Two out of five. A mere 40 percent! What are you women whining about?!
https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1662823023915802626… Read the restAll entries by this author
Hecklers’ Corner
May 28th, 2023 6:25 am | By Ophelia BensonMr Menno is reporting from the scene.
Things kicking off at #letwomenspeak but police taking decisive action 👏 pic.twitter.com/bszki9Jq3y
— MrMenno 🏳️🌈🎶 (@MrMennoTweets) May 28, 2023
3 / TRAs doing the usual pic.twitter.com/fnBZJEWVQd
— MrMenno 🏳️🌈🎶 (@MrMennoTweets) May 28, 2023
5 / Some top quality TERF signs 👌 pic.twitter.com/i5Kd1WiOPE
— MrMenno 🏳️🌈🎶 (@MrMennoTweets) May 28, 2023
Oh look we found 300 pages
May 27th, 2023 5:47 pm | By Ophelia BensonIt’s always worse than we thought. Susie Green told the Tavistock how to “treat” kids who were questioning their gender.
… Read the restSusie Green, then chairman of the charity Mermaids, was part of a task group reviewing services at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation trans clinic.
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The Tavistock claimed that it did not have emails or minutes of meetings with Ms Green but after the information regulator threatened court action, it released more than 300 pages.
They show that Ms Green had a direct line to Dr Polly Carmichael, Tavistock’s director, and demanded to be regarded as a professional so she could refer children for treatment when their GPs refused. Ms Green, who has no known formal medical
Proud to have written
May 27th, 2023 11:05 am | By Ophelia BensonAha, so we know who wrote that dopy crude letter saying Make Stock Go Away that some dopy Oxford academics signed. We know because he’s boasting of it.
Breaking now: more than 100 @UniofOxford scholars and staff members stand by @OULGBTQ in our right to protest and for trans rights. Proud to have written and organized this letter, and I'm overwhelmed and emboldened by the support it received >>> https://t.co/nUveVuPbIS
— Addi Haran (@AddiHD02) May 26, 2023
He shouldn’t be proud. It’s a bad letter.
Doc Stock hints as much, but much more politely than I did.
… Read the restYou’ve read her statement I presume? Supporting your right to protest as well as the maintenance of protected characteristic rights?
I’d have thought
Guest post: Women must not be permitted to say “no”
May 27th, 2023 10:20 am | By Ophelia BensonOriginally a comment by Cluecat on Calling themselves “Gold Command”.
It’s interesting, though isn’t it, that they have to do this each time.
They absolutely must go all out, every time, to attack, smear, dismiss any woman who dares to try to set a boundary. Any boundary. Particularly around a definition of female that excludes males – as with Sex being correctly defined as reality, not Vewy Speshul Identitay.
Women must not be permitted to say “no”. That’s the whole thing – it gives the game away entirely.
If women can say “No, males are not female”, then they will start getting the idea that they can say “no” to males under other circumstances, and that is totally unacceptable … Read the rest
The precious right to silence the witch
May 27th, 2023 10:01 am | By Ophelia BensonThe BBC reports on the Stock Spiral:
A group of Oxford University academics have signed a letter supporting the right of transgender students to speak out against Kathleen Stock, a prominent gender-critical figure.
“They have every right to try to shut her up!”
Another group of Oxford academics have already said objections to her invite go against free speech.
But the new letter said it was not a free-speech issue as revoking an invite “is not preventing them from speaking”.
When did we decide “invite” is a noun? When did we decide it’s the better word for “invitation”? When did we decide “invitation” is just too long and formal to bother typing? Four whole extra letters!
Anyway, to … Read the rest
The word is “No”
May 27th, 2023 7:00 am | By Ophelia BensonHelen Webberley orders us all to submit or else.
This is a personal message to all those people that think it is acceptable to refer to some women as men.
It is not acceptable, it is deliberately misgendering and it has already been classified as a hate crime and you are guilty of that crime. https://t.co/invOvn8gR2
— Dr Helen Webberley she/her (@HelenWebberley) May 27, 2023
Funny that she dehumanizes us in the process of telling us we’re hate criminals. The wording should be “This is a message to all those people who think” – not “that” think. She must think we’re subhuman, and here she is saying so in public. To the dungeons with her.
But more seriously – this … Read the rest
Rainbow families and pretend lactation
May 27th, 2023 6:52 am | By Ophelia BensonIt seems Australia is making it illegal to say that inducing an imitation of lactation in men and then feeding the pseudo-milk to infants is dangerous to those infants. Nothing must be allowed to interfere with men’s fantasies.
… Read the restLast week a notice was given to my friend and former breastfeeding counsellor Jasmine Sussex by Twitter, advising her of an Australian law infraction. I met Jasmine in person just over a year ago at a Brisbane radical feminist conference, but she first contacted me in 2021 when I wrote an article in The Spectator Oz titled On “Chestfeeding”.
At this time Jasmine’s long relationship with the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) was ending in some level of pain and bitterness.
Calling themselves “Gold Command”
May 26th, 2023 4:47 pm | By Ophelia BensonI saw this from Dennis so I hared off to find the details.
We now know a group of staff at the EHRC calling themselves “Gold Command” wanted the Baroness gone and submitted complains just before Kemi Badenoch asked the EHRC to advise on sex on the Equality act.
To whom did Gold Command report I wonder
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 26, 2023
Calling themselves “Gold Command” ffs. Apparently it’s a police thing, and Gold is of course the top rank, so they’re like Eisenhower on D-Day. Not that they’re at all stuck on themselves.
So I quested and found the Telegraph:
… Read the restAn investigation into Baroness Falkner of Margravine’s work as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission
It’s platform number one sir
May 26th, 2023 4:19 pm | By Ophelia BensonA little compilation for your weekend enjoyment.
https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662195319193456641Platform number one to Brighton. But of course.… Read the rest
Possible hit job possibly
May 26th, 2023 11:28 am | By Ophelia BensonThe investigation into Kishwer Falkner has been suspended.
… Read the restThe Equality and Human Rights Commission has announced it has “paused” an independent investigation into its Chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner.
On Tuesday, this programme revealed that Baroness Falkner was under investigation by an external barrister after allegations about her conduct from a number of staff. Our report also examined claims of a toxic culture at the Commission, allegations of bullying and harassment, claims that there is a high level of staff turnover and internal concerns about its independence and impartiality. The report sparked a lively debate, with accusations that Falkner was the target of a “hit job” by radical pro-trans activists inside the Commission. Today the Board said it had decided
He’s not a refugee or starving or non-white
May 26th, 2023 11:09 am | By Ophelia BensonLet’s look at the Bridges statement in more detail.
British Cycling has just banned us from racing. This was to be announced at 11 am today. But I’m done with this whole conversation being on their terms, and being controlled by them.
They have no authority to control this conversation anymore. Does it surprise me that the same organisation funded directly by a state that ships vulnerable refugees to Rwanda, violently clamps down on any political dissent that they disapprove of, or starves their people?
He lost track of his wording there. He surely can’t be claiming that British Cycling violently clamps down on dissent or starves their people, but that’s what he wrote. He seems to have meant can … Read the rest
Quote him accurately
May 26th, 2023 10:38 am | By Ophelia BensonThis.
The Emily Bridges statement ought to be quoted accurately, and not toned down, or deliberately softened by selectivity.
Bridges said that British Cycling were "furthering genocide" and that the policy change was a "violent act"
That is an accurate reflection of the TRA discourse. https://t.co/mCBMEdaiOM— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) May 26, 2023
It’s not “furthering genocide” to keep men (however they identify) out of women’s sports. Men don’t drop dead on being told they can’t compete against women.
It is, in fact, simply another outrage to add to the long list, to appropriate the word “genocide” to name one’s unjustifiable resentment at being told “No you can’t destroy women’s sports.” The egotism and entitlement of it should be glaringly … Read the rest
The figure in the carpet
May 26th, 2023 10:22 am | By Ophelia BensonAnother thing about the reporting on this, by the way…in case it’s not clear enough already…is the way the news media ignore the reason “trans women” are so keen to do this: because it’s cheating. “Emily” isn’t really upset because “transphobia” or because he’s not being “validated” as a genuine authentic really real solid gold woman, he’s upset because he can no longer cheat.
The BBC implies (without actually saying) that it’s all about “trans rights” and incloosion and diversittee and respect and love and idenniny and yadda yadda when it must know damn well that it’s all about gaining an unfair advantage. They’re not children, they’re the god damn BBC, they’re not so stupid they don’t … Read the rest
BBC hates women
May 26th, 2023 8:30 am | By Ophelia BensonBBC World at One’s reporting on the British Cycling ruling is jaw-droppingly disgusting. Everybody who talks is practically in floods of tears for poor darling fragile victim “Emily” Bridges and other men who want to cheat, and completely indifferent to women who don’t want to be forced to compete against men in their own sport. It’s so bad and unbalanced and just fucking misogynist I can hardly believe what I’m listening to.
The part where a woman voices Bridges’s statement starts at 12:06.… Read the rest
However, others argue
May 26th, 2023 8:06 am | By Ophelia BensonThe BBC’s reporting on it is of course ridiculous.
British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a nine-month review and consultation. Under a new participation policy that the governing body said was “predicated on fairness”, such athletes will compete in an ‘open category’ with men. Female races will be “for those whose sex was assigned female at birth”.
The changes will prevent riders such as Emily Bridges potentially being part of the British women’s team.
The Beeb goes on to quote at vast length from Bridges’s “who gives a fuck about women” statement. Oddly enough there is no matching statement quoted at vast length from one of the women harmed by Bridges’s … Read the rest
“Emily” doesn’t sound like that
May 26th, 2023 7:37 am | By Ophelia BensonThe BBC is helping India Willoughby and Emily Bridges campaign to destroy women’s rights.
So @BBCWorldatOne reads a statement from 'Emily' Bridges voiced up by a woman producer. This is an act of deliberate distortion, @JonnyDymond, implying to your listeners that 'Emily' is a woman and therefore right to be aggrieved. You know actual 'Emily' doesn't sound like that
— Simon Edge (@simonjedge) May 26, 2023
And he knows why “Emily” doesn’t sound like that, too. The BBC as a whole knows, but still it’s eager to enforce the fiction and stomp all over women in the process. It’s nauseating.… Read the rest
Powerful argument
May 26th, 2023 7:31 am | By Ophelia BensonWilloughby really is leaning into the witch-hunting.
Would you compete in an “open” category Jean? Emily is not male. She has transitioned. Maybe we could have a category for Terfs and Old Bags? Love to see you and Julie Binlid doing the 100m.
— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) May 26, 2023
“a violent act”
May 26th, 2023 7:14 am | By Ophelia BensonUproar among men who want to cheat in sports. It’s genocide to stop them, genocide I tell you!
“I know a lot of people will think I’m being dramatic”
WELL QUITE LOL pic.twitter.com/aSKAIZMK2m
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 26, 2023
https://twitter.com/Phoebe2403/status/1662061069601320964
“There is no science” to justify separate sports for women, but there is lots and lots and lots of science that says men who claim to be women are indeed women. Uh huh.
https://twitter.com/stueymaco/status/1662091062356090881Good old Willoughby. Women should all die by age 37, am I right?… Read the rest
The man himself
May 25th, 2023 5:51 pm | By Ophelia BensonAh here he is. “Molly” Cameron.
Good morning babes. I've been away from my computer and screens for a week so I'm just getting caught up on the UCI / USA Cycling Transgender participation in sport survey blunder.
I had typed up a much longer caption, but I'm going to simplify it by sa… https://t.co/07cGXKxW9s pic.twitter.com/NoqJA7iuUC
— Molly Cameron (@themollycameron) May 23, 2023
Replies are not…affectionate.… Read the rest