Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on With the gender-critical crowd.

The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme.

You’d think that an adherent of a delusional, reality-denying belief system that relies on bullying and intimidation would be more circumspect about tossing out charges of insanity and militancy, but whatever. DARVO’s gonna DARV. Maybe he can’t help it. His “crazy and extreme” meter likely broke in the same event that had it indicating “misgendering” as “actual violence, ” so its measurements can’t be relied upon. Still, the self-blindness is hard to swallow. As if men demanding (and being given!) access to women’s spaces was not crazy and extreme. Kafka would have packed up and gone … Read the rest

Trump says it’s probably illegal to mock him.

No dude. You’re thinking of lèse-majesté. We don’t have that. It wouldn’t work for you even if we did have it, because you’re not majesté. We don’t have majesté here – did you not know that? We firmly explicitly rejected it centuries ago. Has no one told you? Have you never read a word about US history? Do you know what day it is? But even if we did have it, it still wouldn’t apply to you, because you’re not. You’re not majesté-having. You’re the opposite. You’re vulgar, you’re coarse, you’re clumsy, you’re slow, you’re thick, you’re crude. Even foul Andrew has more of it than you do.

I get to … Read the rest

Meanwhile in a neglected part of the world

More than 65,000 people have fled el-Fasher in Darfur after it was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on October 26, according to the United Nations, but many others remain at risk inside the city.

“Sudan is absolutely an apocalyptic situation,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain on Saturday.

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In Bahrain, British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said: “No amount of aid can resolve a crisis of this magnitude until the guns fall silent.”

“Mass executions, starvation and the devastating use of rape as a weapon of war, with women and children bearing the brunt of the largest humanitarian crisis in the 21st century,”

Euan McColm in The Scotsman on the top boss Scotsman:

When it emerged last week that a leading feminist campaigner faced vandalism charges after touching an umbrella belonging to an angry trans activist during a protest outside the Scottish Parliament, the backlash from opposition politicians was swift and justified.

Here was as clear an example as we’ve seen of the way in which gender ideologues abuse the system, making spurious police complaints against those who must be punished for believing biological sex is real and immutable.

But, asked during First Minister’s Questions on Thursday about this intolerable abuse of power by Police Scotland, John Swinney refused to speak out. It would not, he told MSPs, be appropriate for

Aw look, we get to see Euan pretending to be a Real Live Genuine Journalist with a little tiny stub of pencil and a little tiny notebook so that he can scribble away and thus convince all observers that he is really truly reporting on the scene.

Listen to our Julie standing firm and ensuring Euan (Sophie) was removed from our event, despite him identifying as a journalist. There is no need to be kind to these men.#199DaysLater pic.twitter.com/DtcyypKecF

— Women Won’t Wheesht (@WWWheesht) November 1, 2025

Seriously, watch him. It’s so stupid it’s hard to believe. Scribble scribble scribble eh Mr Gibbon? … Read the rest

You’ve got to hand it to Willoughby, he does have great self-awareness.

We remind him of blokes who dress up!

Best laugh I’ve had all day.… Read the rest

Cops v feminists chapter 9 billion:

[Susan] Smith, from feminist group For Women Scotland, took the Scottish Government to the Supreme Court to prove that the legal definition of ‘woman’ is biological female. You might have heard about it.

Now Police Scotland has accused her of vandalising a rainbow-coloured umbrella. They say she can either take a recorded warning or be charged with damaging the multi-hued raindrop repeller at a rally in Edinburgh last month.

The force has confirmed it is investigating a ‘complaint of an umbrella being damaged’ but has not taken a ‘final decision’ on how to proceed…

Smith was protesting outside the gender Death Star (legal name: ‘the Scottish Parliament’) on September 4 when a counter-protestor

Brian Wu is doing his shtick.

Trans sisters. I’m pretty sure I was wrong. I am sorry.

I genuinely thought that as a trans woman, if ceded some points with the gender critical crowd we could have a healthier conversation and arrive at better public policy.

The problem is, they are getting crazier and more extreme.

If you admit “trans women don’t belong in women’s sports” they agree, but call you a man the whole time.

If you admit, “I understand I am a biological man, but this is how I want to live my life and talking about me like this is degrading” they scream about free speech.

Well that didn’t take long. Four sentences in and he … Read the rest

Just when you think Jolyon Maugham can’t get any lower (not least because Earth is in the way) he does…

I’ve never read any of J K Rowling’s books. They aren’t part of my imaginative universe. But I know she is and has been a generous philanthropist for women and girls, and that she has received opprobrium and death threats for her views. Even for Halloween, this is nasty, not cute pic.twitter.com/Oqf8RAEo1m

— Barbara Rich (@BarbaraRich_law) October 31, 2025

Jolyon is not 9 years old. He’s not even 39 years old. … Read the rest

Bash Back bashes again.

Radical trans-led direct action group Bash Back targeted the headquarters of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) in London this morning, amid growing tensions over the Commission’s controversial interim guidance on single-sex spaces.

The group, which gained notoriety earlier this month for vandalising the Brighton Centre ahead of the FiLiA feminist conference, posted a statement on social media platform BlueSky before posting videos and photographs from this morning. The statement read: “The EHRC is a hate group. This month, the Good Law Project forced the EHRC to dump their transphobic ‘interim guidance’.

“Last week, six human rights groups demanded the EHRC have their A-status revoked due to an ‘obsessive campaign to strip trans people

Oh but it’s all so complicated, we don’t know how to deal with it.

Rules that would ban transgender people from using facilities that do not match their biological sex could be delayed for more than a year, it has emerged, as ministers were accused of “undermining the law” by demanding extra checks.

Bridget Phillipson, the women and equalities minister, received statutory guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) eight weeks ago, setting out how gyms, clubs and hospitals must judge single-sex spaces based on biology.

The document has not yet been laid in parliament and many organisations, including some NHS trusts and the civil service, said they were waiting for the guidance before implementing changes after

A friend sent this for our viewing pleasure:… Read the rest

More dawdling and stalling and delaying because hey it’s only women so we really can’t be bothered.

Rules that would ban transgender people from using facilities that do not match their biological sex could be delayed for more than a year, it has emerged, as ministers were accused of “undermining the law” by demanding extra checks.

Bridget Phillipson, the women and equalities minister, received statutory guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) eight weeks ago, setting out how gyms, clubs and hospitals must judge single-sex spaces based on biology.

The document has not yet been laid in parliament and many organisations, including some NHS trusts and the civil service, said they were waiting for the guidance before implementing

I welcomed The Cambridge University Society of Women to the fray a few days ago. Today the student paper Varsity explains how naughty those women are.

Students launch women’s society excluding trans women

Students launch women’s society excluding men. You don’t say! Mind you, feminists have been launching women’s societies and parties and so on for more than half a century, but let’s all disapprove of these women anyway. How very dare they.

Students have launched the first women’s society at the University of Cambridge to be restricted to those defined as “female at birth,” a move that has been criticised by other groups as “an assault on the trans community”.

Which is stupid. It’s not an assault on … Read the rest

After a bit of exploration it looks to me as if the serious news outlets are cautious about calling gender magic “medical treatment.” NPR may be an outlier in calling it that.

The Boston Globe came the closest in the selection I was offered:

Under federal pressure, Fenway Health ends gender-affirming medical care for trans patients under 19

But of course “affirming” that a patient is the gender/sex she/he is not is not medical care. The Globe should stand with NPR in the corner.

But it’s good to see that not all news outlets make that mistake, at least not every single time.… Read the rest

Which is it, NPR? Medical care or gender affirming care? They are NOT the same thing. More like opposites.

Title:

Trump pushes an end to medical care for transgender youth nationally

Lede:

Access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth will be dramatically restricted by the Trump administration under new proposals by the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Gender-affirming care” is not medical care. It may be carried out under medical auspices, but it’s not medical. It doesn’t treat any illness or injury, it doesn’t repair or mitigate any handicap, it doesn’t make recipients more healthy, it doesn’t inoculate against any disease. It’s arguably medical malpractice.

It does apparently make some people happier than they were, and being happier is … Read the rest

There it is! Spotted in the wild. Spelled out for all to see. Women are not in any way a despised or neglected or excluded or ignored or disadvantaged group; women are of the ruling class, women are the dominant and domineering sex, women are the privileged sex, women are invulnerable tyrannical exploiters.

NF there doesn’t seem to be one on women
AM at the time we focused on other groups. We have asked for chairs including for a women’s group, but from an intersectionality pov women are in the other groups as we have a 80 % women .

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) October 30, 2025

From an intersectionality point of view women are in the other, privileged, more … Read the rest

Oh good, Trump is restarting the doomsday machine.

Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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“Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately,” Trump posted.

“Russia is second, and China is a distant third, but will be even within 5 years.”

Trump appeared to be sending a message to both Xi, who has more than doubled China’s nuclear warhead arsenal over the past five years, and to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has tested two

Put your hands together for The Dolls.

They’re all men. The women of the year are all men.… Read the rest