Rapey Don has finally had to pony up some cash.

Donald Trump has posted a $91.6m (£71m) bond as he appeals against the verdict in E Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him. A jury in January found Mr Trump owed the former columnist millions of dollars for defamation when he denied he sexually assaulted her.

A judge had rejected the former president’s request for more time to secure a bond to cover the penalty…In this year’s trial, the jury found Mr Trump liable of defamation for lying about the assault in 2019, and in January he was ordered to pay her $83.3m, much of it in punitive damages.

Judge Kaplan made the verdict official in February and gave Mr

This time the painting wasn’t protected by a glass screen.

A portrait of Lord Balfour, the former prime minister, at the University of Cambridge has been damaged by a pro-Palestinian protester.

In video posted on social media by Palestine Action, a member of the group is seen spray-painting and slashing the portrait at Trinity College. A woman can be seen defacing the work with red paint before slicing the canvas with a sharp object.

She didn’t “damage” the portrait, she destroyed it. She slashed it into shreds.

The good news is it wasn’t a Rembrandt or similar, but still, let’s be accurate.

Balfour was one of the chief supporters of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, cemented by 

It’s International Women’s Day so the Oxford Mail observes it with…

Retired Oxford soldier, 87, among UK’s oldest trans women | Oxford Mail

Dee Hawley lived as David for most of her life before finally coming out as trans in her late 70s.

She has since undergone breast implant surgery but has so far held back on full reassignment surgery.

Before coming out as trans, the dad-of-three lived in Oxford with her wife of 62 years, before moving to Moseley in Birmingham.

So obviously he’s exactly the right person to chat with on International Women’s Day.… Read the rest

Sleb hilarity.

FUCK OFF! https://t.co/eskY1mODXt

— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) March 8, 2024

Fuck off! https://t.co/eskY1mODXt

— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) March 8, 2024

Fuck off! https://t.co/eskY1mODXt

— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) March 8, 2024

Powerful arguments, you have to admit.… Read the rest

Ah look at the mask come off. What a surprise.

But “putrid cunt” is totally a term of endearment in Scotland.… Read the rest

While the mainstream meeja carefully ignore the WPATH files, Malcolm Clark at The Critic underlines some items.

No organisation has played a greater role in the adoption of the pseudo-science of so-called “gender affirming healthcare” globally than the World Professional Association of Transgender Health. That’s why this week’s release of leaked discussions between some of its leading figures suggesting possible medical malpractice could prove a pivotal moment in the Gender Wars. It’s been a long time coming.

The truth is WPATH is little more than a pressure group made up of a mixture of saucer-eyed trans activists and self-professed experts in disciplines like endocrinology, psychiatry and surgery. “Experts” who just happen to pocket huge profits from the mutilation and

Consult Google News on “Samantha Hudson” and you get headlines like

Nasty right-wingers, they just won’t let a nice trans laydee “influencer” alone.

The BBC is all concern:

The company that makes Doritos cut ties with a transgender influencer after reports she posted about violence and paedophilia. Samantha Hudson, a singer and actor from Spain, has around 370,000 Instagram followers and was part of a social media campaign for the brand.

In a statement Doritos condemned Hudson’s social media posts. But its short-lived campaign led to calls, led by right-wing activists in the US, to boycott the snack food.

I hope you’ve understood which parts of this story are important – that the transgender influencer is a “she” and … Read the rest

Gosh it seems like only last week the media were all over that story about the “woman” who murdered a man in Oxford, but apparently the reckless mutilation of children isn’t newsworthy?

The WPATH Files have exposed one of the major medical scandals of our time.

So here’s a list of the mainstream media outlets who have yet to cover it…

Broadcasters: @BBCNews @itvnews @Channel4News @5_News @SkyNews

National papers: @guardian @thetimes @Independent…

— Andrew Doyle (@andrewdoyle_com) March 7, 2024

National papers:

@guardian

@thetimes

@Independent

@Daily_Express

@TheSun

@DailyMirror London:

@EveningStandard

@MetroUK Regional:

@MENnewsdesk

@ExpressandStar

@ChronicleLive

@LivEchonews (and all the others!) Scotland:

@heraldscotland

@TheScotsman

@thecourieruk

@pressjournal Wales and NI:

@HeraldWales

@WalesOnline

@BelTel Even if journalists don’t approve of the findings of

‘You cannot mansplain this issue, this is an issue for women!’

Emily Carver fumes at co-host Tom Harwood over his comments on the transgender row between JK Rowling and India Willoughby. pic.twitter.com/Q2rO3b8dPD

— GB News (@GBNEWS) March 7, 2024

“Well we just spoke to Maya Forstater from Sex Matters about the row between JK Rowling and the trans journalist India Willoughby”

Hahaha yes very good, trans journalist indeed. I wish newsreaders would learn how to pronounce Rowling though – rhymes with bowling not howling.

“and judging by iron box [???] our inbox a lot of people at home think that you’re a bit ridiculous on this issue Tom.”

Tom of course jumps to explain how he’s not at all ridiculous … Read the rest

Well what do you know – a homemade tv news hobby that operates out of someone’s bedroom invited both “India” Willoughby and JK Rowling to do an interview and for some massively perplexing reason only Indier accepted.

The hobbyists are very excited to have coaxed Willz to take part – they call the result EXCLUSIVE. Hahaha that’s cute guys (something tells me they’re guys) but of course it’s exclusive. Nobody cares what Willoughby thinks.

Blither blither blither.

Fairfax School District Sued for Allowing Transgender Students into Girls’ Restrooms, Locker Rooms

As usual, the wording misses the point. The issue isn’t trans students in girls’ restrooms, it’s male students in girls’ restrooms. The problem isn’t being trans in girls’ facilities, the problem is being male there.

The plaintiff is an anonymous female student who has been enrolled in the Fairfax school district since the third grade. Because of her deeply held Roman Catholic beliefs, she doesn’t support the rule and feels that its requirement to use preferred pronouns “forces her to lie,” the filing states.

It’s got nothing to do with Catholic beliefs, deeply held or otherwise. The Catholic church is no friend to women.… Read the rest

What a horrible man. Not James, obviously; the other fella (who has me blocked).

This isn’t ‘justice’ @kelvin_morganNZ you’re simply another man shilling for a violent thug who punched a 71 year old lady 3 times so hard in the face, that her cheekbone was broken. Him & the violent, out of control, deranged mob would have gladly stomped KJK to death had she… pic.twitter.com/XZT6UbaeBE

— James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) March 6, 2024

Oh the poor poor poor wee young man, won’t somebody PLEASE think of the darling tiny bashful sad shy trembling delicate vulnerable quivering feeble dainty sensitive young man who smashed an older woman’s eye socket? Won’t somebody also PLEASE ignore the violent repeated punching of the older woman … Read the rest

Another terrible idea makes its bashful debut.

I am so excited to unveil our new campaign, in partnership with creative agency @CPB_LDN and @EmAtack

I’m Asking For It: Let’s change the law to require a clear yes to sex. Find out more https://t.co/SCub5mJzyM

Right to Equality is campaigning to update the UK’s law on… pic.twitter.com/PaLVznbVe5

— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) March 4, 2024

Replies are closed. Quote retweets are scathing.… Read the rest

James Esses goes undercover on a British Psychological Society webinar:

The purpose of the webinar was to “shine a light on the history of the LGBT+ community’s experience of receiving healthcare”.

Tricky, when there is no such “community.”

The webinar began with panellists’ thoughts on the current state of play regarding ‘trans healthcare’ in society. The audience were told that “LGBTQ people face huge medicalisation”. This statement was ironic, given that the BPS support puberty blockers, hormones and surgery for those with gender dysphoria – the very definition of ‘huge medicalisation’.

Nononono puberty blockers and the rest are trans healthcare, which is the very opposite of huge medicalisation.

…the most concerning statement of the session came from

Gosh you don’t say.

Doritos has fired a transgender activist who appeared in one of its promotional videos after being alerted to her sickening old tweets, including one where she wrote about doing ‘depraved things’ to a 12-year-old.

Hello? Doritos? Are you new around here? What did you expect? Claiming to be trans is itself a warning flag. It doesn’t necessarily signal sexual abuse of children, but it does signal a narcissistic demand for attention. It does signal Trouble or Nuisance or Tiresome Dude Who Won’t Shut Up About Himself & Will Do Anything For Attention.

Also what’s with the fake “she” and “her”? Trans women are men; that’s what “trans” means.

Many took issue with the brand partnership

The journey not the arrival matters. How did this guy get to the conclusion he did?

The “foolish young man” Kelvin Morgan mentions here is the one who repeatedly smashed his fist into the eye socket of a woman decades older than he is, because he hates her views on sex and gender.

The young man is the perp here, and the woman with the smashed eye socket is the victim, but Mr Morgan’s worry and concern are all for the strong young man with the flying fists, as if he were frail and vulnerable.

I’ll never understand it.… Read the rest

The Independent (once a real newspaper) being absurdly censorious about a woman calling a man a man:

JK Rowling is facing backlash again after deliberately misgendering trans activist India Willoughby.

Oh no, not backlash. How will she cope?

There’s no such thing as “misgendering.” It’s a made-up crime or error. India Willoughby is a man. He’s also a bully and a toad – why doesn’t the Indy report on that instead of hissing like a burst hot water pipe at women who refuse to obey his orders?

The Harry Potter author has faced repeated criticism in recent years over her views on transgender rights, saying previously that she would rather go to jail than refer to a

Mostly Cloudy pointed us to The Economist on the WPATH files.

Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care

Already we’re in the woods, because calling it “care” is tendentious.

The files shed light on a controversial area of medicine that has largely retreated into the shadows

A big stride farther into the woods, because it’s not really medicine as commonly understood. It’s more like tampering.

Few areas of medicine arouse as strong emotions in America as transgender care.

Not really medicine and not really care. Experimentation perhaps, stripped of most of the usual cautions.

It’s strange that such a reckless ideological pseudo-medical trend has even conservative publications like The Economist mouthing the jargon.

The publication this week of hundreds of posts

So today there are the WPATH files.

THE WPATH FILES

Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based.

But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical.

American… pic.twitter.com/mcJ2E7TezW

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 4, 2024

Advocates of gender-affirming care say it’s evidence-based. But now, newly released internal files from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) prove that the practice of transgender medicine is neither scientific nor medical. American Medical Association, The Endocrine Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and thousands of doctors worldwide rely on WPATH. It is considered the leading global authority on gender medicine. And yet WPATH’s internal

Originally a comment by Rob on By a reasonably clear margin.

For those who can’t access the Herald story, the StuffNZ version:

The man’s lawyer, Emma Priest, said this was a unique set of circumstances that would never be repeated by her client who has ADHD and autism and got caught up in the “frenzied Posie Parker protests”.

She said a conviction would be out of proportion to his offending and would result in difficulty in the young man gaining employment.

His ADHD and youth amplified his impulsivity that day. Priest said her client had taken responsibility, was truly remorseful and willing to engage in restorative justice – which was declined.

Since the offending, he has undertaken 180