Author: Mick Hartley

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ng Il, along with those wearing jeans or clothing with English text.

Those caught face consequences ranging from writing self-criticism letters to public shaming via local broadcasts. In severe cases, they’re sentenced to forced labor.

nd five-year-olds were suspended or permanently excluded from school for the same reason.

“Teachers and school leaders involved in this insanity should be ashamed of themselves for projecting adult concepts and beliefs onto such young children.

“It’s unforgivable for children’s vital early education to be so traumatically disrupted by school leaders who prioritise activists’ demands over their charges’ wellbeing.”

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This is totalitarian insanity. If you think small children should be punished for being able to recognise sex, you are a dangerous zealot who should be nowhere near kids or in any position of authority over them. https://t.co/IZI0sP58ss

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John McInally demolished this ludicrous reactionary bollocks in the Morning Star last year. pic.twitter.com/OD1R7VyOGH

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You don't have to buy the whole Marxist schtick to get this.

In full:

ft: 40px”>“Someone at the top should carry the can. It’s not acceptable and I’ve been in there several times, I’ve offered them training, they’ve never accepted it. I think there’s often an arrogance there.”

Also, from an interview in the Sunday Times today with Danny Cohen, former BBC director of Television:

For years after he left the BBC, Cohen was careful not to criticise his former employer publicly. The Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, changed this. “I didn’t feel I had a choice,” Cohen says, making clear that he is speaking in a personal capacity. “If I’d said nothing, I’d probably look back in ten years’ time and think I let myself and my community down by not speaking up.”

After the massacre the BBC did not describe the Hamas gunmen as terrorists. Then, last month, the broadcaster showed a documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, about the conflict in the region. Hours after it went out it emerged that the 13-year-old boy who narrated it was the son of a minister in the Hamas government. The BBC subsequently removed the documentary from iPlayer.

“It’s been a disastrous moment for the BBC, and they’ve had to acknowledge very significant failures of journalism and oversight,” Cohen says. “Very senior people at the BBC saw the doc before it went out and didn’t ask enough questions.” He doesn’t name her, but he means Deborah Turness, the chief executive of BBC News. Cohen has been calling for an independent inquiry into the BBC’s coverage of the conflict.

“That is not an isolated moment — it’s an issue of systemic bias,” he argues, pointing to all the corrections — 80 in the first five months of the war — made by the BBC’s Arabic news channel after complaints of anti-Israeli bias. “The BBC continues to put defending the reputation of the BBC above transparency.”

Was it an issue when he was at the BBC? “I think there has always been a problem, but nothing on the scale it is now.”

to change the culture within them.

“As a result, an atmosphere of fear has been created making people scared to speak out against or even discuss issues surrounding gender,” she says. “Bad decisions have been made by management because they have erroneously assumed these highly vocal activists represent far greater numbers than they do.”

Yet she still insists on recording gender identity:

“Sex and gender identity are distinct characteristics and are not interchangeable,” has always been her message. “But unfortunately people in a great many organisations don’t understand data collection as a discipline and have been taking advice from other people who don’t understand it either; the result is a mess. We need – we have a responsibility – to record both sex and gender identity.”

But why? The whole notion of gender identity is deluded – it's not a thing: it's a creature invented by trans activists. And including questions about gender identity will surely only add to the confusion, and replicate the disaster of the ONS survey where people not understanding what they were being asked led to the absurd "finding" that there more trans people in areas of high immigrant population. Everyone knows their sex – even if some try to deny or obfuscate – but only people versed in gender ideology have any idea what "gender identity" is supposed to mean.

Ah well. It's a big step forward anyway…

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Whoops. Of course he meant to say Zionists….

biological sex mattered to sexual orientation, and that she felt immune to the “bewitching” power of gender nonconformity. But her background in philosophy played a role too. “I didn’t believe in the power of words utterly to change reality,” she says.

Universities were once bastions of free speech — how did they become places of censorship and moral cowardice? “Some disciplines in the humanities and social sciences became extremely ideological in the 1970s,” Stock replies. “When I was trying to raise the alarm about this to philosophers, I was stuck between the ideologues attacking me, and a bunch of others who thought, ‘Why are you wasting your time with this when it’s clearly stupid?’ But I could see it would have massive implications if we didn’t stop it.”

Stock emphasises this is not unique to Sussex: “I think there’s contempt in universities for ordinary people’s attitudes … on race, immigration or feminism.”

But she also sees signs this is improving on campuses, with academics setting up groups to promote free speech. The other side of the gender debate has “gone to ground”, she adds, a shift she attributes in part to the work of grassroots campaigners — Fair Play for Women, Sex Matters and Transgender Trend. 

Let's hope she's right. But Sussex University vice chancellor Sasha Roseneil is going all out to fight the OfS fine, so the message hasn't reached her yet. And no doubt she'll be receiving a lot of support from more of those brave academics.

hrough a normal puberty, forget about their early delusions and go on to lead normal lives. Most will turn out to be gay. It would be a catastrophic mistake, then, to insist that these troubled teens should immediately be affirmed in their delusions and undergo serious and irreversible medical intervention. But that's what the conversion therapy ban, if applied to "trans" teens, would mean. It's a duplicitous attempt to co-opt the horror of those gay conversion therapies of earlier less enlightened times – now thankfully in the past – to a wholly different situation. 

And yes, it's Stonewall, as always, leading the charge again.

The new head of Stonewall has pledged to fight for a ban on conversion practices that includes “every member of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans community”, as he said that the progress of Labour’s bill may be exploited by those pursuing global attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.

With the UK government expected to publish draft legislation this spring, Simon Blake said: “It’s really important that a conversion practices bill covers all practices designed to try to change or correct somebody’s sexual or gender identity.”

It's not. It's really important that we don't have a conversion practices bill covering gender identity. It'd be disastrous. For a start, gender identity itself is a delusion: the gateway to the trans cult. It's also really important that Stonewall loses its pernicious influence on British public life, and just disappears.

Julie Bindel at the Spectator:

Stonewall was never much help in guiding employers and institutions on how to support lesbian or gay employees. The charity’s Diversity Champion Scheme seemed more focused at times on upholding gender ideology than properly helping gay and lesbians in the workplace.

I talk to young lesbians on a regular basis, having interviewed dozens of them for my forthcoming book. Even those sympathetic to gender ideology tell me the same story: they are branded as transphobic if they refer to themselves as lesbians. Instead, they are told to say ‘queer’ or ‘non-binary’. This erase of the word ‘lesbian’ is not in spite of Stonewall’s existence, it is because of Stonewall.

Stonewall has forgotten its founding purpose: to campaign for gay rights. The LGB Alliance was set up in 2019 to fill the gap left by Stonewall after it drank the gender kool aid. It’s time to let a new organisation take over. Stonewall must be consigned to history.