Australian media are ignoring a landmark fight to reclaim sex based rights and protections for all women and girls. This constitutional law case is not only relevant to Australia; it could potentially redefine women’s rights around the world as it is based on a UN convention to which most countries are signatory. Our guest on this week’s Whittle is Sall Grover, the Australian founder of an independent female-only social media, networking platform and app called ‘Giggle’. Giggle was created by Sall as a platform centred around women connecting with, and supporting, other women. The purpose was to provide an app that allowed women to safely connect; an important consideration when dealing with strangers. Giggle uses biometric technology to scan faces to ensure the app remains single-sex. Sall is being taken to court because she wants her Giggle app to remain female-only. This is a landmark case that is about to go to the Federal Court. If Sall Grover wins the case, it will be a big win for sex-based rights for women across Australia and potentially the world. To support Sall’s case and contribute, please visit Giggles’ crowdfunder page: https://gigglecrowdfund.com/
Month: March 2024
Moscow Terror Attack: ISIS releases footage where terrorists slit throat of victim repeatedly, shoot indiscriminately while screaming ‘Allahu Akbar, Putin vows to punish
On 23rd March, Islamic State (ISIS) released bodycam footage of the deadly terror attack at the Crocus City Hall music venue. They also released a photograph of the four terrorists involved in the attack. In a statement, ISIS said four terrorists stormed into the large concert hall in Moscow, “unleashing a hail of gunfire and igniting the venue in flames”. The statement and media were released by ISIS’s mouthpiece, Amaq News Agency, on Telegram. Quoting Amaq, Reuters noted, “The attack comes within the context of a raging war between the Islamic State and countries fighting Islam.”
In the ISIS-released bodycam footage, the terrorists were heard shouting “Allah-hu-Akbar” and shooting people indiscriminately. In one of the shots, a terrorist was seen slitting the throat of a victim repeatedly.
Channel One, a Russian state-run channel, aired the footage of terrorists being detained and interrogated by the agencies. One of the suspects was detained from Khatsun village in the Bryansk region, close to the Russia-Belarus border. During the interrogation, one of the suspects said he killed people for money. He said he was offered half a million Rubles, which is approximately USD 5,425, for the attack. Furthermore, he said he had received half of the payment in advance. Russian Interior Ministry said that the four suspects detained were from Tajikistan.
President Vladimir Putin vowed to punish the ISIS terrorists
On 23rd March, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to punish the terrorists after they attacked the Crocus City Hall music venue in the city of Krasnogorsk, near Moscow on 22nd March. Reportedly, 133 people lost their lives in the attack. In an address to the nation, Putin said, “Our people, our children, just like the Nazis that once killed our people during the war. They do the same. All the orchestrators responsible for this crime will inevitably be found responsible; they will pay. We will identify everyone who stands behind these terrorists, and they will pay. This is a strike against Russia.” The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the video on social media platforms.
Furthermore, he added that Russia would investigate the attack. He informed that the Russian forces apprehended all four terrorists directly involved in the attack. President Vladimir Putin asserted all efforts would be made to identify the details of the attack. Notably, Russian President Vladimir Putin pointed out that the aim was to kill people.
He said, “We will investigate this terrorist attack, and we already have some results. All four perpetrators who were directly involved were gunning people down and killing people. They were found and apprehended. They tried to escape. They were moving towards the border with Ukraine, and we have data that suggests that they were about to be moved towards the territory of Ukraine by those in Ukraine.”
President Vladimir Putin added, “Our military services, our emergency services, our investigators are working on finding out the orchestrators of this terrorist attack, those who gave them transportation, who gave them weapons, etc. The investigative authorities will do everything to identify all details of this crime. But it’s already evident that we face not just a cynically organized terrorist attack but a massive mass killing of civilians. These perpetrators, these criminals went specifically to kill, to kill people, point blank.”
Russian President said terrorists have no nationality
Putin stressed that Russia expects other nations to cooperate with them. He said the terrorists have no nationality, and there is no future for them. He urged the people of Russia to stay united. He said, “We know what terrorist threat means, and we expect that other nations that share our pain will cooperate with us, and we will stand united against this common enemy, international terrorism. No matter where it shows its ugly head, these terrorists have no nationality, and there is only one future for them: retribution and oblivion. Our duty right now, our common duty right now, is to stand together, to stand united, and I believe we will stand together.”
“Nobody can divide us, undermine our common strength nation of Russia’s nation or seek discord in our multinational society. Russia has faced many terrible challenges in its history, but it always came out stronger, and this will be the same this time,” he added.
According to RT News, the Russian Investigative Committee said that 115 people died in the attack, and the figure might rise. Later, reports suggested the death toll rose to 133. Investigators said, “According to preliminary data, the causes of death were gunshot wounds and poisoning by combustion products (smoke inhalation).” The investigating agencies were looking into CCTV footage to find out how the attack happened. Earlier, it was reported 93 people lost their lives. Still, later, they found dead bodies in the rubble. 11 people, including four terrorists who were directly involved in the attack, were reportedly detained by the Russian Federal Security Services (FSB).
In a statement, the agency said, “The activities of intelligence and law enforcement agencies have resulted in the detention of 11 people, including four terrorists, who directly participated in the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall.”
Ukraine denied link
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his statement that the terrorists were moving towards Ukraine when detained by the agencies. However, Ukrainian military intelligence spokesperson Andriy Yuson denied the links. He told Reuters, “Ukraine was, of course, not involved in this terror attack. Ukraine is defending its sovereignty from Russian invaders, liberating its territory and fighting with the occupiers’ army and military targets, not civilians.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to divert the blame. He said, “It’s obvious that Putin and other thugs are just trying to blame someone else. Their methods are always the same. We’ve seen it all before destroyed buildings, shootings, and explosions. And they always find someone else to blame.” He added, “They have brought hundreds of thousands of their terrorists here, on Ukrainian land, to fight against us, and they don’t care about what is happening inside their own country.”
“Yesterday, as all this happened, instead of dealing with his fellow Russian citizens, addressing them, the wimp Putin was silent for a full 24 hours, thinking about how to tie this to Ukraine. It’s all predictable,” said Zelenskyy.
Terrorist attack in Russia
On 22nd March, Islamic State terrorists launched a massive attack on a concert hall in the Russian capital that left at least 133 people dead and over 100 wounded. A group of armed men stormed into Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow and opened fire and detonated explosives among the crowd on Friday (local time). The terror group took responsibility for the attack in a short statement published by ISIS-affiliated news agency Amaq on Telegram on Friday. Video footage from the site of the attack, the Crocus City Hall concert venue on fire with smoke billowing into the air. It showed crowds of people huddling together, screaming and ducking behind cushioned seats as gunshots started echoing in the vast hall.
ISIS released bodycam footage of Moscow terror attack (opindia.com)
Chechen fighters loyal to Putin allegedly helped capture the ISIS terrorists
Chechen fighters loyal to Putin allegedly helped capture ISIS terrorists as they were travelling to Ukraine according to local reports.
Graphic videos circulating online showed the arrest of the three men suspected. of carrying out the horrific mass shooting at a Moscow concert that left at least 133 people dead. The footage depicts the suspects being detained by soldiers, some reportedly barefoot and with injuries.
Under apparent interrogation, one suspect reportedly confessed to being influenced by an extremist preacher on the messaging app Telegram. He claimed to have been promised a significant sum of money to carry out the attack. A second suspect also admitted to receiving payment for the shooting.
The arrests reportedly took place in the Bryansk region near the Ukrainian border. While local reports initially indicated Chechen involvement, official statements have not confirmed this detail.
The attack has cast a shadow over the city and the investigation is ongoing. The authenticity of the confession videos cannot be independently verified.
“I was listening to a preacher’s teaching on Telegram” the suspect answers in response to a soldier’s interrogation.
“His assistant wrote to me telling me to kill people,” he continues.
“I don’t know (his name). No first name, no last name, no nothing. They only wrote to me about a month ago.
“He wrote that he promised me about one million roubles.”
The suspect was reportedly filmed while being held in the Bryansk region in western Russia and told authorities his name was Fariduni Shamsidin.
The man allegedly goes on to say he was told to walk into the venue and kill anyone after he had flown from Turkey on March 4 and received instructions from unknown people via Telegram to carry out the attack in exchange for $16,612 (₽1,000,000).
Another suspect allegedly said he had been promised $8328 (₽500,000) and had received $4164 (₽250,000) in an advance payment.
According to the Russian government, the four suspected gunmen arrested are not Russian citizens.
“They are all foreign nationals,” the interior ministry said in a statement.
(Source: News.com.au) / Chechen fighters loyal to Putin allegedly helped capture the ISIS terrorists – Greek City Times
SPAIN: Men Charged With Violence Against Women Using Transgender Law To Change Legal Sex, Access Shelters Where Their Victims Are Housed
Spain’s Minister of Family, Youth, and Social Affairs in Madrid is raising alarm bells after locating multiple cases in which men convicted of domestic violence changed their legal gender identity. In a letter issued to the Minister of Equality, Ana Dávila-Ponce de León Municio detailed her concerns that the safety of female victims of violence was at risk due to Spain’s “progressive” approach towards gender identity.
In her letter, issued March 18, Minister Dávila-Ponce de León noted that she had become aware of six cases in the autonomous region of Madrid where men charged with violence against women had changed their legal gender identity — a process that was streamlined and made significantly easier following the enactment of Spain’s “Trans Law” in 2023.
In addition to updating their registered sex, three of the men made requests to stay in women’s shelters with the wives and children who had been escaping from them. So far, concerned staff at the shelters have blocked their access but may be violating the nation’s gender discrimination laws as a result.
But perhaps most disturbingly, an abuser changing his legal sex has a tremendous impact on the resources the victims are able to access. In one of the cases recently highlighted by El Mundo, a female victim of sexual assault was stripped of the special protection provided for victims of physical and sexual abuse because officials told her that her aggressor, who drugged and raped her in front of her young daughter, “was no longer registered as a man, but as a woman.”
In Spain, special gender-based violence charges exist, providing female victims of male violence specific protections and resolutions which can impact divorce or separation proceedings, custody, and other important factors. Victims of gender-based violence can also access special protections intended to ensure they are safe from their male abuser.
Because a female cannot be convicted of gender-based violence, male abusers who change their legal sex can avoid this charge and deny their female victims of those legal protections.
As previously reported by Reduxx, a man in Spain who abused his female partner for opposing his gender transition avoided charges of gender-based violence by legally changing his identification to “female” and adopting a woman’s name. As a result, his victim was unable to obtain a specific protection order for intimate partner violence which would typically result in the male abuser being removed from the home to minimize the financial impact to the woman at a time where they are most vulnerable.
Despite only one year passing since the Trans Law was enacted by Spanish parliament, making it easier for people to “self-identify” their gender on their legal documents, several cases have emerged involving men using the law to receive financial, social, or legal benefits. The phenomenon is now being referred to as “trans fraud.”
Earlier this month, Reduxx reported that dozens of male civil servants in one small Spanish community changed their gender identity reportedly just to get benefits allocated for females. Among them was Roberto Perdigones, a 35-year-old Army corporal, who boasted of changing his legal sex to “female” after deciding he identified as an “intersex bigender” person.
From that moment on, he began to enjoy the benefits: the day he got his new ID card, he showed up at the barracks with earrings, long hair and a beard, now able to disregard mandatory dress code regulations without repercussions.
But the benefits are not limited to aesthetic issues, with Perdigones also now qualifying for a mother’s pension as he is a “woman” with a child.
“By changing my sex, as I have been informed, my pension has gone up. Because women receive more in retirement pensions to compensate for the inequality. In addition, I get 15% more because I have a child,” he boasted.
“I even have a private room in the barracks, all to myself, with a private bathroom. Because, being a woman, I can’t be with the men, and I didn’t consider it appropriate to be with the biological women out of respect for them. I’ve had the room to myself since the sex change.”
Perdigones also intends to seek a promotion and will be utilizing the so-called “affirmative action measures” designed to increase female presence in the Armed Forces command.
As Perdigones is approaching the mandatory age of retirement for temporary soldiers, obtaining a permanent position would be beneficial for him. Perdigones will be applying as a “woman,” since the physical tests are less demanding and because certain positions are seeking more female representation.
Enriching the Multicultural Tapestry in Germany
Like the leftist ruling class that imports them, Islamic colonists have been known to sneer at the German population:
Rihan B. (19) was put on trial on Wednesday at Wittmund District Court (Lower Saxony). Charges: assault, abuse, insult, coercion, interference with road traffic, threats. The public prosecutor counted 20 offences in just one year.
Her total at last count is 160 charges listed against her — highly impressive at her young age.
Here’s why Bild refers to her as a “supermarket bully”:
In a supermarket in Wittmund, Rihan shouted that she had no job as a refugee – but earned 200 euros a day. She shouted: “And you Germans pay taxes and keep working, yalla, yalla!”
They may be Third World savages, but they know the score. She assaulted a female shop assistant for daring to ask her not to open drinks and guzzle them.
Rihan is enriching the multicultural tapestry for generations to come:
She gave birth to her daughter in the women’s prison in Vechta in 2021.
Unfortunately for the daughter, she may grow up in a Germany where there are no longer any Germans around to pick up the tab.
Holland has a problem with supermarket bullies too.
Moonbattery Enriching the Multicultural Tapestry in Germany – Moonbattery
Portugal: The End of a Political Cycle?
The standout phenomenon of the Portuguese legislative elections earlier this month was undoubtedly the rise of Chega over a period of five years—from 1.29% of the vote in 2019 to 18.1% today. André Ventura’s party, which had already increased its number of deputies from one to 12 between 2019 and 2022, managed to elect as many as 50 deputies on March 10. In terms of votes, the rise is even more impressive: 68,000 in 2019, 400,000 in 2022, 1,108,000 in 2024.
The growing national and patriotic Right was late in coming, but in Portugal it arrived quickly and with considerable force, despite the constant abuse from tenacious political opposition and hostile media coverage. Accusations of every ‘-phobia’ and ‘-ism’ in the Woke book have been never-ending. To discourage Catholic voting, some went so far as to forge and publicize fake statements atrributed to Portuguese Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça, condemning Chega as an anti-Christian party that promoted values opposed to the teachings of the Bible.
Contemporary Portugal
As a rule, regime changes in Portugal have been brought about by ruptures, generally caused by the action, inaction, or collaborative neutrality of the army. This was the case in the cycle opened by the revolution of 1820 and the liberal Constitution of 1822, followed by the traditionalist reaction and the civil war, which ended with the liberal victory in 1834. Then came the Constitutional Charter and a period of convulsive liberalism until the military coup by the Duke of Saldanha—a “left-wing aristocrat,” as the historian Rui Ramos classifies him—which stabilised and regenerated the system, creating the conditions for ‘rotativism,’ a political arrangement allowing the two main parties to rotate in power, as if in closed circuit. Thus, during the second half of the 19th century, two conservative-liberal or liberal-conservative parties—one more conservative, the Regenerators, the other more liberal, the Progressives—alternated in power.
The monarchy fell in 1910 and, with the First Republic, the neo-Jacobin Democratic Party accustomed the Portuguese people to the Left’s style of governance in a democracy: based on the supposed intellectual and moral superiority of the children of the enlightened bourgeoisie, the vanguard of brilliant minds as against the troglodytes of reaction, hopelessly attached to things that have rightly fallen into disuse, such as religious faith and national identity.
Instability and misery led to the military uniting in 1926, after 16 years and almost 50 governments, to remove the Democratic Party from power. Then came the military dictatorship.
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917, with its excesses of class extermination, set in motion a chain of authoritarian reactions across Europe—from Italian fascism and German Nazism, both violently nationalistic, totalising brands of Caesarism, to conservative but less ideologically fervent military dictatorships. Portugal got the latter.
Unable to find a political solution, the Portuguese military facilitated the rise to power of António de Oliveira Salazar, an academic from Coimbra who was an expert in public finance, inspired by Catholic social teaching and the rationalistic nationalism of Charles Maurras.
In 1936 came the Spanish War between the highly radicalised Right and Left: the violence of the socialist and anarchist Left was matched by the violence of the military commanded by Franco, who emerged victorious.
The authoritarian regimes of Franco and Salazar survived the Second World War, thanks in large part to the Cold War. After all, the peninsular leftists were unable to convince the Anglo-Saxon victors, now focused on the struggle against the Soviet Union, to overthrow these anti-communist dictators.
The Portugal of the Estado Novo remained thanks to these post-war geopolitical dynamics and Salazar’s savviness in taking advantage of them. The powers of the West felt that his demise—or Franco’s for that matter—risked a communist takeover on the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, the Salazar and Franco regimes, in their final phase, developed their respective countries economically and, in the case of Portugal, also the overseas territories of Angola and Mozambique.
But being highly personalised and characterised by a non-democratic institutional ambiguity, the Iberian regimes could not withstand the physical deaths of their founders. Francoism had a transition designed, without illusions, by Franco himself: a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy. Salazarism collapsed between Marcelo Caetano’s liberalising attempt and a long war in Africa that generated discontent in the officer corps.
April 25 and the Revolutionary Left
The military coup of April 25, 1974, was followed by a revolutionary attempt to seize power by the radical Left—communists, Maoists, and the like—which was only stopped a year and a half later, on November 25, 1975.
It must be said that, when the military coup by the captains took place, the Left with its Marxist inspiration had long ago become dominant in cultural magazines, in the literary pages of leading newspapers, and in the publishing world generally. As is always the case with this kind of rupture, the Gramscian conquest of mentalities preceded the seizure of power.
But due to the dynamism of the revolutionary process—the banning of right-wing parties, the imprisonment or exile of their young cadres, and the conditioning of the centre-Right and centre-Left parties that had been formed—Portugal was left entirely in the hands of the Left. The Left was divided, however, between Mário Soares’ Socialists, Álvaro Cunhal’s Communists, and the Maoist-inspired extreme Left. And Soares ended up allying himself with the Right on an anti-communist front.
It was an objective alliance against the risks of a “Prague coup” in Lisbon, one that ranged from socialists to national conservatives. In the aftermath of November 25, the popular Catholic reaction throughout the spring and summer of 1975 ended up being taken advantage of by Mário Soares and the moderate left-wing military faction, supported by Europe and the United States. From then on, the regime was intellectually dominated by the so-called ‘anti-fascist’ Left, which enshrined some of its principles in the 1976 Constitution.
After the confrontation, the Left managed to maintain and extend its hegemony in the culture and information sectors. The likes of Sá Carneiro’s Democratic Alliance and Cavaco Silva’s PPD-PSD in the 1970s and 1980s were anti-left, liberal and technocratic movements, with a certain cultural openness to the Right, but above all preoccupied with the idea of economic recovery.
However, the taboo against the Right remained and its values, national in politics and conservative in customs, were not adopted by the leaderships of the parties in which right-wing voters voted. These parties—the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Democratic Social Center (CDS)—with the exception of the CDS-Popular Party under Manuel Monteiro’s leadership, gradually gave in to the political and cultural hegemony of the Left. Meanwhile, the Left cunningly imposed an infinitely manipulable and malleable “anti-fascism” as a red line against the re-emergence of genuine right-wing politics, exploiting such language inflation to spook mainstream conservatives and secure in the knowledge that the media would do their bidding.
On the surface, there was nothing to stop the centre Right parties from defending under a democratic regime the patriotic and conservative values that Salazar and the Estado Novo had stood for under an authoritarian one. But the Left capitalised on its cultural supremacy, insisting on the intrinsically Salazarist and dictatorial character of anything that sounded rightist. Thus did it succeed in conditioning the party agendas, forever in power if not always in office.
This complacency, along with the passage of time, generational renewal, and the cronyism of the ‘Centrão,’ (Socialists and Social-democrats) has contributed to a gradual alienation among many voters, few of whom can really be said to identify—given abstention rates upwards of 50%—with the “arc of governance” parties.
A New Political Cycle
It has been plausibly remarked that, until André Ventura’s Chega appeared on the scene, there was no proper party of the Right in Portugal, only parties to the right of the Left—a Right which, apart from angling for greater economic freedom, assented to practically all of the most fundamental progressive dogmas, whether on gender ideology or racial identity politics.
Meanwhile, ironically enough on the eve of the regime’s 50th anniversary, elections brought forward by a relatively minor scandal—albeit the last straw in a long list of such cases—ushered in the first real sign of change in half a century.
The recent elections saw the great victory of a party that had until recently been classed as all but a marginal party; a party of protest and of rupture, not with the regime, but with the spirit of the regime—in other words, with the ideological hegemony of the Left. The fact is that Chega, sometimes atrociously, sometimes radically, sometimes exaggeratedly, managed to break the siege and assert itself as an instrument of protest by the ‘people’ against ‘the regime’ or ‘the system.’
It should be noted that Chega, which in 2019 received 68,000 votes and elected one deputy, and which in 2022 won 400,000 votes and 12 deputies, has now received 1.169 million votes, electing 50 deputies.
It’s not exactly a coup d’état or a military revolution. The regime is still in place, its institutions continue, and even the fourth or fifth estates remains—that of the media, the analysts, the commentariat class, the evaluators, all of whom presume to tell the ignorant, brutish and uneducated people who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.
But, apparently and strangely, this time the people didn’t listen to them. Or even worse, they listened very carefully indeed and opted for ‘the bad guys’ anyway. Despite the propaganda, the warnings, the fears, the insults, the fake news detectors, the voters went to the polls, smashing the abstention rate, not to ‘save the regime from fascism,’ as some still think, but to break the Left’s stranglehold over Portuguese political culture.
And in a grotesque and dislocated revival of what was once tragic—for others, for us, for the country—some of those who, 50 years ago (on September 28, 1974 and March 11, 1975), called for the arrest and slaughter of the ‘fascists’ are once again atavistically calling on the ‘anti-fascists’ to be vigilant. It is plainly difficult for the Left—which, after half a century out of power, has since 1975 enjoyed nothing but power— to accept the idea that the people, the voters on whose behalf it has become accustomed to speaking, can be against it. The far-left parties—Bloco de Esquerda, PCP, Livre and the animalist PAN—together didn’t reach 13% of the popular vote and managed to win just 14 deputies out of 230; the Socialists fell short of 30%, winning them a mere 80 deputies. For the first time in Parliament, the Left finds itself in a minority, facing down a more numerous coalition made up of the centre Right, the liberal Right, and the national-conservative and popular Right.
It is precisely the rise of this new Right that most worries the system and its media spokespeople. The attitudes and explanations differ according to ideological commitment. The far-Left often downplays the election results of the ‘far-Right,’ while at other times adopting an apocalyptic vision, talking about the threat of Chega as if it were Hitler’s Machtergreifung, advising the Democrats, with a mournful air, to be vigilant. The more chic, affluent liberal Left, well-represented by figures like Hilary Clinton, tends to refer to the Chega vote as a phenomenon of the great unwashed masses, the ‘deplorables,’ the marginalised, the uneducated, too easily deceived by populist, ‘hard-Right’ propaganda. This is more or less the version that most in the media recycle, perhaps unaware that they are, in 2024, rehearsing the arguments and tropes of the most reactionary of reactionary opponents to universal suffrage.
Some of the arguments, however, are becoming quite ridiculous, such as the accusations of racism and xenophobia. This despite the fact that Chega is the only party whose elected members include two Portuguese of African origin and one Portuguese-Brazilian.
The truth is that, in Portugal, after half a century of almost permanent political domination by the Left, the country is in a bad way, there are huge pockets of poverty, social services don’t work and the corruption, mediocrity, and detachment from reality of most of the political class is clear for all to see.
Portugal remains a European country. And if in the past it was inevitably influenced by the enthusiasms of an ascendant European Left, it is now caught up in the continental resurgence of national and identity-based conservative values.
Meanwhile, the March elections opened up a serious problem of ungovernability. Luís Montenegro, the leader of the PSD and the winning AD-Aliança Democrática—in an attempt to resurrect the 1979-1980 alliance to capitalise on the centre Right again, bringing together the parties of Sá Carneiro’s historic anti-Left coalition—has repeatedly, publicly, and expressly ruled out forming any kind of governing coalition with Chega.
However, without Chega, the AD, with around 80 elected MPs, falls far short of the parliamentary majority of 116 out of 230, even if it allies itself with the Liberal Initiative, which elected 8 MPs. A stable majority against the Left can only be achieved with the support of 50 Chega MPs.
The alternative to this alliance—for which, of course, the Chega leader is asking for a quid pro quo, although he has not demanded seats in the government—is for the PSD to move closer to the Socialist Party and form a kind of ‘anti-fascist front’ or Central Bloc. But that would only boost the unstoppable growth of the national and identitarian Right.
Luís Montenegro has found himself in a tragic dilemma or facing—to his mind at least—a diabolical alternative. And it doesn’t seem easy to get out of it. He is not likely to be rescued by any magnanimity on the part of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who, despite his arbitration duties, has been making bitter comments against the danger of the ‘extreme Right.’ Sooner or later, the spooked establishment will have to face the reality that, for the time being, there can be no solution to the current deadlock that does not include Chega and its 1.169 million voters in the arc of power.
https://medforth.biz/portugal-election-chega-challenges-establishment-parties/
NHS England to Still Provide Cross-Sex Hormones to Teens Despite Banning Puberty Blockers
Children as young as 16 years old will still be provided with cross-sex hormones by England’s National Health Service despite announcing a ban on puberty-blocking drugs for children.
Under new guidance from NHS England, gender-affirming hormones (GAH) will be made available to “young people with continuing gender incongruence [or] gender dysphoria from around their 16th birthday”.
The life-altering drugs will be offered under the Children and Young People Gender Service despite the health service announcing last week the ban on giving children under the age of 18 puberty blockers unless they are a part of a clinical trial.
According to The Telegraph, the guidance states that NHS staff “ensure that the individual understands that there is limited clinical evidence on the effects and harms of prescribing GAH treatment below their 16th birthday; and also that GAH treatment is a significant decision with long term indications”.
The move was criticised by former Health Minister Jackie Doyle-Price, who said: “This kind of hormone treatment causes permanent loss of sexual function. It should never be administered to children for the purposes of gender reassignment.
“There are brave voices who have spoken openly about the permanent effects of cross-sex hormones. Their experience is enough to ban these treatments for anyone before the age of majority.
“No child can give informed consent to this treatment.”
The move from the state-owned health service comes ahead of the publication of an independent review from Dr Hilary Cass, which, based on previous releases, is expected to be deeply critical of medical practices surrounding transgenderism in the UK.
A previous report from Cass precipitated the decision to close down the Tavistock gender identity clinic, which has served as the UK’s main facility providing so-called gender transition therapy for children. NHS said that Tavistock will be closed down this year, after the review found that the clinic was “not safe” for children.
Yet, although the doors of Tavistock are set to be closed, the NHS has decided to continue transgender treatements for children at regional centres throughout the country. As opposed to Tavistock, the regional centres will be run by doctors rather than therapists and will be instructed to consider the impact of such treatments on other than on the mental health of the child.
Irish journalist and member of the women’s rights group Sex Matters, Helen Joyce commented: “This disturbing development demonstrates that winning back evidence-based medicine is going to be a fight.
“One of the most worrying aspects is that children who are self-harming or experiencing psychotic episodes or drug addiction will still be eligible for hormone treatment.
“The NHS must urgently rethink before any more children are harmed by medical practices that are driven by ideology rather than evidence of clinical benefit.”
An NHS England spokesman said: “This update of the national clinical policy for gender-affirming hormones as an option for young people around 16 with continuing gender incongruence or gender dysphoria continues to be subject to strict eligibility and readiness, and now includes assessment by a national specialist multi-disciplinary team to ensure clinical consensus is reached before life-changing medical treatment is initiated.”
Princess Catherine, cancer, and the effects on the family
By Lynne Lechter
You are a woman, in your early forties, with young children whom you adore. You have a loving husband, supportive parents, and admiring in-laws.
Out of the blue, you are diagnosed with cancer. Surgery is performed, followed by chemotherapy, and perhaps radiation.
The treatment is gruelling. After the trauma to the body of invasive surgery, and with scant time for recovery, chemotherapy commences. It’s a bitch.
Doses of chemotherapy are typically followed by nausea, vomiting, weakness, exhaustion, and weight loss. For women, hair loss is the most devastating aftereffect. Most resort to wigs, which are worn throughout the treatment and until one’s own hair is restored, if ever. If the cancer progresses, many trips to the hospital are necessary, and more invasive methods of pain control required.
Atop a bald scalp, the netting that molds the hair of the wig can be very irritating. Expensive wigs have silk netting that are non-irritating; less expensive ones do not. Of course, in this case money is no object.
But, privacy is. Many individuals, when faced with a diagnosis of cancer, do not want anyone to know. They fear being stigmatized, labelled as a victim, and someone not in full control
of their destiny. Moreover, they don’t want to be the recipient of pitying looks, constantly questioned regarding how one is feeling, treated as an invalid, gossiped about regarding one’s life expectancy, and how long it will be until one is replaced.
Those are the fears of a private citizen. Can anyone imagine how one copes, as Princess Kate has been forced to, while living in the goldfish bowl of the British royal family, where her every step is photographed and detailed?
It is impossible to imagine the pain of hearing the howling, greedy, crowd bruiting about rumors of infidelity, body doubles, and even death, when one is actually fighting for one’s life with a loyal, loving spouse fighting with you.
Think about undergoing the horrors of chemotherapy, while pictures of a faux mistress are splashed across the globe, and knowing that your children will be taunted by those pictures as they fear for their mother’s life.
Recent television commercials in the United States tout that if one is treated at a certain hospital for cancer, one is not alone. That is more so true in families. Parents, siblings, spouses, and children are all deeply affected and forever changed.
The human condition mandates that each of us experiences tragic events. Most don’t have to deal with them in public. Now that the gory details have been disclosed, let’s pray for Princess Kate’s speedy recovery, and that the public will allow her to be treated and to heal in private, and with dignity.
(The author was a witness to the ravages of the disease on an adored family member who was so afflicted until her death).
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/regarding_effects_of_cancer_and_the_family.html
Transgender Activists Attempt To Dox One Of Author J.K. Rowling’s Children, Target Innocent Mother Instead
J.K. Rowling has long been a target of extreme hate and frequent death threats from trans activists and the woke mob for her unwavering belief that men cannot become women.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on the transgender community and their allies directing their rage against Rowling for the sin of expressing her personal opinions on transgender issues.
She took a public stand supporting researcher Maya Forstater after Forstater was let go from her job for making comments labeled as “transphobic.” Social Justice Warriors branded Rowling a “TERF,” which stands for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist,” for doing so.
She triggered the SJWs again for daring to “misgender” the person behind a Twitter account allegedly tied to Luis Morales, also known as Synthia China Blast, convicted of murdering a 13-year-old child in a racist gang attack.
The latest abuse against her comes from a Harry Potter fan account that attempted to dox one of her children.
Except it wasn’t one of her children. It was an innocent mother with young children and no affiliation with Rowling.
