Hey if you ever want to collect a sample of STOOOOPID replies to a gender critical tweet, just retort to a snotty tweet by justice correspondent at The Nation Elie Mystal. His admirers will arrive in their multitudes to tell you to shut the fuck up terf.
How very dare I?
Many many replies saying “She is awful.”
Elie Mystal isn’t an angry teenager, he’s an adult.
It’s bizarre.
Who says they’re “one of the most persecuted minorities in society”? Are they really? Persecuted in what sense? Why do grown-up people with serious jobs keep repeating this childish claim?
Or as la scap puts it…
Updating to add:
And don’t you dare question this claim of “most persecuted.” In fact don’t question anything; just shut up and get on with your knitting.
I wonder if he’s aware of the sickening insults women get. I wonder if he’s aware how many people question the discrimination women have faced since forever.
Malcolm Clark on the horrific mess.
She’s not so much admitted it as boasted about it.
Watch the clip. Man has delicate features; if only he transitioned he would be PERFECT.
A couple of weeks ago Dr Helen Webberley won her appeal.
A GP offering treatment for transgender patients online has won a High Court appeal against her suspension as a doctor and can now work again.
Note the word “treatment.”
Dr Helen Webberley has been unable to practise medicine since last year after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel found she committed serious misconduct.
But on Friday, a High Court judge said the panel’s determination was “wrong”.
Dr Webberley said she was celebrating a return to her “life saving work”.
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Mr Justice Jay said he had “concerns” about “certain aspects” of Dr Webberley’s “practice” in relation to Patient C – including a “failure to have a face-to-face consultation on the issue of fertility”. But he added: “It is far from clear to me that what did take place should be strongly criticised.” The judge went on: “The sole focus of this appeal has been the quality of the appellant’s clinical practice in relation to one patient, Patient C. This appeal does not raise any wider issues about the wisdom or otherwise of administering puberty blockers to the younger age group who wish to undergo interventions for gender reassignment with full parental agreement.”
But Webberley is treating it as endorsement of everything she does.
In a statement on her website, Dr Helen Webberley thanked her supporters and said she had faced “discrimination” because of her work. “Today marks the day where I am free to practise in my profession again,” she said. “The GMC proceedings against me are over, and I have been fully cleared to continue my work. The High Court judge has ordered that the case be closed with no further action. I am simply a well-meaning, well-educated GP who was willing to learn how best to provide this care and I was brave enough to stand against the outdated NHS model of care which is evidently not fit for purpose in its current state.”
Now to today and a post by Maya Forstater:
The recent TGEU “Landscape report” on what it terms the anti-gender movement in Europe tells this short story:
“Attempts at defunding have impacted the charity Mermaids, which supports trans children. An anti-trans social media campaign convinced the Big Lottery Fund to review their grant, though funding was upheld when the claims were found to be baseless.”
How were the claims “found to be baseless”? They asked Susie Green and she said no. That’s some high quality finding right there!
This refers to events in 2018/19 when Mermaids was given a £500,000 grant by the National Lottery Community Fund. Over 800 people wrote to the fund (both for and against awarding the grant). It undertook a review and raised the concerns with Mermaids, which denied them all. The lottery took these denials in good faith and awarded the grant.
Lottery fund: “Hello, Mermaids? National Lottery here. We have concerns. Are we right to have them?”
Susie Green: “No.”
Lottery fund: “Righty-ho! The check is in the post.”
Yesterday, in the wake of Dr Helen Webberley winning her appeal against the General Medical Council, Green (who now works for Webberley’s private prescription service Gender GP) tweeted an extraordinary thread which gives a quite different account than that given to the National Lottery review.
Extraordinary how? The no turns out to be a yes. That’s how.
Maya gives the details of what the Lottery asked and what Green answered. Does Mermaids push medical transition as opposed to less permanent and drastic actions? Green said no then and says you’re damn right we do now.
Susie Green now says that she encouraged GenderGP to extend its practice to children. Gender GP practices a model that does away with lengthy psychoanalytic assessment processes which it calls “intrusive and over-bearing questioning”, and instead offers hormone prescriptions based on “acceptance and informed consent”.
Read Maya’s post, then read it again. It will make your hair stand on end.
Callow misogynist reporter Tom Harwood tells us Labour is afraid of Pride.
LGBT Labour is a highly visible and notable wing of the Labour Party, with dozens of official patrons in Parliament, and a string of campaigning successes under the last Labour government.
Yet today GB News can reveal that the official Labour group are considering withdrawing from marching from all LGBT pride events this year due to safety concerns for their members, fearing backlash from the community.
In other words Harwood is revealing that the official Labour group is afraid of people involved in LGBT pride events. Which ones? The L? Probably not. The G? The B? Come on. No, they’re afraid of the T, because the T and their “allies” get violent. Harwood is trying to tell us Labour is being mean to LGBT but in fact he’s telling us Labour is afraid of the T.
A senior source within the group told us that the Labour Party has become viewed with increasing hostility within parts of the LGBT community in recent months, following a series of U-turns from the leadership of the Party.
The hostility has grown to the point that many members now do not feel comfortable marching under the Labour Party banner.
Because T and their “allies” get violent. Physically violent, not just verbally.
The Labour Party leadership’s murky U-turns on transgender issues have led to what I am exclusively told are genuine safety concerns for members at pride events. In an extraordinary development, unthinkable just a few years ago, the Labour Party brand is becoming toxic within the LGBT community. So toxic that the official LGBT wing of the Labour Party is questioning the extent to which it can represent the party.
He’s exclusively told. Babes have I got the latest gossip for you.
This is interesting. Women were not permitted to speak, with the result that more women are speaking, and so are men. The bullies scored an own goal.
DeSantis is evil, and not as stupid as Trump.
Al Lawson felt the weight of his victory the night he was elected to Congress in 2016.
He was born in Midway, a small town that’s part of a stretch of land in northern Florida dotted with tobacco fields once home to plantations. A former basketball star, he was once reprimanded for drinking out of a whites-only water fountain. In some of his early campaigns for the state legislature, he ran into the Ku Klux Klan.
There was jubilation when he was elected.
“Everywhere I would go, it was like a celebration,” Lawson said one morning last month in his office in downtown Tallahassee. “People saying: ‘Boy, I wish my daddy, my granddaddy – I really wish they could see this.’”
In Congress, Lawson was a low-key member known for delivering federal money for things like new storm shelters to help his northern Florida communities. He was easily re-elected to the House in 2018 and 2020. But when he ran for re-election in 2022, he lost to a white Republican by nearly 20 points.
Why? Because DeSantis carefully gerrymandered his district to make sure that he would lose.
It was a brazen scheme to weaken the political power of Black voters and a striking example of how DeSantis has waged one of the most aggressive – and successful – efforts to curtail voting rights in Florida.
In addition to reducing Black representation in Congress, the governor has tightened election rules, created a first-of-its-kind state agency, funded by more than $1m to prosecute election fraud, and gutted one of the biggest expansions of modern-era voting rights.
Nice guy.
Ugh. I don’t think the police should have been involved, but at the same time I really don’t think pub owners or restaurant havers or food truck users should have racist caricatures on display. Not every “should” or “should not” is a police matter, to put it mildly.
The landlady of a pub whose collection of golliwog dolls was confiscated by police has assembled replacements, which she plans to display in defiance of a continuing investigation.
Last week four Essex police officers and a trainee seized all the dolls on show in the White Hart Inn in Grays as part of an investigation into an alleged hate crime.
We don’t have “golliwog” dolls in the US; it’s not even a word in US idiom. This is a golliwog doll:
No, I don’t think pubs should have those on display. I also don’t think it’s a police matter.
The dolls divide opinion in Grays. On Tuesday some pub regulars turned up to show support, but others expressed their fury. The pub’s landlady, Benice Ryley, 62, refuses to accept they are racist.
A neighbor disagrees with her.
Tony Daly, who manages a nearby charity shop, said the dolls made his “blood boil” and said he was shocked they had been on display in such a diverse area.
He also plans to confront Ryley over the issue. He said: “I find them very offensive and I’ll be going there to peacefully put my point across and to educate her. I grew up in Tottenham in the 70s when we fought against those kind of things. They used to call black people golliwogs. It’s a racist symbol that says slavery to me and the black and white minstrels. It’s so outdated and offensive to black people.”
It may be that Ryley is unaware of the black and white minstrels, but if so she should have taken the trouble to learn more. I hope she can hear what Tony Daly tells her.
Sunder Katwala, director of the integration thinktank British Future, said he was concerned by a post by Chris Ryley [husband of Benice and licensee of the pub] on Facebook. The 2016 post showed dolls hanging from a shelf in the bar alongside a comment by him saying, “They used to hang them in Mississippi years ago”. Katwala said that Chris Ryley had referenced lynchings in Mississippi in connection to the pub’s golliwogs collection in a Facebook post in 2016.
Uh, yeah. That makes the denial of racist intent less credible.
Saying men are not women is exactly the same as the Nazis says Willoughby.
We want trans people – people like Willoughby himself – to stop demonizing and trying to erase women. We want trans people, especially men who claim to be trans, to stop taking everything that belongs to women, and talking over us, and calling us Karens and cunts, and accusing us of hate crimes, and calling us Nazis. That’s what we want.
Watchdog to examine ‘implausible’ UK census trans figures
The statistics regulator is examining concerns that the data behind landmark census figures on the UK’s transgender population may be flawed.
Academics have queried findings by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that 262,000 people identify as transgender in England and Wales.
Next look into how many people identify as a different species.
Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford, believes the question posed to record the gender identity of respondents may have confused those whose first language is not English.
He claimed it may be why the London boroughs of Newham and Brent, which have a significant percentage of residents who speak English as a second language, recorded the highest proportion of transgender people in the UK. Overall, those who speak English poorly were found to be five times more likely to be transgender, prompting concerns about the data.
Ssshhhh never mind never mind – the point is there are lots and lots of trans people and we have to change everything to make them comfortable and happy and unlikely to come after us with machetes.
Biggs, who first made his census claims in The Spectator magazine last week, said the problem with the figures originates from the question itself. He noted that the ONS did not simply ask respondents: “Are you transgender?” Instead, it asked: “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” This was done following consultations with LGBTQ lobby groups such as Stonewall, he claimed.
Biggs said the authors “never thought about how a Bangladeshi grandmother or a Hungarian plumber will think about this question”, adding: “I’d be disappointed if a master’s student at Oxford made that error.”
Seriously. It’s not a normal question – normal in the sense of being ordinary, commonplace, instantly comprehensible to anyone and everyone. It’s a question from the magical world of Gender Lunacy. To people who don’t live in that world, the question is at best idiotic. At worst it’s random syllables.
What is “identify with” supposed to mean? Why is a government census asking people what they “identify with”? Who needs statistics on what the populace “identify with”? We don’t “identify with” a height or a date of birth or a medical history or an employment history – and why would the state give a damn if we did? Why would the state care?
“Gender you identify with” and “sex registered at birth” are pseudo-progressive jargon, and the state shouldn’t be using that jargon.
This is what you get when you elect a hardened criminal chief executive.
The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump.
The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on the prosecution of Mr. Trump and a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg. Mr. Bragg last week unveiled 34 felony charges against Mr. Trump that stem from the former president’s attempts to cover up a potential sex scandal during and after the 2016 presidential campaign.
Lawyers for Mr. Bragg are seeking to bar Mr. Jordan and his congressional allies from enforcing a subpoena sent to Mark F. Pomerantz, who was once a leader of the district attorney’s Trump investigation and who later wrote a book about that experience. Mr. Pomerantz resigned early last year after Mr. Bragg, just weeks into his first term in office, decided not to seek an indictment of Trump at that time.
Mr. Bragg’s lawyers, including Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. of the law firm Gibson Dunn and Leslie B. Dubeck, the general counsel in the district attorney’s office, also intend to prevent any other such subpoenas, the lawsuit says. Mr. Jordan has left open the possibility of subpoenaing Mr. Bragg.
Jordan shouldn’t be doing any of this. It’s corrupt and authoritarian.
“Rather than allowing the criminal process to proceed in the ordinary course, Chairman Jordan and the committee are participating in a campaign of intimidation, retaliation and obstruction,” the suit said, adding that the district attorney’s office had received more than 1,000 calls and emails from Mr. Trump’s supporters — many of them “threatening and racially charged” — since the former president predicted his own arrest last month.
Mr. Jordan responded in a statement on Twitter.
“First, they indict a president for no crime,” he wrote. “Then, they sue to block congressional oversight when we ask questions about the federal funds they say they used to do it.”
Trump is not a president. Jordan of course does not know the indictment is “for no crime.” Micromanagement of an urban DA is not Congress’s job.
Remember: always distort, re-word, ignore distinctions, exaggerate, lie, distort distort distort.
That’s how it’s done! McGovern said “We need to stop the virus of trans ideology” and Bozo says she “called trans people a virus.” Calling an ideology a virus is not calling the people infected by it a virus, just as calling Covid a virus is not calling the people infected by it a virus. The ideology is the virus, and it’s very very harmful to people, especially their brains and their critical faculties.
Willoughby has finally blocked me. I was surprised he hadn’t done it long ago; I’ve been a vocal non-admirer for a long time.
UN Women is infuriating. Goddam quislings.
There it is, there’s the saying it out loud. He’s a better woman than women are because he had to fight for it. Women are like the children of millionaires while he is like the children of the scullery maid at Chatsworth.
Jean Hatchet points out that Dylan Mulvaney is mocking us and we don’t like it.
Shortly before this year-long, very public “transition”, Mulvaney performed a pilot video for his current lucrative act. In it he told the viewer that he “had trouble finding roles” so a friend had invented one for him, a “femme character”. His character wears a pink dress and pearls, white gloves and ankle socks. At this point Mulvaney must have been delighted to glimpse a potential new career path. It was a very savvy move for him to extend and develop this caricature of a 1950s woman. Now, just over a year later, Dylan Mulvaney has highly paid “partnerships” with a number of companies including Budweiser, Kate Spade and — during the past week, to great objection — the Sportwear giant Nike.
For what? For an extended smirky insulting parody of women.
Imaging a white man reviving the old minstrel show parody. Imagine how much the left would applaud and reward and defend that.
Darling, right? Hilarious? Innocent playful fun?
Of course not.
So why is it ok when he does it?
In an inflammatory paid partnership video with Nike, an inanely grinning, barefoot Mulvaney wears a Nike sports bra and leggings. He performs a series of ridiculous moves including comedic side stretches, a theatrical run kicking his heels up nonsensically and failed chorus-line high kicks. He almost runs backwards into a hedge at one point and pulls a comedy expression of shock. It all looks ridiculous and slapstick. It mocks women by suggesting they exercise trivially and ineffectively, but smiling throughout.
Why is it ok to mock women when it’s not ok to mock black people or indigenous people or southern hemisphere people?
Along with these grotesque parodies of womanhood, he promotes products with zero shame, grifting whilst gurning and gaslighting women. Shortly before he began this career-saving venture of “being a girl”, Mulvaney can be found mocking a female cheerleader in a sketch where he pretends to break his leg. He has honed and perfected these earlier attempts to portray women as weak and stupid, and he deflected attention from them by declaring himself a woman. Gender identity is once again the smokescreen for misogyny, and negative criticism leads to an award-worthy performance of his being hurt and bullied. Mulvaney simply reverses the victim and offender. Women are bullies, he is the target. Many women recognise this pattern from relationships with abusive men.
Mulvaney is an abusive man.
Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on They don’t even get the initial euphoria.
Not that this hasn’t been discussed all along, of course, but still, learning that estrogen likely makes them more depressed than they already were…well, it can’t help the discourse much.
And so they get locked into chasing the dragon with ever increasing medical interventions.
That’s gotta cause some major dissonance. When I finally started getting real help for my social anxiety, the hope that my life would improve by itself gave me a sense of hope and elevated my view of myself, the world, and my place in it. I’m trying to imagine what kind of state I’d be in if the thing I believed was helping was actually making me worse. My tendency has always been to look inward for fault, hence the social anxiety, but if I were the sort to have an external locus of control? I’d be looking for someone, anyone to blame for my suffering. Which neatly explains the vehement hatred of anyone not on board 100% with the Genderist project, and it explains the obsession with making every nook and cranny of life conform to the ideology. “If transition isn’t making us happy,” they think, “then there must be something out there that’s preventing it from working, even if we can’t see it. We must find it and destroy it.”
Oof, this is a painful read. It’s about the horrifying side effects of “wrong sex hormones on men” as the author puts it, and how systematically it’s been and continues to be concealed. I say it’s painful but I also recommend reading it: it’s very clarifying.
It starts with the effects on feelings as opposed to the body, and finds that they’re a wash for males.
I started to find out what can be expected from the medical interventions for young AMAB (assigned-male-at-birth) trans women like my son. And there, the researchers of the NEJM study are unequivocal about their findings: even among the variables that were finally reported, “depression and anxiety scores decreased…but not among those designated male at birth.”
That’s right. For young men like our son, even those researchers who believe in “full steam ahead with hormones” have nothing optimistic to report. Zip. Nada.
So what about the body?
But so much for patient surveys on their mental outlook and how they feel. How does the body react physiologically to estrogen? To go back to the cocaine analogy I introduced earlier, we do not willy-nilly administer cocaine to patients just because they feel some initial euphoria (which, in the case of estrogen, is ironically conspicuous by its absence). What do the clinical studies on the effect of estrogen on the brain and the body say?
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In 2018, researchers from Germany showed that increased estrogen levels are associated with depression in males. No wonder all the patient survey studies, including the latest in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed no improvement in the psychological outlook among males.
Oops.
It occurs to me that this could be part of the explanation for why the political (or pseudo-political) ideology that underpins this dangerous experiment is so deranged. It’s for and about and largely created by men with severe mental problems. Not that this hasn’t been discussed all along, of course, but still, learning that estrogen likely makes them more depressed than they already were…well, it can’t help the discourse much.
At this point, it is so surreal to see that it is parents like us, coming from fields far removed from biology and medicine, who are taking all their time from their day jobs to go through this research. For many, it has affected our professional and personal lives, not to mention our physical health and well-being.
As for the people who should have been doing this job and acting as gatekeepers – the psychologists, the endocrinologists, the doctors and the nurses, and the entire medical profession – why, they all have resorted to magical thinking and activism and even claiming that “although gender-affirming hormones can cause some irreversible changes,…these effects are primarily cosmetic.”
Shrinking brains, cognitive decline, depression, Alzheimer’s, suicide, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, arthritis, systemic sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, lupus, and other autoimmune diseases – yes, according to the gender “experts,” all these changes from estrogen are “primarily cosmetic!”
So what explains that? I will never understand it.
Nancy Kelley’s war on lesbians isn’t popular with everyone.
There are rules about charities that don’t do what they purport to do. The Charity Commission frowns on charities that don’t do what it says on the tin.
Legal analyst Glenn Kirschner has said that Representative Jim Jordan broke the law in New York state by threatening to investigate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Jordan, an Ohio Republican who currently serves as chair of the House Judiciary Committee, vowed in the wake of Donald Trump‘s historic indictment to investigate Bragg’s conduct in bringing criminal charges against the former president, claiming that the district attorney’s actions were politically motivated. Pursuant to that goal, Jordan on Thursday issued a subpoena for testimony to former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who worked on the Trump case before resigning last February.
In response, Bragg’s office released a statement decrying Jordan’s efforts as “an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation.”
“The House GOP continues to attempt to undermine an active investigation and ongoing New York criminal case with an unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation,” a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney’s office said Thursday. “Repeated efforts to weaken state and local law enforcement actions are an abuse of power and will not deter us from our duty to uphold the law.”
Jim Jordan is an abuser in many fields.
Originally a comment by Sackbut on We need to be asking “fair to whom?”
I think here again the distinction between “disproportionate advantage” and “category advantage”, as described by Jon Pike in his recent paper, become important. We don’t look at individual adults to see if they are within the skill capabilities of children before deciding whether these particular adults are allowed to participate in children’s sports, we have separate categories for children based on the idea that children have abilities and needs different from adults, and beyond that we don’t test any further. Age grouping is a category advantage. Sex grouping is also a category advantage.
NPR recently interviewed an endocrinologist (why not a sports physiologist?) who basically shrugged his shoulders and said “We simply don’t know” regarding trans athletes having an advantage against “cis” athletes, again missing the point. We do know that men have significant advantages against women, and we have sex grouping in sports partly (partly!!!) for that reason. It isn’t “trans versus cis”, but “men versus women”. They are arguing that men should be allowed to compete in the women’s division, but only those extra-special men who claim to be women, not other men. Some people are explicitly arguing that all sex divisions should go away, but most do not seem to realize that’s what they are arguing, ultimately.
