The Good News Supplement: Monday 2nd September - Sunday 8th September
A bumper edition bursting at the seams with good news from the gender beat this week. Enjoy!
Keeping children safe….Imagine!
The Department for Education (DfE) has published its new statutory safeguarding guidance for schools and colleges, Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE). The section on supporting children who are struggling with gender issues is now in line with the Cass Review’s recommendations.
Sex Matters reported on these new government safeguarding guidelines and their closing of a Stonewall-influenced loophole.
The guidelines state that schools must ensure all staff are aware of issues which can put children at risk of harm and that they should be trained to spot and report indicators of abuse, neglect, exploitation and mental-health problems. The previous version of the KCSIE guidance said that there were no potential harms to a child who has a trans identity.
The new version says, “Caution is necessary for children questioning their gender as there remain many unknowns about the impact of social transition and children may well have wider vulnerabilities, including having complex mental health and psychosocial needs, and in some cases additional diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and/or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.”
In similar news, Stonewall sneaked an important decision past us a few months ago. It issued a statement that there will be no new memberships on its School and Champions programme. “Following a strategic review, we’ve taken the decision to stop offering new memberships of our School and College Champions programme.”
Good.
Leaving Them Kids Alone in Scotland
At last some good news from Scotland this week; plans to ban so-called ‘conversion therapy’ for people suffering with gender dysphoria have been scrapped.
Controversial plans to outlaw ‘conversion therapy’ intended to ‘change or suppress’ someone’s ‘gender identity’ have been abandoned by the Scottish government.
As Marion Calder of For Women Scotland so rightly says, parents will be breathing a sigh of relief at this news.
Reem Rallies For Sall
Reem Alsalem, human rights expert and the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, has spoken out against the Tickle v Giggle judgement.
In a statement made this week, Reem Asalem said:
“I am gravely concerned over the decision of the Federal Court of Australia in the case of Roxanne Tickle v. Giggle for Girls Pty Ltd and Sally Grover, which ruled that the exclusion of a male who identifies as a woman and is recognized as a female under the law from a female-only social media platform constitutes unjustified indirect discrimination.
The ruling demonstrates the concrete consequences that result when gender identity is allowed to supplant sex - and override women’s rights to female-only services and spaces…
I hope that if the case moves to the appeal stage, all parties would consider applicable international laws and their obligations, as well as the circumstances in which exceptions can be applied.”
Eli in the Soup
The trans activist who attacked Kellie Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker) in Auckland last year has been convicted this week.
35-year-old Eliana Golberstein (formerly known as Eli Rubashkyn) faced two charges of assault after throwing tomato soup at KJK in Albert Park, Auckland, in March 2023.
He originally pleaded not guilty and tried to have the charges dismissed. That didn’t work out too well for him and in November last year his application was rejected.
In June he pleaded guilty to two common assault charges but requested a discharge without conviction. Judge Lummis was not persuaded. She told the court that the seriousness of Golberstein’s offence was elevated because it was a “Well thought out premeditated assault”. Golberstein was convicted.
The Good Laugh Project
The hapless Good Law Project has decided to ‘shift focus’ and is giving up trying to enforce gender ideology through the courts.
Founded by vulpine-averse tax barrister, Jolyon Maugham, in 2017, the Good Law Project has hitched its wagon to a number of trans-related cases. The vast majority of them have been gloriously unsuccessful. This week it contacted its subscribers to say that it will be ‘focusing its legal campaigns elsewhere’. (Huge thanks to Bob Hamstead for this information.)
People Power
Splendid news from @mjeslfc this week; her 13-year-old daughter has persuaded her school to replace its ‘gender neutral’ toilets with single sex facilities.
Last year, this amazing woman’s amazing daughter started a petition trying to ensure single-sex toilet facilities in all public buildings, including schools. She and her mother then had a face-to-face meeting with the head of her own school to discuss its installation of mixed sexed toilets.
This week, the teenager has returned to school to find that the single sex facilities have been restored. Huge congratulations to mother and daughter alike. It just shows what a bit of people power can do. Never stop fighting.
And, as @mjeslfc says, “Raise girls to say NO. Raise them to fight for their boundaries!”
News From Auntie
The BBC is gathering evidence for a review of ‘portrayal and representation’ which includes sex and gender.
If you consider yourself a stakeholder (detransitioners, lawyers, NHS staff, trans widows etc etc) and have concerns you’d like to raise with Auntie Beeb, contact Seen in Journalism at seeninjournalism@gmail.com for more information.
Glinner Of Hope
Our Graham is taking his stand up act on tour in Ireland with Comedy Unleashed this week.
He’ll be performing in Lucan on Wednesday 11th, Dalkey on Thursday 12th, Newlands Cross on Friday 13th and Irishtown at lunchtime on Saturday 14th. He’ll also be interviewed by Andrew Doyle after the Saturday gig.
For tickets and more info, please see the Comedy Unleashed website.
And don’t forget that Graham’s memoir, Tough Crowd, is still available from Amazon, The Express shop, Lightning Eye, Waterstones, Blackwells and all other discerning outlets. (There are also audio versions available on Audible and Spotify too.)
And Finally…
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It makes me so bloody angry that a 13 year old girl had to use her spare time to petition for something like girls toilets which she should always have had the right to. What an incredible girl! If I was her mother I'd now be suing the school for having put her daughter and the rest of these teenage girls in distress. It feels like some vile vendetta against women. Taking away our rights meaning we are distracted from normal life by having to fight back for what should never have been taken away in the first place. What shocks me more is how many mentally deranged people are out in our society. I truly struggle to understand anyone who goes along with this nonsense. Get a backbone or get some therapy.
An excellent edition! Do you think we have turned the corner?