Return to Gardencourt…not an obscure Henry James sequel but a new window into just how brazen the Stonewall bullying is.
https://twitter.com/SexNotGI/status/1789644257919160415“I trust that you will do what is right.” Aka “Nice little place you got here, would be a shame if something happened to it.”
The usual incomplete evasive dishonest manipulative reporting:
Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson narrowly misses out on qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open
He’s not a “transgender golfer” – he’s a transgender man, aka a man who claims to be a woman. “Golfer” is not a gender.
This careful evasiveness seems to be universal in mainstream journalism, which is maddening. It’s not the job of news outlets to protect men who are working 24/7 to destroy the rights of women.
The caption under the photo at the top of the story is even more evasive:
Hailey Davidson, a winner earlier this year on the NXXT Tour, missed qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Open by one spot.
Nothing even hints that he’s … Read the rest
The new homophobia in action:
We’ll be seeking an explanation from Anneliese’s office, as well as reassurances on the Labour leadership’s policy commitments to LGBT+ people – including Trans people – on hate crime, healthcare, conversion therapy, gender recognition reform and more. (2/2)
— LGBT+ Labour (@LGBTLabour) May 14, 2024
I’m just catching up on the news about a teacher who was abruptly fired, apparently for teaching critical thinking. It seems the school also seized his personal laptop and is keeping it, which…how is that legal? It’s either that or he was writing a book on a school computer and not backing it up on a computer of his own, which…why tf would he do that?
… Read the rest7 days ago I was fired from my school after 4 years of teaching.
I recorded this the following day in order to share my perspective – honestly & in good faith – in order to move forward and put this experience behind me. I have no desire to cause complications or bring unwanted…
The NY Times reported several weeks ago that Republicans are hard at work purging voters.
… Read the restA network of right-wing activists and allies of Donald J. Trump is quietly challenging thousands of voter registrations in critical presidential battleground states, an all-but-unnoticed effort that could have an impact in a close or contentious election.
Calling themselves election investigators, the activists have pressed local officials in Michigan, Nevada and Georgia to drop voters from the rolls en masse. They have at times targeted Democratic areas, relying on new data programs and novel legal theories to justify their push.
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The groups have made mass voter challenges a top priority this election year, spurred on by a former Trump lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, and True
We are learning to Be Kinder.
Can everyone just start being a bit kinder, like India Willoughby please. pic.twitter.com/miXYoPo4kk
— Nicky Clark (@MrsNickyClark) May 14, 2024
An interesting detail from Michael Cohen’s testimony yesterday:
He reported directly to Mr Trump, on “whatever concerned him, whatever he wanted”, Cohen said, calling his ex-boss a micromanager. “Everything required Mr Trump’s sign-off,” he said.
At the same time, Mr Trump was careful about paper trails, Cohen said. The Trump Organization founder never had an email address, telling Cohen that “emails are like written papers”.
“There are too many people who have gone down as a direct result of having emails that prosecutors can use in a case,” Cohen said Mr Trump once told him.
Gone down, eh? As in, been exposed as criminals? If Trump did say that it tells us he knows he’s a crook and takes … Read the rest
Many many people, especially women, are asking why the BBC keeps promoting drag and why it doesn’t equally promote blackface. It’s a fair question.
Amir Dean, also known as Lady Bushra, is one of the UK's most well-known British Asian drag artists.
Since debuting Lady Bushra four years ago, Amir has travelled the world performing with the hope of encouraging people to "be more like Bushra" pic.twitter.com/KL7lZjRSOJ
— BBC World Service (@bbcworldservice) May 14, 2024
Originally a comment by Arty Morty on True Selves.
His “true self” being the woman he is not. His fake true self, his pretend true self, his fantasy true self. Back in the before times a true self meant something along the lines of a self not repressed and stifled by convention. It didn’t mean childish fantasy. Adults didn’t prance around saying their true selves were birds or race cars or space travelers or Nobel laureates or ponies. Fantasy and delusion are now what’s real, so I guess truth and sanity are fake.
How are we supposed to even try to show compassion for people who may or may not have debilitating dysphoria when so many of the most … Read the rest
That’s embarrassing. She’s a lawyer and a journalist and that’s her reading comprehension level?
Probably not, most of the time. Probably it’s an excess of anger that caused her to miss the point so thoroughly. Let that be a lesson to us all: when in a rage, slow down and read carefully before you rush to denounce. Otherwise you’re gonna look like a damn fool in front of all those sages and wits on social meeja.
Motown and cornrows. That’s what this dizzy bitch thinks being Black is about.
Motown and cornrows. https://t.co/lOJYLgyjM2
— Imani Gandy (Orca’s Version) ⚓️ (@AngryBlackLady) May 13, 2024
“A terf, a bullet, social justice”
« Une TERF, une balle, justice sociale » : des appels au meurtre envers @Margueritestern et moi, en plein paris, devant la police, devant l’université ASSAS à Paris où l’on s’apprêtait à donner une conférence sur notre livre #TRANSMANIA.
La police ne les embarque pas. Pas de… pic.twitter.com/FKp6rWCvsv
— Dora Moutot (@doramoutot) May 7, 2024
The cop who escorts Moutot seems to be laughing.… Read the rest
An amusing bit in a Bloomberg piece by Timothy O’Brien:
… Read the restCohen, a lawyer, didn’t work for Trump because he was a deft attorney, a skillful accountant or a brilliant money manager. He worked for him because he knew just enough about the law, accounting and greed to help Trump engineer end runs and cover-ups. “I know where the skeletons are buried because I was the one who buried them,” Cohen wrote in Disloyal, a memoir of his Trump years. “I wasn’t just a witness to the President’s rise — I was an active and eager participant.”
“Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did,” Cohen wrote. “In some ways, I knew him
Ridiculous man thinks it’s personal.
So JK, Posie, Glinner and the rest of you out there hating on my community and myself guess what IDGAF…you keep hating and I will keep on smiling and living my best life. Maybe you should all give it a try eh
— Lucy Clark. (@lucyclarkref) May 11, 2024
Dude. It’s not about you the person. It’s about this ridiculous destructive ideology, and the myriad ways it harms women (and children, and lesbians and gay men, and confused people). We don’t want you to live your worst life, we just don’t want you demolishing our rights.… Read the rest
The FA did a puff piece on “Lucy” Clark in February 2019.
February is LGBT History Month and Wembley Stadium hosted the Just A Ball Game #StrongerTogether conference on Tuesday 5 February. One of the guest speakers was Lucy Clark, who became English football’s first transgender referee at the start of the 2018-19 season. Here, she tells her story and how the campaign has gone so far…
Notice how they avoid spelling it out, as the media and organizations so regularly do. Just “transgender,” not trans which gender.
… Read the restThe game has always been my outlet throughout life. As a child, a teenager and an adult, my life always revolved around football, whether I was a player, a manager or
Oh what do you know, it turns out that “Lucy” Clark, who is being hailed as the first “trans football referee,” is not some random fella who just happened to be the star of this story, he’s a Celebrity Personality with multiple masks.
https://twitter.com/JammersMinde/status/1790009638152204597They do? They are?
Why yes.
Careful now, Clark doesn't like ladies who tweet. https://t.co/vzusCYS97z
— SaintCirce (@SaintCirce) May 11, 2024
The Victoria Derbyshire chat was March 2019. This guy didn’t just fall off the turnip truck yesterday.
… Read the restIt’s ironic how you changed your gender (RG) to sell your books while someone who goes through a traumatic process to make their lives a bit better are the problem for you.
— Rohan Choksi (@Rohan_Choksi) May 13,
Yet another guy tries to tell JKR how to bee nither to the nithe men thtealing all our thtuff.
By me for @spectator: "The quote-Tweet is possibly the most brutal weapon that exists on social media … Anything an opponent says can be captured and broadcast to your audience. Sarcasm, ridicule, or downright abuse then set the tone for the mob"https://t.co/NDVMoxcsOJ
— Dr Debbie Hayton (@DebbieHayton) May 13, 2024
She’s not playing. None of us are playing.
… Read the restWhether you agree with Rowling or not, her tone is remarkably different to the essay she wrote in 2020 when she set out her reasons for speaking out on sex and gender
✍️ Debbie Haytonhttps://t.co/xWuYTHC2r2
— The Spectator (@spectator) May
Originally a comment by Peter N on Backstabbers.
For the record, I’ve been pen-pals with half a dozen federal inmates going back something like 15 years, and I volunteered in a state prison for ten years. I’ve also been active in a local prisoner support group for three years. In all of that, I’ve never heard any first-hand report of rape in prisons. I don’t question that things were very bad in the past, and may remain so in some locations, but it seems to me that today prisons are very, very motivated to avoid rape. Indeed as a volunteer I had to take an anti-rape class mandated by federal law, and re-qualify every year.
What I have heard … Read the rest
Argh. Genevieve Gluck has a thread on the ACLU and its hatred of women, and it’s hard going. Highly informative but painful to read.
The first tweet is cut off, so I’ll just quote it.
… Read the restThe @ACLU hates women and is led by a gay man: a thread. One of the most powerful lobby groups in the United States pushing “gender identity” policies is the ACLU. Currently, the organization is leading the legal fight to place violent men, including sadistic killers and rapists, into women’s prisons. The executive director since 2001 is Anthony Romero. In the past the organization defended NAMBLA, asserted that child pornography is free speech, defended child marriage, took money from pornographers, and argued that sex
Oh yay, a new law in Belgium will provide a labor contract to workers in the sex mines. Solidarity forevaaaa!
… Read the restThe Belgian Parliament voted for the law on May 3, with 93 in favor, zero opposed, and 33 abstentions.
The legislation is being touted as a win by UTSOPI, the Belgium Union of Sex Workers, which had lobbied extensively for the legislation. The law outlines that prostitutes will receive health insurance, a pension, maternity and holiday leave, and unemployment benefits. Their pimps will be forced to provide them with a “safety button” to use for emergencies.
Their website claims that the law “is a historic step in the battle for sex workers’ rights” and will create a “respectful,
National Organization for Women (aka NOW) on Facebook three days ago:
All women should have access to the gender-affirming care they want and need, including those who are incarcerated.
They linked to an article at The 19th with the headline
Incarcerated trans women won sweeping prison reforms in Colorado
Er. Meaning what? That men who claim to be women get to be in the women’s prisons?
Yes, of course that’s what they mean. This is NOW, remember. The W stands for women.
The state signed a legal agreement meant to make prisons safer for transgender women, who are often the targets of violence and harassment.
By “safer for transgender women” they of course mean much more dangerous for women. … Read the rest
