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Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Is this the day?

“You go out of the house thinking ‘is this the day that someone is going to shout at me, attack me?’”

Right. And women go out of the house thinking,

“Is this the day a man is going to kill me?”

“Is this the day that an entitled man is going to rape me in what’s supposed to be a women-only space?”

“Is this the day I’m going to become an involuntary porn actor with my image permanently on the internet, because men were allowed in women’s spaces to set up hidden cameras?”

“Is this the day that a male player will severely injure me when he participates in women’s … Read the rest

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Guest post: Comparative days
By Ophelia Benson, April 23, 2025

Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Is this the day?

“You go out of the house thinking ‘is this the day that someone is going to shout at me, attack me?’”

Right. And women go out of the house thinking,

“Is this the day a man is going to kill me?”

“Is this the day that an entitled man is going to rape me in what’s supposed to be a women-only space?”

“Is this the day I’m going to become an involuntary porn actor with my image permanently on the internet, because men were allowed in women’s spaces to set up hidden cameras?”

“Is this the day that a male player will severely injure me when he participates in women’s … Read the rest

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Guest post: Comparative days 

Originally a comment by maddog1129 on Is this the day?

“You go out of the house thinking ‘is this the day that someone is going to shout at me, attack me?’”

Right. And women go out of the house thinking,

“Is this the day a man is going to kill me?”

“Is this the day that an entitled man is going to rape me in what’s supposed to be a women-only space?”

“Is this the day I’m going to become an involuntary porn actor with my image permanently on the internet, because men were allowed in women’s spaces to set up hidden cameras?”

“Is this the day that a male player will severely injure me when he participates in women’s … Read the rest

Is this the day? 

Ah yes “Emily” Bridges, the man who forced his way into women’s cycling. ITV thought he would be a good person to chat with about issues that affect women.

Emily Bridges, Britain’s best known transgender athlete, says last week’s Supreme Court ruling on gender has “painted a target” on the back of trans women.

Who says he’s best known?

If he is best known it’s for being a man who cheats by racing as a woman.

“It increases levels of vulnerability,” she told ITV News. “You go out of the house thinking ‘is this the day that someone is going to shout at me, attack me?'”

Oh really? Is that what it does? Now think about what it does for … Read the rest

Confessio fidei 

Does he believe? Yes or no?

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer does not believe transgender women are women, his official spokesman has said. It comes after the UK Supreme Court ruled last week that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.

In March 2022, when he was leader of the opposition, Sir Keir told the Times that “a woman is a female adult, and in addition to that transwomen are women, and that is not just my view – that is actually the law”. Asked if Sir Keir still believed that a transgender woman was a woman, the PM’s official spokesman said: “No, the Supreme Court judgment has made clear that when looking at the Equality

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Feeble 

Talk about phoning it in – what a worthless contribution to discussion of the ruling:

Making trans women use male spaces will cause distress

Yes, thanks, we’re aware of Line One of the Trans Dogma Commands: they’re what we dispute and reject. We do not agree that men’s “distress” when women say no is a compelling or even halfway decent reason to let men take what belongs to women. Men’s presence in women’s toilets and organizations causes women distress, so how’s about you focus on that for a minute. You are a woman after all. Have some self-respect.

Plenty of people will perceive this clarification of meaning — or change of interpretation, as maintained by Melanie Field, who oversaw the

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The equalities minister said 

The ship is turning around.

Trans women should use male toilets, the equalities minister has said, declaring that “services should be accessed on the basis of biological sex”.

Bridget Phillipson said businesses should ensure “they have appropriate provision in place”, which could mean unisex facilities.

But she said the Supreme Court ruling was clear about the basis on which services should be used.

Her comments came after a long-awaited judgment delivered last Wednesday in which the UK’s highest court confirmed the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act “refer to a biological woman and biological sex”. It means transgender women with a gender recognition certificate can be excluded from single-sex spaces if it is deemed “proportionate”.

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Ask nicely now 

Very healthy, very sane.

Council-funded sex education tells pupils ‘ask for consent before choking’

Actually it’s worse than that, because of course it is. The “sex education” tells boys to ask for consent before choking girls. There’s nothing about girls asking for consent to choke boys. That fact and what it hints at should be reason enough all by itself to Just Say No.

The disgusting thing is that the Telegraph apparently never notices the disparity. It certainly never mentions it. What are you thinking, you bozos?? If boys are wanting to choke girls then that itself is a problem and should be right at the center of your reporting.

Sex education materials taught to teenagers in schools included

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An egregious breach 

Maggie Chapman is in hot water.

The dean of the faculty of advocates has criticised Scottish Green MSP Maggie Chapman for what he described as “reprehensible” comments attacking the judiciary following the Supreme Court judgement on the definition of a woman.

Ms Chapman – the deputy convener of Holyrood’s equalities committee – was filmed at a weekend rally condemning what she called “bigotry, prejudice and hatred coming from the Supreme Court”.

In a letter to the committee, Roddy Dunlop KC called the remarks “outrageous” and said they created a “risk of danger” to members of the Supreme Court. Chapman said she stands by her comments, and that it was her role to “stand up and represent trans people”.

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Which kind of dignity and respect? 

This conversation gets so ridiculous.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer does not believe transgender women are women, his official spokesman has said.

It comes after the UK Supreme Court ruled last week that a woman is defined by biological sex under equalities law.

So until then he did believe that “trans women” are women? That’s so bizarre, because the word “trans” is right there.

And why are we talking about “believe”? Does the BBC do stories reporting that Starmer does not believe horses can fly? Does it report on everything the Prime Minister does not believe? Can’t we assume he doesn’t believe silly fanciful things?

Asked whether Sir Keir would now use a trans woman’s preferred pronouns, the spokesman

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Not bigotry not prejudice not hatred 

Hot water.

A Green MSP has been urged to resign after accusing the UK’s highest court of spreading “bigotry, prejudice and hatred” by ruling that a trans woman is not a woman.

Maggie Chapman, who is deputy convener of Holyrood’s equalities committee, was filmed lambasting the Supreme Court at a gathering of trans activists in a street in Aberdeen at the weekend.

The North East Scotland MSP and high-profile trans activist said that the “prejudice” evinced by the court was “not in our name, never in our name”.

Ah yes, the “prejudice” of saying that men are not women.

But feminist campaigners and the Tories accused Ms Chapman of attempting to “smear” the Supreme Court and argued

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Permission slip 

The Telegraph tells us Starmer has finally managed to get the words out.

Sir Keir Starmer has finally broken his silence on the Supreme Court’s ruling that transgender women are not legally women.

The Prime Minister, who has faced criticism for failing to address the judgment since it was announced last Wednesday, said on Tuesday that the court had provided “real clarity”.

Well, there’s been real clarity all along, it’s just that we’ve been relentlessly bullied and punished for mentioning it. Starmer has done nothing to discourage that bullying and punishing.

Asked whether he believed a trans woman was a woman, Sir Keir told broadcasters: “A woman is an adult female, and the court has made that absolutely clear.

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He’s not *our* pope 

Why are we doing the flags at half mast thing for the pope? Do we do it for the Archbishop of Canterbury? Do we do it for all religious celebrities? If so why? If not why? Why single out the pope? Catholicism is a horrible religion, especially for women.

I did ask Google but it refuses to tell me – it just keeps repeating FrancisFrancisFrancis. Yes I know, I’m asking about other popes and clerics.

I feel like going out and buying a flag just so that I can fly it. Is there a devil flag? An atheist flag? A gender-atheist flag?… Read the rest

Escorted 

What next? Pete Hegseth accidentally dropping a nuke down Trump’s pants?

As last week got underway, one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon. Soon after, Darin Selnick, another top member of Hegseth’s team was out, too.

The same day, nearly every member of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service — described as the department’s “fast-track tech development arm” — announced that they’re resigning. Soon after, Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was also removed from the Pentagon.

Good thing it’s only the Pentagon.

Wait…

And just when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse, they got worse. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary

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Women-haters plot 

They’re just falling all over themselves in the rush to keep women down.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to stop a plot by ministers to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women.

Labour ministers and MPs will this week meet to discuss how to promote trans rights in the wake of the landmark judgment. They are understood to be planning to take their demands to the equalities minister.

The plot emerged in leaked WhatsApp messages from a group chat of Labour MPs, including ministers Sir Chris Bryant and Dame Angela Eagle. Both railed against comments made by Baroness Falkner, the equality watchdog chief, who said the ruling meant trans women would be

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After saying no 

Joan Smith tells us Labour is plotting to make things worse for women.

Yesterday’s Mail on Sunday has revealed that government ministers secretly condemned the ruling in a WhatsApp group and plotted to challenge it. Labour MPs specifically attacked Baroness Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is due to issue new guidance this summer on the court’s common-sense ruling that “sex” means biological sex.

Falkner has correctly interpreted the judgment to mean that men who claim to be women cannot use single-sex spaces or compete against female athletes at sporting events. But when a Labour MP in the WhatsApp group described Falkner’s response as “pretty appalling”, Culture minister Sir Chris Bryant replied that he “agreeed

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Criminal incitement 

Why aren’t ALL MPs saying this? With one voice? Why is it cool for men to threaten women with violence and murder? Why does the left look hard in the other direction?

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Who’s a cute little banky then 

And another one. Lloyds Bank ffs.

The reaction to the judgment serves as an important reminder that, while the law is the law, our culture remains dead-set against women who say no to men. It’s how women’s and lesbians’ rights were so rapidly eroded by Stonewall and its allies in the first place, and why women have been bullied, hounded and sacked simply for trying to assert their legal protections.

The same people are ignoring the supreme court’s emphasis that none of this takes away from trans people’s existing rights, and are scaremongering and infantilising trans people as victims. Lloyds Bank wrote to all its employees to say it “stood by” and “cherished” all its trans employees.

Cherished! Cherished … Read the rest

Guest post: Nobody dies when crossdressers admit that they’re crossdressers 

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Yes but.

Trans women won’t cease to exist because five judges decided the legal definition of a woman within the Equality Act 2010 does not include them, even if they hold Gender Recognition Certificates.

No, they most certainly won’t. So what’s the fucking problem, then?

And now they have to navigate a world that is crueller than it was before.

No, they fucking don’t. There is absolutely nothing cruel about acknowledging anyone’s biological sex, ever. If a man cannot cope with other people acknowledging his biological sex, he’s clearly got his mind tied up in mental knots and he needs serious therapy to untie them.

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It’s Millicent Fawcett’s fault 

But I thought our trans siblings were so vulnerable and terrified?

Statues defaced in trans rights protest

That doesn’t sound like fear, it sounds like rage. Male rage.

Trans rights activists who vandalised statues in Westminster are “simply criminals” and should be prosecuted, the shadow home secretary has said.

Seven statues were defaced when thousands of people gathered in central London on Saturday to demonstrate against the Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

Protesters daubed “fag rights” and a heart on a banner held by the suffragette Dame Millicent Fawcett. 

Well of course. She’s just another bitch, right? Another one of those horrible bitches who think women’s rights matter.

Robert Jenrick,

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They’re all about the LOVE 

Cute little Sophie lets the mask fall.

At 12 seconds – “The only person who should shutup is YOU. We should all take a shite on YOU – you heinous creepy awl BITCH.”

He then realizes that was a bit much, and tries to backpedal for a couple of seconds, then reverts to roaring “Our rights are under attack!!”

What a loathsome person he is.… Read the rest

Yes but 

Oh oh oh but what about the immense tragic suffering of the tranz commmunniny?

And, yes, I know that women lost their jobs for voicing their beliefs on biology. That was a wrong that required to be righted. But suffering is not binary in the way the court has decided sex is. Trans people have been under attack, too. Their besiegement has been amplified by the same judgment that has lessened yours. 

Right. Ok. So the woman was raped, I get it, but the rapist has been under attack too. Now the rapist has been convicted and it’s your fault – you have amplified his besiegementitude.

Trans women won’t cease to exist because five judges decided the legal definition of

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