Weekly News Roundup: 9/30-10/6
Mermaids under investigation, Catholic woman arrested in front of family over social media posts, father being compelled by courts to accept child's gender transition
Calls to Action:
Petition: DEMAND THE REMOVAL OF MEN FROM WOMEN’S PRISONS IN VICTORIA
The University of Southern Maine Must Support Professor Christy Hammer and Biological Fact
Top News: (UK) Mermaids Exposed
Transgender Charity Mermaids is unraveling as multiple controversies surfaced, beginning with their practice of sending breast binders to minors:
Transgender youth support charity Mermaids is being investigated by the Charity Commission after The Telegraph revealed “red flags” in its dealings with children. The regulator said it had opened a “regulatory compliance case” after concerns were raised about the trans charity’s “approach to safeguarding young people”. The charity has been sending potentially dangerous breast binding devices to children behind their parents’ backs and discussing with them how puberty blocking drugs are “totally reversible”.
The scandal continued with the discovery that one of their trustees, Jacob Breslow, is a pedophiles supporter:
The week then closed with More Mermaids scandal coming to light. The The Times informs readers of the forums where vulnerable children are left in the hands of agenda-pushing genderists.
10/01/22 - Trans charity’s chatroom for children condemned as irresponsible free-for-all
Trans and gender diverse charity suspends helpline after 'intolerable abuse'
Silencing Girls, Women, and Their Supporters by Threats and Cancellation
Award-winning novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has said she will continue to speak her mind regardless of the consequences after she faced online backlash for saying 'transwomen are transwomen' in a 2017 interview.
10/06/22 - 'Mum and dad' or 'ladies and gentlemen' banned under new 'woke' language guide for councils
A new language guide instructs councils in England and Wales to avoid calling parents "mother" or "father" in an attempt to be more inclusive. Instead of referring to parents' gender, the Local Government Association's guide advises staff to use the term "birthing parent". Other banned terms in the 18-page document include "expat", "second generation", "the homeless", "lifestyle choice", "economic migrant" and "deprived neighbourhoods".
A gender-critical Catholic mother has blasted police after officers 'swooped on her home and arrested her in front of her children' over a series of 'malicious' posts on chat board KiwiFarms.
Caroline Farrow, a journalist and mother-of-five, shared a lengthy thread online detailing her experience with Surrey Police after two police officers reportedly 'forced' their way into her home to arrest her on Monday night.
Erasing Women and Women’s Spaces
MPs are urging major high street stores to scrap unisex changing rooms following a surge in women suffering traumatic encounters with men.
Last week Charlotte Kirby, 25, posted a video tearfully revealing how two men had walked in on her while she tried on outfits at a unisex changing room at Primark in Cambridge.
While the genderist movement is the loudest threat to women’s rights and dignity these days, it’s hardly the only battle that we’re fighting. Surrogacy (and the predatory private adoption industry) is growing in popularity as more and more wealthy people feel entitled to the “service” of having a woman grow and birth children for them. Here the focus is homosexual couples, and I’d argue that’s intentional: making this about a culture war, instead of discussing it as the class issue that it is, is a way to make sure that those who lean left sympathize with the purchasers instead of the people whose bodies are being purchased.
I don’t need to summarize this one. You already know what the story is about, as this keeps happening in the West. Man convicted of horrendous sex crimes > man decides he wants to LARP as a woman > prisons bend over backwards to accommodate the man > female prisoners are harmed by the man. Morally reprehensible all around.
9/30/22 - “Trans-Muslima” Profiled In German News After Accusing Domestic Violence Shelter of Transphobia
A German trans-identified male was sympathetically profiled in local news after he accused a women’s domestic violence shelter of “transphobia” for not having the space to accommodate him.
Joyce van den Brink-Böhm, a white male who identifies as a Muslim woman, was featured in Ruhr Nachrichten on September 28 after he accused a women’s crisis shelter in Dortmund of “transphobia.”
Males in Female Sports
Members of a Vermont girls high school volleyball team have been banned from using their own locker room and now have to change in a single bathroom stall after they complained about a transgender teammate.
09/30/22 - My daughter [sic] is barred from competing in school sports in at least a dozen states. It's all because she's [sic] trans.
File this one under “comedy.” Mom angry at her state because her son, the only person in the family to suck at sports, is not allowed to compete as a girl instead of a boy.
9/30/22 - ‘No Chance of Winning’: Four female athletes challenge high school transgender policy
Four female athletes are locked in a legal battle over transgender athletes that could set major precedent for the same fight playing out in schools around the country.
The four female athletes appealed to a federal court over a Connecticut policy allowing high school males identifying as females to compete against girls. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit heard Soule v. Connecticut Association of Schools this week, where the girls’ legal team argued the policy is unfair to girls and hands female sports victories over to transgender athletes.
An attorney representing now-graduated high school girls track athletes from Connecticut argued in appeals court in New York City Thursday that transgender female runners’ records and results should be erased from the record books.
Pornography, Sexual Harassment, and Sexual Assaults
An investigation has found that widespread abuse of players in U.S. women’s professional soccer existed despite some of the behavior of coaches being “an open secret.” Based on more than 200 interviews, the report – led by former acting U.S. Attorney General Sally Yates – highlighted systemic verbal and emotional abuse against players, and sexual misconduct by coaches.
10/01/22 - Trans charity’s chatroom for children condemned as irresponsible free-for-all
The first red flag was the “dick pic”. Katie had no idea her 14-year-old son was communicating with strangers in secret on the Mermaids website, until she found several sexually explicit images on his phone.
Her autistic son, who had been teased at school for possibly being gay, had visited the school nurse, who in turn did what so many schools, local authorities and child mental health services across the country now do when presented with a gender-non-conforming child in distress: referred him to Mermaids.
09/30/22 - Court Denies MindGeek’s Request for a Sweeping Anti-Piracy Injunction
Porn war. MindGeek, under legal fire for its own hosting of underage and revenge porn, is trying to take down another site that pirates copyrighted content.
Violence Against Women
10/05/22 - Transgender domestic terrorist Emily Hari to be sent to high-security male prison
Indeed, the Federal Bureau of Prisons intends to send Emily Claire Hari to a male prison — at least initially — despite the domestic terrorist from Ford County identifying as a transgender female and requesting to be housed among women, documents filed recently in U.S. District Court in Urbana confirmed.
In response to civil complaints Hari filed in federal court this summer against the Federal Bureau of Prisons in an attempt to prevent her placement in a male prison, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Klein of Peoria disclosed in a Sept. 19 court filing that Hari, formerly known as Michael B. Hari, is expected to be sent to a male facility, just as Hari had feared.
There’s a common refrain of “nice guys finish last” from men who have trouble attracting women, but is being nice the real problem? A study published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests that involuntarily celibate men show higher levels of misogyny and hostility toward women.
10/04/22 - Man Threatens to Burn Down Building Holding Feminist Conference
On Oct 3, a man called Joe Glass tweeted that a “TERF conference” was coming to Cardiff in October 2022, sparking a threat by one of his followers. During the discussion one follower said “What the absolute f..ck? Is it in a building that would be a loss if it got burned down?”
10/01/22 -Man Dressed in Women’s Clothes Rapes Woman at Gunpoint in Oklahoma
A crossdressing man has been arrested after repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Brandon Herd is currently being held on a $210,000 bond on charges including rape in the first degree and robbery by force or fear following a brutal assault on a woman at a motel on September 27.
Sex Discrimination
Shakespeare's Globe has been criticised for sharing a "derogatory" poem challenging "transphobic Terfs", as the theatre promoted a play about a non-binary Joan of Arc. Verses that begin by using the word “bitch” to descibe feminists who are critical of gender ideology were shared on the Globe's website and the venue’s Twitter feed to promote I, Joan, a play about the French heroine.
Caitlyn Jenner has accused the left of hijacking and politicizing the trans community after a high school banned some female athletes from their own locker room over their objections to a transgender student using it.
10/03/22 - Australia’s Woke misogyny problem
It is almost ten years since Julia Gillard delivered her famous misogyny speech in Parliament in response to a motion moved by the then leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott. With formidable certitude, Gillard pointed out Abbott’s ‘repulsive double standards when it comes to sexism and misogyny’ speaking to his record of regressive views on women’s role in modern society, and derogatory comments like ‘abortion is the easy way out’.
Anti-Science
9/30/22 - Students demand USM replace professor for allegedly saying there are only 2 sexes
Entire class of graduate students except one at the University of Southern Maine are demanding their education professor be replaced after the professor allegedly said only two biological sexes exist.
News Impacting Society and Children
10/06/22 - As More Transgender Children Seek Medical Care, Families confront many unknowns
Across the United States, thousands of youths are lining up for gender-affirming care. But when families decide to take the medical route, they must make decisions about life-altering treatments that have little scientific evidence of their long-term safety and efficacy.
10/04/22 - Trustee of Trans Youth Charity Resigns Over Speech at Pro-Pedophile Event
A trustee who sat on the board of a trans activist children’s charity has resigned following revelations he spoke at a conference held by an organization founded by a convicted child rapist.
10/03/22 - Pedophile Sympathizer On Board Sponsoring New LGBT Daycare Project in Berlin
A gay rights organization in Berlin, Germany, is set launch a new pilot program next spring by opening two daycare centers with a special focus on providing the children education on LGBT issues. But disturbingly, an academic with a lengthy history of normalizing pedophilia is one of three people on the board overseeing the organization.
The National Gender Service (NGS) has estimated that as many as 90pc of the people who used its service in 2022 may be autistic. The NGS and As I Am, the autism charity, have said the HSE must make resources available so that it can hire staff who specialise in autism.
The father has been instructed by the court to call his child by a new, chosen name, new preferred pronouns, and to refer to the child as being of the new, chosen gender. Golisano Children's Hospital recommends puberty blockers.
A father in New York state is fighting for his child to be allowed to grow up. The child's mother, the medical industry, and the court are pressing for the 11-year-old to be permitted to take drugs that would disrupt puberty, potentially stunting her development and leading to sterility.
10/01/22 - FUREY: Here's the latest on viral prosthetic breast teacher scandal
The best way to summarize the latest developments in the high school scandal that was seen around the world – the story of the shop class teacher who wears jumbo-sized prosthetic breasts to class – is that the school and school board are attempting to normalize the situation.
10/01/22 - Taxpayer-funded Oxford study into puberty blockers is ‘hardline trans activism’
A row between Oxford academics has broken out over a taxpayer-funded transgender study whose participants laud the benefits of puberty blockers for children as young as 13.
Nearly 100 students walked out of Farmington High School in Minnesota in protest on Wednesday after an assistant principal told staff to use their 'straight, white privilege' to protect the pupils. Administrators were discussing backlash to their decision to do away with the traditional homecoming queen and king titles in favor of gender-neutral 'homecoming royalty,' when Assistant Principal Laura Wagner made the controversial comments.
09/29/22 - CIF Southern Section votes to add girls flag football; next step is state approval
CIF-SS representatives voted 61-26 in favor of a proposal to make girls flag football a fall sport. California is one step closer to including girls flag football as a high school sport. The CIF Southern Section passed a proposal Thursday morning to make girls flag football a CIF-sanctioned sport as soon as fall 2023.
Entertainment
Transgender charity Mermaids closed its helpline and webchat service today saying it has received 'intolerable abuse'. It comes after a trustee quit over revelations he spoke at an 'academic' conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles. JK Rowling then challenged transgender television presenter India Willoughby to sue her in a Twitter spat after she blasted celebrities for backing Mermaids.
Routinely the target of TRA’s, JK Rowling’s tweets about Mermaids latest news turned into text-intensive rows today.
We've lost count of how many celebrities are raising their kids to be trans. Charlize Theron, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Gabrielle Union are just a few Hollywood names that are encouraging and even helping their child adopt gender theory. Angelina Jolie's daughter was originally in the same boat—until she grew out of it.
Actually, a US distributor did pick it up, but no distributor in the UK or Ireland yet. Either way, the filmmakers make a strong argument that this is another example of the most painful experiences of women being treated as too taboo for public discussion.
Op-Eds of Interest
The little-known history of hormone therapy is being left out of the transgender debate
If Labour is truly the party of equality, it wouldn’t shut down the trans debate
New WPATH Guidelines Further Open the Door For Predation Against Children
If Labour is truly the party of equality, it wouldn’t shut down the trans debate
Keffals: A Case Study on Internet Terrorism and Mass Media Manipulation
Feminists fight. What's new? The stupefied left transitions into a right-wing cult.
There’s Good Reason for Sports to Be Separated by Sex. If the practice stopped, top-level women’s sport as we know it might cease to exist.