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 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.
— Daniel Sugarman (@Daniel_Sugarman) March 10, 2024
Oh dear, Willz is feeling let down by the police, who are after all there to do the bidding of angry men.
https://twitter.com/Phoebe2403/status/1766837214795759959… Read the restSarah Ditum takes a chainsaw to Judith Butler’s new book:
… Read the restWho’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.
… Read the restWith 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
Chapter 2:
Please find our response: pic.twitter.com/G3AwbDI89q
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) March 9, 2024
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
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.
… Read the restIf 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.
… Read the restGender-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 the restRead 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.
… Read the restNorthumbria 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.
… Read the restOn Sunday, Rowling posted a
It’s so inspiring to watch people going out of their way to insult women because it’s International Women’s Day.
https://twitter.com/AyrshireGreens/status/1766089658285293740… Read the restRapey Don has finally had to pony up some cash.
… Read the restDonald Trump has posted a $91.6m (£71m) bond as he appeals against the verdict in E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him. A jury in January found Mr Trump owed the former columnist millions of dollars for defamation when he denied he sexually assaulted her.
A judge had rejected the former president’s request for more time to secure a bond to cover the penalty…In this year’s trial, the jury found Mr Trump liable of defamation for lying about the assault in 2019, and in January he was ordered to pay her $83.3m, much of it in punitive damages.
Judge Kaplan made the verdict official in February and gave Mr
This time the painting wasn’t protected by a glass screen.
A portrait of Lord Balfour, the former prime minister, at the University of Cambridge has been damaged by a pro-Palestinian protester.
In video posted on social media by Palestine Action, a member of the group is seen spray-painting and slashing the portrait at Trinity College. A woman can be seen defacing the work with red paint before slicing the canvas with a sharp object.
She didn’t “damage” the portrait, she destroyed it. She slashed it into shreds.
The good news is it wasn’t a Rembrandt or similar, but still, let’s be accurate.
… Read the restBalfour was one of the chief supporters of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, cemented by
It’s International Women’s Day so the Oxford Mail observes it with…
Retired Oxford soldier, 87, among UK’s oldest trans women | Oxford Mail
Dee Hawley lived as David for most of her life before finally coming out as trans in her late 70s.
She has since undergone breast implant surgery but has so far held back on full reassignment surgery.
Before coming out as trans, the dad-of-three lived in Oxford with her wife of 62 years, before moving to Moseley in Birmingham.
So obviously he’s exactly the right person to chat with on International Women’s Day.… Read the rest
Sleb hilarity.
FUCK OFF! https://t.co/eskY1mODXt
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) March 8, 2024
Fuck off! https://t.co/eskY1mODXt
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) March 8, 2024
Fuck off! https://t.co/eskY1mODXt
— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) March 8, 2024
Powerful arguments, you have to admit.… Read the rest
