BBC Sport tells us, with a puzzled frown, that female athletes are not always entirely ecstatic to lose prizes to men who pretend to be women.

More than 100 elite British sportswomen have told the BBC they would be uncomfortable with transgender women competing in female categories in their sport.

Or to put it in ordinary language, more than 100 elite British sportswomen have told the BBC they don’t want men competing in their sport. Well duh: of course they don’t. Women’s sport is for women.

Over the past couple of years, a raft of sports have banned transgender women from competing in elite women’s sport because of concerns.

Because they are men. They have the male physical advantage, … Read the rest

Oooooooooh an all-female film festival!

Sheffield’s first all female film festival

Ok then! Mark your calendars: it’s November 24 at the Showroom Cinema.

Highlighting the work of women and women’s achievements in all incarnations of cinema. Inspired by events showcasing films made by women (such as Scotland’s Femspectives), we want to recentre the focus of film history and the future of the industry on projects creatively led by women. Sheffield has a rich cultural history and we hope to further develop the city’s reputation as a hub for excellence supporting diversity in film in the North of England.

The aim of FFStival is to provide an intersectional platform highlighting the work of women, female presenting and non binary people’s achievements

Primum non nocere: First do no harm.

Some doctor is boasting about his badge encrusted lanyard that’s dangling round his neck all day at work. As a tattooist I’d be forbidden to work with a cross contamination hazard like this and risk losing my license but it’s ok for him because ‘it’s trans’. pic.twitter.com/gw7jnpzYXs

— Joolz Denby (@JoolzDenby) March 25, 2024

That plus the frenzied messaging. I would feel extremely uneasy with all that hectoring from a doctor. I think I would feel that way whether I agreed with the content or not, because it’s so…all about Dr Opinions instead of about what Dr Opinions is supposed to be doing.

Here is the lovely man talking lovingly about himself.

My

Oh yay, another dude wins a women’s race, how heartwarming.

Kylie Small took 🥇in the women's 3/4 today at the Maverick Classic Crit in Grand Junction, CO.

Kylie was born a male named Kyle and – against all odds – has managed to become a women's cycling champion.

(Remember everyone: this is culture war stuff and it never happens.) pic.twitter.com/MD1ClHoWlI

— 🚲 (@i_heart__bikes) March 24, 2024

Congratulations Kylie Not All That Small!… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Seen using a loud hailer.

To be fair, events like the one “Dr.” Ikharia* was protesting do indeed represent a threat; a threat to her credibility and livelihood. Not that anyone claiming to be “trans, nonbinary” should have much credibility left to defend, let alone a “doctor.” But she is right to see this conference as a direct rebuke of what she’s doing. If the tide is indeed turning, then “gender affirming” clinicians are at risk of being left high and dry, without the institutional support to which they have grown accustomed.

Dr Ronx, 40, presents alongside twin doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken on the popular children’s health show

Willoughby sees what isn’t there.

Psycho coldness? “The look”? WTF is he on? Bloody mental!! pic.twitter.com/xIfwH5XvdT

— Phoebe 💜🤍💚 (@Phoebe2403) March 24, 2024

It would be funny if it weren’t so disgusting. A bunch of smiling women, and loony man who hates women sees “psycho coldness.”… Read the rest

The people behind yesterday’s conference:

While trans activists attempted to halt yesterdays conference with chants of ‘you don’t care if children die’ the real suicide figures were discussed inside. Thankfully they are very rare and there is no evidence that medical treatment reduces them in fact quite the opposite (… pic.twitter.com/zeTosVEVjD

— Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (@CanSG_org) March 24, 2024

The “show more” is just the source: (Dhejne 2011).

But wait.

Yes professors Biggs and Kaltiala both spoke at the conference about actual suicide rates and have extensive current publications. Dhejne found suicides increased post surgery 20 fold but everyone dismissed this ( without evidence) as the result of ‘minority stress’ and didn’t…

— Clinical Advisory Network

Labour continues to be confused about what the word “woman” means.

And while a proud socialist, [Angela Rayner] is clear that first and foremost she’s a pragmatist. “Ideology never put food on my table,” is one of her top lines. Another: “We can’t fix everything overnight.” She has also said she is “hardline” on law and order, and pro-security (her brother served in Iraq). When I ask how Labour will handle the accusation from Tories that “Keir doesn’t know what a woman is”, she says, without acknowledging any shift, “Yeah, sure. We have biological women and we have trans women. And they’re both women: one is a biological woman through sex, and one is a trans woman who has transitioned.

The binder-promoting doctor (Dr Ronx Ikharia) was at the aggressive “protest” yesterday. The Daily Mail is the source:

A CBBC presenter has been accused of leading a transgender rights mob that yesterday set off smoke bombs and tried to storm a conference on gender issues.

Dr Ronx Ikharia, who presents Operation Ouch!, was seen using a loud hailer outside a meeting of doctors and academics at the Royal College of General Practitioners in London.

Police and security staff clashed with dozens of activists who set off smoke bombs and tried to get into the building, but no arrests were made.

Just imagine if the people inside had been holding a trans conference and the people outside had been gender … Read the rest

Oh, your ribs are popping out and you can’t breathe? Well try this other binder.

Frankie cries when her ribs “pop out” when walking: “I just can’t breathe properly,” spine kyphosed. She can’t exercise, 36D breasts bound for 5 years.
Dr Ronx reacts like a child,then
“I’ve a wide selection of binders”with MORE reinforcement. No exam of the damage already caused https://t.co/W0ha2pnFDv pic.twitter.com/fRrVnaHXrj

— Rebel Ada. Authoritarian extremist. (@DearRebelAda) March 24, 2024

… Read the rest

The campaign to make everyone stupider continues.

The “disproportionate representation” of William Shakespeare in the theatre has propagated “white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cisgender male narratives”, according to researchers in an £800,000 taxpayer-funded project.

Funny how they never mention class, isn’t it. Could that be because they are all, to a person, bourgeois as fuck?

But that’s not the real issue. The real issue is that Shakespeare is not “disproportionately” represented. His representation is proportionate, because he was better than anyone else. He just was; sorry if that hurts the feelings of people who aren’t as good at their jobs as Shakespeare was at his.

The researchers want to challenge the “normative trend” in “classical theatre” arising from “

Oh really. Two women? Are you sure about that?

Hey @VictoriaPolice why is Crimestoppers deliberately misleading the public by failing to mention all the violence, assaults & arrests were on the Trans Rights Terrorists side? Were the “women” arrested actual women or are you misleading the public there too? pic.twitter.com/RHGYQmEvnL

— Angela Jones (@angijones) March 23, 2024

Nope they’re not women.

Here are the two who were arrested pic.twitter.com/hFwutRGSqv

— Preston Henshaw (@PrestonHenshawX) March 23, 2024

Not women.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on We’re not confused or misinformed, we’re not believers.

I just listened to an old TEDx talk, and an observation stuck out: “When you start to humanize your enemy, you in turn may be dehumanized by your community.” When you start to treat the enemy (i.e., gender skeptics) as humans having potentially reasonable concerns and moral perspectives (i.e., as humans rather than transphobic demons), you lose status within your own group.

It’s the same phenomenon that leads to purity spirals, witch trials, and heretics’ exiles. It’s why apostasy is the gravest sin. To admit the possibility that the enemy is merely an opponent and not The Adversary signals to the group that … Read the rest

I can’t get enough of the Trump Shouting He Does Too So Have 500 Million Dollars story.

After having reached out to several guarantors and 30 suretors for help posting his $464 million New York bank fraud bond, Donald Trump suddenly wants everyone to know he actually does have the cash.

In a bizarre rant on Friday morning, the man who was found to have defrauded banks and investors by overvaluing himself and the value of his properties claimed that he had accrued the wealth by way of “HARD WORK, TALENT, AND LUCK.”

AND TYPING IN ALL CAPS AT ALL TIMES.

The confession directly contradicts a filing from his legal team last month arguing that it would be “impossible

The Telegraph:

Doctors at a gender-critical conference were ambushed by “aggressive” masked protesters who let off a smoke bomb and had to be held back by police. Dozens of officers were required to prevent the demonstrators gaining entrance to the first conference of the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender conference held on Saturday in London.

Video footage showed the protesters, dressed mainly in black and waving flags, blocking the entrance and jostling with police.

Other video footage, which the Telegraph apparently hadn’t seen, showed the protesters doing their best to smash the glass doors at the entrance and very nearly forcing at least one door open.

Held at the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners

And here’s the view from the other side of the doors.

I have to wonder why the police are all bunched up at the back doing not much, instead of at the front keeping the “activists” from smashing the glass doors and entering the building.

When they say that the trans debate is toxic and that it’s both sides, please remember that terfs have never done this but tras do it at every single public thing we do. @CanSG_org pic.twitter.com/yZw9xtjgBg

— Venice Allan (@roseveniceallan) March 23, 2024

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Unbelievable.

Protesters at the First Do No Harm conference, CAN-SG. Police failed to act, as per bloody usual, but have just now made three arrests.

Reporting from the Clinical Advisory Network on Sex & Gender, Saturday, 23rd March, 2024 pic.twitter.com/3VYPHTMiTy

— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) March 23, 2024

I guess they’re team Do All the Harm You Can?

H/t Mostly cloudy… Read the rest

This is just unabashed sadistic bullying.

PRESS RELEASE – #FiLiA banned from @Plaid_Cymru conference

In Feb, we booked a stand at #Plaid24, to talk to delegates & politicians about our #grassroots campaigns.

With less than *48 hours* to go, our booking was revoked @RhunapIorwerth

Read why 👇🏼https://t.co/usHjD9hAbZ

— FiLiA (@FiLiA_charity) March 22, 2024

They booked the stand at least three weeks ago, and the bullies wait until the last minute to say “Nope we changed our minds hahaha neener neener.”

Filia’s statement:

Women’s rights charity FiLiA had booked a stand at Plaid Cymru Conference, hoping to use the opportunity to talk to delegates and Plaid Cymru politicians about a range of grass roots campaigns they support.

With

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Care is needed.

The guidance follows the BBC apologizing to Rowling twice last year. The Harry Potter author was accused of transphobia by trans rights advocates, but the claim was not properly challenged by presenters….

This is what happens when the accusation is simply repeated without challenge. It becomes taken for granted, in a smoke/fire sort of way, that Rowling must be transphobic if all these people are accusing her of being so. By assuming they are acting in good faith (or at least pretending they are), they fail to check whether or not her statements are “transphobic” at all. In bypassing this crucial step, they short-circuit their fact-checking process … Read the rest

Gender activism:

Radio-Canada’s headquarters in Montreal was vandalized by far-left extremists last Wednesday, an act claimed online as a rebuttal to the controversial report on gender transition therapy for minors. 

Sounds like Samuel Johnson dissing Bishop Berkeley by kicking a stone and saying “I refute it thus!” (A story that’s probably apocryphal.) I rebut your controversial report by smashing your windows, so nyah!

An anonymous submission was published to Montréal Contre-Information’s website titled “Radio-Canada has blood on its hands: a look back at the shop windows destroyed on the night of March 12-13.”

The letter confirmed that activists destroyed the windows of the Radio-Canada building in response to the organization’s “decision to use its broad platform to amplify