Geronimo

Update 561. Transphobic Toddler Special. #BeMorePorcupine.

I am covering more and more stories featuring authoritarianism and loss of free speech in the UK - the toddler story and the imposition of a Netflix series on secondary schools are just the latest. All thoughts on the methods of fight back from the Terf Resistance welcomed! Move to America not accepted as a suggestion 😟

We continue with the Westerns series celebrating Trump’s Executive Orders. The first two in the series featured, as a small counter balance, two films with strong female leads. Meanwhile, as a great fan of Westerns, I also have to admit that the American Indian doesn’t get a great press in the Westerns! So the next two feature two strong American Indian leads. Starting with the famous leader of the Apache, Geronimo ( Geronimo: An American Legend 1993).

The film loosely follows the events leading up to the surrender of Geronimo in 1886. Geronimo and his fellow Apache reluctantly agree to settle on a reservation established by the American government in accordance with the Indian Removal Act. The tribe does its best to assimilate, but many Apache struggle to abandon their traditional way of life while the government fails to honour its promise to keep American settlers from encroaching on tribal lands.

Geronimo finally commits himself to armed resistance when soldiers of the U.S. Cavalry accompanied by Indian fighter Al Sieber slaughter a band of Apache after discovering them practising their "heathen" faith in secret. Geronimo forms a ragtag militia, who humiliate the army by evading capture time and time again while carrying out well-planned guerilla attacks. The plot centres upon Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, a West Point graduate charged with capturing Geronimo.

Wes Studi is Geronimo.

Jason Patric is Gatewood.

That was a great shot!

Not so great, I aimed for his head!

For those interested in the 19th century ‘Indian Wars’ I recommend the book by Dee Brown Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee.

Thanks to three great readers for suggested pieces.

Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.

UK -What Is The Weather Like On Your Planet?

Noor Qurashi in The Mail Online ( Toddler is kicked out of nursery 'for being transphobic' - as families blast school's 'insanity' 31 March) reports:

A toddler has been kicked out of nursery after being accused of transphobia, new figures reveal.

The child, aged either three or four, was suspended for 'abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity', data from the Department for Education shows.

The offences took place in the 2022-23 academic year at a state school, according to The Telegraph.

Statistics indicate 94 pupils at similar primary institutions were suspended or permanently excluded for transphobia or homophobia in the same year.

This included ten pupils from Year 1 and three from Year 2, where the maximum age was seven, and one child was of nursery age.

Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at Sex Matters, said: 'Every once in a while, the extremes of gender ideology throw up a story that seems too crazy to believe, and a toddler being suspended from nursery for so-called "transphobia" or homophobia is one such example.

'Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs on to such young children.'

Across all primary schools and state schools, the number of pupils suspended or expelled for homophobic or transphobic behaviour increased from 164 in 2021-22 to 178 in 2022-23.

The largest number of suspensions for this reason in 2022-23 was in Essex, with 16, followed by Birmingham, 15, Bradford, 11 and Norfolk, eight.

Figures began in the 2020-21 academic year.

Lord Young, director of the Free Speech Union, said: 'I would have thought that if your ideology is so rigid it justifies you punishing toddlers for not complying with it, that's a powerful argument for discarding it in favour of something less dogmatic.'

The Department for Education said: 'All pupils and staff should feel safe and protected at school and should never face violence or abuse.

'The Education Secretary has been clear that she expects school leaders to enforce good behaviour and we are committed to a comprehensive programme of behaviour support for schools.

'Our Plan for Change sets out our relentless focus on making sure every child gets the best life chances.'

The full article is here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14553181/toddler-kicked-nursery-transphobic.html

EDI Jester covers it here:

Adolescence

From toddlers and primary school children being indoctrinated to secondary school children being indoctrinated. I hasten to add that I have not seen any of the Netflix series Adolescence but I have read enough comments from Terf supporters and anti-woke activists to know that people feel it is a combination of anti-male and anti-white. Keir Starmer wants it shown in all secondary schools and a dodgy group called Tender will follow up with educational materials.

EDI Jester writes on his substack:

Adolescence

A Construct Unsuitable for School Propaganda

Apr 02, 2025

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"It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals". C. S. Lewis.

Adolescence, traditionally understood as the transitional phase between childhood and adulthood, has evolved from a psychological concept into a powerful ideological tool. Originally coined by G. Stanley Hall, (a key figure in connecting Freud to the American psychological community in the early 20th century) to describe a period of emotional upheaval in children, it has since been hijacked by progressive frameworks like "woke" culture and Critical Social Justice (CSJ).

The invention of the teenager occurred in the midst of the 20th century, predominantly as a marketing tool. Now Hall, his mate Freud and his nephew Bernays, may well have unleashed a horror on the 21st century, one that the utopian obsessed Wokesters cannot resist. For of all people, the adolescent is the most malleable and susceptible to the propaganda they are served up by the state Wokerati in education, and the Woke know it.

As of course, did Mao, Pol Pot and Hitler.

In modern educational settings, adolescence is no longer a neutral stage of development but a vehicle for enforcing equity-driven social conformity, often with implicit biases against males, and whiteness. The very concept has now become propagandised, rooted in ideological agendas rather than individual growth, and reflects a broader cultural trend to engineered "identities" rather than personalities honed into characters.

The Netflix show Adolescence, exemplifies the kind of propaganda that is beloved of the engineers of consent and quack psychologists littering the educational landscape.

The full piece is here:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-160395560

Malcolm Clark writes:

Malcolm Clark⁦‪@TwisterFilm‬⁩1./ 🧵Adolescence
If someone says a TV drama should shape policy remind them of Butterfly about a boy who wants puberty blockers. Its advisor Susie Green had castrated her own son. 6 years ago the show was applauded by many now applauding Adolescence.
youtube.com/watch?v=L2iSPx… 02/04/2025, 15:49

Comment from Charlotte Gill:

https://x.com/CharlotteCGill/status/1907000444456743148

From Clare Page:

https://x.com/NoSecretLessons/status/1907350552939225246

American Jack Posobiec writes:

Adolescence is A Case Study in Anti-White Male Propaganda and Indoctrination As the culture war rages on, Netflix’s latest British miniseries, Adolescence, emerges as a stark example of progressive media’s unrelenting assault on white males. Hailed by leftist critics and politicians as a “must-watch” exploration of modern societal ills, the series is, in truth, a thinly veiled piece of propaganda designed to demonize young white men and vilify masculinity itself. By twisting real-world data, race-swapping perpetrators, and scapegoating conservative online spaces, Adolescence reveals not just a bias but an agenda—one that seeks to guilt-trip white boys into submission and silence the growing resistance to woke ideology. At the heart of Adolescence lies the story of Jamie Miller, a 13-year-old white British boy accused of murdering a female classmate. The series pins his alleged descent into violence on exposure to the “manosphere”—a nebulous term for online communities that challenge feminist orthodoxy and celebrate traditional masculinity. The narrative is clear: young white males, radicalized by figures like Andrew Tate, are a ticking time bomb, primed to unleash misogynistic havoc on society. This premise, however, crumbles under scrutiny when juxtaposed against the reality of knife crime in the United Kingdom, the very issue the show claims to address.

https://x.com/JackPosobiec/status/1906806662402285839

Mr Starmer doesn’t seem clear whether it’s a documentary or a piece of fiction! It’s the latter BTW!

https://x.com/BDSixsmith/status/1907358693294850555

Well the transphobic toddler and transphobic primary school children and the proposed indoctrination of secondary school children strikes me as very Red Guard. You think I’m exaggerating? Well, ok we are not seeing struggle sessions like the one below from the series 3 Body Problem but that is, I would argue, because our version of the Red Guard have already taken over our schools, universities, police, health service and other institutions from within. But, at least, at the moment we can speak out, so let’s speak out!!

All thoughts gratefully received.

Scotland - NHS Fife Doubles Down

I have, throughout, been reporting on the Sandie Peggie case:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/mildred-pierce-part-1?utm_source=publication-search

Feminist Legal Clinic reports:

NHS Fife refuses to alter female changing rooms policy amid trans row (02 April)

The NHS trust that allowed a trans doctor to use a female hospital changing room has refused to immediately change its practices after being challenged by the UK’s equalities watchdog.

NHS Fife told the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that it would not consider whether to alter its trans policies until after the conclusion of a landmark employment tribunal.

Carol Potter, the board’s chief executive, said any recommendations that resulted from the case brought by nurse Sandie Peggie would be considered “in partnership” with the Scottish Government and trade unions.

In a letter to John Kirkpatrick, the EHRC’s chief executive, Ms Potter also insisted that the board’s “policies and practices align with our legal duties and our values”.

But a legal expert warned that the board’s decision to allow trans staff to access women-only areas was a “continual breach of legal obligations to provide single-sex changing facilities”.

Michael Foran, a gender law expert from the University of Glasgow, warned that its refusal to change its policy immediately could expose it “to additional claims of unlawful discrimination from other employees”.

Source: NHS Fife refuses to alter female changing rooms policy amid trans row

https://feministlegal.org/nhs-fife-refuses-to-alter-female-changing-rooms-policy-amid-trans-row-msn/

Ireland - Free Speech

More Red Guard in Ireland. Colette Colfer on her substack writes, in terms very reminiscent of what happened to Kathleen Stock at the University of Sussex, about the stifling of academic freedom when it comes to ‘Gender’.

Academic Un-Freedom in Ireland

'Collective understanding' as collective silence

Mar 31, 2025

There is a paradox at the heart of the Irish higher education system when it comes to academic freedom. On the one hand the Universities Act 1997 states that universities have the responsibility to preserve and promote the principle of academic freedom. On the other hand, every university in Ireland is compelled to sign up to the Athena Swan Ireland Charter requiring that they commit to ‘fostering an environment that creates collective understanding’ on the topic of gender. Can we have academic freedom whilst cultivating collective understanding on any issue, let alone a topic as contested as gender?

The term ‘gender’ is complex. Mari Mikkola writing for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy points out that the word means different things to different people and is neither ‘easy or straightforward to characterise’. Yet, in Irish universities all staff and students are expected to think the same when it comes to gender.

Up to the twentieth century, gender was primarily associated with linguistics. In the 1950s and 60s the neologisms ‘gender role’ and ‘gender identity’ emerged, and around the same time, ‘gender’ came to be used more and more interchangeably with ‘sex’ to refer to biological differences. Many feminists adopted the term ‘gender’ to refer to what are believed to be socially produced differences between men and women. The word is still contested. In Irish universities, however, evolution of the term has stalled. The issue is settled. The debate is over. Compliance is required.

Principle 8 of the Athena Swan Ireland Charter requires all higher education institutions (HEIs) to adopt the idea ‘that individuals can determine and affirm their gender’. This means university staff and students are expected to believe that gender is NOT biological AND that it is mutable. Ironically, the ‘discriminatory ground’ for gender in Ireland’s Equal Status Act is: ‘that one is male and the other is female’ (i.e. the sex binary).

The full piece is here:

https://colettecolfer.substack.com/p/academic-un-freedom-in-ireland

Australia - Puberty Blockers

Despite the Cass Review, Australia is still holding out on the question of puberty blockers. FFS!!!! Bernard Lane updates us on his substack, Gender Clinic News.

Everyone else is wrong, right?

Behind the scenes, NSW health officials seem aware that the Cass review poses a credibility problem for them

Apr 01, 2025

Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash

Internal doubt

Someone in the health department of NSW, Australia’s most populous state, wanted to know why.

Both NSW Health and England’s NHS had commissioned reviews of the evidence for paediatric gender medicine. It’s the same evidence base internationally.

The result of England’s 2020-24 Cass review—which found the evidence “remarkably weak”—was an end to routine use of puberty blockers for gender-distressed children.

In NSW, the 2023-24 Sax Institute’s review said the evidence showed blockers to be “safe, effective and reversible.”

And NSW Health, the state government agency, continues to expand its “gender-affirming” supply of blockers and cross-sex hormones for young people referred to in its service framework as “tranz,” “non-binary,” even “poly gendered.”

In April 2024, however, someone in NSW Health wanted to know, why did our Sax review have such a different outcome from the Cass report?

This doubt has come to light in documents released to GCN under the Government Information (Public Access) Act.

It is still a live question, and not only in NSW.

In the state of Queensland, psychiatrist Ruth Vine has just been appointed to lead what is potentially Australia’s first serious independent review of the evidence for puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Under her terms of reference, she “may consider” both the Cass and Sax reviews.

And the Sax Institute review has been put on the federal political agenda by Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler, who told journalists in January that this document was summer holiday reading for him.

The full piece is here:

https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/everyone-else-is-wrong-right?publication_id=627677&r=1v403b

The States - Men in Women’s Sports

Despite the Executive Order from Donald Trump - see here for all the relevant orders: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/a-manifesto - Jennifer Sey updates on men still participating in women’s sport in the States (thanks toUte Heggen for bringing this to our attention):

https://jennifersey.substack.com/p/despite-president-trumps-executive?publication_id=904886&post_id=160374681&isFreemail=false&r=huncz&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Safeguarding

Prompted by the Stephen Ireland case ( see, for example, here: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/a-song-is-born-part-2?utm_source=publication-search ), Transgender Trend provide a very useful summary of previous scandals involving the so called LGBTQ+ movement.

https://www.transgendertrend.com/lgbtq-pride-safeguarding-scandal/

Mad and Bad

It is always useful to remember that the founding fathers and mothers of the Gender Borg were not only mad but also very, very suspect people. As exemplified by yet another forensic examination from Malcolm Clark involving Judith Butler and her obsession with ‘the incest taboo’ and her equally dodgy mentor, Gayle Rubin:

https://malcolmrichardclark.substack.com/p/incest-white-lotus-and-judith-butler

April Fool!!

My favourite April Fools 🤣 Enjoy!

https://x.com/SpeechUnion/status/1906962756915392714

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1907015920012198252

https://x.com/RafHM/status/1906987516659478756

https://x.com/FemaleRunner/status/1906950422033559741

Endpieces

From Tenaciously

From Liz

#BeMorePorcupine

#EndGenderAffirmingCare

#AdultHumanFemale

#LetWomenSpeak

#GrassrootsArmy

#FightForFreeSpeech

#ByeByeStonewall

#NoMenInWomensBoxing

#LiveNotByLies

I am having a night out with my mates on Friday so the next update will probably be on Saturday, Terven.

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