The whistleblowers provide much food for thought.

This passage about halfway through for instance:

The puberty blocker trial has a fundamental flaw in what it intends to discover. Young people experiencing intense distress about pubertal changes will understandably feel great relief when offered a way to halt them, and this relief may seem like successful treatment. However, the trial overlooks how the very prospect of medical intervention affects their mental state during assessment, and it fails to consider what this communicates: that their distress is unbearable instead of something they might be supported to work through. Many of these young people already struggle with their identity and experience a sense of not fitting in with most of their peers.

Some good news and some bad news.

Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a trans activist on social media at Westminster Magistrates Court but convicted of criminal damage for knocking an activist’s phone out of his hand when he thrust it in his face.

A top-flight legal team, provided by the FSU, who… pic.twitter.com/tlUL9Rs6uO

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) November 25, 2025

Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a trans activist on social media at Westminster Magistrates Court but convicted of criminal damage for knocking an activist’s phone out of his hand when he thrust it in his face.

It seems to me that if someone thrusts a hard object (i.e. not a wooly hat or similar) … Read the rest

The last 30 seconds or so are illuminating (in a narrow sense of illuminating).

What you’re basically saying is that transgender identities don’t exist, so that somebody who has a penis and testicles can’t identify as a woman – and – I mean – where does that come from, where do you find that view – because there are millions, millions, of transgender women living in the world – there’s something like, in one count, up to eight million transgender people living in the US – but yet you’re saying it’s impossible that somebody who has a penis identifies as female – I mean [flailing] uh er how do you get to wipe out a whole section of the

Well, that’s something. Just the undoing of a bad thing, but in a storm of bad things, we take what we can get.

A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.

The judge found that President Donald Trump’s appointment of interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Alexandria, Virginia, was invalid.

Trump handpicked Halligan for the role amid increasing pressure to bring criminal cases against his political enemies, including Comey and James.

“The Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid,” Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in her Monday order.

Jeez. If a dirty guy can’t … Read the rest

Victoria Smith on the justbekind trope:

The past week saw another “reasonable” man — in this case the journalist David Aaronovitch — argue that calling a male person “she” if he so wishes is just a matter of being kind.

I like David Aaronovitch, but I don’t like this argument, which is one we all see a lot.

…there is quite clearly a potential cost to women when male people are referred to as “she”. That it may only be an emotional one, impacting on one’s psychological well-being, does not make it an irrelevance. Women’s physical safety, boundaries and access to public life matter, but so, too, does our own self-respect.

Self-respect in the form, for instance, of not … Read the rest

Yet again the same old point missed.

Scouts Scotland is accused of ignoring the Supreme Court’s gender ruling and allowing children and adults to use the toilets and sleeping quarters of the opposite sex.

But of course it isn’t just “allowing”; it’s also forcing. The forcing part is the problem. By “allowing” some people to use the toilets and sleeping quarters of the opposite sex you are forcing others to do so. You can’t do the one without doing the other. That’s the whole point, which is always left unstated by sloppy reporting. The news media need to start making this clear at the very beginning.

Scouts Scotland said its trans and gender identity guidance — which states that

Forget the substance for a minute, to ask questions about the presentation.

‘Baby P’ refers to Peter Connolly, a baby boy who was murdered with a horrific catalogue of injuries going back months

The comparison to women demanding cross dressing men aren’t in spaces we are undressing is sickening@HelenWebberley what is actually wrong with you? pic.twitter.com/ht910ZbURi

— Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS (@Sorelle_Arduino) November 24, 2025

First question: why is she filming herself talking to a huge mirror? Why not just talk to the camera, instead of talking to a mirror with a camera pointed at it? What’s her point?

Second question: what’s with picking up the giant mug and eventually taking a swig or pretending to?

In short why is this … Read the rest

Spot the error.

Being gay isn't a choice.

Being Trans isn't a choice.

Being disabled isn't a choice.

The colour of your skin isn't a choice.

How you treat people, that is a choice.

Learn to love your neighbour, whoever they are.

Let's chose love over biggotry.

— Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) November 21, 2025

But it’s too easy of course. It’s the second item. “Being trans” is a choice. It is, at a minimum, a choice to put that particular label on feelings and/or ideas about the self. Less minimally, it can be a choice to join the trend of claiming to be trans or nonbinaree or transnonbinaree or some other item on the list of gender-special labels.

It’s not … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Replacing outdate diagnostic categories.

Obviously, a man does not – indeed cannot know what it feels like to be a woman: I, for example, can only know what it feels like to be me, but the ideology says otherwise.

Exactly. I can’t extend my own experience to other men, let alone women. Me is all I’ve got. I have no other frame of reference. I happen to be male, but I can’t claim any expertise in “maleness” or “being a man.” I assume some degree of similarity and commonality with other humans, in that they will have their own subjectivities, but I can’t know what those subjectivities are. I … Read the rest

Telegraph exclaims

Transgender people face ban from single-sex spaces based on appearance

Yes, and?

People have always faced bans from single-sex spaces based on appearance. That’s because appearance is how we know who is what. It always has been. What else would it be? Identity papers? Come on. There just aren’t enough edge cases to make that not true.

Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on appearance under equalities guidance, it has been reported.

NHS trusts, councils and businesses have continued to allow trans women to use female-only facilities despite the Supreme Court ruling in April that laws against sex-based discrimination should only apply to biological women. Service providers have been waiting for updated guidance from the

When did the word “minority” become shorthand for “set of wonderful people unfairly neglected or persecuted by the plump prosperous majority”?

That’s not what it means. It just means non-majority. It’s quite neutral.

Of course there is. Successful projects to eliminate or find a cure for various diseases eliminate the minorities who suffered from them. Projects to extend education to all children eliminate minorities who have never so much as seen a school. And so on. Lots of kinds of minority are kinds of disprivilege, and eliminating them is not genocide, it’s genobenefit.

Guys like Brian Wu want to grab some of that benefit and attention and cuddling for themselves, despite the fact that they’re not the people the benefit … Read the rest

Natalie Angier writes:

In the 1990s, while working on my book “Woman: An Intimate Geography,” I mentioned the project to Larry Smith, a middle-aged editor at Parade magazine. He shook his head in astonishment. “I’ve never understood women,” he said. “When I was young, I wasn’t even sure women were people.”

Reading all the crap from the Epstein dump, including emails by high-powered male scientists and other predatory academics, I realize that nothing has changed. For too many men, women are, in Epstein’s despicable phrase, “a life support system for a vagina.”

Enough is ENOUGH!

I’ve been realizing that every day my whole adult life. Men are the norm, women are the weird aberration who can be ignored for … Read the rest

Trump belittles Zelensky. Again.

President Donald Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he can either agree to the White House’s peace proposal by Thursday, or “continue to fight his little heart out.”

Little shmittle. His heart is a lot bigger than Trump’s.

The comment, made to reporters in Washington, is part of a White House push to get Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to end the war that began with Russia’s invasion in February 2022. It has drawn criticism, including from Republican lawmakers, for being favorable to Moscow.

The plan forces Ukraine to make concessions long seen as unacceptable to the country, including ceding territory to Russia and significantly reducing the size

So having gotten that off my chest I’ll regale you with what the Experts say. Courtesy of the World Health Organization I give you Gender incongruence and transgender health in the ICD. What’s the ICD? International Classification something. Directorate? Department? Dogma? I don’t know. I’ll let you know if I find out.

ICD-11 and Gender Incongruence

The 11^th edition of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11). The newly revised ICD-11 codes includes new changes to reflect modern understanding of sexual health and gender identity.

Hmm. Modern understanding or modern batshit crazy?

ICD-11 has redefined gender identity-related health, replacing outdated diagnostic categories like ICD-10’s “transsexualism” and “gender identity disorder of children” with “gender

Ok so I’m trying to find an explanation of what people mean when they talk about “gender incongruence.” Why am I doing that? Because of the new plan for a new study into are blockers bad or are they perfectly ok provided you read the directions carefully.

Two studies to investigate the impact of puberty blockers in young people with gender incongruence have been announced by researchers in the UK after an expert view said gender medicine was “built on shaky foundations”.

Oh they’ve noticed, have they? Could they not then just call a halt and do the studies with a calm mind? No, because gender fiddling always has to be done right away, just in case it turns … Read the rest

It takes some nerve.

"How very dare a woman I don't like crowdfund £65K for a legal challenge", says filthy rich but emotionally fragile man who has crowdfunded almost £6.5 million for some 90 legal challenges since 2017, without ever once bothering to ask the public what they think. pic.twitter.com/Kz3YkbjOy4

— Professor Richard Dunstan (@Wonkypolicywonk) November 22, 2025

Maya Forstater has some views that differ from some other people’s views, marvels Jolyon Maugham, who takes up quite a lot of twitter oxygen sharing his views which differ from some other people’s views.

If it’s ok for him to spout off about “trans rights” every five minutes why is it no ok for Maya Forstater or any other woman to spout … Read the rest

LGB Alliance writes:

We are horrified by the announcement of the PATHWAYS trial. As a charity representing lesbians, gays and bisexuals we are outraged that the lives of mostly LGB teenagers are held in such contempt that blocking their development has been given ethical approval.

We are supporting increasing numbers of detransitioned LGB people who are appalled that more children will be subjected to a trial of drugs we already know to be harmful. They now know they had difficulty accepting their homosexuality. They can attest to the effects of these drugs but have not been asked. All the evidence shows that lesbians, gay and bisexual young people make up the majority of those who will suffer.

Every detail

Yes but…

Wait up. We didn’t say that when you say “pregnant people” you’re saying women don’t get pregnant. What we say is that the ridiculous “pregnant people” goes out of its way to erase women, and attempts to spread the silly delusion that people in general get pregnant. We also say this is repulsively typical of trans manipulation.

Yes of course “trans men” – who are women – can get pregnant. Of course “Non-Binary people” – which is meaningless – can get pregnant if they are women. Duh. People who like chocolate can get pregnant if they are women. People who are allergic to coconut can get pregnant if they are women. Random descriptor people can get pregnant if … Read the rest

Euan certainly is illiterate for a purported “journalist”.

“deminish” “dissolutioned” – he needs to repeat second grade.… Read the rest

Wasn’t the BBC supposed to be getting over this? Learning better? Getting a clue about the relentless campaign to shove women aside? Stop mocking and insulting women? Stop obsessing about one tiny demographic while ignoring half of all human beings?

I thought it was, but apparently the drag desk did not get the memo.

Top of the page is a huge photo of four men in drag.

It’s been nine months since the Dragonfly Lounge’s stage lights first went on, the music played and its doors opened to everyone in Colchester. It is an inclusive LGBTQ+ bar and community space that hosts drag cabaret, live music and space for local producers to showcase their crafts.

Co-owner Jo Palmer-Tweed describes