What I don’t get is, why do people feel so happy to talk about themselves endlessly like this? It makes me cringe with embarrassment just to watch it – I can’t begin to imagine actually doing it.

Mind like a steel trap:

…the miracle of magnets still appears to stump some people, including Donald Trump.

At a recent rally in Mason City, Iowa, the former president went on a rant about the [fragility] of magnets while complaining about the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.

Simply put: The ship has an electromagnetic aircraft launch system that relies on very large magnets.

“They had a $900 million cost over on these stupid electric catapults that didn’t work. They had almost a billion dollar cost over on the magnetic elevators,” he said. “Think of it, magnets. Now all I know about magnets is this: Give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s

The SNP doesn’t mess around:

Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”.

Proposals published on Tuesday state that actions designed to “change or suppress” another individual’s gender identity, causing them physical or psychological harm, would become illegal under the radical law.

SNP ministers acknowledged that so-called conversion practices often took place in a “family setting”, raising the prospect that parents could be criminalised if they refuse to go along with their child’s declaration that they are transgender.

You mean if they refuse to agree that their son is a daughter or their daughter is a son.

The fact that parents are … Read the rest

A few weeks ago:

But that’s not inclusive and fair. That’s the whole point. It’s not fair to women. Women are people too. Please make a note of it.

Also how the fuck does that “reduce administrative complexities for all athletes”?… Read the rest

Forced teaming in journalism:

A public consultation is under way on planned laws to ban conversion therapy for sexuality or gender in Scotland.

Sexuality and “gender” [i.e. gender ideology] are two different things and should not be discussed as a pair.

The proposed ban has raised concerns from those who fear attempts to counsel people struggling with their identity could be seen as conversion therapy.

Conversion therapy refers to practices “aiming to change or supress a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity”.

Only because captured news outlets like the BBC keep shoving them together. Conversion therapy for sexual orientation has nothing to do with awareness that people can’t change sex.

During a visit to LGBT Health and Wellbeing

Ah they’ve noticed.

Yes, it could, and yes, it is, and we’ve been dealing with that for years now. Feminist women who don’t believe in magic gender have been monstered, punished, ostracized, expelled, called Nazis and cunts and all the rest of it.… Read the rest

Ok then.

Social worker Rachel Meade has won her case against and Westminster City Council and Social Work England.

A hearing has been scheduled on 12 – 13 Feb 2024 on financial compensation if the parties can't resolve the remedy between themselves.#OpenJusticehttps://t.co/lChtcrWdcf pic.twitter.com/xwUW66aQhR

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) January 9, 2024

The Claimant's solicitors note this is a landmark decision. "It is the first time a Regulator and an Employer have together been found to have been liable for discrimination relating to gender critical beliefs." https://t.co/fbSnqNWIo6

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) January 9, 2024

Here's my favourite excerpt from the decision. A poke in the eye to those whine 'its not the belief, its the manifestation of the belief'. pic.twitter.com/xzrwQDkoys

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?

One, are trans people the … Read the rest

They’re already doing it.

Following a lengthy campaign of letters, emails and FoI Act requests, we know that 35 out of 47 forces have ALREADY IMPLEMENTED or will implement the policy.
Check the status of YOUR force in our report. #StateSanctionedSexualAssault
2/7 pic.twitter.com/J4rkAMrsvz

— Women's Rights Network – WRN (@WomensRightsNet) January 8, 2024

This decision was taken to make policing more attractive as a career to ‘transgender individuals’.

What about women?
No women’s groups were apparently consulted either at national or individual force level regarding this policy.

Why don’t we matter @PoliceChiefs @AssocPCCs?… pic.twitter.com/3U6grTid0c

— Women's Rights Network – WRN (@WomensRightsNet) January 8, 2024

Their Equality Impact Assessment is a sham. A shocking derogation of their public sector equality

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

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.

It’s not even as if the woman’s death will mean the fetus will survive. The fetus will die … Read the rest

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

But of course she doesn’t pause to tell us … Read the rest

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

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

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

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