Nov 29 - Dec 5, 2024: Buckle up, the grown ups are turning this clown car around

And, Tennessee argues against lies, damn lies, at U.S. Supreme Court in Skrmetti case

Calls to Action

‘Tis the season for giving. If you have the means to do so, please consider supporting efforts that are fighting against the erasure and domination of women. Here are a few:

• Give to WDI USA between December 1-7 and your gift will be matched TWICE!

• Support Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CaWsbar)

• Help fund Let Women Speak Brazil - A group of concerned women from Brazil want to bring Let Women Speak to Brazil to highlight the assault on women's rights. One of their friends is threatened with 8 years in prison for calling A MAN A MAN.

And,

• Sign the Democratic Women’s Declaration - Add your name to stand firm on protecting sex-based rights, including maternal services, single-sex spaces, and freedom of expression.

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Top News

4 Dec. 2024 - United States v. Skrmetti heard at U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Wednesday over whether Tennessee can ban some medical treatments for youth wishing to change their sex. A decision is not expected until June, but comments from the Court’s conservative majority justices indicated they will be inclined to uphold the law. The plaintiffs said the law violated the Constitution by denying equal protection to transgender people, but Tennessee’s solicitor general, J. Matthew Rice, argued that the law was passed for medical purposes. Comments from the justices appeared to agree that the law did not constitute sex discrimination, including:

• Justice Amy Coney Barrett: “The burdens of the law fall equally on boys and girls, because neither can transition.”

• Justice Kavanaugh: “England’s pulling back and Sweden’s pulling back… It strikes me as a pretty heavy yellow light if not red light for this court to come in, the nine of us, and constitutionalize the whole area when the rest of the world, or at least the countries that have been at the forefront of this, are pumping the brakes.”

Further reading and listening:

The Daily Signal highlighted six false claims made by the plaintiffs: 1) ‘Puberty blockers’ are reversible, 2) Suicidality, 3) Puberty as harmful, 4) ‘The same’ medical condition, 5) ‘Gender conformity’, 6) Comparison to Loving precedent

Supreme Court Case Exposes Transgender Medical Scandal

Plaintiff lawyer, Chase Strangio, attempts to liken Dobbs and Skrmetti

Justice Alito’s questioning on gender identity as an immutable characteristic

Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters by Threats and Cancellation

30 Nov. 2024 - Women in South Asia face host of violent backlashes for speaking out

Around the world, women are leaders in protesting violence against and subjugation of women. In South Asia, the backlash they face for speaking out is intense and takes many forms, including: physical intimidation, threats of sexual violence, familial violence, character assassination, forced disappearance and torture, surveillance, and affronts to their sense of modesty.

Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces

1 Dec. 2024 - Martina Navratilova condemns New York Times for calling female athletes ‘non-transgender women’

In a story about women’s college volleyball teams forfeiting games against San Jose State University, the New York Times felt clarity about testosterone levels would best be achieved by making ‘transwomen’ the default by which to reference ‘other’ women — thus the bananas insulting term “non-transgender women” was puked onto the page.

Said Navratilova: “We are women, not NOT TRANSGENDER WOMEN. Just WOMEN will do in the future.”

Srsly, get bent, NYT.

3 Dec. 2024 - Trans-identifying male scientist makes BBC’s 100 Women list

As though the world might only actually have 99 interesting women, the BBC included transgender male Colombian scientist, Brigitte Baptiste, in its annual list of 100 inspiring women, citing his super-neat way of exploring “the common patterns between biodiversity and gender identity.”

BBC, please join the NYT, above.

3 Dec. 2024 - Taliban bans women from training as midwives

The Taliban has now banned women from training to provide women’s healthcare. And since women also cannot receive health care from men under the Taliban’s rules, it seems this new ban will ensure women cannot access health care, period.

Erasing RECLAIMING Women and Women’s Safe Spaces

1 Dec. 2024 - Isla’s mother knows what a woman is

As Julie Bindel says, everyone knows what a woman is and anyone who says they don’t is lying. But first and foremost, mothers know. Now the mother of trans-identifying male rapist, “Isla Bryson”, has publically stated she knows her son was born, is now, and always will be, MALE. Janet Bryson said, “I believe you have to be born female to be female. No wigs, dresses or amount of make-up makes you female. You can say you're a woman, but to be female, that is down to biology and how you are born.” Ms. Bryson made these comments as she works with For Women Scotland in arguing to the Supreme Court that sex is immutable and cannot be changed by gender recognition certificates.

3 Dec. 2024 - Trans people to be banned from women’s changing rooms, under proposed NHS guidelines

UK nurses who have been fighting for their right to women-only change rooms have drafted guidelines for the NHS to say female single-sex spaces are private and should not be inclusive of biological males.

5 Dec. 2024 - Men arrested for protests in Capitol women’s washrooms

Rep. Nancy Mace has been going full-steam ahead on her quest to make sure women keep their rights. This week, she ensured men who launched a counter-protest inside Capitol washrooms were arrested. She also met with Women’s Declaration International (WDI) leaders Elizabeth Chesak and Kara Dansky, and brought national awareness to the vile women-hate documented at terfisaslur.com.

Males in Female Sports

3 Dec. 2024 - Trans-Identified Male Suing U.S.A. Powerlifting in Bid to Compete Against Women

Trans-identified male, Jaycee Cooper, began competing in women’s powerlifting in 2018, but was subsequently told in 2019 that U.S.A. Powerlifting (USAPL) had clarified their position about athletes claiming transgender status, and that Jaycee could not take part in women’s competitions. USAPL stated, “Identifying as one sex does not defy the factual physical differences between sexes that exist regardless of sex reassignment or hormone suppression… The assertion of gender choice, although legal to change in parts of the world, does not erase the dimorphic differences of sex, formalized at birth and continually developing throughout the lifespan, that have direct implications to performance advantages.” Jaycee’s oral argument was heard on December 3rd.

Getting Males OUT OF Female Sports

3 Dec. 2024 - Spain’s socialist party drops Q+ from LGBTQ+ and bans trans women from female sports

3 years after the the Spanish government passed the ‘Trans Law’, which allowed people over 14 to “change their sex”, it is reversing course with respect to sports, such that people of ‘masculine sex’ (sic) will not be allowed to participate in women’s sports.

4 Dec. 2024 - Petition to International Olympics Committee to get males out of female events

In the wake of the Olympics eligibility scandal featuring Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, a petition with more than 42,000 signatures has been hand-delivered to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Switzerland, calling on the IOC to “stop forcing women to compete against men” at future games.

4 Dec. 2024 - LPGA Updates Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility

The LPGA has concluded that “the effects of male puberty confer competitive advantages in golf performance compared to players who have not undergone male puberty”, and therefore has updated its Gender Policy for Competition Eligibility. Taking effect with the start of the 2025 season, only athletes who are assigned female at birth are eligible to compete in women’s elite events. Said LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan, “Our policy is reflective of an extensive, science-based and inclusive approach… [and] represents our continued commitment to ensuring that all feel welcome within our organization, while preserving the fairness and competitive equity of our elite competitions.”

4 Dec. 2024 - Alberta passes Fairness for Women and Girls Sports Act

The Alberta Legislative Assembly voted 47 to 33 in favour of keeping males out of female sports. Premier Danielle Smith has said the government will work with leagues to also set up coed or gender-neutral divisions for sports.

Here is April Hutchinson, Canadian powerlifter banned from her sport for calling a man a man, joyfully witnessing the passing of the legislation:

Pornography, Sexual Harassment & Sexual Assault

1 Dec. 2024 - Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law

Under Belgium’s new law, “sex workers” will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, maternity leave and sick days. This BBC article extolls the new policies as treating prostitution “like any other job”. Critics say the trade causes trafficking, exploitation and abuse - which this law will not prevent.

1 Dec. 2024 - German Christmas tradition of smacking women’s bottoms cancelled

We are inundated with new and bizarre forms of woman-hate these days - from extreme violence pornography to the attempted erasure of being-woman entirely. Here is a reminder that woman-hate is a very old passtime, with boundless bizarre outlets of expression. In a documentary about this purposefully-secretive small town tradition, victims of the “Klaasohm monster” (who wears woollen costumes and rampages through the town to hunt women) reported being beaten so badly they were “bruised for days”, almost abducted, scorned for fighting back, and left feeling intense shame and anger.

News Impacting Society and Children

30 Nov. 2024 - NHS Trust makes U-turn on topic of male “chestfeeders”

Earlier this year, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust insisted that 'trans women…may also be able to induce lactation to some extent' and referenced a study that found “milk produced from 'induced lactation' had 'no observable side effects' in babies”. But now, admidst the backlash those statements generate, it appears the Trust no longer stands by the claims.

30 Nov. 2024 - Northwestern Ontario community fined for refusing to celebrate Pride Month

The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Canada, has ordered the small town of Emo (population 1300) to pay $10,000 to Borderland Pride for discriminating against the organization when the town council voted 3-2 against adopting Borderland Pride’s proposed proclamation that the town would declare June as Pride Month and fly or display an LGBTQ2S+ flag.

Mayor Harold McQuaker was personally fined $5,000 and ordered to undergo “human rights training” for his comments that, “There’s no flag being flown for the other side of the coin…there’s no flags being flown for the straight people,” which was deemed to be demeaning and disparaging and constituted discrimination against the LGBTQ2S+ community.

4 Dec. 2024 - Singapore blocks access to online gender clinic GenderGP due to 'public health risk'

The online gender clinic founded by English physician Helen Webberley in 2015 and registered as an “entity” in Singapore, has been blocked from users in Singapore, as GenderGP is not a licensed healthcare provider in Singapore and poses a “public health risk”.

4 Dec. 2024 - Alberta trio of bills affecting transpeople respecting and protecting women, children and gay people set to become law

Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party in the province of Alberta, Canada, has passed three strong pieces of legislation toward restoring sanity:

• the Education Amendment Act — includes requiring schools to: obtain parental consent before facilitating name or pronoun changes for children under 16; notify parents before facilitating name or pronoun changes of students ages 16 or 17; obtain consent from parents before providing instruction in matters of gender identity, sexual orientation or human sexuality; obtain approval from Alberta Eduction concerning any third-party instructional material;

• the Health Statutes Amendment Act - includes prohibiting doctors from providing “gender-affirming treatment” to children under 16 through puberty blockers or hormone therapy and from performing top and bottom gender surgeries on minors;

• the Fairness and Safety in Sport Act (discussed above in "Getting Males OUT OF Female Sports”- includes banning transgender atheletes males from female sports.

4 Dec. 2024 - Rosie Millard is proud to be a TERF

Former BBC Children in Need chair, Rosie Millard, explains to Times Radio why she resigned after she demanded the charity stop funding LGBT Youth Scotland.

Op-Eds and Articles of Interest

• Public Bathrooms and the Rising Political Class of the “Reasonable Transsexual” by Jennifer Bilek

• Torture and its sequelae among prostituted women in the United States by Melissa Farley & M. Alexis Kennedy