The BBC hits a new low.
Part One pic.twitter.com/UdC3VIL2aG
— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) February 19, 2024
I couldn’t put them together at first. Have cut off the last couple of words but it was just thank yous after that https://t.co/t96b19JTkq
— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) February 19, 2024
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on We’re the violent actors?
We’re not the ones shouting threats and posting images of guns and knives.
Pffft. That’s just a) passionate rhetoric; b) completely justified self defence; c) “just joking” or “ironic”; in other words, good, clean, healthy fun; d) taken out of context. Choose whichever one is most expedient to the particular threatener.
Canada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could “inspire and encourage” serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community
I daresay that those of us posting here on B&W would all be branded as “extremists” in light of the inflated threat vocabulary of transactivists. If misgendering is “violence,” questioning gender identity is “denying their right to exist,” and … Read the rest
Wait what? Tranz kidz aren’t at greater risk of suicide if they don’t wreck their bodies? But we were assured they are!
… Read the restA new study challenges the common assertion that gender-dysphoric youth are at elevated risk of suicide if not treated with “gender affirming” medical interventions. If it’s true, it ought to have a seismic impact on the accepted medical approach to gender-confused youth.
Reported in the BMJ, the study examines data on a Finnish cohort of gender-referred adolescents between 1996 and 2019, and compares their rates of all-cause and suicide mortality against a control group. While suicide rates in the gender-referred group studied were higher than in the control group, the difference was not large: 0.3% versus 0.1%.
Every bit as good for babies, they say.
An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans women who were assigned male at birth [i.e. men] is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth.
In a letter to campaigners, the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT), said that the milk produced by trans women after taking a combination of drugs is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby”.
“Comparable” is a weasel-word there. Sure, you can compare the two, but they’re not the same, or alike.
… Read the restIn an August 2023 response, the hospital defended its claims, referring to five scientific papers dating back to 1977 and
Oh yay, yet another piece on how self-obsessed it’s possible to be.
I’m non-binary. I came to terms with this recently, after living socially as a woman for many years — but I think I knew from a very young age. I just didn’t have the right words for it.
Are you really???? How fascinating and exciting! Please tell us everything about it in the utmost detail.
Then puberty hit and assigned me with the very special task of looking after two giant sacks of flesh, fat and membrane.
In every play I performed in after that point, I was only ever cast as matronly old women or busty temptresses. It sucked.
Well now that’s a different story. The … Read the rest
Well that’s me convinced!
Happy #AromanticSpectrumAwarenessWeek!
Being aromantic means experiencing little-to-no romantic attraction. It's a type of romantic orientation, as opposed to a sexual one, and I'm proud to be an advocate for the community. 💚 pic.twitter.com/V114E7q8vs
— Yasmin Benoit, MSc (@theyasminbenoit) February 18, 2024
Top quality advocacy for sure.… Read the rest
The CBC has got to be kidding.
CSIS warns that the ‘anti-gender movement’ poses a threat of ‘extreme violence’
Seriously? We’re not the ones shouting threats and posting images of guns and knives.
… Read the restCanada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could “inspire and encourage” serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a threat the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says almost certainly will continue over the coming year.
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“CSIS assesses that the violent threat posed by the anti-gender movement is almost certain to continue over the coming year and that violent actors may be inspired by the University of Waterloo attack to carry out their own extreme violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community or against other targets they view as representing
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on By folks across the gender spectrum.
This invitation to submit is really rather helpful, in an a completely unexpected and unintentional way. Putting the whole list of gender variations (or least a good chunk of them) in one spot lets you see just what a mad, disparate, incoherent, contradictory mess it all is. The only way that some of these subunits can exist in the same room together is by keeping their definitions vague and non-commital to the point of meaninglessness, as normally several of the groups would be mutually exclusive, or distinct without actually being different. (Some of them may accidently include actual lesbians, like the occasional, unintended peanut … Read the rest
What did Scottish Labour vote against?
Posting again in an attempt to get Composite Motion 10 to display below, as it doesn't appear in our tweet above.
This is the motion which #ScotLab24 conference has just voted against!
We note that the Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) voting on behalf of members, voted for it. pic.twitter.com/4lfUxnz2gg— LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🦖 (@LabWomenDec) February 18, 2024
And Scottish Labour voted NO on that.
It’s very embittering, this kind of thing. I thought the Left had finally caught on, half a century ago, that women are people too, that women matter too, that it’s not cute or funny or inevitable that men treat women as brainless inferiors. I thought that lesson had been learned. … Read the rest
More “Fuck off, women, we don’t care.”
Here's LWD Scotland's statement in response to this shock vote at #ScotLab24
"The sight of a sea of men’s hands voting against the motion from women’s conference was chilling. Scottish Labour & the trade unions involved need to take a long hard look at themselves" pic.twitter.com/25jqDrmpmo— LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🦖 (@LabWomenDec) February 18, 2024
I’m so tired of the refusal to care.… Read the rest
Not for the first time, I ask what the hell is “transfeminism”? Fake feminism? Pretend feminism? Not-real feminism?
Sinister Wisdom, that styles itself a Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal, interrupts itself to talk about “trans feminisms” instead of actual feminism. So much for the Lesbian part.
Trans/Feminisms
Sinister Wisdom is seeking submissions of writing and artwork by folks across the gender spectrum for our issue Trans/Feminisms. Sinister Wisdom invites all trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, two-spirit, gender non conforming, intersex writers and artists to submit. To put it simply–if you trouble, research, or think about gender, we want your work.
So…does that include lesbians? Or no? Does it include lesbians who are gender nonconforming but not the other kind? … Read the rest
The NY Times takes a close look at Trump’s immediate future:
… Read the restOn Friday, the judge overseeing Mr. Trump’s civil fraud case issued a final ruling that inflicted a staggering financial penalty. With interest, the former president has been ordered to pay about $450 million, a sum that threatens to wipe out a stockpile of cash, stocks and bonds that he amassed since leaving the White House. He will have only 30 days or so to either come up with the money or persuade an outside company to post a bond.
The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, also imposed several new restrictions on Mr. Trump and his family business. For three years, Mr. Trump cannot run any New York company, including
Another dude steps up.
Male swimmer from Ramapo College sets another school record in women's event.
Now tell me again the strides women have made when society applauds a man for pushing us off our own podium…
Title IX literally means nothing at this point pic.twitter.com/Z3aatXVUyw
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 17, 2024
Oh really.
Breaking: Internal staff memo from Executive Director @JohnLewisRetail.
Far from acknowledging significant failures, they accuse us of “misrepresenting” them.
They state their “wellbeing team…are on hand to support Partners who have been affected by the coverage”.
Disgrace. pic.twitter.com/oGqnnloWNz
— James Esses (@JamesEsses) February 17, 2024
They want to be the UK’s most inclusive, because celebrating diversity will make them perfect and supernatural. Well then why don’t they include women for a change? Why don’t they celebrate diversity by talking about women for a change? Why don’t they create an environment where women feel welcome for a change? Why is inclusion and diversity and celebration always about men who pretend to be women instead of women?
Or what … Read the rest
You can’t sue people for saying that men are not women.
I know that’s too obvious to bother saying, but this guy…
First there’s the headline.
Help WOKEN Sue Darren Grimes – Transphobia Against Brianna Ghey
Help what? Is “woken” a new trans verb that means “wake up” or “rouse to action”? Are we being asked to help spur Sue Darren Grimes into being less sleepy?
Or is “woken” an adjective that applies to Sue Darren Grimes? Is Sue one of those boring woke people who keep prodding us to be more woke? Or “woken” for extra elegance?
And what does the part after the hyphen mean? What about Transphobia Against Brianna Ghey? What does it have to do … Read the rest
Trump ordered to pay $350 million.
A New York judge on Friday handed Donald J. Trump a crushing defeat in his civil fraud case, finding the former president liable for conspiring to manipulate his net worth and ordering him to pay a penalty of nearly $355 million plus interest that could wipe out his entire stockpile of cash.
But first he will appeal. I want to see him having to sell properties now.
… Read the restJustice Engoron barred Mr. Trump for three years from serving in top roles at any New York company, including portions of his own Trump Organization. He also imposed a two-year ban on the former president’s adult sons and ordered that they pay more
I saw this so…
A Senior Lecturer no less… Wtf is this mess doing pic.twitter.com/fOtcDYlXjS
— Kate Scottow (@BustedWench) February 16, 2024
[If you open the full tweet you get a view of his naked bum]
…so I had to look up this Senior Lecturer. The source is Middlesex University itself:
… Read the restDr T J Bacon
Pronouns: Xe/Xem/Xyrs (usage)
Producing artwork under the name tjb, Dr Bacon’s practice, framed as an artist-philosopher, extends across performance art, visal art, curation, socially engaged practice, transgender studies, queer theory, crip theory and queer phenomenology. Xis outputs manifest through the interdisciplinary visual arts and as an author. Xe has exhibited xis practice internationally for over 20 years and is the founder
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Mote and beam.
CSIS’s comments come as provincial policies on gender-affirming surgeries and pronoun preferences are being hotly debated across the country.
And it looks like they’ve taken a side. There’s only one “side” whose potential for violence seems to concern them:
“CSIS assesses that the violent threat posed by the anti-gender movement is almost certain to continue over the coming year…
As I would be considered a part of the “anti-gender movement” by trans activists and their allies (of which we can now count CSIS), I might very well have my own CSIS file. I’m not flattering myself with some degree of inflated “importance,” I’ve just seen how this … Read the rest
The CBC inciting violence against people who don’t believe in trans ideology:
… Read the restCanada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could “inspire and encourage” serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a threat the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says almost certainly will continue over the coming year.
CSIS’s comments come as provincial policies on gender-affirming surgeries and pronoun preferences are being hotly debated across the country.
“CSIS assesses that the violent threat posed by the anti-gender movement is almost certain to continue over the coming year and that violent actors may be inspired by the University of Waterloo attack to carry out their own extreme violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community or against other targets they view as representing the gender ideology ‘agenda,'” said CSIS spokesperson
Oh come on. Surely it’s a parody. Surely. Like the guy with tits the size of a small car.
… Read the rest
