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Protect the lols

It’s been over two weeks since the Supreme Court ruling, and the most visible response from trans activists is one of the most unintentionally hilarious, self-sabotaging hashtags the internet’s ever seen."

The phrase ‘Protect The Dolls’ was worn on a t-shirt by fashion designer Conner Ives to show support for the dainty and vulnerable men who pretend to be women at his autumn / winter 2025 show earlier this year.

"Like 'trans kids' (see below), the T-shirt became the latest virtue-signalling accessory for the rich and famous. It costs £75, with Ives donating all proceeds to Trans Lifeline—a charity once accused of being a scam.

The actor Pedro Pascal, who has a brother who pretends to be a woman, wore the t-shirt as a protest at a red carpet event for his new Marvel film. Several other celebrities, such as Tilda Swinton, followed and the t-shirt was spotted everywhere at the Coachella festival in California, where Northern Irish trans activist group KNEECAP also showed their support for Hamas and other terrorists.

The hashtag took off on social media, resulting even in India Willoughby putting #ProtectTheDolls in his X bio.

However, almost instantly, people on social media decided to showcase the ‘dolls’ in all their violent, misogynistic and disturbing glory. #ProtectTheDolls quickly became swamped with images and videos like these.

Competition of the Week

There seems to have been quite a fight in the last week for the title of worst person or organisation on this planet. Several companies, such as Wetherspoons, announced that they are ignoring the Supreme Court ruling, while some, like Stonewall, are saying that the ruling, which is very much the law, is not actually the law.

However, none of them made the top three. Which went to:

3. Paapa Essiedu

A few days ago it was announced that the actor Paapa Essiedu had been cast as Severus Snape in HBO’s upcoming ‘Harry Potter’ series. The decision was derided because Essiedu is black and Snape has ‘sallow skin’. Now, Essiedu has decided to show his gratitude to JK Rowling for creating the work by publicly attacking her.

He, and other actors including Eddie Redmayne, signed an open letter stating that they ‘stand in solidarity with the trans, nonbinary and intersex communities who have been impacted by the Supreme Court ruling … Film and television are powerful tools for empathy and education.’ (Numerous other celebrities, from Charli XCX to Sophie Ellis-Bextor, have signed similar letters).

Despite this gesture of solidarity, there’s no suggestion that Essiedu is going to pull out of filming for the Harry Potter show.

2. Lush

The cosmetics retailer Lush gave seven-year-old girls information in a leaflet claiming there was a ‘calculated media assault’ on trans people.

The leaflets, which also criticised the Cass Review and compared the USA to Nazi Germany, were put in party bags for children.

1. Jolyon Maugham

The fox killer has been crowdfunding for hundreds of thousands of pounds to fight the Supreme Court ruling, even though this is almost certainly an unwinnable case.

However, that was nowhere near the worst of what the toilet-obsessive did in the last week. He also wrote what reads like a fantasy about the police being unable to stop women getting raped because they’re too busy inspecting genitals in toilets. And he called for all men to force their way into women's toilets.

Well done Jolyon! Some organisations failed spectacularly in this competition though. For example, Barclays announced that men can no longer use its women’s toilets, and deleted one of two LGBT sections, which was mostly about how it partners with gender identity organisations, from its website.

He don’t need a boy

As if we needed further confirmation that transgenderism is a social contagion among the attention-starved children of the rich and famous, Robert De Niro is the latest Hollywood celebrity to claim a ‘transgender child’.

‘Airyn’, formerly Aaron, was born in 1995 and has a twin brother. He claims that watching the live action remake of The Little Mermaid made him realise he was a woman, an experience which seems incredibly common in online ‘trans’ communities and partially explains the creepy obsession with the animated children’s film. De Niro Snr obviously forgot to tell his son that movies aren’t reality and women aren’t half-fish (or men). He recently claimed Donald Trump is going to have him killed, so perhaps he and reality parted company some time ago.

‘Airyn’ seems to be one of the many gay sons of famously masculine men who don’t feel they can come out as homosexual and find it easier to become medical patients for life, and dramatically reduce their dating pool, in order to appear heterosexual. ‘Airyn’ claims “I was always told I was too much of something or not enough of something growing up: Too big, not skinny enough. Not black enough, not white enough. Too feminine, not masculine enough. It was never just, ‘You’re just right, just the way you are’.”

“I love and support my daughter,” says De Niro.

It has also been revealed that Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, the winner of this week’s Canadian general election, also has a ‘trans’ child. Sophia ‘Sasha’ Carney is a 24-year-old ‘transmasc’ (they / them). So, a woman. She grew up partly in England and seems to have attended the notorious Tavistock clinic in London for ‘therapy’ as a child. She wrote of her envy of other children who were ‘more trans’ than she was, and therefore on the Gender Identity Development (GIDs) pathway to high dose testosterone and mastectomies, in a 2020 essay.

Sasha’s conception of herself as ‘not a girl’ seems to have come from reading Enid Blyton books as a child and deciding that George from the Famous Five series was not a tomboy, but somewhere between male and female (and queer, of course). Her intense dislike of women, especially the ‘violent’ TERFs on Mumsnet, also fed her desire not to be one. How can Canadians trust the judgement of a leader who wasn’t strong enough to prevent his young daughter’s personality being pathologised, and perhaps even affirmed her belief that she was born in the wrong body?

De Niro and Carney can now be added to a vast list of parents whose children reject, or are coerced into rejecting, their sex. Notably Cher, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, Warren Beatty, David Tennant and Charlize Theron, like Jolyon Maugham above, all have ‘transgender’ or ‘non-binary’ children. You can guarantee that, like Cynthia Nixon, these people also know more ‘trans’ children than they can count.

As the comedian Leo Kearse said: “Strange, isn’t it, all these kids being born in the wrong body in Hollywood and not in Uganda.”

Egg on Leo’s face

It turns out there are children being born in the wrong body in Uganda after all, or at least one says he was, as BBC News has revealed.

It’s rare for the BBC to put together a documentary about Uganda but it broadcast a 44 minute special this week, only the second time the corporation has produced something of this length about the country in well over a year. And it is entirely about how hard a cross-dressing man’s life in Uganda is.

This comes as BBC News has put together numerous videos about the plight of ‘trans women’ in India of late.

In fact, it’s been another week of extraordinary gender propaganda at the BBC.

It’s announced that the gay TV dating show I Kissed A Boy is returning for a second series, an odd decision given that no viewer ratings were publicly released for the show’s first series in 2023, it has no user reviews on IMDB and it doesn’t have a score on Rotten Tomatoes due to a lack of engagement.

As you might have expected, one of the supposedly gay male contestants is actually a straight woman who says she is a “gay guy trapped in a woman’s body”. This is pure homophobic conversion therapy in a cheerful wrapper.

Meanwhile, the BBC’s coverage of the Supreme Court ruling has continued to be poor. Have I Got News For You addressed the fact that it didn’t mention it in the previous episode, in which Ian Hislop revealed that they did discuss it, but the entire section was cut. Jo Brand said something about how frightened she is to talk about the issue and everyone else said nothing.

The BBC’s legal correspondent, Dominic Casciani, then wrote about a potential legal challenge to the ruling by a cross-dressing former judge, who he refers to with female pronouns. His article suggests that biological sex might not be binary, and the judge’s claim that “trans people were wholly excluded from the court case” was not challenged, even though no trans organisation applied to intervene. The article links to Casciani’s X page, where you can challenge him on the above, except you can’t because his pinned tweet says he quit X after Donald Trump got elected, and now only posts on far-left social media platform Bluesky.

The drag queen obsession at the BBC also continues. ‘Tia Kofi’ has been named as the BBC’s digital presenter for Eurovision. The BBC describes him as ‘Queen of the Mother-tucking Universe’ in an official press release. The show will air straight after an episode of Doctor Who, which nobody is watching, and is written by a ‘trans woman’.

We also had this week a BBC presenter fawning over a drag queen, while a Filipino-American drag queen you’ve never heard of has died. For some reason, that resulted in two separate articles about his death that were published on the BBC News homepage. (Just to put into context - David Wilshire, an MP for nearly 25 years, died in 2023 and this didn’t warrant a story even in a local section of the BBC website).

However, light might be at the end of the media’s tunnel. This shouldn’t be news but it might be a breakthrough as it was not conceivable that long ago:

The Guardian this week called someone ‘trans identified’ while the BBC clarified that a ‘trans woman’ is a biological man.

Nature may be healing.

See you next week!