Good grief. How about “No.”

Coronation: Public asked to swear allegiance to King Charles

Why on earth would anyone want to do that?

People watching the Coronation will be invited to join a “chorus of millions” to swear allegiance to the King and his heirs, organisers say. The public pledge is one of several striking changes to the ancient ceremony revealed on Saturday.

In a coronation full of firsts, female clergy will play a prominent role, and the King himself will pray out loud. The Christian service will also see religious leaders from other faiths have an active part for the first time.

They couldn’t make it sound more repulsive if they tried. Monarchy on the one hand and god-bothering … Read the rest

You don’t say.

Transgender women face prostate cancer risk, says first-of-its-kind study from UCSF

Of course they do: because they are men.

Transgender women have a small but meaningful risk of prostate cancer, but traditional screening tools may not work well for them, especially if they’re taking estrogen for gender-affirming care, according to a national study led by UCSF researchers.

Or rather, especially if they’re mucking up their bodies by taking estrogen to foster a delusion that they’re women. “Gender-affirming care” is a misnomer, and medical researchers shouldn’t be using it. “Gender affirmation” isn’t medical.

The research, published Saturday in the journal JAMA, is the first in the U.S. to look at prostate cancer in transgender women. It underscores the

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Statement from the Edinburgh Principal:

I would like to express my extreme disappointment that last night, for the second time in six months, we were left with no alternative but to stop the screening of ‘Adult Human Female’ because of safety concerns for attendees. 

No alternative? Please. The alternative was to force the protesters to get out of the way so that people could go in to see ‘Adult Human Female.’ That’s it, that’s the alternative.

We refuse to be intimidated by the unreasonable behaviour of those who sought to prevent lawful discussion of challenging topics on our campus yesterday. 

But they don’t. They don’t refuse to be intimidated. They let the bullies do whatever they wanted, and then … Read the rest

In Edinburgh the University actually helped the protesters prevent women from getting in, before piously announcing it was forced to cancel the screening because of the protests the university itself assisted.

The university built a large protected area round the door for them with barricades, which meant that most of the time most of the people who would otherwise had to have been blocking the door were nowhere near it. They let them come and go through the barricades.

— Lucy HunterBlackburn (@LucyHunterB) April 29, 2023

Please, tell us more about how marginalized and persecuted our trans sisters and brothers are.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Look back in horror.

Okay, I’ll see your “look back in horror” and raise you “looking on in horror right now. Just off the top of my head here’s what being “uncritical” of gender has resulted in:

Violent male sex offenders being imprisoned with women in what were and should be female only prisons. The women have no say in this and are forced to submit.

Men being admitted into what were and should be female only rape and domestic violence services. The women have no say in this and are forced to submit.

Men being housed in what were and should be female only hospital wards. The women … Read the rest

News from Australia:

The Australian government has instructed a news outlet to remove or heavily censor an article that “offended” a trans-identified male living in the country.

Reduxx, an independent media project dedicated to exposing gender ideology, received a notice from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner on April 28. The notice alerted them to a complaint made about an article they published on April 1.

The article, “Thousands of Complaints Filed After Trans YouTuber Allowed To Play On Women’s Football League, Reportedly Injured Players,” revealed the identity of a transgender male who had been the subject of mass complaint after reportedly injuring female players at a football game while playing on the women’s team.

The male in question … Read the rest

Owen Jones wonders aloud why some of us dislike Dylan Mulvaney.

None of these are even applicable to Dylan Mulvaney so what’s the basis for the hate campaign against her?

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) April 29, 2023

Let me explain.

Clear?… Read the rest

Happening now – so if you happen to be at Piccadilly Circus or a few minutes away you still have time to join in –

29 April: Women #Dance4Freedom, Piccadilly Circus, 3:00-5:00pm by @One_Law_for_All & @FiLiA_charity In Solidarity with #WomanLifeFreedom #IranRevolution on #InternationalDayofDance

29 April: Women #Dance4Freedom, Piccadilly Circus, 3:00-5:00pmhttps://t.co/7J9vdims9S pic.twitter.com/h1batV7uTf

— Maryam Namazie مریم نمازی (@MaryamNamazie) April 28, 2023

Some things I could be imprisoned for under the Islamic regime in Iran – 1. Travelling without a man 2. Leaving my hair uncovered & 3 dancing! I’m heading to #London today to #Dance4Freedom supporting our sisters in #Iran #WomensRevolution pic.twitter.com/SpKSuU3F9u

— Liverbird (@arpeggi1) April 29, 2023

Joined in #solidarity with our sisters in #Iran as

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Behold: an idiot.

https://twitter.com/RayyaGhul/status/1651859420542795776

Ghul purports to be an academic herself, so you’d think she’d know better, but this is now, so actually you wouldn’t.

Normally progressives like her don’t say “It’s fine that you were forcibly prevented from watching and then talking about a film in public because hey you can always watch it in private and talk to yourself about it.” Normally they don’t, but when it’s about the poor fragile victimized men in skirts they do.

https://twitter.com/RayyaGhul/status/1651857907082842112

Yeah seriously gender critical feminism is so cool and edgy while trans ideology is tame stodgy conservative white-shoe old-skool boring cream of wheat.… Read the rest

Women may not talk back.

https://twitter.com/WomenTalk_Back/status/1651989917147312137… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Cluecat on Summation.

This is something that seems very strange – how is it that *this* is what the “So Very Skeptic Atheist Bros” have thrown everything away for. Really.

They’ve quite literally gone from “Hurr, Religiot! Humans don’t have souls! You’re all stupid to insist on it!” to “Hurr! Of course I have a pink sparkly feeeeeemale identitay! You’re all stupid to deny it!”.

They’re right back agreeing that souls exist, and that they can be in the “wrong” bodies (by some mechanism that’s never made clear). Do they understand this, these Big Skeptic Bros?

It’s embarrassing, frankly. It’s the antithesis of everything they have been claiming when it comes to any other area. … Read the rest

Hmm. So the Supreme Court answers to no one, so the Supreme Court justices can…do whatever they like.

It was a short letter. John Roberts, chief justice of the US supreme court, was brief in his missive to Democratic senator Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate judiciary committee. Citing “separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence”, Roberts declined to appear before the committee to discuss disturbing recent revelations of ethics violations at the court.

What about ethical concerns and the importance of preserving judicial non-corruption? No? Nothing?

Congress is meant to exert checks on judicial power – to investigate or even impeach judges who abuse their office or interpret the law in ways that

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Republican Supreme Court rules gerrymandering is totes legal.

Barely a year after Democratic justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court said new maps of the state’s legislative and congressional districts were partisan gerrymanders that violated the State Constitution, a newly elected Republican majority on the court reversed course on Friday and said the court had no authority to overturn those maps.

The practical effect is to enable the Republican-controlled State Legislature to scrap the court-ordered State Senate and congressional district. boundaries that were used in elections last November, and draw new maps skewed in their favor for elections in 2024.

Can legislatures fix elections in advance? Sure sure sure, no problem. (Unless the legislature happens to be majority The … Read the rest

Oops.

What does gender critical even mean? It isn’t okay to be lesbian critical or race critical or gay critical. One day we will look back in horror.

— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) April 28, 2023

Right?? Who the hell ever heard of “race” and “critical” being discussed in the same breath?

Oh wait…… Read the rest

Not amazed. Not triggered. Not convinced.

https://twitter.com/amazingatheist/status/1650156544690929665

Ok so then bring out the big guns, argumentatively speaking.

Pregnant men
Girl dicks
Pregnant men
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Pregnant men
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Pregnant men
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Pregnant men
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Pregnant men
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Pregnant men
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Pregnant men
Girl dicks
Pregnant men
Girl dicks
Pregnant men…

— THE KING OF NIHILISM (@amazingatheist) April 23, 2023

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You can’t have equality between the sexes if sex is determined by rhetoric rather than reality.

*** NEWS ***
We are appealing Lady Haldane's judicial review decision that "sex" in the Equality Act is "legal sex" and not biological sex.

More details on our CrowdJustice page. Please support the case!#SexIsBiologicalhttps://t.co/rshffgwBwg

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) April 27, 2023

“Legal sex” here means “fictional sex.” It’s ridiculous. It’s not workable or reasonable to base laws on fictional “identities.” Eventually you’ll have everyone identifying as heir to the throne and entitled to all that cash.

I wonder how Lady Haldane would rule if a lot of people started identifying as military veterans entitled to the benefits that go to such … Read the rest

In surprise twist, violent man turns out to be violent man. Who could have seen that over the horizon?

Barbie Kardashian under Garda investigation for allegedly threatening to rape female prison officers

Dangerous inmate Barbie Kardashian is facing the prospect of more jail time – after gardai began an investigation into allegations she threatened to rape female prison officers.

The Mirror has confirmed that the [male] transgender prisoner is alleged to have threatened to sexually attack several female prison officers at Limerick Prison this week.

Kardashian, who is legally a woman after she secured a gender recognition certificate, is alleged to have issued the threats after she refused orders to clean up the shower area of the prison’s women’s section

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Michael Tomasky says never mind Carlson, get Murdoch.

As Tucker Carlson begins to slither out of the news cycle, here’s a reminder to keep our eyes on the prize. The prize—that is, the real enemy of standards and decency and integrity—is Rupert Murdoch. Carlson was a symptom. An unusually disgusting and purulent (great word, look it up!) symptom, but a symptom all the same. The disease is Murdoch.

He has been destroying journalism for 50 years. I’ll get into some of that below. But right now, let’s focus on something that’s happening in England, which I can assure you is something that Rupert is worried about—maybe even more worried than he is about Smartmatic.

He means Britain … Read the rest

I saw a cruise ship heading from Puget Sound into Elliott Bay this morning for the first time this year. I saw another one at a pier a few days ago. April to October they ply to and fro, burning up their 80 thousand gallons of fuel per day.

Meanwhile Spain is hot.

Spain recorded its hottest ever temperature for April on Thursday, hitting 38.8C according to the country’s meteorological service.

Seattle got that hot two years ago, but not in April.

The record figure was reached in Cordoba airport in southern Spain just after 15:00 local time (14:00 BST). For days a blistering heatwave has hit the country with temperatures 10-15C warmer than expected for April. It’s been

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First of all the headline.

Narrow legal definition of sex in Montana bill would jeopardize protections for trans people

What “narrow”?!! It’s just the definition. A small set of people are trying to force all of us to “broaden” the definition so that it means nothing. If sex stops meaning “female/male” then it’s just random. (Of course there are other meanings of “sex,” in particular the activity, but the definition PBS means here is the one that names female or male.)

A bill advancing through Montana’s statehouse would legally define a man as someone who produces sperm and a woman as someone who produces eggs — and apply that definition to 40 aspects of the state’s legislative code, from employment protections

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