Man disagrees with woman by saying he doesn’t consider her sexually appetizing. How very original.
https://twitter.com/LifeonWheels95/status/1759951714960945642… Read the restLook at the hands
Feb 20th, 2024 11:29 am | By Ophelia BensonBridges at 0.30 says “if it was safe for me to compete” but doesn’t go on to explain how it’s not safe for him to compete. Of course it’s safe for him to compete against other men, apart from the risks all competitive cyclists take on. The claim that it’s unsafe for him in particular is just more of the maddening reversal all male trans “activists” go in for – pretending they’re vulnerable, they’re at risk, they’re unsafe, they might face physical violence.
Then he says “I can’t compete” and Scott says, rather unsympathetically, “But you can compete in an open category.” This flummoxes the lad a bit. He pauses, then asks with a girlish tilt … Read the rest
This level of protection
Feb 20th, 2024 9:47 am | By Ophelia BensonNot only does Steve Scott at ITV News write a fawning piece about “Emily” Bridges and his tragic failure to continue cheating women in cycling races, but also ITV News turns off comments on the Twitter link to said piece.
https://twitter.com/babybeginner/status/1759986300252500432ITV News doesn’t turn off comments lightly…in fact it apparently never does except when the subject is an entitled man trying to cheat women in sports.
In the last three days, this is the only @itvnews tweet that has comments switched off.
No other group of people in society gets this level of protection from news outlets. Why is that? https://t.co/5OIZaTJgMJ
— Bob Hamstead (@berk_hamstead) February 20, 2024
Yes why is that? Why is that??… Read the rest
He would not feel safe competing alongside men
Feb 20th, 2024 9:37 am | By Ophelia BensonOh good, more whining from a man about not being able to compete in women’s sports.
Emily Bridges once dreamt of racing for Olympic glory in Paris this summer. But after British Cycling barred transgender women [aka MEN] from competing in the female category last year,
shehas all but given up on elite sport.
Diddums. After British Cycling barred men who pretend to be women from competing in the female category, Bridges gave up. That’s good news.
… Read the restBridges said the policy amounts to a ban from elite cycling.
“A ban is a ban. You can say you can compete in the open category, but we’re women – we should be able to race in the women’s category,”
Speaking of generalized dumbing down
Feb 20th, 2024 9:18 am | By Ophelia Benson… Read the restFor quite a while now, it has felt a bit like mainstream feminism has been dialled back 10 years. It’s not just the over-the-top obsession with the Barbie movie – there seems to have been a more generalized dumbing-down in the media when it comes to women’s issues. In 2021 and 2022, it felt like intersectional feminism was everywhere and nuanced discussions about how gender intersects with other forms of oppression, such as classism and racism, had moved from academic circles into the mainstream. It felt like there was a huge push – to paraphrase Rafia Zakaria, the author of Against White Feminism – to “put the fangs back in feminism”. Now, however,
Woman doesn’t invite men shocker
Feb 20th, 2024 6:21 am | By Ophelia BensonJust imagine: a lesbian is planning a lesbian club and she’s not including men. So eccentric.
A feminist campaigner is to open Britain’s first lesbian members bar that will only allow biological women to join.
Well duh. It’s a lesbian members bar, so obviously it’s not for men.
(The men can always try the Garrick.)
… Read the restThe bar, named the L Community, is due to open in London later this year and will operate as a private members club so that it can bar trans women from signing up.
The bar has been set up by Jenny Watson, who in September last year was at the centre of a transphobia row after she insisted only “adult human females” could attend
Colostrum production has never been observed in males
Feb 19th, 2024 4:40 pm | By Ophelia BensonThe Daily Mail is surprisingly restrained on the subject of male breast milk.
… Read the rest[A]n NHS Trust says drug-induced milk from transgender women who were born male is as good for babies as a mother’s breast milk. A leaked letter from the medical director of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, published this week, describes both as ‘human milk’ and says that they are the ‘ideal food for infants’. The letter was sent on behalf of the Trust’s chief executive in response to a campaign group’s complaint about gender policies.
So what’s the truth? Can a biological male really breastfeed a baby by producing milk from their nipples? The complex answer is yes and no. By using a regimen known
It’s fine fine fine
Feb 19th, 2024 4:04 pm | By Ophelia BensonThe BBC hits a new low.
Part One pic.twitter.com/UdC3VIL2aG
— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) February 19, 2024
I couldn’t put them together at first. Have cut off the last couple of words but it was just thank yous after that https://t.co/t96b19JTkq
— Cath Leng (@leng_cath) February 19, 2024
Guest post: Awfulizing for no good reason?
Feb 19th, 2024 11:24 am | By Ophelia BensonOriginally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on We’re the violent actors?
We’re not the ones shouting threats and posting images of guns and knives.
Pffft. That’s just a) passionate rhetoric; b) completely justified self defence; c) “just joking” or “ironic”; in other words, good, clean, healthy fun; d) taken out of context. Choose whichever one is most expedient to the particular threatener.
Canada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could “inspire and encourage” serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community
I daresay that those of us posting here on B&W would all be branded as “extremists” in light of the inflated threat vocabulary of transactivists. If misgendering is “violence,” questioning gender identity is “denying their right to exist,” and … Read the rest
If the Finnish study is correct
Feb 19th, 2024 9:02 am | By Ophelia BensonWait what? Tranz kidz aren’t at greater risk of suicide if they don’t wreck their bodies? But we were assured they are!
… Read the restA new study challenges the common assertion that gender-dysphoric youth are at elevated risk of suicide if not treated with “gender affirming” medical interventions. If it’s true, it ought to have a seismic impact on the accepted medical approach to gender-confused youth.
Reported in the BMJ, the study examines data on a Finnish cohort of gender-referred adolescents between 1996 and 2019, and compares their rates of all-cause and suicide mortality against a control group. While suicide rates in the gender-referred group studied were higher than in the control group, the difference was not large: 0.3% versus 0.1%.
As good
Feb 19th, 2024 5:03 am | By Ophelia BensonEvery bit as good for babies, they say.
An NHS trust has said that breast milk produced by trans women who were assigned male at birth [i.e. men] is as good for babies as that produced by a mother who has given birth.
In a letter to campaigners, the University of Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (USHT), said that the milk produced by trans women after taking a combination of drugs is “comparable to that produced following the birth of a baby”.
“Comparable” is a weasel-word there. Sure, you can compare the two, but they’re not the same, or alike.
… Read the restIn an August 2023 response, the hospital defended its claims, referring to five scientific papers dating back to 1977 and
Shifting into neutral
Feb 19th, 2024 4:34 am | By Ophelia BensonOh yay, yet another piece on how self-obsessed it’s possible to be.
I’m non-binary. I came to terms with this recently, after living socially as a woman for many years — but I think I knew from a very young age. I just didn’t have the right words for it.
Are you really???? How fascinating and exciting! Please tell us everything about it in the utmost detail.
Then puberty hit and assigned me with the very special task of looking after two giant sacks of flesh, fat and membrane.
In every play I performed in after that point, I was only ever cast as matronly old women or busty temptresses. It sucked.
Well now that’s a different story. The … Read the rest
The art of persuasion
Feb 18th, 2024 5:08 pm | By Ophelia BensonWell that’s me convinced!
Happy #AromanticSpectrumAwarenessWeek!
Being aromantic means experiencing little-to-no romantic attraction. It's a type of romantic orientation, as opposed to a sexual one, and I'm proud to be an advocate for the community. 💚 pic.twitter.com/V114E7q8vs
— Yasmin Benoit, MSc (@theyasminbenoit) February 18, 2024
Top quality advocacy for sure.… Read the rest
We’re the violent actors?
Feb 18th, 2024 11:13 am | By Ophelia BensonThe CBC has got to be kidding.
CSIS warns that the ‘anti-gender movement’ poses a threat of ‘extreme violence’
Seriously? We’re not the ones shouting threats and posting images of guns and knives.
… Read the restCanada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could “inspire and encourage” serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a threat the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says almost certainly will continue over the coming year.
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“CSIS assesses that the violent threat posed by the anti-gender movement is almost certain to continue over the coming year and that violent actors may be inspired by the University of Waterloo attack to carry out their own extreme violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community or against other targets they view as representing
Guest post: This invitation to submit
Feb 18th, 2024 9:53 am | By Ophelia BensonOriginally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on By folks across the gender spectrum.
This invitation to submit is really rather helpful, in an a completely unexpected and unintentional way. Putting the whole list of gender variations (or least a good chunk of them) in one spot lets you see just what a mad, disparate, incoherent, contradictory mess it all is. The only way that some of these subunits can exist in the same room together is by keeping their definitions vague and non-commital to the point of meaninglessness, as normally several of the groups would be mutually exclusive, or distinct without actually being different. (Some of them may accidently include actual lesbians, like the occasional, unintended peanut … Read the rest
Composite Motion 10
Feb 18th, 2024 7:59 am | By Ophelia BensonWhat did Scottish Labour vote against?
Posting again in an attempt to get Composite Motion 10 to display below, as it doesn't appear in our tweet above.
This is the motion which #ScotLab24 conference has just voted against!
We note that the Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) voting on behalf of members, voted for it. pic.twitter.com/4lfUxnz2gg— LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🐐 🐐 (@LabWomenDec) February 18, 2024
And Scottish Labour voted NO on that.
It’s very embittering, this kind of thing. I thought the Left had finally caught on, half a century ago, that women are people too, that women matter too, that it’s not cute or funny or inevitable that men treat women as brainless inferiors. I thought that lesson had been learned… Read the rest
A sea of men’s hands voting against
Feb 18th, 2024 7:49 am | By Ophelia BensonMore “Fuck off, women, we don’t care.”
Here's LWD Scotland's statement in response to this shock vote at #ScotLab24
"The sight of a sea of men’s hands voting against the motion from women’s conference was chilling. Scottish Labour & the trade unions involved need to take a long hard look at themselves" pic.twitter.com/25jqDrmpmo— LabourWomen’sDeclaration 🐐 🐐 (@LabWomenDec) February 18, 2024
I’m so tired of the refusal to care.… Read the rest
By folks across the gender spectrum
Feb 17th, 2024 4:49 pm | By Ophelia BensonNot for the first time, I ask what the hell is “transfeminism”? Fake feminism? Pretend feminism? Not-real feminism?
Sinister Wisdom, that styles itself a Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal, interrupts itself to talk about “trans feminisms” instead of actual feminism. So much for the Lesbian part.
Trans/Feminisms
Sinister Wisdom is seeking submissions of writing and artwork by folks across the gender spectrum for our issue Trans/Feminisms. Sinister Wisdom invites all trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, two-spirit, gender non conforming, intersex writers and artists to submit. To put it simply–if you trouble, research, or think about gender, we want your work.
So…does that include lesbians? Or no? Does it include lesbians who are gender nonconforming but not the other kind? … Read the rest
A staggering financial penalty
Feb 17th, 2024 11:08 am | By Ophelia BensonThe NY Times takes a close look at Trump’s immediate future:
… Read the restOn Friday, the judge overseeing Mr. Trump’s civil fraud case issued a final ruling that inflicted a staggering financial penalty. With interest, the former president has been ordered to pay about $450 million, a sum that threatens to wipe out a stockpile of cash, stocks and bonds that he amassed since leaving the White House. He will have only 30 days or so to either come up with the money or persuade an outside company to post a bond.
The judge, Arthur F. Engoron, also imposed several new restrictions on Mr. Trump and his family business. For three years, Mr. Trump cannot run any New York company, including
School record
Feb 17th, 2024 10:00 am | By Ophelia BensonAnother dude steps up.
Male swimmer from Ramapo College sets another school record in women's event.
Now tell me again the strides women have made when society applauds a man for pushing us off our own podium…
Title IX literally means nothing at this point pic.twitter.com/Z3aatXVUyw
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) February 17, 2024