Life Is A Cabaret
Update 831. Swinging Dicks Special! #BeMorePorcupine.
I wish all readers who are Mothers a Happy Mothers’ Day even though my Irish Mum always described it as “American nonsense”. Apologies to my American readers 😀 This was handy because it meant I never had to get her a card 😀
This is another long one, dear readers. There are now a few good round up pieces on specific areas or covering a specific country appearing regularly and four are mentioned here ( Kara Dansky’s Terf Report; Woman- Adult Human Female; SEEN In Journalism; and Gender Clinic News). Obviously you are reading the Mother of All Round Up Pieces 😄
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:
Cabaret is a 1972 American film directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse ultimately based on the 1939 novel Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It stars Liza Minelli and Michael York.
In the traditional manner of musical theatre, most major characters in the stage version sing to express their emotions and advance the plot; in the film, however, the musical numbers are almost entirely diegetic and take place inside the club.
In 1931 Berlin, a young, openly promiscuous American, Sally Bowles (Minelli), performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts (York), moves into the boarding house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian must give English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate. Sally tries to seduce Brian, but he tells her that on three previous occasions he has tried to have sexual relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sally's bohemian life in the last days of the Weimar Republic.
Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
The Swinging Dicks Case…and other matters
BH on his substack looks at this case involving a Korean Women’s Spa. I am fully in favour of Judge Van Dyke’s use of the phrase in his judgment 😀
Judge Van Dyke’s epic dissent against leftist tranny insanity. “This is a case about swinging dicks.”
The Olympus Spa vs. Armstrong dissention doesn’t lack decorum. It proves the disgusting nature of tranny insanity
Mar 14, 2026
Washington State has the most aggressive transgender indoctrination laws in the country. The state requires parents to “affirm” their children’s fantasies about changing their sex and pronouns. If parents don’t oblige, the state will take the child away in the dark of night. This isn’t hyperbole; it’s happened. the state also requires that men be allowed into female locker rooms and bathrooms in order to pursue their sexual fantasies. Let’s look at the case of Olympus Spa.
Olympus Spa is a Christian-owned Women-only Nude Spa in Washington. A tranny freak man decided to pursue his sexual fantasies by pretending to be a woman while swinging his schlong around the spa. The state claims the man is a “pre-operative” tranny and therefore subject to anti-discrimination laws. (Separate discussion: I wonder how the court would have ruled if the spa owners were Muslim.)
Courts ruled against the spa owners and said they must accommodate the tranny. The owners appealed to the Ninth Circuit, which denied rehearing “en banc” Olympus Spa vs. Armstrong.[ In US law, en banc (French for "in bench") refers to a session where all or most judges of an appellate court sit together to hear a case, rather than the usual small panel of three judges].
Judge Van Dyke’s Epic Dissent - “This is a case about swinging dicks”
Judge Van Dyke wrote his dissent with brutally based language that highlights the insanity of tranny ideology. His activist judge colleagues were offended by his dissent. To me it doesn’t lack decorum. It’s a masterful takedown on the insanity of tranny ideology.
“This is a case about swinging dicks. The Christian owners of Olympic Spa - a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa - understandably don’t want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don’t want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit. You may think that swinging dicks shouldn’t appear in a judicial opinion. You’re not wrong. But as much as you might understandably be shocked and displeased to merely encounter that phrase in this opinion, I hope we all can agree that it is far more jarring for the unsuspecting and exposed women at Olympus Spa - some as young as thirteen - to be visually assaulted by the real thing. Sometimes, it feels like the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds. Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls.”
The full document is found here.
Fear not, tranny groomers! You can still swing your dicks around girls’ locker rooms in Washington State.
The full piece is here:
Kara Dansky has dealt with this case in more than one post. Here she quotes one section from Judge Van Dyke’s dissent ( quoting from the Women’s Declaration International amicus brief written by Kara):
It is a sad but certain fact that WLAD and similar “anti-discrimination” laws interpreted this way will be used by sexual deviants to prey on women in female-only spaces. Consider the case of Darren Merager, a 52-year-old man charged with nine counts of felony indecent exposure under California Penal Code § 314 after allegedly exposing his erect penis in the female spa area of the Korean Wi Spa in Los Angeles. Lois Beckett and Sam Levin, Person charged with indecent exposure at LA Spa, The Guardian (Sept. 2, 2021); Jeremy Lee Quinn, Exclusive: WiSpa Suspect Not Guilty on All Nine Counts of Indecent Exposure, Los Angeles Magazine (June 1, 2025). Merager, a registered sex offender with a long history of previous indecent exposure charges, gained access to the women’s side of the spa by claiming that he identified as a woman. Like WLAD, California Civil Code § 51 prohibited Wi Spa from excluding males from female spaces. Merager’s ultimate acquittal on all counts underscores how the incoherence of redefining “sex” in civil statutes shields male offenders from criminal accountability.
Well done, Judge Van Dyke.
In the same piece, Kara reports on New York’s Off With The Woo Mayor:
NYC Mayor Mamdani has appointed the first “transgender woman” (man) to head up the new Office of LGBTQIA+ Affairs. You can watch Taylor Brown accept this honor, in a video in which he says:
‘The queer community, as well as intersecting communities and adjacent communities, are under extreme attack in the country.’
No mention is made of lesbians or gay men and no definitions of “queer,” “intersecting,” or “adjacent” are provided. We’re just supposed to know, I guess. As the group ROAR Women NYC says:
‘This is an insult to all the lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in NYC who want nothing to do with the backwards, regressive homophobia of gender ideology, as well as the women who have been written out of law and policy on the demands of men like this.’
I would add that it’s also an insult to Stormé DeLarverie, the lesbian who actually started the Stonewall uprising in 1969. Contrary to popular belief, it was not “Marsha Johnson” (Malcolm Michaels) who was responsible for that.
The full piece is here:
International Willy Day
Talking of dicks, Kellie-Jay Keen provides a nice summary of the Nottingham IWD event ( which she and the whole Let Women Speak stall were eventually evicted from). I like the way she tees up the first interviewee😀
The police officer is clearly a bit unsure what provision of the law he might be relying on ( the answer is: there isn’t one, officer).
Stop The Trial
As readers know, King’s College are contracted to run the puberty blockers trial on children and we just reported on how King’s College hosted a ‘trans rights’ conference last year:
Thanks to the same reader, Becca who told me about the conference, for the next piece. The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is directly linked to and is a co-sponsor of the Pathways puberty blocker study, which is being led by King’s College London. Here is Camilla Fadel, educator and therapist, from the Maudsley. She is discussing the mental health of the mythical LGBTQ+ community. She never breaks down this ridiculous acronym. How are each of those letters linked in a ‘community’? And what does the ‘+’ mean? So, another example of the Pathways Trial being drawn from a pro trans rights group. Can anyone show me an example of either King’s College or the Maudsley being ‘gender critical’? I’d be delighted to see it! By the way, the below is just one of several videos on the subject. Poor Camilla who has to say the whole of the acronym repeatedly!
Sarah Phillimore
We reported on Sarah’s defamation claim against Jolyon Maugham of the Good Laugh…sorry, Law Project here:
Sarah is now looking to lodge her claim. Please consider donating.
Protection against defamation
Dear All
I have just published this update to my crowdfunder.
Sorry for the wait but my lawyers are now drafting the particulars of claim and will issue my application shortly. I remain very grateful that your generosity has allowed me to get this far. It is of course going to get a lot more expensive the further we proceed. It’s a frightening prospect but if I end up losing and have to sell my house, then so be it. It’s nice to be comfortable but that cannot be the only goal in life worth chasing.
I think what we are seeing now across the Western world, is a wholesale abnegation of the truth in order to promote an ideology that is actively harmful to the rights of women and the safety of children. Jolyon Maugham is just the tip of that spear. I don’t know how this ideology has gained so much power but I can see the damage it is doing, not just to the bodies of children but to the rule of law and those institutions of medicine, law and policy that we ought to be able to trust. I think its important that we fight this every way and every time we can.
If those who believe in this ideology of ‘gender identity’ had confidence that they could defend it, then they would not need to tell harmful lies about those who challenge or mock it. I do not think my position is unreasonable. Disagree with me by all means, do it robustly even harshly. But no one has the right to tell lies that hurt others, and particularly not when that person lying is in a position of considerable influence, relying on that influence to give his lies wings.
I will certainly be emailing you again about this; it would be nice not to lose my house if I can help it. But I have no expectations and no demands. I will remain grateful for whatever support you can continue to offer.
I will publish the particulars of claim when I have them.
The Story of WPATH…and cosmetic surgery
Kat Highsmith on her substack provides a very useful history of the so called World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH).
I asked AI: ‘Who decided that the World Professional Association for Transgender Health were world experts?’
AI responded: ‘The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) became recognized as a leading authority in transgender health primarily through a process of self-appointment.’
In other words, WPATH decided that they were the world experts.
Abolish Pedophile-Enabling WPATH
Why Is This Organization Allowed to Set Medical Standards?
Mar 15, 2026
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, is considered the world’s foremost organization in recommending treatment for “gender dysphoria,” which activists are trying to reconfigure into “gender incongruence,” though it doesn’t matter because neither exists. [ Dusty - I believe that gender dysphoria or gender incongruence does exist but is a symptom not a condition in itself - see Dr Miriam Grossman Lost In Trans Nation ).
Headquartered in Illinois, WPATH sets professional standards for physicians’ intervention and how their conduct might be judged in lawsuits, as in cases involving medical abuse survivors like Layla Jane, who had her breasts removed one month after her thirteenth birthday.
In 2022, after pressure from Assistant Secretary for Health Richard “Rachel” Levine at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Biden administration, WPATH removed all age limits for all procedures in the Standards of Care 8. Before 2022, it recommended age minimums of 14 for hormone treatment, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation, and 17 for genital surgeries.
That means doctors cannot be accused of breaching professional standards for mutilating children because children of any age can consent to medical procedures in pursuit of an unobtainable goal, that is, to become the opposite sex. If children can consent to this, what else can they consent to? This is very complicated and needs extensive nuance and evidence-based research because it’s nearly impossible to ascertain what’s going on here.
For example, when men dressed as women have a drag show for kids in a club with a sign that reads It’s Not Gonna Lick Itself!, we have no clue what any of this means.
How did we get to this point? Who decided that WPATH gets to determine the standards by which doctors can mutilate and sterilize children, or adults for that matter? Why is this organization given any authority?
It should have no authority. In fact, it should be obliterated because it is a significant source of the wholly false discipline referred to as “transgender medicine.” Pretending as though that is real is precisely what causes harm, and demolishing this association is an important step in solving the problem.
The full piece is here:
Lucy Leader on her substack, Bodies get in the way also addresses WPATH and cosmetic surgery:
Watch the Gender Ideology House of Cards Collapse
There’s a reason it’s called “cosmetic” surgery
Mar 14, 2026
I always knew it would be the American lawsuits that would bring “gender-affirming care” to a grinding halt because, in the end, it’s all about the money.
According to this source:
· Total Market Value: The sex-reassignment surgery market was valued at approximately $4.12 billion in 2022.
· Projected Growth: The market is expected to grow, with one estimate placing it at $6.26 billion by 2030, reflecting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.1%. Another forecast suggests a growth of $374.2 million between 2025 and 2029.
· Future Projections: Some industry observers, including tech company CEOs in the sector, have suggested that when including all related medical, surgical, and technological services, the potential market could be as high as $200 billion.
Money flows both ways
With the total success of the first detransitioner court case brought by Fox Varian, a 22-year-old woman who was mutilated by the surgical removal of her breasts when she was only 16 years old, the profits to be made by the trans industry are down by US$2 million, which is what she was awarded. Even if she is able to use some of this money to create “new” breasts, they are lost to her as an important erogenous zone, and any babies she has won’t be breastfed.
Sure to feature in some of these cases is Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy who clearly believes that fake is an acceptable substitute for real. Perhaps not for everything as she deliberately suppressed the release of her study (that cost American taxpayers $9.7 million from an NIH grant) when it failed to confirm her conviction that puberty blockers improved the mental health of transgendered children. She admitted in a New York Times interview on October 23, 2024, that she feared critics would “weaponize” the findings to argue that “we shouldn’t use [puberty] blockers because it doesn’t impact them”.
Her problem was that for at the least 25% of study participants who were depressed or suicidal at the commencement of her study, giving them puberty blockers for two years left them still depressed or suicidal. Put plainly, giving children puberty blockers did not improve their mental health.
According to Genspect Dr. Olson-Kennedy,
‘Is the Medical Director of the Center for Transyouth Health and Development at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where she has overseen the medical transition of approximately 1,400 youth aged 3 to 25. She is President-Elect of the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH), the U.S. counterpart of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH). Her research and opinions have influenced both organizations and the Endocrine Society. Her maxim, “children know who they are,” and infamous question, “Would you rather have a live daughter or a dead son?” are deployed in gender clinics across the nation.’
Lucy concludes:
What used to be referred to as “sex change” surgeries have a high rate of complications that would not be tolerated in any other type of treatments; those who profit off of this work have established an iatrogenic harm cycle in their patients by performing unnecessary surgery with lifelong consequences. If you are performing these procedures, it’s really the gift that keeps on giving, until the fountain of money dries up thanks to victims seeking redress for your avarice.
The States - San Jose State University
As we have mentioned recently, the California State University board of trustees have decided to challenge the US Department of Education’s findings that San Jose State was in violation of Title IX for having allowed a man to play on the women’s volleyball team.
Amanda Kovattana in Tales from the Gender Trail discusses this:
On Violating Title IX
Sex-realists push back on the California countersuit
Mar 13, 2026
On Tuesday March 10, nearly a dozen sex realists presented themselves to speak during the public comments period of the California State University [CSU] board of trustees meeting as it prepared to respond to the US Department of Education’s findings that San Jose State was in violation of Title IX for having allowed a man to play on the women’s volleyball team back in 2024 as we witnessed as protestors, and I described here.
Refusal to comply with the terms issued by the feds would mean losing $200 million in federal funding. These terms include issuing apologies to the female athletes affected, and issuing a statement that there are only two sexes. The California board of trustees decided to counter-sue the government and dispute its findings by claiming that they were following Title IX under the Biden rewrite, which included “gender identity” along with sex. It ultimately failed and was blocked.
The meeting began with the chancellor painstakingly explaining why California would not cave on this issue. She never mentions women, sex or women’s sex-based rights, the whole point of Title IX.
“We are a welcoming institution. An inclusive institution. Inclusive excellence is our most fundamental and treasured core value. It is in our DNA. As your chancellor, I assure you that will never change….The CSU will never give preference based on gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, shared ancestry, religion, disability or any other protected status…”
Her full speech can be seen here.
Alison Foote, who was present at the meeting sporting her XX XY athletics t-shirt summed up the violations of San Jose State in her speech.
“I’m Allison Foote, treasurer for the Independent Council on Women’s Sports. San Jose State’s refusal to follow the OCR’s [ Office for Civil Rights] resolution agreement and hold itself accountable to the women whose volleyball season was destroyed and consent was compromised is an embarrassment to the entire CSI [ Comprehensive Support and Improvement] system. The school, among other things, gave a man a full women’s volleyball scholarship, concealed his sex from players and parents, put him in women’s locker rooms and hotel rooms on road trips, and prompted five women’s team to forfeit. Yet CSU is actually suing the federal government and offering nothing but its full support to the male athlete. This is CSU-sanctioned sexual abuse of the women you are obligated to protect. Your internally inconsistent Title IX and DHR guidelines that prioritize gender identity over sex have created the hostile environment unfolding before you now, but most importantly for the two hundred and six thousand women enrolled on your campuses. The adults in this room have failed all of them. Apparently, CSU is where safety and respect belong to everyone except women.”
Video of her speech posted here.
Amanda concludes:
So we shall see how this case turns out. Will women win back their sports, spaces, privacy, and dignity, or will this University system be allowed to continue social engineering away the sex category of women and girls and their sex based rights, while insisting that humans can change sex? In the end, as one of our sex realists stated in her comments:
“California’s government can’t change reality by redefining what words mean. It may force people to comply with lies, but like all totalitarian mind control dictates, this will fail…. Stop risking CSU funding in a hopeless quest to litigate away reality.”
The full piece is here:
https://amandakovattana.substack.com/p/on-violating-title-ix
European Union
Niamh Uí Bhriain reports in Gript News on alarming developments with the EU. Note how the European Court of Justice is overruling the Supreme Court of Bulgaria!! Just as well the UK has left the EU!!
Image: Wiki Commons / RawPixel
ECJ: EU law trumps national law on gender change register
March 12, 2026
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that the principle of freedom of movement means that EU law trumps national law when it came to the civil registering of persons who have changed sex.
The top EU court ruled that legislation in any member state “which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of
movement is contrary to EU law”.
The case concerned a Bulgarian national [who] was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex – who now lives in Italy and [is] undertaking hormone therapy.
The court said proceedings were initiated “before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected.”
“According to national legislation” as interpreted by the Bulgarian Supreme Court, “the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons.”
But the Bulgarian Supreme Court had doubts that the national legislation would be compatible with EU law and referred the matter to the EU Court of Justice.
The ECJ held that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State.
Rights campaigners in Athena Forum, a European-wide initiative said the ruling was an abuse of the principle of free movement, claiming “judgements like this are a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law and the European institutions, which for decades have been led into increasingly extreme ideology and obediently follow along, fed by transactivist NGOs, queer academics, liberal media and “progressive” politics.”
“This is the reason why trust in the European project, the EU, its institutions and courts is steadily eroding. Who would have thought that “free movement” across Europe, or rather the EU, would be abused and backfire like this?” the campaign group said.
“The latest ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on legal sex change recognition is out and is being celebrated by transactivist NGOs as a big win, with claims that EU countries must now provide legal sex change recognition for their citizens who have moved abroad,” they said.
“Judgments like this are a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law and the European institutions, which for decades have been led into increasingly extreme ideology and obediently follow along, fed by transactivist NGOs, queer academics, liberal media and “progressive” politics,” they added.
“The political implementation of gender identity (each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, as per the Yogyakarta Principles), by overriding any reference to biological reality and falsifying legal documents, leads to a fundamental erosion of women’s rights and legal protections.”
“All transactivist celebrations aside, this judgment does not mean that legal sex change systems must now exist across the EU. Member States still have significant discretion in how they implement it (e.g. introducing a clarifying civil-status certificate for identification purposes, without rewriting birth certificates or restructuring civil registers).”
“It is shocking that we ever got into this situation. But it is long overdue that we organise across Europe to call out the institutional irresponsibility and the expanding harms of the push for gender identity.”
Lawyer and Editor of The European Conservative, Ellen Fantini, said it was “obviously a terrible ruling” and that “the larger absurdity is that the EU court’s “primacy” over national courts is an EU-judge-made principle.”
“It asserts that when EU law conflicts with national law, EU law wins — and national courts must follow the CJEU’s interpretation, even if it requires setting aside or ignoring parts of their own country’s constitution or statutes. In other words, EU judges themselves made up a rule that they are the boss judges. National sovereignty be damned, I guess.”
Think-tank MCC Brussels said: “not only is the ruling an attack on common sense and national democratic rights, it is an outstanding example of how the EU pushes the normalisation of “EU values” on LGBT issues through the supposedly neutral legal architecture of the common market. Those creating the EU market would have never imagined that rules to allow free trade would be used to push radical transgender ideology. ”
EU COURT CLAIMING ABSOLUTE POWER, CRITIC SAYS
And they added that it was their belief that the decision was a step towards the same ruling for gender self-id, writing that “the ruling concerns an individual who has undergone some degree of “medical transition”. But given the EU’s latest NGO-driven push for radical “self-ID”, it is presumably only a matter of time before the EU courts also rule that anyone must be recognised as their self-chosen gender, regardless of what steps they have taken to transition.”
“Also snuck into the ruling is a dangerous assertion of the absolute power of the EU court,” MCC Brussels said. “The ruling insisted that EU law precludes a court from being bound by its constitutional court’s interpretation where that interpretation impedes the application of EU law as interpreted by the Court”.
The full piece is here:
Women’s Rights - Round Up
Excellent round up by Soh Heriot on the Woman: Adult Human Female substack. Here’s one extract:
March 04 - Maine women inmates accuse transgender prisoner of harassment
Unless prison officials intervene, it’s just a matter of time until this male inmate, who is incarcerated for killing his own parents and their family dog, violently assaults or even kills one of the women that are now forced to share space with him in prison.
Media - Round Up
And yet another good round up of the week in the media from SEEN In Journalism. Here’s one extract:
While on puberty blockers there are two pieces from Northern Ireland in the last couple of weeks which we must highlight. They’re both from the Belfast News Letter, which has the redoubtable David Thompson, of Stonewall podcast fame, as its political editor. The first one, very shocking, is by David:
Exclusive: NHS saw an opportunity for income generation from first child gender clinic in Belfast
The second is by his colleague Adam Kula on a warning from Tavistock whistleblower Marcus Evans
Health Round up
Good round up of health issues by Bernard Lane on Gender Clinic News.
Just one extract:
Detransition in the spotlight
Plus: Not so cautious Swedes; Dutch protocol bias; missing health data; another blow to WPATH; sex-role colonialism; fair trade probe into US gender business; win for NZ lawyer who warned on blockers
Mar 13, 2026
GCN global briefs
Detrans clinic
America | A non-profit medical clinic for US detransitioners is in planning, a historic meeting of 70-plus detransitioners hosted by Genspect in Washington DC has heard. Katy Hurd, a Seattle-based family physician with her own history of gender dysphoria, told the March 12 Life Beyond Transition conference that the needs of detransitioners—including their complications from hormonal treatment and transgender surgery—represented an “abominable” gap in healthcare. She said the proposed Seattle area clinic might open a year after a start is made with a telehealth service in six months or so; some US$500,000 in funds would have to be raised.
Apart from detransitioners, the clinic would cater to people who are gender-questioning or those “who are mostly content with their transition but just want a second opinion”. Dr Hurd said she hoped the clinic could serve as a model for others.
But such clinics would not be able to charge for services until the ICD diagnostic system is updated with billing codes for detransition. Kurt Miceli of the medical watchdog group Do No Harm told the conference that a proposal for ICD codes covering desistance and detransition in its various forms would be put to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 17. Not only would new codes lead to better healthcare and insurance cover for detransitioners, they would also generate hard data disproving activist claims that transition regret is negligible.
On litigation, a conference panel of lawyers addressed the popular misconception that lawsuits should have swiftly and easily shut down the abuses of paediatric gender medicine. The obstacles and delays facing detransitioner claims included short statutes of limitations barring actions in many states, low caps on damages awards, the hefty cost of expert reports for plaintiffs, and the time chewed up by appeal points.
Even so, the recent $2 million award to detransitioner Fox Varian showed the potential for claims by vulnerable young people to succeed if they can be brought before a jury. Such awards, settlements and even unsuccessful claims could influence legislators to extend statutes of limitations and cause hospital risk managers to back away from paediatric gender medicine. The panel agreed that crunch time would come when medical indemnity insurers withdrew coverage for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and gender surgery, exposing doctors to personal liability.
“Because if there’s a $20 million verdict against a surgeon, instead of it being capped and the insurance company paying for it, that surgeon is losing his house,” litigator Kevin Keller said. “He’s uncovered, personally exposed ... that’s what will make them stop doing this.”
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.
Given the film we are featuring, here is ‘Maybe This Time’
#BeMorePorcupine
#KeepTerfing
#BringBackTheAdults
#ScrapDEI
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#LGB✂️TQ
#BeMoreDissident
#HoldTheLine
#StopTheBlockersTrial
#NeverSurrender
#NeverForget
#TruthWillTriumph
#WeWillWin
Thx Dusty ... had to look up the word diegetic ... so it means the characters can hear the music in context too, rather than singing the plot as in opera - now I'm a proper film buff haha .... and also whilst I was on wiki I checked Mothering Sunday, at the risk of contradicting your Mum, who of course knows best :
"Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent. On Mothering Sunday, Christians have historically visited their mother church—the church in which they received the sacrament of baptism."
Btw and before I read your whole piece - just to let you know that American Mother's Day is on a different day - think it's next month. Lost my Mum last year sadly .... but I do remember seeing Mother's Day on the calendar and worrying whether I'd forgotten it or done it on the wrong day .... (sent her a card not visited a church, to be clear)
Epic is an overused word but Judge Van Dyke's dissent was indeed epic! The swinging dicks paragraph encapsulate the matter perfectly. The legal record has been enriched by his plain talking.