The Good News Supplement: 15th July - Sunday 21st July
What a week! Here are few of the good news stories from the gender beat. Enoy!
Reframing His Trauma
Surely the best news of the week, Mridul Wadhwa has been suspended from his role at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.
The Times (which describes him as ‘a man who identifies as a woman’ - how refreshing!) reports that Wadhwa was put ‘on leave’ in May by Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre’s board pending the outcome of an investigation. His suspension follows the damning outcome of Roz Adam’s employment tribunal which named him as the ‘invisible hand’ behind a ‘heresy hunt’ intended to force out gender-critical staff.
According to one insider, “There is no way Mridul is coming back”. Let’s hope not.
Mrs Webberley, I Presume?
The second best story of the week is that child-catcher and gender zealot, Helen Webberley, has lost her medical licence.
Helen Webberley, the Cruella de Ville of gender ideology (about whom we’ve written much and often!), has finally lost her licence to practise medicine.
The General Medical Council revoked Webberley’s licence after she failed to comply with the legal obligation which requires all registered doctors to re-validate their licence every five years.
Webberley was unable to re-validate her licence because she could not find a ‘responsible officer’ to vouch for her fitness to practise (quelle surprise) and, although the General Medical Council offered her an opportunity to undertake an examination instead, she declined.
Fuck Around, Find Out
A Scottish literature organisation is facing severe repercussions after allowing a male ‘queer’ activist to try and stifle the work of gender critical writers.
A few months ago we reported on Literature Alliance Scotland (LAS). It is Scotland’s largest literary network, a registered charity funded by the public purse and the Lottery and with a board comprising some very influential figures from the Scottish arts and literary world.
In May, LAS published to its website a guidance for bookshops and literary festivals etc on supporting trans writers. It was written by Eris Young, a “Queer, transgender writer of speculative fiction and non-fiction” who demands they/them pronouns.
This guide urged book shops not to platform or stock the work of gender critical writers. “Don’t sell Terf books/platform Terf authors”, it said. It also made the ludicrous claim that, “Terfs are actively joining forces with fascists”.
The publication of this guidance didn’t quite go as Eris Young probably hoped, instead it prompted an angry backlash from feminist campaign groups and those who uphold freedom of speech and artistic expression. The document was swiftly removed from the LAS website after this story (first published by Magi Gibson) made headlines.
The repercussions have been severe; LAS’s chairwoman, vice-chairwoman and several board members have resigned, accepting full responsibility for a ‘lack of oversight’ in allowing the document to be published and insisting it had been posted in error and without their approval. LAS freelance staff have all resigned and two further board members have signalled that they, too, intend to step down. On Thursday 18th July, LAS wrote to its members announcing an extraordinary meeting on 16th August to decide “Whether, or not, LAS should continue as a representative organisation”.
I guess the moral of this story is don’t let peevish little boys use your organisation to try and silence the voices of women they don’t like.
The Grown Ups Are In The Room
The government has published an independent report contradicting and admonishing those who push the dangerous suicide myth about so-called ‘trans children’.
This is such an important story that even the BBC reported on it.
If you’ve been keeping up to date on social media, you may be aware that Wes Streeting’s stand on the implementation of the Cass Report and the banning of puberty blockers has caused an outpouring of hyperbole and a terrible case of garment-rending from the gender zealots.
No matter how many times they’re shown it’s untrue, irresponsible and downright dangerous, they continue to push the myth that gender confused children will take their own lives if they do not have access to untested and demonstrably harmful drugs. And few have been so keen to promulgate this lie than vulpine-averse tax lawyer, Jolyon Maugham.
This week the UK government published an independent report written by Professor Louis Appleby, the University of Manchester Department of Health and Social Care adviser on suicide prevention. It blows Maugham and all those activists spouting a similar rhetoric right out of the water. It states unequivocally that the claims being made are ‘unfounded and dangerous’. It also points out that their social media discussions on the issue are ‘insensitive, distressing and dangerous’ and contravene the guidance on the safe reporting of suicide.
Professor Louis Appleby writes, “It is unfortunate that puberty-blocking drugs have come to be seen as the touchstone issue, the difference between acceptance and non-acceptance. We need to move away from this perception among patients, staff and the public.”
Within These Walls
A trans-identified male murderer has lost his bid to be housed with the general female prison population.
In 1970 Thomas Lamb was convicted of two counts of kidnapping and one count of first degree murder and he is serving three consecutive life sentences. In 2007, Lamb began calling himself Michelle Renee and applied for a legal name change. He has also undergone ‘sex reassignment surgery’ and is prescribed cross-sex hormones. On 27th January 2023 Lamb was transferred to Topeka Correctional Facility (TCF), a women’s prison in Kansas. However, he was placed in ‘restrictive housing’ and has always been separated from the general female prison population.
Lamb has been determined to be accommodated amongst the women in the prison and, last November, he filed a discrimination lawsuit against the governor and other staff members at The Topeka Correctional Facility and the Kansas Department of Corrections. Of course, he was represented in this action by the gender zealots of The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Last week, US District Judge John Lungstrum dismissed Lamb’s lawsuit. He will remain separated from the women in the prison.
Save The Date!
The Lesbian Strength march and rally is back. It will be held in Leeds on 14th September, starting at 1pm.
Lesbian Strength is a group of same-sex attracted females who know what a woman is! They organised their first march and rally in Leeds in 2019. Since then, due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances, the planned annual events were not able to go ahead. But they’re back this year and ready to make their voices heard.
For more information or to get in touch, see the Lesbian Strength website. And to book your place at the rally this year, see the Eventbrite page.
Thank you for the good news! I look forward to it every week.
And to see the fall of Wadhwa and Webberly was extra special to those of us who have been tracking this social hysteria since the early days.
Keep up the good work JL!
Mridul Wadwha. In the end, the people I trust and who I feel safe with, are those who can be self-forgetful, their naturalness and integrity comes across. This man is acting all the time. In a way I am grateful to him for helping me to see clearly something very important about sincerity, integrity, authenticity. He has none of those things. Thank you, JL.