Brilliant title.

BBC shift towards accuracy angers the gender identity faithful

Oh no, not a shift towards accuracy!!

The BBC has ‘given way to transphobic rhetoric’, according to US activist Erin Reed. Erstwhile celebrity India Willoughby says a new editorial policy is ‘dehumanising’ trans people. Their indignation is reflected across gender activist social media.

Erin and India, in their current iteration at the BBC, are ‘biological males who identify as women’. Earlier this year they would have been trans women. Last year they would have been women.

This in a nutshell is the reason for the anger. Perhaps next year Erin and India will simply be he/hims in BBC copy.

Erin’s piece last week, and India’s latest car protest video,

From The Critic nearly four years ago:

Police are investigating a woman for raising safeguarding concerns about Girl Guide commissioner Monica Sulley

We’re in UpsideDownLand again.

A teacher and mother-of-three has been questioned under caution by Merseyside Police for sending a letter to Girlguiding UK raising safeguarding concerns.

Her story begins in November 2021 when it emerged that Girlguiding UK had appointed a local commissioner called Monica Sulley, a role that involves overseeing Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. 

Social media reports showed that Sulley, a trans woman, had posted pictures of herself on Instagram wearing dominatrix clothing, one of which was captioned “Now behave yourselves or Mistress will have to punish you #mistress.” She had

Girl Guides have put out an absolutely disgusting apologetic misogynistic statement.

Denise Wilson (Chair of Trustees), Felicity Oswald (CEO) and Tracy Foster (Chief Guide)

02 December 2025

Following April’s Supreme Court decision relating to sex and gender, many organisations across the country have been facing complex decisions about what it means for girls and women and for the wider communities affected.

Complex shmomplex. It’s not complex at all. Boys are not girls: get out.

Girlguiding’s governing charity documents set out that the membership and people who benefit from our organisation are girls and women. The Supreme Court ruled that girls and women are defined in the Equality Act 2010 by their biological sex at birth.

Because what the fuck … Read the rest

Oh dear. She’s “trans nonbinareee” she tells us, but do we by any chance know why she has pain from these surgical scars here after her elective double mastectomy? Not that she doesn’t love her mastectomy, no no no, but there is the hurty part. Also, she loves us very much.

@justjimmie

#doublemastectomy #transawareness #nonbinary #chestsurgery #surgery

♬ Ethereal – Elie & Jiafei & Makaka

She’s startin’ to have some physical limitations? But like she said [sic], she’s starting to have some physical limitations with certain movements [like moving her arms for instance], some pain in certain areas, some muscle isssssues in certain parts.

Nothing to see here.… Read the rest

What prompted me to ask Google about “routine” MRIs was Heather Cox Richardson’s post yesterday about Trump’s mental acuity.

President Donald J. Trump’s behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity. A rant on his social media account at midnight on Thanksgiving itself threatened to strip citizenship from naturalized immigrants, called Minnesota governor Tim Walz a profoundly offensive slur, and ended: “HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for—You won’t be here for long!”

On NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, Walz responded by calling for Trump to release the results of an MRI he told reporters he underwent in October, later saying: “I have no idea what

The White House is saying Trump’s MRI was just normal routine preventative care. The trouble is, that’s not a thing. I asked Google/AI specifically: Is it true that preventative MRI scans are normal? The answer is no.

No, preventative full-body MRI scans are not considered standard or normal by major medical organizations. While they can find abnormalities, they are not recommended for the general public because they often lead to false positives, unnecessary anxiety, expensive and potentially risky follow-up procedures, and lack of proven effectiveness in improving health outcomes or lifespan. Standard MRI scans are typically used to diagnose specific symptoms or monitor a known condition, not for general, symptom-free screening.

And yet the White House swears up and down … Read the rest

Trump is furious at the Times again.

The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again. I won the 2024 Presidential Election in a Landslide, winning all Seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and the Electoral College by a lot. I won our Nation’s Districts by 2750 to 550, a complete wipeout. I settled 8 Wars, have 48 New Stock Market Highs, our Economy is Great, and our Country is RESPECTED AGAIN all over the World, respected like never before. The last Administration had the Highest Inflation in history – I have already brought that down to normal, and prices, including groceries, are coming down. To do this requires a lot of Work and Energy, and

Katha Pollitt asks

Why Did So Many People in Epstein’s Circle Look the Other Way?

Here is what I’ve learned from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal so far: If you are rich, practiced in the art of flattery, generous with favors and connections and donations, give star-studded dinner parties, and offer flights on your private plane, nobody cares if you hired a 14-year-old girl for sex.

Or, nobody except those boring cranky argumentative people who think women and girls matter.

Even if you went to jail for it—though Alan Dershowitz and future labor secretary Alexander Acosta finagled a deal whereby you didn’t serve your whole sentence and were allowed out during the day and on weekends. Nobody’s going to ask a

Trump continues to urge the US military to commit war crimes.

The president has picked up where he left off before Thanksgiving, when it comes to his anger at the six Democratic lawmakers who took part in a video urging service members to “refuse illegal orders”.

A reminder, that Trump initially went on a Truth Social tirade, accusing the members of Congress (all of whom are veterans or former intelligence officials) of sedition, adding that their actions are “punishable by death”.

They are all veterans or former intelligence officials, and he is not. He is a real estate hustler. That’s it, that’s his “profession”. He’s qualified to tell service members to commit war crimes by his decades of experience … Read the rest

Good to know.

Julie Bindel talks to an escapee from fanaticism:

In 2003, aged 20, Appel trained as a hairdresser and worked in a salon for a decade. In 2011, he met his husband-to-be, and in 2017 they moved to New York, where he enrolled at Columbia University. Studying non-fiction writing, while campaigning against the incoming Trump administration, he became embedded within the so-called liberationist movement that includes LGBT rights.

In the three-and-a-half years he spent there, Appel saw fellow students becoming indoctrinated with pseudoscientific, anti-Western dogma sold to them as progressiveness. He began to see that what was happening was cult-like and “in many ways worse than Lamb of God”.

Any slight digression from the “trans women are women”, “death

Could be a war crime.

A top Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested on Sunday that American military officials might have committed a war crime in President Trump’s offensive against boats in the Caribbean after a news report said that during one such attack, a follow-up strike was ordered to kill survivors.

The remarks came in response to a Washington Post report on Friday that said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs, and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September.

“Obviously if that occurred, that would be very serious,

Headline:

Woman who tried to summon her MP to court is jailed for harassment

Caption under photo:

Tracey Smith used phrases including ‘a person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose’, ‘be warned’, and ‘bullets will be flying around’.

Lede:

A woman who tried to summon her MP to court has been jailed for harassment.

Clear enough?

What comes next:

Tracey Smith, who is a trans woman, sent Solicitor General Ellie Reeves 22 emails and 10 voicemails calling her “transphobic” and accusing her older sister – Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves – of physically assaulting her at a buffet bar.

Smith used phrases including “a person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose”, “be warned”, and “bullets

Another “Here’s a thing for women that’s not for women” boobytrap.

It was as Mara Hafezi watched the first wave of runners line up for Nike’s latest After Dark race aimed at women that she noticed something wasn’t quite right. The 10km event, held last Sunday evening around the Excel centre in east London, had been marketed as an opportunity for women to come together and “reclaim the night” — but among the thousands of female runners in attendance were a handful of men.

“It was really disappointing,” said Hafezi, 35, from London. “The moment you have men involved, whether it’s two or twenty, it’s no longer a women’s-only race. There were people asking, ‘Why are they here?’ I just

Yeah no he doesn’t get to do that.

“I hereby declare your airspace closed!”

“Backsies!”

Venezuela has reacted angrily to US President Donald Trump’s statement that the airspace around the country should be considered closed.

The country’s foreign ministry called Trump’s comments “another extravagant, illegal and unjustified aggression against the Venezuelan people”.

The US does not have legal authority to close another country’s airspace and the Venezuelan statement accused Trump of making a “colonialist threat”.

Colonialist or idiotic. One of those.

Trump wrote on Truth Social: “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

Writing something on a personal social media platform is just … Read the rest

When the mainstream media just plain lie to us:

The Guardian:

Woman jailed for harassing Rachel Reeves’s MP sister

But it’s not a woman. But the Guardian just plain lies about it before admitting it.

A woman who tried to summon her MP, the solicitor general Ellie Reeves, to court has been jailed for harassment in London.

Tracey Smith sent Reeves 22 emails and 10 voicemails calling her “transphobic” and accusing her older sister – the chancellor, Rachel Reeves – of physically assaulting her at a buffet bar.

Smith, who is a trans woman, used phrases including “a person is dangerous when they have nothing to lose” and “bullets will be flying around”.

Not until the third paragraph … Read the rest

When the headlines say woman but it’s not a woman.

Susan Dalgety in The Scotsman:

…a few days ago, my friend and co-editor Lucy Hunter Blackburn and I were sent an open letter signed by a motley crew of more than 150 members of Scotland’s “academic, heritage, arts, literary and cultural sectors”.

It was addressed to the board and senior management of the National Library of Scotland and, in the whiny voice of an entitled teenager denied the latest iPhone, complained that the inclusion of a “certain book” in the library’s centenary exhibition created a “hostile environment for queer and trans people working at and visiting the library”.

How would that work exactly? Can people visiting the library somehow sense that the “certain book” is there even if they … Read the rest

Trump thinks exercise is bad for you.

It’s old news, but it’s so absurd I can’t just look away.

Most recently, there was this nugget of information from a New Yorker magazine story about the president. Trump “considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy,” writes Evan Osnos.

This belief is also described in the Washington Post’s biography of the 45th president, which explains that he gave up sports after college because of this same mysterious “battery” belief, that working out would deplete his energy.

But but but then how does he explain all the successful athletes who…work out?

Spoiler: he doesn’t.… Read the rest