Whoa, another marathon, dear readers! This has been a Long Good Friday! See Endpiece!
We are, of course, still with True Grit ( superior 2010 version - in my humble opinion - apologies, John Wayne). In the scene below, Mattie ( Hailee Steinfeld) tries to persuade Rooster Cogburn ( Jeff Bridges - who has been kipping in the back of a Chinese grocery) to let her come with him as he hunts for the Ned Pepper gang and the killer of her father.
Thanks again to two wonderful readers for suggested pieces.
Women Athletes take on the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Well done to these ladies ( including Riley Gaines though she is not included in this video). The shorter woman at the end is not an athlete ( as far as I am aware!). Well done to Kara Dansky for her support 😊
Another Melbourne Rally!
Thanks to wonderful Feminist Legal Clinic and to Ix Qik ( that would be great for Scrabble wouldn’t it!) for this piece.
Women Won the Day – by Ix Qik – Ix’s Substack (27 March)
Women’s Action Group held their first Public Assembly on the steps of Victoria’s Parliament in Melbourne.
While all news reports in Australia are claiming that two women were arrested. I can assure you that no women were arrested. No women from either side.
Male pattern violence aimed at silencing women led to the two arrests made on the day. …
The media is compelled by the Press Association to report that a man is a ‘woman’ at his behest – no questions asked. The police are compelled to record men as ‘female’ when he answers “Female.” to the booking officer.
This is a lie and the law is complicit in the abuse of women’s rights. The State Parliament has given the power of every Victorian over to the most abusive and misogynistic men.
Despite extreme intimidation and a second attempted breach of the police cordon, women spoke honestly, loudly, and bravely.
Two detransitioners took to the mic and expressed the damage this ideology has done not only to them but to wider society.
Grandmothers spoke of the damage they have seen, and how they would have been manipulated by gender ideology activists if they were teenagers now.
One lifelong socialist woman spoke of how the loud, aggressive crowd do not know what socialism is. And she will never stop being a socialist despite the corruption they’ve brought to her political beliefs.
One woman spoke about the pornography that is deep seated within the trans ideology/queer activism and the damage it wreaks on young women.
Source: Women Won the Day – by Ix Qik – Ix’s Substack
Victory for Tory MP
Congratulations to Rachel Maclean, another important victory against non-crime hate incidents!
Christian Calgie in The Daily Express ( Tory MP celebrates free speech victory in trans row as police wipe ‘hate incident' 27 March) reports:
Rachel Maclean has had her NCHI wiped by the police© Parliament / Melissa Poulton
A Conservative MP has won a major free speech victory today, after having a 'non-crime hate incident' wiped from her record by the police.
The victory comes after Redditch MP Rachel Maclean shared a post on Twitter last year, which described Bromsgrove Green Party candidate Melissa Poulton of being "a man who wears a wig and calls himself a 'proud lesbian'".
Ms Maclean said: "While the Greens don't know what a woman is, my Worcestershire neighbours the people of Bromsgrove certainly do".
West Mercia Police said the comment constituted a "non-crime hate incident".
Ms Maclean apologised for the post, but refused to apologise for "the Green Party's policies on sex and gender".
Non-crime hate incidents are used by the police to collect information on "hate incidents" that could escalate into more serious harm, but do not themself constitute a criminal offence.
After pledging in December to challenge the police over their decision to record the spat on her record, Ms Maclean won a major free speech victory today as the police said they would delete the incident.
The full article is here:
Women’s Football
Just when you thought it could not get any more shocking or ridiculous!
Daily Mail Australia ( Women's soccer team featuring FIVE trans players destroys opposition 10-0 on way to winning grand final - with one biological male scoring SIX goals in one game 27 March) reports:
A row has erupted after a women's football team consisting of five transgender players won the pre-season Beryl Ackroyd Cup tournament in Sydney, Australia.
Flying Bats FC won every game they played over the course of the four-week competition, winning the grand final 4-0 at Macquarie Park on Sunday to take home the $1000 jackpot.
There were huge winning margins in some games, with one trans player scoring six goals in a 10-0 victory.
Furious parents have withdrawn their daughters from games due to safety concerns, telling News Corp that players were unaware that they had signed up to compete against biological males.
Club officials have also contacted Football NSW to express their concerns, with some insisting that the Flying Bats should play in the mixed competition, which includes men.
The full article is here:
Feminist Legal Clinic
Thanks once again to FLC for the 3 reports below.
Women’s Sport
578+ Male Victories in Female Sports – Women’s Sports Policy Working Group (28 March)
This tally was started in March 2023 in response to the argument, “But there aren’t very many, so what’s the harm?” Actually, there are many male athletes competing in women’s sports. The Washington Stand found that 28 national girls or women’s sports titles were won by trans-identified men between 2003 and 2022, with “the trend accelerating over the past three years.” Each male victory has a multiplier effect, displacing many girls or women from opportunities designed for them.
Why should any female athlete relinquish her sports dream to make room for a male? Regardless of gender identity, males have performance advantages over females. And female athletes are still being treated less favorably than male athletes at every turn. We must not diminish females’ opportunities, placings, finals, podiums, prizes, or financial rewards, nor their right to fair, safe, sex-separated sports experiences.
After tracking these incursions into girls’ and women’s sports spaces for nine months, we abandoned this project — but not our commitment to girls and women — because there are simply too many male victories.
Fortunately, SheWon started a similar tally — while also inviting user data about the girls and women who should have won. For updated data, or to add your own, please see SheWon.org.
Source: 578+ Male* Victories in Female Sports – Women’s Sports Policy Working Group
Bad News from Germany
Trans-affirmative autobahn (26 March)
Germany’s new treatment guideline for gender dysphoria or incongruence in minors will not follow the restrictions applied by new, more cautious treatment policies in Finland, Sweden and England, according to the medical magazine, Deutsches Ärzteblatt. After several years’ work, the near-completed guideline was presented for the first time last week, with 27 specialist societies and two transgender advocacy groups having reached agreement on the question of hormone suppression. There was strong consensus that the distress of dysphoria—not mere incongruence—should be a prerequisite for prescription of puberty blockers.
Although this intervention was said to be “generally reversible”, the guideline reportedly acknowledges the possibility that psychosexual development might be affected by delaying the brain maturation processes of puberty. No minimum age for pubertal suppression is to be applied. One of the guideline authors, Dagmar Pauli of the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, told Deutsches Ärzteblatt that “it is a dilemma that pubertal changes often occur when adolescents are not yet fully capable of judgement and making decisions about medical measures.”
The “decidedly trans-affirmative” direction of the guideline had been criticised by the Munich-based child and adolescent psychiatrist Alexander Korte, who has treated adolescents with gender dysphoria since 2004. The confidence of the guideline is also at odds with the findings of a recent systematic review of the evidence base undertaken by child and adolescent psychiatrist Florian Zepf of Jena University Hospital and colleagues.
New South Wales
SURVEY: Protect NSW From Inequality (disguised as Equality!) (28 March)
The good news is that after significant backlash from the public, Alex Greenwich’s “Equality” Bill has been referred for an inquiry, meaning its regressive sex-self ID, surrogacy and prostitution reforms will now receive further scrutiny. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone who signed our 20,000+ strong petition and raised the alarm with MPs about this harmful legislation.
Members of the public have now been invited to provide their views on the Bill in an online survey until 14 April 2024. We encourage as many people as possible to complete this quick survey, and we suggest you oppose every section of the Bill.
Source: (17) SURVEY: Protect NSW From Inequality (disguised as Equality!)
A Detransitioner
EDI Jester has done a video about a detransitioner called Michelle which I wanted to emphasise because eventually Michelle arrives at what is, effectively, my position on these matters. All thoughts gratefully received.
Petition
Please sign this petition 😊
Endpiece
Double Spoiler Alert - two final scenes in a row.
Andrew Doyle did a great piece on his substack the other day featuring a marvellous scene from an old film. Since this is Good Friday it made me think of the incredible final scene from The Long Good Friday where we are just concentrating on the face of gangster Harold Shand ( Bob Hoskins) as he is driven off by the two IRA men ( you can skip the final credits at the end 😊). Great acting without uttering a word!!
And since we have been featuring the 2010 re-make of True Grit, let’s have the splendid ending which features Elizabeth Marvel as middle aged Mattie Ross. Plus wonderful end song from Iris DeMent.
“Time just gets away from us.”
I hope you are having a lovely Easter Sunday , dear readers.
Mattie Ross Parts 2 and 3 are proving a bit sluggish in terms of viewing figures no doubt because of the Easter weekend, so if you can push them about a bit that would be much appreciated.
To briefly explain you need to get your viewing figures between one update (I treat a two r three parter as one update) and the next because once the next goes out the viewing figures for previous updates understandably slow down to a trickle.
Hope you can all have a rest from Terfing today😊
Dusty
Thank you, Dusty, and Happy Easter!