LINKS TO LATEST NEWS STORIES, FEATURES, BLOGS OR VIDEOS

A new page for stories and articles related to the recent Supreme Court ruling has been created here.

• Trans people banned from toilets of gender they identify with, says UK minister The Guardian 27.04.25
• Chapman’s outburst was dangerous, Donald Trump-ish nonsense Euan McColm in The Scotsman 27.04.25
• Greens call for single-sex guidance to be withdrawn BBC News 27.04.25
• Supreme Court ruling sounded simple. Then the resistance started The Times 27.04.25
• J.K. Rowling and the Curse of the Haunted Worm The Original Woman 26.04.25
• In the gender wars, it’s men’s turn to be kind Janice Turner in The Times  26.04.25
• For Women Scotland -v- The Scottish Ministers: The Seven Red Flags for Employers Peter Daly LinkedIn 25.04.25
• Rosie Duffield: ‘Labour still has a woman problem’ The Times 24.04.25
• Sex and gender should not be conflated in medical data Margaret McCartney in The BMJ 25.04.25
• Law firms get in a sex muddle over Supreme Court verdict – RollOnFriday Roll on Friday 25.04.25
• Converting mixed-sex school lavatories ‘to cost taxpayers millions’ The Times 24.04.25
• MP forced out of Labour over trans views says Starmer is weak The Times 24.04.25
• Speaker’s failure to call Rosie Duffield looks suspicious Matthew Parris in The Times 24.04.25
• NHS could treat trans patients in private rooms, says Wes Streeting The Times 24.04.25
• Police ‘misled minister’ about violent threats by trans protesters The Telegraph 24.04.25
• Concern Maggie Chapman comments could hit Dundee University The Dundee Courier 24.04.25
• Transgender women now banned from pool’s female category The Telegraph 24.04.25
• Starmer’s words about ‘trans women’ are too little, too late Debbie Hayton in The Spectator 24.04.25
• Complacent and cowardly ministers are still failing Scotland’s women Alex Massie in The Times 23.04.25
• NHS hospitals ‘trying to defy’ trans ruling The Telegraph 23.04.25
• Transgender runners can compete in London Marathon as women The Telegraph 23.04.25
• Trans women expected to be excluded from all-women candidate lists BBC News 23.04.25
• Police guide says trans people can request who strip-searches them The Times 23.04.25
• JK Rowling calls for Starmer apology after Supreme Court ruling The London Economic 23.04.25
• Judge rules Scottish schools must provide single-sex lavatories The Times 23.04.25
• Green party co-leaders split over trans policy The Telegraph 23.04.25
• Trans activism has jumped the shark Andrew Doyle 23.04.25
• Faculty of Advocates says Maggie Chapman unfit for equalities role after Supreme Court attack Holyrood 23.04.25
• Sturgeon branded a ‘coward’ for dodging Holyrood trans statement The Telegraph 23.04.25
• EUAN MCCOLM: Once a challenger to become First Minister, Sarwar’s cowardice in trans debate marks him as unfit to hold office Mail 22.04.25
• Trans women should use toilets based on biological sex, Phillipson says BBC News 22.04.25
• Keir Starmer welcomes ‘clarity’ of UK supreme court’s gender ruling The Guardian 22.04.25
• Keir Starmer breaks silence on Supreme Court gender ruling The National 22.04.25
• ‘Opposition to trans court ruling is wishful thinking’ The Times 21.04.25
• Ill-informed challenges to Supreme Court decision help nobody Akua Rheindorf in The Times 21.04.25
• Unhinged trans activists have shown their true colours Sarah Ditum The Times 21.04.25
• Starmer’s silence on Supreme Court ruling is deafening Joan Smith in UnHerd 21.04.25
• Trans row epitomised Looking Glass lunacy Trevor Phillips in The Times 21.04.25
• Trans NHS patients can access every women-only space in London The Telegraph 21.04.25
• Fight against the gender madness isn’t over Iain McWhirter in The Times 20.04.25
• Sir Keir Starmer refuses to punish Labour MPs ‘plotting against trans ruling’ The Telegraph 21.04.25
• UK ruling affirms women’s rights. It is not a blow to trans rights The Times 20.04.25
• SNP gender sorry hardest word The Scotsman 20.04.25
• Double trans rapist’s mum joins clamour for ‘coward’ Nicola Sturgeon to apologise to women Scottish Daily Express 20.04.25
• Supreme Court victors getting death threats in gender ruling backlash The Sunday Times 20.04.25
• The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone  The Observer 20.04.25
• The supreme court has carefully ringfenced protections for women. That’s all we wanted Sonia Sodha in The Observer 20.04.25
• Labour’s WhatsApp plot to defy trans ruling: Ministers’ leaked messages reveal their fury at calls to ban transgender women from female-only changing rooms Mail 20.04.25
• Trans activists deface statue of suffragette Millicent Fawcett as thousands protest in ’emergency demonstration’ against Supreme Court gender ruling in London Mail 20.04.25
• JOAN MCALPINE: I was called trash for standing up for women. The SNP, led by Nicola Sturgeon, tried to shut me up… but I’ve got absolutely NO regrets  Mail 20.04.25
• The Supreme Court Judgment and Child Safeguarding Safe Schools Alliance UK 20.04.25

 

So, you think you may be trans…:

A critical guide to the debate around trans identities for parents, teachers and others involved with caring for children and young people

Written primarily for adults with caring responsibilities but likely to be of interest to anyone concerned with the rise in the number of young people seeking to socially and or medically “transition”, this book by sociologist, Tim Davies, is a well-researched, clear and comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon of transgenderism and its effects as an ideology, with particular focus on the current generation of transitioners. The book and can be ordered here.

RECOMMENDED: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Transgender Galaxy Carol Dansereau

Gender Hurts!

I made some double-sided, A5-sized flyers with brief explanations of how gender hurts women and children. These are now available in pdf form for anyone who would like to print them at home.

For printing on A4 and slicing, click here.

For printing on A5, click here.

Peak Trans four years on

“At the end of 2021, the debate on sex and gender and the conflict with women’s rights feels very different, at least in the UK, from the way it felt at the end of 2019. There have been a series of legal wins and cultural shifts. People are finding a voice and wrenching the discussion back to reality.”

The above paragraph conveys exactly what I wanted to say in this update, and I am grateful to the legend who is Maya Forstater of Sex Matters for articulating it so well in the introductory paragraph of an article comprehensively detailing how much has been achieved in the UK while alerting us to the battle still to be won on so-called ‘conversion therapy’.

While I’ve continued to try to keep this website updated with the latest news stories and features, regular visitors will probably be aware that I have, since the start of lockdown in 2020, devoted some time to making youtube videos and I am blown away by the appreciative responses to them. Sometimes people express surprise that I don’t have more subscribers but it’s hard to promote videos when banned from social media platforms, so I am thankful to those who share them.

I currently post my latest videos at the top of the right-hand menu but the ones I want to highlight most at this time are a series of four in which I narrate what happened when, in the light of the unjust – and ultimately quashed – conviction of Kate Scottow, I decided to test our criminal justice system and report a trans activist bully to Merseyside police. The contrast between the response of Merseyside police to a woman reporting a relentless trans-identifying bully and how police around the UK have responded to gender activists reporting women for far lesser offences, is stark indeed and campaigner Harry Miller’s recent triumph over the College of Policing seems all the more crucial because of it.

Looking back at what I wrote as an introduction to this website when I launched it at the end of 2017, I am surprised to find that I can still stand by most of it. I had the feeling that my views had shifted a lot more than perhaps they have. In fact, there are only two things that I think completely differently about now, both of which I had already articulated in my update two years ago, when I said that, “if anyone I knew personally today told me they were considering ‘transition’, I would try to talk them out of it”. The second thing is more complicated. Two years ago I said I’d stopped being careful about language for fear of offending people. Over the past year I have become careful about language again but for a different reason. Whereas I was never going to be browbeaten into using silly ideological terms like ‘cis’ and ‘sex assigned at birth’ and I have long since stopped using ‘transwoman’ and ‘transman’, I have now abandoned the use of the term ‘transgender/trans’ – as in ‘trans people’ – altogether.

‘Transgender’ is a label and those who choose to apply it to themselves do so for various reasons. This is why, if it is absolutely necessary to specify that I am talking about people who claim to be transgender, I will only use ‘trans-identifying’. Otherwise I will just call them what they are: men and women. The invention of a ‘trans umbrella’ has robbed the term ‘transgender’ of any useful meaning and using terms like ‘trans people’ give credence to what I have come to see as a dangerous falsehood.

Maria MacLachlan 1st January 2022

Video: Assault on Maria MacLachlan at Speakers’ Corner and the trans activist response

 

Peak Trans two years on

When I started this site two years ago, I never imagined that the hate campaign against me, which had started on the day I was physically attacked by three violent trans activists in September 2017, would continue to this day.

This is why I decided to make the video above. It includes all the footage taken at Speakers’ Corner, which gives the lie to the alternative narrative spread by trans activist bullies, many of whose comments appear in the film. It will remain on the front of this website permanently.

I blogged some of the responses: Trans activist bullies who “didn’t watch” my video about them hated it

An abridged version, which leaves out the trans activists’ input and focuses on what happened and the testimony of the defence witnesses Ananya Jaidev, Kat Higgins, Laurel Uziell and Devawn Wilkinson can be seen here. 

I also had no idea how busy this site would keep me. The several hundred links to news stories, articles and videos that I started with has now grown to several thousand, with new links being added on most days. I am delighted at how popular this site has proven to be and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate the supportive messages, the links to articles for inclusion and the donations, which help so much to keep it running.

What I wrote on the day I launched this site at the end of 2017 was true at the time of writing but, after two years immersed in the ‘gender wars’, my thinking on some things has evolved and I wouldn’t write that same introduction were I launching this site today.

One thing that has changed is that if anyone I knew personally today told me they were considering ‘transition’, I would try to talk them out of it. The reasons are many but suffice it to say that, having learned so much from so many trans people, detransitioned people and from some whose lives have been profoundly impacted by transgender ideology, I believe that too many are making the decision to transition too lightly and on too little information and sometimes the effect on their lives and on those of their loved ones has been catastrophic.

Another thing is that I no longer care about offending people. Transgender ideology is – as evidenced by a large number of items linked to from this site – oppressive and misogynistic and those who promote it are intolerant, short on reason and often hateful. For this reason, I am far less careful about language and am more inclined to use terms like ‘trans-identifying males’, which I used to avoid for fear of offending…well, trans-identifying males.

I would like to reiterate that I support the right of adults to ultimately make their own decision on how they present themselves and on whether or not to medically alter their appearance. I also strongly believe that trans-identifying people should have the same human rights as anyone else. However, I know from experience that it doesn’t matter how often I say this, as far as trans activists are concerned, anything short of full submission to trans ideology justifies opprobrium and abuse.

There are many ways in which my thinking has changed in respect of transgenderism and I will continue to update various things I’ve said on this site accordingly but I will leave my original introduction below untouched. It is now archived here: What’s this site about?

Maria MacLachlan 3rd January 2020