Remember how the police arrested and then “de-arrested” a guy who was protesting Hamas on Saturday? It’s not working out well for them.

A former Cabinet minister has accused the Metropolitan Police of “emboldening” the mob after a counter-protester carrying a sign saying “Hamas is terrorist” at a pro-Palestine rally was arrested.

Niyak Ghorbani, 38,  was pulled to the ground and handcuffed by officers after an incident close to the march through central London on Saturday. He was arrested over an allegation of assault but was later de-arrested after officers reviewed footage of the incident.

The Met is now facing calls to take action against a protester who Mr Ghorbani, an Iranian who lives in Balham, says

“Scotland will do it! Tell Scotland! Scotland will hit her for us!”

Trans rights activists are attempting to have JK Rowling arrested by Scottish police over “misgendering” after a complaint was dismissed in England.

Northumbria Police last week confirmed that it did not believe the Harry Potter author had committed a criminal offence by publicly calling India Willoughby, a transgender TV personality, a male.

Willoughby had gone to police claiming Rowling had “definitely committed a crime” by referring to the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant as male.

Willoughby is definitely a man, and a nasty aggressive bullying man at that.

The 58-year-old former newsreader has vowed to appeal against “their decision not to prosecute” and is to request a

Deutsche Welle on the opening of the Amsterdam Holocaust Museum:

Israeli President Isaac Herzog attended the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam on Sunday. The museum tells the stories of some of the 102,000 Jews who were deported from the Netherlands and murdered in Nazi camps during the Holocaust in World War II. Three-quarters of Dutch Jews were among the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

Who were the Nazis? Members of a genocidal political movement in Germany. DW is to the Nazis as the Washington Post is to slavery. That’s a crude comparison, but my point is that nationality is not the same as political or moral orientation. Netanyahu isn’t Israel, Germany isn’t Nazism, the … Read the rest

Well whaddya know:

Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson’s playing options just got significantly smaller.

Transgender i.e. male.

NXXT Golf announced on Friday that, effective immediately, competitors must be a biological female at birth to participate. A statement from the tour notes that it underscores the organization’s commitment to “maintaining the integrity of women’s professional golf and ensuring fair competition.” The news comes on International Women’s Day.

“As we navigate through the evolving landscape of sports, it is crucial to uphold the competitive integrity that is the cornerstone of women’s sports,” said NXXT Golf CEO Stuart McKinnon in a statement.

Yes, it is. Thank you for noticing.

“Our revised policy is a reflection of our unwavering commitment to celebrating and

Gender gender gender gender.

Did I mention gender?

Hannah Gadsby has a new gendersomething. Yay.

Nanette was already an awards-scooping live show before Netflix’s cameras started rolling, but its meteoric success made a proper international celebrity of the festival circuit staple. It also made Gadsby, who grew up in a small town in north-west Tasmania, an unexpected figurehead for LGBTQ+ representation in Hollywood.

Yet again – how does that work? How can anyone be a figurehead for all of those categories?

Gadsby spends much of their time based in Australia but has seen trans rights become a divisive political issue in the US and UK, one often divorced from the voices and experiences of trans and genderqueer people.

I … Read the rest

University of Victoria celebrates Women’s Day by celebrating men, because of course it does.

Jamey Jesperson, Vanier Scholar, faces the uphill battle for visibility navigating academia as a trans woman studying anti-colonial histories. https://t.co/FsrJ12PH18#IWD2024 #InspireInclusion #InternationalWomensDay @UVicHumanities

— UniversityOfVictoria (@uvic) March 8, 2024

Psst – Jamey – trans is colonialism. You’re the colonizer, chum.… Read the rest

The Washington state department of health promoted this article on Facebook and did so without any “pregnant people” genuflection so I got my hopes up, but of course that was a mistake.

Abortion

Abortion is legal and protected in Washington state. Abortions have been legal in Washington since 1970, and that has not changed even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

A lawsuit in Texas seeks to remove U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepristone, a safe and effective drug that’s been used in medication abortions by millions of Americans for over 20 years. As of April 21, 2023, the Supreme Court maintained full access to the drug nationally.

Third sentence in and it’s … Read the rest

Hey gang, let’s go protest the opening of a Holocaust museum. Maybe dress up as Anne Frank to really underline the point.

After many years, a Holocaust Museum has finally opened in Amsterdam today.

This is currently going on outside.

pic.twitter.com/d3RXjgVtAK

— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) March 10, 2024

… Read the rest

Oh dear, Willz is feeling let down by the police, who are after all there to do the bidding of angry men.

Sarah Ditum takes a chainsaw to Judith Butler’s new book:

Who’s Afraid of Gender? is an elaboration on her big idea, as laid out in the 1990 book Gender Trouble, that gender is “performative” — that is, whether you’re a man or a woman is determined by whether you act in a manly or womanly way, not by your physical body. This is the intellectual ballast in the now-common claim that “trans women are women, trans men are men”. (Butler identifies as nonbinary, but generously tolerates being called “she”.)

The insight that men and women’s behaviour is at least partly socially constructed wasn’t new, but Butler pushed it further. Not only gendered behaviour but sex itself was socially

“India” Willoughby is trying to make a career for himself out of harassing JK Rowling. He’s hugely productive in the sense of churning out content, but he’s not very strategic or effective or even interesting.

JKR is underwhelmed.

“The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.”

A. E. Housman pic.twitter.com/BufCPj6ufq

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 9, 2024

I hope the draft Willz lives in is icy and howling.

With India Willoughby claiming to be the victim, if JK Rowling's "hate crime", I thought it best to have a look at how Willoughby conducted himself in the run up to JK's post.

Fair to say, there was so much It would have taken me all day

How to target advertising on Twitter:

Chapter 2:

Please find our response: pic.twitter.com/G3AwbDI89q

— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) March 9, 2024

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Major doubts.

I’m starting to think that Willyboy is really stupid enough to think that because something exists as a matter of law it is, ipso facto, illegal to deny it. [Francis Boyle]

I’m not so sure; I don’t think he would have seen this coming, and not because of stupidity or for having been blinded by his narcissism. Given how much the police had become the enforcers of trans ideology, Willoughby would have been justified in expecting the police to continue harassing and arresting those who resist and speak out against trans demands, or more accurately, those who defend women’s rights, particularly women themselves. We’ve certainly seen plenty of … Read the rest

News from Nigeria:

Nigerian security forces are searching for more than 200 children abducted from their school by gunmen on motorcycles Thursday, in the latest mass kidnapping to hit Nigeria.

Officials and witnesses have given varying figures of the number of students taken from the school in Kuriga, a town in northwestern Nigeria, with between 200 and 300 children reported to be missing, some of them as young as 8 years old.

It was the second such abduction in Nigeria in a week, after around another 200 people — mainly women and children — were kidnapped by militants in Borno state in the country’s northeast.

“Militants”? Funny kind of militancy.

If the higher total this week is confirmed, it

One has to wonder…why are the met arresting the guy protesting terrorism? Are we all pro-terrorism now? I seem to have overlooked that ruling.

His sign says “Hamas are terrorists.”

Police arrest ANTI HAMAS demonstrator!!

Instead of protecting this man the @metpoliceuk have arrested the man who consistently attends demonstration and is a valued lone voice of dissent. @MahyarTousi filmed the whole thing pic.twitter.com/Rt3GYBFfkh

— Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) March 9, 2024

They batter him down to the ground in aid of arresting him for…saying Hamas are terrorists.… Read the rest

Bang crash thud, another massive limb falls off the tree.

A police force allowed a group which claimed gender-critical views are hate speech to carry out a training day for members of the local community. Staffordshire Police was criticised for permitting the organisation to carry out an “inappropriate and inaccurate” course in February. The session was delivered by the group Uniting Staffordshire Against Hate (USAH) at the force’s headquarters to members of the public.

The “against hate” bit is a joke, because what they’re doing is inciting hatred of women who know that men are not women. By the way it’s not “hate” to know which people are men.

Gender-critical group WeAreFairCop attended the event, and accused the

The wheels are coming off.

BREAKING: Senior figures across NHS and UK medical bodies disavow WPATH's approach to gender medicine.#WPATH "Standards of Care" have shaped NHS policy and doctors practice for decades.@mailonline #WPATHfiles https://t.co/gS4em6LviN

— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) March 8, 2024

WPATH’s influence is all over the NHS

– 2013 govt guide to gender dysphoria services informed by WPATH SOC
– Bernadette Wren, Director at the Tavi told parliament treatment protocols are based on WPATH "almost universally observed in Europe.”
– NHS’s Contract for GIDS…

— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) March 8, 2024

Read our dossier on the influence of #WPATH in the UK https://t.co/X5031YSq4I

And then read the #WPATHfiles https://t.co/2vq5e0pSOA pic.twitter.com/sZni19Yh8P

— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) March 8, 2024

Oh darn, foiled again.

Police will not pursue a complaint made by India Willoughby about JK Rowling as ”its not a crime to call a biological man a man.”

What I was just saying a few hours ago. You can’t make it a crime to say true things like “that man is a man.” It’s not workable. Laws have to be workable.

Northumbria Police confirmed on Friday that it did not believe the Harry Potter author had committed a crime by calling India Willoughby, the former Celebrity Big Brother contestant, a man. Willoughby had complained to the police over the comments, in which Rowling also repeatedly used “he” pronouns, following a row between the pair on X, formerly Twitter.

Turns out it’s not against the law to say water is wet.

Broadcaster India Willoughby’s accusation that author JK Rowling misgendered her online did not “meet the criminal threshold”, Northumbria Police have said. In an interview with Byline TV earlier this week, Willoughby, a trans woman and broadcaster, said she had reported the Harry Potter author to the police for calling her a man.

Let’s pause a minute. It can’t be made illegal to say a man is a man, because that would create total chaos. We’re allowed to know which sex is which, and we’re allowed to say which sex is which. If that changes none of the trains will run on time.

On Sunday, Rowling posted a