January 2023 news summary

News round-up
Written By Volunteer Writer

News is listed chronologically, newest to oldest. To help you find items that interest you key words and phrases are sometimes made bold and headings signal approximately where subjects begin to appear.

Tue, Jan 31, 2023 See the Nicola Sturgeon train wreck happening in real time. #video #scotland

Mon, Jan 30, 2023 We love this Argentinian coming of age film! #lgb

Sun, Jan 29, 2023 Reinforcing pseudoscience for five-year-olds. A video about anti-bias education in the #USA. #video #education [Non-binary discussion at about 20:00.]

Sat, Jan 28, 2023 Sexmatters publishes a media handbook for UK media outlets and begins to publicise. Video discussion »» https://youtu.be/3EG5QAhERXs ↓

Sun, Jan 22, 2023 When Students Change Gender Identity, and Parents Don’t Know: Educators are facing wrenching new tensions over whether they should tell parents when students socially transition at school #schools #education #students #parentalrights

⇣ Beyoncé

Sun, Jan 22, 2023 Beyoncé falls foul of LGBT fans with exclusive Dubai concert: LGB Alliance point out hypocrisy of performing in United Arab Emirates where gay relationships are illegal #arts #beyonce #UAE #lgballiance

⇣ Queensland self-ID

Sun, Jan 22, 2023 Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General responds to submissions on self-ID bill #queensland #shannonfentiman
« DJAG notes that the genesis of many of the concerns raised by submitters regarding the perceived corrosion of women’s rights and of the protections attached to those rights, largely stem or arise from a belief or position that is fundamentally at odds from the foundational policy position taken in the Bill which adopts a broad, inclusive approach to what constitutes a person’s sex, including that it should take account of the gender identity of a person. This is seen in a number of submissions in submissions that emphatically state, that ‘trans women are not women’. The foundational policy position adopted in the Bill is consistent with the Queensland Women’s Strategy 2022-2753 which outlines the Queensland Government’s commitment to improving women’s safety, health and wellbeing. The reference to women, means all people who identify as women (including those who are transgender, intersex, gender diverse or gender fluid). The reference to girls, mean all children and young people who identify as girls, including those who are transgender, gender diverse and gender fluid. »

… In other words, it is government policy that the definition of ‘sex’ now includes ‘gender identity’, and your ‘facts’ are therefore not relevant.

Fri, Jan 20, 2023 Archbishop will not bless same-sex couples. #lgb

⇣ Kellie-Jay Keen, the Greens, Owen Jones

March 2023 ​ Australian tour dates: Let Women Speak Tour (exact times and locations TBC) Sydney - Saturday 11th —— Brisbane - Sunday 12th —— Perth - Tuesday 14th —— Adelaide - Thursday 16th —— Melbourne - Saturday 18th —— Hobart - Tuesday 21st —— Canberra - Thursday 23rd

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March 2023 ​ Australian tour dates: Let Women Speak Tour (exact times and locations TBC) Sydney - Saturday 11th —— Brisbane - Sunday 12th —— Perth - Tuesday 14th —— Adelaide - Thursday 16th —— Melbourne - Saturday 18th —— Hobart - Tuesday 21st —— Canberra - Thursday 23rd 〰️

Sat, Jan 21, 2023 Kellie-Jay Keen's tour dates in Australia and elsewhere announced in youtube video #kelliejaykeen #posieparker

Fri, Jan 20, 2023 Graham Linehan's peak of the week #grahamlinehan

Fri, Jan 20, 2023 Out gay Brisbane Greens MP Stephen Bates has written to Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to use his special powers to revoke British anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen’s visa to enter Australia #kelliejaykeen #stephenbates #queensland

Fri, Jan 20, 2023 Sky News Australia - Kellie-Jay talks about her upcoming tour in Australia #kelliejaykeen #posieparker #video See her amazing challenge to debate Owen Jones »» https://youtu.be/yEuwilt4F-0 #owenjones And her call in to a chat show »» https://ytube.io/3aD3

⇣ European Court of Human Rights—LGB Alliance

Tue, Jan 17, 2023 Major victory for LGB people secured by LGB Alliance: European Court of Human Rights Rules That Russia And 16 Other European Countries Must Pass Civil Partnership Laws For Same-Sex Couples #law #europe #lgballiance #uk
The Court noted (paras. 11, 127, 128) the third-party intervention submitted by LGB Alliance on 4 February 2022, which (along with other interventions) helped to persuade the Court to find a violation of the Convention.  LGB Alliance urged the Court to apply the majority’s reasoning in Oliari & Others v. Italy (2015) to every member state of the Council of Europe, whether or not public opinion was in favour of a law for same-sex couples.  LGB Alliance pointed out that “[a]t least twenty times, the Court has found violations of the human rights of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) persons in countries in which the majority was unsympathetic or hostile to LGB persons at the time of the judgment”.  LGB Alliance also drew attention to the increase in the number of Council of Europe countries in which same-sex couples may marry or otherwise register their relationships from 24 in 2015 to 30 (out of 46) today.

⇣ Scotland

Tue, Jan 17, 2023 LBC/Iain Dale discussion of Scottish legislation and British politics #scotland #video BBC report on politics of the UK veto of Scottish legislation »» https://ytube.io/3a6V More video commentary »» https://ytube.io/3aBn Julie Bindel and Rory Sutherland »» https://ytube.io/3aBp

Mon, Jan 16, 2023 Rishi Sunak blocks Scotland’s gender recognition legislation #uk #scotland #rishisunak & comment from seXmatters »» https://bityl.co/Ghpg #sexmatters … The Scottish secretary, Alister Jack, announced that he would use section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 for the first time to halt the gender recognition bill after a review by UK government lawyers. Westminster’s decision to use the “nuclear option” of blocking the bill from going for royal assent represents a significant escalation of tensions around the issue, and will enrage supporters of the changes and nationalists.

⇣ McGill University, Stonewall

Sat, Jan 14, 2023 Video of mob shutting down McGill University talk #university #mob #video About the organiser »» https://bityl.co/GrVu

Sat, Jan 14, 2023 Labour remains a paid-up member of ‘claptrap’ Stonewall diversity scheme #stonewall #uk

⇣ Midwives revolt, Oxford Union, NHS, Tavistock

Fri, Jan 13, 2023 NHS U-turns on transgender plans for maternity care after midwives revolt #uk #nhs
A tender document offered £100,000 taxpayer funding and also sought online resources, information posters and “best practice examples of how to care for trans and non-binary birthing people”. The scheme was underpinned by taxpayer-funded research by the LGBT Foundation, a charity which ran a session last year on “LGBTQ+ sex toy delights” and called for nephews and nieces to be replaced with the gender-neutral term “niblings”. Some 300 nurses, midwives and psychologists wrote to Lizzie Streeter, the NHS national LGBT programme manager behind the project, warning it had “no evidence base” and put maternity wards “at risk of ideological capture”.

Fri, Jan 13, 2023 Toby Young | This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far - 3/8 | Oxford Union #video #woke #speech

Fri, Jan 13, 2023 NHS Trust taking over trans children care from Tavistock ‘being trained by Mermaids’ #mermaids #nhs #children

Fri, Jan 13, 2023 The mob comes for Maugham: Jolyon learns that there’s no justice like angry mob justice #JoBartosch

Thu, Jan 12, 2023 Protesters storm McGill University talk on sex vs. gender, shutting it down Another perspective on the same event »» https://bityl.co/Giug #forcedteaming #deplatforming

⇣ Tampon sponsorship, puppets

Thu, Jan 12, 2023 45-Year-Old “Non-Binary” Man Offered Tampon Sponsorship Scolds Women For “Policing Gender Roles”
"Honestly, this is so outrageous I can't figure out what hashtags to put on it. Talk about putting lipstick on a chauvinist!" —Justin Ian

Thu, Jan 12, 2023 Ballet issued with trigger warning over its on-stage death… of a puppet #triggerwarning #arts

⇣ Submissions

Wed, Jan 11, 2023 All the submissions to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003 #queensland Sall Grover's submission to the committee. #sallgrover

Wed, Jan 11, 2023 The Dutch Studies and The Myth of Reliable Research in Pediatric Gender Medicine #SEGM #medicine #children

Wed, Jan 11, 2023 LGBAA submission on Queensland's Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Bill 2022 #submission #lgballiance
We think this is brilliant! 😃 («« Links to Internet archive)

Wed, Jan 11, 2023 Intersex Human Rights Australia: Submission to Queensland Parliamentary inquiry on birth registrations bill #intersex

Tue, Jan 10, 2023 England’s NHS To Spend £100,000 On “Trans Inclusive Maternity” Program

Mon, Jan 9, 2023 Self-ID laws are incompatible with efforts to end violence against women #violence #women #queensland #self-id

Mon, Jan 9, 2023 Convention on the rights of the child #un #children
Article 3 1. In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration. 2. States Parties undertake to ensure the child such protection and care as is necessary for his or her well-being, taking into account the rights and duties of his or her parents, legal guardians, or other individuals legally responsible for him or her, and, to this end, shall take all appropriate legislative and administrative measures. 3. States Parties shall ensure that the institutions, services and facilities responsible for the care or protection of children shall conform with the standards established by competent authorities, particularly in the areas of safety, health, in the number and suitability of their staff, as well as competent supervision.

⇣ Helen Joyce, BBC

Mon, Jan 9, 2023 What's Causing the Trans Explosion? #helenjoyce #video

Sun, Jan 8, 2023 Stonewall planned it back in 2015 #stonewall #singlesexspaces

Sun, Jan 8, 2023 Tim Davie facing revolt over transgender Pride network ‘policing’ the BBC #bbc #pride #media
BBC Pride group is accused by some corporation staff of undermining same-sex attracted people by promoting self-identified genders.

Sat, Jan 7, 2023 “Non-Biological Women Are Women”: Two Males Set To Compete For Title of Miss Germany #germany #biology #whatisawoman #reduxx

Fri, Jan 6, 2023 Man Legally Changed Gender to Gain Custody of His Kids. Trans Groups Are Concerned. #families #law

Fri, Jan 6, 2023 Newspaper self-censors under threat of reader suicide #media

Fri, Jan 6, 2023 The march towards equality continues #alexgreenwich #sydney #nsw #legislation

⇣ Advice to the UN, feminism, dating apps

Fri, Jan 6, 2023 Joint Letter to the UN Ambassadors and High Commissioner for Human Rights (sent Sun, Dec 18, 2022) #lgballiance #uk #un #humanrights
"We are writing to draw your attention to the letter of 18 November 2022, sent to the UK Government by Ms Reem Alsalem, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWAG), setting out her grave concerns relating to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill. We were relieved to read this letter and endorse Special Rapporteur Alsalem’s concerns and the methodical way in which she has raised them. This is the first time a UN Special Rapporteur has stood up for the rights of women, girls and LGB people who will all be affected in a negative way by the proposed new legislation in Scotland. Until now, it is a sad and uncomfortable truth that our concerns have been ignored or brushed off by other senior UN – and Council of Europe – officials."

Fri, Jan 6, 2023 Sharp surge in rapes and assaults linked to dating apps #uk #rape #dating #internet #sexualassault

Fri, Jan 6, 2023 Is Queensland’s Minister for Women selling out women and girls? #shannonfentiman #queensland

Wed, Jan 4, 2023 Can Feminism and Gender Ideology Co-Exist? #JulieBindel #video #conversation #feminism Refers to remarks by Simone de Beauvoir »» https://youtu.be/Aekr9sLbVhQ

Wed, Jan 4, 2023 Japanese Transgender YouTuber Sparks Outcry After Entering Women’s Bath House #japan

Wed, Jan 4, 2023 Twitter’s free speech threatens radical trans activism #twitter #ediewyatt #grahamlinehan
"How do the progressives claim to be able to eradicate male violence against women, I hear you ask? It’s through ‘gender’, ie. culture. I studied social science and culture, so I’ll run you through the maths here."

⇣ SEGM, romance

Sun, Jan 1, 2023 2022 Year-End-Summary #SEGM

From out of the past → Mon, Aug 25, 2014 A Visual History of Romantic Friendship (fabulous photos of lesbian romance!)

Compiled by Justin Ian (volunteer writer).

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