Author: Mick Hartley

are LGBT because biologically, psychologically and emotionally they will not yet have the capacity.”

LGBT Youth Scotland in 2022-23 received almost £450,000 in taxpayer funding from the SNP Government and a further £340,000 from local authorities. NHS organisations handed over a further £154,000.

It claims that more than 200 Scottish secondaries, more than half of the national total, and over 40 primary schools, have joined its LGBT charter for education. The fees it charges to join range from £850 to £2,000….

As part of membership, staff must be trained by the organisation, which provides an online guide and letter templates for children wishing to change their gender at school.

Each school joining the scheme is told it must appoint at least two pupils and two staff members as “LGBT Champions” and those hoping to obtain “gold” status are told to consider a survey of pupils to ask them if they are “part of the LGBT community in order to discern whether bullying affects those pupils proportionally within the school”.

Yep – straight out of the Stonewall playbook. Astonishing.

LGBT Youth Scotland states that it has trained more than 5,000 teachers since 2021 and that its scheme means it is “reaching a minimum of 30,000 young people” and successfully changing the “culture and ethos” of Scottish schools.

To achieve its gold award, schools are told they must “undertake at least one activity which specifically addresses the needs of transgender young people” such as “conducting a campaign that addresses trans rights”.

They are also told they must put up the organisation’s posters and rewrite school policies in areas such as transgender inclusion and school uniform to ensure they are “inclusive”.

While England, with the Cass Report, at least gives every indication of finally making a start to clearing up the trans mess, north of the border they're doubling down.

nak’s spokesman said, we would be deprived of ‘one of our most effective channels for avoiding escalation.’ I get that. But you might be forgiven for thinking: so what? This is a regime bent on war, murder and the subjugation of the West. Surely it’s no time for more fruitless jaw-jaw?

Meanwhile they operate happily in the UK, targeting Iranian dissidents, stirring up Islamic extremists…

In 2022, the director general of MI5 revealed that the IRGC had attempted ten assassinations in Britain that year. In his annual speech on the threats facing Britain, Ken McCallum said Iran’s ‘aggressive intelligence services’ was actively planning terrorist attacks on British soil, labelling it as ‘the state actor which most frequently crosses into terrorism’. Tehran was a ‘sophisticated adversary’, he added. Last year, Matt Jukes, the head of counter-terrorism policing at the Met, disclosed that 15 Iranian plots to either kidnap or kill people in the UK had been foiled.

The stabbing of journalist Pouria Zeraati this month, believed to be at the hands of the IRGC, was a case in point (it goes without saying that he has called for the group to be banned). But this is far from the first time Iranian agents have threatened violence, or indeed carried it out.

Last year, Tom Tugendhat, the security minister, confirmed that Iranian agents were mapping prominent Jews in Britain for possible targeting in the event of a war with Israel. In 1992, dissident television presenter Fereydoun Farrokhzad was knifed to death in Bonn. In 2021, an Iranian diplomat was convicted of plotting to bomb an opposition rally in Paris. And in 2019, an Iranian ex-pat in Glasgow told the Times that he had been threatened by regime goons with a handgun.

But the chaps at the Foreign Office believe, at the end of the day, that they'll listen to reason and respond to sanctions like sensible fellows..

The conclusion is clear. The fanatics of Tehran are not good chaps at heart that just need to be placated. They are not like you and me, and certainly nothing like Winchester-educated Mr Sunak, or Eton’s Lord Cameron. They are gripped by a deeply malevolent ideology that lusts after an apocalyptic war. They have a threefold strategy to achieve this: overseas militia, ballistic missiles and nukes. They are serious. To think that British sanctions will contain the threat is like trying to stop a rampaging knifeman with a fine.

Former IRGC General Saeed Ghasemi on Tehran TV:

"Since this [Israel] regime is a regime of bastards – this is an expression our Leader has used when referring to them…This is a regime of bastards. We are not fighting human beings on the other side.

"Ten years ago, they began to manufacture human being inside artificial fetuses, like the hydroponic bushes where you grow plants. I saw that they take 10,000 fetuses, on which they perform fertilization.

"Well, they are clearly producing robots made of flesh. They do not know what massacring children and morality even mean. This collective must be annihilated."

He seems sane.

allow myself the luxury of two names. First Ed Miliband, who in November 2017 devoted his Reasons to be Cheerful podcast to trans issues. Not only did he scorn all opponents of self-ID as “bonkers” but he invited on Dr Helen Webberley, the child hormone-prescribing doctor who ran a private clinic with her husband (who has been struck off the medical register).

I wrote to Miliband privately, linking to articles explaining the effect of her drug regime. “Of course I don’t believe in sterilising children!” thundered this condescending know-all.

The second is Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, desperate to deep-clean her reputation post-Cass. “I’ve always been deeply concerned,” she said last week, “about the internalised homophobia that is going on for young women that means they think they can’t be a dyke, and they’ve got to be a boy.”

I met Hunt for lunch in 2019 just as she was leaving Stonewall, where she was chief executive. Hunt is slippery smart. At the end, I implored her as a butch lesbian who loves men’s tailoring to make a speech saying that you can look how you like and still be a woman. “It would be so powerful,” I said.

But she never did: because it would have enraged the trans lobby on whose campaign funds she depended. Hunt is a Christian who must know the ninth commandment, so I hope she’s squared her duplicity with God.

There's a Change petition to Strip Ruth Hunt of her peerage for her role in the gender medical scandal.

Stonewall’s irresponsible, deceitful and self-interested behaviour – it went on to offer ‘trans-inclusive courses’ for schools, at a fee – has caused untold havoc. We believe its chief executive at the time, Ruth Hunt, should take responsibility for her charity’s deeply damaging conduct, which played a key role in the scandal now unfolding. It is deeply insulting to the families she has harmed that, instead, Hunt was awarded a peerage and now sits in the House of Lords as Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green, a legislator-for-life.

See also Malcolm Clark at Spiked: How Ruth Hunt turned trans into a religious crusade – and is now trying to dodge responsibility for her role in the ‘trans kids’ scandal.

Jack Delano, January 1943. "Icing platform of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad. Blue Island Yard south of Chicago."

[Photo: Shorpy/Jack Delano for the Office of War Information]

An alarming piece from Freddie Sayers at UnHerd on the government-sponsored agency that was set up to counter disinformation but – surprise surprise – is now busy censoring journalism:

“Our team re-reviewed the domain, the rating will not change as it continues to have anti-LGBTQI+ narratives… The site authors have been called out for being anti-trans. Kathleen Stock is acknowledged as a ‘prominent gender-critical’ feminist.”

This was part of an email sent to UnHerd at the start of January from an organisation called the Global Disinformation Index. It was their justification, handed down after a series of requests, for placing UnHerd on a so-called “dynamic exclusion list” of publications that supposedly promote “disinformation” and should therefore be boycotted by all advertisers.

They provided examples of the offending content: Kathleen Stock, whose columns are up for a National Press Award this week, Julie Bindel, a lifelong campaigner against violence against women, and Debbie Hayton, who is transgender. Apparently the GDI equates “gender-critical” beliefs, or maintaining that biological sex differences exist, with “disinformation” — despite the fact that those beliefs are specifically protected in British law and held by the majority of the population.

Other viewpoints targeted as disinformation include sites which dare to promote the Wuhan lab-leak theory. The targets are, in effect, what Global Disinformation Index co-founder Clare Melford finds personally offensive.

Sayers' conclusion:

At its heart, the disinformation panic is becoming a textbook example of how a “solution” can do more harm than the problem it is designed to address. Educated campaigners such as Clare Melford may think they are doing the world a service, but in fact they are acting as intensifying agents, lending legitimacy to a conspiratorial world view in which governments and corporations are in cahoots to censor political expression. Unless something is done to stop them, they will continue to sow paranoia and distrust — and hasten us towards an increasingly radicalised and divided society.

-left: 40px”>But not one senior Shadow Cabinet member has yet approached me. I believe the Labour Party thinks 'the gender issue' doesn't matter to the voting public. For them it's a 'culture war'.

At the heart of this attitude is, I believe, a deep-seated misogyny within the party.

I joined politics to put the needs of my constituents first. When Keir became leader, he promised we would always be able to approach him.

But nothing could be further from the truth. The leader of the Labour Party has almost no personal contact with his backbenchers. The last message I sent to Keir, practically begging for support, was ignored.

Keir is bundled in and out of meetings before you even have a chance to say: 'Have you heard about this major medical scandal at the Tavistock clinic?' The truth is I have as much access to the Leader of the Opposition as any of you.

Of course, it's not only male colleagues who have been hostile. There's a group of female MPs, some of whom have behaved appallingly.

Some have 'whispered' loudly about 'f****** terfs' as I walk past. Then, as our official policy appears to change, I'll see them on television saying: 'It's terribly concerning that women haven't been able to talk about this issue.' Their hypocrisy is monumental.

They finally get it. Well, some of them. No wonder they don't want reminding of their past behaviour. And no wonder Rosie Duffield is angry.

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[Photo: Shorpy/John Vachon for the Office of War Information]

From the Telegraph:

The BBC has been accused of allowing trans activists to peddle propaganda in its Scottish coverage of the landmark Cass Review into child gender services.

The campaign group For Women Scotland has made a formal complaint to the broadcaster, accusing it of a lack of balance and allowing partisan commentators to make unfounded claims unchallenged about puberty blockers.

While south of the border the BBC has covered the Cass Review in depth, the day after the report was published BBC Scotland chose instead to focus on an NHS England decision about migraine tablets, already available in Scotland, on its flagship morning radio phone-in.

Meanwhile, on the day the report was released, it convened a panel made up exclusively of critics of the Cass Review on its nightly news programme The Nine.

Ellie Gomersall, a transgender woman and activist, was invited to react to the Cass Review alongside Dr Aidan Kelly, who runs a private gender clinic and has also been publicly critical of the report.

Ms Gomersall also criticised the Cass Review on BBC Scotland’s Drivetime radio show that day and claimed, unchallenged by the host, that the effects of puberty blockers were “perfectly reversible”.

No surprise there.

or disbelieved in according to political predilection, with utter non-interest in the facts and with complete unwillingness to alter one’s beliefs as soon as the political scene alters.” He would have understood the refusal by many observers in our times to believe the details of the Hamas murders, rapes, and kidnappings of October 7, while being eager to believe a few weeks later that Israel had purposely bombed a hospital—and also the unwillingness of some on my own side to admit any civilian suffering in Gaza, and the desire to dismiss anything that makes us feel bad as “Pallywood.”…