Fried Green Tomatoes Part 2
Update 333 Labour Go To Hell Special
Before I get to the contemptible UK Labour Party, following this morning’s post, I am sticking with Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café and thanks again to the reader who suggested this.
Liz Truss’ Bill
Obviously please refer to Part 1 of this update. After the Labour Party ( in the wake of the WPATH Files and the NHS banning puberty blockers) blocked the Bill from being debated by filibuster this afternoon, as far as I am concerned they can go to hell in a handcart (and I speak as a previously loyal Labour supporter). They are beneath contempt! However if Kemi Badenoch, the Women and Equalities Minister, can work with Liz Truss as she has said she will, maybe a Government approved version of the Bill can come forward and can actually get through prior to any general election. In the meantime, Keir Starmer, when we finally get to a public inquiry about this scandal, I look forward to seeing you being cross-examined as to your culpability in the scandal.
James Tapsfield in The Mail Online ( Liz Truss accuses Labour of 'putting ideology above protecting children' after MPs filibuster to block her proposed law banning 'biological men' from women-only spaces 15 March) reports:
Liz Truss accused Labour of 'caring more about ideology than the protection of children' today after he proposed gender law was blocked.
The former PM had hoped the Commons would debate her backbench legislation to stop transgender women using female changing rooms and toilets.
It would also prevent them from competing in women's sport, and stop local authorities recognising children's attempts to change pronouns.
However, the Bill never reached the floor of the House this afternoon after a filibustering effort by Labour MPs timed it out.
Liz Truss sat in the Commons today hoping that her Bill on women-only spaces would be debated - but it was talked out by Labour MPs SHAME ON THEM!!!!!
On Friday sittings of the Commons, MPs have until 2.30pm to consider law changes championed by individual parliamentarians - known as Private Member's Bills.
Once that point is reached, all Bills which have not been considered are rescheduled for a future date and fall to the bottom of the list for debate.
As a result, Ms Truss's Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill has virtually no chance of making the statute book.
Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch is understood to be sympathetic to the efforts to 'define sex in law as biological sex', although she thought the details needed changing.
Ms Badenoch said on the X social media site: 'Just now Labour MPs prevented debate on a new law to protect children and single-sex spaces. Instead they used parliamentary time to discuss ferret name choices.
'Keir Starmer is terrified of debate on safeguarding & his MPs actively work to ignore the concerns of constituents.'
Puberty Blockers and the WPATH Files
I report here on the aftermath of the National Health Service (NHS) in England banning the use of puberty blockers for children ( apart from in clinical trials) which I first reported on here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-mirror-of-galadriel-part-2
Daniel Sanderson in The Telegraph ( NHS clinic ‘follows discredited trans guidelines that encourage castration’ 14 March) reports:
Sandyford Clinic in Glasgow - Victoria Stewart/Daily Record© Provided by The Telegraph
A controversial NHS gender clinic is following discredited trans healthcare guidelines that encourage puberty blockers and castration for those who identify as “eunuchs”, a job advertisement suggests.
A job description for a new clinical lead – with an annual salary of up to £128,000 – at the Sandyford Clinic states that it “adheres to” the latest version of treatment rules set out by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
The full article is here:
There is an excellent piece from Transgender Trend on this subject especially drawing attention to the fact that there is no guidance re the use of cross-sex hormones for children aged 16 and above and thanks to a wonderful reader for referring this article to me.
NHS England ends the use of puberty blockers ( 13 March)
On Tuesday March 12th NHS England confirmed that puberty blockers will no longer be available as routine treatment for children experiencing gender-related distress.
We welcome this confirmation of the draft policy following public consultation. We are especially pleased that NHS England has scrapped the inclusion of ‘exceptional cases’ as this would be unworkable in practice. In our response to the consultation we said:
“There should be no exceptional cases outside the trial – these cases would be lost to the research and there is no justifiable reason to exclude some children from the study.”
Instead, a child’s clinician will have to apply under NHSE’s ‘Individual Funding Request’ process and would need to demonstrate why they believed the case was exceptional and ‘why a treatment that is not routinely commissioned by the NHS is an appropriate treatment option.’
NHS England have also said its decision to end prescribing is ‘not contingent upon the establishment of a clinical study.’ If the proposed study does not get ethical approval, puberty blockers will remain unavailable on the NHS.
We do not think such a study should gain ethical approval before the establishment of an evidence-base which shows that puberty blockers are a safe treatment for children at the time of natural puberty. Currently we do not have that evidence. A clinical trial for the purpose of advancing medicine when risks are both known and unknown is unethical especially for a vulnerable population such as children.
As we pointed out in our response to the consultation, there is no indication or estimate of the numbers of children who will be eligible for the trial. The authors of the GIDS Early Intervention trial study conceded that the sample size (44) was too small to detect significant changes. Achieving a large sample size for the purposes of research is not an ethical reason for enrolling children onto the trial. This presents a conflict between best interests of children (low numbers) and best case for research (high numbers). If it is to be a ‘last resort’ treatment for very few children it is critical to know what the criteria are for those judged eligible.
We are also concerned that cross-sex hormones will still be offered to children from age 16. The interim clinical policy states that the prescribing of cross-sex hormones is covered by a separate clinical policy:
“If the proposal is adopted by NHS England following stakeholder testing and public consultation, it would be appropriate to make a consequential change to the related clinical policy for prescribing cross-sex hormones for young people with gender dysphoria by removing the requirement for a young person to have been receiving puberty supressing hormones for a defined period of time.”
We wrote to NHS England asking if there would be a public consultation on the clinical policy for cross-sex hormones but received no answer.
This suggests that the new service would continue to offer cross-sex hormones at around age 16, while missing out the former puberty blockers stage. For boys, blockers are used in conjunction with oestrogen, to suppress testosterone, and this use will continue according to the NHS Equality and Health Inequalities Impact Assessment (EHIA):
“The use of an anti-androgen will continue to be available for this purpose in natal males, not before middle adolescence, who are prescribed Gender Affirming Hormones from around 16 years of age and for natal males who are aged 17 years and above who are seen by adult Gender Dysphoria Clinics.”
This is our concern: that while much attention has been given to the subject of puberty blockers, the use of cross-sex hormones seems to have been given a free pass.
This is a medical intervention that was previously only available at adult clinics. Prior to 2011 children were offered puberty blockers at age 16, and the child and adolescent clinic did not prescribe cross-sex hormones at all. Even so concerns were being raised, notably by Sue Evans in 2005 leading to the David Taylor report, which was subsequently buried for fifteen years.
NHS England has reviewed the use of blockers on the basis of the Cass Review and the NICE systematic review and changed policy. The NICE systematic review of cross-sex hormones found exactly the same result as for blockers: that the evidence is of very low certainty. The NICE review states:
“Further studies with a longer follow-up are needed to determine the long-term effect of gender-affirming hormones for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria.”
Unlike in the case of blockers, the irreversible effects of cross-sex hormones have long been widely acknowledged. With such life-changing effects, why are we yet to see an amended policy?
Only children with ‘early-onset’ gender dysphoria will be eligible for a puberty blocker clinical trial. This excludes the adolescents experiencing rapid onset gender dysphoria beginning at or after the start of puberty, the group we know the least about. This is good because this is the cohort most susceptible to online influence and social contagion. But will they simply be enabled to progress direct to cross-sex hormones instead? This would be a worse outcome for the rapid onset group, given the significant known effects of hormones.
Before we start celebrating we want to see a new NHS England draft clinical policy for cross-sex hormones, including a public consultation. There has been a consultation on the overall service specification (which we responded to here), the consultation on puberty blockers and an ongoing consultation on referral pathways, open until March 20th. But there has, as yet, been no amended clinical commissioning policy for cross-sex hormones.
Ending the use of puberty blockers is a welcome first step, but it is not enough to protect children and young people like Keira Bell. Until we see an amended policy for cross-sex hormones and an equivalent Cass review of adult services, adolescents and young adults will still be at risk of undergoing experimental medical interventions they do not need and may live to regret.
https://www.transgendertrend.com/nhs-england-ends-puberty-blockers/
Meanwhile there is no restriction on private gender clinics ( something the Liz Truss Bill would deal with).
Victoria Friedman in Epoch Times (Campaigners Concerned Private Clinics Can Still Administer Puberty Blockers 13 March) reports:
Campaigners have expressed concern that despite the NHS banning puberty blockers, they are still available via private clinics, which remain a “wild-west operation.”
On Tuesday, NHS England announced that it would no longer prescribe puberty suppressing hormones (PSH), which pause the physical changes of puberty, citing a lack of evidence that the drugs are safe. The drugs would remain available as part of clinical research trials.
NHS England said in its guidance, “We have concluded that there is not enough evidence to support the safety or clinical effectiveness of PSH to make the treatment routinely available at this time.”
However, puberty blockers are still available to minors via private clinics, prompting concerns from lawmakers and campaigners.
‘Rogue Private Sector Providers’
Bev Jackson, the cofounder of LGB Alliance, told The Epoch Times by email, “The experience of the last few years shows there is no shortage of activists who will advise parents to take their children to rogue private sector providers who are not interested in evidence-based medicine.”
Ms. Jackson said, “We hope most responsible parents will look at NHS England’s decision that puberty blockers are not a safe and effective treatment and will make the decision to follow best practice, not private practice.”
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Health and Equality Acts (Amendment) Bill is going before the Commons on Friday for debate and would ban the prescription of puberty-suppressing drugs to gender-confused children, both privately and on the NHS.
LGB Alliance expressed its support for Ms. Truss’s bill, telling The Epoch Times that they have asked MPs to back it in order to close the loophole.
“We understand private members’ bills have a low probability of becoming law. LGB Alliance therefore urges the government to put in place rigorous legal proposals for banning harmful experimental medical procedures for minors,” Ms. Jackson said.
“Parents have been misled by unscrupulous activists to believe that blockers are best practice. We are relieved NHS England has recognised this is not the case, and hope that parents come to understand their children need evidence-based, neutral health care—not procedures proven to be ineffective while leading to negative, irreversible and lifelong effects,” she added.
Private Clinics a ‘Wild-West Operation’
Maya Forsater, executive director of Sex Matters, likewise expressed concern about the operation of private clinics, telling The Epoch Times by email that “private gender medicine remains a wild-west operation.”
Ms. Forsater said the General Medical Council has “tried and failed to regulate practitioners who will prescribe medication without in-depth investigation.”
“The private member’s bill going before the House of Commons on Friday would make it an offence for any regulated health care provider—whether NHS or private, in any part of the UK—to give puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones to anyone under the age of 18.”
Ms. Forsater had previously endorsed the proposed legislation, saying on social media platform X last week, “This bill will make the law clear that ’sex' in the Equality Act means biological sex and children must be protected and allowed to grow up healthy in their own body.”
The full article is here:
Thanks to wonderful Feminist Legal Clinic for letting us know about the reaction in Australia.
Puberty blocker drugs in trans children again under question after ban by Britain’s NHS | The Australian ( 14 March)
Australia’s major children’s hospitals have distanced themselves from the growing questions over the prescription of hormone drugs to children in the wake of a ban by UK health authorities on the routine prescription of puberty blockers to young teenagers.
The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne – despite being the setters of quasi-national standards of care that incorporate the prescription of hormone blocker drugs to children in the early stages of puberty – refused to respond to the English National Health Service’s move to restrict the prescription of puberty blockers to clinical trials, the move mirroring growing doubts over the safety and clinical effectiveness of the hormone drugs in a host of European countries.
The RCH had no response to the development when asked, but the Premier’s department said via a spokesperson that it backed the gender service’s model of care absolutely.
Queensland health minister Shannon Fentiman also declined to engage with the questions raised by the NHS ban, issuing a statement saying that the Queensland Children’s Gender Service – which is currently under review – “is considered one of the best in the country, based on the best available evidence”.
Meanwhile, devastating response video from Kellie-Jay Keen ( just in case you have missed it) concerning a sweet young boy who was, effectively, forced into ‘transition’ by his openly homophobic mum when he was 3 ( THREE!!!). I can safely say that his mother is a monster!! You need to feel strong to watch this!
Anna Castle and Ms C are planning to bring a judicial review against the NHS for providing unsafe treatment advice for their teenage daughters. You can find full details on their Crowd Justice page here:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/hold-nhse-to-account/
Two very interesting interviews here about the WPATH Files (thanks to a reader for referring me to the first one involving Meghan Kelly and Mia Hughes, the author of the WPATH Files).
The second is an interview on Andrew Gold’s Heretics channel with Andrew Doyle
Riley Gaines
Riley Gaines is continuing with her magnificent campaign. She is supported, of course, by other sports women.
Germania Rodriguez Poleo in The Daily Mail (Riley Gaines is among 16 female athletes suing NCAA for allowing trans competitors in sport 14 March) reports:
The lawsuit centers around Lia Thomas, the trans woman who won the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships
It asks the governing body to change its rules to render biological males ineligible to compete against female athletes
Women’s rights activist and former college swimmer Riley Gaines is among 16 female athletes who have filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
'It's official!' Gaines posted on X on Thursday.
'I'm suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, & roster spots to men posing as women The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX.'
'About time someone did something about it.'
The federal lawsuit, the first of its kind, centers around Lia Thomas, the trans athlete who won the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships as a student at the University of Pennsylvania, as reported by The Free Press.
Women's rights activist and former college swimmer Riley Gaines is among 16 female athletes who have filed a lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletics Association
The full article is here:
Canada - The Online Harms Act
I knew it was bad in Canada but I really didn’t realise it was this bad. Thanks to Arty Morty for this detailed and frightening update.
Glinner meets the Landys
Well, I shall just let Rex relate this (I have been to Christchurch - a beautiful city).
Free Speech Prevails in New Zealand
(Despite Paul Thistoll's Reeeetarded Attempts to Cancel)
14 MAR 2024
Graham Linehan came to NZ on a book tour, he’s got one more stop in Christchurch before heading off. ‘Tough Crowd’ details his cancelling from the entertainment industry and beyond, why he fights in what is Reality’s Last Stand and more.
Paul Thistoll is an absolute slug of a man: he claims ‘transphobia’ every time he hears something he doesn’t like. Free speech is only speech Paul approves of, and if it’s not full on sucking of the transvestite dick, you’re a hateful nazi. CEO of his own private Idaho, Countering Hate Speech Aotearoa, Paul regularly asks for money to continue the fight he’s currently waging in his own brain pan.
Despite trying to cancel the venue and whip up what turned out to be a storm in a D-cup on Twatter, NZ Free Speech Union found a suitable venue and the talk went ahead. So far, so day in the life of a TERF. We’re used to this sort of adversity and stymie-ing of our rights.
Some soy-based life forms came to protest the funny man, and they’d postered the area with ‘Transphobia is not free speech’ posters. I had a bunch of TERF stickers so I set about redecorating their slogans with the truth, under the amused but still watchful eye of plod.
Di Landy and I had our TERF t-shirts on: Fuck Your Pronouns and Men Are Not Women Even if You Squint. There’s a short video Di took of the soy-based barely sapients: she deadpans ‘Yeah, righto!’ at them while I snigger. The they/thems did not disappoint, they were every picture you can smell, right in front of us brought to horrible Smellovision life!
https://twitter.com/CallMeAl_KPSS/status/1768211898233954699
A commenter noted that it can’t be much of a protest if even Rex Landy can’t be fucked shouting at you. How can you have a battle of wits with unwashed grifters that are so clearly #Unarmed? The police were there in force, in case a transvestite-lover cried. And to protect women, naturally. I can hear your laughter from here, bIgOtS.
True to form, the women’s groups of NZ ignored the Landy sisters, walked on past with their noses in the air when I called out a greeting to some of them. I mis-named one woman as she studiously averted her gaze from us; it’s difficult to remember names of women who can’t stand the sight of you (quite a few now bc reasons lol). The class issue is alive and well in NZ women’s groups, you betcha!
Rather than trying to form a coalition of like mindeds, women who want men out of women’s spaces fighting together, the middle class diners-with-the-stars women in NZ’s fight against gender ideology would rather enforce the class divide. Ardent Ardernistas, it seems some of the women in our fight LOVE the two-tier society model.
We chatted with other shunned sisters and others; a lot of the blokes there smiled and gave our attire a thumbs-up, grin, eyebrow-raised approval. A brave woman Josie had made a sign - about the nature of reality XX/XY - and was courageously going over to show the protestors. Di and I said ‘We’ll come with you.’ and Di hit ‘record’.
We filed in and sat at the back. A short welcome from Johnathan and we were off. I wouldn’t have given a fuck if Graham had read his shopping list and a cook-book - free speech was the issue of the day. The minute, I say the very nano-second I heard Paul Thistoll didn’t want him to speak, I bought tickets.
All speech is free speech, with the limits of reason - you don’t yell ‘FIRE!’ in a theatre full of people if there’s no fire for instance.
Engaging, warm, funny and rambling, his answers were a story in and of themselves. He spoke openly and freely about his entire cancelling, the shunning of everyone found in lockstep with transvestites having what they want when they/them want in the entertainment world and comedy in particular. Of the framing of anyone questioning the ‘trans’ narrative of cancer drugs/surgery for children because toys/haircuts/clothing as a hateful bigot.
Some people rose and left, obviously outraged that there was somebody openly dismissing the entire ideology as nonce-sense. Bye!
After half an hour or so, the floor was opened to questions. People eagerly raised their hands and tried to steer him to comedy talk and brighter things. He kept on, and introduced the WPATH files. #WPATHFiles are the biggest medical scandal of the centuries: last AND this. One answer he said to the effect ‘What do you say when somebody says they’re cis?’ and I shouted out ‘Cis my arse!’ People kept trying to get to the comedy segment, rather than hear the unpleasant truth happening under their very noses to their family and friends. #GaslightingandGrooming
He wouldn’t be deterred, saying his piece and the floor was closed to questions.
I put my hand up, and Glinner looked out, said ‘Is that you, Rex?’
I stood and started to speak. The microphone was given to me, and I thanked Graham for speaking out in defence of women’s rights, and his allyship: nobody’s perfect and we have our differences, as all people do. I’ll take the win of someone with nearly half a million followers on Twatter knowing my name. LoL. Oh, and that we’re in it together. To remove men from women’s spaces, leave children alone, and dismantle the medical cult preying on the vulnerable.
What we do on our own time is up to us, as free speech is for everyone: I’m not the morality police, and nor is he.
Comedy came up next; a clever format to deal with the hard chew first: Graham can read the room well and some fairly asinine questions were given respectful consideration. I mean, how many fucking TIMES has he been asked ‘what’s your fave episode of FT?’ He replied with a scene from The IT Crowd. LMFAO.
After thanks and closing, Johnathan said there’d be a meet and greet opportunity. The woman I’d mis-named found herself at the front of the queue to meet and greet and stepped forward, aquiver.
Di and I were walking up to Linehan as he was coming down the stairs to meet/greet. The queue had formed to the right and we glided into pole position as if rehearsed, leaving Miss-Named to one side. Di turned to her and showed her what was in her hands: the earrings that had been chosen as a gift for Kellie-Jay Keen from the wāhine and women of New Zealand.
Albert Park, March 25 2023. #LetWomenSpeak when Woman Hunting Season was declared open. Amongst the planning were gifts, considered and long thought over as to what would be right and fitting. These tasteful earrings were chosen by a woman who understood the importance and gravitas of the gesture; we’ll always be grateful for her excellent choice.
The earrings were unable to be gifted, as KJK was unceremoniously bundled out of the country by a complicit and lickspittle police force, after women were viciously attacked for wanting to exercise their free speech rights. While said captured plod force stood by and watched: ‘We are not here to protect you.’ Sargent Shaun Richardson! Represent.
Di apologised to Miss-Named, stating that this was of import and needed to happen: she stood by, seeming to understand implicitly once she saw the taonga/gift in Di’s hand. Taking Linehan’s hands in hers, eyes locked, Di imparted the whakapapa/history of the earrings to him. A small hush descended as he was told how the earrings were a planned gift for KJK, chosen especially, with all the mauri of the women of New Zealand in them for her. She entreated him to take them and please deliver them to her. The pattern on them is Roimata - the Valley of Tears - our anguish at what happened and our sorrow for how she was treated.
He nodded, said he’d be delighted to. They’re on their way to the intended recipient now: I hope they call her back #HokiMaiKJK
I stepped forward after this, and handed him a ‘Squint’ t-shirt. ‘This got our sister banned from her local supermarket for two years.’ He thanked me after photos and hand shakes, then another woman waved her phone in his face and started to speak to him. ‘I was still speaking, you interrupted me. I hadn’t finished talking to Graham. Stop speaking now.’ I said. Affronted, she stepped back and I continued. I’m like that.
Some postcards that Mana Wahine Korero had printed were handed over: 'This is what we get up to, our activism. We deliver these to households. Thanks so much.’
A woman in the audience, Debbie, confided she had a card for him and a flower from her garden. I reflected to Di in an undertone ‘We have an errand for him, an offensive t-shirt and some postcards with sex offenders. We really know how to show him a good time.’
I’d be grateful if you can alert me to any event Paul Thistoll wants cancelled so I can attend.
#NEVERSurrender #FuckYourPronouns #Menarenotwomen #AdultHumanFemale
Endpiece
In terms of the treachery of the UK Labour Party to women’s and children’s rights, I’ll go with the Irish singer, Radie Peat - it relates to a different country - but you’ll get the drift - it works on the Labour Party too.
Dear readers
Galadriel Part 2 and Fried Green Tomatoes Part 1 are proving a bit sluggish, so if you can push those two around I'd greatly appreciate it. Hopefully the next update will be on Tuesday 😊
Dusty
I love the subtitle of this update but I’m afraid that I can’t trust myself to express my feelings about Starmer and Labour. I’ll leave you to fill in the blanks.
FFS Scotland ….. coming here under Labour. Third Party Reporting Centres and an NHS still linking to WPATH.
Ditto FFS for Canada. Interesting that Arty blames the people for not bothering to do anything.
Blistering from Rex Landy and great that Glinner is determined to talk gender rather than comedy.
That poor child!! Talk about the banality of evil.
Thanks Dusty.