The Daily Mirror:

OAP wife who repeatedly slashed husband with Samurai sword ‘had no choice’

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, repeated slashed husband Andrew, 69, to death with the Samuari sword she’d bought in the 1980s at their 15th floor Brighton flat.

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Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, had been deemed “unfit to plead” to the murder of her husband Andrew, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Brighton, on May 27 last year. She appeared in front of a jury at Lewes Crown Court for a trial of the act which decides if someone physically committed a crime, rather than their intent.

The BBC:

Transgender woman, 71, killed partner, jury finds

A jury has found that a transgender woman killed her partner.

This is a very very very important point.

I've been told so many times that my position is ignorant because I don't have a degree in gender studies. But I don't have a qualification in homeopathy either – because it's nonsense. Training people in nonsense belief systems just makes them more stupid and more wrong.

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) July 26, 2025

You have to have a degree in Bullshit Studies before you can say that Bullshit Studies is bullshit.

Nah. An ideology whose foundation is an absurd lie can be tossed in the Bullshit Bin without further ado.… Read the rest

Helen Webberley is letting us know how much contempt she has for women.

I do wonder if it’s the same ladies, clutching and pulling at their skirt hems, fingers twisting anxiously, tiny giggles behind their glasses, holding out hope that a trans woman might be humiliated publicly for the crime of… getting changed at work.

I can hear them whispering… https://t.co/XXtKegrwmO

— Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) (@HelenWebberley) July 26, 2025

I tell you what, I wouldn’t want to be alone in a room with her. That’s some scary ragey contempt right there.… Read the rest

The Scotsman:

A war of words over pronouns broke out at the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and trans doctor Beth Upton.

That is, male doctor “Beth” Upton who identifies as female. The journalistic surrender makes it impossible for reporters to write clearly and truthfully about this subject.

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham was accused by NHS Fife’s legal team of being “offensive” by referring to Dr Upton as a man and told she must use “appropriate language”.

But the fact that he is a man playacting being a woman is at the core of the whole tribunal. It’s just ludicrous to try to force opposing counsel to prop up the very lie that the tribunal is … Read the rest

Women must not have jobs, because they have to have babies so what are we all supposed to do while they have those babies???

A prominent retired surgeon has claimed too many women are doing medical degrees, which is causing problems for the NHS as “women have got to have babies” and many end up working part-time.

Dr Meirion Thomas, a former professor of surgical oncology at Imperial College, said the gender balance has swung too far in favour of female medical students.

Asked what was wrong with having more female doctors in training, Dr Thomas told Times Radio “the fact of life is that women have got to have babies”.

Ok, so then they take … Read the rest

Boswell Today reports:

At the centre of today’s testimony was a simple, disquieting question: could the notes that formed the basis of allegations against Sandie Peggie have ever existed as described? The tribunal heard from two digital forensic experts – Peter Donaldson and Jim Borwick – who, despite differing styles, reached a chilling consensus: the data doesn’t add up.

Peter Donaldson was the first to fold. Pressed on the chronological ordering of Google Keep notes – particularly a now-infamous “weird incident” entry from August – he conceded he could not confirm that the note appeared in the position it did by creation date. Screenshots showed one thing; Google metadata suggested another. Donaldson couldn’t verify which notes were original or

The Telegraph raises an eyebrow at the “safe with me” campaign.

A BBC presenter has provoked a row over a scheme to help transgender people access lavatories in schools. Dr Ronx Ikharia, a “black, queer, transmasculine, non-binary” medical doctor who has hosted children’s shows for the BBC, is behind the new “trans allyship” scheme.

It will distribute bright yellow “trans allies” badges to schools which state “Safe With Me”. Those wearing the badges will be expected to help “accompany trans+ people to their preferred facilities if asked”.

In other words, “those wearing the badges” will be children who will be expected to help protect “trans+ people” to use the wrong toilets. The doctor’s fun scheme is to tell children… Read the rest

The Herald on today in court:

A number of rows erupted between the legal team’s during Thursday’s hearing.

The first occurred after Ms Russell KC objected to Dr Upton being referred to as “he” by Ms Cunningham. The NHS Fife lawyer argued that it had caused the witness, Ms Glancey, to use the term “he” in her evidence, quickly following it up with “sorry, she”.

Ms Cunningham has consistently referred to Dr Upton using he/him pronouns throughout this whole tribunal.

It’s still so bizarre to see grown-up people in a courtroom demanding that everyone lie about what sex people are. Upton is a he. Furthermore, that’s what the case is about. It’s both absurd and outrageous that Team Upton … Read the rest

Circle circle circle

Using male pronouns to refer to a transgender doctor who used a hospital’s female changing room is “offensive”, a tribunal heard.

Stupid Telegraph left out the “male” part, thus making its own lede confusing instead of informative. The “transgender doctor” is a male transgender doctor. The Telegraph reports on the brutally enforced taboo on calling males males by refusing to call a male a male. Nice going.

Jane Russell KC, Dr Beth Upton’s lawyer, argued that nurse Sandie Peggie’s legal team were “confusing” those giving evidence in the tribunal by referring to the doctor as “he” and “him”.

Ms Russell claimed the witnesses in the case, which centres on the medic’s use of a women’s hospital changing

So it turns out it was a systematic stich up. Boswell Today:

It began with an email. On 29 December 2023, just hours after a fraught exchange in the women’s changing room, Dr. Kate Searle sent a message to every consultant in the Emergency Department. Sandie Peggie, the nurse who had asked Dr. Beth Upton why he was changing clothes in a female-only space, was portrayed in that email as the aggressor. Searle thanked DU for his “composure” and suggested that other, unspecified incidents involving Peggie existed. No such incidents had ever been formally recorded.

Today at the tribunal, cross-examination dismantled the scaffolding on which this claim was built. Naomi Cunningham methodically unpicked the story of a so-called “log”

Dennis absolutely nails it.

1/ The Peggie tribunal is an important moment in isolating the bourgeoise character of gender madness. This came from the ivory towers of Berkeley via well fed otherwise unemployable DEI drones and cheered on by the equally unemployable gendocrats of Stonewall.

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) July 23, 2025

4/ And this is the very much the story of this tribunal. A balance of poverty. On the one hand a 30 year unblemished record nurse impoverished of a much needed space. On the other a middle class transvestite impoverished of a target to visit his symbiotic need for offence on.

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) July 23, 2025

8/ You only get to pretend facts are

There’s visibility and then there’s visibility.

A 'non-binary' BBC presenter has launched a project in which she distributes badges, saying 'Safe With Me', in schools, for children to wear in public places. They will signify to any 'trans people' nearby that the child will escort them to a toilethttps://t.co/p3r5Esz8bV

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) July 24, 2025

What a good idea: training children to “escort” adults to toilets for the opposite sex.

SW Londoner has the exciting details.

A BBC TV presenter has launched a new campaign calling on UK workplaces and schools to make visible commitments to trans inclusion.

Dr Ronx Ikharia’s ‘Safe With Me’ initiative invites allies to wear a yellow badge with bold black text, signalling to

JKR nails it.

The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace.

‘Diversity officer’ Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn’t bother consulting the 1992 regulations guaranteeing single-sex spaces when she told a trans-identified male, Dr Beth Upton, to use the female changing room at the hospital where he was working. Bumba justified this decision with comments that I assume sounded really clever and convincing, inside her own head.

‘I don’t know anything about Beth’s body. I didn’t at the time. I don’t now. I don’t need to know. But it

It was all her fault.

A veteran nurse was viewed as “misbehaving” for refusing to share a female changing room with a transgender doctor, her lawyer has claimed in a landmark tribunal.

Dr Kate Searle, an A&E consultant, recalled being told about two occasions when Sandie Peggie left the women’s changing facilities at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, when Dr Beth Upton entered, causing the doctor to feel “uncomfortable”.

Isn’t that classic? Man bounces into women’s changing facility and it’s the woman who leaves who is causing discomfort. Classic classic classic. “You bitch, your nose hurt my hand when I punched it.”

She said that Peggie could have been reported to her manager, but Upton, who is biologically male but identifies

The tribunal about an hour ago:

[NC is Naomi Cunningham; KS is Kate Searle, the doctor who helped Upton make a big stink; Pete is the star of a thought experiment about women telling an obvious man to get out of their space]

NC – SP tried to reason, he says asked about chromasomes, we say not, but not offensive
KS – yes it is invasive and intimidating
NC – it's a polite way of discussing fact of body not mentioning genitals. You might think it's more polite
JR – object, DU is not obviously a man

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) July 23, 2025

NC – sandie said nothing about a rapist, she said situation in the prison
KS –

It’s about god damn time.

U.S. Olympic Officials Bar Transgender Women From Women’s Competitions

The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its eligibility rules on Monday to bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports, and now will comply with President Trump’s executive order on the issue, according to a post on the organization’s website.

The new policy, expressed in a short, vaguely worded paragraph, is tucked under the category of “USOPC Athlete Safety Policy” on the site, and does not include details of how the ban will work.

How did the non-ban work? How did the ban work before trans ideology came along and shot holes in everything? What “details” do you need of how men … Read the rest

Big Trans is Watching You.

The Australian Greens’ new ­leader, Larissa Waters, is resisting calls to intervene in the widening row over the minority party’s ­embrace of transgender rights and halt a purge of members who don’t toe the line.

The expulsion of Greens co-founder Drew Hutton has brought to a dramatic head tensions around the alleged hounding of those who question the party’s pro-trans platform.

It’s not all that alleged when we can see it happening in real time.

Mr Hutton said upwards of 30 former Greens members had reached out to him about being expelled for challenging the party’s position on gender. Most were women. Many more quit after being subjected to harassment for voicing reservations about

A poignant bit of the testimony:

Asked why she told colleagues before Christmas Eve that she would speak to Dr Upton directly, Ms Peggie said: “No one appeared willing to speak to Beth on behalf of myself or my colleagues.

“I hoped that by speaking to him personally, he might be able to realise he was making us feel uncomfortable by changing in a female changing area, and the reason why, in the hope he would understand and change elsewhere.”

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She said the incident lasted just two minutes and that she hoped the conversation might help Dr Upton understand.

Asked why she didn’t report the matter, Ms Peggie said: “I was hopeful that Beth would accept my concerns and

Thank fuck some of us know the basics.

Srsly. A medical doctor, under oath, saying what sex babies are is a “decision” and that she’s not an expert.… Read the rest

From the Upton/Peggie hearing today:

Dr Searle says she first met Dr Upton in August 2023 and is her “educational and clinical supervisor”. She says she is the main point of contact for junior and resident doctors in her line of management and to support career progression and wellbeing support. She says she has known Ms Peggie since she started working at the emergency department at Victoria Hospital.

Dr Searle says she was not aware that Ms Peggie held gender critical views before the incident on Christmas Eve 2023 or any issues with these views.

That is…Dr Searle says she was not aware that Ms Peggie knew the difference between women and men before Christmas Eve 2023.

Wouldn’t you … Read the rest