[3 November 2024]

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NEWS

Wes Streeting pledges to ‘deal with’ trans people after meeting with far-right backed group [Times]

  • As you will know from last week’s Trans Agenda, Wes Streeting had a lengthy meeting with some NHS nurses who are campaigning to discriminate against a trans colleague. Now, some details of what was said at that meeting have emerged. Streeting, during the meeting with the small group, who have dubbed themselves “the Darlington Five,” (as if they’ve been framed by the UK government for a terrorist attack rather than working hand-in-hand with the government to terrorise) expressed that “something has gone wrong in our society” regarding trans access to women’s spaces.

    He confirmed his belief that “sex is biological” and agreed that the “importance of single-sex spaces” has not been “taken seriously enough.” The nurses are suing their NHS trust after a trans colleague, whom they name, was allowed to use a women’s changing room, as is her legal right. Streeting concluded the meeting by saying, “We’ve got to deal with this.”

    See the Paper Review (Monday) for the Times coverage of the meeting that doesn’t mention that the nurses are supported by far-right Christian National groups CitizenGo and Christian Concern in this campaign.

NHS rewriting training guidance regarding trans people and toilets [Daily Mail]

  • As the Daily Mail raged about NHS guidance for staff that said they can’t discriminate against trans people using the toilet, a paragraph at the end of the article read, “Last night an NHS spokesman said: ‘This guidance is out of date and has already been removed as new training is being developed.’” Given the direction of travel for the NHS, this is unlikely to result in more inclusive guidance. See the Paper Review (Monday) for the Mail article.

Rape centre breaks away from charity in row over trans-inclusive policy [Pink News]

  • A rape crisis centre in Glasgow, Scotland, has split from the umbrella charity Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) due to a ‘disagreement’ over single-sex spaces.

    Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis (GCRC) announced its departure, stating its commitment to providing “single-sex services delivered by an all-female workforce,” which it acknowledged was “at odds with RCS” [and the Equality Act]. The decision follows a confected controversy involving Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, where a tribunal ruled in favour of gender critical Roz Adams. Mridul Wadhwa, the centre’s chief executive, resigned after the ruling amid relentless harassment and abuse that has lasted years.

    JK Rowling, of course, praised GCRC’s move.

Tavistock and Portman Trust forced to seek merger [Times]

  • The Tavistock and Portman Trust, which managed the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) in London, announced it is seeking a merger to stay financially viable after years of losses. The trust recorded a deficit of almost £2.5 million last year, with an underlying deficit of £6.2 million.

    Gids, the largest gender clinic for children and adolescents, closed in March after a sustained attack from the GC cult and their propagandists in the media. While some have linked the financial troubles to the fallout from Gids, trust executives deny this, pointing instead to broader financial difficulties. The trust is exploring a merger with the Central and North West London Foundation Trust to address these issues. See the full report from The Times in the Paper review (Thursday)

Lords debate trans people in sport because they can’t always tell [Hansard]

  • The debate, which I flagged in last week’s Trans Agenda, on “Gender in Olympic and Paralympic competition” delivered exactly what you would expect from peers you could name without looking as the usual propagandists voiced “concerns” about the inclusion of trans women.

    Notable figures opposing the participation of trans individuals included JK Rowling’s bestie, Baroness Nicholson, Baroness Fox, and Lord Moylan.

    They argued that allowing trans women into female categories undermines fair competition and women’s sports but, of course, have nothing to back this up beyond their icky feels. The conversation centred on ‘concerns’ about physiological differences and the potential for perceived unfair advantages. Perceived.

    This debate enraged sports journalist Laura Woods because it didn’t highlight ‘data’, collected by an anti-trans group, that was submitted by members of the public [see Paper Review Thursday].

Queen Mum ‘didn’t bat eyelid’ over trans doctor [Mail on Sunday]

  • The Queen Mother reacted supportively when her hip surgeon, Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, transitioned. The Mail on Sunday [see Paper Review below] details how Ms Muirhead-Allwood operated on the Queen Mother in 1995, and again in 1998 after beginning her transition.

    Former ballet dancer Wayne Sleep revealed that the Queen Mother simply asked, “What do I call you now, dear?” and accepted the response with grace, showing no surprise. Sleep praised the Queen Mother for her warm, flamboyant personality, describing her love for “feathers and bling” in his memoir launch.

Alison Moyet follows a lot of anti-trans activists for someone who says she isn’t anti-trans [source]

  • Bev Jackson, FairPlayForWomen, Sarah Phillimore, Reem Alsalem, Frances Barber, Dr. Jane Cassandra Jones, Hadley Freeman, Victoria Smith, Jean Hatchet, Helen Staniland, TheFamousArtistBirdyRose, Rachel Rooney, James Dreyfus, Julie Bindel, Suzanne Moore, Maya Forstater, and Kathleen Stock all appear on the first three pages alone. I stopped looking after that.

    I’ve been a massive Moyet fan for as long as I can remember, even defending her a number of years ago when it looked like she was being misrepresented. I can no longer do that. Moyet can continue to attempt to walk a fine line without revealing her true opinion for fear of the damage it would undoubtedly do to what’s left of her career, but it’s hard to deny there’s a serious problem here.

German self-id comes in to effect [Human Rights Watch]

  • Germany‘s parliament passed the landmark law on 12 April 2024 allowing transgender and non-binary people to modify their legal documents through a simple administrative procedure based on self-identification, without requiring medical certificates or expert opinions. It came into effect on Friday.

    This reform replaces the outdated 1980 Transsexuals Law, which imposed invasive requirements on trans people.

    Anti-trans activists, including Helen Joyce, protested in Berlin. Nobody cared.

World loses a huge trans right’s ally

  • The news came early on Saturday morning as cancer finally took Janey Godley.

This statement from Mammies for Trans Rights summed up how many of us felt: “We find it difficult to put into words the impact of the passing of Janey Godley. We are thinking of her family and friends and also of the individual sadness of each person who found joy, support and love in her comedy and constant solidarity with trans people.

“We didn’t know her. Some of us attended her gigs, some read her posts but all loved her from afar. We can’t say what she was really like; but we can say how she made us feel. In a society full of misdirected hate and prejudice towards trans people, Janey made it all make sense. She made us feel represented. She made us feel strong. She made our allyship feel impactful.

“We will never know how many people she helped with her words of wisdom and joy. We will never know how many trans people’s journeys were made easier because a famous comedian cared, fearlessly, for trans people. We will remember her as an inspirational tower of strength.

“Although we didn’t know Janey, there was never any doubt that she was an incredible Mammy for Trans Rights.

“Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine”
(“People live in each other’s shadows.”)

Metro – How Janey Godley became one of the most iconic transphobe-fighters of a generation

MEDIA

‘Cult’ members jailed over coroner kidnap plot as BBC hides anti-trans motives [BBC]

  • The BBC has reported on the sentencing of four members of an anti-establishment cult who were convicted for trying to kidnap a coroner but failed to mention the group’s key anti-trans motivation. The article details how the group, led by Mark Christopher, stormed the Essex Coroner’s Court, accusing the senior coroner, Lincoln Brookes, of “interfering with the dead.”

    Christopher was jailed for seven years, while accomplices Sean and Shiza Harper, along with Matthew Martin, received 30-month sentences.

    The group, known as the “Federal Postal Court,” believed they could override the judicial system, relying on pseudo-legal concepts and claiming to possess self-conferred legal powers. The court heard that Christopher, acting as the group’s leader, manipulated vulnerable individuals, including Sean and Shiza Harper, whom he coerced into paying tens of thousands for dubious online courses.

    Notably, the BBC omits a key aspect of the case. The group’s motivations included allegations against Mr Brookes for his handling of cases involving people who had undergone gender reassignment, which they viewed as “crimes.”

    This significant detail is missing from the report rather than highlighted prominently, which obscures the ideological motivations of the group. I suspect that is the point. The focus instead remains on their broader anti-establishment stance and use of pseudo-legal practices.

    You can see the “fake death warrant the group issued regarding the Essex coroner, directly claiming linking the coroner to supposed child mutilation relating to gender reassignment, authorising a “death sentence” for the targeted victim,” here thanks to Mallory Moore.

    In their coverage, the Telegraph gave the story three pages yet never mentioned the word ‘trans ‘ or ‘gender’ once.

The middle-class cult that tried to topple the legal system Convinced ‘Nazis’ were out to ‘mutilate’ children, a self-styled judge and his accolytes tried to take the law into their own hands in Essex. The Daily Telegraph30 Oct 2024Adam Luck reports Nestled in a quiet street lies an imposing double-fronted Victorian house that seems an unlikely nexus for a resolutely middle-class cult convinced the “country is going to be taken over by Nazis”. But this is the London home of self-styled “chief judge” Mark Christopher, who this week was jailed for seven years after storming a court to kidnap a senior coroner for “interfering with the dead”. Christopher, 59, alongside former police officer Shiza Harper, her husband Sean Harper, and Matthew Martin, marched into Essex coroner’s court in Chelmsford, threatening to mete out “corporal punishment”. Their target was Lincoln Brookes and when they realised he was not present, they then threatened coroner Michelle Brown, before the police were alerted. The incident and fast unfolding investigation initially sparked additional concerns for the police because of the pending coronation of King Charles. Martin, 47, from Plaistow, east London, was arrested at the scene in April 2023, but Christopher, along with Shiza Harper, 45, and Sean Harper, 38, both from South Benfleet, Essex, were later arrested in Southend. All four, who were sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday, were part of a bizarre “anti-establishment cult” that claimed “non-existent powers” to usurp the legal system, said Mr Justice Goss. The judge said that Christopher, a convicted fraudster, was “intelligent, persuasive, manipulative and dishonest” and “preyed on the vulnerabilities of others”. Christopher is believed to have gained hundreds of followers across the world since he created his “Federal Postal Court” or “Court of the People”, which, he admits, is modelled on American cult leader David Wynn Miller. As well as claiming that he had died during surgery before a miracle recovery, Miller developed “Quantum Grammar”, which he said was the only true legal language. Miller, who died in 2018, was part of the “sovereign citizen movement”, which includes anti-government activists and conspiracy theorists. It has a long record of financial scams. Christopher’s website, which went live during the pandemic, offers followers the chance to “eliminate your mortgages and debts” – for a price. His online university enables students “to overcome the tricks and traps of courts, governments and corporations” and “the investment of this life-changing training is £7,449”. Christopher states that he has jurisdiction over “any governments, courts and corporations”. His rambling videos can be found on YouTube and the darker recesses of the web, not least Rumble, the platform that hosts Russell Brand and is popular among the American far-Right. In one video, Christopher claimed to have been the template for Dwayne Johnson’s portrayal of an ancient superhuman in the Hollywood blockbuster Black Adam. Christopher also boasts that he “reversed” a fatal disease and that for £7.44 you can download his Kindle book on how to reverse diabetes, cancer, heart disease and auto-immune dysfunction. Although Christopher styles himself as “Global Chief Federal Post Court Judge & Plenipotentiary Judge” his origins are murky, although a purported passport states that he was born in Singapore in 1965. A neighbour of his in London, who did not want to be named, said that Christopher had been living in the ground floor flat with his partner for a “long time” but was aware that he had been in jail on remand. She said: “We used to see him riding around on his bike. He was a nice neighbour, and we were fond of him. He used to do my garden, and we never had any problems with him. He did not have many visitors and kept a quiet profile. He never went into detail about what he did for a living but it was law-related stuff. Going after bad guys. He had conspiracy theories about companies doing illegal stuff.” But the court heard a different story, with Allister Walker, for the prosecution, stating that Christopher was “motivated by power and greed” and had “cult-like influence and control” over his followers. He had appointed Martin as “sheriff and coroner” and Sean Harper was also a sheriff, with his wife Shiza “a postal inspector”. The Martin said he had been acting to tackle ‘child trafficking’ with the King’s approval group believed they were “entitled to enter any building… and to perform audits”. The court was told that Lincoln Brookes began receiving a series of threatening letters couched in legal language from the group in 2022, but in 2023 they took a more “personal and direct” tone. Christopher told the group that they were doing this because “their country is going to be taken over by Nazis [who] think they can … mutilate your children for surgery” and they must “whack them to death”. The quartet, the court heard, then drove in two separate cars, both displaying the quasi-legal emblem of their organisation, armed with handcuffs and a photo of Mr Brookes, with the intention to shut the court down and detain the coroner. Only a last-minute family matter had prevented Brookes from being confronted by the group and in a statement to the court, he said that he felt “haunted” by the incident and was in trauma therapy. When his colleague Michelle Brown called him to warn him, Brookes had to pull over and now frequently has “nightmares about the incident”, which meant he “can never feel fully safe”. Brown said her life had “changed forever” and that she “was extremely scared and feared for my safety”. Narita Bahra KC, representing the Harpers, said that they were in Christopher’s “thrall” and were now on a “trajectory of awakening”. They had been “pressured” to pay more than £30,000 in fees for online courses run by Christopher, including his mortgage elimination scheme. But Justice Goss said that they “remain committed to him and his status”. Martin said that he had been acting to tackle “state child trafficking” with the King’s approval and apologised for the effect he had on the two coroners. All four were convicted of conspiracy to kidnap and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. Christopher was also found guilty of sending a letter or email with intent to cause distress or anxiety. Det Chief Insp Nathan Hutchinson said that Christopher was “very good at manipulating people – people with debts, people with problems have come to him; they’ve signed up to his online courses and believed that everything he was doing was legal”. He added that investigators “had the challenge of cutting through this group’s ludicrous beliefs in order to identify the motive… and identify any wider threats, especially given concern about the King’s approaching coronation”. Graham Baldwin, an expert in cults and psychological manipulation, said: “These seem intelligent, middle-class people. What marks people out with these groups is that they are often desperate, vulnerable or have problems in their lives and these groups give them a sense of belonging and purpose. They are not marked by low intelligence but often people who are well educated, very often middle-class, and looking for some significance in their lives. This makes them vulnerable to exploitation.” But Christopher is likely to hail his sentence as proof positive of his plenipotentiary powers. Remarkably, on his website, he notes: “Any persons wanting to hide their criminality… will be prosecuted and sentenced to a minimum of seven years.” It would appear his prediction has come to pass. Article Name:The middle-class cult that tried to topple the legal system Publication:The Daily Telegraph Author:Adam Luck reports Start Page:2 End Page:2

Times don’t care about cis children’s genitals

  • The papers I monitor like to spend a lot of time talking about the genitals of trans kids, despite there being no evidence for what they claim is happening to them. When doctors *actually* mutilate children’s genitals, this is all the space they get in papers like the Times:
Circumcision cruelty A former doctor has admitted causing “painful cruelty to children” by running a UK-wide mobile circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, pleaded guilty at Southwark crown court to 25 charges including 12 of actual bodily harm between June 2012 and November 2013. He will be sentenced on January 14, 2025.

Badenoch attacks Labour on trans issues [Daily Mail]

  • The Daily Mail gave Kemi Badenoch a page in their Monday edition to play a game of “every accusation a confession” and she used it to attack Labour for being ‘driven only by ideological fervour’ which is quite the charge coming from an MP who could be described as one of the most ideologically driven in Parliament.

    Badenoch writes about transgender issues, criticising “activist campaign groups” pushing “radical information” in schools (no, she doesn’t mean the likes of Sex Matters), specifically mentioning instances where girls were told they “had to let boys into the girls’ changing rooms” and that children questioning their gender were taught that they could change. She also discusses how the Conservatives, under her role as Minister for Equalities, published new guidance on relationship and sex education, ensuring transparency for parents and curtailing politicised content related to gender identity, when what she is actually talking about is simply acknowledging that trans people exist.

    Labour is driven only by ideological fervour — it has no vision By Kemi Badenoch Daily Mail28 Oct 2024SHADOW HOUSING SECRETARY IF YOU want to predict a nation’s future, take a look at what the Department for Education is doing. The seeds of a country’s success or failure are sown many years before their effect becomes clear, and the principles underlying a government’s education policy often tell you more about what it is trying to achieve than the pronouncements it makes about the economy. It’s why I’m worried. You should be too. This Labour government doesn’t appear to have any underlying philosophy for education. Imposing VAT on private schools is a tax on aspiration. Labour is doing it even though it knows it will force some private schools to close, leading to overcrowded classes in state schools and leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab. It’s the politics of envy and it won’t raise a penny. Meanwhile, abolishing Ofsted ratings is against the principle of personal responsibility and the concept of parental choice in education, which is something Conservatives champion. Labour’s claims that Ofsted ratings don’t work for parents is simply not true. Scrapping the ratings has been a long-standing request of the teaching unions, not parents. One of the things the Tories got right in education was opening new free schools and academies, giving choice to parents and empowering headteachers. The Michaela Community School in Wembley serves one of the most deprived areas in London, yet 50 per cent of their grades in this year’s GCSEs were 9s, compared to 5 per cent in the country overall. Far from championing free schools like this and maintaining freedom of choice, Labour has already signalled it wants to reduce its number (another union demand). Running the Education Department requires a keen interest in what works, starting from first principles. In Bridget Phillipson we have an Education Secretary who appears to have no intellectual curiosity whatsoever, just ideological fervour. Ms Phillipson has already scrapped the Model History Curriculum, which Conservatives spent two years developing to counter the spread of divisive educational material following the Black Lives Matter protests. Our new history curriculum was based on the principles of belonging and pride in one’s country, intended to show children, whatever their ancestry, a positive story of how Britain came to be and their place in it. In contrast, the academic appointed by Ms Phillipson to review the entire curriculum is so out of touch with reality she thinks setting children by ability is ‘symbolic violence’. This is student politics that has no place in education. Labour don’t believe in free speech principles. It’s cancelled the Free Speech Act, designed to protect academic freedom in our universities. There is a culture of intolerance muzzling students as well as lecturers in academia – but Labour simply don’t care. But we Conservatives also have to recognise we didn’t get everything right. Our plans for relationship education opened up our schools to activist campaign groups pushing radical information about sex, race and gender, teaching contested political ideas as if they were facts. We allowed too many schools to teach white children that they should carry innate guilt for things done a century ago, that they had to let boys into the girls’ changing rooms, or that girls struggling with puberty could become a boy. Not in every school, but in too many. These all happened on our watch, if not with our consent. I was one of the first ministers to realise what was happening. In October 2020, I told Parliament that critical race theory had no place in our schools. That teachers shouldn’t be teaching a divisive ideology that sees my blackness as victimhood and their whiteness as oppression. That our curriculum does not need to be decolonised. As the Minister for Equalities, I ensured we published new guidance on relationship and sex education and on children questioning their gender. Guidance that gave parents full sight of what was being taught to their children – and banning age inappropriate or politicised content. Labour is still refusing to say whether it is keeping it. When it comes to the future, as Conservatives we need to talk more about young people. EDUCATION is one of the things that provides the inspiration that young people need to build a better future for our country. We have to give them that inspiration. When we were in power, we talked endlessly about how we were going to crack down on pointless degrees and create more apprenticeships – but we never did. We talked Right and governed Left. Now Labour is talking about raising tuition fees again, piling even more debt on young people. These are the young people who got put in lockdown, while being told that politicians were having parties. These are the young people who were told their planet is going to burn. They’ve got tens of thousands of pounds of student debt, can’t buy a house and worry they’re never going to get a good job. Of course, they’re not voting for us. Of course, they’re angry. When did the Conservatives stop being the party of hope? We need to change that. From education policy to the way we communicate, the Conservative Party needs to go back to our principles and renew our offer. Aspiration. Truth. Personal responsibility. Choice. And most importantly: hope. I’m offering hope, not just more of the same. Article Name:Labour is driven only by ideological fervour — it has no vision Publication:Daily Mail Author:SHADOW HOUSING SECRETARY Start Page:6 End Page:6

The BBC has updated its style guide to instruct its journalists to refer to Elon Musk’s social media platform simply as X, whereas previously the advice was to use a construction such as “X, formerly known as Twitter”. [BBC]

Ofcom fines GB News £100,000 after ‘serious and repeated’ impartiality breaches [Press Gazette]

  • Ofcom have fined GB News £100,000 for “serious and repeated” breaches of impartiality rules, citing an episode where Rishi Sunak was given a “mostly uncontested platform.” GB News is challenging the ruling in court, arguing the sanction is “unnecessary, unfair, and unlawful.” Ofcom will not enforce the fine pending the judicial review’s outcome. GB News was ordered to broadcast Ofcom’s findings.

    This is the 12th breach Ofcom has found against GB News since March 2023.

     

If an irrational fear of men overwhelms feminism, I’m afraid the battle’s already lost Camilla Long
Camilla Long will be back in The Times next week to tell us how trans women are just men in dresses and we should all be terrified of them🤪

WHAT’S ON IN PARLIAMENT

Select business. Full House business can be viewed here.

Tuesday 5 November

  • 🚨 House of Lords, 2.30pm, oral questions, anti-trans Baroness Fox, “Ensuring accurate and consistent data on sex and gender are collected from future Census questions to ensure robust official data” 🚨 More here.
  • House of Lords, short debate, “Assessment made of the threat from Hezbollah to the UK”. More here.

Wednesday 6 November

  • House of Commons, 12pm: Prime Minister’s Question Time. First one for Kemi Badenoch as the new Tory leader
  • Committees, 2pm private, 2.20pm public, “ Tackling non-consensual intimate image abuse – Oral evidence”. More here.

Parliament is in recess from 7 November until 11 November.

THIS WEEK

November is Trans Awareness Month

Tuesday, 5 November

  • US Presidential Election
  • Guy Fawkes Day (UK)

Wednesday, 6 November

  • US Supreme Court hears Facebook case over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Friday, 8 November

  • Reform UK conference in Wales

Saturday, 9 November

  • Reform UK conference in Exeter

Sunday, 10 November

  • Remembrance Sunday

ANY OTHER BUSINESS

Tory leadership contest finally ends

  • Kemi Badenoch defeated Robert Jenrick in the Tory leadership campaign with a record low number of votes. There is zero chance she lasts five years until the next general election.

Cambridge University agrees to rejoins Stonewall diversity scheme, apology requested [source]

  • In the document linked above, the Cambridge University Pro-Vice-Chancellor highlighted that the university’s withdrawal in 2020 was partly due to a need for financial savings, but was also based on criticisms of Stonewall, most of which were unfounded and whipped up by anti-trans activists and their propagandists in the media. Unsurprisingly, the majority of those consulted within the LGBTQ+ community on campus supported re-joining. The Council agreed that re-joining could help implement actions from the “Being LGBTQ+ in Cambridge” review. Members also requested an apology be issued to the LGBTQ+ community for how the previous withdrawal was handled.

    The vote to rejoin was approved by a majority vote.

“We can always tell” [Telegraph]

  • A cis woman was mistakenly sent to HMP Perth, a male maximum-security prison, because she had “masculine features,” rather than being transferred to Cornton Vale, Scotland’s only women’s facility. The error came to light only after a thorough search at the male prison, resulting in the woman spending a night in segregation away from the male population before being transferred the next day. Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service have initiated reviews of their procedures after the incident. No such fucks are given for the trans women currently enduring the same for much longer than a single night.
Female prisoner sent to male jail because of ‘masculine features’ The Daily Telegraph28 Oct 2024By Daniel Sanderson AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a woman with “masculine features” was sent to an all-male prison. The biologically female prisoner was detained overnight at HMP Perth, a maximum security jail, and she was not transferred to Cornton Vale, Scotland’s only women’s jail, until the next day. Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service said a review of procedures has been instigated following the blunder on Monday last week. The woman appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody. The prisoner was then processed as a man and taken to HMP Perth by a court escort crew. The Scottish Prison Service rewrote its rules about transgender prisoners after the Isla Bryson scandal, in which a double rapist previously known as Adam Graham was initially sent to a women’s jail. Under the updated policy, prisoners are supposed to be initially sent to a prison that corresponds with their biological sex. “This is a complete embarrassment for everyone involved,” a source said. “Taking a female to a male prison and leaving her there is a shocker. “An assumption was made, based on someone’s appearance and not much else. Gender in the prison system has become such a hot topic that management will be mortified by this. “It was only when the more thorough search was carried out by prison staff that it came to light that the prisoner was missing some vital parts you might expect a man to have. “The woman was whisked away to segregation overnight and the questions immediately started getting asked about how this could have happened.” By the time the error came to light, it was too late to transfer the woman to the female prison near Stirling, and special measures had to be put in place to keep her in Perth Prison overnight. The woman was kept in segregation, away from the male prison population, before being taken to the correct prison on Tuesday. The For Women Scotland campaign group said the incident showed the dangers of “sloppy recording and reporting of sex”, as opposed to a person’s gender identity. “They have to stop being frightened of recording a person’s sex,” the group said. “Sex should be recorded on every sheet the police give to the prison service and the prison service should also be asking for that. “This woman has definitely been put at risk. It’s incredibly dangerous for any woman to be in a male prison.” A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: “We don’t comment on individuals. The rights, safety and wellbeing of all individuals, including those newly admitted to our care, is a key priority. “We have procedures in place to keep everyone safe when someone is newly admitted, including keeping them separate from the mainstream population where appropriate.” A Police Scotland spokesman said: “On Monday Oct 21, an individual was passed into the custody of the Scottish Prison Service with incomplete information about their gender. We are reviewing our custody procedure to ensure this does not happen again.” ‘An assumption was made, based on someone’s appearance and not much else’ Article Name:Female prisoner sent to male jail because of ‘masculine features’ Publication:The Daily Telegraph Author:By Daniel Sanderson Start Page:4 End Page:4

Claire Reynolds, the director of Labour Women’s Network, has been appointed by Starmer as his new political director in Downing Street.

  • The Labour Women’s Network rules state “we welcome all those who “self-define as women” into our membership and our women-only training and events, and this has always been our proud practice. LWN rejects all forms of transphobia, including intimidation, threats of violence and denial of trans identities. LWN believes women only spaces are an important part of women’s self-organisation, and we continue to organise events and conferences open to all women. We believe these discussions should be conducted in a sisterly and respectful way, and we call out abuse against women in public life wherever we see it as part of our #diffuseabuse campaign.”

THE PAPERS

October stats round up

  • October saw a total of 69 articles about trans people, which was a slight increase on the 66 we saw in September. That rise in numbers can be attributed solely to the Times, which published 20 articles compared to 13 in September.

    Both the Mail and the Telegraph, oddly, published the same number in both months – 13 and 32 respectively.

    The Guardian/Observer, which published eight in September only published four in October, with Sonia Sodha not writing any of them.

    While most were negative, not all were. I can also report that the vitriol we saw under the Tories is still largely missing. The bullshit is still free-flowing, but there has certainly been a massive drop in the number of vicious opinion columns.

    Anti-trans activists – like Maya Forstater, Helen, Joyce, Kathleen Stock, Malcolm Clarke, Fair Play for Women and, of course, their queen, JK Rowling, were all quoted regularly, but their column inches have certainly shrivelled.

    I can’t remember a trans person being quoted, let alone in charge of putting forth an article of their own, lest readers start to think trans people are also human beings.

This week, we had exactly the same number of articles about trans people as we did two weeks ago (17) which represents something of a drop on last week’s 26.

We can probably thank the budget for that.

Breaking with Telegraph tradition, the Mail had the most articles this week with seven to the Telegraph’s six, although one of those in the Mail could be said to be positive [see Mail on Sunday in Paper Review below].

The Guardian/Observer went back to having nothing after three last week, while the Times had four.

One day had no articles (Wednesday, Budget day), two days had four (Monday and Sunday) while three days had two (Tuesday, Thursday, Friday) and Saturday had three.

Quoted this week:

  • Stephanie Davies-Arai, the founder of Transgender Trend and non-expert on trans issues on puberty blockers.
  • For Women Scotland on how dangerous it is to put women in men’s prisons, despite campaigning to put trans women in men’s prison being one of the reasons they exist.
  • Maya Forstater (twice) on the Scouts being inclusive.
  • Caroline Ffiske of Conservatives for Women, also on the scouts.
  • JK Rowling on supporting one of the most right-wing leaders the Tories have ever elected because this anti-abortion, anti-maternity pay, anti-LGBTQ Kemi Badenoch is apparently a women’s rights’ champion.

THE PAPERS Monday 21st October – Sunday 27th October

Monday Total: 4

The Guardian [0]
The Times [2]
Trans charity’s ex-chief boasts of ‘legal route’ for puberty blockers James Beal - Social Affairs Editor Susie Green says that the ban is devastating The former chief executive of Mermaids has founded a company that offers access to puberty blockers for children. Susie Green, 56, was dismissed by the transgender support charity in 2022 over a loss of trust in her leadership, a Charity Commission report disclosed last week. Last year Green set up Anne Trans Healthcare, which offers access to puberty blockers for under-18s and boasts of having a “legal route” to get them to Britons. After the Cass review of gender identity services for children, the government banned the sale or supply to children of puberty blockers prescribed in the UK. The Anne website says that patients can have them prescribed from doctors outside the UK and sent to an “EU destination” to be picked up. Stephanie Davies-Arai, the founder of Transgender Trend, which calls for evidence-based care for gender-dysphoric children, said: “It is very worrying that organisations like this can be set up.” Green is a director of Anne, which she started with Lizzie Jordan, an entrepreneur who also set up Think2Speak, an LGBT youth support organisation. Anne’s website says it offers “evidence-based” and “gender-affirming” care for transgender people. Under-18s need the support of a parent, carer or guardian to access its services with a “standard youth membership” of £150 a month plus a one-off £200 fee. In a “frequently asked questions” section, the site says: “I read that Anne is able to access blockers and I want assurances that this is the case before I switch providers.” Anne’s response says it has “secured a legal route using a network of families” outside the UK. Wes Streeting, the health secretary, has said he will make permanent the present emergency ban on the supply of puberty blockers to children. He said the Cass review had found “insufficient evidence to show puberty blockers were safe for under-18s”. In its report on Mermaids, which Green led for seven years, the Charity Commission said it “was not governed to the standards it expects”. It also said that there were “lessons” for other charities working in the field of gender identity. Mermaids said that the commission’s report did not identify any misconduct. In a statement on Anne’s website yesterday, Green said the Cass review “is a politically driven piece of research launched by a Conservative government with an ideological agenda”. She claimed that it had been “widely criticised” by “reputable organisations and professional bodies” and rejected by the trans community. Green told The Times: “We are open in our criticism of the government for extending the ban on puberty blocking medication for trans youth, as this is having a devastating impact on young people and their families. “As we are not a charity, we are free to speak openly about the failings of the Cass review and will continue to advocate for better healthcare for trans+ people of all ages in the UK.”
When I showed Susie Green this article she was happy to see Anne Trans Health getting free publicity from the Times
Health secretary told us sex is biological, nurses claim Tom Witherow Wes Streeting said that “something has gone wrong in our society” as he met NHS nurses fighting to keep biological males out of a women’s changing room. The health secretary confirmed his belief that sex is biological, according to the “Darlington Five”, who brought a 48,000-name petition to No 10 urging party leaders to “stand up for women” . Bethany Hutchison, Lisa Lockey, Annice Grundy, Tracey Hooper and Joanne Bradbury are suing an NHS trust after a colleague who goes by the name of Rose but was born male was allowed to use a female changing room at Darlington Memorial Hospital. According to the nurses, Streeting told them single-sex spaces’ importance to women had not been “taken seriously enough” and replied “Yeah” when one of the women asked: “Do you recognise that sex is a protected characteristic and that sex is biological? We would like you to commit to and reflect that in the day-to-day running of the NHS.” As the 45-minute meeting ended, Streeting said the nurses had given him a lot to think about. “We’ve got to deal with this,” he said. The five nurses have filed a claim against County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust with an employment tribunal. They say their employer has failed to protect staff from sexual harassment. Rose, who works in the operating department, identifies as female. The nurses claim their colleague does not take female hormones and stared at their breasts as they undressed. The Department of Health and Social Care said: “Everybody deserves to feel safe and treated with respect at their workplace.” The NHS trust said it was committed to providing a “safe, secure and respectful working environment” and had put alternative, private women-only facilities in place. The Times approached Rose for comment via the trust but received no response.
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NHS tells women it’s ‘unacceptable’ not to share toilets with trans people Daily Mail28 Oct 2024By Sam Merriman Social Affairs Correspondent WOMEN are ‘transphobic’ if they do not want to share a toilet with a transgender colleague, NHS staff have been told. Mandatory training introduced in August for NHS England employees also claimed that ‘people’ rather than women or mothers become pregnant and take maternity leave. Another passage suggested that it is discriminatory for nurses or doctors to pray for unwell patients. Women’s rights campaigners wrote to NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard this month to criticise the ‘partisan and ideological’ training and demand that it be amended earlier this month. Last night, after being contacted by the Mail, the NHS admitted that it has since withdrawn the training module and that it will be replaced ‘in the next few weeks’. The 23-page document – titled ‘Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights Skills’ – stated that ‘all staff, including off payroll workers, are obliged to complete the modules’. The training manual, which included five ‘case studies’, required staff to answer ten multiple-choice questions to test whether they are discriminatory. In one section headed ‘transphobic colleague’, it gives an example of a member of NHS staff who does not wish to share a toilet with a trans person. The document states that this is ‘not acceptable’ and that asking whether trans staff can instead use gender-neutral or disabled toilets could constitute ‘illegal harassment’. The document was shared with the Mail by an NHS worker concerned about the training but who said they were under pressure from bosses to complete it. The whistleblower revealed: ‘Passing this training is required in order to progress your pay and career, and ultimately even to be employed by NHS England. For all the supposed commitment to “diversity”, if you don’t agree with the ideology of a dominant clique, you either have to lie or leave.’ In another section of the document it includes ‘pregnancy and maternity’ among a list of protected characteristics, but fails to use the words woman or mother. Meanwhile, in another of the ‘case studies’, NHS staff are given a real example of a community nurse who offered to pray for an unwell patient because they were ‘concerned about her welfare and wanted her to get better’. NHS employees are told that this was unacceptable and that the nurse was reprimanded for failing to demonstrate a ‘personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity’ by expressing her faith. Last night an NHS spokesman said: ‘This guidance is out of date and has already been removed as new training is being developed.’ ‘Partisan and ideological’ Article Name:NHS tells women it’s ‘unacceptable’ not to share toilets with trans people Publication:Daily Mail Author:By Sam Merriman Social Affairs Correspondent Start Page:15 End Page:15
Note the last paragraph which says new training is being developed
Telegraph [1]
Female prisoner sent to male jail because of ‘masculine features’ The Daily Telegraph28 Oct 2024By Daniel Sanderson AN INVESTIGATION has been launched after a woman with “masculine features” was sent to an all-male prison. The biologically female prisoner was detained overnight at HMP Perth, a maximum security jail, and she was not transferred to Cornton Vale, Scotland’s only women’s jail, until the next day. Police Scotland and the Scottish Prison Service said a review of procedures has been instigated following the blunder on Monday last week. The woman appeared at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court and was remanded in custody. The prisoner was then processed as a man and taken to HMP Perth by a court escort crew. The Scottish Prison Service rewrote its rules about transgender prisoners after the Isla Bryson scandal, in which a double rapist previously known as Adam Graham was initially sent to a women’s jail. Under the updated policy, prisoners are supposed to be initially sent to a prison that corresponds with their biological sex. “This is a complete embarrassment for everyone involved,” a source said. “Taking a female to a male prison and leaving her there is a shocker. “An assumption was made, based on someone’s appearance and not much else. Gender in the prison system has become such a hot topic that management will be mortified by this. “It was only when the more thorough search was carried out by prison staff that it came to light that the prisoner was missing some vital parts you might expect a man to have. “The woman was whisked away to segregation overnight and the questions immediately started getting asked about how this could have happened.” By the time the error came to light, it was too late to transfer the woman to the female prison near Stirling, and special measures had to be put in place to keep her in Perth Prison overnight. The woman was kept in segregation, away from the male prison population, before being taken to the correct prison on Tuesday. The For Women Scotland campaign group said the incident showed the dangers of “sloppy recording and reporting of sex”, as opposed to a person’s gender identity. “They have to stop being frightened of recording a person’s sex,” the group said. “Sex should be recorded on every sheet the police give to the prison service and the prison service should also be asking for that. “This woman has definitely been put at risk. It’s incredibly dangerous for any woman to be in a male prison.” A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said: “We don’t comment on individuals. The rights, safety and wellbeing of all individuals, including those newly admitted to our care, is a key priority. “We have procedures in place to keep everyone safe when someone is newly admitted, including keeping them separate from the mainstream population where appropriate.” A Police Scotland spokesman said: “On Monday Oct 21, an individual was passed into the custody of the Scottish Prison Service with incomplete information about their gender. We are reviewing our custody procedure to ensure this does not happen again.” ‘An assumption was made, based on someone’s appearance and not much else’ Article Name:Female prisoner sent to male jail because of ‘masculine features’ Publication:The Daily Telegraph Author:By Daniel Sanderson Start Page:4 End Page:4
“We can always tell”

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by Dr Renee Hoenderkamp PRACTISING GP ONE headline in NHS England's latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion training manual made me rise from the breakfast table in disbelief on Sunday. "New mothers should not be called mothers, but 'people who have given birth'." This comes from a training document written by people who have probably never worked a shift in the NHS, let alone in maternity care. They are the diversity czars who are now employed across the health service, taking salaries of up to £80,000 a year. Some of these people are out to erase gender completely. In the training manual - absurdly entitled ‘'Confident Conversations About Race” and designed to “support the elimination of discrimination in the NHS and to provide the best possible care to patients and communities” — it states that it is “not appropriate to use terms such as mother in your role”. To all of us on the frontline, especially in maternity services, this has created anger and disbelief. It is almost impossible to get your head around the sheer stupidity of it. Take one example from my own practice. I have one patient who has recently had a baby after six miscarriages. Imagine if I had referred to her as someone who had just “given birth” or as “a parent”. It would have been deeply offensive and hurtful. Every time I see her in my surgery, she refers to herself as “Mum” and always has done. So she should. To her, it's the most important role in the world and I would never take that from her. This is never training — it’s brainwashing The latest training document, which was published in August and accessed this weekend by the Mail on Sunday, claims that, “Research has found that diverse teams are more innovative, as well as providing better quality and safer patient care.” I disagree. Many of the most experienced NHS staff are now opting out of “training” on equality, diversity and inclusion because they feel they are being “brainwashed” into thinking this is necessary. I have spoken to scores of doctors and nurses in the past few years, people who are on the frontline and who feel just as passionately as I do that this has gone too far. Why, they ask, do the words we use, the uniform we wear and the prayers we may or may not say suddenly matter more than life and death? Surely in the NHS we have our priorities wrong. Diversity is one thing but the insistence that we use certain words — like referring to women who have just had a baby as “birth-givers” rather than mothers — is going way too far. Many people in the NHS do not want this training, which takes time away from their job and does nothing to help patients. Instead, they want to be left alone to do their work. A further diktat in this training document insists that NHS staff must use inclusive language, even when working with patients who do not want it. So, we are now being told to ask people what gender they would like to be known by and even to provide more than 20 options for someone who does not want to identify as a man or a woman. That includes options such as “agender” and “gender fluid”. I know that in maternity services this is making life more difficult for staff. Some of my patients are already confused about the NHS at the best of times and don't want to know what gender fluidity is. They just want to have a baby. The pressure placed on NHS workers to go along with this nonsense is unbelievable. We are in the middle of a crisis in the NHS. One in four nursing posts are unfilled. GPs and surgeries are now under enormous pressure with patient waiting lists soaring. But this training was only published in August this year on the same day that yet another report found that around 20,000 doctors were likely to quit the NHS in the next two years because they simply can’t cope with the demand. And let’s face it — how many people, working in the NHS, want to be called “birthing people” and “they” instead of “Mum” and “Dad”? Why can’t we be proud of the women who give birth to the next generation? When a woman has a baby, she is more than a “birth-giver” or a “parent”. She is a mother. And that is something we should celebrate — not be ashamed of. Instead, we’re heading towards a world where it’s not even considered acceptable to refer to women as women or mothers as mothers. Is a diversity officer worth three nurses? WHO truly believes a diversity officer is more valuable than a nurse on the NHS? How has the NHS arrived at this point? Diversity officers have been brought in by trusts across the country in recent years. They earn salaries between £40,000 and £80,000 a year — even as the health service faces huge financial strain. In 2021, NHS Trusts in England employed more than 700 diversity managers, according to a report from the TaxPayers’ Alliance. If we were to scrap these roles, we could hire more than 1,700 additional nurses. A huge proportion of NHS funds are now being spent on roles and training in diversity and inclusion. I believe it is an indulgence we simply can’t afford. The training manual published in August claims it “is not appropriate to use terms such as mother in your role.” I simply don’t understand why a diversity officer can tell a GP what to call her patients. How does that help? It’s absurd to think that calling a woman “a mother” could cause offence. And yet these non-essential diversity roles are given such clout. Would a nurse or doctor, who has worked for years in the NHS, ever refuse to call a patient “Mum”? These jobs are being created by people who are not on the frontlines, who are not in operating theatres and who have never met the women I see every day. In my practice, this is making an already difficult job even harder. Staff feel like they are walking on eggshells, terrified of offending anyone. It is time for the NHS to rethink its priorities and put patients first. Diversity roles may be valuable in theory but in practice, they are putting a huge strain on an already stretched service. Instead of making life easier for doctors and nurses, it is becoming a bureaucratic burden, sapping their energy and focus. With posts vacant across the NHS, it’s time to ask: would we rather have 700 diversity officers or 1,700 more nurses?
The only person implying this woman might not be a mother is this doctor who is using her to attack trans people in the Daily Mail.
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You must share lavatories with trans people, NHS staff told The Daily Telegraph29 Oct 2024By Alex Barton ‘If you don’t agree with the ideology of a dominant clique, you either have to lie or leave’ NHS staff have been told in mandatory training that it is unacceptable not to share lavatories with trans people. The obligatory NHS England training introduced in August titled “Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Human Rights Skills” was for “all staff, including off-payroll workers”. The 23-page document included five case studies with employees required to answer 10 multiple-choice questions to assess whether their actions in a given situation would be considered discriminatory, according to the Daily Mail. One section headed “transphobic colleague” gave an example of a member of staff who does not want to share a lavatory with a trans person. The document stated that this is “not acceptable” and that asking if trans staff can instead use gender-neutral or disabled lavatories could constitute “illegal harassment”. An NHS worker shared the document with the Mail after feeling under pressure to complete the training. The whistleblower told the newspaper: “Passing this training is required in order to progress your pay and career, and ultimately even to be employed by NHS England. For all the supposed commitment to ‘diversity’, if you don’t agree with the ideology of a dominant clique, you either have to lie or leave.” The training also claimed that “people”, rather than women, become pregnant and take maternity leave. Another case gives an example of a community nurse who offered to pray for a patient because they were “concerned about her welfare and wanted her to get better”. Employees were told that the nurse was reprimanded for failing to demonstrate a “personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity” by expressing her faith. Women’s rights campaigners have written to NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard this month to criticise the “partisan and ideological” training and called for it to be changed. The NHS has since withdrawn the module. It comes after a Telegraph analysis revealed NHS trusts are spending six-figure sums on diversity advisers. Last night, an NHS spokesman told the Mail: “This guidance is out of date and has already been removed as new training is being developed. “We are determined that all women who work and receive care in the NHS are treated with dignity and respect”. Article Name:You must share lavatories with trans people, NHS staff told Publication:The Daily Telegraph Author:By Alex Barton Start Page:8 End Page:8
Same story as the one in yesterday’s Daily Mail

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NHS trust that led gender clinic forced to seek merger Charlotte Alt, James Beal The NHS trust that led a controversial gender clinic that prescribed puberty blockers to children will be merged to remain financially sustainable. The Tavistock and Portman Trust, in London, has announced it is in the process of identifying a merger partner after years of substantial losses. The trust made the announcement months after the closure of its Gender Identity Development Service (Gids), the largest clinic treating children and adolescents with gender dysphoria. The clinic closed in March after several controversies. Michael Holland, the chief executive, said at the trust’s annual meeting on Tuesday: “We are very, very at risk because of our financial situation.” In the latest financial year the trust recorded a deficit of almost £2.5 million with an underlying deficit of £6.2 million, according to Peter O’Neill, the interim chief financial officer. O’Neill said: “We have a cash deficit and we need cash support from the system to pay for bills for the staff, etc. In its current form the trust will not be financially sustainable.” The trust is working with Central and North West London Foundation Trust, in partnership with University College London and the London borough of Camden, on a merger proposal. However, governors and members have raised concerns that a merger could harm the institution’s legacy. Michael Rustin, a social care professor and elected governor of the trust, questioned whether its problems were also a result of the “difficulties” and “negative publicity” around Gids. He told the meeting: “The idea that the trust is no longer sustainable, that it is too small, that it has a financial deficit — is that really credible? There has been a picture in the trust that the real reason [for] the merger is that the NHS got absolutely fed up with us because we attracted torrents of horrible publicity because of the way Gids worked. We got caught up in a huge culture war.” Holland and John Lawlor, the trust chairman, denied that Gids played any significant part in the discussion leading to the merger plans. Holland said: “[NHS England] have been very supportive. They talk about protecting the organisation, not about punishment.” A spokesman for the trust said that although the loss of Gids was a contributing factor to its financial situation, the organisation had been reporting deficits before its closure.
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ITV’S Woods aghast peer not aware of trans report The Daily Telegraph31 Oct 2024By Tom Morgan Broadcaster Laura Woods has hit out at a Labour peer for being unaware of a recent United Nations study that suggested nearly 900 women’s sport medals had potentially been won by biological males. Baroness Twycross admitted during a debate on women’s sport in the Lords that she was “not aware” of the study “Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport”. The findings of the August report were raised in the Lords by Baroness Jenkin of Kennington, who asked Department for Media, Culture and Sport under-secretary of state Baroness Twycross: “Is the minister aware of a United Nations study called ‘Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Sport?’ “It calculated that, by March this year, more than 600 female athletes in more than 400 division events across 29 sports were defeated by trans-identifying men, who took a total of over 890 medals from female athletes. Does the minister think that this is fair?” Baroness Twycross responded: “I am not aware of that report. I will read it and respond to the noble baroness in writing.” “Why isn’t she aware of it?” TNT and ITV anchor Woods posted on X of a report that had prompted international headlines, before citing the exchange. “Fairness and safety the most important factors in sport. Including and especially grassroots. This cannot keep happening.” Article Name:ITV’S Woods aghast peer not aware of trans report Publication:The Daily Telegraph Author:By Tom Morgan Start Page:8 End Page:8
The Women’s Liberation Front, an extremist group known for aligning with far-right and anti-abortion organisations like Alliance Defending Freedom and The Heritage Foundation (including Project 2025), submitted those numbers to the UN study without providing any actual evidence to back them up, gathering the ‘data’ from what appears to be submissions open to the public.

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Why Clare and Sandi are a woke joke Daily Mail1 Nov 2024 CLARE BALDING and Sandi Toksvig are both proud lesbians but, oddly, neither of them are friends of women. Clare is all for mixed-sex sports, while Sandi has openly sneered at those who object to men taking part in female sporting events. Clare said this week that she even thought mixed-sex football should be an Olympic sport. ‘It’s not about power: it’s about speed, skill, vision and incredible ball skills,’ she added. This is so ridiculously untrue. Not just because I grew up playing football with boys, and still have the scars to prove it. We all know the Lionesses are a wonderful side, but they don’t have the power of their male counterparts. Just like female tennis players could never compete against men – and it’s ridiculous to pretend otherwise. Meanwhile, Sandi’s Women’s Equality Party sacked one of its executives for sensibly arguing that children should not be labelled transgender. Now the party is to be shut down after getting only 1,200 votes in the General Election. ‘It’s because politics have moved to the far Right,’ said a WEP spokeswoman. Perhaps they didn’t notice that a Labour government just got elected. Clare and Sandi are such a pair of woke jokes.
Jan Moir informing us, once again, that men are just better than women at everything while “mainstreaming attacks on intersectional lesbians who support trans rights”
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The genre-bending thriller dazzling Oscar voters – but enraging the trans mob Netflix’s Emilia Pérez could make awards history, but brickbats are coming from both sides. Liam Kelly reports The Daily Telegraph1 Nov 2024 Strong support: Selena Gomez, top, and Zoe Saldaña in Emilia Pérez When The Danish Girl, the film in which Eddie Redmayne stars as transgender pioneer Lili Elbe, was released in 2015, the backlash was immediate and fierce. It was, according to those complaining, unacceptable for the white, male Redmayne (an Old Etonian, no less) to play the role of Elbe, as it robbed trans actresses of the chance to do so.

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These nurses were given privacy in the form of another place to change. They said “Changing in this room has made us feel humiliated, embarrassed, isolated, ostracised, degraded and dehumanised”. They don’t want privacy. They want to make their trans colleague feel that way.
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From woggle to woke, Scouts aged 8 play ‘pronoun’ game Daily Mail2 Nov 2024By Richard Marsden and Sam Merriman SCOUTING used to be all about challenging outdoor activities – but leaders are now introducing children as young as eight to the world of gender identity. The movement has been accused of indoctrination for encouraging youngsters to play a ‘fun’ game called Pronoun Pairs using animal cards. It features Billy the butterfly, who is ‘non-binary’ and uses the pronouns they/them, Leslie the ladybird, who identifies as female and uses ‘she/her’ and Sam the dog, who is male and is referred to as he/him. A second set of cards features an activity and, to win a card, scouts have to ‘say a sentence linking the character to the activity by the correct pronouns’. Scouts are also encouraged to state their own preferred pronouns, and leaders should use ‘gender-neutral language’ such as ‘sibling’ rather than brother or sister, or ‘parent’, ‘carer’ or ‘grown-up’ rather than ‘mum and dad’. Scouts UK says the moves were introduced to ‘ensure there is more kindness in the world’. But the movement has faced a backlash. Maya Forstater, of the human-rights charity Sex Matters, said: ‘Teaching children that they can’t use ordinary words like “he” for a man and “she” for a woman is a shocking abuse of the trust parents place in the Scouts. Children are being told they must make adults feel “loved and accepted” by pretending men can be women and going along with an ideology that claims people can “identify” into any so-called “gender”, or have no gender at all. ‘Activist groups claim that using preferred pronouns is polite and inclusive. In reality, it’s conceding the central falsehood of trans activists – that people’s sex is a trivial matter, and their identity claims are all-important. ‘Requiring children and families who join the Scouts to be indoctrinated into this ideology is belief discrimination. This activity needs to be stopped.’ Caroline Ffiske, of Conservatives for Women, said: ‘We need to recognise that this isn’t about inclusion, but about grooming children into bodily disassociation and discomfort. It is not kind. It is cruel and it has consequences.’ Scouts UK confirmed the programme on inclusive language, including Pronoun Pairs, was ‘for eight to 18-year-olds’, adding: ‘Helping young people to use language that works for everyone is a good way to show kindness and respect and to ensure that everyone feels welcome.’ Article Name:From woggle to woke, Scouts aged 8 play ‘pronoun’ game Publication:Daily Mail Author:By Richard Marsden and Sam Merriman Start Page:7 End Page:7
Renowned expert on the Scouts, Maya Forstater quoted
Grandson told me he is a woman now... then ignored me Daily Mail2 Nov 2024BEL MOONEY DEAR BEL ONE of my grandsons has decided he wants to become a woman. The only information I had was an email a couple of years ago. I’m afraid my reaction was rather terse and that caused this problem. For the first 30 years of his life, I never had any indication of him being other than a man. After university, he went on a break and met a girl on his travels. They eventually married in America. Before that however, they had my hospitality for two years, until they could buy a house – when I helped them financially. Some three years ago, it was necessary for me to move to a retirement home near my son. This meant, of course, selling the house after 40 years. It was very traumatic, but I agreed and let the young couple have most of my possessions. They had a child two years ago and became regular visitors. Then came the email, telling me his new ‘female’ name. On the eve of her 91st birthday my wife died and I was glad I had not told her about it. My grandson and his wife and child attended the funeral but since then I’ve been ghosted. Not had a single contact from them despite the fact that I had sent money for my great-grandson’s birthday and Christmas. I had also sent birthday cards and letters still no reply. Not even a curt ‘Thanks’. After everything I have done for this couple I feel humiliated, and very, very disappointed at their attitude. Unless I accept their decision unconditionally, I am at fault. What is your opinion of all this? ADAM MY INSTINCTIVE response is blunt in the extreme, but I must be rather careful here and not publically express my real feelings as frankly as I would face to face with you in private. I like to think this column is a tolerant and caring space, but here we have an elderly gentleman who has been treated with inexcusable rudeness by a couple in their thirties to whom he was very kind indeed. I don’t care whether your grandson now calls himself a man or a woman or a fluffy bunny, he has absolutely no right to be so damn ungrateful, bad-mannered (to be generous) or cruel (to be more truthful.) When he sent you the email telling you he must now be called Rose (I made that name up) you were supposed to reply congratulating him on finding his true identity, and gushing how absolutely wonderful that your great-grandson now has two mums . . . or similar nonsense. Yes, you were expected to indulge his fantasy, but you couldn’t do that because you know perfectly well that a Roger cannot turn into a Rose just because he says so. I am so with you on that. You probably told him to sort his head out, or words to that effect. Now, I often advise parents and grandparents to keep their opinions to themselves in order to retain family harmony, and sometimes readers come back with a version of ‘But why the hell should we?’ And I always sympathise. Peace at any price usually means allowing untruth to win. Being honest usually means causing family problems. That is what’s meant by finding yourself between a rock and a hard place. So I admit I wish you had just ignored the man’s email, while at the same time I know his announcement that he is now ‘female’ would have irritated me too. I believe our society has gone completely mad in demanding we acquiesce to every single ‘identity’ shibboleth going. When his email came you were taking care of your wife, and I too am glad you allowed her to die without knowing about the email. It won’t help much, but at the moment I ask you to remember that your grandson’s wife and child are having to deal with the fallout of his decision to transition. That can cause huge problems within a family, which is why there are online support groups for them. I think the family’s rudeness to you is appalling, but just want to point out that this cannot be an easy time for them either. What can you do? I imagine you have told your son how humiliated, sad and angry you feel. He might well agree. All I can do is offer you my sympathy. When I broke the mirror I bought a new one. I didn’t like what I saw. So I took it back to the shop and asked for one Like the one I’d bought some years before. Brian Patten (b Liverpool, 1946) Article Name:Grandson told me he is a woman now... then ignored me Publication:Daily Mail Author:BEL MOONEY Start Page:44 End Page:44
The Daily Mail making up trans people to be mad about again
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Queen Mum ‘didn’t bat eyelid’ over trans doctor The Mail on Sunday3 Nov 2024By Sarah Robertson THE Queen Mother ‘didn’t bat an eyelid’ and was supportive when her hip surgeon transitioned to a woman, claims former ballet dancer Wayne Sleep. Top hip replacement specialist Sarah Muirhead-Allwood first operated on the Queen Mother before she transitioned. She was then known as William, and performed the hip replacement in 1995. When the Queen Mother returned in 1998 to have her other hip replaced, Ms Muirhead-Allwood had started transitioning and was living as a woman. Sleep, 76, revealed the Queen Mother’s reaction to the specialist’s new identity, saying she asked Ms Muirhead-Allwood: ‘Oh William, what do I call you now, dear?’ ‘She said, “Sarah, Ma’am”. She said, “Oh Sarah, do the other hip – the other one was such a success”. The Queen Mother didn’t bat an eyelid.’ Sleep, who was speaking at the launch of his memoir, Just Different, was told of the Queen Mother’s response by Ms Muirhead-Allwood herself. He said: ‘The Queen Mother was fantastic – she always had feathers, feather boas, bling everywhere. She was a real, I mean she didn’t look like a drag queen, but she could have been. She was camp. She loved the glitter of being a real woman. More bling the better!’ Article Name:Queen Mum ‘didn’t bat eyelid’ over trans doctor Publication:The Mail on Sunday Author:By Sarah Robertson Start Page:10 End Page:10
Women’s rights campaigner forced from lesbian bar ‘after complaint by a trans reveller’ The Mail on Sunday3 Nov 2024By Sanchez Manning THROWN OUT: Jenny Watson A LEADING campaigner for women-only spaces claims she was kicked out of a lesbian bar after a transgender customer complained about her presence. Jenny Watson, 32, says she was accused of ‘hate crime’ in the traumatic incident, and claims bouncers removed her with such force that she was left with bruised wrists. Although she had no interactions with anyone but her friends at the She bar in Soho, London, last month, she believes a transgender customer recognised her from social media and urged staff to kick her out. Ms Watson says staff told her she had ‘committed a hate crime’ without specifying what, adding: ‘I suspect this trans-identifying man went to staff because he recognised me, then they made this decision because of what he said. The ejection was clearly motivated by my beliefs.’ Ms Watson, a town planner, is now considering whether to take legal action, as it is unlawful to discriminate over gender-critical opinions. She rejected any suggestion of being transphobic: ‘I never say anything hateful. I believe in gender dysphoria and that trans people exist.’ But she argues that as a growing number of males identify as female and lesbian, there is a need to protect single-sex spaces. She plans to launch her own bar and dating app for biologically female lesbians only. ‘Lesbians are under attack, not by the outside world, but by the LGBTQ+ movement. If a man can dictate who gets to stay in a lesbian bar, then lesbian spaces are no longer safe for lesbians. This has to change.’ A spokeswoman for the bar said She had been ‘a safe and welcoming environment for the LGBTQ+ community’ for more than 20 years, and that police had attended and ‘dismissed any claims of unlawful ejection’. Ms Watson was involved in a transphobia row last year when she said only ‘adult human females’ could join her lesbian speed-dating events. Article Name:Women’s rights campaigner forced from lesbian bar ‘after complaint by a trans reveller’ Publication:The Mail on Sunday Author:By Sanchez Manning Start Page:26 End Page:26
Watson doesn’t even know if it was a trans person who complained
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Rowling praises the brains and bravery of women’s rights leader The Sunday Telegraph3 Nov 2024By Dominic Penna JK Rowling backs Kemi Badenoch JK ROWLING has praised Kemi Badenoch’s “brains and bravery” in standing up for women’s rights after she was unveiled as the new Tory leader. The Harry Potter author and Mrs Badenoch have both vocally opposed gender ideology, with the latter insisting during her Tory leadership campaign that a child cannot be trans. Ms Rowling has voted Labour in the past but is a staunch critic of Sir Keir Starmer, accusing him and his party of “abandoning” gender-critical women like herself. Responding to a suggestion that she would be “mad” about the result, Ms Rowling said on X: “On the contrary, I’m delighted a woman who’ll stand up for sex-based rights is now leading the Opposition. “And while there are definitely things we disagree about politically, I admire her brains and her bravery.” And in a separate post, she said of Mrs Badenoch’s victory: “My thoughts and prayers are with David Tennant at this very difficult time.” In June, Doctor Who star Tennant said he wished Mrs Badenoch “did not exist anymore” and should “shut up” because of her views on women’s rights. Last month, Mrs Badenoch promised to give Ms Rowling a peerage should she become prime minister. But the writer revealed she had refused honours in the past from both Labour and Conservative governments, saying she would continue to do the same in the future. Mrs Badenoch, the equalities minister at the time, criticised Mr Tennant for his controversial remarks, which he made as he was honoured for his support for the transgender community at the British LGBT Awards. She vowed “I will not shut up”, adding: “I will not be silenced by men who prioritise applause from Stonewall over the safety of women and girls. “A rich, Lefty, white male celebrity so blinded by ideology he can’t see the optics of attacking the only black woman in government by calling publicly for my existence to end.” Mrs Badenoch said that during her time as equalities minister she had strong evidence of gay and autistic young people being convinced they were trans instead. She said she was also in the process of rewriting the Equality Act to clarify “sex” referred to biological sex when the election was called in May. Article Name:Rowling praises the brains and bravery of women’s rights leader Publication:The Sunday Telegraph Author:By Dominic Penna Start Page:5 End Page:5
“Left-wing” JK Rowling praising one of the most right-wing leaders the Tories have ever elected for standing up for ‘women’s rights’. Badenoch believes maternity pay is too generous, has voted against buffer zones at abortion clinics, has voted against abortion access and has never voted in favour of LGBTQ rights. She has, however, campaigned relentlessly against trans people and that’s apparently all you need to do to be considered a ‘women’s rights champions’ by the likes of Rowling.
Scouts teaches eight-year-olds non-binary pronoun game Pronoun Pairs branded ‘indoctrination’ by critics for coaching youngsters to use gender-neutral terms The Sunday Telegraph3 Nov 2024By Craig Simpson THE Scouts have been encouraged to use gender-neutral language and to drop the term “mum and dad”. Members have been encouraged to guide children through a card game called Pronoun Pairs, which has been devised as a way of teaching them about gender identity. The game uses the “non-binary” character Billy the Butterfly to introduce LGBTQI+ concepts to children. The game, which has been branded “indoctrination” by critics, coaches youngsters to use gender-neutral pronouns, and a post-game reflection led by older Scouts suggests other ways language could be altered. This suggests “using ‘sibling’ rather than ‘brother or sister’, ‘everyone’ instead of ‘ladies and gentlemen’ or ‘boys and girls’”. It adds: “You could use ‘parent’, ‘carer’ or ‘grown-up’ rather than ‘mum and dad’.” Children are encouraged to use pronouns such as “ze/zir” and “they/them” instead of gendered pronouns. Young Scouts are also taught what to do if they “misgender” someone by using the wrong pronouns, with guidance for the game starting: “It’s important to acknowledge your mistake by apologising and correcting yourself.” A guide to the Pronoun Pairs game, on the Scouts website, advises adults: “By taking part in this activity and learning about pronouns, we can celebrate the inclusion and diversity we’re so proud of. “ The game itself is played by turning over cards that depict Sam the dog, which uses “he/him” pronouns, Leslie the ladybird, which uses “she/her” pronouns, and non-binary Billy, which uses “they/them” pronouns. When the cards are turned, children must form a sentence about the character using their preferred pronouns, with an example given for Billy as “they ate a sandwich”. When the game is over, adults can talk through the lessons of the game with the Scouts. The game states: “It can feel awkward or forced when you start implementing gender-neutral language. That’s normal. “The important thing is to keep at it so that it has a chance to become a part of your everyday communication.” The exercise for young people has been branded “indoctrination” by the campaign group Sex Matters, which has raised concerns about the spread of gender-ideology. The Scouts said of the game: “Scouts encourages all our members to learn new things, to be kind, helpful and respect others. Helping young people to use language that works for everyone is ‘This is likely to lead to unlawful belief discrimination against members’ a good way to show kindness and respect and to ensure that everyone feels welcome. “We introduced this activity in June this year and the feedback we’ve had since has been positive. “We think it’s important to make sure there is more kindness in the world so we will continue to develop programme material that ensures that our members feel valued, respected and that they belong.” Maya Forstater, the co-founder of Sex Matters, said: “This game unquestioningly promotes the language of gender ideology. This is likely to lead to unlawful belief discrimination against members who don’t follow the belief system that underpins the game. “Many parents will rightly be shocked by Scouts when they learn the extent of what their children have been made to do in the name of ‘inclusivity’.” Article Name:Scouts teaches eight-year-olds non-binary pronoun game Publication:The Sunday Telegraph Author:By Craig Simpson Start Page:11 End Page:11
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