Brokeback Mountain
Update 571. Meghan Murphy Special. #BeMorePorcupine
I have finally concluded my one off piece, so normal service is resumed. And I’m hitting the ground running!!!!
I hope most if not all of my readers will have read my one off piece about ‘gender identity’, ‘transition’ and ‘gender dysphoria’. Do join in the discussion in the comments to that piece:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/there-are-no-witches
In terms of boys who think they want to or are persuaded that they should ‘transition’, the statistics from the Tavistock ( see Hannah Barnes’ book Time To Think) show that most of those boys will end up being gay. So today’s film is quite apposite since at least one of the cowboys spends a lot of time trying to ‘escape’ his homosexuality.
I explained the new Dusty’s Film Series here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-dustys-film-series
Please let me have any suggested additions. I have been updating it with additions so this is the latest list for you to double check. Please bear in mind the original series of films.
Next up is Brokeback Mountain (2005).
In Wyoming in 1963, cowboys Ennis del Mar ( Heath Ledger) and JackTwist ( Jack Gyllenhaal) are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre to herd his sheep through the summer on grazing pastures on Brokeback Mountain. After a night of heavy drinking, Jack makes a pass at Ennis. While initially reluctant, Ennis becomes receptive. Despite Ennis telling Jack that it was a one-time incident, they develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Near the end of their work contract, Ennis and Jack have a brawl that leaves both of them bloodied. Before parting ways, Ennis offhandedly laments that he left one of his shirts on the mountain.
And for the rest of the plot, you’ll just have to watch it if you haven’t already😊
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - Free Speech - The Crime and Policing Bill
The UK government’s Crime and Policing Bill poses a formidable threat to free speech in the UK. The bill, which is currently at the committee stage in the House of Commons, promises to keep our streets ‘safe’ by giving courts a new power to issue ‘respect orders’. These orders are potentially so draconian and wide-ranging that they could well end up being used for very different purposes – including silencing anyone who says anything online that the authorities disapprove of.
Please write to your MP.
EDI Jester deals with this here:
Meghan Murphy
I reported here on wonderful Terf, Meghan Murphy standing as a candidate in the upcoming Canadian election.
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/a-song-is-born-part-1?utm_source=publication-search
She was recently registered as a candidate. And then the Government froze her bank account. She still doesn’t know why. Astonishing totalitarianism!! She reports further on her substack, The Same Drugs:
Just when I thought the Canadian government couldn't get any worse...
Looks like I won't be returning to Canada for the foreseeable future
Apr 14, 2025
As most of my followers know, I left Canada in January 2021 out of genuine concern that if I didn’t, I would never be able to leave. I predicted I would be targeted by the government on account of my political dissidence—specifically due to my criticisms of Covid mandates, increasing authoritarianism, and attacks on free speech by the government, as well as on account of the fact I have been the most prominent and vocal critic of gender identity ideology and legislation in Canada for over a decade now.
I went to Mexico and watched things get progressively worse in Canada. My choice to leave was reaffirmed over and over again. When Trudeau’s Liberals went after the Freedom Convoy and its supporters, freezing the bank accounts of Canadian citizens who had done nothing wrong, but were fighting for their Charter rights, I began limiting my dependence on Canadian banking institutions as well. This was a dangerous, authoritarian government and I didn’t want to be left vulnerable and dependent on a government I suspected would attempt to silence and destroy me in one way or another. Despite this, I have maintained a much stronger connection to Canada than our apparent Prime Minister, Mark Carney, as I have continued to return to the country to fight for women’s rights, speak at events, visit family and friends, and to cover Canadian politics extensively in my work.
I still hadn’t completely given up on the country, and with an election pending, I saw one last opportunity to fight for change, and to force some conversations that had been suppressed in my progressive Vancouver East riding. Last month, I decided to run as a Canadian Member of Parliament, and began to publicize my decision to run for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC)—the only party truly committed to fighting for freedom and women’s sex-based rights.
My candidacy was confirmed officially on Tuesday. That same day, I tried to access my bank account and could not. I contacted my bank, Vancity, and was informed the account had been frozen as per direction from the government. I had accessed my account just two days prior, so the timing was clear. I had not been informed of this freezing by anyone — not the bank, not the government. No one attempted to contact me. I was completely blindsided.
When I contacted my bank they refused to give me any information beyond the fact they were following government orders, and they gave me a number and name to contact. I called the number, and got a voicemail saying the employee was on vacation all week. So basically this guy froze my bank account and immediately went on vacation.
His voicemail offered another extension to call, which I did. No one answered, so I left a message. I called again later that day and left another message. No one returned my call, so I called back the next day and left another message. Still no one returned my call. The following day I called again and received a message saying I could not get through on account of “technical difficulties.” I tried calling a general number, and asked the woman on the other end of the phone if she could please refer me to someone who could provide me with information about why my bank account was frozen. She told me, “I can’t give you any information unless you give me more information about what’s going on,” to which I responded, “I have no information, that’s why I’m calling you: to get information.” We went back and forth like this for a while until I asked her if she was retarded and then said, “What exactly is your job—what is it you are being paid to do with the tax dollars of Canadians.” She explained her job was to refer people who called to the appropriate departments, numbers, and individuals. “Ok,” I said. “Then can you please refer me to someone who can explain to me what is going on with my bank account.” She said “No,” and I hung up.
It has now been a week since my bank account was frozen and I have received zero communication or information from the government.
The full piece is here:
https://www.meghanmurphy.ca/p/just-when-i-thought-the-canadian?publication_id=666229&r=1v403b
UK - Code Of Practice
Ethan Croft in The Telegraph ( Women’s rights to be prioritised in equality law revamp 12 April) reports:
Transgender people will be routinely asked to present Gender Recognition Certificates and organisations are compelled to define the difference between sex and gender under proposed changes to the equality code.
Britain’s human rights watchdog last week submitted a 310-page revised version of its Statutory Code of Practice on Services, Public Functions and Associations to the Government.
The guidance, which was last amended in 2010, is considered to be “out of date” by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
The EHRC is pushing for a radical overhaul following fears existing guidelines on sex and gender were being loosely interpreted by hundreds of public bodies, allowing self-identifying trans people into single sex spaces.
The code is currently being scrutinised by ministers and officials, including government lawyers, and could be presented to Parliament before the summer recess.
It will protect biological sex over gender identity as far as is possible under current law.
Dusty - obviously a lot will depend on the For Women Scotland judgment which will be handed down on Wednesday morning. I don’t like the sound of presenting certificates!!?? We don’t want any larping men in women’s single sex spaces, certificate or no certificate!!
I don’t know if anyone has seen the draft of the code yet or whether it has only been presented to Government Ministers. I trust there will be a consultation process!!??
The full article is here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5cbd9cefbad033be
Australia - Re Devin
I reported on this landmark judgment here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-fiction-of-gender-dysphoria
Feminist Legal Clinic reports:
Trans ruling ‘could rewrite the law’
A landmark judgment that stripped custody from a mother who wished to give her 12-year-old puberty blockers threatens to undo precedents allowing treatment for children without court intervention, a former Family Court judge says.
Stuart Lindsay KC, who presided in the Family Court from 2004 to 2014, has warned of the damaging effects of secrecy statutes anonymising key details.
He said it may be in the “best interests” of children and parents that the identities be known.
The comments come days after judge Andrew Strum published a significant judgment rejecting a hospital’s diagnosis that the 12 year old suffered from gender dysphoria, and criticising activist who use legal proceedings to promote a pro-transgender ideology.
Justice Strum’s judgment has made waves among family lawyers, paediatricians and psychologists, after he criticised the approach of hospitals to children questioning their gender, saying the decision to “affirm unreservedly” any child that raises concerns over their gender is “oddly binary”.
He suggested that the Full Court may need to reconsider precedent that allows children questioning their gender identity to access medical treatment without legal intervention, due to emerging research contesting gender-affirming models of care.
The treatment by the courts of children who raise concerns over their gender has been largely shaped by three major court cases.
In Re Jamie in 2013, the Full Court established parents could consent to their children taking puberty blockers without court authorisation, finding the treatment is reversible.
Four years later in Re Kelvin, the Full Court removed the requirement for court authorisation of the provision of cross-sex hormones.
Re Imogen in 2020 clarified that while Re Kelvin relaxed the need for court oversight, authorisation was mandatory if there was a dispute over treatment.
Justice Strum said the Full Court may reconsider the categorisation of puberty blockers as reversible “in the aftermath” of the landmark British Cass Report, which recommended limitations on medication for gender-dysphoric children.
“There’s no more of this pretend consensus,” Mr Lindsay said. “The Chief Justice of the Family Court should make it plain that on the first opportunity a case stated should be put up by the judge who’s got one of these before him or her, and a court of five should be convened. A court of five to undo Kelvin.”
The Australian is unable to publish details identifying the witnesses – including the state in which the matter was heard – due to secrecy laws to protect the identity of the child.
But Mr Lindsay said: “Why shouldn’t, in the interests of children and parents in that state, why shouldn’t that be released?
“This has always been the problem here,” he said.
“You read about one of these cases and there might have been some feature of the treatment or some witness who was called who had one view or another that you, as a legal practitioner, wanted to follow up or as a litigant, and you could never find out who they were.”
He continued: “It’s the sort of order you only usually see in a state security matter.”
[Ed: The recent case in question is Re Devin 2025]
Source: Trans ruling ‘could rewrite the law’
https://feministlegal.org/trans-ruling-could-rewrite-the-law-the-australian/
Australia - An Update
On her podcast, Veriditas Petra Bueskens interviews Anna Kerr, Director of the Feminist Legal Clinic about the current situation in the law with regard to women’s sex based rights. Unfortunately this interview took place before the Re Devin ( see above) judgment but provides a good update on the situation prior to that judgment. I am also not clear how that judgment might impinge on the cases mentioned in this interview. But, oh boy, how far behind Australia are!!!
The two big cases recently are:
Giggle v Tickle https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/attaboy-clarence?utm_source=publication-search
Lesbian Action Group v Australian Human Rights Commission https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/central-station?utm_source=publication-search
There are three big issues at the moment in terms of sex based rights:
Changing the sex marker on birth certificates;
Changes re discrimination in the law;
Conversion therapy which incudes ‘gender identity’ and thus, effectively, stops therapists and others talking to children who have gender confusion.
The Sex Discrimination Act was amended to include ‘gender identity.’ This Act was originally meant to implement CEDAW but there are concerns about the direction of travel on this of the United Nations - see article below.
There is the Federal level and the State level but currently all states are captured by the gender madness.
They conclude with a discussion about the history of feminism and women’s rights.
Let Women Speak Bristol
I reported on this here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/wonderful-women-speak-in-bristol
Radical Cartoons, who was in charge of organising the event, has done an excellent report on her substack:
Bristol "Unsavouries" stand proud!
The new name for Terfs, courtesy of Transactivists and Bristol Anarchists!
Apr 14, 2025
Yours truly, Radical Cartoons (wearing my “Deep State Operative” t-shirt), with coppers on College Green, Bristol, at Let Women Speak yesterday.
Women's Rights Activists in Terf Island have a new nickname - “The Unsavouries"!
Courtesy of Transactivists (TRAs) and Bristol Anarchists, who posted on their Facebook page: “Posy Parker attracts unsavoury people"!
Well, compared to; “TerfWitchCuntNaziHomophobeRightWingBitchTransphobe”, “Unsavouries” is quite sweet!
In my short speech at Bristol yesterday, I said : “ A new insult, let's own it! “The Unsavouries", it's a great new t-shirt slogan!
It worked out well for “The Deplorables” in America”!
Here's the full event, the sound is quite poor. Kellie-Jay is the clearest, but she was a singer at school (still is) and knows how to project her voice with a microphone - a skill most of us have never had the chance to develop.
The full piece is here:
https://radicalcartoons.substack.com/p/bristol-unsavouries-stand-proud
Ireland - Pretend Medicine
Conor Pope in The Irish Times ( Doctors initiate legal action over State’s transgender policy 13 April) reports:
A legal action seeking a judicial review of the State’s treatment of children with gender identity issues is due to come before the High Court shortly.
The action against the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) is being taken by Prof Donal O’Shea and psychiatrist Dr Paul Moran, a consultant psychiatrist at the National Gender Service (NGS).
Court papers were lodged on Friday, almost 18 months after Prof O’Shea and Dr Moran made a formal complaint against the Health Service Executive (HSE) with Hiqa over the HSE’s referral of young people for assessment abroad, saying it posed a risk to these children.
The Irish Times understands that the clinicians were prompted to take the High Court action over concerns about the manner in which Hiqa, the health services watchdog, handled their complaint. A letter effectively dismissing it was sent to the doctors almost three months ago.
Prof O’Shea and Dr Moran – two of the leading experts in the area of transgender healthcare in Ireland – have stressed they are not against the “gender-affirming” model that is typically found overseas but have concerns over its link to an early readiness to begin what could be inappropriate and irreversible medical treatment for patients presenting with gender identity issues.
They have advocated for more holistic models of care when it comes to children who are questioning their gender rather than focusing on measures and treatments that are irreversible.
They are understood to be seeking a court hearing to look at setting up a judicial review as soon as the Easter legal break ends.
The HSE is developing a clinical programme for gender healthcare here and said last year that patients would continue to be assessed abroad until the service in Ireland is up and running, which was scheduled for 2026.
The full piece is here:
New Zealand - Dodgy MP Doubles Down!!
Thanks to our Kiwi friend Katrina Biggs for the latest update on this scandal.
‘Dodgy pics’ Doyle refuses to resign as an MP for the NZ Greens.
It's not Benjamin Doyle's fault that the dodgy pics, symbols, and language on his Instagram account are being misunderstood.
Apr 12, 2025
Standing strong and soberly-dressed in a crisp, white, cross-over blouse with flared cuffs, a necklace, and dark plaid skirt – which, in all fairness, might have been a kilt – Green MP Benjamin Doyle declared “I refuse to be disappeared by hate”. Being the massive attention-seeker he is, it’s doubtful we would be so lucky he’d disappear for any reason. Plus, his salary as a Member of Parliament is probably the best he’s earned in his 32 years so far, and unlikely to be matched elsewhere.
After the March 28th publication of the dodgy photos off his Instagram account (purportedly) featuring his child, accompanied by dubious symbols and language, Doyle did disappear from Parliament for a whole week whilst he and the Greens strategised on how to put a bandaid on the scandal. The two Green co-leaders, Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson, decided on the winning strategy of telling those who thought there was something off about Doyle’s Instagram account that they were being very mean, and didn’t understand how certain subsets of the rainbow community just spoke and behaved like that amongst their in-group. Did I say ‘winning strategy’? I meant a WTF strategy, as was evident when howls of protest from the rainbow community at this proclamation got heard up and down the land. There were many from all walks of life who didn’t object, though, and nodded along with Chlöe and Marama, because, as we know, expecting the neo-rainbow crowd to have the same boundaries of decent behaviour as anyone else is akin to persecution of them, and denial of their authentic selves. Bear in mind that until March 28th when he locked it down, Benjamin Doyle’s Instagram account was public, so the ‘in-group’ language and symbology was also available for anyone in the out-group to see.
The full piece is here:
Terf Vibes also reports very powerfully on this on her substack, Til Sex Do Us Part:
Brazil - Great News!
Great news from Brazil on Bernard Lane’s substack, Gender Clinic News.
Brazil's doctors hit the brakes
The Federal Council of Medicine has joined the international shift to caution on puberty blockers
Apr 13, 2025
Slow down
The Federal Council of Medicine in Brazil has reportedly adopted a more cautious position on gender medicalisation of young people.
The council, the main professional association for doctors, has approved a resolution banning puberty blockers for gender-distressed minors, lifting the minimum age for cross-sex hormones to 18, and not allowing transgender surgery that sterilises until 21, according to an April 10 report in Folha de São Paulo.
Although a text of the April 8 resolution is yet to be released, the news has been confirmed by another media outlet, Gazeta do Povo, and welcomed by Brazil’s sex-realist women’s group MATRIA, which said the council of medicine had the power to remove the licence of doctors who practise contrary to the new cautious policy.
“We need to keep the pressure up so nothing happens to prevent the resolution from being officially published,” one of MATRIA’s directors, Clarice, told GCN.
“It comes at a crucial moment, as there is a lot of pressure on the Health Ministry to broaden ‘trans care’ in our public system and lower ages for hormones and surgeries.”
The full piece is here:
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/brazils-doctors-hit-the-brakes?publication_id=627677&r=1v403b
United Nations - Women Fight Back!
In March 2025, the UN Secretary-General announced that the United Nations was launching an initiative UN80 aimed at reforming the United Nations system. He emphasised that the reforms are not just about internal processes but aimed at delivering tangible improvements in peace, development and humanitarian aid, while ensuring that public funds are used wisely and transparently. Women’s Platform for Action International have written to the Secretary- General.
Well done but I’m afraid I am not holding my breath!!
OPEN LETTER TO UN SECRETARY-GENERAL
Stockholm, 14 April 2025 info@womensplatformforaction.org www.womensplatformforaction.org
Dear UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres,
In March 2025, you announced that the United Nations was launching an initiative UN801 aimed at reforming the United Nations system. You emphasised that the reforms are not just about internal processes but aimed at delivering tangible improvements in peace, development and humanitarian aid, while ensuring that public funds are used wisely and transparently. Women’s Platform for Action International (WoPAI) - a global platform of women’s rights organisations created to advance the human rights of women and girls in the face of the multidimensional backlash - welcomes this initiative. We believe the UN80 could provide an excellent opportunity for the UN system to evaluate its role in protecting and promoting women’s rights, and to take action. Women’s human rights are not only integral but essential to peace, development and humanitarian aid, as they are to the UN system. Regretfully, in the past two decades, instead of strengthening them, the United Nations system has contributed to jeopardising women and girls’ human rights in several significant ways. From multiple UN publications and statements of UN officials, to the reports from grassroots women’s rights organisations engaged with UN actors in different regions of the world, empirical evidence demonstrates that many UN offices (such as the OHCHR), Specialised Agencies (such as the UN Women) and Special Procedures (such as the UN Special Rapporteurs on Health and on Culture), have departed from internationally agreed standards on women’s human rights. They also contributed to a culture within the UN system conducive to the decimation of such standards. In particular:
● Many UN actors abandoned women and girls’ protection against discrimination on the basis of sex enshrined in CEDAW [ Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women ], other major human rights treaties and national constitutions. Instead, they advocate for the removal of sex as a protected ground, conflating it with “gender” and “gender identity” in official documents. Some UN actors go as far as to argue that the very term ‘sex’ is “essentialist” and “regressive” and that, according to international law, a woman can be any individual who believes to be such.
● Many UN actors have been promoting legalisation and decriminalisation of pimping and exploitation of prostitution despite this being recognised as a form of sex-based discrimination and violence against women, and a violation of human rights, prohibited by international law. Some UN actors claim that the human rights treaties that recognise prostitution of women as a violation of human’s rights are “outdated” and “retrogressive” and should be disregarded.
● Many UN actors have contributed to the suppression of women’s freedom of speech, expression and assembly, as well as reprisals against feminists who support sex-based rights of women and/or advocate for the abolition of all forms of male violence, including prostitution, pornography and surrogacy.UN officials deliberately conflate feminist analysis with far-right [ Dusty - I think we have more to fear from the far left actually!!], fundamentalist, anti-abortion and other groups who question the universality of women’s human rights, inciting discrimination against feminists.
● Largely engineered by the UN staff - secretariats and specialised agencies - within the UN system, only well funded lobby groups, disguised as NGOs, with profit making or state-sanctioned agendas not reflective of the grassroots women’s movement, have been granted the privilege of accessing human rights mechanisms resulting in the near elimination of independent women’s movement representation in the UN processes.
● The OHCHR, UN Women, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNDP, UNODC, as well as WHO, ILO and IOM [ Dusty - that’s too many acronyms for me!! You’ll have to look them up if necessary!] , have been particularly instrumental in silencing the voices of independent women’s groups and women’s human rights defenders, exclusively promoting those organisations and individuals with positions dictated by large corporate funders. Through regional and country programmes, the same agencies have been imposing terms and positions on women’s movement globally, neither based on international law nor aligned with the fundamental needs of women’s movement. While the CEDAW convention remains the only binding treaty providing a comprehensive and internationally agreed terms on women’s human rights, the UN, supposed to be its guardian, has engaged in endangering this vital instrument by attacking its key concepts - such as sex-discrimination, protection of maternity, substantive equality and positive actions for women - rendering them, and the convention itself, meaningless. Considering a very serious financial, political and moral crisis that the UN system is facing, we call on the office of the UN Secretary-General to consider women’s human rights and the international standards existing to protect them, as a matter of high priority. No reform of the UN is possible as long as UN officials themselves do not understand and do not comply with international law on women’s rights, treating it as optional and even disposable. The human rights of women and girls, including sex-based protections, are neither disposable nor selective. Women’s rights not to be commodified - sexually, reproductively or otherwise - are universal, inalienable and non-derogable. Women’s freedom of expression and assembly is not discretionary. We call on you, UN Secretary-General, in your proposed reformation of the UN not to ignore the growing global discontent of women’s movement with the way the UN have been treating us, and to ensure that all UN actors under your purview urgently recommit to safeguarding our human rights.
Sincerely, Gertrud Åström,
Chair of WoPAI
Susannah Sjöberg,
General Secretary WoPAI
Endpieces
We (kind of) have a guest endpiece. Terf Vibes, to cheer herself up, posted a piece from A Pauling taking apart an awful ( as usual) John Oliver broadcast - so we are also posting that here:
From Terf Vibes
From Liz
From Tenaciously
#BeMorePorcupine
#EndGenderAffirmingCare
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#GrassrootsArmy
#FightForFreeSpeech
#ByeByeStonewall
#NoMenInWomensSport
#LiveNotByLies
I'm not in the UK, but I agree that the GRC certificates should account for nothing when it comes to single-sex spaces and services. I'm fed up with the TQ+ wielding their misery like a sword that everyone must kneel before.
The great minds of trans ideology coming up with an insult that just means "sweet"! 🤣🤣🤣🤣