How Europe Lost the Plot on Women’s Rights | Compact

If you live in Europe, your country is likely a member of the Council of Europe, a 46-member body founded in 1949 that ostensibly promotes democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. The council has had a profound impact on international law through frameworks including the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Istanbul Convention on violence against women, which are now embedded in the laws of European states.

One of the council’s latest initiatives, the Gender Equality Strategy 2024-2029, should have been a clear roadmap for women’s rights. Instead, it is a fog of ideological confusion, where the meaning of “gender” drifts between reality and ideology, leaving women’s rights at the mercy of wordplay.

The Council of Europe now pushes “gender equality” beyond its original meaning, blurring biological sex with socially constructed gender while expanding to include diverse gender identities and expressions.

This isn’t a mistake—it’s a deliberate ideological shift. The strategy enshrines gender-identity ideology into policy under the guise of women’s rights. In this new world, gender is both a harmful social construct and an innate identity—something to be dismantled and protected all at once.

Perhaps the most troubling part of the strategy is its treatment of “gender-critical” feminists—those who argue that biological sex matters, especially in spaces where women’s safety and dignity are at stake. The Council of Europe lumps them together with “anti-gender” activists, in order to associate them with far-right politics and reactionary views on women’s rights. The document claims that gender-critical narratives are used to “justify discriminatory practices” and “undermine the understanding of gender as a social construct.” The message is clear: Only the Council of Europe can say what makes a woman and redefine gender, and any feminist who disagrees will be cast as an extremist.

The Council of Europe is peddling an ideological agenda that no longer serves women. And as Europe sleepwalks into a world where words have no meaning and women’s rights are whatever fashionable delusion is currently in favor, the council will have played its part in making sure women pay the price.

Source: How Europe Lost the Plot on Women’s Rights | Compact

Kathleen Stock’s former university fined record £585k for failing to uphold free speech | MSN

Kathleen Stock’s former university has been fined £585,000 after it was found to have “failed to uphold” freedom of speech and academic freedom.

The Office for Students (OfS) found “a chilling effect arose” from the University of Sussex’s transgender policy that left staff and students feeling “self-censored” and unable to express “lawful views”.

The higher education regulator said an investigation found “significant and serious breaches” of free speech and governance issues at the institution.

The probe was prompted by the resignation of Prof Stock, an expert in analytic philosophy, from the University of Sussex in October 2021 after she faced death threats for her gender-critical beliefs.

But on Wednesday morning, the University of Sussex hit back, saying it will legally challenge the decision, which it claimed would “leave universities unable to have policies to prevent abusive, bullying and harassing speech and that will perpetuate the culture wars”.

Prof Stock is now a founding fellow at the University of Austin, a new “anti-cancel culture” university that welcomes academics treated like “thought criminals”.

She said at the time that she did not wish to return to a British university since they all have “people like those at Sussex, who’ve got a light in their eyes, who want social justice according to a very narrow conception that does not involve employing me”.

Source: Kathleen Stock’s former university fined record £585k for failing to uphold free speech

Trans killer’s jail rammy leaves female prison officer injured in women’s wing – Daily Record

Paris Green, who is serving life for murder, was initially charged with assaulting the victim by forcibly pushing a door in August 2023.

A trans killer has admitted culpable and reckless conduct after a female member of staff was injured at the women’s wing of a Scottish prison.

Paris Green, who is serving life for murder, was initially charged with assaulting the victim by forcibly pushing a door in August 2023.

This month, the 33-year-old pled guilty to an amended charge of culpable and reckless conduct at Edinburgh Sheriff Court and was admonished.

Green was born Peter Laing but now identifies as female and is incarcerated in the women’s wing of HMP Edinburgh.

But campaign group For Women Scotland has criticised the Scottish Prison Service’s policy.

Spokeswoman Susan Smith said: “This illustrates the abject idiocy of the notion that violent male prisoners convicted of murdering or assaulting other men will be restrained and gentle towards women.

“Paris Green is clearly a danger to all women in that unit and should have been removed at once.”

Source: Trans killer’s jail rammy leaves female prison officer injured in women’s wing – Daily Record

‘Most gay men have little in common with the trans movement’ | The Australian

Jack Ayoub is gay. But it doesn’t follow that he wants to be part of the trans lobby. Will the unionist and former federal ALP candidate be cancelled for his views?

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Three-page document behind LNP government’s gender therapy crackdown

New details have emerged about the allegations in Cairns that prompted Health Minister Tim Nicholls to “pause,” on safety grounds, the provision of hormone therapy to new young patients with gender dysphoria.
In January, Nicholls declared the Cairns Sexual Health Service had delivered “apparently unauthorised” services to 42 paediatric patients, 17 of whom were prescribed stage 1 or stage 2 hormone therapy, leaving unresolved questions about parental consent and regulatory requirements.
Declaring the allegations serious enough to warrant an immediate ban on hormone therapy for new patients in the public sector, Nicholls also announced a review of the evidence base that he said would take 10 months to complete once a reviewer had been appointed.
However, Nicholls has yet to appoint a reviewer, or consult on the final terms of reference. His office has declined to answer questions about the timing.
Brisbane Times applied for access to the preliminary review under the Right to Information Act. The only document identified, and partly released, was an undated three-page risk assessment.
The assessment focused on the 17 patients who were receiving hormone therapy at the time. It found the health service had consent forms from both parents for each of six patients, from one parent for each of seven patients, and medical records indicating “parental awareness and consent” for two patients where forms could not be located.
For the remaining two patients, there was “no indication of parental awareness or consent” and, the assessment noted separately, “a complaint involving two families … regarding parental engagement in the consent process”.

Source: Three-page document behind LNP government’s gender therapy crackdown

When nurse Jennifer inadvertently called a burly 6ft transgender paedophile Mr, the sex offender attacked her and called her the N-word three times. So guess who was investigated by the NHS and labelled a danger to the public | Daily Mail Online

Not once in her 12-year career has she received a complaint.
That, at least, was the case until one day last year when a burly 6ft-plus convicted paedophile, shackled to two prison escorts, shuffled into Ms Melle’s ward and loudly complained about a urinary problem.
Legal reasons prevent Patient X’s identification, though why this person, who was jailed for grooming young boys, is afforded such protection will doubtless confound many. Not least because that night, in a fit of rage, Patient X screamed racist abuse at Ms Melle – calling her the N-word three times.

One might imagine that on hearing that one of its black employees was on the receiving end of possibly the most insulting and inflammatory slur in the English language, the diversity-obsessed NHS would back her to the hilt. Instead, her bosses decided she was in the wrong.

In the eyes of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals Trust, the greater sin was that Ms Melle had referred to Patient X – who was born male but now identifies as a woman – as ‘mister’ and ‘he’ during a phone call with a doctor. It was this which prompted Patient X’s aggressive outburst.

After being given a final warning by the trust, she received a letter from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) last month saying it was investigating concerns about her fitness to practise because she ‘referred to a patient in a manner inconsistent with their gender identity’.
Yet it is one of the ironies of this case that Patient X had exploited gender identity by posing as a teenage girl online to incite under age boys to perform sex acts.

Source: When nurse Jennifer inadvertently called a burly 6ft transgender paedophile Mr, the sex offender attacked her and called her the N-word three times. So guess who was investigated by the NHS and labelled a danger to the public | Daily Mail Online

From the NHS to the police, how the obsession with gender captured the public sector | MSN

From a GP agreeing to change the documented identity of a baby because its mother was raising it in the “gender” of her choice to male sex offenders being recorded by the police as “women”, data and official statistics have been “corrupted” by extreme gender ideology, a report found this week.

The government-commissioned investigation by Alice Sullivan, a professor of sociology and research specialist at University College London, revealed that public bodies – including the NHS, the police and even the military – have been collecting information on gender identity rather than biological sex since 2015. As a consequence “robust and accurate data” has been lost.

Although a baby’s sex is recorded at birth and the baby is given an NHS number, individuals – or an individual’s parents – can change this marker on request and be given a new NHS number. There is no requirement for any diagnosis of gender dysphoria, treatment or surgery, before this change takes place.

“It can create all kinds of problems,” one London-based GP says. “For instance, treating female patients who identify as male, we have to change the sex or gender marker back to female before the computer system will allow us to request a smear, then we have to remember to change it back again. Separately, patients have to remember to ask for the appropriate sex-based screening because they won’t be reminded if the sex marker is wrong.”

Another doctor adds: “A male patient came to see me with abdominal pain.The computer system stated his sex was male but I suspected he was possibly female so I had to take a guess and dig about in the records to see if there was anything to suggest that, but there was nothing. In the end, it wasn’t until she sheepishly admitted that she was actually female and worried that it might be an ovarian torsion that we could make a proper diagnosis. It was all so confusing.”

In the Sullivan Review, one paediatrician and safeguarding expert who was consulted for the report gave a shocking example of a mother who changed the gender identity of her child when it was still a baby. “The child had been brought up in the preferred gender of the mother which was different to their birth assigned gender. She had gone to the GP and requested a change of gender/NHS number when the baby was a few weeks old and the GP had complied. Children’s Social Care did not perceive this as a child protection issue.”

[A] 32-year-old woman who attended an emergency department with severe abdominal pain. The patient’s electronic medical record said they were male. As a result, diagnosis and care for cord prolapse was significantly delayed and the patient later gave birth to a baby who was stillborn.

In another case, a female who presented as male and whose NHS medical record also indicated they were male, turned out to be pregnant and their foetus was exposed to potentially harmful ionising radiation in error when they were given an x-ray.

Source: From the NHS to the police, how the obsession with gender captured the public sector

Ban on changing children’s gender on NHS medical records | The Times | UK

A review found that accurate data on biological sex has been lost for a decade, affecting care

Doctors will be banned from giving transgender children a new NHS record after it emerged that biological sex had been erased from official data.

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, said it was wrong that doctors were changing the NHS numbers of children if they changed gender. He has told the health service to stop giving out new NHS numbers to under-18s.

A review ­commissioned by the last government and ­released on Wednesday found that the word “gender” started to replace “sex” in the collection of data in the 1990s and that for the past ten years ­“robust and accurate data on biological sex” had been lost.

Cancer referrals were missed and previous convictions were overlooked because biological sex had been erased from official data

Source: 12ft

The Final Frontier: Human Milk Without Mothers | Lucy Leader

Mothers for Mother (MfM) was a website started by disaffected La Leche League Leaders who could see that the LLLI Board was literally killing this venerable organisation by its insistence on using “a variety of terms” in place of mother. For over 65 years LLL Leaders have provided mother to mother breastfeeding support at no cost to the many thousands of women who contact them every year. LLL has literally changed the course of breastfeeding history, but is in grave danger of losing its credibility as Board members alter policies (largely without consultation) to include men and erase women.

It was necessary for Mothers for Mother to be totally anonymous as Leaders are not allowed to criticize LLL in any public forums. Leaders who complain (even in private League Facebook pages) are promptly bullied by gender woo warriors and threatened with being disaccredited. In the beginning, when MfM had a comments section, every Leader who commented was sanctioned/booted off committees or otherwise punished for their ‘insubordination’. Some Leaders are still fighting for their right to remain a Leader while at the same time holding gender critical views (AKA believing in facts and biology), while others have been removed for stating they are not prepared to support men breastfeeding.

Because of the level of secrecy required to operate MfM, this website has been taken down. Reprinted with permission of the Mothers for Mother authors I am republishing a series of their posts as a form of archiving them for future readers who appreciate the sanity of those who believe in biological facts, over the thoughts of those who posit that nothing is more important than what they feel or believe about a made-up world of their choosing.

 

Source: (1) The Final Frontier: Human Milk Without Mothers

(1) EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Trans-Identified Male Who Raped, Tortured, and Killed 13 Year-Old Girl Threatened Female Inmates While In Women’s Prison

Reduxx has learned that a sadistic killer who is serving a life sentence for brutally raping and torturing a 13 year-old girl was transferred in to a women’s prison in Canada before being removed to an unknown detention center.

Source: (1) EXCLUSIVE: Canadian Trans-Identified Male Who Raped, Tortured, and Killed 13 Year-Old Girl Threatened Female Inmates While In Women’s Prison