The news and views continue to flood into Dusty Towers. In the case of the States, they seem to be concentrated on one particular matter as you will see!!
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Onwards with the Dusty,Nicola, Moodie and Rex Film Series 😀 Please keep the suggestions for films coming in but please check the list first which I am updating as we go along. Please send suggestions in the comments here at this link:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-dustys-film-series
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a 1975 British film based on the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin). In their search for the Grail, King Arthur and his Knights come upon a French castle …in the English countryside!!??
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
The States - Wolves In White Coats
A groundbreaking report has been produced by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in the States as reported by Penny Marie on her substack:
HHS Releases Report Exposing Fraudulent Insurance Coding For Sex-rejecting Procedures On Minors
Wolves In White Coats report - significant to those of us exposing the truth behind ‘gender affirming care’
Aug 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. - August 13, 2026
Watch the announcement on X…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released a report: Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine”
A commissioned report examining insurance coding practices, perverse financial incentives, and the provision of sex-rejecting procedures for minors. Drawing on Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Guidance, Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, peer-reviewed scientific literature, hospital records, whistleblower testimony, nationwide insurance claims analyses, and interviews with patients and parents, the report presents HHS’ findings and recommendations about the industry pushing and profiting off so-called “gender medicine.”
A shortform documentary illustrating the report’s findings and highlighting the stories of victims of predatory gender medical practices was also released in conjunction with the report…
According to the report, more than 225 hospitals and health systems established paediatric gender programmes nationwide. The report also analyses nationwide claims data from 2015 through 2025 and identifies approximately $50 million in insurance claims for puberty blockers billed using endocrine disorder diagnostic code E34.9 (Endocrine Disorder, Unspecified). It further reports that nearly $11 million in claims for patients ages 13–17 were billed using a diagnosis code for precocious puberty E301 - findings the report says warrant additional review of insurance coding practices.
The full piece is here:
https://www.pennymarie.nz/p/hhs-releases-report-exposing-fraudulent
UK - The For Women Scotland Judgment
As reported in our last update, six London Councils have said they will defy the law as laid down by the Supreme Court in April 2025!! I have written to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) asking if they will take action against one or more of these councils. I have also written to Sex Matters and LGB Alliance asking whether, if the EHRC fail to take action, they, perhaps in conjunction with others, will take action. I will let you know what replies I get. Meanwhile Conservative Party Leader, Kemi Badenoch provides an opinion piece in The Telegraph:
It is not for local councils to decide the law of the land
Andy Burnham appears to have time to mull over whether disposable barbecues should be banned. What is his position on this?
12 August 2026
The 17th-century English clergyman Thomas Fuller warned every person in England “be ye never so high, the law is above you”. From the mightiest to the lowliest, this has been a key principle of British justice for centuries. Yet, today, a group of Left-wing London council leaders seem to disagree.
It has been almost 18 months since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling that sex in equality law refers to biological sex rather than gender identity. As the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) guidance indicates, this means single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms or women’s refuges, are intended only for those of that biological sex. This has brought welcome clarity to a highly contested issue.
But the leaders of Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest councils appear to think they can pick and choose which laws they wish to follow. Together they have committed to keeping their services “inclusive”, claiming that the rules were “harmful to the rights of trans people”.
It is not up to local politicians to decide the law of the land. The EHRC’s guidance has statutory force and clarifies how courts interpret equality law. Not complying with it exposes councils to risk of being found against in any unlawful discrimination cases. It is hard to imagine local taxpayers welcoming their money being spent fighting such battles.
Andy Burnham appears to have time to mull over whether disposable barbecues should be banned. What is his position on this? Is he willing to accept Left-wing council leaders riding roughshod over women’s sex-based rights?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/b4bd562108fdee48
England - The Tragic Death of Jason Arday
We have touched on the story of Jason Arday recently, for example here:
Very sadly he has now taken his own life after resigning from his position at Cambridge University. He was put in position there due to Diversity Equity and Inclusion policies and, in many ways, his death can be laid at the door of those who enabled that to happen by their use of these policies ( policies which often, as we know, allow Gender Ideology to take root in organisations though that is not the main issue here). All thoughts gratefully received. EDI Jester discusses this:
Jason Arday’s Death Is Tragic - But it is not the Real Tragedy.
Aug 15, 2026
Jason Arday is dead.
It’s brutal, it’s sad for those who loved and knew him, but it is not a tragedy, it is merely tragic.
The words of Sir Walter Scott’s narrative poem Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field (1808) never seemed more apt.
“O, what a tangled web we weave, / When first we practise to deceive!”
He built a public career on a fraudulent identity story of extreme childhood victimhood, non-verbal until eleven, illiterate until eighteen, against-all-odds triumph over autism and developmental delay, and being black.
That exercise in branding is what killed him in the long run, you cannot swim in the poisoned pool of EDI and expect to come away unscathed.
Identity killed him, that most foul of social construction concepts, a fixture for many in the last thirty years and the blank slate replacement for personality and the subsequent character development and meritocratic achievement that has given us so much to celebrate.
Nobody, except those with a profoundly fractured psyche, needs an identity, this is the realms of the therapeutic, and in the age of social media the very notion that you can construct one is profoundly dangerous to those who are not mentally ill.
Our culture has placed increasing and unearned weight on personal suffering and lived experience as sources of authority, the Autoethnograph (I wrote about this previously) now carries a credibility that it certainly does not warrant, for after all it is only subjective storytelling.
We are not talking about an errant under graduate or rogue employee here, but what appears to be a calculated, created and malign falsehood on both an individual and an institutional level, that whatever the intentions has ended horribly.
In one of our most august institutions, Cambridge, the Arday dramatic hardship narrative conferred status and insulated the teller from ordinary challenge.
That story carried him into a Cambridge professorship and a lucrative memoir deal. When the claims were examined in even a cursory manner, the fake foundations gave way and the moribund level of the so called scholarship was laid bare.
When the false narrative of curated identity failed, the curtain was pulled back and the individual and the institution rightly faced serious investigation.
Schoolmates remembered a talking child. Athletic and fundraising feats dissolved in real time and questions of plagiarism and data problems became public knowledge.
Even the visiting posts collapsed as they were denied by the institutions named.
The narrative crumbled under the most ordinary of scrutiny.
The full piece is here:
https://edijester.substack.com/p/jason-ardays-death-is-tragic-but
The States - Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)
We have been covering this recently. I gave my opinion of it here ( behind a paywall):
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/basketball-gate
On this issue I have rather turned into John the Baptist - ‘a voice crying out in the wilderness’ - Gospel of John 1:23 if you’re interested 😊
I will re-hash and update my views here and then probably fall silent 😊 ( what do you mean ‘fat chance!’).
Sophie Cunningham plays for Indiana Fever, a women’s basketball team in the States under the auspices of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). 15 teams are included under this umbrella at present. During a game in June, Sophie pointing her finger went viral. Some Terfs in the States then picked up Sophie’s cause. Since the Terfs were using the ‘Sophie point’ as their main image, I was initially confused, thinking that Sophie must have been pointing at a larping man in the opposing team. In fact, she was pointing at a female player in the opposing team who had fouled her. So the ‘Sophie point’ has got nothing to do with Terfy issues at all!! Yet it is being used as the image of the Terf rallying call for keeping men out of women’s sport.
It transpires that last February (though not apparently picked up at the time) Sophie had spoken out against men in women’s sport. Excellent and well done, Sophie. This is what the Terfs were now picking up. Since the incident in June, Terfs have been demonstrating at all Indiana Fever games and continue to do so. At the first game following the incident, two teenage girls were in the audience holding signs saying ‘Thank you, Sophie’ and they were berated by a female coach. Well done those girls and glad to report that the coach was suspended for five games.
Just to complicate matters, there are no men in the WNBA league and their policy states that the league is for ‘females’. It doesn’t elaborate on what ‘female’ means but, as with the Equality Act 2010 here in the UK, that may be because nobody thought they needed to elaborate on it!! Additionally it says they must be adults so, presuming they are also going to be humans, that adds up to ‘adult human female’.
So why the concentration on the WNBA?
Kara Dansky reported:
…all the internet has been able to talk about since Friday is the fact that two male former NBA players have announced their intention to try out for a spot in the WNBA next season. One of them is Enes Kanter and the other is Royce White. Kanter is 6’10”. White is 6’8”. This is all coming on the heels of Sophie Cunningham, a guard with the Indiana Fever, explaining that she doesn’t think girls should have to compete against men.
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/a-new-class-action-to-make-us-taxpayers
It seems clear that both these men are just doing this to put pressure on the WNBA and are not really larping men.
Firstly, I’m not sure about this as a tactic.
Secondly, Royce White has a civil protection order against him, part of a separation suit that is still ongoing. I should add that he is abiding by the order as he appeals it.
There also seem to be some allegations against Enes Kanter ( which he denies).
Some of the Terfs are supporting this tactic by these men. Is that a sensible thing to do?
All of this is being bigged up as the great pivotal moment.
I am not, of course, having a go at the great campaigning (in general) by such as Kara Dansky, Amy Sousa, Riley Gaines, LGB Courage Coalition, LGB Alliance USA and others. I am just querying the emphasis on this issue.
Since I wrote the previous piece some coaches ( one in particular) have decided to make statements about ‘trans inclusion.’ At games, Sophie has been booed.
I provide several reports on the matter below. Karen Davis reveals that the men’s league, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has majority ownership of the WNBA and controls the voting rights. However there is no indication at this stage that they are going to change the female only policy. WNBA had a meeting the other day and, most unfortunately, failed to put the matter to bed by simply, like the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland, emphasising that we are talking about ‘biological sex’ here! Do try harder, guys! `I am grateful to Kara Dansky who does say that she understands my argument ( I don’t know that she is referring to me but she is referring to Mr Menno’s interview with Jennifer Sey and Amy Sousa and I was the lone soul in the chat who was querying everything so she may well be referring to me). However, she argues this is a great thing because it has brought enormous publicity to it all. I see that that is a good point. However, I remain baffled.
LGB Alliance USA especially look at statements from lesbian coaches.
https://lgbausa.substack.com/p/are-lesbians-contributing-to-lesbian
Carol ( aka Sour Patches) and Jos discuss the issues and widen out from this. They are especially concerned at LGB people who are supporting all the T and the Q nonsense!
https://sourpatches2077.substack.com/p/gay-fatigue
Karen does not think this is a good idea!! ( this is putting it mildly 😊):
https://ykright.substack.com/p/wnba-power-broker-commissioner-adam
Kara discusses it:
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/listen-to-womans-hour-the-terf-report-2f3
Amy Sousa looks at an interview by the Triggernometry team with Cenk of The Young Turks which seems to arise from the WNBA matter:
https://www.theknownheretic.com/p/cenk-prioritizes-random-boys-over
All thoughts gratefully received.
Puss: They’re all going to slag you off, Dusty!!
Dusty: I know, Puss. Hi ho.
Puss: I agree with you, Dusty! Don’t pick a fight with a cat that’s not picking a fight with you!
Australia - Kit Kowalski
Kara Dansky on the Terf Report provides a lovely tribute to Aussie Terf, Kit Kowalski.
https://karadansky.substack.com/p/ffs-friday-kit-kowalski
Brazil - 1984 is here!
This is so shocking from Reduxx!!!!!!
Post
REDUXX on X: “A public servant in Brazil has been sentenced to 1 year in prison for “criminal transphobia” after misgendering a student at the university he works at. Luís Barros was convicted of “social racism” for telling Odara Moraes that he was “not a woman.” https://t.co/lFSSPNSl4P”
https://x.com/reduxx/status/2088382000566554778
Afghanistan - Beyond 1984
Very moving recording from a woman in Afghanistan care of Women’s Declaration International Afghanistan. We think we have got it tough!!!!!!
https://wdiafghanistan.substack.com/p/15-august-is-a-black-day-for-afghan
Charice Pempengco
Tragic story by Kat Highsmith on her substack of Charice who could have been the next Whitney Houston…but then, leading on from childhood trauma, she ‘transitioned’:
https://kathighsmith.substack.com/p/a-life-ruined-by-trans-the-story
Endpiece
From Petal
#BeMorePorcupine
#KeepTerfing
#BringDownAmnesty
#KeepFighting
#RepealTheGRA
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#NeverGiveUp
#HoldTheLine
#StopTheBlockersTrial
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
Dear readers
A heads up that Mr Menno will be doing a premiere tomorrow at 21.00 GMT about men defying the Supreme Court judgment
Hope to see some of you in the chat
Dusty
I’m confused by the way the point has gone viral too but I suppose that ‘every little helps’. I think you’ve done an excellent job of self flagellation in putting every side of the argument including the fact that lots of people think you’re wrong about this. I think we’ll have to put this down to being just one of those things. And if it wakes up more people, that’s great. I’d have been more impressed if the pointing was at that bloke in the blue cami.
Re WPATH- always follow the money.
As for Councils deliberately breaking the law. 🤬 All the people who are so willing to trash women’s rights should be forced to spend some time in Afghanistan. Perhaps they then might realise that free speech, democracy, human rights are not automatic ‘givens’, that they’ve been fought and died for over hundreds of years and that they need to be defended before they slip away one cut at a time. And at the moment the cuts are coming at an unprecedented pace because authoritarians in the guise of the be kind/ woke brigade are in charge in every organisation, institution and govt across the West. ‘The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants’. Camus