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A larger spectrum

Sep 30th, 2022 3:23 am | By

Stupidity on the rampage:

Nearly two dozen graduate students at the University of Southern Maine are demanding their education professor be replaced after the professor allegedly said only two biological sexes exist.

“Allegedly.” The professor allegedly said humans don’t have wings.

The students said professor Christy Hammer’s remarks were inaccurate and transphobic.

The students were wrong.

All but one of them walked out, they demanded a “restorative justice” meeting (as if she’d committed an injustice), they got their wish but she refused to lie for them.

Biologists believe there is a larger spectrum to sex than just the male-female binary.

No they don’t. The link is to that SciAm article that SciAm should never have published.

University officials have

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Cue the stirring music

Sep 29th, 2022 5:32 pm | By

It’s not what you think.

https://twitter.com/GhostPanther/status/1575538762825637888… Read the rest


No need to comply

Sep 29th, 2022 4:11 pm | By

Jesus christ, I go outside to do other things for a few hours and look what I come back to.

Cannon rules Trump lawyers don’t have to clarify claims on Mar-a-Lago documents

Judge Aileen M. Cannon told Donald Trump’s lawyers Thursday that they did not need to comply with an order from special master Raymond J. Dearie and state in a court filing whether they believe FBI agents lied about documents seized from the former president’s Florida residence.

Thursday’s ruling was the first clash between Cannon, a Trump appointee who has generally shown the former president deference in litigation over the Mar-a-Lago investigation [YA THINK???], and Dearie, a federal judge she appointed as an outside expert in the case, who

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CFI wins a round

Sep 29th, 2022 12:10 pm | By

Here’s a bit of good news:

This morning, a three judge panel for the D.C. Court of Appeals, the highest court in the District, reversed the dismissal of suits the Center for Inquiry brought against Walmart and CVS over claims that they deceived customers by marketing fake medicine as if it were real.

Walmart and CVS shelve homeopathic products alongside real medicine. This placement is deceptive to consumers who can easily confuse it for scientifically-tested products that provably work – which they are not. CFI’s suits had been dismissed by two lower D.C. courts.

This is not a joke. The local big drug chain, Bartell Drugs, does the same thing. It’s infuriating. Of course consumers are confused by it. … Read the rest



Dinner plates or salad plates?

Sep 29th, 2022 10:42 am | By

Katy Montgomerie is throwing his weight around again.

https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1575264200485642240

Montgomerie is a white man and a full-time bully. He’s not part of a “vulnerable minority.”

Eleven is a LOT.… Read the rest



Mermaids training sessions

Sep 29th, 2022 8:48 am | By

At last:

Mermaids is being investigated by the Charity Commission after The Telegraph revealed “red flags” in its dealings with children.

The regulator said it had opened a “regulatory compliance case” after concerns were raised about the trans charity’s “approach to safeguarding young people”. The charity has been sending potentially dangerous breast binding devices to children behind their parents’ backs and discussing with them how puberty blocking drugs are “totally reversible”.

Mermaids, which receives funding from the taxpayer and runs training sessions for schools, the NHS and police forces, has been contacted by the regulator.

“Training sessions” forsooth. For schools and the National Health Service and the police – all institutions where you really want to get the … Read the rest



Just go to the Plaza

Sep 29th, 2022 6:40 am | By

It’s all very well to order people to evacuate, but a lot of people have no way to evacuate. In order to evacuate you need at least two things: a destination, and a way to get there. The Post tells us:

As Hurricane Ian barreled toward the nation’s third-most-populous state, millions were urged to evacuate. Many did, clogging up highways as they fanned out across Florida and beyond. But countless people defied the orders — even in some of the most vulnerable parts of the state, which could get up to 18 feet of storm surge.

[Rafael] Baca, who is riding out the storm with his in-laws, wife and her brothers, said they talked about leaving but decided

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It starts slowly

Sep 29th, 2022 5:35 am | By

A storm surge in action.

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Only be sure always to call it “research”

Sep 29th, 2022 4:44 am | By

Hey kids it’s survey time

Researchers from King’s College London wish to explore transgender women’s beliefs, attitudes and expectations/experiences of menopause and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). It is hoped that the study will help to build knowledge to better support transgender healthcare, wellbeing and the transgender community as a whole.

Ok but there’s just one small problem: transgender women are men, and men don’t have any experiences of menopause. If they have expectations about it they’re delusional.

The study consists of a short online questionnaire on your personal views and experiences of HRT and menopause. It will also collect some background information, such as your age, ethnicity and employment status.

Men don’t have experience of menopause.… Read the rest



Exempt

Sep 28th, 2022 3:59 pm | By

Protect the children…except when it’s priests harming them.

In 33 states, clergy are exempt from any laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child sexual abuse to police or child welfare officials if the church deems the information privileged.

That’s so interesting in the light of the fact that the Catholic church has a long long long and very full history of looking fixedly in the other direction while priests rape children.

This loophole has resulted in an unknown number of predators being allowed to continue abusing children for years despite having confessed the behavior to religious officials. In many of these cases, the privilege has been invoked to shield religious

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THREE MONTHS?

Sep 28th, 2022 12:21 pm | By

Commentary on CBS’s “study shows gender-affirming mastectomy is awesome” tweet is harsh.

https://twitter.com/coccinellanovem/status/1575049309703540737 https://twitter.com/RhinestoneCow11/status/1575186208468086784

https://twitter.com/KarolWalczak9/status/1575063782115909632

https://twitter.com/raychilled/status/1574993827789934592 … Read the rest



Catastrophe on the way

Sep 28th, 2022 11:55 am | By

Florida is about to get hammered.

Hurricane Ian is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Florida as one of the strongest storms on record for the area. Its storm surge could be unlike anything seen there as the eye comes ashore, and forecasters are warning that Ian’s intense rainfall – which is expected to continue across the peninsula through Thursday, could lead to life-threatening floods.

Global warming=get out of Florida. It’s doomed.

Florida sees a lot of hurricanes, but not the biggest ones. This is a biggest one.

If Hurricane Ian makes landfall with maximum winds of 155 mph or stronger, it will be the most intense storm to ever make landfall on the west coast of the

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Quality of life

Sep 28th, 2022 11:14 am | By

This is not something news organizations should be doing. It’s not news and it’s not truth, and it’s extremely harmful.

Top surgery drastically improves quality of life for young transgender people, study finds

The quality of life of young transmasculine people dramatically improves after receiving top surgery — a mastectomy procedure that removes breast tissue — according to a study by Northwestern Medicine.

What are “transmasculine people”? What is CBS doing talking silly political drivel like that?

The study, published in peer-reviewed journal JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, is the first to show that top surgery is “associated with significant improvement in chest dysphoria, gender congruence, and body image in transmasculine and nonbinary teens and young adults,” Northwestern Medicine said

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On the rights of women

Sep 28th, 2022 10:38 am | By

Women? Actually women? Not “people”?

The rights of women? Women??? Surely they mean people.

Remember that? It was only two weeks ago.

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We have permission

Sep 27th, 2022 4:29 pm | By

There are developments.

I don’t think the court did “sentence Sally Anne Dixon as a woman.” I don’t think that’s a thing. They sentenced Dixon under that name, but I doubt they attached “azza woman” or “ut femina” to the sentence. They sentenced this Dixon who currently calls himself a woman.

Anyway. It may be that Sussex Police were inspired to withdraw some of the Twitter insults by a Tory MP [and Home Secretary].

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A highly selective lens on rights

Sep 27th, 2022 3:59 pm | By

From a thread on W-PATH and research failings –

https://twitter.com/matildagosling/status/1574727958446604288

11-12 are CRUCIAL:

That. Trans ideologues never stop yammering about “rights” but they also never bother to define what “rights” they’re talking about. In reality they’re generally talking about rights that aren’t rights, like a “right” to be “affirmed in one’s chosen identity” or to be “validated as who you really are.” This is more of the … Read the rest



Over a trans paedophile

Sep 27th, 2022 11:02 am | By

The Telegraph reports on the Twitter quarrel between Sussex Police and uppity women:

Sussex Police has been criticised for saying it did not tolerate “hateful comments” to a member of the public who expressed gender critical views over a trans paedophile.

The force tweeted that Sally Ann Dixon, 58, had been jailed for 20 years for sexually abusing children in a seaside caravan.

Her trial heard that she was living as a man when she carried out a campaign of offending against two boys and five girls.

His. He. His trial, he was “living as” a man, when he carried out a campaign. This is a man’s crime. News outlets should not be obscuring this fact by referring to … Read the rest



Be sure to omit women from the list

Sep 27th, 2022 10:44 am | By

Another aspect of the Sussex Police dispute is that Sussex Police are blissfully unaware that sexism and misogyny exist.

Go look up hate crime on our website, they told us.

https://twitter.com/sussex_police/status/1574708767287115780

So I looked, and found what I expected to find. There’s a long list, but women aren’t on it. We never are. It’s said to be because of the wording of the most recent Equality 2020 Sentencing Act, which apparently forgot women exist.

Hate crimes and hate incidents

In most crimes it is something the victim has in their possession or control that motivates the offender to commit the crime. With hate crime it is ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be that motivates the

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Over pulled pork and ribs

Sep 27th, 2022 10:06 am | By

“Cognitive issues.”

The Republican congressmen Louis Gohmert and Paul Gosar adopted such extreme, conspiracy-tinged positions, even before the US Capitol attack, that a fellow member of the rightwing Freedom Caucus thought they “may have had serious cognitive issues”.

To be fair, lots of us think everyone in the “Freedom Caucus” has serious cognitive issues.

Denver Riggleman, once a US representative from Virginia, reports his impression of his former colleagues from Texas and Arizona in a new book.

Describing his own spell in Congress, between 2019 and 2021, Riggleman says he joined the hardline Freedom Caucus as a way to allay concerns among conservatives that he was insufficiently loyal to Trump.

It’s strange that loyalty to Trump would be … Read the rest



No longer taking part

Sep 27th, 2022 7:35 am | By

Sally Hines being Sally Hines.

By “extreme anti-trans activists” she means feminist women. Extreme feminist extreme women; must avoid at all costs. Abort mission.

She’s proud of her abort message.

It’s all in the wording. “Anti-trans activists” she says – but … Read the rest