A Washington State school is under criminal investigation after a 16-year-old female wrestler called Katie Keeler was sexually assaulted by a male athlete during a wrestling match. Katie Keeler’s mother can be heard giggling over the video she is recording on her phone of her daughter’s wrestling match. She has no idea that her daughter is being violated by a man. His hand can be clearly seen deep between her legs. She screams out to her mother trying to alert her in vain that this man is sexually assaulting her but her mother cannot make out what her daughter is saying. The expression on Katie’s face is the blind terror and helplessness of a trapped animal. His incomparable upper body strength has her pinned and he is violating her in front of the gathered spectators. Her visible, palpable shock is compounded because she cannot compute: this is a woman she thinks. Nobody said her opponent was a biological male. Not the school and not her coach.
The ensuing cover-up by school authorities is perhaps the most chilling aspect of all of this; the lengths the true believers in HR and on school boards will go to protect the policy. Teenage girls are merely collateral damage to them. This school is no outlier either.
Cases
In Loudoun Co., Virginia a boy called Hunter Heckel took to wearing a skirt to school and telling everyone he identified as a girl. The school board grovelled and bowed, deferring without question, to his new trans identity and accompanying demands and naturally allowing him to use the toilets that aligned to his gender. The first time he raped a girl was in May 2021 in the bathroom of Stone Bridge High School. The girl’s father Scott Smith was physically restrained and arrested for speaking up for his daughter and demanding answers at a heated school board meeting. The video footage is harrowing to watch, a father’s masculine rage and protectiveness is met with violence by security and supercilious disregard by the board who shockingly dismiss his concerns. Their doubling down to protect predators who say they are trans is jaw-dropping. A statement is given to the media by school officials which outright denies the assault.
His victims are now suing the school board and school officials”
“We don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms. The predator transgender student simply does not exist.” Hunter Heckel moves to a second school called Broad Run High School that, like Loudoun Co., has approved a policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. In October 2021 he assaults another teenage girl in the girls’ bathrooms. His victims are now suing the school board and school officials for violating federal laws that protect women and girls, called Title IX and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, for damages of 30 million dollars.
Lobbying
One of the earlier campaign wins by the non-profit I founded and run, The Countess, was against the roll out of mixed-sex toilets across Secondary schools in Ireland. They are normally euphemistically called gender neutral. One of our directors who has a brilliant mind for the salient detail among the drudge, spotted, in a technical guide issued by the Department of Education, that the plans were for multiple stalls in bathrooms which would be for both boys and girls. The guide was linked directly to funding and the funding would be for all new builds and all retrofitting and repairs.
I went onto Liveline for the entire show. I was pithed against activist after activist. I remember the embodied sensation of having my back against the wire but I stayed calm as it got more and more heated. The show ended on an explosive note when a female activist accused me of being a “man-hating, transphobic feminazi” prompting Joe Duffy to kick her off his show which made the evening papers. I was bruised and bloodied maybe, but we had won the first gladiatorial round in the ring, against trans ideology.
Political wins are not glorious. No one ever says you were right all along”
It was April 21, 2021 and the first time a national broadcaster had aired the issues. I cited examples of a girl having her face smashed after a door was donkey kicked open in a mixed sex toilet in a Coventry school or how the UN research showed the impact of girls not having their own single sex toilets in schools led to their missing days during their menstrual cycle and retaining urine during the day to avoid them, resulting in urinary tract infections.
The outcry generated on Liveline and the ripple effect of sending out 200 press releases in the first instance, coupled with two write-ups in The Irish Times including a front-page report was enough to force a reverse ferret. Political wins are not glorious. No one ever says you were right all along. The next week the links on the Department website to the technical guides no longer worked. However, trans lobby groups have infiltrated school policy in a far more diffuse and subtle way by offering LGBTQI guidance or anti LGBTQI Bullying or via the RSE SPHE curriculum.
Boundaries
As a result of this influence, girls in Ireland have had to share their changing rooms at school with teenage boys and lost out on a place on the girls’ sports teams to these males.
The bottom line is that if you blur the boundaries that keep women and girls safe you are opening the door to the worst sort of males. Gender self-ID is an access-all-area pass for predators, transgressors, chancers and cheats.
This is not about trans, it is about basic rudimentary and fundamental boundaries that ensure equality by providing dignity, privacy and fairness in sport.
Women and girls cannot be grist to the mill, fodder to the gender machine”
What decent young man would find any glory in beating young women in a sport? What good man would enjoy making women uncomfortable in their intimate spaces? We have always separated the sexes in certain situations where sex matters like toilets, changing rooms and sports and sadly we do not live in a Utopia. I wish we did. The people behind this policy either think we do or do not care. But until we do, women and girls cannot be grist to the mill, fodder to the gender machine.
With the rights of parents, women and children in mind as always and mindful of the recent embarrassing farce of everyone running like rats from the sinking ship that was the ICCL guide for schools including the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission IHREC who provided funding it and A & L Goodbody who provided legal advice, The Countess have produced Guides for Schools and Clubs which are legally sound. There is in fact no right in law to force anyone to use your new name or pronouns and no right to opposite sex spaces or sports.
The Labour Government in the UK just issued statutory guidance to schools stating this. In the absence of similar leadership shown here, The Countess will send our guides to every school and youth organisation in Ireland and I will enjoy my Christmas card from a now retired but always brave broadcaster.
The trans ideology is infiltrating schoolgrounds
A Washington State school is under criminal investigation after a 16-year-old female wrestler called Katie Keeler was sexually assaulted by a male athlete during a wrestling match. Katie Keeler’s mother can be heard giggling over the video she is recording on her phone of her daughter’s wrestling match. She has no idea that her daughter is being violated by a man. His hand can be clearly seen deep between her legs. She screams out to her mother trying to alert her in vain that this man is sexually assaulting her but her mother cannot make out what her daughter is saying. The expression on Katie’s face is the blind terror and helplessness of a trapped animal. His incomparable upper body strength has her pinned and he is violating her in front of the gathered spectators. Her visible, palpable shock is compounded because she cannot compute: this is a woman she thinks. Nobody said her opponent was a biological male. Not the school and not her coach.
The ensuing cover-up by school authorities is perhaps the most chilling aspect of all of this; the lengths the true believers in HR and on school boards will go to protect the policy. Teenage girls are merely collateral damage to them. This school is no outlier either.
Cases
In Loudoun Co., Virginia a boy called Hunter Heckel took to wearing a skirt to school and telling everyone he identified as a girl. The school board grovelled and bowed, deferring without question, to his new trans identity and accompanying demands and naturally allowing him to use the toilets that aligned to his gender. The first time he raped a girl was in May 2021 in the bathroom of Stone Bridge High School. The girl’s father Scott Smith was physically restrained and arrested for speaking up for his daughter and demanding answers at a heated school board meeting. The video footage is harrowing to watch, a father’s masculine rage and protectiveness is met with violence by security and supercilious disregard by the board who shockingly dismiss his concerns. Their doubling down to protect predators who say they are trans is jaw-dropping. A statement is given to the media by school officials which outright denies the assault.
“We don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms. The predator transgender student simply does not exist.” Hunter Heckel moves to a second school called Broad Run High School that, like Loudoun Co., has approved a policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. In October 2021 he assaults another teenage girl in the girls’ bathrooms. His victims are now suing the school board and school officials for violating federal laws that protect women and girls, called Title IX and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, for damages of 30 million dollars.
Lobbying
One of the earlier campaign wins by the non-profit I founded and run, The Countess, was against the roll out of mixed-sex toilets across Secondary schools in Ireland. They are normally euphemistically called gender neutral. One of our directors who has a brilliant mind for the salient detail among the drudge, spotted, in a technical guide issued by the Department of Education, that the plans were for multiple stalls in bathrooms which would be for both boys and girls. The guide was linked directly to funding and the funding would be for all new builds and all retrofitting and repairs.
I went onto Liveline for the entire show. I was pithed against activist after activist. I remember the embodied sensation of having my back against the wire but I stayed calm as it got more and more heated. The show ended on an explosive note when a female activist accused me of being a “man-hating, transphobic feminazi” prompting Joe Duffy to kick her off his show which made the evening papers. I was bruised and bloodied maybe, but we had won the first gladiatorial round in the ring, against trans ideology.
It was April 21, 2021 and the first time a national broadcaster had aired the issues. I cited examples of a girl having her face smashed after a door was donkey kicked open in a mixed sex toilet in a Coventry school or how the UN research showed the impact of girls not having their own single sex toilets in schools led to their missing days during their menstrual cycle and retaining urine during the day to avoid them, resulting in urinary tract infections.
The outcry generated on Liveline and the ripple effect of sending out 200 press releases in the first instance, coupled with two write-ups in The Irish Times including a front-page report was enough to force a reverse ferret. Political wins are not glorious. No one ever says you were right all along. The next week the links on the Department website to the technical guides no longer worked. However, trans lobby groups have infiltrated school policy in a far more diffuse and subtle way by offering LGBTQI guidance or anti LGBTQI Bullying or via the RSE SPHE curriculum.
Boundaries
As a result of this influence, girls in Ireland have had to share their changing rooms at school with teenage boys and lost out on a place on the girls’ sports teams to these males.
The bottom line is that if you blur the boundaries that keep women and girls safe you are opening the door to the worst sort of males. Gender self-ID is an access-all-area pass for predators, transgressors, chancers and cheats.
This is not about trans, it is about basic rudimentary and fundamental boundaries that ensure equality by providing dignity, privacy and fairness in sport.
What decent young man would find any glory in beating young women in a sport? What good man would enjoy making women uncomfortable in their intimate spaces? We have always separated the sexes in certain situations where sex matters like toilets, changing rooms and sports and sadly we do not live in a Utopia. I wish we did. The people behind this policy either think we do or do not care. But until we do, women and girls cannot be grist to the mill, fodder to the gender machine.
With the rights of parents, women and children in mind as always and mindful of the recent embarrassing farce of everyone running like rats from the sinking ship that was the ICCL guide for schools including the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission IHREC who provided funding it and A & L Goodbody who provided legal advice, The Countess have produced Guides for Schools and Clubs which are legally sound. There is in fact no right in law to force anyone to use your new name or pronouns and no right to opposite sex spaces or sports.
The Labour Government in the UK just issued statutory guidance to schools stating this. In the absence of similar leadership shown here, The Countess will send our guides to every school and youth organisation in Ireland and I will enjoy my Christmas card from a now retired but always brave broadcaster.
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