Serial killer Paul Denyer to stay behind bars for life as government backtracks

Frankston serial killer Paul Denyer will remain behind bars for life under new laws that will also make it tougher for serious offenders to seek parole.

The Allan government on Tuesday revealed it had reversed its position on naming Denyer in legislation to keep him in jail after receiving legal advice from the Solicitor-General that suggested it would hold up if tested in court.

The laws will be worded in the same way as those that apply to Hoddle Street killer Julian Knight and Russell Street bomber Craig Minogue. The individuals covered cannot seek parole unless they are terminally ill or incapacitated.

Alongside the Denyer legislation, the Adult Parole Board will be given the power to declare a “no return” period for people given life sentences, preventing them from making another application for up to five years.

The decision to limit Denyer from seeking release is a departure from the position outlined by former premier Daniel Andrews, who in June was critical of “one-person laws” on the basis that they would invite major legal challenges.

Denyer was given three life sentences in 1993 over the murders of Natalie Russell, 17, Elizabeth Stevens, 18, and Deborah Fream, 22.

He was eligible for parole in May but was refused, with friends and family members of Denyer’s victims pushing for legal changes that would stop him from making further applications.

Libertarian MP David Limbrick, who was in a relationship with Russell when she was murdered by Denyer, said it had been a traumatic saga for those who had campaigned for the change since 2021.

“Our goal was to make sure that Denyer could never harm another girl the way that he hurt Nat, and it looks like that’s going to happen now,” he said.

[Ed: Paul Denyer identified as ‘Paula’ for a period while incarcerated but has apparently reverted to Paul now.]

Source: Serial killer Paul Denyer to stay behind bars for life as government backtracks

Female martial artists drop out of jiu-jitsu tournament after ‘fearing for their safety’ and being forced to fight against transgender women at competitions | Daily Mail Online

  • The backlash has forced the world’s largest grappling association to change its transgender participant policy 
  • Female fighters spoke out about feeling ‘scared’ and ‘unsafe’ during matches 
  • Several women boycotted a competition in October saying they weren’t warned they would be fighting transgender women in recent months

Over the summer, videos of female competitors fighting transgender challengers went viral, and sparked outcries over fairness and safety. Some noted the transgender participants were much heavier than the female opponents.

The policy had stated that women would not be forced to compete against transgender fighters – but several women said that isn’t the case and they boycotted a late-October tournament in Georgia.

At that event, one of the transgender women, Corissa Griffith, took home four gold medals. Another transgender competitor, Cordelia Gregory, placed second in a tournament.

Sharing their update last week, NAGA said: ‘We, as an organization, strive to ensure fairness, inclusivity, and respect for all competitors within our events.

‘We will have divisions for only biological females. Transgender females will not be entered into these divisions.

‘Transgender females must compete in the men’s division. We hope that the simplicity of this revised policy will help to avoid any future occurrences where transgender females enter women divisions.

‘If NAGA staff is informed that a transgender female is in a women’s division, they will be given the choice to go to the men’s division or given a refund.’

Source: Female martial artists drop out of jiu-jitsu tournament after ‘fearing for their safety’ and being forced to fight against transgender women at competitions | Daily Mail Online

GUERNSEY: Trans-Identified Rapist Given “Unduly Lenient” Prison Sentence Following Trial Where Victim Was Labeled “Transphobic” – Reduxx

Several months after a Guernsey Royal Court jury unanimously found a 19-year-old trans-identified male guilty of rape, the court has announced that Freddie Christian Trenchard, also known as Alyssa Christine Trenchard, has been sentenced to three years at a youth detention centre.

Trenchard’s July conviction hearing was attended by Guernsey Women’s Rights Network representative Jane Roper, who informed Reduxx that the court referred to the rapist by “she/her” pronouns. Roper added that the assault was described as “having been committed by a transgender female with her penis.”

“The judge sent a message asking the defendant what he would like to be described as, and then actually apologized to him and told the court that Trenchard would like to be described as a ‘transgender female.’ In her opening statements, the judge said the alleged crime occurred ‘when the defendant was biologically male,’” Roper previously told Reduxx.

While Trenchard lists his gender as “female” on social media, often posting videos on TikTok using hashtags such as “#trans and #transisbeautiful,” he has also admitted that he is sexually aroused by being called “miss,” which the court referred to him as during the trial at his request.

Source: GUERNSEY: Trans-Identified Rapist Given “Unduly Lenient” Prison Sentence Following Trial Where Victim Was Labeled “Transphobic” – Reduxx

NSW #ThisIsNotEquality Campaign Tell Your MP Mistakes Were Made in the UK

  • NSW Labor can learn from the mistakes and corrections of Labor Party UK
  • There have been significant shifts in national policies on gender and sex, and Labour Party policy as new information comes to light about gender identity ideology
  • In the UK, policies around healthcare, women’s sport and prisons have been strengthened to support single-sex provisions.
  • The Labor Party UK still has a way to go on their policies around sex-based rights, but there is movement in the right direction

What you need to do

  • Write your letter using our points for inspiration
  • Find your MP on our Contact List
  • Request a meeting with your MP to discuss your concerns
  • Tell the Premier @ChrisMinnsMP that #ThisIsNotEquality
  • Share your letter with us

Source: NSW #ThisIsNotEquality Campaign Tell Your MP Mistakes Were Made in the UK

The Bookseller – News – Books by Stock and Joyce returned to library shelves in Calderdale following investigation

Calderdale Council’s director of public services has found that the library service’s recommendation to remove six titles went against the guidance provided by the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP) and the council’s own stock management policy.

The books included Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality by Helen Joyce (Oneworld Publications), Material Girls by Kathleen Stock (Fleet), Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier (Regnery Publishing), Double Think by Janice G Raymond (Spinifex Press), Trigger Warning by Sheila Jeffries (Spinifex Press) and Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans (Spinifex Press).

[Ed: This should make us all very proud of Australian publisher Spinifex.]

Source: The Bookseller – News – Books by Stock and Joyce returned to library shelves in Calderdale following investigation

Posie Parker assault case: Tomato juice protester Eli Rubashkyn fails in bid to have charges dropped – NZ Herald

An activist who acknowledged dousing controversial British speaker Posie Parker with tomato juice during a raucous speaking event and counter-protest in Auckland earlier this year has failed to have her charges dismissed.

Eli Rubashkyn, 35, whose legal name is Eliana Golberstein, faces two charges of assault following the March 25 incident at the Albert Park band rotunda.

The trans and intersex activist pleaded not guilty and is now heading to trial after Judge Claire Ryan rejected her lawyer’s application to throw out the charges.

The judge said it was not her place to take a political stance.

“My task is not to consider whether Ms Keen is a bad person or stands for bad things, or whether what the defendant did, if they committed the offence, is morally wrong.”

The Judge noted Rubashkyn has repeatedly acknowledged pouring the juice in media interviews both at and after the protest.

“I do not accept that protest and counter-protest should be expected to end in violence,” the Judge said.

“People in this diverse and tolerant society when they go to protests should expect that they can protest peacefully.”

Source: Posie Parker assault case: Tomato juice protester Eli Rubashkyn fails in bid to have charges dropped – NZ Herald

How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate

By now, more than 800,000 Australian television viewers have watched De-Transitioning, a recently aired documentary from the Seven News Spotlight program. The feature, billed as Spotlight’s “most controversial story this year,” represented a breakthrough moment for Australian media coverage of gender clinics. Instead of showing viewers the usual parade of joyful-seeming families preaching the wonders of trans “affirmation,” Seven News spoke with thoughtful dissenting doctors, and regretful de-transitioners whose anguished rejection of womanhood had led them to the surgical removal of healthy body parts.

A similar climate of media self-censorship exists in other parts of the English-speaking world. But the situation in Australia is unusual, because the taboo against even-handed journalism on the gender file has gained institutional support from the country’s Press Council—which, by its own description, “sets standards and responds to complaints about material in Australian newspapers and magazines.”

The Press Council is a member-funded body that has no legal authority to regulate Australian news outlets or impose penalties on journalists. Nevertheless, its pronouncements are seen to carry some measure of moral authority. That authority is being squandered through its apparent determination to stigmatize dissenting views on the transgender medicalisation of childhood.

In December 2019, The Australian—the country’s well-respected national daily newspaper—reported that this “little-known transgender lobby group”—i.e., Rainbow Rights Watch—had been “responsible for almost half of all [Press Council] complaints lodged against the nation’s major media outlets.” This amounted to 165 out of 387 complaints that had been active for more than seventeen weeks.

The Press Council’s guidelines reflect the same jargony propaganda style employed by the activists whose “lived experience” the Council had sought out. Biological sex, for instance, is referred to as sex “assigned at birth.” To such extent as journalists agree to impose this usage on readers, they would only be promoting the confused belief that sex is something arbitrary and changeable. (For the activists who demand the use of this kind of terminology, that is, of course, the point.)

During my three decades spent working as an Australian journalist, I’d never previously had to defend a complaint before the Press Council. My reporting on gender issues exposed me to other “firsts” as well. For the first time in my career, I was told that asking questions about the harms associated with a particular kind of medical procedure was off limits. For the first time in my career, a medical institution flat-out refused to subject itself to accountability regarding its practices. For the first time in my career, I was besieged by activists—some moonlighting as journalists—who insisted that subjecting the truth of their slogans to scrutiny might drive fragile youth to suicide.

I received smears and death threats, as well, of the type journalists more typically face when writing about cults, criminal syndicates, or terrorist groups. One might think all of this would be of concern to a group such as the Australian Press Council, whose self-professed goal is “promoting high standards of media practice, community access to information of public interest, and freedom of expression through the media.” Instead, the Council’s guidelines encoded many of the same demands issued by those who wanted me to stop doing my job.

Source: How Australia’s Press Council Has Been Used to Stifle the Gender Debate

Mornington Peninsula Shire council slammed for banning councillor

Cr Susan Bissinger was recently ordered to complete personal development training after mediation with mayor Steve Holland and told she could only speak to a handful of senior staff in a separate reprimand from chief executive John Baker.

The September 22 mediation followed an online exchange between Ms Bissinger, councillors and council staff regarding a plan to permanently fly the Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag at all council offices.
Ms Bissinger feared the move could be seen as “divisive” and said the shire – which was trying to overhaul its image after being slammed by ratepayers in successive community surveys – should not be following the actions of other “woke” Melbourne councils.
Since sharing her story Ms Bissinger said she had been overwhelmed by an outpouring of support from all corners of the community, including some “unexpected” quarters such as action groups for homosexuals.
Jess Hoyle, who was recently refused an exemption to allow her to host Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance events that excluded anyone who was born male, thanked Ms Bissinger for “being brave” and speaking up for her community.
The Tasmanian woman, 34, said the flag being flown by Mornington Peninsula Shire no longer represented homosexuals.
“Our movement has been hijacked by trans activists,” she said.
“There’s a new Pride flag every 12 months. It no longer speaks to us. Flying it is divisive.”

Source: ‘Silenced, bullied’: Jeff Kennett weighs in on Pride flag furore

Father sues New Jersey school district over ‘student-centered’ transgender policy allowing children to change names and pronouns without parental consent: ‘It’s so out of whack’ | Daily Mail Online

The federal lawsuit, filed in The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, names Cherry Hill Public Schools as a defendant, and comes from concerned father Rick Short (pictured).

  • The federal lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the Garden State, names Cherry Hill Public Schools as a defendant, and comes from concerned father Rick Short
  • He contends the guidelines, modeled after a state policy, violate his rights, and wants to rescind the policy or add a provision that instills parental involvement
  • Cherry Hill, the 12th-largest system in the state, is the latest school district in NJ to call local parental notification and LGBTQ + policies into question

Source: Father sues New Jersey school district over ‘student-centered’ transgender policy allowing children to change names and pronouns without parental consent: ‘It’s so out of whack’ | Daily Mail Online