March 14 - 27, 2026: Scotland Police and the Olympics' return to reality
Plus: Billboard Chris ready to take on Yaniv at Human Rights Tribunal
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Mar. 20 - Yaniv returning to the Human Rights Tribunal to file a new complaint, Billboard Chris says
Prominent Canadian activist Billboard Chris Elston says Jessica Yaniv has taken a complaint against him to the BC Human Rights Tribunal for improper pronoun usage and "denying the existence of transgender identities."
Jessica Yaniv Simpson has filed a complaint against me with the BC Human Rights Tribunal. He says I violated his human rights by calling him a man, and by denying the existence of transgender identities. This violent man previously threatened to shoot and kill me, and pleaded guilty to uttering threats. I also had a restraining order against him for a couple of years.
Jessica rose to fame several years ago when he contacted close to 20 female estheticians and demanded they wax his intact male genitalia. Most of these women were of Indian descent, and several worked from home with small children.
The Municipality of Langley sent him a legal letter a few years ago declaring that their first responders would stop showing up at his home to help him out of the bathtub. He was calling them every day after he had his vaginoplasty for emergency help to get out of the tub, and he treated these brave city employees abusively.
Never content to live his life in peace, he is now coming after me once again. Ho hum. Bring it on.
Of note, this is the same Human Rights Tribunal which recently fined Barry Neufeld $750,000 for injury to dignity because Barry, like me, does not believe in gender identity ideology.
The Tribunal has declared that all British Columbians must believe in gender identities. I do not believe in gender identities. I never will. And I welcome this fight with open arms. So my message to you, BC Human Rights Tribunal, is please accept Mr. Jessica Simpson’s complaint. I’d love to kill two birds with one stone and help take down your kangaroo court while I’m at it.
Mar. 18 - Police Scotland ends Nicola Sturgeon's pro trans guidance
Police Scotland has made a U-turn on former first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s pro self-identification policy for trans people, and will now record ‘biological sex’. As well as recording biological sex, officials will note separately if a person identifies as transgender for suspects and victims of all crimes and offences. Under the Scottish National Party government led by Sturgeon from 2014 to 2023, Police Scotland guidance allowed suspects to self-identify their gender.
Following a legal challenge by women’s rights group For Women Scotland in June 2025, which opposed data collection based on “gender”, and the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling that defined “woman” under the Equality Act as biological sex, Police Scotland has updated its policies.
The force said it aims to align with the ruling while balancing legal accuracy with human rights considerations. Police Scotland said in its Sex and Gender Review: “Updating Police Scotland’s 22 relevant systems to meet this new data recording standard is a complex process.” They added: “Although the ability to record sex and gender already exists, technical updates are required to clarify our data fields, introduce the transgender data set and ensure that biological sex and transgender status are clearly distinguished and not used interchangeably.”
#NotOurCrimes
Check this out: This scathing 2024 roundup from the Utah Gay Straight Coalition
Mar. 25 - Transgender Migrant’s Reported 6-Month Plea Deal for Child Rape Sparks Fury
A Colombian national who officials have said entered the United States illegally in 2023 is expected to receive a six-month sentence, time that has already been served, after pleading guilty to raping a 14-year-old boy in a Manhattan bodega bathroom. Nicol Alexandra Contreras-Suarez, 31, a transgender woman, pleaded guilty to second-degree rape in New York Supreme Court for sexually assaulting a teenager in East Harlem in 2025, according to The New York Post.
Contreras-Suarez previously faced charges for first-degree rape of a child less than 17 and stalking, according to a July 2025 news release from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prosecutors said the new plea deal, which spares the victim testifying, was agreed in consultation with the victim’s family, the Post reported. “We expect the defendant to remain detained and be deported following sentencing, due to the felony conviction,” a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told the newspaper.
Can we hopefully interpret this as meaning that they are saying time served because want this guy deported?
Mar. 16 - Medical student who secretly filmed 150 Melbourne women in toilets spared conviction
A major controversy has started in Australia after a Vietnamese medical student was spared conviction after he secretly filmed women in toilets. 23-year-old Bao Phuc Cao walked from Melbourne Magistrate Court Friday scot free as he told the police that he was in the female toilets because he was “unsure of his gender”. Cao is a repeat offender and escaped conviction twice over the same string of offences last year. His lawyers again asked for no conviction as the offense was included in conduct for which he had previously been sentenced.
Mar. 12 - Ex-Pierce County youth board member charged with child rape
A 25-year-old who formerly served on a youth-focused board that provides insight to Pierce County about homelessness and housing instability has been arrested and accused of raping an infant girl. The defendant is transgender and uses the name Isabelle, according to court documents and her his public Facebook account. Prosecutors charged her him Monday under the name William Kelso Flournoy IV, accusing her him of first-degree rape of a child and sexual exploitation of a minor. A plea of not guilty was entered on Flournoy’s behalf at an arraignment hearing Monday in Superior Court, according to court records. Court Commissioner Barbara McInvaille set bail at $1 million.
The victim is a child someone had asked the defendant to look after when she he and her his girlfriend moved in with them in a motel in 2023. Court documents indicate Tacoma Police Department detectives planned to contact the REACH Center, the organization that coordinates the Youth Action Board and hosts its meetings, out of concern that there could be other victims.
Flournoy also was accused in July of possessing and dealing in depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The defendant was arraigned in that case Monday, and court records show a plea of not guilty was entered on her his behalf. A police report included in charging documents for the child pornography case said Flournoy’s Facebook account listed her his work position as “Youth Action Board at The REACH Center” from September 2022 to present. The police report was authored in June 2023. The report said Flournoy was in a group photo on the REACH Center’s Facebook page that appeared to be taken in front of the center’s address.
(Strikethrough business is hopping these days.)
Protecting Women’s Spaces
Mar. 26 - Exclusive | California prisons face DOJ investigation over trans inmate rape attacks
The Trump administration is launching an investigation into trans women in women’s prisons in California and Maine — as a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom has led to horrific allegations of rape and harassment in the Golden State, the California Post has learned. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to fire off letters to Newsom and fellow Dem leader, Gov. Janet Mills, about the impending probe, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department, confirmed Thursday.
The focus of the investigation will be on the California Institution for Women in San Bernardino County, the Central California Women’s Facility in Madera County, and the Maine Correctional Center in Windham — which have all been at the center of shocking trans rape allegations. Officials say the probe will examine whether the two states have violated the constitutional rights of female inmates by placing them alongside male prisoners.
Mar. 17 - Hampstead ponds trans access legal appeal allowed
Sex Matters has won a Court of Appeal bid to continue a legal challenge over rules allowing trans people to use the single-sex facilities at Hampstead Heath’s swimming ponds.The charity had sought to challenge the corporation’s policy of allowing trans people to use the ponds for the gender with which they identify, on the basis that it amounts to sex discrimination.
The organization appealled against Mrs Justice Lieven’s January ruling January that it could not proceed with legal action against the City of London Corporation. In an order on Monday, Appeal Judge Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing said the legal challenge could go ahead and would return to the High Court. The legal bid followed the Supreme Court ruling last year that under equality law the word “sex” means someone’s biological sex, not the gender with which they identify.Sex Matters CEO Maya Forstater said the charity was “delighted” by Lady Justice Laing’s decision.
Forstater added:
“Her ruling in the Court of Appeal confirmed that as a specialist charity with objections focused on the sound administration of the law in relation to sex, Sex Matters has standing to take this case. This case will have implications for single-sex provision all over the country.. The government’s failure to publish updated regulatory guidance following last year’s Supreme Court judgment has given businesses and service providers an excuse to continue flouting the law on single-sex provision as clarified by the country’s most senior judges. A ruling in our favour by the High Court would demonstrate that failing to comply with the law has consequences.”
Mar. 16 - Idaho House passes criminal transgender bathroom ban in business, government buildings
Under Idaho Legislature’s House Bill 752, repeat offenders could face felony conviction, with up to five years in prison for “willfully” entering public and government bathrooms and changing rooms designated for another sex. The bill would effectively block transgender people from using their preferred public bathrooms in Idaho, expanding on the state’s transgender bathroom ban in public schools. House Bill 752 would create criminal misdemeanor and felony charges for people who “knowingly and willfully” enter a bathroom or changing room designated for the opposite sex, with some exceptions. The bill would apply in government-owned buildings and places of public accommodations, like private businesses. A first offense would carry a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison. A second offense within five years would be a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.
Bill sponsor Rep. Cornel Rasor, a Republican from Sagle, told House lawmakers that the bill is about protecting women and girls: “It prevents discomfort and voyeurism escalation and assaults, while preserving single-user options and narrow exceptions so no one is denied access for emergency aid,” Rasor said.
Rep. Chris Mathias, a Boise Democrat, said the bill could endanger transgender people: “The truth of the matter is — and I know a lot of people don’t want to say it, but — forcing people who don’t look like the sex that they were born with, or transgender folks, forcing them to use other people’s bathrooms is going to put a lot of people in danger,” Mathias said.
In committee last week, the bill was opposed by some law enforcement groups and several transgender Idahoans. The Idaho Fraternal Order of Police opposed the bill, telling lawmakers in written testimony that the bill “presents significant practical enforcement challenges for law enforcement officers in the field.. Officers responding to a complaint would be placed in the difficult position of determining an individual’s biological sex in order to enforce the statute,” Idaho Fraternal Order of Police President Bryan Lovell wrote. “In many circumstances, there is no clear or reasonable way for officers to make that determination without engaging in questioning or investigative actions that could be viewed as invasive and inappropriate.”
The Idaho Sheriffs’ Association requested that lawmakers amend the bill to require that people who could be prosecuted under the bill be first offered a chance to leave the bathroom immediately when asked. Rasor said he has addressed issues that law enforcement brought. But his bill has not been amended since law enforcement’s opposition last week. The bill outlines several exceptions, including to give medical assistance, law enforcement assistance, and if a single-user facility “is the only facility reasonably available at the time of the person’s use.”
The bill now heads to the Senate for consideration. To become law, Idaho bills must pass the House and Senate, and avoid the governor’s veto. A bathroom ban bill enforceable through lawsuits passed the House a month ago. But that bill, House Bill 607, has not received a committee hearing in the Senate.
Save Women’s Sports
Mar. 26 - Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy
Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women’s events at the Olympics after the International Olympic Committee agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. “Eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to” what the IOC terms “biological women” or athletes assigned female at birth. The IOC said that determination would be made on the basis of a one-time SRY gene screening.
Mar. 21 - Democrats block SAVE America Act amendment to bar transgender athletes in women’s sports
Senate Democrats voted Saturday to defeat a Republican-sponsored amendment to the SAVE America Act that would prohibit transgender athletes from participating in girls’ or women’s sports, an issue that Republicans plan to play up in this year’s midterm elections. The Senate voted 49-41 along party lines to block the amendment sponsored by Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), the Protection for Women and Girls in Sports Act. It needed 60 votes to pass.
The legislation would prohibit federally funded education programs from sponsoring or facilitating athletic programs that allow transgender women or girls to participate in sports according to their gender identity. Tuberville said it marked the fourth time that Senate Democrats have defeated such an effort. “This is the fourth time that I’ve had this bill on the floor,” Tuberville remarked. “I’ll continue to try until I’m gone.
Mar. 20 - Transgender woman sues USGA, LPGA after being denied entry into U.S. Women's Open qualifier
A transgender woman seeking to compete in women’s USGA events filed a lawsuit claiming that a policy change adopted in 2024 unlawfully barred her him from participating in a U.S. Women’s Open qualifier last year. The USGA and LPGA changed gender policies for events in 2025 and beyond, declaring that players must be assigned female at birth or have transitioned to female before going through male puberty to be eligible to compete.
Mar. 18 - Transgender youth in sports will be on Colorado's statewide ballot in November after certification
Colorado voters will decide whether transgender children can play sports with the gender that matches their gender identity or whether they’ll be forced to play with other children of the same gender they were assigned at birth. It comes after a controversial ballot measure gained enough signatures and was certified by the Colorado Secretary of State on Monday.
The ballot measure, Initiative 109, was put forth by a group called Protect Kids Colorado. If approved by a majority of voters, it would require students to play on sports teams based on the sex they were assigned at birth. That would mean, for example, barring transgender boys from playing on boys’ teams and requiring children assigned female at birth to compete with other students assigned female at birth.
“Because of the physical differences between males and females, having separate athletic teams based on the biological sex of the athlete reduces the chance of injury to female athletes, promotes equality between the sexes, provides opportunities for female athletes to compete against their female peers rather than against male athletes, and allows female athletes to compete on a fair playing field for athletic accomplishments, including educational scholarships,” the measure reads, in part.
Mar. 15 - Arizona Senator Criticized for Dismissing Concerns Over Trans Athletes in Women's Sports
Arizona state Senator Catherine Miranda, a Democrat, faced criticism after an exchange with former NCAA volleyball player and “save women’s sports” activist Kaylie Ray. During a committee hearing, Miranda questioned Ray’s competitiveness, suggesting she would have been willing to compete against men in sports. Miranda’s comments were seen as dismissive of concerns over the impact of transgender athletes in women’s sports.
The debate over transgender athletes competing in women’s sports has become a contentious political issue, with concerns raised about fairness and the integrity of women’s athletics. Miranda’s comments were viewed as undermining these concerns and implying that female athletes who oppose allowing trans women to compete against cisgender women lack competitiveness.
The King’s Trust was due to run a ‘Get started with Boxing and Fitness for Women’ course for girls aged 16 to 25 that was open to ‘female identifying/presenting’ people. A concerned parent contacted King Charles‘ charity to raise safeguarding concerns, including that this could have allowed a 25-year-old biological male to punch teenage girls. But instead of limiting the course to biological women only, as the parent had requested, the King’s Trust instead decided to ‘withdraw it as an offer to young people’.
The boxing course was originally launched by King’s Trust ambassador and Olympic gold medallist Nicola Adams, who has spoken in favour of protecting women’s sports for biological females. The webpage for the free course, which has since been taken down, said it was due to take place between February 23 and 27 in Bristol. It was open to young women and girls not in work, education or training and would have helped them gain a qualification and ‘discover your strengths, take on challenges and grow your confidence’.
After seeing the flyer, a concerned parent contacted the charity to say that it was a ‘wonderful idea’, but they were ‘appalled’ by the eligibility criteria, and demanded the course be made single sex.
The parent wrote: ‘Not only is it unfair on women and girls who want to take part and might miss out on participation because a man takes their place, it is also unsafe to allow biological males to box with/against girls and women and share their spaces including changing rooms and toilets.’
Days later, a King’s Trust employee responded with an email seen by the Mail that said: ‘In recognition of the decision of the Supreme Court, and the specific nature of the activity that this programme offers, we have taken the decision to withdraw it as an offer to young people.’
‘If it says it’s “for women”, that means it’s for women only. We urge the King’s Trust to reinstate this course so that young women get the opportunity to boost their self-confidence, physical and mental health.’
Women’s Health
Mar. 24 - Buckle Up, Women. Cars Still Aren’t Built for You.
In the United States, women are more likely to be injured and die in a car crash than men. Why? After her own crash, the filmmaker Eve Van Dyke dug through the half-century history of auto safety to find out, and uncovered a disturbing reality: Cars were never designed to protect women’s bodies.
Human rights activist Steph Richards, 73, has been handed the role of parliamentary engagement officer for Endometriosis South Coast, it is reported. Richards previously stepped down as the charity’s CEO in 2024 following backlash from women’s rights campaigners. In his new position he will represent the charity to members of parliament (MPs), while continuing to act as chief executive for trans campaign group TransLucent, which she he founded.
Amanda Craig, author of novels such as The Lie of the Land and The Golden Rule, compared it to a white person speaking on behalf of black people. Ms Craig, who has previously suffered from acute endometriosis, told The Times the appointment was ‘absolutely ridiculous’. ‘It’s fundamentally discordant and wrong. Even if it comes from a good place and wanting to help women.’
Sexual Violence
Mar. 14 - Illegal immigrant student accused of groping girls in Fairfax High School
An adult Fairfax High School student has been charged with nine counts of assault and battery amid accusations that he was groping girls in the halls during school. Israel Flores Ortiz is almost 19 years old, and he’s in the 11th grade at Fairfax High School. About a dozen girls have come forward to report that Ortiz put his hands in between their legs, grabbed their private parts in the front, and moved his hands to their butts while in the school’s hallways.
“There’s a group of about 12 individuals that have reported this assault,” one mother told 7News. “It was all perpetrated by a single individual who is a stranger to the girls. He just sneakily walked up behind them and put his hand in between their legs. It was not just a butt smack or a butt grab. It was a groping of a private area. It had been occurring for several months.”
Mar. 15 - Iran’s security agents gang rape two nurses detained for aiding protesters | Iran International
Two nurses working in a Tehran hospital who treated wounded protesters during the nationwide uprising in January were tortured and repeatedly gang raped by security agents while in custody, people familiar with the matter told Iran International.
The nurses were among medical staff at Tehran’s Rajaei Cardiovascular, Medical and Research Center who treated people injured during the massive protests that erupted in late December and spread into early January, drawing millions into the streets and prompting a crackdown that led to mass arrests and at least 36,500 deaths.
Society and Children
Mar. 26 - Sarah Mullally enthroned as first female archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally has been formally installed as archbishop of Canterbury, marking the start of her public ministry as the first woman to lead the Church of England. The former nurse on Wednesday took her seat on the 13th-century Chair of St Augustine at Canterbury Cathedral before 2,000 guests that included heir to the British throne Prince William and his wife Catherine, as well as Prime Minister Keir Starmer and religious leaders.She will serve as the spiritual head of the global Anglican Communion, which has about 85 million members worldwide. The Church of England ordained its first female priests in 1994 and its first female bishop in 2015.
Mar. 24 - Girlguiding gives trans girls and women until September to leave UK organisation
Transgender girls and women who are part of Girlguiding groups in the UK have been given until September to leave the organisation, under new rules introduced after the supreme court ruling on gender last year. The rule applies to young members and to volunteer roles that are open to women only. Trans boys and trans men, and non-binary people assigned female at birth, are not affected.
Girlguiding said the date had been chosen “to give as much notice as possible” and so that all current members could take part in summer holiday activities. In a statement, the Girlguiding chair, Denise Wilson, the chief guide, Tracy Foster, and the chief executive, Felicity Oswald, said the organisation’s values and beliefs had not changed, but they “must operate lawfully” and that “living by our values cannot change our legal responsibilities”.
Mar. 23 - Portuguese Parliament Advances Sweeping Anti-Trans Bills, Reality-based and Child Safeguarding Bills
On Friday, Portugal's parliament voted to advance three bills that would dismantle some of Europe's most progressive gender identity protections, in a joint effort between the country's center-right governing coalition and its surging far-right opposition. Colelctively, the bills would:
ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth,
require adults to obtain approval from a medical team before changing their name or gender marker on civil documents, and
prohibit the discussion of "gender ideology" in schools for anyone under 18—a provision that mirrors the "don't say gay" laws sweeping American red states.
If enacted, the legislation would revert the country to a 2011-era framework that treated being transgender as a disorder requiring intensive clinical diagnosis steps rather than an identity people could freely embrace. The bills still face several procedural steps before becoming law, but with a commanding parliamentary majority behind them, they appear well on their way.
Hey Portugal, 2011’s calling, it wants reality back.
Mar. 19 - Feeling drained? Eight types of hidden work cause women to feel overwhelmed
In today’s fast-paced world, many women find themselves grappling with an invisible yet overwhelming burden known as the mental load. This is the often unrecognised mental work required to keep a household and family life functioning – from organising childcare and planning healthy meals to researching fun activities.
Leah Ruppanner, a professor of sociology at the University of Melbourne in Australia, and author of the book Drained, explains that there’s not one form of mental load, however, but eight different types. From “magic making” to “meta-care”, she says many of these are “boundaryless” and enduring. While men are taking on more at home, women are still overwhelmingly burdened by this hidden work, which can often result in burnout.
The 8 areas identified: Life organization; Emotional support; Relationship hygiene; Magic-making; Dream-building; Individual upkeep; Safety; Meta-care
Says Ruppanner: “For starters, we need to recognise that it's very valuable to feel your feelings, but you're not responsible for everyone else's feelings or for creating a perfect family. You are not responsible for creating a perfect world… So, we have basically socialised women to feel like they should be at the bottom of the list and then any investment in themselves once they become mothers is at the expense of their children. What a ridiculous lie we've been told.”
Mar. 11 - U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling
The unanimous decision came from a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, overturning a prior judge's ruling in 2024 that the statute violated anti-discrimination protections under federal law as well as the Constitution. The 4th Circuit panel stated that since the law applies to specific procedures, not specific individuals, it does not illegally discriminate against transgender people.
The specific types of surgeries that the West Virginia law seeks to remove from Medicaid coverage include altering physical characteristics in order to align with one's gender identity, including chest reconstruction, genital alteration, and facial procedures. This is the first time that such restrictions have been enforced on Medicaid coverage for any transgender individuals, not just minors.
Op-Eds of Interest
Bridget Phetasy: A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down
Hannah Clark: Those who view voyeuristic nightlife videos are the issue
Australians for Science and Freedom: Biological truth must prevail in schools