The Good News Supplement: Monday 4th March - Sunday 10th March

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Another jam-packed edition of good news from the gender beat this week. Enjoy!

Sunlight Is Pouring In

Without doubt the biggest news of the week is the scandal of the WPATH files.

As Malcolm Clark writes, WPATH, the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, “Is little more than a pressure group made up of a mixture of saucer-eyed trans activists and self-professed experts”. And yet it has played a hugely influential role in the world-wide spread of so-called ‘gender affirming healthcare’, particularly in the medicalisation of vulnerable, gender confused children.

“That’s why this week’s release of leaked discussions between some of its leading figures suggesting possible medical malpractice could prove a pivotal moment in the Gender Wars.”

This week, thanks to months of hard work by researcher and writer, Mia Hughes, the WPATH Files were finally made public by journalist, Michael Shellenberger, of the campaign group, Environmental Progress.

The leaked documents are from WPATH’s own private message forum and a video recording of an internal panel discussion. As Stella O’Malley says, “The WPATH Files reveal that clinicians are carrying out medical malpractice. Great harm is being caused and the WPATH clinicians know this.”

Although some of the stories involved are absolutely heart-breaking, the leaking of these files must, overall, be good news. Because, according to Michael Shellenberger, they, “Prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical”. The entire house of cards must surely be about to come tumbling down.

Indeed, the fall-out has started already. The Align Surgical gender clinic in San Francisco, for example, has removed the ‘non-binary’ surgeries, ‘phallus-preserving vaginoplasty’, ‘vagina-preserving phalloplasty’ and ‘nullification’, from the list of available genital surgeries on its website.

Meanwhile, in the UK, the rats are scrabbling to get off the sinking ship with the NHS frantically trying to distance itself from WPATH policies.

Could this be the beginning of the end?

Mum’s The Word

The Irish government has suffered a humiliating defeat over its attempt to erase mothers from the Irish Constitution.

The Irish government proposed to alter certain clauses in the Irish Constitution which would have effectively erased women from key texts concerning the family and caring roles, removing the rights and status of mothers. But voting in the twin referenda was a resounding “NO” in both cases.

The final results showed that 73.93% of people voted NO in the care amendment, the one which specifically concerned the role of women and mothers in the home, making it clear that mammies won’t wheesht.

SEEN and Not Herd

Another Sex Equality & Equity Network group has formed, joining the ever-burgeoning line up; @seen_network, for Civil Service staff, @PoliceSEENUK, for serving police officers and police staff, and @SEENCityNetwork, for those who work in the financial services.

@SeenStem is a group for sex realists working within Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, and Medicine. If you’d like to get in touch, drop them a line at: SeenInStem@gmail.com.

NZFSU Not Letting It Lie

The New Zealand Free Speech Union is considering an appeal after the Auckland ‘Granny Basher’ walked free from court.

This week we reported on the young thug who punched a 71-year-old woman in the face at the SFW event in Auckland last year. He walked away from court with no conviction and no record and with total anonymity.

Jonathan Ayling, CEO of the NZFSU, said, “Little promotes the use of violence more than impunity… Victims deserve to be able to share their story. Name suppression gags victims and is salt in a very raw wound. Tens of thousands of Kiwis signed the Free Speech Union’s public letter to the police following last year’s incident, claiming the police failed in their role. This latest insult adds to injury (literally). The Free Speech Union is taking legal advice and considering appealing the decision to suppress Kiwis' right to speak about this crime.”

And we certainly hope it does.

Heroine Chic

There was a great article in The Daily Mail this week, cheering on “The women who refuse to be silenced”.

Some of the heroines ‘fighting back’ against gender ideology - such as Karen Ingala Smith, Helen Joyce, Fiona Mcanena, Emma Bateman, Cathy Larkman, Sonya Douglas, Sally Wainwright, Maya Forstater and Heather Binning - were featured in this article by the brilliant Rosie Duffield and Jill Foster.

“Today, we are asking women everywhere to help us stand up for the most vulnerable women and girls… Join our irrepressible army of women and let’s stand together with a common goal. They can threaten us, ghost us, cancel us. But we will march on.”

They See Her Rowling…

Yet again, JK Rowling has demonstrated why she is an absolute queen.

At the beginning of the week, as part of a much longer thread discussing women’s single-sex spaces, JK Rowling replied to a tweet about India Willoughby being a woman. She wrote, quite accurately, “India didn’t become a woman. India is cosplaying a misogynistic male fantasy of what a woman is”.

Willoughby, of course, was enraged that JK Rowling would not kowtow to his special gender feelz and raved constantly about being ‘misgendered’.

In an interview with Byline TV, he boasted that he had reported JK Rowling to the Northumbria Police for the ‘crime’ of ‘misgendering’ him, claiming that she was in breach of the Equalities [sic] Act.

“JK Rowling has definitely committed a crime”, he decided. “It’s a cut-and-dry offence as far as I’m concerned.” Not as far as anyone else was concerned, however.

When Byline posted about this interview on social media, Willoughby got well and truly community noted…

And (metaphorically!) skewered by the comments…

And ‘misgendered’ (twice!) by the guy who interviewed him…

And Northumbria Police advised Willoughby that they will not be taking any action against JK Rowling.

And JK Rowling (metaphorically!) eviscerated him in a searing 5-tweet thread.

“Some time ago, lawyers advised me that not only did I have a clearly winnable case against India Willoughby for defamation, but that India’s obsessive targeting of me over the past few years may meet the legal threshold for harassment.

I ignored this advice because I couldn’t be bothered giving India the publicity he so clearly craves. Nevertheless, we must all do our bit to combat hate, so India will be glad to know I’ve taken note of his homophobia, racism and humane stance on immigration.

Nor have I forgotten India’s shocking transphobia. It appears to have slipped what passes for India’s mind that he’s previously called a fellow trans woman a man on this very site.

Surprisingly for such an eminent legal authority, he appears to have forgotten that the Forstater ruling established that gender-critical views can be protected in law as a philosophical belief. No law compels anyone to pretend to believe that India is a woman.

Aware as I am that it’s an offence to lie to law enforcement, I’ll simply have to explain to the police that, in my view, India is a classic example of the male narcissist who lives in a state of perpetual rage that he can’t compel women to take him at his own valuation.”

Game, set and match to The Queen.

Glinner Of Hope

Don’t miss Our Graham’s interview with Amy Gallagher on the New Culture Forum which was uploaded to YouTube this week.

And if you missed it, do listen to Graham on blistering form in this January interview with RTÉ.

If you’re in New Zealand, there’s still just time to grab a ticket for Graham’s events in Wellington and Christchuch. (Be quick - only a few tickets left!) More details etc here.

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…