Wednesday, June 8, 2022
This day in Herstory: On June 8, 1975, Jackie Tonawanda competed at Madison Square Garden, becoming the first woman to box at that venue. Tonawanda (September 4, 1933- June 9, 2009) was dubbed "the Female Ali" and was a pioneer American female heavyweight boxer in the 1970s and 1980s. (more)
A Vanishing Word in Some Activist and Medical Circles: “Women”
Progressive groups and medical organizations have adopted inclusive language, which has led to terms like “pregnant people” and “chestfeeding.”
From The New York Times (USA)
By Michael Powell
June 8, 2022
The American Civil Liberties Union, whose advocacy on reproductive rights is of more than a half-century vintage, recently tweeted its alarm about the precarious state of legal abortion:
“Abortion bans disproportionately harm: Black Indigenous and other people of color. The L.G.B.T.Q. community. Immigrants. Young people. Those working to make ends meet. People with disabilities. Protecting abortion access is an urgent matter of racial and economic justice.”
This tweet encompassed so much and so many and yet neglected to mention a relevant demographic: women. … read full article
Spain to draw up laws to abolish prostitution
From Reuters (Spain)
By Emma Pinedo and Elena Rodriguez
June 7, 2022
MADRID, June 7 (Reuters) - Spain voted on Tuesday in favour of a proposal to draw up legislation to abolish prostitution, cracking down further on pimping and introducing tougher penalties for men buying sex in a controversial initiative that has split the women's rights movement.
Until now, prostitution has been tolerated in Spain, with many brothels operating as hotels or other lodging establishments, although sexual exploitation and pimping are illegal. … read full article
I'm a female collegiate athlete fighting for the future of women's sports
Women racers can't compete against trans athletes, but they don't have a choice
From Fox News (USA)
By Madisan DeBos
June 8, 2022
I can take a few bumps and bruises. After all, I signed up for this. Playing college sports is a privilege, not a right. Losing sleep, missing classes because you’re traveling, taking care of sore muscles and maintaining a strict training regimen — they’re all part of the game when you’re a collegiate track and cross-country athlete.
But what I signed up for was running against similarly advantaged competitors — other women. What I have experienced, and seen repeated across the nation, is a different story, and it’s why I’m speaking out. … read full article
UPenn's Disregard for Title IX Takes Opportunities Away From Women Athletes | Opinion
From Newsweek (USA)
By PENNY NANCE, CEO AND PRESIDENT, CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA LAC
June 8, 2022
Shame on the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). As National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) swimmer Lia Thomas speaks out for the first time about "transitioning" from male to female sports, one of Thomas' teammates is telling a different story.
In an interview with Good Morning America, Thomas claimed that male athletes participating in female sports "are not a threat to women's sports" and announced a goal of competing in the Olympic trials in women's swimming. … read full article
Oregonians support Title IX’s guarantees for girls in sports, divided on transgender student access
The Oregon Values and Beliefs Center surveyed almost 1,700 Oregonians ahead of the federal law turning 50
From Oregon Capital Chronicle (USA)
By JULIA SHUMWAY
June 8, 2022
Oregonians across the board support a now 50-year-old federal law that guarantees girls equal access to school sports, but they’re split on a current interpretation of the law that allows transgender students to play on their preferred teams.
That’s one takeaway from a May poll by the Oregon Values and Beliefs Center, a nonpartisan public opinion research organization. It surveyed a representative sample of 1,674 Oregon adults between May 6 and 19, seeking opinions and experiences with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. … read full article
PA Senate Approves GOP-Authored Bill Focused On Transgender Girls, Women In School Sports
From Pennsylvania Capital-Star (USA)
By Marley Parish & Cassie Miller
June 8, 2022
The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate — after more than an hour of debate on Tuesday — approved legislation prohibiting transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ and women’s school sports.
The upper chamber voted 30-20 along party lines to send the proposal to the House of Representatives for consideration. … read full article
'I'd be BANNED from swimming if I had as much testosterone as Emily Bridges': Olympian Sharron Davies slams trans cyclist as 'NOT female' in furious response to her laughing at claims she has a 'competitive advantage'
Fresh trans row has broken out after Emily Bridges said she has no advantage over biological women
Sharron Davies said she would be banned from swimming if she had 'as much testosterone as Emily Bridges'
Bridges said she suffered a wave of physical violence threats after Boris Johnson's intervention
The Prime Minister said in April that 'biological men shouldn't compete in women's sports'
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By JACK WRIGHT
June 8, 2022
A fresh transgender row has broken out after trans cyclist Emily Bridges laughed off claims she has a competitive advantage over biological women.
In a series of tweets, British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies said Bridges is 'not a woman', called her inclusion in women's sports 'unfair' and claimed that she would be banned from competing if she had 'as much testosterone in my system as Emily Bridges is allowed'. … read full article
'Biological sex matters,' Sajid Javid says on trans cyclist Emily Bridges
From itv (UK)
June 8, 2022
Sajid Javid has said "it's biological sex that matters" when it comes to transgender people participating in sporting competitions.
When asked about trans cyclist Emily Bridges' claim that she received hate-filled threats, including the promise of extreme violence if she ever competed in a women's race, the health secretary said we "mustn't confuse" sex with gender. … read full article
Emily Bridges and the threat to women’s sport
There is nothing fair or inclusive about biological males entering women’s competitions.
From Spiked (UK)
By JAMES ESSES
June 8, 2022
Proponents of gender ideology constantly tell us that they are only asking for fairness and equality. These sound like laudable ambitions. That is, however, until you discover that what they are actually asking for is unfairness and inequality, particularly for women. This is most clear in the ongoing battles over trans athletes in women’s sports, where women’s concerns have been cast aside.
Last night’s ITV interview with trans cyclist Emily Bridges showed the very real risks that arise in this clash of gender ideology and biological reality. Bridges came out as trans in 2020. Having been barred from racing in a women’s category in March, in the British National Omnium Championships, Bridges hopes to compete against women in this summer’s Commonwealth Games. … read full article
‘Trans Supremacist’ Pedophile Behind Bars For Second Time on Child Sexual Abuse Material Possession
From REDUXX (USA)
By Anna Slatz
June 8, 2022
A pedophile is back behind bars after being found with child sexual abuse material for the second time in one year.
Canaan Jacob Kelley, also known as Kimiko Kimi Valentine, was arrested on May 31 in Tarrant County, Texas after being found with child sexual abuse material. According to the Tarrant County Correctional Center, he is currently being held on a $20,000 bond. … read full article
Health Secretary Sajid Javid condemns NHS move to remove word 'women' from advice web pages on ovarian cancer as he calls for 'common sense' and the 'right language' to be used
Sajid Javid said 'biological sex was incredibly important' after the word change
The NHS has removed terms like women from three of its cancer landing pages
These are the pages for ovarian cancer, womb cancer and for cervix cancer
Collectively these cancers kill about 7,500 British women every year on average
Health experts say omitting female language risks missing the target audience
NHS says it is committed to making pages as 'helpful' to whoever needs them
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By DAN SALES
June 8, 2022
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has hit out at the NHS for making a webpage on ovarian cancer gender-free - with no mention of the word 'women'.
The minister, 52, said he does not agree with the health service reportedly removing the word from its online guidance. … read full article
NHS to cut diversity and inclusion jobs as Sajid Javid declares war on 'waste and wokery' amid record spending
The Health Secretary supports changes outlined in a damning report on leadership within the NHS
From GBN (UK)
By Anna Fox
June 8, 2022
Staff at NHS trusts have been told to cut "diversity and inclusion" jobs as a landmark report by the Health Secretary outlines plans for the largest shake-up of managements in a generation.
Sajid Javid demanded "urgent" action to improve the quality of leadership within the health service, as part of a fight against "waste and wokery" to curb NHS spending.
... read full article
Meet the Censored: Kara Dansky
The feminist author of The Abolition of Sex has become the ultimate example of a new propaganda phenomenon, which denounces leftists as right-wing when they say unpopular things
From TK News by Matt Taibbi (USA)
By Matt Taibbi
June 8, 2022
Two years ago, in February of 2020, the Washington Post published a piece called “Conservatives find unlikely ally in fighting transgender rights: Radical feminists.” The essence of the article was to describe groups like the Women’s Liberation Front, or WoLF, full of people with decades-long track records as leftists or feminists, as not merely in temporary agreement with conservatives on trans issues, but actual converts to the entire conservative cause.
The piece described WoLF as “fringe activists” who “argue that advancements in transgender rights will come at the expense of women’s rights” and have been “shunned” by modern progressives, who call them “a discriminatory, right-wing group disguised as feminist.” ... read full article
Why is NHS hell-bent on erasing all mention of women?
From The Mail+ (UK)
By Jenni Murray
June 8, 2022
Right, that’s it. I am now convinced the world has gone completely mad under the spell of the trans lobby. The activists have convinced themselves, and it would appear the NHS, that gender — the way you present yourself as male or female — is more important than biological sex. That’s what you were born with and cannot be changed no matter how you choose to identify.
That’s not opinion, that’s science, a subject with which you’d expect the NHS to be extremely familiar. But no — the main pages on our health service’s website detailing ovarian, womb and cervical cancer — all suffered exclusively by those of us born with female biology — make no mention of the words ‘woman’ or ‘women’. The references to these serious, dangerous diseases have been ‘de-sexed’, using gender neutral language so that trans men don’t feel left out. … read full article
Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness says he faces misogyny as a 'nonbinary trans person' for being feminine: 'It doesn't only affect women'
From The Daily Mail (UK)
By J. PETERSON
June 8, 2022
Queer Eye star Jonathan Van Ness has opened up about being on the receiving end of misogyny.
Speaking to Vogue's Into The Gloss podcast, the gender nonconforming star insisted that experiencing misogyny isn't just limited to women.
'As a nonbinary trans person who is very femme, I feel that I've faced a lot of the misogyny,' JVN explained. ... read full article
“Conversion” therapy or just therapy?
From Sex Matters (UK)
June 8, 2022
On 23rd May 2022 an article appeared in the Independent stating that Dr Az Hakeem was under investigation for attempting to “practice transgender conversion therapy”.
Dr Az Hakeem is a psychiatrist, in private practice after more than 15 years working in the NHS. He is Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at University College London (UCL) Medical School. He is also gay.
… read full article
Republican governors rightly reject Biden’s transgender blackmail
From Washington Examiner (USA)
June 8, 2022
When Supreme Court justices create new rights out of thin air, as Justice Neil Gorsuch did in expanding the 1964 Civil Rights Act to cover sexual orientation and gender identity in Bostock v. Clayton County, unintended consequences are a certainty.
Just two years later, Gorsuch’s dissembling opinion is bearing foul fruit. The Department of Agriculture has cited Bostock as the reason it will now be starving students if they attend schools that don't hew to the LGBTQ agenda. … read full article
What is a woman?
Laura Dodsworth interviews Matt Walsh, the man behind the controversial new film on gender
From The Critic (UK)
By Laura Dodsworth
June 8, 2022
It turns out that the best way to disrupt transgender ideology is to ask one simple question: what is a woman? Creator Matt Walsh asked each contributor the same question with purist focus in this brilliant and horrifying new film. The obstructions, circular reasoning and threats to walk off the set revealed that gender is like “a jenga tower”, as Walsh says.
I spoke to Walsh about the film just a few days after its release. It has gone down a storm and Walsh was busy fielding interviews. He was also cautious; a publicist was off camera in our video call, and they recorded the interview. I don’t blame them for wanting to keep the record straight. What is a woman? is wildly controversial and successful, and that attracts peevish and disingenuous reviewers. … read full article
The Great Deception
From Mothers for Mother
June 7, 2022
Women’s bodies are designed to conceive, gestate, contract and push out brand new human beings and then go on to nourish them from that same body for months or years, while simultaneously carrying out all the other tasks of adulthood. Women are warriors. Say that again: Women are warriors. No man made activity or invention comes close to replicating what women do every single day, in every country and culture globally.
As we continue to explore the effects of the transgender movement on breastfeeding, today we take a look at the issue of females who attempt to become males through sex reassignment surgery and thus surrender the ability to give birth and breastfeed. There are two ways that women attempt to undergo this transition. One is by preventing puberty from ever occurring and the other is to try to reverse female secondary sex characteristics after going through puberty. … read full article
Mark Drakeford: Transgender women are women
Mark Drakeford has confirmed he believes “transgender women are women” after he was pushed to define what a woman is during a session at the Welsh Parliament.
From The National (Scotland)
June 8, 2022
The First Minister was answering a question about the inclusion of trans athletes in sport at the Senedd when he acknowledged it is an “argument that divides people”.
It comes after continued criticism of Labour’s policies on trans and women’s rights, and the refusal of some party politicians, such as shadow women and equalities minister Anneliese Dodds, to publicly define what a woman is. ... read full article
Mark Drakeford is wrong. Transwomen are not women.
In the Senedd’s plenary session yesterday, MS Laura Anne Jones asked the First Minister to discuss the participation of trans-identifying athletes in sports.
From Merched Cymru (Wales)
June 8, 2022
First Minister Mark Drakeford stated:
My starting point is … that transgender women are women
Our First Minister is making clear his belief in an ideology which has no foundation in reality – biological, medical, scientific. Men cannot become women. Being a woman is not a feeling. It is not a performance, a simulacrum of femininity through the acquisition of a floral dress, a new lipstick and a collection of pink and fluffy stereotypes. Our femaleness is written in to every cell of our bodies and impacts on every aspect of our lives. We do not give permission for men to colonise that reality.
Transwomen are not women. That is the first lie. ... read full article
Biology Denial - the "Kevin the teenager from Harry Enfield" of political philosophies
Why biology denial is the most adolescent and mediocre of social forces
From Kavanagh's Substack (UK)
By Dennis Noel Kavanagh
June 8, 2022
Imagine being so gullible you were persuaded that every human possessed a hitherto unknown gender soul. Imagine then you required the teaching of this eccentric belief in schools. Imagine closing what passed for your mind to the objection there was no evidence for such souls. Imagine then demanding the field of medicine accommodate this dogma and calling for radical, irreversible surgery for minors who couldn’t consent to tattoos. ... read full article