Where too much inclooosion can take you:

A western Sydney woman who thought she was messaging an underage girl about being a transgender person with “boobs and a c–k”, but was actually messaging undercover police, will remain behind bars.

Not a woman though. Even newspapers won’t tell the truth, even in a story about a man who tried to abuse a young girl.

Tianne Miller, 49, of Greystanes, appeared at Sydney Downing Centre District Court on Thursday after sending a series of sexually explicit messages to investigators in 2020 and 2021.

In July 2020, Child Exploitation Internet Unit detectives caught the widow sending sick messages on Chatiw and Facebook Messenger when she told an identity known as “41” she was 14 and how she intended to engage in sexual activity with her.

He. Mr Miller, age 49, did that.

Cops raided her house at Greystanes on August 14 where they seized an iPhone and laptop. Miller confessed to using Chatiw, sending the photos and that she was speaking to an underage people.

She was granted bail at Fairfield Court on August 15, 2021. The offending continued when she was on bail. The messages became more sick in October 2021 when Miller believed she was speaking with a 39-year-old woman who had a nine-year-old daughter.

He. He was granted bail, and he went right on doing the thing that got him arrested. Smart guy.

Miller told another online identity known as “46” that she could make her virginity “go away” after describing herself as a transgender/lesbian.

“As I’m transgender I have boobs and a c–k,’’ she said.

He said.

Judge Mark Marien said despite no actual victims being involved, it did not mitigate Miller’s offences, which had a “depraved nature”.

The court heard how her gender dysphoria sparked inner turmoil and made prison more onerous than other inmates. The woman, who was diagnosed with depression, also found it “jarring” when referred to as a man.

Diddums.

The court heard she had a traumatic incident in her childhood when her mother found her cross-dressing.

He. His childhood. Him cross-dressing.

Miller was sentenced to 5 ½ years in jail. She will be eligible for parole on July 16, 2024.

He. These aren’t our crimes.

Guest post by Jonathan A. Gallant

My adolescence, which went on for 50 years, was a difficult period.  I was afflicted by  perpetual dissatisfaction and  unease.   I could never seem to find myself, although I searched everywhere: in closets, in the refrigerator, under my bed, behind the the piano.   I had almost reached the age of retirement before I finally discovered the solution to my problem.  By then, the academic world was filled with news of individuals who claimed that they had been born in the wrong body.  When this news reached me, I had an epiphany: the wrong body issue was no doubt the source of my own difficulties, and thus it implied the solution. 

   The body that had been assigned to me at birth was not, I realized, the body I really ought to have.  What I felt like, and therefore the body I should have, was that of a direct descendent of Dmitri Ivanovich, the lost son of Tsar Ivan IV, also known as Ivan the Terrible.  It follows that I should be, and therefore am, on the direct line of the Terrible dynasty, and thus I am a proper claimant to the imperial throne of the Russian Empire. 

  My chosen personal pronoun is его императорское величество, Russian for “his imperial majesty”.  In direct communication, I must always be addressed in its second person (plural) form, which is: Ваше императорское величество .
I trust that this story will be illuminating in regard to the burning issue of Pronouns.

   Ivan V, Царь Всея Руси    (formerly Jon Gallant)

And the Times:

The advert says the job, with a salary of £110,000 to £115,000, will involve “amplifying the voice of those using services” within the hospital and “facilitating cultural changes”.

Whoever gets the six-figure job will be responsible for ensuring patients’ experiences and stories are heard at board level by bosses at the NHS trust, based in Stafford.

Well that at least sounds potentially useful (although it’s not clear why existing staff can’t do that) but it sure as hell doesn’t clarify why it’s worth four times as much salary as the actual medical people get. It’s a communications job, a management job, a connect the pieces job – it’s not stopping climate change.

The new role will also involve creating “brave spaces” for patients to give feedback on their treatment and “brokering psychologically safe environments” in the hospital.

The job title should be Executive Touchyfeely Officer.

Ewan Somerville at the Telegraph is on the Lived Experience story.

The NHS has hired an army of “lived experience” tsars on salaries of up to £115,000, despite ministers vowing a war on waste.

An army – so this recruitment ad we saw is just one of many.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is recruiting a “director for lived experience” who must have experiences of “a life altering health condition” and “significant power imbalances” in their use of health services.

The tsar will “ensure brave spaces” for people to give feedback and be based at St George’s Hospital, in Stafford, on a salary of £110,000-115,000 per year – four times that of a newly qualified nurse or junior doctor.

Why? Why pay four times more for “lived experience” than for arduous training and education? Why value “lived experience” boffins four times more than doctors and nurses?

The trust claims it is the first such board-level position in the health service, but The Telegraph has identified at least 20 “lived experience” job titles across seven NHS trusts, being paid a total of at least £600,000.

It really is bizarre. Sarcasm and bitter jokes aside, what is this? What does explain the enormous difference in compensation?

In January, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust recruited two lived experience directors to “disrupt conventional thinking”, designed to “enthuse, inspire, train and support diverse communities and seldom heard voices to keep co-creation at its core”.

Why is that four times more important than actual medical care?

UN official says what?

Who he is according to his Twitter profile:

He/him. UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity & Eleanor Roosevelt Senior Visiting Researcher and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School

What kind of “expert” on genner idennniny? What kind can there be? Like experts on the Koran or the Talmud or the Gospels are they? Experts on fictions, fantasies, inherited beliefs?

Anyway, it’s grim to see the UN signing up to the ideology.

Even funnier than the Director for Lived Experience – Trump with muscles:

Former US President Donald Trump has launched a collection of digital trading cards depicting him in various guises including a superhero, astronaut and Nascar driver.

There’s just one problem. He’s fat, and lazy, and clumsy, and a chickenshit. I suppose you could say those are four problems but I think it’s more efficient to bundle them into one “He’s not that guy.” He doesn’t stomp around in pseudo-military pants shooting ducks, and he doesn’t have that muscle definition under his business suit. He talks endlessly and stupidly, and he throws catsup at walls: that’s it, that’s the extent of his superpowerhood.

Mr Trump said: “These limited edition cards feature amazing ART of my Life & Career!”

Art. Sure, bro, right up there with Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Last month, the billionaire launched his third bid for the White House.

He triggered speculation this week after saying he would make a “major announcement”.

Some gullible people thought he was going to announce a running mate.

Instead, Mr Trump posted a promotional video on his social media platform, Truth Social.

The clip featured an animated version of the former president in front of the Trump Tower in New York, who rips open his shirt to reveal a superhero costume emblazoned with the letter T as lasers shoot from his eyes.

This is a grown man, not a five-year-old. A grown man who once had some frightening responsibilities. Let’s not ever do that again.

Later on Truth Social Mr Trump said the non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were “very much like a baseball card, but hopefully much more exciting”. He added that the cards, costing $99 (£81) each, “would make a great Christmas gift”.

Buyers will also be entered into a sweepstake, with the chance of winning prizes including a gala dinner or a game of golf with Mr Trump.

Those are prizes?

Speaking of vital information on Twitter…how can this possibly be real as opposed to a joke?

Job overview

We are seeking an interpersonally talented and strategic bridge-builder, to join our Trust board in the exciting new post of Director for Lived Experience.

How is that not a bit of script from The Office rather than a genuine situations vacant announcement from the NHS? What in hell is a director of lived experience??? Where are the grownups?

The post holder will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the highest levels of Lived Experience practice

What does that mean???

and amplifying the voice of those using services within decision-making at all levels of the organisation.

What does that mean???

UN and EU tell Elon Musk ok now you’re pissing us off:

The United Nations has joined the European Union in condemning Twitter’s decision to suspend some journalists who cover the social media firm.

Reporters for the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post were among those locked out of their accounts.

The UN tweeted that media freedom is “not a toy” while the EU has threatened Twitter with sanctions.

This is the thing, you see: Twitter isn’t just an annoying social media item for kids, it’s also a de facto news outlet, and a quite significant one. That’s why I keep ignoring it when one of you reminds us that Twitter is dummm.

Melissa Fleming, the UN’s under secretary general for global communications, said she was “deeply disturbed” by reports that journalists were being “arbitrarily” suspended from Twitter. “Media freedom is not a toy,” she said. “A free press is the cornerstone of democratic societies and a key tool in the fight against harmful disinformation.”

Earlier on Friday, EU commissioner Vera Jourova threatened Twitter with sanctions under Europe’s new Digital Services Act which she said requires “the respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. Elon Musk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” she added.

He’ll probably ban them all from Twitter.

Elon Musk is exercising his god-given bought and paid for right to kick prominent journalists off Twitter because they don’t kiss his ring.

The accounts suspended included Ryan Mac of The New York Times; Drew Harwell of The Washington Post; Aaron Rupar, an independent journalist; Donie O’Sullivan of CNN; Matt Binder of Mashable; Tony Webster, an independent journalist; Micah Lee of The Intercept; and the political journalist Keith Olbermann. It was unclear what the suspensions had in common; each user’s Twitter page included a message that said it suspended accounts that “violate the Twitter rules.”

The moves came a day after Twitter suspended more than 25 accounts that tracked the planes of government agencies, billionaires and high-profile individuals, including that of Mr. Musk. Many of the accounts were operated by Jack Sweeney, a 20-year-old college student and flight tracking enthusiast who had used Twitter to post updates about the location of Mr. Musk’s private plane using publicly available information.

I can see not allowing flight tracking, because that’s stalker behavior or worse, but some of the banished journalists were reporting on the tracker-banning; banning them doesn’t seem reasonable at all.

“Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate,” said Charlie Stadtlander, a spokesman for The Times. “Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred. We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”

Also we’re getting a cascade effect now.

After his suspension from Twitter, Mr. Sweeney turned to Mastodon, an alternative social network. After Mastodon used Twitter to promote Mr. Sweeney’s new account on Thursday, Twitter suspended Mastodon’s account. As some journalists shared the news of Mastodon’s suspension, their own accounts were suspended.

Don’t mention the war!

Mr. Musk said in October that he would form a council to advise him on policy matters before making changes to the company’s content moderation policies. The council has not materialized. This week, Mr. Musk disbanded a trust and safety advisory group that had guided Twitter on thorny issues like harassment and child exploitation.

All good. Billionaires doing what they’re supposed to do.

Good news – but we’re still furious.

Here’s the story from last June:

The Norwegian Public Prosecution Service investigates “hate-mongering” tweets by feminist Christina Ellingsen, addressed to a man who claims to be a lesbian woman. If found guilty, Ellingsen could face up to three years in prison.

Ellingsen posted the tweets between February 2021 and January 2022, in reaction to statements of Christine Marie Jentoft, representative of the transactivist group Foreningen FRI. Jentoft is a biological man who identifies as a lesbian.

A (“biological”) man can’t be a lesbian. It’s all in the definition. Only women can be lesbians.

“Why does FRI teach young people that males can be lesbians? Isn’t that conversion therapy?” tweeted Ellingsen. Later, she wrote about how “bonkers” FRI is, an “organisation that supposedly works to protect the interests of young lesbians.”

Amnesty International Norway recently accused Ellingsen of “harassing” [Jentoft] after telling him on national television that he was male. “You are a man. You can’t be a mother,” said Ellingsen. “To normalize the idea that men can be mothers is a defined form of discrimination against women.”

Jentoft is harassing women.

In 2021, a Norwegian man was already convicted for “insulting” and “misgendering” a trans-identified man on Facebook. He was sentenced to 21 days in prison and a fine of approximately 1500 euros.

Can you imagine? I’d be dead of rage before the first day was over.

Giant brain on that Willz.

Is that right? So no films about the January 6 mob? No films about the Proud Boys? No films about incels? No films about abusers in police departments? No films about any set of people unless there are at least 4 billion of them?

Who made that rule? Why have there been no films about it?

Not that Willoughby has a stereotyped idea of what women are and do and like, no no no not at all, he understands women better than women do.

Spend some time with her doing the things girlz do teeheeheeheeheehee

Some deep breaths taken; back to Futrelle.

Rowling came up with the idea for Beira’s Place, she told anti-trans feminist Suzanne Moore, in what can only be described as a fit of pique caused by remarks from Mridul Wadhwa, the trans woman in charge of Edinburgh’s Rape Crisis centre.

Wadhwa had said that transphobic clients of the centre would have their bigotry challenged.

Futrelle simply assumes that the clients in question are “transphobic” and that their awareness that men are men is “bigotry” and thus he implies that Wadhwa was right and virtuous in promising to bully women who need rape crisis services for knowing that men are men.

Wadhwa also said it was possible to “reframe” one’s relationship with trauma so that “it becomes a story that empowers you and allows you to go and do other more beautiful things with your life.” As a result of these comments and the fact of her being a trans woman in the first place, the Edinburgh Rape Crisis centre endured a torrent of death threats and other abuse from transphobes that led to the centre having to lock itself down.

In other words Wadhwa was right and virtuous while the women who objected to his role at the centre and his outrageous entitlement in lecturing them were wrong and evil. Wadwha was an innocent benevolent victim of “abuse” from “transphobes” and that’s all there is to it.

Furious at Wadhwa’s comments, Rowling didn’t send any mean emails; she just decided to build a Rape Crisis centre that wouldn’t employ, or serve, Wadhwa’s kind.

That is, Rowling decided to fund a rape crisis centre for women.

So here she is, funding a service that avoids the “politics” of the sexual abuse of women by systematically excluding a whole class of victims.

Men are not a whole class of female victims. Men are not a whole class of victims of the sexual abuse of women. It’s only women who are female victims, women who are a whole class of victims of the sexual abuse of women.

The idea behind excluding trans victims is that cis women need a place to go where they feel safe. Never mind that there’s no evidence that trans women accessing support services would make cis women less safe. If feelings of safety are all that count, racist whites could make the same argument about a shelter needing to exclude women of color.

Trans women are men. Will men accessing support services for women make women less safe? I wonder why Futrelle doesn’t ask himself that question. (No I don’t. It’s all too obvious why he doesn’t.)

H/t Holms

I keep hearing distant reports of how thoroughly David Futrelle has gone pro-trans-dogma and anti-feminist-disbelief, so I decided to take a look at the current iteration. It’s thoroughly gone.

Author and anti-trans activist JK Rowling has announced she is launching a crisis center for female victims of rape and sexual abuse. The catch? Beira’s Place, as the center is called, won’t allow trans women to use its services.

That’s not “the catch.” What a ridiculous claim. He said it himself – she’s launching a crisis center for female people. Of course that means it won’t “allow” men to use its services: its services are not for men. It says so right on the tin; Futrelle said so himself when he said “a crisis center for female victims of rape and sexual abuse.” If you set up as a veterinarian and don’t accept human patients, that’s not a “catch,” it’s just sticking to the service you’re offering as opposed to providing a service you’re not offering. A service for women is a service for women; news at eleven.

The exclusion of trans women from Beira’s Place isn’t a bug; it seems to be a, if not the, primary motivation behind the service.

There’s no need to turn over rocks looking for a motivation. It’s just what Beira’s Place is for: it’s a service for women. Why isn’t Futrelle wondering what is the motivation for “excluding” porcupines, rocks, Belgium? A service that is for one thing necessarily “excludes” all the other things; there’s no need to enumerate them all, let alone puzzle over why they’re “excluded.”

Indeed, Rowling came up with the idea for Beira’s Place; she told anti-trans feminist Suzanne Moore, in what can only be described as a fit of pique caused by remarks from Mridul Wadhwa, the trans woman in charge of Edinburgh’s Rape Crisis centre.

Actually no, our reaction to what Mridul Wadhwa said can be described in a million ways other than calling it a “fit of pique” – which is a staggeringly contemptuous and misogynist name to call women’s fury at a man berating women for not wanting a man running a rape crisis centre. A fit of fucking pique is it – how dare he?

It never ceases to amaze, the way men who five minutes ago appeared to be staunch allies of feminist women leap right back into the swamp of sexist epithets and contempt for the sake of men who call themselves women. Bros before hos indeed.

I’ll interrupt myself to take some deep breaths at this point.

Roger Pielke’s claim to fame is as a Climate Skeptic^TM.

But now he’s deploying his skepticism on a different subject – the crazy wacky delusional idea that men are not women.

Saying men are men is “a denial of the reality of transgender people.”

So climate change is a fraud but men claiming to be women is reality.

In UN news:

Iran was ousted from a United Nations women’s group on Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed by the United States after Tehran’s crackdown on protests over the death of a young woman in custody.

The 54-member U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution to “remove with immediate effect the Islamic Republic of Iran from the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) for the remainder of its 2022-2026 term.”

…

“This is a victory for Iranian revolutionaries who have been facing guns & bullets as they fight this gender apartheid state,” U.S.-based Iranian journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad posted on Twitter.

Iran’s clerical rulers have faced the biggest protests in years since September when 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini died in the custody of the morality police who enforce strict dress codes.

It were a delicate stratagem to put Iran’s morality police and Edinburgh University trans “activists” in a locked room to come up with a Plan for Women.

The confusion is everywhere.

All of that is wrong. Not a little, not half, not most of it, but all.

Of course trans people’s access to private spaces is restricted; so is mine, so is everyone’s. That’s what “private” means.

Access to some public spaces is also restricted. Many public spaces are for specific sets of people…like public toilets for instance. Most areas in hospitals; most areas in schools; backstage in restaurants, bars, shops, theaters; most areas in offices; many areas in airports; the fronts of planes. Public doesn’t mean unrestricted.

The view is not that people who call themselves the other sex don’t exist, it’s that people who call themselves the other sex are wrong. Being wrong about what you are is not at all the same as not existing. Being wrong about what you are is an extremely common situation, because we’re just not very good at avoiding the natural bias of believing ourselves more than we believe everyone else.

That’s it, that’s the whole tweet, and it’s wrong from start to finish.

And they’ve won.

For now.

Note the shouts of laughter as Mister Man says “azza trans woman“…

Only for now though.

So, of course, some students full of holy zeal went along to close the film down.

It depends on how you define “definition”…

The Cambridge Dictionary has updated its definition of “woman” to include anyone who “identifies as female” regardless of their sex at birth. 

If you mean some people use the word to mean anyone who identifies as, then that’s what the CD has done. If you mean the actual, generally understood, longstanding, literal definition of the word, then the update is absurd and an insult to almost everyone.

Funny thing: the more “inclusive” you make your definitions, the less useful they are. The more you broaden them to take in the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the less they mean anything. If you “update” the definition of women to include men then it doesn’t mean women any more. What does it mean? Not clear.

The dictionary’s editors made the changes after studying patterns of how the word “woman” was being used across society, and concluded that the new definition is one that English learners “should be aware of”.

Should be aware of, yes, but should embrace, no.

This is political, of course, but then how could it not be?