Really? They’re going with that? “No safeguarding for children in schools!!!” They think that’s a good move?

What we say not what we do.

King Charles III challenged a gathering of world leaders to take “genuine transformational action” to slow the spiral of greenhouse gas emissions, declaring that “the hope of the world rests on the decisions you must take.”

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, Charles listed a cascade of climate-related natural disasters that had afflicted the world in the last year: wildfires in Canada; floods in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh; cyclones in the Pacific; and a drought in East Africa.

He’s not wrong, of course, but…

For Charles, who was asked by the British government not to attend the 2022 COP meeting in Egypt, this was a

Of course. Of course some horses are tigers. Of course some cars are hammers. Of course some trees are daffodils. Of course some people are witches. Of course we can just announce that words now mean something new and absurd and order everyone to agree with us on pain of banishment.

This is a book for FIVE year olds??

 When I saw that Jessica Kingsley were publishing a new book for children on gender, I was immediately interested. Jessica Kingsley are a respected publisher who often produce specialist psychology books. They have a solid reputation and I have many colleagues who have published books with them. I was predisposed to liking the book.

I order The Gender Book. It is advertised as suitable for five to twelve year olds, but the illustrations make it clear that it’s focused more on the younger kids. It’s brightly coloured and looks like lots of other picture books. The characters are ethnically diverse and wide-eyed. Two of them, Casey and Ellie, are our guides. They start off by telling us

The gag order tells Trump not to shout insults and threats at the judge and his staff, so what does our resourceful monstrosity do? He shouts insults at the judge’s wife. Of course he does.

Trump on Wednesday attacked Dawn Engoron, the wife of the judge, Arthur Engoron, and the judge’s clerk, on his social media platform Truth Social.

He called Dawn Engoron a “Trump hating wife” and said that she and Arthur Engoron’s law clerk had “taken over control of the New York State Witch Hunt Trial aimed at me, my family, and the Republican Party”.

On Thursday, the gag order against him, which had been paused two weeks ago, was reinstated, but it did not stop Trump

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on No YOU are.

And I’m pretty sure no GC feminist has told anyone who is trans (or an ‘ally’) to die in a grease fire. I am willing to be corrected on that if anyone has evidence otherwise.

If transactivists had evidence for any of the horrible things that feminists have been accused of doing, they’d be broadcasting it 24/7. They would only need one example, and they’d be repeating it over and over. Forever. But they don’t. They can’t even honestly report the actual words of JKR, because they’re completely innocuous. But because she says “No” she is bigoted, subhuman scum. If she was a tenth as evil as … Read the rest

Wisconsin Public Radio reports:

The U.S. Department of Education is opening an investigation into whether the Sun Prairie Area School District failed to report sexual harassment following an incident this spring involving a transgender student in a girls’ locker room.   

Note the usual obfuscation – a transgender student who is male, they mean but carefully don’t say.

Dawn Matthias with the department’s Office for Civil Rights sent a letter to the conservative law firm, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, on Wednesday, confirming the Title IX investigation.  

So the progressive law firms think girls should just shut the fuck up about boys in their locker rooms? What’s progressive about that?

WILL filed a complaint against the district

The gag order on Trump is back.

An appeals court on Thursday reinstated a narrow gag order on Donald J. Trump that bars him from attacking court staff in his civil fraud trial in New York. The former president has already violated the order twice, incurring a total of $15,000 in fines.

The order was first put in place by the trial judge, Arthur F. Engoron, in early October, after Mr. Trump attacked the judge’s law clerk on social media…

With their client barred from attacking Ms. Greenfield, Mr. Trump’s lawyers continued to take issue with her prominence…

Eventually, Justice Engoron placed a gag order on the lawyers as well, prohibiting them from commenting on his conferences and written

Will it be Jolyon???

Would pay to watch Owen Jones being represented by Jo Maugham as he sues people for calling him a psychopath or whatever

— Frances Weetman (@francesweetman) November 30, 2023

Owen Jones finds out online pile-ons aren't fun for the target. Women he's dragged through the mud for the benefit of his demented traaahns followers experience high levels of schadenfreude https://t.co/J3BsO9QqXQ

— Clive Simpson (@QueensSpeechUK) November 30, 2023

During MeToo, Owen Jones said we must always believe victims of sexual assault. Yet when he saw footage of a dead Israeli woman with her underwear removed he demanded more evidence that she was raped. What sickening double standards, says Brendan O’Neillhttps://t.co/50WDSg02DP

— spiked (@spikedonline) November 29, 2023

If you get mugged and beaten up in the street your birthday party will be cancelled.

No Hanukkah this year for Havering Council in London.

Havering Council, a municipality located in East London, announced today that the annual Hanukkah installation would not be taking place this year due to “conflict in the Middle East.”

In a statement, the council released: “The Council has taken the difficult decision to pause the planned installation of the Chanukah Menorah outside Havering Town Hall this year. We appreciate this is a hugely sensitive issue but in light of escalating tensions from the conflict in the Middle East, installing the candelabra now will not be without risk to the Council, our partners, staff and

Ok Jones has had enough now. He’s angry. You’ve been warned.

He’s taking advice. I wonder if it will be anything like “Dude you don’t have a case. The claims have to be false or else you don’t have a case.”… Read the rest

Yes, and?

Martina Navratilova Says Transgender Women Can’t Be Lesbians

Well of course they fucking can’t. Frying pans can’t be owls, cities can’t be paella, we could go on like this forever.

It’s The Advocate whining this whine. Not much of an advocate these days, is it.

Martina Navratilova, the renowned out tennis star, recently sparked controversy with her remarks on a tribute by Stonewall, a leading LGBTQ+ advocacy group in the U.K. Navratilova took to social media on Tuesday to voice her opposition to the inclusion of a transgender woman in Stonewall’s Lesbian Visibility tribute, bluntly writing, “a bloke cannot be a lesbian.”

Oooh how rude of her to be so blunt.

But we have to these … Read the rest

Endless spiral of opposites until we get lost in the not not not nots.

Again and again and AGAIN: TERFs are not misandrists, they are misogynists, specifically transmisogynists. They do not hate trans women because they see them as men. They hate trans women because they see them as a lower class of woman they can more easily exploit.

— Lee Shevek (@butchanarchy) November 29, 2023

You can shout “AGAIN” all you want but it’s still the opposite of the reality. The women you’re calling “terfs” are not misogynists (nor are we misandrists, for that matter). We’re women who know that men are not women. That’s all it is. Hate is an emotion; facts are not emotions. It’s not hate … Read the rest

The BBC breathlessly tells us that not letting men compete against women is a failure to be inclusive.

A top amateur cyclist says his sport is less inclusive and welcoming than ever after it banned transgender women from competing in the female category. Josh Jones, 31, from Cambridge, believes British Cycling’s new rules “fail the cycling community”.

But that’s stupid. Men can compete in the male category, which is only right, because they’re male. It’s not “less inclusive” to keep on having men compete against men instead of letting a few selected men invade women’s sports because they claim to be trans.

Jones, who has been competing for 12 years, has 44 wins across all disciplines and is currently 13th

How to diversity and inclusion: invent some diverse speakers to promote your conference and then on the day say they all have food poisoning.

After an event organizer, Eduards Sizovs, was accused of making up fake female speakers to attract high-profile speakers to an online developer conference called DevTernity, several of the event’s top-billed speakers promptly withdrew.

…

On Monday, Sizovs confirmed that the conference, DevTernity—which sold tickets for as much as $870 a pop and anticipated 1,300 attendees—was cancelled.

The controversy arose after Gergely Orosz, the author of a popular tech newsletter called Pragmatic Engineering, first posted the allegations on X on Friday. Orosz alleged that out of three women—Kristine Howard, Julia Krisina, and Anna Boyko—scheduled to speak at

The Telegraph on the NHS organ inventory lunacy:

Doctors are being asked to tick whether patients have a penis or vagina under a new NHS medical form being rolled out at some hospitals.  

Medics are being faced with “nonsensical” forms asking for a patient’s “organ inventory” at NHS hospitals using a new £450 million IT system.

The new “sexual orientation and gender identity form” makes up part of someone’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) on the new system, regardless of the care or relevance to any treatment they are receiving.

It’s kind of like getting used to a new laptop – all kinds of bells and whistles you didn’t ask for and don’t want.

It asks for information around

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Personalized organ inventories.

There are default settings for men and women as “cisgender” if they do not express a trans identity.

This is like hearing hoofbeats and assuming zebras. They might as well just come out and call us all “non-trans.” We still haven’t gotten ourselves out of the age in which “male” was the standard and default for everything, with women being considered aberrant, non-standard, or flawed. Now “trans” is the standard, and everyone else is ho-hum, run-of-the-mill “cis.” It’s an attempt at normalizing the abnormal, of turning the impossible into mental wallpaper instead of a material and moral imposition.

To be honest, when I saw the title of … Read the rest

Malcolm Clark at Spiked is very amusing about luxury pronouns.

Remember when Doctor Who was fun? Watching it now is about as much fun as being publicly humiliated at work by some jumped-up nonbinary form-filler from HR who thinks he’s amazing because he’s painted one of his fingernails black.

A good example of this joylessness is a scene in the most recent special, ‘The Star Beast’, which has been treated by right-on broadsheet types as a moment of profound importance. Yet all that happened was a transwoman character – played by transwoman actor Yasmin Finney – lectured the Doctor about pronouns. In a moment of unforgivable Time Lord-cis privilege, the Doctor had assumed a diminutive alien called Beep the

Sex Matters reports An Epic crisis is unfolding in the NHS.

Since October, several NHS trusts in England have been using new £450 million NHS patient-data software produced by US-based IT company Epic Systems. This has been programmed by local teams to record the “gender identity” of babies. For adults, the system has been programmed to register patients according to their “legal sex” rather than their actual sex, and to record men and women who don’t express a trans identity as “cisgender”. It asks medical staff to complete “organ inventories” of the reproductive features of all patients. 

The new electronic patient record software was launched at the start of October at hospitals including King’s College Hospital, and Guy’s and

It can be hard to identify the facts in reporting of this kind, because of the usual careful obfuscation. Starting with the headline:

Broward high school principal reassigned amid investigation involving transgender athlete

What kind of transgender athlete?

The kind it always is, of course. The male kind. I wonder if the news media Five Families had a meeting at some point and agreed that male transgender athletes must always be identified as simply “transgender” with no mention of the m word. Why would they do that? Because women and girls have very obvious material reasons not to want males bouncing into their sports. Men and boys don’t have those very obvious material reasons. Therefore it must always be concealed … Read the rest