Trustee quits breastfeeding charity over trans policy |The Times

A trustee and PR director of Britain’s oldest breastfeeding charity has resigned after it introduced an inclusivity policy that allowed men to attend support groups.
Miriam Main is leaving La Leche League GB (LLLGB) after a diktat from the global organisation elicited fears that volunteers would have to give advice to transgender women.
Directors at the charity’s British arm have already requested that the Charity Commission intervene over the inclusivity policy, which permits biological males to seek support from the organisation.
Main resigned on Monday, saying that she refused to help biological men “perform a poor imitation of breastfeeding”, which she said put babies’ safety at risk.
Her departure came as Marian Tompson, 94, an American and one of the founders of the La Leche League in 1956, quit last week over the decision to admit men.
In Main’s resignation note, she spoke of “bullying, lies, and cruelty of recent times” and said that this had been “unreasonably hard to endure”.
Helen Joyce, a director at the gender-critical campaign group Sex Matters, said yesterday: “The situation at La Leche League is one of the starkest examples of how gender-identity ideology turns organisations upside-down.
“By including men who want to breastfeed in its services, LLL is destroying its founding mission to support breastfeeding mothers.”

Source: Trustee quits breastfeeding charity over trans policy

Founder of La Leche League resigns over ‘breastfeeding men’| Milli Hill

Today a letter from one of the founders of LLL, Marian Tompson, was circulated to members of the organisation, some of whom have passed it to me. Seven women founded La Leche League in 1954, and Marian Tompson was one of them.

As far as I know, only two of them are still alive, and Marian is the only one of those two who have remained actively involved in LLL. Now she has resigned, stating that the organisation has become ‘a travesty of her original intent’, by ‘subtly shifting to include men who…want to have the experience of breastfeeding’.

Source: (5) Founder of La Leche League resigns over ‘breastfeeding men’.

How the Trans Lobby Weaponised Drag | Malcolm Richard Clark

The mainstreaming and amplifying of drag misogyny was driven by two lobby groups: GLAAD and the Arcus Foundation, the biggest funder of LGBT+ organisations in the world. The latter would even pay to enable Mock’s creative role at Pose.

Even if resistance to the pro-trans agenda of Arcus dared to surface the sheer scale of its generosity tends to smother it. In 2015 alone Arcus awarded Astraea, the “Lesbian” Foundation for Justice over $6m to focus on “Intersex” issues.

Astraea was once a fabulous example of grassroots lesbian activism. Then it succumbed to the idiocy of lesbians with shlongs.

Through its donations to an array of other lobby groups such as Astraea, Arcus helps disguise the extent to which it is in the trans lobby’s driving seat.

Jennifer Bilek has revealed how Arcus formally adopted gender identity ideology at a conference it hosted in Bellagio in Italy in 2008. One of the speakers there was Michael O’Flaherty, a signatory to the notorious Yogyakarta Principles, a set of legal demands that have been used to justify Gender Self-ID across the world.

Ever since Bellagio, Arcus has been unstinting in its funding of organisations like ILGA and TGEU which champion Self-ID. In her blog STILLtish (on X) revealed Arcus paid the ghastly Victor Madrigal-Borloz $100k as an “unpaid” and “independent” expert in his UN role of “special rapporteur”.

One of Tish’s readers then discovered Madrigal-Borloz had slurped up another $200k of Arcus donations through Harvard University.

There are dozens of similar examples that prove the Arcus Foundation sits like the proverbial fat spider at the centre of a web of trans lobby influence.

Ruth Baldacchino benefited from the huge Arcus funding of ILGA when she was its co-secretary between 2014 and 2019. It was ILGA who had convened the Yogyakarta Conference that led to the eponymous “Principles”.

In 2015 the Foundation announced a $15m contribution towards a $20m project to push trans “rights” across the world called the Global Trans Initiative.

This $15m was in addition to the generous donations Arcus had already announced to trans groups in the US like the Transgender Law Center. As for the millions it spent every year in grants to “gay” organisations these now came with the proviso they were signed up to the tenets of gender identity. Stonewall hoovered up almost £150k as it too performed a trans pivot.

Immediately after its trans convention in New York Arcus turned its attention to the burning issue of media representation. On that it had a ready made ally. The same one that gave Janet Mock a stage to sound off about a murdered drag queen in 2012: GLAAD.

GLAAD now pressured studios to give cross-dressing fetishists their moment in the Hollywood sun.

In 2016 HBO broadcast ‘The Trans List’ in which Mock interviewed eleven prominent trans people.

Nowhere on any Arcus document I’ve seen does the Foundation acknowledge it helped pay for the film.

Whether Arcus helped pay for the long development process of Pose or underwrote it as part of its media representation strategy I’ve been unable to uncover. Either way somehow Mock would jump from a single television credit on The Trans List to writing and directing on Pose. I’ve never heard of any network approving a writer/director with that little experience.

In this country there are strict rules that prevent Directors of a non-profit benefiting financially. Perhaps in the United States the rules are different. But it’s quite the thing that a non-profit juggernaut put its financial weight behind one of its own Board members.

Source: (4) How the Trans Lobby Weaponised Drag.

Michael Higgins: The rise of the TERFs secured Trump’s victory  | National Post

The election of Donald Trump is a backlash against a host of woke policies that have harmed women, set back the feminist cause, and damaged North American culture and society.

On Tuesday, millions of women held their noses and voted for a man they might find objectionable and detestable, but who they feel will uphold their rights.

Harris may have won the support of the majority of women but there was clearly a “wave” of females who switched their vote, a surprise to Democrats and pundits.

Women are rightly angry at seeing biological men compete against females and seeing biological men in changing rooms, safe spaces and even prisons.

If there is a war on women it is being waged by the progressive left who are prepared to sacrifice the rights of women on the sacred altar of wokeism.

The Republicans rightly exploited this.

One of Trump’s most high-profile attack ads against Harris ended with the words: “Kamala’s agenda is they/them, not you.”

TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) used to be an insult. Now it’s a badge of honour worn by women sick of woke politics and tired of being second-class citizens.

And it is the rise of the TERFs who may well have lifted Trump into the White House.

Source: Michael Higgins: The rise of the TERFs secured Trump’s victory  | National Post

Escort hacked Medicare to steal $7m, then spent it at Louis Vuitton and Fendi | The Age

A former escort who ran an elaborate $7 million Medicare fraud empire spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money at luxury goods stores including Louis Vuitton and Fendi.
Paolo Vincent Esmaquel, 38, who also goes by the name Angela, used her(sic) IT skills to hack into the Medicare system and steal the money over just seven months, despite being in the grips of a major drug addiction.
On Friday, the County Court of Victoria heard Esmaquel was struggling with gender dysphoria and finding work following her(sic) transition when she(sic) developed the elaborate scheme, using the genuine accounts of 147 Australians to funnel fake claims into bank accounts she controlled.
Maidment sentenced Esmaquel to five years and four months jail, with a non-parole period of three years and four months.
Shorten said the Commonwealth had robust capabilities to stop devious, organised criminals in their tracks.
“The numbers here speak for themselves. This person thought they were a step ahead and that they could take Australia’s healthcare institution for an $7.5 million ride,” he said.
[Ed: male crime being falsely attributed to women – when will it stop?]

Source: Escort hacked Medicare to steal $7m, then spent it at Louis Vuitton and Fendi

Trans rights may become Australian federal election flashpoint after Trump win | The Australian

The Right Of Transgender Athletes To Compete In Women’s Sport Could Become A Live Issue In Australia’s Upcoming Federal Election After Playing A Critical Role In The Campaigns Of Donald Trump And Many Republican Candidates In US Congressional Races.

Transgender Rights Have Become A Political Flashpoint In Australia Over The Past Three Years, Most Recently With Moira Deeming Expelled From The Victorian Liberal Party And Coalition Frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price vowing to push back against the transgender movementand its impact on children.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has encouraged Senator Price and Tasmanian senator Claire Chandler to express their views on transgender issues, while Ms Deeming has claimed Victorian Liberals can’t win in the state unless they adopt Mr Dutton’s “strong leadership” advancing conservative values.

Former Liberal Party candidate Katherine Deves sparked a firestorm during the 2022 federal election campaign for her outspoken views on trans women participating in women’s sport, including comments for which she later apologised.

However, senior Labor figures believe Mr Dutton is more likely than any of his recent predecessors to exploit trans issues, with Donald Trump’s aggressive campaign against trans inclusion and gender-affirming medical treatment for children highlighting the potential for winning votes from across the political spectrum.

Republicans spent more than $80m in the last three months alone on advertising campaigns hammering Democrat politicians — mostly in Senate races — over their support for transgender rights.

[Ed: Lets hope the Labor Party sees sense well before the Federal Election and distances itself from the destructive trans juggernaut before it is too late.]

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Woman unfairly dismissed over gender-critical views to get £69,000 payout |MSN

A rape crisis worker who was found to have been unfairly dismissed over her gender-critical views has received £69,000 in compensation.

In May, a tribunal ruled Roz Adams was constructively dismissed by the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC) after suffering harassment and discrimination.

According to the judgment, Adams was subjected to an internal disciplinary process “reminiscent of the work of Franz Kafka” after she questioned rules about trans female counsellors working with female survivors of sexual abuse.

Now, the ERCC has been ordered to pay Adams £68,989.71, nearly double the amount previously anticipated, as redress for discrimination and constructive dismissal, as well as compensation for emotional pain and suffering.

Source: Woman unfairly dismissed over gender-critical views to get £69,000 payout

Joe Biden: the first trans-activist president – spiked

Under the Biden-Harris administration, so-called trans rights have been sanctified, becoming a holy mission for the mainstream left. Last year, Biden claimed on Transgender Day of Visibility that ‘transgender Americans shape our nation’s soul’. In the same speech, Biden claimed there is an ‘epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls’, although all the evidence would suggest it is actual women and girls who are being put most at risk from his trans-rights crusade, as sex-based rights are corroded and women’s spaces are thrown open to any man who claims to be a woman.

As Biden now prepares to shuffle off the global political stage, it’s worth looking at the damage he has done while waving the insipid baby blue, white and blush-pink tricolour trans flag. The president’s position was clear from the outset. On his first day in office, he blithely signed away women’s rights when he nodded through an executive order, entitled ‘Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation’. By treating discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity’ as equivalent to sex discrimination, the order effectively removed the sex-based rights of the nearly 900,000 women who work in the federal government, and more who rely on statutory services. A year later, his administration proposed similar changes to Title IX. Title IX was established to defend women’s rights in education. But the updated version instead obliterates single-sex bathrooms, sports and locker rooms in federally funded schools.

The ramifications for women at the sharp end of Biden’s trans-inclusive policies have been obscene. As Reduxx magazine has consistently reported, the most dangerous and predatory male prisoners are now routinely locked up with women inmates who are then penalised if they complain.

Many of Biden’s actions that have been heralded as great steps for ‘trans rights’ have been downright chilling. His appointment of trans activist Rachel Levine first as assistant secretary for health, and then as an admiral and head of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, has allowed the dangerous fiction of the ‘transgender child’ to be embedded into medical protocols across the US.

In essence, the Democratic Party has sacrificed women’s rights and children’s safety at the altar of gender ideology, providing Republicans with an open goal.

Joe Biden was America’s first trans activist commander-in-chief. Here’s hoping he’ll be the last.

Source: Joe Biden: the first trans-activist president – spiked