Fancy that, the Independent pointing out that single-sex toilets are important for girls. Mind you, it was more than six years ago.

Unesco is urging governments around the world to prioritise providing single-sex toilets in schools, warning as many as 1 in 10 girls in some countries are missing out on lessons because of their period.

Gee, I wonder why girls would not want to deal with menstruation in a toilet shared with boys.

“In 1990, the world committed to admitting equal numbers of boys and girls into primary school by 2005,” Audrey Azoulay, director-general of Unesco said. “Since then we have set ourselves a more ambitious set of gender equality targets with a deadline of 2030, but we

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Transgender woman wins court case for transfer to female prison

A transgender woman won a High Court case to be transferred to Northern Ireland’s female prison while being held on charges of threatening to kill her neighbour, it has emerged.

Ah well good to know at least it’s not an alarming type of crime at all.

Michelle James, 63, was moved from Maghaberry Prison to Hydebank Wood on Thursday after taking court proceedings. The move happened after the Department of Justice accepted there was a lack of policy in place for transgender prisoners and consented to the transfer.

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Ah yes the normal, reasonable, moderate version of thinking men can be women.

Love the pitch at the end, podcast bros are all the same. pic.twitter.com/aLruh3iLiR

— Billy Bragg (@Serena_Partrick) December 21, 2024

Correction. This clip is about four men having the kinds of conversations they think women have. They’re trying to get sane people TO AGREE THAT THEY ARE WOMEN EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MEN.

Contrary to Wu’s ridiculous “if”, the reality is that JKR has no power to “force” Wu to “live as a man.” Nobody has that power, because the whole idea is meaningless. We don’t “live as” primates or mammals or vertebrates, we just live. We are what we are. Wu is what he is.

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Helen has the bit that Pixar took out.

I'm glad they cut this. It was trying to normalise the idea that girls should move over and not just allow – but to escort boys into female spaces.
Girls shouldn't be taught that they are supporting cast, to selflessly put their needs aside to help boys get what they want. https://t.co/ovTBZCfujN

— Helen Staniland (@helenstaniland) December 21, 2024

Of course girls have been told that for the last ten? fifteen? more? years, so it’s going to take a long long time to unweave the message.

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Disney decides not to tell children there are people who are the sex they’re not.

Pixar’s original animated series Win or Lose will no longer include a transgender storyline in a later episode, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The series follows a co-ed middle school softball team named the Pickles in the week leading up to their championship game. Each of the eight episodes center on the off-the-field life of a character and their point of view, whether it be a player, a parent, a coach or an umpire.

A spokesperson for Disney confirmed that the story arc was removed and provided the following statement to THR: “When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents

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Originally a comment by iknklast at Miscellany Room.

The VP said that [Warner Brothers/Discovery] had a duty to “provide a safe space” for trans employees to “live authentically”

This is not a duty of an employer. An employer has a duty to follow proper safety procedures and maintain a safe workspace in the physical sense, and they have a duty not to emotionally abuse employees. There is no duty to provide anyone a space to ‘live authentically’. In fact, most employers don’t do that; they have certain requirements about dress, behavior, language, and what the hell you are to do with your time while you are at work. For a gamer, ‘living authentically’ might involve using the work computers … Read the rest

Fanboy for trans ideology calls someone a “leading feminist” and I ask him what makes someone a “leading feminist.” His reply is that someone else calls her that. Not an answer to the question I asked, bro. I didn’t ask whether other people call her that, I asked what makes someone it. Those are different questions. The difference is significant. It’s a difference that matters. Labels matter; words matter; reasons for saying things matter.

It’s the kind of hackish mushmouth empty verbiage that riddles so much lazy journalism. If you mean famous, say that. If you don’t mean famous, say what you do mean. Aim for specificity. It helps.

https://twitter.com/peterjrainford/status/1870107538445775112 https://twitter.com/peterjrainford/status/1870156653481603246… Read the rest

Susie Green says she will go right on destroying children’s lives.

An organisation led by the former chief executive of the transgender support charity Mermaids has vowed to keep on helping children get access to puberty blockers, despite a permanent UK ban.

Anne Trans Healthcare, co-founded by the former Mermaids leader Susie Green, hit out at [criticized] Labour after it was announced that the government would keep a ban on the drugs for under-18s.

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Green, 56, was dismissed as Mermaids’ chief executive in 2022 over a loss of trust in her leadership, a Charity Commission report into the organisation revealed.

The following year she set up Anne Trans Healthcare, which offers access to puberty blockers for under-18s

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Surprise surprise, it’s not just France.

Telegram ‘rape chat groups’ with up to 70,000 members uncovered

Ain’t technology great?

Thousands of men are participating in chat groups in which they share suggestions on how to rape and sexually assault women, a German investigation has revealed.

The groups, on the instant messaging service Telegram, have as many as 70,000 members who mostly communicate with one another in English and appear to come from a variety of countries.

Users claimed to have assaulted women in their household, including wives, partners, sisters and mothers, and also shared instructions with others on how to do the same.

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The BBC reports:

A 15-year-old boy has been charged after a mobile phone was discovered hidden in a girls’ toilet at a secondary school in Dundee.

The incident is understood to have come to light when a female pupil at the school discovered the device on Tuesday afternoon.

Police Scotland said the boy has been charged in connection, following a report of voyeurism.

A new Dominique Pelicot in the making.

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Masha Gessen in the NYRB November 10, 2016 on the rules of survival in an autocracy:

[Obama] added, “The point, though, is that we all go forward with a presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens, because that presumption of good faith is essential to a vibrant and functioning democracy.” As if Donald Trump had not conned his way into hours of free press coverage, as though he had released (and paid) his taxes, or not brazenly denigrated our system of government, from the courts and Congress, to the election process itself—as if, in other words, he had not won the election precisely by acting in bad faith.

Similar refrains were heard from various members of the liberal

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Good to see that the bros are learning from the Pelicot trial.

The lawyer of one of Gisele Pelicot’s rapists gets emotional outside the court, calling the female protesters “hysterical”, “foul-mouthed” and “shit”. https://t.co/FSOBK6EFOa

— Róisín Michaux (@RoisinMichaux) December 19, 2024

“I have a message on behalf of my clients, to all these hysterics, bad-mouthers: the message is: SHIT. [pause] But with a smile.” [pause] “Go, knitters!”

That last sentence is a translation of “Allez les tricoteuses!” That’s a vintage sexist insult dating back to The Revolution: it labeled women on the left who supposedly sat around knitting while heads rolled. It was not well received.

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Why women are paying attention:

As France digests the implications of its largest rape trial, which is due to end this week, it’s clear that many French women – and not just those at the courthouse in Avignon – are pondering two fundamental questions.

The first question is visceral. What might it say about French men – some would say all men – that 50 of them, in one small, rural neighbourhood, were apparently willing to accept a casual invitation to have sex with an unknown woman as she lay, unconscious, in a stranger’s bedroom?

The second question emerges from the first: how far will this trial go in helping to tackle an epidemic of sexual violence and of

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Dominique Pelicot jailed for 20 years

A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty of repeatedly drugging and raping his then wife Gisèle for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that horrified the world.

The 72-year-old, who was married to Gisèle for 50 years, was handed the maximum 20-year prison term. He had pleaded guilty to the charges. Gisele Pelicot, who waived her right to anonymity, thanked her supporters after the verdicts and said she respected the court’s decision.

“This trial was a very difficult ordeal,” she said in her first comments at the end of the sentencing.

Yes I should think it was.

Reminder of how the rapists viewed Gisele

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Well ok then.

Stonewall ‘has got stuck in a terrible quagmire,' Stephen Fry tells Triggernometry.

‘I have no interest or support of this current wave of nonsensical… It’s shameful and sad.’

Great to hear my question asked in the subscribers-only section of @Triggerpod (clipped here). Fry’s… pic.twitter.com/qBBNgZYwAe

— Levi Pay (@soppystern) December 18, 2024

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Agghhhhh no.

A King County Metro bus driver was fatally stabbed in Seattle’s University District early Wednesday, marking the first killing of a Metro driver on the job in 26 years and the latest example of violence that at times is shaking public confidence in the regional transit system.

No no no no no. I can’t stand it. Metro drivers are heroes (both sexes). It’s a very tough job, because there’s the driving but there are also the people. I’ve witnessed countless drivers being helpful, friendly, polite, all that good dealing-with-people stuff. They have to put up with a great many passengers who don’t reciprocate, who indeed start with aggression and go on from there. They of course have … Read the rest

It’s like living under some unpleasantly powerful and vindictive medieval royalty.

Republicans seem to be very serious about sending Liz Cheney to jail.

GOP Representative Barry Loudermilk, the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, released his own findings on the House January 6 select committee. The report accused former Cheney, who sat on the committee, of witness tampering, alleging that she “colluded with ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson.” Hutchinson is the former Trump White House aide turned MAGA villain after she testified before the January 6 committee on the chaos surrounding the attack on the Capitol.

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What’s the problem with this argument?

Representative Nancy Mace is proudly embracing her George Wallace moment. It’s time for dissent.

When Vivian Malone and James Hood enrolled at the University of Alabama in 1963, Governor Wallace traveled to Tuscaloosa to stand defiantly in the doorway of the Foster Auditorium. In tailored suit and tie, the white southern governor, whom Dr Martin Luther King once called “perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today”, prevented the two Black students from attending class.

Wallace’s Stand in the Schoolhouse Door upheld the impassioned promise he made while delivering his inaugural address: “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”. Mace has clearly studied this history and chosen to side with its least savory character.

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Queen’s University Belfast Trans Equality FAQ:

As part of its wider Equality and Diversity Policy, Queen’s University (“the University”) is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming community where staff and students are enabled to meet their full potential and are treated as individuals.

This includes providing advice, support and understanding to those individuals who have transitioned, are transitioning, or are planning to transition, are non-binary, intersex or gender non-conforming.

That’s nice. Does it also include those individuals who are women?

It doesn’t seem to. On the Diversity and Inclusion page (which links to the Trans Equality page which links to the Trans Equality FAQ page) we get a link to Menopause, but we do not get a link … Read the rest

Buffoon of the ages talks to TIME magazine, with the usual result.

TRUMP: Well, I think we ran a flawless campaign. It was, it was really quite something. I called it 72 Days of Fury. There were no days off. There were no timeouts. If you made a mistake, it would be magnified at levels that nobody’s ever seen before. So you couldn’t make a mistake. And I think we just really ran well. It was a drive to go through it. It started 72 days out. For some reason, it just seemed to be it. And I worked very hard. I’ve been, I’ve been given credit by, actually, the reporters that followed me, because it was, you know,

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