Mildred Pierce Part 2
Update 536. #BeMore Porcupine.
Here is Part 2, dear readers.
Mildred Pierce’s daughter, Veda secretly marries well-to-do Ted Forrester for his money and position, but his mother objects. Veda agrees to dissolve the marriage but claims she is pregnant and demands $10,000 from the Forresters. Veda smugly confesses her pregnancy is a sham to Mildred, who tears up the check and throws her out of the house.
Joan Crawford is Mildred Pierce.
Ann Blyth is Veda.
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - Chrysalis
Well done to Women’s Work UK for managing to do this video of one of their members ( taking a ‘ooh, what’s all this about?’ approach ) asking questions of the larping CEO of Chrysalis who had a stall at Chester Pride in 2024.
Information about this extremely dodgy organisation can be found on their website:
https://www.consortium.lgbt/member-directory/chrysalis-transsexual-support-groups/
UK - Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty was a Learning Support Assistant at Nottingham College, fired for revealing to a mother that the college was enabling the social transition of her daughter and was conspiring to keep this secret from her. His Crowd Justice page with further details of the case is here:
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/fired-for-telling-a-parent-not/
Ireland - The New Goverment
Paddy O’Gorman has written a piece on the Inspecting Gender substack. He sees signs of the new Government in Ireland rowing back on ‘trans issues’ albeit that the introduction of a conversion practices bill and the continuation of the hate crimes bill remain on the agenda. He is concerned about some of the new women ministers. Obviously none of them are talking about repealing the Gender Recognition Act 2015!! We shall see how things pan out! All thoughts gratefully received.
Paddy O'Gorman's Letter from Ireland
The new Irish Government is backing off trans, moving toward evidence-based policies.
Feb 26, 2025
New Government Cooling on Trans Issues
When Simon Harris became Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) in April 2024, we noted at the time that he was the first person to have ever assumed that office to have pronouns in his social media profile. In the new Irish government, recently formed, Harris is now Tánaiste (deputy prime minister). Harris has removed the he/him from his page on Linked In. The change is significant. The incoming government is not greatly different in make-up from the last government; it is once again a coalition built around the two main centre-right parties. But the new government has radically reversed its predecessor’s support for the trans agenda.
The 2020 programme for government looked like it had been written by trans activists. It pledged to “create and implement a general health policy for Trans people, based on a best-practice model for care, in line with the World Professional Association of Transgender Healthcare (WPATH).” Simon Harris, as Health Minister, appointed a trans activist (a trans-identified woman) to the Health Service Executive steering committee for the development of transgender health services. Harris then wrote to that committee to express his “expectation” that it would “ensure (that) compliance with WPATH is happening in practice.” When it came to healthcare for gender-questioning young people, whatever the clinicians might decide, the government believed it knew best.
The HSE did as the government told it to and, accordingly, gender-questioning children and young people were referred to Crumlin Children’s Hospital in Dublin for gender-affirming treatment and thence, in some cases, on to the Tavistock clinic in Britain. This caused the two leading clinicians involved in transgender healthcare in Ireland, Professor Donal O’Shea, and psychiatrist Dr Paul Moran of the National Gender Service, to publicly challenge the HSE which, they said, was “in thrall to the gender-affirming Model of Care promoted by transgender activists”. This HSE approach, said O’Shea and Moran, can damage children and can lead to inappropriate medical treatment for patients presenting with gender identity issues. The HSE rejected the views of the two clinicians.
But now the new government has backed down and has, in effect, conceded the clinicians were right. In the Programme for Government 2025, the endorsement of WPATH by the previous government has been dropped and been replaced by a commitment to a “gender healthcare service that is based on clinical evidence, respect, inclusiveness and compassion.” Dr Paul Moran tells us that he “welcome(s) that the Programme for Government reflects the step back from a radical approach to gender care that is happening around the globe. It is more complicated than the activists would lead you to believe, so we welcome the commitment to evidence-based care. The WPATH model of care was not evidence-based and that has been shown by the Hilary Cass report.” I think all of us in the gender critical movement will join with Dr Moran in welcoming the government’s retreat from its previous support for WPATH and “affirmative” transgender healthcare.
The full piece is here:
https://genspect.substack.com/p/paddy-ogormans-letter-from-ireland
Australia - Puberty Blockers
Bernard Lane on his substack Gender Clinic News provides an update on the situation in Australia. It is very disappointing that there is a continuing failure to simply accept and apply the Cass Review albeit that the Queensland Government have temporarily halted the provision of puberty blockers to children.
Safety gap
The brittle reassurances of the puberty blocker boosters
Feb 28, 2025
Known unknowns
The rationale for a research project linked to Australia’s most influential gender clinic admits that “critical gaps” in the scientific understanding of puberty blockers “undermine their safe and effective use.”
This warning, as yet unreported in mainstream media, is at odds with widely publicised claims that puberty blockers—routinely prescribed off-label by Australia’s gender clinics to stop the normal sexual development of children as young as 9-13—are safe and beneficial, even “lifesaving.”
A fast and flawed 2024 “evidence check” by the Sax Institute—which Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler told journalists he had read over the summer break—made the claim that puberty blockers are “safe and work well to delay puberty, and their effects can be reversed if stopped.”
This inspired an ABC News headline asserting that these drugs are “safe, effective and reversible.”
Such reassurance is at odds with the international findings of multiple systematic reviews—the gold standard for being thorough and minimising bias when assessing the evidence for a health intervention—that the research data favouring this novel use of puberty blockers is very weak and uncertain, meaning one cannot be assured that children will be helped, not harmed.
And now an Australian grant application has come to light which candidly acknowledges the gap between the confident prescribing of puberty blockers for gender distress and the state of the evidence base.
The full piece is here:
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/safety-gap?publication_id=627677&r=1v403b
New Zealand - Puberty Blockers
Our friend Katrina Biggs reports on her substack, A B’Old Woman on a New Zealand organisation, Inflection Point NZ, that are doing the kind of work that the Ministry of Health should be doing!
A warning shot gets fired across the bows of NZ’s ‘gender-affirming care’ clinics.
The prescribing of puberty blockers for minors gets a warning, but not from the expected authorities.
Feb 28, 2025
The private group Inflection Point NZ did what our public health service should have done a long time ago. They consulted a lawyer, who, on their behalf, sent warning letters to more than 20 different medical practices and establishments, about the potential for malpractice litigation due to prescribing, or promoting the use of, puberty blockers for minors. Included in the letters’ recipients was the Royal College of GPs, as well as psychology and psychiatry practices.
Inflection Point is a group with quiet clout who works against the harms of gender ideology, largely behind the scenes, so far. This has caused some consternation in the world of those who’d like to roundly abuse them, as it’s not known where their vituperation should go. However, in May 2024 Inflection Point did go public and organised a conference called UNSILENCED, which was a huge success. It also caused a ridiculous, but not entirely unexpected, amount of upset amongst ‘progressives’. As its name implies, UNSILENCED was an event where gender critical speakers, whom mainstream media routinely silence, could have a voice.
At this point in time, neither Inflection Point nor their law firm, Franks Ogilvie, are releasing any of the letters, which were sent to the various medical practices and establishments, for public consumption. They expect they will be able to do that about mid next week, and I will re-publish them on this blog. In the meantime, what I write here is what has already been posted online or in news articles.
The full piece is here:
Dusty - well done, Inflection Point NZ and look forward to seeing the letters!
Endpiece
From Tenaciously
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That parody speech made me laugh. 'My father was a tool-maker. I am a tool.'