Originally a comment by Artymorty on The T is not the LGB.

Tatchell’s wrong, of course, about bisexuality.

Sexual orientation is not culture-bound, and it doesn’t change with the political tides. There doesn’t appear to be all that much variation in the amount of same-sex sexual behaviour across times and cultures (despite what the artsy elites of ancient Greece and Rome wanted us to believe). There are two instinctual factors in sexual behavour: sexual attraction and sexual aversion, and both are almost universally polarized along the sex axis.

The vast majority of people exhibit a very strong preference for the opposite sex, and a moderate-to-significant aversion to the same sex. A tiny minority exhibit the same pattern but … Read the rest

This is pretty much a straight-up lie.

What most people will understand by “criminalizing life saving health care” is that people are being denied medicines or surgeries or both to treat life-threatening illnesses. What the ACLU of course means by “life saving health care” is surgeries and/or cross-sex hormones to create an artificial resemblance to the opposite sex. The latter is, obviously, not life-saving in any ordinary sense. The underlying idea is that without help in trying to change sex, trans people will kill themselves. That’s not what “life-saving” means.

Think of a scenario in which a man threatens to kill a woman if she won’t have sex with him. Would the ACLU whine at the recalcitrant woman that she … Read the rest

There’s a lesbian visibility week? Who knew?!

DIVA is all worked up about it.

Who else is excited for Lesbian Visibility Week 2024? Taking place between 22 April – 28 April, next year’s celebration of the wonderful lesbian community and all LGBTQIA women and non-binary people is set to be bigger than ever. Therefore, DIVA needs some reinforcements! 

Oh I see, so it’s not a lesbian visibility week, it’s a lesbians and some men visibility week. Kind of a different thing.

We are delighted to be bringing the legendary activist Nancy Kelley onto the DIVA team for Lesbian Visibility Week 2024. Nancy has spent her career campaigning for human rights and social justice on issues ranging from poverty and

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on They.

They censor our speech. They undermine our governments with bribery and blackmail. They’ve captured our media, banks, and virtually all of academia.

According to Politico, pro-Palestinian content is much more widely available on social media than pro-Israel content.

Israel has a history of being the most actively condemned nation by the UN. In 2020, al Jazeera reported that Israel was 3 times more likely to be condemned by the UN than other nations.

Member States:

Member States select people to represent them at United Nations meetings and conferences. The individuals selected present credentials to the UN to show that they are legitimate representatives of their country. The credentials are

If women don’t include men in everything there will be a billion suicides every day until there are no men left. No really, there will, and it will be women’s fault.

Below is one of the arguments used by the AHRC that we will be challenging at our appeal. It implies that lesbians holding events for lesbians only, will cause 86% of trans identified people to suicide or think of suicide. It implies a direct link. pic.twitter.com/DVnXRK34QW

— Lesbian Action Group (@ActiveLesbians) February 7, 2024

“The Commission notes that the grant of this exemption may lead to the further exclusion of and discrimination against trans women who are lesbians.”

But women are allowed to “exclude” men sometimes. We need to … Read the rest

This is how the trick is done. And done and done and done, a billion times every day.

I agree that here in the uk Peter homophobia is generally in decline. Yet in America this year alone there are 398 anti LGBT+ laws in State legislates going through. We can’t let our guard down in the rise of the right..https://t.co/YwgWQsIAMi

— classicalet (@classicalet) February 6, 2024

Eeeeeeeek attacks on LGBTQ rights everywhere eeeeeeeek – when what they mean is bills to keep men from taking everything women have or bills to protect children from adults who urge them to ruin their lives. Supergluing the T to the LGB is all for the T, and disastrous for the LGB.… Read the rest

Hur hur shark geddit hur hur a shark bit her arm off, what a funny joke, very activist, much progressive.

Trans activists turn up to protest against a womens surfer speaking at a Library event in Missouri.

Bethany Hamilton, a reknowned Australian women’s surfer who lost her arm to a shark attack in 2003 was recently replaced as an ambassador for Rip Curl Women’s Surfing with a… pic.twitter.com/xg2x8FuLRY

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) February 6, 2024

Bethany Hamilton, a reknowned Australian women’s surfer who lost her arm to a shark attack in 2003 was recently replaced as an ambassador for Rip Curl Women’s Surfing with a transgender man – simply because she spoke out against men in women’s sports. One activist

Poor Trump, he can’t even get Brett Kavanaugh to agree that he has the powers of an absolute monarch.

A Washington, D.C., appeals court issued a blistering takedown Tuesday of Donald Trump’s arguments that he has “presidential immunity” against criminal proceedings—including a savage citation from Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Trump has repeatedly insisted that he cannot be prosecuted for trying to change the 2020 election results because he has presidential immunity. One of his arguments is that the separation of powers prevents state and federal officials from judging official presidential acts. He claims that the 1803 Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison established this precedent.

But “former President Trump misreads Marbury and its progeny,” the three-judge panel said in

Republicans say Trump had every right to try to steal the presidency via insurrection.

As officials across the country consider whether to bar former President Donald J. Trump from the ballot over his role in the events of Jan. 6, 2021, a contingent of House Republicans are trying to bolster his claim that he did nothing wrong.

More than 60 Republicans — led by Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida and Representative Elise Stefanik of New York — said Tuesday they had signed onto a resolution declaring that Mr. Trump “did not engage in insurrection.”

Babes we all saw him do it; he did it on live tv.… Read the rest

Pushing gay men to be inclooosive of women who call themselves men: peak progressiviosity.

Generations of gay men were taught to be ashamed of desiring male bodies specifically – and now @LNER is pushing its own version of this old homophobia. A 'non-cisgendered gay man'? That's a woman. We know the difference and we are not ashamed to state it. pic.twitter.com/xNVRq977E6

— Jonny Best (@JonnyWorst) February 6, 2024

[Mimsy voice] “This version has different shades of green and blue to include non cisgender gay men.”

Well dudes whatcha waitin for?… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Seanna Watson on Mandatory Xianity.

Canada still has one too:

The purpose of the National Prayer Breakfast is to unite leaders in our capital in order to pray together, build relationships, and seek to walk together in the spirit of Jesus Christ. The National Prayer Breakfast is an annual Christian event and is historically offered under the auspices of the Speaker of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Commons on behalf of the Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast Group.

It’s also sponsored by the Canadian Fellowship Foundation, which appears to be related to the US group of the same name (though details are sparse, and I occasionally have wondered if Sharlet might know … Read the rest

Khadija Khan at the Freethinker:

The culture of intolerance that has grown over time in the UK has undermined the ethos of British schools. As Islamist zealots grow stronger in influence in our society, a number of schools known for their secular, inclusive and apolitical approach, such as St Stephen’s Primary School, Parkfield Community School, Batley Grammar School, Kettlethorpe High School, and Barclay Primary School, have been caving in to their demands one after the other.

There has been an attempt by Muslim fundamentalists in the UK to politicise educational institutions, in order to gain clout in [the] social and political sphere.  And now these nefarious elements have come out in force to assert their intolerant

Good news but with a catch.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected former President Donald J. Trump’s claim that he was immune to charges of plotting to subvert the results of the 2020 election, ruling that he must go to trial on a criminal indictment accusing him of seeking to overturn his loss to President Biden.

We should damn well hope so. But he’ll just take it to the Supremes and they’ll roll over for him.

The unanimous ruling, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, handed Mr. Trump a significant defeat. But it was unlikely to be the final word on his claims of executive immunity: Mr. Trump,

Another win.

More from The Courier:

A campaign group controversially excluded from Dundee Women’s Festival is now being invited to take part in the programme.

Women Won’t Wheesht, a grassroots women’s rights organisation in Scotland, heard on Monday from solicitors acting on behalf of the festival to confirm their inclusion.

The climbdown comes after the group claimed it would consider legal action after being told by festival organisers last month that their application had been rejected.

It’s so inspiring when feminist women are excluded from women’s events because they’re not sufficiently deferential to men who pretend to be women.

Last year, the Stand Comedy Club in Edinburgh reversed a decision to cancel a fringe event with SNP politician

The BBC squeals:

Royal Court play Cowbois aims to put ‘trans joy’ centre stage

Surely that should be joi?

A Royal Court play aims to bring trans stories to a new audience in London with an LGBTQ+ take on the Wild West.

Which is it? Trans, or LGBTQ+? Trans, apparently, so why does the BBC call it LGBTQ+?

I suppose we know why. They do it to further the campaign to force-team the LG with the T. Why that’s part of the BBC’s job is a mystery too profound for me to solve.

The producers of Cowbois say the play, first seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company, is for everyone but particularly those less familiar with trans identities.

Writer Charlie

BBC reports excitedly on another installment of Mock Women:

The first Derbyshire Drag Showcase has been announced.

The event, which is being held at Derby’s Museum of Making, has been set up to support Derby and Derbyshire’s drag scene and local LGBTQ+ performers.

We get not one not two but three glam photos of men in exaggerated womanface. Next up: the BBC reporting giddily on a minstrel show, with three photos of people in exaggerated blackface. Right? That’s going to happen, isn’t it?

Mr Webber explained why the museum was the place of choice for the first-ever drag showcase the county has had to offer.

“We fully appreciate that drag is an art form and it’s all about making,

Apparently there’s an epidemic of women not being kind enough, so the manufacturers of T shirts for women and girls are stepping up to fix the problem. Julie Burchill has the details:

We may no longer accept the old saw, ‘boys will be boys’, as an excuse for everything from arson to zoophilia. But the icky trend for ‘be kind’ clothing is aimed squarely at one sex. As the social commentator, Laura Bishop, tells me: ‘While shopping for my kids I noticed that there are so many items of clothing which say “be kind”. They are all in the girls’ and women’s section. Every. Single. One. It’s like indoctrination.’

Indoctrination into what?

Submission. Self-abnegation. Putting up with whatever is … Read the rest

“Gender studies” academic Susan M. Shaw muddies the waters:

We don’t really have much research-based evidence to say definitively that trans women have a disproportionate advantage in sports. Right now, we’re mostly working out of our deeply-held and rather largely unexamined assumptions about biology and gender.

We do have much research-based evidence to say definitively that men have a disproportionate advantage in sports, and that’s all that’s required.

We could live in a different world. We could live in a world where male advantages simply evaporated the instant the man says “I’m a woman.” But we don’t live in that world. Multiple male advantages are baked in, and don’t go away even for men who take cross-sex hormones.

As

Aw look at Colin “Katy” Montgomerie bullying a teenage girl.

The 95+ replies are…acerbic.… Read the rest

We still have “National Prayer Breakfast.” In the government. FFRF tells us:

The Freedom From Religion Foundation reiterates its disapproval of the National Prayer Breakfast held today, including President Biden’s involvement, the U.S. Capitol venue and the overarching Christian message.

The 71st annual event, although technically private, had an even stronger appearance this year of being sponsored by the federal government because it took place for the first time in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Historically, when under the open sponsorship of the Fellowship, a shadowy Christian nationalist group, the main event took place at a hotel.

Steps, innit. Start out in private and inch your way into the god damn Capitol building.

There was reading from scripture,