I am being sued for defamation in the High Court by Paul Carruthers. The claim seeks damages of up to £65,000, together with an injunction and legal costs.
The case arises from a livestream I made in July 2025 following a court judgment concerning the Gender Plus Hormone Clinic and the CQC. I was talking, angrily and robustly, about what I regard as the medical abuse of children.
I have said for years that transitioning children is profound abuse. I believe children cannot meaningfully consent to interventions that may affect healthy bodies, sexual development, sexual function and fertility. I will continue to campaign about that.
Carruthers now heads the Gender Plus Hormone Clinic. Gender Plus's own website says its hormone service is available from the age of 16, and describes Carruthers as Director of the clinic and leader of its endocrine pathway. Carruthers is publicly described as a gay man and elsewhere as transgender. I have not independently verified Carruthers’ biological sex. I am, of course, a sex-based campaigner who believes that sex is immutable.
The central legal dispute is about meaning.
One of the passages relied upon in the claim was:
“If you want to know how paedophiles successfully managed to ingratiate themselves into positions of power, this is how. It's just unbelievable.”
Carruthers says that those words were a personal allegation about Carruthers.
I dispute that. I was not talking about Carruthers when I made that comment. I did not intend to say, or imply, that Paul Carruthers is a paedophile or has a sexual interest in children.
The context of the livestream matters. I had been discussing the CQC, the Cass Review, regulatory loopholes and how institutions allow people to gain positions of influence. Immediately afterwards I returned to the court judgment. The claimant's solicitors themselves have proposed that the High Court determine the meaning of the words as a preliminary issue.
When I was first challenged about the video, I ensured it was removed from public view and offered a public clarification and apology concerning the disputed implication, together with an undertaking not to repeat it. I did not want litigation. I tried to resolve the dispute.
Proceedings were nevertheless issued, and I now have to defend myself.
I do not have the resources to fund unlimited High Court litigation. I am therefore acting as a litigant in person, with the assistance of a McKenzie Friend, and I intend to obtain specialist defamation advice and barrister assistance at the stages where it is most important and where the funds allow.
That still costs money. A complicated High Court case requires many hours of preparation: understanding procedure, responding properly to the Particulars of Claim, organising evidence, preparing documents and bundles, researching the law, corresponding with the other side and preparing for hearings. Specialist legal advice and advocacy will add substantially to that.
I would never ask people to fund me to go looking for somebody to sue. I am the defendant. This fight was brought to me.
If necessary, I will stand in the High Court and represent myself. I understand that litigation carries genuine risks and that I could lose. What I want is enough professional support and specialist advice to make sure I understand those risks and put forward the best defence I properly can.
I am also going to be careful about what I publish while proceedings are live. This fundraiser is not an attempt to try the case on social media or encourage anyone to contact or target the claimant. The legal questions belong in court.
But the wider principle matters enormously to me.
People must be able to criticise medicine, regulators and powerful institutions, particularly where children are concerned. Free speech cannot become something only wealthy people can afford to defend.
If the financial price of defending controversial speech becomes ruinous, you don't need to formally ban people from speaking. Fear will do the job instead.
I am profoundly grateful to everyone who has already supported me. Every donation will help pay for the practical and specialist legal assistance I need to defend these proceedings.
I didn't seek this case.
But I intend to defend it.
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@SolaDrip@CatholicDrip___ 67% of Catholics were honest, compared to 48% Protestant.Confession and understanding the true weight of a lie are powerful disincentives for sin.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Iranian woman goes BERSERK on a smug white liberal who is supporting the Islamic regime
"Convince me of WHAT? Of R*PE?! Of women not having rights?! I am Iranian, I've been imprisoned by that regime!"
"Iranians are ASKING for the bombs! Iranian youth are asking to be bombed, and you are standing here SUPPORTING a terrorist regime! What are you DOING supporting a terrorist regime?!"
*Lib spouts off about Palestine*
"This has NOTHING to do with Palestine. This is about a terrorist regime in MY COUNTRY."
"I can't even go see my father's grave!!"
Mad props to this woman! White liberals are clueless, all over the world.
H/t @patriot_apranik
Reform’s Immigration and Justice spokesperson, Ann Widdecombe, was brutally murdered two months ago by a suspect who had communist literature.
Now a Restore activist was hospitalised by Stand Up to Racism thugs.
Far-left extremism is a threat not talked about enough.
EMERGENCY ALERT: CITY RAIL LINK — PEE-STAINED SEATS & FALLING-APART STITCHING 🚨🚨🚨
@AklTransport — what the hell is this ?
You’ve opened a brand-new City Rail Link and put passengers on trains with seats that look like they’ve been peed on in a public toilet. And the stitching looks like it’s already coming apart at the seams.
Take a good, hard look at these photos.
We were told 72 older units were “fully refurbished” and made CRL-ready. ARE YOU SERIOUS !?
FULLY REFURBISHED ? That phrase is doing some absolutely heroic heavy lifting.
Changing lights and door sensors does not constitute a refurbishment.
Seats that are stained, filthy and look like they’ve spent years in a public toilet are not acceptable on a supposedly upgraded fleet.
And I sincerely hope these seats are NOT from the 23 brand-new CAF units delivered in 2026 !
Because if Auckland has just spent hundreds of millions of dollars delivering a supposedly world-class underground rail link, only to sit passengers on fabric that looks like it has already been used as a urinal, then this isn't a minor “teething issue”.
It is an embarrassment !!
Passengers should not have to wonder whether the seat they’re sitting on is actually clean.
Clean the bloody trains. Replace the filthy upholstery. Fix the stitching. And stop dressing up basic maintenance as a “refurbishment”.
If this is what “upgraded” means, Aucklanders deserve to know exactly what they paid for.
Do NOT tell us these are the new or upgraded trains. Show us.
@NZNationalParty@1NewsNZ@cjsbishop@MayorWayneBrown@chrisluxonmp@nzherald@radionz
Tamatha Paul used her speech on the Treaty of Waitangi (Standardisation) Amendment Bill, to repeatedly call Don Brash a crusty old fart, resulting in the Speaker terminating the rest of her speech.
Then she filmed herself in her office, laughing and saying it again. Nothing on the bill - just doubling down on the personal insult.
This is the standard of behaviour from the number four ranked candidate of Labour’s coalition partner.
@JawsomeJoe@JournoMaddie That's the same way we feel about liberal, woke POMs, Americans and Canadians that infiltrate NZ parliament and other state sector positions. Taxpayer funded leeches with an ideology destroying our country.
@gaye_ess Because when Labour is a close 2nd in the electorate it comes down to basic math. National drop below the Lab candidate, say NZF increases to a not so distant 3rd or unlikely 2nd and Labour get the seat and may create the hang over numbers. Will party vote NZF but other is risky
Denkt dran, Leute:
Weiße Südafrikaner gehören selbst nach 400 Jahren angeblich nicht nach Südafrika.
Weiße Amerikaner gelten selbst nach 500 Jahren noch als Invasoren in Amerika.
Aber der illegale Migrant aus der Dritten Welt, der letzten Dienstag angekommen ist, ist genauso deutsch wie jeder andere. Und wenn du ihn einen Ausländer nennst, bist du ein Rassist.
So @ShabanaMahmood can unleash the full force of the law on people objecting to illegal migration but not on the illegal migrants entering the country.
🤡🌎
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