Nutmeg's week: Lisa Nandy, Danielle Muscato, Marla-Svenja Liebich

UK government minister Lisa Nandy wore a ‘protect the dolls’ t-shirt at a transgender-themed Pride event this week.

As a reminder, here’s she is telling Julia Long that sex offenders, including child rapists, should be allowed to choose if they want to be housed in men’s or women’s jails.

This could be the lyrics to an Alanis Morissette song

Women who hate women; the cast of Maiden Voyage

Tracy Edwards attended a performance of a musical based on her achievements as a yachtswoman only for the cast to attempt to shame her for her gender critical views. Tracy captained the first all-female crew in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race in 1989 and was the first woman to receive the Yachtsman of the Year trophy.

The musical, Maiden Voyage, based on the Whitbread race, aimed to celebrate female achievements and empowerment. When Tracy, who was not involved in the production, attended the show as a special guest, the cast dedicated the curtain call to fundraising for Pride Sports, a charity which focuses on ‘LGBTQIA+ inclusion’ in sports. Tracy has been vocal about her objection to the inclusion of men in women’s sports and other aspects of gender ideology for some time. She believes the cast included the fundraiser for her benefit as it had not featured in previous performances. She said, “they are in a little bubble, and I don’t think they think for themselves. They are not activists; they are sheep. The irony of spending 90 minutes singing and dancing in celebration of women fighting for their rights in sport, only to trample all over those rights at the end, is off the scale.”

Tracy’s charity, The Maiden Factor, has since been inundated with donations by those who want to register their support for Tracy and for women and girls worldwide.

Another nurse on the frontline

Earlier this year Canadian nurse Amy Eileen Hamm was found guilty of professional misconduct because she refused to give in to authoritarian censorship by the British Colombia College of Nurses and Midwives.

Amy’s ‘offences’ consisted of putting up a billboard to celebrate JK Rowling and writing articles and social media posts exposing the harmful effects of gender identity ideology. Amy has now discovered she is liable for costs of almost $100,000 and will have her nursing licence suspended for a month, which will impact her ability to find new employment. The severity of the punishment was partly attributed to the ‘pattern’ of behaviour Amy exhibited in the ‘targeting of a vulnerable and marginalised group’ (men).

Amy plans to appeal her punishment. She says, “I won’t stop until all nurses and midwives in Canada are free to say that humans don’t change sex, men aren’t women, and women deserve their own spaces. I refuse to be used as the example of why you should shut your mouth. I insist upon being the example of why you should never.”

But not as much as Danielle Muscato

Muscato in happier times

Of all the cross-dressing men in the world, Muscato is one of the most fascinating, partly because of his lack of shame.

The man, who once invented a sister who was brutally raped as a child so he could invade discussions about the safety of women and girls, has been found guilty of two charges of felony harassment against his own parents in Missouri. David ‘Danielle’ Muscato, a self-styled ‘civil rights activist’ and ‘feminist’ who pretends to be a woman, had been charged with stalking and threatening his parents in the hope of forcing them to pay him $100,000. Thanks to a poster on Kiwi Farms who attended the two-day trial in person, we know the details, none of which are being covered by the press despite Muscato’s brief period as a minor celebrity.

Muscato originally became a public figure when he was PR director for American Atheists. He decided to pretend to be a woman during his tenure, although he claimed he couldn’t physically or medically transition due to ‘life-threatening’ medical conditions. After leaving his PR position he came to further prominence as an activist in 2016 when he asked Donald Trump on Twitter if he knew how many ‘trans people’ had been murdered since election day (answer: none).

In early 2017, he was lauded by activist actress Jameela Jamil as a ‘cool and important voice / activist / writer’ to follow during Women’s History Month. You heard that right. Throughout this brief period of renown he constantly asked for money from social media followers to help with every possible expense and has continued to do so.

Muscato’s prolonged abuse and harassment of his parents began in 2022 when they finally forced him (aged 38) to move out of their house after he screamed profanities in front of his young nephew at Thanksgiving. He then began a long campaign of persecution which involved ‘busking’ in their driveway, following them to appointments while filming and posting their full names alongside allegations that they are ‘child abusers’ (meaning they had abused him, their adult child, by throwing him out).

His parents, who are both retired oncologists, were awarded a Personal Protection Order against him, which he breached. In the build-up to the trial he even told stories and performed songs about his parents on a ‘feminist’ radio show, including ‘My Daddy is a Racist’.

During Muscato’s trial, it emerged that his mother was so distressed by his public harassment of herthat she now needed medication to cope. Muscato’s defence claimed that he had been abused by his ‘transphobic’ parents and that demands for money were made as a sign of good faith, not as a threat. Footage of Muscato berating his mother while trapping her in her car for over 20 minutes was livestreamed and uploaded to YouTube by Muscato himself.

The recording, which undoubtedly helped the jury come to its unanimous verdict, also shows Muscato, complete with ‘emotional support guitar’, demanding and receiving money from his father. Muscato’s car can be seen in the footage covered in signs reading ‘Dr Muscato is Abusive.com’, the address of a website he set up to promote his ‘one woman show’ about his parents that he planned to perform. It emerged in the trial that, at the time of the livestreamed incident shown to the jury, Muscato’s parents were still paying for his car insurance, phone bill and a storage unit.

Muscato’s defence lawyer claimed the livestreamed abuse of his parents was an ‘act of journalism’ because Muscato is a journalist and must be granted free speech. This characterisation conflicts with Muscato’s own claim that he is unable to work because of a back problem or a heart condition, depending on which day it is. Muscato’s publicly-declared allegations against his father paint him as a violent Mafioso with the power to corrupt any institution. His mother is depicted as ‘worse’ than his father and among her crimes are the fact that she sometimes rolls her eyes at him and once ‘passive-aggressively’ bought him low fat mayonnaise when he’d asked for full fat.

His claim that his parents’ ‘transphobia’ was the root cause of their hostility towards him was somewhat damaged by the fact that his father ‘corrected’ his own attorney when he accidentally called Muscato ‘he’. Both parents referred to Muscato as ‘she / her’ throughout the trial and his mother even said, ‘she’s our daughter and we were hoping to get back to a good relationship with her, but that won’t happen [now]’. She did concede, however, that she finds Muscato ‘creepy’. Muscato refused to testify, as did his main witness.

Posting on Facebook immediately after the verdict, Muscato claimed the trial was corrupt and that his parents had bribed his brothers and their former nanny to stand as witnesses for them. Neither the brothers nor the nanny actually testified in court and witness statements by them do not appear to have featured in the trial.

He will be sentenced shortly and could face a prison term, but is more likely to receive some form of probation. He claims he will appeal.

‘There’s never been any issues wherever self ID has become law’

Germany introduced self ID less than a year ago and it already appears to be in disarray.

A story that has made the British press is that of Sven Liebich. He was convicted in 2023 of hate speech for stating that a baseball bat is a ‘deportation aid’ and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. He appealed the sentence, a process that took nearly two years. The conviction was recently upheld. During that time, self ID became law in Germany and, just days after it did, Sven announced he was a woman.

Despite having a large horseshoe moustache, and at least parts of the German media saying he is lying, the BBC is referring to Sven, or ‘Marla-Svenja’, as a woman, with she / her pronouns. His prison sentence is due to start on August 29, and the local chief public prosecutor has said he will serve his sentence in a women’s prison, although he could subsequently be transferred if he poses a ‘threat to order’.

He’s also been taking legal action against media outlets for ‘falsely representing’ his ‘gender identity’.

Newspaper Der Spiegel, which hilariously doubts the authenticity of Sven’s transition because he’s made “queerphobic statements in the past”, might have hit the nail on the head. It states he’s done this ‘in order to provoke and embarrass the state’. Julian Reichelt, the editor-in-chief of Nius, has written that self-ID has ‘forced almost the entire German media landscape to tell untruths and make grotesquely false claims. Sven Liebich is not a woman’.

At least self ID has been a success everywhere else, such as in Ireland, California and Quebec.

What did we do to deserve these politicians?

]In 2019, Labour MSP Colin Smyth helped carry a 16 foot transgender flag, as part of a ‘trans rights’ protest. He said it was a ‘privilege’ to carry it. He later voted for self ID in Scotland.

In completely shocking news, this week Colin Smyth was charged over the possession of indecent images of children.

Meanwhile, in Surrey, Godalming Town Council has awarded Pride in Surrey £1,500, even though its founder has just been jailed for child rape.

In completely separate news, Penny Rivers and her husband Paul are Liberal Democrat councillors at Godalming Town Council. Penny Rivers promoted the Pride in Surrey phoneline to children that was manned by the paedophile who’s just been jailed - and won an award from him shortly before he was arrested last year.

Is the BBC still obsessed with drag queens?

Yes. This is from this week’s episode of The Bidding Room, in which members of the public bring unique items to be valued and potentially sold.

Pointless had whatever this is as a contestant, while BBC News treated its readers to a story (written by two journalists, even though between them they only speak to one person) about the struggles facing women who want to be drag queens rather than drag kings.

It wasn’t just drag queens and it wasn’t just the BBC though. Quiz shows Mastermind (BBC) and The Chase (ITV) both had cross-dressing men on this week, and here’s also a recent episode of Jeopardy! (ITV) in which Stephen Fry seems thrilled that a troon finally got an answer right.

ITV also replayed an episode of Celebrity Catchphrase this week, in which BBC presenter Stacey Dooley donated her money to Gendered Intelligence. She also previously donated money to another child castration charity, Mermaids.

And finally

There’s two this week, both related to GB News. Presenter Michelle Dewberry achieved a stunning victory when she threatened legal action against Virgin Active, the health club owner that was allowing men to use its women’s changing rooms. On the day that she gave as the deadline, Virgin Active updated its policy so that only women can use the women’s changing rooms.

Her partner, incidentally, is the former Crystal Palace chairman Simon Jordan. He was asked this week about old media versus new media, and said that the former is dying, because you can turn on Channel 4 these days and you might see Jordan Gray playing the piano with his penis.

Back on GB News, when discussing Dewberry’s victory, trans advocate and former Labour adviser, Scarlett MccGwire, let slip that she does actually know that men are not women. While talking about a transvestite who she sometimes sees on the bus, she said: “She’s about 6 foot 2 and I assume she’s a ma…”

See you next week!