I Have Been To The Mountain Top
Update 625. This Is Terf Month. #BeMorePorcupine.
We are in Terf Month ( to counteract Queer Month) and we are featuring great speeches on the theme of women’s rights. Please keep those suggestions coming in. Please send a link if you can. Thanks to those readers who have already sent in great suggestions.
I know we are mainly looking at womens’ rights in Terf Month but free speech is essential for us Terfs and, on the subject of free speech, you can’t beat the very last speech of the great Martin Luther King.
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
Let Women Speak
In case you missed it, there was a great event at Bury St Edmunds on Sunday with some excellent speeches as ever, including the Ultimate Pool player, Lynne Pinches, who bravely walked away from a final when she was facing a larping man.
Peaking On Air?
All hail, Martine Croxall defying the BBC autocue!!
This is discussed, amongst other things, by Julia Hartley-Brewer and Baroness Claire Fox on Talk TV.
The For Women Scotland Judgment - The Aftermath
From the latest LGB Alliance newsletter (23 June):
The Supreme Court – What’s Next?
The Interim Guidance on the Supreme Court ruling produced by the Equality and Human Rights Commission has been seized upon by those who wish to promote the idea that protecting single-sex spaces will be, in practice, far too complex or difficult to apply in real-world situations. We say it is not complex and that obfuscation is a deliberate tactic for those who oppose LGB and women’s rights.
Our CEO Kate Barker spoke at a cross-party committee in the House of Lords, to MPs and Peers, about what LGB Alliance would like to see in the final Guidance. She highlighted the need for unequivocal language and a clear glossary of terms and for a section to deal specifically with the lesbian and gay experience that outlines scenarios we may face. But above all we urged the EHRC to be alert to the core aim of the LGBTQ+ lobby groups which is to continue to allow men to self-identify into women’s spaces without sanction. We look forward to the outcome and welcome an excellent piece of work from LGBA Cymru, Naomi Cunningham and FiLia which is an updated defence of lesbian spaces. Take a look here.
On his substack, Knowing Ius Michael Foran has provided his detailed response to the EHRC consultation on the guidance which readers may find useful if you haven’t yet responded. Please do take time to respond if you can. The deadline for responses is 30 June.
in light of the Supreme Court judgment, Women’s Rights Network Wales have begun their Step Up Senedd campaign:
UK - The Question Of A Clinical Trial
Orlando Woolf writing on the substack, Trans Policy discusses how the NHS are in thrall to the Gender Identity and Research Education Society (GIRES) who push the idea of ‘feminine essence’ ie. that a man can be a woman supposedly trapped in a male body! This ignores what Orlando calls early onset dysphoria amongst boys which he relates to them being gay and late onset dysphoria which he relates to them being autogynephiles (AGPs). And Orlando speaks as an AGP himself. He and other AGPs wrote to Dr Cass about this fetish but it is not mentioned in the Cass Review. Orlando explains why he is opposed to any possibility of a clinical trial regarding puberty blockers.
On reflection I don’t think I agree with Orlando’s analysis of gender dysphoria in boys. Dr Cass may have not mentioned autogynephilia because she did not think it was relevant with regard to children. All thoughts gratefully received.
Objection to the Cass Review's puberty blocker clinical trial
Including responses from the NHS, DHSC, NIHR and KCL trial team.
May 02, 2025
Dear NHS England, the Health Research Authority and the National Institute for Health and Care Research,
I would like to object to the proposed clinical puberty blocker trial.
I do not see that the NHS is fulfilling the requirement for clinical trial participants, and their parents, to be “adequately informed” regarding the pathways of gender dysphoria in the DSM-5, particularly regarding autogynephilia.
Furthermore, I believe that medical professionals are operating under false belief in this field of medicine, and that medical research does not support blocking the puberty of children.
The full piece is here:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-154677312
UK - ‘Gender Dysphoria’
On her substack, Sarah Murray-Dickson looks at the ‘independent experts’ ( who sound an awful lot like dodgy trans activists) who make up the Clinical Reference Group that advises the NHS on ‘gender dysphoria.’
https://sarahmurraydickson.substack.com/p/buckle-up-peepsadult-gender-dysphoria
The Gender Butchers
On her substack, Bodies get in the way… Lucy Leader compares today’s so called ‘gender surgeries’ with grotesque surgeries that took place in the past.
Gender Affirming Surgeries Are Not a Cure
Surgeons mutilating bodies are victimizing people, not fixing them
Jun 23, 2025
One of the first surgical operations that we have proof of is a procedure that has been done since prehistoric times. It involves drilling or boring holes into the skulls of people.
Trepanation, also known as trephination is a process in which a hole is drilled into the skull. Derived from the Greek word, τρύπανον, meaning “to bore” or “to auger,” trepanation represents one of the earliest neurosurgical interventions dating back to the Mesolithic era, before the beginning of civilization.
Depending on the point in history at which this was done, having a hole (or three) created in your head was considered to be a treatment for headaches, migraines, infections, head injuries, epilepsy, convulsions and or to release trapped demons or evil spirits.
In the setting of modern operating theaters today, trepanation is still occasionally performed in cases where from either disease or accident, the brain is swelling to a dangerous level. I suspect that both modern imaging techniques and hygiene standards have lowered the mortality rate of this procedure considerably, although it is true that even in previous eras, some people did survive as their recovered skulls show evidence of healing.
The full piece is here:
New York - Back To The Rainbow!
EDI Jester reports that, at the memorial to the Stonewall Riot, New York City Council are only displaying the original Pride flag 😁
Ireland - The Tricolour
Talking of flags, I recently reported on Irish people being told that, if they flew the Tricolour from their home, that showed they were ‘racist.’ This is what happened next at the National Protest in Dublin yesterday:
https://x.com/real_eire/status/1936842468190027955
Endpieces
I’m joining in again!!
From Liz
Llama and Alpaca Day Of Visibility
This can only be viewed on You Tube so click the link below.
From Tenaciously
From Dusty
https://substack.com/@denzien/note/c-117915522?r=20xc5g&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
#BeMorePorcupine
#LiesAreNotFreedom
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#JoinFreeSpeechUnion
#TransNHS
#TRAsRewriteHistory
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
Great update, thanks Dusty. I really disagree with Orlando’s approach to the puberty blocker experiment though. It’s not appropriate to label children as having a form of transvestism, and in any case, fetishes are driven by the pursuit of sexual gratification not negative body image (or ‘dysphoria’). I think there are plenty of good reasons why the NHS should not go ahead with their proposed experiment on children without conflating childhood cross-sex ideation with adult paraphilic behaviour.
Dear readers
A heads up that Mr Menno is doing a premiere tonight at 21.00 GMT discussing the Skrmetti case.
Hope to see some of you in the chat.
Dusty