Just Making Sure
Update 596. On The Offensive Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
Parliament in using the words “man” and “woman” … referred to biological sex
For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 para 265(ii).
Repeal the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
Remove ‘gender reassignment’ from the Equality Act 2010.
Get rid of DEI.
This is a long one, dear readers!
I explained the new Dusty’s Film Series here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/empire-of-light-dustys-film-series
Please let me have any suggested additions. I have been updating it with additions so this is the latest list for you to double check. Please bear in mind the original series of films.
Next up is Crocodile Dundee.
OK, I know he is Mr Machismo but it is worth it, if just for the clip below where he meets a larping man!
Paul Hogan is Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee and Linda Kozlowski is Sue Charlton.
Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
The For Women Scotland Judgment - The Aftermath
Terf Vibes on her substack, Til Sex Do Us Part looks at the Mantrums that have been taking place.
'Scotland bans men from women's bathrooms in parliament' 🏆
If you had told me just 10 years ago that in 10 years time this would be headline news I would not have believed you. But that was before the Age of Trans Totalitarianism 🤦🏽
May 14, 2025
Totalitarianism
noun
a system of government [or other institutionalised power] that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience...
Trans Totalitarianism
In a deep grief over the preventable premature death of his extremely brainy and ever stoic wife Elaine at just 37, George Orwell wrote his famous dystopian novel 1984 (in 1949). His dark imaginings of a supreme totalitarian state that commanded absolute submission to its irrational, anti-social edicts that it enforced through a mixture of relentless propaganda and brainwashing, gaslighting and exposing of the truth-tellers as enemies of the Big Brother state, as well as good old-fashioned fear. This nightmare was based on Orwell’s first-hand experience of European fascism at this time, regimes in which the leaders demanded total submission to irrational, cruel and destructive edicts.
When I came across this item in the news last week about the toilets being returned to operating as single-sex facilities in the Scottish parliament, I was more struck by the totalitarian reality this exposed than the return to this tiny, if symbolically significant, bit of sanity and fairness for women. When a government that calls itself democratic is free to simply impose this on women parliamentarians, without consultation, in favour of allowing male workers — the people who continue to represent the totalitarian state, even if a few women have been co-opted to front it — to access women’s private spaces if they feel like it, never mind women’s discomfort. And as in 1984, critical to the acceptance of this irrational move, the women fighting to keep their single-sex provisions, fighting for truth and justice, were publicly shamed as ‘unkind’, bigoted and old-fashioned, when the sexist prioritising of a few men’s feelings over all women’s most basic rights that underpins this move is as old as the damn hills.
Though not a feminist by any stretch, I think even Orwell would have been stunned at the speed at which such a blatantly irrational and stupid policy change was sold to the Scottish and wider UK public as a progressive, kind and inclusive move that enables all people to live as their ‘authentic’ selves. And so despite the reinstatement of single-sex loos for women in the Scottish parliament after the Supreme Court ruled that it is unlawful to treat males as females, I am not surprised to see the pushback from the Trans totalitarians who had come to expect a certain amount of favouritism over regular women and will not, and probably cannot, change that mindset that their feelings matter more than women’s comfort and safety do.
The full piece is here:
On his substack, Knowing Ius Michael Foran discusses someone called Crash Wigley who has argued that the FWS judgment is a breach of human rights. Michael explains precisely why this is nonsense.
For Women Scotland: Is Legal Recognition of Biological Sex a Violation of Human Rights?
May 15, 2025
In For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers the UK Supreme Court rejected the contention that possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate changes an individual’s sex for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, maintaining equality of status for all those protected under the characteristic of gender reassignment and ensuring that biological women are protected as a distinct group. In the aftermath of this judgment, there has been a heated public debate, in particular on the impact that this has on the operation of single-sex facilities, with some arguing that failure to operate facilities on the basis of GRC status amounts to a human rights violation. For the reasons discussed below, this claim is not sustainable.
This post is a response to Crash Wigley’s post, which argues (among other things) that the Supreme Court has failed to consider the human rights implications of this judgment for transgender people and that the decision is likely to lead to violations of the Article 8 ECHR rights of transgender people in the UK. Wigley, while criticising the Court for omitting analysis of the human rights implications of this judgment for transgender people, has equally omitted any analysis of the human rights grounded in sex and sexual orientation.
Michael concludes:
In this case, the Supreme Court concluded that a biological sex interpretation of the Equality Act would not violate the rights of transgender people and a certificated sex interpretation of the Equality Act would violate the rights of others. Far from omitting human rights analysis from its judgment, the Supreme Court has engaged in a detailed consideration of the various competing rights and interests to inform the core determination in this case, which was one of statutory interpretation.
The full piece is here:
Meanwhile, Let Women Speak are going on the offensive😊
Taking the bull by the horns.
Time to Go on the Offensive: No More Lies in Our Schools
For too long, we've been stuck in defence—responding to each new encroachment of gender ideology into schools, councils, and public life like a game of ideological whack-a-mole. But the game is up. We’re not waiting to see what the TRA lobby does next. We're flipping the board. We’re going on the offensive.
At the heart of this offensive is a simple but powerful move: hit them where they rely on credibility—their charitable status. Charities are regulated. Charities are supposed to serve the public good. And charities that tell children “men can be lesbians” are neither serving the truth, nor the public, nor women. They are pushing an ideology that is legally false, biologically absurd, and blatantly homophobic.
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2025 judgment in For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, the legal definitions are now crystal clear:
A woman is an adult human female.
Sex means biological sex, not someone’s feelings.
A lesbian is a female who is same-sex attracted.
These are not opinions. They are facts, backed by the highest court in the land and codified in the Equality Act 2010.
So here’s the strategy: we are alerting the Charity Commission—and by extension the Minister for Civil Society, Stephanie Peacock MP—that charities pushing gender ideology in schools are operating outside the law and outside the scope of their charitable aims. That makes them fair game for investigation, sanctions, and deregistration. Charitable status should never be a Trojan horse for political dogma, especially not one that confuses children and tramples the rights of women and lesbians.
This is about making it politically and legally dangerous for any school to work with these groups. If a charity can't legally say what it's saying, then schools have no business letting them through the door. We intend to create an environment where gender ideology is not just contested, but seen as toxic to a school’s legal and reputational safety.
They’ve had the institutions. They’ve had the funding. They’ve had the silence. But they no longer have the element of surprise. We’re not waiting around anymore.
We are naming names. We are holding institutions to account. We are putting the Charity Commission on notice. And we are making it crystal clear that no man can be a lesbian—and it is homophobic, dishonest, and unlawful to teach otherwise.
This is how we win: not by pleading for fairness, but by demanding consequences.
The tide has turned. Let them come at us—we’re already coming for them.
#LetWomenSpeak #KeepChildrenSafe
We've written to the Charity Commission to demand urgent action against charities that are misleading the public-especially children-by claiming that men can be lesbians. This is not only factually and legally incorrect, it's a deeply homophobic attack on same-sex attracted women and a betrayal of young girls who deserve clarity and truth.
On the Glinner Update, Zoe Cairns looks at the recent Mantrum protests and picks out one particular placard.
Trans Culture Is Rape Culture
Boundaries are not conventions waiting to be transcended
May 15, 2025
The recent Supreme Court ruling that a woman is a woman and a man is a man (as Dyke & the Blazers pointed out back in 1968) brought the usual mob of trans activists to the streets with their scrawled placards, fishnets, and moobs. Displaying the vitriol we’re used to seeing from them, many of those cardboard signs contained death threats, including the phrase “the only good TERF is a [dead] TERF” - but another sign guilelessly said the quiet part of trans activism out loud in chillingly straightforward terms:
“ALL BOUNDARIES ARE CONVENTIONS WAITING TO BE TRANSCENDED”
Written atop the baby blue and baby pink stripes of the trans flag, it was held up in Parliament Square at last weekend’s pouty shitfit.
And there, in black, white, pink, and blue, is the end goal of trans ideology. A world without boundaries, where access to women and children is a right, and any dissent is framed as being part of a bigoted or even genocidal agenda.
The full piece is here:
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/trans-culture-is-rape-culture
UK - Free Speech
I recently reported on the retired police officer who was arrested for an ‘offensive tweet’ and where the bodycams showed the officers discussing his ‘Brexity books’!
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/city-of-god-the-chicken-chase
Andrew Doyle on his substack picks up the subject:
Are ‘Brexity’ books against the law?
Our reading matter is now being taken as evidence of wrongthink.
May 15, 2025
Many of us will recall that bizarre period during the lockdown when we mostly communicated over computer screens, like a reification of E. M. Forster’s dystopian novella ‘The Machine Stops’. It became a running joke that figures in the media were often seen broadcasting from home in front of shelves groaning with weighty tomes in an effort to convey just how learned they were. I myself was guilty of this, although I can assure you that it wasn’t an attempt to imply erudition, but rather that the alternative backdrops – piles of dirty laundry, a lounge scattered with the debris of an indolent lifestyle – were not so televisual.
During this time, a new game emerged whereby viewers would screenshot the bookshelves on display and zoom in to assess the titles. Michael Gove was subject to this curtain-twitching style of analysis, and there was some controversy over the fact that he appeared to own a book by the Holocaust revisionist David Irving and biographies of Mussolini, Stalin and – shock horror – Margaret Thatcher.
The UK police certainly seem to believe in that old aphorism that that ‘You can tell everything you need to know about a person from their bookshelf’. There has been much press coverage this week of the case of Julian Foulkes, a former policeman who was arrested at his home in Gillingham for tweetcrime. It took six officers to handcuff the pensioner and take him to a cell, and bodycam footage from the arrest shows them assessing the contents of his bookshelves. One was seen singling out The War on the West by Douglas Murray and another remarked that there were ‘very Brexity things’.
I have a fair few ‘Brexity’ books on my shelf too. I have just as many ‘anti-Brexity’ books, as it happens. It seems to have escaped the attention of these officers that it is possible to read multiple points of view without necessarily subscribing to any of them. They have also apparently forgotten that ‘Brexity’ views are fairly commonplace, enough so to win the largest democratic mandate the country has ever seen. If it’s a majority view, is it really all that controversial?
The full piece is here:
https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/are-brexity-books-against-the-law
One of the ‘Brexity books’ was not a book but the Spectator magazine. I don’t want to take part in any advertising campaign but well done to them for picking this up and running with it:
Britain’s most-wanted magazine
Get caught with this week’s Spectator in the wrong part of the country and you may have to go to jail – directly to jail, without passing go.
This week The Spectator discovered that one of our readers, Julian Foulkes from Kent, was arrested by the police after exercising his right to the free speech we exist to defend. Six officers, armed with batons and pepper spray, raided his home after he posted a tweet denouncing anti-Semitism. As they searched his house for evidence of extremism, officers found copies of The Spectator and The War on the West, one of our columnist Douglas Murray’s best-selling books. These were apparently ‘very Brexity things’.
Douglas writes exclusively for us in the latest issue of the magazine, out today, exploring just what this police action means for our country and our liberties. Get hold of a copy now – before they’re impounded by the authorities. If you dare…
- Michael Gove, editor
New Zealand - DEI Must DIE
Is this a sign of a turn around in NZ as reported by Katrina Biggs on her substack, A B’Old Woman !?
DEI must die, says ‘Crusher Collins’
DEI is being removed from NZ's Public Service Act.
May 14, 2025
DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – in NZ’s Public Service has been dealt a death blow by Public Service Minister, Judith Collins. Her announcement that DEI requirements are being removed from the Public Service Act relates to all Public Service employees, but specifically removes the obligation from top executives to take DEI into account when hiring or promoting. The criteria for that will now go back to simply seeking the best candidate for a role, based on merit.
Judith Collins has been in politics for a long time, and her moniker of ‘Crusher Collins’ goes back to the time she was Minister of Police, when she implemented a Bill which gave powers to crush the cars of boy racers who’d committed three serious vehicle offences in four years. To date, it seems that a total of three cars have been crushed since the Vehicle Confiscation and Seizure Bill was passed in 2009. Judith retains her descriptor, despite having moved on from being Minister of Police, but as an experienced politician continues to ‘crush’ when required.
I expect a collective sigh of relief will be heard throughout the Public Service that DEI has been consigned to the dustbin, apart from those who have chosen to make their living from it. Potentially, many may find themselves now surplus to requirements, unless they have other skills to offer. Normally, I do feel for those who lose their jobs through no fault of their own, as I have been made redundant myself in my working life, and know it’s tough. But I must admit the amount of sympathy I have for DEI promulgators is a grudgingly small sliver. The most generous advice I can give them is to not let the door hit them on their rear-end on the way out.
The full piece is here:
https://aboldwoman.substack.com/p/dei-must-die-says-crusher-collins?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Australia - A Story of Lesbian Defiance
A great history of lesbian resistance in Australia from Susan Hawthorne on the site Verity La La:
Lesbians: the canaries in the mine.
I would suggest that when lesbians become victims of attack, they are a signal. They are the canaries in the mine. And if the perpetrators get away with it, then other attacks will follow. So, we need to be protesting every attack on lesbians, because it is a sign of hatred in the social system. If lesbians are not protected, then people who don’t fit some other social dimension will not be safe from attack either. Keep your lesbian sister safe and watch the effect it has on society (Hawthorne 2020, pp. 171-172).
Lesbian Spaces
In July 1991, the National Lesbian Conference was held at the University of Technology, Sydney with thousands of attendees. The final night event ‘Living Our Passion’ was held at the Opera House and had an audience of around 2000 with an extraordinary lineup of singer and performers, among them Robyn Archer, Deborah Cheetham and Nerida Mather singing the ‘Lakme’ duet by Delibes and the Topp Twins Trio from Aotearoa. While these events appeared to bode well for the public support of lesbians, developments in the past three decades suggest to me that some parties believed lesbians were ‘going too far’ (to quote Robin Morgan, 1978) and needed to be pulled into line.
The paragraph quoted at the top of this piece was written following around 30 years of attacks on lesbians by transgendered individuals – men who claim to be women. In the early 1990s in Australia, the transgender lobby began infiltrating and challenging the right of lesbians to hold women-only events. In December 1992, the Sydney Lesbian Space Project was launched with the aim of raising $250,000 to purchase a building in Sydney’s inner west (Parker 1993). The building was purchased but had to be sold again because some of the lesbians on the committee wanted the space to be trans-inclusive. In Adelaide, Sappho’s Party, a group set up to hold private lesbian-only events was shut down (Redgold 2007). In Melbourne, LesFest 2004 advertised a position for a female-born lesbian. In response “the Australian WOMAN Network, a transsexual lobby group, complained that the term female-born is offensive” (Hawthorne 2003, p. 5). The decision in favour of the WOMAN Network by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal (VCAT) was given despite VCAT having granted an exemption to LesFest to run such an advertisement. (LesFest has continued, but only via an underground system and no money to employ anyone let alone advertise it publicly.) Then, in 2007, VCAT granted an exemption to the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 to a pub, allowing it to restrict entry only to gay men. However, the same Tribunal in 2025 refused the Lesbian Action Group (LAG) an exemption for a lesbian-only event at Melbourne’s Pride Centre. The erasure of lesbians now has legal consequences. The Human Rights Commission who took LAG to VCAT has clearly also been captured by the trans lobby. [ Dusty - the Lesbian Action Group are continuing with legal action]
Our ability to speak about our beliefs and ideas out loud is crucial in any society purporting to be a democracy. Following the lead of feminist writer Betty McLellan who invented the term ‘fair speech’ in her book Unspeakable (2010), I also wrote about the concept of ‘fair speech’ in my book Bibliodiversity (2014). My reason for doing this was that the pornography industry justifies its existence on ‘free speech’. It is like the comparison between ‘free trade’ and ‘fair trade’: the former exploits the power imbalance between rich and poor nations; likewise, the ‘free speech’ of the pornographers continues the excessive power differences between the men who run the industry and the women whose bodies are the basis of their profits.
The full piece is here:
https://verityla.com/2025/05/12/lesbians-the-canaries-in-the-mine-susan-hawthorne/
The States - That’s A Boy
Jennifer Sey on her substack, Sey Everything reports on a larping boy in girls’ athletics:
The thing that never happens keeps happening
This past weekend in California, a boy who goes by AB Hernandez placed in 3 girls' track and field events at the sectional prelims. He is ranked #1 in the triple jump in the state.
May 13, 2025
Over the weekend at the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Southern Sectional Track and Field Prelims, a boy who identifies as a girl took away state qualifying positions from 3 different girls.
He goes by AB Hernandez and he placed in the high jump, the long jump and the triple jump. It is unusual to exhibit skill in each of these events. While athletes often compete in the long jump and triple jump, the high jump tends to be it’s own thing.
Hernandez placed 8th in the girls’ high jump, taking a qualifying spot from Lily Kimura of South Pasadena High School. He will advance to the finals, which takes the top 9.
Hernandez placed 3rd in the girls’ long jump with a 19’2” jump. He will also advance to the section finals in this event — taking away the spot from Sofia Boyd, a senior at Notre Dame High School.
In the triple jump, Hernandez jumped 40’2” finishing 1st, taking away the qualifying spot from Charlotte Nystrom of Thousand Oaks High School. Hernandez is currently ranked #1 in the state in the girls’ triple jump.
The full piece including two excellent videos ( I loved the one of Hernandez’s Mum effectively warning off girls from protesting!!) is here:
https://jennifersey.substack.com/p/the-thing-that-never-happens-keeps
‘Trans’ - A Marketing Campaign!
Excellent piece from Arty Morty on his substack:
Marketing the motley crew: Trans inclusivity policies are actually promotional incentives
The more "trans inclusive" the culture becomes, the more appealing membership in the trans club becomes. This is a marketing campaign, not a social justice movement.
May 15, 2025
“That little nugget of wisdom is floating around on social meeja. It’s idiotic.
“There is no erosion of the human rights of trans people, i.e. the human rights that everyone has. There is no such thing as specifically “trans” rights. There can’t be, because “trans” is a fiction, and because making that particular fiction a basis for rights would obliterate women’s rights as well as lesbian and gay rights. It’s unworkable to make it a “right” for men who pretend to be women to force everyone else to agree. It’s unworkable because it’s not true and it drives a tank through women’s rights.”
That’s Ophelia Benson, speaking about the latest meme rippling through the vacuous currents of the transactivist echo chamber.
This recent post of hers set a few thoughts in motion — as her work so often does. In case you haven’t noticed by now, Benson’s blog, Butterflies and Wheels, is my go-to salon — a digital Algonquin Round Table where clever commentary and thoughtful debate reflect the values of liberalism, feminism, humanism, and rational inquiry. For more than a decade, it’s been the first site I check in the morning and the last at night, a daily ritual marked by an embarrassing number of midday refreshes — which tells you everything you need to know about what this intellectual gathering place means to me.
(It has early gender critical cred, too: Magdalen Berns was a guest author there in 2016!)
But I digress. Back to the post at hand…
Why do people see things like (for example) the push to let crossdressing rugby men bash women on the pitch and then lather themselves up in the shower after the match with the female players as if this is all a new frontier in human rights, instead of what it obviously is: letting the horny hounds off the chain?
A big part of the problem stems from people’s mistaken conception of “trans people” as a fixed subset of the population, supposedly analogous to gay people. Those unaccustomed to critical thinking just presume “trans people” are a small group of individuals who were born with an innate and harmless condition that has caused society to persecute and discriminate against them.
But they’re wrong to presume that. In fact, “trans people” are a wide open identity group: “trans” is a social label that anyone is free to adopt anytime, for pretty much any reason, as long as they say they “feel” it’s right for them. The trans contingent has no real or material membership prerequisite, so there’s no fixed limit on how much the group could conceivably grow or shrink. Its size can vary widely based on how appealing a trans identity happens to be at any given time. And very recently, what was once barely a blip became a booming presence, propelled by social media and the political tides of the culture war.
The full piece is here:
The States - A Sample Letter For Parents
On the substack for Parents With Inconvenient Truths about Trans is a sample letter that parents may want to use ( and could possibly be adapted for use outside of the States?):
The Gender Dysphoria Support Tool
A Sample Letter for Parents to Use
May 13, 2025
Earlier this year Genspect released The Gender Dysphoria Support Tool which includes The Family and Friends Survey and The Parental Survey. As highlighted in a prior PITT piece, the surveys were developed as a means to “invert the process and shift the burden of proof” regarding the efficacy of “gender affirming care” onto medical and mental health providers. Once completed, the surveys can be sent to individuals and organization such as health care providers, schools, hospitals, insurances companies, etc. to give them notice of parental concerns, and even to serve as evidence in potential lawsuits. The developer of this tool hopes it can also be a benefit to parents of older children who feel they have very little influence over decisions their child makes. The developer says, “I notice many parents just give in at the end, desperate, not knowing what to do anymore.” But he believes that parents can be influential by putting pressure on medical providers and insurance companies, especially now as lawmakers are formally accusing the AAP of violating consumer protection statutes over claims that “gender affirming care” is safe and reversible.
Following is an example of a letter to an insurance company. Perhaps there are PITT parents who will want to send something similar to their own doctors, mental health providers, hospitals, or insurance companies.
The full piece is here:
https://www.pittparents.com/p/the-gender-dysphoria-support-tool?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
The Orange Notebook - Welcome To Substack
One of the great supporters of this substack, Jeremy Wickins has set up his own substack, The Orange Notebook. I look forward to future posts.
https://substack.com/inbox/post/163654721?triedRedirect=true&just_subscribed=true
Let Women Speak
My wife and I aim to make the General Medical Council LWS event (04 June). Here is the next meeting. If any readers are attending this one, please let us have a report back. Photos welcome 😊
Let Women Speak North London
Time & Location
17 May 2025, 13:00 – 22:00 BST
Mary Wollstonecraft statue, Newington Grn, Newington Green, London N16 9PR
Endpieces
From Tenaciously
Bald Eagle Day Of Visibility
From Liz
#BeMorePorcupine
#LeaveKidsAlone
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#MenStayInYourLane
#KeepOnKeepingOn
#HoldTheLine
#KeepOnTerfing
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
Well, I gotta say that the police confiscation of 'Brexity' materials shows that they are just as bone stupid as they were years ago when they picked up Long John Baldry for playing 'BOO-gie WOO-gie music'.
Sorry to hear.
Thanks Dusty, so many great pieces and 🎉 Let Women Speak, well said KJK. What a fantastic rallying cry. Sorry I can’t get to the meet but have a good day.
#BeMoreSubversive……and on that note I’m off to check my bookshelves as I don’t think I’ve got enough Brexity and women’s rights materials although I’ve just added The Queering of the American Child if I can find time to read it.