Le Jour Se Lève
Update 782.The Year Ahead Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
The news and views are continuing to pour into Dusty Towers, so this is a long one, dear readers.
Prior to Update 800 please submit your favourite detective film (one choice each). The submissions will all go in a hat and then I will pick out one submission.The winner will get a free paid subscription or, if s/he is already a paid subscriber, they can nominate someone to get a free paid subscription. Get your thinking caps on!! Thanks to those who have already sent in their choice.
After our Christmas film series, we are back to 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:
Next up is Le jour se lève [Daybreak] (1939). The plot is very convoluted but, to greatly oversimplify things, foundry worker François shoots and kills Valentin, his rival in love for florist’s assistant Françoise. François then locks himself in his apartment. He is soon besieged by the police.
Jean Gabin is François
Jacqueline Laurent is Françoise
Jules Berry is Valentin
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - The Year Ahead!
Maya Forstater and Fiona McAnena of Sex Matters look to the year ahead including: how to get the Supreme Court judgment enforced; the challenge to the clinical trial of puberty blockers; the long awaited education guidance.
Bye Bye, Stonewall?
In the last full update we discussed the possible demise of Stonewall. Dave Buck on the substack, Ed. Psychs., Identity Politics & Sex-Realism for Schools discusses how a once great champion of gay rights could end up championing homophobia!
A New Year! But ‘We must never forget the treachery of Stonewall’!
The woke era was a disaster for gay rights. BRENDAN O’NEILL SP!KED CHIEF POLITICAL WRITER 7th January 2026
Jan 09, 2026
“…In the future, if someone asks me how mad Britain went during the trans hysteria, I’ll tell them the story of Stonewall. I’ll tell them about this charity that was founded to fight for gay rights but which ended up doing the bidding of homophobia. I’ll tell them how these ‘LGBT’ activists became cheerleaders for the brutish medical conversion of young lesbians. I’ll tell them how these bourgeois gays ended up demanding that lesbians let blokes into their clubs and associations. I’ll tell them how truly disastrous the woke era was for gay liberation…
…Stonewall is in trouble. It’s losing funding. Good. It deserves to collapse for its treachery towards the homosexual cause. Its funding fell from £6.9million in 2024 to £4.7million in the last financial year. Apparently, it had just £91,811 in reserve in March 2025 – a massive fall from the £998,173 it had in its coffers 12 months earlier. Both big business and the public sector seem to be cooling on the ‘controversial LGBT charity’, as the Daily Mail now refers to Stonewall. Corporate donations fell from £348,636 in 2024 to £143,149 last year. Government grants fell from £618,757 to £454,645.
It’s not quite a case of ‘Go woke, go broke’ (yet). But it’s undeniable that Stonewall is suffering for its feverish embrace of gender ideology. Stonewall was founded in 1989 to advance the rights of gay men and lesbians. It helped to score some striking victories, like civil partnerships and the lifting of the ban on gays in the military. But then it went mad. It guzzled on the Kool-Aid of trans, that lethal, post-truth folly that insists sex is changeable. Almost overnight, it went from fighting for gay rights to undermining them.
….Its financial travails follow numerous media exposés of its cultish bowing to the trans ideology. Through its Diversity Champions scheme, Stonewall played a key role in spreading that truthless creed. Businesses and schools handed over handsome amounts of money to secure the coveted insignia of ‘Stonewall Diversity Champion’. Stonewall would instruct them to avoid ‘discrimination’ on the basis of ‘gender identity’. Let people in your workplaces and schools use the bathrooms and changing rooms that align with their ‘gender identity’, it said.
Shorter version: Let men into women’s bathrooms. Let that big bloke who says he’s a lesbian attend your away-day for gay members of staff. Stonewall called for an Orwellian overhaul of language, too. It advised workplaces to replace the word ‘mother’ with gender-neutral alternatives, like ‘parent who has given birth’. Its advice was especially noxious in schools. You must let ‘trans children’ use ‘the toilets and changing rooms that match their gender’, it said. Screw the dignity of teenage girls – they’ll just have to put up with that hulking boy undressing next to them.
The full piece is here:
Men In Women’s Sport
Another very extensive explanation of just why it is unfair to let larping men into women’s sport is provided by Gregory Brown on the substack, Reality’s Last Stand. This includes an incredible long list of references - any phd student need look no further!!
How the Debate Over Men in Women’s Sports Both Obscured and Advanced Sport Science
A cautionary tale about policy, science, and the cost of abandoning clear definitions.
Jan 08, 2026
About the Author
Dr. Greg Brown is a professor of Exercise Science at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. ……
The inclusion of males who identify as girls or women—often called transgirls or transwomen—in the female sports category has had profound and damaging consequences for girls’ and women’s athletics. Female athletes have been injured and deprived of roster spots, starting positions, awards, and championships in their own category, all due to the mistaken belief that a transgender identity somehow negates the well-documented performance advantages conferred by male sex.
Beyond these direct harms, the politicization of transgender inclusion has also distorted the field of sport science itself. High-profile journals have published opinion pieces and low-quality studies that downplay or deny sex-based performance differences, which are then amplified by credulous media coverage under headlines like “Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense.” Ironically, however, this controversy has also forced sport science to revisit foundational questions about sex-based differences in anatomy and physiology and the resulting differences in athletic performance, which may ultimately benefit female athletes in the long run.
This is not to suggest that the harms imposed on female athletes were either necessary or justified. Rather, it underscores that any renewed scientific attention to female performance has emerged as an incidental byproduct of policy failure, not as a vindication of it.
Two books published in recent years provide essential context for understanding how the debate over transwomen in women’s sports evolved from fringe speculation to settled international policy, and then to a central flashpoint in contemporary politics. In Unsporting: How Trans Activism and Science Denial are Destroying Sport, coach Linda Blade, PhD, traces the origin of transgender inclusion policies to ideological shifts within sport governance and the systematic sidelining of biological science. Similarly, in Unfair Play: The Battle for Women’s Sport, Lady Sharron Davies, MBE, documents how what was once an unthinkable proposition—allowing males to compete in the female category—became official International Olympic Committee policy in 2015 and a major political controversy soon thereafter. Taken together, these works offer a clear account of not only what has happened, but how it happened, and why science has been both deployed and distorted along the way.
The full piece is here:
New Zealand - PATHA
Resist Gender Education reports on PATHA producing new guidance which purports to be Government guidance, which it is not. Since it took place after the date of this report, there is no mention that a court challenge from PATHA has also halted the ban on the provision of puberty blockers to children.
PATHA puts a nail in its own coffin
In NZ, PATHA reveals itself to be a body modification activist group, not a professional healthcare organisation.
Nov 30, 2025
PATHA (Professional Association of Transgender Health Aotearoa) published its new “Guidelines for Gender Affirming Healthcare” on its website on Friday 28 November, nine days after the NZ government had announced a ban on new prescriptions for puberty blockers for the treatment of gender dysphoria.
PATHA had been contracted by the Ministry of Health in 2024 to write the Guidelines but they were not released when ready in March 2025 while the government was completing its review into the safety and efficacy of puberty blockers. The resultant Minister of Health’s announcement on 19 November that NZ would join the UK and most Nordic countries in restricting the use of these drugs for minors meant that the puberty blocker section of the Guidelines became obsolete.
Although Te Whatu Ora (Health NZ) invited PATHA to change the Guidelines to align them with the new regulations, PATHA declined the offer and instead published them independently, complete with the Te Whatu Ora logo still on the cover page. This use of the logo is improper because it implies Ministry support for the Guidelines while simultaneously directly contradicting government policy.
Contemptible content
Calling the Guidelines “contemptible” is not an exaggeration. Here are some of the most outrageous statements in the nearly 200 page Guidelines:
There is a consistent and growing evidence base from observational studies around the world showing the benefits to psychological wellbeing of puberty suppression and gender affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) when used in line with current clinical practice and guidelines. (p61) Not true. See Cass and the recent Health and Human Services report from the US.
The UK [Cass] review has been critiqued in depth internationally regarding a number of matters, including (but not limited to) for how it describes evidence quality, for disregarding the values and preferences of patients, and for the reasoning and justifications it uses to come to its recommendations. (p61) Not true. Both major UK political parties and the NHS have accepted Dr Cass’ recommendations and her conclusions have been replicated in four other systematic reviews.
In healthcare in general, it is not uncommon to provide treatments that lack high quality evidence of effectiveness. Practising medicine, and paediatric medicine in general (not just within gender affirming healthcare), often necessitates providing care without a high quality evidence base. (p61)
In other branches of paediatric medicine, providing care without high quality evidence would only be undertaken when there is significant risk to the child’s life - not simply because a child has negative feelings.
Puberty blockers are considered to be largely reversible and have the benefit of allowing the young person time before making any decisions regarding starting on gender affirming hormone therapy (GAHT).134 There is no good evidence to suggest that blockers impact negatively on cognitive and emotional development. (p67) Not true. There are no long term studies on the effects of blockers on cognition and multiple reports have found that most children (92-98%) who start puberty blockers progress to cross-sex hormones with indisputably irreversible effects.
Sperm for fertility preservation can be found from Tanner stage 3 (testicular volume ≥10 ml)144 and occasionally young people can get to this stage without much in the way of unwanted physical changes, but for others this will not be possible. (p68) True, so why does PATHA even contemplate halting puberty before Tanner Stage 3 thus making fertility preservation impossible?
Puberty blockers are likely to affect final height if they are started prior to growth plate closure and this may influence the timing of starting GAHT. (p70) True. PATHA uses this as a justification for starting on cross-sex hormones even earlier - before the age of 18.
The full piece is here:
https://resistgendereducation.substack.com/p/patha-puts-a-nail-in-its-own-coffin
Iceland - Father Loses Custody
Penny Marie of Let Kids Be Kids reports on a father in Iceland who has lost custody of his son because he is not agreeing to an ‘affirmative’ approach:
Father in Iceland Loses Custody Due to Dispute Over Trans Ideology
Icelandic story published in Nútíminn
Jan 08, 2026
January 7, 2026 - Source: Nútíminn: Icelandic news. Thank you Eldur for alerting me to this story. This situation could happen in NZ. If you know of such stories, please contact Let Kids Be Kids.
A French father in Iceland, Alex Da Rocha, says the future of his son has been decided in a court case where the interpretation of the concept “gender dysphoria” and expert opinion from National Queer Association of Iceland have outweighed medical concerns, medical records, and the child’s complex neurodevelopmental pattern. The Icelandic mother of the boy has wanted to define the boy as a girl, but Alex has wanted to proceed cautiously in all such matters.
Following a court ruling on custody, visitation, and authority to make decisions about the child’s affairs, Alex has launched a fundraiser on GoFundMe to cover appeal costs.
He says he is fighting for a child whom he believes is primarily a sick and vulnerable child, who was recently diagnosed with atypical autism and ADHD, rather than a child who should be drawn into irreversible decisions about gender identity.
Wondered Whether the Mother Was Ahead of the Child in the “Process”
In the child’s medical records, there is a communication note from March 13, 2023, written by a nurse in the intake team at the Children’s Mental Health Center. It discusses the child’s gender identity and refers to information from child protection services indicating that the child itself is not considered to “think much about this.”
The entry states that the child’s mother has received counseling from the National Queer organisation of Iceland and requested a private changing room for the child in school sports. In conversations, the question was raised whether the mother might be ahead of the child in the process. This is recorded as a concern, and it is noted that the parents disagree on approaches, that their divorce has been difficult, and that it is necessary to better encompass the family as a whole.
The full piece is here:
The Biggest Medical Scandal
Distinguished Australian physician, Gary Geelhoed explains on the substack, Clinic News why he feels that ‘gender affirming’ care for children is one of the biggest medical scandals ever. I would go further than Professor Geelhoed and say that ‘gender affirming care’ should not be available for adults either. All thoughts gratefully received.
It’s the biggest scandal of my time in medicine
A distinguished Australian physician reflects on the troubling trend of gender medicalisation for vulnerable minors
Jan 09, 2026
It must be confusing for mainstream people trying to make sense of the increasing coverage and complexity of the transgender issue in Australian society. They are well aware of past inequalities for women, the gay community and various racial groups both in the legal sense and in terms of their treatment in wider society. Given that these groups now have full recognition under the law and more generally in society, many people are now also sympathetic to an apparently new minority, trans people, facing what could be perceived to be similar challenges.
The LGBTQ+ alphabet groups, while often lumped together, in reality have little in common and increasingly the trans group is at odds with the lesbian group over the definition of the term “woman”. Also, it is becoming increasingly clear that many young, confused people who are same-sex attracted are being encouraged into the trans group.
Most people believe adults should be allowed to identify as they like, dress as they like and love who they like, as long as no one else is harmed. The issues around the emergence of transgender folk, however, are more complex when it comes to children and adolescents.
The characteristics of previously discriminated-against groups—women, ethnic minorities and the same-sex attracted—remained fixed as society changed to a more sympathetic view. But a core belief of trans individuals is that their gender is what each individual identifies it to be, not what society might deem it to be. Those other once-marginalised groups asked to be accepted as they are. Trans individuals ask that society recognise them as the sex or gender opposite to that with which they were born.
This may go beyond superficial aspects such as dress, hair and makeup to permanent medical treatments and procedures such as puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, as well as surgery to remove breasts or to create approximations of a vagina or penis. Many people are sympathetic to adults who feel driven to go down this path and to make such serious decisions.
Historically, there has always been a very small percentage of the population, mainly boys, who at a very early age identify as the opposite sex. The majority of these children in time would go on to re-identify as their original sex with many growing up as same-sex attracted. Another well-recognised group were middle-aged men who chose to live as women but generally did not regard themselves as actual women.
What has changed, largely across the Anglosphere, is that the number of children and adolescents who now wish to transition to the opposite sex has grown exponentially, with the majority now being female at birth. Often, they have shown no inkling prior to “coming out” that they were transgender, hence the term ROGD (Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria). A significant number are same-sex attracted and many are on the autistic spectrum.
The full piece is here:
The Children Of Larping Men
Emma Thomas of Children of Transitioners on the substack, Inspecting Gender looks at the awful experiences of the children of larping men:
It’s Time The Media Told the Whole Story About Adult Transition
Emma Thomas of Children of Transitioners on what actually happens when a parent transitions
Dec 10, 2025
Imagine that, at the age of 11, you walk in on your father applying an oestrogen patch to his thigh. He tells you that he wants to be a girl.
This is how self-described “transgender activist” Amethyst Herrick introduces his son’s story in a recent Metro article, “I told my son I was trans – nothing prepared me for the response” (30 November 2025). It is presented as a heart-warming tale of acceptance. However, for those of us who grew up as the children of trans-identified fathers, it raises questions about boundaries, perceptions, and the emotional burden that children are expected to carry.
Increasingly, late-transitioning fathers narrate their lives in public – not only in print, but in videos and talks about surgery, sexual sensation, and intimate bodily changes. Any curious teenager can find this material in a few clicks. The children of these men are not just asked to accept a new identity at home; they may also discover that extremely personal details about their father’s body are available for strangers – and for them – to consume. It can feel as if nothing is off-limits. Your parent’s inner life and sex life are pushed into the spotlight, while your own reactions are meant to be invisible.
Being the child of a trans father – which was my own experience in the 1980s – can pull you into a world of far too much information about things you should never have to know. In my teens, I learned about sissy porn, transsexuals and transvestites, about surgeries and post-surgical complications, electrolysis, and breast growth. I was drawn into a transgressive adult world where my dad cast us as the cool ones.
We hung out in gay bars. Strangers congratulated me on how accepting and amazing my “mother” was. Who would dare to seem so uncool as to say, “Actually, I’m not comfortable”? And who could I possibly have told that all of this was too much, far too soon? I emerged from that period with a severe eating disorder, low self-esteem, and identity problems. And I am not the only one left with shrapnel from a father’s gender conflict.
The full piece is here:
https://genspect.substack.com/p/its-time-the-media-told-the-whole
Regret
Karen Davis looks at the question of regret with regard to one young woman.
Autogynephilia
Karen again on her substack, You’re Kidding, Right? looks at the typical traits of AGPs, including ‘lactation fetish’:
DAILY DISPATCH: AGP Infiltrates Endometriosis Group
The ‘Fawns’ Helped Him
Jan 10, 2026
Autogynephilia, AGP, is a male sexual fetish centering on arousal to fantasies of oneself as a woman. Cross-dressing in public or privately, is its least offensive though most visible manifestation. Many men with the fetish, autogynephiles - AGPs - are aroused by physiological processes specific to women. Quite a few are lactation fetishists, like Adrian ‘Jennifer’ Buckley.
He used a drug cocktail to cause nipple discharge, which he fed to his infant son. If I remember correctly, he actually had the baby suck his moob to ingest this swill.
Get ready for an epic fawn. First, Buckley’s wife allowed him to do this. Then, he was aided and abetted by Australian doctors, who set him up with the drugs, encouraging him to moob feed his baby. The Daily Mail got into the act, referring to Buckley as a ‘transgender mum’, publishing numerous articles about him, none of them the least bit critical. The Australian government threw their support behind him, too, prevailing on YouTube to ban my videos - first only in Australia then removing them outright - because I correctly labeled Buckley’s moob feeding sexual abuse of an infant. In an breathtakingly bizarre move, the Australian Breastfeeding Association fired Jasmine Sussex, a breastfeeding expert with decades of experience, for daring to say the the swill from some man’s chest is not the same as the breast milk produced by a woman. Sussex was punished for failing to fawn.
Not all AGPs have lactation fetishes. Some are aroused by women’s reproductive system dysfunction, like endometriosis.
The full piece is here:
Erwin Gohrbandt
We previously featured a piece by Malcolm Clark about Gohrbandt, Hitler’s doctor:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/jingle-all-the-way?utm_source=publication-search
Continuing with his usual amazing forensic detail, Malcolm explains how Gohrbandt managed to evade being prosecuted after Berlin was taken by the Russians:
What the Inventor of the ‘Sex Change’...Did Next.
In the ruins of Berlin in May 1945 one of Hitler’s doctors Erwin Gohrbandt is in mortal danger. Until an epidemic rescues the inventor of ‘sex change’ surgery and helps erase his Nazi past.
Jan 10, 2026
On the 30th of April 1945 Adolf Hitler presses a Walther PPK pistol against his temple and blows his brains out. The Third Reich has come to an end …a mere 988 years earlier than the Führer predicted.
The man with the silly moustache might have been almost as surprised to learn the Walther PPK- a favourite of the SS and a gun he carries with him at all times- will go on to become the accessory of a British agent called James Bond. That’s the thing about the future….it’s so unpredictable.
A thought that at that very moment may be coursing through the mind of Dr Erwin Gohrbandt as he crouches in a bomb shelter in Germany’s shattered capital. In the chaos of the fall of Berlin …he fears execution by the Soviet soldiers who are completing the block by block eradication of the last remnants of Nazi resistance.
Gohrbandt is one of a handful of doctors considered sufficiently loyal by the National Socialist leadership to treat Hitler’s wounds after the assassination attempt last year. If that doesn’t count against him the award of a prestigious medal by Hitler just a few months ago….may seal his fate.
Little does Dr Gohrbandt know that three hours before Hitler sent a bullet hurtling into his skull…a man flew into Berlin who will change the medic’s fate forever.
The rollercoaster career of Erwin Gohrbandt has already reflected the tumultuous swings of German history. Now it will take another final remarkable turn. The surgeon who invented the ‘sex change’ operation and then participated in concentration camp experiments is about to leave his ‘complex’ past behind. And like the Walther PPK pistol …reinvent himself as part and parcel of a thoroughly modern future.
On the 2nd of May Soviet soldiers hoist the Hammer and Sickle flag above the Reichstag. I’ve no truck with communism but I always tear up watching footage like this. The clip is from the documentary called ‘After the Holocaust’ and is particularly moving because it features an account from a Russian Jewish soldier …who was there at the time. The Nazis wiped out his family. Talk about sublime irony.
The full piece is here:
TERFLandia
Our friend Katrina Biggs on her substack, A B’Old Woman tells us about two books that are under production:
Terf Island Discs
Thanks to all readers ( and me 😀) who have made suggestions and we still have lots of songs to go that will take us well into 2026. It’s been great (I think anyway 😊).
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.
Given the continued amazing uprising by the ordinary Iranian people against the tyrannical Islamic regime, I thought I would bring you one of their protest songs. In case you don’t know, Reza Pahlavi is the King in waiting. As I have said before, I recommend Tousi TV for accurate reporting on this and, no, I am not funded by Tousi ( I wish!).
#BeMorePorcupine
#KeepTerfing
#StandWithSandiePeggie
#PubertyIsAHumanRight
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#StopLyingLabour
#HoldTheLine
#KeepCalmAndCarryOn
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
A great array of pieces, thanks Dusty.
Not sure how plastic surgery on adults could be banned but there should be a much higher age limit for it.
#BeMorePorcupine