Aha, a festival for International Day of the Girl.

https://twitter.com/SEIreland/status/1571937204603342855

What is Shona?

Nice, so all this is about empowering girls. Fair play to them.

https://twitter.com/sararphillips/status/1571940386855358464

So much for empowering girls and International Day of the Girl.

Updating to add: There’s another one, because of course there is.

https://twitter.com/TarynDeVere/status/1571943337933918208

It seems she is a woman, but considers herself too special and interesting to be called a woman.

‘I think I might be genderqueer, or non-binary,” I said to my kids. They looked nonplussed. “I might have a hard time not calling you Mum,” one replied, “But I’ll try.”

“I’ll always be Mum,” I assured her.

But I’ll be Mum who is too special to be called a woman.… Read the rest

Another confused group that claims to be feminist but also likes to omit and erase women.

Until people who can get pregnant have control over our own bodies, we *cannot* be equal.

Abortion is a human right.

— Women's March (@womensmarch) September 14, 2022

What a pity they made the mistake of calling themselves Women’s March way back in January 2017. So typical of women not to think such things through.

A 10-year-old girl was raped in Ohio. She got pregnant. She's not a woman, she's a child.

Women, young girls, trans men, and nonbinary & intersex individuals can get pregnant too. You can be upset about that fact, or you can fight in solidarity for abortion access for ALL.

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Right side of history?

1./ The gender identity goons are on the march. They've started with women and gays. Yesterday they attacked women in Brighton with smoke canisters. They also assaulted venerable gay rights activist Fred Sergeant in Vermont, leaving him injured. They'll come for you too soon…. pic.twitter.com/NMV4uF4qeL

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) September 19, 2022

3./ In our institutions, the media and judicial system a slow inexorable capture by gender identity activists is underway as biological sex is replaced with invented and shifting notions like 'gender identity' which activists can constantly redefine to police our behaviour.

— Malcolm Clark (@TwisterFilm) September 19, 2022

That threat-image is disgusting. The threat to knock you down and injure or perhaps kill you. … Read the rest

While men in Brighton are busy calling feminist women fascists, Trump is doing the real thing:

Trump appeared to more fully embrace QAnon on Saturday, playing a song at a political rally in Ohio that prompted attendees to respond with a salute in reference to the cultlike conspiracy theory’s theme song.

While speaking in Youngstown in support of J.D. Vance, whom he has endorsed as Ohio’s Republican nominee for the Senate, Mr. Trump delivered a dark address about the decline of America over music that was all but identical to a song called “Wwg1wga” — an abbreviation for the QAnon slogan, “Where we go one, we go all.”

As Mr. Trump spoke, scores of people in the crowd raised

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Doesn’t this just say it all. Stentorian male voice shouting “YOU’RE NOT FEMINISTS” over and over and over.

Shut up, dude. You’re not the boss of us.

The chant "you're not feminists" being lead by a man in Brighton yesterday.#StandingForWomen#LetWomenSpeak pic.twitter.com/pcLFDDCR94

— JoJoBucks (@JocastaMoney) September 19, 2022

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Some people know exactly who the women are and what they’re for.

Ten former members of a Utah-based polygamist sect known as the Kingston Group are pursuing punitive damages against the organization after they say it subjected them to years of unpaid labor, sexual violence and human trafficking.

In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, the sect’s ex-members allege: “It is largely through … illegal marriage practices that the [Kingston Group] is able to unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes.”

The lawsuit contains explicit details of how Kingston Group leaders – who also own and operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utah’s capital, Salt Lake City

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Philip Pullman blames the victims.

I despise transphobia.

— Philip Pullman (@PhilipPullman) September 19, 2022

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One scrap from Brighton yesterday:

The transgenser activist in the dungarees who shouts 'fucking fascist' in the face of a baby is Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle's policy advisor https://t.co/mgYcLu2ojd

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) September 19, 2022

Carly-May Kavanagh – the woman who shouted 'fucking fascist' at a baby as part of her transgender activism – has changed her bio so that it no longer states that she is an MP's policy adviser pic.twitter.com/fuIDzcUIoe

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) September 19, 2022

All that venom and name-calling because we decline to pretend that men are women.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on No they don’t.

The National Organization for Women is defining “woman” as a “gender identity” now. How fucking feminist of them.

This is going to age really well, right? At some point, they are going to be mortified by this.

Compared to the UK, the US and Canada seem to be behind the curve. Over there, the tide appears to be turning; genderists are more on the defensive, what with the Cass report, and all of the court cases that are being decided in favour of GC belief. It’s not as if an ocean is still the same obstacle to information it once was. The legal and legislative regimes on … Read the rest

NOW is fully captured, just like the ACLU and Planned Parenthood and the National Women’s Law Center. Nothing for women any more, always people. Women don’t matter any more; nobody campaigns or proselytizes for women any more; women are so much chaff.

They systematically avoid the word, even though it’s IN their NAME. The W in NOW stands for Women, but NOW has become ashamed to use the word.… Read the rest

Meanwhile – the item that prompted me to try to reply to a NOW tweet only to find I’m blocked –

That’s a moronic lie. Men don’t need access to abortion, because men can’t get pregnant. It’s only women who need abortion rights, and no longer have them.… Read the rest

I wasn’t aware of this, and I have to admit I’m slightly shocked.

I’m blocked by THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN????? The oldest, biggest, most mainstream feminist group in the US? That organization for women now blocks women for not agreeing that men can be women? In other words the oldest, biggest, most mainstream feminist group in the US is now shunning feminist women in favor of anti-feminist misogynist men?

How did that happen?

Mind you, I’m assuming that’s why I’m blocked, but I don’t remember anything specific.

But it’s grotesque. It’s grotesque – mainstream feminist organizations shunning feminist women for the sake of non-feminist men. How is that going to advance feminist goals? How is that going to do … Read the rest

Texas governor plays cruel childish games with other people’s lives:

About 50 migrants, including a one-month-old baby, have been sent in a bus from Texas to the Washington DC residence of Vice-President Kamala Harris, in the latest move by Republican-led states to transfer migrants unannounced across the country.

The bus let off the migrants, who are believed to be mostly Venezuelan, outside the Naval Observatory, the traditional home of US vice-presidents, on Saturday morning.

They had been sent by the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, while another group were flown to Martha’s Vineyard, in Massachusetts, on a flight organized by Florida governor Ron DeSantis earlier this week.

GEDDIT??? “You love migrants so much YOU take care of them nyah … Read the rest

Some snaps from I think Brighton:

pic.twitter.com/3dZd5dmOmi

— East Sussex WRN (@WRNEastSussex) September 18, 2022

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— East Sussex WRN (@WRNEastSussex) September 18, 2022

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“Rapey McForehead” is trending on Twitter so I looked to find out why. The Washington Post:

Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) told a former White House aide that he was seeking a preemptive pardon from President Donald Trump regarding an investigation in which he is a target, according to testimony given to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Johnny McEntee, according to people familiar with his testimony, told investigators that Gaetz told him during a brief meeting “that they are launching an investigation into him or that there’s an investigation into him,” without specifying who was investigating Gaetz.

McEntee added that Gaetz told him “he did not do anything wrong but they are

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Aaaand The Atlantic runs an article by freelance writer Maggie Mertens that announces Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense. It’s every bit as stupid as it sounds, and then some.

Though school sports are typically sex-segregated, a new generation of kids isn’t content to compete within traditional structures.

Ah yes, it’s just a matter of “traditional structures,” like women having to wear skirts. Thank god the new generation of kids has seen through it at last.

School sports are typically sex-segregated, and in America some of them have even come to be seen as either traditionally for boys or traditionally for girls: Think football, wrestling, field hockey, volleyball. However, it’s becoming more common for these lines to blur,

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What a horrible man.

https://twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/status/1570794300166017024… Read the rest

School prepares for backlash over high school teacher who claims to be trans. I think the teacher is just taking the mickey.

The Halton District School Board is “standing behind” an “accepted” transgender teacher who has gone viral in social media video posts.

In addition, HDSB Chair Margo Shuttleworth tells the Toronto Sun that staff are looking at “going through creating a safety plan” to ensure the Oakville Trafalgar High School teacher’s security as they prepare for potential protests when the school opens for classes Monday.

Gone viral why? Potential protests why?

https://twitter.com/helensaxby11/status/1571058712609169409

Trans? Or mockery? It looks more like mockery to me. Anyway I wouldn’t want to be in a high school class taught by that teacher.

Anna … Read the rest

Which one really has the stupid argument here?

I think trans women are just another category of women like white women and black women, like trans men are another category of men like white men and black men, obviously all are different, this is a really stupid line of argument!

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) September 17, 2022

The “like” there isn’t “like,” because of the meaning of the word “trans.” OJ is pretending that all adjectives are just additions, but that’s a really stupid thing to pretend.

For instance: pretend; artificial; fake; counterfeit; fantasy; mock; sham.

That’s the thing about the adjective “trans”: that’s what it means. That’s its only meaning.

For that reason, it’s both fatuous and dishonest … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Near-total control.

In the press article, my experience of abuse by GCs and their far-right allies is not represented (and I did describe this; some of it was also read out to me). I assume this is also the case for other trans inclusive feminists who were interviewed, as the account is one-sided.

Pardon me if I fail to believe you. First, I have grave doubts about your ability to distinguish “abuse” from “criticism.” It’s a natural response to the transperbolic claim that “misgendering” is “actual violence,” and that your critics are hell-bent on trans genocide. Please. Second, the whole “far-right allies” thing is an immediate indication that yours is … Read the rest