#31: WOMEN ARE THE "FIRST VICTIMS" OF GENDER IDEOLOGY SAYS MELONI
Belgium approves assisted suicide for rape victim + gender critic investigated by police + France's "thin blue line" witch hunt + MORE!
MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY ARE ROOTED IN BODIES
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni dove into the gender debate once again by affirming her belief that the concepts of “male and female” are rooted in biological fact and not self identification.
In an interview with the weekly outlet Grazia, Meloni criticized the progressive movement's belief that gender is a social construct and can be fluid.
“Today the unilateral right to proclaim oneself a woman or a man is being claimed beyond any path, surgical, pharmacological and even administrative. Masculinity and femininity are rooted in bodies and it is an incontrovertible fact", said Meloni.
She went on to emphasize that gender is determined solely by biological sex arguing that any attempt to suggest otherwise would ultimately harm women's rights and security.
“Today, to be a woman, one claims that it is enough to proclaim oneself as such , in the meantime we work to erase the body , the essence, the difference. Women are the first victims of gender ideology. Many feminists think so too,” said Meloni.
The mainstream media has largely sought to demonize Meloni, despite being Italy’s first woman prime minister.
“I have always believed that women have a great autonomous strength that must be freed from the thousand obstacles that cage it but also from the taboos of to which women themselves often become victims,” said Meloni.
“They don't believe they can compete with men and end up competing with each other, convinced that there is a lower level to which to relegate their skills.”
BELGIUM APPROVES ASSISTED SUICIDE FOR RAPE VICTIM
Nathalie Huygens, a 50-year-old mother who was a victim of rape in 2016, has been granted permission to undergo assisted suicide in Belgium. A group of medical experts have acknowledged the severe psychological trauma she has been facing since the horrific incident.
Euthanasia has been legal in Belgium since 2002. Huygens was sexually assaulted by a man while on an early morning jog. She was brutally beaten to the point of having her jaw broken.
“If I had known at that moment what existence would await me from that moment, I would have run after him and I would have said to him: ‘Kill me',” she told the outlet
“I really thought I was going to get through this. I finally realized that a part of me was dead.”
Huygens suffers from panic attacks, depression and anxiety preventing her from eating with her family or sleeping with her husband. She has also attempted suicide.
"In these more than six years, apart from sleeping, there isn't a half hour in which I don't think about what happened to me,” said Huygens.
“I can no longer eat hard foods, my left eye always hurts”.
Huygens is supported by her son.
GENDER CRITIC BEING INVESTIGATED BY POLICE
Sabine Mertens, the creator of the "No more gender language in administration and education" initiative, is currently being investigated by the Hamburg police after being criminally reported for an alleged insult.
The complaint was made by an anonymous individual, and the investigation is thought to relate to comments made by Mertens during a conversation with an outlet in February discussing the LGBT community.
“If we are all supposed to be gay, lesbian and trans now, then evolution is over," said Mertens at the time.
She also claimed that the language of gender ideology was a PR effort for the LGBT movement and that "men and women are normally attracted to the opposite sex.”
Mertens’ comments were raised in parliament with some parties on the left accusing Mertens of being homophobic.
MEDIA REPORT LEADS TO “THIN BLUE LINE” WITCH HUNT
The use of the thin blue line symbol by police officers in France has raised concerns with the national gendarmerie's ethics officer.
General Alain Pidoux, who heads the General Inspectorate of the National Gendarmerie (IGGN), sent out an alert urging units to be vigilant about their troops' use of the symbol.
The alert came shortly after the left-wing outlet Libération wrote a report exposing officers who donned the patch on their social media accounts.
“In February 2021, I had been asked, as an ethics officer, to issue an opinion on the wearing, on service uniforms, of the emblem of the movement ‘The Thin Blue Line”,” wrote Pidoux.
“Today, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this opinion remains completely valid, and that it is not useless to make the necessary reminders and, if necessary, to note the consecutive shortcomings both in the port of a non-regulatory badge on the uniform, but also to the violation of the duty of reserve and neutrality.”
Pidoux had urged officers to not wear the patch a few years before.
He also went on to cite the Jan. 6 riots, claiming that the patch was affiliated. He then ordered that police “remove this emblem which, in any case, is not regulatory”.
20,000 UKRAINIAN REFUGEES RETURNED HOME FROM FRANCE
Last year approximately 120,000 Ukrainian refugees were granted protection in France, and of that number, approximately 20,000 have already returned to their home country or to countries bordering Ukraine.
The trend seems to throw a wrench into predictions that Ukrainians would integrate and settle in Western Europe due to cultural affinities.
Displaced Ukrainians, however, are not indicating they wish to settle for the long term in other countries.
“When she realized last summer that the war was going to last, Julia decided to return to Ukraine with her son to find her husband,” explained Ayyam Sureau who heads a reception centre for refugees.
“It may seem counter-intuitive to us. But there is a logic: you go home when you understand that it's not a small matter, you want to be with your loved ones. Even if it means putting yourself in danger.”