Born of a surrogate mother

Olivia Maurel, 32, was born to a surrogate mother and today she is fighting on the front line against the practice, which she describes as 'atrocious' and 'monstrous'. She always knew something was wrong with her family. She suffers from depression, has had problems with alcoholism and has attempted suicide several times. Only recently has she discovered the truth about her origins and that she suffered the trauma of abandonment. "To no child," she says, "should what happened to me ever happen again."

Commercial or 'altruistic' surrogacy must be abolished. These are the words of Olivia Maurel, born in December 1991 in Kentucky by traditional surrogacy (i.e. in which the oocyte also belongs to the 'surrogate mother', ed.), who recounted her experience in a conference at the parliament of the Czech Republic. Today, married with two children in Cannes, 'proud to be a feminist' as we read on her X page, she fights against surrogacy. Her testimony, very valuable as there are still very few [...]

Israel 7 October: Appeal for recognition as mass feminicide

The women victims of the Hamas attack were not killed like all other civilians: they were exposed naked, raped, brutalised, humiliated, decapitated, their bodies burnt and torn to pieces. "We wanted to dirty them," say the terrorists. The violence against these women meets the definition of mass feminicide: from France a petition to international NGOs

The women victims of the Hamas attack were not killed like all other civilians: they were exposed naked, raped, brutalised, humiliated, decapitated, their bodies burnt and torn to pieces. "We wanted to dirty them," say the terrorists. The violence against these women meets the definition of mass feminicide: from France a petition to international NGOs

British academics against cancel culture

On 20 November, the London Universities Council for Academic Freedom will be unveiled, a body that brings together a hundred or so professors from the major British universities with the intention of fighting against the censorship and single-mindedness that in recent years have impeded academic debate and freedom, compromising the education of thousands of students. In the crosshairs especially Lgbtq+ realities such as Stonewall that have heavily influenced university and higher education. About time, and go on!

As reported by The Telegraph, more than a hundred academics from the UK's top universities have joined forces to tackle the growing threat of cancel culture through the creation of a new body dedicated to academic freedom. In a pioneering initiative, the scholars have formed the 'London Universities Council for Academic Freedom', involving all academic institutions in the capital including University College London (UCL), King's College London, [...]

13 November in The Hague against surrogacy

The Private International Law Conference is pushing for transnational recognition of gestation per se contracts with the intention of forcing national legislation to benefit biomarket profits. The Icams coalition against GPA organised a demonstration in defence of women's dignity and against the market in girls and children

The International Coalition to Abolish Surrogacy (ICASM) organised an international demonstration in front of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) on 13 November to oppose the regulation of cross-border 'surrogacy'. Indeed, attempts are being made to impose international regulation of so-called 'surrogacy': as of 13 November, the HCCH will set up a working group with the task of drafting a convention to allow cross-border recognition of contracts. This is to meet the growing demand in the biomarket [...]

Canada: gender critical nurse risks her job

Amy Hamm works in a psychiatric ward and is under investigation for promoting women's rights based on sex and child protection online. The BCCNM, the body that regulates the nursing profession, intends to suspend her unless she participates in a re-education programme but Amy opposes this: the hearing is underway. US journalist Megyn Kelly interviewed her

Canadian nurse Amy Hamm - one of the founders of the non-profit coalition Canadian Women Sex Based Rights (caWsbar) - works in an acute psychiatric ward specialising in mental health and substance use. Amy risks losing her nursing licence and her job because she allegedly promoted women's sex-based rights and child protection online. In recent years, Amy has been the subject of an investigation by the British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives [...]

No more drugs for children with gender dysphoria!

For many years a pioneer of puberty blocker and hormone-based treatments for 'gender non-conforming' minors, Finnish psychiatrist Riittakerttu Kaltiala now denounces these 'therapies' as dangerous, useless and lacking in scientific evidence. And she calls on doctors around the world to find the courage to break the silence imposed by activist censorship and the media's rubber wall

In Italy there persists an obstinate silence on pharmacological treatments for minors with gender dysphoria (puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, 'gender reassignment' surgery) according to the protocol of so-called gender affirmative therapy. It is not possible to know how many minors have been treated or are undergoing treatment, in how many and which centres they are treated and with what 'success' (or failure) rates. While throughout the Western world the debate has been open for some time and in some countries [...]

This History must end

War is not an invention of women. War reduces us to prey and makes us dumb things. Positioning ourselves -on this side or that side- does not give us peace. Peace is not the interval between one war and another. Peace is not helplessness but an active force that regulates relationships and settles conflicts. We demand that rebellious children recognise their mother's authority and shirk the obligation of acts of domination and overpowering

'War has always been the specific activity of the male and his model of virile behaviour'. Carla Lonzi, Manifesto of Women's Revolt, 1970 War is not our invention, nor is that desperate form of war that is terrorism. Positioning ourselves -on this side or that side- does not give us peace, it disorients and divides us, but we are not allowed any other movement than to seek refuge in an impossible extraneousness. We recognise ourselves with pain in the 'enemy'. [...]
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23 April 2023
USA, clash between Democrats and Republicans over trans people in women's sports
In America, the issue of male bodies in women's sports categories has enormous political significance. The House, on a Republican proposal, has passed a bill banning male-born men from competing with women, but President Biden has announced that he will veto it if the rule also passes the Senate. Meanwhile, twenty states are already moving in this direction and the overwhelming majority of public opinion -including Democratic voters divided on the issue- is in favour of competitions based on biological sex.
Bill HR 734, known as the Women's and Girls' Sports Protection Act of 2023, has just been passed in the House of Representatives. Supported by Republicans, it is summarised as follows on the government website: "This bill would generally prohibit school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs designed for women or girls." But a few days ago, President Biden made [...]
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2 April 2022
Biden: yes to hormones for girls and boys
Unlike Sweden, Finland, the UK and Australia, pioneering countries which, in view of the damage caused by drugs on children with gender dysphoria, are returning to the priority of psychological therapy, the US is pushing for immediate pharmacologisation. And they call it "children's right", saying that any other approach is "discriminatory".
The US Department of Justice released a document endorsing the 'affirmative' approach to transitioning children, which involves immediately prescribing puberty-blocking drugs and hormones to girls and boys who say they are uncomfortable with their gender, skipping the psychological assessment so as not to delay medicalisation in any way. Abigail Shrier broke the news on Twitter (see here). Once again, the Biden administration has gone against the grain of countries pioneering gender identity, [...]
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30 August 2021
No to mandatory child transition: thousands of US paediatricians sue the Biden administration
The number of doctors opposing the medical transition of girls is growing. Two American paediatricians' associations are challenging the Biden Act, which replaces sex with gender identity, and are asking not to be forced to prescribe experimental and harmful procedures against their medical judgment, ethics or religious beliefs.
A group of more than 3,000 paediatricians sued the Biden administration over its reinterpretation of the Affordable Care Act that requires doctors to provide drugs and surgeries to 'gender transition' minors. In May, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that its Office for Civil Rights would interpret and apply Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act differently: prohibiting [...]
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12 May 2021
Biden administration wipes out women and girls
Without any public debate and against the opinion of the majority of Americans, President Joe Biden is pushing ahead with replacing the word 'sex' with 'gender identity' in all administrative acts and documents, with serious impact on the lives of women and girls. All over the world, liberals and progressives are pursuing this same goal in the service of the trans-lobby.
It is happening. It's as bad as it looks and no one should be in any doubt. Everything Janice Raymond predicted in 1979 has come true. Everything you see published on the 11th Hour blog is reality. This is not at all a question of plot. On his first day in office, President Biden signed Executive Order 13988 on preventing and combating discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation. Many of us, myself included, naively assumed that this would [...]
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6 March 2021
Sign up now, in time for 8 March! From women around the world to the US Senate: Don't pass the Equality Act! Gender identity' erases us
A letter to be signed immediately! (In the United States, the Equality Act, which has already passed the House of Representatives, is about to be approved in the Senate. As Feminist Post has repeatedly reported, the Equality Act, strongly supported by the Biden administration, effectively replaces the concept of "sex" with that of "gender identity", erasing women, girls and children and making being a woman a "choice" available to men. Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights, which has a network of 15,000 adherents [...]
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5 March 2021
Trans rights: a major issue in American politics
The American Democratic Party is being torn apart by the Andrew Cuomo affair, the New York state governor accused of harassment by three women, and by other important issues such as the diatribe between moderates and Sanders' left wing on the failure to raise the minimum wage. But it regains its unity on the issue of transgender rights, to which Joe Biden has been devoting extraordinary attention since the very first hours of his mandate, to the point of threatening sanctions against those countries that have [...]
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19 February 2021
"Gender? No thanks. Women and men. Modernising the language of politics
Radical feminism has long since stopped using the term 'gender' to refer to sexual difference. In fact, it no longer uses it at all: "women and men" or even "the two sexes" are words that are perfectly fine and have the advantage that they cannot be misunderstood. Language is the human environment, the world is built with words, which is why they must be chosen carefully. Since the 1990s, the word gender has been completely redefined. Mary Daly had prophesied: of [...]
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18 February 2021
Those good progressive boys, fake friends of feminism
Radical feminism around the world is discussing the need to stop having illusions about the left's support for the women's movement. Today, on the contrary, left-wing transhumanism (free sex work, free uterus for rent, support for gender identity, hormones for girls and boys and all the rest) is creating many problems for women. Here is an example of left-wing anti-feminism of these very days: the newspaper Il Manifesto which reduces to a brawl between envious hysterics (Carmen [...]
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25 January 2021
Global mail-bombing to Biden and Kamala: take male bodies out of women's sports! Join in
The issue of the executive order issued by the new American president Joe Biden, which has re-admitted transwomen - male bodies and very often also male genitals, not infrequently mediocre male athletes who claim to 'perceive' themselves as women - to women's sports, as well as to the spaces reserved for women and girls: bathrooms, changing rooms, etc., is becoming increasingly explosive for the new American administration. The WOLF (Women's Liberation Front) is organising a global mail-bombing against the unfair and unjust measure against female athletes, demanding its immediate repeal [...].
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24 January 2021
Equality according to Biden: the right of men to call themselves women (and to win in all women's sports)
And Kamala? Nothing to say? "On social media, women have expressed relief at the end of the Trump era. Even Canadians have posted pictures of Kamala Harris and Jill Biden in outfits that represent progress. No true feminist would wear a black suit and red tie, after all. What America needs now are those jewel tones. I can't fathom what trauma we have suffered from seeing an egomaniac tweeting himself into the prison of the Internet ... If anything, it offered us the cue [...]
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21 January 2021
Biden, day 1: free access to women's sports for transwomen with male bodies
He didn't even wait 24 hours: among the very first executive orders of the new American president Joe Biden - together with urgent measures on health, such as the obligation to wear masks, and on migrants - the readmission of transgender 'girls' to girls' school sports. So, born males - with male bodies, male muscles and almost always male genitals - who "identify" as women and who will obviously also be able to access reserved areas such as bathrooms and changing rooms. The decree was ready and was immediately issued, [...].
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