Wednesday, July 27, 2022
"Yesterday’s ruling in [Allison Bailey's] case Bailey v Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers found that she had been victimised and discriminated against by her employer..."
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Ed. Note: Allison Bailey’s legal victory yesterday may mark a turning point in the battle with toxic gender ideology, which threatens to undermine western traditions of freedom to express unpopular opinions. Given the significance of this judgment, we link to a few related articles.
UK - As lesbian barrister wins historic battle after being victimised for standing up to 'trans extremist' group trying to erase biological sex... the courage of a heroine who dared shine a light on toxic subject many are too scared to even discuss
Allison Bailey, 52, challenged her own chambers in an employment tribunal
She said she was discriminated against for believing biological sex is immutable
The barrister is known for fighting prejudice and inequality, but she was instead branded a transphobe and discriminated against, losing lucrative work
From Daily Mail (UK)
By TOM RAWSTORNE
July 27, 2022
Founded almost 50 years ago, Garden Court Chambers has built a top-notch reputation for fighting Left-wing causes.
Be it securing last-minute injunctions to stop asylum seekers being deported to Rwanda or fighting for the rights of gypsies and travellers, its line-up of 200 well-paid barristers are there to help. Or as its motto reads: 'Do right, fear no one.'
Brave words – but ones that some think should carry the addendum: 'Except the trans lobby.'
In recent months, the London-based chambers has found itself in the deeply uncomfortable position of having its progressive credentials challenged in a landmark employment tribunal. ... read full article
UK - Allison Bailey Verdict: Employer Found Guilty of Discrimination Based on “Gender Critical Beliefs”
From REDUXX (USA)
By Shay Woulahan
July 27, 2022
A British Court has found Garden Court Chambers guilty of discriminating against Barrister Allison Bailey on the basis of her “gender critical beliefs.”
In what appears to be the second major victory for British feminists this year, Bailey’s victory comes just weeks after an employment tribunal ruled that women’s rights advocate Maya Forstater was discriminated against after her contract was not renewed following tweets she made on gender ideology. ... read full article
UK - How Allison Bailey crushed Stonewall
Its rainbow reign is finally over
By JULIE BINDEL
Ever since Stonewall, formerly known as a gay rights organisation, decided to focus on trans rights at the expense of all others, anyone articulating a reasonable objection to this change of direction has been subject to abuse, threats, and even loss of livelihood. The charity’s activists have effectively forced big corporations, public bodies and independent employers to write policies on diversity and inclusion which put trans ideology above all else.
But the barrister and lesbian Allison Bailey may have put a stop to this. Yesterday’s ruling in her case Bailey v Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers found that she had been victimised and discriminated against by her employer for expressing gender critical beliefs. Such was the oppressiveness of Garden Court’s actions against her, she was awarded aggravated damages: £22,000. These are only granted where a discriminator’s actions are particularly unnecessary, high-handed or oppressive.
... read full article
UK - How Allison Bailey exposed the trans lobby
We all have the right to reject gender ideology.
From Spiked (UK)
By Jo Bartosch
July 27, 2022
Bailey v Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers, which concluded today, will always be remembered as the case that brought the tactics and talking points of transgender activists into public view. Over the six-week tribunal, around 30 witnesses were cross-examined. And esteemed barristers were made to ask questions about ‘girldick’, bearded ladies and the use of ‘emotional support dogs’. But don’t be fooled by these trivialities. The implications of this case for free speech and for the debate over gender ideology are deadly serious. ... read full article
UK - Thank you Allison Bailey
A personal thank you from me, and I know I speak for the many, many gay men who admire, support, adore and respect you
From Kavanagh’s Substack (UK)
By Dennis Noel Kavanagh
July 27, 2022
In due course I’ll be linking to a deep-dive episode of Queen’s Speech on the Bailey judgment and drafting my own substack here looking at the law and how Allison’s case played out. For now I just want to say a thank you to a truly magnificent warrior of a woman who challenged the very source of gender extremism and who stood strong and tall when it was very difficult to do so.
Allison is a titan of gay rights and her victory today is seismic. Stonewall may have scurried away but Garden Court are left with aggravated damaged for upholding a complaint made by SW - better evidence you could not ask for to prove their deeply sinister workplace schemes are a Devil’s bargain likely only to get any employer before the courts. ... read full article
UK - In defence of non-conforming kids
Inclusivity is forcing children into boxes
From The Critic (UK)
By Victoria Smith
July 28, 2022
Is there a way to write about being the parent of a gender non-conforming child without sounding like a total wanker? Asking for myself. I’ve been trying for years and if anything, it’s only got harder.
Time was when you could write about having male children who played with dolls, wore dresses, imagined themselves as Elsa from Frozen, and no one would suspect this was a lead-in to you positioning your child as special and different, with you as the world’s most heroic parent, battling against a cruel, transphobic world. They’d just assume the obvious: that children are gender non-conforming because there are no clothes, objects, desires or feelings that are exclusive to boys or girls. As one campaign group — originating in 2012 on “hate site” Mumsnet — put it, we should just Let Toys Be Toys. ... read full article
UK - The truth about trans teaching in schools
What are children really being told about gender identity?
From The Spectator (UK)
By Joanna Williams
July 27, 2022
The LGBT advocacy group Stonewall has come in for criticism over recent months with many big name organisations – including the BBC and the cabinet office – withdrawing from its diversity champions programme. Yet rather than toning down its controversial claims and divisive rhetoric, the charity insists on doubling down. It now seems to have children firmly in its sights.
‘Research suggests that children as young as 2 recognise their trans identity,’ Stonewall recently declared. ‘Yet, many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender. LGBTQ-inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the wellbeing of all young people!’. ... read full article
UK - Sharron Davies slams 'ridiculous' Stonewall after it claimed two-year-olds recognise trans identity: 'Let kids be kids'
The former Great Britain swimmer said any notion of a two-year-old recognising they are transgender is ridiculous
From GBN (UK)
By Jamie Micklethwaite
July 27, 2022
Former Team GB swimmer Sharron Davies told GB News how any idea of two-year-olds recognising trans identity is ridiculous.
The trans-identity row spread to young children recently after Stonewall wrote how children as young as two can "recognise their trans identity".
The charity called on nurseries to be aware of teaching a binary understanding of gender. ... read full article
UK - Fred Sargeant debunks the latest Stonewall revisionism from Pink News
From The Glinner Update (UK)
By Fred Sargent
July 27, 2022
Someone tagged me into a post recently about a Pink News article regarding Mark Segal's visit to the UK. I don't link to Pink News pieces because Pink News.
Apparently, Mark's making the rounds in the UK of anyone who'll pay attention to him and giving them whatever they want to hear, even if it's shaded or flat-out fiction. I have this image of Mark, in his old age, accosting any stranger on the street to tell his story. It's not uncommon today to find people who have spent a lifetime self-promoting their involvement at the Stonewall riots and their aftermath to anyone who'll listen. Oddly, his insights never made the cut for the histories about Stonewall and the movement by Carter, Cervini, Duberman, Katz, Marcus or Marotta. It was disappointing to read the untrue statements from someone who professes to be a journalist. ... read full article
EU - Germany Divided on Bill Proposing to Allow ‘Self-Determination’ of Identified Sex
From Women Are Human (Canada)
By Diana Shaw
July 27, 2022
DE — . A poll conducted by the YouGov research institute found that Germans are divided over a proposal by the Ministries of Justice and the Family, which would allow citizens to change the name and sex marker on their identifying documents by simply going to the registry office and requesting the change.
According to pollsters, 46% of respondents favor a bill that would replace the “transsexual law” that has been in place for 40 years with a “law of self-determination.” 41% indicated that they opposed the legislation. ... read full article
Australia - Tasmania should reject a proposed ban on ‘conversion therapy’
In fact, this could harm, not help, LGBT people
From Mercatornet (Australia)
by James Parker
July 27, 2022
In May the Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) unveiled its recommendations about how to deal with supposed risks and harms caused by sexual orientation and gender identity conversion practices.
The TLRI report echoes what has been preached across Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria — that conversion therapy is brutal and abusive, that it aims to change, suppress or eradicate people’s sexual orientation or gender identity. This includes subjecting a person to “therapy”, “counselling”, or “treatment” to change whom they are attracted to, or how they feel about or express their gender.
... read full article
Australia - 30+ Australian Federal Departments Pay Gender Identity Lobby Group for Policy Guidance
From Women Are Human (Canada)
By Diana Shaw
July 27, 2022
AU — . An Australian politician has revealed that “more than 30 federal departments and agencies” are paying a transgender and queer lobby group for “advice and staff training on so-called ‘inclusive’ language.”
Senator Claire Chandler, a Senator for Tasmania for the Liberal Party, said in an Op-Ed published on her website today that the federal Department of Health had last year replaced a pregnancy COVID-19 vaccination guide’s fifty references to ‘women’ with the phrase ‘pregnant person’. ... read full article
Canada - Why I Didn't Participate in the ReDetrans Canada Study
Some background, some criticism, and a highlight of one major limitation
From Some Nuance, Please (Canada)
By Michelle Alleva
July 27, 2022
A couple of days ago, a paper examining some of the results of the “ReDetrans Canada” study was published, “Health Care Experiences of Patients Discontinuing or Reversing Prior Gender-Affirming Treatments.” I feel compelled to explain why I personally chose not to participate in this study despite my likely eligibility.
In the fall of 2021, I came across a call-out for detransitioners (and “retransitioners”) to participate in a Canadian study with the stated purpose of “develop[ing] more understanding and supports for people who detransition or retransition.” … read full article
US - How the state is using gender ideology to steal children away from their parents
From Washington Examiner (USA)
By Kaylee McGhee White
July 27, 2022
Right now, families all across the country are struggling with the realization that their children are in the middle of an identity crisis — one that has been triggered by the internet, their fellow peers, and even school officials who are selling gender ideology as fact.
The idea that gender is fluid and that a boy can become a girl and vice versa is not something that children come up with themselves. It is a notion pushed on them, sometimes unintentionally but almost always deliberately. And most parents have absolutely no idea what to do about it. ... read full article
US - Breastfeeding Medicine Experts Suggest “Father’s Milk” As A Gender Inclusive Term
From REDUXX (USA)
By Jennifer Seiland
July 26, 2022
A guidance from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is making the rounds on social media after evolutionary biologist Colin Wright noticed it was recommending the term “father’s milk” as a gender affirming alternative to “breast milk.”
The US-based Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) is a top organization of medical doctors providing support and guidance to healthcare practitioners around the world. But on July 26, evolutionary biologist and journalist Colin Wright called attention to a position statement form the organization in which it issued a guideline on ‘gender inclusive language.’ ... read full article
US - Conference Brings Together World Class Athletes, Scientists, Lawyers, and Advocates to Save Women’s Sports
Despite the big-name speakers, the conference has been largely ignored by mainstream media
From 4W (USA)
By Dr. Devin Jane Buckley
Jul 26, 2022
From June 26th through 28th the newly founded non-partisan Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS) brought together world-class female athletes, scientific experts, lawyers, and advocacy groups at a conference in Las Vegas, NV to address the importance of keeping women’s sports single-sex. Notable speakers included tennis superstar Martina Navratilova and Olympic champions Inga Thompson, Benita Mosley, Donna De Varona, and Sue Walsh.
The ICONS conference followed in the wake of a recent rally in D.C. on Title IX, a law designed to preserve equal access to educational opportunities, including athletics, on the basis of sex. Under the Biden administration, Title IX, which originally barred sex-based discrimination only, has been gradually changing to include provisions against discrimination on the basis of gender identity. ... read full article
US - In Portland, the Sexual Revolution Starts in Kindergarten
The city’s public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
From City Journal (USA)
By Christopher F. Rufo
July 27, 2022
Portland Public Schools has launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.”
I have obtained a cache of documents from a source inside Portland Public Schools that exposes the nature of this curriculum. The lessons seek to turn the principles of academic queer theory into an identity-formation program for elementary school students. The premise is simple: privileged white heterosexuals have created an oppressive gender system in order to dominate racial and sexual minorities. As the curriculum explains, “gender is colonized,” and Western societies have used language to erase alternative sexualities. ... read full article
US - Children’s Gender Clinic Founder was a Consultant for Puberty Blocker Manufacturers
The co-founder and director of a clinic that aids in children’s sex change attempts, Dr. Stephen Rosenthal, has received money as a consultant from two pharmaceutical companies that are both under investigation for advertising puberty blockers.
From Breitbart (USA)
By Spencer Lindquist
July 26, 2022
Rosenthal is the cofounder and medical director of the University of California San Francisco Benioff Children’s Hospital’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center.
He received $38,704 from pharmaceutical companies between the years of 2015 and 2021, more than 98% of United States endocrinologists did, according to a report from Care Dash, a site that uses public records to track the money that doctors have received as compensation from pharmaceutical companies. ... read full article
US - DeSantis spox pushes back following accusations in lawsuit over Florida parental rights law
Christina Pushaw defended the law and her characterization of it as 'anti-grooming'
From Fox News (USA)
By Ronn Blitzer
July 27, 2022
Christina Pushaw, press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, had plenty to say after a new lawsuit over the state’s Parental Rights in Education law accused her of making comments that led to bullying in schools.
The new law prohibits teachers and other school personnel from discussing sex or gender identity issues with students in kindergarten through third grade, and it requires discussion in older grades to be age-appropriate. The complaint states that one of the plaintiffs who is a current high school student feels that bullying against LGBTQ students has escalated in his school due to Pushaw calling the legislation an "anti-grooming bill" and claiming that its opponents support grooming young children. ... read full article
US - GOP AGs Sue Over LGBTQ Anti-Discrimination Guidance For SNAP, Free School Lunches
From Talking Points Memo (USA)
By Matt Shuham
July 27, 2022
Twenty-two Republican attorneys general on Tuesday sued the federal government over new anti-discrimination guidance meant to protect LGBTQ people benefitting from federally funded food assistance programs.
The new guidance, announced in May, applies to all state and local agencies, program operators and sponsors that receive funds from the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service, which administers funds for free school meals as well as the SNAP program, previously known as food stamps. ... read full article
US - Time to Stand for Parental Rights
From The Daily Signal (USA)
By Virginia Foxx / @virginiafoxx
July 27, 2022
Many school districts across the nation are actively resisting curriculum transparency measures and bending over backward to hide the truth about what students are being taught.
As parents sound the alarm on critical race theory and gender politics in the classroom, school administrators are doing everything in their power to gaslight them—telling them that these topics aren’t being taught and calling parents who question them racist or transphobic. … read full article
US - Detransitioner Perspective: What Conversion Therapy Means To Me
From Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans (PITT) (USA)
July 27, 2022
I was born in 1963. By my teen years, I was convinced that I was a woman in a man's body. The reasons for this are various, and I'll go into some of them later in this piece but, in the early 1980s, when I first started seeking gender reassignment, all I knew is that I was certain of two things: First, that becoming a woman would end my feelings of alienation from my body, and second, that the world was conspiring against me to prevent it. ... read full article