prisons

In Canada, men who claim to be women can be moved to a female prison. They do not need to take hormones or have surgery - it is the "feeling" that is important. There have been several instances of sexual assault in Canada's prisons by trans-identified males. This makes me sick. Women in prison are vulnerable, but men's feelings take precedent. No one in the government cares that there have been sexual assaults. They just want to show the world how "fair" they are. Once again, women suffer at the hands of men.

[*Moderator's note: the submission said 'rape' but included a link to a news story that said 'sexual assault' and that further details were not made available by the prison. If there is another story confirming a rape then please send it to me and I will update the post. You can email me directly].

#canada #prisons #sexualassault #violenceagainstwomen #transcrime

free speech & hate speech

As a barrister one would imagine that we are immune from the ideology pandemic but having attended continuing legal ed while in lockdown i was perturbed to understand that I should now put a pronoun under any letter that goes out in my name. This was apparently because according to the speaker you need to show you are not a "bad" person. I don't even put the letters of my three degrees under my name which appear to be far more relevant so why I would start engaging in delusional language is beyond me. We were also advised we needed to ask our clients their pronouns. Frankly, many women would be extremely insulted being asked such a question, especially elderly women, who might feel that somehow you thought they appeared masculine. I raised this with my client the next day who happened to be a middle aged female, and she told me she would have found the question, if asked seriously, extremely rude. I now also find myself banned from Twitter for "hate speech". I have read of many people being banned for hate speech and it concerns me that like me, their comments are appropriate and factual observations and not at all "hateful" in common parlance. On the other hand I have seen highly abusive media attacks on women by men in dresses who call themselves women and this is not only condoned but apparently celebrated. I am seeing legislation and government policies undermining and erasing women by taking away their words and dehumanising them. i am watching cases unfold in the courts where young children are allowed to continue on a path of self-mutilation with state encouragement and sanctioning. I think the general public is not aware of what is happening in the world around them while legislative gates are clanged shut and we are herded into yards where you cannot speak freely for fear of prosecution. I see newspapers falsely reporting events to encourage a false narrative. i see cancel culture where people are harassed and threatened if they challenge the narrative in any way. We have seen in history the ugliness of infection of society with extreme ideas. It happened in Salem in the witchcraft trials, it happened in 1930s Germany when seemingly intelligent and civilised people condoned the erasure of the Jewish people, we say it with the Stassi in East Germany, we saw it with the cultural revolution in China. For some reason we cannot imagine it could happen to us and yet it is. It is real. We need to tell our stories. We need to be noisy. We need to be the boy who calls the king is naked.

#australia #freedomofspeech #hatespeech #pronouns #compelledspeech #workplace

women's narcotics anonymous meeting

I was asked to chair a women’s narcotics anonymous (NA) meeting. NA is a not-for-profit organisation run by its members to support people who are re-building their lives after addiction from substance and alcohol abuse. The NA women’s meetings are held to provide a safe space for women who have often suffered trauma and hard life experiences to share and find recovery. Mixed meetings can often be dominated by men who are confident to speak more and sometimes hit on female members. The women-only meetings are fewer but offer a space away from these distractions. When I arrived at the meeting I was surprised to see a man present who had a regular commitment as tea maker at the meeting. He was in no way presenting as female and his very large male track-suited frame felt slightly intimidating. I asked the lady who took the meeting why he was here and her response was ‘That is ** and they identify as a woman’. I was shocked that the few regular women that took the meeting were ok with this and I noticed a few newcomers that didn’t speak in the meeting and looked visibly confused and slightly awkward. There were also fewer women in attendance than there had been in the past. This man spent his time talking about his feelings as a woman and how his acceptance by everyone there validated his womanliness. None of it related to addiction or the subject usually shared. I never returned to that meeting. This incident sparked my interest in this new gender ideology. I am a bisexual woman and have a previous partner who has since transitioned who I fully support in their choice. I’ve also spent my fair share of years in the gay underground party scene in Sydney and dated both butch and femme lesbians and I’ve known quite a few trans-identified people in my time. I’m generally liberal-leaning but these past few years I feel that the liberal left who are endorsing rhetoric gaslighting women into accepting male bodies in their spaces has gone too far.

#unitedkingdom #drugrecovery #supportgroup #malesocialisation #narcoticsanonymous