If questioned, say it’s complicated and you haven’t figured it out yet.

The captains or vice-captains of eight inter-county teams playing in the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) league finals have been advised by the association’s media team to avoid expressing opinions on its new transgender policy.

The LGFA will host a round of media interviews on Tuesday with the players ahead of the four finals. The Sunday Independent has obtained a copy of an LGFA briefing issued to the players that contains suggested responses to questions on controversial topics journalists might ask.

A question about the LGFA’s new transgender policy, which was introduced in February, is listed at the top of the likely topics to be raised.

And what … Read the rest

Rubbing Our Noses In It chapter eleventy billion:

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has secured another major partnership deal, days after Bud Light was criticized for partnering with her.

Mulvaney, an actor and comedian who has been documenting her transition across social media, is now a sports bra model for Nike. 

Wait wait wait wait wait.

What is a sports bra? What is the whole point of a sports bra? Why is a sports bra necessary?

Because breasts, that’s why. Because breasts stick out from the body, and bounce if the body is in rapid motion, and that’s uncomfortable at best. Because breasts need support in the activities that make up sports.

Dylan Mulvaney doesn’t have breasts.

It’s … Read the rest

Ah yes, trans ballet at last; just what we all needed.

He's a charity case with no talent.https://t.co/7JKOaFFPU9

— The Goth (@TheGoth8) April 8, 2023

Do check out the Missoula Gala Performance. The dancers do the moves and then he just hangs out, tiptoeing around a bit like a burglar looking for the exit. The dancers are on pointe and he’s not, yet he’s somehow the star. Sums up the whole ludicrous mess.… Read the rest

A new front is opened in Musk’s war on all of us. Nick Cohen explains:

If you follow the tech news, you will know that Elon Musk has gone to war against Substack. He wants to punish it for launching a feature called Notes, which he fears may compete with his increasingly rickety Twitter platform.

Yesterday morning I found that no one could retweet Substack links to my pieces. By the evening, Musk had lifted the ban. But if Twitter users clicked on a link, they received a warning that made it sound as if they were about to enter the dark web.

It’s true. I tried it and sure enough I got the warning. Furthermore, I was … Read the rest

Texas senator is fine with a Supreme Court justice’s acceptance of bribes.

The left is furious it lost control of the Supreme Court, and it wants it back by whatever means possible. The latest effort is a smear on Justice Thomas. https://t.co/0cYWS9Mq7z via @WSJopinion

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) April 8, 2023

How does the Wall Street Journal defend Thomas’s cheery acceptance of bribes?

The left’s assault on the Supreme Court is continuing, and the latest front is the news that Justice Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who has hosted the Justice on his private plane, his yacht, and his vacation resort. That’s it. That’s the story. Yet this non-bombshell has triggered breathless claims that the Court must

"Most women have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nmol/L, but Semenya has male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L."

Lynsey Sharp would have taken the bronze in a fair race. pic.twitter.com/dP9ucKUrCv

— Women's Voices (@WomenReadWomen) April 7, 2023

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Ben Bradshaw’s grotesque waving away of femicide is from a New Statesman interview with Rosie Duffield.

For at least half a decade now, Labour, like many political parties in the West, has struggled with the contentious issue of “self-ID” – the proposed right of people to self-identity as another sex or gender.

Notice a funny thing about this. The word or label “self-ID” doesn’t literally mean to self-identity as another sex or gender. It just means [the right to] self-identify. We’re given a translation that claims it means [only] to self-identify as another sex or gender. Not, you see, to self-identify as an animal or a tree or a building or a planet – just as another sex or … Read the rest

My god. Sometimes it just knocks the breath right out of you.

Ben Bradshaw is a Labour MP. Yes that’s right: a Labour MP.

This is despicable from ⁦@BenPBradshaw⁩.
Men kill loads of women anyway, so why bother keeping the few safeguards women have. pic.twitter.com/0xdDyVAfms

— Janice Turner (@VictoriaPeckham) April 8, 2023

Says the Labour MP from the demographic that is not the target of violent misogynist men.… Read the rest

Reduxx reports:

Athletics Canada’s former head coach has come forward to reveal that he was threatened by the Canadian Olympic Committee lawyers after expressing discontent with the results of the women’s 800m at the 2016 Olympic Games. The competition saw three biological males take the top spots, displacing the female Canadian bid to fourth place.

Peter Eriksson, the record-making former head coach for the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic program, spoke to Reduxx about what happened at the 2016 session in Rio, and the consequences he faced if he spoke out on behalf of Canadian athlete Melissa Bishop. Bishop placed fourth after three males competed in the female division.

In the 800m women’s race, Caster Semenya of South Africa

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Web of confusion.

You’ve just announced that you think of girl-being as a matter of self-identifying rather than fact or body, so you don’t center the experiences of young women and girls, you center the experiences of people who tell you they think of themselves as women or girls.

You can’t do both. You can’t insist that being female is a matter of “identifying as” and still pretend you center the experience of female people.

I’ll bet the TiMs attending would be some pissed off it it ended up being all TiMs and only TiMs in attendence. I think that’s why they insist on having it both ways. They need … Read the rest

Pro Publica reports Clarence Thomas’s “explanation.”

In response to a ProPublica report, Thomas explained why he did not disclose lavish travel provided by billionaire Harlan Crow. But legal experts maintain the justice was required to make these disclosures.

You might think that because he’s on the Supreme Court he’s more of a legal expert than these legal experts who say what he doesn’t like. But that’s not the case. The appointments of justices are political, and presidents don’t necessarily choose the most expert experts. To put it mildly. Clarence Thomas was most definitely not Bush’s pick because of his expertise.

But seven legal ethics experts consulted by ProPublica, including former ethics lawyers for Congress and the White House, said the

Right side of history yeah?

The Guardian on changing the Equality Act:

A significant change to the 2010 Equality Act is being pursued by the government, which would redefine “sex” to refer specifically to a person’s sex at birth. That would be designed to make it legal for those who are transgender to be banned from single-sex spaces and events, such as book groups and hospital wards.

Book groups? Is it currently illegal to have all-women book groups? Really?

Currently, trans people can have their identity formally recognised by applying for a gender recognition certificate.

What does that mean? What does “their identity” mean? Identity isn’t a synonym for sex. This issue is such a mess of lies and obfuscation that it becomes necessary … Read the rest

Clarence Thomas says he followed the rules to the letter.

In a statement released by the Supreme Court, the justice said that he had followed guidance from others at the court and that he believed he was not required to report the trips.

“Early in my tenure at the court, I sought guidance from my colleagues and others in the judiciary, and was advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the court, was not reportable,” Justice Thomas said. “I have endeavored to follow that counsel throughout my tenure, and have always sought to comply with the disclosure guidelines.”

No. That’s not credible. If you’re a Supreme Court justice and … Read the rest

Trump is hoping to use his criminality as a campaign boost.

At one end of the palatial Donald J. Trump Grand Ballroom at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, the former president made his first public comments about his arrest. At the opposite end of the hall — a space illuminated by 16 crystal chandeliers and bigger than four professional basketball courts — were several cardboard boxes stuffed with white campaign T-shirts.

[Interjection. What the hell is that “bigger than four professional basketball courts” for? How are we supposed to know how big that is?! Not everyone on the planet goes to professional basketball games. What is it with football fields and basketball courts as units of measurement? Cut it out.]

The

Y?CA Scotland.

The Young Women’s Movement – or YWCA Scotland – has published its plan to ‘reimagine Scotland for young women and girls’. But first they appear to have ‘reimagined’ women and girls to include ‘people of marginalised genders’ – I presume men who ‘identify’ as women… pic.twitter.com/GKkRKy4bFV

— Susan Dalgety (@DalgetySusan) April 6, 2023

First: “We refer to our primary audience as self-identifying young women and girls.” Why self-identifying? Why not just young women and girls? Silly question. Because that would be transphobic. It has to be a matter of opinion rather than a matter of fact, because otherwise it’s exclooosionary.

But the YWCA has always been for young women and girls, just as the YMCA has always been … Read the rest

That went well.

A very reasonable, compassionate, justice-seeking group. I especially like the “Bye bitch!”

Women’s Swimming Star @Riley_Gaines_ has been violently assaulted by TRANS Activists while giving a speech on women’s sports at San Francisco State University.

A Transgender Male, wearing a dress, punched Riley repeatedly while the Trans Mob chased and harassed her until she… pic.twitter.com/3nkOOqDu3h

— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 7, 2023

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Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey on Grounds for removal.

Screechy’s Comprehensive Guide to SCOTUS:

Thomas: The recent revelations of the depths of his corruption notwithstanding, a sincere right-wing nut. As Elie Mystal said today, he would have voted the same way regardless of what gifts he got. He really believes in all this stuff. He’s even got a few idiosyncratic non-stereotypical conservative views (like on the Confrontation Clause, where he’s made some pro-defendant rulings). But don’t underestimate the “nut” part — he is on record as saying that there is no Constitutional obstacle to, say, Alabama declaring the Baptist Church as the Official Church of Alabama.

Alito: Complete and utter right-wing hack. Has no consistent legal philosophy or … Read the rest

Clarence Thomas seems to be greedier than most Supreme Court justices.

“Justice Thomas Reports Wealth of Gifts” was the title of a December 2004 front-page story in the Los Angeles Times, detailing how Clarence Thomas had received gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars over the prior six years — far more than the other justices on the Supreme Court at the time.

So he stopped reporting them.

The story appears to have marked a turning point for Thomas and his public disclosures of gifts. Since the news account was published 18 years ago, Thomas has reported receiving just two gifts, according to a Washington Post review of his financial disclosure forms posted online by nonprofit groups Fix the

How does he know any of that?

But as you will all know there are a small number of people who do not identify with the gender that they were born into, and it can be incredibly stressful. And there are young people who are going through real anguish actually in relation to this, and I’m not gunna join those that just want to [arm shoots out] add to the abuse of that small group of people.

How does he know any of what he says? Ignoring the insult at the end for the moment, how does he know there are “people who do not identify with the gender that they were born into”? How does he even know … Read the rest