Nutmeg's week: Girlguiding; Women's Institute; Women's Equality Party

This week this man was jailed for three and a half years for sexually abusing a child.

Newcastle Crown Court used female pronouns for ‘Natalie Wolf’ (real name Ryan Haley) even though his female, now adult, victim explicitly said she was abused by “Ryan Haley, the MAN”.

Girlguiding and the WI appear to be two men’s clubs

Girlguiding UK and the Women’s Institute (WI) announced they will begin complying with the law on single-sex services, and both organisations are clearly livid about it.

Until now, Girlguiding has admitted boys who ‘identify as girls’ to all groups and allowed them to share facilities including changing rooms and tents with girls. This policy was allegedly influenced by Stonewall and disgraced ‘transgender’ politician ‘Aimee’ Challenor, whose inability to comprehend safeguarding led to a Green Party scandal.

Instead of listening to the concerns of women when this policy was revealed in 2018, Girlguiding declared it would always be ‘proudly trans inclusive’ and expelled experienced leaders like Helen Watts and Katie Alcock for raising concerns.

This week it released a statement ‘with a heavy heart’ confirming it would stop admitting boys who identify as girls, although those with current memberships could remain. It also reiterated the fact that adult roles are already open to all, so men who pretend to be female guiders can still be involved. This policy remains despite the negative attention Girlguiding received when it was revealed ‘Monica’ Sulley, a man with a penchant for guns and BDSM, had been made the divisional commissioner of a Nottinghamshire branch.

A day later the WI followed suit and announced ‘with the utmost regret’ that it would no longer offer formal memberships to ‘transgender women’. The policy which allowed men to join was never subject to a vote and was thought to be unpopular with female members, some of whom tried to get it overturned in 2023.

Like Girlguiding’s statement, which promises a new ‘taskforce’ will ‘explore ways to support everyone and create new opportunities’, the WI’s announcement suggests it is looking for a way around the law. It claims it will be ‘launching a national network of local WI Sisterhood groups’, which will admit men who pretend to be women alongside women, so that they can all ‘share their experiences of living as women’.

This wasn’t enough to placate Pride in Surrey though, which has publicly called for the WI to break the law. But given that Pride in Surrey’s chairman and founder, and another senior volunteer, were both jailed for child abuse offences this year, maybe that’s not a great idea.

This week in gender identity healthcare madness

There have been several stories this week that rather suggest that having a healthcare system that panders to transgender ideology isn’t the best of ideas.

A cross-dressing man is suing a US hospital - even though he was given life-saving surgery by it.

‘Jennifer’ Capasso hid a recording device in a bag during surgery that successfully removed his tumour. The audio revealed staff discuss the fact that he is male, mostly as this was necessary to the procedure. However, he says he was ‘misgendered’; the surgeons say their privacy was violated.

Despite the absurdity of the story, the write-up in the New York Times is entirely sympathetic to Capasso.

Meanwhile in the UK, a ‘non-binary therapist’ has unsuccessfully sued the NHS after staff members sometimes failed to refer to her as ‘them’. Haech Lockwood refused to accept the apologies she received unless colleagues ‘showed a deep understanding of the impact it had’ on her. While she failed to win her action, the judge suggested she might have been successful if she identified as a trans man rather than non-binary, saying: “We find that the claimant does not have the protected characteristic of gender reassignment”.

Another legal case is set to begin next week: The NHS is taking disciplinary action against Jennifer Melle, because she referred to a transvestite paedophile she had been treating, who was serving time at a high-security men’s prison and had a man’s name, as ‘Mr’. As a reminder - the patient repeatedly called Melle the N-word but the NHS investigated and disciplined her, and then escorted her from St Helier Hospital in Surrey, and suspended her, because she spoke to journalists about the ordeal.

She will find out shortly if she has lost her job.

Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust appears to be a particularly crazy place for gender ideology, not least as it has a centre for gender surgery. This man is a ‘patient champion’ there. He has several YouTube videos promoting the cross-sex hormones he’s taken. He also reveals he, aged in his 20s, recently had a stroke but doesn’t appear to be curious as to why.

He was also promoted by the NHS trust as it launched a partnership with ‘trans charity’ Not A Phase to offer free fitness and self-defence classes for obese cross-dressing men who have been deemed too overweight to have castration surgery.

The BBC is getting even worse

A Let Women Speak event took place outside the BBC this week, and it was very necessary.

This week BBC News wrote a bizarre article about a poster that had been vandalised in a market town in Somerset. It somehow made it as a story simply because the poster was promoting a drag show and featured two drag queens. It shouldn’t get more ridiculous than this, but it does.

At the end of the article it featured a link to a ticket sales website so readers could buy tickets to the drag show. This was in clear breach of the BBC’s own rules about promoting commercial services. The BBC later quietly removed the link without mentioning anywhere that the page had been edited.

We also had this story on BBC News (note the gibberish in the opening sentence).

And Radio 4 described boys as “girls and young women who identify as trans”.

Outside of BBC News, the iPlayer is excessively promoting the ‘comedy’ Daddy Issues at the moment. This is from the latest episode.

And Radio 1 has selected the 100 biggest songs of 2025. This year the countdown is only partially based on numbers of streams and downloads for each song, as the BBC has decided that ‘cultural relevance’, determined by Radio 1 presenters, was also a factor in the ranking. It then used the trans flag colours to highlight each song. The number one song was Man I Need by Olivia Dean. It was nowhere near the biggest-selling song of 2025 but that doesn’t really matter when her mother was the ‘first black deputy leader of a political party in Europe’ - the pro trans Women’s Equality Party. She shared the salaried role with two other women.

Speaking of crazy political parties..

The new political party Your Party, set up by former Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, has had its first conference. It involved a lot of cross-dressing men talking about ‘transphobia’.

One of the MPs he refers to, Adnan Hussain, responded by threatening legal action, and referencing that this particular transvestite had previously been kicked out of the Scottish Greens for alleged paedophile offences. Hussain has now quit the party.

Now might not be the best time to rely only on judges

A female engineer this week lost a discrimination case against aerospace firm Leonardo’s policy of allowing men to use its women’s toilets. Maria Kelly argued that her privacy had been violated while Leonardo stated that she could have used a different toilet than the women’s one that was near her desk.

The employment tribunal ruled against her, saying the policy did not place females at a significant disadvantage compared with male staff.

In her ruling, Judge Michelle Sutherland said the toilet policy was a “proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim to create an inclusive workplace environment for trans staff”.

The judgement has been ridiculed online. The phrase ‘gender identity’ appears in it 36 times, and it concludes that “moral propriety is a social construct and standards of decency change over time”. The judge also said that people can’t tell what sex other people are without looking at their birth certificate, and suggested that sex-based rules shouldn’t exist because some people can break them.

Kelly says she will appeal the ruling and Maya Forstater has said she is as likely to be successful as she was following the 2019 ruling against her. Winning on appeal is also more likely to create a precedent, as it typically involves a higher court.

And finally

The ‘Trans+ Solidarity Alliance’ says it aims to send a free gift to any child (maximum age 25, no minimum age) this Christmas.

All the child has to do is give them their name, age, email address, postal address and phone number. The gifts will be marked ‘for men’ for girls and ‘for women’ for boys.

What could possibly go wrong?

See you next week!