Ivan Waters

@TheGreenParty I like Zack. But he is robotic - a kind of walking tape machine spouting forth the same old. His cliched recitations sound tired. Is there a real Zack in there? Is his authenticity now evaporating? Actor, hypnotist, politician was such a predictable progression

Green voices standing with the Together Alliance on the streets of London — united against the far right. Hope will win.

"Hear the wild story of the trans ideology sweeping across the country. Anne Kalvig bullied out of her job, Tonje Gjevjon called in for questioning. Because they believe there are two sexes and men can't be lesbians. Do they belong to the 'hard right'?" youtube.com/watch?v=h_lgtz…

Dear Phoebe, I read your Observer piece this morning on the reported “exodus” from Girlguiding - and I was genuinely shocked. Not because you presented a different perspective to my recent Telegraph reporting on the problems within Girlguiding. That’s part of journalism. But because you chose to include the case of a six-year-old little boy who reportedly tried to cut off his own penis - after being told he couldn't be part of Rainbows (the section of Girlguiding for 5–7 year olds). Presenting it as evidence of a problem with Girlguiding’s admissions policy. It is not. It is a deeply distressing account involving a very young child - and, on any view, a serious welfare concern. Framing it otherwise is a profound failure of editorial judgement. You also refer to this male child throughout using female pronouns, including the phrase “her penis”. I appreciate this may reflect current editorial conventions. But it sits uneasily with the basic duty of a journalist to report clearly and accurately on material facts. I was already aware of this case through my own reporting for the Sunday Telegraph. I made a conscious decision not to include it at this stage - both because a minor is involved and because of the ethical considerations that arise when reporting on such sensitive situations. Those considerations are not optional. You will know, as I do, that journalism is not simply about presenting competing narratives. It is about establishing facts clearly, handling vulnerable subjects with care and exercising judgement about what should - and should not - be used to advance an argument. I trained as a journalist in the early 2000s - a good 20 years earlier than you did - but to my knowledge nothing has changed. Good journalism should bring clarity. It should not muddy the facts - in order to promote an ideological position. In this context, that means being clear about sex - a material fact that is both legally and practically relevant. I appreciate you may be under pressure from colleagues or editors to frame stories in a particular way - or to use she/her pronouns, or the phrase “her penis”. But that doesn’t make it right. Earlier this week, the Manchester Evening News reported a violent murder as being committed by a woman - one of many examples of inaccurate reporting around sex and gender. In this case, even the Crown Prosecution Service - the public body responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in England and Wales - also reported the crime inaccurately. So that’s two professions we should be able to trust to tell the truth - providing inaccurate information. Crime statistics matter. Without accurate data on who is committing serious violence, we cannot properly understand it - let alone prevent it. I considered raising this privately, or writing to your editor. But this issue is too important to be brushed aside with a “thank you for your feedback”. I’m happy to discuss it with you privately, or to support a conversation with your editor if that would be helpful. But I hope this gives you - and your colleagues - serious pause for thought. Because it is very much needed. Janet

Why are these parents lying to their little boy, clearly signalling to him that there is something wrong with his body rather than reassuring him that he is perfect just the way he is? And why did Girlguiding ever play along with this cruel deception?

I totally reject the notion that Mahr's response to my paper represents a legitimate, equal alternative to my view that many aspects of reality are mind-independent. We are not merely "talking past each other" from different epistemological starting points. Mahr's view is actually incoherent and at odds with everything we know about material reality. And the fact that I even have to respond to such thorough nonsense is truly shocking. These ideas have no place in academia because they have no guardrails whatsoever. There is no limiting principle or empirical anchor that makes them self-correcting over a long enough timescale like the sciences. This means that, over time, these fields actually get more, not less, disconnected from reality. And then they start infecting legitimate fields like biology and try to tear down legitimate knowledge. These fields rooted in Critical Theory are totally fraudulent. They have no place in academia and do not deserve to be supported with taxpayer dollars.

This is spectacularly irresponsible reporting by @ObserverUK and by Phoebe Davis. If a six-year old is trying to cut off his penis, then this is a reflection of severe dysfunction within the family/broader system within which he is operating. It is a form of self-harm by a child who doesn't have the verbal skills, or sufficient neurocognitive/emotional development to communicate his distress in a more adaptive and normative way. My first guess is someone is sexually abusing him and he has no other way to express his distress. Or, it could be he is witnessing domestic violence. Or, his nan or grandad (or dog), just died. Or, he's frightened by something he saw on TV or online. Or, he is scared of going to school. Or, he is scared of peeing/using the toilet. Or, he has a urine infection or some other undiagnosed physical illness. Or, he has an abnormality of development and he is in pain. Or, (most likely), his crazy parents simply convinced him that he is a girl! The point is, there are a myriad of reasons why this is happening and this child (and his parents), should be immediately assessed; first by a doctor (to rule out physical causes); and, then by a clinical psychologist, and/or a family therapist for a comprehensive, systemic evaluation. But I can say with complete certainty as someone who has spent 30 years working in child protection, is that the underlying causes of this little boy trying to castrate himself have nothing whatsoever to do with him not being able to join the bloody Rainbows. And writing stupid, irresponsible, scaremongering stories like this and calling him a 's/her' is not helping the situation! Or him.

A few crazy things about this race and the climate at the time. -Melissa Bishop would have been a legend without the DSD athletes. Olympic Gold, World Champ, and a WC silver. -You'd talk to a lot of elite mid-distance women behind the scenes for years and they'd be pissed off, but afraid to get reamed in the media for doing so. Or just realizing that nothing would change. -Canada's head coach who was told after Bishop finished 4th at the Olympics by a lawyer for the Canadian Olympic committee "‘You say one thing about this, I’m going to make sure you’re banned for life in all sports.’” -Lyndsey Sharp did speak up and got torn apart in the media, so the fear was real. It was just a wild time. And many women lost a lot of money and glory because of it.

@LoudBonnet @KPCoach1 We were told by trusted sources such as the BBC that these were simply ‘masculine’ women with a medical condition. We trusted them to be telling the truth even though, if we’d scratched even the surface of the science we’d have seen they were lying then. Just as they lie now.

@PeterTatchell This is entirely untrue, Peter. Do your research - and don't be taken in by trans lies. They're making a fool of you.

Olympic ban on all trans women competing in women’s events is unjustified They’ve no unfair advantage if they’ve had hormone treatment It reduces muscle mass, bone density & physical strength & endurance. Their performance declines to that of ‘biological’ women Individual assessment. No blanket ban @TransLucent_Org @TransITCUK @Mams4Trans @Transgendertrd @TransgenderNews @TransActionBloc @TransPride @LDNtranspride @TransNewsDesk @Mermaids_Gender @BobbityP @TransYouth @transgreens @RuthDavidsonPC @hillarytaylorvi @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty @rachelmillward @MothinAli @LgbtqIndia @BuzzFeedLGBTQ @lgbtiqa_greens @LGBTIQAGreenLon @LGBTIQRights @LindaRiley8 @DIVAmagazine @glaad @HRC @hilarypepper @CliffJoannou @benjaminbutter

Civil servants are entitled to their private views, including opposition to the collection of data on sex. But these radical anti-scientific views should not be allowed to influence their work. scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/…

Thank you to @DailyMail for hearing me out. Ive been detransitioning in secret since 2022. This Article bearly touches on safegaurding risks I experienced in my classroom in Junior cycle. If I ever do speak about it what happened, It will send unshakable shivers down your spine.

The Daily Mail has spoken to three members of Mr Polanski’s extended family – none of whom now talk to him. ‘He’s currently the leader of the future Islamic party of Britain, that’s what the Green Party is fast becoming,’ said one. ‘And there would be no place for Jews in an Islamic state of Britain.’ But family members have described their shock at how the former actor and hypnotist has become leader of a party expressing hatred for Israel. ‘If the Zionism-is-racism motion is passed it will make the Greens the most anti-Semitic party in British history since Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists,’ said a second relation. ‘The idea of it is one of the most sickening things I’ve heard in a long time.’ A third family member said: ‘The mad thing is that he’s gay, he’s Jewish but he’s cosying up to people whose ideology is the complete antithesis of everything that he’s supposed to stand for. It’s like he’s a chicken, telling us to vote for KFC.’ dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

For dim witted journalists & handmaidens… wada is the world anti doping agency, used to stop athletes getting the smallest unfair advantage, as an athlete you have to agree to multiple tests, every year. They watch you pee. A once in a lifetime sex test takes 10 seconds.. it’s a cotton bud to the inside of your cheek. 80% of female Olympians polled in 1998 wished it to continue the ioc ignored them. After over 60 males have stolen medals & places from females since 2000, today that percentage would be very much higher.

@GBNEWS What a sad and moronic age we live in. The Enlightenment was all for nothing.

Trans-owned bookshop invites customers to deface JK Rowling's Harry Potter books gbnews.com/news/trans-own…

@thewinterdollx Between 50 to 60 athletes who went through MALE puberty have been finalists in the FEMALE category in global & continental track and field championships since 2000” No wonder female athletes have overwhelmingly supported sex screening! theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep…

@OliLondonTV Astronishing levels of corruption and irrationality are driving these organisations. We live in dangerous - and decisive - times.

Over 100 human rights and scientific organizations condemn IOC banning MEN from women’s sports. The organizations have called the new rule “a blunt and discriminatory response that is not supported by science and violates international human rights law.” Source: Guardian

@TakedownMRAs @HarshaWalia Ha ha. You already sent this to me - several days ago. Do you have templates you have to abide by? They're risible. Left wing is a total mystery to you. And factually your dispatches are some distance from reality and the truth. Please cancel my subscription asap. Thank you.

@waters_ivan @HarshaWalia lol, Men's Rights Activists are on your side, along with the rest of the far right. That's why every feminist, LGBTQI, and human rights group called you goons out and anti-fascists keep showing up to protest you 😂

"International Olympic Committee has banned transgender women & DSD athletes from female category of events at 2028 LA Olympics and future Games" This is fascist hate maintaining patriarchal gender norms rooted in white supremacy. theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar…

The IOC just announced their policy on DSD and trans athletes in the female category. Let's skip the outrage and go with the scientific facts: The modern debate started almost 20 years ago with the rise of DSD athletes who were winning world/Olympics (See: Semenya and others). It came to a head when DSD athletes swept the podium. The had the single biggest performance boost we can get, androgenization. Something that none of their competitors could ever have. So debates commenced... It's important to put in context how big a boost males get from simply being males. It's a larger boost in performance than if you were Lance Armstrong or Barry Bonds and hopped up on all the performance enhancing drugs known to man. That's how large it is. It's why from 100 meters to races hundreds of miles long, the performance differential is generally 10-15%. Even larger in some strength events. Every male gets this boost. It doesn't men all men beat all women, of course. There's significant overlap in performance. My wife is going to better than 99% of men in distance running. But...that boost gives each male a 10+% jump in performance that no female ever gets. We can see it in the athletic data and the progressions of men and women at puberty. So...governing bodies and experts debated what to do about it. Women were losing millions of dollars in total to folks who had a male androgenization advantage. We went from doing nothing, not much of a real policy to eventually instituting testosterone rules. THe thinking was, testosterone can be a surrogate marker. It also gave DSD athletes a venue to still compete in the male category. They could lower their T to typical female levels, and still race. There were a few problems with this. First, it obviously only took into account CURRENT T levels. A large part of the boost comes from androgens through a lifetime. Second, this was challenged in court by DSD athletes. It was a long process that led to some strange policies along the way (for instance, rules only applied to certain event groups). It was tricky to regulate and be fair, and telling someone they had to have a medical intervention to compete came with ethical issues. So that was eventually scrapped. I'm simplifying and summarizing years long backs and forth, obviously. Track and field moved to the policy the IOC just adopted a year ago. Using the SRY test as a screener. Why? It was simpler, straightforward and applied to all females, so their wasn't a separate DSD and trans policy. It also put the dividing line for segregating sports by sex instead of a surrogate marker. It's a one time screener, and then with specific follow up if potential DSD. There's an exception for CAIS athletes because androgenization has little to no effect on them. So they do not have an advantage. So what? I've seen this policy framed as immoral, fascist, and even nazism...which is crazy... But the point is...it's a result of 20 years of debate, research, and trying to figure out a solution to a tricky problem. There's a lot of people who don't know or are ignorant to the decades this has been going on. Why is it important to separate sports based on sex? Because it's the biggest performance boost we could get. If we didn't, there would be zero professional women athletes in an open category. That's how big the gap is. And I for one value and think women deserve the spotlight to compete and show off their hard work and talent. I've spent my life coaching women at the elite level to do so. You might here people say it's a ban. It's not. Every athlete still has a place to compete. You can do so in the category that matches your biology, in open events, or recreational events that this does not apply to. A rough analogy: Longevity guru Bryan Johnson can't compete in the under 18 category no matter what age score his crazy metrics say he is. We have categories and classification to ensure everyone has a chance to compete. Yes, we pick what categories are important. But it's hard to argue that sex isn't a very important one. So there you have it. It's been 20 years in the making. It started with DSD athletes with an androgen advantage winning championships and has evolved from there. It's not perfect. Nothing is. We've debated, shifted policies, etc. But lots of smart folks and researchers have been trying to figure out a just and fair solution for a long time.

Dr. Olson-Kennedy was given millions in grants to study the impact of ‘gender affirming care’ on patient’s mental wellbeing and if puberty blockers and cross sex hormones helped their mental health in the long(er) run. She finished her study and the results were dismal so she buried the findings. She said the data would be used against gender affirming policies. She also said if a teenager got her breasts removed and regretted it later, she could just get implants. This woman made a fortune off of chemically sterilizing and stunting the healthy development of confused teenagers. Lock. Her. Up.

I hate that we’re two dudes having this conversation, but since you apparently don’t value the choices of women, let me try to get through to you: Young girls/young women often feel vulnerable, anxious, self conscious. One of the purposes of groups like Girl Guides is to foster friendships and strengths through similarity: sharing common experiences, vulnerabilities and dreams. Girls and women have unique experiences that men cannot understand, and vice versa. As these girls approach puberty they often become even more self conscious, particularly about their bodies and physicality. They can become awkward, shy or even introverted. In Girl Guides there will be dressing, bathing, changing rooms, and sleeping together in close quarters like tents. The added tension of boys in these spaces may well cause significant discomfort, or even self-exclusion, for many of these girls. Female spaces exist for this very reason: to protect the privacy, dignity and safety of females. Why would you place the needs of a tiny minority of confused boys above the time-proven necessity of women to have safe spaces? Why can you find empathy for a confused boy, but not for a vulnerable or self conscious girl?