This isn’t three stoned kids in a garage, this is a government. It says so right in the lede.

The SNP government has claimed there are 24 different genders.

In official guidance, the devolved administration clarified a list of two dozen terms it said the gender identity of members of the public could be recorded [as?] by public bodies.

Just two dozen, eh? You know there will be people wanting new ones added to the list, and pitching fits if anyone tells them no.

Ok let’s have a look.

The 24 genders

Cisgender

Trans man

Trans woman

Non-Binary

Trans – not otherwise specified

Agender

Trans masculine

Trans feminine

Genderfluid

Genderqueer

Questioning

Intersex

Assigned female at birth – not specified

Assigned male at birth – not specified

Pangender

Bigender

Autigender

Androgynous

Gender non-conforming

Detransitioned

Neutral

Demigender – female

Demigender – male

Demigender – not otherwise specified

So, most of this profundity is just cheating – just different names for the same (silly and non-existent) thing. The rest of it is just making shit up. It’s all making shit up, with not a whole lot of difference among the kinds of shit.

What stumps me is why adults are humiliating themselves this way. The kids are still going to think you’re a boring old dinosaur who doesn’t know anything, so it’s really not worth making a fool of yourself trying to keep up with their religion.

“Data collection by public bodies should serve a clear function,” Dr Kath Murray, part of the MurrayBlackburnMackenzie policy analysis group, said. “It is not a validation exercise.

“It is difficult to see why any public body would spend resources classifying data on trans status into multiple subjective subcategories, many of which are circular, hard to understand, and/or contested.

“It is particularly surprising that the government guidance lists ‘intersex’ as a gender identity, and refers to ‘cisgender’ as an identity subcategory, a term that many people find offensive.”

Offensive and stupid.

Reduxx reports:

The father of a transgender athlete has been sentenced to 60 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Marc Jacques, the father of Maelle Jacques, cited his son’s transgender identity and his own advocacy for transgender rights in his letter to the court requesting a non-custodial sentence.

Why, on earth, would either of those (let alone both) be reasons not to lock him up? There are reasons to question the usefulness of custodial sentences in general, but how in hell does his son’s trans idenniny equal a reason to be lenient to him in particular?

More the other way around, I would think.

Maelle Jacques, 16, is a trans-identified boy who has become a controversial athlete at Kearsarge Regional High School for advocating for the elimination of female-only sports. In April, Maelle testified at the New Hampshire state legislature in opposition to a bill seeking to prohibit males from self-identifying into women’s sports.

In short he’s a determined enemy of female people. I’m not seeing how that’s a reason not to put Daddy in a cell.

Another character reference was provided by Dr. Elizabeth Counselman-Carpenter, a professor of social work at Adelphi University, who, like Maelle and Remi, pointed out that Jacques was a “committed member of his community and LGBTQIA+ activist” in her argument against a custodial sentence.

Which communinny? The child pornography one?

A pearl beyond compare. 59-year-old man simpers in a short red party dress that would look bizarre on a woman half his age, and questions the queenliness of someone who is not a 59-year-old man in a short red party dress.

Brilliant. Take Back the Night warbles about how incloooosive it is, meaning it inclooods men. Just fucking brilliant: resist rape culture by pretending men are women.

“All women are welcome – we are a trans-inclusive march.” By “all women” they of course mean “including men who say they are women.” Take back the night and then hand it over to men.

Trump’s new message is Oooh Big Dick.

Donald Trump’s campaign suggested he would begin previewing his closing argument Saturday night with Election Day barely two weeks away. But the former president kicked off his rally with a detailed story about Arnold Palmer, at one point even praising the late, legendary golfer’s genitalia.

Re-write: Trump’s campaign was silly enough to claim he would be making an “argument” at his rally last night, but instead he drooled about a golfer’s Yoooje junk.

“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women,” Trump said. “This is a guy that was all man.”

By “all due respect” he of course means zero respect. Trump thinks women are due no respect at all.

“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”

Because they’d all seen his Big Dick?

Trump eventually hit many of his favorite campaign themes but didn’t offer much in the way of new framing of the race or why he should win it. He instead boasted of creating strong tax policies and a strong military during his first term in office.

He slammed Harris as “crazy” and added a profanity.

“You have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore, we can’t stand you anymore, you’re a shit vice president,” Trump said to roars of the crowd. “The worst. You’re the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired. Get the hell out of here.”

That’s his way of demonstrating his Big Dick.

Trump praised the raucous crowd, which was outside and at an airport, but also made a point of suggesting that there was more conspicuous security around him following two assassination attempts, saying, “They give you a little extra security nowadays, you notice?”

“I got more machine guns than I’ve ever seen — look at these guys,” he said referring to security. He was interrupted by cries from the crowd of “USA! USA!” before continuing, “We’ve got more guys, and every one of them is like central casting too, holy shit.”

Then he tied it back to Latrobe’s native son, adding, “They look like Arnold. Can’t look better than Arnold.”

Did they all have Big Dicks? Did he check?

Trump is trying to rewrite his attempted coup.

Donald J. Trump on Friday tried to revise the history of the deadly attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, as new details in the federal prosecution against him were made public by the judge in the case.

His attempt to recast the events of Jan. 6, 2021, came on the same day that he compared his supporters who were arrested, convicted and imprisoned for their actions at the Capitol to the victims of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II. And it followed a recent remark in which Mr. Trump declared Jan. 6 a day of “love.”

It says something about this country that it hasn’t been possible to imprison him for the coup or even to stop him running again after inciting a violent insurrection. It makes me want to puke.

Earlier on Friday, on a podcast hosted by the conservative media figure Dan Bongino, Mr. Trump lamented how those arrested in connection with the attack have been treated.

“Why are they still being held?” Mr. Trump told Mr. Bongino. “Nobody’s ever been treated like this. Maybe the Japanese during the Second World War, frankly. They were held, too.”

Japanese-Americans during World War 2 had done nothing wrong, and were imprisoned because they were seen as “alien” in a way German-Americans were not, in other words because of blatant racism. Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor did not go to the US Capitol and try to force their way in and attack legislators. Trump’s violent fans did, after he gave a speech encouraging them (without quite explicitly spelling it out) to do so.

When in doubt, go full Mermaids!

The NHS has been accused of ignoring the Cass review recommendations on transgender care for children. Dr Hilary Cass’s report advised that under-18s should not be rushed into treatment which they may later regret following concerns about care at the Tavistock clinic. However, a new NHS centre has snubbed the Cass review in favour of discredited transgender guidance that promotes both puberty blockers and surgery without age limits.

Well which is more important, following the hot new trend or letting children grow up without mutilations?

The Nottingham Young People’s Gender Service was founded in April to give psychological and social support to children with gender dysphoria who were former Tavistock patients and are currently taking or waiting to start puberty blockers.

In a job advertisement for a clinical psychologist position, the centre says it is “essential” to “practice [sic] in a gender affirming manner in line with” guidance from the controversial World Professional Association of Transgender Healthcare (WPATH).

What if WPATH is wrong? What if the whole idea of “affirming gender” is just a fad? What if it’s as medically sound as lobotomies or female genital mutilation?

Pre-emptive censorship again. Cancel yourself before someone does it for you.

A documentary that lifts the lid on a “race science” network of far-right activists in Britain and its links to a rich American funder of eugenics research has been pulled from the London Film Festival (LFF) at the last minute due to safety concerns.

The organisers have taken the “heartbreaking decision” to cancel the planned screening of the “exceptional” Undercover: Exposing the Far Right this weekend due to fears about the welfare of the staff and security working in the festival venues.

Thus sending a message that merely threatening to make a stink will inspire the people in charge to cancel everything just to be on the safe side.

Havana Marking, the director of the film – which made headlines last week for identifying the backer of research into so-called race science and highlighting the racist views of former London mayoral candidate Nick Scanlon – has criticised the decision to pull the premiere as “a very unfortunate outcome”.

“I understand the festival need to look after their staff, but I am furious that our film has lost a planned theatrical release so late in the day,” she said. “We were told the LFF felt they could not show it due to security issues. I do feel, though, that the power of the far right is exaggerated, although their influence is clearly dangerous.”

Erring on the side of cancelation sends the message that mere shouting can get panicky organizers and publishers and universities to shut everything down.

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Always wrong.

I’m quite amazed that Trump’s rhetoric appears to be working with many people. But then again, I can kind of understand why it’s striking a chord.

For example, I had a long conversation with a MAGA guy last night. A former liberal, so he says, and I believe him, this being solidly left Toronto. But now he’s on the right and he’s buying it all: war will go away if Trump gets elected, the culture war “craziness” will die down, and — this is what surprised me the most — Trump will thwart the billionaire global elites’ sinister plot to… do something or other… something something immigrants.

And then, with a shift in his tone, as if testing me, he asked me point blank what I thought about “trans in sports.” And I told him. Suddenly we were on the same page, and he could trust me and open up to me.

But as I really listened to him, I came to see that his real anxieties are that he feels deeply distrustful of the legacy media after having discovered that so many things he was told were lies, and he’s resentful at his liberal friends for attacking him whenever he revealed even the slightest disagreement with the liberal message of the day. He talked of being scolded and unfriended on Facebook… and he talked of seeing outright lies in the headlines, to the point that he abandoned the legacy media altogether. I sense his extreme views reflect a reaction against the left and the media, but taken to extremes, to match the extreme sting of anger he feels at the betrayal — a retaliation mindset, as Adam Gopnik put it in the New Yorker:

We are frightened and we are angry; we look to expert intervention for the fears, and to comic but effective-seeming figures for retaliation against the experts who disappoint us.

Comic but effective-seeming figures, like his cinematic hero (as he told me), the Joker.

From the sound of it, now he gets all his news from alt-bro podcasters, and much of it is way more conspiracy-fringe-extreme than I had even imagined was going on over in Rogan-world.

It’s telling that he started opening up to me only after he asked me about trans in sports. Ah-ha. Just as I’ve increasingly suspected: the gender mess is the gateway to the far right. It offers unambiguous proof that the legacy media are liars and that the alt-bros are trustworthy. From there, it’s a short walk to “Trump will save us” and then “Ukraine must be given to Russia.” It always leads to Putin in the end, because, as the Department of Justice has revealed, Putin is the one financing the alt-right bro mediasphere.

And then, with a shift in my tone, I made it clear that I think Putin is a monster, a thief, a thug, and a murderer. The spell was broken, and the conversation cooled and died off.

The far right hooked him with trans, and he’s theirs now. I don’t think we’re getting him back.

First of all, the headline is nonsensical.

Trans teachers must be allowed to use same showers as female colleagues, schools told

Trans teachers are people who call themselves teachers but have no training and don’t teach?

Or, “trans teachers” are males and females?

No, neither of those. They mean, of course, male teachers who claim to be women.

The lede also gets it wrong:

Trans teachers must be allowed to use the same showers and lavatories as female colleagues, schools have been told.

The second paragraph gets it right.

Training from the National Governance Association (NGA) tells governors that staff should be given access to the bathroom “available to other members of their newly acquired gender”.

There you go. It’s not “all trans people go in with the women”; it’s trans people go in with the people whose sex they pretend to be. Tangled, to be sure, but that’s because the whole idea is tangled.

Anyway, the point is, yet another pack of fools is saying men should be given access to women’s spaces no matter how vulnerable that makes the women, because men who claim to be women get to do whatever they want all the time.

The advice, seen by The Telegraph, goes on to suggest that requiring transgender people to use a disabled toilet instead of making reasonable adjustments “is not lawful or good practice”.

It reads: “Employees who have undergone gender reassignment or who are transgender must be supported to use all toilets and shower facilities which are available to other members of their newly acquired gender. Requiring transgendered people to use disabled toilet facilities instead of making reasonable adjustments is not lawful or good practice.”

See? There it is: trans people get to do whatever they want all the time. Trans people matter; women do not.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A disgrace to the name of Sherlock.

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female,….the reality is that there are a small number of people, but a real number of people, who believe they’re born in the wrong body, believe that they don’t fit into the male-female definition.”

But bodies are only male or female. Even if you’re born into the “wrong” body, even if that was a real phenomenon, that “wrong” body is still either a male one or a female one. There are no other sexes. That trapped entity has no impact on the cells and tissues making up the body within which it is trapped. “Gender identity” can’t change that. “Feelings” and “belief” can’t change that. This is another example where sex and gender are conflated and confused for tactical advantage. If it is advantageous to distinguish the two, they will do so, without worrying themselves over having mashed them together moments before. Firm, consistant definitions spoil their ability to play this game, which is one of the reasons they avoid any careful examination of the actual bases for the supposed phenomena upon which they claim to ground their demands. Yet you’d think that they would want to have clear definitions of transness in order to filter out those who won’t benefit from treatment. They should be the ones most interested in filtering out disphoric children who will desist as they go through puberty, and to prevent needless detransitioning. If you claim in retrospect that some people who transition were never really “trans” to begin with, what does that tell us about the standards for screening, and how do you know that anybody is trans? Without research findings that answer these vital questions, “gender affirming treatment” is nothing more than the recruitment of dedicated footsoldiers who are less likely to leave because of the sunk cost fallacy, because they have sacrificed their very flesh, and mental health for the Cause. Any method that could reliably determine exactly which disphoric people would not benefit from “gender-affirming medicine” might well show that nobody does.

We’re back to an undeclared (but fluid, on-again, off-again) Cartesian dualism, and the failure to explain how the “Mental substance” of the mind interacts with the “Material substance” of the body, or the Catholic inability to explain in real-world terms what the difference is between consecrated and unconsecrated Communion wafers, and what skill an ordained priest has learned in order to make that change happen. The unevidenced, faith-based concept of “gender identity” fits right in with these carefully unexamined metaphysical bedfellows.

Golly.

At four minutes she says “If your concern is that men will attack women, then we’re talking about men attacking women, and by subterfuge trying to get in.”

Uh, yes. Of course that’s what we’re talking about. It always has been.

Oh oh oh but some trans women really do idennify as women, and they’re not there to attack women at all, and if you think they are, you’re transphobic, and you lose and we win so ha.

Also why are her arms so short? She’s barely able to clap them, which is sad because she keeps trying to. (I know that’s a mean question but then she’s being pretty mean to half of all humans, so there’s that.)

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female, and I think if any of us with lived life experience in this house can recognize that while our world is still very much built around binary male female order of things the reality is that there are a small number of people, but a real number of people, who believe they’re born in the wrong body, believe that they don’t fit into the male-female definition.”

Yes of course there are people who believe that, but they’re wrong. There are people who believe all kinds of absurd things – real people, who make a real number of people. There are lots of people like that. We know. We don’t dispute that. What we dispute is the jump from that to the claim that what they believe is true.

What we dispute is the claim that because they believe it so passionately, so noisily, so endlessly, so tediously, so ferociously, that somehow that makes it true.

It. doesn’t.

What we dispute is the claim that because they believe it so passionately the rest of us are somehow obliged to agree with them and pretend it’s true.

We. aren’t.

What we dispute is the claim that because they say it so loudly and so often the rest of us are somehow obliged to say it along with them.

We. aren’t.

Trump says Lincoln should have just gotten his act together and negotiated that whole Civil War thing.

It’s not exactly clear what Trump thinks Lincoln should have done to “settle” the dispute between the North and the South, the latter of which seceded from the Union largely because it wanted to keep enslaving people.

The South thought it had a right to keep enslaving people. It’s weird to think that, because what about the rights of the people being enslaved? Why should a purported “right” to enslave outweigh a right to be free, to be not enslaved, to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Elsewhere in Trump’s sit-down with Fox, he claimed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “very much into women’s health,” that Kamala Harris is “a low-IQ person,” and that in a Harris presidency, “you won’t have any cows anymore.”

I don’t have any cows now. Most people don’t have any cows. We don’t have any place to put them, or any need for them if we did have the space, or any desire to milk them.

I generally think the term “virtue signaling” is thrown around too readily, but this one is a bullseye. 100% look at my virtue and be amazed.

Consult them for what purpose? There are only two sexes. Find the one that matches your sex, and walk in. What is there to consult about?

Unless of course he means the symbols. The symbols are idiotic. I’m a woman and yet I have two legs, not one. I’m a woman and yet I walk freely on my two legs instead of standing motionless like a doll on a wedding cake. But that’s nothing to do with transywansy, it’s just everyday sexism.

What the sphinx has to do with it anyone’s guess.

It’s all so mysterious.

Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday that the forfeitures that women’s volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is “not what we celebrate in college athletics” and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surrounding the Spartans and their opponents.

Four teams have canceled games against San Jose State: Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State and Wyoming, with none of the schools explicitly saying why they were forfeiting.

Funnily enough, The Associated Press also doesn’t explicitly say why they’re forfeiting. The AP nowhere admits that the issue is a male player on the San Jose State women’s team.

A group of Nevada players issued a statement saying they would not take the court when the Wolf Pack were scheduled to host the Spartans on Oct. 26. The players cited their “right to safety and fair competition,” though their school reaffirmed Thursday that the match was still planned and that state law bars forfeiture “for reasons related to gender identity or expression.”

State law tells women they can’t refuse to play against men? What a horrific law if so.

“It breaks my heart because they’re human beings, young people, student-athletes on both sides of this issue that are getting a lot of national negative attention,” Nevarez told The Associated Press at Mountain West basketball media days. “It just doesn’t feel right to me.”

Yes, they’re human beings, some of whom are women and some are men. The teams are divided by sex. There’s a women’s team and a men’s team. Men shouldn’t be in the women’s team. San Jose State has a man in the women’s team.

San Jose State coach Todd Kress said playing was his team’s “safe haven” and noted that security and police escorts are now involved when his team takes the court. He has not discussed specific players publicly since the forfeits began.

“I know that it’s definitely taken a toll on many of them. They’re receiving messages of hate, which is completely ridiculous to me,” Kress said in Albuquerque. “Some of those people are the underbelly of society that you attack an 18-, 19-, 20-year-old female. And even more so if you’re a parent and you’re attacking 18-, 19- or 20-year-olds. Would you want your student-athlete, your daughter, to face the same kind of hate that you’re dishing out?”

But he’s not a female. He’s not anyone’s daughter. That’s the point.

So we’ll compromise, we’ll make it unfair to most women but not the ones at the very top. That’s the way to go, right? Split the difference!

Transgender women are to be banned from professional and semi-professional women’s cricket in England – but controversially not from the grass-roots game.

Those nasty smelly peasants who don’t play professional cricket can just suck it up, right? If they’re women that is. Stupid bitches.

Those rules are among the most liberal in sport, allowing anyone identifying as female to play in women’s cricket – subject to written ECB clearance only for “professional club and England pathway teams”.

This has long sparked major concern among women’s rights campaigners about fairness and safety for those born female, including around shared changing facilities.

But women’s rights campaigners are being exclooosionary by campaigning for women’s rights, so we ignore their concern.

Sharron Davies, the British swimming icon denied Olympic gold in 1980 by state-sponsored doping in East Germany, and a leading voice in the trans debate, branded the new policy “a coward’s cop-out”. She added: “If it’s dangerous, unfair and unsafe at professional and semi-professional level, it’s the same at grass-roots or pathways. The ECB can’t say, ‘We’ll protect these females but not these females – because they’re not good enough’. All sport for females should be protected and an open category created, made welcoming of all, no matter how they identify. It’s wilful negligence to pretend biological males and females aren’t physically different.”

Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at human rights charity Sex Matters, said: “The ECB’s decision to include men who identify as women in amateur female competition is a disastrous, two-tier policy that makes no sense. Anyone who has ever played cricket knows that it’s neither fair nor safe for women to face male bowlers and batsmen, yet that is what most amateur female cricketers will have to do if men are included in women’s competition. And they will have no grounds to object.

“The message to women and girls from ECB seems to be that unless you’re a top player, you don’t get fair play. This policy will put promising girls and women off the game before they ever have a chance to progress to elite level, with catastrophic effects on the pipeline of player development. The ECB claims to support the women’s game but its grudging and partial acceptance of the International Cricket Council’s policy to protect the female category signals that male feelings come first.”

As always.

From Reduxx:

Northern Ireland’s Parliament Invites Trans Identified Male To Speak On “Gender-Based Violence” After Spike In Femicide Deaths

A trans-identified male was invited to speak in Northern Ireland’s parliament on “gender-based violence” and “LGBT youth education” following the brutal murders of four women in the country in just six weeks.

Why? Why ask a male when there are nearly a million women in Northern Ireland?

Alexa Moore, a male who identifies as a “woman,” was invited by the education committee this week to speak on an inquiry into relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools. Alongside Moore, Sophie Nelson from HERe NI, a Belfast-based community organization and registered charity for lesbian and bisexual women, also gave evidence.

But during the meeting, Nelson spoke about the recent killings, stating: “We have an epidemic here of gender-based violence and the prevention of this needs to start in school.”

Notably, Moore has previously made controversial social media posts describing women critical of gender ideology as “fascists” for seeking to uphold women’s single-sex spaces.

It’s not fascist for women to want a refuge from dangerous men. It’s a good deal more “fascist” for men to abuse women for wanting spaces away from men.

Oxford Mail reports:

Witney woman accused of threatening to stab teen near Waitrose

A jury has heard that a woman allegedly threatened to stab a teenage boy if he didn’t have sex with her.

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The defendant is accused of threatening a teenage boy, 14, to engage in a sexual activity with her in a wooded area near the Waitrose supermarket in Witan Way.

She allegedly threatening [sic] to stab him if he tried to run away.

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When he started walking back home, a woman sitting on a nearby bench allegedly gestured him over. The boy believed it was a family friend so obliged but soon realised he did not recognise her. Reportedly, Omoruyi encouraged the boy to drink ‘four to five cups’ of alcohol after telling him she was armed and she would ‘stab him’ if he didn’t do what she said such as staying on the bench with her.

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Omoruyi then reportedly sexually assaulted the teen and tried to force him to have sex with her. He told police he had tried but doesn’t ‘remember’ seeing her genitals.

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Omoruyi was arrested and had intimate swabs taken. The prosecuting barrister told the jury that the swabs revealed the defendant is biologically male.

That “revelation” is at the very end of the long multi-paragraph story, or not so much story as pack of lies.

The BBC goes into contortions to avoid saying that it’s only female people who can have pain from menstruation.

A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when teenagers experience period pain and whether it is linked to developing chronic pain in later life.

In what is described as a world first, researchers at the University of Oxford will conduct a trial of 11 to 20-year-olds using a range of tests including MRI scans. Half of the 120 volunteers recruited into the RoADPain project will suffer from period pain and half will not.

It’s just bizarre to word it that way. It’s not generalized “teenagers” or “11 to 20-year-olds” who can have period pain. It’s girls/women. They know that of course, and they carefully don’t say it.

There’s one slip-up.

“I think it’s really important that we take period pain seriously,” she said. “About 30% to 40% of teenagers and young women will have periods that are so painful that they can’t go to work, can’t go to school, can’t do their normal activities.

“If we can reduce the risk of people developing chronic pain in the future, that would be so much easier than trying to treat it once it’s developed.”

Oops, how did that “young women” get in there? How embarrassing.

Dr Coxon said she felt it was time to change the narrative that all period pain is normal.

“Some people do experience period pain that is having a severe impact on their life and us telling them just to get on with it is never going to be helpful,” she said. “And if we keep that narrative going it’s just going to be harmful and lead to much more distrust in the system.”

Sigh.