A new study has been commissioned.

University of Gloucestershire has been commissioned by UK Athletics (UKA) to lead an important new study around transgender athletes.

Experts from the University will consult with transgender athletes and advocacy groups to examine how the sport of athletics can be as inclusive and welcoming as possible.

The sport of athletics? What does that mean? Is there a single sport called “athletics”?

Pause to consult Google

Yes, there is.

Athletics is a group of sporting events that involves competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross-country running, and racewalking.

Ok, got it. So, all stuff that relies on strength and size to … Read the rest

BBC News Midlands puts down its brioche for a moment to fret about transphobic comment shock-horror.

“Without a shadow of a doubt it is a transphobic comment.”

Bromsgrove’s @TheGreenParty candidate @melissampgp condemns Tory Deputy Chairman @redditchrachel for social media remarks about her transgender identity. #PoliticsMidlands begins at 10am on BBC1… pic.twitter.com/MpAT5H1eZw

— BBC News Midlands (@bbcmtd) December 10, 2023

“Melissa Poulton” used to be Matthew Viner.

In what universe does your journalist think it unworthy of mention that, until very recently, Green Party candidate Melissa Poulton was a Conservative Party candidate called Matthew Viner. When Grant Shapps changed his name, the media were all over it. What’s the difference? pic.twitter.com/UaNuQ3zqjI

— Simon Edge (@simonjedge) December 10, 2023

The difference is … Read the rest

The peasants are revolting!

Wait.

Qu’ils mange de la brioche!

Wait.

Boycott this bakery!

There you go.

Pains chocolats to the wall! Pains aux raisins along with them! Nothing but scones from here on out!… Read the rest

Now here is some good news.

This settlement paves the way for me to head to trial against @Metanoia_Inst who expelled me.

To get over the line and make sure this never happens to another student, I need your support.

To donate to my case, please click here. Thank you. (3/3)https://t.co/uNvE7ODipZ

— James Esses (@JamesEsses) December 11, 2023

A breath of sanity at last.… Read the rest

Biology according to Pink News:

Trans fems have periods too!

It’s true! Many trans-feminine people on estrogen experience menstrual cycles similar to that of people with uteruses due to gender-affirming treatment.

Because of the shift in hormones, several trans people on feminising doses have reported that they experience hormonal cycles consistent with premenstrual syndrome.

Symptoms have been noted to include feelings of anxiety, changes in appetite, mood swings, cramps, fatigue, and more. Bleeding is not part of the cycle for those assigned male at birth (AMAB).

You don’t say. If bleeding were part of the cycle, where would it come from and where would it go? Would it be chunks? Because, news flash, menstrual bleeding isn’t like bleeding from … Read the rest

Now isn’t that charming.

.@Superdry. Just been in your St James store Edinburgh where I was served by a man wearing a badge with a bleach bottle with the words “terf repellent” on it. Terf is a slur used against feminists & lesbians with boundaries. Are we not welcome in your store?

— Joanna Cherry KC (@joannaccherry) December 10, 2023

And guess what, it’s not just a badge.

Hur hur. What could possibly go wrong? It’s never a problem when groups of people are called vermin, rats, infectious, diseased, filth. This is fine, this is normal, this is very enlightened and progressive and benevolent.… Read the rest

The relentless obfuscation is getting ridiculous.

Trans inmates can visit women’s prisons to prepare them for outside

The Times doesn’t mean “trans inmates”; it means male inmates who are or claim to be trans. The Times specifies female prisons but doesn’t specify male trans inmates – thus creating pointless confusion in its own headline. The Times presumably is not even captive to the ideology, so why on earth does it do this?

Prison executives in Scotland have ruled that transgender criminals can serve time in female jails to allow them to prepare for life as women on release, according to a report.

Male transgender criminals.

Even trans inmates deemed too dangerous to serve their sentences in women’s prisons may be

Smug creep condescends to women who don’t think he should be the keynote speaker at an event to commemorate the murder of fourteen women for the crime of being women.

This year, I was invited to be the keynote at U of T's memorial of the horrific massacre of 14 women at Polytechnique. The choice to invite me has proven controversial because I am trans. May the spirit of compassion that lives in us all lead us to solidarity & a better world. pic.twitter.com/QSFPzbvrhp

— Kai Cheng, MSW, MSc, QMed, Extremist for Love (@razorfemme) December 8, 2023

The choice to invite him wasn’t controversial because he’s trans, it was because he’s not a woman. He should, obviously, have declined … Read the rest

Bahahahahahahaha

PS For even more laughs, the “transbians” pictured are actually women.… Read the rest

There’s freedom of speech, and there’s also truth. There’s a tension there.

The press and the news media generally have a duty to tell the truth, but it’s not a duty codified in a slogan the way “freedom of speech” is. Some news media of course don’t tell the truth, and know they don’t, and make big bucks by not telling the truth.

So. Is it a glorious moment for freedom of speech that Musk has allowed Alex Jones back on Twitter? Or is it a triumph of The Big Lie? Or is it both?

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has had his account on X – formerly Twitter – reinstated by Elon Musk.

Musk asked users to vote in

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest…

Here's Bromsgrove's Green Party candidate a couple of years ago

New name, new wig, new party

Still a bloke
Not a lesbian pic.twitter.com/Uc3mg3lVG0

— Marjorie Hutchins (@leakylike) December 10, 2023

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BBC Midlands shares his message.

“Without a shadow of a doubt it is a transphobic comment.”

Bromsgrove’s @TheGreenParty candidate @melissampgp condemns Tory Deputy Chairman @redditchrachel for social media remarks about her transgender identity. #PoliticsMidlands begins at 10am on BBC1… pic.twitter.com/MpAT5H1eZw

— BBC News Midlands (@bbcmtd) December 10, 2023

Do push the play button. You will see at once how very womany he is.… Read the rest

The BBC, formerly an adult broadcasting organization, is now solemnly telling us lies and calling people names for not telling lies.

The Conservative Party’s deputy chair for women has been accused of making transphobic remarks about one of her general election rivals.

MP Rachel Maclean shared a post on X, formerly Twitter, that described transgender woman Melissa Poulton as “a man who wears a wig and calls himself a ‘proud lesbian’.”

Transgender women are, of course, men by definition. They’re men who call themselves or claim to be or pretend to be – however you want to phrase it – women. That’s what the “trans” bit means. The BBC, also of course, knows this perfectly well.

In sharing the

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on Fanatic rants.

According to their Facebook page, the employees in question have been sacked.

Because this act was not aligned with our values, the employees involved in the incident are no longer employed by Farley’s.

This is part of the company’s second apology. I can sort of empathize with the owners on this one. According to the Jewish News of Northern California:

The coffee shop has also shown public support for the Civic Joy Fund, a local nonprofit founded by Jewish community activists Manny Yekutiel and Daniel Lurie. Yekutiel, who was referred to as “our good friend Manny” by Farley’s on Instagram, was with his family in Israel during the

So if people think your policy is bad and dangerous, what you do is you hide the stats. That’ll fix it.

Prison leaders in Scotland have been accused of secrecy after ruling they will no longer confirm the number of male-bodied transgender inmates serving sentences in women’s jails.

The decision comes after the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) unveiled its new policy on the management of trans women — men now identifying as women — who have been moved to the female estate.

The SPS confirmed that trans criminals with a history of violence against women may still be allowed to serve their sentences in female jails if they are deemed to not present an “unacceptable risk”.

By … Read the rest

Yes, anyone can fly.

Yes, anyone can leap tall buildings at a single bound.

Yes, anyone swim underwater without ever having to come up for air.

Yes, anyone can get their period, trans women included

Anyone can get “their” period, just as anyone can get a mosquito bite or a cold or a blister.

Menstruation, often referred to as a period, is a part of many people’s lives.

So many that there is no actual bodily reason for getting it, it just turns up, because anyone can get one.

Defined as the periodic discharge of blood and tissue from the uterus, menstruation is just one stage of the larger menstrual cycle, which typically takes place over 28 days. 

Now here … Read the rest

Here they are, being all solidarity and shit.

Oakland, CA – 3 antisemitic employees at Farley's East coffee house (33 Grand Ave.) are filmed denying a Jewish woman's access to a bathroom after she complained that it was filled with antisemitic graffiti.

After FINALLY allowing her inside the restroom, the employees start… pic.twitter.com/t3rFMyRIDH

— nycphotog (@nycphotog) December 7, 2023

Oakland, CA – 3 antisemitic employees at Farley’s East coffee house (33 Grand Ave.) are filmed denying a Jewish woman’s access to a bathroom after she complained that it was filled with antisemitic graffiti.

After FINALLY allowing her inside the restroom, the employees start on fanatic rants, including “it’s not 1948” and “you can’t steal private property like in Israel.”

Farley’s

The Times of Israel reports:

Employees at a cafe in Oakland, California, were filmed in recent days denying a customer said to be Jewish from using the bathroom at their shop.

The female patron of Farley’s East was said to have complained to the staff about anti-Israel messages graffitied inside the bathroom and then wanted to go inside again to film the messages but was blocked from doing so by a staff member with blue hair.

“We’ve given you all of your food… I know Israel loves taking private property and saying it’s their own, but we got ahead,” a second employee is heard telling the female patron filming the interaction on her phone. “We have a right to

The first commandment is: always punish the woman first.

The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a pregnant woman from obtaining an emergency abortion in a ruling issued late Friday.

The court froze a lower court’s ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, who sued the state seeking a court-ordered abortion, to obtain the procedure. “Without regard to the merits, the Court administratively stays the district court’s December 7, 2023 order,” the order states.

The court noted the case would remain pending before them but did not include any timeline on when a full ruling might be issued. Cox is 20 weeks pregnant. Her unborn baby was diagnosed with a fatal genetic condition and she says complications in her

Yes this is fine.

ICONS Evie Edwards, a participant in another race caught up with Small & a non-binary identifying activist at the race to get their reactions.

@usacycling has been committed to prioritizing the preferences of male cyclists over the accomplishments and well-being of its female riders. It’s time to take a stand.

The mocking pose is nice too.… Read the rest