All entries by this author

Guest post: The transgender issue is an artifact of toxic masculinity

Nov 7th, 2024 5:37 pm | By

Originally a comment by Mike Haubrich on Historians will.

@Bevin

If you and your child were to be honest about what is going on with the trans issue, you would be more able to resolve it in a way that protects him, or her in the long run. The transgender issue is an artifact of toxic masculinity. Those children who experience the sexism and bullying of not conforming to the gender expectations of their sex are now being shepherded into a belief that they have a gender identity that is different from their sex, and that the gender identity is what takes primacy in defining whether they are male or female; and that is a dangerous social lie that … Read the rest



No roof, no walls

Nov 7th, 2024 11:28 am | By

Maybe, just maybe, this was never a good idea in the first place.

Trans men sue NHS over ‘half-built’ genitalia

Sorry, mate, just can’t get the parts.

Human rights lawyers are representing patients who have been left with “indeterminate genitalia” and “psychological distress” after their surgery processes were unexpectedly halted.

NHS England had commissioned St Peter’s Andrology Centre, a private clinic in north London, to carry out the surgeries but did not renew the contract upon its expiry in March 2020.

Good old Saint Peter, patron saint of rebuilt peters.

Seeking further information, I learn that andrology is a real thing. Creating a penis out of thigh skin on the other hand, not so much. Whatever you create that way

Read the rest


Evil-signaling

Nov 7th, 2024 10:26 am | By

Department of silly titles department.

Trump’s triumph is a disaster for Starmer and the self-regarding, virtue-signalling elites

Well, yes, but it’s not quite that simple. Just for one thing it’s also a festival for the rich, destructive, profit at all costs elites.

Preening virtue-signaling thought-policing lefties can be annoying, especially when they forget that women are not The Enemy, but that doesn’t make the blunt misogyny and racism and generalized contempt of Trump more acceptable. The choice is not between gender police and Trump; there’s a huge amount of territory between those two silly poles.

That territory is where most people live.… Read the rest



But the IOC took no action

Nov 7th, 2024 10:04 am | By

The International Boxing Association speaks up.

The IBA sent a letter to the International Olympic Committee in June last year, warning of the safety risks that women could face at the Paris Games against a fighter who had already failed sex tests. But the IOC took no action, instead allowing Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, a second boxer whose results suggested the same difference in sexual development, to sweep to Olympic titles without losing a single round. Three months on, as the IOC pours scorn on fresh reporting in France about “unverified documents whose origin cannot be confirmed”, the IBA is mounting a staunch defence of the accuracy of its testing procedures.

“It was a chromosome test, to

Read the rest


The first

Nov 7th, 2024 6:09 am | By

Oh goody goody, another first.

State Sen[ator] Sarah McBride will be Delaware’s next representative in Congress, becoming the first transgender person elected to federal office in the history of the United States.

But not, by quite a long way, the first man elected to federal office in the history of the United States.

That’s part of the fun of trans for men, you know – getting to playact being oppressed and ignored and shoved aside All This Time. When you pause to remember they’re men the game crumbles into nothing.

She will assume the congressional seat vacated by U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who will replace retiring U.S. Sen. Tom Carper.

Man replaces woman. Big news.… Read the rest



We’re sorry and we still don’t get it

Nov 7th, 2024 5:23 am | By

The tribunal ruled that Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre had to apologize to Roz Adams.

The rape crisis centre says it is committed to balancing the views, needs and wants of all its service users.

Does that mean “including the male ones”?

Because if so, that’s the same old problem. A rape crisis service shouldn’t be “balancing” men’s needs and wants with women’s needs and wants. Some men’s “wants” include raping women.… Read the rest



It doesn’t matter if it’s got a special certificate

Nov 6th, 2024 4:38 pm | By

Naomi Cunningham explains:

The point is this. Single-sex spaces for women can’t have men in them, because if they do, they’re not single-sex. 

I told you it was simple. It’s like the “no peanuts” rule for a peanut-free dish. If you label a dish “peanut free”, you have to leave the peanuts out. All of them. The fact that lots of people like peanuts is no answer. Peanut-free dishes aren’t about those people: they’re about the people who may go into anaphylactic shock and die if they eat a peanut. It doesn’t matter if the peanut has been mashed to a paste, moulded into the shape of a walnut and scented with walnut oil, so that no-one looking at

Read the rest


Guest post: What’s in it for the captured and subservient institutions?

Nov 6th, 2024 4:03 pm | By

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Historians will.

…knowingly pushing Genderist (or other generally divisive) policies, ideology, and rhetoric prioritizes support for those things over victory.

The bolded part is the part I don’t get, and is the core ingredient of the dictum I’ve noted here on a number of occasions: “Every organization that embraces trans ideology turns to shit.” How is it that these institutions (or at least some sufficiently powerful, decision-making fraction of them) have been able to so completely delude themselves that genderism is in any way progressive, and are willing to maintain that belief in light of the manifest harms to women, children, lesbians and gays, (whom one would expect to be … Read the rest



Historians will

Nov 6th, 2024 10:03 am | By

All too goddam true.

Read the rest



Triggering profound curiosity and reflection

Nov 6th, 2024 9:52 am | By

I get the point, and it’s not wrong, but.

First, the issue isn’t the victory for the people who voted for him, the issue is the victory for him.

Second, and more urgent, the issue isn’t that the people who voted for him are clearly stupid and evil, the issue is that HE is clearly stupid and evil, especially the evil part. The issue is why do so many people embrace such … Read the rest



Bullies are forever

Nov 6th, 2024 9:05 am | By

Whatever else happens, people will still be punished for violations of The Orthodoxy.

A female footballer with suspected autism has been hit with a six-match ban after asking a “bearded” transgender opponent: “Are you a man?”

The 17-year-old cried as she was found guilty of “discrimination” by a national serious case panel over remarks made during a match against a trans-inclusive club.

Serious case forsooth. About as unserious as it gets, if you ask me. Do I think the bearded opponent was genuinely wounded in his feelings? No I do not.

The panel is understood to have found the young woman repeatedly asked whether the alleged victim was a man after she had already been informed the opponent was

Read the rest


Her “beliefs”

Nov 6th, 2024 8:10 am | By

Behold – a piece of good news on this day of horror. Roz Adams wins £70,000 and a public apology from Edinburgh Bully Rape Victims Centre.

A trauma specialist has been awarded almost £70,000 and won a public apology from the rape crisis charity who forced her out of her job in a row over women-only spaces.

The payment to Roz Adams was twice the anticipated figure and came after a tribunal found she was the victim of a “heresy hunt” at Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre (ERCC), where her “sex realist” beliefs were at odds with those of Mridul Wadhwa, the trans activist who was the centre’s chief executive.

The trans activist and man.

Adams suffered harassment after she

Read the rest


The lol MP

Nov 6th, 2024 7:48 am | By

All right. At such times one must cling to any consolation one can find.

The consolation here is that Sultana is an MP, which is not as disgusting as the return of DT, but it’s still very disgusting, and not our fault.

Read the rest



Stick a knife in, we’re done

Nov 5th, 2024 8:49 pm | By
Stick a knife in, we’re done

It’s not looking good.

Harris needs Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, and it doesn’t look as if she’s going to get them.

Return of the Toad. I can’t stand it.… Read the rest



Filth to the end

Nov 5th, 2024 11:16 am | By

Trump finishes his campaign by calling Nancy Pelosi an evil sick crazy bitch.

Standing at his final rally of the 2024 campaign, former President Donald J. Trump in the first minutes after midnight on Election Day used a crude sexist remark to attack Representative Nancy Pelosi, the former House speaker who is one of his longstanding political rivals.

“She’s a bad person,” Mr. Trump said at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich. “Evil. She’s an evil, sick, crazy —” He made an exaggerated face, his mouth open wide to draw attention to the next syllable: “Bi—”

Then he held up a finger dramatically, feigning that he’d caught himself. “Oh no,” he said. As the crowd of thousands

Read the rest


The undefinable is ok for poetry

Nov 5th, 2024 10:47 am | By

Well, now, if you can’t or won’t define it, then why are you making policy and laws about it? How are you providing services to it if you don’t know (or refuse to say) what it is? Please explain.

Read the rest



Don’t let that stop you

Nov 5th, 2024 7:37 am | By

Remember Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy, who buried evidence that puberty blockers don’t reduce gender dysphoria?

She may end up regretting it.

https://twitter.com/babybeginner/status/1853710687127876081

The finding that the PUBERTY BLOCKERS don’t make children with gender distress less distressed “might be weaponized” – i.e. might prompt medical people to stop blocking children’s puberties on account of how it doesn’t make them any less unhappy. It seems Olsen-Kennedy wants the children to keep on not having a normal puberty even though she now knows it won’t make them less unhappy. “Oh, it doesn’t work? Well, we have to keep doing it anyway, or the bad people will win.”

You’d have thought the whole point was to make the kids less unhappy, right? But oh no. … Read the rest



Mud

Nov 5th, 2024 2:52 am | By
Mud

So now I know this is a thing.

Read the rest


Bros decide

Nov 4th, 2024 6:22 pm | By

Sigh. President of Humanists UK.

I guess women aren’t human enough.… Read the rest



Portents

Nov 4th, 2024 4:23 pm | By

Hmm.

Iowa.

I was waiting outside the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina after Vice President Kamala Harris’s rally when my phone started to blow up. Ann Selzer, the vaunted pollster of Iowa, had just dropped a poll showing that Harris was leading Trump by three points in the Hawkeye State — a state Trump had won twice. Everyone in the political world wanted to talk about it.

The Trump campaign knew how bad this news looked. Tony Fabrizio and Tim Saler, the Trump campaign’s data men, released a memo challenging the findings almost immediately.

Not long afterwards, a New York Times/Siena College poll showed Harris leading in North Carolina, as well as Georgia, Nevada and Wisconsin.

Read the rest