Dame Katy Denise

“A triumphant tale of transformation from a highly esteemed philanthropist, coworker, boss, and my personal hero”

Lambrini Lil, AKA JK Rowling (who has, to date, sold fewer books than Dame Katy)

Thank you to Joe Fattorini - he knows why!

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Those taking part in the debate were:

Me.

Zing Tsjeng, UK editor of Broadly (the only one to mention ‘transgender’, but just once). Very ‘queer’ identified.

Eleanor Margolis, a lesbian writer, who said, ‘I honestly remember fancying girls when I was about three.’

Joe Stone, writer, calls himself a ‘plain old-fashioned gay’ rather than queer

And Matt Cook, academic, who recalls the terrible loss due to the AIDS crisis during the 1980 and beyond.

Jane Garvey hosted. She did a grand job. Have a listen, and consider how the takeover of lesbian and gay culture by gender woo woo impacted. Remember, 2015, the year this episode was broadcast, was the year Stonewall added the T to the LGB, and when Tory Minister for Women, Maria Miller decided to recommend self-ID as a key reform to the 2004 Gender Recognition Act. Everything was about to change, and not for the better.

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Dig Up Your Mam, my latest podcast series. Listen to the podcast on this Substack, or the usual platforms

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https://www.populationbalance.org/podcast/nandita-bajaj2

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Linda Riley (centre) with a couple of tranocities, Diva Awards

Linda Riley, 2018

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Jamie Reed, Free Press

Washington University’s youth gender clinic in St. Louis, became overwhelmed by new patients and failed to provide them with mental health care. Jamie exposed the dangers of what the clinic referred to as ‘gender affirming care’.

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Thank you The Word Factory, Kristin Zebrowski, MPA, Larry Shell, Barb, Barbara Ratcliffe, and many others for tuning into my live video with Suzanne Moore! Join me for my next live video in the app.

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Listen to the live event, which included speakers from the Lesbian Collective, Vancouver Rape Relief, and me. The audio runs for approximately one hour 40 minutes.

I have written about my trip to Vancouver, published today in Unherd. You can read it here.

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I was informed, by a young man, that I am “an old white woman”, to which I responded that we all get old if we are lucky, and he would also one day be old and (still) white, unless he died of excessive wanking in his mother’s basement.

The event went ahead and it was amazing. Women from Vancouver Rape Relief spoke alongside the Lesbian Collective, and I recounted my decades long friendship and feminist camaraderie with the late Lee Lakeman. I also recounted the poor KC acting for Scottish Ministers in the ‘What is a woman’ Supreme Court Case having to explain to the judges about how some men are lesbians.

In the meantime, the trans lunatics were getting very wet and cold, although they were comforted by a flautist and several men wearing animal masks.

And finally:

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Melissa Farley

Extreme violence and psychological abuse have been extensively documented and are pervasive in prostitution. Survivors of prostitution report high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, dissociation, depression, and self-loathing. These are the same sequelae reported by torture survivors.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20008066.2024.2404307#summary-abstract

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