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Update 394 - Terf Month - Manifestoes Part 4 - #BeMorePorcupine

Our next stirring Terf Month speech - or poem rather - is from teenager, Brandubh delivering her amazing poem ‘I am not a dress’ at Belfast Let Women Speak and bringing the house down!

Please keep suggestions as to Terf Month speeches coming in!

Thanks as ever to two wonderful readers for suggesting pieces.

Terf Month

Why are we celebrating Terf Month on this substack?

Here are two pieces from Barry Wall:

https://edijester.substack.com/p/trans-and-queer-must-go

https://edijester.substack.com/p/bring-your-whole-self-to-work

Do you understand now? 😊

General Election Manifestoes

OK, dear readers, here are the fourth lot of manifestoes. Obviously I am just concentrating on gender ideology and related matters such as free speech. I leave you to look at the other policies of the parties.

I covered the Labour manifesto here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/stand-up-and-speak

I summarised the issues that the Party of Women will be concentrating on here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/rebellion

I covered Alba and The Tories and referred you all to an excellent summary about the Lib Dems and the Greens by Transgender Trend here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-magnificent-sixteen

I covered Reform and the Heritage Party here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/become-the-lawmakers

I covered Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/the-field-of-victory

In some cases the manifesto does not seem to have been published yet but I am relying on their existing statements of principles and policies. I start in each case with a link to the document I am working from.

I make some comments as I go through them. I will leave you, dear readers, to spot where a party fails to address an issue that is relevant to gender critical belief (eg strip searching of women by male officers larping as women) - failure to mention an issue might indicate that the party in question does not see a problem with what is happening.

If I have missed anything important, please let me know 😊

For those of you who are not lucky enough to have a PoW candidate in your constituency, I have drafted some questions you might like to send to the candidates - obviously please add, amend and delete as you see fit. You will find them here:

https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/i-never-lose?utm_source=publication-search

I have only just sent my questions to candidates in my constituency tonight!!

I deal below with the Social Democratic Party and the Workers Party. I am only covering the major parties, of course. To come:

The Democratic Unionist Party

The Scottish National Party

If you feel I should look at any other parties please let me know. I am only looking at the two main parties in Northern Ireland, namely the DUP and Sinn Fein. If you think I should also look at the SDLP and the Alliance, once again please let me know.

And no - I am not going to be dealing with the Monster Raving Loony Party albeit that they may prove to be a better choice than the Labour Party!

The Social Democratic Party

https://sdp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/SDP_Manifesto_2024.pdf

Voting system

Westminster parliamentary elections will be conducted under a system of proportional representation comprising multi-member geographically based constituencies using the D’Hondt voting method.

Dusty - you will find a summary of the D’Hondt method here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2019/637966/EPRS_BRI(2019)637966_EN.pdf

PR is obviously beneficial to small parties like the Party of Women.

The Human Rights Act will be replaced by a new Bill of Rights drawing upon the British tradition of liberty, free speech and free association and incorporating established principles such as habeas corpus and the rule of law.

Dusty - For reasons I gave when discussing the Reform proposals, I believe that any tinkering with or abolition of the HRA is detrimental to our cause.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

All specialist ‘Equity, Diversity and Inclusion’ roles throughout the public sector will be abolished. Public sector organisations will select on merit, and strive to attract the best available talent regardless of identity, place of birth, or upbringing.

Dusty - DEI has been used to entrench gender ideology in organisations and institutions.

Smart phones

All smart phones and similar devices supplied to, sold to or used by under 16s will be subject to age-restricted controls on apps and content - regulated by a national kite marking authority. Smart phones will be banned in schools. Each school will be responsible for the confiscation and storage of such devices until the end of the school day. Schools will be required by law to impound devices found on students during the school day for 14 days.

Free speech

The Online Safety Act will be strengthened to better protect the right to freedom of speech and promote personal responsibility. Social media companies will have a duty to ensure that their strategy for combating misinformation is politically impartial, transparent and compliant with UK law. We will restore the British principle that speech will not be a police matter unless it clearly incites or threatens crime or terrorism. We will, however, firmly enforce existing laws against these.

Sex based rights

We support segregation by biological sex in sport. Fair competition is not secured if male bodied transgender athletes are permitted to compete in women’s sport and, in the case of contact sports, the risk of injury can increase significantly. We support segregation by biological sex in prisons and women’s refuges in order to safeguard the safety and privacy of natal females. Separate prisons or prison accommodation should be provided for transgender citizens to ensure their safety and privacy. Transgender individuals wishing to change their sex marker should be allowed to do so. However, we support the continued necessity for medical gatekeeping in any legal change of sex marker. We oppose proposals that would allow someone to change their sex marker by self-identification only. The Equality Act and Gender Recognition Act will be amended to ensure that sex-based rights which require protection in key domains are not undermined by a change in sex marker. Healthcare spending and resources for gender dysphoric individuals, including long term psychological intervention, should be provided at sufficient levels. Physical or drug based medical treatments for gender dysphoria should be prohibited for anyone under 18 years of age. We support the retention of biological sex and gender identity as distinct categories in public sector data gathering such as crime statistics, poverty metrics or public health research. We support the use of plain English for discussions of biological sex in health and reproductive care.

Dusty - this is pretty spot on apart from they do not propose repeal of the Gender Recognition Act.

Academic freedom

The right to express your own opinions without being silenced or intimidated by those who disagree with you. The right to be offended by what other people might say, but to respect their right to say it – and to get over it. The right to be treated as an equal, irrespective of colour, creed, age, social class, sexual orientation, nationality or biological sex. The right – indeed the duty – to challenge all established orthodoxies, even those of the academy itself. The right to an education which is politically broad, free of indoctrination and introduces a wide variety of viewpoints. The right to be able to hear outside speakers at university who possess a wide variety of views in a civil atmosphere and without harassment or intimidation. The right to be judged by your lecturers purely according to academic ability, regardless of how greatly your political views might differ from theirs.

Culture, media and sport

Public funding of culture, media and sports organisations will be conditional on those organisations respecting the principles of balance and free speech. Institutions that fail to do so, by censoring artefacts, promoting sectarian agendas or deterring people from civil discourse, will have funding withdrawn.

The Workers Party of Britain

Human resources

It is the human resources function that, under ‘bad’ managers, can be most dangerous to the common good as it seeks to de-politicise and atomise workers, actively discourage collective trades unionism and impose identity politics, lifestyle imperatives and anxiety on workers. The Workers Party of Britain will put in place legislation to offer free speech and lifestyle protections for workers and stop corporate interference in private lives.

Culture

The WPB’s cultural policy will start with a radical overhaul of the funding of the arts, the charitable sector and the educational system to re-emphasise critical thinking, free debate, free speech and mutual respect. Life-long learning (see our policy on education) will be central to our mission.

The police.

A police force that acts as the cultural engineering arm of the middle-class state is not serving the people. It is indulging the fantasies of the few at huge expense.  The Workers Party of Britain, while determined to weed out organised crime infiltration, corruption and incompetence in our police service, also recognises the frustration of many police officers that bureaucratic systems and political decisions are weakening their ability to function and their relationship with working class communities.

Free speech

We uphold the right to peaceful protest, free speech and resistance to attempts by authority to ‘chill’ legitimate opposition through surveillance, fear and misuse of the law.

Electoral reform

First, we will back proportional representation but only if it can be structured to ensure that political parties cannot ‘fix’ their lists under the control of their own elites.

Second, as a necessary corollary of PR, we will introduce a new Act regulating political parties to ensure no foreign influence, stronger internal democracy, higher penalties for corruption and easier recall arrangements.

Third, we will reform the House of Lords to exclude professional politicians who have made a career in the Commons and we will introduce more regional, trades union and technical expert voices able to scrutinise legislation swiftly and knowledgeably who are wholly unconnected to the Executive.

Fourth, we will explore measures to increase working class representation not only through the Workers Party of Britain but through increased political education initiatives directed at working class communities encouraging wider community participation enabled by social incentives such as adequate child care and earnings support.

Dusty - see what I say above re PR. In any event, this manifesto (rather surprisingly) fails to get to grips at all with gender issues while making bold noises about free speech.

All thoughts on the manifestoes, of course, gratefully received. Just two left!!

Lesbian Fightback Declaration

Thanks as ever to Feminist Legal Clinic.

Petition Lesbian Fightback Declaration

A declaration showing support for lesbians.

Source: Petition Lesbian Fightback Declaration

More From The Stasi

The trouble is that a Labour Government are unlikely to get to grips with the police and their woke agenda!

Arthur Parashar in The Mail Online ( Leading women's rights campaigner who said trans GP 'enjoyed examining women' claims she was 'threatened by arrest' and is now being investigated by the Met Police - as she accuses force of 'bullying' 19 June) reports:

A leading women’s rights campaigner who tweeted that a transgender GP 'enjoys intimately examining female patients' has revealed how police threatened to arrest her before launching a 10-month investigation.

Maya Forstater, 51, the head of the charity Sex Matters, has revealed Scotland Yard has been investigating her for the crime of malicious communications since August 2023.

The alleged crime, which carries a punishment of up to two years in prison, relates to a post Ms Forstater wrote on X/Twitter about trans former GP, Dr Kamilla Kamaruddin.

Dr Kamaruddin said that after transitioning, patients allowed her to perform 'more intimate examinations that they did not let me to do when I was a male GP'.

Ms Forstater tweeted in June last year that Dr Kamaruddin 'enjoys intimately examining female patients without their consent'.

But she claims that while on holiday, she was sent an e-mail from the Met Police which said she would be arrested unless she voluntarily attend a police interview. 

Ms Forstater, who noted that Dr Kamaruddin was listed as female on the GP's website, told MailOnline: 'I spent quite a lot of time wondering what it was, what the crime could have been, because they wouldn't tell me - so that was very stressful and also I was threatened with arrest. 

'They said, "Either come in for voluntary interview or we'll mark you as wanted, and you will be arrested".

Maya Forstater

Dr Kamaruddin

'And obviously I didn't want to be arrested so I went. So I had to get a solicitor and went into the police station to be questioned, and it was only then that they told me what the tweet that was supposed to be a crime was.

'I sort of thought that this must be mistake. It was like half a tweet. It didn't tag anybody. It was attached to a blog post that explained why I'd said it.

'It was not a threat to anybody, it was not obscene, it was based on facts and quite disturbing fact that a doctor who is male was boasting about examining women who wanted a female doctor, and who were told they were getting a female doctor.

'Most people want a woman, and if you ask for a woman you should get a woman.'

The post linked to an older blog post in which the women's rights campaigner had questioned whether the GP's female patients were able to properly consent to being examined by a trans doctor.

Ms Forstater, who accused the force of 'harassment and bullying' in an interview with The Times, has revealed that she was first contacted by police last August who informed her that she was 'currently being investigated for an allegation of malicious communications'.

She was then interviewed under caution at Charing Cross police station last September. But she has still not heard the outcome of the investigation ten months after first being contacted by the force.

Ms Forstater, who has not ruled out legal action against the force, said that she was told she was being questioned for 'targeting a member of the trans community'. 

But she told MailOnline: 'I don't think I targeted a member of the trans community. I think I talked about a male doctor who was doing something inappropriate. 

This is the tweet which the Met Police are investigating Ms Forstater over

'If you can't call that out, then what you're doing is you're making a section of society unable to be criticised and unable to be scrutinised... even when they're in a position of asking a woman to take her underpants off and be examined.

'It's a situation where the utmost respect should have been given to the patients, not to the identity of the of the trans identifying doctor. 

'And if you can't call that out without the police saying you're targeting a vulnerable community and then calling you in and basically acting like a private police force then bad things will happen.

'People will not respect the privacy and dignity, and the consent of women.'

Speaking about the investigation, she said: 'I think it's been terrible. I think it's been discriminatory. The police are trained by Stonewall and the CPS are trained by Stonewall and they're trained to think that women who say that trans women are men are bigots and are doing something illegitimate.

'When I went in for questioning, I said I had no confidence that the police would treat me fairly, because they've... all had training to say that it's transphobic to say that a man who identifies as a woman is still a man.

'But unless you can say that you can't protect women's rights.'

The full article is here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13544029/Leading-womens-rights-campaigner-trans-GP.html

Endpiece

I am still listening to Fats Domino in the background as I write this. What was the first rock ‘n roll record? I would say his first hit single, The Fat Man in 1949.

They call, they call me the Fat Man

‘cos I weigh 200 pounds

All those girls they love me

‘cos I know my way around.

#BeMorePorcupine

Hopefully I can bring you the final two manifestoes tomorrow evening, Terven. What a marathon!

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