Marion, Trina and Susan outside the Court of Session today

Hi

I only found out about today's For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers judicial review yesterday evening. I got a call from someone whilst I was at book club (or the Monday Night Culture Salon as we prefer to style it) asking if I wanted to live-tweet the hearing. I said yes, and then tried to get my head round the case and apply for a link to watch the hearing. FWS are applying for a ruling which would declare the Scottish Prison Service's policy of putting men in female prisons unlawful.

I have written up the day's events here. You can read all the live tweets on the live tweets section of the GenderBlog website here. Thank you to everyone who has just joined the newsletter as a result of today's tweets. You are helping fund free-at-the-point-of-consumption public interest journalism and I am grateful.

I have just about made enough cash to tweet tomorrow's hearing and I am hopeful a few more donations from new subscribers will come in tomorrow to get me through to Thursday. If you can, do please share any element of my work (whether it's the tweets or blog posts or newsletters) into your networks. It really helps.

What giveth with 2026?

I have finally finished the first draft of my Post Office book, which means that whilst it's in production I will be looking for stories about the gender wars. Do let me know if you're involved in any. I still don't have a clear picture in my head of the NHS pipeline. I'm quite keen to get an understanding how the whole system works. I know I published some stuff by Dr Joseph Chrystostom, who has made preliminary enquiries about which organisations monitor the surgical end of the pipe. It still seems very opaque.

Also, if you have any current documentation pointing to capture in your organisation and/or examples of sanction (formal or social) for those who attempt to question the orthodoxy do pass it on. Everything will be dealt with in the utmost confidence.

Things I've been reading recently

Well there's this by Exulansic on the Epstein files. It's f****** creepy.
Jill Foster's piece (£) on The women fighting to keep trans activism out of the classroom.
And here's another brilliant article on the capture of tertiary education by Thea Sewell, one of the Cambridge Society of Women founders.
The ever-entertaining Róisín Michaux has an interview with a sissy festishist on her substack and Athena Forum has a piece on the damage being wreaked across Europe by gender activists, who have successfully captured parts of the EU.

I've also recently finished Jo Bartosch and Rob Jessel's excellent and depressing book Pornocracy, which explains how male brains are imploding, relationships are collapsing, society is suffering and women are being exploited to an ever greater degree by the rise and rise of online porn. It's very well argued, with the facts rigorously set out. Important stuff.

Help Janet crunch some data

The journalist Janet Murray has put together a survey "exploring how fear of reputational fallout is affecting work, business and professional life". You can fill it out anonymously here. Janet explains: "I’m rebuilding my career at 51, after being publicly criticised and professionally sidelined for saying I don’t like the phrase “pregnant people”. I lost clients, long-standing contractors and business connections - not because of the quality of my work, but because I stated a biological reality.

That experience has prompted me to think more broadly about how fear of being aligned with the “wrong” ideas or people - or of being cancelled - may be affecting work, business and professional decision-making. And how it shapes:

• Which clients we work with
• Who we hire - and how
• Which suppliers we use

… and whether people feel able to do their best work

The journalist in me needs data to work with. So I’ve put together a short survey to understand more. I’d be grateful if you'd take a few minutes to take the survey."

That's me

Do send me any feedback, story thoughts, gossip, idle thoughts or anything that takes your fancy, really. It's always good to hear what people are up to. Oh and the book club book was Intermezzo by Sally Rooney. Filthy.

Take care

Nick

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