Originally a comment by Artymorty on Always wrong.

I’m quite amazed that Trump’s rhetoric appears to be working with many people. But then again, I can kind of understand why it’s striking a chord.

For example, I had a long conversation with a MAGA guy last night. A former liberal, so he says, and I believe him, this being solidly left Toronto. But now he’s on the right and he’s buying it all: war will go away if Trump gets elected, the culture war “craziness” will die down, and — this is what surprised me the most — Trump will thwart the billionaire global elites’ sinister plot to… do something or other… something something immigrants.

And then, with a … Read the rest

First of all, the headline is nonsensical.

Trans teachers must be allowed to use same showers as female colleagues, schools told

Trans teachers are people who call themselves teachers but have no training and don’t teach?

Or, “trans teachers” are males and females?

No, neither of those. They mean, of course, male teachers who claim to be women.

The lede also gets it wrong:

Trans teachers must be allowed to use the same showers and lavatories as female colleagues, schools have been told.

The second paragraph gets it right.

Training from the National Governance Association (NGA) tells governors that staff should be given access to the bathroom “available to other members of their newly acquired gender”.

There you go. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A disgrace to the name of Sherlock.

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female,….the reality is that there are a small number of people, but a real number of people, who believe they’re born in the wrong body, believe that they don’t fit into the male-female definition.”

But bodies are only male or female. Even if you’re born into the “wrong” body, even if that was a real phenomenon, that “wrong” body is still either a male one or a female one. There are no other sexes. That trapped entity has no impact on the cells … Read the rest

Golly.

Yesterday, NSW Greens MP and “feminist”, Abigail Boyd showed her support for the Equality Bill. During her speech, she claimed our understanding of biology was “old fashioned” and that she couldn’t understand why seeing male genitalia in women’s change rooms could be an issue. pic.twitter.com/cad24jFcPe

— Lucy Zelić (@LucyZelic) October 18, 2024

At four minutes she says “If your concern is that men will attack women, then we’re talking about men attacking women, and by subterfuge trying to get in.”

Uh, yes. Of course that’s what we’re talking about. It always has been.

Oh oh oh but some trans women really do idennify as women, and they’re not there to attack women at all, and if you think they … Read the rest

There are AT LEAST 3 SEXES says Irish Senator.

"I find it sad that people feel so threatened by people saying there is something other than biological male and female"

You know what's actually sad @marie_sherlock?

The fact that you sit in the seanad and espouse such absolute… pic.twitter.com/z7A0Tww9Ko

— Brandubh (@brandubh4) October 17, 2024

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female, and I think if any of us with lived life experience in this house can recognize that while our world is still very much built around binary male female order of things the reality is that there are a small number of people, … Read the rest

Trump says Lincoln should have just gotten his act together and negotiated that whole Civil War thing.

It’s not exactly clear what Trump thinks Lincoln should have done to “settle” the dispute between the North and the South, the latter of which seceded from the Union largely because it wanted to keep enslaving people.

The South thought it had a right to keep enslaving people. It’s weird to think that, because what about the rights of the people being enslaved? Why should a purported “right” to enslave outweigh a right to be free, to be not enslaved, to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Elsewhere in Trump’s sit-down with Fox, he claimed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

I generally think the term “virtue signaling” is thrown around too readily, but this one is a bullseye. 100% look at my virtue and be amazed.

I recently discovered that Labour led Westminster City Council didn’t consult the trans and non-binary communities for the refurbishment plans for flagship public toilets at Picadilly Circus, Embankment and Green Park…I urge them to consult non-cisgendered people going forwards. pic.twitter.com/Canojlmwrg

— Cllr. Ed Pitt Ford (@pitt_ford) October 17, 2024

Consult them for what purpose? There are only two sexes. Find the one that matches your sex, and walk in. What is there to consult about?

Unless of course he means the symbols. The symbols are idiotic. I’m a woman and yet I have two … Read the rest

It’s all so mysterious.

Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday that the forfeitures that women’s volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is “not what we celebrate in college athletics” and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surrounding the Spartans and their opponents.

Four teams have canceled games against San Jose State: Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State and Wyoming, with none of the schools explicitly saying why they were forfeiting.

Funnily enough, The Associated Press also doesn’t explicitly say why they’re forfeiting. The AP nowhere admits that the issue is a male player on the San Jose State women’s team.

A group of Nevada players issued a

So we’ll compromise, we’ll make it unfair to most women but not the ones at the very top. That’s the way to go, right? Split the difference!

Transgender women are to be banned from professional and semi-professional women’s cricket in England – but controversially not from the grass-roots game.

Those nasty smelly peasants who don’t play professional cricket can just suck it up, right? If they’re women that is. Stupid bitches.

Those rules are among the most liberal in sport, allowing anyone identifying as female to play in women’s cricket – subject to written ECB clearance only for “professional club and England pathway teams”.

This has long sparked major concern among women’s rights campaigners about fairness and safety for those

From Reduxx:

Northern Ireland’s Parliament Invites Trans Identified Male To Speak On “Gender-Based Violence” After Spike In Femicide Deaths

A trans-identified male was invited to speak in Northern Ireland’s parliament on “gender-based violence” and “LGBT youth education” following the brutal murders of four women in the country in just six weeks.

Why? Why ask a male when there are nearly a million women in Northern Ireland?

Alexa Moore, a male who identifies as a “woman,” was invited by the education committee this week to speak on an inquiry into relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools. Alongside Moore, Sophie Nelson from HERe NI, a Belfast-based community organization and registered charity for lesbian and bisexual women, also gave evidence.

But

Oxford Mail reports:

Witney woman accused of threatening to stab teen near Waitrose

A jury has heard that a woman allegedly threatened to stab a teenage boy if he didn’t have sex with her.

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The defendant is accused of threatening a teenage boy, 14, to engage in a sexual activity with her in a wooded area near the Waitrose supermarket in Witan Way.

She allegedly threatening [sic] to stab him if he tried to run away.

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When he started walking back home, a woman sitting on a nearby bench allegedly gestured him over. The boy believed it was a family friend so obliged but soon realised he did not recognise her. Reportedly, Omoruyi encouraged the boy to drink

The BBC goes into contortions to avoid saying that it’s only female people who can have pain from menstruation.

A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when teenagers experience period pain and whether it is linked to developing chronic pain in later life.

In what is described as a world first, researchers at the University of Oxford will conduct a trial of 11 to 20-year-olds using a range of tests including MRI scans. Half of the 120 volunteers recruited into the RoADPain project will suffer from period pain and half will not.

It’s just bizarre to word it that way. It’s not generalized “teenagers” or “11 to 20-year-olds” who can have period pain. It’s girls/women. They … Read the rest

When oh when oh when will adults stop talking this childish nonsense?

Labour MP Carolyn Harris rejects Kemi Badenoch's call for JK Rowling to be offered a peerage, saying: "Some of the stuff JK Rowling has put out there has not been appropriate. There's too much hate. There's no rationality. There are human beings that feel they are a woman" https://t.co/I4zXFyipq7

— ripx4nutmeg (@ripx4nutmeg) October 17, 2024

One, that “There’s no rationality” is laughable. JKR makes rational arguments, and she’s damn good at it. Rationality is exactly what there is. It’s highly eccentric to announce that there’s no rationality and then immediately talk about men who “feel” they are women with the implication that we should all agree with … Read the rest

Originally a post by Sackbut at Miscellany Room.

This is strange. WaPo: Boston NWSL franchise apologizes for ‘Too Many Balls’ team reveal campaign

Subhead: “Fans and players disliked the slogan, leading the team to issue a statement acknowledging the “hurt we caused” the LGBTQ+ and transgender communities.”

In the launch, the club unveiled its brand through its “Too Many Balls” campaign, a product of Boston-based ad agency Colossus meant to be a pun referencing the number of famous men’s teams in the city and the need for more women’s franchises. In an accompanying video, a narrator says: “Yeah, Boston loves its balls, but maybe there are too many balls in this town. So let’s add a new chapter to

When you can’t choose your roommates:

Female inmates at the women’s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota have come forward to report disturbing behavior from the trans-identified males housed at their facility. Former inmate Rebeca Warmbo alerted Reduxx to the situation and has been communicating with women inside Shakopee, who reveal the male transfers are making them feel “unsafe” and “scared” for their lives.

Well, sorry, but that doesn’t matter when men want to pretend to be women and be up close and personal. Sucks to be you.

As Reduxx reported last month, a total of five male convicts have been transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in

Rachel Wong again:

"There are people who will exploit this loophole… I have great fear for the safety and protection of not only members of my family, but the women of NSW who make up half of the population of NSW. I find that aspect of this legislation absolutely repulsive."

THANK YOU… pic.twitter.com/Sf2F1ggkHc

— Rachael Wong (@RachaelWongAus) October 16, 2024

But the bill has now passed. … Read the rest

Fundamental rights? Fundamental rights?? Are you serious? Do you have the adults locked in a closet somewhere?

#PronounsMatter

Ask and use preferred pronouns. It’s a sign of respect for gender identity.#UnionOfEquality #PronounsDay pic.twitter.com/BDE2mZSRXn

— EU Fundamental Rights ➡️ #HumanRights (@EURightsAgency) October 16, 2024

No, I won’t ask. I don’t ask people what their verbs are and I won’t ask them what “their” pronouns are. There’s no such thing as ownership of pronouns.

It is indeed a sign of respect for gender idenniny, and that’s another reason I wouldn’t do it in a million years.

I can’t (and of course won’t) “respect people’s pronouns” because there’s no such thing as “people’s pronouns.” There are only pronouns. We don’t have our … Read the rest

Aaron Rupar says Trump is rapidly crumbling, with clips that show Trump indeed crumbling.

On Monday night, Trump held what was easily one of his most bizarre campaign events ever — a failed town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, that ended with him bobbing and weaving on stage for nearly 40 minutes to a soundtrack that ranged from funereal opera to Guns N’ Roses.

Then, following his Economic Club of Chicago event on Tuesday, Trump traveled down to Atlanta for a low energy rally where he seemed to have trouble stringing together cogent sentences when he wasn’t reading from the teleprompter.

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These rallies may energize his base, but beyond that they mostly end up providing fodder for damaging video

New South Wales Labor and Greens display their contempt for women.

The speeches from @NSWLabor and @GreensNSW in support of Alex Greenwich's "Equality" Bill have been atrocious.

The level of blind adherence to radical gender ideology and utter disregard for the safety of women and children is astounding. And that’s to say nothing of the blatant… pic.twitter.com/RcVtFNLvoO

— Rachael Wong (@RachaelWongAus) October 16, 2024

The speeches from @NSWLabor and @GreensNSW in support of Alex Greenwich’s “Equality” Bill have been atrocious.

The level of blind adherence to radical gender ideology and utter disregard for the safety of women and children is astounding. And that’s to say nothing of the blatant lies.

Greens MP @jennyleong chose to wear a t-shirt that says:

BBC Sport pokes women in the eye again.

BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year nominees revealed

You know what’s next. This is the BBC after all.

Barbra Banda 'ineligible [for World African Cup of Nations]… testosterone levels were adjudged to be naturally overly high.'
So male T levels.
Not 'overly high' for a male.
Assume XY DSD.
Yet contender for BBC Women's Footballer of the Year.
A disgrace.https://t.co/IErVU9MZ0O

— Cathy Devine (@cathydevine56) October 15, 2024

The BBC sits back and laughs. … Read the rest