Author: Mick Hartley

recent cases, like the successful case taken by criminologist Jo Phoenix against the Open University, show that this can be a very expensive mistake.

“Any university that imposes policies that run counter to academic freedom is failing in its core mission, and likely to be penalised by the Office for Students under new laws coming into force in August.”

She added: “Ideological capture by trans lobby groups has no place in higher education."

Unfortunately it clearly still does. It'll take years to flush all this nonsense out of the system.

debate around the issue, also revealed that she had been sent “vile” abusive emails and been given security advice to help keep her safe.

Of her critics, Cass said: “I have been really frustrated by the criticisms, because it is straight disinformation. It is completely inaccurate.

“It started the day before the report came out when an influencer put up a picture of a list of papers that were apparently rejected for not being randomised control trials.

“That list has absolutely nothing to do with either our report or any of the papers.

“If you deliberately try to undermine a report that has looked at the evidence of children’s healthcare, then that’s unforgivable. You are putting children at risk by doing that.”…

Cass said: “There are some pretty vile emails coming in at the moment. Most of which my team is protecting me from, so I’m not getting to see them.” Some of them contained “words I wouldn’t put in a newspaper”, she said.

She added: “What dismays me is just how childish the debate can become. If I don’t agree with somebody then I’m called transphobic or a Terf.”

Because it's a cult, and abuse is all they have.

See Benjamin Ryan for more detail on the false claim that the Cass Report discarded 101 out of 103 studies of pediatric gender-transition treatment.

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the “charter” the school was implementing, as part of its push to win accreditation from LGBT Youth Scotland.

She says both entities sent her the same one-page poster with no details about the actual requirements.

Documents obtained by the Telegraph, released through Freedom of Information laws, show the school was in fact operating a policy stating that parents should not be told if their child had transitioned without their explicit permission.

The setting-up of an LGBT club and the prominent displaying of flags was another condition set out by the charity to receive charter status.

At the time, the school had a bronze award but was working towards silver status….

Joanne believes the school was effectively encouraging pupils to “come out” as trans, to the acclamation of their peers. After finding the material on Holly’s phone, she pulled her child out of the school but discovered that all others in the area had also signed up for the LGBT Youth Scotland scheme.

One, Dunbar Grammar, organised a Happy Fest event in 2020 including two drag acts, with one called Auntie Climax.

It also endorses notions to children that there are genders such as “gender-fluid”, meaning to “identify as different genders at different times”.

“I consider myself a Lefty, I firmly believe in state education,” Joanne said.

“We can’t afford it at all. In many ways, it has screwed up our lives financially and because of all the travelling. But sending her to a private school in England was the only way to get my daughter away from LGBT Youth Scotland.

“She now has no issues whatsoever with her gender. But had she stayed in that school, it was so encouraged and deeply embedded within her friendship group that there is no way she would have turned away from that.

“There’s every possibility that she would have ended up on a medical pathway.

“I’m still very angry about it. My child was vulnerable and I feel they exploited that. They isolated her from her family, told her to keep secrets from us and filled her head with extreme ideas. That is exactly what cults do and I honestly feel that this scheme is a state-funded radicalisation of children.”

ime. But this is not the heart of the matter.

It is important to remember the series of events that led to the current crisis. On 1 April, Israel signalled a clear intention to change its modus operandi regarding Iran’s campaign against it. The killing of IRGC/Quds Force General Mohammed Reza Zahedi indicated an Israeli decision that the previous accepted rule according to which Israel would focus its responses on Iran’s proxies, rather than their Iranian patron, no longer applied.

This reflected a conviction held widely in Israel’s defence establishment that Iran is the real sovereign in the land area between the Iraq-Iran border and Syria and Lebanon’s borders with Israel. They view the ‘states’ of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon as today largely fictions, with Iran either in effective control of the government (Iraq, Lebanon) or possessing freedom of operation (Syria).

From within this large area of control (and elsewhere), Iran is pursuing a strategy intended to lead to the slow bleeding to death of the Jewish state, via the activation of Islamist proxy armies. The killing of Zahedi was an announcement that Israel would now not only strike at the clients, but also directly at the patrons, including the most senior among them, where they think they are most safe….

There is, of course, a much larger question surrounding all this: namely, why are western countries acquiescing to a process whereby Iran appears to be slowly swallowing up the Middle East? With its proxies and clients, Teheran is now in control of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. It is able to disrupt shipping on a daily basis on a key global maritime trade route (the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden), and it has, via Hamas and Islamic Jihad, largely achieved ownership of the Palestinian cause. But in the round of escalation that began on 1 April with the killing of Zahedi, the final word remains to be said.

The western acquiescence to Iran's Middle Eastern dominance goes back to Obama, and his shift of US foreign policy away from Israel towards some kind of fantasy rapprochement with Iran via the hopelessly flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – meanwhile abandoning Syria to Iran and the Russians.

Misspoke?? Jesus.

Thanks to all those pointing out I misspoke this evening says Israel is sworn to Iran’s destruction. That is not the case. Feel free to retweet to correct the record. Iranian leaders have called for Israel to be wiped off the map but not vice versa. https://t.co/w7L6PH5ube

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medicine was abandoned in favour of cultural trends. Any return to basic standards has to go hand-in-hand with a serious critique of the culture. On the same day the Sandyford decision was announced, it was reported that “LGBT champions” are visiting primary schools in Scotland to teach children as young as four about gender identity. That is, to teach them that if they are gender non-conforming they may in fact be the opposite sex — there is no real “championing” of LGB in this entire enterprise.

It is not possible to reform “gender medicine” without addressing the incoherence, bigotry and cruelty of this ideology. Gender-variant children have always existed, usually growing up to be lesbian or gay. The “trans child” was constructed to validate trans-identified adult men and appease homophobic parents, before being championed by individuals more interested in appearing cutting-edge than engaging in the poorly-rewarded, unglamorous work of putting children first.

It is too late for those who were complicit to say they didn’t know. Now we must create an environment in which children bullied into fearing their own physical development can start to feel safe again. It’s time for the bullies to get out of the classroom and off the bookshelves. Back off and let these children grow.

accusing you of anything, but I am worried about the reaction to your presence.”

Enough is enough. It is time for a major change.

On Saturday 27th April — the next anti-Israel march — we are asking you, Jewish or not, to stand up for the tolerance and decency of which this country is so rightly proud, simply by going for a walk.

For those who want to walk together on the 27th, we will suggest a time and location where people can meet, which we will post on our social media accounts on the 26th. If you would like to be notified of the suggested meeting place and time by e-mail instead, please sign up at http://antisemitism.org/walktogether.

Clueless old fart. https://t.co/Ndbtgs9HZI

— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) April 18, 2024

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Mr Menno:

Dear Straight Man,

Lesbians, gays and bisexuals have every right to freedom of assembly.

Please stop denying us our agency and human rights by implying we have no legitimacy unless we include an entirely different group of people with entirely different, and often incompatible, goals.

Kindly shove this forced-teaming up your arse.

Kind regards,

A Gay Man.

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