THE global malaise we call the transvestite tyranny was dealt a blow in the UK this month when an artist secured a legal settlement with Watford Borough Council after she was removed from her own exhibition and reported to police for casually expressing concerns about gender transition for children and puberty blockers.
The artist, Victoria Culf, was reported for a ‘hate crime’ and lived in fear that there would be a knock at her door and she would be arrested in front of her children. Mrs Culf is a sculptor, illustrator and textile artist based in Hertfordshire.
A number of Australians have been afflicted by the same trans tyranny in Australia, in cases being handled by the Human Rights Law Alliance, as we have previously reported.
So-called trans rights is a project of the global New Left, the spear point of cultural Marxism, in which dissidents who oppose the trans rights/LGBTQ+ agenda are targeted with government-funded legal harassment, and in the UK’s case, police harassment.
It is no accident that this operation runs under both British and Australian Labor governments under the ideological influence of the Fabian Society, Common Purpose and various NGOs such as the UK’s Ask for Clive “charity”.
However, with Starmer expected to announce his resignation today (UK time) and the rise in the UK and Australia of the conservative populists under Nigel Farage and Pauline Hanson, the days of the International Socialist cultural revolution are numbered.
Mrs Culf was supported by the Christian Legal Centre from the beginning of her ordeal, and has not only secured the settlement, but the council has confirmed its commitment to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and expression and has agreed to work with her again saying it holds her in “high regard”.
The dispute began in June 2023 during what appeared to be a private, amicable conversation while Victoria was setting up her independently funded exhibition at Watford Museum.
She explained, while stirring a cup of tea, that because of her Christian beliefs and work with young people, that she believed transitioning is harmful for children. That is not an opinion, transitioning literally harms children physically and emotionally.
Days later, Victoria was banned from accessing her own exhibition and told she was under police investigation for a “hate crime”.
Police records later confirmed officers had quickly concluded no crime had been committed and that her comments were protected free speech.
Victoria, however, was not told told this, and was allowed to live on in fear that she would be investigated, a group called Christian Concern reported.
Further disclosed evidence during the case revealed that the council official involved had been receiving advice from Ask for Clive, that partners with Stonewall and promotes a ‘zero tolerance’ of alleged ‘hate’ and actively encourages hate crime reports to the police.
Now, as part of the settlement, Watford Borough Council has said it holds Victoria “in high regard” as a community artist, has “no animosity” towards her, and would work with her again in future.
Surprisingly, the council also reaffirmed its commitment to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and expression. That is a change in thinking among council bureaucrats that needs to find expression in Australia.
The UK produces almost endless reports of police getting involved in ideological agendas and enforcing woke ideology and CorrectSpeak.
In 2025 a street preacher named John Steele was arrested after asking about the Qur’an’s teaching on domestic violence
While preaching in Rotherham town centre, Steele saw a Muslim woman wearing a hijab and manning a public awareness stall about domestic abuse.
Aware of controversial verses in the Quran, John asked the woman how Islamic teachings could be reconciled with the stall’s message, and began sharing the biblical teaching of St Paul who urged men to love their wives in the same way that Christ loves the Church.
The whole conversation lasted about 30 seconds and was completely non-threatening, but an hour later he was surrounded by four police officers demanding his personal details and then arrested.
After Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre supported him, the Crown Prosecution Service eventually dropped the charges against him.
