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Update 395 - Terf Month - Manifestoes Part 5 - #BeMorePorcupine
Thanks to a reader for suggesting the next Terf Month speech - in fact, yet again, a poem - from the wonderful Aja the Empress.
Please keep the suggestions for speeches…or poems…or songs…coming in.
Thanks as ever to two wonderful readers for suggesting pieces.
Terf Month
Why are we having Terf Month on this substack?
Here is Genevieve Gluck ( pour yourself a drink before you read this!!!):
Do you understand now? 😊
General Election Manifestoes
OK, dear readers, here are the fifth 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
I covered the Social Democratic and Workers parties here:
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/warriors-of-steel
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 police 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 last night!
I deal below with the Scottish National Party. The Democratic Unionist Party manifesto still appears not to have been published yet! Please let me know if you stumble on it. I am only covering the major parties, of course.
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 SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY
House of Lords
Support abolition of the undemocratic House of Lords
Dusty - I have said, with regard to other manifestoes, that a second chamber will be vital for us in the future.
Voting system
Reform the voting system by replacing the first past the post system with the Single Transferable Vote.
Dusty - gosh, something we could agree on!
‘Gender’
Protect and enhance the rights of LGBTI community. The SNP has a proud record of advancing and championing LGBTI rights in government, and we will continue to build on this, working with LGBTI communities, to make Scotland a fairer and more equal place to live. With independence we would have the full powers to improve equality in law and society, and the ability to champion LGBTI equality internationally.
Dusty - they don’t go into detail but I leave it to your imaginations what might happen!!
Hold on, I almost missed an important manifesto!!!
https://x.com/CountBinface/status/1802627422333899161
Scottish Arts Go Woo
Talking of the SNP, they have funded gender borg and critical social justice lunatics in the arts as dealt with brilliantly here on his substack by Malcolm Clark:
Scotland's New Age of Stupid.
If you want to see what the arts might be like under a Labour government look at Scotland where the Far Left rewrites history and cultural institutions are hollowed out by philistinism and porn.
JUN 19, 2024
Many observers of Scotland express wonderment that its government is so performatively woke. Aren’t we Scots famed for our macho swagger? And that’s just the women. Don’t we delight in expressing robust commonsense, spiced usually with as many four letter words as possible? So how then did we end up pioneering the insanity of Gender Self ID and passing a Hate Crime law that can see you arrested for cracking a joke in the privacy of your own home?
One reason is that in a country as small and relatively poor as Scotland the devolved government, which is responsible for spending £59 Billion a year, dominates the cultural as well as the political landscape. When Labour was in power in Edinburgh it ensured its friends and supporters got plum jobs. The SNP has perfected this process and after 17 years in control has turned much of Scotland’s civil society into a client state, where nominally independent organisations, campaign groups and charities merely amplify the government’s message.
After the SNP morphed under Nicola Sturgeon into a bizarro identitarian cult championing race hatred, gender extremism and eco-catastrophism its ruthless intolerance was made crystal clear.
This has led to a purity spiral in which many of the country’s most prestigious organisations compete to sing enthusiastically from the approved woke hymn sheet, of BLM, Palestine, Extinction Rebellion and last and certainly not least….all things Queer.
Nowhere is this more blatant than in the arts. Any organisation that dares to stand up for the right to hold differences of opinion has found itself assailed by the usual misfits. When the Scottish Poetry Library defended freedom of expression online mobs called for its funding to be removed and its leadership fired.
Bigger organisations have been much more cowardly. One way they have kept their noses clean with their SNP overlords has been to invite in an army of Far Left activists who have been fast-tracked into roles they should never have been let within a mile of.
The fruits of this surrender are now being unveiled in galleries and museums across the country and it’s not a pretty sight. Historical knowledge is rapidly being junked in favour of dumb sloganising. Welcome to Scotland’s New Age of Stupid.
The full article is here ( and I recommend it):
Auckland Women’s Centre
You remember Auckland?
Wonderful Katrina Biggs on her substack takes aim at an article by the Co-Ordinator of the Auckland Women’s Centre ( and posts the article at the end of her piece if you can bear to read it!!):
The Auckland Women’s Centre NZ knows how to beat the patriarchy – shame it’s completely bonkers.
JUN 20, 2024
If women don’t include men who say they’re women in our sports and spaces, we’re bowing down to the patriarchy – apparently. At least, that’s what Maia Hall tells us, the “she/they queer, non-binary feminist” Women’s Services Coordinator at the Auckland Women’s Centre. However, if we do let men who say they’re women into our sports and spaces, then she reckons we can take the wind out of the sails of the patriarchy.
It’s been a while since I’ve read anything so blatantly cuckoo in the mainstream media. I don’t know whether it’s entertaining, or just mad, but either way, brace yourself, get a stiff drink, or take a deep breath before reading. Better still, do all three. Why women need to stand up for trans rights | The Post (I’ve also copied the text in full at the bottom).
Maia Hall states her opinion with all the ardent conviction of the committed tinfoil hat wearer. She’s not the only one, though, who believes the messages from outer space that all things ‘trans’ and ‘non-binary’ are actually wonderful for women. All woke journos also believe it, but I daresay their editors keep them on their leash a little more these days, otherwise the annoying public tends to lay complaints in droves. A guest writer’s opinion piece, however, can be off the planet, and the media outlet doesn’t have to take any responsibility.
The Auckland Women’s Centre has been openly transified for a while now, as their website shows amongst all their other terribly progressive fluff –
Perhaps they’ve heard that Sall Grover’s coming to New Zealand in early July, and in cahoots with the mainstream media have launched the first of what may be a series of covert offensives? Nothing obvious or direct like the 158 hit pieces on Kellie-Jay Keen – aka: Posie Parker – before she came to NZ in March 2023, but more along the lines of machinating sympathy for ‘poor trans’ in advance of another wicked women landing on our shores.
If you’re amongst those who really don’t think that allowing any man who says he’s a woman to have free and unfettered access to women’s and girls’ spaces and sports is the way to beat the patriarchy, buy your ticket here - Sall Grover In New Zealand - Tickle vs Giggle (womensrightsparty.nz)
More details about the events are in the same link above.
Now, if you’ve got that stiff drink in your hand, or even if you haven’t, read on for a most fantastic tale, published by the (once) venerable news outlet, The Post -
Why women need to stand up for trans rights
Maia Hall
Maia Hall is the Women’s Services Coordinator at Auckland Women’s Centre.
OPINION: People who are gender-queer have existed as long as there have been people. Gender queerness is not a threat to anything except to the patriarchy.
Trans women are women, and trans rights are women’s rights.
Auckland Women’s Centre – te Wāhi Wāhine o Tāmaki Makaurau – welcomes all women, cis and trans, and non-binary people. We condemn all attacks on trans and other takatāpui and LGBTQI+ rights, from Brian Tamaki’s damaging of rainbows, and his ongoing intimidating events and hate-filled symbols, to the National-led Government’s plans to prohibit trans women from public bathrooms and its “watching brief” to do the same with community sport.
These acts are related: the Government’s signals have emboldened violent extremists.
Transphobia is an imported social poison designed to “distract attention from real problems”, as the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, puts it. Despicably, politicians show their contempt for us all by trampling on human rights as a political tactic.
In addition, transphobia invalidates many deeply-held gender understandings and traditions around the globe – a hallmark of white supremacy.
This is about powerful people opportunistically scapegoating “easy prey”: groups who are already targeted for hate and who don’t necessarily have the public platform to respond.
Trans people in Aotearoa, including trans women, face considerable discrimination, bullying and violence, leading to high rates of distress (CountingOurselves.nz).
Commissioner Mijatović points out transphobic politicians “seek to blur the lines” by “adopting the vocabulary of human rights, but what they are doing in reality is working to deprive other groups – mainly women and LGBTI people – of their rights”.
Yes, transphobia works to deprive all women – trans and cis – of our rights.
The Government is restricting freedom for all women by policing what we say, and wanting to police what we look like when we use public toilets; making sexual violence more likely (by removing sexuality and relationship education guidelines – including on consent); and emboldening jocks, bigots and vandals who oppress women while ostensibly espousing women’s rights.
The squeeze is real. The patriarchy gains power from policing gender identities and sexualities, dictating gender conformity and restrictive gender expressions.
Conservative gender norms lead to the devaluing and disrespect of everyone not seen as fitting into the privileged gender “box” of being a straight cis man who is a landlord and plays golf.
Positively, around a year ago, Aotearoa NZ showed itself to be one of the most pro-trans rights countries in the world, with 84% of us agreeing that “transgender people should be protected from discrimination in employment, housing, and access to businesses such as restaurants and stores”.
Sport New Zealand already has guidelines to ensure the safe inclusion of trans women in community sport. We have guidelines to ensure young people and adults receive gender-affirming healthcare which is both psychologically and physically safe. Transgender people have settled in Aotearoa as refugees, because they were safer here than among the hate in their country of origin.
We can be proud of all those indicators of human rights support. We now have to work together to increase these freedoms, not just keep the still-inadequate status quo.
Let your MPs and other public figures know that you want them to be vocal and genuine in their support for trans rights. If you can, give financial support for gender-minority organisations, and let friends and family know you support trans rights too. An attitude of “live and let live” is no longer enough to keep our communities connected and supportive, in the face of imported malicious threats of “divide and conquer”.
Our vision is that all women, trans and cis, and gender minorities, enjoy full access to our human rights, including the right to live in safety, and the right to live free of gender discrimination. Part of that means that women can choose to take their children to drag queen storytime without fear. And that women can enter public toilets without fear that they will be challenged for not being “feminine” enough, or “cis-gender” enough, which we know is what the transphobes actually mean.
We see and feel the pain of those who have been directly targeted, by ongoing threats and attacks. We support you; you are our siblings, our community, and we are deeply angry at those in power who are doing the opposite of empowering our trans and gender-queer whānau with protection and respect.
https://aboldwoman.substack.com/p/the-auckland-womens-centre-nz-knows?r=7ogxh&triedRedirect=true
Dusty - AGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Endpiece
Recently I have featured one of my favourite singers, Fats Domino. There was another great singer called Fats, namely Fats Waller. Now, I hope you guys ain’t misbehavin’ !!!
#BeMorePorcupine
Brilliant to hear that poem by Aja again. ‘ I am a woman, you are a scam’. 👏👏👏
Curating discomfort…😂. What a load of pretension b……s. I’m sure there’s a Python sketch to fit that.
Breathe a sigh of relief Dusty, you must feel dirty after wading through all that political claptrap. Well done for your dedication in a good cause.
What about the blatant misogyny of Kier Starmer!! 🤬