Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Councillor Homophobe.

How is it that these “feelings” are not only given a pass, but are enthusiastically supported, and defended with bullying, threats, intimidation and emotional blackmail?

It’s actually much worse than this. It’s not just a matter of celebration and valourization. It’s also about recruitment. How many other disorders or delusions are promulgated by the power of state institutions and backed up by the force of law? The idea that you’ve been “born in the wrong body” is not just introduced to a wider audience than it would have othewise. It is promoted to children and teens who might not have considered this until it was offered, or … Read the rest

The World Health Organization has updated its “gender mainstreaming manual,” whatever tf that is.

The first edition of the manual dates from 2011, and WHO is now updating it in light of new scientific evidence and conceptual progress on gender, health and development.

Conceptual progress? More like regress.

The review and update process will build on the extensive work already featured in the manual. It will focus on:

1. Updating key concepts around gender;

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3. Going beyond non-binary approaches to gender and health to recognize gender and sexual diversity, or the concepts that gender identity exists on a continuum and that sex is not limited to male or female.

4. Introducing new gender, equity and human rights frameworks

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Historian Catherine Allgor explains “coverture”:

Coverture is a long-standing legal practice that is part of our colonial heritage. Though Spanish and French versions of coverture existed in the new world, United States coverture is based in English law. Coverture held that no female person had a legal identity. At birth, a female baby was covered by her father’s identity, and then, when she married, by her husband’s. The husband and wife became one–and that one was the husband. As a symbol of this subsuming of identity, women took the last names of their husbands. They were “feme coverts,” covered women. Because they did not legally exist, married women could not make contracts or be sued, so they could not

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More homophobia from the LibDems:

https://twitter.com/HannahPerkin/status/1545468549052960771

She’s a councillor in Faversham (Kent).

https://twitter.com/HannahPerkin/status/1545734160031031298

She doesn’t welcome conversation with the peasants who replied to her “Absolutely not” though.

Boo lesbians and gays, hooray for men in womanface. How did we get here?… Read the rest

Arwa Mahdawi on the conservatism of the Dems:

Some top establishment Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, have been very busy throwing their weight behind Henry Cuellar, the last anti-choice House Democrat, in the primary for Texas’s 28th congressional district. I’m not sure exactly what makes the gun-loving, abortion-hating Cuellar a Democrat, because he seems to have basically all the same policy positions as a Republican, but he has a (D) next to his name. Even when they knew Roe was on the verge of being overturned, top House Democrats chose to help Cuellar – the incumbent – fend off a challenge from Jessica Cisneros, a pro-choice progressive. In the end Cuellar won by just 289 votes. The Democrats have

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Freelance sex education is a thing in UK schools. The results are what you’d expect.

Providers of sex education in schools are teaching children that prostitution is a “rewarding job” and failed to advise a 14-year-old girl having sex with a 16-year-old boy that it was illegal.

Outside organisations teaching children about sex also promote “kinks” such as being locked in a cage, flogged, caned, beaten and slapped in the face, The Times has found.

One organisation encouraged pupils to demonstrate where they like to touch themselves sexually, in a practise criticised as “sex abuse” by campaigners.

And everyone else with a functioning brain.

Relationship and sex education (RSE) became compulsory in English secondary schools in 2020, with many

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Oh ffs. Not MORE of this crap.

I saw this

What meanings can you think of for the phrase “administrative error” to explain why an agreement is first confirmed and then …

— Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) July 8, 2022

So I hastened to Google for enlightenment, and Google obliged with

https://twitter.com/mikedixn/status/1545468040711651329

Sorry, he says flippantly and dismissively and rudely. “No you’re wrong you’re not invited, I checked and somebody fucked up so it sucks to be you, sorry for any blah blah, just kidding about the sorry part.”

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Bari Weiss shared this essay by UCLA Anthropology Professor Joseph Manson as another item on the long list of woke students running amok list. I think the story isn’t quite as stark as she and Manson think it is.

I’m a 62-year-old professor—by academic standards, still young. But I am retiring this summer because the woke takeover of higher education has ruined academic life. “Another one?” you ask. “What does this guy have to say that hasn’t already been said by Jordan Peterson, Peter Boghossian, Joshua Katz, or Bo Winegard?”

Well, for one thing, how about items of interest to women? There’s actually quite a lot of conflict among feminist women and trans-obsessed students in academia right now, … Read the rest

Rats fleeing sinking ship?

Former President Donald Trump left the board of his social media firm, Truth Social, weeks before it was served with a federal subpoena, records show. 

According to a June 8 filing with the Florida Department of State’s Division of Corporations, Trump was removed from his position as chairman of the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG).

He needed to devote all his time to learning to read.

TMTG is the parent company of Truth Social, the social-media platform Trump launched after he was banned from mainstream social media following the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. 

Truth Social says it’s all a misunderstanding; Business Insider doesn’t believe them.… Read the rest

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Chipping away at voting rights.

Wisconsin Supreme Court outlaws ballot drop boxes for elections

A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the use of ballot drop boxes, which increased substantially across the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, is illegal under state law.

In a 4-3 ruling, the court’s conservative majority also said voters cannot have other people return their completed ballots in person to a clerk’s office, though it declined to rule on whether anyone other than a voter can send in ballots by mail.

In other words the court made voting more difficult for people in Wisconsin. What does making voting more difficult accomplish? It reduces voting by poor people, non-white people, disabled people…aka people likely to … Read the rest

Her “government service” forsooth.

Also, way to make it about her.

Also, it’s not the mere death, much less the “passing,” it’s the assassination.

Saddened by the death of Former PM Shinzo Abe, a truly historic figure & leader of lasting consequence. Abe’s advice, wisdom & warmth had a profound impact on me during my government service. My heart is with his family & the Japanese people as the world mourns his passing. pic.twitter.com/UAEAXHRIGY

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) July 8, 2022

In happier times –

https://twitter.com/Abba_Annabelle/status/1545389618694041600

Heads of state and…Goldilocks?… Read the rest

No I can’t just ignore this and move on. I should but I can’t. A Washington Post article that purports to “explain” what “terfs” are as if no one had ever heard of them before. It’s painfully stupid.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision last month to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion, many celebrities have spoken out about what they see as a loss of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy.

First paragraph and already wtf? Who cares what “celebrities” have spoken out about? The protagonists here are women, not celebrities. And “what they see as” a loss of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy? As if there’s some other way to see it? As if this … Read the rest

https://twitter.com/joingles/status/1545172493014601728

statenews.org and Jo Ingles know who men are, but somehow have lost the word “women.”

Jo Ingles is “News Reporter/Producer at Ohio Public Radio and Television’s Statehouse News Bureau – serving all of Ohio’s NPR and PBS stations” yet apparently she doesn’t know it’s women who get pregnant. That seems embarrassing. … Read the rest

Starts well:

We’re in a moment of antifeminist backlash, and, increasingly, that backlash seems aimed at silencing women, or punishing the women who won’t shut up. It’s a perilous time for women’s speech – or at least, it’s a perilous time for women who speak out against sexism. Over the course of this spring and summer, threats to feminist activists and abuse survivors have multiplied and become more serious, with women who speak out against men’s violence or in favor of women’s rights increasingly targeted by abusers, vigilantes, antifeminist activists and lawmakers, and the courts.

And people who consider themselves trans-rights activists.

Defamation suits are becoming a routine tool of retaliation and revenge for men accused of sexual and

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Wait a second though.

@KemiBadenoch don't self combust, however I've just been in gender neutral toilets and EVERYONE was safe . . .

Simple really. pic.twitter.com/nkXUvpMgyB

— RJ Buddha (@INEya_veganfood) July 4, 2022

If you look at the full photo of our hero you can see that he’s both huge and angry-looking. It’s nice that he’s confident in his own mind that everyone was safe, but what I want to know is, how in hell does he think he can know that everyone else could know that? In particular, how does he think he can know women could know that?

I asked him that question and then read replies and saw that so did everyone else.

https://twitter.com/coccinellanovem/status/1544965740377395201 https://twitter.com/TerfASaurusSex/status/1545001405743878148 https://twitter.com/DRcronflake/status/1545084310214115329

Being

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Pure coincidence. Completely random. The Post:

Democrats and Republicans in Congress on Thursday expressed alarm that the IRS under President Donald Trump may have targeted two of his political enemies with tax audits, joining in rare unity to call for an investigation into the matter.

The requests came a day after reports that the IRS initiated detailed reviews into the tax records of James B. Comey, the former FBI director, and Andrew McCabe, a deputy who later took over the agency. The two officials at the time had been primary targets of Trump’s ire after they probed the president in connection with his 2016 campaign, leading Comey to raise the possibility this week that the newly revealed audits amounted

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Boris Johnson has given in at last.

Scandal-ridden British Prime Minister Boris Johnson capitulated to mounting pressure to step down Thursday, announcing his decision after days of high-profile government resignations and calls from fellow Conservative Party members to quit.

If only we could have said the same of scandal-ridden Donald Trump.

“In the past few weeks, I have been trying to convince my colleagues it would be eccentric to change governments when we have achieved so much,” he said in his speech outside No. 10 Downing St. amid loud booing from the crowd nearby. “I regret not to be successful in those arguments and, of course, it’s painful not to be able to see through those projects myself.”

Johnson

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Perfect photo.

Celebrating last night with @MForstater @HJoyceGender @charlesworth102 & Kate Harris from @ALLIANCELGB. Maya’s fantastic legal victories will make life a lot easier for women like us who have been hounded for our defence of the rights of women & lesbians. pic.twitter.com/dV7HbYDIZQ

— Joanna Cherry KC (@joannaccherry) July 7, 2022

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Pink News rejoices that more people are spitting venom at radical feminist women.

New Queer as Folk is a big ‘fuck you’ to transphobes and a beautiful story of trans love, stars say

Aw iddn that sweet.

Queer as Folk stars Jesse James Keitel and CG have a simple message to people who don’t think trans people should exist: “Fuck you.”

Except of course that’s not what we think. It’s not about existing, it’s about claims about what one is. It’s about self-description. It’s about the new and worthless doctrine that people can change their sex, and not only that but they can do it just by saying the words. Existence isn’t the same as self-description. Exist away, exist your … Read the rest