The struggle continues. Why why why WHY won’t people remember to call this man “they” or “them” whenever they refer to him? WHY????
https://twitter.com/Dannny_K/status/1630298903735152640 https://twitter.com/Dannny_K/status/1630304000359759876He’s not really beyond annoyed and upset though, he’s thrilled that he gets to rant in public about how oppressed and bullied he is because people can’t remember to call him “they.”… Read the rest
One piece of good news…or at least one piece of bad news finally thrown out.
https://twitter.com/FemmeLoves/status/1630267223238483968That’s not all.
https://twitter.com/FemmeLoves/status/1630267227579482113 https://twitter.com/FemmeLoves/status/1630267233313202176And…
https://twitter.com/FemmeLoves/status/1630345336249098241… Read the restHoo-boy. Listen to this.
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1630044414352695296“We give puberty blockers to cancer patients so obviously they’re fine for trans kids right??”
Yes, absolutely, that’s definitely the way medical treatments are managed: if it’s prescribed for one thing then it can be prescribed for a different thing. All medications are completely interchangeable! Yippeee!… Read the rest
"I don't believe Isla Bryson is truly, and genuinely, a trans woman".
SNP's @HumzaYousaf is asked about the transgender woman who was last month convicted of rape and held in a women's prison before being transferred to a men's estate.#Ridge https://t.co/ZoMhCmTrtv pic.twitter.com/JSHTMzsoAP
— Politics Hub with Sophy Ridge (@SkyPoliticsHub) February 26, 2023
“Is Isla Bryson a man, or a woman?” Sophy Ridge asks.
… Read the restWell I think Isla Bryson is at it if I’m honest, I think they’re a dangerous individual, a deceptive individual, I don’t think they’re a true trans woman, I think they’re trying to play the system for personal advantage; now what I can’t do, Sophie, is I can’t change law: the law, which has been the
One of the funnier ledes of all time:
Sex education has been suspended in Isle of Man schools after a drag queen allegedly told 11-year-olds that there are 73 genders.
That’s what we’re calling “sex education” these days?
Parents of pupils at Queen Elizabeth II High School in Peel, on the Isle of Man, have reported that Year 7 pupils were taught by a drag queen who told them there are 73 genders.
And who parodied women in the process. Why are drag queens teaching anything?
… Read the restSome 11-year-olds at the school were taught about oral and anal sex, while another group learned about sex change operations and were shown how skin graft taken from a girl’s arm could be used
Originally a comment by Sackbut on ACTUALLY you’re the racist.
This is a complicated issue to me.
I read what Adams said, and I think the way it’s being presented in the media is inaccurate. I don’t like Adams, I think he’s proven himself to be a jerk in oh so many ways, but I think that one quoted bit has a point, even if it’s a strained one.
I used to serve as a moderator on a couple of online discussion forums. One issue that came up frequently was whether to deal with individual posts or with patterns of behavior. For instance, to tell if Oswald is attacking Beatrice in violation of the rules, do we need to … Read the rest
Princeton historian Tera W. Hunter in The Nation:
When I was growing up, my Florida high school required me to endure a course called “Americanism vs. Communism.” I was hardly alone. Between 1962 and 1991, Florida mandated the class for all high school juniors or seniors in public schools. Each lesson had the same takeaway: “Americanism” was all good and “Communism” all bad.
No doubt an offspring of the House Unamerican Activities Committee. You’d think activities should be evaluated on their merits, right, not their location? It’s just dumb to label activities un-Swedish or un-Egyptian or un-Chinese or un-American. America has lots of activities, most of which it shares with other countries or land-masses – speaking of which, by … Read the rest
Boston Children’s Hospital again. They’re so creepy. So perky and cheery and soothing about the nightmare things they’re doing. “Many surgical centers require you to be eighteen,” [winsome tilt of head]; “at Boston Children’s Hospital for top surgery [bi-lateral mastectomy] we’ll see people as young as fifteen if they’ve been affirmed in their gender for a long period of time, and don’t really have any other life complications that make surgery inappropriate.”
https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1630226502439800832Any other life complications like being too fucking young???
She brags about Boston Children’s eagerness to mutilate 15-year-olds, in a gooey sincere caring voice that would lead you to think she’s going to make that bad owie go away right this minute.
Updating to add: Sorry, … Read the rest
Four pupils have been suspended from a West Yorkshire secondary school after a copy of the Quran was damaged by students.
Wednesday’s incident at Wakefield’s Kettlethorpe High School happened when a copy of the Islamic text was brought in by a Year 10 pupil.
Head teacher Tudor Griffiths said the book remained intact and there was “no malicious intent” from those involved.
There is no shortage of copies of Islam’s holy book. It shouldn’t be a news story that one copy out of billions was “damaged.” You might as well fret that a newspaper got torn.
Maybe if people do it out of malice they should be told to stop bullying, but other than that, nothing … Read the rest
Elon launches another “Hooray for racism!!” into the world.
Twitter and Tesla chief Elon Musk defended Scott Adams, the under-fire creator of “Dilbert,” in a series of tweets Sunday, blasting media organizations for dropping his comic strip after Adams said that White people should “get the hell away from Black people.”
Replying to tweets about the controversy, Musk said it is actually the media that is “racist against whites & Asians.” He offered no criticism of Adams’s comments, in which the cartoonist called Black people a “hate group” and said, “I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”
He’s a busy man, he doesn’t have time to comment on what Adams said, he has time only … Read the rest
Originally a comment by tigger_the_wing on Questions of bodily autonomy.
Medicalisation of children, and the surgical removal of healthy body parts which are necessary for a full and healthy adult life, aren’t an issue of ‘bodily autonomy’; they’re an issue of bodily integrity. Adults should be protecting children from harmful physical interventions which are wholly unnecessary, and equally should be protecting them from an ideology which is telling them that they need those interventions in order to ever be happy again.
We allow children a say in medical and surgical interventions according to age and competence. My son had no say in the procedure to give him some hearing at the age of four months, so I had … Read the rest
She sums the mess up nicely.
@IMissHitchSlaps pointing out that George Orwell was right about the left and #RepealTheGRA #LetWomenSpeak @standingforxxhttps://t.co/sNJm3k3rMk pic.twitter.com/WClLy1oTUl
— Emily Wilding Davison (@Wommando) February 26, 2023
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Questions of bodily autonomy.
It’s interesting how they mention the anti-abortion laws, but those immediately fall away. It looks like abortion rights are like anti-racism; they have become a tool for trans to use for their own interests, to tie trans to unrelated activism in order to tie their issues to other issues that really are issues of rights.
Indeed. We saw TiM speakers at rallies, which were ostensibly protests against the overturning of Roe v Wade, turn the fight for abortion rights into a subsection of trans demands for “bodily autonomy.” Women’s rights pushed aside for boutique demands. To complete the hijacking of women’s platforms, captured orgs like the … Read the rest
Andrew Sullivan on the war on dissenters:
… Read the restFive years ago when I wrote “We All Live On Campus Now,” I noted how illiberal practices that originated in elite colleges — bullying, ostracism, public condemnation, speech shutdowns, purges of dissenters — were becoming common in every sphere of life, super-charged by social media. From 2020 on, that dynamic has intensified, especially in journalism, with the media purges of 2020 lifted straight from the campus woke playbook.
And this week, we saw another campus maneuver: an open letter from a thousand or so New York Times contributors, accusing the NYT of “follow[ing] the lead of far-right hate groups” in its coverage of transgender issues. Other campus tactics: a loud
But is it health care, or is it dangerous invasive tampering?
After a midterm election and record flow of anti-transgender legislation last year, Republican state lawmakers this year are zeroing in on questions of bodily autonomy with new proposals to limit gender-affirming health care and abortion access.
Calling it “gender-affirming health care” is tendentious at best. “Attempted sex-changing surgery and hormones” would be more accurate, though of course believers in the ideology would see it as an outrage.
You can’t change sex. You can change gender only if gender is being understood as entirely external and social, which is not how most people understand it. Either way it has nothing to do with health or health care. Assisting it … Read the rest
They're just chanting "terfs kill kids" pic.twitter.com/9qDNKmL9nO
—1) (@alexrubner) February 26, 2023
What does this remind me of? Oh yes…
The term blood libel refers to the false allegation that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish, usually Christian children, for ritual purposes. The Nazis made effective use of the blood libel to demonize Jews, with Julius Steicher’s newspaper Der Stürmer making frequent use of ritual murder imagery in its antisemitic propaganda.
So, in a similar vein, terfs use the blood of trans women to thicken their energy drinks.
… Read the restBlood libels, together with allegations of well poisoning, were a major theme in Jewish persecution in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern period.
Transgender women convicted of violence will be barred from female prisons under new rules to be introduced on Monday.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is toughening its stance, meaning that not only transgender women convicted of sexual assaults but also those jailed for violence will no longer be able to be held in mainstream women’s prisons.
Violent offences will include murder, attempted murder, harming a child, assault with intent to cause serious harm or with injury, endangering life, and harassment. The new rules will also cover all transgender women with male genitalia and will apply regardless of whether transgender prisoners have a gender recognition certificate.
Because as women have said all along, the male genitalia and all that … Read the rest
Hmm. Staunch, or fanatical? Staunch, or one-eyed, clueless, venomous, poisonous?
Ruth Comerford on Clara Vulliamy:
Clara is a staunch Trans rights activist and is passionate about celebrating Trans and Non-Binary children in stories. She has been on the receiving end of horrific online abuse for her opinions. At the time of our interview, she had just locked her Twitter account again because the volume of threatening messages she was receiving was “getting ridiculous”.
Has she though? Horrific abuse? Any receipts for that? Any evidence for the claim of “threatening messages”?
I can’t see the reporter’s name without thinking of Aidan Comerford, but Google didn’t turn up any indication that they’re related, so I don’t know.
… Read the rest“I won’t say who,
We saw the other day that the LA news media reported a sexual assault on a girl of 10 as the crime of a woman when in fact of course the perp was a man who claimed to be a woman. I posted about it here and here.
Now we learn that the LA district attorney suspended a prosecutor for refusing to call the perp a woman. It’s only the right-wing media that are reporting on this.
… Read the restLos Angeles district attorney George Gascon has suspended a prosecutor for allegedly referring to a convicted child molester and suspected murderer by his birth name and the pronouns that correspond to his sex, rather than the name and pronouns he adopted after
Originally a comment by tigger_the_wing on Willoughby feels hunted.
One last thing: the information bar at the bottom gives the number of ‘hate crimes’ for the ‘year to March 2022’. That implies that it’s for the first quarter of 2022, when in fact it covers the year ending in March 2022; in other words, the twelve months from April 2021 to March 2022 inclusive.
… Read the restHate crime is defined as ‘any criminal offence which is perceived, by the victim or any other person, to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards someone based on a personal characteristic.’ This common definition was agreed in 2007 by the police, Crown Prosecution Service, Prison Service (now the National
