New UK health proposal bans men from women's dressing rooms after nurses are accused of needing to be 're-educated' on gender



A group of nurses have drafted guidance for the National Health Service that would prevent men who believe they are women from entering women's dressing rooms.

The policy guidance was requested by the health secretary for the United Kingdom, Wes Streeting.

The nurses said they were forced to share a dressing room with a male staff member who allegedly identifies as a woman. When the nurses raised concerns to their human resources department, the women were told they needed to be "re-educated" on the topic, they alleged.

The group of women have since taken their employers to a tribunal over sexual discrimination and sexual harassment.

Calling the proposed changes "common sense," the nurses assert there should be no "hierarchy" in regard to equality laws, and therefore the rights of men who believe they are women should not be prioritized over actual women.

Bethany Hutchinson, one of the proposal's authors, said she hoped to "set a precedent for all public services and workplaces in the U.K."

"We believe that as frontline NHS nurses directly impacted by these issues, we are well-placed to help politicians understand what is happening and what must change urgently," Hutchison added, according to GB News.

Conservative Party member Claire Coutinho told the Telegraph that "women should not be patronized, belittled, or ignored" when raising concerns about not wanting to change with men.

"[This] shocking case shows what can happen when institutions prioritize their commitment to an ideology above safety. Their fight for fairness has my full support," Coutinho decried.

'We should simply not be forced to get undressed in front of a man.'

"Discrimination or harassment related to one characteristic may never be justified by the need to protect another characteristic," the document, delivered to the government in November, reportedly stated.

The nurses further wrote that legal requirements relating to sex and gender "must take priority" and the term "sex" must refer to "biological" sex.

While the nurses wrote sympathetically about treating transgender people with "respect and sensitivity," they declared that women's spaces are not "communal spaces" whose functions should include transgender people.

The document reinforced that the issue at hand is "protecting women's spaces."

"'Gender identity' is not a protected characteristic, and we should simply not be forced to get undressed in front of a man. We continue to be astonished at how our rights on this issue continue to be breached and discriminated against," the women continued.

"We are not transphobic," the women declared. The nurses added that their new policies would give "transexuals" a private space to change without impacting the rights of women.

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JK Rowling says BBC 'spit' in women's faces by naming soccer player who failed gender test as player of the year



Author J.K. Rowling blasted Britain's state broadcaster after the media giant named an athlete who has failed a gender test as its top female soccer player of the year.

Barbra Banda, a Zambian-born player who plays for the Orlando Pride in the United States, was named by the BBC as its women's footballer of the year for 2024.

Banda was disqualified from the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations competition after allegedly failing a "gender verification" test that all tournament participants are subject to, Blaze News reported at the time.

Rowling, who has been a staunch critic of males who claim to be female and participate in women's sports, responded to the news by saying the award was likely easier than directly insulting women in person.

"Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women's faces," she wrote.

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In 2022, Banda reportedly showed natural testosterone levels that exceeded the limits set by the Confederation of African Football.

Andrew Karmanga, president of the Football Association of Zambia, told BBC Sport Africa, "All the players had to undergo gender verification, a CAF requirement, and unfortunately [Banda] did not meet the criteria set by CAF."

The BBC claimed that in 2023 Banda took medication to reduce testosterone levels, but the levels did not decrease enough by the time the WAFCON tournament started.

However, Blaze News found in 2024 that further investigations alleged Banda, along with two other teammates, reportedly refused to take testosterone suppressants due to unremunerated side effects.

Comedian Leonarda Jonie told Blaze News at the time the decisions are "meant to humiliate [women]."

"Everyone knows this is wrong, especially the people who let it happen."

'I feel like my mind is that strong, and I know where I am coming from.'

Banda was asked directly about the issue when accepting the BBC award.

"I do not like to dwell on the past, but I have just to focus on myself," Banda told the BBC.

"Whatever has happened in the past, it is the past, I am focusing on the new generation and where I am right now and just to focus on my career and the charity that I do back home in Zambia with a lot of people in the community. So that is my main focus right now."

Banda added, "If I kept on thinking about what was going on in the past, mentally then I would not be where I am right now. But I feel like my mind is that strong, and I know where I am coming from."

According to the Telegraph, before soccer, Banda was a boxer, winning all five professional matches.

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Coach of transgender NCAA volleyball player blames opposing teams who forfeited for 'hateful messages' toward his school



The coach of San Jose State University women's volleyball team blamed the forfeiture of games over a transgender player as the source of hatred toward the team, not the fact that the women's team has a man playing on it.

Coach Todd Kress, who has never publicly disagreed with or condemned the male athlete playing (Blaire Fleming) on his women's team, made the claims after losing the Mountain West Tournament final on Saturday.

He began by stating his school followed all the rules.

"I will not sugarcoat our reality for the last two months. Our team prepared and was ready to play each match according to established Mountain West and NCAA rules of play. We did not take away anyone's participation opportunities," Kress wrote.

Kress has continuously stated that forfeits by other teams — which totaled five other schools — took opportunities away from the girls on his team but has failed to mention why the other schools forfeited in the first place.

"Sadly, others who for years have played this same team without incident chose not to play us this season. To be clear, we did not celebrate a single win by forfeiture. Instead, we braced for the fallout," the coach told Fox News. "Each forfeiture announcement unleashed appalling, hateful messages individuals chose to send directly to our student-athletes, our coaching staff and many associated with our program."

SJSU qualified for the MWC tournament with a first-round bye after putting up its best start in program history. After Boise State refused to play against SJSU for a second time, they went straight to the final where they lost to Colorado State University.

"Our team played their hearts out today, the way they have done all season. I want to recognize and thank our seniors — Alessia [Buffagni], Chandler [Manusky], Brooke [Bryant], Brooke and Blaire — for their tremendous efforts on the court all season long. They have all helped us to get where we are," Kress added.

'We've had meetings, and it's a lot of just checking in on Blaire.'

Kress called the past season "one of the most difficult" he's experienced and said "ensuring the overall safety and well-being" of his players has been his priority.

That is not how SJSU player Brooke Slusser described the treatment of the team during an exclusive interview with Blaze News in September, however.

"We've had meetings, and it's a lot of just checking in on Blaire. ... We were like 'what about us?'" Slusser said.

Coach Kress has remained consistent in not addressing the obvious root of the problem at SJSU. In October, he called it "completely ridiculous" that players on his team were receiving "messages of hate," while adding that the forfeits "hurt" SJSU athletes.

According to an SJSU assistant coach, who has since been suspended, Kress has even filed complaints against his own athletes for speaking out against the team's male athlete.

Kress has allegedly filed at least one Title IX complaint against Slusser on the basis that she has referred to Fleming using masculine pronouns during media interviews. Kress allegedly described this as a threat to the rights of trans women.

Former NCAA swimmers gave remarks on Kress' latest stance, including Riley Gaines who notoriously competed against male swimmer Lia Thomas.

"Ah, yes. Blame the women for wanting safe and fair sport. Not the narcissistic man. One man's feelings > all women's safety," Gaines wrote on X.

Kaitlynn Wheeler, who was on the same Kentucky swim team, wrote, "SJSU coach defends male in women's volleyball & then calls the women 'hateful' for forfeiting to protect their safety & fairness. Women are 'hateful' but a man in their sport is 'brave'? This is pure misogyny & gaslighting of female athletes."

SJSU officials and Kress have not responded to Blaze News' requests for comment on multiple occasions.

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Triumph of trans ideology: Nancy Mace reaps what she helped sow



Rep. Nancy Mace’s crusade to keep men out of women’s spaces reveals a tragic irony.

Prompted by the election of Delaware Democrat Sarah McBride to Congress, Mace (R-S.C.) introduced two resolutions last week aimed at preventing transgender women (that is, biological men) from entering single-sex spaces designated for biological women. In defending her stance, Mace repeatedly emphasized her commitment to protecting women and their spaces.

The triumph of transgenderism is the murky puddle at the bottom of the woke slippery slope.

Mace should be commended for fighting back against the encroachment of transgenderism.

At the same time, Mace is defending her support of gay marriage. "We support gay marriage, and voted for the Respect for Marriage Act twice," she boasted on social media last week. In another post, she bragged, "I voted for gay marriage twice in fact and would do it again."

There is loud dissonance between these two positions.

What Mace appears not to understand is that to support the destruction of traditional marriage — in which functional and biological differences between a man and a woman are its most important property — is a wholesale rejection of the framework that distinguishes a man from a woman. It's a signal that differences in biological sex do not matter in marriage, the family, and, therefore, society.

To borrow from the language of Carl Trueman in his book "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self," supporting the triumph of the LGB in the acronym LGBTQ+ naturally leads to the triumph of the T.

This is because, as Dr. Andrew Walker, a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, explained, the LGB and T "share a rejection of human telos. The T rejects telos at the level of our individual embodiment, while LBG rejects telos at the level of our relational complementarity."

The triumph of transgenderism, then, is the murky puddle at the bottom of the woke slippery slope.

At the top of the slope is the rise of radical expressive individualism whereby one's identity is self-determined, subjective, and fluid. This philosophical framework, which now dominates our culture and politics, discards biological realities in favor of personal feelings and desires. It's the liberation of the self to be free from the constraints of external determinations and influences — even biological truths about sex differences.

In a society where one is free to throw away sex difference in marriage — at the behest of personal feelings and internal perceptions of identity — then one is eventually free to discard embodied sex differences altogether.

This is the glaring incoherency in Mace's stand against transgenderism.

By endorsing the LGB framework that it is good and right to prioritize personal feelings and identity over sex differences in a fundamental human institution like marriage — fundamental, of course, because a marriage between a man and woman results in children, and, therefore, families, communities, and a society — Mace is inadvertently supporting the very same philosophical principles that erase the realities of biological sex altogether.

If the functional differences between a man and a woman can be discarded at will in the realm of marriage, then they can also be discarded at will to liberate people from all embodied biological distinctions.

This is how we've found ourselves in a world in which the people who believe they were born into the "wrong body" use personal feelings and internal determinations about identity as navigational beacons to rectify, via technology, what they believe nature (i.e., God) got “wrong.”

Mace, then, is "trying to impose a limiting principle where none can exist," observed writer John Daniel Davidson. Or, as another person put it, "You can't sign up for the first 49 feet of a free fall [and] then try to exempt out of the 50th foot."

The road to transgenderism's triumph was paved by those willing to erase biological realities when it was convenient. The journey back to reality — and the battle for truth — cannot be undertaken with half measures.

Boise State women's volleyball team refuses to play against transgender athlete, forfeits Mountain West tournament



The Boise State women's volleyball team ended its season with a forfeit, refusing to play against San Jose State University in the Mountain West Conference.

San Jose State University's transgender player, Blaire Fleming — born Brayden — is a 6'1'' male whose participation in NCAA women's volleyball games has resulted in four other teams forfeiting matches.

This is the second time this season the ladies from Boise State have forfeited against SJSU, marking the sixth forfeit overall against the team. In late September, Boise State took a technical loss but still managed to battle back to earn a spot in the yearly tournament.

After beating Utah State on Wednesday — another team that has refused to play SJSU — Boise State players said they would not play Fleming and SJSU in the tournament semifinal on Friday.

"The decision to not continue to play in the 2024 Mountain West Volleyball Championship tournament was not an easy one, " Boise athletics wrote, per Outkick. "Our team overcame forfeitures to earn a spot in the tournament field and fought for the win over Utah State in the first round on Wednesday."

"They should not have to forgo this opportunity while waiting for a more thoughtful and better system that serves all athletes," the school added.

This means that SJSU will walk into Saturday's tournament final, and if the team wins (whether by forfeit or not), they will advance to the NCAA national tournament.

SJSU gave its own statement, invoking Thanksgiving as a reason to celebrate all students.

"In this time of Thanksgiving, we are especially thankful for those who continue to engage in civil and respectful discourse. We celebrate and support all of our students, including our student-athletes as they compete for our community on this holiday weekend," the statement read.

The school added that while it was "disappointed" in Boise State, its players are looking forward to "competing for a championship."

Blaire Fleming stands alone waiting to make the first serve against the Air Force Falcons on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo by Andrew Wevers/Getty Images

SJSU had one of its own players, Brooke Slusser, speak out against the team for focusing on Fleming instead of the women on the team.

Slusser and a suspended assistant coach have joined a lawsuit against the school and the conference saying their First Amendment rights were violated after they spoke up about the ordeal.

Other plaintiffs in the lawsuit include two players from Boise State, Katelyn Van Kirk and Kiersten Van Kirk.

A judge recently denied an emergency motion from the group's legal team to remove Fleming from the tournament and reinstate wins from the schools that had forfeited.

'We must fight to protect women's sports.'

After Boise State's forfeit on Wednesday, the Mountain West Conference said any "decisions to forfeit matches are at the institutions' discretion and are considered a loss. San José State will advance to the MW Women’s Volleyball Championship final."

Idaho's Republican Senator Jim Risch condemned the conference, saying it had "failed" the women from Boise State.

"These women have worked too hard for too long to be denied their right to fair, safe competition. We must fight to protect women's sports."

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Missouri Judge Allows State To Protect Children From Trans Mutilation

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Transgender NCAA volleyball player remains eligible after Biden-appointed judge allows male to continue with women's team



A male athlete will be allowed to compete in the Mountain West Conference tournament after a United States district judge denied a motion to disqualify the player.

That athlete is San Jose State University's transgender player, Blaire Fleming. Born Brayden, Fleming is a 6'1'' male whose participation in NCAA women's volleyball games has sparked five separate forfeits from opposing teams.

About a week prior to the judge's decision, 11 female NCAA athletes and one coach filed a lawsuit against the MWC and SJSU alleging the female athletes were subject to a new "Transgender Participation Policy" that sought to "suppress the free speech rights of women athletes."

Judge S. Kato Crews, appointed by President Joe Biden, denied a series of motions that sought to disqualify Fleming from playing in the conference as well as negate losses that other teams received by forfeiting against SJSU during the season.

'The movants have failed to meet their burden to show irreparable harm.'

According to OutKick, the judge spent the first 30 minutes of the emergency hearing deliberating which pronouns to use when talking about Fleming.

Judge Crews ultimately decided that "the movants have failed to meet their burden to show irreparable harm, a likelihood of success on the merits, or that the balance of harms or equities is in their favor."

"The threatened injury to the movants if an injunction issues is outweighed by the MWC’s interest in holding the upcoming MWC Tournament without an eleventh-hour shake-up to its currently planned structure," the judge wrote. "The relief requested with the Emergency Motion would risk confusion and upend months of planning and would prejudice, at a minimum, Defendants and other teams participating in the tournament depending on the results of any reseeding."

"The movants have failed to meet their burden to show irreparable harm, thus justifying denial of the Emergency Motion and USU's motion partially joining in it," Judge Crews also wrote.

After the ruling, the plaintiffs announced they would be filing an emergency appeal to the Tenth Circuit court asking for an emergency injunction.

The Transgender Participation Policy at the center of the lawsuit states that the NCAA will "not entertain inquiries or challenges regarding the eligibility of transgender student-athletes." Schools are also not required to provide information to their opponents about whether or not there is a transgender athlete on their team.

SJSU has remained mostly silent throughout the controversy but has suspended one female coach who spoke out about the issue. Associate head volleyball coach Melissa Batie-Smoose has since joined the lawsuit against the MWC and SJSU.

As well, SJSU was previously revealed to have asked other schools to pay for alleged losses SJSU incurred due to the forfeits.

If the MWC tournament is to go on as planned, SJSU will play a March 4 match against either Utah State or Boise State; both teams forfeited against them during the season.

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'LGBTQ is shoved down our throat': 16-year-old athlete says girls are silenced about not wanting boys in their locker room



A student at a California high school said female athletes were stabbed in the back by their administrators when they expressed concerns over boys being in their change room.

During a board meeting for the Riverside Unified School District in California, an unnamed 16-year-old girl spoke out about a male athlete competing on the girls cross-country team.

"I run on the cross country team. So I'm constantly affected by these actions that have taken place this season," the young girl began. "I have been around the females and just my team in general who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it because the whole LGBTQ is shoved down our throats; it is put in our face."

Martin Luther King High School and the school district were recently sued by two female athletes who accused them of violating Title IX along with their First and 14th Amendment rights.

The girls said they were told by school officials that wearing a shirt that read "Save Girls' Sports" on the front was akin to wearing a swastika.

After saying that it feels "almost impossible" for girls to speak out on this topic, the 16-year-old told the district that the school's athletic director has completely failed the students who were brave enough to say something.

"I went myself to have a discussion with the athletic director when nobody really felt comfortable enough to speak out. ... To see the athletic director turn around and tell my teammates that their shirts that say 'Save Girls' Sports' be compared to a swastika, that is not okay."

The student continued, "These girls feel silenced. They felt silenced. And when they finally spoke out and did something to go against it and speak out, not directed towards a single person at all, they were completely stabbed in the back by the person that we were told would support us and be able to help us through this."

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The two girls named in the lawsuit, known by their first names Kaitlyn and Taylor, were protesting a male athlete who bumped one of the girls from their cross-country team.

"There's a transgender student on the team. Why am I getting displaced when I worked so hard and gone to all of the practices, and this student has only attended a few of the practices?" Taylor asked.

The girls alleged that their athletic officials told them to remove or conceal their shirts and said they are creating a "hostile" environment. The athletic director was also accused of saying that wearing the shirts around a transgender student was like wearing a swastika around a Jewish student.

On the school's website, the athletic director is listed as Amanda Chann; however, Chann is listed in the broader school directory as the assistant principal.

Blaze News has asked the school administrators if it was indeed Chann who made the statement or if it was made by any staff member at all. At the time of this publication there had been no response from any staff member, including the principal and Chann.

'It is not okay that I have to be in a position where I'm going to practice and having to see a male in booty shorts.'

During the school board meeting, the young athlete said it felt like her school and the district were "choosing to support one person instead of the whole team and the whole school."

"It's not okay," she reiterated.

She went on to say that Kaitlyn and Taylor were two of the nicest people she had "ever met" and that the girls have all been put in an unsafe environment.

"It is not okay that I have to be in a position where I'm going to practice and having to see a male in booty shorts and having to see that around me. As a 16-year-old girl, I don't find that as a safe environment. I don't at all."

She added that she doesn't find it safe for her to be "seeing males" in the school locker room and bathroom.

"I'm a 16-year-old girl. There's girls around me where we do not feel safe having boys in our environment, and it isn't okay. It isn't okay to have them on our team. ... It's the genetics."

This article will be updated with any applicable responses from the Martin Luther King High School administrators.

Neither the Riverside Unified School District nor Martin Luther King High School responded to Fox News' requests for comment earlier in the week.

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