Another week, another series of articles talking nonsense about trans people in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, and Times.
One story dominated the newspapers this week in relation to trans people and that was the one from Pride Cymru last weekend.
You will remember that a bunch of disruptive transphobes, who happened to be lesbians, caused problems by protesting and blocking the parade before being asked to leave.
As the week progressed, Julie Bindel, along with the Mail, Telegraph and Times, continued their campaign to erase the tens of thousands of lesbians all across the UK who support trans rights.
Bindel, who has posed (more than once) in a newspaper with her mouth taped shut to indicate how she is silenced, was back with yet another full page article in the Daily Mail (on Thursday).
You might also be interested to read this piece on how the BBC altered their article on Pride Cymru multiple times, including to add a link to a GC group, something the BBC never does for any other group.
Tuesday and Wednesday saw no articles on trans people in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph or The Times.
Thursday, we had the above page from the Silenced Bindel in the Daily Mail while the Telegraph got the ball rolling on hating trans snooker players:
![Trans snooker champion faces rack and ruin as rival calls for ban The Daily Telegraph1 Sep 2022By Hector Nunns Jamie Hunter, 25, from Widnes, Cheshire, says she will not stop playing the game she loves despite receiving a torrent of abuse SNOOKER has become the latest sport to be engulfed by a transgender row as a British player faces calls to be banned from the women’s game following her debut title win. Jamie Hunter from Widnes, Cheshire, became the first transgender player to win a ranking tournament on the women’s circuit last weekend with a 4-1 victory over Rebecca Kenna in Seattle. But the win in the US Women’s Open has exposed Hunter, 25, to a torrent of abuse, and now Maria Catalano, former world No1 and a cousin of Ronnie O’sullivan, the reigning world champion snooker player, wants her banned from the game. “I would say 90 per cent of the players on the women’s tour don’t agree with this,” Catalano said. “I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport. We are wired differently, we think differently. And I do believe 100 per cent there is an advantage there even in snooker after transition. “There is a reason why they started a women’s tour. Reanne Evans is the best woman player I have seen and even she can’t crack it against the men. “If this is allowed to happen I will have to stop playing, which would break my heart. It is just not fair, biological women are being shut down by being told it is only a hate thing. And it isn’t. “This is going to sound extreme and won’t happen – but with the current rules, what would happen if Ronnie or Mark Selby [the world No3] decided to transition tomorrow? They would obviously wipe the floor with the existing women players. Would that be right?” Hunter responded by saying: “If Maria is upset, it is disheartening and saddening, but I’m there to help grow [the sport] not ruin it. I want the tour to prosper.” Athletic women’s sports have faced similar issues over the last year, with some banning trans athletes from female competitions and other governing bodies reviewing their policies. Snooker uses the International Olympic Committee’s testosterone guideline to test players. Hunter added: “Now I have won an event, a lot more people seem to have a problem. They weren’t bothered when I was making up the numbers, but now I’m challenging it’s changed.” She also said she has been “taken aback” by the abuse directed at her after wining the tournament on Sunday. “At the same time, it’s not going to stop me playing. I have dreams, I won’t let some nasty people stop me do what I love doing,” she said.](https://transwrites.world/static/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/220901-daily-telegraph-snooker-e1662289492890.png)
Isn’t amazing how often those with racist views often turn out to be transphobic, too, eh?
They also had a go at the snooker story:
The Times also picked up the snooker story, and, like the others, decided that trans women playing the game is unfair to cis women.
This latest cause was eagerly taken up by GCs online, who set about showing off their feminist credentials by telling us, once again, how women are rubbish at everything when compared to men.
In this case, your ability to judge angles and hit a ball with a stick is determined by your genital configuration.
![Trans snooker player’s win cues up fairness row Kieran Gair Jamie Hunter: “Now I’ve won an event, more people seem to have a problem” A transgender snooker player’s victory in a women’s competition has triggered fresh debate about fairness in sport. Jamie Hunter, 25, became the first transgender woman to win a women’s ranking tournament by beating Rebecca Kenna 4-1 at the US Women’s Open in Seattle on Sunday. Some of her competitors argued that male-to-female transgender players had an unfair advantage and should be barred from female tournaments. Maria Catalano, ranked seventh by the World Women’s Snooker organisation and a cousin of Ronnie O’Sullivan, the world champion, said Hunter should be banned. Catalano said: “I don’t believe that women can compete against men on a level playing field in sport. We are wired differently, we think differently. And I do believe 100 per cent there is an advantage there even in snooker after transition. “There is a reason why they started a women’s tour. Reanne Evans is the best woman player I have seen and even she can’t crack it against the men. If this is allowed to happen I will have to stop playing, which would break my heart,” she told The Daily Telegraph. Hunter, 25, from Wigan, responded: “If Maria is upset, it is disheartening and saddening but I’m there to help grow [the sport] not ruin it. I want the tour to prosper. Now I have won an event, a lot more people seem to have a problem. They weren’t bothered when I was making up the numbers.” Jason Ferguson, chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, defended Hunter’s right to compete on the women’s tour, saying it was up to individual sports to make decisions, adding that snooker was not as physical as other sports. He said: “I understand it more in, for example, rugby . . . [In] physical strength sports . . . you have to be very careful in a safety sense.” In snooker, the professional tour is open to men and women and there is no bar to women entering top tier tournaments if they are high enough in the rankings. However, only one woman has to date competed on the tour for a full year. While women-only tournaments do exist, they are designed to promote female participation in the sport. Hunter’s victory means that she will climb to a career-high of number six in the world when the latest rankings are published next week. The debate over whether trans competitors should be allowed in women’s sport has divided governing bodies and led to infighting among elite athletes. A string of sports have become engulfed in rows over gender in recent years, with British Cycling suspending a policy in April that had allowed trans women to race in the female category.](https://transwrites.world/static/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/220902-the-times-trans-snooker-e1662287896126.png)
It is worth noting that the following stories received absolute no coverage in the mainstream press:
- The destruction of the Trans Memorial in Manchester
- The death of a trans man who was attacked after Pride in Germany (this was covered by the Guardian’s USA edition but not the UK).
Devastating yet predictable news. Was only a matter of time. Don't forget, a trans man was left with a fractured skull in Dublin after Pride and we heard next to nothing about it. https://t.co/V1jyQb4nZj
— Lee Hurley (@WeeMelter) September 2, 2022
Trans stories to watch out for
- The RFU are being sued for their policy on transgender women.
- A pond which is known for being all-female and has welcomed trans people for forever is now the subject of a protest because Maya Forstater noticed India Willoughby enjoyed a nice afternoon there:
![Trans activists close feminist society at university Campaigners accused of abusing leader of women’s group and frightening members into quitting The Sunday Telegraph4 Sep 2022By Ewan Somerville A UNIVERSITY’S feminist society has been “purged by trans activists”, with its email accounts shut down and members quitting for their own safety. Dozens of students attended meetings of Swansea University’s womenonly Feminist Society, advertised as a “space away from men” to discuss issues such as a surge of spiking incidents in the city. But campus activists alleged it was transphobic and demanded the expulsion of its leader after it publicly supported Kathleen Stock, the professor bullied for her trans views at Sussex University, and promoted a book by Helen Joyce, the feminist writer. Their “frenzied” backlash included sharing its leader’s personal social media accounts online and friends of the society’s members vowing to never speak to them again, it said. Activists wrote insults, such as “shut up Terf ” – a slur for trans exclusionary radical feminist – and “freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences you dumb f---s”, on its its Instagram account. Swansea University Students’ Union launched a transphobia investigation and sent emails, seen by The Sunday Telegraph, demanding an “urgent meeting” over social media posts. Nine months on, the investigation is “ongoing”, but during the summer holidays the society’s email account was quietly deleted and its profile page removed from the union’s website. Campaigners said the episode is a cautionary tale of the “national scandal” of campus feminists being censured if they view trans women as different from biological women. Abby Claron, 23, the outgoing president of the society, said: “We have been purged by trans activists [for] openly supporting women’s sex based-rights and sex-based spaces.” The recent philosophy graduate added: “We’re not sure how there can be an ‘investigation’ that lasts the entire academic year, but never once involved us. My committee members were frightened into quitting, with one telling me that her friends would no longer speak to her if she remained in the society. The university vice-chancellor also ignored all letters of support sent to us by women’s rights groups.” The society had selected its committee for the 2022-23 academic year when it was told in July that it must “re-conduct” the election on a date chosen by the students’ union. However, without disclosing the results, the union claimed the election had “failed” due to “timing” that it had set, Ms Claron said, so the society is in limbo. “Frankly, I find their behaviour appalling. What has happened to us is concerning for freedom of speech more generally, and the academic climate of Swansea University,” she added. “They have completely removed us ‘The gradual erasure of feminist societies in Britain’s universities is a national scandal’ from everything under the convenient guise that our election has ‘failed’, despite other ‘defunct’ societies still showing on the SU’s website. “The committee next year is concerned about the consequences they will face if they try to continue. ” Toby Young, the general secretary of the Free Speech Union, said: “The gradual erasure of feminist societies in Britain’s universities is a national scandal and is a perfect illustration of why the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which will hold universities to account, is so urgently needed. I hope Liz Truss will push it to the top of her priority list.” A spokesman for Swansea University Student Union said: “The complaint refers to … transphobia allegations made against some individuals within the Feminist Society. This investigation is ongoing.” AND Ladies’ pond is for biological women only, campaign says The Sunday Telegraph4 Sep 2022By Ewan Somerville TRANS women must stop bathing in Hampstead Heath ladies’ pond before its centenary anniversary in 2025, campaigners have demanded. A debate has erupted over the gender identity policy introduced by town hall bosses three years ago for the beauty spot in north London. The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond was opened in 1925 and is billed as a “unique women-only space” that “provides a place of refuge and security for women and girls of all ages”. But in 2019, the City of London Corporation, the local authority that manages it, allowed anyone who identifies as a woman to enter the water and changing rooms to be “fully compliant with the Equality Act 2010”, which protects both sex and gender reassignment. Now, campaigners are trying to overturn the policy, with 150 women protesting in the park to “let women swim”. Venice Allan, who organised the protest last Saturday, said: “Women came together to reclaim our beloved ladies’ pond on Hampstead Heath in time for the centenary in 2025. Plans are already being made for future actions. Did they really think they would get away with colonising our most special place?” During the protest, women surrounded the pond holding placards, before gathering at the Stone of Free Speech on Parliament Hill. Some Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women told the crowd they felt they could no longer use the ladies’ pond. Maya Forstater, of the campaign group Sex Matters, accused council bosses of “not listening to women who want single-sex privacy” and vowed to return the site to a “female-only oasis” by 2025. The Kenwood Ladies’ Pond Association, which was not involved with the protest, said its “primary concern is preserving the pond’s special atmosphere, which is joyful, welcoming and peaceful”. A spokesman for the City of London Corporation said: “Our gender identity policy ensures our public services do not discriminate against trans people. “We welcome a wide range of service users and we want to ensure they all feel comfortable accessing and enjoying the bathing ponds and facilities.”](https://transwrites.world/static/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/220904-sunday-telegraph-pond.png)
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