Category: Transgenderism

‘We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women’ – BBC News

Is a lesbian transphobic if she does not want to have sex with trans women? Some lesbians say they are increasingly being pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners – then shunned and even threatened for speaking out. Several have spoken to the BBC, along with trans women who are concerned about the issue too.

I became aware of this particular issue after I wrote an article about sex, lies and legal consent.

Several people got in touch with me to say there was a “huge problem” for lesbians, who were being pressured to “accept the idea that a penis can be a female sex organ”.

One compared going on dates with trans women to so-called conversion therapy – the controversial practice of trying to change someone’s sexual orientation.

“I knew I wasn’t attracted to them but internalised the idea that it was because of my ‘transmisogyny’ and that if I dated them for long enough I could start to be attracted to them. It was DIY conversion therapy,” she wrote.

Another reported a trans woman physically forcing her to have sex after they went on a date.

“[They] threatened to out me as a terf and risk my job if I refused to sleep with [them],” she wrote. “I was too young to argue and had been brainwashed by queer theory so [they were] a ‘woman’ even if every fibre of my being was screaming throughout so I agreed to go home with [them]. [They] used physical force when I changed my mind upon seeing [their] penis and raped me.”

Source: ‘We’re being pressured into sex by some trans women’ – BBC News

UK Police Ordered to Stop Recording Male Offenders in Female Crime Statistics – Women Are Human

UK — . On October 23, 2021, The Daily Mail reported that the Home Secretary, Priti Patel, has ordered police forces to record the sex of criminals, not their gender identity at the time of the crime.

According to the Daily Mail, “Home Office officials are working with police forces on a new procedure for officers to record the sex of criminals to ensure crime statistics are ‘more accurate’”. A number of concerned citizens and advocacy groups have been stressing the importance of having accurate data on sex. Recently in a submission to the Scottish Parliament, Professor Alice Sullivan highlighted how “small numbers of misallocated cases can have a large effect on research findings in any sub-group analysis where one sex is dominant”, using sexual offences as an example.
Clare Dimyon has also been undertaking detailed analyses of prison population data for England and Wales, using sentenced offender data provided by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ). Her analyses reveal that virtually all sexual offenders are male, while the vast majority of those offended against are female. Further, at least 79% of those defined as ‘transgender’ prisoners by the MOJ are male, and their criminality conforms to the male measure of criminality (96% of all prisoners are male).
The Home Office’s change in direction follows Ms Dimyon’s petition to the UK Government and Parliament, requesting that the law “require that all authorities throughout criminal justice system (police, courts, prisons & probation) record the biological sex of all individuals investigated, charged, convicted, imprisoned for the offence types i) VATP & ii) “sexual offences” including rape & attempted rape”. At the time of this writing, her petition had received over 12,000 signatures.

Source: UK Police Ordered to Stop Recording Male Offenders in Female Crime Statistics – Women Are Human

The way forward | Josephine Bartosch | The Critic Magazine

I want to talk about pride and about shame. I have never been what is crudely referred to as a “flag shagger”. I have never sat through the Queen’s Speech at Christmas, and I can’t name a single English football player.

But one thing that does make me genuinely proud to be British is that we are now known to trans activists across the world as “TERF Island”. And that’s important because the UK punches above its weight in terms of cultural exports.

What we are doing here is watched by the rest of the world. And what we are doing is standing firm against an ideology imported wholesale from the US; an ideology that has the backing of some of the world’s most powerful people.

And I’m not talking about elected politicians and peers who make the law in that building over there. I’m talking about the technocrats, those in Silicon Valley, with the power to shape minds. Social media has become a vector for body dysmorphia, and pornography has made the prospect of growing up female a sentence to sexual subservience.

Anatomy of a Scandal – Opinion on the use of puberty blockers in America is turning | The Economist

WORRIES ABOUT the use of puberty blockers, which are prescribed to some children to prevent the development of secondary sex characteristics (like breasts and facial hair) have been mounting in much of the rich world. Some countries have scaled back their use. Not America. Doctors who work in transgender clinics routinely claim that prescribing such drugs is conservative, because their effects are largely reversible, and compassionate, because they save children with gender dysphoria (the feeling of being in the wrong body) from enormous distress.

That may be beginning to change. Last week Abigail Shrier, a writer, published interviews in “Common Sense With Bari Weiss”, a newsletter, with two transgender health-care professionals who suggested that some doctors were irresponsible in the way they treated children. The women, both trans, are on the board of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which endorses the use of blockers early in puberty in some cases. Though blockers are often described as operating like a pause button, most children prescribed them go on to cross-sex hormones. This combination can have irreversible consequences, including sterility and the inability to orgasm.

Source: Opinion on the use of puberty blockers in America is turning | The Economist

Europe’s war on sex – UnHerd

The United Kingdom may have left the EU, but we remain members of the entirely separate Council of Europe.

The Council of Europe is the older and larger of the two organisations. Founded in 1949, it now comprises 47 members: every European country with the exception of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and the Vatican City. On paper, it purports to have three core values: democracy, the rule of law and human rights. But in recent years it has found a new cause: the promotion of gender identity ideology across the continent.

After deciding that transgender people were subject to widespread discrimination and “frequently” targeted by hate speech, the Assembly called on member states to:

  • enshrine gender identity as a protected characteristic in anti-discrimination legislation and policies;
  • allow legal gender recognition on the basis of self-determination, and “make these procedures available for all people who seek to use them, irrespective of age” (meaning children were included);
  • pay for gender reassignment treatment and make that treatment accessible to adults and children alike and
  • re-educate society

It was a veritable land-grab, and it was forged in collaboration with the transgender lobby. In particular, TGEU — or Transgender Europe — a well-organised NGO which at the time in 2015 had an annual budget in excess of €700,000 and employed at least 12 staff members.

[A]s far as human beings are concerned, sex is immutable. That is a biological fact. I am a trans person and I live in the United Kingdom. I do not recognise the picture painted by Ben Chikha. Trans women are not being vilified and misrepresented; rather, the public is waking up to the fact that people cannot change sex, and disagree with outlandish claims.

Source: Europe’s war on sex – UnHerd

French subject-matter experts have just published a collective principled stand against « gender identity  discourse and practices that are harming youths | «TRADFEM

Sex change in children: « We can no longer remain silent in the face of a serious drift ».

Aproximately fifty French psychologists, doctors and intellectuals denounce an « ideological hold on children’s bodies » exerted in the name of the emancipation of the « transgender child ».

Source: French subject-matter experts have just published a collective principled stand against « gender identity  discourse and practices that are harming youths | «TRADFEM

My hope for a more open discussion of women’s and trans rights is fading | Susanna Rustin | The Guardian

Over recent years, women with views like mine have routinely been described as hateful. This happened even when we made it clear that we oppose bigotry and support laws protecting transgender people from discrimination. But what is shocking is the escalating language and threats, to the point where Stock – the author of a well-reviewed book on this subject – was advised by police to install CCTV.

It seems easy, for some, to dismiss any resistance to changing cultures of gender as reactionary (or quasi-fascist). It is true that most of the MPs speaking up for Kathleen Stock so far have been Tories. By not explicitly condemning the demands for her to be sacked, while calling for an “investigation” into “institutional transphobia”, the academic union, the UCU, appeared to side with the campaign against her.

But it is a mistake to imagine that the only people for whom sexual differences are meaningful are evolutionary biologists or religious conservatives. For gender-critical feminists, our politics are underpinned by an analysis of the way female bodies and reproductive labour have historically been controlled and exploited. This is why we describe women’s rights as “sex-based”.

Source: My hope for a more open discussion of women’s and trans rights is fading | Susanna Rustin | The Guardian

Father Claims Daughter Was Sexually Assaulted by Male Student in Girls’ Washroom at School

A father who was arrested at a school board meeting in Loudoun, Virginia has come out and revealed that his daughter was brutally sexually assaulted at her school by a male in the girls’ washroom.

On June 22, Scott Smith was dragged out of a Loudoun County school board meeting by police after getting into a vocal altercation with board members over the proposed policy that would enshrine the ability for students to use whatever bathroom they choose.

Smith claims the assault occurred on May 28, in which a 15-year-old boy, allegedly wearing a skirt, entered a girl’s bathroom at Stone Bridge High School, where he proceeded to sexually assault Smith’s ninth-grade daughter.

Smith was finally ejected from the school board meeting after a heated exchange with a woman wearing a rainbow heart shirt who allegedly told Smith she “didn’t believe” his daughter about her sexual assault.

The woman, since identified as Jackie Schworm, allegedly threatened to “ruin” Smith’s plumbing business for claiming his daughter had been sexually assaulted by the trans student. To which Smith replied, “You’re a b*tch.”

A police officer then quickly moved to separate the two by pulling on Smith’s arm, but that led to a full-on scuffle between them after Smith yanked his arm away. The officer apparently took this as a sign of aggression, and Smith was struck in the face and pulled to the ground before being handcuffed.

Speaking to The Daily Caller, Scott Smith said the juvenile court which adjudicated his daughter’s sexual assault case assured him the rapist had been confined to house arrest at his mother’s residence. But that appears to have not been the case after all, as the young man appears to have struck again since then at another school.

Source: Father Claims Daughter Was Sexually Assaulted by Male Student in Girls’ Washroom at School