“We wouldn’t do this to any other community” – yes we would. Of course we would. We would and we do.

https://twitter.com/WeirAlison/status/1659212332709593089

Reporter: Ms Robison, do you still stand by what you said in Parliament, there’s no evidence that predatory men have ever had to pretend to be anything else to carry out abusive behavior – we’ve just had the case today of Andrew Miller, do you still stand by what you said last year?

Robison: Well the vast majority of trans people are just wanting to get on with their lives. Of course what we’re talking about here are people who’ve committed very serious crimes – now I wouldn’t want to talk about the case because it’s still ongoing, … Read the rest

But what is “your gender identity”? What is a “gender identity”? What does that mean? How do we know? What is the impersonal evidence for it? How is it different from a “soul”?

https://twitter.com/HelenWebberley/status/1659104895285297152

“You know it feels better when your body, mind and hormone profile matches your soul. Why wouldn’t it?”

https://twitter.com/RobbieTravers/status/1659142031464120320

Since no one is able to define “gender identity” without reference to sexist stereotypes, you’re suggesting that “gender non-conforming” people, including children, will “feel better” if they buy the drugs you sell. I hope people see this pernicious advertisement for what it is.

— Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) May 18, 2023

Updating to add Mr Menno’s response.

https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1659189310581506049… Read the rest

Bad reporting. Really shockingly bad, inaccurate, misleading, dishonest reporting.

A woman who hopes to become the first transgender driver to compete in the British Touring Cars Championship (BTCC) has praised her “wonderful” welcome to motorsport.

Deborah Stokes, from Kettering, made her debut at Snetterton Circuit, in Norfolk, on Saturday, finishing third in a saloon series race.

The 55-year-old said she wants to encourage diversity in motorsport.

He’s not a woman. The BBC should not lie this way in a news story. It’s deliberate. The BBC chose to say “A woman who” instead of “A trans woman who” at the very beginning. It’s insulting, of course, as always, but in addition to that it’s outright deceptive and confusing. It’s not… Read the rest

Hotter.

The world is almost certain to experience new record temperatures in the next five years, and temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have warned.

The breaching of the crucial 1.5C threshold, which scientists have warned could have dire consequences, should be only temporary, according to research from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

However, it would represent a marked acceleration of human impacts on the global climate system, and send the world into “uncharted territory”, the UN agency warned.

Bad uncharted territory.

New record temperatures have been set in many areas around the world in the heatwaves of the past year, but those highs may only be the beginning, according to the

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This seems ominous.

New #StateofClimate update from WMO and @MetOffice:

66% chance that annual global surface temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for at least one of next 5 years

98% likelihood that at least one of next five years will be warmest on
record. pic.twitter.com/30KcRT9Tht

— World Meteorological Organization (@WMO) May 17, 2023

https://twitter.com/WMO/status/1658806820515770371

Oh well. We can always escape the heat by taking a cruise to Alaska.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on The customer shouted negatively.

Is there a pattern here?

Non-binary social media influencer Deni Todorovic has detailed the moment a baggage issue at Melbourne airport led to an encounter with Australian Federal Police (AFP), causing them to miss their initial flight to Sydney for Australian Fashion Week.

The 34-year-old, who goes by they/them pronouns, claims they were checking in their luggage to a Jetstar flight on Monday when the weight of one of their bags triggered an alleged verbal dispute with airline staff.

Todorovic, who was accompanied by their mother at the time, said their bag was an extra 10.5kg in weight which they said came with a surcharge of $100.

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A Madison, Wisconsin tv station claims there have been “anti-transgender” graffiti and stickers showing up around town, but tells us nothing more detailed about them – that is, it doesn’t tell us what they say. So how do we know they really were “anti-transgender”?

We don’t.

Were they perhaps simply the definition of “woman”?

If so, the Madison tv station should pause to think.

Anti-transgender graffiti and stickers appear to be showing up in public places across Madison, leaving many in the community frustrated and some worried for their safety.

Several members of the LGBTQ+ community on the isthmus are raising the alarm because they want people to know how pervasive the anti-trans messages have been.

But not what they … Read the rest

Ben Hunte, former LGBTQXYZ correspondent for the BBC, talks to the former Starbucks worker who screamed at a customer to GET OUT because she “misgendered” him.

Exclusive: Luna Spain lost her manager’s job after an interaction with a customer was covered by right-wing media. She told VICE News she is being treated as a criminal despite being the victim of transphobia.

Define “transphobia.”

Luna Spain said the customer called her and another trans colleague “trannies” and shouted negatively about gender in the packed Starbucks store. 

What does “shouted negatively about gender” mean?

After two years as a manager, Spain said she was fired without even having a meeting with her bosses at work. 

Police have told us they are investigating

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Oooooh I saw her talking to them about those yesterday ooooooooh somebody call the authorities ooooooooooh did you ever?

https://twitter.com/BadWritingTakes/status/1658785343800328195… Read the rest

More Silence the Woman at Oxford:

More than 40 academics – including Prof Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, and Prof Nigel Biggar, the theologian – have intervened in support of a planned appearance at the Oxford Union by Prof Kathleen Stock, a leading feminist, in a letter to The Telegraph.

In the biggest row to erupt at the university since Rhodes Must Fall, students have tried to cancel Prof Stock’s talk – claiming that she is transphobic for her view that it is fiction to claim “transwomen are women”.

It’s a funny thing that none of the other movements for justice or rights or equality or whatever you want to call them have been fiction-based. Workers’ movements … Read the rest

UN Women is confused. Very, very confused.

Women’s rights are NOT negotiable.

Women and girls EVERYWHERE deserve to live a life of dignity and respect. Period.

Are you with us? pic.twitter.com/m78kTRUZoJ

— UN Women (@UN_Women) May 12, 2023

Women’s rights are NOT negotiable, they say, yet they cheerfully hand them over to men just because the men say they are women, and they ignore all the women who object. If our rights are not negotiable why is the UN giving them to men who claim to be women?

https://twitter.com/coccinellanovem/status/1658778051662979073… Read the rest

2.2 million views. 180 approvals.

https://twitter.com/nunya33369999/status/1658614908810940421

Here’s Nancy’s “tiger girl”.
Imagine a young woman feeling the full force of him steamrolling into her. https://t.co/6LWJcAtG4t pic.twitter.com/lahKj8jqDD

— Susan Flint (@Hypnoteq) May 16, 2023

2m views & 169 likes. It's over https://t.co/oTrGaslqXJ pic.twitter.com/Gr3Gn1lYbQ

— Stuart: Agent 37649 (@stuartf100) May 16, 2023

2 million https://t.co/mTXimQe5UF

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 16, 2023

Two point two million now.… Read the rest

Classic “no you are.”

Transphobes are defying reality.@PhilosophyTube | @AyoCaesar pic.twitter.com/h0lj0vPRCJ

— Novara Media (@novaramedia) May 16, 2023

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J. Michael Bailey asks why his gender research is being cancelled.

Updating to add: H/t Mostly Cloudy

Since my academic paper on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria was published last month, it has been downloaded more than 38,000 times and is ranked in the top percentile of similar articles in terms of online attention. One might think that the academic society associated with the journal — the International Academy of Sex Research — would be delighted. Instead, its officers are trying to cancel the article.

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Across the industrialised West, there has been an explosion of gender dysphoria among adolescent girls in recent years. In England, for example, annual referrals for child and adolescent gender dysphoria treatment grew in

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Wait what? There’s an environment, and it needs protection? Who knew?

The sleeping giant of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stirred.

In the past month, an avalanche of anti-pollution rules, targeting everything from toxic drinking water to planet-heating gases in the atmosphere, have been issued by the agency. Belatedly, the sizable weight of the US federal government is being thrown at longstanding environmental crises, including the climate emergency.

On Thursday, the EPA’s month of frenzied activity was crowned by the toughest ever limits upon carbon pollution from America’s power sector, with large, existing coal and gas plants told they must slash their emissions by 90% or face being shut down.

Not just this month though.

In April, new

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Reduxx reports:

A man who identifies as transgender and has a disturbing criminal record is suing a New York yoga studio for $5 million in compensation after he alleges employees asked him to use the men’s restroom instead of the women’s. Dylan Miles, who uses the name Ali Miles, filed the discrimination suit against Chelsea Traditional Hot Yoga on May 15.

Using a mixture of masculine and feminine pronouns to refer to himself, Miles alleges that the personnel at Chelsea Yoga “deprived [him] of his civil rights because he is gay, undergoing a gender transition, and because Miles does not conform to … gender-based preferences, expectations, or stereotypes about how a man/woman should dress and conduct himself/herself.”

There is … Read the rest

Cold rage for Nancy Kelley.

Absolutely disgusting – a woman touting for money to support allowing men to compete in women's RUGBY – where not only fairness but safety are at issue. Letting adult male bodies into women's rugby will mean broken necks, but that's neither here nor there for our Nance. https://t.co/5SNtAl5IFL

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) May 16, 2023

Your internalised misogyny and homophobia is now a public danger Nancy – the charity commission need to act to remove you before you crowdfund a girl’s broken neck. I’m quite serious about this. You are a danger to girls. https://t.co/mTXimQe5UF

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 16, 2023

I have a query: if a woman player gets her neck broken

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Who is on Team Julie-Anne Bloke?

Nancy Kelley of course.

If you can, support @tigergirl_70 in her fight for an inclusive rugby game #MakeSportEveronesGame https://t.co/XAU7hOyBPm

— Nancy Kelley (@Nancy_M_K) May 13, 2023

Replies are turned off; quote tweets are scathing; ratio is vast.

https://twitter.com/paned_neis_o_de/status/1658441234686394373… Read the rest

Crowd justice:

Fighting the ban on trans women in rugby

by Julie-Anne Curtiss

Curtiss blurbs himself:

I am a human being. Beyond that I am a transgender woman & believe that trans-rights are human rights. The purpose of this campaign is to challenge the legitimacy of RFU’s ban on trans-women in rugby.

Trans people should have human rights as all humans should. Men playing women’s rugby is not a human right.

Who am I

First and foremost, I am a human being. I happen to love playing rugby. I also happen to be trans. Following transition, I started playing rugby for an amateur women’s club. Anyone who loves sport will know how much community is built within a team: for

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The hostile replies on The Nation’s tweet of that ridiculous article defending “Lia” Thomas and accusing women of “frenzy” continue to pile up. Could it break the record for disastrous ratio? Confidence is high.

pic.twitter.com/g5SMFBdQPx

— Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) May 15, 2023

It is entirely normal to boo sports cheats. Explain the difference between a man named William cheating at women's sports and a man named Lia cheating at women's sports, using facts

— Matt Osborne, Gender Heretic (@OsborneInk) May 13, 2023

Because he’s a man. pic.twitter.com/uxSUhTSQIt

— Goody Corvid (@GoodyCorvid) May 14, 2023

Yeesh that photo. I don’t think I’d seen that one before.… Read the rest