Late Bloomers Part 2
Update 828. No To Blasphemy Law! #BeMorePorcupine.
Part of this update is behind a paywall. Contents:
UK - Free Speech
The States - Are The Media Turning?
New Zealand - The Truth About Pre-Colonial Maori
Australia - This Never Happens
Behind the paywall:
‘Trans’ Lies
The States - Kansas
Men in Women’s Sport
UK - Media Round Up
Terf Island Discs
Onwards with Part 2 and onwards with Late Bloomers.
It has proved impossible to find a further clip of the film that I can successfully copy across so you will have to put up with a still from the film!! Does this say something about the problems marketing lesbian films or bias against such films?
So instead you get a clip from the final scene of the wonderful gay film Beautiful Thing:
Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - Free Speech
As us Terfs know, Free Speech is vital for our battle. If free speech is restricted in another area that will have repercussions for us too, hence the concern over proposals about ‘Islamophobia’. Muslims, like all religions, already have protection under the Equality Act 2010. Why on earth do they not only need further protection but also their special Csar!!?? Free Speech Union are looking to challenge this ( missive to me and other members today):
Dear Dusty,
The Free Speech Union is bringing a judicial review against Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, challenging his decision to unlawfully impose a definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ – ‘Islamophobia’ by another name – and we need your help. Judicial reviews are expensive, so anything you can donate to our crowdfunder would be hugely appreciated. Just click here to donate. And in case you’re wondering, our new donation platform is completely secure.
We think there are at least two grounds on which the decision is unlawful.
First, the definition itself hasn’t been properly thought through and is full of serious and dangerous contradictions. The definition says that to be guilty of anti-Muslim hostility a person must be involved in “engaging in, assisting or encouraging criminal acts”, or “unlawful discrimination”. This is an attempt to ensure it isn’t applied too broadly, which by itself would be welcome. But the Guidance then goes on to contradict the limitations in the definition, going far beyond what is prohibited by law and using nebulous, legally undefined terms like “prejudicial stereotyping”, “negative”, “beyond the bounds of protected free speech”, “public interest” and “reprehensible”. Those are all vague and subjective concepts that will inevitably be weaponised to silence legitimate criticism of the Islamic faith and Muslims. What authority will the new ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ ‘Tsar’ – whom the Government has said it intends to appoint – have to find people guilty of this ‘crime’, given that the definition isn’t going to be put in statute? The result is that the definition on its own terms is incoherent and irrational, which leaves the door wide open for criticism of the Islamic faith to be labelled as “hostility”, and therefore censured. Baroness Gohir, a Labour peer and leading candidate to become the new Tsar, has already said that 20,000 incidents of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ occur every year.
Second, the adoption of this definition (not to mention the appointment of an official ‘Tsar’) is a breach of the ‘occupying the field’ doctrine in public law. According to this constitutional principle, the Government’s non-statutory power is not available insofar as its exercise would cut across legislation enacted by Parliament. This is important. Where Parliament has enacted legislation which ‘occupies a field’, it is not constitutionally lawful for a Minister like Steve Reed to waltz in and attempt to usurp or otherwise override Parliament’s will. In this case, the body that Parliament has made responsible for protecting Muslims (and others) from discrimination is the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), not the Communities Secretary. To create overlapping areas of responsibility between the EHRC and the new ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ Tsar is to sow confusion which will inevitably lead to conflict, division and censorship. It is not lawful for the Government to unconstitutionally override the EHRC just because the EHRC will not bend to the Government’s political will. Parliament is sovereign in the UK, and Steve Reed and the Labour Government are not.
Our lawyers are preparing a Pre-Action Protocol letter that will be sent to Steve Reed later this week, and they’re going to ask that the Government postpones the roll out of the definition – and the appointment of the ‘Tsar’ – until the case has been determined.
Bringing a judicial review against a Secretary of State is not cheap, but we believe this is a vitally important free speech issue. Blasphemy crimes were repealed as far back as 2008 – let’s keep it that way. So please do give what you can by clicking here.
With kind regards,
Lord Young of Acton
General Secretary
The Free Speech Union
Please consider donating to the fighting fund if you can.
EDI Jester also looks at a closely related subject:
All thoughts gratefully received.
The States - Are The Media Turning? Listen to the Terfs!
Kara Dansky on her substack looks at the shift in public opinion in the States and the beginnings of a shift in the media. She also includes an excellent template letter designed (of course) for the media in the States but I may consider how this could work over here (but I am not promising because I am soooo busy!!) :
Time to get the media to platform the leftist feminist critique of “gender identity”
We need your help
Mar 09, 2026
As many subscribers know, many of us have been raising our reality-based and leftist critique of so-called “gender identity” for a very long time, and the media has generally refused to platform us.
The media’s general approach is to ignore us, despite us banging on their doors since forever. When they’re not busy ignoring us, they paint us as “far right.”
There are cracks, though.
Many outlets are starting to notice that, um, maybe support for “trans” is hurting the Democrats at the polls. Many are saying that maybe, possibly, Democrats need to change course. People are noticing that polling shows that American voters across the political spectrum know that sex is real.
These polling results are especially dramatic when voters are asked very clear questions about specific scenarios.
When a pollster asks a voter, as The New York Times and Ipsos did in 2025, a question like, “Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female — do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports?” the pollster gets responses of “should not” from 79% of overall voters, 94% of Republicans, 67% of Democrats, and 64% of Independents.
But Women’s Declaration International USA commissioned polling in late 2023 that got even more dramatic responses after voters were asked much clearer questions concerning very specific scenarios:
4 of 5 nationwide say the word ‘women’ means adult humans who are biologically female
88% say a female 12-year-old attending a sleep-away summer camp for boys and girls, who has been signed up by her parents for a girls’ cabin, should be assigned bunkmates who are female only
87% say an elderly or disabled female client of a home health agency who requests only women home health aides help her with showering should be sent female aides only
86% say a female patient visiting a clinic for a breast exam or Pap smear who requests a woman nurse perform the examination should be seen by a female nurse only
85% say a female 10-year-old using the women’s restroom on her own in a restaurant should be in the women’s room with only people who are female; at 91%, Black voters are more likely than white voters, at 83%, to say the other people in the restroom should be female
85% say a female passenger going through an airport security screening pat-down should only be touched by a female officer
85% say when a female gym member is showering and changing in the women’s locker room, the other users in the locker room should be female only
84% say an all-female high school basketball team should face opponents who are female only
84% say a female survivor of rape or domestic violence seeking help from a women-only shelter should have counselors, support groups, and roommates that are female only
83% say a female inmate in a women’s prison should be assigned cellmates who are female only
77% say an adult female lesbian using a dating app, who specifies she is interested only in women, should be offered matches who are female only
Large pluralities of voters say that when female children consider themselves boys, non-binary, or something else other than girls, the adults in their lives should neither agree nor disagree with the children’s self-description, but ask questions and try to understand their perspectives and feelings
We know that Americans across the political spectrum are united on these issues.
The full piece is here:
New Zealand - The Truth About Pre-Colonial Maori
Our friend, Katrina Biggs on her substack, A B’Old Woman scotches the nonsense about what pre-colonial Maoris believed with help from Di Landy of Mana Wāhine Kōrero:
“There is not yet evidence that Māori had diverse gender identities ….. in pre-colonial times.”
The above is an excerpt from page 82 in Dr Elizabeth Kerekere’s 2017 thesis , shortly before Māori history and culture got falsely imbued with the ‘gender’ agenda.
Mar 10, 2026
I normally hesitate to talk publicly about Māori history and culture, but I write this in discussion with Di Landy, co-founder of Mana Wāhine Kōrero (Sovereign Women Speak). I’m a European New Zealander – a Pakeha, in Māori language – and even though Kiwi culture intertwines aspects of European and Māori culture, some individuality of the two is still maintained, and the best people to talk about Māori history and culture are Māori themselves.
But not all the time.
There has been an emergence of Māori scholars in recent years who seem to have suddenly discovered that pre-colonial Māori had all sorts of gender identities, until the colonisers of New Zealand imposed their binary sex system onto them. There’s no doubt that same-sex attracted and bisexual Māori existed, because these have always existed in all societies, cultures, and countries since forever. But, as far as pre-colonial Māori men swanning around in women’s garb, and inserting themselves in women’s spaces goes, because they said they were women – or vice versa - my friends at Mana Wāhine Kōrero say “bullshit”.
Mana Wāhine Kōrero is a Māori-led group formed to fight the disinformation being spread in the newly invented narrative about diverse gender identities amongst Māori in pre-colonial times - and to save kids from the trans industrial machine that this new narrative could lead them into. In chatting to Di, she tells me that there are no songs, no carvings, and no stories passed down from their rich oral tradition to indicate any such thing as diverse gender identities amongst pre-colonial Māori. Neither are there stories told behind closed doors about it. The very concept of diverse gender identities is itself a colonial one that came out of American universities, which, for some reason, a number of Māori scholars have bought into and currently disseminate as their own.
Right on cue, one of those leaning into this is a young woman scholar with Māori heritage named Jessica Niurangi Maclean. Later in March - March being Pride month here in NZ - Christchurch Pride is hosting her at the University of Canterbury for an “open discussion” on “Decolonising Gender and Sexuality”.
I’m not sure how friendly the “discussion” will be if some of her assertions aren’t agreed with. We know from experience that one must follow the party line with gender ideologues, or else.
After talking with Di on different occasions about the lack of evidence of ‘gender diversity’ amongst pre-colonial Māori, it seems that in fact colonisers just might have been ahead of Māori when it came to that. Long before the English came to NZ, there were stories all over Europe about men who dressed as women, or enacted other fetishes, and the clubs that catered to them. Yes, they were only ever whispered about, and the clubs operated in secret locations, but Māori don’t have even those stories – until they appeared five minutes ago, with murky ‘evidence’. So, how exactly does one ‘decolonise’ what there’s dubious evidence of ever having had?
The full piece is here:
Australia - This Never Happens
Care of Feminist Legal Clinic:
Claims serial killer Reginald ‘Regina’ Arthurell now living with elderly woman and two children | news.com.au (11 March)
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A brutal serial killer who bludgeoned his fiancee to death with a piece of wood and now identifies as a woman has moved in with an elderly grandmother and two young children in western Sydney, it has been claimed.
Reginald Arthurell, who now goes by the name of Regina, was released from prison in 2020 after serving a 24-year sentence for the 1997 murder of Venet Raylee Mulhall in Coonabarabran in central western NSW.
At the time, Arthurell had already served prison time over two manslaughter convictions from the 1980s for killing his stepfather, Thomas Thornton, 49, with a carving knife, and robbing and killing sailor Ross Browning, 19.
Arthurell was released on parole in November 2020 under strict monitoring conditions.
In 2022, 14 months after his release, Arthurell was back behind bars after being charged with sexually touching a man without consent at a crisis accommodation in Sydney’s southwest.
2GB radio host Ben Fordham on Monday spoke to a woman who claimed her mother was now living with Arthurell, alleging the serial killer was “brainwashing” her about going into business and using her superannuation.
“This sick bastard killed his stepfather with a carving knife, he robbed and killed a teenager and he murdered his own fiancee with a piece of wood,” Fordham said.
“After killing her, he photographed himself wearing one of her dresses. That should have been the last we heard of him, he should have been locked up for life, but that’s not what happened.”
The woman, going by the pseudonym Tina, said her family had “asked police why nobody has done any checks but they’re not giving us an answer”.
News.com.au can confirm Arthurell’s five-year extended supervision order (ESO) expired in December 2024, with no application made to the Supreme Court to extend the monitoring period.
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