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How are the rules made?

Mar 7th, 2024 8:57 am | By

“Well we just spoke to Maya Forstater from Sex Matters about the row between JK Rowling and the trans journalist India Willoughby”

Hahaha yes very good, trans journalist indeed. I wish newsreaders would learn how to pronounce Rowling though – rhymes with bowling not howling.

“and judging by iron box [???] our inbox a lot of people at home think that you’re a bit ridiculous on this issue Tom.”

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Love the blouse

Mar 6th, 2024 4:56 pm | By
Love the blouse

Well what do you know – a homemade tv news hobby that operates out of someone’s bedroom invited both “India” Willoughby and JK Rowling to do an interview and for some massively perplexing reason only Indier accepted.

The hobbyists are very excited to have coaxed Willz to take part – they call the result EXCLUSIVE. Hahaha that’s cute guys (something tells me they’re guys) but of course it’s exclusive. Nobody cares what Willoughby thinks.

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Wurdz

Mar 6th, 2024 10:30 am | By

Blither blither blither.

Fairfax School District Sued for Allowing Transgender Students into Girls’ Restrooms, Locker Rooms

As usual, the wording misses the point. The issue isn’t trans students in girls’ restrooms, it’s male students in girls’ restrooms. The problem isn’t being trans in girls’ facilities, the problem is being male there.

The plaintiff is an anonymous female student who has been enrolled in the Fairfax school district since the third grade. Because of her deeply held Roman Catholic beliefs, she doesn’t support the rule and feels that its requirement to use preferred pronouns “forces her to lie,” the filing states.

It’s got nothing to do with Catholic beliefs, deeply held or otherwise. The Catholic church is no friend to women.… Read the rest



Deep hatred of women chapter 7 billion

Mar 6th, 2024 7:39 am | By

What a horrible man. Not James, obviously; the other fella (who has me blocked).

Oh the poor poor poor wee young man, won’t somebody PLEASE think of the darling tiny bashful sad shy trembling delicate vulnerable quivering feeble dainty sensitive young man who smashed an older woman’s eye socket? Won’t somebody also PLEASE ignore the violent repeated punching of the older woman … Read the rest



Be less excited

Mar 6th, 2024 5:43 am | By

Another terrible idea makes its bashful debut.

Replies are closed. Quote retweets are scathing.… Read the rest



Shine a light

Mar 6th, 2024 5:20 am | By

James Esses goes undercover on a British Psychological Society webinar:

The purpose of the webinar was to “shine a light on the history of the LGBT+ community’s experience of receiving healthcare”.

Tricky, when there is no such “community.”

The webinar began with panellists’ thoughts on the current state of play regarding ‘trans healthcare’ in society. The audience were told that “LGBTQ people face huge medicalisation”. This statement was ironic, given that the BPS support puberty blockers, hormones and surgery for those with gender dysphoria – the very definition of ‘huge medicalisation’.

Nononono puberty blockers and the rest are trans healthcare, which is the very opposite of huge medicalisation.

…the most concerning statement of the session came from

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Another influencer down

Mar 5th, 2024 3:15 pm | By

Gosh you don’t say.

Doritos has fired a transgender activist who appeared in one of its promotional videos after being alerted to her sickening old tweets, including one where she wrote about doing ‘depraved things’ to a 12-year-old.

Hello? Doritos? Are you new around here? What did you expect? Claiming to be trans is itself a warning flag. It doesn’t necessarily signal sexual abuse of children, but it does signal a narcissistic demand for attention. It does signal Trouble or Nuisance or Tiresome Dude Who Won’t Shut Up About Himself & Will Do Anything For Attention.

Also what’s with the fake “she” and “her”? Trans women are men; that’s what “trans” means.

Many took issue with the brand partnership

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Foolish

Mar 5th, 2024 10:00 am | By

The journey not the arrival matters. How did this guy get to the conclusion he did?

https://twitter.com/kelvin_morganNZ/status/1764937942399693018

The “foolish young man” Kelvin Morgan mentions here is the one who repeatedly smashed his fist into the eye socket of a woman decades older than he is, because he hates her views on sex and gender.

The young man is the perp here, and the woman with the smashed eye socket is the victim, but Mr Morgan’s worry and concern are all for the strong young man with the flying fists, as if he were frail and vulnerable.

I’ll never understand it.… Read the rest



Deliberately

Mar 5th, 2024 7:43 am | By

The Independent (once a real newspaper) being absurdly censorious about a woman calling a man a man:

JK Rowling is facing backlash again after deliberately misgendering trans activist India Willoughby.

Oh no, not backlash. How will she cope?

There’s no such thing as “misgendering.” It’s a made-up crime or error. India Willoughby is a man. He’s also a bully and a toad – why doesn’t the Indy report on that instead of hissing like a burst hot water pipe at women who refuse to obey his orders?

The Harry Potter author has faced repeated criticism in recent years over her views on transgender rights, saying previously that she would rather go to jail than refer to a

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A controversial area of quackery

Mar 5th, 2024 6:54 am | By

Mostly Cloudy pointed us to The Economist on the WPATH files.

Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care

Already we’re in the woods, because calling it “care” is tendentious.

The files shed light on a controversial area of medicine that has largely retreated into the shadows

A big stride farther into the woods, because it’s not really medicine as commonly understood. It’s more like tampering.

Few areas of medicine arouse as strong emotions in America as transgender care.

Not really medicine and not really care. Experimentation perhaps, stripped of most of the usual cautions.

It’s strange that such a reckless ideological pseudo-medical trend has even conservative publications like The Economist mouthing the jargon.

The publication this week of hundreds of posts

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Embargoed until today

Mar 5th, 2024 3:11 am | By

So today there are the WPATH files.

Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based. But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical. American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine. And yet WPATH’s internal

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Guest post: Universally they took a one sided view

Mar 4th, 2024 4:45 pm | By

Originally a comment by Rob on By a reasonably clear margin.

For those who can’t access the Herald story, the StuffNZ version:

The man’s lawyer, Emma Priest, said this was a unique set of circumstances that would never be repeated by her client who has ADHD and autism and got caught up in the “frenzied Posie Parker protests”.

She said a conviction would be out of proportion to his offending and would result in difficulty in the young man gaining employment.

His ADHD and youth amplified his impulsivity that day. Priest said her client had taken responsibility, was truly remorseful and willing to engage in restorative justice – which was declined.

Since the offending, he has undertaken 180

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Injury + insult=

Mar 4th, 2024 3:55 pm | By

Another turn of the screw, and another, and another…

https://twitter.com/blablafishcakes/status/1764728583199584693

That’s two men who are UN Women UK delegates and two women who are not UN Women UK delegates.… Read the rest



Les nouvelles=merde

Mar 4th, 2024 11:21 am | By
Les nouvelles=merde

And of course the Supreme Court has ruled – unanimously, albeit for different reasons – that the 14th Amendment doesn’t disqualify renowned insurrectionist Donald Trump. I can’t even be bothered to link to a source, because everything is so shit. Open season on women; the worst human on the planet still alive and still hell bent on breaking everything.

I need a picture of fluffy lambs or something.

Yes that will do.

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By a reasonably clear margin

Mar 4th, 2024 11:06 am | By

That’s ok Sonny, we know you meant well. Get on with the rest of your life.

A young man who was filmed punching a 71-year-old woman in the head during the heated Posie Parker counter-protest in Auckland last year has been granted a discharge without conviction and permanent name suppression.

Because men matter and women don’t, you see.

Judge Glubb said the gravity of a conviction on the young man would be out of proportion to the seriousness of his offending.

He fractured her skull. With his fist. In her face.

In a victim impact statement, she told the court that since the assault, she had been unable to go out and interact with people. She

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Quite all right lad

Mar 4th, 2024 10:47 am | By

Hell and damnation. The large young man who punched an elderly woman in the face and broke her eye socket in NZ last year has gotten away with it. He even gets to remain anonymous.

It’s just fucking open season on women, isn’t it.… Read the rest



You’ve sent us the wrong video

Mar 4th, 2024 8:45 am | By

JKR is kicking the ant nest today. Doing a fine job of it, too.

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The BBC’s festering problem

Mar 4th, 2024 4:27 am | By

This is what it’s all about. Fact and opinion. It’s not an opinion that men are not women, it’s a fact, but it’s treated as if it were an opinion, and (not coincidentally) a forbidden one at that. Cath Walton at The Critic:

A funny thing happened to me on the way to BBC redundancy. I was put through a lengthy disciplinary process for saying truthful things about sex and gender — not quite the same as the very visible farce that unfolded last week around Justin Webb and the complaint against him, but an earlier example of the BBC’s festering problem with accuracy around biological sex.

The festering problem is the “It’s true but you mustn’t say it” … Read the rest



Maverick proclamations

Mar 3rd, 2024 4:17 pm | By

Voting for stupid.

[W]ith an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state.

As the highly contagious disease raged in a Broward county elementary school, [Florida Surgeon General Joseph] Ladapo, a politically appointed acolyte of Florida’s far-right governor Ron DeSantis, wrote to parents telling them it was perfectly fine for parents to continue to send in their unvaccinated children.

Ladapo’s advice deferring to parents or guardians [on] a decision about school attendance directly contradicts the official recommendation of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which calls for a 21-day period of quarantine for anybody without

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Donald where’s your trousers

Mar 3rd, 2024 12:37 pm | By

Happy to oblige.

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