Weekly News Roundup July 15-21
Lia Thomas hits the news again, though some good news from World Athletics. Also, anthropology is now "transphobic".
Hope everyone had a good week. Here’s our Weekly News Roundup. Share as widely as possible to people outside of Ovarit. We need to make our voices heard!!!
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
7/21/22 - Bill Shorten intervenes to replace ‘birth parent’ with ‘mother’ on Medicare form
Australian Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten has issued instructions that all Medicare forms must use the term “mother” instead of Newspeak “birthing parent”.
7/20/22 - SNP accused of flouting court ruling to define biological men as women
For Women Scotland is suing the Nicola Sturgeon administration for its blatantly refusal to comply with the landmark court ruling five months ago against defining men as “women” based on men’s own chosen “identity”.
7/19/22 - Trans NHS worker wins discrimination case after being ‘embarrassed’ by her [sic] boss confronting her [sic] over ‘concerns’ from staff that she [sic] was ‘naked from the waist down’ in shared changing rooms
A trans-identified man successfully won part of a discrimination suit after allegations that he was abused by his colleagues and singled out by his boss because of his gender identity. The man claimed that a note saying “get out tranny” was left in his locker and that he overheard two female colleagues saying they felt uncomfortable with him because of his chosen identity. The tribunal agreed that the man was treated differently than a woman would be if she was walking around naked from the waist down in a locker room. And because we’re living in a clown world, it’s somehow problematic that a naked man would be treated differently than a naked woman in a woman’s locker room.
*sigh* In the latest push to turn all humans into sexless blobs, gender ideologists in the field of archaeology are now arguing that archaeologists and others who do forensic human identification should refrain from categorizing remains as “female” or “male.” Their argument, of course, is that we can’t possibly know how these long-dead people would have identified themselves. This is dumb for many reasons. Three obvious ones are that 1) even if there are clues that the person who was found was gender non-conforming, gender non-conforming does not equal transgender, 2) sex is one important category for collecting data about differing social and physical experiences, and 3) gender ideology is a present-day fad that cannot be retroactively applied to ancient cultures.
7/17/22 - Trans-indentifying male prisoner in New Jersey who impregnated two female inmates removed from women’s prison back to men’s prison.
7/15/22 - JK Rowling backs parents told disabled daughter did not have right to female-only care
Queen Jo continues to speak up for vulnerable girls and women. Bless her heart and thank goodness we have her on our side.
7/14/22 - Trans activists destroy a collage made by mothers mourning their babies lost in miscarriages. The “activists” took offense because the organization associated with the collage was deemed “TERFy.”
Sex Discrimination
7/19/22 - New women’s health strategy for England aims to end decades of inequality
UK government adopts new strategy aimed to improve healthcare for women and healthcare disparity with multiple initiatives including new mandatory training women’s health training for doctors and medical students, more cancer checks, access to contraception, IVF, maternity support, mental health services, a national fitness program for older women, and one-stop-shop hubs across the NHS, end remedy data gap to improve diagnoses and treatments for women, and new research on women’s health issues.
7/18/22 - Federal judge blocks Biden administration’s pro-transgender directives in schools
The Biden Administration’s insane push to erase Title IX’s protection for girls and women and repurpose the law to protect “gender identities” is temporarily blocked by the federal court. Regardless of the issue, the White House is very much overstepping its authority.
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Two women could face sentences of life in prison if convicted.
7/15 - Doctor who treated 10-year-old rape victim sends Indiana AG cease and desist letter
After their denial and skepticism about a 10-year-old rape victim being pregnant, which was debunked, the Republicans followed their act with the Indiana Attorney General making false criminal accusation against the doctor who provided abortion services to the victim. Can they sink any lower?
Males in Female Sports
7/21/22 - ‘Biology trumps gender’: Athletics could ban transgender and DSD women from female events
Some good news before we get to the bad. World Athletics signal it will follow science and ensure FairPlay in women’s sports. We especially love this statement by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe:
“We’ve always been guided by the science, and the science is pretty clear: we know that testosterone is the key determinant in performance. I’m really over having any more of these discussions with second-rate sociologists who sit there trying to tell me or the science community that there may be some issue. There isn’t. Testosterone is the key determinant in performance.”
If you can, please contact World Athletics or send them a message by social media to let them know they have your support:
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7/21/22 - Caster Semenya out of world 5,000m as Coe signals tougher female sport rules
Caster Semenya, who is barred from competing in races for 400m to a mile after the sport’s governing adopted new testosterone requirements, continues to try to cheat by entering the 5000m Women’s World Championship, to which the new requirements do not apply. In this instance, he struck out and failed to qualify. But the door is still left open for men to cheat women out of their rightful spots and awards in the future.
At the collegiate level, it is left to courageous athlete like Riley Gaines to a lone fight to speak up against the NCAA and powerful universities about the inequity. Riley is also a nominee from her school. No doubt the NCAA will keep tab on her being a woman who dares to speak. By speaking out, Riley has likely foregone all chances of winning the title herself. Thank you, Riley. We need more women like you.
Tennis wonder woman Martina Navratilova continues to speak out in hope of reigning in this injustice detrimental to women’s rights.
7/17/22 - UPenn slammed for nominating Lia Thomas for NCAA’s ‘Woman of the Year’ award
What do you think, gyns? Is there a trans person somewhere in the leadership at UPenn? Why else would the school continue to create such unnecessary controversy by pushing William “Lia” Thomas on the public? The more likely explanation is what we already know: instead of admitting that trans activism is getting out of hand, the Left (politicians, academics, Hollywood) is doubling down on its support for the flawed ideology.
Pornography, Sexual Assaults, and Sexual Exploitation
7/21/22 - Rape offences at highest recorded level
Police in England and Wales have recorded the highest number of rapes and sexual offences in 20 years.
7/19/22 - UK armed forces introduce ban on use of sex workers abroad
In response to what Defense Secretary Ben Wallace described as “a change in social attitudes,” the military is prohibiting servicemen from engaging in transactional sex. Personnel who are caught buying sex will face discharge and, if prostitution is illegal in the country where the act occurs, prosecution. This is a win for women, although the motivations of the military seem to be liability: in 2012, the military had to clean up behind a British serviceman who had murdered a Kenyan woman he had used for sex; in 2020, personnel from a unit of the Parachute Regiment group had to be confined after “up to 100 sought medical advice after visiting temporary brothels.” Still, we commend any policy that protects the world's most vulnerable women from this particular form of military subjugation. Hopefully, the US will follow suit.
7/17/22 - Queensland wants to deregulate the sex industry because it’s cheaper not because it’s ‘safer’
Queensland’s Law Reform Commission’s “Framework for a decriminalized sex work industry in Queensland” explains that “Decriminalizing sex work may … reduce the financial burden on the criminal justice system, and allow police to focus on other crimes.”
Special Report
An article also came to our attention which we feel important enough to raise awareness, even though it was originally published in June.
6/9/22 - "It makes my skin crawl": sexual moaning rise in schools
A new trend is happening in schools. Boys of all ages are making sexual moaning noises they learned from porn or each other to their classmates who are girls and even teachers. And yet, there is still not serious public discussions on the huge harm pornography is doing to our collective society. Do you know if this is happening to your children at school? You may want to talk to your kids and find out. And if you have any information or stories to share, please comment below and help us bring further awareness.
Technology Impacting Women
7/19/22 - Walgreens is selling the data of women who buy pregnancy tests
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News Impacting Society and Children
7/19/22 - House passes bill to protect same-sex marriage in effort to counter Supreme Court
The bipartisan bill seeks to shore up same-sex marriage right. Will it pass the Senate? We’re keeping our fingers crossed. Meanwhile, just what are the Democrats going to do about abortion right? We’re still waiting.
The Trans Trend continues to try to blur the line when it comes to inappropriate behaviors and content for children.
7/18/22 - London’s ‘Eunuch-Maker’ Was a Queer Activist in Leading ‘Gender Diversity’ Organization
Freaky freak Marius Gustavson, arrested along with a group of others for performing at-home orchiectomies (i.e. ball snipping), served as Chairman of the Board for a chapter of the trans lobbying group The Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity (FRI). FRI is hardly a small random lobbying group. One of their “achievements” is getting the World health Organization to “depathologize fetishism, sadomasochism, and fetishistic transvestitism.” For those whose heads are spinning by how gender ideology has taken over Western society, take this as a clue of what the next perversions are that will be pushed in the mainstream. Freaks like Gustavson are influencing our nations’ policies.
7/18/22 - Republicans launch bill that would require fathers to pay child support to unborn babies
Sure. Un-huh. That’ll work, because it’s working so effectively with fathers who have children actually born. Yep. Our work is done. All hail the Republicans. Our problems are solved. 🙄 How did we never know this was the answer to all our problems when abortions are banned?
This article summarizes the hateful and anarchist attacks of a trans-identified man who led a right-wing militia group. It also touches on the changes made in transgender policies in prisons after the Trump administration ended. Of note, there’s a good chance that this particular violent weirdo is serving his time in a woman prison and getting whatever access to “cosmetic surgeries, sex hormones, and brassieres” for himself that he claims to need for his “dysphoria.”
7/16/22 - Drag queen story time for primary school children prompts backlash from parents
There are 70 drag story time events planned as part of a summer tour aimed at children 3 to 11 years old. Parents are objecting to both to overtly sexualized characterization of women as well as the continued conflation of sex and gender. Drag has, historically, been an art form that is not inherently about transgenderism (although there have been some trans-identified males who dabbled in drag). With the gender ideology craze, however, we see it becoming another platform for the the ideologists to confuse the ideas of gender and sex, not only for the audience but for the performers as well. For a very public example, look no further than the most recent US season of Rupaul’s Drag Race, the show that has brought drag to the mainstream and where half the season 14 cast had decided they were transgender by the end of the season airing.
7/14/22 - B.C.'s Kamloopa Powwow apologizes over blood ancestry and gender entry requirements
Indigenous tribe in Canada publicly shamed and forced to publicly confess and apologize to atone for their sin for not adhering to trendy elite white ideology of allowing men to enter dance contest for women.
Entertainment
Not a ton to summarize here. Just a recent instance of a woman supporting another woman. Yay, Dame Maureen Lipman!