Reem Alsalem steps up again.

As the press release on the issuance of my report has not been put by OHCHR on the mandate website yet, I am posting the text here:

UN expert calls for recognition of surrogacy as system of violence, exploitation and abuse, urges abolition

GENEVA (10 October 2025) – A UN…

— Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) October 10, 2025

UN expert calls for recognition of surrogacy as system of violence, exploitation and abuse, urges abolition

GENEVA (10 October 2025) – A UN expert today called for the recognition of surrogacy as a system of violence, exploitation and abuse against women, and called for the practice to be abolished globally.

“Surrogacy reduces

Originally a comment by guest on Windownight.

I’m here at Filia and we’re hardly noticing the handful of young men hanging out in front of the conference centre making a lot of noise. The police seem to be doing a good job of keeping order, and patrolling temporary fencing set up to protect us going in and out of the building (and, now, to block off the front of the building from any repetition of the vandalism, as well as to keep them from pounding on the windows, as has happened at previous women’s gatherings).

The statement of Trans Pride Brighton (or bash back, I don’t remember which now), said that they feared retaliation and believed the ‘trans pride … Read the rest

Sian Berry on the other hand…

I raised this with the Council, including the leader, months ago and offered my help to prevent all this. Very disappointing not to have had this taken up.

— Sian Berry (@sianberry) October 10, 2025

Feminist women holding a feminist conference is one of those events that “inflame division and create tension” and therefore should be stopped, or at least re-located to the Outer Hebrides. Feminists have no right to hold a conference in Brighton, any more than atheists have a right to hold a conference in Salt Lake City or Rome or Mecca. … Read the rest

Well I’ll be damned. The BBC has managed to report on the window-smashing at the Filia conference without blaming or insulting or ignoring the women.

The title, in particular, took my breath away. Have the scales fallen from their eyes at last??

Trans activists vandalise feminist conference

Golly. Not terf conference, not evil bitches conference, not Rowling-approved conference, but feminist conference. Not activists but trans activists. Not protest or confront or reject but vandalise. No soft-soaping at all.

Police have launched an investigation after a venue in Brighton was vandalised ahead of a women’s rights conference.

Trans activists claimed responsibility for the incident at the Brighton Centre on Kings Road in the early hours of Friday. Masked figures were

Putting the plebs in their place.

Just rang BBC Radio Sussex. Are you covering the attack on FiLiA?

"We're aware of it."

Are you going to cover it?

"As I say, we're aware of it." pic.twitter.com/USnKIGOBVr

— Robert Jessel (@robjessel16) October 10, 2025

… Read the rest

Sums it up nicely.

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— Steve Walker: #NAFO #KPSS #FBPE (@tweetdodger) October 10, 2025

Women must not be allowed to gather, speak, protest, argue, resist. Women must stay at home and be silent. Resistance is futile.

Trans activists have vandalised the venue of Europe’s largest feminist conference.

Purple paint was sprayed on the Brighton Centre and windows were smashed ahead of this weekend’s FiLiA conference.

Bash Back, a trans activist group that has claimed credit for the vandalism, posted a video showing masked figures attacking the venue overnight.

That’s not bashing back, of course, because FiLiA didn’t bash them. It’s just bashing. FiLiA planned to speak, and “Bash Back” responded by smashing windows. They are not Bash Back, they are just Bash.

[Julie] Bindel, who is speaking at this year’s event, wrote on

Neener neener.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for promoting democratic rights and fighting dictatorship, receiving the award despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated statements he deserved it.

That’s a silly addition. Repeated statements that one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize do not make it surprising that someone else won it. Rather the contrary. If they want to mention the fact that Trump has been, grotesquely, demanding the prize like a toddler demanding more cookie, they should say, in a new sentence, something along the lines of “this will piss off Trump, because he’s been shouting that he should win it for years.”

Anyway. They didn’t obey his ridiculous demands.

Machado, a

More trumpian vengeance:

A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on one count of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution — charges that come after steady pressure from President Trump to prosecute one of his longtime political foes.

James, a Democrat who pledged to investigate Trump during her campaign, eventually sued Trump and his company for inflating the value of some of its properties, winning more than $450 million in the civil business fraud case. The financial penalty was later thrown out on appeal.

At one of his own campaign rallies last year, Trump called for both James and the judge in that case

Oh for god’s sake. Does it not occur to him that trying to bully them into giving him the prize negates the prize? It’s a peace prize, not a bullying prize. If it were a competition for who is the biggest bully, he would win in a walk, but it’s not, it’s a prize for peace-making. He’s not a peace-making guy. He picks fights multiple times every day.

Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US leader.

How do they not see it? If you demand it with menaces, it become worthless to you. … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Stalling.

It’s truly fascinating watching the reactions from the UK left to the Supreme Court decision. I’ve always been fascinated by cults that collapse. What do doomsday cultists do after the deadline passed and the apocalypse never came? What goes on in their minds? The UK Supreme Court decision is rather comparable to that: an incursion of sobering reality that the delusional can’t simply pretend didn’t come to pass. It’s a devastating blow to the cult’s whole folkloric worldview and social structure.

Fascinatingly, many doomsday cults persevere even after their deadlines pass — the very ones they were so absolutely adamant were guaranteed to mark the end of the world, 100%, no margin … Read the rest

Creepy enough?

Last night, @ParkBoard did the right thing. Apologized to TGD2S community after emotional discussion. Shared some tears. Disavowed JKR. Will undertake concrete actions to rebuild trust. https://t.co/dGC0zP3eun https://t.co/PJAKF4rjgH

— Tom Digby 狄弼 (@ThomasDigby1) October 8, 2025

He’s a Vancouver Parks Board Commissioner. The responses to his ridiculous smug misogynistic announcement are many and scathing.

I disavow him. Are we supposed to say it three times? I disavow him I disavow him I disavow him. Nyah.… Read the rest

Talk about bad journalism…

‘This will not happen again’: Vancouver Park Board apologizes for hosting Harry Potter event

A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.

Members of the city’s transgender, gender diverse and Two Spirit communities had expressed concerns about the decision to partner with the event this holiday season due to its association with J.K. Rowling, author of the seven Harry Potter novels.

Some spoke at Tuesday’s meeting, include Rob Hadley, a member of Vancouver’s S2LGBTQ+ advisory committee—and someone who previously read the books to their own children.

A motion where? Passed in a unanimous vote where? Expressed concerns to … Read the rest

The Scottish government is refusing to pay its bill.

A women’s campaign group has condemned the Scottish Government for failing to settle a legal bill six months on from a crushing Supreme Court defeat.

For Women Scotland won the landmark case in April when the UK’s highest court ruled that the definition of ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act referred to biological sex.

A subsequent court order ruled that the Scottish Government must pay at least some of For Women Scotland’s legal cost during the lengthy court battle, which ran to a total of around £417,000.

But no payment has yet been made – leading to claims ministers are stalling so that the money isn’t used for further

Ok so it seems that Australia has the great good fortune of a Sex Discrimination Commissioner who doesn’t know who is which sex.

Let’s pause to think for a moment.

Done?

Ok so how do you be a Sex Discrimination Commissioner IF YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT SEX PEOPLE ARE?

What’s the job then? Just shrugging? Is that it? Eight hours of shrugging, five days a week?

Meet Dr Anna Cody, the Australia Sex Discrimination Commissioner.

“Just so I can be clear, the law means that a biological man who identifies as a transgender woman can enter a female only space?”

Australian women would be better off if the sex discrimination commission was abolished. pic.twitter.com/gEravPscbZ

— Sall Grover (@salltweets) October 7,

Jolyon loyally sticking to his project of forcing men on women no matter how strongly the women object.

What he means, of course, is that women are trying to ban men from Hampstead women’s pond. He says it’s time to fight women who are trying to keep men out of the women’s pond. He’d love to punch them right in the face, wouldn’t he.… Read the rest

Michael Goldfarb in a public post on Facebook:

Are you tired of the Germany 1933 comparisons? I’m tired of the Germany 1933 comparisons. Let’s shift to the China 1966 and the Cultural Revolution comparison with Chairman Don instead of Chairman Mao and MAGAts in place of Red Guards. The liberal elites across media and the academy being purged and forced publicly to admit ideological errors and bend the knee to the new dispensation.

It’s not a completely farfetched analogy. An aging and increasingly senile Chairman Don makes cultural, economic and increasingly physical war on American society and is aided and abetted by his own Gang of Four: Stevie Miller, Russ Vought, Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth. The rest of

The next great battle – HRT for men!

It is genuinely hard to believe any adult could actually write this, let alone a sitting TD: “I want to prioritise the issue of access to the free HRT scheme. It is completely unacceptable that trans women are being excluded from the scheme. There can be no excuse or justification for this decision. I and others have been raising this with the Minister for a couple of weeks now and I am disappointed with the response. Instead of accepting that the exclusion of trans women is wrong and changing course, the Minister has dug in, further disadvantaging one of the most marginalised groups in society. It really is simple. Trans women

Where we are now.

Pam Bondi had a heated and contentious hearing today before the Senate Judiciary Committee where she refused to answer questions, made personal attacks against Democratic senators, and got extremely defensive and angry whenever the subject of Jeffrey Epstein came up.

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Ranking Member Dick Durbin’s opening remarks to Bondi: “You disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and the National cryptocurrency enforcement team, despite the growing threat of foreign election interference and the drastic rise in cryptocurrency crimes. You forced out almost 75% of the Civil Rights Div’s career attorneys while hate crimes are on the rise. You fired more than 100 immigration judges. While the immigration case backlog is more than 3 million. You

Divoosity training hits another bump in the road.

Since its creation in 2020, the [Free Speech Union] has handled over 2,500 individual cases and queries relating to free speech. Of our free speech cases, 46% are in some way associated with the workplace and, among these, approximately one fifth concern EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) training (approximately 230). In practice, this means that our members are asking whether they’ll get into trouble if they refuse to do the training, or seeking our help because they’ve already got into trouble for challenging it.

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In some cases, EDI training extends to telling employees and professionals how they should behave outside the workplace, such as the insistence that employees should use