A Civil War Waged By Women
Update 384 Terf Month #BeMore Porcupine
Onwards with Terf Month - get your suggestions for great speeches coming in. #StuffPrideMonth
Well this is not precisely a ‘gender critical’ speech but it is still, of course, inspirational.
Thanks as ever to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Terf Month
Why are we having Terf Month on this substack?
Well, here’s Kellie-Jay:
And here’s Karen Davis:
STOP PRESS
And finally…ermmm…the Army!
Robert Kellaway in The Daily Express ( Outrage as Army regiment ignores D-Day and flies rainbow flag for Pride Month instead 06 June) reports:
The regiment ignored the 80th anniversary of D-Day, flying the Pride flag instead© Express
The HQ Battery at 47 Regiment Royal Artillery has chosen to support the gay and transgender community every day in June.
The move angered some servicemen and women at the regiment's base at Larkhill in Wiltshire with one saying: "The Army has become so woke it's ridiculous."
The flag is being raised every morning at Horne Barracks and features a white, pink and blue triangle for the transgender community and brown and black chevrons representing the "Black, Indigenous and People of Colour" or BIPOC community.
The rainbow stripes of the emblem represent red for life, orange for healing, yellow for sunlight, green for nature, indigo for serenity and violet for spirit.[ Dusty - they’ve left off Blue - Blue for B***ocks]
A serving member of the military told the Daily Express: "On the 80th anniversary of D-Day this is not welcome for goodness sake.
"The priorities here are completely out of whack. Since the pandemic the Army has become so woke it's ridiculous.
"We've had lectures and presentations about transgender people and the importance of diversity and inclusion.
"We've had nothing in that time about the war in Ukraine, or how artillery is of major strategic importance to both sides in that conflict or about the situation in Gaza.
"It's bad for morale, this is a military unit with patriotic servicemen who by and large have very traditional values.
"We are here to do an important job and to help defend our country's security.
"The flag is being flown at our headquarters. The flagpole would normally bear the colours of HQ Battery 47 Regiment in other words the pride of our regiment.
"Instead, on D-Day of all days we're focusing on Pride Month. It just doesn't make sense."
Do you get it now? 😊
And see the Endpiece 😊
The Party of Women
The brave ladies ( including one very famous lady 😊) who are standing as candidates for PoW in the General Election have to raise £500 deposit to stand and also need money for campaigning materials especially leaflets. Here are some links to fundraisers that are up so far. More to follow. Please give generously if you can. Even if you wouldn’t vote for PoW, they will be bringing this issue to the forefront in their constituencies.
And, if you are in their constituency, please vote for them. I wish I had one in my constituency 😒
Lots of hard work is going on since all candidates need to be registered by 4pm tomorrow. Several have got registered already.
Seonaid Dawn Barber - West Worcestershire
https://givesendgo.com/westworcestershire?utm_source=whatsapp
Kellie-Jay Keen - Bristol Central
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyOfWomenElection
Catherine Limb-Briggs - Doncaster North
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCM9S
Katherine Longthorp - Oxford East
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyofWomen-OxfordEast
Louise McDonald - Sheffield Heeley
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCNSV
Lisa Morgan - Barrow & Furness
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyofWomen-LisaMorgan
Una O’Mahony - Kensington and Bayswater
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCME9?s=08
Bernadette O’Malley - South West Hertfordshire
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyofwomenSouthWestHerts
Liz Panton - Newcastle East Wallsend
https://www.givesendgo.com/POWNewcastleEastWallsend2024
Once we get beyond the registration date, I will be assessing what the different parties are saying on gender ideology.
Death Threats
Talk about getting away with murder!!
Kathrine Frich on Dagens.com ( Threatened to Kill Harry Potter Author JK Rowling: He Is Not Going to Jail 05 June) reports:
Photo: Shutterstock© Provided by Dagens.com (UK)
A man has now appeared in court after threatening J.K. Rowling, or in other words, Harry Potter's 'mother'.
According to the Scottish Daily Express, a 31-year-old man named Glenn Mullen uploaded audio clips in which he threatened to kill Ms. Rowling.
The man, who currently lives in Manchester in Great Britain, had uploaded audio clips in Gaelic, where he uttered several threatening words.
He was quoted as saying things such as he would kill J.K. Rowling with a big hammer in one of the audio clips.
Solved in 2023
The crime was solved already in January 2023.
He was found by an online magazine shortly after he posted the clips on Twitter.
He was charged with sending threatening messages.
J.K. Rowling's statements were read aloud in court, and they revealed that Ms. Rowling believed the threats appeared calculated and made her look over her shoulder.
Sentencing was low
The judge sentenced Glenn Mullen to two eight-week prison sentences.
Besides that, he was suspended for two years.
The two sentences were to be served concurrently.
Mullen was also ordered to complete a 12-month community order.
This would include both 20 days of rehabilitation activity requirement and 150 hours of unpaid work.
Trans Criminality
EDI Jester discusses the fact that a disproportionate percentage of larping men in prison are there for sexual offences.
Staying You
Thanks as ever to Feminist Legal Clinic.
Home | Staying You (05 June)
We share our lived experience and celebrate the awesomeness of being a girl, a biological female, a warrior, a witch, a queen, a mother, a daughter and the amazing things that being a woman allows us to achieve.
‘Staying You’ advocates for understanding and empowering those struggling with their identity to accept themselves in the body they have, we hold stakeholders to account and seek the truth behind the sciences. ‘Staying You’ has been started by breast cancer survivor Mel Days, who knows all too well the pain and scars medical intervention brings because of the irreversible damage that has happened to her own body.
About Me
Mel Days was a primary school teacher, and now works in the fields of sociology and counselling. In 2018 – 2020 she underwent treatment for aggressive breast cancer. This treatment is very similar to the treatment that women and girls identifying as trans experience.
When Mel underwent treatment for stage 3 invasive breast cancer, she lost both breasts, and was given a radical hysterectomy and hormone blockers. The consequence of this life saving cancer treatment left her with irreversible physical damage that she would not wish on anyone. For Mel, the side effects of the cancer surgery and hormone blockers have been breathing problems, bone density loss, osteoporosis, chest pain, head to toe skin rashes, hot flushes, sterility, stomach pains, nerve pain, chest pain, numbness, restricted arm movement and loss of interest in intimacy. Finding out that individuals seeking support for gender dysphoria often receive the same invasive medical intervention as stage 3 breast cancer coalesced in Mel creating ‘Staying You’, a forum where she could empower those struggling with their identity to make informed choices and share their struggles.
‘I am beyond shocked, am so sad and deeply upset, that so few organisations are helping girls know the consequences of medicalizing their identities and are not instead supporting them to love themselves for all that they are in the perfectly healthy body that they are born in’ – Mel Day, 2023.
Source: Home | Staying You
The Culture War Is Not A Myth
Excellent piece on Andrew Doyle’s substack.
Why do politicians on the right and the left keep insisting that these key issues of our time simply don’t matter?
JUN 04, 2024
Here we go again. The culture war is apparently nothing more than a myth, a fabrication intended to distract the lower orders. It’s like the “bread and circuses” of Ancient Rome, or the Easter Bunny, or Milli Vanilli.
On this week’s episode of Newsnight, the former Tory MP Dehenna Davison was asked whether she welcomed Kemi Badenoch’s recent attempts to clarify the Equality Act in order to ensure that women’s rights to single-sex spaces are protected. “I don’t at all,” she said. “I think regrettably the debate around trans issues right now seems to be used as some kind of political football for this mythical culture war that the Conservative party seems to be fighting.”
That’s a relief. So the disabled women who are smeared as bigots for requesting female carers are simply fantasists? And the female prisoners who are terrified of being accommodated with convicted rapists are just worrying over nothing? And victims of sexual assault being turned away from rape crisis centres because they don’t want to speak to a male counsellor have just imagined the whole thing?
The full piece is here:
https://andrewdoyle.substack.com/p/the-culture-war-is-not-a-myth
Judging A Book By Its Author!
On The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism site, Jordan Randall writes about his book being banned:
Don’t Judge a Book by its Author
How a local bookstore canceled my book launch because I’m not trans
JUN 04, 2024
I had just lost my job, and my mother’s cancer came back. When things like that happen, you take a look at your life through a completely different lens. Throughout my life I’ve always had high ambitions for large projects that transcend myself and pushed to get them done. I have faced failure many times. I assessed my situation and knew that in order for me to finish this book and tell an elaborate story, I needed to take the time and do nothing else. So, for the next twenty-three days, I focused solely on writing my book. On average, I wrote 3,300 words per day in a highly minimalist style. Without distractions, I was able to immerse myself in my craft—so much so that nothing else mattered. As someone with ADHD, things like this often seem impossible, but I developed a technique to use my propensity to hyper-fixate and use it to power through writing the book. When it was finally done, I didn’t have much time to celebrate because it was time to release.
When the book came out it made decent sales and sparked some genuine intrigue in my work. The book is about a high school senior who fakes transitioning into a woman to help him get into college. There was some love and some hate sent my way, and getting an opportunity to speak was what I needed. I knew I had to start scaling up—small events at my local church weren’t going to give my work the reach it needed.
So I contacted a local bookstore in Columbia, Maryland, called Busboys and Poets, about hosting an author event for my book, Pinkface. Everything was confirmed, and the contract was signed to have the book sold in their stores. But then they asked for my headshot. As soon as they saw my face, they immediately canceled my book event, initially stating in an email that my book "didn't align with their values." I replied and asked what values specifically they were talking about, and then they changed their answer to "the manner in which themes of racial justice and queer rights are conveyed within your book doesn't align with our views." I followed up again, asking for specifics, and they said, "that's all we're able to tell you."
Disappointed and disheartened, I took a step back and looked at the situation from every possible angle. The only thing that changed between the event being scheduled and it getting canceled was that I sent them my headshot. So, I asked upfront if the reason for the cancellation was due to my race. Full disclosure: I am a biracial (half black, half white) cis-gendered American. [ Dusty - drop the ‘cis-gendered’, Jordan! You’re a man!] They then followed up by stating in bold letters, “We are not accepting your book for a multitude of reasons, the primary one being: it is a book written about a marginalized experience that the author does not identify with.” Essentially stating that because I’m not trans and my book deals with trans-related topics and a trans character, they canceled my event and broke our contract. Not only that, but after they were done lecturing me about what perspectives are okay for me to write from—they laid the assaults and murder of trans people across the country at my feet. They researched my book, signed a contract to have it sold in their stores, and were excited to have me speak there. All of that changed when they assumed I am cisgender because of my headshot.
It’s funny that all of this culminates right before Pride Month. I’m not gay (though we can all admit Ryan Reynolds is handsome), and I’m not trans. For years, I’ve celebrated Pride Month with friends who are in the community without a second thought. I cheered when marriage equality was legalized across the country. I’ve had friends come out to me as trans. This is the first time in my life I feel any lack of comfort being at any events with the LGBT community. My values haven’t changed, but I’m worried about what people who are only familiar with one side of the story surrounding my book might think of me. A movement that was initially about inclusivity has become ominously exclusionary toward certain groups—and disagreement with the orthodoxy of the day can get you into trouble.
The full piece is here:
https://news.fairforall.org/p/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-author?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
End Drag Queen Story Hour
Please sign this petition.
RuPaul’s Drag Race
I reported on this here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/abandoning-the-cult
A reader writes:
RuPaul’s Drag Race…if only people could see that this is the logical result of Queer Theory, no binaries, no boundaries, anything goes. If we can see it, why not everyone? Why are so few interested enough to question it? Why are so few seemingly uninterested in protecting society, children, family life from such depravity? Do they not realise that it will affect everyone if left to continue unchecked? It explains perfectly, the push to sexualise children…get them young. And although I do think that the big money pushing GI has been transhumanists and big pharma/ tech, were they aware that they were unleashing a monster? GI is the perfect cloak for predators and paedophiles to insidiously infiltrate society. PIE never went away. It just cloaked itself in glitter and rainbows. A bit like Voldemort’s version of Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility, it moves among us doing evil, while people are blinded by the glitter.
A History of the Transgender Monster
Great piece and great historical summary by Lierre Keith of Women’s Liberation Front.
Scott Wiener
Some of those who have stoked the gender furnaces can never be forgiven in my books. Scott Wiener is one of them.
Erin Friday on Reality’s Last Stand ( Sen. Scott Wiener Calls Parents ‘Nasty’ for Opposing Secret School Gender Policies 06 June) writes:
On June 3, 2024, California senator Scott Wiener, the Golden State’s most prolific anti-family, anti-parent, and pro-gender-transition-of-kids lawmaker, held a press conference in San Francisco to kick off Pride Month (the month formerly known as June). During the event, Wiener gleefully announced the introduction of Assembly Bill 1955 (AB1955), a bill he supported along with the 12 members of the LGBTQ Caucus. This bill requires schools to keep secrets from parents about their gender dysphoric children. Wiener likened a child’s announcement of being gender dysphoric—experiencing acute distress with his or her sex traits—to a child’s “coming out” as gay or lesbian. But this is an inaccurate comparison. On the contrary, a child’s statement that he or she is “transgender” is nothing but a cry for help. And if AB1955 succeeds, that help might never come.
“These are our kids!” declared Wiener, a man with no children, taking a page out of President Biden’s book.
Sen. Wiener also criticized parents who demand transparency from schools regarding their children’s use of new names and pronouns that do not correspond to their sex. He labeled such parents as “nasty people” for insisting on honesty and opposing secretive interactions between educators and students.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
Remember Donald Trump’s “nasty woman” comment? Has Wiener just issued “a viral call for solidarity” against AB1955 and himself? I can already envision the t-shirts:
“I’m a nasty parent because I oppose schools that lie.”
“I’m a nasty teacher because I refuse to lie to children or parents.”
“I’m a nasty school board member because I trust parents to care for and love their children.”
Senator Wiener and the California Democrats have grossly underestimated the public’s overwhelmingly strong opposition to secrecy in schools. According to Rasmussen Reports, 84 percent of California parents want to be informed by schools if their child shows a major change in mental health, with only 12 percent opposing such parental notifications. Additionally, a poll conducted in the liberal strongholds of the Bay Area and Los Angeles by the radical-feminist group Women’s Liberation Front found that 73 percent of Californians support policies requiring schools to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender on campus.
On May 29, 2024, California made history with the Senate Education Committee’s passage of AB1955, the first bill ever to mandate schools’ deception of parents as a state requirement. The LGBTQ Caucus studiously applied the principles learned from California Attorney General Bonta when concocting the title of the bill: the S.A.F.E.T.Y. Act (Support Academic Futures & Educators for Today’s Youth). However, a more accurate name for this proposed law would be the School Secrets Act.
The full piece is here:
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/sen-scott-wiener-calls-parents-nasty?utm_medium=email
Good News From Chile - Cass spreads!
Bernard Lane on Gender Clinic News (Shut down: The flagship gender clinic in Chile calls a halt to puberty blockers and hormones following intense media scrutiny 06 June) reports:
The most prominent gender clinic in Chile has reportedly suspended hormonal treatment of minors following the country’s first comprehensive media coverage of the troubling trans-affirmative medicalisation of minors.
The 13,500-word bombshell article “Interrupted puberty: transgender children start hormone treatment amid controversy” by journalist Sabine Drysdale was published on May 29 by BíoBíoChile, one of the country’s most popular news sites.
On June 5, the dean of medicine at the prestigious Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC), Dr Felipe Heusser, said the UC Christus health network had decided to suspend provision of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to new patients, according to Tele13 Radio journalist Paula Comandari. (GCN sought comment from publicists for UC Christus.)
In her broadcast, Ms Comandari said UC had been “in the eye of the hurricane” since BíoBío’s reportage. Follow-up media coverage, including an opinion article “Children in danger” in the conservative newspaper El Mercurio, has also picked up elements of the UC Christus story, framed by the international debate and England’s recent Cass report.
On May 31, opposition politician Dr Diego Schalper said he would press the health minister of Chile’s progressive-left government for more information about the trans-affirmative support program Grow with Pride which has been extended to children from the age of three. Dr Schalper, a 39-year-old lawyer educated in Chile and Germany, also called for a special session of the Family Committee in the lower house of parliament, where he is a deputy.
The full piece is here:
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/shut-down?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Endpiece
The 12 days of pride month
Wonderful piece from PITT Parents 😂
JUN 04, 2024
June is a tough month for many of us here. Between rainbow-dyed lattes sold at Starbucks, politically (but not grammatically or factually) correct emails from human resources, and roads blocked by another parade, we need to somehow get through the month of “celebrations” with dignity, sanity, and sobriety. I don't know your strategy, but I turn to nature, mindless youtube videos, and humor. Here is my ode to Pride Month. And please, share your non-violent coping strategies.
On the 12th day of Pride month,
the a-holes gave to me
Twelve "perfect allies",
Eleven dudes in dresses,
Ten girls with beards,
Nine meowing furries,
Eight nasty groomers,
Seven rainbow colors,
Six-pack Budweiser,
Five neopronouns,
Four rainbow lanyards,
Three Pride parades,
Two progress stickers,
And a pride flag in a pear tree.
https://www.pittparents.com/p/the-12-days-of-pride-month?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
#BeMorePorcupine
What an array of excellent pieces Dusty, thank you…..the speech, the song, the book launch 😳 and some great videos.
Scott Wiener is the perfect example of the evil moving among us, cloaked in glitter and rainbows. Forcing teachers to keep secrets from parents, telling children to keep secrets from parents and only trust the adults who are coercing them into a life of lies……..Glinner is right. This is grooming. There’s no other word for it. It’s straight out of the paedophile playbook. And it makes my blood boil.
But the crowning jewel of this update has got to be the Lierre Keith blistering and powerful potted history of the development of gender ideology. That piece should be compulsory viewing for anyone who refuses to accept what’s happening around us, anyone who thinks we should just ‘be kind’. She’s right, the huge money behind it all isn’t the driver, it’s the enabler. The driver is male sexual fetish and the desire of those males to overpower women in their quest for dominance, over women, over children, in order that they can use us for gratification and validation. It is all evil and if I ever feel myself wavering in this fight, I’ll watch that. Thanks Lierre. 👏
Excellent work here, thank you Dusty 😊