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Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps down
Read More…: Tribunal bias claim: Panelist steps downA member of the panel convened to decide the outcome of Sara Morrison’s discrimination claim against Belfast Film Festival has stepped down after Morrison’s legal team applied to have the entire judging panel removed. Professor Deborah Boyd voluntarily stepped down for health reasons after Morrison’s barrister Naomi Cunningham accused Boyd of bias and failing to declare her bias to the court at the beginning of the tribunal. The allegations stem from Boyd’s affiliations with pro-trans women’s groups and her social media posts. Heavy Disrespect The fifth day of the tribunal hearing on Friday morning was due to begin at 11.30am…
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Sara Morrison v Belfast Film Festival
Read More…: Sara Morrison v Belfast Film FestivalSara Morrison used to be an inclusion and audience development co-ordinator working full time at Belfast Film Festival. She has an adult, trans-dentifying son. But she is a heretic. Because? “I just don’t want men in women’s spaces”, she says. It was expressing this sentiment in a public place (and criticising those who oppose it) which led to Sara being demonised and subject to a workplace investigation, either for having the wrong opinion, or expressing it publicly, depending on who you believe. On 16 April 2023, Sara joined a Let Women Speak event by what’s known as The Big Fish…
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Rex v Linehan: the prosecution and defence cases in detail
Read More…: Rex v Linehan: the prosecution and defence cases in detailGraham Linehan, the writer and campaigner, is on trial Westminster Magistrates’ Court for harassment and criminal damage. The agreed facts of the case are on the record. Between 11 and 27 October 2024 Linehan sent a number of tweets about the male Trans Rights Activist, Sophia Brooks. On 19 October, Brooks sought Linehan out and confronted him. Linehan responded with verbal abuse. During their final interaction on that day, Linehan grabbed Brooks’ phone and threw it across a road. The Crown Prosecution Service allege this caused £369 of damage. Below are the prosecution and defence cases as I understand them…
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Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women
Read More…: Cambridge students launch single-sex Society for Women“We’re now at a point where I no longer can see inaction as just inaction. I now see a lot of it as just cowardice, and I’m not interested in it anymore.” – Maeve Halligan, CUSW President and Co-Founder. Three Cambridge University students have today launched the Cambridge University Society of Women (CUSW) with the ambition to “advocate for and raise awareness of women’s sex-based issues across the political spectrum and around the world, as well as provide a single-sex environment for women to discuss the issues that concern us most as women in the absence of men.” The CUSW’s…
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An open letter to the UK Government and its Parliamentarians
Read More…: An open letter to the UK Government and its ParliamentariansNot from me, obvs. This is from Dr Joseph Chrysostom MBBS, MS (Gen Surg), FRCSEd (pictured right), who very kindly contributed two anonymous posts to this blog comparing real vaginas with the current best facsimiles available to men and another post which compared real penises with the current best facsimiles available to women. Both posts should keep any sane person awake at night, whilst also causing us to marvel about the genius of human biology. With a certain degree of trepidation, Dr Joseph Chrysostom has kindly agreed to make his name and image public. I am grateful. Dr Chrysostom’s letter…
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The NHS data scandal
Read More…: The NHS data scandalVictoria Keilthy is a senior manager in an NHS trust and the author of “Incoherent and Unsafe“, a report on the dangers posed by the NHS’s current approach to recording sex and gender identity in patient records. I met Victoria recently and heard her talk in succinct terms about the problems the NHS has created for itself in needlessly conflating the concepts of sex and gender. To be fair, everyone was doing it in the early 2000s when gender was being used to mean biological sex as distinct from the fruity act, but the Gender Recognition Act (which also confused…
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National Trust covers up artwork to “assess” it after stitching over JK Rowling’s name is removed
Read More…: National Trust covers up artwork to “assess” it after stitching over JK Rowling’s name is removedThe National Trust has covered over a piece of art, called A Virtuous Woman, previously on display at Hardwick Hall, an Elizabethan stately home in Derbyshire. Visitors are now confronted by a sign which says “Unfortunately, the artwork has been tampered with by a member of the public. Please bear with us while we assess the piece and decide on the best course of action.” I am grateful to the correspondent who brought this to my attention. On Saturday, a feminist campaigner called Jean Hatchet removed some stitching from the artwork which had been sewn over JK Rowling’s name. After…
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National Trust “deeply disappointed” by removal of JK Rowling stitch-over
Read More…: National Trust “deeply disappointed” by removal of JK Rowling stitch-overUPDATE 3 June 2025: the artwork has now been completely covered over. Full story here. The National Trust has declared it is “deeply disappointed” by the unauthorised removal of some pink and blue stitching over JK Rowling’s name on a piece of art it commissioned. Here’s the full story: On Monday 24 May, the Derbyshire and Staffordshire chapter of WRN – the Women’s Rights Network – put out a tweet thread about a piece of “collaborative” art work called A Virtuous Woman, which is currently on display at Hardwick Hall, a National Trust property in Derbyshire. A Virtuous Woman was…
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Almut Gadow v Open University
Read More…: Almut Gadow v Open UniversityDr Almut Gadow has a personality similar to those I’ve stumbled across a lot whilst talking to people about gender ideology. She’s fiercely intelligent, does not back down and knows this stuff matters. Gadow was sacked, partly for openly expressing her gender-critical views on an Open University staff messageboard between March 2022 and June 2022, and partly for failing to stop when a manager described them as inappropriate. On 22 Feb this year Gadow posted a long tweet thread announcing her case for unfair dismissal against the OU had been settled. In a separate tweet Gadow invited journalists to get…
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A message to you, GPs
Read More…: A message to you, GPsI am in touch with a doctor who is concerned about gender-affirming care, and the expectation that GPs in the UK will prescribe hormones for young adults who have been seen by Gender Identity Clinics. She has written what follows mainly for other clinicians, but it is of interest to the lay reader, too. Introduction I am a GP working for the NHS in the UK. I am writing this piece anonymously because I am worried I might be targeted, either by activists, or by people within my profession who don’t share my views and have the capacity to harm…
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