Originally a comment by Enzyme on Under the influence.

we should be able to give informed consent to our own treatment – just as any cisgender young person already can

Yeah, but no. It’s more complicated than that.

First of all, define “young person”. Since we’re talking about puberty-blockers, then that’s going to be someone who is at most in their early teens. So can – let’s say – a 12-year-old consent to treatment? Sometimes. it depends on the treatment, and on the child.

Importantly, though, consent doesn’t mean demand. Too many people think that it does. Consent is a negative thing: it’s about my being able to tell you what you not do to me, not about my … Read the rest

News from the world of film-making:

Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix and trans filmmaker, is set to adapt Manhunt, a 2022 dystopian horror novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin.

Trans filmmaker – so not a real filmmaker then?

What the Star Observer (“Star” meaning sleb, I take it) means of course is that Wachowski is a man pretending to be a woman, aka a trans woman. Funny how it carefully doesn’t put it that way. Why not? When that’s the whole point? Manhunt is the one that’s about torturing women (aka “terfs”) to death for knowing that men are not women.

The adaptation promises to bring Felker-Martin’s brutal and gripping narrative to life on screen, a story that

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A couple of years ago the Daily Mail did a long flattering article on James “Jan” Morris, the famous pioneering dick-remover.

While Jan was feted around the world for her exquisitely warm and vivid prose, her sense of romanticism, her ground-breaking travel books, for being the first to report that Edmund Hillary had reached the top of Everest in 1953, and for her courage and conviction in embracing the ‘real Jan’ in her pioneering transition from male to female — at home she was rather different.

According to [his youngest child] Suki, who yesterday published an excoriating account of Jan’s appalling parenting in the Sunday Times, her famous parent was selfish, neglectful, sexist and deeply unkind.

Huh. Well you … Read the rest

It seems they have a website.

The group of children as young as 13 who spent the summer climbing up buildings, asking random adults to watch over them sleeping on the street are the same group who used a biohazard to disrupt the LGBA conference, and who appear to be under the influence of convicted torturer… https://t.co/UYeDXcitBE

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) October 12, 2024

“…convicted torturer SJ/Alan Baker. I have raised a PREVENT and a safeguarding concern with Met Police and Westminster City Council”

I suppose Baker designed the website, too, because that’s how dumb it is.

Home page:

The rights and freedoms of trans+ children and young people have been deliberately and systematically eroded. We have been made

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Lizard man very active devouring people.

Elon Musk is using his social media network to spread election conspiracy theories about U.S. disasters — just as online falsehoods are complicating the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Musk has helped spread accusations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “actively blocked” donations to victims of Helene and is “seizing goods … and locking them away to state they are their own” — allegations that FEMA officials call false and which run afoul of state and local Republican leaders’ praise for the assistance from Washington.

On his social network, X, Musk also amplified rumors that authorities in North Carolina had “taken control to stop people helping” stricken residents and accusations that

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The lizard people are teaming up.

Elon Musk’s X social media platform has reportedly worked with Donald Trump’s campaign to censor material that could be harmful to the former president’s White House chances as part of a pattern of election interference that is unprecedented in U.S. history. According to The New York Times, Trump told one associate that Musk was pumping $500 million into his campaign. The two men are said to speak “multiple times a week.”

The Times reported that the Trump campaign “connected with X” to prevent the spread of hacked information supposedly from a dossier drawn up by GOP staffers tasked with vetting running mate JD Vance. X, formerly known as Twitter, then suspended the

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Ah this again. Seems like a century ago, and like yesterday.

Richard Dawkins is doing a last tour, and it’s great that he’s sharing his platform with “lesser mortals”.

But it can’t be just me who sees a pattern here? pic.twitter.com/wR4EPisy56

— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) October 11, 2024

Um pic.twitter.com/BFX5hI0W5L

— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) October 11, 2024

In his final tour, Dawkins hasn’t had one single woman on stage with him.

Not one. It is about 18 dates (completed or announced) and not one woman.

— Emma Hilton (@FondOfBeetles) October 11, 2024

Surprise surprise. … Read the rest

The Telegraph on the slaughter of the crickets:

Four suspected trans rights protesters attacked a gender-critical conference by releasing hundreds of live crickets into a packed auditorium. The stunt threw the annual LGB Alliance conference into chaos, as a room of about 600 people had to be evacuated on Friday afternoon…Rhona Hotchkiss, the compere of the event, encouraged people to stamp on the crickets.

That seems unnecessary. Crickets are harmless, and they’re nourishment for a lot of critters up the food chain. I’ve fed crickets to plenty of reptiles and birds back in the day.

Kate Barker, LGB Alliance’s chief executive, told The Telegraph that security guards had stopped the protester as she tried to leave the building

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“India” Willoughby is an evil dangerous liar.

https://twitter.com/TheVikingDane/status/1844853473331839138

“Gender Critical is a hate movement,” he says. “No different [from] belonging to the Ku Klux Klan.” He’s a filthy malicious liar. Of course being gender critical is nothing like belonging to the KKK. The KKK disguised themselves and terrorized Black people with violence because the Klan considered them inferior and dangerous. People who are gender critical don’t believe that men are women, and we say so, and we argue about it.

Not the same things.

Willoughby is a filthy liar.… Read the rest

I share his frustration.

Alabama’s most respected meteorologist, James Spann, recently expressed frustration over a “society full of hate, anger, rage, and the inability to think clearly,” following an onslaught of negative responses after he attempted to debunk hurricane-related misinformation. Spann took to Facebook earlier in the week to share his concerns after encountering a wave of false claims about Hurricane Milton, which developed in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Florida. His post, as first reported by AL.com, urged his followers to stop spreading misinformation.

Among the wild claims Spann addressed were conspiracy theories, such as the assertion that “the moon has disappeared and was nuked by the government,” and that hurricanes were being steered by

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Obama tells men it’s not Manly to be afraid to back women.

Former President Barack Obama traveled to Pittsburgh on Thursday to urge voters there to choose Vice President Kamala Harris in November, aiming a message at one group in particular: Black men.

The decision voters have between the vice president and former President Donald J. Trump, her Republican opponent, “isn’t a close call,” Mr. Obama said as he visited with a group of campaign volunteers and officials at a field office just ahead of his appearance at a Harris rally. His message was for Black male voters whom he said might not be yet on board with Ms. Harris.

Citing “reports I’m getting from campaigns and communities,” he

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The reasoned debate continues.

The LGB Alliance conference has been attacked by someone who has released bags of crickets. pic.twitter.com/ZKfhfa2c23

— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) October 11, 2024

No doubt the crickets identify as tigers. … Read the rest

It turns out the hurricane was caused by meteorologists.

Trump suggested the Biden administration’s response had been lacking and planned in partisan ways that caused Republican voters be abandoned and left “Americans to drown”, particularly in North Carolina after Helene. “They’ve let those people suffer unjustly,” he said. His comments have received bipartisan criticism, including from some local and state Republican leaders in affected areas.

Remember how Trump dealt with hurricanes? Throwing rolls of paper towels at people? Ignoring Puerto Rico altogether?

Meteorologists tracking Milton have been beset by conspiracy theories that they are controlling the weather, even by using a nuclear explosion, and have faced death threats.

“I’ve never seen a storm garner so much misinformation, we

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Trump thinks “grocery” is an obscure word that needs him to explain it.

Trump: The word grocery. It’s a sort of simple word. It sort of means everything you eat. The stomach is speaking pic.twitter.com/ZphiRNfgf7

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 10, 2024

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Trump attacking other people’s intellectual capacities:

Donald Trump lashed out at the hosts of The View on Wednesday with a string of low-brow insults, including that they are “demented,” “dirty,” and “dumb.”

“I watched that stupid View where you have these dumb people,” a rambling Trump told a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania…Then, as if his brain were spitting out one of his impulsive, celebrity-obsessed tweets of yore, the former president trained his ire on Whoopi Goldberg, The View’s co-host and moderator, calling her “demented.”

Trump claimed, before he was in politics, he once hired Goldberg—a celebrated comedian who has won the Mark Twain Prize and the EGOT—to perform and accused her of having a “foul mouth.”

“Every

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Mount Holyoke College wants to have it both ways.

At Mount Holyoke College, the leading gender-diverse women’s college, students learn beyond boundaries, explore interests across disciplines and build skills and connections for a lifetime of purposeful leadership.

What thee helll is a gender-diverse women’s college?

Nothing, that’s what. A contradiction in terms. You can be a women’s something or you can be a gender-diverse something, but you can’t be both.

Its second most recent post is about “a vibrant community space dedicated to supporting LGBTQIA+ students, staff and faculty.” So they have gay male students and male students who are trans or queer or asexual or plus? But then they’re not a women’s college.

You have to pick one. You … Read the rest

Something called “Attitude” tells us:

India Willoughby has slammed the Labour government, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting over the party’s policies regarding the ban on hormone blockers and their stance on trans healthcare.

Speaking to Attitude on the red carpet at the Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards, powered by Jaguar, Willoughby said: “I’m not exaggerating when I say that the Labour government are going to be responsible for the deaths of hundreds, possibly thousands, of trans people.”

Hahaha that’s funny, because exaggerating is exactly what he’s doing. He’s just making shit up, out of nothing. Look at Willoughby: is he dead? Is he approaching being dead? Not so much. He’s standing around in a red … Read the rest

Oh ffs. Some pond scum is attacking the Internet Archive. Why? Because Palestine uh uh uh.

https://twitter.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844080692772401399 https://twitter.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844104165192253945… Read the rest

Tom Nichols in The Atlantic on the contrasts between George Washington and the wannabe dictator:

Donald Trump and his authoritarian political movement represent an existential threat to every ideal that Washington cherished and encouraged in his new nation. They are the incarnation of Washington’s misgivings about populism, partisanship, and the “spirit of revenge” that Washington lamented as the animating force of party politics. Washington feared that, amid constant political warfare, some citizens would come to “seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual,” and that eventually a demagogue would exploit that sentiment.

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Most American presidents have had some sort of military experience. A few, like Washington, were genuine war heroes. All of them understood that

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No, he doesn’t say that.

https://twitter.com/ReformDaily_/status/1843928888772268348 What he says is even worse.

“We’ve really got to stand up for the rights of trans people, yes we’ve got to hear those women who say that there’s a case for single sex spaces, I understand that, but, I do think that we’ve got to empathize and recognize the pain that so many people, so many trans people face and treat them with the respect that they deserve.”

The whole bit between the “yes” and the “but” is rushed and gabbled, while everything after that is slowed and said with great emphasis. It’s very very very clear that the “yes yes women blah blah” bit is a contemptuous … Read the rest