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?
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.
… Read the restOn 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
… Read the restThe 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
… Read the restThe University of Nevada has issued a statement rebuking its women’s volleyball team for forfeiting a match against a team that includes a transgender player. In recent weeks, several schools have canceled matches against San Jose State, whose roster includes transgender redshirt senior Blaire Fleming.
Monday, players on Nevada’s women’s volleyball team issued a statement to OutKick announcing their decision to forfeit their Oct. 26 match, overriding a previous decision from their university.
“We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San Jose State University and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University,” the statement
Smart move – admitting guilt in writing in public.
6 of us released about 6,000 crickets into hate group LGB Alliance’s annual conference. The result of the conference, if it had gone ahead as planned, would have been an acceleration of transphobic hate and misinformation, which drives much of the attack on our healthcare and our dignity.
We are so proud of ourselves for ending their spewing of violent hate…
Couple of things.
One, why release 6 thousand crickets? To disrupt the conference, yes, but why that way? It’s such a bad look, in so many ways. Squalid, stupid, cruel, messy, farcical, random…
I don’t know, maybe that makes it a good fit. Trans itself is random. It’s not like … Read the rest
There’s an interesting pattern here.
Possibly you see the pattern already.
… Read the restK Rowling’s charity has warned that sexual violence has become normalised, with growing numbers of young women seeking counselling after unwanted choking during sex.
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[Chief Executive Isabelle] Kerr, who has worked with abuse survivors for more than 40 years, said: “It would appear that it’s something that is becoming very normalised, because not only are young men thinking that they should be doing it, but young women are expecting it to be done — even though they don’t necessarily want it or like it in any way. For
Trump meanwhile took questions from voters at a town hall in Philadelphia, but was twice interrupted by medical emergencies in the room. The former president then called for the event to be turned into a “musical-fest” and it continued with Trump standing on stage for 40 minutes, swaying to hits from his campaign playlist – including Hallelujah, November Rain and Nothing Compares 2 U – before walking off into the crowd.
Oh god. 40 minutes of watching Trump “sway to” music.
Rape Crisis Scotland continues to insult and betray women.
[Roz] Adams is also calling on the tribunal to make a series of recommendations after claiming that support services overseen by Rape Crisis Scotland (RCS) are still failing women.
A remedy hearing heard on Monday that despite Sandy Brindley, the chief executive of RCS, claiming that work was underway on a shared definition of women across its network in October 2023, the wording was yet to emerge.
A year later, and they still can’t figure out what “woman” means?
… Read the restMs Wadhwa stood down as ERCC chief executive in September, after a damning report ordered on the back of Ms Adams’ tribunal ruling found that the centre had failed to protect
She was ten years old, and made to wear a smothering hijab that left only a small bit of central face unmuffled…but even then her father and/or stepmother hated her so much that they tortured her to death over a period of weeks.
The father of 10-year-old Sara Sharif called police from Pakistan and admitted he killed her at their Surrey home, a court heard. Urfan Sharif made the confession in an eight minute-call about an hour after his family’s flight had landed in Islamabad on 10 August last year, before Sara’s body was found.
Did he conclude with “Nyah nyah you can’t touch me”?
… Read the restProsecutor Bill Emlyn Jones KC told the court Sara had been the victim of violent
Originally a comment by Screechy Monkey at Miscellany Room.
Interesting article at Slate about the internal conflicts in abortion funding groups.
Summary: an organization that helps fund abortions in the DC area started making pro-Palestinian posts on social media following October 7. That drew some angry responses and loss of donations from some supporters, which accelerated after a Jewish employee left the organization and published an article about her frustrations.
I’m posting this not because I want to talk about Israel-Palestine. I really, really don’t, as I have nothing to say about that conflict. I’m posting it because it’s an interesting insight about “mission creep” at left-leaning organizations, a subject that has come up here repeatedly in other contexts.… Read the rest
It seems Stanford Medicine doesn’t know what a woman is.
Woman doesn’t mean female. pic.twitter.com/tP220DJ61C
— Marcy Jane (@MarcyMendenhall) October 14, 2024
(Also, how is “woman” a “related term” for “woman”?)
Update: That said, I can’t find the page on the Stanford Med website…
Update 2: Marcy Jane xirself stepped up to help me.
— Marcy Jane (@MarcyMendenhall) October 14, 2024
Ah yes, there it is, in the glossary – the special bespoke LGBTQ+ glossary. Along with other dubious definitions. The stuff on there is not…how shall I put this…medical. It’s identityical, not medical. … Read the rest
How are adults managing to do this first week at university routine still?
The madness persists, as was made clear last week with news that an NHS hospital – the James Paget University Hospitals Trust in Great Yarmouth – has told people working in obstetrics and midwifery to refer to new babies’ gender as having been “assigned female/male at birth” which it claims “accurately depicts the situation of what happens at birth”.
Yes, youngster, it’s true that we name things and that that’s a human activity as opposed to something carved into the cosmos. It does not follow that the things we name are not real.
Please move on now. Failure to do so will result in failing the course.… Read the rest
We keep bumping into the black box issue. It is, of course, one of the core problems with this ridiculous ideology/mooovement – pinning down wtf it’s about, what it expects, what in hell it’s talking about. What, exactly, do you mean by “trans rights”? What do you mean by “equality”? How do you know any of the claims you make are true or reasonable or compatible with other people’s rights? Where do you get all this?
Case in point:
https://twitter.com/SophieMolly_OFF/status/1845365253833371824What, exactly, are these “trans rights” that people are stripping away?
Until we’re informed, I suppose we have to assume it’s the usual nonsense about being “affirmed” as what they are not. But that’s not a right. I … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Enzyme on Under the influence.
we should be able to give informed consent to our own treatment – just as any cisgender young person already can
Yeah, but no. It’s more complicated than that.
First of all, define “young person”. Since we’re talking about puberty-blockers, then that’s going to be someone who is at most in their early teens. So can – let’s say – a 12-year-old consent to treatment? Sometimes. it depends on the treatment, and on the child.
Importantly, though, consent doesn’t mean demand. Too many people think that it does. Consent is a negative thing: it’s about my being able to tell you what you not do to me, not about my … Read the rest
News from the world of film-making:
Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix and trans filmmaker, is set to adapt Manhunt, a 2022 dystopian horror novel by Gretchen Felker-Martin.
Trans filmmaker – so not a real filmmaker then?
What the Star Observer (“Star” meaning sleb, I take it) means of course is that Wachowski is a man pretending to be a woman, aka a trans woman. Funny how it carefully doesn’t put it that way. Why not? When that’s the whole point? Manhunt is the one that’s about torturing women (aka “terfs”) to death for knowing that men are not women.
… Read the restThe adaptation promises to bring Felker-Martin’s brutal and gripping narrative to life on screen, a story that
A couple of years ago the Daily Mail did a long flattering article on James “Jan” Morris, the famous pioneering dick-remover.
While Jan was feted around the world for her exquisitely warm and vivid prose, her sense of romanticism, her ground-breaking travel books, for being the first to report that Edmund Hillary had reached the top of Everest in 1953, and for her courage and conviction in embracing the ‘real Jan’ in her pioneering transition from male to female — at home she was rather different.
According to [his youngest child] Suki, who yesterday published an excoriating account of Jan’s appalling parenting in the Sunday Times, her famous parent was selfish, neglectful, sexist and deeply unkind.
Huh. Well you … Read the rest
It seems they have a website.
The group of children as young as 13 who spent the summer climbing up buildings, asking random adults to watch over them sleeping on the street are the same group who used a biohazard to disrupt the LGBA conference, and who appear to be under the influence of convicted torturer… https://t.co/UYeDXcitBE
— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) October 12, 2024
“…convicted torturer SJ/Alan Baker. I have raised a PREVENT and a safeguarding concern with Met Police and Westminster City Council”
I suppose Baker designed the website, too, because that’s how dumb it is.
… Read the restThe rights and freedoms of trans+ children and young people have been deliberately and systematically eroded. We have been made
Lizard man very active devouring people.
… Read the restElon Musk is using his social media network to spread election conspiracy theories about U.S. disasters — just as online falsehoods are complicating the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
Musk has helped spread accusations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “actively blocked” donations to victims of Helene and is “seizing goods … and locking them away to state they are their own” — allegations that FEMA officials call false and which run afoul of state and local Republican leaders’ praise for the assistance from Washington.
On his social network, X, Musk also amplified rumors that authorities in North Carolina had “taken control to stop people helping” stricken residents and accusations that
