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People are strange

One way of finding out if you’re on the right or wrong side of history is to look at your opponents, and if they’re insane, then you’re probably doing OK.

Last week Stonewall revealed that one in every 10 LGBT people has experienced an exorcism, a ludicrous fantasy which media outlets such as the Guardian and the BBC reported as a fact. As one academic pointed out, this equates to about 15,000 exorcisms per year, which means, if true, UK priests are conducting more than one LGBT exorcism for every three people they marry. Helen Joyce added that you’d need to set up 24-hour drive-thru exorcism centres for it to work.

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Fresh from her recent humiliation on Times Radio, disgraced doctor Helen Webberley has been posting videos arguing for trans rights. In one of them, she used a picture of Auschwitz as the backdrop, and stated that excluding boys from girls’ spaces is literally the same as ethnic cleansing.

She received some well-deserved backlash to this, so produced another video in which she changed the backdrop to some poppies, and said people criticising her were complicit in genocide.

2025’s Butterfly

Webberley’s former colleague at GenderGP, which sold ‘sex change’ drugs to children, was Susie Green, who should have been in the news this week.

Netflix has broadcast the drama series Adolescence, about a boy who kills a girl after watching Andrew Tate videos, which the establishment seems to be a bit obsessed with, to the point that there are plans to make it compulsory viewing in UK schools.

There’s confusion about how much of it is based on true events. One co-creator suggested it was inspired by the 2023 murder of Elianne Andam by Hassan Sentamu in Croydon, but the killer then was a black boy with no known links to Tate, while the boy in Adolescence is white. Since then, another co-creator has said the show is not based on true events, which makes it particularly bizarre that men like James O’Brien have been ranting about Kemi Badenoch not watching the series.

The charity Tender, which has received £3.4 million of taxpayers’ money, is working with the Adolescence creators to get the series into schools to teach children about misogyny. However, it’s previously hosted David Tennant, the man who publicly wished that Kemi Badenoch was dead, and has called for boys to be allowed in girls’ toilets if they wear girls’ clothes.

As Malcolm Clark pointed out, Adolescence is getting the same sort of adulation that greeted ‘Butterfly’ in 2018, with the thinly fictionalised Susie Green character at the heart of the programme. It was essentially propaganda for giving puberty blockers to pre-pubescent children, something that fortunately is not considered quite so progressive today. “Six years after Butterfly lied to the public, Adolescence is doing the same; using drama to skew a debate that funnels money into dodgy groups. The people behind the show present themselves as goody two-shoes. But then so did Susie Green. And her morals crawled out of a sewer.”

Amy Hamm: a terrible verdict

Canadian nurse Amy Eileen Hamm has lost her job, and potentially her career and vocation, with no severance pay, because she refused to pretend men could be women. This is the latest travesty committed against nurses by nursing and medical bodies in the West in the name of gender ideology. Before the Darlington nurses, Sandie Peggie and Jennifer Melle stood up for their rights in the UK, Amy Eileen Hamm took on the British Columbia (B.C.) College of Nurses and Midwives in Canada. Amy, a nurse for 13 years with VCH Healthcare, had been placed under investigation in 2020 due to her ‘off-duty conduct’ and has been bravely documenting her treatment ever since.

Initially, Amy was informed that two anonymous members of the public had complained about her ‘transphobic’ online behaviour and questioned whether she was suitable to care for ‘transgender and gender diverse patients’. Amy has written extensively on the harmful effects that gender ideology has on individuals and society and she had even taken on one of the most notorious Canadian trans activists, an act that triggered a shocking and harmful false accusation from him.

A billboard celebrating J.K. Rowling, initiated by Amy, triggered the complaints that resulted in her dismissal. She faced a disciplinary hearing, charged with making ‘discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people, while identifying as a nurse or nurse educator. These statements were made across various online platforms, including but not limited to, podcasts, videos, published writings and social media.’ A 332-page report on Amy’s online activity had been produced in advance of the hearing.

The lawyers chosen to represent B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives against Amy certainly embodied their values. Upon sharing her pronouns at the beginning of the hearing, one of these blue-haired lawyers declared that she also identified as having a lower case name (‘barbara findlay’). While the verdict has just been delivered, the hearing took place in the same country and around the same time that a male teacher, presenting as a woman with oversized prosthetic breasts, was fully supported by his school. During Amy’s ‘witch trial’, as she calls it, an expert witness for the college testified that this man was a woman because he said so.

At the hearing Amy stood firm in her assertion that ‘men are not women. Humans are a dimorphic species … Speaking the truth should not be a punishable offence.’ After an extremely drawn out and torturous process, Amy was found guilty of professional misconduct and sacked.

I lost my case against the BC College of Nurses and Midwives

She had been a nurse with VCH Healthcare for 13 years without a single complaint until activists decided to destroy her. The ruling is as unscientific as you might have come to expect, for instance:

251. At Tab 24 of the Extract, the Respondent [Amy] makes a series of statements regarding gender issues in her article entitled “On feeling like a woman”. The Respondent states “there is no absconding” from female bodies, the feeling of being a woman does not exist, and there is no “incantation or initiation that can transcend bodily reality” without a female body. The Panel finds that these statements are untrue and unfair to transgender women as they deny the possibility that that an individual born into a male body can feel like a woman and effectively deny the existence of transgender women. The Panel does not accept that an article containing the Respondent’s personal reflections on womanhood constitutes political speech, although it accepts that her musings contribute to social discourse about the meaning of being a woman.

Amy has since filed a complaint against the B.C. College of Midwives for discriminating against her on the basis that she was expressing political beliefs, which should be protected in British Columbia. She may also appeal the verdict of the hearing and will document her next steps on her Substack.

Amy’s continued strength and eloquent commentary throughout this ‘witch trial’ will undoubtedly inspire the increasing number of UK nurses currently going through similar ordeals. We wish her every success, however she decides to continue.

You license fee at work

For nearly a decade now, the BBC has engaged in pro-transvestite propaganda, and the last week has been no exception.

Chess Masters: The Endgame is a new show hosted by Sue Perkins in which 12 contestants compete against each other over chess and puzzles until a winner is announced. One of the contestants is, of course, a man who pretends he’s a woman.

There have been numerous examples given on this Substack of the BBC shoehorning ‘trans women’ or drag queens into shows in recent years, and here’s three more.

The sitcom, Bad Education.

Reality business show Dragons’ Den. (Despite this company being unsuccessful, this was at least the second time it received free BBC marketing).

The other reality business show, The Apprentice.

BBC News is even worse. There’s a good thread here that highlights the dozens of times that ‘trans children’ storylines have cropped up on BBC News, almost always featuring the narrative that a child can be transgender, a definition of which is usually never given, or if it is, it’s gibberish like this, taken from a BBC documentary aimed at children.

There’s also a disturbing thread here about the bizarrely high number of ‘child drag queens’ that the BBC has reported on. For example, this was about a 12-year-old boy.

Every single week several stories that clearly have a genderist agenda are published. For example, in the last few days we’ve had a 30 minute documentary about the plight of ‘trans women’ in Bangladesh, BBC World Service’s ‘gender and identity correspondent’, Megha Mohan, someone who the BBC has admitted got her facts wrong about people with DSD conditions in the past, wrote about cross-dressing men in India, we’ve had a documentary about how inclusive a women’s football team is, because it includes men, and the promotion of a ‘queer festival’ in Devon, which is separate to Pride, which BBC News publishes numerous articles promoting every week. (The BBC Pride section did not cover the recent conviction of Pride founder Stephen Ireland for child rape). In March alone, BBC News wrote stories about four different drag queens who’d died, even though only one of them actually died in March. The BBC has also at least twice used drag queens in serious news items to explain inflation since 2022:

It’s what BBC News doesn’t cover that’s probably even more revealing. For example, this week it was revealed that police filmed a couple in West Yorkshire, at the behest of a Labour councillor, after their daughter hosted a women-only event that didn’t include cross-dressing men. This story did not make it onto BBC News, and neither did a story from this week in which new data revealed that a toddler was suspended from a nursery for being ‘transphobic or homophobic’. We also found that more than 90 pupils at state primary schools across England were suspended or excluded for the same reason in one year, and this included ten children aged five or six. This made international headlines, and even the prime minister criticised the practice, but the BBC was too busy promoting Brighton Pride (twice in the last week) to report on it.

And finally

Hope you enjoyed Trans Day Of Visibility this week. The Mayor of London celebrated by spending other people’s money on nonsense like this.

See you next week!