The Free Speech Union tells us:

Bosses at the impartial public service broadcaster, the BBC, have cancelled a scheduled series of programmes featuring Irish singer Roisin Murphy just weeks after the Irish singer faced backlash from trans activists for her views on puberty blockers.

As reported by The Telegraph, Radio 6 music was set to broadcast five hours of Murphy’s songs, interviews and concert highlights next week, as part of the 6 Music Artist Collection, which celebrates the music and careers of artists and explores their influences and who they have inspired.

However, Murphy has been replaced by rapper Little Simz. The BBC said the decision was taken so that Little Simz’s work could reflect poetry, rap and

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Nuanced.

“Remember that your child has probably been thinking about and exploring this for some time – whereas you’ve just found out and you now need to go through that process of learning and discovery too

Pay no attention to those TERFs with their talk of ROGD! NO SOCIAL CONTAGION TO SEE HERE, FOLKS. YOUR CHILD HAS BEEN THINKING AND EXPLORING, SO SHUT UP AND NOD AFFIRM WHATEVER THEM SAYS.

Notice that there’s no suggestion that the parents cast their minds back to their own experiences struggling with these same issues when they themselves were growing up. Because none of this shit had been invented yet. The Beeb would have … Read the rest

Feminism that pretends men are women if they say they are is not feminism at all. It’s not feminism and it’s nothing to do with feminism. Feminism is a rejection of the age-old belief that women are inferior to men. What’s that got to do with pretending men can be women? Not one damn thing.

Our feminism is trans inclusive. We stand with trans people and work to fight anti-trans hate, discrimination and gender-based violence. pic.twitter.com/GAOIGJEVZ9

— YWCA Canada (@YWCA_Canada) September 13, 2023

However loudly and often they say it it remains a lie. Trans women are men who say they are women, but saying so doesn’t make it true. Men who say they are women are irrelevant to a … Read the rest

I took a bus out to the suburbs this afternoon to revisit a trail I haven’t been to in years. It’s along the Sammamish River, and it becomes a boardwalk when it reaches the marshy area where the river flows into Lake Sammamish. It’s actually not a river, I read the other day, but a slough, because it can flow either way: from Lake Washington into Lake Sammamish or the other way around. Currently (pun not intended) it’s flowing into Lake S.

That mountain down at the south end looks tiny in the photo but not in real life.… Read the rest

Unpleasant heedless of others egotist in real life as well as in Congress:

Republican lawmaker Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a theatre in Denver during a performance of the musical Beetlejuice, after being accused of disruptive behaviour.

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The incident report filed by Denver Arts & Venues in Colorado said the disruptive behaviour at Buell Theatre during Sunday night’s show prompted three complaints from fellow audience members.

After an initial warning at intermission, an usher approached them again five minutes into the second half requesting they leave after additional complaints of being loud and recording the show. Taking pictures and recording at the show are not permitted.

In the report, one usher claims Ms Boebert and her companion “told

So gynecologists are supposed to do what now?

An LGBTI rights organization in France is calling on the Minister of Equality to intervene in the case of a gynecologist who they are accusing of “transphobia.”

On September 8, SOS Homophobie, which describes itself as a “national association against LGBTIphobia” took to X (formerly Twitter) to condemn a gynecologist for stating he only provided services to females. The comment from Dr. Victor Acharian, who operates in the Pau region, was made in reply to a Google review he received in which a trans-identified male’s partner complained that Acharian refused to provide services to him.

But…I don’t like to be indelicate, but what services can a gynecologist provide to a man? … Read the rest

We must grind the faces of the poor.

Property developer Tim Gurner says employees have become too arrogant, and that unemployment must rise substantially to lift productivity, especially in the construction sector.

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“They have been paid a lot to do not too much in the last few years, and we need to see that change,” he told the AFR property summit in Sydney. “I think the problem that we’ve had is that people decided they didn’t really want to work so much any more through COVID.”

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“We need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around. There’s been a systematic change where employees

Christ on a bike. Hi, parents, here’s how to help your children do whatever they want all the time, without asking any tiresome outdated parentish questions. It’s from the BBC, too, so it must be sensible and official and not harmful at all in any way.

An A-Z of LGBTQ+ language for speaking to your child

If your child opens up to you about their sexuality or gender identity, it’s likely to be a really significant time for both them and you.

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The language around sexuality and gender has changed over time and your child may be using terms that you might not fully understand.

You are the one who doesn’t understand, here: you, the adult, are lost and … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on We must do MORE.

For the govt to provide targeted funding for research & innovation in gender-affirming surgeries & other areas of gender-affirming care that would benefit from more scientific knowledge, with funding conditional on info sharing around practices developed & their outcomes.

Be careful what you wish for. Look how this turned out for caloric, phlogiston, N-rays and the the ether.

8. To amend section 268(3) of the Criminal Code to restrict cosmetic surgeries on intersex children until they are old enough to consent.

Ah, looking for a loophole via the plight for people with DSDs (NOT “intersex”) in order to cut up “trans” kids, are we?

For

Helen Joyce on that meeting in Manchester and what happened afterward.

The event was a follow-up to the Sex Matters board meeting, which we held in late June, in a lovely private room that the museum hires out. I wrote about what happened afterwards in issue 53—in brief, after an online mini-whingefest from about three-and-a-half people, the museum abjectly apologised for renting us a room. It put out a statement in which it begged to be given time to rebuild the trust of the “wider LGBTQI+ community and all people who face marginalisation” and promised to “learn from” its terrible error in accommodating an organisation that does not “share its values”, an error it promised never to repeat.

Hey I … Read the rest

Laurel Collins is an NDP MP for Victoria. She has a long bonkers thread on Twitter listing all the things we must do to rescue trans people from the edge of a cliff over a pool of sharks. I’ll just quote it because too much Twitter is too much.

The rising hate directed at trans people is terrifying, and Conservative leaders are stoking this hate with dangerous discriminatory policies. We need to better support trans & gender-diverse people. [trans flag trans flag]

Here are 29 concrete things we’re fighting for:

29 Concrete Steps: 1 on supporting organizations 2 to 8 on gender-affirming healthcare 9 to 13 on hate & violence 14 to 16 on identity documents 17 to 19 on

Billy Bragg is even more disgusting than I realized.

The only gender ideology that actually exists is patriarchy, which poses a threat to women, girls and trans women alike https://t.co/Bc2U4EkO7X

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) September 11, 2023

No. Wrong. Patriarchy does not “pose a threat” to trans women the same way it poses a threat to women. Trans women may well be subject to bullying from men, but that’s not the same as the relegation to second class status that women are subject to from birth.

I see people exercising their right to protest. Do you believe that people have that fundamental right or do you think that these women are bullies too? pic.twitter.com/m1P9RMR081

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) September 11,

The glaciers are melting.

Once, there were 29. Now at least one is gone, maybe three. Those that remain are almost half the size they used to be.

Mount Rainier is losing its glaciers. That is all the more striking as it is the most glacier-covered mountain in the contiguous United States.

It doesn’t look as if it’s losing its glaciers from down here in Seattle. It still looks like a giant ice cream cone. But appearances can deceive.

Mountain glaciers are vanishing as the burning of fossil fuels heats up Earth’s atmosphere. According to the World Glacier Monitoring Service, total glacier area has shrunk steadily in the last half-century; some of the steepest declines have been in the 

This stands for so much – what they get wrong, how very wrong they get it, how obvious it is why they get it so wrong.

If you, a woman, saw a man you thought was pretending to be a woman, you’d feel powerful and superior.

That is so fucking stupid it takes my breath away. A lone woman doesn’t ever feel “powerful and superior” in the presence of a random man displaying weird behavior. She might feel morally or intellectually superior, but physically she would feel anything but. I can tell you what she would feel: she would feel afraid. Physically afraid.

Montgomerie doesn’t know that because he is a random man displaying weird behavior.… Read the rest

The rules: We can say whatever we like; you are a fucking sociopath if you say whatever we don’t like. Got that?

First:

A startlingly cruel and hateful person https://t.co/h0XvlbPmdS

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) September 11, 2023

That’s fine. Fine fine fine. It’s fine for Dorian Lynskey to call Helen Joyce “a startlingly cruel and hateful person.”

Other people however…

How dare Rachel say he isn’t too keen on strong, outspoken women.… Read the rest

What a nauseating display.

Filed under “Transgender News”:

Labour councillor Alison Thomson of Brighton & Hove City Council apologises for engaging with transphobic posts on social media

Brighton & Hove City Council councillor Alison Thomson, of Brighton & Hove Labour Party, has apologised for engaging with transphobic posts on social media, as reported by Scene magazine. The Labour councillor was slammed by community groups for reposting or liking a series of tweets supporting the anti-trans TERF movement, which is spearheaded by controversial figures such as JK Rowling and Julie Bindel. 

Millions of womenphobic “posts on social media” appear every day without any male reporters getting all breathless about it, let alone openly fantasizing about women getting … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Mike Haubrich on Detrimental clothes.

It sounds like the scars of Japanese occupation have not healed for members of the older generations. It was a brutal occupation targeting the civilian population with rape and murder. Here’s an article aobut it,  and the disastrous role that Chiang Kai-Shek played in losing the second Sino-Japanese war of the 20th century.

During the eight years of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45), China suffered continual crushing and humiliating defeats at the hands of Japan and was subject to a devastating, brutal occupation of much of the nation. Japanese behaviour in the conflict was the principal factor which distinguished the occupation from other wars of recent memory. Not since medieval

Ahahahahahaha so there shitheads!

Roisin Murphy’s new album set for chart success after puberty blocker comments

Nyah nyah.

Roisin Murphy will claim the second spot on the UK albums chart for her new album Hit Parade, released after the Irish singer-songwriter became embroiled in controversy.

The former Moloko frontwoman, 50, was forced [bullied] to apologise last month after facing criticism for comments that appeared to condemn the use of puberty blockers by transgender children.

There’s no such thing as “transgender children.” There are only children who have been misled by a stupid fad.

According to Planned Parenthood, these are medical treatments that can be used to “help your body better reflect” your gender identity.

What’s Planned Parenthood got do … Read the rest

Bad bad bad bad move.

Law enforcement in the US city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will no longer report the biological sex of crime victims, a decision made after "discussions the department had with members of the LGBTQ+ community."

Wisconsin has the nation's 8th highest rate of domestic violence… pic.twitter.com/AnkoahqIkj

— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) September 11, 2023

Law enforcement in the US city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will no longer report the biological sex of crime victims, a decision made after “discussions the department had with members of the LGBTQ+ community.”

Wisconsin has the nation’s 8th highest rate of domestic violence homicides (wherein women are killed by men), which have skyrocketed by 300% over the past decade.

“Every four and a half

It’s kind of amusing to read about Tucker Carlson’s relegation to being just another talker. Last April

Fox News, after settling a defamation lawsuit for $787m, gave Carlson the boot.

The move was as unexpected as it was sudden, and left viewers and pundits wondering what Carlson, who had used his position to push far-right conspiracy theories and elevate rightwing figures, would do next.

So far, the answer has been: use a new Twitter show to push even more conspiracy theories and give a platform to even more bizarre people, which culminated with a new low this week, as Carlson revived a debunked claim that Barack Obama smoked crack and had sex with a man many years ago.