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Concerned about the promotion of gender identity ideology in New Zealand schools? The Resist Gender Education website is a comprehensive resource for parents and teachers and contains research, guidelines and suggestions for engaging with your school.

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States Should Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports

I am a transsexual. That is, I was born male and have undergone feminizing medical procedures. Earlier this year I testified before the Indiana legislature to support HB 1041, a bill that affirms the right for girls to compete in same-sex sports.

It’s tempting to characterize this issue as Republican legislators waging a culture war against a marginalized group. But the ways in which women and girls are affected by the intrusion of biological males (however they identify) into what was previously protected as a single-sex activity is fundamentally about equity and fairness.

The ACLU has weighed in, representing the alleged right of biologically male children who identify as girls to participate in girls’ sports and compete against biologically female children. Their arguments rely on twisted logic, a denial of science, and a variety of distortions and falsehoods. The three most egregious are that bills that protect girls’ sports as single-sex competitions by banning male children who identify as girls have the effect of banning those biologically male children from playing sports at all; that there should be no distinction made between children who are biologically male and children who are biologically female––that male children who identify as girls should be classified as girls; and that it is compassionate for society to support this reclassification.

Rather than reclassifying the sex of so many feminine boys and masculine girls, surely progressive change means accepting a wider range of masculinity and femininity in the gender expression of boys and men and girls and women.

Collectively participating in the gender dysphoria-induced illusion that these boys are actually girls –– and no different from their biologically female peers –– is not compassionate. It is cruel. True “gender affirming care” would be to help these children address their gender dysphoria with sensitivity, empathy, and compassion so they can come to accept the fact that they are biologically male, regardless of whether they are undergoing social or medical gender transition.

[E]very other state must enact similar bills to protect girls and women from being unable to compete in single-sex sports. If not, female athletes must be taught to smile bravely as they cede their victories to their male peers and accept that it is girls and women who must pay the price for inclusion.

Source: States Should Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports

#MeToo is over if we don’t listen to ‘imperfect victims’ like Amber Heard | Martha Gill | The Guardian

The backlash to the #MeToo movement was always coming. We know this because a backlash has followed every single step forward feminists have ever made. This backlash was always going to be big, too. Not only did #MeToo threaten a status quo that props up powerful men, it threatened these men personally, and – as it seemed to some – with reckless caprice.

After all, when a man is treated badly it lands with a double sense of burning injustice. Women’s stories of woe are so common that they can leave us comparatively unfazed.

For these reasons, #MeToo struck many men – and women – as deeply unfair. Yet it was merely an attempt to correct a bias that still exists. Female accusers are still routinely treated as if they are lying, both by the public and the courts – more so than other alleged victims of crime. It took the testimony of more than a hundred women to bring down Harvey Weinstein. Brett Kavanaugh was not brought down.

The public reaction to the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial is what a #MeToo backlash looks like.

Whether or not Heard’s accusers fully realise it then, setting up “bad” victims in opposition to “genuine” ones is a very effective method of unpicking #MeToo. It is only the rare misogynist who outright admits they don’t believe women. Their objection has always been just to this one bitch, who is lying.

#MeToo (the clue’s in the name) attempted to combat this by linking experiences – all those bitches who weren’t believed – so we could see the pattern. In fact, you could say the whole project of feminism is about taking bad things that happened to women, which they thought only happened to them, or were their fault, and calling them by one name. Divide us back into unlinked individuals who might be lying, and the movement is lost.

#MeToo is often framed as having uncovered truths about the world – its success was because women “explained really clearly” what was going on. No. People already knew what was going on. #MeToo worked for the reason any feminist movement works: strength in numbers. It is a political movement pushing against incredibly strong forces in the other direction. There’s no reason to think its work cannot be rolled back.

Source: #MeToo is over if we don’t listen to ‘imperfect victims’ like Amber Heard | Martha Gill | The Guardian

Mary Anning: Lyme Regis fossil hunter’s statue unveiled – BBC News

A seafront statue of palaeontologist Mary Anning has been unveiled in her hometown of Lyme Regis, Dorset.

Anning’s discoveries in the early 19th Century helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life, but her work was never properly recognised.

Anning, whose life inspired the feature film Ammonite, was never fully credited for her discoveries due to the fact she was woman and because of her social status.

Painting of Mary Anning wearing a bonnet and a large green coat

Source: Mary Anning: Lyme Regis fossil hunter’s statue unveiled – BBC News

Doctor wrongly prescribed sex change treatments to seven transgender patients | Daily Mail Online

A retired consultant physician wrongly prescribed sex-change treatments to seven transgender patients – one who was aged just nine and another a teenager who took their own life few months later.

Dr Michael Webberley provided puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones via GenderGP, an online gender clinic which he ran with his GP wife Dr Helen Webberley.

A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) panel found a number of charges proved against him after he was accused of failing to provide good clinical care to seven patients between February 2017 and June 2019..

With all seven patients, he was found guilty of providing or allowing treatment that was ‘not clinically indicated’ or had been prescribed without adequate tests, examinations or assessments.

In summary, the tribunal found that on no occasion had Dr Webberley disagreed with diagnosis sought by each patient.

Source: Doctor wrongly prescribed sex change treatments to seven transgender patients | Daily Mail Online

Trans debate: When even midwives are taught that men can give birth, I despair, MILLI HILL says | Daily Mail Online

No matter how determined we are to be inclusive, there are some limits to what different humans can do. And for a person with a penis, having a baby is one such limit.

A fact you’d imagine a midwife would know better than most. But the reality, it seems, is rather different.

So much so that a midwifery course at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland was recently outed by whistle­blowing students for attempting to teach them how to catheterise a penis.

Students were told their module on catheterisation — a procedure sometimes done during labour to drain the bladder — had been fully updated, because they ‘may be caring for a pregnant or birthing person who is transitioning from male to female and may still have external male genitalia’.

That’s right: a highly experienced midwifery lecturer with a PhD taught students that a male person could give birth.

Again and again, through my work as a writer and campaigner for women’s rights in childbirth, I have been approached with frankly dystopian stories s­howing how in thrall to trans rights midwifery has become.

For example, at one university, I’m reliably informed a visiting lecturer has told students they must refer to ‘birthing people’ rather than ‘women’ in their essays, or face their work ‘being looked upon less favourably’.

Other student midwives, from various courses, have told me they have been instructed to use the terms ‘childbearing individual’ or ‘pregnant people’ to be more ‘inclusive’.

This suggests a baffling lack of biological awareness. But it’s not only lobby groups or niche communities on social media who appear to be erasing women from issues concerning their own bodies — you will also see major birth and breastfeeding organisations, and even NHS trusts, falling over themselves to write posts and even policy documents that don’t mention women at all.

However, though the sex reassignment surgery industry is projected to be worth £1.2billion by 2026, the numbers of trans men giving birth are very low. In my own research I have heard of fewer than ten cases in the UK in the past five years.

So the chance of your average midwife ever encountering a pregnant person with a surgically constructed penis are smaller than minuscule.

Yet huge amounts of time and energy, not to mention money, are being put into resources to teach midwives about ‘i­nclusive language’.

None of this, sadly, surprises me. Back in November 2020, I questioned the term ‘birthing people’ in a social media post and was subjected to terrifying online attacks calling me a ‘terf’ — meaning a ‘trans exclusionary radical feminist’ — ‘toxic’ and a ‘dangerous piece of s***’.

There were calls to destroy my books, and I was publicly ostracised by leading figures and organisations from the world of childbirth.

It’s always amazing to me that midwives and antenatal teachers, often known for being firmly against the medicalisation of childbirth, are at the same time so captured by an ideology that supports puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and even surgery to remove body parts in young people distressed about their relationship to their sexed bodies.

Source: Trans debate: When even midwives are taught that men can give birth, I despair, MILLI HILL says | Daily Mail Online