The BBC reports further developments in the Benjamin Cohen/Anthony James story.

PinkNews director Dr Anthony James has been suspended from his job in the NHS, after a BBC News investigation heard allegations of sexual misconduct at the publisher.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said they made the decision to suspend Dr James from his role as associate non-executive director pending further information.

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Following the publication of the investigation, more than 10 former PinkNews staff members have come forward to share their experiences of working there.

Their good experiences of working there, or the other kind?

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Is sanity slowly creeping back?

Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely in the UK after experts warned of an “unacceptable safety risk”.

The government said that following recommendations from independent medical professionals, existing emergency measures banning the sale and supply of the drugs outside of clinical trials will stay in place.

Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said there was a need to “act with caution” and “follow the expert advice” in caring for this “vulnerable group of young people”.

Of course both sides of this dispute consider the young people vulnerable, but they seem them as vulnerable to different perils. To the trans ideologues they’re vulnerable to the evil transphobes who want to … Read the rest

It apparently didn’t occur to Peter Tatchell that we can all see the quoted bit and the image. They don’t mention any T+.

We can see it. We can read it. It’s right there in the Working Class History tweet. Lesbians & Gays support the miners. NO T IS MENTIONED.

Never forget how LGBT+ community supported striking miners in 1984-85

In return, the miners supported LGBT+ rights & this led to the Labour Party passing its first major LGBT+ policies in 1985

A fine example: unity is strength & solidarity empowers the victims of injustice https://t.co/yzIXudOd38

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) December 10, 2024

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I can’t get past this truth thing. I can’t get past the fact that official bodies are telling us we have to lie about who is a woman and who is not. The IPSO ruling makes it horribly clear that we are under orders to lie. How did we get here?

IPSO itself is incoherent.

Relevant Clause Provisions

Clause 1 (Accuracy)

i) The Press must take care not to publish inaccurate, misleading or distorted information or images, including headlines not supported by the text.

So, surely, the press must take care not to publish assertions that some men are women.

And yet:

Findings of the Committee

9. The Committee first considered whether the article had breached Clause 1 in reporting

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I’m studying the IPSO ruling, and one item jumps out at me.

4. The complainant said the article breached Clause 12 as she considered the claim that she was “a man who claim[ed] to be a woman” to be discriminatory as she legally changed her gender in 2018. The complainant considered she was deliberately misgendered with the intention being to offend her.

No no no no no. That’s what they refuse to get – or what they pretend not to get. The intent is not to “offend” him. It’s not about him. The intent is to say what’s true. The intent is to reject a major societal lie. The intent is to refuse all these orders to pretend a … Read the rest

Sometimes one branch of progressive awareness cancels out another branch of progressive awareness, revealing a hierarchy of disprivilege.

For example, the government of Northern Ireland on period products:

Period inequality contributes to the poor mental health and wellbeing experience of those who are unable to access the basic health essentials of period products. This is a growing issue particularly in light of the increased cost of living.

Period products are essential items for personal care to address a normal biological need and should therefore be available to everyone who needs them, regardless of their economic status.

First two paragraphs, and already the problem is obvious. The people who wrote this get that women and girls are disadvantaged by heavy … Read the rest

Michael Gove, the new editor of The Spectator, on truth and prejudicial or pejorative reference:

On 21 May this year we published an article by the brilliant writer Gareth Roberts headlined ‘The sad truth about “saint” Nicola Sturgeon’. Gareth was reporting on the former Scottish first minister’s appearance at a literary festival in Sussex. Ms Sturgeon was discussing the controversies which had attended her time in office – including her views on independence and gender recognition laws. Gareth noted that she ‘was interviewed by writer Juno Dawson, a man who claims to be a woman, and so the conversation naturally turned to gender’. 

Dawson complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation aka Ipso.

It was claimed the words were

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The BBC takes a break from promoting trans ideology to report on the pair of bullies who run Pink News:

The couple who run PinkNews, the world’s largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.

Several former staff members told the BBC they saw Anthony James, a director at the UK-based company and husband of its founder, kissing and touching a junior colleague who they say appeared too drunk to consent.

And more than 30 current and former members of staff said a culture of heavy drinking led to instances when founder Benjamin Cohen and his husband behaved inappropriately towards younger male employees.

I’m sure they identify as having behaved flawlessly.

Run

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Originally a comment by Sackbut on How about panvomit?

The city of Prattville AL is near Montgomery, and is populated by a lot of people who decided that Montgomery is too dangerous and crime-ridden. (Prattville is 73% white, compared to 29% in Montgomery; make of it what you will.) A common sentiment is that they don’t want to go to Montgomery for any reason, because of the danger. The city had a municipal Christmas parade recently, and Prattville Pride had a float. The city was not going to allow the float, because, they said, there were threats, and it would be dangerous.

At this point, liberal columnist Josh Moon chimed in, with a mostly well-put column about the cowardly actions … Read the rest

Aaaand we’re off.

Former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has clapped back at [retorted to] President-elect Donald Trump after he threatened to imprison her and other members on the congressional committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.

In an interview on NBC’s Meet The Press that aired Sunday morning, Trump claimed that Cheney, along with a “committee of political thugs” deleted all the evidence from their investigation.

Another four years of endless stupid lying.

“Cheney did something that’s inexcusable, along with Thompson and the people on the un-select committee of political thugs and, you know, creeps,” the President-elect said, referring to Mississippi Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (the committee’s chairman). “They deleted and destroyed all evidence.”

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The ACLU insists that “Gender-Affirming Care is Essential” – which is ridiculous.

The whole notion of “gender-affirming care” is silly jargon, in the first place. By “gender” they mean voluntary changeable personality label, and by “care” they mean medical care. There is no genuinely medical care for personality labels, because personality is not a medical issue to begin with.

There’s no such thing as gender-affirmation so there’s no such thing as medical care labeled “gender affirmation.” Deluded narcissistic people obsessed with their own glorious personalities don’t need surgeries or cross-sex hormones, they need to think better. They need to peel away the layers of trendy and pseudo-political and fake-lefty and histrionic junk that has built up in their brains.

Families

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Sadism or stupidity or both?

A trans-identified male serving a life sentence for murder who was quietly transferred in to a women’s prison is now sharing a shower with female inmates, causing them to feel “violated.” Bradley Richard Sirvio, 53, was transferred into Minnesota women’s prison MCF-Shakopee at the end of last year after claiming to identify as transgender and adopting the name “Aurora.”

In November of 1995, Sirvio beat a man to death with a hammer before setting the victim’s house on fire. According to court records, Sirvio was checking himself into a detoxification center when he “volunteered to a staff member during the intake process that he may have murdered someone named George and then set the

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Trump doesn’t have a great big huge sky-concealing mandate. He barely has a grocery list.

On Election Night, with characteristic modesty, Donald Trump claimed an “unprecedented and powerful mandate.” He certainly won the contest legitimately, if more narrowly than many observers initially thought. With nearly all the votes counted, the most complete tabulation, from Cook Political Report, shows Trump’s popular-vote margin over Kamala Harris has dropped from around 3 percent on the evening of November 5 (or about two-thirds of Joe Biden’s margin in 2020) to 1.47 percent (about one-third of Biden’s margin) today. That’s also about 0.6 percent smaller than Hillary Clinton’s national popular-vote margin over Trump in 2016. To make some other comparisons: Barack Obama won the

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You know, we’re told, endlessly and loudly, that trans is innate, it’s built-in, it’s real, it’s an infallible inner sense.

Well then why is it being advertised?

This is gay conversion. pic.twitter.com/lOymIz24f5

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) December 8, 2024

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Which twin has the propaganda coup?

From the article

But Alito, true to form, did not confine his opining to the notion that discrimination against trans people does not count as sex-based discrimination: he went on to suggest that trans people are not quite real, peppering Strangio, in a scene that seemed intended to humiliate the trans attorney, with questions about whether trans identity was truly an “immutable” characteristic.

Well, is it? The Supreme Court could have called upon Sally Hines as a hostile witness. She has authoritatively* written

‘Gender identity refers to each person’s internal sense of being male, female, a combination of the two, or neither; it is a

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Oh come on.

The US Department of Health and Human Services seems to have accidentally hired a befuddled teenager to do its social media messaging.

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National Organization for Women aka NOW being incloosive of men in the category “women” again.

Guess how many times I’ve shared a bathroom with a trans person? No clue, because I just mind my own business.

Oh yes? Does it work the same way with “man”? Would NOW proudly smirk “Guess how many times I’ve shared a public toilet with a man? No clue, because I just mind my own business”? Would NOW tell us to guess how many times a man has followed them late at night and NOW wasn’t worried about it at all?

NOW doesn’t like it when we push back.

https://twitter.com/LilyLilyMaynard/status/1865499780434072034

NOW has “limited who can comment on this post.” Of course it has. Women … Read the rest

Take back the night 4 men.

https://twitter.com/JeanHatchet/status/1865708603274940895 Women can’t have anything any more. Not even protests against male violence against women.… Read the rest

Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan waves the flag for Magic Gender:

The politicization of transgender children in the US is one of the most astounding coups of propaganda and organized animus in recent history. Rarely has so much attention and rage been directed at such a minuscule number of people, and more rarely, still, have those people been the most vulnerable and blameless among us: kids and teens.

That’s so distorted it borders on lying. It’s not “organized animus” to try to stop people mutilating children at the behest of an ideology that claims sex is switchable. The rage is not, of course, directed at the children, but at the adults messing up the children’s bodies. Donegan can’t … Read the rest

Now there’s a headline.

Syrian government falls in stunning end to 50-year rule of Assad family

(If only we could say the same about the Trump family.)

The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.

Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar Assad has been overthrown and all detainees in jails have been set free.

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Soldiers and police officers left their posts and fled, and looters broke into the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense.

“My feelings are indescribable,” said Omar Daher, a 29-year-old

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