Nutmeg's Week: Ellie Reeves, Róisín Murphy, Mark Kermode

Do you know this ‘person’?

Devon and Cornwall Police are appealing for the public’s assistance to identify a “person” who engaged in a lewd, obscene or disgusting act in front of members of the public in a shopping centre in Exeter recently. It’s not been detailed what the act actually entailed, perhaps because a penis might have been involved. Many have pointed out that it’s still an improvement that the police are not saying they are looking for a “woman”.

Three trans activist Labour MPs join WEC one day after a trans-identified man is convicted of harassing a female Labour MP

The UK Parliament’s Women & Equalities Committee (WEC) named three new members this week:

The three Labour MPs are Kim “It’s very, very feasible to be an advocate for trans rights and to be a really strong, powerful feminist” Leadbeater, Kevin “I am deeply concerned about a ban on puberty blockers” McKenna and Nadia Whittome, the haunted doll most famous for saying this:

The announcement came one whole day after a cross-dressing man was found guilty of harassing their colleague, Ellie Reeves MP. He sent her numerous messages, including ‘menacing voicemails’, called her a “transphobic fascist” and even alleged that her sister, the Chancellor, had attacked him. He also ran a litigious campaign against her that was so frightening that the Speaker of the House intervened to give her a legitimate reason not to attend court, where she could have been abused in person by him.

Anything Labour can do, the Lib Dems can do better though. It’s official LGBT+ group is calling its own party transphobic, for finally agreeing to follow the law so that its women-only quotas no longer include men.

Róisín Murphy: “I’ve left the cult – get over it”

Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy has told critics of her opposition to gender ideology: ‘I’ve left the cult, get over it.’ Murphy first stood up against the use of puberty blockers on ‘trans’ children in a Facebook comment in 2023. She wrote, ‘puberty blockers ARE FUCKED, absolutely desolate. Big pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true’, and was immediately identified as a target by the trans cult, which mobilised to destroy her career. Understandably shocked by the force of the reaction and the removal of her new music from the BBC Radio 6 playlist, Murphy initially apologised, without withdrawing her criticism of puberty blockers, saying ‘I should have known that I was stepping out of line.’ She has become more openly gender critical in the intervening years and recently stood up to Boy George during his latest attack on ‘terfs’ (‘ugly people with ugly souls’), recalling his nastiness to her when she was new to the industry.

When faced with what a poster on X obviously thought was a gotcha question about why she had performed at a venue which ‘centred trans experiences’ several years ago, she replied, ‘I played it twice in the early 2020s. Just two years apart, between the first and the second event, it felt like everything had changed, the vibe went drastically downhill. People were holding placards with LGBTQ+ slogans, literally everyone wanted to be on the podium — it was all podium! Crucially, nobody looked like they were having fun; it was all so performative, nothing remotely transcendent.’

In an article about Murphy’s artistry, Jenny Lindsay notes that Murphy has clearly had enough and now feels she has nothing to lose in addressing the mob behaviour she has witnessed and experienced in her music. She told Lindsay, ‘we’ve been living through a social-media-turbo-charged era of authoritarian, genderist dominance. It’s caused cruel, still under-appreciated harm. A true artist feels compelled to address that directly.’

If you have a Spotify account you can listen to Róisín’s wonderful last album here.

You can stand under this violent drag queen’s umbrella

In September, we wrote about an accusation of criminal damage of an umbrella against For Women Scotland (FWS) founder Susan Smith by a drag queen who had disrupted a FWS rally. This week it was revealed that Smith had been ordered to accept a ‘police recorded warning’ or face criminal charges, for ‘minor vandalism’ on the umbrella. Police were accused at the time of allowing Tom Harlow, who was not in drag, to disrupt the event with loud music and to intimidate women, including Smith. They appeared to have sided with Harlow, despite video evidence showing him brandishing the umbrella as a weapon at Smith and the umbrella appearing to be broken beforehand. Smith did not comment on the possibility of a police warning due to legal advice but it was thought she would decline the police’s ‘offer.’ It has now been reported that the police are ‘rowing back’ on their position and are likely to end the investigation into Smith, but they are yet to confirm this.

Mr Menno has done a timeline of the whole story here.

Shocked-face story below

A relatively famous cross-dressing man on TikTok has been convicted of rape and domestic violence following a trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Jennifer Nieve (real name Jordan O’Brien), who made transgender-themed content for more than 60,000 followers, was found guilty of four charges including rape, assault by penetration, strangulation and coercive control.

The court heard that Nieve / O’Brien terrorised his partner by monitoring her phone, destroying her belongings and threatening her with a knife.

After the conviction, former friends came forward with further allegations, claiming he had inappropriate contact with children and had previously served time in prison. He remains in custody and will be sentenced in January.

As has often been the case, we wouldn’t have known about this story if it wasn’t for Reduxx. Just like the Ellie Reeves story above, the BBC ignored it, even though BBC News has a transgender section.

‘A man is just a large woman’

The employment tribunal brought against County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust by the group of eight nurses known collectively as the Darlington nurses continued this week. Like Sandie Peggie, the nurses were expected to share intimate changing space at Darlington Memorial Hospital with a man who pretends to be a woman. In this case, the man, ‘Rose’ Henderson, had been accused of behaving inappropriately towards the women. During proceedings this week, a witness statement from a nurse who had worked for the hospital for 30 years stated that Henderson’s behaviour in the changing area had been causing ‘distress’ since 2021.

The nurse added, ‘Rose made me feel very uncomfortable by being in the female changing room. I would never change together with a man. When we change at work we have to strip down to our underwear, and I would never want to do that together with a male colleague … He was very obviously a man. He spoke with a very deep male voice. He always wore trousers that were too small for him and you could clearly see the bulge of his genitals … I remember that I felt that Rose’s behaviour in the changing room was often strange and somewhat exhibitionist.’ The witness statement also included details of the lengths nurses would go to in order to avoid sharing space with Henderson, including changing in toilet or shower cubicles.

The trust’s transgender policy stated that women who do not want to share a changing room with a male colleague who identifies as female ‘will not be tolerated’, and that they should get changed elsewhere. It emerged during cross-examination of the trust’s director of workforce, Andrew Thacker, that the alternative facilities offered were inadequate and unsafe. Thacker admitted the trust had ‘not considered’ the ‘risk, health, safety or wellbeing’ of the nurses who raised concerns about a man sharing their single sex facilities.

When asked if he could understand why the nurses might find the situation with Henderson ‘aggravating’, Thacker replied ‘Rose identifies as a woman. I have got no reason to believe that Rose being Rose and presenting the way that Rose is, is any different to having anybody larger than any individual in the changing room.’ The trust’s head of human resources, Tracy Atkinson, also admitted that no risk assessment had ever been carried out when implementing the policy of allowing men to self-identify into female-only facilities used by over 300 nurses. She denied telling the nurses to ‘broaden their mindset’, ‘compromise’ and be ‘more inclusive.’ Her own emails reveal that the trust’s initial response to the nurses’ concerns was to point them towards ‘awareness and education’ talks about inclusivity.

The BBC rewrites gay history; Calls it progress

This week the King unveiled a memorial to people who’d been banned from serving in the armed forces up until 2000 because they were LGB. This led to numerous stories on the BBC profiling men and women whose lives had been affected by this. And, of course, at the heart of this were stories about cross-dressing men who weren’t allowed to serve. There was just one problem with this: There was no ban on ‘transgender’ soldiers, it was only on homosexuals.

The BBC went as far as saying that ‘Before 2000, transgender people in the military were sent to prison if their gender identity was discovered by their bosses’.

This is completely untrue. As the CEO of the LGB Alliance shared on X, the BBC even wrote a story on this, in 1999, quoting Stonewall, about why transsexuals were, at the time, allowed to serve in the military, but gay people were not.

In relation, earlier this year the LGB Alliance wrote to the Ministry of Defence to ask why the Veterans’ Independent Review was rewriting gay history. ‘It was homosexuality that was banned in the armed forces. It is insulting to those who suffered to suggest otherwise,’ it stated.

Elsewhere on the BBC, the singer Beverly Glenn-Copeland is yet to have a song or album that’s ever made any chart but she’s still described as “legendary” by BBC Radio 6 Music before an interview with her, in which she talks about why her music is trans activism.

And this is the nonsensical start of a BBC Radio 4 show celebrating 50 years since the TV drama The Naked Civil Servant was first broadcast. Mark Kermode and Ellen E Jones explain why they use he, she AND they pronouns to refer to Quentin Crisp. It’s because, shortly before he died, aged 90, he wrote that it had been explained to him that he’s transgender, and not homosexual. (Wikipedia also - mostly - refers to him as ‘she / her’. Its new rival, Grokipedia, refers to him as a man).

And finally

This is from a 2023 episode of Law & Order, which was broadcast again last week. An ‘anti trans’ politician’s husband, a doctor, is murdered. Police suspect trans activists, but they’re all innocent. It then turns out the doctor was ‘treating’ trans children and was murdered by a transphobic parent. The entire episode is non-stop absurd trans propaganda, here’s just ten minutes of it:

See you next week!