Weekly News Roundup: 11/3-11/10
Call to Action
The Women’s Liberation Front has stepped up again to defend women. They have filed a lawsuit in Oregon on behalf of detransitioner Camille Kiefel. (See news report link in subsection “Detransition and Women” below). Donate to help support their efforts.
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
11/10/2022 - (Scotland) Feminists accuse Nicola Sturgeon of 'denying biology' as they launch legal action to quash SNP reforms which state transgender women are legally female
Scottish feminists have accused Nicola Sturgeon's Government of 'biological denialism' as they launched legal action to quash controversial SNP reforms to redefine the meaning of the word 'woman'. Campaign group For Women Scotland have taken ministers to the Court of Session to challenge a proposal to broaden the legal definition of women to include transgender people with a female gender recognition certificate.
11/6/2022 - (AUS) Target shopper ‘banned over transgender views’ seeks anti-discrimination ruling
Retailer Target faces an anti-discrimination tribunal complaint after one of its staff allegedly tried to eject a female customer because of her views on transgender rights. Lesbian activist Jessica Hoyle alleges she was ordered to leave the Launceston Target store by a non-binary staff member who called her a “TERF”, a term for feminists who exclude transgender women, for wearing clothing featuring the logo of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Tasmania, which does not advocate for transgender people.
A US government funded prison report has come under fire after replacing the term 'women' with 'birthing people' and 'birthing parent'.
11/3/2022 - "Female" NYC trans and HIV activist arrested for soliciting pedophile hunter posing as a 14-year-old boy
Lailani Muniz, 39, a prominent New York City transgender and HIV activist, was arrested and charged for allegedly soliciting a minor.
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
11/9/2022 - Antifa Targets Mother Following Appearance at ‘Let Women Speak’ Event
Women’s rights campaigner Jeanna Hoc being terrorized by Antifa after attending a freedom of speech event focused on sex-based rights.
Men in Women’s Sports
11/9/2022 - USA Fencing allows men to compete in women's events
Men can compete in women's events "after completing one calendar year (12 months) of testosterone suppression treatment." No mention of testosterone levels or any other measures.
Full policy: USA Fencing Transgender and Nonbinary Policy
11/8/2022 - ‘I raced Lia Thomas – and I still feel the burning injustice’
Riley Gaines intended to pursue a career as a dentist after graduating, but she is now consumed by the quest for fairness for women in sport
11/8/2022 - Gender identity has no place in sport
Olympian Mara Yamaguchi speaks out on news of men taking all spots on podium and more in the recent NYC Marathon’s new “non-binary” category. The top 5 finishers in the category are all young white males: Jacob Caswell, Zackary Harris, Alexander Edgemon, Kosta Kleyman and Christopher Di Nisio. First prize in the category is currently $5000—not significant comparing to the $100K prize for winners in the men and women categories. But we’re sure they’ll soon move the goalpost and claim “discrimination and demand equal prize.
Picture of winner Jacob Caswell, a person with a body no different than any men in any way, except with more toned and muscular arms than an average man, and has a six-pack ab. He finished at an unimpressive time of 2:45:12.
Violence Against Women, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Assault
11/9/2022 - (UK) Home Secretary Suella Braverman today told police chiefs to ensure their officers are focused on 'common sense policing' and not 'debating gender on Twitter'.
UK police are basically harrasing women at this point.
Paedophile Katie Dolatowski, 22, who was born male with criminal record of sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in a supermarket toilet and secretly filmed another in 2018 and has been in court several times since, got into Leeds Women's Aid refuge under an alias.
Sex Discrimination
11/10/2022- Prominent Iranian Actress Taraneh Alidoosti Takes Brave Stance In Iranian Freedom Protests
Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, who was at the Cannes Film Festival this year with Competition Title Leila’s Brothers, has posted an image of herself on social media without her headscarf in support of ongoing protests in Iran calling more freedom of women.
DeTransition and Women
11/9/2022 - Journalist Wesley Yang's interview with Chloe Cole
"I needed love. I needed support. I needed somebody to hear me out and not just tell me what I wanted to hear." Chloe Cole speaks on her life trajectory: puberty blockers at 13; double mastectomy at 15; detransition advocate at 18.
Camille Kiefel, 32, from Oregon is suing social worker Amy Ruff, mental health therapist Mara Burmeister, other unnamed medics, and Brave Space Oregon and the Quest Center for Integrative Health — two Portland-based centers for trans care, for approving her breast removal gender change surgery after only brief Zoom meetings, blasting an 'abhorrent misdiagnosis' that left her 'mutilated' and unable to breastfeed. Kiefel says she quickly regretted getting a double mastectomy in August 2020, and that clinicians at two Oregon centers for gender-affirming care shouldn't have green-lighted the procedure.
11/2/2022 - Mother of Newborn Regrets Gender Transition in Her Youth
Daisy Strongin of Chicago says she deeply regrets having both of her breasts removed in gender transition surgery when she was 20. Sees the recent surge in the number of children claiming they are non-binary and “trans” as a social contagion and feels compelled to warn others about the pitfalls of transgender ideology. (This article was published last week but we were only alerted to it this week.)
Entertainment
11/9/2022 - Biological male teen wins Miss America in beauty pageant in New Hampshire
Trans-identified male Brían Nguyen has become the first transgender titleholder within the Miss America Organization after being crowned Miss Greater Derry 2023, earning Nguyen a scholarship along with the crown and title.
11/9/2022 - ‘SNL’ staff writers boycott over Dave Chappelle’s hosting gig
SNL staff writers furious that comedy superstar Dave Chappelle was slotted to host the show this weekend. Be sure to tune in and drive up the ratings!!
11/7/2022 - West Side Story-Singing Pro-Trans Activist Arrested at Lincoln Memorial Protesting Pro-Woman Feminists
At Kellie-Jay Keen’s “Let Women Speak” event in Washington DC to advocatesfor women’s rights and for biological sex:
News Impacting Society and Children
11/9/2022 - (CAN) School board won’t stop transgender Oakville teacher from wearing provocative clothing
Halton District School Board (HDSB) continues to refuser to terminate Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher Kayla Lemieux who inappropriately wears oversized prosthetic breasts and tight tops to teach in class.
Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments in lawsuit over alleged violations of teacher's religious beliefs.
An academic, using the pen name "K.Whittaker, argues in the Journal of Controversial Ideas, warns of 'absurd consequences' of pro-trans argument.
Full Abstract: The Limits of Identity: Running Tuvel’s Argument the Other Way
11/4/2022 - Greek footballer Vassilis Tsiartas sentenced to prison over 2017 post against Transgender Bill
Vassilis Tsiartas, the former player of AEK and the Greek national team, was sentenced by the Single-Member Misdemeanor Court of Athens to 10 months in prison and a 5,000 euro suspended fine for his ‘transphobic’ post on social media in 2017.
Op-Eds of Interest
Millennial women weren't bottle-fed gender identity bullshit. How did we fall for it?
Dicking About: Are Women Afraid of The Penis? by Suzanne Moore
Why I will never use female pronouns for Eddie Izzard by Brendan O’Neill
More radical with age; Older women are the true gender rebels