Channel 4 (UK)’s Gender Wars aired a couple of hours ago and was apparently very good, and not one long rant about terfs.

Those who rail at Kathleen Stock have ensured more people want to hear her talk. Those who’ve already denounced “Gender Wars” – on C4 at 10 pm this evening – will boost its viewing figures. And since KS is a moderate & a brilliant speaker, she will peak the nation.
Well done all!

— Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) May 30, 2023

Just watched a preview of @Channel4’s Gender Wars doc that’s on tonight. Thought it was v fair & balanced – both sides got to put their points forward in a way that was humanising & sympathetic.

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No, sir, this is wrong.

'When you listen to that phrase “a debate about trans existence, trans rights"… if we were to talk about black people and debate your existence, how would you feel?'

Trans Activist Chrissy discusses protests in Oxford against Kathleen Stock and her views on transgender rights. pic.twitter.com/HjyS4XNKq0

— GB News (@GBNEWS) May 30, 2023

The guy with glasses and a microphone asks the guy in the purple top what he has made of what’s happening, particularly of “the professor, who’s come here to be part of a debate.” Purple top guy laughs a skeptical laugh and says “When you listen to that phrase itself, ‘a debate,’ a debate about, uh, trans existence, trans rights – if … Read the rest

Oooooooh Hi yourself, cutie. Aren’t you just adorable?!

https://twitter.com/IndiaWilloughby/status/1663548680253882379

Just look at the lovely little fella. The bent knee/pointed toe – isn’t that sweet? The hand behind the head – so so cute! The darling pink shorts, the rakish denim shirt tied rakishly in a rakish knot, the darling winsome smile – he’s a far better woman than all you stubborn boring women who don’t take selfies with Pointed Toe.… Read the rest

Suzanne Moore says the empire is tottering at last.

Susie Green, the former chief executive of Mermaids, who stood down “unexpectedly” last year, has been hiding in plain sight for so long that I sincerely hope we can see her clearly now. How this woman was ever allowed to have so much influence over vulnerable children, never mind medical professionals, is frankly disturbing. 

No medical training yet she bossed the medical professionals around and they asked her for more.

We now find that Green herself had direct influence on policy at the gender identity development service (GIDS) at the Tavistock. After being told that the Tavistock [claimed it] did not have any records of meeting with Green,

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JK Rowling says Patrick Strudwick told a huge brazen lie.

As @PatrickStrud has blocked me on here (we've never, to my knowledge, interacted on Twitter or anywhere else) I can't challenge him directly about the claim he published in iNews (see below) that a Let Women Speak event in Australia 'staged a mass Nazi salute'. This is a lie so… pic.twitter.com/X6nAA3xxNH

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 29, 2023

It’s one of those new long tweets that subscribers get to do.

As @PatrickStrud has blocked me on here (we’ve never, to my knowledge, interacted on Twitter or anywhere else) I can’t challenge him directly about the claim he published in iNews (see below) that a Let Women Speak event in Australia

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Yes but no one says trans rights are not human rights. Trans people have human rights. The issue is fancy new bespoke rights that aren’t rights at all, because they trample on everyone else’s rights.

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Guest post by Jonathan A. Gallant

Some children, particularly at early ages, like to imagine themselves being cats, dogs, lambs, or other lovable animals, and they display their choice by making appropriate animal noises. 

I have established a foundation to help empower such children in their new identity.  The program, which we call affirmative affirmation, provides psychological affirmation, instruction about the animal of choice, imitation fur, and such medical interventions—pharmacological, dermatological, and surgical—as may become available as cutting-edge research in this exciting new area proceeds.  Contributions to the foundation can be sent directly to me, preferably in cash.  We accept $, but no longer accept British, Swedish or Finnish currency.  … Read the rest

Nails.

Our youngest is severely learning disabled, that upsets me. I can’t pretend it’s not true – I accept it & support her. She has to live in the world which won’t bend to fit her. Biological sex isn’t bigotry it’s reality. Silencing women doesn’t change it .pic.twitter.com/s9Bm32eS9U

— Nicky Clark (@MrsNickyClark) May 29, 2023

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And again, not two years ago but today.

https://twitter.com/UNGeneva/status/1662997183476514823

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Women. You mean women. Men don’t need menstrual products. Say the word. Women.

Menstrual health is a human right, and periods are a normal part of human biology.

Yet, 500 million people lack access to menstrual products and adequate facilities.

On Sunday's #MenstrualHygieneDay, let's end the stigma around menstruation. https://t.co/KWbrSF8Rck via @UNFPA pic.twitter.com/Yk0ORpp7sN

— United Nations (@UN) May 28, 2023

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January 2021: a male OB/GYN informs us on the Planned Parenthood blog that it’s not just ” ciswomen” who get abortions.

Abortion rights, reproductive rights, women’s rights, reproductive justice…these terms may seem synonymous to many, but in fact they represent an evolution and intersectionality of many struggles for individuals to choose when and how to be pregnant and/or parent. Language around abortion has always been fraught with controversy, imprecision, and rhetoric. The topic of ending a pregnancy in the United States is more than a medical procedure but also carries political, ethical, and moral weight. Pro-choice advocates may use sterile scientific language while anti-choice proponents use emotion-evoking language about life and personhood. While abortion has long been a language minefield,

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Cute. Male host of newsy talk show won’t let Kathleen Stock finish a sentence. Why have her on the show only to talk over her?

Good Morning Britain viewers were less than impressed with presenter Ed Balls while he was interviewing Kathleen Stock. The professor appeared on the ITV show to speak about her upcoming Channel 4 documentary Gender Wars.

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The Channel 4 special, titled Gender Wars, will delve into the meaning of sex and gender and feature the professor who has caused controversy in the past with her views on the subject.

Having quit her role at the University of Sussex two years ago after accusations of transphobia, Good Morning Britain’s Ed Balls decided to question her

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Kevin Lister does a brilliant job of cutting up the history of Susie Green’s horrifying activities into manageable slices. Each slice is more hair-raising than the last.

Specific example of a Susie Green overriding the GP advice, and encouraging a potential case of Munchausen by Proxy pic.twitter.com/mmzKXptOkX

— Kevin Lister (@KevsTribulation) May 28, 2023

Mermaids overriding and discreding CAMHS services. Most psychatrists know of gender dysphoria as a mental health condition, not as a medical condition. It is just that Susie believes otherwise, and wants nobody to challenge her. pic.twitter.com/N32ZwvVsC7

— Kevin Lister (@KevsTribulation) May 28, 2023

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Susie Green is still in the spotlight, or on the hot seat, or both. Why? Because despite having no medical qualifications of any kind, she was able to refer children to the Tavistock when their GPs had refused to do so.

https://twitter.com/Ju_Drops/status/1663046200671588352

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Owen Jones explaining feminism again. What would we do without him.

If you still believe opponents of trans rights are feminists, read this wretched hit piece on Kylie Minogue by one of their leading lights.

“Feminism” indeed https://t.co/BWbpP27gbk

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) May 27, 2023

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Man is in jail for males. In other news cats have claws, rain is wet, fire burns, up is not down.

Non-binary former nuclear official Sam Brinton is to be placed in a men’s jail in Maryland while waiting to be sent to Virginia over suitcase theft charges.

A Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy told The Post Tuesday that Brinton is in a “pre-placement” hold at the county jail and should be housed with the “general population” of the men’s jail sometime next week.

I guess the non-binary jail must be full.

Brinton, 35 — who uses they/them pronouns — was arrested at their home last week and is facing Grand Larceny charges over the alleged theft of a case

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Now that’s a remarkably stupid thing to say.

The truth is, those 'liberals' don't see transphobia as the moral equivalent of racism or anti-semitism or homophobia. But they won't make that case. Easier to dress up their attitude as free-speech principle in a way that is every bit as intellectually dishonest as the Right.

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) May 28, 2023

We “won’t make that case”??? We won’t make the case that rejection of trans ideology is not in any way comparable to racism or anti-semitism or homophobia? We make that case all the time. We point out that it’s false and evidence-free and stupid and bad.

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It would be nice if the climate change issue were just politics, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case. I don’t think it’s a hoax that the Colorado River is drying up – there are too many people who could tell us so if it were. Same with those floods in India and Pakistan last year, and the massive wildfires in Australia, and the shrinking ice in Greenland and Antarctica, and other little blips like that.

Ron DeSantis has been accused of a “catastrophic” approach to the climate crisis after he launched his campaign for US president by saying he rejects the “politicization of the weather” and questioning whether hurricanes hitting his home state of Florida have

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Two out of five. A mere 40 percent! What are you women whining about?!

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Mr Menno is reporting from the scene.

https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662788003410976770 https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662795818250772480 https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662808476727275521… Read the rest