Sept 22 - Sept 28, 2023: Boy violently beats girl in school, Mother gets 2 years prison for providing abortion pills to daughter, Scotland creates special "hate" police unit

Sorority files appeal to man's membership, California governor vetos bill requiring family courts to consider parents affirmation of gender ID, Michigan judges ordered to use preferred pronouns

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

Sept 28, 2023 - Michigan Supreme Court orders judges across state not to MISGENDER anyone who appears before them as part of case

Michigan Supreme Court adopted a new rule that prohibits judges from misgendering people that come before them in court. The new ruling requires Michigan judges to 'use the individual’s name, the designated salutation or personal pronouns, or other respectful means that is not inconsistent with the individual’s designated salutation or personal pronouns when addressing, referring to, or identifying the party or attorney, either orally or in writing.'

Sept 26, 2023 - Wolf Files Amicus Brief in Support Of Fired “I Resolve” Teachers

The brief to the Ninth Circuit in the case of Damiano v. Grants Pass School District argues that discussion of issues that impact women and girls must be protected speech as a matter of public concern. Should two middle school educators in Oregon have been fired over their proposal for common-sense gender identity policies in schools?

Sept 26, 2023 - London's Comic Con pulls Harry Potter discussion panel after LGBTQ+ charity complained of 'potential impact on trans individuals' following backlash at author JK Rowling over her trans views

The MCM London Comic Comic Con has cancelled a planned Harry Potter-themed panel from its October event after an LGBT group claimed it would not be a 'safe and inclusive environment'. Activists from the LGBT group Switchboard threatened to pull out of hosting the first pride lounge if the panel was allowed to partake in the event due to author JK Rowling's historical 'transphobic' remarks.

Sept 25, 2023 - Scotland To Set Up New Police Unit To Tackle “Hate” and “Misgendering,” Ignites Free Speech Concerns

Police Scotland is setting up a dedicated hate crime unit ahead of Humza Yousaf's hugely controversial new laws coming into force early next year, it can be revealed. The unit is expected to go live in November and training of the force's 16,400 officers gets underway in December in preparation for the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act being implemented in early 2024. The legislation consolidates existing law and extends protection for vulnerable groups with a new offence of "stirring up hatred". Scottish Daily Express

Sept 24, 2023 - Healthcare workers invited to three-day diversity conference featuring pronouns and gender

Boss of short-staffed NHS contractor urges staff to sign up to event and complete 'mandatory unconscious bias training'

Despite record backlogs, the NHS main contractor for community healthcare in south-east London, Bromley Healthcare, is hosting the conference entitled “Be the change” from Oct 3-5. The conference will include lectures on “pronouns, language and LGBTQ+ allyship” and “gender and LGBTQ+ sessions for colleagues working with children”.

Sept 23, 2023 - War-hero Army doctor disciplined for agreeing that men can't be women is cleared of wrong-doing by an official inquiry

A war-hero doctor forced out of the Army for his gender-critical views has been cleared of wrongdoing by an official inquiry. Colonel Dr Kelvin Wright, 54, who saved hundreds of lives in Afghanistan, faced disciplinary proceedings after a junior officer complained about a Facebook post. Col Wright had shared a quote from Helen Joyce, a director of the campaign group Sex Matters, that read: 'If women cannot stand in a public place and say "men cannot be women", then we do not have women's rights at all.'

Males in Female Sports

Sept 23, 2023 - Reel fury! Members of England ladies' angling team refuse to compete in world championships after team picks trans woman who used to be a rugby player

Members of the six-strong squad did not volunteer to participate in Italy at the Shore Angling World Championships in November because Becky Lee Birtwhistle Hodges, who was born male, was also allowed to apply. The team's captain said they were 'humiliated' when they won bronze with her at the 2018 world championships. 'The managers wouldn't speak to our manager. They were all against us. When we went up to collect our medal, nobody clapped and people walked out.

Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces

Sept 29, 2023 - Women File Appeal in Case of Man Joining Sorority

The six women who sued national sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma in March appealed their case Monday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, exactly one month after a judge allowed a biological man accused of sexual impropriety to remain in the sorority.

Sept 26, 2023 - Australian Human Rights Commission Decision Prohibits Female-Only Events For Lesbians

Australia’s Human Rights Commission has released a preliminary decision prohibiting lesbians from holding events for females due to the exclusion of men who identify as “women.” The Commission’s decision comes after a lesbian rights group applied for an exemption under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984.

Sept 25, 2023 - Female students set to rally to save Brescia University College

Brescia University College students are taking up the fight to save the women’s-only school, launching a petition and organizing a rally to oppose its impending merger with Western University.

Brescia University College students are taking up the fight to save the women’s-only school, launching a petition and organizing a rally to oppose its impending merger with Western University.

Sept 25, 2023 - California becomes the first state to mandate gender-neutral bathrooms in schools by 2026

Public schools across California will be required to have gender-neutral bathrooms by July 2026.

Sept 25, 2023 - The trans debate is too important for the census to be wrong Any skewing of figures from the Office of National Statistics, accidental or not, will only make a controversial topic more divisive

Last January, findings from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggested there were 262,000 transgender people in England and Wales. Since this is 0.5 percent of the population who do not identify with their sex an inquiry was conducted. The findings are that the figure was flawed and more needed to be done around quality control in data collection. They found the wording of the questions was confusing, especially for people whose first language was not English. The data from this census has been used to justify the elimination of protected female-only spaces and opportunities.

Sept 24, 2023 - Tennessee’s First Elected Trans Official May Be Forced to Use Men’s Room

Tennessee law requires a man to use the men’s toilets after being elected to Nashville’s metro council as the state’s first “trans-identified woman.” Senate Bill 1440/House Bill 239, effective since July 1, 2023, establishes sex in all state codes as “a person’s immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person’s biological sex.” The article complains “What is most disturbing is the ambiguity of the law—a one-page document that simply states that sex is now defined by anatomy at birth.”

Sept 24, 2023 - Gender-critical views shared by civil servants are likened to 'Nazism' by colleagues in diversity meeting

Gender critical views shared by civil servants were compared with 'Nazism' by colleagues in a meeting discussing diversity. Members of the civil service group Sex Equality and Equity Network (SEEN) - were targeted for their views on women's rights, with one civil servant allegedly accusing the group of wanting to 'destroy' the LGBT+ community.

Sept 22, 2023 - New Report Shows California Law Mandating Transfer of Men Into Women’s Prisons is Failing

The report by the California Office of the Inspector General Report follows WoLF’s request for an investigation of the implementation of SB 132

In August, the California Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Independent Prison Oversight Committee issued a “Special Review of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) implementation of the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act” (commonly referred to as SB 132). The report validates many of the concerns expressed by WoLF about SB 132, including the disparate treatment on women and the difficulty in safely implementing this law as written. Read the full report here. 

Sex Discrimination

Sept 28, 2023 - Thousands of women march in Latin American cities calling for abortion rights

The streets of cities across Latin America were bathed in green Thursday as tens of thousands of women marched to commemorate International Safe Abortion Day. Latin American feminists have spent decades fighting to roll back strict prohibitions, although there are still few countries with a total ban, like El Salvador and Dominican Republic. In Mexico, marchers celebrated the recent decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court to decriminalize abortions at the federal level. In Argentina, marchers had a more somber tone, worrying that the strength of a populist far-right presidential candidate going into elections in October could signal peril after years of work by feminists.

Sept 28, 2023 - Trans-identified male violently beats female student in Oregon middle school: video

A young female student was violently beaten by a trans-identified male in the hallway of Hazelbrook Middle School in the Tigard Tualatin School District, outside of Portland, Oregon. The brutal beatdown captured on video shows the trans-identified student, a biological male, throwing multiple blows to the female student's head after he violently grabbed her hair, yanked her back and forth, then knocked her down flat in the school hallway.

Sept 27, 2023 - French equality watchdog finds 90% of online pornography abuses women Report urges changes in the law to make it easier to take down content and prosecute its makers

As much as 90% of pornographic content online features verbal, physical and sexual violence towards women, and a significant amount of violence shown is punishable under existing laws in France, a report by the government-nominated equality watchdog has found. France’s high council for equality between women and men on Wednesday handed the government a damning report on illegal porn-industry practices, urging changes to the law to prosecute makers of pornography and to take down content in order to protect those who have been filmed.

Sept 24, 2023 - Trans activists behind campaign of violence against women, Rishi Sunak warned

Women’s rights campaigners have written to the Prime Minister to ask him to take action against an “escalating campaign of violence and intimidation” by trans rights activists. The letter, signed by more than 10,000 people, said women were increasingly being threatened with “social ostracism” simply for arguing that they have a right to single-sex spaces.

Sept 22, 2023 - US mother sentenced to two years in prison for giving daughter abortion pills

Jessica Burgess, a Nebraska mother accused of helping her teenage daughter use pills to end her pregnancy, was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. Jessica Burgess pleaded guilty in July to charges of false reporting, providing an abortion after 20 weeks of gestation, and concealing, removing or abandoning a dead human body. She was sentenced to one year in prison each charge, but the sentences for false reporting and tampering with human remains will run concurrently, with the sentence for the illegal abortion to served consecutively with the sentences for the other charges, a spokesperson for the Madison county courthouse said.

News Impacting Society and Children

Sept 28, 2023 - Man assaults 13-year-old on flight, says she’ll ‘never see her family again,’ feds say

While most passengers on a Delta Air Lines red-eye flight were asleep, a man repeatedly groped a 13-year-old girl next to him and threatened to kidnap her from her family members, who were seated two rows away, federal prosecutors say.

Sept 26, 2023 - No Sex Please, We’re Anthropologists

The American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society cancel a panel discussion on why biological sex is important in anthropology. Recently, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) announced the cancellation of a panel discussion titled “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology,” originally scheduled to be part of their annual conference in Toronto, ON, Canada, from November 15-19.

Sept 25, 2023 - Lawsuit Over Sex-Trafficked Teen Could Stop Schools From Hiding Kids’ Dysphoria

The mother of a Virginia teen sex-trafficked twice after her school concealed her newly asserted gender identity has filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against school staff and a Maryland public defender who alleged parental “misgendering” and abuse. The complaint was filed Aug. 22 in the Western District of Virginia court on behalf of Michele Blair by the Child and Parental Rights Campaign (CPRC) with support from the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR).

Sept 25, 2023 - Pro-Prostitution Picture Book Offered To Children By Government Officials

As recently as September 25, 2023 since 2017, the city of Berlin website provided link to a pro-prostitution book reccomended for children which has recently been removed. The book, titled Rosie Needs Money (Rosi sucht Geld), is advertised as a resource for youth aged 6 to 12 years old. According to Equal Opportunities Officer Kerstin Drobick, the book is designed to explain prostitution to children of families residing in a district of Berlin, located in Kurfürstenkiez, known as Kurfürstenstraße.

Sept 25, 2023 - Canada wakes up

Even as other countries in which the government foots the bill for healthcare services reevaluate the safety and effectiveness of “gender-affirming” interventions, Canadian health authorities have yet to reckon with the burden that publicly-funded gender self-actualisation places on already strained healthcare resources.

Sept 24, 2023 - Bailey sues St. Louis provider over gender-affirming care for minors

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has sued a St. Louis-based community health center over its gender-affirming care for transgender youth. The claim against Southampton Community Health Center is based on testimony in a hearing on a lawsuit challenging the new law, which bars transgender youth from obtaining puberty blockers or hormone therapy unless they were already prescribed such treatment. A judge in August allowed the restrictions to go forward.

Sept 23, 2023 - MPs who believe women can have a penis will be named and shamed ahead of general election

A new website will allow voters to instantly find out whether their MP thinks women must be born female. MPs who believe women can have a penis will be named and shamed ahead of the general election. MP’s are being video recorded while asked “what is a woman?” Their responses will be avialable on a website that will be launched in the near future. Voters will be able to find their MP’s response before elections.

Sept 23, 2023 - California governor vetoes bill requiring custody courts to weigh affirmation of gender identity

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have required judges to consider whether a parent affirms their child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions.

Sept 22, 2023 - Civil servant revolt at ‘woke takeover of Whitehall’

Letter to Cabinet Secretary warns government policy risks being improperly influenced by imposition of gender ideology

The Cabinet Secretary has been warned by senior civil servants of a “woke takeover of Whitehall” that risks “improperly” influencing Government policy. Simon Case was told in a letter signed by 42 staff from 16 departments that ideology on gender promoted by trans activists has become embedded in the Civil Service in a “significant breach of impartiality”. It says the concept that “everyone has a gender identity which is more important than their sex” is “treated as undisputed fact”.

Sept 22, 2023 - Poll reveals Canadian trans policies that are out of step with public opinion

Canadians favour equality for trans people, but generally don't believe in gender self-identification, survey shows

Of respondents, just 35 per cent agreed with the sentiment — now enshrined via a latticework of federal and provincial laws — that “anyone who wishes can identify as a woman.” About the same number (34 per cent) sided with the notion that women are only those “who were born with female genitalia.” Another 18 per cent were comfortable with the idea of men legally becoming women, but only if they changed their genitalia through surgery. These results suggest that a slim majority of Canadians (52 per cent) are not on board with a recent spate of Canadian legal reforms upholding the principle of gender self-ID; the notion that only a personal attestation is necessary for a Canadian to begin living as a member of a different gender.

Sept 22, 2023 - Teachers who 'misgender' trans pupils are not guilty of discrimination, says equality watchdog as they urge the government to give clarity on schools guidance

Teachers who ‘misgender’ trans pupils are not guilty of discrimination, guidance from the equality watchdog suggests. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) also urged the Government to publish its own long-awaited guidelines to give clarity to teachers and families.

Entertainment

Sept 24, 2023 - Louise Redknapp pulls out of Eternal reunion after her bandmates REFUSE to play LGBTQ+ festivals and Pride over claims they are being 'hijacked' by the trans community

Louise Redknapp has pulled out of an Eternal reunion after two members of the band refused to play LGBTQ+ festivals and Pride on the tour. Eternal, who shot to stardom in the nineties, were planning a huge reunion tour next year, with the highlights including performances at Pride and Mighty Hoopla.

Op-Eds of Interest

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