Erm…what?

We mark the launch of the Rainbow Badge initiative in the Paediatrics department at UHL.🌈
This badge is all about showing inclusivity to our young patients and encouraging open conversations about sexuality with our staff members. #TeamULHG pic.twitter.com/thI4IYBX8j

— UL Hospitals (@ULHospitals) February 20, 2024

A hospital is encouraging open conversations about sexuality with its staff members in the Paediatrics department? A hospital is encouraging staff members to start cozy chats about sex with child patients?

Is this hospital staffed entirely by priests by any chance?… Read the rest

Compare.

The BBC today:

US man guilty of killing transgender woman in gender identity hate crime first

A man has been found guilty of killing a transgender woman in the US’s first federal trial over an alleged hate crime based on gender identity.

BBC yesterday:

Cat killer Scarlet Blake found guilty of murdering Jorge Martin Carreno

A woman obsessed with death who once livestreamed the killing of a cat has been found guilty of murdering a man.

When a trans woman is the victim his transitude is in the headline and the lede. When a trans woman is the perp his transitude is not in the headline or the lede.

This manipulative lying is shockingly bad journalism.… Read the rest

This.

There is something grim about pretending that a gratuitously violent, sexually-motivated male murderer is a woman, when women have to bear so much of the brunt of male violence in society. That this is a male crime could not be more relevant here.https://t.co/oMzN46VM0l

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) February 23, 2024

Indeed there is.

The Beeb, unlike the Guardian, does eventually admit that the guy is trans, but only very late in the piece (and everyone knows that most of us don’t read all the way to the end). Admitting the murderer is a man after many paragraphs of “she offered him a bottle of vodka before she led him towards the river” and the like is as minimal … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Behold: an umbrella term.

“Breaking gender stereotypes” is the ultimate thought terminator for many.

Far too many people have been encouraged to just turn off their brains and feel the heavenly transcendence of the contradiction at the heart of gender identity ideology. It’s a holy confusion. Like the Trinity: how can three gods be one god at the very same time? That’s just it! They can’t! You can’t think your way through this; you just have to feeeeeeeel it.

Likewise with the conflation of sex and gender. How is reifying gender stereotypes breaking them down? How is obsessively promoting gender stereotypes erasing them? That’s just it! You can’t think you way though this.… Read the rest

Another ratchet. It’s usual for the news media to admit they’re talking about a trans person at least once, isn’t it? As opposed to just straight-up leaving that little detail out when reporting on a gruesome murder by a revolting sadistic man?

Cat-killing woman guilty of murdering man as he walked home in Oxford

But he’s not a woman, he’s a trans woman. Yet the Guardian never once mentions that fact. Not once. Lie after lie after lie after lie.

A woman who livestreamed herself killing, dissecting and blending the body of a cat before months later brutally attacking a man and leaving him to drown to death in a river has been convicted of murder.

Scarlet Blake, 26,

Oh good lord. Do play the clip to see reeking oozing entitlement in action. Large pallid man whose accent rivals that of Choss Windsor in poshitude bleats about being “misgendered” in court because listen here he’s not a “he” he’s nonbinareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Bonus: the “microaggression” ploy.

Oh good, even more nonsense to keep track of.

But what does gender expansive mean? According to national LGBTQ+ advocacy group PFLAG, it’s an umbrella term for individuals who don’t align with traditional gender categories, or who expand ideas of gender expression or identity.

“It might be used because someone has identities outside of what’s socially accepted,” said Mackenzie Harte, PFLAG’s manager of learning and inclusion, adding that the term is one they’ve increasingly heard used by parents and educators regarding to youth. “It’s where someone is not conforming to social ideas of what gender should be.”

Geddit? It means they’re special and rebelly and fascinating and original and above all better than you.

Gender expansive is not

Britain’s only trans judge quits over fears of ‘politicising’ judiciary

A trans judge is someone who knows nothing about the law but identifies as a judge?

No, they mean a man who claims to be a woman.

Master Victoria McCloud, who transitioned from a man to a woman in the 1990s, warned the situation meant she is “now political every time I choose where to pee”.

Whereas before “the situation” he was free to violate women’s rights with impunity.

McCloud’s gender identity was kept private but became public knowledge after being published by a national newspaper.

Why was it kept private? How is that fair?

Referring to the rise of gender-critical campaigners, McCloud added “it has been open season on

Fairness? What’s that?

UNHINGED RANTS by an angry man targeting two women.
An illustration for @DuaneBratt :
Here is the man who currently holds 4 out of 5 powerlifting WOMEN’s records in #Alberta (in the age & weight category) using an UNRELATED incident in #Oklahoma #USA 🇺🇸 to spew his hate towards… https://t.co/94KAkm2YTC pic.twitter.com/lpfyjrY3nc

— Linda Blade (@coachblade) February 22, 2024

The MALE powerlifter in the Canadian Powerlifting Union Women's category is now making threats towards myself and @ABDanielleSmith
I have filed a police report.
All because I ask for fairness in womens sports. I have been stalked, TRAS associated with him have gone after my… https://t.co/dbpcpL6t16

— April Hutchinson (@Lea_Christina4) February 22, 2024

As far as I can tell … Read the rest

Why is Jonathan “India” Willoughby unaffectionately called Botox Chuckie?

Oh right.

Sing it!

No you fucking haven't, you tedious over-privileged narcissist ponce. pic.twitter.com/BMvtIBZcC5

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) February 22, 2024

Attention.

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) February 22, 2024

Alllllllll the attention.

🤔 pic.twitter.com/IM4xEI0tLy

— mole at the counter (@moleatthedoor) February 22, 2024

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Originally a comment by Eava on All rotten.

Hunter Biden gets his share of blame for this, parlaying Daddy’s job into a fat salary for him.

This is what children of famous people do, opportunities find them.

George W. Bush had Saudi investors bail out failing businesses. He was majority owner of the Texas rangers and almost became the commissione of baseball. Jenna Bush is a talk show host with multiple book deals. Chelsea Clinton gets book deals. Andrew Cuomo got positions in the Clinton Administration. At the same time, these are people who are highly educated and steeped in the business/political world. Hunter wasn’t a strung out junkie when he was on the Burisma board.

He was a … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Eric MacDonald on No exception for extrauterine children.

On what basis can anyone say that “Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God.” Of course, we should simply dismiss the idea since there is no God. But if we take it in terms of the beliefs expressed in Genesis, we have to ask what does speaking about the image of God even mean? We have no idea. But it is implausible to think that reference is being made to fertilised eggs, since no one knew of them at the time, so it couldn’t have been part of the meaning of ‘image of God’. The implication is that it refers either to physiognomy … Read the rest

Trump helps the prosecution again:

Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump in June for hoarding classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. During a Fox News town hall on Tuesday night, host Laura Ingraham asked Trump why he hadn’t simply returned the material when the government asked him to do so.

“First of all, I didn’t have to hand them over,” Trump said bluntly. “But second of all, I would have done that. We were talking, and then all of a sudden they raided Mar-a-Lago.”

Of course, he did “have to.” He’s just brazenly lying in his usual way when he says he didn’t. He may in some sense “believe” he had the right to take them, but he has no right … Read the rest

Hm. It seems Russia has been faking stories about Hunter Biden and the Republicans have been lapping them up and now they can’t any more. What a normal and healthy situation.

Representative Jim Jordan seems to be struggling with the realization that Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden appears to be founded on a bed of lies peddled by the Russian government.

On Wednesday, the Ohio Republican got caught up in his own words, insisting that the inquiry still had merit, despite the Justice Department indictment against its primary witness, Alexander Smirnov…

On Tuesday, the Justice Department revealed that Smirnov admitted to prosecutors that “officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved” in developing the Hunter Biden narrative.

Well good, … Read the rest

Frozen objects in test tubes are children, according to the Alabama Supreme Court. Not potential children, future children, the makings of children, but children.

Referencing antiabortion language in the state constitution, the judges’ majority opinion said that an 1872 statute allowing parents to sue over the wrongful death of a minor child applies to “unborn children,” with no exception for “extrauterine children.”

“Even before birth, all human beings have the image of God, and their lives cannot be destroyed without effacing his glory,” Chief Justice Tom Parker wrote in a concurring opinion.

But. But. But “God” isn’t real, “God” is an idea invented by humans. We don’t even know what “the image of God” would look like, because there … Read the rest

Gannett refuses to publish Doonesbury.

Did you notice that there was not a @DoonesburyComic in your Sunday Paper (basically any @Gannett paper, including the @DMRegister) here it is! See the thread for all six panels! (1) pic.twitter.com/MpMygJlrZp

— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) February 19, 2024

@Doonesbury Sunday Cartoon (3) of six panels. pic.twitter.com/PJgtDtQDaA

— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) February 19, 2024

@Doonsburycomic Sunday cartoon (5) of six panels pic.twitter.com/7xCmyKcTJ0

— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) February 19, 2024

#IaPolitics #FLPolitics

— Bob Krause (@KrauseForIowa) February 19, 2024

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NPR chatted with Masha Gessen about comparing Gaza to Nazi ghettoes back in December.

Prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen received a prestigious award for political thought over the weekend, in a ceremony that almost didn’t happen due to backlash over their recent writings on Israel-Gaza.

Israel’s air-and-ground assault on Gaza has killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the Hamas-led attack on Israel killed some 1,200 people and took more than 240 others hostage.

Why did Israel commit this air-and-ground assault on Gaza? Because that’s where Hamas is. It didn’t do it as part of a broader campaign to kill all Muslims or all Arabs. It can still be a war crime, but comparable to Hitler’s … Read the rest

The Times of Israel in December:

The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen received a German literary prize Saturday in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article she penned comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettos. The comparison in a recent New Yorker article was viewed as controversial in Germany, where government authorities strongly support Israel, in part as a form of compensation for the Holocaust and the murder of 6 million Jews.

Gessen, who was born Jewish in the Soviet Union, is critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

One can be critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians without claiming it’s comparable to the Holocaust.

In Gessen’s article, titled “In the Shadow of the Holocaust,” the

Parental advice-giver found guilty of horrific child abuse. Of course.

Ruby Franke, a mother of six who gave online parenting advice via a popular YouTube channel, was sentenced to four prison terms of between one and 15 years each, on aggravated child abuse charges on Tuesday.

Franke, 42, who had 2.3 million followers on her now-deleted 8 Passengers video channel, was arrested in the southern Utah city of Ivins last August after her malnourished 12-year-old son, with open wounds and bound with duct tape, climbed out of a window at the home of Jodi Hildebrandt, owner of a self-improvement counseling business, to ask for food and water from a neighbor.

So her parenting advice is to hand your children … Read the rest