Dana Rivers is sent to a women's prison, Duane Owens is executed, and New Zealand is getting a Women's Rights Party

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Jill Ovens has been a committed socialist and feminist for decades. She has fought in the union movement, the women’s rights movement, and the environmental movement for longer than most of us. Jill was an active member of New Zealand’s Labour Party up until very recently. After women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen was mobbed and assaulted in New Zealand in March, Jill decided she’d had enough. She resigned from the Labour Party and founded the Women’s Rights Party, aiming to defend women’s sex-based rights.

I spoke with Jill on the podcast last week about her history as a leftist activist, the silencing of women on the left, and why New Zealand needs a Women’s Rights Party.

In the news:

On Friday, the once great ACLU tweeted in response to the execution of Duane Owen, complaining that the rapist and murderer did not received state-funded cosmetic surgery, referred to as “gender affirming care” (or a “sex change surgery”).

In 1984, Owen attacked a 14-year-old girl, stabbing her 18 times, raping her before and after her death. On a separate occasion, he broke into the home of 38-year-old single mother of two Georgianna Worden, struck her multiple times with a hammer, killing her, then raped her corpse. Worden’s corpse was found by one of her children the next morning. Psychiatrists testified that Owen had faked schizophrenia and had no signs of “gender dysphoria,” but rather that he exhibits sexual sadism. Owen claimed he sexually assaulted women to harvest their hormones, and carried out the attacks to “turn himself into a female.”

The ACLU tweeted that the state of Florida had caused him “enormous suffering,” and that in denying Owen cosmetic surgery in prison, had “violated her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody.”

Free Speech for Women is protesting the ACLU in Washington, DC on August 11th.

The man who brutally murdered lesbian couple Patricia Wright and Charlotte Reed, as well as their son, Benny Diambu-Wright, was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole and placed in the Central California Women’s Facility. Dana Rivers (ne David Chester Warfield) was active in Camp Trans, a male-led harassment campaign against Michfest, an annual woman-only festival which ended in 2015 after ongoing accusations of “transphobia.”

Muslim families protested in Ottawa after an email from the school board directed staff members that it is their obligation to “resources that accurately reflect and honour 2SLGBTQ+ identities into curriculum subjects and the overall learning environment, from Kindergarten to Grade 12.” A video from the protest shows Muslim children stomping on Pride flags. Meanwhile, American progressives are shocked that their much celebrated Muslim-majority city council in Hamtramck, Michigan passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property. Apparently the diversity points didn’t result in the correct kind of “diversity”…

The Canadian government has given a trans activist group $500,000 to “track anti-trans organizing.” JusticeTrans is a government-funded group now being paid to track women and groups who push back against gender identity ideology and defend women’s sex-based rights. Canadian Heritage, the department of the Government of Canada tasked with promoting and supporting “Canadian identity and values, cultural development, and heritage,” is also the department behind Bill C-11, which gave the government the power to control what Canadians see online.

One Canadian province appears to be pushing back ever so slightly against trans dogma. Support New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs! Naturally, progressive elites are labelling this as “promoting hate.”

Now me: I am currently on Vancouver Island and will be traveling through the US at the end of June. Do feel free to let me know if there are any events I should get in on along the way…

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