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Pop of the Tops
Jun 20th, 2023 4:41 pm | By Ophelia BensonRecognize what you don’t know
Jun 20th, 2023 11:57 am | By Ophelia BensonExpertise is a powerful thing.
Yes, because transgender people are a real phenomenon that has existed in every human society through all of history while transpecies cats are a bit of bigoted nonsense dreamed up by small-minded edgelords who think it will win an argument.
— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) June 20, 2023
I do wonder how he knows that though. I wonder how he could know it. Is it possible to know all there is to know about every human society through all of history? Even if some of them left no records of any kind? Do we know, for a fact, that every human society through all of history has left records that tell us some members of all … Read the rest
At her second 45-minute appointment
Jun 20th, 2023 11:08 am | By Ophelia BensonA patient who was referred to the controversial Tavistock transgender clinic at age 15 has spoken out saying she feels like a “mutilated experiment gone wrong” after undergoing a mastectomy.
Jasmine, who was born a girl, decided to identify as a boy but has since detransitioned – meaning she has returned to identifying as female.
Or to put it another way, she decided to pretend to be a boy but then changed her mind. What is the difference between pretending and identifying as? Is there any? Is the second just more polite? If that’s the reason maybe we should stop saying it, because too much politeness is how we got here.
“Identifying as” sounds kind of more … Read the rest
BBC crushing on Paris Lees
Jun 20th, 2023 9:31 am | By Ophelia BensonHere’s the BBC slobbering over Paris Lees in 2013:
The annual Pink List named Paris Lees as the most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender figure in the UK. But her rise from being a “silly teenage boy in a prison cell” has been far from simple.
Huh. The “silly teenage boy in a prison cell” makes it sound so cute, but the reason he was in a prison cell was because he had been in a teenage gang that beat up an elderly man who died soon after the beating (it’s disputed whether the beating was the cause of death). There’s nothing cute or “silly” about that. It’s weird of the BBC to put it like that, to … Read the rest
BBC announces with megaphone
Jun 20th, 2023 9:07 am | By Ophelia BensonThanks, BBC. It’s about time we had more men explaining us what it feels like for a girl.
8 parts? Of a bloke larping as a woman?
How about some more factual documentaries about the shocking indoctrination of orgs in this country that tell kids they're in the wrong body?
An investigation into the @TaviAndPort @Mermaids_Gender @stonewalluk #TransWomenAreConMen
— AnnaChetConcreteisland (@Concreteisland2) June 20, 2023
Seriously.
Fuck you. pic.twitter.com/4sW552Q8vh
— Billy Bragg (@Serena_Partrick) June 20, 2023
https://twitter.com/HennieInglis/status/1671137517704212483 … Read the rest
It’s a big ask
Jun 19th, 2023 5:39 pm | By Ophelia BensonThe Telegraph story on school children who meow when asked a question reads like a parody of Gender Religion.
Difficult as it may be to believe, children at a school in East Sussex were reprimanded last week for refusing to accept a classmate’s decision to self-identify as a cat.
The Year 8 pupils were told they would be reported to a senior leader after their teacher said they had “really upset” the fellow pupil by telling them: “You’re a girl.”
And, aha, one of the clever girls recorded the whole thing so now everyone knows how batshit it was.
… Read the restThe incident at Rye College, first reported by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, was not a one-off. Inquiries by this newspaper
Not everyone is happy with all-gender washrooms
Jun 19th, 2023 5:01 pm | By Ophelia BensonModernity! Progress! Change for the sake of change!
Shared, all-gender washrooms the future for Burnaby schools
Why? Why can’t washrooms (toilets, restrooms, bathrooms) go on being single-gender? Why can’t girls continue to have privacy when taking their pants down?
Not everyone is happy with all-gender washrooms installed at a Burnaby elementary school last year, but the school district says the concept is the bathroom of the future for local schools.
Oh well, kids who aren’t happy can just hold it for eight hours.
… Read the restThe NOW got a tour of the new bathrooms last week.
Instead of a door marked “boys” or “girls” there is now an open entrance way that leads to a space with banks of individual, locking cubicles
They’re playing our song
Jun 19th, 2023 4:17 pm | By Ophelia BensonLet’s just pause a moment to savor the first few words of the headline.
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…music.
Ok, the actual full headline not quite so magical.
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case
Among the restrictions approved by US Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, who previously approved the search warrant the FBI executed at Mar-a-Lago last year, is that “The Discovery Materials, along with any information derived therefrom, shall not be disclosed to the public or the news media, or disseminated on any news or social media platform, without prior notice to and consent of the United States or approval of the Court.”
I think … Read the rest
Mask slips
Jun 19th, 2023 12:00 pm | By Ophelia BensonOops he’s letting his hatred of women show. You’re supposed to hide it, bro!
https://twitter.com/stueymaco/status/1670863209501163547At 40 seconds he lets the mask slip to do a snotty baby-voice parody of women saying words he doesn’t like. “Oh, we’re just out to protect children and women.” He all but bats his eyes at the camera, then snaps “No yer not.” He makes it very plain that he despises women.
At 1:21 he does it again. “It’s not us who, um, make it unsafe for trans women.” Breathy Marilyn Monroe silly voice again, along with feeble fluttery hesitant delivery. Undisguised unabashed contempt.
We can see you, Willz.… Read the rest
His litteral life experience
Jun 19th, 2023 10:16 am | By Ophelia BensonThis just in: if you write a book on a subject, that means you are correct on the subject as well as an authority on the subject, and no one can dispute you. [NB: it does not mean you can spell.]
https://twitter.com/OwenJHurcum/status/1670790553133359106… Read the restCatgender
Jun 19th, 2023 4:57 am | By Ophelia BensonMagical thinking is the new educational foundation.
A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.
The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.
So the aim of Rye College is to set students up for disappointment and despair?
It’s profoundly untrue that “you can be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you.” Of … Read the rest
Unleashed
Jun 19th, 2023 4:15 am | By Ophelia BensonPlease, tell us more about the dehumanizing language.
This is literally the antitrans online mob going for her like a pack of rabid dogs. The language is foul, dehumanising, utterly lacking in a shred of decency. Hatred unleashed. Of course. https://t.co/UFBFBSeJQD pic.twitter.com/NFVNZ4YTR4
— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) June 18, 2023
To sum up: “these people are literally like rabid dogs, their language is dehumanizing.”… Read the rest
Equally valid
Jun 19th, 2023 3:41 am | By Ophelia BensonOh really?
Rishi Sunak caught making cheap sleazy 'penis' jokes about trans women
His focus on genitalia & who has penises is borderline indecent
Sunak refuses to accept that there are women based on biology & women based on gender identity – both equally validhttps://t.co/k0G96cuPI2
— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) June 18, 2023
There are women based on biology & women based on gender identity, both equally valid, says Tatchell. Is that right? Is that how these things work? Is it just women who are epistemically up for grabs in this generous way? Are there also men based on biology and men based on gender identity? Does Peter have sex with the based on gender identity kind? If not why … Read the rest
Try it in dark green
Jun 18th, 2023 4:38 pm | By Ophelia BensonMan so addicted to posting selfies that even this didn’t stop him.
https://twitter.com/stueymaco/status/1670563400659656704Why would he take a selfie while his mouth is full of mouthwash?
Doesn’t he realize we can see the thick makeup?
The whole world is asking why he’s wearing a bathmat.
It’s time to recycle the Xmas cards.… Read the rest
Largely hypothetical risk
Jun 18th, 2023 10:04 am | By Ophelia BensonGuardianista Kathryn Bromwich tells us what we should worry about:
Judging by column inches alone, you might be forgiven for thinking that the thing keeping women awake at night is not femicide, sexual assault, plummeting rape convictions, stalking, unequal pay, the erosion of reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, rampant online misogyny, an institutionally sexist police force, healthcare inequality, insufficient childcare provisions, or never being allowed to age.
While all these issues do get reported, a disproportionate amount of attention is given to another topic: men masquerading as trans women in order to gain access to single-sex spaces.
That’s actually not “another topic.” It’s the same topic. Men pretending to be women are relevant to femicide, sexual assault, … Read the rest
Contact his agent
Jun 18th, 2023 9:16 am | By Ophelia BensonGenerous of him to provide all those selfies for free then.
https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1670387254513004544… Read the restDifferent things are different
Jun 18th, 2023 8:25 am | By Ophelia BensonNot so much circular as spiral.
If the #Wickes boss said racists were ‘not welcome' there would have been no backlash
Most people would have applauded him
So why the double standards over transphobia?
Prejudice is prejudice. It is always wrong & should be challengedhttps://t.co/opPVf2s1RT via @MailOnline
— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) June 17, 2023
If the Wickes boss had said “axe-wielding murderers are not welcome” there would have been no backlash but so what? We’re supposed to think “therefore it’s fine for the Wickes boss to say people with gender critical views are not welcome” but Tatchell’s analogy is not analogous. Knowing that men are not women is not analogous to racism.
It’s just one of those Big Lies … Read the rest
Bottom line
Jun 18th, 2023 7:46 am | By Ophelia BensonThe local NPR station, KUOW, reports on a clash between virtue and profit:
… Read the restThe Seattle-based boutique ice cream company, Molly Moon’s, has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Seattle over alleged revenue losses during and after the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, also known as CHOP, in 2020.
The local ice cream chain claims the city violated its constitutional rights by creating a “government-authorized invasion” and acting with “deliberate indifference towards the safety and property” of its store. The suit is seeking an unidentified amount in damages.
During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, the Seattle Police Department left the East Precinct headquarters. Protestors then occupied a 10-block area surrounding a Molly Moon’s location.
The suit alleges
Guest post: Unlikely to be peaked anytime soon
Jun 17th, 2023 5:22 pm | By Ophelia BensonOriginally a comment by Rob on Fundamentally unjust.
I listened to an interview yesterday with Jenny Nguyen. She’s a chef who has opened a bar in Portland called the Sports Bra, that plays only women’s sport on the screens and is billed as inclusive. Jenny is a lesbian and played basketball as a youth. She says the bar is not a lesbian bar, but it is designed for lesbians, but anyone can come.
During the interview she was asked about trans women in women’s sport. She replied that it was her, and the bar’s, position that TWAW. When pressed about the advantage that TW retain, she said she didn’t know anything about that, but given what TW and ‘others … Read the rest