War On Women: Monday 29th November - Sunday 12th December GOOD NEWS SUPPLEMENT

Hello lovely readers! It is my extreme pleasure to present a fortnight of good news from the gender beat.

One Battered Haddock To Go

There was no Mercy Muroki for Adrian Harrop when she reported on the outcome of his tribunal for GB News.

GB News @GBNEWS

Mercy Muroki: The public servants we fund shouldn't put their ideology before a duty to serve the public

“Dr Harrop who, until now, has been in charge of caring for the public thinks that 99.9 per cent of the public are awful people and, not only that, they need to be subjected to state-sponsored re-education… He might consider relocating to China or 1930s Germany.”

The Daily Mail pulled no punches in its long and detailed report, describing Harrop as a ‘troll GP’.

Daily Mail Online @MailOnline

Troll GP likened JK Rowling to Jimmy Savile in sick tweets

trib.alTroll GP likened JK Rowling to Jimmy Savile in sick tweetsIn a series of bizarre rambling tweets, Adrian Harrop (pictured), 31, from Liverpool, claimed the beloved children’s author ‘isn’t safe to be around children’ due to her views on gender.

See You In Court

Fair Play For Women are taking legal action over the ‘sex question’ in the forthcoming Scottish census.

FairPlayForWomen @fairplaywomen

BREAKING NEWS: Scottish ministers are ignoring the English court decision that sex means sex. We are now going to fight in the Scottish courts to defend the sex-based rights of our Scottish supporters.

fairplayforwomen.comFair Play For Women launches judicial review over sex question in Scottish Census • Fair Play For WomenThe Scottish Government must go to court to defend its decision to change the meaning of “Sex” in the Scottish Census. The unlawful Scottish guidance includes the fact that people may self-identify when answering the sex question in the census. The Office for National Statistics was ordered to take …

Be Careful What You Wish For

When Richard Dawkins expressed his admiration for Kathleen Stock’s book, Monty was falling over himself to tell tales on her.

It didn’t quite work out as he’d planned.

Nurses Warding Off Stonewall

Hundreds of nurses and midwives have signed a letter calling on the Nursing and Midwifery Council to withdraw from Stonewall’s workplace schemes.

Womans_Place_UK @Womans_Place_UK

This is the text of the letter which has now been signed by 640 nurses and midwives. The letter is open for signatures until 22nd December. Please share to ensure the widest possible audience. Thank you.

womansplaceuk.orgStonewall: Letter to Nursing and Midwifery Council - Woman’s Place UKNurses and healthcare professionals call for the NMC and the NHS to withdraw from Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme.

Last week WPUK published a letter drafted by concerned healthcare professionals urging the NMC to withdraw from Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme and Workplace Equality Index. Thus far over 640 NMC registrants have signed it.

And the story certainly seemed to be grabbing the headlines.

gendercriticalmidwife 🦕 @TheGCMidwife

Hundreds of nurses call on regulator to QUIT Stonewall scheme

dailymail.co.ukHundreds of nurses call on regulator to QUIT Stonewall schemeNearly 500 nurses and midwives have signed a petition calling for the UK’s nursing regulator to leave a scheme run by controversial charity Stonewall over concerns of women’s safety.

Scottish Express @ScotExpress

One Glasgow midwife signed the petition after being told to say 'chestfeeding'. She said: 'You do not feed a child from your chest. Your chest is a cavity. Your breast is an entirely different organ.' @Womans_Place_UK @sexnotgenderNM https://t.co/G0hZ8An5vc

Sex Not Gender Nurses and Midwives @sexnotgenderNM

Comment from @stonewalluk “It is disgraceful that these groups continue to misrepresent our Diversity Champions programme” Nurses and midwives are not pressure groups. They are professionals with concerns. To dismiss them is irresponsible.

thetimes.co.ukNurses demand exit from Stonewall diversity schemeHundreds of nurses have called on their regulatory body to withdraw from a diversity scheme run by Stonewall, warning that affiliation with the charity risk

Womans_Place_UK @Womans_Place_UK

More coverage of letter organised by nurses and midwives calling on NMC to withdraw from Stonewall schemes personneltoday.com/hr/nurses-urge… Please see next tweet for link to letter 1/3

personneltoday.comNurses urge regulator to pull out of Stonewall diversity scheme<div class=“at-above-post addthis_tool” data-url=“https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/nurses-urge-regulator-to-pull-out-of-stonewall-diversity-scheme/”></div>Nurses have urged their regulator, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), to pull out of Stonewall’s diversity scheme and index, citing fears …

(If you are a current, retired or pre-registration student nurse of midwife you can add your name to this letter here.)

Power To The People

The period of public consultation on proposed conversion therapy legislation is to be extended until 4th February 2022.

TransgenderTrend @Transgendertrd

The government has listened & has done the right thing. Such complex issues should never be rushed. Deadline for the consultation is now Feb 4th.

thetimes.co.ukGovernment to extend consultation on conversion therapyThe government is extending its consultation on banning conversion therapy by eight weeks following threats of a legal challenge.Ministers are expected to annou

Thanks to the sterling work of campaigners such as Fair Play For Women, Sex Matters and Transgender Trend, the government has announced that the deadline for public responses is to be extended by a further 8 weeks.

FairPlayForWomen @fairplaywomen

BREAKING NEWS: Government forced to extend public consultation on conversion therapy after Fair Play For Women threatens legal action /1

fairplayforwomen.comGovernment forced to extend public consultation on conversion therapy after Fair Play For Women threatens legal action. • Fair Play For Wom…Fair Play For Women threatens legal action if the deadline for public responses was not extended. Today, the Government has conceded and will extended by a further 8 weeks, more than doubling the consultation period to 14 weeks.

Another example of how speaking up can get things done:

Domestic Abuse Commissioner @CommissionerDA

We want to hear from all #DomesticAbuse survivors so we can understand whether all victims needs are met by services. That is key to our mapping We have listened to feedback from survivors + our office has amended survey to explicitly inc biological sex

bit.lySurvey about domestic abuse servicesPlease take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

UCL Academics Say No To Stonewall

The Academic Board of University College London has voted against re-joining Stonewall’s schemes by a considerable margin. Their views will have to be taken into consideration when the final decision is taken.

Professor Alice Sullivan @ProfAliceS

UCL Academic Board (of which all UCL professors are members) has voted decisively against re-joining Stonewall schemes. The decision ultimately lies with Management and Council, but they will have to take on board the clear view of Academic Board.

Meet The Gender Giraffe

Genspect have created a brilliant new initiative to counteract the nonsense being peddled to school children. Unlike the genderbread persons and unicorns, the gender giraffe teaches FACTS.

Genspect @genspect

DRUMROLL… You’ve already met the Gender Unicorn, the Genderbread Person and the Respectful Reindeer. These images are used to teach Gender Identity Theory to kids. We want to give teachers a less ideological alternative… so we’d like to introduce you to THE GENDER GIRAFFES!

The GOAT in LA

Dave Chappelle is to perform at a Netflix comedy festival next year.

New York Post @nypost

Netflix announces stand-up comedy festival, including Dave Chappelle trib.al/g7MmSm3

The eleven-day Netflix Is A Joke festival is to be held in Los Angeles in April and May next year and will include 130 comedians. Dave Chappelle will be headlining.

And Finally…

The College Fix @CollegeFix

The College Fix’s higher education cartoon of the week #UPennSwimmer thecollegefix.com/the-college-fi… via @CollegeFix

thecollegefix.comThe College Fix’s higher education cartoon of the week #UPennSwimmer | The College FixThe College Fix’s higher education cartoon of the week (12/10/21).