Mermaids is doing what now?
— Women’s Rights Network- Greater Manchester (@WRN_Manchester) January 25, 2024
Dennis stepped in.
Mermaids are encouraging parents to bombard schools with a threatening legal letter which reads as though schools have a duty to facilitate social transition so I've done a template response any head teacher is free to use in reply. https://t.co/n5vS0qNy28
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) January 25, 2024
Yet another one. I may find myself doing these for years to come – there’s so much of it.
NC: No, some people. Is that not enough. ERCC is saying to those ppl "you are a bigot, go away"
MS: No, we explain that we are transinclusive service and that is what we do— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) January 24, 2024
[High squeaky contemptuous voice]: You suggest everyone thinks like that.
No, not everyone, because we know there are fools like you, but certainly most people, you absolute monster of a smug censorious heartless last person who should be working for a rape crisis center goon. Everyone did “think like that” until about ten years ago, and now … Read the rest
More.
MS: We recognise trans people have ownership of their own identity, does not take away from staff or users
— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) January 24, 2024
What is “ownership of their own identity”? This fool seems to take it to mean “people are what they say they are” – which is an abjectly ridiculous claim. No people don’t “own” their idenniny in the sense that if they say they’re a mouse then they’re a mouse.
We own very little, in fact. We’re thrown into the world, as the existentialists put it. We can change, we can acquire talents, we can curl our hair, but the range is pretty narrow. That’s just reality.
… Read the restNC: 'No men' – for anyone who
More than 300 transgender children a year are now starting on a course of puberty-blocking drugs, figures seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme show.
One of the transgender children we have been following for four years has now begun her treatment, which gives youngsters time to decide if they want to live as a man or a woman. “I’m happy I’ve been given [the drugs] because now I know that I won’t grow facial hair. I just don’t want a beard – I’m a girl,” says 11-year-old Jessica.
So the BBC is admitting it started “following” this deluded child when he was seven years old.
… Read the restThe UK’s main centre specialising in gender issues
Isn’t it shocking how the BBC doesn’t devote any time to trans people especially trans women.
The studios teaching trans women how to be more feminine
Trans woman Nicole Thornbur goes to specialist studios to learn how to become more feminine.
Privately-run Born Studio in Manchester offers services including make-up lessons and voice coaching to people in the trans community.
BBC reporter William Lee Adams went with Nicole to the studio to find out more.
Nicole is built like a brick shithouse but whatever.… Read the rest
Remember Zoe Williams (Guardian columnist) yesterday saying this?
Genuinely think that if Woman’s Hour is going to give this much uncritical airtime to GCs, then for balance the BBC should have a Trans Ally hour where we get to complain about them _the entire time_.
Yes? Well, about that…
https://twitter.com/blablafishcakes/status/1750102590564466909… Read the rest… Read the restNC: Miren said this am that she could not think of any expression of GC / sex realist beliefs that is not transphobic. Do you agree with that? Any expression is necessarily transphobic?
KT: I’ve not heard every sex-realist view expressed, so, can’t say all transphobic. Too simplifying to say that.
NC: Can you think of an expression of it you would not regard as transphobic?
KT: Not sure what you are looking for.NC: Do you understand what I mean by SR beliefs? Know what they are? Sex is binary, 2 sexes; everyone is M or F; you can’t change between them; sometimes sex matters. Is that transphobic?
KT: Yes the way
[NC is Naomi Cunningham, KT is Katie Horsburgh, 23-year-old board member of ERCC]
NC: Discussion here of having NB ppl in women-only organisation.
KT: There are no men at ERCC. Open to all genders
NC: Am talking about staff
KT: I think website says we create women-only place.
NC: Says no men
KT: Correct
Still playing stupid games. “There are no men at ERCC; ERCC is open to all genders.”
… Read the restNC: You are aware some ppl think being man or woman is matter of biology. Can’t change. Some ppl think yes
KT: Yes they do
NC: So you are being unclear when you say “no men”.
KT: Disagree. T-I policy is on website. And we have
An arts company based in Edinburgh is launching a new show about JK Rowling and her part in the transgender debate called TERF CUNT.
Civil Disobedience, which has its roots in the Edinburgh Fringe and was launched by Barry and Josef Church-Woods in May 2016, described it as a “vital think-piece on Joanne, exploring just what could motivate a person with such privilege to take such a divisive stance on issues that affect her fans”.
Ah yes, two men do civil disobedience by calling a woman a cunt as publicly and showily as they can. And while they’re at it they patronizingly call her “Joanne” as if she were four years old and they were … Read the rest
… Read the restRam Mandir Day: With the upcoming Pran Pratishtha ceremony at the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya scheduled for January 22, 2024, preparations are not only in full swing in India but are also making waves globally. In a notable gesture, the towns of Oakville and Brampton in Ontario, Canada, have officially declared January 22, 2024, as “Ayodhya Ram Mandir Day.”
The mayors of Oakville, Rob Burton, and Brampton, Patrick Brown, acknowledged the long-standing aspiration of the Hindu community and emphasised the cultural, religious, and historical significance of the Ayodhya Ram Mandir inauguration on this date. Describing it as a testament to values of peace, unity, and harmony, the local governments have chosen to commemorate January 22, 2024,
Here’s an interesting bit from the tribunal. (It’s tricky reading the live tweets, because of course they have to be done at speed so a lot is left out and some is scrambled, but it’s worth the effort.)
KM is Katy McTernan, a member of Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre’s senior management.
NC And related to her Protected beliefs?
KM I don't know about that (pause)
NC Are u aware that, my final section of Qs is about the environment in which this has taken place the atmosphere. Are u aware Prof Jo Phoenix won her case against Open Uni yesterday?
KM No— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) January 23, 2024
… Read the restNC You don't know she qas hounded outout bc of GC
The Telegraph on the Jo Phoenix win:
The Open University “feared” being seen to support gender-critical beliefs when it failed to protect a professor from harassment, a judge ruled.
But the Open University apparently didn’t fear being seen to throw feminist women to the wolves.
Why is that?
Why is opprobrium from team luxury gender so much more terrifying than opprobrium from feminist women? Why do the small number of men who pretend to be women matter so vastly much more than half the population?
… Read the restA ruling found that the Open University’s failure to protect her from harassment from colleagues and trans activists was motivated by “fear of being seen to support gender-critical beliefs” and “fear of the pro
Trump tells us how very very very intelligent he is.
Trump: I think I’m a lot sharper than Haley. I'd take an aptitude test and it would be my result against her result. When I heard the word cognitive, you know, I’ve taken two of them now. One with Doc Ronny who is now a fantastic, you know, White House doctor. pic.twitter.com/BiYeL0bqOz
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 22, 2024
Guardian columnist Zoe Williams says what now?
Genuinely think that if Woman's Hour is going to give this much uncritical airtime to GCs, then for balance the BBC should have a Trans Ally hour where we get to complain about them _the entire time_.
— @zoesqwilliams@mindly.social (@zoesqwilliams) January 23, 2024
THIS MUCH uncritical air time to gender critical feminists? THIS MUCH? WHAT “this much”? They’ve given a lot of uncritical air time to men who pretend to be women and very god damn little to women who say men can’t be women.
Also note that because Woman’s Hour talked about a gender critical feminist on one episode Williams thinks trans enthusiasts should get a Trans Hour for “balance.” One episode … Read the rest
There’s also the tribunal. “SU” is service user.
Updating to add: Background and initials at Adams vs Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre.
KM – AB is non binary and I'm not going to answer questions about the staff's biological sex.
NC – ERCC employs two NB staff members
KM – I'm not going to comment on staff members biological sex
NC – if a NB person turned up who's passport says M, would be able to hire them— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) January 22, 2024
Why in HELL would a rape crisis center employ “nonbinary” people? Other than because a man who pretends to be a woman is the boss and he told them to?
… Read the resttalk about it. It's against
Meanwhile in good news –
Open University academic wins tribunal case over gender-critical views
A professor of criminology, who was compared with “a racist uncle at the Christmas table” because of her gender critical beliefs, has won an unfair dismissal claim against the Open University.
Prof Jo Phoenix, a lesbian who set up the Gender Critical Research Network (GCRN) at the OU, was also found to have suffered victimisation and harassment, as well as direct discrimination.
She becomes the latest in a series of gender critical feminists, who believe sex is biological, immutable and should be prioritised over gender identity, to win employment tribunals.
“Should be prioritised over gender identity” is a funny way of putting it. Gender … Read the rest
Wait.
It is if you believe yourself to the opposite sex. pic.twitter.com/zzHYynv2zb
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) January 22, 2024
Being trans isn’t a belief system?
Then what is it???
Of course it’s a belief system. Without that it’s nothing: just a vacancy.
Saying otherwise is like saying being Catholic or Muslim or Mormon is not a belief system.
Unless, perhaps, RMW is being nitpicky about the “being” bit. Being or calling yourself trans (or Mormon etc) isn’t itself a belief system, it’s trans or Mormon ideology that’s the belief system, but I really doubt RMW was being that nitpicky. I think he was saying trans ideology is not an ideology. Ha. It so is.… Read the rest
The Guardian cautiously explains:
Westminster city council and Social Work England last week became the latest to join a list of organisations – including Arts Council England, a barristers’ chambers and a thinktank – found to have discriminated against a female worker because of their gender-critical beliefs.
No, her gender-critical beliefs. Just four words past “a female worker” we get the terrified “their” – how pathetic is that?
The social worker Rachel Meade’s win against the council and her profession’s regulator means she joins a select but growing group of gender-critical feminists who have successfully brought discrimination claims on the basis of their beliefs.
Their “beliefs” ffs – as if it weren’t something everyone knew until about ten years … Read the rest
Analogy failure.
The “questions being asked” are of course questions about magic gender.
Notice that “they” starts by boasting of “their” in depth understanding of biological sex and gender – the kind of “in depth” understanding of course that thinks men are women if they say they are.
But that pales in comparison to announcing that non-adherence to gender ideology is comparable to racism, homophobia, and misogyny.
What a piggy little twerp.
Updating to add information about this genius:
Che Barnes is a Gender Diversity and Inclusion Trainer – helping organisations bridge their knowledge gap on Gender Equality, inc intersex, transgender & non-binary. Science based talks, workshops & online course.
I’m sure it’s all very in-depth.… Read the rest
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the consecration on Monday of a grand temple to the Hindu god Lord Ram on a site believed to be his birthplace, in a celebratory event for the Hindu majority of the world’s most populous nation.
Believed by whom to be his birthplace? Certainly not everyone. Lord Ram is a “god”: a supernatural being. He wasn’t born anywhere, because he’s a fiction. He may be a very meaningful fiction, but that doesn’t make him a real person who had a real birthplace.
… Read the restHindu groups, Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and its affiliates have portrayed the temple opening as part of a Hindu renaissance after past centuries
