Is he right?

Peter – you don't have to approve or respect but you should use the language pic.twitter.com/RtQLyps4kC

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) October 25, 2023

Before I get to that question – note Fred Wallace thinking anyone wants to get a good look at his thigh, let alone beyond it.

So. Should we use the language?

New question: how can we use the language when we don’t believe in the ideology that mandates the language? It’s like saying we should refer to people as rabbits if they say they are rabbits. It’s like saying we should refer to The Holy Father when we’re not Catholics.

That’s all the more true with this particular ideology because the language basically is… Read the rest

The European Commission has a Justice and Consumers Department.

Justice and Consumers

This Commission department is responsible for EU policy on justice, consumer rights and gender equality.

Seems like a weird mashup but ok. The point is it’s a real department of the real European Commission. It’s not a hoax. And yet, it tells us…

Not everyone is born either male or female.

In the #UnionofEquality everyone has the right to be exactly who they are.#EU4LGBTIQ on #InterSexAwarenessDay pic.twitter.com/qc5UoBXofS

— EU Justice (@EU_Justice) October 26, 2023

One, intersex people are either male or female. Two, there’s no such thing as a “right” for people to “be exactly who they are.” There’s the tautology that people are exactly who … Read the rest

I’m not keen on Rebel News as a source but you know how that goes – news outlets that aren’t right-wing don’t touch the subject. (Therefore I must be wrong about it, yeah? No. The left has disappeared up its own backside.)

So I won’t bother with the Rebel News story but here’s the gist:

Why did the swim competition allow this? The wrong sex and the wrong age? It won’t say.… Read the rest

Giant baby throws giant baby fit. World looks on in deep admiration.

Donald Trump stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday after a heated day in court that saw the former president called to the witness stand in his $250 million fraud case and fined $10,000 for violating a gag order.

The Secret Service had to go scrambling after him. His lawyers were surprised but stayed seated.

Judge Arthur Engoron handed down the financial penalty after calling Trump to testify under oath in the afternoon about who he was talking about when he told reporters earlier in the day that the person sitting next to the judge was “very partisan.”

Trump said he was referring

I have to wonder how much time, if any, Leeds City Council Hate Crime Team spends on hate crimes against women. I have to wonder if it even realizes they exist.

Really informative and powerful Trans People Awareness session today as part of our activities during Hate Crime Awareness Week. Many thanks to @WestYorksPolice #LeedsNoPlaceforHate pic.twitter.com/HUydm1ClxT

— Leeds City Council Hate Crime Team (@LCCHateCrime) October 17, 2023

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Ok here’s one:

Two really interesting online training sessions delivered this morning for partners as part of #HCAW Firstly by @CST_UK on Antisemitism and secondly by @ISDglobal on Misogyny

— Leeds City Council Hate Crime Team (@LCCHateCrime) October 18, 2023

A bit perfunctory, I think, considering that women and girls … Read the rest

You’d think badmouthing The Enemy after you make a plea deal would be a bad idea.

Sidney Powell may have pleaded guilty to interfering in the 2020 US presidential election, but she still seems to think President Joe Biden’s victory was illegitimate.

On her social-media accounts, Powell has continued to push claims that the 2020 election was rigged and that prosecutors in Georgia who brought the criminal case against her were politically motivated. The newsletter published by her dark-money group has shared articles arguing the Fulton County district attorney, Fani Willis, “extorted” her guilty plea.

That looks like taunting a bear, to me – a bear that’s right in front of you with no iron bars in between.

In her

Cohen and Trump together again at last.

Five years after they last met in person, the former president and his self-described fixer were reunited in court on the most anticipated day yet in Donald Trump’s fraud trial.

…

…over several hours, Mr Cohen provided damaging testimony that repeatedly tied his own actions, and the actions of all the employees at the Trump Organization, directly to Mr Trump. Mr Cohen testified that he answered to Mr Trump, and Mr Trump alone. “Whatever issues he had, whatever created ire for him, he would bring it to me in order to resolve it,” he told the court.

Later, he said Trump personally asked him and Allen Weisselberg, the convicted ex-chief financial officer

Here’s a puzzler.

As a discrimination lawyer, I completely disagree with this. I have acted for clients who have specifically lost their jobs *because of* GR. They wouldn't succeed using any other PC so would have no recourse against such behaviour. https://t.co/cszmU0DaEH

— Audrey Ludwig (@AudreySuffolk) October 25, 2023

I’m not sure what to think about this. We don’t want people being fired just because bosses dislike something about them, but at the same time, we don’t want to work with (much less under) people with bizarre delusions that govern their behavior. What if employees identify as lions and come to work in costume and try to gnaw on colleagues’ arms?

The thing is…”gender identity” isn’t just a quirk, and … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Actors who prioritized politics and ideology.

“…a then-new and experimental model of treating transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents…”

I wish they’d just used “dysphoric” as “transgender” is jumping to an unwarranted conclusion. It seems to concede that “gender identity” and “transness” actually exist, when I don’t think either does at all. Perhaps this was a step too far for the the lawyer writing this, and they don’t want to push too far, too fast, but this statement gives the “actors” in question too much benefit of the doubt and too much legitimacy, particularly since this woman is now detransitioning. It’s like suggesting a person really is possessed by … Read the rest

Dear students: You can get extra credit by doing one of these two political things; be sure to provide a screenshot/photo of you doing one of these two political things; you’re welcome.

Academic freedom absolutely does *not* entail professors giving students better grades for parroting their political point of view. https://t.co/d1BJJKJtcV

— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) October 25, 2023

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At first this is annoying, but then if you enlarge the image it becomes hysterically funny.

(Do I believe that made-up statistic for a second? Of course not.)

And I'm the Queen of Sheba. pic.twitter.com/ma6PKzZtnM

— Bessie Braddock (@BraddockBessie) October 24, 2023

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Oh yay, it’s like old times – I’m the lucky recipient, along with the president and the secretary of Atheist Alliance and 184 others, of an email telling me “the Good News of Salvation in Yeshua (Jesus), our Saviour.” The generous donor is one Céline L – funny that she’s coy about her last name when she has this good news to offer.

And how does she know? The bible, duh.

The texts of the prophets in the Bible bear witness to this. In particular, the prophecy of Isaiah 53.
As seen below:

Isaiah 53:
1 Who believed the announcement made to us? 

Etc etc etc; you know the drill.

And there are a whole bunch more – bible extract … Read the rest

A couple of days ago:

FOLLOW: US detranstioner @origina1ange1 is suing (among others) gender activist-clinician Dr Michelle Forcier and her protégée, Dr. Jason Rafferty, the sole author of the devastating @AmerAcadPeds policy statement implementing “gender affirming care” in America. #SeeYouInCourt https://t.co/n6SB0oRSnW

— Genspect (@genspect) October 22, 2023

All of what Layton wrote:

Before I started my gender transition (ftmtf) I was working with a psychiatrist and social worker who was “helping” me work through cult abuse, and who diagnosed me with Dissociative Identity Disorder. While “treating” me for DID, which included experimental hypnosis sessions and her encouraging me to “let the alters take over and live their own lives,” she also pushed me to proceed with gender transition…despite the fact

Oh willya look at that now.

https://twitter.com/benryanwriter/status/1716917419867029519

But but but how can it be malpractice when it’s affirmative??

Let’s read the excerpt:

“…a collection of actors who prioritized politics and ideology over children’s safety, health, and well-being.”

Nailed it. I love lawyers; they’re so good at nailing.

“…their collective failure to treat her properly in the name of a so-called ‘gender-affirmative’ model of care, a then-new and experimental model of treating transgender and gender diverse children and adolescents…”

In the name of a fad, in other words.

Dare we hope that the fad is on its way out?… Read the rest

Trump ungagged.

Judge Tanya S. Chutkan agreed to temporarily lift the gag order that had restricted Trump’s public statements about special counsel Jack Smith, his team and witnesses while she considered a motion from Trump’s lawyers to suspend it entirely while they appeal.

So the giant toddler did what a giant toddler would do.

Within 48 hours, Trump issued a new broadsideattacking the prosecutor, Trump’s first since the gag had been imposed. On Sunday, he took to his social network Truth Social to attack Smith in the exact terms that the order had prohibited, calling him “Deranged Jack Smith.”

When he was born the announcement should have been not “It’s a boy” but “It’s a bully.” He’s the … Read the rest

And another one:

Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally conspiring to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia, making her the third attorney associated with the former president to accept a plea deal in the sweeping criminal racketeering case.

Ellis, who had been facing two charges including violating Georgia’s anti-racketeering act, pleaded guilty in court Tuesday morningto a single felony count of aiding and abetting false statements and writings.The deal allows her to avoid jail time in exchange for providing evidence that could implicate other defendants and agreeing to testify in any future trials. Ellis worked closely with personal Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, another defendant in the case who

How dare you write an article that the Daily Mail illustrates with a photo of MEMEMEMEME?!

Proper narc, this one. I wrote about police bellendery, and the paper used a (carefully posed for) photo of the narc – I had not even mentioned she/her name, but apparently she owns feminism: pic.twitter.com/imAflpPiEd

— Julie Bindel (@bindelj) October 24, 2023

Proper narc continues to make it all about her.

MANY of those at that demo were trans women, who you actively campaign hate against. You also don’t speak for the majority. Feminism is about ALL women. INCLUSIVITY. Or it doesn’t work. pic.twitter.com/aecnahyMvW

— Patsy Stevenson (@PatsyeStevenson) October 24, 2023

Let’s think about this. “Feminism is about ALL women. INCLUSIVITY. Or it doesn’t … Read the rest

Glinner shares a Message from Zoe Hatch to Green Party Members:

Dear  …..,

I received notification today that Joe Hudson-Small, Melanie Earp and John Macefield have voted to suspend me from the party for the email I sent to you on 13th October titled Green Party Women under attack. These named individuals are the ‘on call’ members of GPRC who are supposed to protect the party from the most egregious threats to its reputation. My alleged offence was to send an email talking about how Green Party Women are under attack. The attack on Green Party Women has now been made more clear than ever before, for that at least we perhaps owe them a debt of gratitude. The

Watch the clip.

Dude with pink backpack has shades and a thick scarf obscuring his face. He’s about twice as tall as the women he’s bullying. He stalks around towering over the women and grabbing their signs; he crushes the signs right in their faces, performing the “I’m so furious I’m just on the edge of smashing your face with my fist” ritual. Dude is this “community” in a nutshell: full of hatred and contempt for women who refuse, and big and strong enough to terrorize such women without breaking a sweat.

Updating to add what I forgot to say: he knows which people are women. They’re the one he bullies, because he’s bigger than they are.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Might be.

…with officials planning to draw up guidance for librarians and readers on how to cope with them.e

They’re just books, not unexploded bombs. The way to “cope” with them is to read more books. There are going to be lots of publications with old, outdated ideas that have been superceded by more information and what we believe to be a better understanding. It is still important to keep the “outdated” books because it lets us see the context of the past, lets us see where we’ve come from, etc. Discovering the widespread, casual racism of the past can be alarming, but it’s better to have that awareness (and … Read the rest