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Thank you The Word Factory, Kristin Zebrowski, MPA, Larry Shell, Barb, Barbara Ratcliffe, and many others for tuning into my live video with Suzanne Moore! Join me for my next live video in the app.
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Listen to the live event, which included speakers from the Lesbian Collective, Vancouver Rape Relief, and me. The audio runs for approximately one hour 40 minutes.
I have written about my trip to Vancouver, published today in Unherd. You can read it here.
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I was informed, by a young man, that I am âan old white womanâ, to which I responded that we all get old if we are lucky, and he would also one day be old and (still) white, unless he died of excessive wanking in his motherâs basement.
The event went ahead and it was amazing. Women from Vancouver Rape Relief spoke alongside the Lesbian Collective, and I recounted my decades long friendship and feminist camaraderie with the late Lee Lakeman. I also recounted the poor KC acting for Scottish Ministers in the âWhat is a womanâ Supreme Court Case having to explain to the judges about how some men are lesbians.
In the meantime, the trans lunatics were getting very wet and cold, although they were comforted by a flautist and several men wearing animal masks.
And finally:
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Melissa Farley
Extreme violence and psychological abuse have been extensively documented and are pervasive in prostitution. Survivors of prostitution report high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociation, depression, and self-loathing. These are the same sequelae reported by torture survivors.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008066.2024.2404307#summary-abstract
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Faika El-Nagashi, Budapest, October 2024
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Joan Smith, in Rome (where else?)
Listen to Joan explain why and how she took on the incredible project of uncovering the true stories of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome.
These were the wives, mothers and daughters of the emperors from Augustus to Nero, via their cruel and deranged relative Caligula. These highly privileged women lived under the shadow of these men, abused, controlled, dominated, and, in several instances, murdered. Only five of the women appear to have died of natural causes.
Joan links the femicide then to modern day slaying of women by men known to them, and asks what lessons can these women and girls of the Roman Empire tell us? Ancient misogyny, even from 2000 years ago, looks similar to the plight of women today.
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Outside the WPATH conference. Five minutes after this photograph was taken, the organisers called the police on Juana
Juana and Eric
Eric
Show notes:
WPATH Files
https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files
Genspect
https://genspect.org/
Juanaâs crowd funder for legal fees
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Help-me-get-justice-for-Eric
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https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/john-boyne-why-i-support-trans-rights-but-reject-the-word-cis-1.3843005
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Details of the Centre for Womenâs Justice (CWJ) here where you can also find details of future book events.
What some of the reviewers have said:
Inventive, compassionate and tenacious, WistrichâŠ[is] a magnificent, radical, uncompromising warrior of a woman.
Melanie Reid, The Times
Wistrichâs skill lies in her innovative use of legislationâŠshe thrives on perseverance.
Yvonne Roberts, The Observer
Through these enraging and astonishing stories, Wistrich⊠shows us the best of humanity. [She is] empathetic, dogged, canny, always up for the fight.
Fiona Sturges, The Guardian
A history of her three-decade career, peppered by some of Britainâs most significant cases of violence against women.
Suzanne Moore, The Telegraph
Highly accessible and beautifully writtenâŠWistrichâs strong sense of fairness and justice runs through every word.
Chris McCurley, Legal Action
A devastating indictment of a justice system that routinely fails female victims of male violence.
Richard Scorer, New Law Journal
Shownotes:
https://www.justiceforwomen.org.uk/
Both me and Harriet in this photograph, in 1988, at a protest against Section 28. Guess which is which correctly and I will gift you a free sub!
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Pam Spurr is presently a BPS chartered academic, teaching and research psychologist. She started working in the media during her time at Guyâs/in the NHS, largely as an agony aunt, starting on GMTV, the BBC, and then got her first radio show at Heart FM London in 1997.
Pam presented at Heart for five years before moving to LBC for 4 œ years where she had the evening slot, for which she won a Sony Radio Award.
She has written 15 self-help books on topics from happiness to dating, relationships and sex, dream interpretation to emotional eating and other topics. Over the years Pam has been a commentator on many TV programmes.
After trying for two years, she finally found a publisher for her first childrenâs book, published in April, 2024.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eva-Bear-Magic-Snowflake-Spurr/dp/1035821036/ref=sr_1_1
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Maia
At the age of 12, Maia discovered the idea of gender transition. As a young adult, she moved to the Middle East and embarked upon building a new life for herself as a man. She seamlessly integrated herself within deeply religious communities of Palestinian Muslims and Orthodox Jews. Very few people in her life knew that she was actually female.
Among her exciting adventures, she prayed on the menâs side of the Western Wall and entered mosques without needing to cover her hair. However, living undercover as a man began to take its toll as she questioned the trajectory of her future. After deep soul searching, Maia realised that she had never allowed herself to live as a lesbian.
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Linzi, with her granddad, at the beautiful game
Linzi, a lesbian and a supporter of rights for same-sex attracted people, was the subject of a four-month investigation by a special unit set up to expose so-called hate speech in the game after she posted on trans issues on X.
Newcastle began investigating Linzi following a complaint. In November 2023 she received a letter from the club saying she was banned until 2026 for breaching its equality policy, which forbids 'discriminatory' comments.
Linzi is taking legal action to overturn the ban, stating that it is her right by law to express âgender-criticalâ views and that the Premier League's actions were a breach of data protection laws.
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I talk to the man who wanted to be a woman, had his penis removed, became a transactivist, rejected some gender ideology, and once wore a T-shirt with the slogan âtrans, women are men, including meâ.
We talk about how autogynephilic men stop fancying themselves after a while; how perhaps wearing marigolds for the Times photoshoot wasnât a good idea; and why I do not believe in the concept of transsexuality in any way, shape, or form.
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This week I'm speaking with Ray Blanchard, a psychologist, sexologist, who coined the term autogynephilia to describe those men that identify as women, often transitioning to live as women, who get a sexual excitement from imagining themselves as women.
And of course, this has got him into trouble from trans extremists.
When he praised a book The Man Who Would Be Queen by Michael Bailey he got into even more trouble.
Ray is fascinating because he also has a lot to say about whether or not being same-sex attracted is immutable, and also about various paraphilias or kinks as they are often referred to.
I visited Ray Blanchard at his home in Toronto, not that far away from Kenneth Zucker's home, who I had interviewed the week before.
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Kenneth Zucker during his time at the GIC
Dr Ken Zucker has an impressive CV. The editor of the prestigious journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, he took a leading role helping devise diagnostic and treatment guidelines for gender dysphoric individuals, and headed the group which developed the DSM-5âs criteria for its âgender dysphoriaâ entry.
Zucker also helped write the âstandards of careâ guidelines for the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, which is a textbook relied upon by clinicians who treat gender-dysphoric patients and those presenting as transgender.
Why, then, was he sacked from GIC (part of The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in 2015, and eventually awarded a massive payout following a case he took against his former employer? I visited Zucker at his home in Toronto to find out, and to talk about whether his views on gender had changed since he has been hit with a whole heap of slurs and accusations of âtransphobiaâ and bigotry. Have a listen and find out the whole story, straight from Zucker.
âCAMH apologizes without reservation to Dr. Zucker for the flaws in the process that led to errors in the report not being discovered and has entered into a settlement with Dr. Zucker that includes a financial payment to him.â
The apology, abridged
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Britney Spears in 2007
Paris Hilton with activist Caroline Cole at a press conference outside the US Capitol Building on April 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. Cole a survivor of abuse while a teenager in a congregate care facility, joined lawmakers to introduce the bill "Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act"
Chyna, September 28, 2000 at the World Wrestling Federation in New York City
Janet Jackson during MTV VMA 2000 Stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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In early 2022 Sibyl was working for Cornerstones Literary Consultancy as one of their âCore Editorsâ. She had been working with them without issue for about a year. Then, in May, odd things started to happen. Management told her without warning that the client she was working for no longer required her services. About a week later she noticed she had been removed from the Editorsâ page on the Cornerstones website. When Sibyl enquired about this, she was told that it was âunlikelyâ that more projects would be fed her way.
Confused and distressed, Sibyl filed a Subject Access Request which revealed that a member of staff at Cornerstones took objection to the gender critical views she had expressed in her Twitter account (i.e. her belief that sex is immutable and determined from conception). Cornerstones proceeded to immediately halt any work she was doing for them by lying to both her and their client, and then effectively terminated Sibyl.
Have a listen to find out what happened next.
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Mo Lea, senior lecturer in Art and former course leader at Masters degree
The Long Shadow, written by George Kay, and based on Michael Biltonâs book Wicked Beyond Belief, is a seven-part ITV drama based on the police hunt for a sadistic necrophiliac who terrorised women in the north of England throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. With the consultation and blessing of the families of his victims, the drama lays bare the violent misogyny and prejudicial policing that came to characterise the hunt for the so-called Yorkshire Ripper. I talk to Mo about how she survived a near-fatal attack by Sutcliffe in 1980.
Mo Lea was an art student in the city when she became a target for the serial killer, Peter Sutcliffe.
Mo, who had moved to Leeds from Liverpool, was out with friends in a pub in the Chapeltown area of the city, planning her 21st birthday.
It was October 25, 1980, and the friends went their separate ways just after 10pm, as Mo decided to walk through the university campus to catch the bus. A man approached behind her, hit the back of her head with a hammer and attacked with a screwdriver. Her life was saved by a passing couple who heard her screams.
She was assaulted so violently that her parents failed to recognise her in the hospital, her jaw broken, her face bloodied and bruised.
At the time, Sutcliffe had murdered 12 women and left another seven for dead.
Several months later, while recuperating at home in Liverpool, she recognised Sutcliffe on the TV as the man that attacked her.
'When you have had trauma like that, it gives you an edge,' she told me. 'If you've been close to death, you feel you've been granted this freedom to live. It has compelled me to be successful in my career.'
Moâs book:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Facing-Yorkshire-Ripper-Art-Survival/dp/1526777576
Her website: https://www.molea.art/
Peter Sutcliffe, drawn by Mo Lea
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Jalna Hanmer at the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women, March 4â8, 1976 in Brussels. The event was created with the intention to "make public the full range of crimes, both violently brutal and subtly discriminatory, committed against women of all cultures."
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