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  Coffee House Brendan O’Neill The word 'woman' is being erased from public life 23 Oct 2017, 12:00am SHARE I f  If  someone had told you 10 years ago that it would soon become tantamount to a speechcrime to say ‘Men cannot get pregnant’, you would have thought them mad. That would be like punishing someone for saying, ‘Humans need oxygen to survive’. And yet here we are, in 2017, where PC has spun so violently out of control, and the cult of gender-neutrality has become so unwieldy, that one of the most controversial things you can say these days is: ‘Only women can get pregnant.’ Apparently that’s offensive to transmen (women who identify as men). ‘Men can get pregnant, too’, trans activists cry. Which strikes me as a real-life version of ‘2 + 2 = 5’. It isn’t only the usual suspects who want us to stop treating pregnancy as a woman thing. Yesterday the   Sunday Times   reported that in its submission on proposed amendments to the International Covenant on Civ...

  Doctor arrested for alleged sex assault on child patient An NHS hospital doctor has been arrested on suspicion of child sexual assault, and police have begun a review of hundreds of patient records. Concerns were first raised about the 34-year-old almost four years ago. He was allowed to return to work at the Royal Stoke University Hospital after a police inquiry. It is understood two complaints include the examination of two girls aged seven and 15 at the Stoke hospital. The alarm was raised while the doctor was working at Russells Hall Hospital in Dudley in 2021. He was excluded from the hospital trust in March and in October the General Medical Council suspended him. The doctor was arrested in December. Detectives have identified nine potential child victims. Staffordshire police have launched Operation Anzu  with the NHS, a major incident review that will look at the doctor’s work at both hospitals. Hundreds of files, including those of vulnerable adults, are being revie...

  Trans group ATH ‘condones punching feminists’ Campaigners who have the ear of MPs defend an activist who attacked a 60-year-old James Gillespie Sunday September 24 2017 , 12.01am, The Sunday Times A transgender campaign group that gave evidence to an influential parliamentary committee has publicly supported violence against women. Members of Action for Trans Health (ATH) have issued a series of incendiary statements on social media since its supporters were involved in an attack on a 60-year-old woman in London’s Hyde Park on September 13. The victim, Maria MacLachlan, suffered bruising after being punched by an activist widely identified on social media as Tara Flik Wood, 28, a courier who lives in London. MacLachlan was with a group of feminists who were planning to hold a meeting about gender identity. Unlike MacLachlan and her group, ATH believes that anyone who self-identifies as a woman — without having undergone transition surgery — should be allowed to use  women-o...

  Sue Fish: ‘It’s not just the odd deviant. There is a toxic culture of sexism in policing’ Forces need to recruit officers with empathy and compassion, a former chief constable tells Fiona Hamilton Sue Fish fears that the hatred of ethnic minorities and expressions of violent misogyny are worse than when she joined the police force in the mid-1980s ANDREW FOX FOR THE TIMES Fiona Hamilton , Crime Editor Saturday February 05 2022, 12.01am, The Times S ue Fish vividly remembers the “bad old days” when she joined the police in the mid-1980s. She recalls the initiation ceremony in which young female constables had their skirts torn down so their buttocks could be imprinted with the date stamp used for reports. The desk sergeant rushing out females for foot patrol when it rained so that male officers could look at their breasts through their soaked white shirts. The officers known for beating their wives who got away with it because “as long as it didn’t affect you at work and you were ...