Here is Part 2, dear readers.
And onwards with The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976).
Clint Eastwood is Josey Wales.
Will Sampson is Ten Bears.
It shall be life!
Get those nominations for Best Western in 😃
Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
The Return Of Glinner
Glinner firstly features whistleblower Jamie Reed making a great submission in support of a Missouri Bill:
Secondly, an interview with Australian comedian, Biddy O’Loughlin, who has temporarily fled to the States (where Glinner is, of course) due to cancellation in Australia for expressing Terfy views. Plus Graham has a suggestion to make!!
UK - Melanie Newman
One piece from today’s Sex Matters newsletter. Maya Forstater writes:
Melanie Newman’s employment tribunal against the Metropolitan Police started this week. At the end of last week we learnt that the Met had applied for an order to anonymise one of the witnesses (requests for anonymity are increasingly common in these cases). We scrambled together a legal team over the weekend and on Monday morning intervened with submissions in support of open justice.
The case law on this goes back over a hundred years to 1913: “The hearing of a case in public may be, and often is, no doubt, painful, humiliating, or deterrent both to parties and witnesses… but all this is tolerated and endured, because it is felt that in public trial is to found, on the whole, the best security for the pure, impartial, and efficient administration of justice.”
Melanie Newman joins the ranks of the women and men who have endured this punishing process to drag their employer’s conduct into the light. Her case centres on a Trans Day of Visibility event that took place at New Scotland Yard in March 2023. This was shortly after Kellie-Jay Keen had been physically attacked in New Zealand. Shockingly, the gathering of Met police officers and staff (including representatives from HR and legal) responded to mention of Keen’s name with hissing and booing. The Met is defending this behaviour in court as something that would have been “lawful and reasonable in all the circumstances”. It sought to exclude large sections of Melanie’s witness statement, which paint a shocking picture of an organisation disregarding its mission and principles in favour of misogynistic trans ideology.
I went to Croydon to instruct our legal team. Fiona McAnena has been there to support Mel (and found a last-minute piece of evidence in her WhatsApp records that supported Mel’s recollection of events in 2023). Retired detective Charlotte Cadden, who was founding chair of the Police SEEN network and is now on our board of trustees, also gave evidence. Naomi Cunningham is representing Melanie Newman as a barrister on a pro bono basis.
The ground war against gender ideology is being fought by individuals like Mel, and by organisations like Sex Matters and For Women Scotland. But we know this war can’t be won case by case. We are also trying to get Parliament to take responsibility for solving what should be a trivial problem: how to allow people to keep their sex as private data sometimes, but accurate wherever it is needed. Removing the lie that has corrupted the heart of so many institutions takes personal courage but also systematic change.
Read more about Melanie Newman’s case:
Melanie Newman’s witness statement and Tribunal Tweets’ reporting of the case.
I hope to report further on Melanie’s case in the next update.
UK - Home Education
Due to the inappropriate materials being taught to young children including ‘gender ideology’ a lot of parents are now home schooling. The Children’s Wellbeing and School’s Bill ( the title is a red flag to start with!) is an attack on home education. Some of you may be interested in this webinar.
ParentPower Action Alert!
Join our Online Webinar -
The impact of the Children's Wellbeing & School's Bill on Home Educators
7.30pm Friday 21st March
Parent Power has joined forces with Voice of the Family and home education expert Randall Hardy to organise a webinar for parents concerned about the impact on home education of Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which has passed its second reading in the UK Parliament.
The purpose of the event will be twofold: to inform and encourage parents to lobby Parliamentarians in opposing the Bill, and also to start to build long-term parental resistance to the effects of the legislation in the event of it passing (which is very likely given the large Labour Government majority).
There are five main areas of concern with the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill:
An underlying disregard for the principle that parents are the primary educators of their children and should ordinarily be free to choose whether or not to delegate that responsibility to a school without suffering discrimination on the grounds of that decision.
Linked to (1), the presumption that homes are unsafe places whilst schools are safe places.
The unjustifiable amount of data required when registering a home educated child, which presents serious safeguarding concerns relating to data protection issues.
A lack of clarity which leaves the way open to abuse of any new laws based on this Bill.
A substantial increase in the power of Local Authorities to scrutinise home educating families which is not balanced by any substantial commitment to supporting those families.
This webinar will cover:
Information for parents to cover in lobbying their MPs on the Bill
Long-term strategies for parents to resist state control over their children
The big picture of the importance of the right of parents to home-educate.
Participants will be able to put questions for discussion to Dr Tom Rogers, representing Parent Power, which has reported widely on the Bill, and to Randall Hardy, a long-time defender of the freedom to home-educate, whose personal website is No Nationalisation of Our Kids. The webinar will be Moderated by John Smeaton from Voice of the Family.
Date/ Time:
Friday 21 March 2025 at 19:30-21:00 (UK time)
How to Join:
Register via this link before the event. You will then be sent a unique link to join the webinar via your web browser.
UK - Westminster Hall Debate
Excellent speech by Rosie Duffield MP in a debate about gender critical beliefs and the Equality Act ( albeit great shame that she does not mention Kellie-Jay Keen in her list of great Terfs). The Government response ( don’t know why) is from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Dame Nia Griffith who gives a cautious response but gets busy fudging when it gets to single sex spaces and manages not to mention the For Women Scotland case at all. My two part report on that case before the Supreme Court ( judgment awaited) is here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/for-women-scotland-day-one?utm_source=publication-search
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/for-women-scotland-day-two?utm_source=publication-search
Stick To The Truth
Excellent piece on her substack from N3VLYNNN aimed at younger lesbians but which will ring true to all of us Terfs with our heads stuck above the parapet.
Stop Coddling Women Into Silence.
Mar 14
I recently wrote a note about how older lesbians shouldn’t feel bad for the young lesbian and bi women of my generation because most of us are actually quite comfortable with gender ideology. Ignorance is bliss!
This sparked a brief exchange with one of my elderly readers, who explained that most young lesbians probably disagree with transgenderism—they are just keeping their heads down, or adopting they/them pronouns to avoid conflict.
I strongly disagree.
Most lesbians under 40 aggressively defend transgenderism, or they are ready and willing to do so when called upon-like a dormant militia.
Many of them are totally brainwashed, and they believe every lie they’ve been told.
Yes, many bi/lesbian women are hiding behind enby pronouns. And, some women are genuinely fearful.
But they are not all innocent little victims.
Many women will throw another woman under the bus in a heartbeat if that is what it takes to maintain their social status as a “good person”.
This is part of why common ground on this issue is not enough for me to form a friendship with a woman.
I am very outspoken, and I take risks with how I share my voice.
Women who secretly agree with me, but who are not ready to stand with me—cannot really be trusted.
At best, it just creates an imbalanced dynamic where I am able to support them, but they cannot fully support me.
Look, I get it…
Some women are more concerned with financial gain, fitting in, and the like.
Who wants to be in the trenches, garnering a hateful mob? Not I.
I wish I didn’t have to concern myself with this issue.
And believe it or not—I value wealth, ease, and community too.
But the reality is that if your social or economic livelihood is strongly linked to a cause you do not support—your allegiance to that cause will be tested.
And I do not want to be the collateral damage of that test.
The full piece is here:
Endpieces
I am joining in again!!
From Tenaciously
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#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#GrassrootsArmy
#FightForFreeSpeech
#ByeByeStonewall
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Good speech by Rosie Duffield but I’d have more respect for her if she lived by her own rule of respecting the opinions of others. I can’t forget her throwing KJK under the bus with that letter and by omitting her from the list of heroes. Sorry if that sounds harsh….but not sorry.
Love the Python but considering the materials going into schools I think we both missed this one Dusty…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWmek5Rc5Dc