Again. They’re appallingly consistent about this.

Already, politicians in other states are proposing copycat bills that insult the Constitution, turn neighbor against neighbor, and force people to carry a pregnancy against their will.

It is past time for the Supreme Court to step in and right this grave injustice.

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 23, 2021

The ACLU has allowed the trans lobby – or maybe just Chase Strangio all by herself – to bully it into erasing women from its reporting and publicity.… Read the rest

Oh no, the ACLU had to name the bill and the bill has the word “women” in the title.

BREAKING: The US House of Representatives just passed the Women’s Health Protection Act, a historic move to protect abortion access nationwide.

Now, the Senate must pass this critical legislation without delay.

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 24, 2021

Ewwww women’s ewwwww they must have been feeling very sick having to say that.

But they fixed it in the subsequent tweets.

We all deserve access to the essential health care we need, including abortion — regardless of where we live or how much money we make.

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 24, 2021

Whew, that’s better! No more mention of women. Patients, people, we, … Read the rest

The ACLU is still at it (aka “doubling down”).

We may have a right to access abortion, but that doesn’t mean all of us can.

Under Texas’ anti-abortion law, SB 8, this is more true than ever.https://t.co/anbKKppZu0

— ACLU (@ACLU) September 26, 2021

We? Who’s we? Who are “all of us”?

They mean women, of course, but they’re hell bent on not saying so. It’s Chase Strangio’s world now, and the only women who matter are men.

The linked article uses the word once. One single time. I suppose the word appears that one time so that women like me won’t be able to say never. But the grotesquely sanitized language remains. It’s written by Paige Alexandria … Read the rest

Another one of these. She barks like a seal at the sheer horror of being asked if women are allowed to talk about our own bodies now.

'Is it transphobic to say only women have a cervix?'

Nick Ferrari puts Labour's Rachel Reeves on the spot after Keir Starmer said it was wrong to say 'only women have a cervix'.@NickFerrariLBC pic.twitter.com/g06jPP8TxH

— LBC (@LBC) September 27, 2021

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Child Psychiatry Fellow at Stanford Medical School Jack Turban to Jessica Taylor in response to her objection to a man, Mridul Wadhwa, as director of a women’s rape crisis centre:

Women “demanding” female staff at rape crisis centers is not repeat not comparable to white people demanding white staff at anything. Women are not dominant over men, women don’t rape men, women are not the oppressor class in relation to men, women are not comparable to white people and men are not comparable to black people in discussions of power imbalance or dominance/subordination or perpetrator/victim or violence/injury.… Read the rest

Something nice for a change!

In January 23, a group of five women climbers summitted Aconcagua, in Argentina, at 22,808 feet, the highest point in the Western and Southern Hemispheres. It took them seven days from when they started ascending the mountain’s flanks to when they safely returned to the bottom. This wouldn’t necessarily be noteworthy if not for the makeup of the crew.

They’re all Bolivian Aymara indigenous women who until recent years worked as cooks and caretakers for well-heeled, and mostly male, mountaineers from around the world. These women had been working at high camps for years, catering to the crews headed to the high peaks of the Andes. Finally, they decided to strap on crampons and hike

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Sonia Sodha on “white feminism”:

Blaming women for the ills of the world might appear an odd feminist call to action. But an idea gaining traction is that the “white feminism” dominant in the United States and the UK is not only a driving force of societal racism, but responsible for a host of other bad things, from the war on terror to the hypersexualisation of women in popular culture, to the dreadful abuses of power we see in international aid. It’s part of a growing tendency on the left to look for scapegoats at the cost of building the solidarity needed for social change.

It’s that and it’s also part of a longstanding tendency on the left to … Read the rest

You have got to be kidding.

Starmer's moment of shame. https://t.co/V2oMeZ4x0f

— Joan Smith (@polblonde) September 26, 2021

It shouldn’t be said. It’s not right.

So I guess it shouldn’t be said and it’s not right that women are the ones who gestate and give birth to all human beings without exception. I guess it shouldn’t be said and it’s not right that men can’t do either of those things. I guess it shouldn’t be said and it’s not right that men have always sought to harness and control that ability women have. I guess it shouldn’t be said and it’s not right that men are also bigger and stronger than women, and that those two facts combined are why … Read the rest

So…

https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1441859955196321798

So that letter is here, and published with permission. Atwood sent it to several people.

Hi Steve,

Harriet has told me that you stated that her article “dragged SBM into a raging controversy.” She feels, and I agree, that it was your retracting that article and replacing it by very bad articles written by advocates of “gender affirmation” that dragged SBM into a raging controversy. I’ve attempted to explain why previously, but here I’ll mention a couple of the most obvious reasons. 

You claimed that Harriet’s article was below SBM’s minimal standard for “high quality scientific evidence and reasoning to inform medical issues.” Yet you replaced it with articles stating things such as the following: 

“Biology is

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This very young MP is a piece of work.

We need to take a much tougher line on transphobia and for it to be unacceptable at all levels of the party.

We also need a programme of proper political education on this for all members.

These are things I am pushing for and will continue to push for. 4/6

— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) September 22, 2021

That might sound reasonable if you didn’t know what zealots like this novice mean by “transphobia.” She doesn’t mean cruelty or persecution of trans people, she doesn’t mean inciting hatred of trans people (although she probably thinks she does), she means not agreeing that men are women if they say they are, and … Read the rest

Yiiiiiiiiikes.

https://twitter.com/altweetsstuff/status/1441761654220328965… Read the rest

The Lancet’s “bodies with vaginas” tweet is getting scorching replies.

Still reeling from the @ACLU’s erasure of the word “woman” from a quotation by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Now we see the medical journal @TheLancet using the vile phrase “bodies with vaginas” on its front cover.

Dehumanization is the prelude to violence.#WarOnWomen

— Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) September 25, 2021

On the same day National Public Radio erased women from a story on abortion rights.

https://twitter.com/coccinellanovem/status/1441508423472877573 https://twitter.com/ShirTruth/status/1441814646990819328

To many, yes. With another hole at the other end where anything we have to say about ourselves and discrimination is treated as the utterance of a person with mental health issues.

— Cathy Dalton (@DuBarry_Mme) September 25, 2021

https://twitter.com/yshmypk/status/1441741623382233088

Bodies without spines

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The Lancet has tangled with the wrong crowd.

Our new issue is here! On the cover—'Periods on display' and the cultural movement against menstrual shame and #PeriodPoverty.

Plus, @WHO air quality guidelines, low #BackPain management, community-acquired bacterial #meningitis, and more. Read: https://t.co/eP1Lx7D116 pic.twitter.com/DchfiHnYEs

— The Lancet (@TheLancet) September 24, 2021

The Lancet is the Last Straw.The magazine’s supercilious,demeaning,deliberately inaccurate naming of women in examining in print one of our most delicate and defining natural processes has destroyed my innate respect for today’s medical leaders.I cannot believe them now. https://t.co/9e0prNJnDD

— Emma Harriet Nicholson (@Baroness_Nichol) September 25, 2021

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God damn NPR.

The U.S. House on Friday approved a bill that Democrats say will protect a person’s access to abortion.

A WOMAN’S.

A woman’s, god damn it; if it were a man’s no bill would be needed. Say the damn word. Say our name.

Passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act to floor is a response to a Texas law that essentially bans abortion after six weeks, before most people realize they are pregnant.

WOMEN. Before most WOMEN realize they’re pregnant.

The Women’s Health Protection Act would protect a person’s ability to decide to continue or end a pregnancy and would enshrine into law health care providers’ ability to offer abortion services “prior to fetal viability” without

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On the one hand, global warming is rapidly getting worse, on the other hand…

Southern California is dealing with a traffic jam unlike any other, as a record number of container ships have been stuck waiting in the waters outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to unload cargo.

The bottleneck this week at America’s busiest port complex is the result of a shortage of trucks and drivers to pick up goods, coupled with an overwhelming demand for imported consumer products.

Let’s import all the things! Let’s ship stuff back and forth so that we can dump ever more carbon into the environment!

As of Wednesday, 62 container ships were waiting offshore to unload cargo, according to

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Evil mullah promises to continue to be evil.

The Taliban will resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals they convict, in a return to their harsh version of Islamic justice.

Which tells you everything you need to know about their religion.

In an interview with Associated Press, Mullah Nooruddin Turabi – who was justice minister and head of the so-called ministry of propagation of virtue and prevention of vice during the Taliban’s previous rule – dismissed outrage over the Taliban’s executions in the past, and warned the world against interfering with Afghanistan’s new rulers.

…

“Everyone criticised us for the punishments in the stadium, but we have never said anything about their laws and their punishments,” Turabi

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Aw imagine going to all the trouble of an audit only to find your opponent does even better.

A partisan, Republican-instigated so-called “audit” of the 2020 election result in Arizona has confirmed that Joe Biden did indeed beat Donald Trump in Maricopa county, the state’s most populous county, according to a draft report of the review.

A month-long hand count of the 2.1m ballots cast in Maricopa county, which includes Phoenix, found that Biden actually won 360 more votes than Trump than was reported in the November election. Biden won Arizona’s 11 electoral votes on his way to getting more votes nationally than any presidential candidate in history during the election.

I think “Biden actually won 360 more votes … Read the rest

https://twitter.com/SophiaDanielleD/status/1433683607374155782

She’s a senior editor at The Lancet. Her review starts well –

The silence, shame, and stigma surrounding menstruation are increasingly being challenged from various cultural domains…In some settings, period poverty, combined with shame and insufficient knowledge about menstruation, can lead to missing school, thus threatening girls’ education. From among a new wave of activists stepping up to address this issue came director Rayka Zehtabchi and producer Melissa Berton’s Oscar-winning documentary film, Period. End of Sentence. (2018), which follows a group of young women in an Indian village as they learn how to operate a machine that makes low-cost sanitary pads, empowering the women economically and challenging stigmas.

What a relief. Some people still manage to say the words … Read the rest

Why would anyone get Owen Jones onto a tv news show to talk about violence against women? Of all people? Owen Jones doesn’t give a rat’s ass about women. He’s one of the throwers-overboard, like Keir Starmer and the rest of them.

"Male violence against girls and women is the responsibility of men to deal with, not for women to change their behaviour to avoid it"@OwenJones84 says it's not enough for men to say "it's not all men" in response to the murder of Sabina Nessa.#JeremyVine pic.twitter.com/FOtnWG7n0c

— Jeremy Vine On 5 (@JeremyVineOn5) September 24, 2021

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Selina Todd says Labour should be the party for women but these days isn’t so much.

But recently it hasn’t been clear that a future Labour government would define women in a way that makes sense to anyone with a basic grasp of biology, let alone advance their equality.

Party activists and prominent MPs claim that men’s exclusion from women’s changing rooms, hospital wards and sports is ‘transphobic’. Labour backbencher Rosie Duffield’s support for women’s sex-based rights provoked threats. The Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, remained silent.

By doing so he reminded women for the billionth time that we will be thrown overboard the instant the sea gets a little rough.

Until now. This week, Starmer’s spokesman announced that Labour

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