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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Co-president of lehet más a politika (LMP), translated: ‘politics can be different’.

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Faika El-Nagashi, Budapest, October 2024

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Joan Smith, in Rome (where else?)

Listen to Joan explain why and how she took on the incredible project of uncovering the true stories of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome.

These were the wives, mothers and daughters of the emperors from Augustus to Nero, via their cruel and deranged relative Caligula. These highly privileged women lived under the shadow of these men, abused, controlled, dominated, and, in several instances, murdered. Only five of the women appear to have died of natural causes.

Joan links the femicide then to modern day slaying of women by men known to them, and asks what lessons can these women and girls of the Roman Empire tell us? Ancient misogyny, even from 2000 years ago, looks similar to the plight of women today.

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Outside the WPATH conference. Five minutes after this photograph was taken, the organisers called the police on Juana

Juana and Eric

Eric

Show notes:

WPATH Files

https://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/wpath-files

Genspect

https://genspect.org/

Juana’s crowd funder for legal fees

https://www.gofundme.com/f/Help-me-get-justice-for-Eric

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