A trans-identified male and former drag queen residing in Berlin is currently involved in litigation against McDonald’s after alleging he was denied access to the changing room intended for female employees. Kylie Divon, 27, also known as Keil Li, is seeking financial compensation for “discrimination” after a Muslim woman and colleague told him to leave the women’s changing room, citing his male genitalia as a cause for her concern.
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Alice Munro’s daughter reveals abuse by her stepfather.
In 1976, nine-year-old Andrea Skinner, spent the summer at the home of her mother—Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro—in Ontario.
According to the now 58-year-old, as she slept in her bed one night while her mother was away, her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, climbed into the bed alongside her, and sexually assaulted her.
Munro died from Alzheimer’s Disease in May this year, aged 92. Two months after her death, Skinner wrote about the rape in an essay written for the Toronto Star.
In the essay, Skinner claims she eventually told her mother about the abuse, but the award-winning author chose to remain married to her daughter’s abuser, even after he admitted it was true.
Skinner was 25 when she wrote to Munro in 1996 to disclose the abuse.
But Skinner described her mother’s response as “incredulous” and “as if she had learned of an infidelity”.
“She said that she had been ‘told too late,’ she loved him too much, and that our misogynistic culture was to blame if I expected her to deny her own needs, sacrifice for her children, and make up for the failings of men,” Skinner wrote.
“She was adamant that whatever had happened was between me and my stepfather. It had nothing to do with her.”
While Fremlin admitted to the assault, he described it as a “sexual adventure”, calling the then-nine-year-old little girl a “home-wrecker”.
Despite her mother’s response, Skinner maintained a relationship with her mother until she had children of her own, and told Munro that Fremlin could never be around the children. The pair fell out and never reconciled.
In 2005, Fremlin received two years’ probation after pleading guilty in Canadian court to assaulting Skinner.
Although Skinner wrote in the essay that she was satisfied with the legal outcome, she wanted her story to be told, about both Fremlin and her mother.
“The fact that my mother, confronted with the truth of what had happened, chose to stay with, and protect, my abuser.”
Source: Alice Munro’s daughter reveals abuse by her stepfather.
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Register Here – IFLN event: A feminist approach to litigation and legal advocacy internationally – City University Law School
IFLN event: A feminist approach to litigation and legal advocacy internationally
Wed 17 Jul 2024 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
City University Law School, EC1V 0HB
What can we learn from lawyers in different countries and jurisdictions about their strategies to tackle male violence against women?
Join us on 17 July 2024 for the first hybrid International Feminist Legal Network event.
During the event we will discuss local, regional, national and international approaches on issues such as:
- Femicide and suicide resulting from domestic abuse
- Challenging criminalisation of survivors of male violence
- Challenging men’s fightback through the family courts and the use of parental alienation
- Police perpetrated abuse
- Violence against women framed as torture
- Legal representation for victims in the criminal justice system and challenging anonymity for perpetrators
- Using litigation as a tool for change
- The impact of strategic litigation and how to enhance it
Lawyers from around the world will attend in person or online including from the Philippines, South Africa, United States and elsewhere.
International timings for the event are:
05:00-12:00 Lima, Bogota, New York
10:00-17:00 London
11:00-18:00 Madrid, Johannesburg
12:00-19:00 Athens, Helsinki, Nairobi
14:00-21:00 Lahore, Tashkent
14:30-21:30 New Delhi
17:00-00:00 Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing
18:00-01:00 Seoul, Tokyo
19:00-02:00 Sydney, Melbourne
Please note this event is aimed at lawyers, legal NGOs and legal academics.
Renowned Singer Imprisoned for “Abducting” Child from Molester Father | Women’s Coalition
Award-winning Malian singer Rokia Traoré was set to perform at the Rome Colosseum last Sunday, but instead she was arrested by border police when she entered Italy.
The arrest was made based on an international warrant issued on grounds of “parental abduction”. The warrant originates from a Belgium criminal court that convicted Rokia in absentia and sentenced her to two years in prison. This criminal conviction stems from a violation of a Family Court order giving custody to the father, who the child says molested her.
One of the most inventive female singer/songwriters, Rokia has performed all over Europe, as well as Africa. She’s won many awards, including the BBC Award for World Music and the Victoires de la Musique (French Grammy’s) World Music Album of the Year.
Rokia is also a lifelong humanitarian activist. She presently serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.
But this incredibly talented and accomplished woman sits in an Italian jail today awaiting extradition to Belgium, where she will serve her two-year sentence. This draconian punishment is being meted out to her because she dared interfere with the age-old male prerogative to take and sexually abuse his own child—as enforced by Family Court and abetted by Criminal Court.
There was no investigation of the sexual abuse, or at least nothing close to a proper one. The Family Court judge disregarded her daughter’s disclosures, discredited her testimony, and ordered joint physical custody with the credibly accused molester father.
But the father was given legal custody. This is a tactic to silence the child. It gave him the power to determine which therapist the daughter could see or not, depending on who would go along with the cover up of his abuse.
When it was time to hand her daughter over for a month-long visit in the summer of 2019, Rokia fled. She escaped to her home country of Mali!
She and her daughter were safe.
When they arrived in Mali, Rokia presented the evidence of sexual abuse to the Mali court. Apparently they did a proper investigation and she was granted sole custody. The problem with that is Belgium claims jurisdiction and does not recognize the Mali judgment.
Rokia is just one of millions of women who’ve had their children taken from them and given to abusive and self-serving exes in family courts around the world. This is unacceptable in the third millennium when women are supposedly equal and free.
Source: Renowned Singer Imprisoned for “Abducting” Child from Molester Father
Gilead and the BBC, a marriage made in hell | Glinner
On March 5, 2024, a concerned member of the public—formerly a senior media professional—sent the WPATH Files to Fergus Walsh, the BBC’s Medical Editor. The files contained damning information, including admissions from WPATH members about the harm caused by their treatments and the influence of non-medical trans activists.
Despite the gravity and the urgency of the situation, Walsh did not respond. Six days later, on the 11th March, the same individual tried to send an email with an email summarizing key points from an interview with Mia Hughes, the author of the WPATH report, only to discover that their address had been blocked.
But there’s more. It turns out that Walsh is married to Dr. Véronique Walsh, the vice president of Gilead Sciences UK and Ireland. Gilead Sciences is a pharmaceutical company that set up a $4.5 million fund to “to improve the safety, health, and wellness of the transgender community, particularly in light of the disproportionate impact of HIV on transgender individuals”.
$4.5 million sure pays for a lot of ‘wellness’. Gilead uses its financial resources to establish itself as a dedicated ally to the ‘transgender community’, which is really a collection of autistic, troubled, abused or just confused young people, along with middle-aged autogynephiles who have nothing to do with them. Gilead’s TRANScend Community Impact Fund, launched in 2019, has distributed over $9 million to 26 organizations across the United States. While this fund ostensibly supports “strategic program development, capacity building, and direct services”, it of course does so while promoting a specific, contentious narrative around matters trans.
A few years ago, when the War On Women was just starting out, we published a report on Gilead, who were the subject of a mass tort, alleging that the company withheld safer HIV/AIDS drugs from sufferers and manipulated patent timing for profit.
Fergus Walsh served as the BBC’s medical correspondent from 2004 to 2020, when he took over as medical editor for BBC News. In the years leading up to his appointment and since, the BBC has produced only one major investigation into the use of puberty blockers and the ideological basis of ‘trans healthcare’. This was the Newsnight investigation into the Tavistock by Deborah Cohen and her producer Hannah Barnes, the genesis of her acclaimed book ‘Time To Think’. With a scandal of such proportions, you would think BBC News would have turned its attention to follow-up stories, but the BBC’s interest in the issue, never what you might call ‘burning’, disappeared altogether on her exit.
For years now, the BBC’s handling of the trans debate has been a disgrace. Prominent voices like Helen Joyce, Maya Forstater, Stella O’Malley, and Kellie-Jay Keen have been glaringly absent, even from shows like ‘Women’s Hour’. Their coverage reeks of bias, and this habit of lying by omission has done great damage to the BBC’s reputation.
Unearthed Emails Show Rachel Levine Discussing ‘Potential Revenue’ From Child Sex Change Procedures | The Daily Caller
- Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine discussed revenue opportunities resulting from hiring a gender clinic social worker while Levine was serving as Pennsylvania’s acting secretary of health, according to emails obtained by parental rights activist Megan Brock and reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
- The pair discussed the potential return on investment and downstream revenue generated by social workers at gender clinics, particularly through surgical referrals.
- “I am trying to give them some numbers to help them realize the eventual ROI [return on investment] for this necessary position,” the doctor wrote. “Even if the patients under 18 who go for surgery might be limited, the patients we start with will eventually be over 18…so I still think it’s worthwhile. Of course, I think it’s worthwhile no matter what.”
HRC – Press conference: UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls | UN Web TV
Briefing from the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls on the reports to the 56th session of the Human Rights Council
Source: HRC – Press conference: UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls | UN Web TV
The Bookseller – News – Publishing network launches for those ‘concerned about the impact of gender ideology’
A publishing network for those “concerned about the impact of gender ideology on our sector and wider society” has launched for publishing professionals, authors and creatives.
SEEN Publishing is currently on X/Twitter (@SEENPublishing) and LinkedIn (SEEN in Publishing), though it is not yet known who is behind the network or if they will remain anonymous. Similarly, the number of members so far is as yet unknown.
However, in a statement, the network said its members “believe in the material reality of sex” and “value diversity of thought and freedom of expression”.
It goes on: “We believe that everyone in publishing should be able to express legally held views on sex and gender, including where these views relate to publishing-sector decisions, free from fear, harassment, discrimination, and negative career repercussions.”
A process for screening new members is in place, the network said, and membership is confidential. The Bookseller understands that a Substack is also forthcoming.
The network is the latest “SEEN” group to launch with others established in other industries such as the Police SEEN UK and SEEN in Schools.
Family law expert urges ‘abduction reversing’ Hague Convention to take account of domestic abuse | Brunel University London
The Hague Abduction Convention was set up in 1980 with the best of intentions: to return a child back to the country of their primary carer (usually their mother) if the other, non-resident parent has taken the child against their will to another country.
However, 3 in every 4 cases involve mothers as ‘abductors’, many of whom have fled domestic violence – and then have to choose whether to return with their children or send their children back alone.
The only glimmer of hope available to these victims is the ‘grave risk’ defence, but it’s rare for the defence to succeed. Mothers often end up in worse situations than before, including being left isolated, homeless, subject to further abuse – or even murdered.
Legal and governmental representatives from many of the 103 signatory countries gathered last week in Johannesburg to discuss the Convention and the ‘grave risk’ defence. It was the first time this had happened in the Convention’s 44-year history.
Dr Adrienne Barnett is a legal expert on family courts and domestic abuse from Brunel University London and is the UK Lead on the Hague Mothers International Strategy Group.
Numerous speakers emphasised the need for domestic abuse to be recognised in every case as leading to a grave risk to the child, as well as the ineffectiveness of ‘protective measures’ such as restraining orders in preventing further violence and abuse to mothers and children on return.
Dr Barnett also urged states to recognise the human rights of mothers in their own right: “Women’s lives should not be sacrificed on the altar of prompt return, as was the case for Cassie Hasanovic, who was stabbed to death in front of her children by her ex-husband after an Australian court ordered the children’s return to England.”
Key recommendations made by Hague Mothers include mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of the Convention, equal access to legal representation for parents, that domestic abuse be recognised in all cases as creating a grave risk for children, and domestic abuse training for all judges and professionals.
Hague Mothers is calling for:
- a specific defence against return in cases of domestic abuse
- a stay on return orders in domestic abuse cases to enable the welfare issues to be litigated while the mother and children are in a safe location
- proper risk assessment and exploration of each child’s views
- equality of arms to enable the taking parents as well as the left-behind parents to have legal representation.
The HCCH will be compiling a report in the coming weeks.