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UK Court Demonstrates It Knows What a Woman Is, Clarifying British Law

The newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court infamously could not answer what a woman is, but the United Kingdon’s highest court declared today that it is very clear on the matter. The British Supreme Court stated, “The unanimous decision of this court is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”

The defining statement in the U.K. court’s decision appears on page 3, stating,

The central question on this appeal is whether the EA 2010 treats a trans woman with a GRC [gender recognition certificate] as a woman for all purposes within the scope of its provisions, or when that Act speaks of a “woman” and “sex” it is referring to a biological woman and biological sex [emphasis added].

Members of the court all landed on the biological definition, rejecting the new elastic definition used by gender ideology.

This is a landmark decision for gender-realists who root their view of what it means to be human as male or female in objective biological reality. Politico explains, “The ruling could have far-reaching implications for the provision of single-sex spaces and other gender-specific public services across Scotland, England and Wales.”

The court explained, “The principal question which the court addresses on this appeal is the meaning of the words which Parliament has used in the EA 2010 in legislating to protect women and members of the trans community against discrimination.”

They further explain, saying, “Our task is to see if those words [to denote woman] can bear a coherent and predictable meaning” within British law.

This consequential decision resulted from a lengthy and detailed challenge from three bold Scottish women working with the organization For Women Scotland which defines itself as “a group of women from across Scotland working to protect and strengthen women and children’s rights.”

J.K. Rowling, a fearless defender of common sense for what a woman is, posted the following celebration of the decision, saying she is “so proud to know you” referring to the “three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women” who fought for this landmark decision.

One anonymous commenter to Rowling’s post summed up the consequences of this decision as well as anyone,

When Parliament fled, when media lied, when cowards hid behind slogans, three Scottish women stood their ground. And they won.

This wasn’t just a legal victory. It was a cultural exorcism. The spell is broken: a woman is an adult human female. Full stop.

Rowling’s right to be proud. The rest of the political class should be ashamed it ever came to this.

A cultural exorcism indeed. Now, if only other legal bodies across the globe would follow this common sense reasoning.

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New Research: 50-Fold Increase in ‘Gender Dysphoria’ in UK

New research out of the University of York has found a 50-fold increase in “gender distress” in children and young people in the United Kingdom in just 10 years. Social contagion and mental illness may play a role in the large rise.

The BMJ reported the results, which were originally published online in Archives of Disease in Childhood on January 24, 2025.

The study looked at primary care data in England, and suggests that “1 in every 200 17-18 year olds are affected” by “psychological distress caused by a mismatch between birth sex and gender identity.” The BMJ reported that “from 2015 onwards, the numbers of cases rose more rapidly in those recorded as female than those recorded as male by their family doctors, and were around twice as high by 2021.”

The researchers also found that 53% of the children “had concurrent anxiety, depression, or self-harm recorded.”

Such a large increase in a significant mental health disorder doesn’t happen naturally, societal factors must play a role.

While the York researchers didn’t study the issue of causation, they suggested some possible contributing factors to explain the dramatic increase in children struggling with sexual identity confusion:

Recent increases in incidence of gender dysphoria/incongruence have a range of potential explanations, including social factors (for example, changes in public attitudes towards gender differences, greater awareness and acceptance of gender dysphoria/incongruence, increasing use of social media and networking); [and] increasing rates of emotional distress and poor mental health in this age group, particularly for females. …

Here in the U.S., the number of minors with gender dysphoria diagnoses have also surged, with one report showing an increase from 15,175 children in 2017 to 42,167 in 2022.

Those numbers don’t count the growing number of children and young adults identifying as something other than their biological sex. As reported in the Daily Citizen, a 2023 Gallup study of 18 to 25-year old members of Gen Z showed almost 20% identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, with 3.3% identifying as “transgender” or “other LGBT.”

In 2024, Mia Hughes published a devastating exposé of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health’s (WPATH) “Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People.”

WPATH supports dangerous, experimental and body damaging “gender-affirming care” for children and adults, including puberty blockers, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries.

Hughes’ report, The WPATH Files: Pseudoscientific surgical and hormonal experiments on children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults, demonstrated “the world-leading transgender healthcare group is neither scientific nor advocating for ethical medical care.”

In a post about the new study on X, Hughes stated, “There has never been a more obvious social contagion in all of history.”

Executive Director and Founder of Genspect Stella O’Malley said of the increase: 

I put it down to social contagion, I put it down to social media, and I put it down to an extraordinary politicization of the trans identity. So that people who are lost, and people who are vulnerable, and the children in this study are shown to have a disproportionately high level of maybe autism, mental health problems.
People are lost and lonely, they look for solutions, and the idea that they can be a different person with a different identity is very alluring to a lost and lonely person, especially a young person who hates their body and is going through an exploration of who they are.

She added that she could understand children struggling, adding that clinicians and other “adults in the room need to exercise caution and be very careful with the treatment they give” children.

Indeed. Children who struggle with this intense self-hatred, along with the fantasy that they can become a different sex, deserve compassionate, loving care to embrace their bodily sex.

What they don’t need are harmful, experimental medical interventions that top their natural body and brain development and growth; disfigure and sterilize them; and risk major medical complications such as low bone density, high blood pressure, breast cancer, liver disease, thrombosis, and cardiovascular disease.

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Elon Musk, Britain’s Rape Gangs, ‘Multiculturalism’ and Cowardice

(Caution: This article deals with sexual assault, with links to some graphic articles and posts.)

Elon Musk has been calling attention to the horrors that took place in towns and cities across England – for decades – as gangs of men, mostly Muslim Pakistanis, groomed, raped, abused and sexually trafficked young girls.

Musk’s posts spotlighted not just the crimes, but also the scandalous coverup of the assaults and trafficking, which were ignored or concealed for years by the media, police, social workers and local and national government officials.

Many who failed to act were fearful of being labeled “racist” or “Islamophobic.” Those fears – and kowtowing to ”multiculturalism” and “diversity” ideology over truth and justice – led to gross injustice and grave harm to young children.

The assaults on thousands of girls have reportedly been taking place since the 1960s, wrote Dominic Green in The Free Press:

The grooming and serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went on for many years. It is still going on. And there has been no justice for the vast majority of the victims.
British governments, both Conservative and Labour [sic], hoped that they had buried the story after a few symbolic prosecutions in the 2010s. And it looked like they had succeeded — until Elon Musk read some of the court papers and tweeted his disgust and bafflement on X over the new year.

There’s no knowing how many thousands of young girls were abused and raped across England. The Jay Report, an independent inquiry into gang rapes in Rotherham, stated that more than 1,400 girls were victimized from 1997-2013. That number can be multiplied many times over, as similar grooming gangs raped and abused children in dozens of other British towns, including Aylesbury, Blackpool, Bristol, Oxford, and Rochdale.

After reading court transcripts of some of the cases, Musk said, “What was done to thousands of defenseless little girls in Britain was vile beyond belief.” He also called for a new inquiry into UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who headed up the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008-2013, and his role in the scandal.

The Prime Minister and other leaders then attacked Musk for “interfering” in England’s affairs, with Starmer saying his accusers were “spreading lies and misinformation.” Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch also called for a national inquiry, but Parliament voted against it, 364-111.

InThe Daily Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes and Charlie Peters explained that “the government seems curiously reluctant to dig into the failings of officials.” They added,

This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.

They opined that officials reluctance to address the issue is because “the government’s approach to multiculturalism is not to uphold the law, but instead to minimize the risk of unrest between communities.”

Rather than protecting children and pursuing justice, police and government officials buried the story.

“Britain now stands shamed before the world,” Green wrote, adding:

The scandal is already reshaping British politics. It’s not just about the heinous nature of the crimes. It’s that every level of the British system is implicated in the cover-up.

Julie Bindel, an English radical feminist who works to stop violence against women, was one of the first to begin researching and writing about this issue. She began investigating reports of grooming gangs in the early 1990s, through her involvement with The Coalition For the Removing of Pimping.

But “police and social services appeared to be scared of intervening in these particular grooming gangs” because they “did not want to be labelled as racist,” she said. Similarly, “because some editors feared an accusation of racism,” her first story on the subject was not published until 2007.

She wrote in The London Times,

Schoolgirls in Lancashire and Yorkshire are falling prey to sinister gangs of pimps. Two men have been sent to jail, but the girls’ mothers, not the police, are at the forefront of the crackdown. Why are the authorities so reluctant to get involved?

While sitting in a mall in Lancashire, Bindel watched “well-dressed Asian teenage boys … on the lookout for young white girls,” many of whom “are from disadvantaged backgrounds.

The boys would develop relationships with young girls, hungry for attention and affection, and then hand the girls over to older men, pimps who gave the girls drugs and alcohol – then threatened, raped and abused them. The girls were then sold for sex to other men in the town and often taken on a circuit to other cities.

“If anyone has sex with a girl under 13, there is a strong risk of being arrested for having sex with a minor. Once they reach 13, however, unless the victim makes a complaint to the police, nothing will happen,” Bindel wrote.

She continued, saying, “Pimping is lucrative. According to the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad, a pimp can make £300,000 to £400,000 a year selling a 16-year-old girl. There is, appallingly, no shortage of men who wish to buy them.”

She also pointed out the spinelessness of those who refused to act on behalf of these children, “The ethnic origin of the men was irrelevant, but many of them were allowed to get away with the rape and abuse of young girls because of the cowards who would do anything for a quiet life.”

While she’s right about the cowardice, she’s wrong about the ethnicity not mattering. Apologists for the state claim that white men commit most of the rapes in England, not Pakistani Muslims.

But as reporter Charlie Peters explained in a thread on X, that explanation misses the point. He wrote:

The contention had always been that those of Pakistani heritage were over-represented as abusers, not the majority of abusers. …
Only around 2-3% of the population of Rotherham during the period examined by the Jay Report came from a Pakistani ethnic background. Most abusers of the 1,400 girls therefore came from a population of only around 8,000 people. Clearly they were hugely over-represented.

In addition, since many men were never arrested and prosecuted, it’s impossible to know how many more assaults were committed by this small segment of the population. And why were they not arrested and prosecuted? Officials were afraid of being accused of racism and Islamophobia.

These girls were sacrificed on the altar of multiculturalism; diversity, equity and inclusivity; and political correctness. They deserve better.

Thankfully, as Musk and a few intrepid reporters have brought worldwide attention to this scandal, the British people are clamoring for a full inquiry. A poll from GB News found 73% want a national inquiry, 79% said officials who failed these girls should be prosecuted, and 81% want foreign national groomers deported.

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