There is so much stuff I am splitting this update into two, dear readers.
For this update’s Terf Month speech we go back to Emmeline Pankhurst.
Keep the suggestions for speeches coming in please 😊
Thanks as ever to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Terf Month
So why are we doing Terf Month on this substack?
Here is the EDI Jester:
https://edijester.substack.com/p/men-are-never-women
And here are Kit Kowalski and Edie Wyatt ( in Australia) on the podcast The Dollhouse ( this is longggg - they get to pride month about half way through - “Call me Paul or Pauline”):
And here is Lisa Selin Davis:
https://www.broadview.news/p/the-gate-or-what-to-do-when-the-gender?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Do you understand now? 😊
General Election
I will be producing, as soon as I can, a summary of what the manifestos say about gender ideology issues… but for what the Party of Women say, see below 😎
Labour
I don’t normally stray much, if at all, beyond the bounds of gender ideology but…needs must!
The Party of Women
Here is a party political broadcast by Kellie-Jay 😊
PoW is a single issue party but that single issue encompasses a vast range of matters:
Women’s single sex spaces
Women’s sports
Transitioning children
Transitioning adults
Teaching in schools
Social transitioning in schools
Erasure of women’s language
Strip searches by police
Single sex care
Drag queen story time
Data collection
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Departments
Free speech
…and no doubt I am leaving some out!
Party of Women has 16 candidates
1 ... Lisa Morgan ... Barrow and Furness
2 ... Julia Maria Long ... Bexhill and Battle
3 ... Kellie-Jay Keen ... Bristol Central
4 ... Catherine Briggs ... Doncaster North
5 ... Katharine Margaret Murphy ... Finchley and Golders Green
6 ... Hazel Exon ... Honiton and Sidmouth
7 ... Lesley Woodburn ... Islington South and Finsbury
8 ... Una Marie O'Mahony ... Kensington and Bayswater
9 ... Liz Panton ... Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend
10 ... Linda Jane Law ... Norwich South
11 ... Katherine Mary Longthorp ... Oxford East
12 ... Louise McDonald ... Sheffield Heeley
13 ... Bernadette O'Malley ... South West Hertfordshire
14 ... Bev White ... St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire
15 ... Kelly Jane Oliver Dougall ... Tynemouth
16 ... Seonaid Dawn Barber ... West Worcestershire
The brave ladies ( including one very famous lady 😊) who are standing as candidates for PoW in the General Election have had to raise £500 deposit to stand and also need money for campaigning materials such as leaflets and travel etc. Here are some links to fundraisers that are up so far. More may follow. Please give generously if you can. Even if you wouldn’t vote for PoW, they will be bringing this issue to the forefront in their constituencies.
And, if you are in their constituency, please vote for them. I wish I had one in my constituency 😒
Lots of hard work has been and is going on. Here are the Crowdfunders:
Seonaid Dawn Barber - West Worcestershire
https://givesendgo.com/westworcestershire?utm_source=whatsapp
Kellie-Jay Keen - Bristol Central
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyOfWomenElection
Catherine Limb-Briggs - Doncaster North
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCM9S
Katherine Longthorp - Oxford East
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyofWomen-OxfordEast
Louise McDonald - Sheffield Heeley
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCNSV
Lisa Morgan - Barrow & Furness
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyofWomen-LisaMorgan
Una O’Mahony - Kensington and Bayswater
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCME9?s=08
Bernadette O’Malley - South West Hertfordshire
https://www.givesendgo.com/PartyofwomenSouthWestHerts
Liz Panton - Newcastle East Wallsend
https://www.givesendgo.com/POWNewcastleEastWallsend2024
Lesley Woodburn - Islington South & Finsbury
https://www.givesendgo.com/GCP7F
Desistance
Very important statistics from Germany brought to us by the EDI Jester:
The Equality Act
On Free Speech nation Helen Joyce of Sex Matters is interviewed by Andrew Doyle about the proposals by the Tories to amend the Equality Act:
Linzi Smith
I most recently reported on Linzi’s case here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/thelma-takes-charge-part-2?utm_source=publication-search
Emily Jane Davies on the Mail Online ( Newcastle United fan banned from matches after Premier League's 'Stasi' probe into her social media posts criticising trans ideology launches legal battle against police force that questioned her 09 June) reports:
A Newcastle United supporter who was banned from matches for her gender-critical posts has now launched a separate legal battle against the police.
Linzi Smith, 34, has filed a High Court bid to stop the police force who questioned her over transphobia claims from participating in activities supportive of trans views.
She was the subject of a four-month investigation by the Premier League and was interviewed by Northumbria Police under caution - but they didn't pursue legal charges.
However the club revoked her membership and implemented a ban for the fan until 2026.
Ms Smith is now pursuing two challenges, one against Newcastle United in order to overturn her ban, and one against the police to stop it from participating in activities like Pride and wearing rainbow symbols.
She also wants the force to agree not to make public statements which are 'supportive of trans causes'.
The Newcastle supporter says she is taking action because she's 'angry' at how she was treated and is afraid others like her will go through the same ordeal.
Go, Linzi!
The full article is here:
Essex University
Eleanor Harding in the Mail Online ( Exeter University lecturers 'pressured' into signing 'anti-transphobia pledges' - including seeking LGBTQ+ inputs to their teachings and declaring their pronouns - to demonstrate 'allyship' with trans students 09 June) reports:
Lecturers at a top university say they've been 'pressured' into signing anti-transphobia pledges and declaring their pronouns.
Exeter University asked its staff last week to sign an 'inclusive practitioners commitment' to demonstrate 'allyship' with transgender students, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The online document requests staff make six pledges to prove they are 'the kind of person that LGBTQ+ people can confide in and feel safe around'.
These include promising to 'affirm trans staff and students' as well as outside experts, by using chosen names and pronouns.
Staff are also told to seek LGBTQ+ people's contributions to their teaching subject.
Dr Edward Skidelsky, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter
They are encouraged to 'educate' themselves about how 'micro-aggressions, dog whistles and talking points' can be harmful to LGBTQ+ people.
Staff are told to display 'allyship' to the community by sharing their pronouns where appropriate.
And they are also asked to be 'firmly against' transphobia and 'acephobia' - defined as discrimination against asexual people.
Exeter - part of the Russell Group - said the document was drawn up by the campus LGBTQ+ 'colleague and student group' and is not affiliated with any other scheme.
However, Exeter is a member of the controversial Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, which ranks employers on LGBTQ+ friendliness.
The Stonewall scheme has been criticised for pushing highly-contested gender ideology in public organisations and companies.
Yesterday, academics said the Exeter pledges would make gender-critical staff vulnerable to being targeted by activists.
Dr Edward Skidelsky, a philosophy lecturer, told the Sunday Telegraph: 'Schemes like this are coercive and intended to put pressure on people who are gender-critical.
'You will be made visible if you sign up because a badge will be displayed on your staff profile. So if you don't sign it can be easily identified and mean you'll possibly targeted by student activists.
'Also, gender-critical people will want to be free to be able to refer to trans people by their biological sex in certain cases. If someone is a rapist then it is ridiculous that you should say 'she'.'
The Committee for Academic Freedom said the 'point of the exercise' is 'to smoke out and put pressure on dissenters - those who, by implication, LGBTQ+ people will not 'feel safe around'.'
It said staff are likely to feel they have to sign the pledge 'because not to would make you a bad person in the eyes of your colleagues'.
The full article is here:
The Horrors of Gender Surgery
Two videos featuring brave young men talking about the effects of genital surgery on them.
Endpiece
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The ‘Everything felt wrong ‘ piece! Omg, what else is there to say. The entire western world should be made to watch it. And despite all the horror he’s been through, that poor young man still looks like a man. This is barbaric and those doctors should be in jail.
The Tories should use the Spiked piece as a Party Political Broadcast. Why are so many taken in by such a multi faced charlatan? He’s done so many u turns his neck should look like a corkscrew.
Thank Dusty, fantastic work as ever. 😁
I’m out for my birthday so won’t have time to comment except to say, brilliant jam-packed edition, Dusty. Thanks very much. 🙏 Will share.