February 14 - 20, 2025: Doctors in UK can absolve themselves of past wrongdoings by switching gender identity; U.S. States are defying Trump's Order to protect women's sports
Featuring: Kellie-Jay Keen and Wes Streeting fighting the many, many battles
Calls to Action
Get ready for International Women’s Day, March 8th — Join and/or plan an event for March 8th that recognizes the biological reality of women and the beauties and challenges that come with that reality. Here are a few ideas:
Get a ticket to virtually join Canadian Women’s Sex-based Rights caWsbar for their Reality Based Women Unite 2025 event, featuring an amazing line-up of guest speakers, including Kara Dansky, Amy Hamm and Heather Mason.
Email Women’s Declaration International - USA to find out how you can join them on IWD in showing solidarity with the women of Afghanistan.
Contact Women’s Declaration International - Afghanistan (X account) to set-up a listening session for members of your community to hear directly from women in Afghanistan — let’s make sure they are forgotten women no more. (If link isn’t working, just copy address into your email browser).
Join Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender - an organization of lifelong Democratic voters working to depoliticize and shed light on the ideologically driven "gender affirming care" medical scandal. You can help DIAG shift the narrative around these experimental, dangerous medical practices and clear the path for a safer, saner, evidence-based response to gender distress experienced by our youth.
Donate to support Nurse Sandie Peggie in her long battle to protect women’s spaces and autonomy.
Top News: Doctors who change gender are allowed to scrub past wrongdoing from public record
Feb. 20 This story wins leading headline for revealing *yet another way* that allowing gender self-identification and the subsequent remaking of an identity puts vulnerable people (especially women and children) at risk.
The British General Medical Council (GMC) has confirmed that new records are created for medics who “change gender” when they receive a new registration number, so they are therefore effectively wiped of previous suspensions and formal warnings. This means that patients can no longer see any details of their doctor’s previous identity by searching the GMC’s online database when they use the new name and number.
“If a doctor had received a historical sanction [i.e. the suspension is no longer in place] prior to transitioning, this information would not be available on their new public-facing record on the medical register,” says a GMC spokesman.
Dr. Upton, the doctor who is suing nurse Sandie Peggie for harming him by refusing to undress in front of him or acquiesce to him undressing in front of her, is among 62 of those who have been given a new registration.
A GMC registration number is “a doctor’s professional fingerprint and appears on all of their paperwork – training, appraisals, official ‘revalidation’, prescriptions and, should they be unfortunate enough to receive one, complaints. It’s the one constant that proves a doctor is who they say they are.”
Wes Streeting, the Health and Social Care Secretary, stated that this stiuation should not have been allowed and expects the GMC to find a solution that preserves transparency for patients along with protections in the Equality Act. Responding to The Telegraph’s disclosures, he said the GMC should urgently overhaul its practices, adding the situation should “not have been allowed”.
Efforts to silence Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
Kellie-Jay Keen (aka Posie Parker, founder of Let Women Speak and leader of the UK Party of Women) is in trouble with the British National Health Service (NHS) for making parody posters that draw attention to the madness of gender ideology in the health system.
Keen has been selling posters that are designed to look similar to NHS branding, but say MHS (Men’s Health Service) instead, and feature biting witticisms such as :
female prostate screening / male smear tests
“0 women die every year of prostate cancer”
“We’ll cancel your surgery… if you don’t go along with this nonsense”
“Your ‘female’ chaperone may have a penis”
“Can you trust a doctor who doesn’t know what a woman is?”
It’s amusing satire, and potentially eye-opening for anyone not steeped in the gender wars. But Keen has now received a letter from Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting, instructing her to stop using the NHS likeness or face legal actions. The letter states that the posters infringe on NHS trademarks and
Keen says her parody posters are within the realm of fair use. With her own trademark tough-as-nails-and-cool-as-a-cucumber style, Keen stated, “I'm going to say, if they want to sue me they can. Let's get this all before a judge and have a conversation.”
Feb. 18 - Report released on the Review of The Policing of public protests in New Zealand
The Independent Policy Conduct Authority of New Zealand released a major report on The Policing of public protests in New Zealand stemming largely from the 168 complaints about the failure of police to protect Kellie-Jay Keen and other women from a frenzied, frothing-mad mob in Auckland’s Albert Park in March 2023.
The review calls for new legislation that protects the rights of protestors while also ensuring public order and safety. Filed at the end in an Appendix, the report states that the security failure at the Let Women Speak event resulted from inadequate risk assessments and resulting inadequate planning and resourcing.
The Women’s Rights Party New Zealand statement on the report says, “the problems went a lot deeper than operational failures, and were reflective of a lack of respect of the women who were organising the event and the supporters who were there at Albert Park. The women were simply not taken seriously.”
“To suggest, as described in the Report, that Police responded by assisting private security guards in facilitating the main speaker to leave and others to leave if they feel unsafe, is nothing short of a lie,” Ms Ovens says.
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
Alexendra Goebert is escalating his retaliation against King Spa, a New Jersey Korean health spa, for not allowing him into the women’s nude area. He began with a dsicrimniation suit in 2022 and is now seeking compensation from the Spa.
King Spa’s position statement notes that New Jewsey’s law allows public places to have “reasonable restrictions” where facilities are reserved as single-sex spaces.
File under ‘Quelle surprise’: Reduxx found that Goebert’s now mostly-deleted Instagram profile followed a wide range of fetish-related accounts, including women’s lingerie company Honey Birdette and sex toy retailer Wet For Her, as well as hastags like “lesbian”, “boyinadress”, “menindresses”, and the misspelled “nuedisnormal”, which features photos of naked or nearly-naked women, often in sexualized poses.
Males in Female Sports
Feb. 19 - NCAA responds as critics call out potential loopholes in its new trans-athlete policy
The NCAA released a new gender eligibility policy on Feb. 7th, purporting to ban trans-identifying males (TIM’s) from women’s sports, in order to comply with President Donald Trump's recent "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order.
The new policy states that athletes assigned male at birth cannot play on female teams.
Women's rights activists have criticized the policy for apparent loopholes that some argue would continue to allow biological males to compete in women's sports. Some have said this policy still allows TIMs to qualify for women’s teams by changing the gender sex on their birth certificate.
However, the NCAA has said that trans athletes will not be allowed to compete in the women's category based on changed birth certificates: "The policy is clear that there are no waivers available, and athletes assigned male at birth may not compete on a women’s team with amended birth certificates or other forms of ID," the spokesperson said.
Other concerns have been raised by Women’s Declaration International USA (WDI-USA) in their Statement Opposing the NCAA’s “Participation Policy for Transgender Student-Athletes”, including that the NCAA policy would allow a male athlete who was thought to be female at birth to compete in women’s sports (like we saw very clearly in last year’s Olymics!). From WDI-USA:
There is much to question about the activities of the new presidential administration. However, WDI USA generally supports the Executive Order because of its use of accurate language and its clear disavowal of “gender identity.”1 The new NCAA policy is not even close to being in alignment with it.
Feb. 18 - Shocking secret of trans government aide who slammed Trump for female sports ban
Nathanielle Morin is a trans-identifying male advisor to the Canadian Minister for Women and Gender Equality (known as Status of Women from 1976 to 2018), who slammed President Trump's executive order banning transgender athletes from competing in women's divisions, saying, “Exclusion and discrimination should not be the answer to transwomen in sport… This is a sensitive topic, and some people have concerns that should be heard. However, there are better ways to assess those in a healthy way that does not promote hate.”
And… wait for it… he is a male runner who has dominated female categories.
In February 2024, Morin won a women’s 5km race by almost six minutes in Ottawa, Ontario. He completed the race five minutes and 44 seconds ahead of the second place runner in the women's 30-39 division, while the third place runner was only 30 seconds behind the second place, which highlights how close the division otherwise was.
Morin's time granted
herhim the prestigious title of 'fastest female' across all age divisions - beating out the talented young girl who won the 10-12 age division.
Morin tries to make the case again excluding TIMs like himself by disparaging “polic(ing) all bodies” — “Any girl or woman can be accused of being transgender. At what point is a girl ''too good'', ''too masculine'' or ''too tall'' or ''too fast'' or ''too strong'' to be accused of being trans?"
No, Mr. Morin, girls and woman can be good, masculine, tall, fast and strong without being trans. The issue is simply that you are not a girl or woman.
Feb. 18 - Vermont School Officials Say Transgender Athletes Will Compete
Vermont officials are pushing back against President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender students from competing in girls' sports:
In a statement released on Feb. 14th, the Vermont Human Rights Commission wrote that treating students differently because of their gender identity is illegal in Vermont, and is “prepared to take all action that Vermont law authorizes to protect students and to enforce Vermont’s anti-discrimination statutes."
The Vermont Agency of Education has stated that they will uphold the protections for LGBTQ students enshrined in state law.
The Vermont Principals' Association, which governs school sports, said it has no plans to change its guidelines allowing student athletes to play on teams that “align with their gender identity."
This stance means that under Trump’s Feb. 5th “Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports” executive order, Vermont schools and sports will be ineligible to receive federal funding.
Feb. 18 - Trans Identifying Male Leap-frogs Competitors at Girls’ Pole Vaulting Meet in Maine
Maine is also continuing to allow boys to compete in girls’ sports, in defiance of Trump’s Executive Order.
An immediate beneficiary is this mediocre male pole vaulting athlete, who currently goes by Katie Spencer. At a Feb. 17th meet, Katie jumped 11 feet, only 1” short of the national girl’s record set last year. Against boys at the meet, Katie’s jump would have earned him 10th place.
Violence Against Women
Feb. 17 - Missing transgender man woman was tortured for over a month and killed
Here we finally have an example of a trans-identifying person being the victim of extreme violence. And guess what… the person was a woman.
New York news site, syracuse.com, has reported that 24-year-old transgender man trans-identifying female, Sam Nordquist, was tortured repeatedly for over a month before he she was killed, according to state police.
From early December 2024 to February 2025, Nordquist was subjected to “repeated acts of violence and torture which ultimately led to his [sic] death,” said Capt. Kelly Swift, head of Troop E’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Nordquist was missing since February, until police found her body in a field, having been moved from the motel where Nordquist had been staying. Five people have been charged with her murder
“In my 20-year law enforcement career, this is one of the most horrific crimes I’ve ever investigated,” Swift said.
Feb. 15 - Inside the dark world of AI abuse where men insult and 'hit' their replica girlfriends
The bot was created by a teenage girl who wanted to be able to talk with a “virtual version” of her best friend who was killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Replika was launched in 2017, designed to pick up on moods, mannerisms, likes and dislikes until it becomes ‘a human replica’.
Men are expressing their gratitude and appreciation for this totally pliant and responsive creation, showering it with affection and courtes… [sorry, I wanted to see if I could type that with a straight face. FAIL.]
Entirely predicatably, many men are are using the human replicas as guinea pigs for their abusive urges, and then bragging about it online or “just asking questions” about further abuses they could inflict.
Experts warning this could 'desensitise' them to the impact their behaviour could have on real people, but do we *really* need experts to tell us this?
'However, engaging in this kind of behaviour can reinforce unhealthy habits and desensitise individuals to harm'.
These unhealthy habits, continuously repeated, could in turn become key components of one's personality and 'lower the psychological barrier to treating real people in the same way - it's a potential gateway to real-world abuse'.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls, Its Causes and Consequences, has responded to “the false and unfounded accusations and personal attacks” that have been launched in retaliation to her Report on Prostitution and Violence Against Women, presented before the 56th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, 2024.
Last week she met with resistance from European politicians over her opposition to the idea of prostitution and pornography being considered normal work.
Alsalem says her Report presented new evidence regarding the relationship between violence against women and girls and prostitution. Using human rights law, the Report described how prostitution is a system of abuse, exploitation, and violence against women and girls, and that public discourse is dominated by the one-sided narrative imposed by powerful lobbies and interest groups that benefit from the exploitation and abuse of women.
News Impacting Society and Children
Feb. 20 - Trump’s executive order aims to lower the cost of IVF
Trump proposed on the campaign trail that the government or insurance companies would cover all IVF costs. On Tuesday, he signed the Executive Order - Expanding Access to In Vitro Fertilization treatments and reducing its costs.
The order does not create any immediate expansion or protection for IVF, so it appears to be only a first-step, and has been criticized as “overly vague” and “toothless”.
Feb. 19 - New 'sex-based definitions' from the federal government set strict two-gender policy
Making good on Trump’s tasking of the Department of Health and Human Services with delivering guidance on the federal recoginition of only two sexes, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday new guidelines regarding "sex-based definitions," .
“This administration is bringing back common sense and restoring biological truth to the federal government,” said Kennedy, defining terms such as male, female, and sex - the “immutable biological classification as either male or female".
Feb. 19 - US woman sues after carrying wrong baby in IVF error
Krystena Murray, from the U.S. state of Georgia, is has launched legal proceedings against the IVF clinic who mixed-up embryos and impregnated her with someone else’s baby.
Murray unknowingly carried and delivered the baby boy, and was shocked (let’s hope this takes the award for Understatement of 2025) when he was born a different ethnicity from her and her chosen sperm donor. She took the baby home and cared for him for several months. She loved the infant as her own and wanted to raise him, but she had reported the error to the clinic, and so the biological parents were notified and subsequently granted custody.
Murray says she will never fully recover.
Feb. 14 - Shocking Number of Gender Surgeries in British Columbia
A report from Gender Dissent reveals information obtained from the British Columbia (Canada) Ministry of Health through a freedom of information (FOI) request about gender surgeries in the province.
Lowlights include:
Over 3,100 “upper gender affirming surgeries” were performed in BC between 2018 and 2024 (not including those forecasted for 2023-2024).
Over 450 “lower gender affirming surgeries” were performed in BC between 2019 and 2024.
Access to procedures was streamlined, following the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)’s 2022 standards of care (Version 8), by:
only requiring only one surgical assessment for all gender-affirming surgeries,
removing a ‘congruent living’ requirement, and
reducing the recommended length of time for hormone therapy for adults prior to genital surgery to six months.
Beyond the West
Feb. 16 - Taliban in crisis as leadership splits over women’s rights
The Taliban government of Afghanistan is facing revolt over the dissolution of women’s rights — what started as internal dissent, led to an arrest warrant being issued for the deputy foreign minister, and now has become public as figures in the Afghanistan government criticise supreme leader’s stance on girls’ education.
This could lead to a full-blown conflict in Afghanistan as citizens wrestle with the treatment of what the rest of the world knows (when they remember) as the forgotten women of Afghanistan.
Feb. 18 - Lawyers in Iran petition against death sentences of two Kurdish, one Turk ‘political prisoners’
A petition has been signed by 229 Iranian lawyers against the impending death sentences against three women “political prisoners”, and urging fair retrials for Pakhshan Azizi and Wrisha (Varisheh) Moradi, both Kurdish, and Sharifeh Mohammadi, a Turk.
Iran ranks second globally for known executions, and human rights organizations have repeatedly highlighted the use of the death penalty as a tool to suppress minority groups, including Kurds and Baluchis, who were active in the 2022 Jin Jiyan Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom, Protests).
Entertainment News
Filming for four 30-minute episodes of the beloved sitcom Malcolm in the Middle is set to begin in April. The story will follow Malcolm (Muniz) and his daughter as they attend Hal and Lois’ 40th wedding anniversary party.
In the modern reboot, Lois and Hal’s youngest child will be a 16-year-old non-binary teenager. Prediction: Absolutely no hilarity will ensue from this.
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One more thing... Does this let ANY embattled doctor just magically wipe her/his disciplinary record clean, by just "changing genders" and then "changing back" in a couple weeks or months?
So how exactly do they justify wiping out "trans" doctors' disciplinary histories, but keeping their educational credentials and specialty certifications?
If their disciplinary records get reset to a blank slate, then obviously their medical education and training should, too. They did all that under the "old identity" too; it's only fair.