Thursday, April 14, 2022
This day in Herstory: Loretta Lynn (née Webb), born April 14, 1932, is an American singer-songwriter. In a career which spans six decades in country music, Lynn has released multiple gold albums. She is famous for hits such as "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", "One's on the Way", "Fist City" and "Coal Miner's Daughter" along with the 1980 biographical film of the same name. (more)
Sadistic Killer with a “Blood Fetish” Transferred to NJ Women’s Prison
From REDUXX (USA)
By Genevieve Gluck
April 14, 2022
A sadistic male convict who admitted to killing a prostituted woman to satisfy a “blood fetish” now identifies as transgender and has been transferred to Edna Mahan Women’s Correctional Facility.
Perry Cerf was arrested for the brutal rape and murder of 47-year-old Ecuadoran immigrant Flor Andrade in 2002. Cerf, who now goes by “Michelle Hel-loki Angelina,” was found wearing his victim’s clothing and driving her car. He had also placed his own photograph over hers on Andrade’s driver’s license.
Cerf was charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, possessing a knife, providing false information to police, and various motor vehicle offenses.
While awaiting trial, Cerf penned a letter to The New York Daily News confessing to the crime and boasted about drinking the woman’s blood. … read full article (and SUPPORT REDUXX!)
Why are TRAs body-shaming J.K. Rowling?
In the discourse about “TERFs”, vicious misogyny is never far from the surface
From The Critic (UK)
By Jean Hatchet
April 14, 2022
Over the weekend a group of prominent feminist women, from a variety of walks of life, gathered together at an unknown location. Pictures of the gathering have surfaced on Twitter overnight. One of those women was J K Rowling. She sits amongst Julie, Suzanne, Kathleen and others. For these photos, she is just Joanne. Fellow warrior, sister and feminist “witch”, advocating for women’s rights according to their sex and the law.
These women are very well aware that simply gathering in this way is a political act which will cause trans activists to seek to punish them for their audacity, for daring to show openly their love for other women. Predictably the backlash from trans activists to these photos was swift and it was vicious. Deep misogyny dripped through the internet like poison.
In the photos posted JK Rowling, in a flowery tea dress with a low-cut neck, looks stunning — elegant and graceful. She wears her 56 years happily, with pride. The tweets focused on her body and her looks, however. One user @effingfaded wrote, “This is what hate does to your titties #JKRowling”.
The twisted message here is that political viewpoints expressed about the female experience of life, will in return destroy a woman’s body. The dark implication suggests that “wrongthink” about gender identity will make you less attractive to men. Your body will turn against you if you do not accept the dictates of trans-identified men about what a woman is or who the term “woman” should include. If like Rowling you think a woman is an adult human female then your body may wither, age and sag. It will betray you. … read full article (and SUBSCRIBE to The Critic!)
Man Who Molested 4-Year-Old Girl and Was Denied Gender Change Among Transfers to California Women’s Prison
From REDUXX (USA)
By Anna Slatz
April 14, 2022
A man who molested a 4-year-old girl was amongst the males transferred to a women’s institution in California following the implementation of S.B 132 despite the fact he was denied a gender change, Reduxx has learned.
Levi Page McNeese was arrested in 2015 after a 4-year-old girl reported to her mother that she had been sexually molested by him. McNeese was charged on four counts of Lewd or Lascivious Acts with a Child, to which he initially pleaded not guilty.
In 2016, McNeese agreed to a plea deal in which he was found guilty on two of the four counts. He was sentenced to 8 years in prison, and was sent to the California Institution for Men in Chino.
Reduxx obtained documents from the Superior Court of California in San Bernardino indicating that in June of 2021, shortly after S.B 132 went into effect, McNeese filed for a gender and name change, claiming he identified as a woman named Laura Isabell McNeese.
S.B 132 was legislation signed into effect in January of 2021 by California Governor Gavin Newsom. The law provides inmates housing based on their gender identity status. Almost immediately after the legal guideline went into effect, California correctional centers were hit with hundreds of transfer requests from male inmates seeking movement into women’s facilities. … read full article (and SUPPORT REDUXX!)
Helping Tracy
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
April 14, 2022
Letter from an “Abusive Mother”:
On my birthday I missed my kids, so I decided to send them both cards. I went to the store and carefully picked out the cards, and wrote out messages of joy, compassion, love, and support. The one for my younger son, who is at boarding school, would be delivered by his dad. The one to my 19 year old, I decided to hand deliver along with some birthday cake and fresh blueberries.
I wasn’t sure exactly where Tracy (name changed for the sake of privacy) is living, but I followed the crumb-trail of medical appointments, soup kitchens, and laundromats, all tied together by Uber rides. I hadn’t seen Tracy since the Spring of 2021. Tracy likes to claim poverty, but we parents still get all these bills. So, I followed that residual parent/child bond of financial support, which led me to a neighborhood I’d never visited before—a typical urban landscape of small bungalows on wooded lots. A modernist five-story building showed some recent investment in the neighborhood, as did the small, tightly remodeled duplex that housed the nonprofit that runs the shelter houses. My teen was living in one of those houses, according to the trail of Uber pick-ups, but I didn’t know which one. I asked some people on a stoop if they knew Tracy. “No, I never heard of a Tracy,” answered the lady with pig tails. She was wearing a grey hoodie and clearly didn’t want to talk with me. I had no idea at that moment, but later on I learned that this lady on the stoop is one of the staff at the shelter. She knew my teen, suspected who I was and lied to my face. I drove around the corner, back to the program office and, when no one answered my knock, I left the small package for Tracy leaning against the door.
Apparently this delivery of cake, fresh blueberries and a card is heavy criminal activity for which I am now expecting a summons by the police. I only hope that Tracy has to appear in court to make the allegation. I think I have that right, as a criminal defendant, to see and hear my accuser. … read full article (and SUBSCRIBE to PITT!)
JK Rowling and the lunch of secrets
God forbid women eat pasta and have a laugh
From UnHerd (UK)
By Julie Bindel
April 14, 2022
It may have come to your attention over the last few days that there was a lunch. The events of that afternoon have already been covered in detail, and the joyous photographic record shared widely, so I will instead focus on what led to that glorious, raucous afternoon — and the hyperbolic backlash that followed.
It was late August 2019 when a message popped up in my Twitter inbox from J.K. Rowling. I had noticed that she had begun to follow me on Twitter a few months earlier, along with a number of feminists, and I was delighted to hear from her.
“I’ve just seen that you’re in contact with Magdelen Berns,” she wrote. Berns was a young lesbian who, after being silenced at her university, made YouTube videos tackling the absurdity of transgender ideology. She was popular, hilarious and informative. I say was; Berns, in her 30s, was dying of a brain tumour. I planned to visit her at a hospice in Edinburgh and had put a call out on Twitter to any women who wished to send her a message. … read full article (and SUBSCRIBE to UnHerd!)
Teachers clash over trans rights policy as union members say 'women who want to have single-sex spaces shouldn't be labelled terfs'
Discussion took place at National Education Union conference in Bournemouth
It comes amid calls for ban on conversion therapy to apply to all LGBT people
But one member told audience women have right to fight for single-sex spaces
From Daily Mail (UK)
By TOM PYMAN
April 14, 2022
Teachers clashed over trans rights policy today after union members said women who want to have single-sex spaces 'shouldn't be labelled terfs'.
The discussion took place at the National Education Union (NEU) conference in Bournemouth this afternoon, amid calls for the Government ban on conversion therapy to apply to all LGBT people.
The NEU said it was concerned by the exclusion of trans people from the recent ban, and added that the psychological care and counselling provided for people with gender dysphoria could not be mistaken for conversion therapy.
Setting out the policy, joint general secretary Mary Bousted said: 'The Government should ban so-called 'conversion therapy' for gay or bisexual people and for transgender people. The ban must extend to and protect trans people equally.
'NHS England and other major psychological bodies in the UK have warned explicitly that all forms of conversion therapy are unethical and potentially harmful. …’
But union member Richard Rieser, opposing the motion, said: 'There is a right for women to have single-sex spaces… and people shouldn't be called terfs or transphobic because they fight for those rights.' … read full article
Utah school board candidate says she’s ‘sickened by the gender identity stuff’ and wants to support Natalie Cline
Kim DelGrosso is facing pushback for her comments from LGBTQ groups.
From The Salt Lake Tribune (USA)
By Courtney Tanner
April 14, 2022
A conservative candidate running for Utah’s statewide school board says she’s “sickened by the identity gender stuff that’s going on” — a stance that is causing alarm among parents and those in the LGBTQ community.
Kim DelGrosso also says she wants to amplify the viewpoint of current board member Natalie Cline, who has drawn her own criticism for similar statements. Cline was disciplined last year for a social media post that was critical of queer students and has been called out for attacking a teacher on Facebook.
“One of the reasons I’m running for state school board is because someone doesn’t have her back on that board,” DelGrosso said. “And I want you to know, Miss Natalie, you are going to be lifted up and going to be supported.”
Both DelGrosso and Cline spoke Monday night at a recorded town hall with Republican delegates that was posted online by an attendee. … read full article
Mr/Mrs Potato Head, A Story of Gender Transition and Regret
From MOTHERGENDER
By MOTHERGENDER
April 13, 2022
The Start
Over the past week, I have been pondering the many different ways to convey how much it truly sucked to grow up as a girl. When I write about it nothing really seems to fit into one sentence, or my examples of why it sucked felt too graphic to share, or it came across as though my entire childhood was awful and nothing ever good happened to me, which isn’t true.
Instead of writing a complete novel on the good and the bad, my hope with this piece is to talk about specific problems that impacted the way I see myself and those around me, and how they eventually led to my transition from female to male.
When I look back on my childhood, there are so many things I could have been more grateful for. One of which being that I didn’t start my period when I was only eight, like some of the other girls in my grade, and I happened to have the luxury of freedom from it for a few more years until I turned eleven. … read full article (and SUBSCRIBE to MOTHERGENDER!)
Concerns over gender curriculum? Yes, in this Connecticut town as social and emotional learning evolves
From Hartford Courant (USA)
By Seamus McAvoy
Apr 14, 2022
For Natalie Wagner, a parent of four, West Hartford Public Schools’ new social and emotional learning programs offer the kind of support that may have helped her when she was a student.
Wagner attended West Hartford schools but left after middle school, citing a lack of connection with the school community. She wasn’t sure what caused the lack of connection, at the time. Later in life, she identified “a lack of language within my community about something I was struggling with.”
“I’m very grateful for the work the school district has done in developing this curriculum to help give students the vocabulary to talk about these things in a respectful way with one another,” Wagner said “I know it was said earlier that not enough people are coming out in support of this, because often we’re just grateful that it’s there.”
But Wagner’s sentiments, shared during a recent West Hartford Board of Education meeting nominally about approving the annual budget, aren’t held by all.
Public comments revealed that the district’s social and emotional learning curriculum — particularly the components that deal with gender, sexuality and identity — remains a point of contention or confusion for many, months after its introduction.
“As parents, we should reserve the right to have input about content that is provocative,” said one parent, who identified themselves as Graham.
“You like to say don’t mess with trans kids, but it seems to me you’re messing with everyone’s kids,” said Kyle Zelazny, an attorney and West Hartford resident. … read full article
Daily Mail Exclusive: 'We found love in a hopeless place.' Meet the trans prisoner, 27, convicted of killing his foster father and the female double murderer he impregnated, who began their forbidden relationship at NJ women's prison
Transgender prisoner Demitrius Minor, 27, has admitted he got two women inmates pregnant in a New Jersey women's prison
He is serving 30 years behind bars for killing his foster father and carjacking
One of the pregnant women is double murderer Latonia Bellamy, 31, who will give birth in early fall
She, her cousin and another man killed a couple as they unloaded presents from their engagement party in 2010
'What incarcerated individual do (sic) not yearn for a second chance at life when your teens, twenties and thirties are withering away behind four walls, a steel door and barb wire gates,' Bellamy wrote online
'We can’t watch all 800 inmates every single second of the day, the head of New Jersey's prison officers' union told DailyMail.com
From Daily Mail (UK)
By SHAWN COHEN and MARTIN GOULD
April 14, 2022
The transgender prisoner who got a fellow inmate pregnant is a 27-year-old killer serving 30 years for the manslaughter of his foster father, DailyMail.com can reveal.
And one of the women Demitrius Minor impregnated is a double murderer who killed a couple as they returned home from their engagement party.
The forbidden love inside the walls of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility will result in lifer Latonia Bellamy, 31, giving birth in early fall.
'We found love in a hopeless place,' Bellamy wrote, quoting from a Rihanna song, in an online essay entitled Freedom, Love, Pregnancy and Trauma.
New Jersey's Department of Corrections admitted on Tuesday that two women prisoners have become pregnant after having sex with transgender women at Mahan, the state's only women's prison. Minor has admitted online that she is responsible for both pregnancies.
Minor also complained that all three inmates are now being held in solitary confinement.
The 800-inmate Mahan facility began housing transgender women – including those that have yet to undergo gender reassignment surgery – last year after a lawsuit brought by an inmate and the ACLU. It now has 27 trans prisoners.
A source familiar with the prison told DailyMail.com cell doors are left open during recreation time, so inmates can theoretically use those periods to sneak into each other’s cells or slip into a bathroom for quickie sex. … read full article
From the archives: Rebecca West reviews Jan Morris' Conundrum, 1974
"She sounds not like a woman, but like a man's idea of a women, and curiously enough, the idea of a man not nearly so intelligent as James Morris used to be."
From Writing behavior by Eliza Mondegreen (Canada)
By Eliza Mondegreen
April 14, 2022
Everybody should know about this amazing Rebecca West review of Jan Morris’ Conundrum, published in the New York Times in 1974:
“What surprises me about... the autobiographical book in which she gives a blow by blow account of his change of sex is that whereas I used to understand every word he wrote while I was a woman and he was a man, now that we are both women he mystifies me."
On Morris' 'revelation'—aged four—that he was really meant to be a girl: "This is puzzling, for no part of the incident relates to any other part. The piano is a bisexual instrument and Sibelius (I have always thought) an asexual composer... But then (and here is the point where most people will differ with Mr. Morris) I never thought the disadvantages of being a girl were inherent. I believed them to be imposed from without as a murderous public opinion."
"As for her psychology, Miss Jan Morris's self portraits are chilling. She sounds not like a woman, but like a man's idea of a women, and curiously enough, the idea of a man not nearly so intelligent as James Morris used to be."
Morris "overacts to material objects like a woman in a TV commercial, and when Miss Morris writes of the results of her hormone treatment... one feels sure she is not a woman." … read full article (and SUBSCRIBE to Writing Behavior!)