Sept 13- 19, 2024: Georgia hospitals let 2 women die from treatable problems due to abortion bans, French woman challenges rapists lies during trial, UK census data on trans identities skewed
Children usually desist from trans identity after 5 years if not medically transitioned, abortion on ballot in 10 US states in upcoming election
Call to Action
USA - Tell Your Legislators: Listen To Kara -Get Kara Dansky’s Message to Your Local Lawmakers: Democrats Oppose the Redefinition of Sex to Include “Gender Identity.”
Support Women’s Declaration International (WDI) USA
ICONS Petition - This is a general petition used to communicate with governing bodies of sports and legislative bodies about the importance of protecting female athletes and athletics and maintaining sex segregated sports.
Berlin, Germany - Nov 1, 2024, 12:05 4 pm. Protest, Away with Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self ID). We ask you to join our protest on this day at the front of German embassies and consulates. We also offer a draft for a letter to the ambassador on our website.
More info: Self ID Harms Germany
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters by Threats and Cancellation
19 Sept, 2024 - Bow High Slaps Parents With ‘No Trespass’ Order Over Pink Armbands Supporting Girls Sports
Parents of children attending Bow High School in Bow, New Hampshire, US were given a legally binding “no trespass order” for wearing pink armbands with XX on them to a girls sports competition in protest of boys being allowed to compete on the girls teams. Parents are not able to attend their own children’s game or attend meetings or conferences for their children on the school grounds. Their protest was labeled as “threatening, harassing, or intimidating…any person,” and that “that no person shall ‘impede, delay, disrupt or otherwise interfere with any school activity.”
Males in Female Sports
17 Sept, 2024 - 'This Whole Effort Is Shameful': Marsha Blackburn Spars With Murphy Over 'Girls In Sports Day' Bill
Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator representing Tennessee, debates the need for the American Girls in Sports Day bill to preserve single sex sports protections for girls and women. Chris Murphy, U.S. Senator representing Connecticut counters her fact based statements about girls need for single sex sports with vitriol and shame but no facts. Not only did Murphy fail to address any of the facts presented, he did not even stay on topic. He compared the objections to allowing boys in girls sports to racism and fear mongering.
She Won - A resource tracking the achievements of female athletes who were displaced by males in female sporting categories and other competitions designated for females.
He Cheated - A website collecting stats on men in women’s sports
Men and boys have participated in over 8,731 women's competitions.
They have placed 1st at least 2,903 times and top three at least 4,747 times.
They have stolen at least $1,600,087 in prizes and 446 awards.
They have set at least 333 records including 110 national and 27 world records.
70 different men have won either a national championship or a world championship (this is not the number of world/national titles won, but the number of individuals who have won at least one time). That number jumps to 104 men who have qualified/placed at a national or world championship.
There are over 700 males who have participated in women's sports. The sport with the highest number of men participating is, unsuprisingly, roller derby with over 110 men discovered.
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
13 Sept 2024 - Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre boss resigns after review finds ‘damage’ to survivors
Mridul Wadhwa, a man who claims to be a woman who was hired in a position restricted to women has resigned after controversy. Wadhwa told women
Reproductive Rights
19 Sept, 2024 - Florida warns physicians abortions must be given ‘at any stage’ to save life and health
Demonstrating why legislators dictating women’s health is a problem. Doctors are erring on the side of protecting themselves from prosecution and lawsuit rather than prioritize saving women’s lives, Florida legislators issue a clarification.
Florida health officials told physicians Thursday that abortion is permitted “at any stage in pregnancy” to save the life and health of the mother, and regulatory action will be taken against any providers who don’t offer that care.
In a notice to providers, the Florida Department of Health and the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) said Florida “requires life-saving medical care to a mother without delay when necessary.”
18 Sept, 2024 - Abortion rights are on 10 state ballots in November − Democrats can’t count on this to win elections for them
Ten states will vote on ballot initiatives on abortion this November: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Nevada and South Dakota.
The impact of abortion measures on states ballots is not having the partisan impact that is anticipated as many states voters vote to protect abortion rights while still electing Republican candidates.
16 Sept, 2024 - Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable
Women in the United States are dying from treatable problems due to abortion restrictions. The state of Georgia’s abortion restriction laws are contributing to women being allowed to die who are suffering from sepsis following a miscarriage or incomplete abortion. The state of Georgia recently placed heavy restrictions on the procedure dilation and curettage, D&C, a procedure used to clear unexpelled fetal tissue from a woman’s uterus. This procedure is necessary in some miscarriages and abortions and to treat other health problems in women. Doctors who perform a D&C outside legal limits can be charged with a felony. Many of the deaths occurring due to denial of ordinary procedures have been labeled as preventable by medical reviews. Doctors fears of prosecution are taking precedence over women’s need for life saving care.
12 Sept, 2024 - North Dakota’s Abortion Ban Is Overturned
A judge ruled that the State Constitution protected a woman’s right to abortion until the fetus was viable. The state’s attorney general said he would appeal.
Tracking Abortion Bans Across the Country
Twenty-two states ban abortion or restrict the procedure earlier in pregnancy than the standard set by Roe v. Wade, which governed reproductive rights for nearly half a century until the Supreme Court overturned the decision in 2022.
In some states, the fight over abortion access is still taking place in courtrooms, where advocates have sued to block bans and restrictions. Other states have moved to expand access to abortion by adding legal protections.
Sex Discrimination, Violence Against Women
19 Sept, 2024 - French woman responds with outrage after lawyers suggest she consented to a decade of rape
Gisèle Pelicot, who was drugged by her husband with dozens of men accused of raping her, has emerged as a defiant public voice for victims of sexual abuse in France. At least 83 men were recorded on video and photos assaulting an unconscious Pelicot; 50 of them have been identified and are currently on trial accused of raping her, which many of them deny. Two defense lawyers for some of the men had asked the court to display photos which they said raised doubts whether the victim was aware of what was happening to her.
Pelicot said Wednesday that she was being made to feel like the perpetrator, not the victim, in court. “I have the impression that the culprit is me, and that behind me the 50 are victims,” she said. Some of the men’s defense attorneys suggested she consented, was not fully unconscious, was an alcoholic or mentally ill and other arguments justifying their clients raping an unconscious woman.
18 Sept, 2024 - Veteran CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an agency “that is supposed to protect the world from evil.” “It’s safe to say he’s a sexual predator,” U.S. Senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in imposing the full sentence prosecutors had requested.
Still another former CIA employee, an officer trainee, is scheduled to face a jury trial next month on charges he assaulted a woman in a stairwell at the agency’s Langley, Virginia, headquarters. That case emboldened some two dozen women to come forward to authorities and Congress with accounts of their own of sexual assaults, unwanted touching and what they contend are the CIA’s efforts to silence them.
The full extent of sexual misconduct at the CIA remains a classified secret in the name of national security, including a recent 648-page internal watchdog report that found systemic shortcomings in the agency’s handling of such complaints.
“The classified nature of the activities allowed the agency to hide a lot of things,” said Liza Mundy, author of “Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA.” The male-dominated agency, she said, has long been a refuge for egregious sexual misconduct. “For decades, men at the top had free rein.”
The mother of a woman who was raped and murdered has said she 'fears for the safety of women' as he won't be a monitored sex offender when he is released. Steven Ling has been behind bars for 26 years for the brutal killing of Joanne Tulip, 29, who was stabbed 60 times at his home on Christmas Day in 1997.
17 Sept, 2024 - British girl, 15, is forced to strip in front of Egyptian security guards because they didn't believe she was female due to her short hair
It seems the backlash of men claiming to be women will fall on women in many ways.
A British teen with short hair has told how Egyptian airport security guards forced her to undergo a 'traumatic' sex check - because they didn't believe she was a girl. Caitlyn Disley, 15, was stunned when she was ordered to lift her bra, and prove she didn't have male genitalia when she arrived at Hurghada International Airport.
17 Sept, 2024 - What we know about the 51 men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot
According to French broadcaster TF1, the men accused of raping Gisele Pelicot while she was drugged unconscious by her husband are between the ages of 26 and 74. Many of them have no criminal record. Many of them have children. "They are firefighters, journalists, students, truck drivers, prison guards, nurses, pensioners, municipal councillors, our friends, our lovers, our fathers, our brothers. A reality that is difficult to accept," journalist Hélène Devynck wrote in an Op-Ed in french newspaper Le Monde on Sept. 6.
News Impacting Society and Children
An Oxford University professor says he was shunned and branded a 'transphobe' during a two-year battle to convince the Office for National Statistics (ONS) it had massively overstated the number of transgender people in Britain.
18 Sept, 2024 - Data and ideology don’t mix
Questions about gender ideology on a government census have likely been misunderstood by residents whose first language is not English, creating an inaccurate tally of transgendered people in the UK. Respondents were more likely to misunderstand questions about gender if they did were not fluent in English. Last week, census data was downgraded in status from “accredited official statistics” to “official statistics in development” – the first time this had happened since the census began in 1801. This confusion likely contributed to an enormous over estimate of the number of transgender identifying people in the UK influencing government programs, budgets and agendas.
German and American investigators found that the majority of gender dysphoria-related diagnoses, including so-called gender incongruence, recorded in a minor or young adult’s medical chart were gone within within five or six years. The belief that youth gender dysphoria is permanent is likely behind a bold argument recently made by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Wpath is an influential, largely U.S.-based medical activist group that publishes widely followed care and treatment guidelines for trans persons. The organization stated in April that the majority of trans-identified youths would be best served by a medical transition.
18 Sept, 2024 - Deep-red state will have to pay for baby-murderer's male-to-female surgery
A federal judge ruled that Autumn Cordellioné, who was born Jonathan C. Richardson, had been subjected to 'cruel and unusual punishment' after being denied gender-affirming surgery according to the ACLU, which filed the suit. United States District Court Judge Richard Young ordered that the Department of Corrections must provide Cordellioné the surgery at the earliest opportunity. The inmate is currently serving a 55-year prison sentence for the strangulation of her 11-month-old stepdaughter after admitting to killing her.
Scores of online paedophiles have joined Huw Edwards in dodging jail for viewing indecent images of children in recent years. The former BBC newsreader was handed a six-month suspended sentence after admitting three charges of 'making' indecent photographs after he was sent 41 illegal images by a convicted paedophile. The decision has been branded a 'joke' by abuse campaigners, but the reality is most other people found guilty of viewing child porn similarly walk free from court.
18 Sept, 2024 - Students allege Clery Act violations, other errors by College’s Title IX office
One recent alum and one student at the College filed complaints to the Department of Education on July 25 and Sept. 17 alleging that College administrators violated the Clery Act after the complainants were victims of sexual assault or stalking on campus. Complainants say the institution is guilty of a failure to provide protective measures. Iris, who graduated in 2024, claims that the College failed to inform her of her alleged assailant’s enrollment status and failed to monitor and maintain her No Contact Order (NCO).
Op-Eds of Interest
Self ID Demonstration Berlin, Germany
When the Medical Establishment Gets Things Wrong, Doctors Dig In
‘By the time I was 18, I had been a sexual plaything to men for over a decade’
The Deaths of Two Mothers in Georgia Show Ending Roe Was Never About “Life”
Social Media of Interest
‘That’s Something That You Won’t Recover From as a Doctor’ - Doctors speaks on the dangerous changes to women’s healthcare.
Winters California school district forum - where Amy @sac_terf gives a speech about women's rights being lost around the world