Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling. Part 2
Update 675. Robot Women Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
Onwards with Part 2, dear readers and we are sticking with High Noon.
Here is the theme tune. See you if you can recognise the young actor in the still below. 😊 He went on to star in Sergio Leone’s iconic Dollars Trilogy alongside Clint Eastwood.
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
Transhumanism
In Part 1 we discussed the influence of Queer Theory. Another driver of the gender madness is, of course, transhumanism. This report from Feminist Legal Clinic (FLC) is really terrifying!!!
A Mechanized Womb: A Call for Human-Centered Ethics in Reproductive Technology – The Center for Bioethics & Culture Network (22 August)
Headlines recently announced a groundbreaking—but deeply troubling—development: scientists in Guangzhou, China, are developing the world’s first pregnancy-simulating humanoid robot, outfitted with an artificial womb capable of carrying a fetus from conception through to delivery. This prototype, expected to be ready by 2026 and priced under ¥100,000 (approximately US $14,000), is described by its creators as a response to population decline and a way to bypass the physical burdens of pregnancy.
The technology involves a womb filled with synthetic amniotic fluid and nutrient delivery through tubing—essentially replicating a biological connection within a machine. While proponents tout its potential to aid those who cannot—or prefer not to—bear children, critics voice deep ethical concerns about displacing the fundamental human experience of pregnancy.
This is not mere science fiction, but a stark reality edging closer each day. This new mechanized pregnancy technology echoes earlier, more human-centered technologies like surrogacy—technologies that are already fraught with ethical peril.
UK - Free Speech
I previously reported on the 1997 case where Christian preacher Alison Redmond-Bate was prosecuted for preaching on the steps of Wakefield Cathedral ( sorry, this report is behind a paywall). Her appeal against conviction was successful.
This included a wonderful piece from Lord Justice Sedley in his judgment which I often quote:
Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having. What Speakers’ Corner (where the law applies as fully as anywhere else) demonstrates is the tolerance which is both extended by the law to opinion of every kind and expected by the law in the conduct of those who disagree, even strongly, with what they hear. From the condemnation of Socrates to the persecution of modern writers and journalists, our world has seen too many examples of state control of unofficial ideas.
Well, it looks like a crack down on Christians preaching in public ( including referring to gender ideology) has returned as reported by JJ Starky on his substack, The Stark Naked Brief:
If Muslims Were Treated Like Christians, Parts of Britain Would Likely Be on Fire by Now...
A look at the "war" authorities are waging against British Christians.
Aug 20, 2025
Back in May, The Telegraph published a curious report about a group of Christians in south-west London. It didn’t make much of a splash online, but it marked a shift in the way our authorities are dealing with religious advocacy.
The Labour-run Rushmoor Borough Council had attempted to secure an injunction to ban Christians not just from preaching in two local town centres, but from praying and handing out leaflets altogether.
Their justification? The preachers were “offensive” and had caused “alarm and distress” to passers-by.
Under the terms of the drafted injunction, Christians would have been banned from praying for anyone “without their prior permission,” handing out leaflets or Bibles, and even placing hands on someone during prayer with consent.
The proposed restrictions went further still.
They included bans on approaching people to discuss Christianity and preaching sermons deemed “hostile” towards anyone with a protected characteristic, such as age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
It marked yet another moment where authorities prioritised emotion over a basic human right, placing supposed “distress” above freedom of expression—an arguably childish impulse, born under the rubric of modern progressivism.
The full piece is here:
https://news.starknakedbrief.co.uk/p/if-muslims-were-treated-like-christians
On the other hand, free speech also involves the right to criticise a religion or a belief or even make fun of a religion or belief. Or maybe not, as reported by Andrew Doyle on his substack:
The bacon hate crime
A man has been arrested for singing ‘we love bacon’. Free speech is cooked.
Aug 21, 2025
The history books of our time will read like the memoirs of a lunatic. Just this week, we’ve seen activists across the country protesting against imaginary hordes of the ‘far right’, even though the actual ‘far right’ could barely fill a semi-detached bungalow. We’ve seen residents decorating potholes in the road with the St George’s flag, because that’s the only way to encourage the council to fill them in. We’ve seen a neo-Nazi in Germany granted permission to relocate to a women’s prison because he’s put on some lipstick and called himself ‘Marla’. And now, a man has been arrested in the UK for saying ‘we love bacon’.
This pork-based hate crime took place at a protest in the Lake District against the planned construction of an immense mosque. Naturally, the protests have been dismissed as examples of race hatred or ‘Islamophobia’, even though Islam is not a race and ‘Islamophobia’ is a meaningless term concocted to silence dissent. As has become typical of today’s culture wars, word games have superseded the need for adult conversation.
For most of the protesters at the Lake District, this is not a matter of religion at all. There is a long history of residents opposing construction plans that threaten to disrupt the natural beauty of this UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Sandford Principle enshrines in UK law the necessity to prioritise conservation over development. But even if one takes the view that the building of mosques in iconic British areas is a form of goading, and that such displays of ideological dominance ought to be resisted, your right to make this point peacefully is enshrined in law.
The full piece is here:
https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/the-bacon-hate-crime
UK - The Online Safety Act
Yet more on free speech!! We have been focusing a lot recently on the horrors of the Online Safety Act now it has been brought into force. Matthew Lesh, public policy fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs, addresses this on the Academy of Ideas substack:
Online Safety Act and the Balkanisation of the internet
Matthew Lesh argues that the censorious nature of the law, enacted in the name of child protection, was obvious from the start.
Aug 22, 2025
This is the first in a series of Substacks promoting debates at this year’s Battle of Ideas festival, which takes place at Church House in Westminster on 18 & 19 October. This will be the twentieth Battle of Ideas festival. For more information about the programme and speakers announced so far, visit the Battle of Ideas website. Early-bird tickets are still available here.
The US government is raising diplomatic concerns about the state of free speech in Britain. Virtual private networks (VPNs) – which can allow users to access online materials as if they were logging on from a different country – have surged to the top of the app-store charts as reports mount of political content disappearing from social-media feeds for users who have yet to verify their age. Global communities, like lgbtqia.space, have geoblocked their entire websites for UK users, while some small British user-discussion forums, like London Fixed Gear and Single Speed, have completely shut down. Wikipedia is threatening to pull out of Britain. Even articles in the Guardian are admitting ‘something’s gone wrong’.
It’s a wild turn of events, but for those who have been paying close attention to Britain’s Online Safety Act, including readers of this Substack, it should not come as much of a surprise. That’s because Baroness Fox, the director and founder of the Academy of Ideas, was one of an extremely small set of legislators who bothered to meaningfully scrutinise the Bill in Parliament. While most legislators shrieked, ‘Please won’t someone think of the children!’, Fox was one of the few who raised concerns about the implications for all our freedoms of this wide-ranging law.
The full piece is here:
UK - This is not just a Fetish, it’s an M&S Fetish!
I previously dealt with the larping male employee in a Marks and Spencer store offering to help a young girl in the lingerie department:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/goldfinger-pussy-galore-part-3?utm_source=publication-search
The man in question has written a letter and appears to still have the full backing of M&S who have withdrawn their initial apology. BOYCOTT M&S!! EDI Jester looks at this:
Australia - More Bad News!
Despite all the evidence available on the question of the harms of ‘gender affirming care’ (eg. the Cass Review, the Re Devin case) the Australian Government are going to wait for a report which will not be produced until 2028. It appears that the Health Minister, Mark Butler is happy for hundreds of distressed and confused children to have their lives ruined in the meantime! Bernard Lane on his substack, Gender Clinic News reports on this:
No federal rescue
Australian Health Minister Mark Butler rules out stop-gap restrictions on blockers and hormones for gender-distressed minors
Aug 22, 2025
The gist
Australia’s centre-left Labor Party Health Minister Mark Butler has ruled out for now any federal restriction on paediatric gender medicine pending new national guidelines expected in 2028.
At the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, the federal minister was asked by a journalist if he were considering “any kinds of restrictions” in the light of local and international developments adverse to the “gender-affirming” treatment model with its poorly evidenced puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors.
“I’ve done what I think is appropriate from the Commonwealth,” Mr Butler said. The minister recapped his January 31 announcement that the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) would develop new countrywide treatment guidelines for gender-distressed minors.
He had also asked the NHMRC to carry out “a comprehensive review” of the current de facto national guidelines used by state-based health services and issued in 2018 by the gender clinic of the Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) Melbourne.
Under the NHMRC timeline, the expert committee to draft the new guideline was expected to have been established by July 2025 as part of the first stage of the project.
Asked about any delay, a spokeswoman for the NHMRC said the first stage was “well advanced” and the expert committee would be set up “in coming weeks”.
“Interim advice on the use of puberty blockers is still expected to be available in mid-2026,” she told GCN.
The full guideline is scheduled for approval and release in March 2028.
In December last year, Minister Butler’s office sought urgent advice from officials in his department on puberty blockers, including “the evidence around the safety of current Australian practice [and] the weight of evidence in support of a pause or ban in the Australian context”.
This was prompted by news that his UK Labour counterpart, Health Secretary Wes Streeting, had imposed an indefinite ban on puberty blockers, declaring it “a scandal that [this] medicine was given to vulnerable young children, without proof that it was safe or effective, or that it had gone through the rigorous safeguards of a clinical trial.”
The April 2024 Cass report, consistent with systematic reviews in multiple overseas jurisdictions, had found the evidence for hormonal treatment of gender-distressed minors to be remarkably weak, meaning there is no firm basis for saying whether these interventions help or harm.
The full piece is here:
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/no-federal-rescue?publication_id=627677&r=1v403b
Pretend Medicine
Helen Joyce has moved over to substack! Welcome, Helen!
We have had a bit of a theme running recently on ‘gender affirming care’ not being medicine at all and on the surgeries involved amounting to mutilation and not even deserving being called ‘plastic surgery.’ Helen looks at the danger of double mastectomies becoming normalised, a subject recently also touched on by Terf Vibes ( https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/heavenly-creatures-its-all-frightfully ):
Glorifying mutilation
How mastectomy became the symbol of “trans liberation”
Aug 21, 2025
I’ve been thinking about something pretty grim on and off the past month or two: the way mastectomy is now openly celebrated as a matter of diversity, identity and pride. There are children’s books with illustrations showing mastectomy scars on “boys”, and breastless women have been photographed topless for the covers of magazines that wouldn’t normally put topless women on their covers. But it all ramped up in June (the Holy Month of Pride), and though we’ve clearly been softened up for this for quite some time, now I’m seeing it everywhere.
This post was first published about a year ago, but for some reason it is the sole post that proved impossible to port over to Substack when I moved my newsletter. So I’ve had to create a new post and republish. Sadly, it’s as topical now as when I wrote it.
To pick just two examples of the softening up, here’s “Bodies are cool”, a book for 1-5 year olds published in 2021. It features people of varying sizes and skin colours, with various disabilities — and on the cover, a hairy-faced “man” with mastectomy scars. It’s hard to see this as anything other than a cue for parents and nursery staff to indoctrinate children too young to have established sex permanence in the wrong-body narrative.
And here are two pictures from magazine covers in the past two years, both featuring topless women. One, for Glamour magazine, shows a pregnant, breastless woman with men’s clothing painted on her naked torso; the other, for New York Magazine, is a woman in Y-fronts with a ridiculous bulging neophallus, and the scarring on her thigh, where the flesh was taken from — and of course the obligatory mastectomy scars.
It’s depressing to think that women’s natural bodies would be too obscene for magazine covers, but that once mutilated they’re perfectly fine. My point isn’t that decency laws are different for men and women — men’s and women’s bodies are different, after all — is that a woman’s breastless, post-surgery chest is being treated as if it’s the same as a man’s chest, which never had breasts in the first place. I can’t think of a clearer illustration of the way that sexual objectification is located in women’s bodies and not men’s, and not in men’s gaze either, but in the woman’s actual flesh and blood. It’s the same mentality as insisting that women should cover up to avoid inciting men’s lust.
The full piece is here:
https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/p/glorifying-mutilation?publication_id=2872563&r=1v403b
Uprooting Male Domination
Yet another book from Spinifex Press which just released Fiona McAnena’s book. This one is from Sheila Jeffreys and includes discussion of Terfy matters. FLC reports:
Uprooting Male Domination: Dispatches from the Sex Wars — Spinifex Press (22 August)
A brilliant overview of the oppression all women face – the system of male domination – and how feminists have fought back against it. Sheila Jeffreys provides a sometimes startling, always incisive, picture of the struggles she and other radical feminists have faced to protect the rights of women and girls over decades of activism. As well as outlining the many recognisable forms of oppression faced by women today – including pornography, violence, reproductive slavery and domestic servitude – Jeffreys highlights others that are sometimes ignored, such as the subordination of women through the cultural imposition of femininity and sexual harassment.
She dares to challenge the modern orthodoxy that ‘equality’ should be a goal of feminism. She points out how men’s power and status is acquired from the subordination of women, and nothing less than a radical transformation of society is required for women to achieve liberation. Sheila Jeffreys takes on the men’s sexual rights movement. She considers the new cult of gender ideology: the insult of transgenderism with its promotion of ‘womanface’ – the fetish of imitating and insulting women as comparable to blackface. She calls out the threat posed by men pretending to be women which risks reversing the hard-won gains made by feminists in the last 50 years.
Source: Uprooting Male Domination: Dispatches from the Sex Wars — Spinifex Press
https://feministlegal.org/uprooting-male-domination-dispatches-from-the-sex-wars-spinifex-press/
If you have read or read this book, please let us have a review of it.
Terf Tales
The Union Jill 😊
I know that a lot of you readers have your own tales about the Gender Madness: peaking; getting cancelled; getting sacked; problems with children getting indoctrinated; losing friends or falling out with family; problems with teaching of gender ideology at school; desisting or detransitioning and so on. I am happy to report these ‘tales’ on this substack. Please send them to me at Dusty1958@protonmail.com . Obviously you can remain anonymous if you so wish.
Women’s Rugby World Cup
As regular readers will know, I am a rugby fan ( I support Ireland). However, well done to the Red Roses of England who beat the USA in the opening match of the tournament today:
There are 4 groups for the group stages. Ireland have New Zealand in our group. GULP!!!!
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to an excellent suggestion from Tenaciously Terfin, we have paused Endpieces for the time being and we are giving Tenaciously and Liz a well earned rest from their hard work. So , since 07 July, we have been running Terf Island Discs.
Several readers have chosen up to 4 songs or pieces of music each and we are going through those one at a time in each update. This is going so well that I am going to continue it a bit further and you can now choose up to 6 songs or pieces of music each. They need to be reasonably short. We can’t expect to have readers listening to the whole of Tchaikovsky's piano concerto in B flat minor, albeit it is magnificent.
They don’t have to be from Terf Island BTW - anywhere in the world 😊
Please send links as well if you can.
So for those who have already chosen 4, please choose 2 more and, if you have not yet taken part, please choose 6!! If you repeat a song or piece of music that has already been chosen, I’ll let you know and you can choose another one. Please let me know your choices in the comments at this link:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/beware-of-the-flowers-terf-island
Next up!
Chosen by: Jeremy Wickins
‘Orchard Road’ by Leo Sayer
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#JustSayMen
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#WeWillWin
As a vegan, I have had numerous taunts about how delicious animal meat is, how a big juicy steak is being enjoyed right now, how twice as much meat is going to be eaten in the next meal .... etc, etc, etc. It's intentionally provocative and designed to offend - but no one has ever been arrested for it. I wonder why?
Great work as ever Dusty. I saw that article about growing babies in robots and I couldn’t read it so I don’t know what it says. It’s barbaric to experiment on children and subject them to months without the normal conditions of being close to their mother’s heartbeat and all the goodness from a shared blood flow. I’m glad I’m old because I can’t cope with horrors like that. The damage, physically and mentally, doesn’t bear thinking about. We’ll be raising worker slaves for business and the state.
#BoycottMandS.