Brooklyn
Update 460. Mermaids Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
I am sending this out a bit early since: there is a lot going on; I am out on the tiles tonight (last Friday night before I retire!!); and I am going out tomorrow!
Onwards with the Irish Heroes season.
Brooklyn is a 2015 romantic film directed by John Crowley, based on the 2009 novel by Colm Tóibín. The plot follows Eilis Lacey ( Saoirse Ronan), a young Irishwoman who immigrates to Brooklyn in the early 1950s to find employment. After building a life there, she is drawn back to her home town of Enniscorthy and has to choose whether to remain in Ireland or to return to the States.
Two Tier Keir
In the last update I reported on the story of Lucy Connolly. I want you to read this report with that previous report in mind. All thoughts gratefully received.
Nick Gutteridge in The Telegraph ( Starmer ‘really angry’ after criminals thank him for early release 23 October) reports:
Daniel Dowling-Brooks thanks the Prime Minister while posing next to a Bentley after his release on Tuesday - Steve Finn
Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “really angry” after criminals released from prison early thanked him as they were picked up in luxury cars.
The Prime Minister said he was infuriated by the scenes outside jails which saw one prisoner who had been released early shout “big up Keir Starmer”.
He insisted that he had never wanted to sign off on the controversial early release scheme but had to because Britain’s jails were “at bursting point”.
Sir Keir was asked how he felt about criminals, who had been set free up to a year early, thanking him for signing off on their release.
In one instance a convicted armed kidnapper who was released early from jail shouted “big up Keir Starmer” as he posed on a new £150,000 Bentley.
The full article is here:
The Mermaids Report
The Charity Commission report on Mermaids is finally out as reported by Graham Linehan on the Glinner Update. This seems very disappointing to me though I hope that Mermaids are now in such financial and practical difficulties that they might fold in any event. All thoughts gratefully received.
Mermaids ordered to revise puberty blocker advice
A long-awaited inquiry comes to some inevitable conclusions
Oct 24, 2024
A Charity Commission inquiry has concluded that Mermaids provided misleading information about puberty blockers on its website.
The inquiry, launched in 2022, found no evidence to suggest that Mermaids provided medical advice, made medical referrals without parental consent, or had inappropriate ties with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust or private medical practices. However, the report raised serious concerns about Mermaids' website, finding that the charity failed to clearly state whether its claims about puberty blockers were intended to be educational or to directly address the mental and emotional stress of those affected.
This distinction is crucial because charities that provide educational information have a legal responsibility to ensure that information is accurate, evidence-based, and balanced. Mermaids' failure to clearly identify the purpose of its information about puberty blockers potentially put the charity in violation of these legal requirements. The Commission instructed Mermaids to review its statements on puberty blockers, particularly the claim that the effects of these interventions are reversible, and advised the charity to ensure that all information provided was in line with the findings of the Cass Review.
Mermaids confirms that it has complied with this advice and has removed all references to puberty blockers and reversibility from the website
The Commission's Chair, Orlando Fraser KC, emphasized the importance of providing accurate information in this field, particularly for charities whose registered status might influence children and families. He added that the inquiry holds valuable lessons for other charities operating in this area, urging them to carefully consider the findings and recommendations of the Cass Review.
The Cass Review, published in April 2024, led to changes in NHS guidelines, particularly concerning the use of blockers. The NHS now restricts their use to clinical trials unless exceptional circumstances exist. This decision reflects the lack of sufficient evidence supporting the safety and effectiveness of the drugs for routine use.
Similarly, the inquiry identified serious concerns regarding the charity's approach to chest binder provision. While Mermaids claimed to prioritize harm reduction in offering binders to young people, the inquiry found this practice deeply troubling given the potential for serious harm, both physical and psychological, associated with their use.
The Commission highlighted that providing binders through a charity could carry an implicit message of approval, potentially influencing vulnerable young people and their families to engage in a practice with significant and poorly understood risks. The Commision instructed Mermaids to cease the practice of providing chest binders and demanded that any future policy reflect the Cass Review’s findings, prioritizing the well-being and safety of young people above all else.
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/mermaids-ordered-to-revise-puberty
As an aside, there was a comment on this by someone called Ian Court which I thought was very useful and preceptive with regard to Dr Cass ( see my previous report here: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/a-gentleman-caller-b74):
We really needed Cass to be a meta analysis of what we refer to as ‘trans’, the evidence for it being a mass formation psychosis, a social contagion, for example, within the medical profession itself. Cass obviously believes in the efficacy of ‘gender affirming care’ for adults and I think clearly revealed in her Woman’s Hour interview, that she believes that the fault lines lie in extant, diagnostic techniques for a ‘difficult to read’ child and adolescent cohort. Not in the notion of ‘gender identity’ itself - she is, after all, happy to use all the terms used by activists such as ‘assigned at birth’ and ‘non-binary’. Hence, the children on puberty blockers have been left on them (why, when we know they are dangerous?)and in her own words, unlimited numbers of children can be put in the ‘clinical trials’. My concern is that all that Cass is establishing, is that ‘a spoonful of talk therapy makes the medicine go down’. I really hope I am wrong but I can’t see that Cass is actually banning puberty blockers or questioning any of the basic tenants of ‘gender identity’. It’s basically the same reason why the Charity Commission has delivered a slap across the wrist for Mermaids, rather than a cancellation of their charitable status. I encourage everyone to listen to Cass’ Woman’s Hour interview - why does she say, for example, that as the average age of children going in puberty blocker was 15 - it would have been better for them to go straight onto cross sex hormones? My chin was on the floor at that point.
I responded to Ian:
That is a great summation of Cass, Ian, thanks.
It also occurs to me recently that we can get blinded a bit by 388 page reports and the like - I pause and think: what is the purpose of puberty blockers? You cannot 'transition'. You cannot change sex. End of discussion. If you are really distressed by your circumstances then let's get you some therapeutic help. I'm anorexic. OK starve yourself, that's a good idea!!
This gender drivel is all an incredible fiction manufactured by , quite frankly, evil people.
All thoughts gratefully received as ever.
Irish Hate Crime Act
The hated hate act has been passed! I will try and do a deep dive into it if I get time in due course.
Maria Maynes in Gript News (Hate Crime Bill passes in Dáil despite calls for legislation to be parked October) reports:
The Dáil has passed the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill, with the contentious legislation passed by a majority of 78 to 52 votes.
It follows Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s confirmation, last month, that she was not proceeding with plans to introduce new hate speech laws, but would proceed with the hate crime element of the legislation.
A range of amendments made in the Seanad in September removed parts of the Bill that deal with incitement to violence and hatred, the hate speech elements, but leave in the provisions dealing with hate crime.
Ms McEntee said she wanted to “remove the incitement to violence or hatred provisions entirely from this Bill so that we can progress this important element of legislation and send a very clear message that hatred and violence are not tolerated in our society,” adding:
“I have said very publicly that I believe we need to update our 1989 Acts. I absolutely believe this needs to be next on our agenda.”
Speaking tonight, Ms McEntee said that she “absolutely believes” that the Dáil will in the future consider introducing hate speech laws.
“We’re here because I fundamentally believe that we need to have hate crime legislation on our statute, and we don’t. I’ve said it at the outset and it’s not that I’ve been forced or pushed into a particular route, but I believe that we had a consensus, very clearly in this house, and I believe that we lost that consensus,” she said.
“I believe that instead of not enacting any element of [the Bill], I wanted to ensure that hate crime, for the first time, was put on statute. We’re the first country across Europe to have it [ Dusty - this must be wrong!], and I absolutely believe that we need to have it,” Ms McEntee said, continuing:
“We’re here to make sure that we have for the first time, on our statute, hate crime legislation. But I do believe that we need to do more to update and to amend and to improve the ‘89 Act. The ‘89 Act will still exist. It is there; we will still have incitement legislation.
“Yes, I absolutely accept that there are different ways that this could have been done, but I fundamentally believe that we need to have hate crime legislation on the statute books, and that’s why we’re here this evening. That’s why I’m progressing this, and that’s why I hope at a later stage we’ll be able to address the elements of the incitement to hatred and violence elements that were taken out.”
The Minister said she “fundamentally believes” that the incitement to hatred and violence elements of the law had to be “kept together” and progressed “at a later stage.”
A number of opposition politicians expressed strong opposition to the revised Bill tonight, including the Rural Independent Group, who voted against the legislation.
Mattie McGrath said that the legislation should be “taken back,” as he questioned the “rush” around the law.
“Why the rush? Rushed legislation is often, nearly always, bad legislation,” he said, pointing to Helen McEntee’s “desire to have the legislation under your belt.”
The Tipperary TD called the law a “half-baked vanity project,” stating that the law was about “trying to intimidate ordinary citizens from having their voice heard.”
“You don’t like the voice of the people,” McGrath told the Justice Minister. “Your government has been the most anti-ordinary people that I’ve ever seen here in my term of four governments. I don’t know why you’ve such a dislike for them. The games you’re playing with them and the legislation you’re passing is not helping the people […] I and my colleagues in the Rural Independents are totally opposed.”
McGrath further described it as a “last ditch attempt” by the Justice Minister to “save face.”
Deputy Carol Nolan, meanwhile, said tonight: “The Rural Independent Group voted against flawed and dangerous legislation. In relation to this Bill, a number of experienced legal experts have correctly pointed out that the government don’t actually define what ‘hate speech’ is.”
“This legislation,” she said, “Is another slippery and regressive step by a government that has truly embraced woke culture. It would serve them better to focus more on the economy and small businesses that need support.”
Peadar Tóibín of Aontú accused Sinn Féin of going “missing in action,” as he accused the party of “stealing my clothes.”
Taking aim at his former party for their U-turn on the Hate Crime Bill, Mr Tóibín said that his party had been the only ones to “fully oppose” the law.
Meanwhile, Sinn Féin’s Deputy Matt Carthy said that Helen McEntee’s government had chosen to proceed with “a Frankenstein of a Bill,” insisting that the party was totally opposed to the amended Hate Speech Bill.
“This is bad legislation which has been rushed through in the dying days of a bad government,” Carthy said.
Mr Carthy said that “a proper consensus” should have been reached in the House, including “an actual definition of hate.”
“The current definition of hate [in the Bill] is defined as hatred. It’s circular, and I don’t believe it’s an acceptable way of doing legislation. And it does, I have to say, remind me of Roderic O’Gorman’s suggestions of a durable relationships, which we know caused so much confusion in our society because nobody knew precisely what it meant.”
“Now we have Minister McEntee trying to introduce a new definition of gender, despite there being no consensus as to what that means,” Mr Carthy said, pointing out that the Bill defines gender as including transgender, and a “gender other than male or female.”
“Minister, most people do not understand what that means precisely,” he said.
Deputy Danny Healy-Rae also spoke out against the law prior to the vote, telling Minister McEntee that he has received “calls practically every week” about the Bill, and that “people just don’t trust you in relation to this Bill.”
“We’ve been a democratic State for the last 100 years. What was wrong with it? Why are we trying to change it? Why are we trying to shut people up?” Mr Healy-Rae asked. “Why are we trying to deny them the right to talk?”
The result of Wednesday night’s vote was as follows:
https://gript.ie/hate-crime-bill-passes-in-dail-despite-calls-for-legislation-to-be-parked/
The Fanatics at the RCPCH
Great piece by Rebecca Says No on the Glinner Update.
The fanatics at the RCPCH
Gender Identity Activists have infiltrated the Royal College of Paediatrics
Oct 23, 2024
As recently as Spring 2023, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health showed the extent of gender lobbyists’ influence over it by allowing Gendered Intelligence to write an article in its magazine. This was unprecedented access, giving a gender identity pressure group the opportunity to address paediatricians directly. As below, Gendered Intelligence used this to tell paediatric doctors that they should participate in the social transition of children and teenagers by using their chosen name and pronouns. This is despite the fact that in 2022, the Interim Cass Report stated social transition is not a neutral act, but an ‘active intervention because it may have significant effects on the child or young person in terms of their psychological functioning’.
Further to this, Gendered Intelligence’s article states that paediatricians should not assume that a child’s parents should be told of their self-diagnosed ‘gender identity’ and claims that this is not a safeguarding matter. It also tells doctors that child patients should be allowed to use whichever ‘spaces they want’ in terms of toilets and changing rooms, which undercuts other patients’ rights to same sex facilities and is indeed something that also diminishes the safety of these children.
Gendered Intelligence encourages doctors to act in an affirming manner to children whose ‘gender identity does not match or sit easily with the sex they were assigned at birth’. This is a dangerous ideological instruction which effectively asks doctors to agree with the child on their dysfunctional view of their body. Doctors would not be asked to ‘affirm’ an anorexic patient’s view of themself, as this would clearly not be in the patient’s best interests.
It would be very revealing if the public could know the extent to which lobby groups such as Gendered Intelligence and Stonewall have steered the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health - influences which will have directly impacted the taxpayer-funded NHS. Unfortunately, two Freedom of Information requests enquiring about the RCPCH’s relationship with and funding sent to Stonewall were met with flat refusals due to the college ‘not being a public body’. One of these FOIs was from February 2021, in which the College was asked to disclose any application it made in 2019 or 2020 to be a Stonewall Diversity Champion or to be included on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index. The College was also asked about any feedback it received from Stonewall in 2019 or 2020. The other FOI was from December 2021 and asked for details of any funding that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health provided to Stonewall between 2015-2021. This information remains unknown.
Although the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s profile on the website Charity Job currently states that the RCPCH is a Stonewall Champion Employer, Sex Matters keeps an ongoing list of organisations who have been on the Stonewall Champions list and updates it by crossing off organisations as they become aware of them leaving - one of which being RCPCH. We can therefore conclude that the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health was a paid-up Stonewall Champion for some years but now seems to have ended this association without fanfare.
Internal Activism at the RCPCH
It also appears that there are doctors internal to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health who express gender identity activist sentiments.
The full piece is here:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-fanatics-at-the-rcp
‘Trans Policies’ In Schools
Excellent piece from Transgender Trend on their webiste.
What is the impact of schools trans policies on children of trans parents?
Post published:October 23, 2024
We have long been concerned about the impact of schools trans policies on two specific groups of children: the siblings and the children of trans parents. These two groups are routinely ignored in schools trans guidance. The celebrations, the trans flags, the teaching of ‘gender identity’ as fact, the coercion of children to ‘be kind’ and be ‘trans allies’: what effect does all this have on the children who are facing the issue within their own families?
We asked Emma Thomas, who founded the support group Children of Transitioners, to give us her thoughts as the child of a father who began to identify as transgender during her childhood. We are very grateful to her for writing this important account from the perspective of the children of transitioning fathers.
Follow Children of Transitioners here:
www.childrenoftransitioners.org
childrenoftransitioners@protonmail.com
@childrenoftrans on X
Introduction
Children of Transitioners is a group founded in 2019 by Emma Thomas. We are not funded and have no party-political affiliations. Our members are currently all adult women with fathers who began to identify as transgender after getting married and having children. Over time, we expect to see children of women who have transitioned join us, but currently most of this cohort are very young.
One concern that reflects our own experience is the difficulty in getting help in schools, or from social services, if they are captured by the ideology that insists that ‘trans women are women’ and sees any diversion from that as ‘transphobic.’ We are hampered by a prevailing ethos that refuses to acknowledge that men who cross dress can be as abusive as men who do not, and a belief that as these men are now women, they will have the same offending profile as women. Sadly, it is a fact that cross dressing can be part of a pattern of sexual offending in some men – as some of our members have experienced.
We have previously submitted evidence to the government GRA enquiry about issues that affect us:
https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/16837/pdf/
Safeguarding in schools
Gender confused children are the main focus of consideration for professionals dealing with trans-related issues in school, but they are not the only ones facing challenges. The children of trans people are hugely impacted as well. A major concern is that professionals dealing with children of trans parents may overlook the normal safeguarding considerations in order to escape any suggestion that they are ‘transphobic’.
We suggest the government provides an Equality Impact Assessment referring to different groups which would help schools consider the needs of all children affected, including the children of trans people.
Coercive enforcement of trans ideology
It is also worth considering that well-intentioned adults in schools can become proxies for coercive control at home by enforcing pronoun use or expecting the child to be a ‘trans ally’. The European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court have both ruled that it violates a child’s human rights and wellbeing to deny their right to correctly name their parents as mother and father. We would like this to be part of schools’ guidance also, that a school must not pressure any child to lie about who their mother and father are.
Trans groups in school
The influence of Stonewall in schools has clearly had a huge impact, and we are aware that many schools around the country are still working with ‘LGBTQ’ groups which often promote the ‘TQ’ far more than the ‘LGB’. We are concerned that schools’ unquestioning celebration of ‘Pride’ and all things trans-related is harmful and distressing to children of trans parents who may be facing considerable challenges at home. We need schools to be a safe place from any ideology. The ‘Pride’ lanyards and posters can feel like an extension of coercion. Teachers reinforcing the ‘transwomen are women’ or ‘you can be born in the wrong body’ narratives destabilise trust in the school, and reinforce the idea that there is no authority you can turn to if your trans parent is abusive. Furthermore, for a child who is confused and destabilised by demands to affirm that a parent has changed their sex, the promotion of gender identity ideology can embed the idea that it is the child who is at fault.
Many organisations who could help us have also taken advice from Stonewall and similar organisations. This makes it difficult for us to talk or report abuse to anyone, including the police, CPS, SWE, NSPCC and Childline. This is why it is essential for schools to be objective, non-judgemental spaces.
The presence of trans groups in school may also be a catalyst for bullying by other pupils, for example in this case in which a girl was ostracised for questioning trans ideology:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/girl-18-driven-out-of-school-for-questioning-transgender-ideology
The full piece is here:
https://www.transgendertrend.com/schools-trans-policies-children-of-trans-parents/
The Inconvenient Truth
Interesting piece by Benjamin Ryan on his substack Hazard Ratio about, amongst other things, the notorious Johanna Olson-Kennedy suppressing a paper that went against her agenda. I hasten to add that I don’t necessarily agree with everything Mr Ryan says but it is, nevertheless, a very interesting piece.
The Global Pediatric Medicine Field Has a Clear Habit Of Hiding—And Discouraging—Inconvenient Research Findings
What NYT reported about Johanna Olson-Kennedy sitting on her null findings on puberty blockers is but one such story in a field in which many researchers prioritize the mission over honest science.
Oct 24, 2024
Some of the biggest names in the pediatric gender medicine field are part of an entrenched global trend in which they prioritize the transgender advocacy mission over honest and direct science. They hide inconvenient research findings. And they seek to prevent other researchers from even asking questions that might yield inconvenient answers. Supporting them is a cabal of activists and LGBTQ nonprofits standing at the ready to bully and cancel any scientists or journalists who might bring to light any of the more questionable aspects of pediatric gender medicine.
This pattern is not just limited to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy. If you haven’t already heard, according to reporting in The New York Times, this major leader in the pediatric gender medicine field has been sitting on null findings from her National Institutes of Health–funded study of puberty blockers for gender dysphoric children because, she said, publishing them would prove politically inexpedient. (I wrote about an undercover video of her talking about mastectomies here.)
Where have we heard this story before?
Let’s take a trip across the pond to the British National Health Service’s now-shuttered pediatric gender clinic, GIDS. (I encourage you to read all about this troubled clinic in Hannah Barnes’ book Time to Think. Make sure to get the new 2024 U.S. paperback, which has a vital new epilogue.) After it was founded in 2011, GIDS’s leaders sought to recreate the findings of the original Dutch protocol that was first cultivated in the mid-1990s and that ultimately gave rise to the global pediatric gender-transition treatment movement during the 2000s and 2010s.
But the British team failed. They did not find a substantial benefit from providing puberty blockers to gender dysphoric children by following the Dutch protocol. So did these researchers alert the world to their troublesome findings? Did they send a word of caution to a field that by then was circumnavigating the globe, setting up what would soon be hundreds of pediatric gender-clinic outposts?
No, they kept their failure secret.
It wasn’t until Oxford sociologist Michael Biggs became suspicious and ultimately rooted out the truth that the GIDS clinicians finally owned up and published their failed study.
Also in England, the NHS’s Cass Review, which was published in April after a four-year effort to assess pediatric gender medicine at home and worldwide, sought to assess the long-term outcomes of the wider population of former GIDS patients. But the adult NHS gender clinics refused to share their de-identified data on those now-adult patients, providing only specious reasons for their refusal.
Now it seems as if the NHS will ultimately force them to do so. But for now, the world is poorer for not having that data. Because this entire field is compromised by a woeful lack of long-term data, in particular about the more recent cohorts of gender-dysphoric adolescents who have undergone gender-transition treatment, and whose profiles are vastly different from those kids who entered the original Dutch study.
After the Cass Review came out, activists went into overdrive to tell wild falsehoods about it, as I reported at the time. Hilary Cass, the pediatrician lead author of the report, was appalled, and told a reporter that those activists were harming children.
The full piece is here:
https://benryan.substack.com/p/the-global-pediatric-medicine-field
JKR comments on this here in her usual succinct way!
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1849207760463757564
New Zealand - Update on the Midwifery Council
I have previously reported about the Midwifery Council. See here for example:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-skywalker
Thanks to Katrina Biggs on her substack A B’Old Woman for this update. I highly recommend this substack.
NZ’s Midwifery Council makes some changes to their woke and obscure Scope of Practice.
Oct 25, 2024
New Zealand’s Midwifery Council has bowed to pressure and made some changes to their revised Scope of Practice, which was full of woke and obscure language.
Midwife, Deb Hayes, initiated a Parliamentary petition against this revised Scope, which took the Midwifery Council four years to complete. This expensive four-year process culminated in one of the biggest pieces of woke nonsense seen. The assumption it imparted clear guidelines in any way, shape, or form, was only something gender-idealogue zealots could ever have made.
It’s true that more changes are still required to the new revised Scope of Practice, which the Midwifery Council has submitted for review to the Regulations Review Committee, before the language is sufficiently clear and unambiguous. However, it does indicate the public outcry over the woke and obscure language used in the original revision did have an effect.
Māori women’s group Mana Wāhine Kōrero (Sovereign Women Speak) stood alongside Deb during the course of her petition, and have published the article below about the changes made to the Scope.
NB: Thistoll, as referred to in the article’s title below, is a man in NZ who could be classified as “gender-idealogue zealot”, and a serial complainer about those – especially women – who oppose gender ideology. In this article, Mana Wāhine Kōrero add an entertaining update about him.
More Public Consultation on Midwifery! (& a Thistoll-Note)
The Winning Mindset
Baroness Claire Fox on The Academy of Ideas site features wonderful EDI Jester, Barry Wall explaining his Winning Mindset programme.
Challenging 'woke' orthodoxy: must we all be warriors now?
In a guest post, educator Barry Wall makes the case for 'Warrior Teachers' - to challenge 'progressive' ideas and defend free speech - and introduces The Winning Mindset Seminars.
Oct 24, 2024
At the Academy of Ideas, we see one of our aims as encouraging experiments in free thinking and encouraging a wide range of diverse initiatives designed to encourage an open-minded approach to ideas. As part of that mission, I regularly speak at other organisations’ events and it is always a joy to discover just how much grassroots intellectual and free speech work is happening throughout the UK.
At the start of October, I spoke at one such event, the national gathering of Warrior Teachers in Manchester, organised by the irrepressible educator Barry Wall. What an intelligent, curious, cliché-free, challenging, well-informed discussion we had on free speech. The group were all ‘students’ of the Winning Mindset Seminars.
As another year of the course beckons, I asked Barry to write a guest Substack to explain why people should sign up. In his own inimitable fashion, Barry tells his story below. Give it a read. I’d encourage anyone keen to arm themselves with the best philosophical and cultural arguments at our disposal to challenge orthodoxies and to consider joining his online course.
The full piece is here:
Men in Women’s Sport
Stuart Ballard in GB News ( Female sports stars losing '900 medals to biological males' as fresh calls made to ban transgender athletes 23 October) reports:
Female athletes have reportedly lost around 900 medals to transgender rivals in women's sports, according to a new staggering report from the United Nations with new calls for a blanket ban.
The study into 'violence against women and girls, its causes and consequence' revealed that 'over 600 female athletes in more than 400 competitions have lost more than 890 medals in 29 different sports'.
The paper, compiled by Reem Alsalem, didn't elaborate on what sporting events the medals were won, or what time frame.
It comes after the United Nations held a panel last week at the general assembly where female athletes and global human rights leaders called for changes to be made to protect women in sports.
Lia Thomas was barred from competing in women's sports by World Aquatics© GB News
ADF President Kristen Waggoner was present alongside the likes of Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and US college star Lainey Armistead.
Waggoner insisted it was up to "our institutions, our government officials and our parents should be standing (up) for them".
The full article is here:
The States - Men in Women’s Prisons
Thanks as ever to Feminist Legal Clinic via Genevieve Gluck.
EXCLUSIVE: Female Inmates in Minnesota Say Trans-Identified Male Transfers Make Them Feel “Scared” And “Unsafe” (24 October)
Female inmates at the women’s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota have come forward to report disturbing behavior from the trans-identified males housed at their facility.
“There is talk of some women in the prison agreeing to have sex with these men to get pregnant and sue the DOC and the state,” Warmbo says. “This has caused a climate of terror inside the prison, as they are forced to shower in an open area without locked doors and they can hear them talk about sexual things they want to do to the women.”
As Reduxx reported last month, a total of five male convicts have been transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023. Two of the men who are now being held at MCF-Shakopee are sexual predators serving sentences related to the abuse of children.
The prison policy was altered following a June 2022 lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate.
The discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men. In order to aid their legal fight to have violent men placed into the women’s prison, Gender Justice was granted nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.
But Lusk’s ex-wife came forward last year to tell The Daily Mail that she believed he was a “scammer” and a “big fat liar.”
“He would tell his family that if he was a woman, and had boobs, then they had to put him in a female prison,” said Lusk’s ex-wife, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
“He said that he was going to make sure he made money out of the whole ordeal, he said ‘I’m going to become a woman and complain to make sure they give me money and move me,’” she added. “When we were married he wasn’t doing anything like that, or even after we were divorced. I think he’s a big fat liar.” Dusty - the photo below seems to bear that out!!
Endpiece by Liz
#BeMorePorcupine
#LetWomenSpeak
#Grassroots Army
Have a great retirement ,Dusty !! I retired almost 13 years ago and I expected to have a serene ,peaceful , retirement ,then the WOKE nonsense started !! The world's now in chaos because of it !!😡😱😭x
Congratulations on your retirement Dusty! :)