Schindler's List Part 1
Update 548. NHS Trans Activists Special. #BeMorePorcupine
Lots of news and analysis for you again, dear readers, so there will be a (hopefully) short Part 2 to make this a bit more manageable.
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 Schindler’s List (1993).
In German-occupied Kraków during World War II, the Nazis force local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, a German Nazi Party member from Czechoslovakia, arrives in the city, hoping to make his fortune. He bribes Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials, acquiring a factory to produce enamelware. Schindler hires Itzhak Stern, a Jewish official with contacts among black marketeers and the Jewish business community; he handles administration and helps Schindler arrange financing. Stern ensures that as many Jewish workers as possible were deemed essential to the German war effort to prevent them from being taken by the SS to concentration camps or killed.
SS-Untersturmfuhrer (second lieutenant) Amon Göth arrives in Kraków to oversee construction of the Plaszów concentration camp.
In the clip below:
Liam Neeson is Oskar Schindler
Ben Kingsley is Itzhak Stern
Ralph Fiennes is Amon Göth
Ezra Dagan is Rabbi Menasha Levartov
Thanks to three wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Some of the linked pieces below may be behind a paywall.
UK - Trans Activists Within The National Health Service
Thanks very much to reader, Becca Shambles who sent me the video below involving a group of NHS employees openly discussing trans activism and how to cope with ‘gender critical’ people within the NHS apparently in work time!!! Becca also provides an excellent synopsis. Thanks, Becca.
I found this Youtube video of an LGBTQ+ History Month event held by a group of NHS employees (uploaded 12 March 2025):
It has the usual pseudo-science and shoehorning of TQ+ into gay history, but what makes it notable is that they get quite explicit about opposing people who they deem to have the wrong politics.
The online session is introduced by Declan Nugent who is (was?) Deputy Director of Finance for Productivity and Efficiency [ Dusty - ooh, the irony!!] at NHS England. He tells us that the theme of this year's LGBTQ+ History Month is "Activism and Socialism". So much for political neutrality! (this year's LGBTQ+ History Month theme was actually "Activism and Social Change" so I think that was a Freudian slip by Declan!).
The first speaker is Charles Hancock who is a TIF on testosterone. Hancock's presentation is on the history of LGBTQ+ activism which ends with a powerpoint slide (at about 32mins 30secs in) showing the different ways we can all be LGBTQ+ activists today. In reference to a couple of the more illegal examples of activism listed on the slide, Hancock says: "I'm not going to endorse hacking into systems and I'm also not going to endorse too much civil disobedience". Well that's a relief! But Hancock IS happy to endorse voting... so long as it's for politicians who won't bring in the kind of reality-based laws that Trump introduced! Boo Trump!
The second speaker is Martin Johnson-Umpleby, a self-described cis male. He is (was?) NHS England's Head of Productivity and Efficiency in the North East and Yorkshire, as well as the Gay Lead and Deputy Chair for NHS England's LGBTQIA+ Network. His presentation is on "the power of pronouns" and can be summarised as: Obey whatever pronoun demands are made of you even if they are made-up nonsense words.
Next up is Jack Fellows (they/them). She is the LGBTQ+ Network Chair at Royal Papworth Hospital, an LGBTQ+ Unison rep, and a very dull speaker. So far so predictable.
But at about the hour and 20 minute mark they start going off-script with a chat about politics and any remaining hope for neutrality goes well and truly out the window. For example, Martin thinks that Trump is part of "a worrying trend across the west as a whole where we are seeing the rise of the Right", and singles out Reform and GB News as being of concern in the UK.
The last speaker is Stunning and Dave from Stoke, who is here to talk about himself for over half an hour, but still finds time to end with an anti-GC rant: "...we are seeing a rise in transphobia in the workplace. I've had to deal with a situation of somebody in influence in our trust with very strong gender critical activism views who has ended up in a position where they're able to be in meetings, and we've had to deal with that... of [them] posting some really unacceptable - what I would call anti-trans, but they would call gender-critical, rules. And we're in a weird space with the law on this now with the protective belief, which I don't think [NHS] Trusts really understand what that means. To me, what that means is you may have gender-critical views against trans people - nobody can sack you or discipline you for holding those views - but that doesn't mean you can harass people in the workplace by expressing them without due care in those wrong places. And I think people don't understand that, and we're seeing that to a degree with what's happening with the case in Scotland that's made a lot of the media now. I do think [...] every Trust needs to have a conversation about understanding what are they going to do if they have a member of staff saying that - we've had a clinician saying... 'My religion,' they said, 'means that I can't use people's pronouns properly of trans people' - which, to my mind, is maybe a belief, but that's against our policies and our values. [...] We've got a really good policy in place but it's been in place for some years. But trying to get one in place now when you're liable to have other people coming in with gender critical views saying 'Oh, no. We can't say in a policy that "transwomen are women, transmen are men, and non-binary people are more than valid". We can't say that.'" He goes on in this vein for a bit longer, but you get the idea!
All comments gratefully received. If you come across anything like this, do let me have it 😄
Aberdeen -Let Women Speak
In case you missed it, great round up by Mr Menno of events in Aberdeen.
UK - University College Union
Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne, directors of the 2022 film Adult Human Female had screenings at the University of Edinburgh cancelled in December 2022 and again in April 2023 following protests by LGBTQ+ groups and the local branch of the University and College Union (UCU). They are now taking Tribunal action against UCU and EDI Jester reports on that here:
The International Olympic Committee
Members of Women’s Rights Network visited the IOC headquarters in Lausanne to lobby in advance of the choice of the next president of the IOC on 20 March. I reported throughout the last Olympics about the situation of two men boxing against women:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/non-e-giusto?utm_source=publication-search
Free Speech Nation
Josh Howie has taken over from Andrew Doyle in presenting Free Speech Nation on GB News.
Great to see Kellie-Jay Keen on FSN talking about a women only gym in London.
And also an interview with Jo Bartosch about Stephen Ireland, co-founder of Pride in Surrey being convicted of raping a 12 year old boy. Is the Q+ allowing predatory men into these organisations? Who’d have thought it!!
The States - School in Deerfield, Illinois
Despite Trump’s executive orders there are still struggles going on at local level as is shown here. Well done the mother for speaking up.
https://x.com/ReduxxMag/status/1900991195020513297
Pretend Medicine…And No Follow Up!
LGB Courage Coalition on their substack look at the lack of follow up regarding so called ‘gender affirming care.’
How Convenient
Experimented on Kids, Then Forgot to Follow Up
Mar 14, 2025
Imagine a medical field so revolutionary, so compassionate, that it doesn’t need to follow the basic tenets of ethical practice: informed consent, long-term follow-up, and accountability. Now stop imagining—this is the reality of “gender-affirming care” for children.
Under the guise of progress, we’ve handed puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to children with gender dysphoria without pausing to ask, “What happens down the road?” The answer? We don’t know, and shockingly, we don’t seem to want to find out.
Could it be that tracking the outcomes of these interventions would mean confronting uncomfortable truths—truths that could challenge the narratives and incentives propping up this industry, an industry that thrives on promises but shies away from providing hard data?
The Convenient Silence
Medicine, when practiced ethically, demands follow-up. Clinical trials require researchers to study participants for years, often decades, to assess outcomes. This is particularly true for experimental treatments.
So why has gender medicine exempted itself from these standards? Consider Amy Tishelman, former research director at Boston Children’s Hospital’s Gender Multispecialty Service. She tried to initiate long-term studies to track all the kids they’d put on puberty blockers and hormones over the years, aiming to fill a glaring gap in understanding what becomes of these children years or decades down the line.
Then, in 2020, she sued the hospital for gender and age discrimination, alleging unequal pay and hostile treatment compared to male colleagues. She was fired in 2021—officially for a HIPAA violation involving patient records—but a jury ruled in 2024 that it was retaliation for her lawsuit, awarding her nearly $2 million in damages.
While it’s unclear if her push for follow-up directly caused her firing, the timing strongly suggests resistance from a system that might not welcome such accountability.
Across the Atlantic, the NHS now plans a controversial new puberty blocker study following the 2024 Cass Review, which exposed the flimsy evidence behind these drugs and led to a ban on prescribing them to minors outside research in England—a major shift in policy.
Dusty - I agree with EDI Jester that it all just needs to stop. You cannot transition. We know the harms that are caused. We know about ‘transing away the gay.’ Stop it all now.
All thoughts gratefully received.
The full piece is here:
Larping Men Behaving Badly
On her substack, A B’Old Woman Katrina Biggs looks at the outrageous behaviour and intimidation from trans rights activists.
Couldn't have said it better!
Why wokesters behave as badly as they do, in 22 words.
Mar 17, 2025
There’s nothing much to read here this time, but what you do read may give as much food for thought as a lengthier piece.
Maybe some will say “oh, I knew that already” when they read Gurwinder’s profound perceptivity below - good for you. For the rest of us, it neatly packages the puzzlement of woksters’ much-too-often appalling behaviours into one simple and understandable summary.
For me, and anyone else who grew up learning that our behaviour mattered, and there were consequences for bad behaviour - perfect angels though we still may not be - it has been confounding as to why wokesters, and that includes transactivists, seem to feel they have a free pass to behave exceptionally badly, as they seem to be in the habit of doing.
In the comments, I wrote:
‘There has never been such an enormous con job since the Salem Witch Trials!!
‘I like Gurwinder's observation but I think there may be another stage before then. Before they raise their flag of ( supposed) virtue and start screaming at us and abusing us ( and sometimes worse), they require another fictional act to be performed. This is violence but, importantly, the violence is caused by words ( according to them). So if we say: 'Transwomen are men', then we are, as it were, exterminating them and up goes the flag and the abuse can begin.’
All thoughts gratefully received.
The full piece is here:
Endpieces
From Liz
William A. Ferguson
The Ministry of Memes
From Tenaciously
#BeMorePorcupine
#EndGenderAffirmingCare
#AdultHumanFemale
#LetWomenSpeak
#GrassrootsArmy
#FightForFreeSpeech
#ByeByeStonewall
#XYYouAreAGuy
#LarpersKeepOut
What good news to hear that a GC woman has got onto a position where she’s at meetings and being ‘transphobic’ - i.e. not talking nonsense.
Thanks Dusty, great work as ever. The Ireland episode is horrendous but when you understand Queer Theory, it doesn’t come as a surprise at all. I really wish more people would investigate, it would explain such a lot and would probably stop everything in its tracks. Just imagine if the BBC had been doing it’s job in exposing the dark background to gender ideology.
Looking forward to the wonderful KJK and Mr Menno later, my bedtime ‘reading’.
#BeMorePorcupine