Meanwhile…

A male has just been appointed "UN Women UK delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women"@UNWomenUK are mocking women again.#misogyny pic.twitter.com/MbfdsMVNsW

— Alan Henness (@zeno001) February 29, 2024

Not a joke, apparently. He has a public post about it on Facebook.

I am delighted to announce that I have been accepted as a UN Women UK delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

The UN CSW is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.

And it sees fit to disempower women by giving their roles to men.… Read the rest

Some reactions.

This is outrageous over reach by the BBC. Being clear that a ‘transwomans’ sex is male is crucial to understanding why women are concerned about trans inclusion in female sport. This is fact not opinion. https://t.co/tpRgZjbCiz

— FairPlayForWomen (@fairplaywomen) February 29, 2024

Women’s rights clash with trans rights because the sex of a transwoman is male. That’s what it’s all about. If the BBC doesn’t allow this to be spoken then women get excluded from the conversation. That’s the opposite of impartiality. https://t.co/tpRgZjca87

— FairPlayForWomen (@fairplaywomen) February 29, 2024

Unreasonable, even unreasoned outcome. "Male/female" are, across species, scientific and specific terms. We don't have women sparrows, we do have female sparrows. So TW are male *by definition* @JustinOnWeb

More on the Justin Webb issue.

Let's be honest. It's not particularly controversial that TW are male – this isn't contested by anyone serious.
What's controversial is whether, when, we can, or should, *say* this. It's not about facts.
It's about speech acts.
That's why the @JustinOnWeb outcome is so bad.

— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) February 29, 2024

Also it’s about what we’re allowed to say, and according to whom.

It’s not a trivial matter, when and if we’re allowed to tell the truth about who is a woman and who is not. It’s extremely important and extremely basic. It’s shocking and dangerous that a news organization, especially one with the clout of the BBC, is telling its personnel that … Read the rest

My thought exactly.

There's not enough hours in the day for North Yorkshire Police to apologise to all the women and girls for all the historical discriminatory behaviour we've been subjected to. #StonewallMilitia

— Ginny Fenwick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🧙‍♀️🦋 (@VirginiaFenwic4) February 29, 2024

Looking forward to your sincere and heartfelt apology to all the women you blew off, ignored and mocked during domestic abuse, rape and sexual assault complaints and to all the women in your patch who were murdered by known men.

— Joolz Denby (@JoolzDenby) February 29, 2024

When are you going to apologize to women for embracing transgenderism and ignoring sex?

— AConflictofValues (@ConflictOfValue) February 29, 2024

… Read the rest

BBC to its talking heads: you WILL say men are women; that’s an order.

The BBC has upheld a complaint against Today presenter Justin Webb after he said “trans women, in other words males”.

Webb made the comment during a discussion about new International Chess Federation (FIDE) guidelines on 22 August last year regarding whether being biologically male can give players an advantage in the game. A listener complained that the comment amounted to Webb giving his personal view on a controversial matter in breach of the BBC’s requirements on impartiality.

The only sense in which it’s “controversial” to say a man is a man is the one where tiresome people make a big stupid stink about saying a … Read the rest

The Telegraph:

Transgender women who are convicted of a crime must be recorded as men if they have not legally changed their gender, Downing Street has said.

The intervention comes after The Telegraph revealed that Scarlet Blake, 26, a male-born transgender woman who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering a stranger and killing a cat, has been recorded as a female criminal in official statistics.

And that’s not ok even if he has “legally changed his gender” – which is frankly a meaningless phrase. If “gender” is just the social bit then why tf would it justify falsifying the statistics? If it’s sex we’re back where we started: no he is not.

The Prime Minister’s spokesman

This is how we get inched into it.

Well, this IS good news.
'Transgender women who are convicted of a crime must be recorded as men if they have not legally changed their gender, Downing Street has said.'https://t.co/GINxu9zf7l

— Ann Sinnott (@AnnMSinnott) February 29, 2024

That’s not good news at all. Who cares if they have “legally changed their gender” or not? It doesn’t matter. Men’s crimes should not be reported as women’s crimes.

Laws aren’t magic. It’s futile to pass a law saying dung is ice cream; you still don’t want to eat it. You could pass a law saying Mars is an easy 5 hour trip by plane, but it wouldn’t be true. Laws can change some … Read the rest

Joan Smith writes:

A couple of months ago, it was revealed that 1,151 police officers in England and Wales are under investigation for sexual or domestic abuse, including 657 of Couzens’s former Met colleagues. One in seven of the overall total has been allowed to continue working as usual while 428 have been placed on restricted duties. Only 378 have been suspended. Allegations against officers are so widespread that the Met Police Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, admitted last year that he couldn’t guarantee that a woman reporting a rape wouldn’t be interviewed by a predator. Is anyone surprised that so many rape investigations go nowhere? 

It has been clear for a long time that there are failures at every

The Beeb:

Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens should never have been a police officer and opportunities were missed to stop him, an inquiry has said. A radical overhaul of police vetting and recruitment is needed now, the independent review found.

…

Police “repeatedly failed” to spot warning signs about his unsuitability to be an officer, the inquiry said, and it identified at least five incidents which were not reported to police. The inquiry said this included evidence Couzens allegedly committed a very serious sexual assault against a child, described as barely in her teens, before his policing career began.

Yebbut boys will be boys. It’s just nature. You can’t correct nature. You want the cops to be tough and … Read the rest

Oh ffs.

The crimes of a transgender cat killer and murderer will be officially recorded as having been committed by a woman, The Telegraph can disclose.

Scarlet Blake, 26, who was born male but identifies as a woman, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 24 years in prison on Monday for the murder of Jorge Martin Carreno in Oxford, having previously mutilated a cat.

Blake has been sent to a male prison, but was referred to as a woman during the trial.

Despite the fact that he is in reality a man.

If just saying things were enough then he could escape all this hassle by simply saying he didn’t murder Jorge Martin Carreño.

Dr

The lies they do tell I must say.

You couldn't make it up. This is one of the quacks from Gender GP. pic.twitter.com/yY4jAK7aJu

— The Lies They Tell (@sarahstuartxx) February 28, 2024

“Marianne” is a bloke.

"Counsellor" at Gender GP 👀 pic.twitter.com/GYPgVVmt0b

— Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) February 28, 2024

Look at that makeup. Might as well be burnt umber shoe polish.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Many doctors share our concerns.

Doctor groups like the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) and the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) came out swinging.

Doctor’s groups aren’t the same thing as patients’ groups, though. And doctors’ groups aren’t even the same thing as groups of doctors. Doctors’ groups are special interest bureaucracies, and the policies they advocate are not always in line with the interests of the patients at the receiving end of their respective fields of medicine, and they’re often not even in line with the majority of doctors working in the fields they purport to represent. Doctors’ interests diverge from patients’ interests all the time. That’s why medical scandals keep happening. And … Read the rest

James Esses tells us that incloooosion stretches even to the pet industry.

There’s a handbook.

This Handbook sets out to members of staff the policies and terms & conditions they must adhere to at work. Pets at Home describe this as “our expectations of you as one of our colleagues”.

At the beginning, this reads like any other corporate virtue-signalling manifesto (which, unfortunately, are ten a penny these days). Pets at Home state: “Diversity and inclusion is an important part of who we are and what we do…We aim to create an inclusive experience for our colleagues where everyone can connect to our purpose, be themselves and make their best contributor to our business”.

Everyone can be themselves? What if … Read the rest

Should we just give up and hand it all over to the bots?

Gemini is essentially Google’s version of the viral chatbot ChatGPT. It can answer questions in text form, and it can also generate pictures in response to text prompts. Initially, a viral post showed this recently launched AI image generator create an image of the US Founding Fathers which inaccurately included a black man. Gemini also generated German soldiers from World War Two, incorrectly featuring a black man and Asian woman.

Yebbut diversidee.

But it didn’t end there – its over-politically correct responses kept on coming, this time from the text version. Gemini replied that there was “no right or wrong answer” to a question about whether Elon

Two doctors write in The National Post [Canada]:

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recently announced policies on restricting transgender medical interventions for minors have generated much outrage, notwithstanding a subsequent Leger poll that suggested more Canadians than not agree with her proscriptions.

Doctor groups like the Alberta Medical Association (AMA) and the Canadian Pediatric Society (CPS) came out swinging, each issuing strongly worded statements expressing grave concerns. Dr. Sam Wong, head of the AMA’s pediatrics section, argued that “this is poor legislation that is targeting a small percentage of population that has already been targeted by society … and the government is piling on.”

But maybe, just maybe, it’s not “targeting” people to protect them from damaging physical interventions.

The general

I just signed this.

Yesterday 'He's a MAN' was trending for hours, as more and more people realised that most of the media was lying to them about Scarlet Blake. Please sign my petition to tell broadcasters and print editors that we're sick and tired of their distortionshttps://t.co/tOz70RPP2O

— Simon Edge (@simonjedge) February 27, 2024

If you want to sign and spread the word, I will not stand in your way.… Read the rest

The Guardian explains its “Woman killed man” lie. The explain is: everybody else was doing it.

I said I'd post the Guardian's response to my complaint, so here it is. It is so inadequate I barely know where to start. pic.twitter.com/xPcQxtDZUH

— Louise Tickle (@louisetickle) February 27, 2024

“It’s not our fault, we relied on an agency report, and we saw no reason to question the claim that a woman had murdered a man by hitting him on the head and strangling him shut up shut up shut UP.”

Breathtakingly feeble and incompetent.… Read the rest

As for the Metro piece itself, by two compliant female reporters, it’s as snide and sneery and dumb as you’d expect.

JK Rowling has sparked backlash over her Sky News criticism for referring to murderer Scarlet Blake as a woman.

Well, she’s “sparked backlash” among the dimwits who are so ready and eager to be sparked that they can’t be bothered to think about what they’re saying.

A clip of the broadcast was shared on the news channel’s X page, and re-posted by Harry Potter author Rowling, who criticised them for not stating that Blake was transgender in the 55-second clip of the show.

The issue is not that he’s “transgender”; the issue is that he is not a woman… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Bitch opened her mouth did she?

And Metro falls into her trap. Once again, Rowling uses her uncancelleable position to amplify the messages of other women in a way that can’t be ignored, bringing more attention to the issue that these media outlets are quietly, complicitly sweeping under the rug. By commenting now, she keeps the story in the public eye, and brings it to the attention of readers and viewers who had not realized that they had been lied to in the original reportage. While Metro (and other media outlets) think that somehow “Rowling’s transphobia” is the story they’re telling, they’re unwittingly shedding more light on media capture. Interestingly, at … Read the rest

Meaning…what?

Transgendered women do not have male anatomy. https://t.co/9O12xnybxi

— Hon. Sheila Copps (@Sheila_Copps) February 23, 2024

Does she mean that men who claim to be women do not have male anatomy because it’s their anatomy so it’s not male? Or does she mean they simply magically don’t have male anatomy?

Or both? Or does she not mean anything except “do it to them, don’t do it to me?”

I wouldn’t ask, but this is a former Deputy PM of Canada so…… Read the rest