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My desperate attempts to help my 'trans' daughter would be illegal under Labour's plans
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‘My desperate attempts to help my ‘trans’ daughter would be illegal under Labour’s plans’
Isabel* is a happy 17-year-old in the middle of A-level studies. But not so long ago, while attending the type of upper-middle-class school that typically indulges gender ideology, she had decided she was really a boy. Her mother, Maria*, who is 51 and works in education, did not go along with this.
The rank hypocrisy of Russell Brand’s left-wing defenders
Women on the political left have spent donkey’s years arguing that sexism and inequality in relation to men cannot be postponed until after the ‘revolution’. In part, it was men and their macho quest for class war that enabled Russell Brand to operate in plain sight for so long. We all knew who Brand was, because he told us. Gross misogyny and an obvious messiah complex notwithstanding, the left was quite prepared to treat him as a useful idiot in a bid to lure disaffected young voters.
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Jerusha has relatives who are married to Warren Jeffs, subject of the Netflix series, Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey, currently serving a life sentence in a Texan jail for sexual offences against children. Jeffs was the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult which he moved from Salt Lake City, to the Utah-Arizona border in 1998. Here is a brief extract from our interview, which you can listen to in full, above.
Are the Sydney Swan 5 Guilty of Group Sexual Assault?
The Sydney Swans scandal continues to develop, and the details are making it no more palatable than it was when the story first broke. Five players were suspended for the season for breaking the club’s own rules: they stayed out extremely late drinking after a win, continued drinking back at their hotel, then invited women to their rooms. The club has confirmed that the Australian Football League (AFL) supports its decision.
What conversion 'therapy' really is. I should know - I underwent it myself.
I wrote this piece shortly after returning from Colorado. I am republishing here in an attempt to educate those that do not appreciate that ‘trans conversion practices’ simply means concerned parents protecting their children, or talking therapies to help those that suffer from the mental illness of believing they are trapped in the wrong body. It is the polar opposite of actual conversion practices/ therapy. The room where I am sitting is cosy, warm and friendly.
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In this world exclusive, I hear all about Dame Katy’s origin story; how she founded the “Chairs for Trans”movement; and where she is in her row with JK Rowling
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In this world exclusive, I hear all about Dame Katy’s origin story; how she founded the “Chair for Trans”movement; and where she is in her row with JK Rowling
How transactivism captured therapy Clinicians are afraid to speak out
(Luis Soto/Getty) PoliticsSocietytherapyTransactivismUK Prefer us on Google “The gender capture is making a mockery of our profession,” says Lianne Smith*, an experienced clinical psychologist who works with children. “We save lives — I save lives. This approach is destroying lives.” Smith is in no doubt about the damage she believes is being done within — and by — her profession. Psychology should be a lifeline for youngsters struggling with their mental health.
The Degenerate Monster that is Roxy ‘Tess’ Tickle
A demonstration in London this summer in support of Sall Grover Leave a comment This week, I was horrified to see that the tranocity himself has responded to my posting an article about JK Rowling, written by the marvelous Jo Bartosch, saying something stupid (of course). I responded, and he came back, asking if I was “threatening” him. I absolutely was. Here is the beg…
Britain Wants to Ban Conversion Therapy. But What Exactly Are We Banning?
Britain wants to ban conversion therapy. But what exactly are we banning? I am a lesbian who medically transitioned. I have witnessed the cruelty of conversion therapy and lived with the consequences of questions never asked. On 21 October, I will take those questions to the British Parliament. Say the words conversion therapy in a crowded room and watch what happens. Fists rise. Heads nod. People who disagree about virtually everything suddenly find themselves united. BAN IT! And they should.
Labour’s Lunatic Fringe
Last week, I was sent the press release (see below), plus an audio recording of a Labour Party Conference fringe meeting (done covertly - but there had been no warning by the Chair or any of the panelists that attendees were forbidden to record). • Rachel Taylor MP, a member of the Women and Equalities Committee, gives ordinary parental letter as example of conduct that should be prohibited by Government’s new ‘conversion practices’ Bill.
The British grannies going to Turkey for sex Holidaymakers are exploiting foreign men
“Shirley Valentine” fed British viewers a winning fantasy. (Shirley Valentine/Paramount Pictures). “I love beautiful young women like you.” I had been in the bar for no longer than it took to order a drink before a youthful waiter approached me and turned on the charm. It’s a steamy evening in downtown Marmaris, a popular resort town in southwest Turkey. The bar is packed with women young and old, mainly from the UK.
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Posturing, pretence, and political expediency. Welcome to the world of Caroline Lucas Lucas, Party Conference, 2025 The day after Polanski failed to win a seat in parliament, ‘Queen’ Caroline Lucas, as she is known within the party, said on Newsnight that it had been a mistake for him to miss the vote on whether to adopt the highly divisive ‘Zionism is Racism’ policy.
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1× Preview 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -8:11 -8:11 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Green Party Conference Part Two: Free speech, unless you’re a feminist Polanski preaches free speech while feminists are forced out. More from inside the Green Party Conference.
The evangelist who wants to ban gay marriage
This article is taken from the June 2026 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Find our subscription offers here. Katy Faust is an American Christian evangelist who campaigns to repeal equal marriage across the United States. I met her at a conference in London last month and as we gave each other a hug and exchanged greetings like old friends, we received side-eye from lesbians, feminists and gay men on the one hand, and religious conservatives on the other.
How the Omni-Cause Swallowed Amnesty International
In July, Amnesty International UK published a report called “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK.” Written by Chiara Capraro, Amnesty’s gender justice director, the document prompted complaints from the organizations it had labelled “anti-rights,” among them feminist, lesbian, and gay groups (including the Lesbian Project, which I co-founded with Kathleen Stock) as well as a number of other bona fide human rights organizations.
There is no coming back for the Green Party
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1× Preview 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -17:01 -17:01 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. I Got a Press Pass to the Green Party Conference. So I Went. What I heard and who I met during an unexpected day inside the Greens’ Brighton conference. On Friday, I attended the Green Party Conference. I had applied for press accreditation some weeks ago, not expecting for a minute to be issued with one. But I was.
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Out in December - sign up to this Substack for further updates Produced by Samantha Smith, researched by Ashana Prijs Reeves, illustrated by Nicole Jones. Narrated by the feminist human rights lawyer Harriet Wistrich, founder of the Centre for Women’s Justice, and author of Sister in Law: Fighting for justice in a system designed by men, and me, Julie Bindel, investigative journalist.
Lesbian Fragility, Then and Now
A bizarre kerfuffle at a lesbian watering hole in Massachusetts took over the internet last week. As most readers will know by now, the Last Ditch bar had formerly enforced a full-time mandatory-mask policy. All hell broke loose when the owner announced recently that, in an effort to stay afloat financially, she would be admitting non-masked customers on Saturday nights.
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Emine Ibrahim’s verbatim speech, given at a Green Party-led London council chamber last week I want to speak tonight about the importance of protecting single-sex provision for women and girls experiencing violence and abuse. For me, this isn’t an abstract policy debate. It is personal. I came to Haringey as a little girl in 1986 with my mum and my sister, fleeing domestic violence.
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Children were given puberty blockers for years despite a desperately weak evidence base. Now Britain is running a clinical trial in a claimed attempt to find out what these drugs actually do. This is an outrage. In 2024, I set out to investigate one of the great medical scandals of our time. Puberty is difficult. Growing into an adult body can be frighten…
Women as Microwaves: Womb Trafficking and Brokering Babies
Surrogacy House, Gujarat, India. The women are required to live, in one room, throughout the pregnancy Why do so many people believe that anyone has the ‘right’ to have their own biological child? I was once asked, in the course of a live debate on surrogacy: “A gay male couple, who would make wonderful parents, are desperate to have their own child. I love being pregnant and have offered to carry their baby.
Robin Morgan obituary Original
The poet, novelist and political theorist Robin Morgan, who has died aged 85, was a key figure of second-wave feminism. From 1976, she was a contributing editor of the influential Ms magazine, founded by her friend and close collaborator Gloria Steinem, and served as its editor in chief from 1989 until 1994.
Queers for Palestine? Chickens for Colonel Sanders? The Blind Solidarity of the Blue Fringe Brigade
Across most of the Muslim world, being gay is not a picnic. In Afghanistan, the Taliban imposes the death penalty on anyone convicted of samesex relations, including public stonings. Saudi Arabia and Iran have also executed large numbers of gay people in recent years, including by public stoning - while several other countries, among them tourist favourites such as Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, all keep the death penalty for homosexuality on their statute books.
The Gloria Steinem I knew She rejected tick-box feminism
Steinem oozed confidence. (Barbara Alper/Getty) ClintonFeminismGloria SteinemPhilosophyTrans activism Prefer us on Google I first met Gloria Steinem at the Café des Artistes in October 1997. That bohemian spot in Lower Manhattan was the feminist writer Andrea Dworkin’s favorite meeting place. She once told me that she often held “feminist mafia” summits in its backroom.
Trans in 2002 - yes, almost a quarter century ago
*I can’t post the link to the doc from my archive, as it is strictly copyrighted to me. But I’m sure you will get the drift of it, from the reviews below. What was happening in 2002, when this series was screened? It was right on the cusp between the wider public ‘understanding’ of transsexualism, and the modern-day horror story of gender ideology. Things were shifting in law: that same year, a landmark ruling in the European Court of Human Rights (EHRC) allowed a same-sex couple to marry.
Shots in the dark: Fatal Love, by Louisa Treger, reviewed
A Fatal Love Bloomsbury, pp.240, 18.99 Ruth Ellis was, as everyone knows, the last woman in Britain to be hanged – her case a catalyst for the abolition of the death penalty. But is the story we are all so familiar with the whole one? Louisa Treger, a seasoned teller of tales of extraordinary women, brings Ellis to life in a new novel. A Fatal Love presents us with a remarkable woman who committed a remarkable crime.
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Linda, with her four children, celebrating the Millennium Cat is the eldest of four children born to Linda and Glyn Razzell. “Mum had mental health problems, so the immediate assumption was that she had run away, and left the children. But we all knew he was violent”, she says. “He had been acquitted twice of attacking her… me, and then my brother and sister had witnessed it.” In March 2002, just weeks before she disappeared, Razzell had been acquitted of the unlawful wounding of Linda.
The Trade in Breast Milk
Women waiting their turn to be milked I wrote this in 2017, and have spoken about it recently at a feminist conference (see link to film of my panel session below). I was surprised that many in attendance were shocked that this happens.
Edwina Currie’s idea for a migrant brothel is grotesque
Edwina Currie’s idea for a migrant brothel is grotesque Fri, August 14, 2026 at 8:35 AM EDT Edwina Currie has made a ridiculous contribution to an important debate - Andrew Fox Edwina Currie, the former Conservative minister, suggested this week that a brothel should be opened near a rural English village in which over 1,200 young male asylum seekers are expected to be accommodated.
The Sex Doll Market Is Booming
On May 5, 2026, in Gwangju, South Korea, a twenty-three-year-old man named Jang Yoon-gi stalked, sexually assaulted, and brutally murdered Lee Chae-won, a seventeen-year-old female high school student. During the subsequent investigation, police discovered two “real dolls”—hyperrealistic life-sized sex dolls—in the perpetrator’s apartment. Both dolls had been mutilated: their necks and breasts slashed by sharp weapons.
"Prostitution Must Fall"
Here is the link to my 2022 interview on here, with Mickey, recorded in Ireland Mickey Meji died today. Her loss is monumental. A black South African feminist, sex trade abolitionist and human rights campaigner, Mickey was caught up in the brutal system of prostitution in South Africa for almost a decade.
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Brighton Pride (where else?) I am reposting this piece from three months ago, primarily because of the kerfuffle about a guest on GB News said that the LGBTQ ‘Pride’ nonsense celebrates ‘bizarre and unhealthy kinks’. She’s right - it does The holy month of Pride is upon us once more. For the next few weeks, you won't be able to visit a supermarket, order a takeaway coffee or board a bus in many cities without being confronted by that lurid rainbow flag.
My father killed my mother – he must not be let out this week
Catherine Razzell is telling me about the day her beloved mother, Linda Razzell, disappeared in March 2002. "I was 14," she says. "She didn't turn up to pick the younger kids up from school, and that was it. We never saw her again." Cat, as she is known, is the eldest of four children born to Linda and Glyn Razzell. "Mum had mental health problems, so the immediate assumption was that she had run away, and left the children. But we all knew he was violent," she says, when we speak over Zoom.
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First published on 8th May, 2008 Should only those born on the Greek island of Lesbos be allowed to call themselves lesbian? Yes, say some islanders embarrassed by the word’s more common usage. Don’t be ridiculous, say the lesbian tourists - and the locals who welcome them. Arriving at the tiny airport of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, I walk past a sign advertising “Lesbian wine”. I’m on my way to Eressos, a small Greek village where, I am told, lesbian tourists are 10 a penny.
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A rare audio interview with Dame Katy (transcript below) in which she bares ALL We’re backstage at DKD’s one womxn show, in the Barnsley British Region for injured and infirm trans womxn veterans Julie – it’s you! They said there was a lady wanting to see me.
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Dame Katy Denise I am sharing this post from last year, for those that may have missed it. Dame Katy is a national treasure, and deserved to be heard, loud and clear! Leave a comment “A triumphant tale of transformation from a highly esteemed philanthropist, coworker, boss, and my personal hero” Lambrini Lil, AKA JK Rowling (who has, to date, sold fewer books than Dame Katy) Thank you to Joe Fattorini - he knows why!
Does the force fear feminists? Rachel Fletcher posed no danger to colleagues
(Credit: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty) british policeDEIFeminismMisogynyTransphobia Prefer us on Google In February, Detective Constable Rachel Fletcher helped secure the conviction of the predatory pedophile Ross Jackson, who was jailed for 23 years for a catalog of child sexual abuse offenses. What no one outside court that day knew was that Fletcher had already been removed from public-facing duties as she was herself under investigation for gross misconduct.
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Dame Katy in Lidl, browsing the American Tan tights I am reposting this iconic interview, first published last year, to celebrate Dame Katy’s return!!!! Our top feminist heroine has been, let’s say, otherwise disposed this past few months.
Has London Trans Pride been misrepresented by TERFs?
Just a self-castrated man, and a proud sex offender, kidnapper, and attempted murderer, supporting Tits 4 Palestine Minutes before he threatened to cut my throat, this horror was in my face, taking dozens of photographs My absolute favourite (a bit of light relief to end on)
Trans Pride: The gift that keeps on giving
A man, on the Trans Pride clown show, threatening to cut the throats of me and Michael Kerr, a detransitioner, who is living proof of the harm of gender ideology and ‘medicine’ You can read my report, for the Telegraph, here (gift token).
There’s nothing to celebrate about the extremism of trans Pride
This weekend I went along to observe the Trans+ Pride event in London. As a lifelong feminist with more than 20 years' experience campaigning against gender ideology I was well aware of the misogyny inherent to this movement – as well as the risks it poses to women and children. I was with Michael Kerr, who spent seven years living as Caitlin before detransitioning last year, and is now seen as an enemy of the trans movement.
There’s nothing to celebrate about the extremism of trans pride
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Trans Shame. What the BBC failed to tell you about the disgraceful parade in London
One of the ‘be kind’ crew (note my side eye - that’s me in the orange shirt) Well, what a day! I wrote up my thoughts on it all for the Telegraph newspaper (will post link on here when it’s out) but for now, here’s a particularly strange and unnerving event that happened just after I arrived, with the lovely Michael Kerr and Mr Menno, at the meeting point. Vivienne Taylor, who I wrote about here, approached me on Saturday.
Can Men Breastfeed Babies?
Buckley, with his wife, who is the ACTUAL mother of his child Breastfeeding is freaky. Not the sucking bit.… No, it’s because when my baby attached to my breast, there was an incredible chemical cascade that ran through my entire body like lightning… (And yeah, I kind of got off on it. Don’t judge.) The above is from an article published 2017 in Seattle-based ‘queer’ magazine The Stranger, under the pseudonym Dana Fried. It was written by an Australian trans-identified man.
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You can read the interview I did with Intel Lady, published in the Critic, November 2025 issue, below: I am speaking to my favourite satirist, Jenny Stanton, on Zoom, and she is trying to turn off her backdrop. Otherwise known as Intel Lady, Stanton’s best known parody is of former deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, speaking to the nation from a bunker, filled with cans of lager, cigarette butts, and a framed photograph of smug, woke radio presenter James O’Brien.
Sall Grover Will Save Australia!
Me, Martina Navratilova, Suzanne Moore, Sall Grover, London, June 2026 I have travelled halfway around the world to tell you that men are not women. We’re not currently living in a modern world. For those of you who don’t know me, I am the woman who had to go to court to establish what a woman is, and lost to a man twice. So I created a social networking app exclusively for women, called Eagle, in 2019. Absolutely no idea I was doing this.
Do Australians really want more surrogate pregnancies?
I am proud to publish this powerful piece from the formidable Renate Klein. When I first met feminist campaigners, at the very end of the 1970s/early 80s Renate was already a legend. I was still in my teens, and she, only in her mid 30s, but had already made her mark on the international women’s liberation movement.
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