Well you can’t do both. Pick one, or pick the other; you can’t pick both, just as you can’t be both here and gone, both alive and dead, both a rabbit and a snake.

It’s trans inclusion or women only. Not both.

(But what about women who claim to be men? If they claim to be men then they don’t belong in a women’s college. Quislings.)

Cambridge University’s oldest women-only college is allowing trans women to enrol.

Newnham College opened in 1871 and first allowed trans women students to join in 2017. In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, it has decided to continue with its pre-existing policy.

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Campaigners have pledged to report the college to the

It’s simple: the more items you pile on the less meaning there is. Adding more doesn’t make a claim more true, it makes it less so.

A row has broken out after a council rejected a motion to support the county’s LGBTQIA+ community.

Wiltshire Council’s councillor Helen Belcher, who transitioned several years ago, said rejecting the motion that would have ensured LGBTQIA+ people felt represented was “disgraceful”.

But there are no LGBTQIA+ people. Obviously. People can’t be both lesbian and gay male. What is Q supposed to mean? I is a medical condition, not a sexual orientation. A is just nothing – we don’t talk about disliking books or Portugal or horses as an idenniny so why pretend not liking … Read the rest

Naomi Cunningham at Legal Feminist on the ministerial foot-dragging:

Regulatory impact assessments are normally carried out in order to assess the effects of a proposed change in the law. The government should not need to be told that an EHRC Code of Practice does not change the law. Neither should it need to be told that a Supreme Court judgment on the meaning of a 15-year-old act of parliament does not change the law. In For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers, the Supreme Court has authoritatively interpreted the Equality Act 2010; that means it has told us what the Act meant ever since 2010.

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A code of practice that is demonstrably erroneous (as the EHRC’s 2011 Code,

Wonkypolicywonk points out that it’s fatuous to do an Impact Statement on…obeying the law.

Women & Equalities Minister Bridget Phillipson is in town, and – having already lost the Labour Party deputy leadership election – she’s now lost her moral compass.

Yep, rather than lay before Parliament the revised Code of Practice that the Equality & Human Rights Commission (EHRC) delivered to her two months ago, Bridget the Moral Midget, the Queen of the Transgender Blues, has instead demanded that the EHRC produce a Regulatory Impact Assessment – an analytical tool used by government departments to quantify the costs and benefits of proposed new legislation – on the revised Code.

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But even it only took one month, one week

Daniel Sanderson at the Times has background on Tom Harlow.

When Tom Harlow launched the Cabaret Against the Hate Speech at the start of 2023, it was badged as a symbol of “queer joy”, which aimed to inject a bit of fun into politics and even tempt opponents to “dance along”.

Two and a half years on, however, the Glasgow-based drag queen has rapidly become one of the most polarising combatants in the crowded field of Scotland’s culture wars.

Except of course that one whole side of that particular “culture war” is not a combatant at all. It’s not rival gangs squaring off, it’s one gang trying to demolish the rights of half of all human beings. We – … Read the rest

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