It’s a great pity that the UK doesn’t have separation of church and state.

A religious school leader has been appointed as chairman of Ofsted for what is believed to be the first time.

Sir Hamid Patel will take up the interim role until a successor is found for Dame Christine Ryan at the schools regulator.

He is the chief executive of Star Academies Trust, which runs nearly 40 primaries and secondaries, including several Islamic schools.

Ah, Islamic schools. So girls have to wear hijab? So girls are called sluts if they don’t wear hijab? And the people who make these appointments are ok with that?

Sir Hamid has been on the board of Ofsted since 2019 and has led Star Academies since its inception in 2010. He was previously the headteacher of Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School in Blackpool.

While [he was] in that role, the school became one of the first in the country to urge pupils to wear a hijab outside of school.

Oh outside of school too – that’s a nice touch. The little sluts have to be taught not to tempt the poor helpless boys. They must emulate their sisters in Afghanistan.

Guidance reportedly told pupils to “recite the Koran at least once a week” and “not bring stationery to school that contains un-Islamic images”, such as pictures of pop stars.

The school was criticised over a visit in 2010 from Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, a Saudi Arabian cleric who had described Jews as “pigs”.

Sheikh Sudais also prayed for God to “terminate” the Jews and, discussing his visit, Sir Hamid told The Sunday Times in 2013: “The girls wanted to see this guy with 5 million followers. They had seen him on YouTube. He stayed 20 minutes.”

Cool cool; that’s fine then.

Gender-critical documentary makers take UCU to tribunal

Two academic filmmakers are taking their union to an employment tribunal, arguing that it treated them unfairly because of their gender-critical beliefs.

Deirdre O’Neill and Michael Wayne faced a backlash from campaigners amid claims that their 2022 film Adult Human Female was “transphobic”. It defines sex as being determined by biology and claims that women’s rights have been damaged by the trans movement.

Reporting on this subject is always such a mush of fact and opinion. It’s not a “belief” that sex is determined by biology, it’s just a fact. The words are human creations but the facts themselves are not.

O’Neill and Wayne, who are academics at the University of Hertfordshire and Brunel University of London respectively, have lodged a tribunal claim against UCU.

At the hearing, due to get under way on 31 March, they are expected to argue that the union treated them detrimentally due to their philosophical beliefs about sex and gender.

Or rather due to their recognition of the reality of sex and the social nature of “gender”.

UCU’s trans’ rights policy states that the union “supports trans rights” and that “debating trans gender identity puts trans people’s being into question and creates fear and distress”. 

You know what else creates fear and distress for some people? Science classes. Remember the Scopes trial? Remember Judge Jones’s ruling in the Dover School Board case? Fear and distress, baby.

Edinburgh’s UCU branch previously claimed that “free speech [and] academic freedom” were being used to “justify questioning the validity or the rights of people with marginalised identities”.

Opposing the film screening, the branch said: “This event represents an echo chamber of one specific viewpoint that is very clearly a vilification of trans people, questioning their right to exist, under the guise of academic freedom.”

Liar. It’s no such thing. People exist independently of other people’s deference to their luxury idenninnies. If I claim to be Charles Darwin and you don’t believe me, I don’t instantly puff out of existence when I learn that you don’t believe me.

Magic gender is no more real than magic sky daddy.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Nice LGBT+ training, Karl.

A Met Police training officer called anti-transgender women a “bunch of lesbians”, a tribunal has heard. Sgt Karl Eccott, an LGBT+ training officer, allegedly made the comments in a session with trainee Melanie Newman, who is now bringing harassment and direct discrimination claims against the Met.

Wait. This is, supposedly an LGT+ training officer, using “lesbian” in a way that can only be considered as pejorative? Hello, lesbians are supposed to be part of the “community” you’re allegedly doing training for and about. Remember the L? (Hint: it’s right there in front.) And what if they were all lesbians? What would be wrong with that?. Obviously you think something is wrong with that because you’re dismissing and vilifying them, and saying that they can and should be ignored and disregarded, that their views are vile and disgusting.

Ms Newman is now a detective constable with the Met, based in the child abuse investigation team in Croydon, the tribunal heard.

Good thing it’s her and not Eccott in this post, as she’s going to be better at determining exactly who needs protection than Karl ever will.

I guess the Met hasn’t been keeping track of all those other employment tribunals that have pointed out and critisized trans over-reach and bigotry in the organizations being held to account, finding in favour of women who have stood up against the poisonous atmospheres permitted and enforced by their employers. Not satisfied with learning from the highlighting of pervasive, deliberate discrimination practiced by other captured institutions, the Met decided to forge ahead and put themselves through this embarrassing spectacle of having their noses rubbed in their own bigotry.

She added: “The impression I had was of someone who deeply loathed [gender-critical] women. I did not perceive Echo as a woman but as an angry man.”

Newman can count. She saw four lights. Good thing she didn’t write a limerick.

I guess “Eva Echo” didn’t read How to Win Friends and Influence People. But with the power of the Met behind him, and officers like Karl, why argue and persuade, when he can just use bullying and intimidation. Who needs to marshal facts when you can yell and scream and point? What’s good for the public is good for the Force, right?

Do read Mike B’s article.

In a kindergarten classroom in the mid-1960s, a kid named Mikey steered clear of the boys stacking large toy blocks on top of one another and knocking them down again–so obnoxious—and instead went and sat at the table of girls making beads out of salt dough and stringing them together on a thread. These girls were not averse to tasting the salt dough and smacking their lips in disgust. The teacher had wisely settled on salt dough because she knew it wouldn’t poison the students should they eat it. At least the girls were smart and funny and didn’t continually knock each other to the floor.

Mikey preferred these sober, artsy activities–making necklaces of salt dough beads, pressing hand prints into soft clay disks, tracing the profiles of silhouetted heads projected via lamp light onto sheets of construction paper–over the rough-and-tumble of block stacking, fat-ball tossing, and floor hockey, because–well, he just did. Thus developed the central themes of his boyhood–hates sports; likes art and language; hangs out with the girls.

Throughout grade school, gym class gave him a terrible knot in his stomach and he longed to be elsewhere, a disposition cemented into place by an incident during a game of “battle ball,” in which boys stood at opposite walls and hurled large pneumatic balls at each other for God knows what reason, and a ball smacked him square in the face and knocked his glasses off his head.

I always longed to be elsewhere during gym class too. A long walk through fields for preference.

Wait, how does that work?

Vatican News:

Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin celebrates Mass for members of the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, recalling the anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate and inviting everyone to continue praying for his health.

What’s the point of praying for his health? Especially for those guys to pray for his health? It’s an inside job. They’re all supposed to be on the same page. What’s the agency they’re praying to? The Big Kahuna, obviously – Mister God himself. They’re servants of Mister God. They bow to Mister God. They recognize Mister God as the big boss, and they flatter him and tell others to flatter him every chance they get. So what do they think they’re doing, trying to coax him to overrule himself?

What does praying for the pope’s health do other than beg Mister God to change his mind? Well what kind of hideous blasphemy is that?! I ask you! Have they no faith? Have they never heard of obedience? They’re the Catholic church, so they’re all about obedience – at least, obedience to priests, who just want to pull your pants down when no one is looking.

What they’re doing by praying for the pope’s health is begging Mister God to change his mind. Jeezus christ it’s as if they’re a bunch of whiny women who refuse to understand the rules.

Whatever happened to “thy will be done”?

A second ruling saying “Not so fast” to Trump:

A second federal judge has ordered the mass reinstatement of fired federal workers, reversing the Trump administration’s terminations of probationary employees at 18 major agencies.

The agencies covered by U.S. District Judge James Bredar’s sweeping order, issued Thursday night, include the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Labor, State, Transportation and Treasury, among others.

Bredar’s order sweeps even more broadly than a ruling earlier in the day from a different federal judge, who directed six Cabinet departments to immediately rehire probationary employees who were fired under President Donald Trump’s plan to cut the federal workforce.

Both judges concluded that the Trump administration used false allegations of “performance” issues as a pretext to justify the large-scale firings and ignore legally mandated procedures for slimming the workforce.

Allegations which can’t have deceived many people, given the fact that Trump couldn’t possibly have known anything about any “performance issues” across multiple agencies.

Bredar’s ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Democratic state attorneys general. The earlier ruling — from San Francisco-based Judge William Alsup — came in a lawsuit brought by federal employees’ unions.

Stand by for Trump to eliminate state attorneys general and federal employee unions.

Both rulings emerged on the same day the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to rein in the authority of district court judges to issue so-called nationwide injunctions limiting or block federal policies. The Justice Department is also urging the high court to narrow the circumstances in which states can pursue challenges to federal actions.

One way Trump has sought to push back against a flood of litigation against his executive actions is by encouraging judges to require that states, individuals or organizations seeking injunctions against those policies post financial bonds designed to compensate the federal government if the government eventually prevails in the cases.

Bredar agreed to impose such a bond in the case he is handling over the mass firings of probationary employees. He ordered the 19 states and the District of Columbia to post $100 apiece.

Oooh sarcasm. Wicked.

Do people just not recognize a flat contradiction when they see one? I mean a really blatantly obvious one, like “It’s raining it’s not raining”?

Apparently.

But of course they don’t. They don’t respect the choice of their members to use the changing rooms based on the gender they identify with: they don’t respect the choice of their members to use the changing rooms for women, because there are no such changing rooms. They refuse to provide women with women-only changing rooms, and then they boast a smug boast about respecting all the choices. If men get to use the men’s changing rooms and the women’s changing rooms then women are denied the right to use the women’s changing room – because there isn’t one.

Agh bad news.

Dammit to hell.

Sex Matters has more.

An employment tribunal in South London has rejected the Metropolitan Police’s application to anonymise the identity of a witness in a gender-critical belief case.

Sex Matters intervened to object to the Met Police’s anonymity (“rule 49”) application on open-justice and public-interest grounds. We were recognised as having a legitimate interest, and Kerenza Davis made legal submissions and addressed the tribunal on our behalf.

The case of Melanie Newman v The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis is the third recent gender-critical employment tribunal case where an anonymity order has been refused. Similar orders were applied for by the employers and refused by the tribunal in the cases of Sandie Peggie v Fife Health Board and the Darlington Nurses.

They all want to bully women in secret, eh?

Melanie Newman is bringing a claim of harassment and discrimination based on gender-critical beliefs. The complaint dates back to 2023 when as a trainee police constable she was a virtual attendee at the official Trans Day of Visibility event being held at New Scotland Yard. 

The event featured outside speakers Eva Echo, Shea Coffey, Stephanie Robinson and Saba Ali, and organiser and Metropolitan Police employee Kit Moore.

Funny how all four outside speakers are men pretending to be women. Rubbing the real women’s noses in it, eh?

Newman found Eva Echo’s talk in particular shocking, upsetting and highly politicised. According to her notes, Echo referred to those who raise concerns about single-sex spaces and women’s sports as “motivated by hate”, showing “cult-like behaviour” and having “twisted, warped views”.

Because we don’t think men can be women.

It’s just non-stop bullying, is what it is.

The Telegraph:

A Met Police training officer called anti-transgender women a “bunch of lesbians”, a tribunal has heard. Sgt Karl Eccott, an LGBT+ training officer, allegedly made the comments in a session with trainee Melanie Newman, who is now bringing harassment and direct discrimination claims against the Met.

Ms Newman claimed in her witness statement to the tribunal, held in Croydon, south London, that the Met Police was a “hostile environment” for anyone with gender-critical opinions.

That’s so Met Policey. Women are horrible and deserve whatever they get, while trans women are saints and deserve endless flattery and the chance to abuse women.

Ms Newman is now a detective constable with the Met, based in the child abuse investigation team in Croydon, the tribunal heard.

She listed several “symptoms” of what she called an anti-gender-critical narrative at the Met, including the invitation of trans activists to speak who she said were “extremely hostile” to gender-critical people.

Eva Echo, a transgender activist, told a 2023 Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) seminar that trans people needed to be “saved” from gender-critical people, who had “warped, twisted views”, Ms Newman claimed.

There it is again. Trans “women” are invited to give seminars, while actual women are called names.

Imagine the Met bringing in white people in blackface to give seminars while abusing actual black people as warped and twisted.

The Met doesn’t do that, but it does do the equivalent to women. Why?

Ms Newman – who describes herself as gender-critical, having a belief in only two sexes – claimed speakers at the event delivered a one-sided “invective” and she “couldn’t believe” what she was hearing.

She doesn’t have a “belief” in only two sexes. The “belief” is the one that says men can be women and women can be men. Two sexes is just a very obvious fact.

She added: “The impression I had was of someone who deeply loathed [gender-critical] women. I did not perceive Echo as a woman but as an angry man.”

She later complained internally but was told no further action would be taken because the transgender activist was not an employee.

Again, I have to wonder – would she have been told that if she had complained about a blatantly poisonously racist speaker? In the past, yes, but now, I don’t think so.

Ms Newman said she did not challenge New Scotland Yard’s TDOV event at the time because senior officers had “effectively endorsed” it.

On why she was now suing the Met, she added: “I feel only a public ruling that TDOV was discriminatory and an act of harassment in the context of all these facts will persuade the MPS that its reaction to my complaint to this date has been inadequate and that more decisive management action in support of [gender critical] staff is needed.”

Det Chief Insp Charlotte Cadden, who is a lesbian, agreed the event was “discriminatory”.

She said: “The homophobic terminology used by two of the speakers is classed as offensive by many gay people and felt specifically oppressive to me as a lesbian officer.”

Aileen McColgan KC, acting on behalf of the Met, told Ms Cadden the purpose of the TDOV event was to “celebrate trans identity”.

Well yes, that’s quite clear, but why? Why do the police need to celebrate trans idenniny”? Especially at the expense of female idenniny? Why are men who pretend to be women saints while actual women are garbage? Why can we never get out of this pit of loathing and contempt?

What’s the thinking process here?

Greenland’s likely new prime minister on Wednesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to take control of the island, saying Greenlanders must be allowed to decide their own future as it moves toward independence from Denmark.

Jens-Frederik Nielsen’s Demokraatit, a pro-business party that favors a slow path to independence, won a surprise victory in Tuesday’s parliamentary election, outpacing the two left-leaning parties that formed the last government. With most Greenlanders opposing Trump’s overtures, the campaign focused more on issues like healthcare and education than on geopolitics.

But on Wednesday Nielsen was quick to push back against Trump, who last week told a joint session of Congress that the U.S. needed Greenland to protect its own national security interests and he expected to get it “one way or the other.”

What’s the thinking process behind need/want=entitlement? We all need or want lots of things, but that doesn’t mean we automatically get to have them.

Trump is focused on Greenland because it straddles strategic air and sea routes in the North Atlantic and is home to the U.S.’s Pituffik Space Base, which supports missile warning and space surveillance operations. Greenland also has large deposits of the rare-earth minerals needed to make everything from mobile phones to renewable energy technology.

Trump said during the meeting with Rutte that “Denmark’s very far away” from Greenland and questioned whether that country still had a right to claim the world’s largest island as part of its kingdom.

“A boat landed there 200 years ago or something. And they say they have rights to it,” Trump said. “I don’t know if that’s true. I don’t think it is, actually.”

How does that translate to WE have rights to it???

Judge says the fired employees must be reinstated and Trump is an ignorant buffoon.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate the jobs of probationary federal employees across multiple agencies, blasting the procedure behind their mass firings as a “sham.”

Ruling from the bench in a San Francisco courthouse, US District Judge William Alsup said the Office of Personnel Management — the federal government’s human resources department — had no basis for claiming the employees were fired for “performance” issues.

Alsup, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, said the explanation was a “gimmick” to circumvent legal requirements for laying off federal employees.

As was always obvious.

“It is sad, a sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said, according to Politico.

The firings were part of President Donald Trump’s initiative to shrink the federal workforce, led by the White House’s DOGE office.

Which is how we knew it was a lie. Trump and Musk were shouting about mass firings before they got in the door, so of course it wasn’t about “performance.”

His new ruling orders the departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs to offer fired probationary employees their jobs back.

Now do the rest of them.

From The Atlantic: What ketamine does to the human brain

Last month, during Elon Musk’s appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, as he hoisted a chain saw in the air, stumbled over some of his words, and questioned whether there was really gold stored in Fort Knox, people on his social-media platform, X, started posting about ketamine.

Musk has said he uses ketamine regularly, so for the past couple of years, public speculation has persisted about how much he takes, whether he’s currently high, or how it might affect his behavior. Last year, Musk told CNN’s Don Lemon that he has a ketamine prescription and uses the drug roughly every other week to help with depression symptoms. When Lemon asked if Musk ever abused ketamine, Musk replied, “I don’t think so. If you use too much ketamine you can’t really get work done,” then said that investors in his companies should want him to keep up his drug regimen. Not everyone is convinced. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Musk also takes the drug recreationally, and in 2023, Ronan Farrow reported in The New Yorker that Musk’s “associates” worried that ketamine, “alongside his isolation and his increasingly embattled relationship with the press, might contribute to his tendency to make chaotic and impulsive statements and decisions.”

But hey, that was 2023. He doesn’t make any chaotic impulsive statements and decisions these days, right?

Ketamine is called a dissociative drug because during a high, which lasts about an hour, people might feel detached from their body, their emotions, or the passage of time. Frequent, heavy recreational use—say, several times a week—has been linked to cognitive effects that last beyond the high, including impaired memory, delusional thinking, superstitious beliefs, and a sense of specialness and importance.

So that’s why Musk thinks humans can live on Mars?

Research has not yet established the side effects of long-term ketamine therapy, but older studies of recreational users offer some insight on heavy, extended dosing. Celia Morgan, now a psychopharmacology professor at the University of Exeter, in England, led a 2010 study that followed 120 recreational ketamine users for a year. Even infrequent users—those who used, on average, roughly three times a month—scored higher on a delusional-thought scale than ex–ketamine users, people who took other drugs, and people who didn’t use drugs at all. Those who averaged 20 uses a month scored even higher. People believed that they were the sole recipients of secret messages, or that society and people around them were especially attuned to them.

Does that sound like Musk?

H/t Jim Baerg

Texas is in a race to catch up to Afghanistan.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan have reported a surge in measles patients at three MSF-supported hospitals since January. While measles is endemic in Afghanistan, such a high number of cases so early in the year is cause for alarm.

At least one child in Afghanistan has died from measles every day so far in 2025, according to data MSF staff have collected at the Mazar-i-Sharif Regional hospital, Herat Regional hospital, and Boost Provincial hospital in Helmand. This is almost three times as many deaths as were witnessed during the same period last year.

Is junior Robert Kennedy jealous of this record?

“These are preventable deaths,” says Mickael Le Paih, Country Representative with MSF. “Measles can be a deadly disease, particularly for children with underlying health conditions like malnutrition or congenital heart defects. It can also be prevented by a vaccine, but the immunisation coverage remains low in Afghanistan.”  

Junior Kennedy please note.

“These are preventable deaths,” says Mickael Le Paih, Country Representative with MSF. “Measles can be a deadly disease, particularly for children with underlying health conditions like malnutrition or congenital heart defects. It can also be prevented by a vaccine, but the immunisation coverage remains low in Afghanistan.”  

The children of Afghanistan don’t deserve this.

It’s odd that they can’t give up the nonsense even when all the walls are crashing down.

The buyouts are the latest efforts to scale back the workforce at HHS, a massive and highly consequential umbrella agency that employs more than 80,000 people.

Last week, eligible HHS employees were also offered early retirement buyouts under a separate program also managed by OPM, according to an email sent to staff. HHS also reportedly lost 5,200 probationary employees following the purge of those workers across the federal government. The agency has since reportedly rehired some. An unknown amount also resigned from HHS following the January “fork in the road email” that offered federal workers eight months of pay if they resign. It is not immediately clear how many workers at HHS had accepted the latest buyouts. But on Tuesday, HHS seemed to try to entice more workers to do so, by offering employees eight weeks of full pay and benefits in addition to the lump sum, according to a copy of an email to staff reviewed by Mother Jones.

HHS is not alone in trying to lead staff to the door. The Education Department and the Social Security Administration are among those that have also reportedly offered workers the same buyouts HHS workers were offered. And more layoffs will soon hit the entire government, given that Thursday is the deadline for agency heads to come up with “reorganization plans” to implement “large-scale reductions in force,” based on one of Trump’s executive orders, according to OPM.

…

A scientific review officer at NIH, who oversees grant applications and plans to take the buyout, recounted “realizing that things that you hold important are no longer valued and are actually demonized” when she was told to remove her pronouns from her email signature and that grant reviewers should ignore parts of applications focused on diversity to comply with the anti-DEI orders. “The things that brought me to public health years ago,” she told me, “are not the things that are being prioritized, if we’re not allowed to be looking at how we create an equitable environment for everybody.”

By having specialty luxury pronouns in one’s email signature? Really? You think that’s worth mentioning when Trump and Kennedy are taking an axe to Health and Human Services?

Mmmm not possible.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he feels “very badly” for the thousands of civil servants who have lost their jobs in recent weeks but that “many of them don’t work at all.”

He means he feels very bad. “Feeling badly” is a pseudo-refinement resorted to by illiterate boobs like Trump who don’t know how adverbs work. “Feeling badly”=he does a bad job of feeling – which of course is true, but it’s not the lie he was trying to tell the press.

Asked by NBC News whether he feels responsible for so many people losing their jobs, Trump said: “Sure I do. I feel very badly … but many of them don’t work at all. Many of them never showed up to work.”

“When we cut, we want to cut, but we want to cut the people that aren’t working or … not doing a good job,” he told reporters at an Oval Office meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. “We’re keeping the best people.”

No they’re not. We know they’re not. How do we know they’re not? Because they’re dumping boatloads of people all at the same time, five minutes into this nightmare of a regime. They have no idea who is doing a good job and who isn’t; they haven’t paused for a single second to find out. It’s like taking a machete to a rose garden and then saying you were just plucking the wilted blooms.

Slash slash slash slash slash.

It’s almost Quaker in its simplicity.

President Donald Trump’s mass firings of permanent federal employees have already begun and are expected to accelerate over the next few weeks with tens of thousands more employees terminated. But the layoffs didn’t come out of nowhere.

This week, federal agencies face a deadline to provide Trump administration officials with plans for a reduction in force, a dramatic downsizing of the nation’s more than 2 million federal workers that will occur over the next few months. Along with layoffs, some agencies are expected to indefinitely extend their hiring freezes, eliminate currently vacant positions and consolidate offices as ways to reduce headcount.

To belabor the obvious, this isn’t a careful, planned, researched process of trimming the federal budget, it’s taking an axe to the infrastructure with zero regard to the consequences.

Guided by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department Of Government Efficiency aides, Trump has spent his first eight weeks in office focused on dismantling the federal government, including shutting down and laying off the staff of the United States Agency for International Development and taking steps to do the same to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Because consumers shouldn’t have financial protection. They should be cheated, and hope to do better next time.

The firings have affected all 50 states and include employees at agencies that Americans frequently interact with, including the National Park Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Veterans Affairs, Internal Revenue Service, National Institutes of Health and many others.

We don’t need any of that. Eat, sleep, work; that’s all we need.

Ah. The woman who says “living as a woman” = being a woman is not just some random akkteeveest, she’s a big wheel.

Green MP for Bristol Central. Co-leader of @TheGreenParty. Engineer.

Too be completely honest, I would expect an MP and co-leader of the Green Party to be more intellectually serious than someone who blithers about “living as a woman” being the same thing as being a woman.

Yeah there is.

Of course there is “one way” of being a woman, just as there is one way of being a doe, a cow, a mare, a hen, a sow, a vixen, a ewe.

There’s not one way of living while being a woman, but there is one way of just basically being-a-woman-not-a-man.

Uh oh uh oh someone referred to a man as Mr.

A House subcommittee hearing abruptly ended on Tuesday after a Republican lawmaker was confronted over misgendering Rep. Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware and the first openly transgender member of Congress. 

In other words the first man playacting being a woman in Congress. Congress shouldn’t be a stage for playacting.

McBride, a transgender woman, had been the subject of attacks from Republicans since starting her term in January. She was previously misgendered by other members, including Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.

There’s no such thing as “misgendering.” There is a misogynist thing where men taunt other men for being “pussies” and “cunts” and similar, but referring to a man as a man is not mis-anything. [Pedantic note: the “mis” in “misgender” is not the same word as the “mis” in “misogyny.”]

McBride later wrote on X that “No matter how I’m treated by some colleagues, nothing diminishes my awe and gratitude at getting to represent Delaware in Congress.”

“It is truly the honor and privilege of a lifetime. I simply want to serve and to try to make this world a better place,” she wrote. 

Not really. If that were true he wouldn’t be doing the narcissistic “pay close attention to my magic gender” thing. He wouldn’t because it’s a distraction, it’s a waste of time, it’s pointless, it does nothing to make the world a better place.