The shouters win again.

Note the “We appreciate all feedback on our services, especially from residents who asked us to reconsider holding this program.” Why especially the no-sayers? Why them? Why appreciate them more than the yes-sayers? More pointedly, why especially the fans of magic gender rather than the people who don’t believe in magic gender? Why does team magic win? Why is their feedback “especially”?

Also note that the people of no already had their program last March, and this one was supposed to be the turn of the other point of view. Magic gender had its say, and now disbelief in magic gender has had its say shut down.

Then note the ubiquitous dishonest waffle “transgender participation … Read the rest

Straight up lying.

.@WillieGeist on Trump’s false claim @POTUS hadn’t called Kemp: “A particularly disgusting lie, when the people there need help.”
 
“He’s also suggested the White House and this federal government is ignoring…red counties. That’s, of course, not true.”
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— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) October 1, 2024

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Female people=slaves.

Taliban have invalidated all divorces granted under previous Afghan government, forcing divorced child brides to return to their former husbands. Thousands of young women, some of whom married as children, are now legally bound to return to adult husbands they had been freed… pic.twitter.com/ldUMm84J1D

— Afghanistan Times (@AfghanistanTime) September 29, 2024

It’s slavery, and nothing else. … Read the rest

Trump is a shameless inveterate liar.

We are now heading to Valdosta, Georgia, in order to pay my respects and bring lots of relief material, including fuel, equipment, water, and other things, to the State. Many politicians and Law Enforcement will be there. We’ll be saying hello to Franklin Graham, Burt Jones, Tyler Harper, Mike Collins, Austin Scott, Russ Goodman, Sam Watson, and the Mayor of Valdosta Scott James. They are working very hard. I was also going to stop into North Carolina, which has really been hit hard. I have a lot of supplies ready for them, but access and communication is now restricted, and we want to make sure that Local Emergency Management is able to focus

Trans man regrets

My name is Tiger Reed. I am a 44-year-old librarian in St. Louis, Missouri. Since 2016, I have been married to Jamie Reed. She is the whistleblower who exposed the alarming effects of “gender-affirming” medical care given to minors at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital in a 2023 article for The Free Press. Her story shocked the nation. I am also “Dad” to the five children we are raising together—two from Jamie’s previous marriage and three we have adopted.

And now, after 13 years of living as a man, I am in the process of tapering down my weekly testosterone injections to begin the process of becoming a woman again. 

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Let’s visit the LGBT page for St Jude’s Primary School (Church of England of course) in Southwark.

 Valuing All God’s Children

LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. The “plus” represents other sexual identities.

This is primary school, remember. The youngest kids are 5.

In 2018, almost 250,000 people in London identified as Lesbian, Gay or Bisexual and there are now at least 20,000 children growing up in same-sex parent families. Many children will have or know relatives, family friends or neighbours who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Trans.

Notice how the “Trans” bit is added on. Start with LGB, then when they’re not looking add the T.

It is important to us at St Jude’s that we represent

Yet again…there aren’t enough swears in the universe. Genevieve Gluck tells us:

Reduxx has learned that a man serving a 30-year sentence for the fatal beating of a 55-year old woman has quietly been transferred into New Jersey’s Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. Elliot Rivera Jr., 35, now calls himself Jamie Belladonna and is described as “female” within the state Department of Corrections (DOC) system.

Rivera’s total prison term amounts to 40 years, to be run concurrently, on the basis of two convictions. In November 2011, he was sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of 30 years for the 2009 murder of Patricia Cantaloupe. In a separate case, Rivera was sentenced to 10 years in prison for carjacking

Guardian headline:

Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people

Vital? I really doubt that. It’s not as if we don’t get lectured on the subject enough already.

Let’s admit it: cisgender people are really curious about us trans women.

Ok stop right there. First sentence and already you’re off the rails. No, we really really aren’t. We’ve heard way more than we want to about trans women. I can’t begin to express how much more we’ve heard than we ever wanted to. The only thing we can be described as “curious” about is where the hell do you get the nerve?

They want to know things such as: what’s it like to

The Times (the London one) slobbers all over a man who wants to order up a customized baby for himself. What a shame there are no baby factories.

In recent years starry couples have raised the profile of surrogacy, including Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, and Elton John and David Furnish.

Oh well then, if famous people can order up luxury babies so can any man.

To go solo, Northwood must first find a woman willing to go through the invasive procedure of donating an egg, which will be inseminated in a lab. Then he needs to find another to undergo IVF with the resulting embryo, followed by pregnancy and giving birth.

Why should any … Read the rest

This god certainly hates women and young girls.

Forcing girls—especially minors—into marriage is crime!

Yet in some countries, such atrocities occur daily, where girls are subjected to physical & mental torture by families & coerced into marriages against their will.

We need to stand for freedom of women. pic.twitter.com/nbL96XUrIS

— Jahanzeb Wesa (@JahanzebWesa) September 29, 2024

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Revisiting this for a second…

Trump: All the stupid people said I fell into her trap. They said I fell into her trap. She can’t set a mental trap. I didn’t fall into her trap. There is no trap. I didn’t fall into her trap pic.twitter.com/5yaHJqexZe

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 28, 2024

The hands.

You get the big accordion gesture.

You get the tiny wedge gesture.

You get the medium accordion gesture.

You get the big accordion gesture then some active playing the accordion gestures.

You get the jumping wedge gesture, then the diving bird gesture once, twice, part of a third time that transitions back to the accordion.

The gestures are…weird.… Read the rest

Musk not invited to party.

The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, has hit back [retorted] after not being invited to the UK government’s International Investment Summit. He was not invited due to his social media posts during last month’s riots, the BBC understands.

“I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts,” Mr Musk claimed on X. Earlier this month, the government released some prisoners to reduce prison overcrowding, but no-one serving sentences for sex offences were [was] included.

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David Yelland, a public relations specialist and former editor of the Sun newspaper, told the BBC that if Mr Musk were to attend the summit,

When reporting becomes incoherent:

A trans woman has been jailed for six and a half years after being found guilty of rape following a night out. Lexi Secker raped a woman in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, on 23 April 2023. The attack took place before Secker began identifying as a woman.

Might as well say the attack took place before Secker began identifying as a potato. His penis doesn’t retroactively disappear once he starts “identifying as” a woman.

Secker, 35, of Lowbourne, near Melksham, has been ordered to carry out her sentence in a male prison and will remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.

Don’t “respect the pronouns” of men who rape women.

Throughout the sentencing hearing, barristers and the

He thinks he’s a standup comedy genius.

Trump: Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She was born that way. And if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country. pic.twitter.com/v6Yo6uINp5

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 28, 2024

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Originally a comment by Der Durchwanderer on Gluttons for punishment.

The Green Party, in any given country in the West, has more closely resembled a cult of feelings far more than it has a political organisation. In Germany, where our Greens have been part of the actual government for the last few years, the party is not only completely through the looking-glass on social issues which have absolutely nothing to do with preserving the environment (and some of which threaten the very fabric of German social cohesion), it has done far more to harm the environment than any party since the founding of the Federal Republic.

This is not hyperbolic extrapolation from the Greens’ irraitional anti-nuclearism, either, though that … Read the rest

Without hyperbole they have nothing. Their fundamental claims are a denial of reality, and their sweaty efforts to make that denial of reality mandatory for everyone are a rejection of sanity and of basic justice.

So what we get is a nonstop torrent of hyperbole.

No matter your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society.

She should never have been allowed the privilege of resigning. Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago.

— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) September 28, 2024

It’s not “dehumanising” people to say they can’t change sex. Humans can’t change species; is it dehumanizing to say that? Humans … Read the rest

From Pliny:

The BBC tells us the Green Party fucked around and found out.

A bitter legal battle could blow a hole in the Green Party of England Wales’s general election campaign funds. The BBC understands courts could force the party to pay between £200,000 and £400,000 if it loses a case against former deputy leader Dr Shahrar Ali.

The party’s financial auditors note the case has left “uncertainty” about its ability to keep running normally. The Greens are proposing a 50% increase in membership fees to build funds.

So maybe it was a mistake to punish and shun Ali for understanding that men are not women.

A Green Party spokesperson said: “Like many organisations, the Green Party is facing some

The Green Party is taking it well.

A senior activist who won an unlawful discrimination claim against the Green Party of England and Wales has been expelled and told he cannot return for at least two years.

In February, a judge found that the Greens had unlawfully discriminated against Dr Shahrar Ali during a row over his gender-critical beliefs. Ali, who is a former deputy leader, was awarded damages of £9,100. The Greens were also ordered to pay him a further £90,000 in costs in September.

He has now been excluded from the party for a fixed term of two years as a result of complaints made about him in 2022.

What were the complaints? What terrible thing did … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Read the room.

Would Ferrell have been as enthusiastic if his friend had come out as a bear, or a lawn mower? Would he have been as keen to travel across America if Harper had decided he was a toddler rather than a woman? Would he have changed his friend’s diapers? Would he have been willing to pay that price, to carry that burden, to put up with the imposition? (Quite apart from the hit to his reputation that passing a grown man off as an infant would have inflicted. That would have been fetish too far.) I doubt it. Well, by accepting him as a women, and encouraging (insisting?) … Read the rest