Here’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

Thanks, 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

The 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.

The incident at Rye College, first reported by The Daily Telegraph yesterday, was not a one-off. Inquiries by this newspaper

Modernity! 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.

The 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

Let’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

Oops he’s letting his hatred of women show. You’re supposed to hide it, bro!

At 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

This 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.]

Hooboy.

H/t tigger_the_wing… Read the rest

Magical 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

Please, 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

Oh 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

Man so addicted to posting selfies that even this didn’t stop him.

Why 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

Guardianista 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

Generous of him to provide all those selfies for free then.

Not 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

The local NPR station, KUOW, reports on a clash between virtue and profit:

The 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

Originally 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

Replies are hilarious, I’m afraid I’m going to have to share more of them.

“not our friends” – dude’s magazine steals the name of their home and he wonders why orcas are mad. pic.twitter.com/2aMJyCPIvN

— ben schwartz (@benschwartz_) June 17, 2023

Telling the Orcas that this guy has been talking shit pic.twitter.com/it900OzIea

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) June 17, 2023

https://twitter.com/ChairladySpears/status/1670133652603166721

You know what? I'm gonna start rooting for the orcas even harder now pic.twitter.com/S0rTfdJGiJ

— Joe Katz is @joekatz45 wherever you microblog (@joekatz45) June 17, 2023

https://twitter.com/SuperDuperSJW/status/1670123041089630211 … Read the rest

Oh no! What damn fools have been cheering on the Orcas?! They’ll be up here ramming our windows next! What were people thinking?!!

Orcas are not on social media? Oh come on now – I like a contrarian as much as the next person but there’s a limit.… Read the rest

Sometimes people just don’t think things through.

In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.

Think it through, liberals in Hamtramck (pronounced Hamtrammick). Are you sure a theocratic city council is what you want? Not all Muslims are theocrats, of course, but some are, and it’s a very theocratic-leaning religion. I wouldn’t rejoice for a second if Seattle elected a Catholic-majority city council, or a Southern Baptist-majority one, or a Haredi Jewish-majority one.

This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags