he tried to discuss children’s bodily integrity or women’s rights, he was shut down by the presenter.

• This week the BBC released a new documentary - Should We Hook Up? It appears to be a lengthy advert for Grindr, and states that children use the app.

It might not be a surprise that GB News has now overtaken BBC News to become Britain’s most watched news channel on live television. It had the most amount of viewers in July for the key timeslots of the breakfast show, primetime weekday evenings and the Sunday morning political slot.

And finally

Glinner was on Joe Rogan this week, in which he talked about many things including the time he joined a lesbian dating app which had become overrun with transvestite men.

Have a look at the below pictures. One is the man who is a women’s pool player, one is the man who is a women’s darts player, one is the man who was a women’s cyclist and is now a women’s golfer, and one is the comedy writer. Can you spot which one is Glinner?

See you next week!