Nutmeg's week: Lilly Tino. Anne Coombes, Lorraine Kelly.

A child hid in an attic from genocidal fascists. Pink News squints and asks: ‘But was she bisexual?’

Also, note how the category of ‘lesbian’ pops back into existence when Pink News needs it to make propaganda.

Cock’s Coombe

You may remember the story of Anne Coombes. Two years ago British Swimming changed its guidance on changing room access after a 65-year-old man - ‘Anne’ - was seen spending time in a female changing room during a girls’ competition. He was volunteering at the British Summer Championships and used the toilet in the changing room while teenage girls were getting undressed. He also used the room as a walkthrough. He’d previously written about his determination to use women’s facilities and had tried to publicly shame venues that didn’t give him full access to them. It also emerged that he’d publicly engaged on social media with a fetish account that created ‘breastfeeding erotica’.

He was back in the news this week. Now aged 67, he has become the latest trans activist to carry out a topless protest, by swimming with, according to The Reading Chronicle, ‘her breasts exposed’, at an event. He was protesting that he was not allowed to swim in a women-only competition.

Perhaps the funniest aspect to this story is that Pink News (again) covered it. However, presumably realising how manly he looks, it used stock images of partially visible but actual women to supplement the story, and none of him.

This is what he actually looks like.

In bad nick

The backlash against Nick Contino evolved again this week. You might not know the name but you probably will recognise the person. Nick is a man who, by his own admission, caught his wife cheating on him and ‘embarked on a path that would completely transform my life’, which is presumably a reference to his ‘transition’.

He now pretends to be a woman called Lilly Tino and regularly streams himself eating in restaurants in the hope of getting ‘misgendered’ by waiting staff who don’t speak English as a first language.

@lillytino_USE 👏 GENDER 👏 NEUTRAL 👏 LANGUAGE 👏

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He’s like a less manically cheerful Dylan Mulvaney,. Like Dylan, he has built up a large, likely young following on TikTok and continues to court outrage in order to enhance the grift.

Nick is an overtly threatening presence and makes no secret of facing arrests and charges in the past, which many on TikTok and Reddit believe are related to stalking offences against a woman. Recently, he has been photographing himself dressed like a little girl in public toilets around Disney World in Florida on the pretext of rating them. He just happens to catch women and children in the background of most of his photographs.

TERFs, gender critical people and LGB campaigners have been warning about Nick for a while but his unnerving behaviour has now caught the attention of the general public around the world. He has also been ostracised by the ‘trans community’ and called a fake because he says the quiet part out loud and draws attention to the aggression and entitlement of men who pretend to be women.

A petition to remove him from TikTok now has over 500,000 signatures and there are several other petitions to have him banned from Disney theme parks. One of the women unwittingly captured in one of his toilet photos is considering taking legal action. Another, who has encountered Nick in women’s toilets in the past, told Reduxx he hung around in the toilets, possibly waiting for women to challenge him.

In addition to the mysterious ‘arrests and charges’ Nick mentions in his own video, he has been accused of sexual misconduct by another man who pretends to be a woman and has been observed talking to minors on a now-deleted Discord, where he also allegedly shared adult content.

We have seen Nick’s kind many times (see especially the Canadian ‘wax my balls’ troon who now calls himself Jessica Simpson) and his seething aggression and creepiness will help to peak many who are new to the ‘trans issue.’ But his autogynephilic behaviour is becoming more openly brazen and predatory, which is a sign that it’s escalating. We should all be wary of the lengths he may go to for attention, now he has become infamous.

We’ve got four more years of these MPs

It’s not been a good week for the British establishment when it comes to transgender issues.

The UK’s first and so far only ‘transgender’ MP, Jamie Wallis, who lost his seat last year, has admitted harassing his ex-wife. He changed his plea just before his trial was due to start.

He told the court his name is now Katie, while his barrister said that a psychiatric assessment will be needed to examine what effect his ‘gender transition’ had on him during the period of offending, in the hope that this might lead to a lighter sentence.

When it comes to sentencing, the UK government has said it intends to introduce legislation so that ‘violence motivated by hostility towards a person’s transgender identity’ will receive harsher sentences. This would bring ‘gender identity hate crimes’, along with sexuality and disability, in line with ‘hate crimes’ based on race and religion. It also makes very little sense - no other form of ‘hate’, such as misogyny, is included.

This will mean, for example, a murderer will receive a harsher punishment for killing a cross-dressing man due to a ‘hatred of trans people’ than for killing a woman due to a ‘hatred of women’. And that’s despite the fact that nobody in the UK has ever been murdered due to a hatred of trans people, while women have been murdered due to a hatred of women. Also, how would ‘hostility towards a person’s transgender identity’ be measured or defined?

The government announcement came after it also announced that it will bring in a ‘trans inclusive conversion therapy ban’. This means doctors will only be allowed to agree with patients if they say they were born in the wrong body, and not challenge this lie. It’s absurd, dangerous and probably unworkable but as we can see from these MPs, none of that matters.

It also emerged this week that Emma Rourke, who took over as head of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) earlier this year, wore a trans activist badge for her first address to staff. She took over the organisation shortly after it was forced to admit that its statistics on the number of ‘trans people’ in the UK were not true or even close to being true.

This week’s failings at the top of the UK were not replicated across the West. The US Supreme Court upheld a state law banning ‘gender transition care’ for young people, while Quebec, Canada has said it will stop housing men in women’s prisons.

And our media is even worse

This week JK Rowling became probably the highest profile person to date to criticise the BBC for its coverage of the trans issue.

BBC News reported that a new housing block in west London that will provide homes ‘exclusively for women’ is about to open. This simply isn’t true - as BBC News itself revealed two years ago, men can live in the block as well, provided they self-identify as women or as ‘non-binary’. The latest BBC article on this now doesn’t even mention this seemingly quite critical detail.

Rowling stated: “Our national broadcaster can no longer be trusted to report truthfully or impartially on matters relating to sex, preferring to push its own luxury beliefs on the unenlightened masses.”

To be fair to the BBC, it’s been a very sad week for the organisation. A small banner at a Pride event in the market town of Congleton was slightly damaged, which has generated four articles and a podcast. Bridgnorth Pride also saw a flag get damaged, which resulted in a 340 word article. This was more than four times as many words it devoted to the news that broke at the same time, that the chief of Iran’s military operations was killed in an Israeli air strike. Fortunately, the Israel-Iran conflict did lead to a story of note on the BBC, when it was announced that Tel Aviv Pride had been cancelled.

Meanwhile, drag queen Ophelia Balls was given a platform to talk about his history of wearing women’s clothing.

ITV didn’t fare much better. Fresh from fawning over Paris Lees last week, Lorraine Kelly had former cyclist Robert Millar on. Why was he on, given that he hasn’t competed at an elite level for nearly 30 years? It’s because he now calls himself ‘Pippa’ and the two spent most of the interview talking about how inspirational he is (and none of it talking about his history of cheating as a cyclist).

This was also the opening three minutes of an episode of Coronation Street this week. A drag queen promotes a drag night to a gay man who then speaks to his partner about helping his sister come out as a lesbian, while two other lesbians look forward to that drag show.

And finally

While this is quite safe and it’s not exactly hilarious, BBC radio comedy Dead Ringers has done something that’s unexpectedly slightly brave and amusing. It mocked Gary Lineker for being cowardly when it comes to giving his real opinion about men in women’s sports.

See you next week!