Our thanks to Mike P for this.

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A tip of the hat to Mark Brooks for this. You can support The Mankind Initiative, the charity Mark chairs, here.

An excellent piece published today by TCW.

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The Rev Jules Gomes (“The Rebel Priest”) gave a very well-received presentation (video, 47:47) at the July conference. He was the first cleric to talk at an ICMI, but surely won’t be the last, given the warm reception.

He’s just published an excellent piece on his website. The first paragraph:

Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester, is a über-feminist. On Sunday, she called for the God of the Bible to undergo Gender Reassignment Surgery. “I don’t want young girls or young boys to hear us constantly refer to God as he,” she told The Telegraph.

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This morning I was in a discussion with Kelvin MacKenzie, a well-known and controversial media figure, in part because of his editorship of The Sun for many years. I was asked onto his show to discuss the issue of the large increase in the number of girls seeking to “transition” to boys, and was well prepared for that, but Kelvin soon moved the discussion onto men’s issues.

The discussion is here (12:02).

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A piece in yesterday’s Sunday Times:

An investigation has been ordered into why so many girls are seeking gender reassignment after the number referred for treatment rose by more than 4,000% in less than a decade.

The equalities minister, Penny Mordaunt, has instructed her officials to look into the cause.

Official figures show the number of girls being given gender treatment has risen from 40 in 2009-10 to 1,806 in 2017-18.

Last night a source at the Government Equalities Office said: “There has been a substantial increase in the number of individuals assigned female at birth being referred to the NHS.

“There is evidence that this trend is happening in other countries as well. Little is known, however, about why this is and what are the long-term impacts.”

Last month the junior equalities minister, Victoria Atkins, was criticised by transgender rights campaigners for expressing caution about those undergoing “serious and life changing” gender reassignment treatments.

Comments from Catherine Nicholls:

Studies have shown that the majority of children wishing to transition are already dealing with autism, trauma, or other mental distress such as depression and anxiety, often issues in the recent past that were considered some of the struggles that teenagers face. Now these are brushed aside and ignored while focusing purely on issues of “gender”. There is also mass confusion in young people between sex and gender as interchangeable. Basic science is being ignored. Anyone with a modicum of science education knows that sex can never be changed and every cell in our body displays our sex. “Gender” is the social traditions that have grown around these biological differences in sex.

It is perfectly understandable in our current era where to be gendered a woman means you are to be identified with mass porn and immense objectification and sexualization especially of young women’s bodies that many young women just think “that is not me, I can never be like that and I want nothing to do with it”. Also not long ago young men and women could experiment with different appearances and styles. But now gender roles seem be hardening again. A very masculine young woman now faces pressure to actually pretend she is a man and a very feminine young man is also unacceptable. The older generations need to speak up and let young people know they are perfectly acceptable as they are and we do not require them to mutilate and medicate themselves to fit in. If we let this mass experiment on our children, teenagers and young adults to continue we are a barbaric society.

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We’ve just received an email from Bettina. What a remarkable woman. We take our collective hats off to her. Her email:

Hi Everyone,  What a thrilling, exhausting time we have had in the past few weeks. My Fake Rape Crisis Campus Tour went off with a huge bang.

We’ve made the most wonderful video showing you exactly what happened. https://youtu.be/apMaHebZRfo (23:18).

Huge thanks to Scott for the many hours he spent filming it all and pulling it together and to Irene for her film work and endless research.

I’d be most grateful if you could really help me promote this one. I feel it really exposes what’s going on so well.

Latest news from my campus tour

For those of you who haven’t heard the news, the La Trobe talk was pretty difficult with noisy protesters doing their best to drown out my talk. But Sydney University demonstrators took things to a different level. The security guards were overwhelmed by the unruly protesters who blocked the corridor leading to the venue preventing most of the audience from attending the event. Our students were threatened, physically jostled, some even flung against walls by the aggressive crowd prior to the riot squad being called in by security to control the protesters before my talk could go ahead.

Action against Sydney University  

I am preparing a detailed letter for Sydney Vice Chancellor Michael Spence, to be counter-signed by the Liberal Club students, asking for the return of the nearly $500 security fee that the Liberal Club students had been forced to pay (with help from my crowd-funder https://www.gofundme.com/h9qp7). I have attached the invoice.

We will also be providing the university with detailed witness statements from many students who tried to attend the event plus information about the key organisers of the protest. We will be asking the university to enforce their code of conduct which precludes students interfering with other students’ access to lectures, university facilities and so on. And we will be seeking action against the protest organisers who publicly stated their intention of preventing me speaking on campus.  We are investigating whether any action can be taken using the university’s bullying and harassment policies.

I would love help with all of this – ideally lawyers in NSW and Victoria, although we would welcome assistance from elsewhere as well.

Boycott Sydney University’s Corporate Partners?

It would be great if someone could mount a campaign to boycott the corporations who are partners for Sydney University. See list attached. I hope someone can step up and take this job on. Surely some of these corporations can be shamed into pulling funds from the university due to their flagrant disregard for free speech?

Volunteers for other jobs   

We are hoping to have questions asked in parliament – some of you might be able to persuade your local MPs or Senators to have a go at this one?

And how about some of you contacting the ABC’s Media Watch and ask how it is possible that not a single ABC programme has mentioned this story about a riot squad to be called in to Sydney University, although it has received huge publicity on Sky News, 2GB, and at News Ltd?  Not a word in Fairfax media, naturally.

I’ll post some more information below for any of you who would like to come on board and help with all this. Please contact me if you can volunteer to take action in some way.

Next stop  – University of Queensland

What’s really great is we have student groups in universities across Australia keen to sponsor my talks. The next one is at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. Thurs, September 27. 4 PM. University of Qld, Steele Building. Details of room coming soon.

https://www.facebook.com/events/286222961984023/. I hope some Queenslanders can come along and support me.

That’s about it for now. Cheers, Tina

PS Yes, I know that as the video goes on I become progressively more hoarse and ever more haggard.  But I thought it was a bit rich that one of the protesters, Lily Campbell, described me  on her Facebook page as “reptilian scum”! Now who would like to help me take a case to the Human Rights Commission charging ageist discrimination over that one?

More information.

The key issues are the failure of the universities to protect free speech on campus. These failures include:

• Charging prohibitive security fees to conservative student groups presenting talks on topics leftist or feminist students find challenging. This policy simply encourages more protests from the left given that their own events rarely run into similar problems due to the fact that their opponents rarely seek to close down discussion.
• In the case of La Trobe, initially making a decision to simply ban me from speaking because they claimed that my talk questioning the rape culture on campus failed to “align with the values of the university.”
• Both universities have codes of conduct which require students not to interfere with other students learning or access to university facilities etc. Why are the universities failing to enforce their codes when they are so ready to apply such policies in other circumstances.
• Why are they failing to take action against students who encourage others to violently protest and prevent people from speaking on campus?  

I’ve been posting other information about the campus tour on my Facebook page and website but for those of you who are really interested, here’s a summary.

Here’s a description of my initial problems with La Trobe University. http://www.bettinaarndt.com.au/news/la-trobe-bans-my-talk-on-the-fake-rape-crisis/

And details of the actual La Trobe event: http://www.bettinaarndt.com.au/news/la-trobe-activists-try-to-disrupt-talk-on-fake-rape-crisis/

With Sydney University, the initial stumbling block was the administration took 12 days to provide the students with a venue for the event, and that was only after I make the issue public: http://www.bettinaarndt.com.au/news/no-venue-for-my-sydney-university-talk/ and here:  https://www.facebook.com/notes/bettina-arndt/vice-chancellor-tells-porkies/343283716235273/

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Our thanks to Bryn for this. The start of the piece:

Umpire Carlos Ramos appeared to receive an apology from one of his severest critics on Thursday – as figures emerged showing that male players are penalised far more often than women for bad behaviour.

The Portuguese official was pictured in Croatia talking with USTA President Katrina Adams, with witnesses claiming they overheard her saying sorry for the fallout over the Serena Williams sexism row in the US Open final.

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A powerful piece by Kathy Gyngell, just published on TCW.

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An interesting piece by Patrick Benham-Crosswell, published today by TCW.

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