Advance cheating:

Key rightwing legal groups with ties to Donald Trump and his allies have banked millions of dollars from conservative foundations and filed multiple lawsuits challenging voting rules in swing states that are already sowing distrust of election processes and pushing dangerous conspiracy theories, election watchdogs warn.

They also warn that the groups appear to be laying the groundwork for a concerted challenge to the result of November’s presidential election if Trump is defeated by Kamala Harris.

That’s a good look. Decide ahead of time, in the absence of any facts, that the election will have been corrupt because you don’t like the outcome. You don’t see too many will have beens in normal life, because in general … Read the rest

This isn’t three stoned kids in a garage, this is a government. It says so right in the lede.

The SNP government has claimed there are 24 different genders.

In official guidance, the devolved administration clarified a list of two dozen terms it said the gender identity of members of the public could be recorded [as?] by public bodies.

Just two dozen, eh? You know there will be people wanting new ones added to the list, and pitching fits if anyone tells them no.

Ok let’s have a look.

The 24 genders

Cisgender

Trans man

Trans woman

Non-Binary

Trans – not otherwise specified

Agender

Trans masculine

Trans feminine

Genderfluid

Genderqueer

Questioning

Intersex

Assigned female at birth – not

Reduxx reports:

The father of a transgender athlete has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Marc Jacques, the father of Maelle Jacques, cited his son’s transgender identity and his own advocacy for transgender rights in his letter to the court requesting a non-custodial sentence.

Why, on earth, would either of those (let alone both) be reasons not to lock him up? There are reasons to question the usefulness of custodial sentences in general, but how in hell does his son’s trans idenniny equal a reason to be lenient to him in particular?

More the other way around, I would think.

Maelle Jacques, 16, is a trans-identified boy who has become a controversial athlete

A pearl beyond compare. 59-year-old man simpers in a short red party dress that would look bizarre on a woman half his age, and questions the queenliness of someone who is not a 59-year-old man in a short red party dress.

Doubt the monarchy can survive this. pic.twitter.com/Xyd61u8lZT

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) October 20, 2024

… Read the rest

Brilliant. Take Back the Night warbles about how incloooosive it is, meaning it inclooods men. Just fucking brilliant: resist rape culture by pretending men are women.

In a march meant to demand safety for women on the streets from predators- the organisers of Reclaim The Night want to include the fucking predators. Rapists don’t wear badges, but they are always men, even if they wear frocks. We can’t tell which ones. #ReclaimReclaimTheNight pic.twitter.com/aY4XJfYpOW

— Jean Hatchet (@JeanHatchet) October 19, 2024

“All women are welcome – we are a trans-inclusive march.” By “all women” they of course mean “including men who say they are women.” Take back the night and then hand it over to men.… Read the rest

Trump’s new message is Oooh Big Dick.

Donald Trump’s campaign suggested he would begin previewing his closing argument Saturday night with Election Day barely two weeks away. But the former president kicked off his rally with a detailed story about Arnold Palmer, at one point even praising the late, legendary golfer’s genitalia.

Re-write: Trump’s campaign was silly enough to claim he would be making an “argument” at his rally last night, but instead he drooled about a golfer’s Yoooje junk.

“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy that was all man.”

By “all due respect” he of course means zero respect. Trump thinks women … Read the rest

Trump is trying to rewrite his attempted coup.

Donald J. Trump on Friday tried to revise the history of the deadly attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, as new details in the federal prosecution against him were made public by the judge in the case.

His attempt to recast the events of Jan. 6, 2021, came on the same day that he compared his supporters who were arrested, convicted and imprisoned for their actions at the Capitol to the victims of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II. And it followed a recent remark in which Mr. Trump declared Jan. 6 a day of “love.”

It says something about this country that … Read the rest

When in doubt, go full Mermaids!

The NHS has been accused of ignoring the Cass review recommendations on transgender care for children. Dr Hilary Cass’s report advised that under-18s should not be rushed into treatment which they may later regret following concerns about care at the Tavistock clinic. However, a new NHS centre has snubbed the Cass review in favour of discredited transgender guidance that promotes both puberty blockers and surgery without age limits.

Well which is more important, following the hot new trend or letting children grow up without mutilations?

The Nottingham Young People’s Gender Service was founded in April to give psychological and social support to children with gender dysphoria who were former Tavistock patients and are currently

Pre-emptive censorship again. Cancel yourself before someone does it for you.

A documentary that lifts the lid on a “race science” network of far-right activists in Britain and its links to a rich American funder of eugenics research has been pulled from the London Film Festival (LFF) at the last minute due to safety concerns.

The organisers have taken the “heartbreaking decision” to cancel the planned screening of the “exceptional” Undercover: Exposing the Far Right this weekend due to fears about the welfare of the staff and security working in the festival venues.

Thus sending a message that merely threatening to make a stink will inspire the people in charge to cancel everything just to be on the safe … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Always wrong.

I’m quite amazed that Trump’s rhetoric appears to be working with many people. But then again, I can kind of understand why it’s striking a chord.

For example, I had a long conversation with a MAGA guy last night. A former liberal, so he says, and I believe him, this being solidly left Toronto. But now he’s on the right and he’s buying it all: war will go away if Trump gets elected, the culture war “craziness” will die down, and — this is what surprised me the most — Trump will thwart the billionaire global elites’ sinister plot to… do something or other… something something immigrants.

And then, with a … Read the rest

First of all, the headline is nonsensical.

Trans teachers must be allowed to use same showers as female colleagues, schools told

Trans teachers are people who call themselves teachers but have no training and don’t teach?

Or, “trans teachers” are males and females?

No, neither of those. They mean, of course, male teachers who claim to be women.

The lede also gets it wrong:

Trans teachers must be allowed to use the same showers and lavatories as female colleagues, schools have been told.

The second paragraph gets it right.

Training from the National Governance Association (NGA) tells governors that staff should be given access to the bathroom “available to other members of their newly acquired gender”.

There you go. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A disgrace to the name of Sherlock.

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female,….the reality is that there are a small number of people, but a real number of people, who believe they’re born in the wrong body, believe that they don’t fit into the male-female definition.”

But bodies are only male or female. Even if you’re born into the “wrong” body, even if that was a real phenomenon, that “wrong” body is still either a male one or a female one. There are no other sexes. That trapped entity has no impact on the cells … Read the rest

Golly.

Yesterday, NSW Greens MP and “feminist”, Abigail Boyd showed her support for the Equality Bill. During her speech, she claimed our understanding of biology was “old fashioned” and that she couldn’t understand why seeing male genitalia in women’s change rooms could be an issue. pic.twitter.com/cad24jFcPe

— Lucy Zelić (@LucyZelic) October 18, 2024

At four minutes she says “If your concern is that men will attack women, then we’re talking about men attacking women, and by subterfuge trying to get in.”

Uh, yes. Of course that’s what we’re talking about. It always has been.

Oh oh oh but some trans women really do idennify as women, and they’re not there to attack women at all, and if you think they … Read the rest

There are AT LEAST 3 SEXES says Irish Senator.

"I find it sad that people feel so threatened by people saying there is something other than biological male and female"

You know what's actually sad @marie_sherlock?

The fact that you sit in the seanad and espouse such absolute… pic.twitter.com/z7A0Tww9Ko

— Brandubh (@brandubh4) October 17, 2024

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female, and I think if any of us with lived life experience in this house can recognize that while our world is still very much built around binary male female order of things the reality is that there are a small number of people, … Read the rest

Trump says Lincoln should have just gotten his act together and negotiated that whole Civil War thing.

It’s not exactly clear what Trump thinks Lincoln should have done to “settle” the dispute between the North and the South, the latter of which seceded from the Union largely because it wanted to keep enslaving people.

The South thought it had a right to keep enslaving people. It’s weird to think that, because what about the rights of the people being enslaved? Why should a purported “right” to enslave outweigh a right to be free, to be not enslaved, to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Elsewhere in Trump’s sit-down with Fox, he claimed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

I generally think the term “virtue signaling” is thrown around too readily, but this one is a bullseye. 100% look at my virtue and be amazed.

I recently discovered that Labour led Westminster City Council didn’t consult the trans and non-binary communities for the refurbishment plans for flagship public toilets at Picadilly Circus, Embankment and Green Park…I urge them to consult non-cisgendered people going forwards. pic.twitter.com/Canojlmwrg

— Cllr. Ed Pitt Ford (@pitt_ford) October 17, 2024

Consult them for what purpose? There are only two sexes. Find the one that matches your sex, and walk in. What is there to consult about?

Unless of course he means the symbols. The symbols are idiotic. I’m a woman and yet I have two … Read the rest

It’s all so mysterious.

Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday that the forfeitures that women’s volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is “not what we celebrate in college athletics” and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surrounding the Spartans and their opponents.

Four teams have canceled games against San Jose State: Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State and Wyoming, with none of the schools explicitly saying why they were forfeiting.

Funnily enough, The Associated Press also doesn’t explicitly say why they’re forfeiting. The AP nowhere admits that the issue is a male player on the San Jose State women’s team.

A group of Nevada players issued a

So we’ll compromise, we’ll make it unfair to most women but not the ones at the very top. That’s the way to go, right? Split the difference!

Transgender women are to be banned from professional and semi-professional women’s cricket in England – but controversially not from the grass-roots game.

Those nasty smelly peasants who don’t play professional cricket can just suck it up, right? If they’re women that is. Stupid bitches.

Those rules are among the most liberal in sport, allowing anyone identifying as female to play in women’s cricket – subject to written ECB clearance only for “professional club and England pathway teams”.

This has long sparked major concern among women’s rights campaigners about fairness and safety for those

From Reduxx:

Northern Ireland’s Parliament Invites Trans Identified Male To Speak On “Gender-Based Violence” After Spike In Femicide Deaths

A trans-identified male was invited to speak in Northern Ireland’s parliament on “gender-based violence” and “LGBT youth education” following the brutal murders of four women in the country in just six weeks.

Why? Why ask a male when there are nearly a million women in Northern Ireland?

Alexa Moore, a male who identifies as a “woman,” was invited by the education committee this week to speak on an inquiry into relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools. Alongside Moore, Sophie Nelson from HERe NI, a Belfast-based community organization and registered charity for lesbian and bisexual women, also gave evidence.

But

Oxford Mail reports:

Witney woman accused of threatening to stab teen near Waitrose

A jury has heard that a woman allegedly threatened to stab a teenage boy if he didn’t have sex with her.

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The defendant is accused of threatening a teenage boy, 14, to engage in a sexual activity with her in a wooded area near the Waitrose supermarket in Witan Way.

She allegedly threatening [sic] to stab him if he tried to run away.

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When he started walking back home, a woman sitting on a nearby bench allegedly gestured him over. The boy believed it was a family friend so obliged but soon realised he did not recognise her. Reportedly, Omoruyi encouraged the boy to drink