The Weekly Peak #7
Dora the euphemism explorer, Spanish femicide redefined, sunset for UNAIDS, and Albania plays up the gay
French judge: men cannot be linked to sexual violence, because some men pretend to be women
The main story this week is from Paris: on 20 May, a tribunal condemned author Dora Moutot for something utterly banal she said on a TV show in 2022.
Her comments were made in the context of transgender-identifying men, one of whom, Marie Cau, was sat opposite her in the studio during that fateful 2022 interview. Dora said “as women, we are obliged to be wary of people with penises”. For this sentence, a judge has condemned her for insult on the basis of gender identity.
The “people with penises” phrasing was an attempt to make it clear who is responsible for almost all sexual violence while at the same time staying on the right side of the Soviet-style speech dictats of the country’s hypersensitive and increasingly deranged gender elites.
To paraphrase her point: for our safety, women and girls need to be suspicious of the intentions of men, and it doesn’t matter if a man tells everyone he is not a man (all the more reason to be wary, frankly). The only thing that counts is that he is a man. Dora used the male phallus as a common denominator, hoping it would get her point across that it’s not about your hair length, Derek. Women get called “lactating populations”, “uterus-owners” and my personal favourite, “people who bleed” (which sounds like an Arnold Schwarzenegger line in Predator), so her word choice was in keeping with this physiology-first logic.
By trying to obey the rules (never obey the rules), Dora thought the state-backed rainbow mafia might grant her some mercy. But the judge found her words to be insulting because she reduced “trans women” to their male biology. As a result, she has been ordered to pay almost €5k in damages, as well as a €1k criminal fine to the French state for hurting its gender feelings.
As transvestites get folded into the legal meaning of “women” all across woke Europe, it has led to increasingly convoluted word games like this. The word “men”, depending on the context, and depending on how low one grovels to the gendercult, is sometimes used to include women on testosterone who bind their breasts and call themselves “Noah”. Also, “men” might exclude crossdressing males. So what word or words should French women use to make sure that they are accurately referring to all men and excluding all women?
You might think she should have said “male” but the French are weird about “male” and “female”, words that carry overtly animalistic connotations. I think it’s a bit like calling your female dog “my bitch”, or calling people “mammals”. I think the whole shitscene demonstrates nicely why TERFs must never kiss the ring. The Borg will drag you to court for polite euphemisms, but they might think twice before setting the lawyers on you for saying Marie Cau is a heterosexual sissy fetishist who started wearing women’s clothes because it sexually excites him. He might be wary of drawing attention to that.
Go hard or go home.
But Dora offered the gender industry a precedent ripe for the setting. She needed to be very publicly made an example of in order to teach a lesson to all French women who might be considering kicking up a fuss about the Marcels and Maxences in fishnets suddenly showing up to their women-only menopause yoga workshops.
France has had a shockingly muted response to the trans lobby’s takeover of the country’s institutions and senses. That’s because young white French elites live perpetually in a Boomerville ‘68 nostalgiagasm, and they are ready to smear charcoal across their cherubic cheeks and SMASH SHIT TO FUCKING PIIIIIIECES over the first Instagram influenceuse who dares to uh, disobey the French administrative state’s authoritarian speech codes. Dora is also of Jewish extraction, which makes leftist spittle all the frothier in the current climate. She was an easy target for the LGBTIQ+ machine in the way that, say, third-generation Maghrebian gaybashers are not.
What did the media say? The NGO’s strategic communications partners at shitLibération celebrated the ruling as a major setback for TERFs, while HuffPost France said it was an important legal tool against transphobic speech.
But the judgement should accelerate trans nonsense into the stratosphere: French women have no way to talk about male violence without risking legal sanction. And yet Dora told me today that no support has been forthcoming from the professional feminists, nor has any editor picked up on her offer to tell her side of the story.
She is appealing. The case, I mean. She is also appealing in the sense that she’s a hottie. Meanwhile, the trans activists are revolting, in the sense that they’re fighting back, but also in the sense that they look gross and dysgenic.
Women didn’t drag this species all the way to 2026 by being naive about people with penises. Those genes didn’t make it. Those genes got raped to death on the savannah.
I hope my international readers will help Dora in any way you can, she has been completely abandoned by her countrywomen: Follow her Substack for updates on her appeal
Germany: women persecuted for not using biological terminology for men
Bizarrely, the opposite argument is currently being made in a very similar legal case unfolding on the other side of la Vosges. The details are similar-ish in all the ways that matter, but this time, the contentious sentence is the following:
“because she steadfastly protected her female customers from a potential peeping Tom."
The story from the TERFs’ mouth is here in full, but the TLDR is this: a man pretending to be a woman was refused entry to women-only facilities at a gym in Bavaria, so the state anti-discrimination authority punished the gym owner. In response, a group of women called Frauen Heldinnen (Women Heroines) published an open letter critical of the authorities on their website. They also called the man who complained “a man” and they left the comments open for people to show their support and/or displeasure, leading to over 500 people expressing their feelings about it all.
The man saw this act of defiance and launched criminal complaints against Frauen Heldinnen and against hundreds of commenters for incitement to hatred. Lots of Benny-Hill-soundtracked twists and turns followed in the legal case (the German state security authorities are now involved!) but ultimately it looks like it will come down to the sentence above.
Interestingly, the man’s lawyers claim that had the women called him, say, “a woman with a penis” they would have found it acceptable. Their freedom of expression rights did not apply, however, because they raised concerns over the gender, not the genitals. But this was the logic that failed Dora Moutot.
Like Dora, the German women are fighting it to the end and they are not one bit sorry. Read the full story:” “252 pages of files for the word “man””
More word subversion: has the meaning of femicide changed in Spain?
A 33-year-old male travesti from Honduras was killed in broad daylight on 19 May by his violent ex, and Spain’s gender regime categorised it as a “femicide”. The murder of Kimberli Durán García is of course wrong and bad and tragic — but it’s not femicide. And when the gender critical group Feministes de Catalunya, who track the murders of women across Spain, said so in a social media post, it triggered a backlash from gender organisations, trans activists, LGBTQ+ groups, trade unions and political parties.
One state-funded organisation launched a petition condemning the feministes, and an open letter announcing legal action against them for hate speech. One of the most astonishing things about the incident, the Feministes de Catalunya said in a statement, is that nobody called for any consequences for the judge who released the dangerous murderer early from detention, the reason the guy got killed in the first place. That anger is only reserved for the women who refuse to obey the rules. This strategic exclusion is female-pattern aggression on a grand scale.
The full reaction of Feminstes de Catalunya is here
Trans activist turned out to be a paedo? This never happens!
You couldn’t say anything about Jimmy Savile’s creepiness and risky untouchability at the height of his fame because you would risk your career and reputation. Likewise, I remember an anecdote my mother once told me: when she was a kid, nobody wanted to sit up the front of the van with the priest on the way to the GAA club because whoever sat up the front got the priest’s hand down their pants. My grandmother’s terrified response upon hearing this was: you can’t say that about a priest!
Anyway, apropos of nothing: a man who pretended to be a woman and who had protected-darling status as a vaunted veteran of LGBTIQ+ organising in Belfast, has turned out to be a pervert whose thing was flashing his dick at schoolkids while dressed in women’s clothes. He was also tried in court for trying to pimp out children in a brothel he ran.
Thomas “Tina” McCombe died last week, and the tributes to this pillar of the LGBTIQ+ community have been rolling in. But when a woman, Eileen Calder, told the truth about his sexual degeneracy (comments on Northern Ireland Reddit and Facebook groups back up everything she says) she came under attack from the LGBTIQ+ NGOcracy, naturally, as the women who point out these inconvenient facts often are.
A Twitter TERF known as @ripx4nutmeg has been keeping track of these cases because the media are too scared to criticise our era’s untouchable men: “We now know of at least eight cases in the last three years in which a senior Pride officer has turned out to be a paedophile. Most of these stories were ignored by BBC News, which has a Pride section which is entirely promotional.”
In plain sight. See you at the tribunals in 20 years. The TERFs have reserved the whole front row.
Albanian elites ask Brussels: “How gay do you want it?”
To become a member of the EU you have to have a Pride parade. It has to look exactly like all the other Pride parades. Is there a Flying Tiger in Tirana? Go there and buy a bunch of rainbow tat. Who cares if this alien display freaks out and infuriates the locals and turns them even more against same-sex attracted people. So what if gay people live under bridges in Albania because their families are ashamed of them. It doesn’t matter if it adds fuel to the claim that homosexuality is a foreign import. Do the fucking Village People dance you savages! It’s on the accession checklist!
Tirana Pride 2026 official Facebook page
Based Bulgaria: gender identity is bullshit and we won’t be recognising it
In the long and fraught discussions over the next EU budget for civil society and NGOs (please someone save us from all the NGOs), Bulgaria repeatedly raised their objections to the inclusion of the concept of “gender identity” in the budget text. Gender identity is the demand that everyone pretend you are the opposite sex, of which the Bulgars are having none. They were ignored, repeatedly, and so they sent this nice little salty note to the Council, letting them know that they won’t obey.
“the Republic of Bulgaria asserts that, should the Regulation be adopted by the Council in this form, it does not obligate it to recognize or integrate into its national legal order any concepts, incl. „gender identity“ that intend to differentiate between “sex” as a biological (women and men) category and “gender” as a social construct and it will interpret the ones used in the proposal for Regulation as encompassing only the female and male sex in their biological meaning.”
Barbaric Dutch protocol is under review by the people who created the barbaric Dutch Protocol
The Dutch Protocol was dreamt up in Amsterdam University Medical Centre, and the idea behind it was to better identify the kids for whom gender dysphoria (gender non-conformity) was not expected to dissipate by the time they reached adolescence.
Such kids — very gender non-conforming, and therefore very likely to be gay — were considered good candidates for hormones that would block their natural puberty. Natural puberty would send these children down the aesthetic pathway of the sex that they are, and blocking it would give them more “time to think” (even though it seems to also block the brain development that would give them the capacity to “think”) about what they want, but also help them “pass” as the opposite sex as adults.
This medical “protocol” should be nothing more than a grotesque relic, a homophobic throwback found in a dusty book of scientific horrors.
But it’s not. It even shed its strict eligibility criteria in 2018 and was taken up — or, a bastardised version of it was taken up — all around the world. But some European countries have realised that doing this to kids doesn’t seem to help them in the long run, and it’s catching all kinds of distressed children in its trap — not just the ones considered way-too-gay, as per the original protocol.
In 2025, the Dutch parliament asked the Health Council have a fresh look at the guidelines, presumably in no small part due to the global furore over this very controversial Dutch export. But guess who’s on the reviewing committee? Correct. Not just a whole bunch of people who are currently practicing the protocol in their own clinics, but even people involved in designing the protocol in the first place. See the AI summary of this critique by researcher Lodewijk Smeehuijzen and his original paper in Dutch. It covers the conflicts of interest and other concerns about the ongoing review.
The report is due out in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.
EU official conjures unlikely story of electroshock therapy in Europe
During a recent press conference announcing a recommendation to ban conversion therapy, the Commissioner for GenderShite Hadja Lahbib said a curious thing: she referred to someone who had undergone electroshock therapy in an attempt to stop them being homosexual. She said it as a justification for the need to ban “conversion practices”.
Hhhhmmm.
As I wrote for Unherd a couple of years ago, drumming up support for a ban on conversion practices has relied on conjuring a couple of very dystopian central images: one is of maniacal priests doing violent exorcisms, and the other one is of painful (and pointless) electroshock therapy.
French activists used to claim that electroshock therapy was being carried out in France, but when a member of parliament repeated their claim — that a clinic was carrying out such practices on homosexuals in Montpellier — she drew the ire of the region’s medical association, who claimed that such a clinic would require specialised equipment and expertise that couldn’t possibly have passed under their radar. No witnesses ever came forward, despite an appeal.
It was quite funny at the time.
There are about 19 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) machines in the territory of Belgium, for example, and they are used under strict supervision in very exceptional circumstances. It’s been 50 or 60 years since anyone thought to use them to “cure” homosexuality. Does Lahbib really think modern hospitals — and all their staff — could hide that?
Or maybe she was referring to some kind of homemade contraption, or a TENS machine, that zaps a person while they’re watching gay stuff, à la Clockwork Orange? Either way, her words give a very inaccurate impression of what these bans are about. It suggests that people who are against conversion therapy bans are against banning electroconvulsive torture. That’s simply not true. The objection is to the criminalisation of talk therapy.
Research was funded in a number of EU countries in an attempt to unearth evidence of conversion therapy, of any kind, in order to justify criminalising it. But very few cases were found, and they were almost all about family rejection and threats. The things involved in conversion therapy — abuse, violence, coercion — are already illegal. But that doesn’t juice the imagination quite like the image of someone getting de-gayed via electroconvulsive waves to the brain. Verdict: emotionally manipulative bullshit.
Half of the WHO guidelines drafters are infectious disease specialists
The “trans” activist movement is a marriage of two causes: ye olde sexual fetishists, and the “third genders” of the poor world. The former glommed onto the organisational capacity that was thrown behind the latter. In many parts of the world, there is no “gay men” but just very feminine men who live in a liminal man-woman role, and other men who like to sexually abuse them from a very young age (see story on the Catalunya murder above for a recent very typical example). These man-woman roleplayers are an important high-risk group in HIV prevention. That’s why they got so much money. Or rather, that’s why orgnisations that claim to be able to reach them got so much money.
Undeniable evidence of this — my working theory for the rise of transgender lunacy — can be seen clearly in the makeup of the drafters of the WHO guidelines on gender-affirming care, due to be released any day now. Look at their profiles, and look at the contact email address.
To get the man-woman third genders into clinics to get their long-acting PreP shots (Lenacapavir), which is currently being rolled out, you have to offer these men something they care about, and the thing they care about is tits and hormones so they can keep earning money. This “care” combo is the winning formula. The head of the UK’s Terence Higgins Trust, Richard Angell, let the cat out of the bag when he said AIDS could be ended by “ending the wait in gender-affirming healthcare” at London Pride in 2023.
As part of the United Nations’ UN80 anniversary reconstruction, UNAIDS is being sunsetted, with its work getting absorbed into other agencies. The most important groundwork has been done. If we can just get all these shemale prostitutes on twice-yearly Lenacapavir shots, a major milestone will be reached, and all the things that we’ve had to do to “fight AIDS” will have been worth it: the safe injection sites in residential neighbourhoods. The decriminalisation of prostitution and pimping. The codifying of exotic homophobia. The erasure of sex. Cool cool. Not Pyrrhic at all.
In other news…
German Children Given “Inclusive Brothel” Assignment As Part of “Sexual Education of Diversity” Class - from REDUXX
Georgian man’s punishment for a viral TikTok traffic rant was judged lawful by the European Court of Human Rights. No freedom of expression right has been breached, said the Strasbourg judges.
BBC former senior editor: the world went bonkers over trans so we went bonkers too
Marie Luis Vollbrecht event cancelled because of woke complaints
Faika El-Nagashi: The Austrian left has a problem with antisemitism and misogyny.
Well done to whoever came up with the name Grass Ceiling for this project on women farmers
Gabriel Attal, French presidential candidate, brought up the topic of surrogacy law reform yet again, as a way of distinguishing himself from the rest of the party and potential candidates (Macron drew a “red line” on surrogacy). Attal is currently banging his ex, the EU commissioner for the Single Market
FGM: 30 million more women have had their genitals mutilated than 8 years ago
The European Prize for Women Innovators is open to any man who is “legally defined as a woman”
Amnesty UK: people who claim the Earth is not flat are dangerous and organised
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"The “people with penises” phrasing was an attempt to make it clear who is responsible for almost all sexual violence while at the same time staying on the right side of the Soviet-style speech dictats of the country’s hypersensitive and increasingly deranged gender elites."
If further proof were needed that, if freedom of speech does not apply to every opinion (especially including opinions and speakers that you don't like), then you don't have freedom of speech.
Whenever you seek to give the government new power, ask yourself whether you would be comfortable giving that power to your political enemies. Because, sooner or later, your enemies will get that power.
To my mind, the real "problem" is that Dora drew attention to the third rail at the core of all of this: women aren't allowed to talk about the danger we face from men, generally. The whole "trans" thing is just the newest way to prevent us from talking about it by saying it's "transphobic" and "bigoted." The "Not all men!" cries and the anger at "We choose the bear" is more of the same. I think it *is* the fact that she said "people with penises" that was the touching of the third rail, if you will.