The Weekly Peak

Your first regular roundup of the best and worst of Euro-woke-gender wang

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I will be focussing particular attention on the democracy-destroying NGO-quango-bureaucracy triad that keeps the money flowing to some of the worst causes, and the most faked-consensuses, on the continent. I’ll also cover anything relevant coming out of international fora such as the UN, the CoE, the ECHR, the CJEU… and all the rest of the acronymphs.

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In fact, the reason I decided to launch this weekly news service is because I got fired from my job as a freelance contractor (for the European Commission) because of my opinions on gender identity orthodoxy. So I have a lot of free time on my hands. I also have a lot of ….energy… as your typical scorned ex-employee tends to have. My TERF opinion on the number of human sexes that exist (2) was considered so despicable that I had to be fired with zero notice.

So while I await advice from my fancy (ruthless, dead-eyed, take-no-prisoners) lawyer on what I can and cannot say about the profound institutional capture that led to me getting booted — watch this space — I decided to get this project up and running because what this place needs is a full-time European TERF correspondent.

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This Finnish data is pretty definitive: gender transition doesn’t fix sad kids

This is the big news in GenderLand at the moment: in Finland, young people who underwent medical transition to ‘affirm’ their gender identity didn’t get better, and may have got much worse. Some of the stats are astonishing: 9% of the boys who got ‘feminising’ hormones were mentally unwell before treatment, compared to 60% who were mentally unwell afterwards.

The study is called ‘Psychiatric Morbidity Among Adolescents and Young Adults Who Contacted Specialised Gender Identity Services in Finland in 1996–2019: A Register Study’ and it included 2,000 young gender-distressed people, compared against 16,000 controls. The data spanned 25 years. Bernard Lane has good a breakdown on what the data actually say and here he is addressing the most common criticism/cope on X/Twitter. Just for balance, here’s some trans activist criticism. The mainstream press are doing their best to ignore it for as long as they can, as can be expected.

This data should put the final nail in the coffin of ‘youth gender affirming care’, but it won’t. Too many people have sunk too much cost into it, including those in (very) high places.

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Will Peter Magyar deny the human sex binary in exchange for cash?

One big reason why Peter Magyar defeated Viktor Orban in Sunday’s Hungarian election is because he promised to unblock billions in EU funds that the economy desperately needs. The European Commission wants reforms first, mostly relating to corruption and asylum, before they’re willing to transfer the cash from various funding pots. Among the conditions for unblocking the money is a repeal of some of Orban’s more contentious social innovations, including the definition of sex as being binary, as well as the ban on exposing kids to LGBTIQ+ themes in school and in the media. There are also rulings from the EU’s highest court that directly concern Hungary’s lack of a sex falsification law (Deldits and Shipov) which Orban ignored. The LGBTIQ+ lobbying machine is no doubt currently insisting that their close friends in the Commission make these issues a priority in negotiations with Magyar.

To what extent is Magyar, and Brussels, willing to poke this particular bear, with everything that’s at stake?

Yes, teenage girls are getting breast removal surgery in Europe

People like to think this only happens in the United States’ Wild West healthcare system, but here’s some data that demonstrate that teenage girls closer to home are indeed having their breasts amputated in their impossible quest to stop being female.

Dutch gender clinics carried out mastectomies on 121 girls aged 16 and 17 between 2020 and 2022. Austria had 22 cases (and some kind of surgery on 2 teenage boys) between 2008 and 2022. Swiss authorities reported at least 24 minors having their breasts removed in Swiss hospitals in 2022. This Belgian report shows that at least some mastectomies were carried out in 2024 in the 10-19 age group. Here’s evidence of 5 adolescent girls getting mastectomies in Portugal between 2017 and 2024 (in that same data, we see one under-18 boy had his Adam’s Apple surgically shaved down). A clinic in Poland ‘affirmed’ the inner genders of two 16-year-old girls and three 17-year-old girls by amputating their breasts between 2021 and 2025.

It is increasingly difficult to transition a child in some countries — Ireland, Sweden, the UK, Finland and Denmark, especially — but medical gender tourism — particularly to Poland, Spain, Greece, and Lithuania — is just a Ryanair hop away. All-in packages are proliferating and money is often the only pre-condition. Some of these private clinics, like this German one, are open about their surgeries on teenagers, but others are much more discrete.

I wrote to a particular surgeon in a Europe-based clinic that is well-known among Irish and British women for being loose about pre-op criteria (including things like BMI and smoking cessation). I told the assistant that my 16-year-old female-born ‘son’ is very sad and wants her breasts cut off. No problem. Our first consultation is this week.

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The EU institutions (almost completely) ignored Trans Day of Visibility

There was a noticeable silence on the social media accounts of the various European Commission directorates on this year’s Trans Day of Visibility (31 March) — almost like the Commission hasn’t spent millions in public money advancing transgender ideology for the past decade.

There was nothing from the personal accounts of the Justice Commissioner Michael McGrath, or Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib. Even the youth and sports chud, Maltese Glenn Micallef, didn’t bring it up. The only mention came from the corporate accounts of DG Justice, home of the extremest extremists.

Lack of (public) support shouldn’t be taken to mean the EU is no longer promoting the erasure of sex in law and policy at the EU level. The real damage is not in the public statements— it’s the money that keeps flowing from the programmes CERV, Erasmus+ and Horizon funding that really matters because that cash helps create the illusion of popular public support. There are still plenty of meetings going on behind closed doors.

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Russian women who don’t want kids will have to have their heads checked

If a woman answers ‘zero’ on a patient intake form in response to the question “how many children would you like to have, including those already born?” the Russian Health Ministry is to recommend that she be referred to a psychologist in order to “develop positive attitudes toward having children.” The new guidelines are a recommendation, not mandatory, says the Duma health ministry. Things are about to get extremely gnarly for women in the low-birthrate era and this policy will probably seem laughably tame in the years to come.

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Italy stops splitting voting queues by sex, activists rejoice because symbolic gestures are all that matter

The queues to vote in Italy have traditionally been split by sex (at least since women got the right to vote). When you arrive in a polling station, you have to sort yourself into either uomini or donne. But this was deemed to be a traumatic affront to trans and non-binary people, because they would have to ‘out’ themselves by choosing a queue. Or in the case of ‘non-binary people’ (a thing that isn’t even real), they/them would have no queue to go to. The cruelty!

Thus activist genderloons worked hard to change this bigoted practice, and they were overjoyed last month when the lines to vote in the referendum on judicial reform were desegregated. Progress? Whatever the original (probably sexist) reason for the different lines, it was a handy way to organise the packed and chaotic crowd on the day of the vote. Getting men on one side and women on the other was, some commenters pointed out, a low-tech way to spread the load evenly, and to help figure out quickly who is next in the queue.

In the meantime, Italian women who vote from abroad have always received their ballots with their husbands’ names tacked onto their own (even if they didn’t take their husband’s name when they got married, which many don’t). Fixing this outdated practice would not just be symbolic: it actually poses an obstacle to voting, because an incorrect name prevents women getting their voting documents.

There is no real effort to fix this issue. More evidence that ‘gender’ activism is queer activism, and has nothing to do with women.

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Portugal on track to repeal sex self-ID, a European first

There are two ways to get rid of the bizarre postmodern legal fiction known as self-ID (and its retro cousin, legal gender recognition via the medical model): you can chip away at it via the courts, or you can vote for the party that will fire the entire stupid thing into the sun.

The Portuguese look like they’re about to do the latter: the newly-minted right-wing populist party Chega announced plans to get rid of a 2018 law that allows anyone to change their official sex via a simple declaration. If the law is repealed, it would mean a return to the old system: you will have to jump through a couple of hoops to get your legal documents falsified to declare you the opposite sex.

Read more: Portugal backtracks on gender identity, stops minors from transitioning

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..but wait: didn’t the Portuguese ban ‘conversion therapy’?

Indeed, a ban on ‘conversion therapy’ practices was tacked on to the Portuguese penal code in 2024, making any effort to change or deny someone’s inner gender identity switcheroo punishable by up to 3 years in prison. There is a carve-out in the text for self-exploration of gender identity, perhaps to reassure psychotherapists that they are still free to do their job.

But the punishment for falling foul of a patient’s sex-swap delusions can be severe: not only do doctors risk prison and fines, anyone convicted of conversion therapy involving a minor could lose parental responsibilities (over their own children!) for up to 20 years. Though this amendment got through, no prosecutions have yet been brought yet. If Cheg'a’s bill succeeds (it also bans medical transition for minors), the legal setup will be unique: everyone will be forced to encourage your fantasies about being the opposite sex, except the administrative state.

Read more: Bans on ‘conversion therapy’ in the EU

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Irish MEP includes ‘gender-affirming care’ in women’s health initiative

An Irish member of the European Parliament, Billy Kelleher, is pretending to care about wimmin’s issues, declaring himself particularly vexed about something he calls “End-Dimitri-EYE-tiss”. To tackle this terrible disease, whatever it is, he’s introduced a ‘gender inequalities in health’ initiative. As per usual, it’s another turd in a tuxedo.

While purportedly about women, it’s got the same stone-in-your-shoe that all these initiatives have: the greasy fingerprints of queer activism, specifically the euphemistic 'gender-affirming care’. Kelleher might be eager to please his party-mate back home, the all-in mom Mary Butler, Ireland’s junior minister for health who transed her butch daughter and who now has to trans everything she touches until she dies.

The main question, of course, is does Kelleher’s initiative even matter? It depends. It’s not a law, just a recommendation. The main use for these things is advocacy by NGOs. But if you follow their natural course you’ll notice that documents like this often snowball, given enough time, into legislation. So in a few years from now, when forearm free-flap phalloplasty for sad lesbians gets written into law you can thank Billy Kelleher for getting it off the ground.

Worryingly, it is potentially related to the EU Commission’s planned collaboration with the WHO on some women’s health/gender health gap strategy (which looks mainly like an abortion rights workaround). Whatever the case may be, the WHO is utterly ideologically captured and anything they produce will pander to trans ideologues, with no regard for any destructive effects on women’s dignity and rights.

I will livestream the meeting in which the report will be discussed, on 22 or 23 June. You’ll find it in my pinned tweet on the day. In the meantime, can check out the insane trans activist and gender critical amendments-war in the document itself.

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It’s been one year since the UK highest court confirmed that women exist. Nobody cares.

On 15 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court confirmed: the word ‘woman’ has a biological meaning in law. Cool. Then what happened? Well, not much. According to Sex Matters, organisations from rape crisis centres to community venues, to sports federations and even services catering to extremely intellectually-disabled children are STILL not providing single-sex services, all in the name of ‘diversity’.

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The entire Lydia Foy story is an elaborate lie

Lydia Foy is Ireland’s go-to trans sob story, but an infuriating fake-out that seems to have benefitted only Irish legal entrepreneurs and nobody else — especially not his family. Watch/listen to the latest Lydia Foy propaganda, in this recording I made with some Irish TERFs last month.

In other news…

• World Darts kicks men out of the women’s league but you wouldn’t know it from the headlines

• French *sports* minister says the IOC ruling is a step backwards for… I don’t know, transvestites?

• German gender doctor tries to silence TERF, loses her job instead

• German neo-Nazi transvestite fails to show up for prison, found on the run in Czech Republic

• Europeans launch an Reddit-like safe(r) space called ‘Oleta’

• The EU is about to pump billions more than usual into compliant media and the arts. Be very afraid.

• Trump is letting millions of dollars worth of contraceptives expire in a Belgian warehouse

• EU appoints an envoy for religion and belief — for people outside the EU.

• Belgian MP introduces bill to stop giving development aid to Senegal until they repeal anti-gay law

• Increase in requests for assisted death from minors in the Netherlands

• The top two French players in French women’s second division basketball league are men

• Feminist activist jailed for ‘God is a lesbian’ t-shirt, Betty Lachgar, is very sick.

• Big Lad Imane Khelif goes Pro in women’s league, but first match cancelled due to injury.

• Homonationalism and femonationalism increasingly present in mainstream French discourse

• Reduxx reports: trans cafe attracted creeps, bizarrely, and had to shut down due to sexual assaults.

• Also Reduxx (also Germany): Trans-Identified Male Sues Women’s Gym Over Membership Cancellation, ‘No Penis’ Policy

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