Author: Mick Hartley

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-Kicked me out, after 5 years of volunteering as a counsellor, because I refused to denounce biological reality.

Head of Childline, Shaun Friel, the man who booted me out, has said today that it is a “privilege” to work with children “coming out” regarding their “gender identity”.

If our children are not safe contacting the NSPCC, where are they safe?

From NSPCC news:

• In 2024/251, Childline delivered over 2,400 counselling sessions to children and young people with issues or concerns about sexuality and gender identity.
• Two in five of these counselling sessions were about coming out.

Coming out, here, means coming out as gay or as trans. They've completely bought into the idea of the trans child – the child born into the wrong body.

For instance:

One transgender boy, aged 17, told Childline:

"I'm trans and still kinda in the process of figuring my identity out. There's been so much hate for us lately in the news in terms of people taking their lives, kids being attacked, governments putting harmful laws in place. I'm scared as to what this means for my future, and if I'll ever be able to live as myself."

The full panoply of delusions about trans persecution and the struggle to "be able to live as myself ", straight off social media. A responsible children's charity would do their best to discourage this troubled soul from believing that somehow they can change sex and all will be well. Not the NSPCC though.

n of gay young men.”

"Regressive" and "Fundamentally homophobic". Yes, exactly. And the Beeb has been promoting this line – with vigour – for the best part of a decade now.

The Supreme Court ruling that said biological sex is real should have been a wake-up call to the BBC. Instead, it has left the BBC and many other cultural institutions reeling, because to question gender ideology in the arts world is to be ostracised and often fired. Far from being dissidents, the arts have bent the knee to trans orthodoxy to a sickening degree.

Since the ruling, we have seen programmes like Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour struggle to get on board with reality. They have pandered to men who have transitioned, but are hostile and incredulous when faced with the likes of Helen Joyce, the incredibly articulate gender-critical activist who has been snubbed by our national broadcaster.

We constantly have to read on BBC websites about “women” who have committed rape. Male sports cheats are referred to as women. We have had a decade of this. I cannot call it brainwashing, because anyone with a brain can see it doesn’t wash at all. On every salient point, from puberty blockers to single-sex spaces, the pushback has been real and righteous. The culture has to catch up.

first round. She didn't get close to the medal bouts, so she can't be awarded a medal. We just don't know – and we can never know – what would have happened in the absence of Khelif. Carini might have still been eliminated in the first round, or gone much further.

The *whole* competition and *all* the results were completely corrupted by the presence of Khelif and Lin Yu Ting. Some apologists for men in women's sport say "it's only one athlete" and this is always silly. But knockout competitions demonstrate an extreme version of of this stupidity.

A logical consequence: There can't be a just redistribution of the medals. The whole competition at Paris should be declared null and void. There should be massive financial compensation to all those who competed. There should be a public apology from the IOC to all the women boxers. Who should be named. Perhaps there should be commemorative medals to all of them.

I don't say this in order to stymie any attempts to get a re-awarding of medals. But the situation really is irretrievable, and this adds very significantly to the moral harm that has been inflicted by the IOC.

omen from the session to allow female customers to feel safe while relaxing in their swimwear.

They later performed a U-turn after facing criticism from transgender activists online.

In a message on their website, they said the decision had been “wrong” and “goes against everything we believe in”.

They also said they “believe trans women are women and trans men are men.”

The firm is also now holding a new “queer sauna session” from Thursday and said its staff may require further “LGBTQ+ inclusion training.”

Further indoctrination is required – and, no doubt, more groveling apologies.

One critic said: “I absolutely loved your saunas but your decision to exclude trans women is incredibly disappointing.

“Your business operates in a queer city. I won’t be using a space that excludes my trans siblings. Please do better than this.”

It's astonishing how deeply ingrained in the "progressive" mind now is the Stonewall-inspired conviction that trans people are a poor persecuted minority, and the next liberation crusade. Despite gender-critical victories like the recent Supreme Court ruling that sex in the Equality Act means biological sex, it sometimes feels that we'll need to wait for a whole generation of befuddled idiots to pass on before we can return to sanity.

of reviving blasphemy laws after a man who set fire to a copy of the Koran was convicted of a racially aggravated public order offence. Hamit Coskun shouted “f— Islam” and “Islam is religion of terrorism” while holding the religious text above his head during a protest on Feb 13.

Hamit Coskun shouted “f— Islam” and “Islam is religion of terrorism” while holding the religious text above his head during a protest on Feb 13.

The 50-year-old, who was violently attacked by a passerby during the demonstration in London, went on trial last week, accused of an offence under the Public Order Act.

At Westminster magistrates’ court on Monday, he was found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence of using disorderly conduct, which was motivated “in part by hostility towards members of a religious group, namely followers of Islam”.

Robert Jenrick, shadow justice secretary, said: “This decision is wrong. It revives a blasphemy law that parliament repealed.

“Free speech is under threat. I have no confidence in Two-Tier Keir to defend the rights of the public to criticise all religions.”

Blasphemy laws were abolished in the UK 17 years ago.

In a statement after the verdict, Coskun said the decision was “an assault on free speech” that would deter others from exercising their democratic right to protest.

He added: “As an activist, I will continue to campaign against the threat of Islam.

“Christian blasphemy laws were repealed in this country more than 15 years ago, and it cannot be right to prosecute someone for blaspheming against Islam.

“Would I have been prosecuted if I’d set fire to a copy of the Bible outside Westminster Abbey? I doubt it.”

Yep. Me too. No one would have paid it any attention.

The National Secular Society (NSS), which, alongside the Free Speech Union, paid for Coskun’s legal fees, said the verdict “jeopardises” free expression.

A spokesperson for the FSU said: “This is deeply disappointing. Everyone should be able to exercise their rights to protest peacefully and to freedom of expression, regardless of how offensive or upsetting it may be to some people.

“The Free Speech Union and the National Secular Society intend to appeal this verdict and keep on appealing it until it’s overturned. If that means taking it all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, we will do so.”

“Religious tolerance is an important British value, but it doesn’t require non-believers to respect the blasphemy codes of believers. On the contrary, it requires people of faith to tolerate those who criticise and protest against their religion, just as their values and beliefs are tolerated.”

National Trust "deeply disappointed" by removal of stitching over JK Rowling's name. Full story:https://t.co/qH0JVaeil2@WRNDerbyshire @JeanHatchet @LightninLex @nationaltrust

— Nick Wallis (@nickwallis) June 1, 2025

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In brief: the National Trust's Hardwick Hall has a "collaborative artwork" celebrating women, where people are invited to stitch in famous names. Someone stitched in JK Rowling and, inevitably, someone else soon stitched over it – the only name so desecrated. Now someone else has removed the stitching-over to restore the Rowling name…and the Trust is "deeply disappointed".

Helen Joyce at The Critic, with a nod to Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, on The five stages of victory after the Supreme Court ruling. Most gender ideologues are still stuck on anger:

Signs waved at a demo in Parliament Square called for the hanging of TERFs and the return of witch burning. One cross-dressing man wanted the world to know that his “pussy tastes like non-biological Fairy Liquid”. Two others brought a dog in a jacket declaring “I eat TERFs and I’m hungry”.

A middle-aged cross-dresser with fake boobs spilling out of a baby-doll dress explained to a passing videographer that he had used the ladies’ in Waterloo station on his way there. “I’m not going to stop,” he said. “If I walked into a men’s toilet looking like this, I’m just asking for trouble.”

Nothing I can say about the violent, fetishistic narcissism at the heart of trans activism is half as persuasive as what trans activists say themselves. Every time they speak, they make it harder for all but the most gender-addled politicians to continue insisting that every “transwoman” is a vulnerable sweetie nobly coping with the tragic, albeit puzzlingly metaphysical, disability of having been born looking exactly like a man.

s that if you are a gay man your soul is that of a woman and you should change your body.” [Shadi] Amin said.

“They think this is a way to fight the existence of homosexual people because you change their body and you solve the problem.”

Trans ideology in a nutshell.

1./ Iran's Tran$ Plan. If you want to understand what drives trans ideology look at what's happening in Iran where a new national plan aims to increase revenue from medical tourism six fold; including from the country's booming gender clinics. Why does this matter?
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Iran’s treatment of gender dysphoria isn’t some anthropological curiosity. It offers us a uniquely honest glimpse into the inner workings of “gender affirming healthcare” everywhere. Elsewhere gender clinicians and trans activists have to disguise their motivations and mangle the language of social justice to mislead institutions.

In Iran all this dissembling about liberal values is dispensed with. Here medics do what their colleagues do in the West but without any distracting residue of shame. Here bigotry enables doctors to turn the tenets of trans ideology into a clinical gay-hate conveyor-belt.

One of the most homophobic nations in the world holds up a mirror to the tragedy unfolding in gender clinics across the West.

ships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male.

Just 36 hours after World Boxing ruled that Khelif, a hugely controversial Olympic champion in women’s boxing at last summer’s Paris Games, would need to undergo sex screening to be eligible for any future appearances in the female category, the document at the heart of this extraordinary saga was released into the public domain.

Alan Abrahamson, the American journalist who disclosed in Paris how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had been warned more than a year earlier that Khelif had the DNA of a “male”, produced the result of a test carried out on the boxer in New Delhi in March 2023, triggering the boxer’s disqualification from the championships that year.

The document published on the 3 Wire Sports website summarises the findings on Khelif as “abnormal”, stating: “Chromosome analysis reveals male karyotype”. A karyotype refers to an individual’s complete set of chromosomes, which in Khelif’s case has been reported by the International Boxing Association (IBA) as being XY, the male pattern.

The test results carry the letterhead of Dr Lal PathLabs in New Delhi, accredited by the American College of Pathologists and certified by the Swiss-based International Organisation for Standardisation. This directly challenges the account of IOC spokesman Mark Adams, who in a tense news conference at the Paris Olympics described the results as “ad hoc” and “not legitimate”.

Thomas Bach, the IOC president, has gone even further, claiming that the results are the product of a Russian-led misinformation campaign.

A shameful embarrassment for the Olympic Committee. Will he be stripped of his gold medal? Unlikely. It would imply that Thomas Bach was a craven idiot – and that would never do.

Jack Delano, March 1943. "San Bernardino, California. Women workers employed at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shops coming out at the end of the day's shift."

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