Weekly News Roundup Sept 2 to Sept 8
It's bad, but it's not all bad. Make sure to take some time to log off and relax a bit this weekend.
Erasing Women and Women’s Spaces
09/08/22 - The World’s Top Thinkers 2022
First, some GREAT news: Kathleen Stock (Material Girls) and Carolina Criado Perez (Invisible Women) made the reader-voted Top 10 list of intellectuals of 2022!
09/07/22 - WDI publishes report on reach of queer theorists in schools
Women’s Declaration International has published a summary of what they learned from a FOIA request (for non-Americans, FOIA allows the public to request the release of documents controlled by the US government). WDI includes the materials that they received in addition to their own summary, which highlights how schools promote belief in “gender identity.” Chris Rufo also published a piece this week on the collaboration between a Chicago hospital and local schools to promote queer sex education.
09/06-07/22 - Stories about protests and protestors
09/03/22 - University feminist society ‘purged by trans activists’ with members frightened into quitting
The Feminist Society at Swansea University was effectively shadowbanned by the school after complaints of “transphobia.” The organization was exclusively female and devoted to women’s rights. They came onto the radar of Trans Rights Activists after vocalizing support for Kathleen Stock and a Helen Joyce book, after which the group faced an onslaught of threats and insults by Trans Rights Activists on social media.
Sex-based Discrimination
09/07/22 - Pregnant women held for months in one Alabama jail to protect fetuses from drugs
A sickening exposé detailing the horrid treatment of pregnant and post-partum mothers in an Alabama jail. The story is made worse by the fact that these mothers have not necessarily been found guilty of a crime, but rather are targeted in a wrongheaded effort by the state to protect the fetuses and babies from potential drug exposure.
09/04/22 - Anger over Glasgow professor’s ‘female brain’ image
Former comedian John Leach, who is now a professor at University of Glasgow, is under investigation for including a sexist graph ridiculing women’s cognition. The graph includes dated sexist stereotypes, like that we spend too much time thinking about shoes and we don’t know how to drive.
Sexual Exploitation
09/03/22 - Instagram Removes Pornhub’s Account
Title is explanatory. Why, I wonder, is Pornhub such a target when it is hardly the only website guilty of hosting illegal pornography? Do more people need to come forward about illegal explicit videos of them being available for every site? Is that what it takes? That’s challenging since a person doesn’t necessarily know if or where a video of him or her exists.
Males in Female Spaces
09/07/22 - IMMAF holds online discussion on transgender policy
The federation for mixed martial arts weighs how to approach the issue of allowing trans-identifying people to compete.
Meanwhile, the Welsh Rugby Union has followed the lead of the Rugby Football Union (09/07) to ban trans-identified males from women’s rugby.
09/07/22 - Period dignity officer role scrapped after abuse over man's appointment
An update to that ridiculous story about the appointment of a man as Period Dignity Officer in Scotland: the government decided not to move forward with creation of the position at all. And the man who lost out on the role now plans to sue for discrimination.
09/03/22 - Protesters seeking to stop trans women using Hampstead Heath's ladies pond
Here, women in the UK protest to push City of London Corporation to make the ladie’s pond a single-sex space again. Note that there’s already a mixed pond option. So, there’s no need for Y-chromes to invade the women’s pond if their problem is that they don’t want to be surrounded be in a male-only space.
09/03/22 - Exclusive: RFU hit by legal action over transgender women ban
A man named Julie Curtiss has sent a warning letter to RFU, the UK’s rugy federation, that he will take legal action against RFU unless they come to the table to “resolve” the trans ban issue. It’s worth clicking the link to this story to see a picture of Curtiss holding a sign that says “Rugby is for everyone.” Yes, Mr. Curtiss, it is. No one is arguing that you can’t play rugby, we’re only asking that you stick to playing against other males.
09/03/22 - Trans, non-binary community alarmed by Brian Jean email challenging gender identity in sport
TRAs upset because a United Conservative Party candidate in Canada, Brian Jean, sent an email to his supporters stating his position that people born as males should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports.
News Impacting Society and Children
09/07/22 - Bank pulls its support for Pride event due to inclusion of children’s activities
09/07/22 - The first trans NCAA D1 men's athlete is now training employers on gender literacy
Trans-identified females rejoice - a news story has highlighted a “transman” for once! This one covers how Schuyler Bailar is making a career of teaching businesses how to be more “inclusive.”
09/07/22 - Liz Truss is trying to block Scotland’s Gender Recognition Act reforms
Trans rights whistleblowers reached out to journalists to reveal that UK’s new prime minister Liz Truss plans to make it a priority to stop Scotland’s reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has sided against parents who claimed discrimination in an attempt to challenge the right of their daughter’s school to promote gender theory. This case could represent a rise in interest of challenging gender identity lessons in schools in Canada.
09/05/22 - SNP have ‘ignored evidence’ of bullying in schools due to gender guidance say teachers
Unsurprisingly, the adult trend of shaming and cancelling people who don’t agree with (or are confused by) gender/queer theory has now expanded to children. Children are using wrongthink as an excuse to bully one another. Does bullying only matter when it happens to “trans” kids?
09/05/22 - Christian street preacher, 41, who harassed a transgender woman calling her [sic] a 'man in woman's clothing' is given a community order and fined £715
The man fined in this story is hardly sympathetic. He’s the type who shouts at people on the street about giving themselves to God to avoid eternal damnation. The issue, though, is that that there’s any place in the free world of the West where you can be fined for saying something that someone else finds mean. In this case, a trans-identified man took it upon himself to walk up to the street preacher and ask the preacher his views on LGBT people. When the preacher responded predictably, and called out the trans-identified man as a “man in woman’s clothing,” the trans-identified man got upset and reported the preacher.
09/03/22 - New data shows thousands of transgender Medicaid recipients sought care in Florida
Politico writes a trans-sympathetic piece about how Florida’s ban on “gender-affirming care” for Medicaid recipients was followed by the release of data showing that trans medical care had doubled between 2018 and 2021. To trans activists, this is proof that many people need “gender-affirming care.” To the rest of us, it merely shows that the number of people that want to transition is increasing. That doesn’t mean that they need to, and it certainly doesn’t mean that taxpayers need to fund it.
09/02/22 - Trans activist charities receive taxpayers’ money through ‘loophole’
I hope to see more articles that “follow the money” to uncover how the eff these trans organizations have so much influence. In this case in the UK, it was “lack of oversight” that allowed charities that received government funding to improperly pass on some of those funds to ideologically extreme organizations like Mermaids. Credit where credit is due: minister for government efficiency Jacob Rees-Mogg intends to correct this by setting up an oversight board that monitors grants that have been allocated. I put this as another win for TERFs, as the fact that the article specifically mentions the shady practice as it relates to trans organizations (when I’m sure the loophole was exploited by other kinds of organizations, too) is another sign that the general public and The Powers That Be are increasingly critical of the gender movement.
Beyond the West
09/08/22 - Transgender admission issues arise at women’s universities
Japan is looking at how to assuasge some women’s concerns around bringing trans-identified men into women’s colleges. Et tu, Japan?
Truly inspirational. And a good reminder that, no matter how dire circumstances may feel in our home countries and abroad, we all have the resolve to keep pushing forward.
09/04/22 - Iran Sentences Two LGBTQ Activists To Death For ‘Promoting Homosexuality’
Two women, Zahra Sedighi-Hamedani and Elham Choubdar, have been sentenced to execution while a third woman, Soheila Ashrafi, awaits a verdict. All three have been accused of promoting homosexuality through their activism for gay rights. Sedighi-Hamedani was also accused of trafficking Iranian women, but it’s unclear if there’s truly a basis for that charge. Now that the story is in the international spotlight, we have to hope that Iran will reconsider.
Entertainment
09/07/22 - DistroKid banned my songs
Francis Aaron’s songs that are critical of trans ideology have been banned by the music distributor. Click the tweet for more details.
09/03/22 - Maren Morris Raises $100K for Trans Nonprofits with Merch of Tucker Carlson's 'Lunatic' Dig
Maren Morris and Brittany Aldean are feuding on social media over trans rights. Aldean has successfully sold merchanside that trumpets her beliefs against transing kids, and now apparently Morris is doing the same to trumpet her opposing beliefs.
It’s rare to hear any criticism of surrogacy. That criticism coming from a famous person is even more noteworthy.
09/02/22 - Jameela Jamil does a misgendering oopsie on Twitter
There are few things more entertaining that watching Trans Rights Activists eat their own upon the slightest misstep. Let this thread also be a reminder of the constantly changing rules of gender ideologists, as those in Jamil’s replies argue about Jamil’s misstep.
**Old News
12/20/21 - Suicide, forced puberty and underage marriage on the rise in war torn Syria, new report says
This article is going on one year old, but I felt compelled to include it here because I think it’s important that we all do as much as we can to make sure the plight of our sisters in war torn nations abroad — especially ones in countries where the West has played a role in their destabilization — is seen and known. This article describes the tragic impact that the decade-long civil war in Syrian has had on its population, particularly it’s children. Girls are being married off younger, children are to unable attain even a grade-school education, the suicide rate has skyrocketed. Horror all around.
Op-Eds of Interest
Gender-affirming care for transgender kids is going to backfire: experts
“Gender identity” ran around the world before women’s rights had got their boots on
Liz Truss: An open letter from The Yorkshire Post to our new Prime Minister
Antarctic stations are plagued by sexual harassment – it’s time for things to change