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Support

May 2nd, 2024 11:22 am | By

Vagueness instead of argument example #eleventy billion.

“support trans people”?

What’s that supposed to mean?

Gender skeptics don’t drop trans people or push them over or throw them off cliffs. We don’t not support trans people. What we do is decline to pretend to believe they are the sex they are not. That’s not some kind of opposite of “support.” It’s a refusal … Read the rest



It’s genderseason again

May 2nd, 2024 10:08 am | By

Pink News is cross because the profundities of a “non-binary person” were greeted with mirth rather than awed respect.

Dee Whitnell, who founded the #TransKidsDeserveToGrowUp solidarity campaign, released a YouTube video earlier this month in which they discussed how transgender people might find themselves “changing or exploring [their] expression or gender identity depending on the season”.

In the video, Whitnell talked about their own experiences with expression and how it changes throughout the year, as well as the concept of “genderseason” and how other trans folks might explore their expression.

In other words Dee Whitnell has noticed that people’s feelings are influenced by external factors like the weather, how early or late the sun sets, how they feel about wearing … Read the rest



Nursing famlee unner the rainbo

May 2nd, 2024 7:09 am | By

La Leche League doing a quiet brag about how inclooosive its policies are.

https://twitter.com/LLLGB/status/1785778271793070465/

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Just as they say they are

May 2nd, 2024 7:06 am | By

Breastfeeding should be inclooosive.

Six trustees of a nationwide breastfeeding support group have been suspended for demanding that biological men be excluded from their services.

The British wing of La Leche League (LLL), which gives mother-to-mother support to those finding it hard to breastfeed, has been told by its US-based board of directors that the service cannot be single sex and they must support “male lactation”.

Also they can’t say “mother” and they can’t question gender ideology.

It’s perfectly simple, and easy if you’ll just shut up and pay attention. The baby learns to identify as getting milk out of Daddy’s nipples. Problem solved. Can we move on now?

One leader from LLLGB, the name for

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Identify as 27

May 1st, 2024 5:30 pm | By

Oh how about that, the BBC does know who is a woman when it comes time to pay the salaries.

Four senior female news presenters have accused the BBC of “grinding down” women on pay and failing to tackle persistent pay discrimination at a tribunal court hearing in London.

The presenter Martine Croxall – alongside Karin Giannone, Kasia Madera and Annita McVeigh – accused the broadcaster of conducting a “sham recruitment exercise” after they lost their jobs when the BBC merged its domestic and global news channels last year.

In witness statements the women, aged between 48 and 54, said they had been discriminated against because of their sex, age and union membership.

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Trump confirms

May 1st, 2024 4:44 pm | By

Whoops.

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_____’s rights on the chopping block

May 1st, 2024 10:03 am | By

The Guardian attempts to report on a massive attack on women’s rights without ever mentioning women. Look, look, women treated as not deserving of rights over their own bodies, except we take it back about the “women” part, we don’t know what that word means, we never heard of any people called that, we don’t know whose rights these are that we’re writing this piece about.

These fucking idiots.

How can you report on a massive war on women’s autonomy while adamantly refusing to mention women?

You can’t. You fucking can’t. By erasing women from this news article you join Team Delete Women’s Rights.

The Guardian, or reporter Carter Sherman, or both, literally don’t use the word once. It … Read the rest



Riposte

May 1st, 2024 9:25 am | By

But it’s such a tiny tiny minority of people, do we really need to spend so much time on a tiny tiny tiny minority of people?

https://twitter.com/ArsinoeV/status/1785694297049772295… Read the rest


The adjective makes it true

May 1st, 2024 5:42 am | By

Oh dear god the stupid.

Well, first, “trans women” isn’t a name. It may be a label, but at bottom what it is is a noun accompanied by an adjective. That’s all. You can attach any adjective to any noun; doing so doesn’t automatically create a truth. I could label Thomas Willett here “stupid boy” but that by itself wouldn’t make it true that Willett is a stupid boy.

Second…seriously?

Pretend women are women, it’s in the name.

Fake women are women, it’s in the name.

Bogus women are women, it’s in the name.

Counterfeit women are women, it’s in the name.

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We paid for a meal plan here

Apr 30th, 2024 5:23 pm | By

Revolutionaries today! They ain’t what they useta be! Why in my day we would go whole hours without chocolate in order to bring down The Man.

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Guest post: A violation of Trump’s bond conditions

Apr 30th, 2024 11:34 am | By

Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Spike.

This isn’t civil contempt, this is criminal contempt. Being adjudged in criminal contempt of court is a violation of DJT’s bond conditions. He is out on pretrial release because he posted a bond in each of his four criminal cases. A condition of bond in every one of those cases is not to commit a criminal offense against any state law or federal law. “Violate no law,” is a standard bond condition in every criminal case. DJT is now subject to having his bond revoked in those cases, and being held in pretrial detention.

With regard to contempt sanctions, judges generally use a progressive approach. Fine first is typical. Remains to be … Read the rest



Instead of answering he burbled

Apr 30th, 2024 11:06 am | By
Instead of answering he burbled

Darn it it’s so hard to convince everyone that you’re not the baddy when your target will insist on talking herself. Joan Smith deeply sympathizes.

If you want to see a human being squirm, just say the words “Rosie Duffield” to Sir Keir Starmer. He immediately looks like a man who wishes he was somewhere else — at the dentist, maybe, or having an intimate medical procedure. It happened again this morning, when he was asked by Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain whether he was going to apologise to the Canterbury MP after finally admitting she was correct to say in 2021 that only women have a cervix.

Instead of answering he burbled about how well he and … Read the rest



Spike

Apr 30th, 2024 9:46 am | By

Annnnnnnnd when the judge does fine Trump Trump wins because he just sends out another “send me money” to his credulous fools.

Donald Trump’s campaign immediately sought to capitalize after the judge in his New York criminal trial ruled him in contempt of court — the latest example of how the former president’s campaign has flipped negative legal developments into a financial boost for his reelection bid.

“A Democrat judge JUST HELD ME IN CONTEMPT OF COURT!” read a Tuesday morning email soliciting donations for Trump National Committee, a joint fundraising committee that includes Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.

Of course the judge HELD HIM IN CONTEMPT OF COURT because HE WAS IN CONTEMPT OF COURT but … Read the rest



Blokes like this lose influence

Apr 30th, 2024 9:35 am | By

Same thing, Willoughby says. A gay man on a men’s hospital ward is the same thing as a man on a women’s hospital ward. The same thing.

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That’s not trolling

Apr 30th, 2024 9:24 am | By

I pointed out yesterday that calling a man who threatened to kill Rosie Duffield and JK Rowling a “troll” is offensively trivializing. I see I’m not the only one who thinks so.

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He declined to levy

Apr 30th, 2024 9:11 am | By

A tap on the knuckles for Trump:

Donald Trump has made his contempt for the court clear throughout his criminal trial in Manhattan, and now a judge has made it official. Juan Merchan ruled today that the former president had violated a gag order designed to protect the integrity of the trial and fined him $9,000.

Might as well fine him 25 cents. 9k is lunch money to him.

Merchan found that nine violations alleged by prosecutors were clear violations, but deemed a tenth too ambiguous to warrant punishment. He declined to levy the most serious punishment available to him—namely, tossing Trump in jail—but also had scathing words for Trump’s excuses for violating the order.

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Credit: Nina Paley

Apr 29th, 2024 5:22 pm | By

Some mysterious force is preventing me from posting this directly via Nina’s tweet but haha I can do it via this one so nyah, Mysterious Force.

It’s brilliant indeed.

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State broadcaster says keep doing it

Apr 29th, 2024 10:19 am | By

The CBC frowns on all this medical questioning of puberty blockers and the like.

Last month, the Cass Review findings led to a ban on the prescription of puberty-suppressing hormones except for youth enrolled in clinical research.

That’s a move away from the standard of care supported by many international medical bodies, including the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS), the American Academy of Pediatrics and World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Though several European countries including Sweden have also restricted access to puberty blockers and other medical treatments for youth.

Could that be because “many international medical bodies” lost their goddam minds?

The report cites a systematic review of evidence, commissioned as part of the Cass Review, which found “a

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Fuck around and find out

Apr 29th, 2024 9:19 am | By

So you’re not allowed to threaten to kill people?

A troll who threatened to kill JK Rowling “with a big hammer” has been warned he faces jail.

Glenn Mullen, 31, sent audio messages in Scottish Gaelic to the Harry Potter author on X/Twitter in January 2023. He said: “I’m going to kill JK Rowling with a big hammer. JK Rowling is very horrible and I hate her so much.”

In a message to Labour MP Rosie Duffield, also opposed to trans reforms, he said: “I’m going to kill Rosie Duffield with a big gun. I hate her so much.”

Mullen, of Manchester, admitted two charges of sending a communication conveying a threatening message.

But the Sun calls him “a troll” … Read the rest



His short tenure

Apr 29th, 2024 9:02 am | By

Humza Yousaf has resigned.

In an emotional speech on Monday, Yousaf said it had been an “honor” to lead the SNP in government. But his time in power was rocky and his short tenure has harmed his party’s standing even further after a brutal year for the group.

[H]e never enjoyed the levels of popularity with voters that Sturgeon once did, and frequently found himself caught between the liberal tendencies of his Green allies and parts of his party on one side, and the more socially conservative members of the SNP on the other.

An especially controversial expansion of Scotland’s hate crime legislation, which expanded protections for transgender people, was hailed by LGBTQ+ groups but attacked by critics as a

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