Catherine 🐉 🕷

Bits & pieces about my day & a lot about Matt Baker!

[AC_SPARTAN @ACSPARTAN1]

A paedophile who changed gender while in prison for sexually abusing their own daughter as a child and sending explicit photos of her to perverts online has been quietly released back into the community.

Claire Fox, 61, who was previously known as Clive Bundy, who has six kids, served just seven years of a 15-year jail sentence, before being settled into a tiny market town on the Welsh borders.

Fox, who wears a black wig and floral dresses told neighbours, who knew nothing of fox's sordid past, that fox was an electrician from Bangor as they helped get settled into fox's new surroundings and helped furnish her flat.

Fox arrived in a sheltered accommodation block for older people in a tiny town at the start of June.

Fox was given new furniture, a television, printer, washing machine and crockery by the armed forces charity SSAFA because fox had once been in the Territorial Army.

Fox’s release from prison has appalled the daughter Ceri-Lee Galvin, who bravely waived her right to anonymity, having been abused by her father for nine years from the age of eight.

Revealing her astonishment, Ceri-Lee, 24, said: ‘My father is not a woman and I refuse to recognise him as such. He changed his gender in prison to make his life there easier.

‘But now he is out and already up to his usual tricks conning everyone he meets.
‘The fact he is now dressed as a woman makes him more dangerous as young girls are his thing and he has never shown any remorse.

‘My father is a highly manipulative man who has attended no sexual offender rehabilitation programmes, shown no remorse for what he has done and openly admits finding children attractive.

‘There have been no meetings I’m aware of to tell local schools about his presence, he has no tag and no curfew. He has just been put into this community and given all he could wish for – food, furniture and a home.’

Ceri-Lee, now a student paramedic, added: ‘I am in no way transphobic and I feel incredibly sorry for people who genuinely need to transition. They face stigma and worse because of cases like this.

‘But it should just not be an option for those convicted of sexual offences against children to suddenly say that they want to be a woman.

‘This only arose at the end of 2021 when he was due to be moved to an open prison but then had a fight with a fellow prisoner that was serious enough to stop the move.

‘That is when he went for the gender change – when he was almost 60, having been a macho man all his life and having had eight children and having never mentioned gender dysphoria before.

‘Now he is being indulged by everyone. The prison service gave him make-up and women’s clothes and now a charity for the armed forces have provided him with so much stuff when all he did was a short stint in the Territorial Army in his 20s.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

Currently, over 90 MPs (who are not from Reform) have signed an EDM in which they want to reject guidance protecting gay people.

Many of them also want to repeal the parts of the EA which refer to sex & sexual orientation. I'd worry about them as well, Harry.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Thank you to @DoubleDownNews for highlighting @thenerve_news’s Palantir reporting. This show with @PulaRJS is great new addition to UK media’s small but growing indie news ecosystem.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE REPORTED CHILD ABUSE 181 TIMES. BRITAIN SAID NOT NOW, THANKS.

Sara Rowbotham was an NHS sexual health coordinator in Rochdale. Between 2005 and 2011 she filed 181 detailed referrals to Greater Manchester Police and social services.

Each one named victims. Each one described systematic rape and trafficking of girls as young as 11. Each one went nowhere.

She was not ignored because the evidence was weak. She was ignored because the evidence was inconvenient.

Authorities labelled her not credible. Her team was dismissed. The official reason given for inaction was community cohesion.

Read that again.

Community cohesion. While children were being passed between men like property, the priority was keeping things quiet.

She was made redundant in 2014.

A 2024 independent review confirmed every referral she filed was credible, substantive and appropriately communicated. The same review identified 96 men still considered an active risk to children. Still out there. In 2024. Because the original response scraped only the surface and called it a job done.

Five police officers refused to cooperate with the review. They were not charged. They were not recalled. They retired on pensions.

Sara Rowbotham got an MBE.

The system that failed 181 times got a press release about lessons learned.

If this does not alarm you, you have not understood it yet.

@BBC @guardian @AndyBurnhamGM

[Emily Wilding Davison🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Wommando]

🚨 MAN CAUGHT FILMING WOMAN IN DUNDEE OLYMPIA MIXED SEX"CHANGING VILLAGE"

Craig Ellingford, 44, caught using his phone to secretly film a woman undressing in Dundee's Olympia leisure centre, has walked free.

CCTV shows the pervert watching the woman enter a cubicle in the venue's "changing village", checking if anyone was around, then "tiptoeing" into the adjacent cubicle.

The woman spotted a phone being held under the divider and pointed towards her. When challenged, Ellingford reportedly fled the scene.

The victim was left visibly shaken, distressed and close to tears.

Ellingford was ordered 165 hours of unpaid work and added to the sex offenders register for just NINE MONTHS. 9 months? Ridiculous!

🚫 This is far from an isolated case and just one of the reasons women's single sex spaces are vital.

Voyeurism offences have been reported in mixed-sex "changing villages" across the UK. They are a gift to perverts, and continued access coupled with pathetic, lenient sentences like this, they will continue. Appalling.

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

To all the straight idiots doing the “happy pride month, we’re inclusive the EHRC are awful” schtick

A group of lesbians literally had to intervene in the Supreme Court to stop trans activists destroying the same sex orientation protected characteristic

You idiots

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

When the BlackRock CEO says the quiet part out loud, it stops being a “conspiracy theory.”

How did this quote not break the internet?

[Jane, Empress of the Known Universe (not GP)🏳️‍🌈 @blablafishcakes]

Photo-story. Man gets unexpected reception from women shoppers after he's caught taking photographs of little girls in changing rooms at Castle Point shopping centre in Bournemouth.

Makes sad face when he realises he's f*cked around and been found out.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

@toadmeister In 2020, in fact. https://t.co/nuGRxRd6zp

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Stuart Campbell of Wings over Scotland broke the Murrell scandal in 2021 – and the story was ignored by every mainstream Scottish journalist he contacted. The Scottish media’s failure is damning, writes Philip Patrick. https://t.co/8OqHweEUJp

[Matilda Gosling @matildagosling]

If you were a council consulting on a new pool with an ‘inclusive’ mixed-sex changing village, and local residents responded to say (with evidence) that it places women and girls at risk of voyeurism and assault, how would you respond?

If you were @BrightonHoveCC, you would quietly* finalise and approve the mixed-sex changing village.🧵

[Jo Bartosch @jo_bartosch]

I spoke to a Maudsley whistleblower who says safeguarding was “overridden by transgender ideology” for years before a female patient was raped after being placed on a male ward. One of her final warnings came in the same month the attack took place.
https://t.co/37RptMqJTC

[Jane, Empress of the Known Universe (not GP)🏳️‍🌈 @blablafishcakes]

Hey @marksandspencer - have you seen this?

This is the kind of approach you need to be taking. Learn a lesson from Selfridges...

https://t.co/wf0KFDEn5m

[Polly Clark @MsPollyClark]

There’s no good spin to put on this, is there?

[Jacob Freedland @JacobAD82]

EXC

SNP funds embezzled by Peter Murrell included taxpayer money

Sturgeon ex-husband had access to £2.2m+ over 12 years from grants from the UK-wide Electoral Commission

Means bags, cars & jewellery and could have been bought with money from taxpayers, not just members

[Sall Grover @salltweets]

Today, I was given a permanent ban of posting on my Facebook page, @Meta. The page can exist - apparently - but I am not allowed to post on it anymore. The page has been deemed controversial due to the Giggle v Tickle case and increased popularity of 25,000 new followers in a week. I don't want to labor the irony of being banned on a social networking platform while fighting in court for the right to ban men from a woman only social networking platform, it is what it is. Frankly, I'd love to have the same right that you do, @Meta.

Women are routinely punished for not accepting men as women. It doesn't turn those men into women. Nothing will.

[Eithan Haim MD @EithanDHaimMD]

Canadian doc meets a 45yo Crohn’s patient one time outside a coffee shop, decides to euthanize him.

One of the reasons - "didn’t have an active social network."

Drives the guy to an industrial funeral prep facility and murders him.

Family wasn’t told, couldn't even say goodbye. Yet, the only consequence is a verbal reprimand and 6 months supervision.

When the State imposes such a high burden of inhuman indignity on its citizens, those citizens have an obligation to repay that imposition with one of their own - the cost can be nothing less than the life of a petty tyrant.

[Genevieve Gluck @WomenReadWomen]

Maryland police arrested 44-year-old Tshikundi Taty after discovering him disguised in a wig and posing as a woman in order to access women's gym locker rooms.

Investigators say he spent hours in health clubs, including OneLife Fitness in Germantown and Planet Fitness in White Oak, to secretly record women in the shower.

[teresa smith @treesey]

Still no single sex therapeutic provision for women who’ve been raped in Brighton