Weekly News Roundup - 1/13/23 - 1/19/23
Man has fit when denied access to women only gym, UK attempting to block Scotland gender recognition bill, nurse at risk of losing license for knowing a man is not a woman.
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Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
01/19/2023 - Emma Bateman expelled from the Green Party UK
01/18/2023 - A transgender woman man from Parksville said she couldn’t use a women-only gym
A trans-identifying man enrolled in a women-only gym. Soon after he was told a mistake was made but he was allowed to use their co-ed gym. Bodyworks Fitness is a gym in Parksville with two locations. One is co-ed and the other is ladies-only.
01/17/2023 - Teen Girl Blasts YMCA Trans Policy after Encountering Naked Man in Women’s Locker Room
A female minor is speaking out against the YMCA’s transgender inclusion policy after she encountered a naked man while showering in the women’s locker room at a San Diego location.
Earlier this month, 17-year-old Rebecca Phillips was showering at the Santee facility after her swim workout when she noticed a naked man in the women’s locker room. Phillips immediately went back into the shower terrified and hid behind the curtain until he was gone, she told the Santee city council last week. Phillips then ran into the bathroom stall to quickly change before confronting the people at the front desk about the situation.
01/16/2023 - UK government to block Scottish gender bill
The UK government has decided to block a controversial Scottish bill designed to make it easier for people to change their legal gender. UK ministers say it would conflict with equality laws that apply across Great Britain. It is the first use of a Section 35 order, which can block Scottish laws. If ministers think a Holyrood bill would modify laws reserved to Westminster and have an "adverse effect" on how those laws apply, they can block it. But the power has not been used up to now. Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called the move a "full-frontal attack" on the Scottish Parliament and vowed to oppose it.
A mom who dressed up as a cat to protest against a trans board member has slammed a gym for allowing them to use the women's locker room – claiming that they stared at her breasts. Lindsey Graham, 41, was at Esporta in Goodyear, Arizona, a suburb west of Phoenix, when she claimed Paul Bixler came into the female changing area while she was half naked.
01/11/2023 - Showering with 'a female who has male genitalia? Army pulls the trigger on response
Policy 'accepts at face value a person's declared gender identity without question'. A lot has changed since I served in the Army.
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
01/18/2023 - KURILOVA: A Canadian Nurse Understood Biology… Now She Risks Losing Her License
For more than two years, Canadian nurse Amy Hamm has been going through an ordeal that can only be described as Kafkaesque.
In November of 2020, Hamm had been informed by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) that she was under investigation for her “off-duty conduct.”
Two members of the public – neither of whom were Hamm’s patients – had complained, essentially, that she was a “transphobe.”
When Emmy-nominated TV producer Malcolm Clark went to a party at the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers in Glasgow last month, he was looking forward to making some useful contacts. So when he was introduced to Nathan Wren, a BBC executive who develops science programming, he was, naturally, delighted. He seized the opportunity to tell Wren that BBC science programme-makers must stand up for biological facts. In short, they should ‘keep reminding other staff that a woman with a penis was what the vast majority of the public rightly calls a man’.
Males in Female Sports
World Rugby said after months of research, it had 'concluded that safety and fairness cannot presently be assured for women competing against trans women in contact rugby,' however allowing national federations to implement grassroot policies.
Grab a tissue so you can dab your eyes listening to the sad story about how tragic it is that the male athlete is being pushed out of playing on the female rugby team. Read how using cross-sex hormones has reduced his masculine strength so he can no longer compete against males soccer (football for the rest of the world), wrestling, baseball and track. Join me in a big pity party for him.
01/17/2023 - Ro Edge on Sport New Zealand’s transgender guidelines
Save Women’s Sport Australasia spokesperson Ro Edge talks to Sean Plunket about Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment, VAW, and Sexual Assaults
Man who was TRA peaked during Kellie-Jay Keen rally after finding arguments against males in female prisons to be sensible. Then inspired by the mayhem, he assaulted another TRA with a very effective self-defense techinque rarely taught to women.
01/15/2023 - ‘You better be careful in your bed tonight’: shock rise in women killed by their sons
Violence by children against parents and grandparents is Britain’s hidden abuse, often misunderstood or ignored – until too late. Pioneering research aims to bring it into the open
Male violence against women has no limits. Juvenile males assaulting their parents is increasing. Local authorities in the UK are reluctant to intervene for the safety of the family, leaving mothers and elder family members unprotected.
01/16/2023 - Met police officer revealed to be serial rapist who attacked 12 women 24 times
A serving Metropolitan Police officer is believed to be one of the worst sexual offenders in modern history after admitting 24 counts of rape against 12 women over a 17-year-period. David Carrick, 48, pleaded guilty to a total of 49 offences that took place between 2003 and 2020.
Sex Discrimination
1/19/2023 - Breast Cancer Surgeon Slammed For Calling “Adult Human Female” A “Siren Call For Hatred
A breast and gender surgeon is being mocked after criticizing a crossword puzzle which used “adult human female” as the definition for “woman,” calling it “un-inclusive.” On January 18, Dr. Rhea Liang posted a screenshot to her Twitter calling attention to a crossword she had seen in a Gardening Australia magazine. Liang expressed she was “disappointed” to see “un-inclusive” language being used as a hint for one of the crossword lines. In her screenshot, Liang underlined a hint which read “adult human female.” Many users initially believed Liang was joking, or was a parody account intended to mock the absurdity of trans activists. Some expressed shock when they realized she was being serious.
01/18/2023 - Facebook, Instagram will lift ban on bare breasts — but only for trans, non-binary
Facebook and Instagram will allow transgender and non-binary users to flash their bare breasts — but women who were born female and who are eager to “free the nipple” are out of luck, according to Meta’s advisory board. “The same image of female-presenting nipples would be prohibited if posted by a cisgender woman but permitted if posted by an individual self-identifying as non-binary,” the board noted in its decision.
01/16/2023 - It's a mystery: Women in India drop out of the workforce even as the economy grows
As their country gets richer, Indian women are healthier, more educated – yet unemployed. India has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. (The IMF forecasts 6.8% growth for India this year, compared to just 1.6% for the United States.) By 2030, India is forecast to be the third-largest economy in the world, behind only the U.S. and China. Millions of Indians are emerging from poverty each year. Most countries develop faster with women in their workforces. That's true for India too. Throughout the 1990s and particularly in the early 2000s – decades of robust GDP growth – female labor participation grew, albeit from very low levels. According to the latest World Bank figures, from 2021, fewer than 1 in 5 Indian women work – at least formally.
Entertainment & Politics
01/17/2023 - The case for repealing the GRA
The debate over the Gender Recognition Reform Bill in Scotland has brought into focus the potential conflict between the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (specifically, the rights granted to holders of a Gender Recognition Certificate or GRC) and the Equality Act 2010 (specifically, the relationship between the protected characteristic of sex and the one of gender reassignment and how they are affected by the operation of the GRA).
Scottish nationalists love nothing more than to engineer a 'constitutional crisis'. It enables them to rally the troops by claiming Scotland's right to manage its own affairs is being undermined by those bullies in Westminster.
And yesterday they reckoned they had found just such a cause, with Rishi Sunak and his estimable Scottish Secretary Alister Jack exercising the 'nuclear option' — for the first time since the Scottish parliament was created 25 years ago — to block a piece of legislation passed by Holyrood.
News Impacting Society and Children
01/19/2023 - Bill calls for parental notification of trans students
A Republican lawmaker touted a bill Thursday that would require Virginia school officials to notify parents if their child identifies as transgender in school, one of several proposals lawmakers are expected to debate this session that could significantly affect transgender people.
The bill sponsored by Del. Dave LaRock would require school employees who have had direct communication with a student who is self-identifying as a gender different from the student’s biological gender to contact at least one of the student’s parents to ask if the parent is aware of the student’s mental state and whether the parent wishes to obtain counseling for the student.
01/1/2023 - I asked my daughter's teachers not to call her a boy... they reported me to social services
Like many parents on a Sunday evening, Patricia Chalmers was busy checking for unwashed sports kit in her 14-year-old daughter’s school bag when she discovered something rather perplexing. Crumpled up inside was a letter from her teacher regarding a project. While the contents made sense, Patricia was confused by the name — it was addressed to Lex Chalmers. Her daughter’s name is Esme. When she phoned her daughter’s co-educational state secondary school, the receptionist claimed the name change ‘must be a mistake’. But Patricia wanted to be sure and sent an email. ‘They took a day to respond but eventually replied saying that in keeping with their Equality, Inclusion and Diversity policy, they had “socially transitioned” her daughter and were referring to her with the gender-neutral name Lex and they/them pronouns.
The Diocese of Des Moines in Iowa has been praised for leading the war on woke has by banning preferred pronouns in schools and parishes, and ruling that students and worshipers must use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their biological sex. The new stipulations from The Diocese of Des Moines went into effect on Monday, and all revolve around how the religious organization deals with gender at its 17 schools and 80 parishes across the state. While some activists complained, many in Iowa hailed the decision as a long overdue crackdown.
The Italian Psychoanalytic Society has written to the country’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressing “great concern” about the use of puberty blockers with children and calling for “rigorous scientific discussion” of youth gender problems.
Op-Eds of Interest
01/19/2023 - Gender reform bill has betrayed lesbians — and will send them back into the closet
01/18/2023 - Boys aren’t losing role models – girls are Responses to online misogyny have missed the point
01/16/2023 - It’s time to call out the nonsense of nonbinary. Everyone is either male or female – get over it.