Author: Ophelia Benson

Pink News does not know how to journalism.

Woman ordered to pay compensation over ‘horrific’ transphobic messages

Under that is a generic photo of a woman of – yes! – grandmotherish age (cue taken from Jolyon Maugham was it?) poking daintily at a phone, with a potted plant by her side.

A woman in Scotland has been ordered to pay compensation after admitting sending a series of “horrific” transphobic messages to a trans woman.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear, how horrific. Like what, for instance?

Lyndsey Peebles, 67, pleaded guilty to sending messages of a “grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing character” between 29 September and 20 October last year.

Court papers said the messages concerned the victim’s gender and were sent to cause distress, with the charge aggravated by prejudice relating to transgender identity, as reported by The National.

Yes ok we get it; examples please?

Appearing at Greenock Sheriff Court for sentencing this week, Peebles was told by Sheriff James Varney that, in a social work report, she had indicated she “did not think the individual could have been hurt by the comments”, remarks he described as “horrific”.

Her solicitor said Peebles’ judgement had been “clouded” by “serious issues” at the time, which she had since addressed, adding that she was “truly ashamed” and had “never been in any form of bother before”.

Sheriff Varney told her: “Be under no illusion, this is a hate crime you have pled guilty to,” adding that the comments had “no place in society”.

And then in the last paragraph we get the details of her sentence.

See the problem?

No substance at all. Nothing. A blank. Lots of horror-shouting, with zero particulars.

Is this how Pink News usually does journalism?

Breathtaking.

Polite white grandmother forsooth – who DOES he think he is? Does he think he’s not white? Does he think he’s too young to be a grandparent? He is right about the polite bit though: polite he is not.

But really, that gutter-level instinctive contempt for women tells us allllllll we need to know about Jolyon Maugham QC.

To the surprise of no one, it turns out that Trump has been lying about that stupid “ballroom” he’s building.

Trump is claiming that ballroom is necessary because it will also provide a secure underground facility in case of a national emergency, an argument his lawyers have used in court. But former White House officials told The Washington Post that the building already has a fortified bunker deep underground that was built more than a decade ago to shelter the president and White House staffers.

The facility, located over 60 feet underneath the White House, was secretly built during the Obama administration and can house dozens of people for multiple weeks, the officials told the Post. It can withstand a nuclear bomb and was designed to give the president a secure command center if such a disastrous scenario takes place.

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Administration officials such as White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller have used national security arguments to defend the ballroom. Miller wrote in a court filing that the construction “serves continuity-of-government interests by ensuring that the President and senior national security staff are able to operate from a protected facility during any attack on the nation’s capital.”

In an August 13 filing to the Supreme Court, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll wrote, “Securing this reinforced subterranean node guarantees uninterrupted command and control in place.”

Yebbut they already have one. Guys guys guys they already have one.

Whatever. They’ll just go right ahead and build his hideous ballroom anyway.

We’re not the ones unraveling.

Jon Ronson’s The Castle profiles Linehan’s gender-critical stance on men in women’s prisons and sports, plus medical transitions for minors, as part of men’s lives unraveling under online scrutiny. The chapter details how their past friendship soured over transgender disagreements, costing Linehan his TV career and relationships. Supporters like actor James Dreyfus praise Linehan’s tenacity and generosity, while critics call him obsessive; Linehan sees the attacks as efforts to silence debate on protecting women and children.

This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time.

We are entirely raveled thank you very much.

Wait what?

Jon Ronson surveys the ruins of manhood

In The Castle, the author seeks out men who have seemingly pulled up the drawbridge on reality, from a delusional Connecticut ‘lord’ to gender-critical obsessive Graham Linehan

✍️ Megan Nolanhttps://t.co/qoJtbewaBv

— The Observer New Review (@ObsNewReview) August 23, 2026

Being gender critical = pulling up the drawbridge on reality?????

We’re the ones who ignore reality? As opposed to the people who insist that humans can change sex?

How does that make sense? How is Jon Ronson defining “reality”? Does Jon Ronson really think that, say, “India” Willoughby is a woman?

He is such a shit.

Says the wannabe hipster WHITE man old enough to be a grandfather. I will give him the “polite” bit though; he is very far from polite.

The Daily Mail v The Annoyingest Barister:

Left-wing campaign group Good Law Project has been accused of ‘hypocrisy’ after becoming an offshore trust in Jersey.

Director Jolyon Maugham KC has restructured the non-profit organisation so it is owned by a ‘purpose trust’ on the island. But legal experts say the move is ‘enormously hypocritical’ because becoming a trust will ‘give it the benefits’ of being set up like a charity without having oversight from regulators.

Well Joly doesn’t need oversight, because he is perfected.

Veteran barrister Barbara Rich said the restructuring meant that GLP would operate ‘without the burden of charity registration’.

She added: ‘[This] is not just because in England that imposes restrictions on political activity but because my impression is that Jolyon Maugham is pretty antagonistic towards the Charity Commission generally and would prefer to have a free hand [rather] than be subject to any regulator at all. It’s enormously hypocritical.’

Well when Jolyon does a thing he does it big.

Well this is repulsive.

“Whatever money JKR makes out of this, we know that she is obsessively using that cash to demean and destroy the lives of a very few people – just the trans community. As someone who knows ppl with trans children that have taken their own lives, that is really worth thinking on”

— 🦕💚🤍💜CountessOfTheNorth💚🤍💜🦕 (@CountessOfNice) August 23, 2026

A more complete and accurate transcript:

Whatever money JKR makes out of this, we know that she is now obsessively using that cash to demean and destroy the lives of the very few people – just the trans community, it’s not that many people – but the damage that can be done to them as someone who knows various people who have lost children, whose children have taken their own life, and the power behind it, I think, is something that is really worth thinking on.

It almost looks as if he wants to get sued for libel. That emphasized “know” is a dangerous claim when it comes to libel law.

Of course he did.

The Trump administration took a step ‌toward rescinding a decades-old rule that protects undeveloped forests on Tuesday in a move it says will help manage wildfire risk, but which environmental groups oppose, saying it would do the opposite.

President Donald Trump has ​rolled back environmental regulations and taken land out of conservation for purposes such as ​energy extraction.

The proposed rule filed by the U.S. Forest Service would rescind ⁠the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which bans logging, roads and mining in undeveloped forests, ​and move authority to local national forest managers, according to a news release from the Agriculture ​Department.

Sure, let’s burn up and otherwise destroy everything, every single thing, because not doing that is sheer waste. Once it’s all gone, well, whoever’s left can hitchhike to Mars.

A thing yesterday evening that made me laugh a lot. I’ve been slowly but not steadily going through an impressive collection of Stuff in order to get rid of at least some of it, and in a stack of old magazines there was an issue of New Humanist from January/February 2011. I put it aside to leaf through later, and yesterday was later so I leafed through it and paused at a review of a book about compassion by Karen Armstrong. “Oh interesting,” I thought. “I wouldn’t mind writing a review of that myself.”

So I read past the headline and discovered that I had written it.

I don’t exactly know why that was so funny, but it was.

It’s here in case you want to read it (also if you don’t).

Stephen Walt at Foreign Policy on the disaster that is Trump.

Item 1: he’s made the US look like a pack of liars.

As he did throughout his litigious and bankruptcy-prone business career, Trump has repeatedly demonstrated that his threats are mostly empty bluster and his pledges mean nothing. He tore up the successful nuclear deal with Iran (didn’t that work out well?), and he now condemns the same trade agreement that he negotiated with Canada and Mexico during his first term (and that he said was the best deal ever). His on-again, off-again approach to tariffs, repeated threats to withdraw support from key allies, and unexplained reversal of his offer to let Ukraine build Patriot interceptors make it abundantly clear that his word means nothing. 

Item 2: Smashing up the military.

Despite spending unprecedented sums, boasting of the United States’ “lethality,” and making sure male troops have enough testosterone, Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have made the country’s military forces weaker and undermined the U.S. ability to deter attacks on its partners.

How? By starting a foolish war with Iran, depleting stockpiles of critical weaponry, and keeping ships, squadrons, and service personnel on station for months on end, reportedly leading to a wave of suicide attempts. These actions have burned through valuable military capacity to no good purpose, shown potential adversaries where the country’s vulnerabilities are, and eroded service members’ morale in potentially tragic ways…

To make matters worse, Trump and Hegseth are trying to politicize the uniformed services and make them a loyal part of the MAGA movement. Hegseth has actively sought to purge officers he regards as “woke,” fired or denied promotion to a disproportionate number of women and people of color—despite their stellar records and recommendations from the senior officers who know them best—and tried to impose ideological conformity on the entire military establishment, including the service academies.

They would impose ideological conformity on every single one of us if they could.

Item 3: Dismantling diplomatic capacity.

Under Rubio’s leadership at the State Department, the United States has unilaterally withdrawn from more than 60 international organizations, even as China keeps expanding its involvement in them. He has closed consulates and offices abroad and left dozens of ambassadorships empty. A comprehensive survey conducted by the American Foreign Service Association found that 98 percent of respondents reported low morale and 86 percent said these actions were impairing their ability to do their jobs. The title of the report says it all: The country’s diplomatic institutions are “at the breaking point.”

That might not be a big problem if the special envoys that Trump prefers to rely upon were highly competent and effective, but the performance of amateur diplomats Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner or Vice President J.D. Vance shows that this not the case.

How very unsurprising.

Item 4: Smashing up science.

Leadership in science and technology has long been one of the foundations of the United States’ global power. As China clearly understands, scientific prowess will be even more important in the future. What has Trump done in response to this challenge? He has cut federal support for a wide range of scientific research, attacked universities on spurious grounds, appointed ignorant and unqualified science skeptics (such as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) to key positions, amplified their false claims through his own statements and social media blasts, appointed a nonscientist as his scientific advisor, and actively encouraged the belief that ignorance is preferable to knowledge and expertise.

I wonder if that last item has any connection at all to the fact that he has zero knowledge and expertise in any field other than real estate.

Item 5: missing the boat on global warming.

A related blunder stems from Trump’s long-standing climate change denialism, his opposition to renewable energy, and his steadfast commitment to burning more fossil fuels. This is lunacy, as anyone who has read the literature on this subject or paid attention to long-term climate trends knows. Not only will this lead to more serious climate problems, more climate-related deaths, and much human suffering, but Trump’s policies have ensured that China will dominate the green technologies of the future (solar, wind, batteries, etc.) while the U.S. dominates the smokestack technologies of the 19th century.

Item 6: pissing on the rule of law.

Trump’s contempt for laws and rules is well-documented, and he has gone to great lengths to insulate himself from any sort of legal constraint while using the legal system to conduct vendettas against individuals who have had the misfortune to have incurred his ire.

Wull kings used to be able to do that so why shouldn’t he?

Item 9: Unmitigated endless brazen rudeness and trashiness.

More than anyone else, Trump is responsible for the coarsening and vulgarity of U.S. political discourse. It’s partly his willingness and ability to lie shamelessly—a trait that has infected most of the Republican Party—but it is also his reliance on vulgar insults; violent rhetoric; rambling rants portraying opponents as criminals, traitors, or worse; and his all-too-evident contempt for half of the citizens of the country.

In a way that’s what I hate about him the most – the endless relentless trashy vulgar disgustingness of him.

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foushaug on Highest ever.

I never bought into the “Information Deficit Model” of climate change denial (people don’t accept the science of climate change because they just don’t know what it says), nor for that matter do I buy the idea that “they have just been misinformed”. Sure, there is plenty of misinformation out there, but that in itself doesn’t explain why people actively and selectively seek out the misinformation, and are determined to believe it over the real information, which, after all, is also out there.

Which is not to say that there isn’t also plenty of plain old bad communication going on from the “right” side. My favorite candidate for the worst piece of science communication ever are the endless debates about whether or not a particular year is “the hottest year on record”. If you look at all the heat trapped in the Earth system (the “energy imbalance”), every new year is now the hottest on record, but how much of this excess heat is measured at the Earth’s surface varies because of the constant exchange of heat between the oceans and the atmosphere (through phenomena like El Niño / La Niña). When scientists argue over whether this is the “hottest year on record” what they actually mean is “hottest as measured at the Earth’s surface” for the simple reason that that’s the signal that’s easiest to detect (cf. looking where the light is good) even though everyone agrees that most of the heat ends up in the oceans. Still I don’t think I have ever talked to another lay person (even ones who are not climate change deniers) who didn’t take a formulation like “the hottest year since 1998” to mean that the Earth system as a whole was hotter in 1998.

Originally a comment by Lulu on Vowed to resist.

Unison invited people to email to say why the guidance was unworkable. I emailed to say why I support it and was surprised I wasn’t asked for my membership number. So – they weren’t trying to be balanced but only inviting views they wanted and didn’t check respondents were members and I’m not surprised 600 said exactly what they wanted.

Unison is 80% female and they’re in a brilliant position to find out what ordinary women workers really think about this issue, to find ways which work for everyone and to make themselves relevant. They’ve totally lost sight of how unions are supposed to work and wonder why people think they’re out of touch. It’s not as though workers’ rights no longer need fighting for and it’s a tragedy that those at the top of the union movement have betrayed their history and their membership

Jonathan dismissing women’s rights.

Just so everyone is clear: ‘Centre For Women’s Justice’ is a trans hate pop up. It has one topic, and it’s not abortion, gender pay gap, misogyny etc – it’s trans people. Don’t be tricked by the seemingly good title and corporate pic.

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) August 20, 2026

Jonathan thinks he gets to dictate what organizations women are allowed to have. Jonathan is wrong. He has no say in the matter.

Ominous.

Five years after Floridia registered Europe’s highest-ever temperature, residents ​say extreme heat is no longer measured by records but by its impact on daily life, keeping people indoors, reducing social interaction and threatening ‌livelihoods.

The August 2021 record of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) turned the Sicilian town into a symbol of Europe’s warming climate as the continent emerged from COVID-19 restrictions.

Today, increasingly frequent and prolonged heatwaves are driving people indoors, leaving streets and piazzas deserted and prompting some residents to compare the extreme heat to a new form of lockdown.

The shift is visible across the town of 20,000 on the outskirts of ​Syracuse, the ancient Greek city on Sicily’s southeastern coast. Piazza del Popolo, long Floridia’s social hub and lined with cafes, palm trees and municipal buildings, is nearly ​empty for much of the day.

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On August 11, 2021, Sicily’s Agrometeorological Information Service (SIAS) measured a temperature of 48.8 C in Monasteri, a rural district about 5 km (3 miles) from Floridia’s centre. In 2024, the World Meteorological Organization certified it as the highest temperature ever recorded in continental Europe, a mark that still stands.

And the direction is not going to change.

Across Europe, climate change has been linked to increasingly frequent and intense weather extremes, from drought and wildfires to torrential rainfall.

Sicily has emerged as one of Europe’s climate frontlines.

In January, Cyclone Harry produced a record 16.66-metre (55-foot) wave between Sicily ​and Malta. Wildfires have taken a growing toll with the island accounting for roughly 70% of southern Italy’s burned area between January ​and July, according to ⁠a Legambiente analysis based on EFFIS-Copernicus data.

Agriculture, a pillar of the island’s economy, is increasingly vulnerable to climate change.

In 2021, more than 3,000 beehives were lost in the area of Floridia and honey production plunged by 80%. “The decline in bee populations and the number of beekeepers, together with the loss of pollinators due to climate change and the widespread use of pesticides, is ⁠leading to ​a reduction in biodiversity and lower quality and yields in agricultural production,” agronomist Francesco Bellomi said.

And it’s only going to get worse.

Meanwhile the union brags about trashing women’s rights.

What they mean by “the erosion of trans rights” is of course not letting men destroy women’s rights.

The ferocious determination to drive a tank through women’s rights continues.

Eight major trade unions representing millions of workers and students have vowed to resist new guidance on access to single-sex facilities based on biological sex.

The unions, which have a combined 3.6 million paying members, have criticised guidance issued by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) following last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of a woman.

Unison, the UK’s largest union with around 1.3 million members, has pledged to “fight” employers over policies it believes exclude transgender people.

It believes “exclude transgender people” from what?

Not from everything. Not from the world, not from life, not from mixed-sex spaces or jobs or prizes or organizations or clubs or sports. Not, in fact, exclude trans people from anything: the exclusion is solely from single-sex spaces, jobs, organizations, facilities, sports and so on if and only if they are the opposite of the single sex in question. That’s it, that’s the exclusion: the same one it’s always been. The whole point of having X for women is that women need it, so it’s a punch in the face of women to let some men have it provided they claim to be women.

But because trans ideologues have had such success in manipulating language to veil this fact, the argument goes on and on and on and on.

Unison, the UK’s largest union with around 1.3 million members, has pledged to “fight” employers over policies it believes exclude transgender people.

General secretary Ms Andrea Egan said more than 600 members had contacted the union with examples of what they claimed were problems caused by the updated guidance.

Now let’s talk about problems caused by ignoring the guidance.

Ms Egan added that she would work with Unison’s equality teams to “take the fight to every workplace to make them trans inclusive”.

By which she means make them no longer single-sex. What a disgusting thing to do.

NUS vice-president for liberation and equality Avery Greatorex accused the EHRC’s legal advice of being ideologically motivated and encouraged activists to oppose what they described as “trans-exclusionary policies”.

Ahhhh ideologically motivated is it – and legal advice that says men don’t get to barge into women’s spaces is not ideologically motivated? We’re the ones with the weird destructive ideology while claiming that some men are women is ideology-free?

Several other major unions have also criticised the guidance, including Unite, GMB, the British Medical Association and the University and College Union. Equity and the Public and Commercial Services union have also intervened.

The BMA. Yeesh.

BMA deputy chair Ms Emma Runswick told The Times that doctors wanted to provide care to patients of all gender identities, but warned the new guidance could prove difficult to apply across NHS services.

She said many services were already “ill-equipped to provide safe and dignified care for trans patients”.

Therefore those services should be allowed to demolish safe and dignified care for women? Is that her claim?

The guidance has also prompted changes from employers. Last week, the Co-operative Group watered down its trans-inclusive toilet policy, meaning employees are no longer instructed to use facilities they “feel safest in”.

That’s because the toilet policy that provides single-sex facilities is not about being “trans-inclusive” but being safe for women. Toilets are not supposed to be “inclusive” in the sense of letting men use the ones for women. The whole point of having separate toilets for women and men is to prevent that rather than allow it.

Unison said it was complying with the Supreme Court judgment and a recent ruling by the certification officer, while maintaining its position that “trans women are women, trans men are men and non-binary identities are valid”.

But it’s not about a “position”. It’s about reality. You can have a “position” on the subject all you like but men are still not going to be the ones who gestate all the new humans.

The union said it would campaign for a change in the law to reflect its policy, claiming the impact of the ruling and guidance on trans, non-binary and gender-diverse members had been “devastating”.

In other words they don’t like it. Too bad. They should never have been encouraged to think sex is like a costume you can put on and take off at will. Men can’t be women, end of story.

Michael Shellenberger writes:

“Gender-affirming care,” including blocking a child’s puberty, giving them cross-sex hormones, and performing surgeries on their bodies, is life-saving, according to the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the news media, Democrats, hospitals, progressive activists, and Hollywood celebrities. For decades, the most powerful people and institutions in America have said that if a child feels like they are the opposite gender, they are, and doctors should be allowed to give them drugs and surgeries so their bodies align with their true inner self.

For decades? No. For a decade, yes, but not decades plural. It’s a fad that took off 10 or 12 or so years ago. There were quacks doing it before that but it wasn’t a fad yet.

And yet the result of it all, a new report published today by Health and Human Services (HHS) confirms, is the worst medical scandal since lobotomies. Researchers have found a 12-fold higher suicide attempt risk among adults who had gender surgery, either on their chests or genitals, than among those who did not. A Swedish study that followed every “surgically reassigned patient” for up to 30 years found death from suicide ran 19 times higher.

Uh…oops.

When it’s done to harm women, breaking the law is a sacred act!

Britain’s biggest trade union broke the law by allowing a transgender woman to run for a senior female role, a watchdog has ruled.

Unison broke its own rules and defied the Supreme Court ruling on gender when it let a biological male run for a seat that was ring-fenced for women on its national executive committee (NEC) last May.

Well. You know. It’s such an unjust law! It’s so blatantly unfair! Why can’t women just put up with never being allowed on executive committees and get on with their day?!

The Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 referred to biological sex.

The ruling, which applied retrospectively, meant Unison’s decision to allow a biological male to run for a female-only seat in February 2025 broke its own election rules.

But in a noble cause. Keeping women out of roles that would give them some power and influence is the noblest cause there is.

The certification officer’s ruling comes after a complaint was made about Unison allowing Ellie Waple, a biological male, to run for the disabled members’ reserved female seat during the NEC elections in 2025.

While Waple did not ultimately secure enough votes to win the seat, the certification officer ruled that candidates should be eligible at all stages of the nomination and election process.

Waple said at the time: “Unless advised otherwise by Unison, if elected I intend to take my seat on the NEC.

“The biggest threat to women’s rights is not trans people, but rather the 1 per cent of super-powerful rich, clinging to their wealth and denying real funding for housing, domestic violence services and women’s services.

“The undemocratic and unaccountable Supreme Court ruling plays to the false narrative and agenda that trans people are a threat to women and will only serve to create a climate of fear among trans people.”

What a pile of sludge. The issue here isn’t “threat” but theft. It’s men like Waple (who by the way is built like a tank) helping themselves to jobs and roles reserved for women.

The rule: if it’s anything to do with women it has to be made incloooosive so that it’s not for women any more.

In the 1990s, growing up in the small harbor town of Oban, the only place I ever saw the word lesbian was in my Oxford Dictionary.

Section 28 (the UK law that prohibited local authorities and state schools from “promoting homosexuality”) loomed large. While Oban was famous for its seafood, whisky, and scenic harbor, it certainly wasn’t known for queer women. I never met anyone openly identifying as lesbian or queer while growing up there.

Fast forward a few decades, and that same small coastal town has been named by both mainstream and queer press—including DIVA magazine and The Times—as an unlikely lesbian+ capital of Scotland.

An unlikely what now?

Every September, hundreds of LGBTQ+ women travel from across the UK, Europe, the U.S., and beyond to attend Oban Lesbian+ Weekend, a joyful celebration of community, adventure, and visibility on Scotland’s wild west coast. And in 2026, the festival celebrates its fifth year.

Ah. So that’s what the plus sign means. Lesbian plus men. So it’s not lesbian then.

But the name itself often sparks conversation. People sometimes ask: If the event is inclusive, why call it a lesbian weekend? The answer is simple: We’re reclaiming the word lesbian.

At Oban Lesbian+ Weekend, “lesbian” isn’t a gatekeeping label. It’s a banner—one that proudly includes LGBTQ+ women, trans women, and non-binary people who feel part of the lesbian+ community.

Awwwww iddn that sweet. It’s a banner, one that proudly erases lesbians in order to be inclooosive of men. As long as they say they feel part of the lesbian communinny (which part exactly?) then by golly they are part of it, balls or no balls.

Trans women have been part of the festival from the very beginning, including on our crew, and the space we create is intentionally inclusive.

At a time when the word ‘lesbian’ can sometimes be used to exclude, our festival flips the narrative. We use it as something joyful, visible, and welcoming. And in a small town like Oban, visibility matters.

In other words lesbianism is forbidden and heterosexuality is imposed. New boss just like the old boss. Brilliant move, visible chumps.

My journey to creating the festival has been shaped by more than two decades spent bringing queer women together. In fact, 2026 marks 21 years since I first launched my events business, starting with lesbian speed dating in Brighton. I’d recently moved there and spotted an advert in g3 Magazine for a lesbian speed dating event in Manchester. I remember thinking: Why isn’t there something like that in “gay Brighton”?

Yes but when you said “lesbian speed dating” you meant actually lesbian, right? You didn’t mean trans lesbian, because that would be just same old same old: women not allowed to have anything just for women. You didn’t mean that, right? Or did you?

The events sold out quickly. And I discovered something that has guided my work ever since: Queer women love spaces designed intentionally to help them meet each other. Whether those connections lead to friendships, flings or lifelong partners doesn’t really matter—the magic is in the meeting.

The meeting of lesbian women, right? That’s what you mean? But you’re afraid to say it? If you do say it you have to cancel it immediately by saying LGBTQ+?

Guests explore historic castles, take boat trips across the Atlantic waters surrounding the Inner Hebrides, and dance at our now legendary LGBTQ+ women’s ceilidh (a traditional Scottish social organized around music, pronounced KAY-lee)-which we believe is the only ceilidh in the world designed specifically for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary people.

Aka for everyone, so it’s probably not the only one in the world.