So if people think your policy is bad and dangerous, what you do is you hide the stats. That’ll fix it.

Prison leaders in Scotland have been accused of secrecy after ruling they will no longer confirm the number of male-bodied transgender inmates serving sentences in women’s jails.

The decision comes after the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) unveiled its new policy on the management of trans women — men now identifying as women — who have been moved to the female estate.

The SPS confirmed that trans criminals with a history of violence against women may still be allowed to serve their sentences in female jails if they are deemed to not present an “unacceptable risk”.

By … Read the rest

Yes, anyone can fly.

Yes, anyone can leap tall buildings at a single bound.

Yes, anyone swim underwater without ever having to come up for air.

Yes, anyone can get their period, trans women included

Anyone can get “their” period, just as anyone can get a mosquito bite or a cold or a blister.

Menstruation, often referred to as a period, is a part of many people’s lives.

So many that there is no actual bodily reason for getting it, it just turns up, because anyone can get one.

Defined as the periodic discharge of blood and tissue from the uterus, menstruation is just one stage of the larger menstrual cycle, which typically takes place over 28 days. 

Now here … Read the rest

Here they are, being all solidarity and shit.

Oakland, CA – 3 antisemitic employees at Farley's East coffee house (33 Grand Ave.) are filmed denying a Jewish woman's access to a bathroom after she complained that it was filled with antisemitic graffiti.

After FINALLY allowing her inside the restroom, the employees start… pic.twitter.com/t3rFMyRIDH

— nycphotog (@nycphotog) December 7, 2023

Oakland, CA – 3 antisemitic employees at Farley’s East coffee house (33 Grand Ave.) are filmed denying a Jewish woman’s access to a bathroom after she complained that it was filled with antisemitic graffiti.

After FINALLY allowing her inside the restroom, the employees start on fanatic rants, including “it’s not 1948” and “you can’t steal private property like in Israel.”

Farley’s

The Times of Israel reports:

Employees at a cafe in Oakland, California, were filmed in recent days denying a customer said to be Jewish from using the bathroom at their shop.

The female patron of Farley’s East was said to have complained to the staff about anti-Israel messages graffitied inside the bathroom and then wanted to go inside again to film the messages but was blocked from doing so by a staff member with blue hair.

“We’ve given you all of your food… I know Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own, but we got ahead,” a second employee is heard telling the female patron filming the interaction on her phone. “We have a right to

The first commandment is: always punish the woman first.

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion in a ruling issued late Friday.

The court froze a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, who sued the state seeking a court-ordered abortion, to obtain the procedure. “Without regard to the merits, the Court administratively stays the district court’s December 7, 2023 order,” the order states.

The court noted the case would remain pending before them but did not include any timeline on when a full ruling might be issued. Cox is 20 weeks pregnant. Her unborn baby was diagnosed with a fatal genetic condition and she says complications in her

Yes this is fine.

ICONS Evie Edwards, a participant in another race caught up with Small & a non-binary identifying activist at the race to get their reactions.

@usacycling has been committed to prioritizing the preferences of male cyclists over the accomplishments and well-being of its female riders. It’s time to take a stand.

The mocking pose is nice too.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Stunning transgender model.

However, Morgan knew in her heart that her true identity was female and at the age of 21 she made the life-changing decision to become a woman.

He might have “made the decision,” but it’s never going to happen. How can they print such twaddle with a straight face? It’s a fantasy that’s as likely to happen as him having made “life-changing decision” to become a tapir, a carburetor, or a bowl of oatmeal.

The problem is that these decisions are including everyone else. We’re supposed to play along with this impossible, universe changing decision, and trans activists have been working to make this enabling collusion of … Read the rest

By way of a change from abusing and insulting women, the BBC slobbers lovingly over a man who pretends to be a woman.

After her breakout role in Heartstopper, Yasmin Finney is back on our screens playing trans character Rose Noble in Doctor Who, as the show celebrates its 60th anniversary.

The 20-year-old trans actress tells BBC Newsbeat being part of the cast has given her “a kooky, amazing family”, an experience she feels she missed out on.

Trans character, trans actress – so he identifies as a woman acting a character who identifies as a woman, yes? It’s easy to lose track of the meta in these situations.

Using TikTok, where she has almost two million followers, Yasmin

And in conclusion, just look at the venom with which the BBC pretends a male sexual abuser of a child is not a man at all but a whore bitch cunt woman.

A “predatory” woman who incited a man to sexually abuse a “vulnerable and innocent” young child has been jailed.

An investigation found Naomi O’Brien, of Tameside, had directed a man from Wales to abuse the four-year-old in March 2023.

Quotation marks on “predatory” and “vulnerable and innocent” but not on “woman”. But O’Brien is not a woman.

O’Brien, of Ashton-under-Lyne, knew Walker had “an interest in sexually abusing a young boy on the direction of her,” Det Insp Zoe Marsden, of GMP’s Online Child Abuse Investigation Team said.

How do we know “Naomi” O’Brien, sexual abuser of a child, is a man? This is how:

The Daily Mail in 2015:

With her blonde hair and enviable figure, Morgan Naomi Clarke is hoping to win a beauty pageant – even though she spent the first 22 years of her life as a man.

Morgan, 23, from Manchester, who says she was ‘born in the wrong body’ is hoping to take home the crown at Miss Transgender UK.

Born Nathan O’Brien, Morgan said she has spent her life feeling pressured to ‘butch up’ by her two older sporty brothers.

As a teenage boy, she was branded ‘gay’ by her family and friends who refused to believe she was

Greater Manchester Police lie to the public about a man who sexually abused a child.

#JAILED | A man and a woman have been sentenced to a combined 16 years and 9 months in prison for their roles in the sexual abuse of a child.

Naomi O’Brien, of Ashton-under-Lyne, received a total of 4 years and 3 months in prison.

Read more here – https://t.co/E9OzkdFniH pic.twitter.com/umFh2O8M2A

— Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) December 8, 2023

Not a man and a woman; two men. “Naomi” there is a man. Greater Manchester Police knowingly lied about it; we know they know, because they turned off replies when they posted the lie.… Read the rest

Such childish door-slamming where journalism should be:

The court of session ruling upholding the UK government’s veto on Scotland’s gender recognition reforms contributed to a “sense of exhaustion” in the trans community, said Jennie Kermode, a writer, film-maker and adviser for Trans Media Watch, based near Glasgow.

After that we get five paragraphs of Kermode blathering as if trans people were the only people who have any stake in this issue. Hello? Guardian? Libby Brooks? Are you aware that women exist? That in fact there are a lot of us? That we have rights too?

Dylan Hamilton, a climate activist, said the ruling was “as much an issue about Scotland’s democracy as it is about the human rights of

Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx tells us:

A Hobart City Council member is under investigation by the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner for “inciting hatred” after declaring “trans women are men.” Louise Elliot is now facing a costly formal inquiry by the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in a case which has the potential to restrict freedom of speech. If the tribunal rules against Elliot, she may be ordered to publicly apologize and pay a fine of up to $4,000.

For saying that men are men.

What else will we be ordered to pay large fines for saying? Fire burns? Oceans are wet? Pigeons are not tigers?

In March, Elliot attended a Let Women Speak demonstration organized by Standing for Women and led

Peas on what now?

Peas on toast trump smashed avocados as UK cost of living bites, says Waitrose https://t.co/9DNLh95X25

— The Guardian (@guardian) December 7, 2023

Peas on toast???

Come on, you’re joking, right? Aren’t beans on toast horror enough? Who tf puts peas on toast? You might as well put toast on toast. You don’t pile starch on starch on starch; that’s not how any of this works.

I’ll spell it out for the confused. No mashed potatoes on toast, no pasta on toast, no baked potatoes on toast, no lima beans on toast, no hashbrowns on toast, no toast on toast. If you’re going to put something on toast make it something that’s not bland heavy carbs.… Read the rest

The tension between free speech and discouraging genocide continues.

Harvard University’s president apologized as pressure mounted for the University of Pennsylvania’s president to resign over their testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism that critics from the White House on down say failed to show that they would stand up to antisemitism on campus.

“Their” testimony meaning Harvard’s and U Penn’s. I thought at first that was some weird random gender neutral wording but then managed to figure it out.

In an interview Thursday with The Crimson student newspaper, Harvard President Claudine Gay said she got caught up in a heated exchange at the House committee hearing and failed to properly denounce threats of violence against Jewish students.

Gay

Judges have ruled:

Judges have ruled that the UK government acted lawfully in blocking Scotland’s gender self-ID reforms. Legislation making it easier for people to change their legally-recognised sex was passed by the Scottish Parliament last year. The UK government blocked it from becoming law over fears it would [have an] impact on equality laws across Great Britain.

The Court of Session in Edinburgh has now rejected a Scottish government legal challenge to the veto.

The Scottish government can appeal.

Campaigners against the reforms warned the legislation could risk the safety of women and girls in same-sex spaces such as hospital wards and refuges. Supporters argued it would make the process of obtaining a gender recognition certificate (GRC) easier

Popehat says people who paid attention to Elise Stefanik’s “yes or no” are credulous and stupid. He’s probably right.

America faces many problems. The easy ones we solve or ignore. We struggle with the hard ones. Hard problems raise complex questions that lack glib, one-word answers. The stubborn thirst for simple answers to hard questions is bad for America. It’s anti-intellectual, pro-ignorance, pro-stupidity, pro-bigotry, pro-reactionary, pro-totalitarianism, pro-tyranny, pro-mob.

Other than that…

He’s right though.

Take this week’s Congressional hearing about antisemitism on college campuses, titled “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism.” A generous interpretation — a credulous one — would be that the hearing was designed to inquire why colleges aren’t protecting Jewish students from antisemitic harassment. A

Kristallnacht much?

A York University professor who wrote an award-winning book on the use of direct action in protest movements is among 11 people facing criminal charges in the defacing of a bookstore with red paint and accusations its Jewish founder supports genocide. Toronto Police have described the bookstore defacing as motivated by hate.

Lesley J. Wood, an associate professor, who chaired the university’s sociology department from 2017 to 2021, was charged this week with mischief over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable offence by Toronto Police. The allegations relate to red paint thrown on doors and windows at the Bay-Bloor outlet of Indigo, Canada’s largest bookstore chain, and posters depicting its founder and chief executive officer, Heather Reisman,

Originally a comment by Freeminder on Referral.

The Enhanced DBS can go much, much further. Arrested but not charged, cautions, even interviews under caution (even not being a suspect) are recorded. Driving offences (speeding etc.) can appear.

It can also go deeper: contact former employers, check present and past addresses, so yes, gossip and personnel records can be examined.

Several government bodies (i.e. health, education, emergency services) regard not using pronouns as requested by an individual as a serious safeguarding issue, which can result in disciplinary procedures or dismissal. It is no surprise the DBS was consulted: it can be used to destroy someone’s career but then also make them virtually unemployable (too many jobs need DBS, from taxi … Read the rest