Rishi Sunak says 'a man is a man and a woman is a woman'

jadis · 10-24-2024, 03:39 AM

Trans charity Mermaids gave children chest binders without telling parents

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The transgender charity Mermaids gave chest binders to children as young as 13 against their parents’ wishes and wrongly claimed puberty blockers were reversible, a report by the regulator has found.
The Charity Commission’s two-year inquiry discovered “systemic failings” and “mismanagement” at the organisation, whose chief executive, Susie Green, left abruptly in 2022. The regulator’s report, published on Thursday, reveals that Green was dismissed by the charity’s trustees after they lost confidence in her.
It found that Mermaids gave 24 chest binders to young people without their parents’ involvement — including 15 to children aged 13 to 16. The regulator concluded that parents were unable to ensure safety advice was followed with the chest binders, which are used to flatten breasts with constrictive materials to make a person more male-presenting. It said parents must give consent in decisions to use them.
Mermaids has removed claims on its website that puberty blockers are reversible after being told by the commission to review its language over potential risks.

jadis · 11-02-2024, 02:48 PM

Julie Bindel is someone I used to occasionally read in the Guardian ages ago and found her a bit too aggressive, "strident," unpleasant, one-note, too "comomonsensical" and just uninteresting... Today I no longer read the Guardian and have a lot of respect for her common sense.

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Trans extremists have egg on their faces once again

Women are winning what increasingly seems like a zero sum game with woke gender warriors

Across the world, this has been a good week for feminists and a bad one for trans activists. Sadly, it shows the shocking extent to which the two groups’ interests are now opposed.

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis centre announced it will not be a part of the ‘Rape Crisis Scotland’ service after the CEO said there was no reason why transgender people (aka men) could not work in rape support centres.

The Glasgow Centre’s priority is to provide a single-sex service by an all-female workforce. In a victory for women facing some of the worst-imaginable circumstances, it will no longer accept the dogma peddled by other “trans inclusive” rape crisis centres across Scotland. It beggars belief that women have to now fight through potential controversy and cancellation for something that, only 10 years ago, was an inalienable right.

In another win for common sense, this week’s Charity Commission report into the trans charity ‘Mermaids’ has unveiled mismanagement and poor governance rife at the heart of the organisation. Supposedly set up to “relieve the mental and emotional stress of children and young people affected by gender identity issues and their families”, there have been several huge scandals attached to Mermaids.

Also this week, a New York Times investigation exposed the decision to apparently cover up the results of a study into the effects of puberty blockers on the mental health of young people with gender dysphoria.

Johanna Olson-Kennedy, the lead researcher, vociferous trans activist and lobbyist for ‘gender-affirming care’, had set out to show that young patients given puberty blockers would experience “decreased symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, self-injury and suicidality”.

But the evidence, which Olson-Kennedy is said to have suppressed, showed nothing of the kind. Olson-Kennedy said that she was worried the study’s findings would be “weaponised” by those opposed to gender ideology.

Despite these significant wins beginning to turn the tide on trans ideology’s choke-hold on the establishment, feminists must not be complacent. The war is not yet won. Far too many institutions are still enthralled by this madness.

Women (and men) across the UK have been forced to take employers to court over bullying and discrimination in the workplace simply because they hold the view that there are only two biological sexes, rather than hundreds of ‘gender identities’. Some police forces still record the ‘preferred gender’ of male sex offenders when they are arrested. As a result, a number of female victims of male violence have been compelled to refer to their perpetrator as ‘she’; and other equally horrific stories prevail.

And, the British Medical Association advised medics not to trust the findings of the impressive, rigorous and impartial Cass Review because it doesn’t align with their blinkered view on social transitioning.

When I recently interviewed a number of parents of young people who were being encouraged by school teachers to socially transition for my podcast series, I was shocked. I heard that these parents were threatened with having their children taken away if they refuse to affirm their child as the opposite sex.

Despite the Cass Review being conclusive and hard-hitting, that medical professionals, social services, police forces and other pillars of society refuse to accept its conclusive findings show there is still so much more to be done.

While these atrocities continue to happen, we cannot rest on our laurels.

jadis · 11-03-2024, 03:20 AM

This is exactly the kind of story that shows why I find the trans debate in the UK so much more inspiring than across the pond. The ones standing up to demands of trans activists are feminists active in labor unions.

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Brave nurses just want the right to privacy

Darlington nursing staff didn’t have views on ‘trans debate’, then a biologically male colleague used their changing room

None of the Darlington nurses had a view on the “trans debate” until last August: they were too busy caring for patients or their own families. Then a male theatre nurse who calls himself Rose began using the female facilities where they change before and after a shift. Rose has not transitioned. He wears men’s clothes and apart from long hair he presents wholly as male, nor, say his colleagues, does he take hormones because he and his girlfriend are trying to conceive. Parading around in boxer shorts, staring at nurses in their bras and asking one woman repeatedly “are you going to get undressed yet?”, Rose made nurses feel so uncomfortable some started changing in the disabled toilet.

But when they complained to management they learnt that the policy of County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is that trans staff can self-identity into any changing room they choose. The women were offered a small office in which to change and keep their clothes (initially on the floor) but it has no loos or showers and opens straight on to a corridor so, as Lockey puts it, “if you’re not careful, everyone gets an eyeful”.

This policy is pure Stonewall playbook, part of the trans “toolkit” of measures it has long insisted every institution or company adopts, especially the rule that it is unhappy women who must be banished from their own facilities rather than — as the nurses have requested — a dignified third space being found for a trans person.

When the nurses lodged their complaint, Lockey contacted Unison for advice but received no answer. Other women were members of the Royal College of Nursing which sent a rep to a meeting with HR, but only as an observer. Around 25 nurses attended, some coming in from days off, but their worries were wafted away by an HR official who said she’d gladly change with men as she was “ex-forces”. The nurses, including the sexual abuse survivor, were told to “broaden their outlook”.

Snubbed by their unions, the women formed their own group, the Darlington Nursing Union, both to organise for their pending legal action and to demand private facilities for women in all professions. With such contempt for female members, it’s little wonder the trade union movement is haemorrhaging women, with 83,000 leaving last year alone.

After Steve North’s outburst I called Unison. Will it defend women members compelled by management to undress with trans-identifying males? “The union is not involved in the [Darlington] case,” said a statement, “and it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to comment.” A cowardly swerve. The truth is its policy states “trans people are entitled to use single-sex facilities in accordance with their gender identity”. So why won’t Unison defend it?

After [pro-trans activism trade union president] Steve North’s outburst I called Unison. Will it defend women members compelled by management to undress with trans-identifying males? “The union is not involved in the [Darlington] case,” said a statement, “and it wouldn’t be appropriate for us to comment.” A cowardly swerve. The truth is its policy states “trans people are entitled to use single-sex facilities in accordance with their gender identity”. So why won’t Unison defend it?

An official told me, with some exasperation, that North was “elected by a very small group of activists, whose views don’t reflect those of the wider membership”. No kidding. The Darlington nurses, like most members, loyally paid their subs but rarely attended meetings, let alone drafted motions or stood as conference delegates. It is activists, with the most extreme ideological agenda, who formulate policy. “And the first thing we knew about it,” Lockey says, “is when it smacked us in the face.”

Since trans self-ID became a hot issue, debate within unions has been stifled. Feminists arguing it impinges on women’s rights were vilified and censured. At the Scottish Labour conference in February, the GMB, Unite and Unison all refused to support a motion acknowledging the “principle of women’s sex-based rights”. Even a trans woman, Debbie Hayton, was driven from office in the NASUWT for holding gender-critical views.

A vicious, vengeful trans lobby, which dubs opponents bigots, has frightened many into silence. The Darlington nurses were always whispering in hospital kitchens with distressed colleagues too fearful to go public. But they are determined neither to resign from jobs they love, nor to back down. Their tribunal case, which has a preliminary hearing this month, could set a major precedent. They also have a strong ally in Streeting, Labour’s least tribal thinker, who is determined to unravel NHS policy at source. Introduced by stealth it has turned loyal, hard-working nurses into unlikely campaigners.

Just when you think the gender war is over, women have to battle for the most basic right: to undress in their workplace without being watched by a man.

jadis · 11-03-2024, 03:28 AM

Trans rapist Isla Bryson launches vicious verbal attacks on JK Rowling from prison cell

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Double rapist Isla Bryson has launched a vicious verbal attack on JK Rowling over transgender rights.

The sex offender branded the Harry Potter author “pathetic” and backed under-fire Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre for employing a trans-
identifying man as CEO.

In letters to the Sunday Mail, Bryson, a biological male who transitioned after being accused of rape, rants that Rowling is “narrow minded”.

The 32-year-old, born Adam Graham, said: “Why should a trans woman be treated as a man in prison when we are women? Fact. No matter what anyone else says these people are just narrow minded who don’t even like themselves.

“People like JK Rowling are sad and pathetic. I do feel sorry for JK Rowling, her books are crap and her movies are too.”

The millionaire writer and women’s rights campaigner has fought to protect single sex spaces in jails and rape centres.

Rowling has held a longstanding interest in women’s rights and has been a vocal critic in the worldwide debate against claims that sex is not defined by biology and that each person has the right to choose their gender.

The Harry Potter creator, 59, who lives in Edinburgh, has also been a fiercely outspoken against the Scottish Government’s gender reform plans, arguing the proposals would have infringed on women’s safety.

In April, Rowling was cleared of breaching hate crime laws, which came into force on April 1, after the author described several transgender women - including transgender campaigners and convicted sex offenders -including Bryson - as men in social media posts.

Writing on social media platform X in April, Rowling wrote: “Lovely Scottish lass and convicted double rapist Isla Bryson found her true authentic female self shortly before she was due to be sentenced. Misgendering is hate, so respect Isla’s pronouns, please.”

Bryson sparked political uproar when held in Cornton Vale women’s jail before moving to all-male HMP Edinburgh.

The case fuelled outrage over the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill and recording of sex and gender. It also contributed to the resignation of Nicola Sturgeon last year.

The former first minister was unable to say if Bryson was a man or a woman.

The rapist, now at Glenochil jail, weighed in on the Mridul Wadhwa debate – the trans woman who ran Edinburgh’s sexual violence support service.

Wadhwa quit Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre in September after a Rape Crisis Scotland report found she “did not understand the limits of her authority” and rape survivors were not being prioritised and single sex services not protected.

Wadhwa said those wanting single sex care were bigoted.

Bryson said: “She had every right to work there. She is a woman.”

Bryson was jailed for eight years for raping two women. Prison guidance then said trans criminals should be sent to the jail that matched their self-identified gender prior to conviction.

It emerged Police Scotland considered logging Bryson as female on the sex offenders’ register.

Bryson said: “They should log me as a woman, I am a woman with boobs.”

The rapist said moving from Cornton Vale had let him meet men.

Last July we told of his relationship with Jason King, 46, jailed for child sex abuse and drug offences.

Bryson said: “I was annoyed when they removed me but I would never have met Jason King, I still love and miss him.”

Bryson was convicted in January 2023 of raping two woman – one in Clydebank in 2016 and another in Drumchapel in 2019, while known as Graham.

On bail Bryson began to identify as a woman. In February last year, Bryson was jailed for eight years, with a further three years on licence.

**Marie Monday** · 11-03-2024, 10:05 AM

Do you realise how bad that article is? I'm not even talking about it's message. Its violation of basic journalistic integrity is so childish it's preposterous

jadis · 11-05-2024, 11:51 AM

Which one?

**Marie Monday** · 11-05-2024, 11:59 AM

the last one, I haven't read the others so idk about them even though I have my suspicions. It reads like a fanfiction written by a 14 year old tumblr girl. 'The sexy blone told the dark-haired broody hunk...' etc. Makes your edgy declaration of not reading the guardian a bit less impressive I must say

jadis · 11-05-2024, 12:20 PM

Not sure what you're referring to. I'm a big fan of British tabloidese, the sleazier the better, but this one is a pretty straight news article for a tabloid. "Vicious" is clear editorializing but overall it's just a bit average. The story itself is great though.

**Marie Monday** · 11-05-2024, 12:28 PM

Mate seriously? Look at the use of epithets. 'For a tabloid' says enough, admittedly I don't know what the average tabloid article is like but this is not an average news article by any half-decent standard

jadis · 11-05-2024, 12:34 PM

Besides "vicious" which other epithets?

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jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,484	Which one? __________________ "There is no way to enshrine counterfactual assertions about the self as a basis for inclusion without coercion and repression of those living in reality."

11-05-2024, 12:20 PM	#178 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,484	Not sure what you're referring to. I'm a big fan of British tabloidese, the sleazier the better, but this one is a pretty straight news article for a tabloid. "Vicious" is clear editorializing but overall it's just a bit average. The story itself is great though. __________________ "There is no way to enshrine counterfactual assertions about the self as a basis for inclusion without coercion and repression of those living in reality."

11-05-2024, 12:34 PM	#180 (permalink)
jadis Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2021 Location: dont ask Posts: 1,484	Besides "vicious" which other epithets? __________________ "There is no way to enshrine counterfactual assertions about the self as a basis for inclusion without coercion and repression of those living in reality."