Last Orders
Update 824. International Willy Day!! #BeMorePorcupine.
This update is not quite as long as previous ones but the main news is the pause on the clinical trial pending the judicial review and Kellie-Jay’s amazing report about the event in Nottingham.
Onwards with the Dusty, Nicola and Moodie Film Series. Please keep the suggestions for films coming in but please check the list first which I am updating as we go along. Please send suggestions in the comments here at this link:
Last Orders is a 2001 film written and directed by Fred Schepisi.
The title refers to a last call for drinks in a pub and the final wishes of a dying man, in this instance Jack Dodds (Michael Caine), a south London butcher who greatly influenced four men over the course of his flawed but decent life. The quartet gathers to scatter Jack’s ashes in Margate, where he had hoped to retire to a small seaside cottage with his wife Amy (Helen Mirren), a dream that was never fulfilled.
The four are: professional gambler Ray Johnson (Bob Hoskins), aka Lucky, who fought beside Jack during World War II and has been his best friend since; former boxer Lenny (David Hemmings), who is always ready to settle an argument with his fists; undertaker Vic (Tom Courtenay) who acts as a buffer of sorts; and Jack’s son Vince (Ray Winstone), a dealer of used luxury cars, whose relationship with his father never quite recovered when, as a young boy, he learned his real family perished in a wartime bombing and Jack and Amy took in the orphaned infant and raised him as their own.
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
England - Kellie-Jay Keen Thrown Out Of Women’s Event!!
Welcome to INTERNATIONAL WILLY DAY!!!!!
Firstly, when Let Women Speak had the first of the two meetings they had last year in Nottingham (I was there as was my wife) we were kettled and howled down by the ‘trans activists’ and had to flee to hold the rest of our meeting outside the Police Station. I reported on that here:
Today the Nottingham Police held an event to celebrate International Women’s Day ( which is actually on Sunday) and LWS had a stall. KJK was present. She asked the Police, the assistant Police and Crime Commissioner and several stall holders whether they guaranteed single sex spaces and/or knew what a woman was. By my calculation only one person gave a ‘sex realist’ answer ( this is spread across several videos). Absolutely extraordinary. And then KJK ( and the whole stall) get thrown out. The police officer who threw her out seemed confused - initially talking about trespass ( when you have a stall I don’t see how you can be trespassing plus in the vast majority of circumstances trespass is a civil offence) and then he seemed to be talking about harm and distress ( so that would be a hate crime but how can you cause ‘alarm and distress’ by asking polite questions?). In other words, what were the police doing there at all! I trust that KJK and LWS take this further. The Nottingham Police are a disgrace and those prevaricating stall holders are a bunch of Barclays Bankers! We’ve had the Cass Review, the Supreme Court judgment, the Forstater judgment ( and loads of judgments in the wake of that) and the victory for the Darlington Nurses and still we’re faced with this shower of idiots!!!
Anyway…enjoy! Happy International Willy Day! Not sure if I have got the chronological order right!!
Stop The Trial
EXCELLENT NEWS!!!!!
James Esses on X has announced:
Puberty Blockers Judicial Review
The Court has granted an 8 week stay to allow concerns about the trial to be considered.
Crucially, it has been confirmed that child recruitment will not commence before proceedings in the High Court have been determined (by end of July).
6 Mar 2026
Viewshttps://x.com/JamesEsses/status/2029894211462438933
We recently reported on the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) standing down Professor Jacob George from the Trial when some ‘sex realist’ tweets from him were discovered.
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-ladykillers-perhaps-youd-like
Some have said that this was a correct thing to do because he was biased. But how can believing in the correct science be seen as bias? It just shows how warped and absurd (to say nothing of unethical) the Trial is. Plus more than one of those still involved in the Trial have displayed ‘trans rights’ views. In his usual deep dive Malcolm Clark on his substack, The Secret Gender Files investigates and draws comparisons with ridiculous agricultural experiments in the Soviet Union and China that led to the deaths of millions through starvation! The best example is Lysenkoism which we previously reported on here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/stop-the-clinical-trial?utm_source=publication-search
Cathy Newman and the Bullying Science Stasi.
Cathy Newman got a medical regulator ‘cancelled’ for the crime of believing in biology. This has eerie parallels to how dissident scientists were silenced under Communist regimes.
Mar 06, 2026
I started to write this post last week. Back then it was about the descent of the puberty blockers trial into chaos. I wondered aloud then whether the trial’s postponement might be linked to this man.
In early January the UK’s medical regulator the MHRA announced it had appointed Professor Jacob George as the organisation’s Chief Medical and Scientific Officer.
I wasn’t the only person to wonder whether George’s appointment and the trial’s postponement might be linked. Hannah Barnes highlighted his arrival at the MHRA in her brilliant article in the New Statesman last week.
Then all kinds of hell broke loose.
Last Thursday, Cathy Newman from Channel 4 News and Times Radio revealed she’d made a shocking discovery. No doubt allowing herself a smug smile as she tippy-tapped on X.
“We’ve unearthed social media posts by a senior officer at the MHRA…” she declared as if she’d dug up a hitherto unknown dinosaur or the remains of Czar Nicolas’s daughter Anastasia. As opposed to scrolling through some old tweets.
No prizes for guessing the author of the posts to whom the bold Cathy, breathlessly wiping internet soil from her trowel, was referring. Yes it was that man with those impossibly shiny teeth ….Professor Jacob George.
His crime, it turned out, was to have expressed opinions that aligned not with those of Adolf Hitler or the Ayatollah Khameini (blessed be whatever is left of him)…but of JK Rowling. In quite the outrage George had condemned Imane Khelif for thumping women in an Olympic boxing ring and the iniquities NHS Fife inflicted on Sandie Peggie. How very dare he…
In other words he had upheld basic biology. Something you might expect from a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics (among other things). Yet within hours the MHRA announced the Professor would be recused from the puberty blockers trial. Despite the fact his social media posts long pre-dated his appointment.
To say this was unfair is an understatement. At least though it provided undeniable confirmation of something many of us have suspected for years: our system of medical regulation is no longer fit for purpose; hollowed out from within by a clique of self-satisfied ideologues.
The tragedy is we already know what happens when Science is captured by activists who insist facts must play second fiddle to their own unevidenced beliefs. It’s happened before….and millions died as a result.
The full piece is here:
Helen Joyce on her substack provides a very helpful summary of all the arguments against the clinical trial.
Making eunuchs
Why a puberty-blocker trial can never be ethical
Mar 04, 2026
After the high of hearing that the puberty-blockers trial had been paused, it was a pretty depressing week. I had genuinely thought that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, had been responsible for the pause — when ministers work out that a policy is, in the words of Sir Humphrey, “courageous”, that viewpoint tends to percolate out through the system, even reaching independent regulators and even if they have been saying for weeks or months that it’s out of their hands. But it has emerged that the decision to pause the trial was down to a sole brave official in one of the relevant regulatory bodies, Professor Jacob George, the recently appointed chief medical and scientific officer of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), who looked hard at the research design and ethics, asked the tough questions and suspended the trial, saying it would only be restarted if the research team at King’s College London could provide satisfactory answers.
George was outed as having been instrumental in the decision to pause by Cathy Newman of Channel 4 and Times Radio. Both she and Natasha Loder, health editor at The Economist, have said publicly that they received tipoffs to look at George’s tweets from before he worked at the MHRA, which revealed him to hold so-called “gender-critical” beliefs. Newman broke the news that the MHRA had recused him from any involvement in or oversight of the trial as a result, and Loder then published screen captures of four of his posts.
It’s hardly the first time transactivists have used the mainstream media or social media to surface vague allegations of “transphobia” or bias in the hope of bumping employers into hasty action. The most direct parallel is probably with the case of barrister Allison Bailey, who was sanctioned by her chambers, Garden Court, after anonymous Twitter users tweeted describing her as transphobic because she had been involved in the launch of LGB Alliance. Rather than follow its own procedures for dealing with such allegations Garden Court panicked — and ended up losing in a case brought by Bailey in the employment tribunal. By now employers should be wise to this sort of weaponisation of their disciplinary processes.
I’m too conflicted to write more about this entanglement of journalism and retribution for whistleblowing, since Loder is an ex-colleague. If you want to read more about it, Sex Matters wrote to the MHRA over the weekend, calling on the regulator to reverse its decision to recuse Professor George from the trial and setting out the timeline of the events. So instead the rest of this article will look at the arguments for and against the trial, some of which featured in the MHRA’s decision to pause it and some of which were aired on X in the days leading up to the recusal.
The full piece is here:
My latest version of the round up of all recent pieces arguing against the trial is here (it’s VERYYYYY long!):
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/experimenting-on-children-f2d?utm_source=publication-search
England and Wales - The Green Party
I left the Labour Party in 2019 when I realised that they were off with the Gender Woo. Since then (apart from being a member of the Party of Women) I have found it much more useful to be outside of party structures. Also off with the Woo, of course, are the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. However, all due respect to those such as Green Women’s Declaration (GWD) who continue to fight within these parties. Kara Dansky in The Terf Report covers GWD taking legal action against the Party for not allowing them to have a stall at last year’s party conference!
The End Of Woke
I have a signed hardback copy of Andrew Doyle’s latest book, The End Of Woke. I haven’t managed to read any of it as yet , so I could have waited until now when the paperback version is being released 😂 To mark this, Andrew has released his prologue to the book ( and, no, I am not funded by Andrew 😂):
The moment that woke began to crumble
An excerpt from ‘The End of Woke’, out today in paperback.
Mar 05, 2026
Today sees the publication of my book The End of Woke in paperback. It’s a ‘book of the year’ in the New Statesman, the Spectator and Compact Magazine. You can read reviews here.
And to whet your appetite, here’s the book’s prologue, in which I argue that while woke is not yet dead, it has sustained too many wounds to persist in the form it once took. In The End of Woke, I explore the key question: what comes next?
It was an extraordinary scene. Donald Trump, recently re-elected as president of the United States, found himself surrounded by women and girls in the East Room of the White House. The date was 5 February 2025, and Trump was signing an executive order entitled ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports’. As the president took to his desk and prepared his pen, he invited his all-female audience to draw closer. ‘Secret service is worried about them?’ he joked. ‘If we have to worry about them we have big problems.’ There was laughter, applause, a hubbub of palpable relief that an egregious social injustice was on the cusp of being corrected. Photographers captured the moment in a flurry of snapping shutters. Would this be the image that marked the beginning of our post-woke era, the first phase of sobering up for a once drunken world?
The significance of this event could not be dismissed as a mere publicity stunt. Here was one of the most controversial Republican presidents in history, a man who had been accused repeatedly of misogyny, nevertheless enacting the most pro-feminist directive since Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments in June 1972, a measure that prohibited sex-based discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. The culture war of our times has often been misinterpreted as a conflict between left and right but, as I shall argue, these designations are hangovers from the French Revolution, ill-suited to today’s complex ideological skirmishes. The sudden rise in the early 2010s of Critical Social Justice – that sprawling, complex and disparate movement known colloquially as ‘woke’ – has meant that the terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ have lost much of their utility. Definitions of ‘woke’ are as varied as can be imagined, but it is best understood as a cultural revolution that seeks equity according to group identity by authoritarian means. Yet for all its institutional clout, this ideology has never enjoyed popular support. Estimates by More in Common, a nonprofit organisation committed to the promotion of social cohesion, suggest that at its height the woke movement was endorsed by approximately eight per cent of the population of both America and the United Kingdom. As such, its power could only ever be sustained through misdirection and imposition.
This is why Trump’s executive order received such an overwhelmingly positive reception from across the political spectrum. A poll by NPR and Ispos in 2022 showed that 63 per cent of Americans did not approve of men who identify as female competing in women’s sports. By January 2025, a poll by the New York Times and Ipsos revealed that this figure has risen to 79 per cent. Even among Democrat voters, a significant majority (67 per cent) supported the principle of keeping men out of the female category. For such a divisive figure, Trump had somehow found a unifying cause. The author J.K. Rowling echoed the feeling of many Democrat voters when she posted on social media a photograph of Trump signing the executive order and wrote: ‘Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this’. It was not so much that Trump had suddenly rebranded the Republican Party as liberal, but that Democratic leaders had embraced the politics of illiberalism. Evangelists of the woke movement had seized disproportionate power in a relatively short time precisely because their aims had been so widely misapprehended. They had dissembled and played endless word games to coax unsuspecting progressives into backing regressive causes. So while it felt almost oneiric to witness a Republican president upholding the ideals once championed by the left, this was simply a reminder that our liberal consensus still prevailed in spite of the best efforts of culture warriors. We have far more in common than the extreme identitarians on both the left and the right would have us believe. To our shame, we have allowed the most brattish and irrational voices to dictate the terms of debate.
The culture war, in other words, is the politics of infantilism writ large. This has been borne out by my own experiences. When I announced in May 2021 that I was working on a book about the origins of the social justice movement and how it fosters aggressive and childish behaviour, some activists immediately suggested that they would acquire copies only to burn them. One said that he intended to kick it under the bookshop shelf ‘so that it could rot in darkness’. A left-wing website called Byline Times even claimed that I was waging ‘a perpetual battle against social justice – fighting against a contrived present world of aggressive “woke snowflakes” in order to return to an imagined past’. This was news to me given that my book was a defence of liberal values, a critique of intolerance, and it explicitly reproached those who resort to the ‘snowflake’ slur. I particularly enjoyed the suggestion that I had conjured enemies into existence in order to fight them. It takes some chutzpah to make such a claim of a book you haven’t actually read.
The full piece is here:
https://www.andrewdoyle.org/p/the-moment-that-woke-began-to-crumble
The States - Round Up
Another great round up on her substack, Terf Report from Kara Dansky - well the first item is actually from France:
The prosecution of Terf, Dora Moutot ( we covered this here: https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-birdman-of-alcatraz );
Comments about the Democrats by Bev Jackson of LGB Alliance and Democrat Terf, Laura Wiley Haynes. I agree with Kara that the Democrats need to say “We were wrong, we are sorry.” See the piece about Sage Blair in our last update - see link above;
Ohio Democrats not opposing a sex realist bill!!??
New York Attorney General Leticia James still off with the Woo!!
Behind the paywall, the Supreme Court case of Mirabelli v Bonta - we also covered that in the last update but Kara goes into a lot more detail.
New Zealand - Albert Park
Terf Vibes on her substack, Til Sex Do Us Part discusses the women stewards who helped in defending Kellie-Jay on that fateful day in Auckland. She is writing a book about the day and its aftermath - looking forward to it. I had only just started this substack and reported on the event as soon as I could even though, as I say in my first report on it, I was ‘stunned into silence’!!!!
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/with-the-kiwi-women?utm_source=publication-search
The Sisterhood that saved KJK... 💜💚 🧡💔
It’s back to Albert Park in the 2026, almost ready to submit to an interested publisher book on the subject, with that title, in full “Albert Park: Testimonials from the TERF Frontline and Fightback.
Mar 05, 2026
LET WOMEN SPEAK (LWS) AUCKLAND 2023
This striking image from Kellie-Jay’s very close escape from the male-heavy, 2,000-strong mob of mostly young people, as the leader of a mostly not young and female LWS supporters at Albert Park three years ago this month.
I (57) was there and close up to the woman being punched. I ran to help her but my husband pulled me back. But we, Jill Ovens, the co-editor and I, want everyone to know, and for there to be a clear and comprehensive record, of what really happened at Albert Park from the women’s perspective (and a few male supporters), not what the trans-twisted MSM continue to dish out, describing it as a ‘two-sided’ event with ‘bad behaviour’ on both sides. That’s total rubbish! They were the aggressors, we the victims, especially, of course, Kellie-Jay and Tania Sturt and ‘Emily’, the woman (71) who was punched in the eye. Tania was knocked to the ground in the scrum to get KJ to safety, and had to crawl out, expecting to be trampled.
Still, Kellie-Jay is clear that Tania and the three marshals in orange vests seen here saved her life that day, and it is pretty clear from this that she is right. The only men in this picture are being paid to protect her, apart from the undercover cop at the back there, another big man, but one that looks to me out of his depth, alarmed and even disbelieving of the intensity of the mob’s rage for KJK.
These four volunteer women who saved Kellie-Jay’s life that day, clearly put themselves at risk, and suffer trauma from it to this day. Of course the mainstream media weren’t interested in hearing their stories, being still firmly up the rear ends of the trans tyrants, painting them as our victims, even after they shut down the LWS rally so violently. Even after that, the national newspaper was bewailing the ‘anti-trans’ hate that Kellie-Jay had brought to NZ. Just shameless lies.
So we are going to set the record straight and tell it like it is and like it was for the 20+ women including myself and Jill, aged from 30+ to 80+, and four men, who were there that day, and who have recovered enough (some of the women there were not ready to think about it or write about it due to ongoing trauma) to revisit their experiences of it so to put their memories and reflections down on the page for the record. Also for their own satisfaction in knowing they have contributed something to the TERF movement by speaking up about what they saw and experienced at this deeply anti-women event. We are very grateful to them all for their courage and mahi (work).
The full piece is here:
Meanwhile, in Auckland at the present day…get ready to cringe ( thanks to our friend, Katrina Biggs):
https://x.com/rosey_nz/status/2029472422165135844/video/1
New Zealand - SchoolDocs
SchoolDocs is an organisation that has wide influence in NZ schools and continually misstates the law, as reported by Penny Marie on her substack:
SchoolDocs Writes Policy For Most NZ Schools. They Got Something Wrong, Then Sort Of Fixed It, But Didn’t.
Let Kids Be Kids recently raised an issue with schools ‘Promoting Inclusion’ policy... what happened next is good... and not so good...and parents need to know
Mar 04, 2026
Over the last month Let Kids Be Kids (LKBK) has published their findings about SchoolDocs, the company who provides automated school policies to 90% of schools.
Summary of recent findings
SchoolDocs policies are templated for all schools. Boards can make amendments specific to their school. Boards are responsible for the policies set in schools, and those that have purchased SchoolDocs service pay between $1200-$3900 a year to outsource much of the work.
We found that in their ‘Promoting Inclusion’ policy, they incorrectly listed ‘gender identity’ as a protected ground for discrimination, referring to the Human Rights Act 1993. However ‘gender identity’ is not included in the Act. (SchoolDocs also referred to the wrong section of the Act).
The Let Kids Be Kids email to SchoolDocs resulted in SchoolDocs changing parts of the ‘Promoting Inclusion’ policy. Which is good. And bad.
They removed ‘gender identity’ from the list of protected grounds for discrimination, which brings the policy in line with the Human Rights Act.
BUT they added a statement and referred to the Human Rights Commission, who have added in ‘gender identity’ as part of the definition of ‘sex’. But it’s not in law.
The sudden change highlights a potential concern where a third party company (SchoolDocs) arbitrarily changes all school policies at their discretion. We are yet to find evidence that schools who use SchoolDocs were notified of the change.
The law firm who assisted SchoolDocs with the change, promoted and raised money for Pink Shirt Day last year, an ‘anti-bullying’ fundraiser which focusses heavily on the trans/rainbow community, rather than than the wider issue of bullying. Pink Shirt day funds raised, go to InsideOut.
The full piece is here:
Australia - Activists Shut Down A Talk
Sex realist Finnish psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala was to give a talk to an Australian medical college but activists have ensured that the event has been shut down, as reported by Bernard Lane on Gender Clinic News.
Shutdown
Activists have forced a medical college to pull the plug on a talk by one of the world’s leading figures in the youth gender debate
Mar 06, 2026
Approved, until it wasn’t
A talk to familiarise Australian family doctors with a safer treatment approach to youth gender dysphoria will not go ahead as planned after a medical college buckled to activist pressure.
The well-subscribed March 10 webinar presentation by Finnish psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala—a leading clinician and researcher in the international shift away from routine “gender-affirming” medicalisation of minors—had been approved and advertised since the New Year by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).
GP Louise Kirby, who was among the more than 200 subscribers who signed up for the RACGP event, told GCN—
“We’ve reached a point where presenting outcome data is called harmful, and where speaking out to protect children from irreversible, damaging interventions is incorrectly framed as an attack on children. That inversion should alarm every clinician”.
Professor Kaltiala set up paediatric gender services in Finland 15 years ago on the strength of promising results reported by the famous Amsterdam gender clinic, which pioneered the puberty blocker-driven “Dutch protocol” of gender reassignment for minors.
But Professor Kaltiala and her colleagues were confronted by quite a different group of often psychiatrically troubled adolescent patients—chiefly female adolescents with no early childhood history of gender dysphoria—who did not do well after medical transition.
This poorly understood shift in patient profile would become dominant internationally, including in Australia.
In 2020, following a systematic review of the evidence, Finland became the first country to adopt a more cautious treatment policy, declaring medical reassignment for minors “experimental” and prioritising mainstream mental health interventions.
Professor Kaltiala’s webinar for the RACGP was approved, and doctors attending could count this learning activity towards their “continuous professional development” (CPD).
On March 3, subscribers to the webinar—titled “Medical gender reassignment among minors: why are we cautious in Finland”—received an automated reminder about the event.
But members of the activist group GPDU for Gender-Affirming Healthcare, which has transgender activist Teddy Cook among its administrators, had already been orchestrating complaints about the Kaltiala webinar and sharing the email address of RACGP president Michael Wright.
The full piece is here:
Cat Training
My feline assistant has been very busy out and about training local cats and it seems to be going pretty well:
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to all readers ( and me 😀) who have made suggestions and we are now on the final few songs chosen by readers.
We will then be reverting to Endpieces.
Endpieces, as regular readers will know, consisted of comic pieces, animal videos, songs etc to provide a bit of relief after some of the horror stories we detail on this substack. Endpieces was run by Tenaciously Terfin, Liz Parker and myself and we are delighted to now have been joined by Becca Shambles, Petal and Jeremy Wickins. Please let us know if you want to join the Endpieces Club 😊
I have an Endpieces folder so Endpieces suggestions can be sent to me at any time from now even though Terf Island Discs will be continuing for the moment as explained above 😊
Onwards with Terf Island Discs.
Next up!
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#ScrapDEI
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#WeWillWin
Dear readers
A heads up that Mr Menno is doing a premiere about some protesting students this evening at 21.00 GMT.
Hopefully see some of you in the chat 😀
Dusty
You’re welcome, TT.
You can see KJK getting more and more angry as the day goes on! Cathy Newman is appalling.
The biffing cat is a classic!!
What a result from Scotland!
Now in pub waiting for England v Italy.
Dusty