Mr Movie
Update 538. Let Women Speak Special. #BeMorePorcupine.
Thanks to EDI Jester for crossposting my last update on his substack:
https://substack.com/@edijester
As we move into 2025 I am featuring, to start with, and in alphabetical order, those Readers’ Choices for best film ever that did not make the top seven ( see Update 500 for the top seven).
Next up is One Second.
This is a 2020 Chinese film (ie. made under the Communist regime) directed by Zhang Yimou, about a man who escapes from a labour camp during the Cultural Revolution. He became estranged from his only daughter and he is seeking a newsreel which includes her in it. When he tracks down the newsreel she is shown for just ‘one second’.
Jordan Peterson has previously said:
If a story is great it isn’t subservient to propaganda…There isn’t anything more destructive to propagandist totalitarianism than greatness.
Zhang Yi is the fugitive
Liu Haocun is orphan Liu
Fan Wei is Mr. Movie
Thanks to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - National Health Service - £100 million a year on ‘transgender treatments’.
Shaun Wooller and Billy Bowkett in The Mail Online ( NHS is spending more than £100million a year on transgender treatments - enough to hire 2,500 nurses 01 March) report:
The NHS spends as much on controversial transgender treatments as it does on common anti-depressants, penicillins or beta-blockers, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Figures obtained under Freedom of Information legislation show the NHS spent an eye-watering £250 million in the past five years on surgical and non-surgical procedures for trans, non-binary and gender-questioning patients in England.
In the first ten months of 2024/25 alone the figure was £88 million – up a fifth on the previous 12 months. For that sum, the NHS could prescribe almost 30,000 people with weight-loss jabs, or hire around 2,500 nurses.
And data suggests spending on transgender treatments is now more than £100 million a year.
The full article is here:
EDI Jester reports on this here:
On the same theme, on his substack EDI features a letter from a surgeon to his local hospital in Barry, Wales about how these surgeries are, of course, always unsuccessful!!!
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158215355
Are Medical Ethics In Crisis?
I have just caught up with this debate at the Battle Of Ideas festival last year and I would especially flag up the speech by Jennifer Lahl about ‘Do No Harm’ ( the Hippocratic Oath) which is directly relevant to the question of whether or not there should be clinical trials of puberty blockers in the UK. All thoughts gratefully received.
Uk - Avon and Somerset Police
One piece from the latest Women’s Rights Network newsletter ( 02 March).
Avon and Somerset Policing Policy
WRN women attended the Avon and Somerset Police (ASP) crime panel – and their report is illuminating
WRN took women’s concerns about the loss of single-sex recognition in law to the Avon and Somerset Police Crime Panel. They wrote about the events, and pointed out that many of the claims made by the panel are not supported by current policies.
The women wanted to know if: their police force sanctions sexual assault by allowing male officers to strip search women; officers are permitted more than one identity card; officers are provided with single-sex changing facilities; staff, officers and members of the public are served by laws that differentiate the sexes.
The women’s account of the panel reveals the layers of opaque reasoning and misdirection being deployed which rely on Chief Constable Sarah Crew and Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Clare Moody interpreting the Equality Act 2010 in order to prioritise anyone who claims an identity different from their sex over rights enshrined in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). Section 55, clause 7 states, “A constable may not carry out an intimate search of a person of the opposite sex.”
Read the account for a clear understanding of the mess the police are presenting to the public, and WRN’s original report into State Sanctioned Sexual Assault. If you would like to hold your own Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable to account, find out the date of your next Police and Crime Panel and submit your questions in advance. If you are a WRN member, your local group can assist with drafting your questions and advising on conduct during the meeting.
Asking your PCC and CC about the strip search policy and referring to our reports would be a great start to establishing how far police forces are going to remove safety and dignity for women.
These people work for us, they promise transparency and accountability so let's put that to the test.
Free Speech
Free Speech is, obviously, essential for us Terfs - people are often trying to silence us!
Lord Justice Sedley in Redmond-Bate v Director of Public Prosecutions [1999] EWHC Admin 733:
'Free speech includes not only the inoffensive but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative provided it does not tend to provoke violence. Freedom only to speak inoffensively is not worth having. What Speakers' Corner (where the law applies as fully as anywhere else) demonstrates is the tolerance which is both extended by the law to opinion of every kind and expected by the law in the conduct of those who disagree, even strongly, with what they hear.
From the condemnation of Socrates to the persecution of modern writers and journalists, our world has seen too many examples of state control of unofficial ideas.'
Andrew Doyle, formerly host of GB News’ Free Speech Nation, is now in the States and is here a guest on the show. He is totally on fire in explaining the dangers in the UK and in Europe with regard to free speech.
UK - Women’s Health
Rosie Duffield, now an independent MP, of course, recently gave a speech on this issue including about the need to accurately record sex data and about an awaited report on this issue from Professor Alice Sullivan.
New Zealand - Memories of Auckland.
Terf Vibes on her substack, Til Sex Do Us Part is collecting stories from that day when her and others turned up at the bandstand in Albert Park to support Kellie-Jay and Let Women Speak.
'Go home c*nt!'
My working title for the anthology of firsthand accounts I am compiling from women who, like me, were violently silenced at the largest (and loudest) anti-women protest the world has ever seen.
Mar 02, 2025
The working subtitle is: ‘The day 2,000 people came out to silence women campaigning for the right to pee in peace.’
Or: ‘When calling a woman a “cunt” and telling her to “suck my dick” is seen as “kind” and “inclusive”’. 🙄
If anyone wants to suggest another subtitle I’m all ears. And if anyone out there attended the Albert Park LWS rally in Auckland that fateful day in March 2023 and wants to tell their story, feel free to private message me about it.
My T-shirt that day read simply LET WOMEN SPEAK in letters far smaller than these. Posie’s top read simply ‘WOMAN’ in a pale silver. Yet we and the 60-100 other, mostly older women attending the rally in support of Posie that day were the ones deemed by media, politicians and the mob to be a threat to NZ values of tolerance and inclusivity, freedom and equality, while the 2,000 protesters of all ages and both sexes (though they had more males than females), calling us c*unts and loudly shouting and shoving us down, were the good guys representing a fair-minded and progressive country. 🙄
The full piece is here;
https://terfvibes.substack.com/p/go-home-cnt
Stop Press
Thank you to Sarah who has provided me with this report from the day:
I was at Albert Park. I can still feel the hatred from the crowd and perhaps worse, individuals in the crowd.
As I walked through the university towards Albert Park and began to see and hear the crowd, I was incredulous, what was happening? Was this really Auckland? Had people really given up their sunny Saturday afternoon to protest a group of mature women?
Even as I arrived at the bandstand and entered the cordon I kept thinking it’ll be OK. The police will keep the protesters away from us, we’ll be safe. I think I even laughed at the stupidity of the situation. Then everything changed.
I’m in tears now, reliving the event.
The noise and anger from trade unionists and others I would previously have sided with has changed my world view. Until that day, I didn’t realise how much women are hated by men and some women.
As I got on the bus home I was shaking. Nothing has been the same since.
Thanks for the opportunity to give my testimony.
New Zealand - Education…and more
The substack, Resist Gender Education provides an update on the ongoing curriculum review and concerns about the outcome, a dodgy sounding survey, drag events for children, the letter from law firm Stephen Franks and Detransition Awareness Day.
Are we there yet?
A very long road trip with Erica Stanford
Mar 04, 2025
Many of us are feeling like kids in the back seat on a very long road trip perpetually pleading, “Are we there yet?” while the promised changes to the RSE curriculum stay frustratingly out of sight.
The passengers on this convoluted journey are getting restless and incorrect information is spreading, including that the coalition promise is going to be broken and there will be no change to RSE.
Few people noticed when we passed two milestones in recent weeks, indicating that we are slowly getting closer to our destination.
The first was in mid-February, when Erica Stanford (Minister of Education) released a Cabinet Paper, dated 9 December 2024, that confirmed, “The current RSE guidelines will be removed in Term 1, 2025 and replaced with a draft framework/strand of RSE teaching and learning. This will be refined as part of work in 2025 to develop a knowledge-rich health and physical education learning area. Feedback on this content strand will be called for from the Ministry during the consultation window by both the education sector and the public.”
The second is the removal of the RSE Guide from the MOE Curriculum website.
The full piece is here:
To follow the latest updates on the legislative challenges to President Trump’s executive orders go to: https://womensliberationfront.org/news/trumps-executive-orders-head-to-the-courts
New Zealand - A Date For Your Diary
Katrina Biggs reports on the Women’s Rights Party substack on an upcoming visit to NZ.
Coming to NZ soon: Trans widows doco 'Behind the Looking Glass'.
Documentary maker Vaishnavi Sundar will be here in early April to show her film and meet with us.
Mar 03, 2025
The Women’s Rights Party is bringing filmmaker Vaishnavi Sundar to New Zealand to show her documentary ‘Behind the Looking Glass’, followed by an opportunity for dialogue with her after the movie
Vaishnavi Sundar is a writer and independent filmmaker from Chennai in India. She founded Lime Soda Films more than a decade ago with the aim of highlighting themes of male violence against women, empowerment, education and advocacy.
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Vaishnavi will be present at the screenings in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch and will dialogue with you in a Q&A session. You can buy your tickets here, and/or make a donation towards costs of bringing Vaishnavi to New Zealand from Australia where she is also touring her documentary.
Auckland, 6pm, Tuesday, 1 April: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/womensrightsparty/1595810
Wellington: 6pm, Thursday, 3 April: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/womensrightsparty/1601458
Christchurch: 12noon, Sunday, 6 April: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/womensrightsparty/1601459
Ticket holders will be notified by email of the viewing location on the day before the event. This is partly because we don’t want to invite those whose sole intent would be to disrupt and close down the event.
The full piece is here:
Wish I could be there!!!!
Pretend Medicine
Good world wide round up from Bernard Lane on his substack, Gender Clinic News including a great letter from a Turkish surgeon!
https://www.genderclinicnews.com/p/false-promise?publication_id=627677&r=1v403b
Let Women Speak
A Weekend in Aberdeen
Let Women Speak Aberdeen
Sat, 08 Mar
Outside Marischal College
#LetWomenSpeakAberdeen
Time & Location
08 Mar 2025, 13:00 – 15:00
Outside Marischal College, Marischal College, Aberdeen AB10 1AP, UK
About the event
Join us in Aberdeen!
We have a full weekend packed with Let Women Speak, drinks, food, a panel discussion, entertainment, disco, Sunday tea and cakes, TERFtalk live and much more. LWS is bringing a store with insane bargains.
Weekend itinerary.
Saturday
1pm Let Women Speak at Marischal College
3.30pm drinks
5.30pm doors open for dinner (weekend tickets only)
7pm doors open for evening entertainment (weekend/evening tickets)
7.15pm Panel discussion (broadcast on Kellie-Jay youtube)
8.15pm Comedy
8.45pm raffle
9-midnight TERFisco
Sunday
Tea and cake
TERFtalk live
How to get involved in local actions.
Let Women Speak
Back To Nottingham
I reported on the recent visit here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/heroic-women-the-return-to-nottingham
My wife and I hope to be there for this return of the return! Let us know if you will be there 😃
Let Women Speak Nottingham #LetWomenSpeakNottingham
Fri, 28 Mar
Speakers' Corner, Brian Clough statue
Yes, we're going back!
Time & Location
28 Mar 2025, 16:00 – 18:00
Speakers' Corner, Brian Clough statue, King St, Nottingham NG1 2BH, UK
Endpieces
From Tenaciously
From Liz
The Monkey Typewriter Manifesto
William A. Ferguson
https://williamaferguson.substack.com/p/the-monkey-typewriter-manifesto?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
#BeMorePorcupine
#EndGenderAffirmingCare
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#GrassrootsArmy
#FightForFreeSpeech
#ByeByeStonewall
#GenderEnders
#NeverSurrender
Dear readers
Heads up that Mr Menno is doing a premiere on Wednesday at 21.00 GMT regarding some good news from Iowa.
Hope to see some of you there.
Dusty
A great roundup of the growing TERF resistance. And thanks for restacking my sub and sharing Sarah's poignant contribution. Yes, the Left has let women down in this fight in the most catastrophic of ways, revealing it was never on our side to begin with, though women were/are their primary voter support. The Dems have just re-confirmed this with their vote against fair sports for women. Just incredible. But the sisterhood of actual feminists is stronger than it has been in my lifetime (50+), and we will not let all the nasty, weak people pushing this sick sexism onto the world prevail. XX