Category: Sexual Harassment

Nurses win huge battle after woke NHS made them share changing room with trans woman | UK | News | Express.co.uk

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EXCLUSIVE: Trailblazing NHS nurses – known as the Magnificent Seven – have won a landmark biological sex victory plunging the NHS into crisis.

In a landmark judgment, an employment tribunal ruled that County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust had unlawfully discriminated against and harassed the female medics by requiring them to share changing rooms with a biological male.

The ruling confirms the Trust’s policy allowing men into women’s spaces is unlawful and violates the rights of its female staff.

The tribunal’s judgement said: “By requiring the claimants to share a changing room with a biological male trans woman…the respondent engaged in unwanted conduct related to sex and gender reassignment which had the effect of violating the dignity of the claimants and creating for the claimants a hostile, humiliating and degrading environment.”

The landmark judgement is a major victory for those who have campaigned to protect and uphold women’s rights in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court ruling.

Nurses working on a day care ward at Darlington Memorial Hospital took their NHS bosses to a tribunal to lay bare in detail how they had been left crippled by fear after Rose Henderson, a biological male identifying as a woman, was given free access to their safe space.

Action came after Rose, a male nurse identifying as female, menacingly loitered as they changed.

The group action also included Karen Danson, 46, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, Annice Grundy, 56, Lisa Lockey, 52, Carly Hoy, 31, Tracey Hooper, 47, and Jane Peveller, 51, and was backed by Harry Potter author and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling.

The nurses’ evidence opened with the testimony of Ms Danson who described a disturbing encounter in which Rose, wearing revealing boxer shorts, repeatedly asked if she was going to get changed, causing her to panic and relive past abuse.

Source: Nurses win huge battle after woke NHS made them share changing room with trans woman | UK | News | Express.co.uk

DAILY DISPATCH: AGP Infiltrates Endometriosis Group | You’re Kiddin’, Right?

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Not all AGPs have lactation fetishes. Some are aroused women’s reproductive system dysfunction, like endometriosis. You’re probably wondering what could possibly be sexy about this debilitating condition. If you’re a normal person the answer is ‘nothing’, but if you’re an AGP there are many things to be fascinated by. There’s the involvement of female sex organs, that these men are obsessed with. AGPs get turned on by women’s distress; endometriosis is painful so these dudes would love it for that alone. It can also cause women to bleed through their clothes, which would be embarrassing. That’s right up the AGP alley because quite a few of these dudes have humiliation fetishes; pretending to have no control over what comes out of your body is fun for these guys.

It ultimately comes down to dehumanizing women: reducing a real, life-altering medical condition to a sexual fantasy as if women’s lives are simply stories for men to entertain themselves with. These men see women, and the condition of being female, as essentially disordered, humiliating, dirty, painful and debilitating. Physical weakness, and the dependence on others that comes with it, is considered a crucial aspect of womanhood – these guys boast about not being able to open jars anymore once they start taking estrogen. Emotional instability is prized as another key feature of womanhood – they’re all over Reddit boasting about how much they cry since they’ve been on feminizing drugs. Men taking feminizing drugs induce pelvic floor dysfunction in themselves, leading to issues with incontinence, setting them up for ‘accidents’, furthering their humiliating ‘fun’.

In a sane world, these guys would keep their fantasies to themselves, or act them out with other pervs, harming only themselves. Well, we’re not living in a sane world. These clowns farm out their lunacy to the entire world, including to endometriosis support groups. What fun would it be to keep all this bat-shitery to oneself? Why not involve women actually suffering from the distress you like to imagine and jerk off to? Since none of it’s real anyway, since women aren’t real human beings and endometriosis is nothing more than a fun fantasy, why not join a group so you can sexually victimize distressed women, while making your ween happy? Endometriosis support group, here he comes – literally and figuratively.

Certainly women wouldn’t fawn so hard over some pervy dude that they’d allow him into their endometriosis support group. They would actually. Check this out:

Not only do they tolerate him, they ousted the woman who objects to having their painful medical condition used as a masturbatory aid by some degenerate. These women, by trying to be ‘progressive’ and ‘empathetic’ have turned their support group into a porn scenario. I can’t begin to fathom what these women are thinking, but it demonstrates that many women consider men’s desire to use them for nefarious ends to be more important that protecting themselves or supporting other women. This is one of the ways that women act against their own needs, allowing troonery to spread.

The fawning needs to end. Women MUST stop turning our resources over to men who use them for sexual entertainment.

Source: DAILY DISPATCH: AGP Infiltrates Endometriosis Group

Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

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The mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons has said she felt “horrified and violated” after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating real pictures.

The writer and political strategist Ashley St Clair, who became estranged from Musk after the birth of their child in 2024, told the Guardian that supporters of the X owner were using the tool to create a form of revenge porn, and had even undressed a picture of her as a child.

Grok has come under fire from lawmakers and regulators worldwide after it emerged it had been used to virtually undress images of women and children, and show them in compromising sexualised positions.

St Clair said the abuse became worse when she publicly complained about her images being manipulated.

Since speaking out, other abuse victims have been in contact. She has been sent other disturbing sexual images the AI tool has made, including some of children. “Since I posted this I have been sent a six-year-old covered in what’s supposed to be semen,” said St Clair. “She was in a full dress. They said to put her in a blue bikini and cover her in what looks like semen.”

The mainstreaming of this abuse had been made possible by Grok, she said, adding: “I am also seeing images where they add bruises to women, beat them up, tie them up, mutilated. These sickos used to have to go to the dark depths of the internet and now it is on a mainstream social media app.”

St Clair believes this is being done to silence women and that the problem will get worse. This was because the AI was being “trained” on the prompts it was given by sexually abusive men, while women were being frightened off the platform by the abuse, she said.

“If you are a woman you can’t post a picture and you can’t speak or you risk this abuse,” she said. “It’s dangerous and I believe this is by design. You are supposed to feed AI humanity and thoughts and when you are doing things that particularly impact women and they don’t want to participate in it because they are being targeted, it means the AI is inherently going to be biased.”

She referred to it as a “civil rights issue” because “women do not have the ability to participate in and train the models the same as men when they are being targeted. The other LLMs are being trained on the internet too and it’s poisoning the well.”

Musk and his team could have stopped this widespread abuse of women in minutes, she said. “These people believe they are above the law, because they are. They don’t think they are going to get in trouble, they think they have no consequences.”

Source: Mother of one of Elon Musk’s sons ‘horrified’ at use of Grok to create fake sexualised images of her | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian

Filmed without her knowledge in a fitting room, her testimony exposes a worrying scourge | The Body Optimist

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The story of Lilou, filmed without her knowledge in a fitting room, recently shocked internet users. By sharing her experience, she revealed a chilling reality: miniature cameras, hidden in everyday objects, are now being used to film women without their consent, sometimes in places as private as fitting rooms or public restrooms.

In her TikTok video, the young woman (@lilouboutiin) recounts that she was shopping with her mother and sister on a perfectly ordinary afternoon. Nothing could have prepared her for what was about to happen. While changing in a fitting room, she noticed the sole of a man’s shoe protruding slightly under the partition. At first, she didn’t pay any attention, thinking it was simply someone waiting for a relative in the next fitting room.

But as she got closer, she noticed a disturbing detail: between the shoelaces was a tiny camera. It was then that she realized she was being filmed. Panicked, the man fled. Lilou’s mother tried to catch him, without success, before a stranger intervened and managed to stop the suspect until the security guards arrived.

Cybersecurity experts point out that tiny “spy cameras” can be easily purchased online and concealed in ordinary objects: pens, watches, buttons, or shoes. Calls to increase security in fitting rooms are growing, as are demands for retailers to install warning signs and increase surveillance of their premises.

Source: Filmed without her knowledge in a fitting room, her testimony exposes a worrying scourge

Mum taking legal action against SA government after teen exposed to ‘bestiality’ and ‘incest’ in public school presentation | Sky News Australia

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A mother is taking legal action against the South Australian government over claims her 14-year-old daughter was exposed to a school presentation referencing bestiality and incest.

The impending lawsuit is being funded by faith-based legal organisation Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, which is working with Ms Gaylard’s local Adelaide lawyers.

The hour-long presentation was part of a Respectful Relationships program meant to “promote LGBTQIA+ inclusivity and acceptance” that was delivered to year 9 girls by an external provider in March last year at Renmark High School in regional South Australia.

At the time of the incident, Renmark High School principal Mat Evans apologised for the “inappropriate material”, for not seeking parental consent ahead of the presentation and for breaching the school’s duty of care by failing to have a staff member present in the room.

The Department for Education in South Australia also suspended Headspace Berri from delivering the Respectful Relationships program to public schools.

A spokesperson for Headspace National – a youth mental health foundation funded by the federal Department of Health and Aged Care – acknowledged aspects of the presentation were inappropriate and it had conducted its own review of what was delivered in the presentation and how it had been vetted.

Source: Mum taking legal action against SA government after teen exposed to ‘bestiality’ and ‘incest’ in public school presentation | Sky News Australia

AI, Anonymity Drive Rise in Online Violence Against Women | Mirage News

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The alarm is being sounded this week by the UN agency for women’s rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment ( UN Women ) as the 16 Days of Activism campaign begins, calling for urgent action against soaring digital violence.

The space has become a frontline in the fight for gender equality, with less than 40 per cent of countries having laws addressing cyber harassment or cyberstalking, leaving perpetrators largely unchallenged and victims without justice.

The rise of AI has dramatically amplified digital abuse , making it faster, more targeted, and harder to detect. According to one global survey, 38 per cent of women have experienced online violence, and 85 per cent have witnessed it.

AI-powered deepfake technology is being weaponised on a large scale: up to 95 per cent of online deepfakes are non-consensual pornographic images, and 99 per cent of those targeted are women.

Digital abuse isn’t confined to screens. Online attacks quickly spill into real life, escalating in severity.

Many deepfake tools, developed by male teams, are not even designed to work on images of men, underscoring the gendered nature of this technology.

Source: AI, Anonymity Drive Rise in Online Violence Against Women | Mirage News

Deepfakes and AI-generated abuse material targeting Australians are posing a national security risk | SMH

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A terrifying new way to use AI has emerged. Pictures and videos depicting Alison and her colleagues being raped or tortured, using excruciating details from their social media profile pictures, are being shared on social media, produced by anonymous online predators armed with AI tools.
“There were pictures of me with my face all sliced up with a knife, pictures of me with my throat slit and a dark figure behind me with the knife, and those photos were in my own bedroom at home,” Alison says.
“There were ones of me decapitated as well, like a man holding an axe in one hand and my head dripping with blood in the other, as well as me going through a human mincer, being minced alive … Those specific ones, I would say, were the worst that have ever been done of me.”
According to Toby Walsh, a professor of AI at the University of New South Wales, the nascent use of AI to produce violent threats of death, rape and torture means it’s likely to rapidly filter into the mainstream.
Violent AI-generated abuse material has the potential to threaten democracy, warn Walsh and Melinda Tankard Reist, movement director of Collective Shout.
The AFP prosecutes cases where a sexualised deepfake depicting a child is produced in Australia. The federal policing agency’s powers stop, however, if a deepfake involves a person over 18, which is then investigated by states and territories.
Last Monday, independent federal senator David Pocock introduced the My Face, My Rights bill before federal parliament, aiming to strengthen the eSafety commissioner’s powers to issue removal notices and formal warnings to technology companies and individuals.
AI scrapes millions of websites across the internet to obtain information at the direction of what technology companies want it to learn. As Walsh describes it, AI tools are merely a “mirror of what they are trained on”.
He says companies that offer AI – whether it’s social media like X’s Grok, Google’s Gemini or AI services such as OpenAI – can wire their technology not to accept certain requests or generate offensive material. However, it is much easier never to feed the AI violent content in the first place.
“If you’re just scraping The New York Times, there is much less you have to worry about than if you’re scraping the dark corners of 4chan,” Walsh says.
Technology companies are allowing their AI to scan the internet recklessly because they are motivated to have the most advanced product, Walsh says.
A disturbing finding for Tankard Reist, after investigating and herself being victim to rape deepfakes, was that it almost always depicted women and girls.
“These are digital tools of terror against women.”

Source: Deepfakes and AI-generated abuse material targeting Australians are posing a national security risk

President Donald Trump Tells Female Reporter ‘Quiet, Piggy’ – YouTube

Larry Summers Goes Into Hiding; Messages Sought Epstein’s Advice On Cheating With Daughter Of CCP Official | ZeroHedge

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In the latest blow to Democrats from the recent ‘Epstein files’ released by House Republicans, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced that he’s stepping back from public commitments after new documents reveal he was asking for Jeffrey Epstein’s advice on how to bang a female mentee behind his wife’s back.

Summers – who was Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and later president of Harvard University, repeatedly messaged Epstein about a woman codenamed “peril” in 2018 and 2019.

In one January 2019 text exchange, Summers told Epstein that the woman was unlikely to leave him due to his position of power and the professional connections that might come with it – to which Epstein replied, “She is doomed to be with you.”

Jin earned her bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. at Harvard between 2000 and 2009. Based on the messages, she makes no mention of a romantic relationship with Summers – and it’s unclear whether she knew her mentor and the sex offender were discussing her.

In later messages, Summers and Epstein appeared to joke about the possibility that Summers would have sex with her.

In another exchange, Summers and Epstein discussed Summers’ relationship with Jin’s father – a former high-ranked official in the Chinese Communist Party and founding president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which Summers had long been close with.

Source: Larry Summers Goes Into Hiding; Messages Sought Epstein’s Advice On Cheating With Daughter Of CCP Official | ZeroHedge

Groping of Mexico’s president puts violence against women in spotlight | Reuters

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MEXICO CITY, Nov 5 (Reuters) – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday she filed a complaint against a man who groped her and tried to kiss her as she walked between meetings in the capital city, a day after a video of the incident went viral.

“If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in our country,” said Sheinbaum, Mexico’s first female president. “No man has the right to abuse women’s personal space.”
Video of the incident quickly ricocheted across the internet before being taken down by some accounts, underscoring for many in Mexico the insecurity women face in a country steeped in machismo and gender-based violence.
It has also raised questions about Sheinbaum’s security detail. Like her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum travels with minimal security and makes herself widely available to the public, including wading into crowds of people.
The video shows a middle-aged man putting his arm around Sheinbaum, touching her chest and attempting to kiss her. She moves his hands away before a member of her staff steps between them. The president’s security detail did not appear to be near her in the moment.
Sheinbaum said the man appeared to be drunk.
In 2024, Mexico recorded 821 femicides, according to government data. There have been 501 femicides recorded through September of this year, and many advocates say the numbers are likely far underestimated.

Source: Groping of Mexico’s president puts violence against women in spotlight | Reuters