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Top News: Labour Party finally accepts trans women aren’t women
July 15 - Labour Party finally accepts trans women aren’t women
In a surprising concession, Labour’s ruling body has finally agreed that transgender women are not legally women under the Equality Act. In a victory for women’s rights campaigners, the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) has agreed that when a policy in the Labour rule book refers to a “woman”, it must be interpreted on the basis of biological sex. It means that trans women (biological men who identify as women) cannot stand as part of all-woman shortlists, be elected as women’s officer, or attend a women’s branch meeting. Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “flip-flopping” over trans rights, and has said in the past that trans women are women, and that 99.9 per cent of women don’t have a penis. Labour’s NEC had already decided to cancel this year’s women’s conference over concerns trans women would complain if they were barred from the event.
Efforts to Silence Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
July 14 - Why is the NHS spending hundreds of thousands of pounds attacking women?
NHS Fife is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds defending itself against an employment tribunal initiated by Sandie Peggie, a nurse who was disciplined for complaining about a sex mimic man, doctor Beth Upton, being in the women's changing room. Peggie was suspended for complaining about the man in the women’s changing room violating her privacy. Peggie then filed a complaint against her employer, claiming the NHS Fife disciplinary action was illegal. The tribunal began in February and will resume later this week. NHS Fife confirmed that, as of 31 May, a total of £220,465.93 had been spent so far on legal costs relating to the tribunal.
Information for this summary has been taken from two articles. The first is linked in the title published by The Telegraph, the second is linked here courtesy of the BBC.
Erasing Women, LGB and Women’s Safe Spaces
July 16 - I don’t know my own sex, diversity officer tells Sandie Peggie tribunal
The senior diversity officer whose advice NHS managers relied upon to allow a transgender doctor into female changing rooms has claimed to not know her own sex. Isla Bumba, equalities and human rights lead at NHS Fife, said she could “hazard a guess I would be female” but that “no one knows” their chromosomes or hormonal composition unless they had undergone formal testing.
Sex Discrimination, Sexual Assault and Exploitation, Pornography
July 17 - Silence in Sidcup: A Vicious Assault, Two Female Police Officers Hospitalised, and a Wall of Silence
This article is a description of how a serious assault on 2 female police officers was covered up, then uncovered by small clues found in social media posts.
July 16 - Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget
Ohioans will need to submit their photo ID to watch pornography beginning this fall, with explicit content giant PornHub likely to consider pulling out of providing content to the state. To crack down on kids and teens accessing porn, state Reps. Josh Williams, R-Sylvania, and Steve Demetriou, R-Bainbridge Twp., put a provision in the state budget requiring every porn watcher to provide age verification. Verification would be done by submitting a photo of your state ID or by entering your personal information into a third-party system that will then run your details through other online or government databases — it could also use facial recognition technology, capturing photos of users. Companies would be penalized if they don’t comply. “Shut down that website if necessary,” he added.
July 16 - The True Story of Jeffrey Epstein Victims Explained… But No Exposing the Clients? | Epstein Files
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Women’s Health
July 17 - Maryland taps Affordable Care Act fund to help pay for abortion care
Maryland is the first state to tap into a 15-year-old fund connected to the Affordable Care Act, to help solve a more recent problem: helping pay the expenses of patients who travel to Maryland for an abortion. The law was passed this spring and went into effect on July 1. As more and more patients have traveled to Maryland, some of the abortion funds have exhausted their resources. That puts financial pressure on abortion providers in Maryland who want to serve those traveling patients, as well as uninsured or low-income Marylanders seeking the same care.
July 16 - Travel time, costs for abortions increased after state bans, researchers find
Travel costs for abortions and delays in care have increased in the wake of state abortion bans, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. “Our research shows that the Dobbs decision has increased the cost of abortion and slowed people down, but it hasn’t decreased their determination to get that care,” said Diana Greene Foster, a professor at UCSF and the lead author of the study.
For women from states with bans, travel time, overnight stays and travel costs associated with seeking an abortion increased after bans were in place. Last year, 155,000 people traveled out of state for abortion care, according to a June report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization focused on advancing reproductive rights. Currently, 12 states have a total ban on abortion, while four more ban abortion after six weeks’ gestation, before many women know they are pregnant, according to the most recent Guttmacher data.
In the two years since the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, the total number of abortions nationally has slightly increased. The most recent data from the Society for Family Planning’s #WeCount project show that there were 1.14 million abortions in 2024, up from 1.05 million abortions in 2023. For most of the decade prior to the Dobbs ruling, there was a steady decline in abortion rates nationally, with a slight uptick in the years just before the ruling.
July 15 - Abortion policy in Virginia isn’t settled: Why this year’s election is key
Three years after the Supreme Court decision that ended federal abortion rights, voters in 11 states have approved ballot measures to enshrine reproductive rights in their state constitutions. Voters in Virginia could get a chance to weigh in on their own constitutional amendment next year, but the proposed ballot measure will need a green light from the state legislature first. Virginia’s constitutional amendment process calls for both chambers of the legislature to approve a ballot measure twice — with an election separating the two votes — before it can go to voters. Democrats won control of the legislature in 2023 and this year approved the measure with no Republican support. Its fate will be decided when the legislature reconvenes in January: If Democrats don’t win control of the Virginia House of Delegates, the measure almost certainly won’t be on the ballot in 2026. A proposed constitutional amendment that isn’t on the ballot yet has become a key election issue in Virginia this cycle, where every House seat is up for grabs and Democrats are defending a one-seat majority.
July 13 - Italy's abortion taboos challenged by new law in Sicily
More than 80% of gynaecologists in Sicily refuse to perform abortions for moral or religious reasons, according to the latest health ministry data, which dates to 2022, even though the procedure has been a legal right for women in Italy since 1978. To address that situation, in late May Sicily's regional council - run by a centre-right coalition - passed a law in a secret ballot requiring all public hospitals to create dedicated abortion wards and to hire staff willing to provide the service. Under the national rules, abortion is permitted within the first 90 days of a pregnancy, or later if there are risks to the mother's health or foetal abnormalities. Abortions are only available in around half of Sicily's hospitals, health ministry data shows, a figure much lower than in central and northern Italy, where rates are around 70%. Silvia Vaccari, president of the Italian federation of midwives, FNOPO, said health outcomes can be grim in areas where legal abortions are hard to access. "The absence of facilities sometimes leads people to turn to non-professionals, putting them at risk of death, or to continue with pregnancies and give birth to babies who are abandoned in places where they may never be found alive," she said.
Males in Female Sports
July 17 - US Masters Swimming Told to STOP Allowing Males in Women's Category
Video. The Florida Attorney General has notified US Masters Swimming of it’s violation of Florida law by allowing men to swim in the women’s category of Masters Swimming.
July, 14 - Women’s sports ‘must ban trans players or face legal action’
Women’s sports have been told they will face legal action if they fail to ban males from female events. Sharron Davies, the former Olympic swimmer, will say on Tuesday that British sporting groups such as tennis and weightlifting could end up in court if they do not prevent transgender women from competing.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault
July 17 - Supreme Court upholds Texas age verification law for online porn
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites is constitutional and does not violate the First Amendment. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old.
“The power to require age verification is within a State’s authority to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit content,” Thomas wrote in the opinion. The Texas law, passed in 2023, also required sites to include a warning that pornography is “potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.”
July 15 - Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits
Reddit has announced it will begin verifying the ages of users in the UK, responding to a new law coming into effect this month. "[T]he UK Online Safety Act has new requirements to implement additional measures to prevent children from accessing age-inappropriate content," Reddit's chief legal officer Ben Lee aka u/traceroo, posted to r/RedditSafety on Monday. "So, starting July 14 in the UK, we will begin collecting and verifying your age before you can view certain mature content." Initially passed in 2023, the UK Online Safety Act requires all platforms that host certain restricted content to establish an age verification system by July 24. While many users turn to Reddit primarily for family-friendly matters, the platform also has a substantial collection of NSFW subreddits, which would fall under the UK's new legislation.
July 14 - The nation’s first rape crisis center is closing
BRAVE Bay Area, the Alameda County-based rape crisis center and hotline formerly known as Bay Area Women Against Rape, will permanently close at the end of September, citing funding cuts and staffing constraints.
“The recent significant shifts in federal government priorities and funding approaches in 2025 represent the final hardship, not the first,” they wrote, noting that 92% of BRAVE’s operating budget relies on federal funding. The organization was the first rape crisis center in the U.S. It served as a national model for supporting sexual assault survivors, offering a 24-hour bilingual crisis hotline, counseling, training programs, and advocacy services across Alameda County and beyond.
News Impacting Society and Children
Disturbing new information has been released in the case of the prominent French left-wing LGBT activist who ran an international pedophile network. Pierre-Alain Cottineau, 32, was arrested in September of last year after being traced back to the horrific sexual torture of a 4-year-old disabled girl. Read with caution.
A gender-critical lesbian has won a case against Northumbria Police who failed to act impartially by marching at a Newcastle Pride parade. Linzi Smith, 34, claimed that the force's "uniformed participation" in last year's march broke the professional oath sworn by each police officer to act "with impartiality" at work. And in a landmark High Court ruling today, a judge found that there would have been "issues" in policing with impartiality if, for example, an "attempted counter demonstration by gender critical people" broke out.
July 17 - Puerto Rico bans hormone therapy and gender surgery for trans people under 21
Puerto Rico's governor has signed a bill that prohibits hormone therapy or gender-affirming operations for transgender youth, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from activists in the largely conservative U.S. territory. The law approved late Wednesday applies to those younger than 21 and calls for 15 years in prison for any violators, as well as a $50,000 penalty and the revocation of all licenses and permits of medical staff. "Minors, having not yet reached the necessary emotional, cognitive, and physical maturity, are particularly vulnerable to making decisions that can have irreversible consequences," the law reads. "Therefore, it is the State's duty to ensure their comprehensive well-being." The White House is in “the final stage of review for a new rule that would make it a condition of hospitals participating in Medicare or Medicaid that they not provide sex trait modifications to minors,” according to an administration official. The prohibition will apply to hospitals that provide puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender-transition surgeries to minors.
The Department of Health and Human Services will soon begin the rule-making process to prohibit the federal government from directly funding sex-trait modifications for minors through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), National Review has learned.
July 16 - Elon Musk’s AI Grok Offers Sexualized Anime Bot, Accessible Even in Kid Mode
A recent update to Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok launched two new “companions,” or AI characters for users to interact with—including a sexualized blonde anime bot called “Ani” that is accessible to users even when the app is in “kids mode.” The other is “Ani,” a young woman bearing a short off-the-shoulder black dress cinched with a black corset, fishnet tights, and a lacy choker, who responds to prompts in a slow, sultry voice.
The outrage on X has provoked X to redesign the female AI character after it used speech that was driven by porn dialogue and dressed like a hyper sexualized child in lingerie. Even after the changes, the AI character is collecting enormous amounts of outrage and criticism from users.
More than 800 additional children in the Australian state of Victoria are being recommended for testing for sexually transmitted infections after four more childcare centres were added to a list of known workplaces of alleged paedophile Joshua Dale Brown. Earlier this month Victorian police revealed the 26-year-old childcare worker had been charged with more than 70 offences relating to eight alleged victims, aged between five months and two years old.
July 12 - Divorcee forced to pay half of ex-husband’s trans surgery in legal first
A divorcee has been forced by a judge to pay half for her ex-husband’s trans surgery. The mother argued that it was unfair that she had to stump up £80,000 for the procedure when the decision to transition had led to the breakdown of her marriage. But in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the judge said that the surgery was a “need”, not a “whim”, and therefore it was “reasonable” for the cost to be met out of their joint funds. The husband, 58, had said that the argument was “like saying someone who had cancer should not have the surgery” during the hearing at Brighton Family Court.
Beyond the West
July 10 - Two arrested after school girls in India allegedly made to strip for period check
Two school girls in India were humiliated and forced to submit to a strip search to verify if they were menstruating after an accusation of blood stains being found on the toilet at school. The mother of one of the girls filed a complaint with the local police. At least 10 to 15 girls who said they weren't menstruating were then taken to the toilet, forced to strip and then went through an inspection. Senior police official Milind Shinde told the BBC on Thursday that they were investigating the allegations.
A school principal and an attendant have been arrested in India after allegations that female students were stripped naked to check if they were menstruating, after blood stains were found on a toilet wall. The police complaint names four other teachers and two trustees of the all-girls school in Thane in the western state of Maharashtra. BBC has reached out to the school authorities for a response. In their complaint, police have invoked sections of the law that deal with assault and intent to outrage modesty of women. They have also added sections from the stringent Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act.
News & Entertainment
July 16 - Meet Legend of Zelda's stunning new star Bo Bragson as she makes waves in Hollywood
It seems the casting of a woman to play the character of Zelda from The Legend of Zelda in an upcoming live-action movie based on the Nintendo game is generating malcontent among cross-dressing men on X. Evidently, there was hope among them that gender pretender Hunter Schafer would be cast in the role. Instead, an actual female actress was chosen, and some of the fans are vociferously unhappy. It was never a possibility. Just some social media accounts were promoting the idea because they liked it.
Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes has criticised the transgender community for reacting with 'fury' to JK Rowling's views on gender identity - despite insisting she does not fully agree with the author's stance. Miriam, 84, who played Professor Sprout in the blockbuster wizarding franchise, said she believed some of Rowling's opinions on the 'trans issue' were 'too harsh', but expressed dismay at the vehement backlash Rowling has received in recent years.
July 14 - The Shifting Sands of Gender Ideology and Culture | Interviews | Helen Joyce
The Paradox Institute interviewed Helen Joyce recently. You can see the interview here.
Op-Eds of Interest
Wolf: Our Side is Winning in Court. For the Wrong Reasons.
Lisa Davis : Will Democrats finally see sense on trans?
Graham Linehan : We can be heroes
Matt Osborne: Resistance To Gender Ideology Started On The Left, Matt Walsh. Get Over It.
Richard Eldred : Why Are We Funding ‘Breastfeeding Men’?
Parting Shot
This week, as in recent weeks, I’m seeing both inspiring progress and intense resistance in the effort to reclaim and protect spaces for women and girls. While some laws and policies are moving forward to restore accurate legal definitions and safeguard sex-based rights, others are choosing to ignore or undermine them. The pushback is real—and fierce.
It’s heartening to witness change, but I’m under no illusion that this struggle will end anytime soon. Once the medical transitioning of children ends and the mixing of sexes in sports abates, the public will lose interest. I’m not even sure the men will ever be completely removed from women’s sports, as some events are pushing against restoring sex segregated sports.
There is a deep, persistent resentment in the world toward women’s power and autonomy. I haven’t seen this level of backlash since women gained the right to open their own bank accounts. As a child, I only glimpsed how that shift changed marriages and women’s participation in the workforce. It’s only in hindsight that I grasp the full weight of it.
I’ve also watched society resist the enforcement of Title IX—resistance that directly limited my access to sports. Legal rights don’t automatically translate into real-world change. The male entitlement grip over women’s financial autonomy did not release overnight or willingly. The attacks on women’s rights are happening on multiple fronts and from many camps. Women will always have to fight to maintain what we have, and we have to fight harder to reclaim what we lost, which prevents us from moving forward, by design. We can never relax. It doesn’t matter what a woman’s political alignment is or what her key issues are. Most women believe in their right to not be held as property of men. Most women believe they have a right to self-determination. Which is why women need to be aware and unwilling to accept any attack on ours. Compromise is defeat.
Wow. Great compendium. Thank you. It's hard to keep track of all this stuff. (And obviously, if the world weren't upside-down thanks to "trans" bullshit, we wouldn't have to.)
Thank you as always 🙏
“Labour’s NEC had already decided to cancel this year’s women’s conference over concerns trans women would complain if they were barred from the event.”
Ah yes, the testerical heckler’s veto rears its ugly heads again.
And as for Joshua Dale Brown …
*Trigger warning: graphic violence*
I’m in principle entirely against both torture & execution, but in this case would make an exception & also be willing to deliver the punishment myself, if it would deter a single one of my fellow males from acting in a similar fashion.
Ideally, he’d have his genitalia fed into a deli slicer at an excruciate slow rate, with alum applied liberally to elevate the pain & slow his bleeding. And if he survived up to reaching the pubic bone, left to bleed out.