"Well, it’s all gone now, destroyed for a man’s political obsessions." @Gillian_Philip #DrWho #RussellTDavies spiked-online.com/2026/06/14…

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

The chilling effect is most clear when you look at what happened to Ken Zucker. In 2015 Dr Ken Zucker got sacked from his position since 1981 as clinical lead of the gender services in Canada. When Zucker was taken down, he was known to be the most respected world expert on gender issues in kids. Consequently, clinicians across the world immediately silenced themselves. The thinking was that if trans activists could take down Zucker then they could take down anyone. I’ve heard GIDS clinicians from the Tavistock describe how the news of Zucker being sacked caused shockwaves at GIDS. Zucker later won $586000 in compensation from the clinic but the damage was done. The same chilling effect happened when the @IrishTimes pandered to trans activists in the student union in 2021. Journalists across Ireland released that if the Irish Times were toeing the line, then it’d be a brave fool who went against this. (From then on I became blacklisted from the Irish mainstream media but luckily my work was valued elsewhere). Then the following summer, June 2022, Joe Duffy allowed himself to be silenced by @rte and that was the death knell to free thought about trans issues in the Irish mainstream media. Again the thought process was that if Joe Duffy could be silenced - and he could - then anyone could be. Just like Ken Zucker with gender therapy, the impact sent shockwaves through Irish journalism. Sadly, rather than having the integrity to admit they’ve been silenced, the Irish journalists now try to keep their self-respect by pretending that they just have other more important things to write about. It’s insult upon injury but this is where we are

Dozens of children put at risk after gender care failures at GP clinic, inquiry finds bbc.in/4apZy8e

Hebburn Pride.

And today, no reporting on this crime by @BBCWalesNews @ITVWales or @WalesOnline, committed by extreme trans activists at the offices of the EHRC Cardiff, by @BBCWalesNews @ITVWales or @WalesOnline. Although they have all covered the Pride parade in Cardiff. @JournalismSEEN

In August 2021 the @IrishTimes published this letter irishtimes.com/opinion/bill-… and then, as a result, the Trinity college students union boycotted the Irish Times. thetimes.com/world/ireland-w… This created a chilling effect and by 2022 @rte were primed to pander to trans activists

Farage says his new theme of racial politics will now be pushed in his own Substack. The idea, it seems, is to avoid scrutiny by anyone who may point out his carefully-crafted misrepresentations. thetimes.com/comment/columni…

Trans actress Elliot Page explains how she feels ‘healthy masculinity.’ “Healthy masculinity to me is…like leaning away from whenever there is some sort of impulse or expectation you’ve put on yourself to like shut down.”

A cross-dressing Australian man who's suspected of murdering a child behaves erratically and aggressively outside court, where he was found guilty of a separate firearms charge. Australian media calls him a woman and only mentions he's "trans" towards the end of the broadcast.

The #MastersOfTheUniverse movie might not be for "everyone" but it is for anyone instead of a select few and that's why so many people like it.