I find that Planned Parenthood Ottawa has blocked me on Twitter, no doubt via one of those Lists (since I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with them). It seems bizarre for an organization of that type to block people – what if they block people who need their services? There are other routes but still, it seems…disobliging.

Anyway. Their focus is odd.

On International Women's Day, we must reflect on the immense contributions and strides in organizing made by non binary, 2SAQTBIPOC communities and people with disabilities towards greater SRH freedoms. #IWD #IWD21 #SRHR #FeministFunding

— Planned Parenthood Ottawa (@PPOttawa) March 8, 2021

On Pink Shirt Day, addressing homophobia, transphobia, biphobia and the impact of those intersections within QTBIPOC identities

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What does any of that have to do with Planned Parenthood?

Recently we have seen a rise in TERF politics and transphobia in Ottawa spaces. It is time to address this. There is no room for transphobia virtually or physically. There is nothing radical about excluding trans folks. #TransRightsAreHumanRights pic.twitter.com/FOA6KH6N5v

— Planned Parenthood Ottawa (@PPOttawa) March 17, 2021

Why is it “time” for PP to address “transphobia”? Why does PP feel called to use such harsh and violence-hinting language and imagery?

Tweeps are pointing out that PP Ottawa is the one that held a conference on “the cotton ceiling” and how to bash through it.… Read the rest

He really does say that.

"There's old sayings in Texas about find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree. You know, we take justice very seriously, & we ought to do that. Round up the bad guys." — here's Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) glorifying lynchings during hearing on violence against Asian-Americans pic.twitter.com/uy5irfmJCo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 18, 2021

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Oops.

A Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge and former president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the city’s drag queen story hour program, has been arrested on seven counts of child pornography.

Brett Blomme, 38, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly uploading 27 images and videos of children being sexually abused on the messaging app Kik.

Oh that kind of drag queen story program.

Not that millions of women pointed that out or anything.

Blomme was held overnight and released with a signature. He has been ordered to stay off social media and file-sharing services and is not allowed near any children except the two that he adopted with his husband.

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Yesterday in Atlanta:

Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs Tuesday evening left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said.

The attacks began around 5 p.m., when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor in a strip mall near a rural area in Acworth, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said. Two people died at the scene and three were transported to a hospital where two of them also died, Baker said.

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South Korea’s Foreign

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In Scientific American of all places:

Trans Girls Belong on Girls’ Sports Teams

But “trans girls” are boys, so no they don’t.

In February 2020, the families of three cisgender girls filed a federal lawsuit against the Connecticut Association of Schools, the nonprofit Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and several boards of education in the state.

The girls are not “cisgender.” That’s a stupid made-up word to make female people seem like just one section of a larger category of female people. It’s a manipulative cheat. Girls are girls. Boys who either think they “feel like” girls on the inside, or claim to in order to win sporting competitions they otherwise lose, are not girls. The set of girls does … Read the rest

Leo Igwe writes:

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) is shocked by the news of the expulsion of a 6-year-old pupil, Catherine Karma, from your school. According to the report, your school expelled Ms. Karma in connection with some suspicions of ‘witchcraft’. Your management concluded that she was a ‘witch’ and was involved in ‘witchcraft activities’. You claimed that her presence would endanger the lives of other pupils and staff.

The decision to expel Ms. Karma is shameful, outrageous, and difficult to comprehend. First of all, how did your school confirm that Ms. Karma was a witch? How were you able to ascertain that she indulged in witchcraft activities (whatever that means)? In fact, what does your school understand

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One the one hand boys who “identify as” girls and take their athletic prizes, on the other hand boys who shove cameras up girls’ skirts.

A school vowed to take action after sixth form students expressed fury over a reported “upskirting” incident on a spiral staircase.

A group of male students were allegedly caught taking photographs up the skirts of girls using the transparent glass staircase, in the centre of the sixth form canteen area, at Broughton Hall Catholic High School on Friday.

What kind of complete idiot puts a transparent staircase in a mixed-sex school?

Some students told the ECHO that girls have been advised to “wear shorts” under their skirts and were told there may be plans

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Fair Play for Women won.

Fair Play For Women have today won their High Court challenge against the Office for National Statistics. The ONS has conceded that the proper meaning of Sex in the Census means sex as recognised by law.

The High Court has now ordered “What is your sex” means sex “as recorded on a birth certificate or Gender Recognition Certificate”. The substantive hearing listed for 18 March is vacated and ONS must pay costs of both sides.

The Guidance accompanying the question “What is your sex?” is now published, on a final basis, and directs everyone to answer according to their legal sex for the remainder of the Census.

Jason Coppel QC for Fair Play

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Remember that insultingly not-real FBI “investigation” of Brett Kavanaugh? Some of the Dems want to look into it. I don’t think it will make any difference, because He’s on the Court now and them’s the rules, buddy – you’re stuck with him no matter how dishonest and rigged the process was. I don’t think it will make any difference but it would be something to have the record show what happened.

Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democratic senator and former prosecutor who serves on the judiciary committee, is calling on the newly-confirmed attorney general, Merrick Garland, to help facilitate “proper oversight” by the Senate into questions about how thoroughly the FBI investigated Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing.

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No motivation is too tiny and trivial and self-centered to justify trashing a woman for no particular reason and without even knowing enough to back up the trashing.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1371917384349593606 https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1371919082199646210

Staggering, isn’t it. He doesn’t know much about it, but he flings the casual smear anyway, because he wants to take a picture of his socks.… Read the rest

More on the Green Party’s suspension of the co-chair of Green Party Women:

A bit of background.

There has been an ongoing ‘debate’ between some trans-activisits and others, particularly some feminists (derogatorily called TERFs – Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists).

Emma Bateman is co-chair of Green Party Women and brought the following motion to the Green Party’s recent conference. The motion was not heard and Emma was not allowed to speak at the conference. She has now been suspended from the Green Party. I will not go into the reasons for the suspension since it is a matter of on-going disciplinary proceedings. However, I think it is important for people to see the motion that caused such upset (including from the

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Emma Bateman writes:

On March 8th, International Women’s Day, I was suspended from the Green Party after a complaint by 2 fellow Green Party Committee members because I queried whether trans women are female.

Green party policy is that ‘trans women are women’.

Now we must agree that they are also female.

Things that are now unacceptable to say in the Green Party include:

“It is not discrimination to say that males should not be in a women’s group.”

“people cannot change sex”

“males cannot become females”

“What is a female?”

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

From a comment on the post:

I have left the Green Party because they have

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How original.

Elliot Page doesn’t remember exactly how long he had been asking.

In case you’ve forgotten, that’s the former Ellen Page, star of the anti-abortion movie Juno.

But he does remember the acute feeling of triumph when, around age 9, he was finally allowed to cut his hair short. “I felt like a boy,” Page says. “I wanted to be a boy. I would ask my mom if I could be someday.” Growing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Page visualized himself as a boy in imaginary games, freed from the discomfort of how other people saw him: as a girl. After the haircut, strangers finally started perceiving him the way he saw himself, and it felt both

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Jeez, Nebraska, take a chill pill. You can’t make us eat your damn beef.

Nebraska’s governor Pete Ricketts railed Monday against a proclamation by the governor of neighboring Colorado that encourages people to avoid meat for one day a week, calling it a “direct attack on our way of life” and signing a pro-meat declaration of his own.

Well the beef-producing “way of life” has some horrendous environmental fallout, so maybe that should be part of the picture. The fact that something is a “way of life” for some people doesn’t mean it’s harmless or beneficial for all people or for the environment that all animals (including us) depend on.

“If you were to get rid of beef in

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Oooh police state, where are our freedoms, it’s the thin end of the wedge, soon we won’t even be able to spit in people’s faces any more.

“What are you going to do, arrest me?”

Police issued a warrant for the arrest of Terry Wright, 65, of Grants Pass, Oregon. The incident on Thursday at a Bank of America in Galveston was captured by the officer’s body camera, the Galveston County Daily News reported.

Police said they had obtained an arrest warrant on resisting arrest and criminal trespassing charges.

The jackass governor has lifted the state mask mandate, but businesses – like banks for instance – can have their own rules. We can’t go into the bank naked, and we … Read the rest

Ah yes, if you have to step down as governor because of accusations of sexual assault, it’s ok because you can just run for the Senate instead. Nobody cares what senators do to women.

The former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, a Republican who stepped down amid allegations of sexual assault, is reportedly considering a run for US Senate next year – prompting concern among Republicans that his candidacy could tip one of the state’s two seats to the Democrats.

But no concerns among Republicans that a guy who steps down amid allegations of sexual assault maybe shouldn’t just start over as a senator? Or that it makes Republicans look kind of sleazy?

Greitens, a former Navy Seal, resigned as

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Yes see this is what you don’t understand – it’s nothing to do with “passing,” it’s just being.

https://twitter.com/faerycute/status/1371569959101431808

Hurr hurr women don’t have books, women have pouty poofy lips the better to suck you with. Women don’t look like adult people who can think and talk, women look like Barbie dolls only stupider.

Hurr hurr, but that’s not the point at all – it’s the opposite of the point. Women don’t have to be hot, sexy, pointy, goldy, blondey, porney – women don’t have to be a menu item for men. That’s not what women are for and it’s not what defines us. We don’t need to pass.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Ad absurdum.

I wonder what Bristol SU would do if every single male student self-defined as women.

Or, perhaps more to the point, if none of the female students did. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, these are the points I think need to be hammered home at every opportunity and in every possible way:

• Redefining “woman” in terms of thoughts and feeling to make it tautologically true that “trans women are women” makes it no longer true that biological females who fail to think or feel in the proper “female”/”feminine” manner are women.

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She had it and then she dropped it. Australian Senator Janet Rice:

The #March4Justice rally has just kicked off at Parliament House and more than 100,000 people are marching for gender equality across the country today too. We have had ENOUGH! Enough of the misogyny, enough of harassment, enough of sexual violence and assault, enough of this toxic environment, and ENOUGH of the patriarchy! We need to believe women, we need action and we need an end to gendered violence.

It’s disgusting that neither the PM nor the Minister for Women can be bothered to join us and meet the women who have come to their doorstep today.

Enough is enough.

EDIT: I want to acknowledge a number of

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