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Profiles in preciousness

Jan 8th, 2024 2:39 pm | By

Quite a startling assertion, in a piece that’s not even about trans ideology.

…my experience of an all-girls’ school, followed by twice as long as a trustee of a prison charity, informed a lot of my politics, including why I became a transgender ally. Before I had thought seriously about trans rights, and the immeasurable preciousness of any human being with the courage to live their most meaningful and truthful life…

What???

So Zoe Williams is saying that trans people, as such, just because they are trans people, are immeasurably precious because they have “the courage to live their most meaningful and truthful life”?

There’s so much that’s absurd about that. Where to begin?

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Implemented under the radar

Jan 8th, 2024 11:34 am | By

They’re already doing it.

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Sure boys, go right ahead

Jan 8th, 2024 11:26 am | By

Women’s Rights Network reports:

In December 2021, the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) approved a policy paper proposing that officers be permitted to strip and even intimately search suspects of the opposite sex if the officer self-identified as the same “gender” as the person being searched.

In other words male cops can grope female suspects if the male cops claim to be women.

The policy – which has been accepted and is now being implemented by the majority of police forces across the country – does not refer to the protected characteristic of sex. Instead, it proposes that self-identified “gender” [be] used in place of sex in contravention of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE). PACE states

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More dead women please

Jan 8th, 2024 10:29 am | By

Idaho wants to see women killed by their own pregnancies.

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to Idaho’s near-total ban on abortions, which the Biden administration said conflicted with a federal statute that allowed for some exceptions. In scheduling arguments for April, the court also temporarily revived the law, which had been partly blocked by a federal trial judge.

President Biden criticized the court’s action. “Today’s Supreme Court order allows Idaho’s extreme abortion ban to go back into effect and denies women critical emergency abortion care required by federal law,” he said in a statement.

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Vile n horrific

Jan 8th, 2024 7:57 am | By

Man cheats woman in sport, BBC weeps crocodile tears for the man.

A transgender pool champion says she received “vile” and “horrific” abuse online after her opponent refused to play her in a final.

That’s their lede. Not “Man insists on competing against woman in pool final” but “Man receives vile horrific abuse for cheating woman in a final.”

Why does he automatically matter more than she does? Why is fairness to her less important than his feefees? Why does he get to cheat in the first place?

Lynne Pinches conceded the Women’s Champion of Champions tournament to Harriet Haynes in Prestatyn.

Pinches said she did it out of “fairness”, claiming male-born players who identify as women have a

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Far beyond

Jan 7th, 2024 10:13 am | By

Comerford is considering legal action. I know what that’s like. I consider a lot of things. I don’t do them, I just consider them.

https://twitter.com/TheVikingDane/status/1744046591931982300

Nonsense. Comerford is dim-witted. He parades this fact about himself regularly. He’s not sharp. He’s not a thinker. He’s not good at argument. He’s not even bright enough to realize this very tweet is not going to work out well for him.… Read the rest



No place to hide

Jan 7th, 2024 9:32 am | By

Cruel and unusual punishment

A mother-of-four claims she pleaded guilty to a crime she didn’t commit to avoid returning to a prison that housed two [male] trans inmates locked up for murder and sex assault, MailOnline can reveal.

Amanda Benson, 42, from Inverkip, Scotland, was imprisoned on remand at HMP Greenock with the two trans women – murderer Alex Stewart, 34, and sexual assaulter Laura Miller, 30.

They haven’t had any surgeries or “gender-affirming” hormones, she says.

Stewart – previously known as Alan Baker – was jailed for 19 years for stabbing father-of-two John Weir, 36, to death after they met on a dating site. The trans prisoner reportedly started dating a female child killer in HMP Greenock in

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Oh go appropriate yourself

Jan 7th, 2024 7:18 am | By

No you’re inappropriate.

A civil servant was told by a Whitehall investigator that it was inappropriate to say there are two sides to the trans debate.

On March 11 2021, civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions met online for an International Women’s Day event entitled “What trans is and some of the issues faced”. The call, in which officials were encouraged to submit written questions in an online chat, featured a transgender woman civil servant discussing issues faced by trans people in the UK.

In other words the civil service summoned a man to talk about himself for an International Women’s Day event. As if that’s not insulting enough by itself, what he talked about … Read the rest



Texts can do whatever they like

Jan 7th, 2024 6:30 am | By

Hey kids, people swap sexes in myths and fairy tales, therefore it’s totally possible for people to swap sexes in real life. People can fly in myths and fairy tales, therefore etc. Animals can talk in myths and fairy tales, therefore etc. There’s no end to the possibilities!

University of Tennessee religious studies academic has the skinny:

State legislatures across the United States have introduced over 400 bills to limit transgender Americans’ rights. Many of these bills’ sponsors, such as the Christian nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom, cite Christian values as well as the values of the other Abrahamic faiths – Judaism and Islam – to justify their anti-trans positions.

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Guest post: Now it’s a numbers game

Jan 6th, 2024 5:03 pm | By

Originally a comment by Sastra on Once and for all.

If you’re going to make an argument which ought to rest on truth and principle, slipping in “it doesn’t happen a lot” is a fatal flaw. It tacitly admits that the truth and principles behind what you’re advocating are weak.

If we think the authorities in Iran should stop punishing women for not wearing a hijab, reassuring them that they can repeal the law because don’t worry, most of the women in Iran will dress properly and they’ll hardly even notice the ones who don’t undercuts women’s freedom from constraint. Now it’s a numbers game. How many women flaunting their uncovered heads should it take for the modesty laws … Read the rest



Guest post: Follow the money

Jan 6th, 2024 4:53 pm | By

Originally a comment by NightCrow on Once and for all.

From Wikipedia, s.v. National Women’s Law Center, citing annual reports from 2013–2016:

The organization receives financial support from a variety of institutions aligned on women’s rights policies. This includes … reproductive health organizations, and pharmaceutical companies. Notable donors are Bayer, … Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), … among others.

For some reason, the latest annual report made public by NWLC is the one for 2015– 2016, which can be found linked from this page.

I note that Bayer Pharmaceuticals is in the list of donors who gave $100,000 and above. One of their products, Androcur, is a hormone medication used as a feminizing treatment for … Read the rest



Once and for all

Jan 6th, 2024 11:59 am | By

A month ago the National Women’s Law Center announced:

Once and For All: This Is Why We Support Trans Women and Girls in Sports

It’s a nice touch, that “once and for all” – like a fed-up parent to a whiny child persistently demanding ice cream right before dinner. They frame themselves as the adults and feminists who know that men are not women as bratty stubborn won’t shut up toddlers.

In this blog, we are going to debunk—once and for all—some of the biggest lies we’ve been force fed by fake feminists.  

Lies? Force fed? Fake?

This is, remember, the National Women’s Law Center, yet they talk to us like this.

Lie #1: Trans women have an unfair advantage

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“Queer Britain said we could”

Jan 6th, 2024 11:31 am | By

When even the Post Office is on the TQ train…

The Post Office has defended its use of the word “queer”  following an outcry from activists.

Responding to criticisms about its use of the term, the Post Office wrote online: “Allow us to educate. ‘Queer’ can be used as an umbrella term for those who do not identify as heterosexual or straight. It can mean many different things to people but is a way of uniting those to identify as their authentic self.”

Nope not gonna allow you to “educate,” you patronizing clueless gits.

The critics said the word was a hateful slur often used by violent homophobes.

They added that the Post Office wouldn’t “dream” of advocating use

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Divoosidee

Jan 6th, 2024 9:58 am | By

Womb-renting dressed up as “diversity” and “choice”:

https://twitter.com/MidwivesRCM/status/1742879553133920504

Surrogacy isn’t “diversity” in the touchy-feely pwogwessive way they want us to think. It’s different, but it ain’t progressive.

Replies are harsh.

The Royal College of Midwives piece is creepy as fuck.

My Surrogacy Journey (MSJ) bring this webinar to raise awareness for all healthcare professionals involved in maternity services.

But it’s not “maternity” services; it’s rent-a-womb services.

Michael and Wes, the co-founders of MSJ, will be sharing their experiences of maternity services and their pathway to parenthood, focussing on both the difference that high quality, equitable care from midwives can make, and the harmful impact poor, stigmatised care can have on a surrogate and intended parents.

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Scabs

Jan 6th, 2024 9:18 am | By

It’s the National WOMEN’S Law Center…but now it systematically hides that filthy word.

No, it won’t force “people” to wait until they’re on the brink of death, it will force WOMEN to do that.

If you treat the word “women” as an obscenity then get out. Go set up your own group; get out of any group that was set up as and has always been a group for and about and by women. If you … Read the rest



No capitch

Jan 6th, 2024 8:31 am | By

Who does Aidan Comerford think he is??

Bev of course is not doing any such thing, and many people are swapping their current headers for the one Comerford objects to. Neener neener bully-boy.… Read the rest



Guest post: Extremely opposed to this idea that I should never be disturbed

Jan 6th, 2024 8:16 am | By

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on Everyone is on the same level.

A part of me agrees with having singular standards. I’d quite like it if Konstantin Kisin gave it a bash.

You see the standard I have is that one shouldn’t take what someone says in a specific context completely out of that context in order to demonize them.

And that appears to me to be what is happening to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy here.

To put what she is saying into context, her filmography includes A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. It is about a girl who survived an attempted honor killing by her father and uncle, only for the Pakistani public to pressure … Read the rest



Out of 336 million people God chose

Jan 5th, 2024 5:32 pm | By

Listen listen listen it turns out that Trump is all God’s idea. Makes sense.

Polls show that a large percentage of Trump supporters believe that God personally picked the twice-impeached, thrice-married, four-time-indicted former president to lead the United States — and Trump himself is now encouraging that belief.

Sure; why wouldn’t that be true? Naturally a god would pick an ignorant greedy mean lazy corrupt sadistic empty suit to take the top job in a nuclear-armed nation with a history of reckless adventures.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump promoted a video that flat-out declared that “God gave us Trump” as His personal representative to lead the United States of America.

Among other things, the

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Everyone is on the same level

Jan 5th, 2024 4:40 pm | By

That’s a very very very intelligent thing to say:

“If you can’t say it about women, you shouldn’t be able to say it about men without the same repercussions.”

So, you can’t talk about rape. You can’t say that women rape women because women aren’t equipped to rape women, and therefore you can’t say that men rape women, even though men are equipped to rape women and, as a sex, have a long history of raping women. What a handy way to shut women … Read the rest



Roya Heshmati

Jan 5th, 2024 11:53 am | By
Roya Heshmati https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1743319821284954559

Showing the more:

A young woman named Roya Heshmati shared her horrific ordeal of receiving 74 lashes for refusing to cover her hair. Despite her punishment, she remained defiant, refusing to wear the hijab during and after her lashing. Singing courageously, “In the name of women, in the name of life, the chains of slavery have been torn apart.” At the same time, Taliban arrested women of Afghanistan for “bad hijab”.

I call on all women across the globe to condemn this barbaric laws, and show their solidarity with the women of Iran and Afghanistan, who are suffering under the Taliban and Islamic Republic.

This is 21st century, and we need global unity to END gender apartheid regimes.

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