Watch what you say in public. Actually, to be safe, watch what you say, period.

A performer says he was ‘shocked’ to hear an alleged transphobic conversation at the hotel hosting Manchester Pride’s media accreditation suite.

Dev Mistry was staying at the Malmaison Hotel in the city centre on Friday (August 25) for Pride weekend, where he was performing burlesque. The 30-year-old says he was having a coffee while wearing headphones in the hotel lobby when he overheard the alleged conversation.

“I picked something up and I took my headphones out to confirm that I could understand what I heard over the music,” Dev told the Manchester Evening News.

As one does. It’s a public duty to monitor … Read the rest

Oh well that’s fine then.

A transgender activist who told the crowd at a London Pride event to “punch a Terf” has been cleared of encouraging violence after telling a court it was a stunt for publicity.

Sarah Baker, 54, was filmed addressing the crowd at the Trans+ Pride rally on July 8, and shouted into the microphone: “If you see a Terf, punch them in the f***ing face.”

But she told City of London magistrates court her words was not intended to incite violence, but rather to grab a front page newspaper headline.

Well he would say that, wouldn’t he.

I wonder if the same claim would work if the word “terf” were replaced with “nigger” … Read the rest

Paula Scanlan on being shoved aside by Lia Thomas:

In a recent congressional hearing, I beseeched lawmakers to keep women’s physical safety in mind when considering policies that affect women-only spaces like locker rooms. The issue is close to my heart: I was a swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania alongside my transgender teammate Lia Thomas, whose participation on the women’s team raised serious questions about the eligibility of athletes who identify as a different sex to the one they were born as.

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The politics of womanhood has become increasingly bizarre in the aftermath of the #MeToo revolution. In 2020, the otherwise left-leaning British author JK Rowling fired the tweet heard around the world when she mildly

Talk about chutzpah…

Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That's why you lost.

— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) August 31, 2023

Riley Gaines “sucks at swimming” because she can’t swim faster than a man twice her size.

Trans ideology=an amusement park for men who hate women.… Read the rest

BBC “reporting”:

Danielle McGahey: Transgender cricketer set to play in women’s T20 international for Canada

That is, male cricketer set to play in women’s T20 international for Canada.

Canada’s Danielle McGahey is set to become the first transgender cricketer to play in an official international match.

That is, Canada’s Danielle McGahey is set to become the first male cricketer to play in an official international women’s match.

The 29-year-old opening batter has fulfilled all of the eligibility criteria the International Cricket Council (ICC) has for male-to-female transgender players before the event in Los Angeles from 4-11 September.

Which doesn’t change the fact that he’s a man playing on a women’s team.

McGahey’s participation comes despite other sports – including

Man accused of homophobic comments towards Patrick Harvie arrested and charged

The alleged incident occurred while the Scottish Greens co-leader was launching his party’s candidate in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election.

It has now been confirmed that a man has been arrested and charged after the incident in Rutherglen. The Glasgow MSP was taking part in a live TV interview when the incident took place. 

A Police Scotland spokesperson [said]: “Following a report of homophobic comments a 59-year-old man has been arrested and charged. A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal.”

I have to wonder if Police Scotland have ever arrested any man for gynophobic comments. I have to wonder if they even know there is such … Read the rest

How about suspending him over a really deep gorge?

Kidding, kidding.

UCI has now recommended a suspension for cyclist Veronica Ivy (male who competes with women) for continual abusive and threatening behavior. Good on @UCI_cycling for holding Ivy accountable

Ivy wishes all who oppose male inclusion in women's sports should die in a grease fire pic.twitter.com/wn8Gv8TETu

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) August 30, 2023

That guy should be suspended from more things than cycling. Social media, for a start.… Read the rest

Fox News (sorry) on Rhys McKinnon/Veronica Ivy six weeks ago:

Veronica Ivy, a Canadian cyclist who became the first transgender woman to win a world track cycling championship, took issue with the sport’s governing body’s updated policy on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s events.

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) released its new policy on Friday, prohibiting any trans cyclist from competing in women’s events if they “transitioned after (male) puberty.”

Ivy vented her frustrations on her Instagram account.

“However, now I’m forced into the humiliating ‘Men’s/Open’ category,” Ivy wrote. “No cis woman will be in this category, only trans women and CIS men. That means it’s not ‘open.’

“The UCI has said loud and clear that trans women are not

It’s amusing to find that I quoted “Veronica Ivy” aka Rhys McKinnon just six weeks ago saying:

Trans women are women. Trans women are female. Our sport’s governing body (cycling’s Union Cycliste Internationale, the one that banned Armstrong for life) says I’m female. My U.S. and Canadian identification documents say I’m female, including my birth certificate. My medical records all list me as female. So officials in sports, government and medicine all consider me, a trans woman, to be female. The people who disagree are just wrong.

How times change.

It’s such a bizarre thing for him to say, anyway, as Francis Boyle pointed out in the first comment. “All these people and institutions say I’m a woman therefore … Read the rest

But what is a woman? Dodds is one of those who are confused on the subject.

This you? https://t.co/FPhVBUrS4E pic.twitter.com/3nEEWiIAts

— Bessie Braddock (@BraddockBessie) August 30, 2023

… Read the rest

Canada warns its people against traveling to the US, where LGBTQMNROZDJFRT people are routinely genocided in the street.

Canada has issued a new travel warning to its LGBT citizens planning to visit the United States.

Anti-LGBT protests in the US rose 30-fold last year compared with 2017, while legal moves to restrict LGBT rights are on the rise.

That’s a lie though. The “legal moves” in question are mostly about people who claim to be the opposite sex, not about LGB people.

Global Affairs Canada warned that some state laws may affect them on their travels, but did not specify where.

Such warnings are usually reserved for countries such as Uganda, Russia or Egypt.

Which is the point. It’s … Read the rest

First rule: grab everything that belongs to women. Every single thing.

[Sorry about the Fox source.]

A sorority at the University of Wyoming is being forced to accommodate a 6’2 trans-identified male after a suit brought by six of the female members was rejected. Women from Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sued the national leadership of their sorority after expressing discomfort with… https://t.co/KI0H1CwTXD pic.twitter.com/KuIJVQm02k

— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) August 30, 2023

The first tweet in full:

A sorority at the University of Wyoming is being forced to accommodate a 6’2 trans-identified male after a suit brought by six of the female members was rejected. Women from Kappa Kappa Gamma (KKG) sued the national leadership of their sorority after expressing discomfort with

There it is, the “Karen” ideology in all its naked venom.

The Green Party seems to have “Trans Ally”d itself off a cliff.

Shadow hangs over the future of the Green Party of England and Wales, as the party’s official financial accounts suggest a legal challenge from a former deputy leader could bring the organisation down as a “going concern”.

The latest accounts from the Greens, filed with the Electoral Commission, reveal a warning from auditors that a “material uncertainty exists regarding legal claims” as to whether the party will continue to remain financially afloat.

Byline Times has learnt that this uncertainty revolves around impending legal claims from several gender critical activists – including former deputy leader Shahrar Ali, who is suing the party over alleged discrimination based on his

Return of Veronica Ivy:

1. The Charge… pic.twitter.com/j5oOfq4Rta

— Linda Blade (@coachblade) August 29, 2023

2. The Evidence… pic.twitter.com/6jrO8Hh0xE

— Linda Blade (@coachblade) August 30, 2023

The Penalty… pic.twitter.com/hTzVQbWHL3

— Linda Blade (@coachblade) August 30, 2023

Veronica Ivy aka Rhys McKinnon was thinking he could do whatever he wanted all the time, because he’s that Sacred Entity, a trans woman, or at least he says he is. Turns out he can’t do whatever he wants all the time.… Read the rest

Another _______ has apologized to the LGBTQ+++++++ communinny for saying ________ and promises she will never never never utter an opinion again.

Pop singer Róisín Murphy has apologised after criticising the use of puberty blockers by transgender children.

The Irish musician, formerly the frontwoman of Moloko who has since released a series of acclaimed solo albums, had dismayed swathes of her fanbase – which includes a sizeable LGTBQ+ quotient – with a statement posted on her personal Facebook account.

She wrote: “Puberty blockers are fucked, absolutely desolate, big pharma laughing all the way to the bank. Little mixed-up kids are vulnerable and need to be protected, that’s just true.” She pre-empted criticism, writing “please don’t call me a terf,

But remember: it’s not social contagion, it’s not it’s not it’s NOT. It’s absolutely medical physical brainical; it’s so real you can touch it. It’s not in the mind, it’s in the body.

The NY Times:

The small Midwestern gender clinic was buckling under an unrelenting surge in demand.

Last year, dozens of young patients were seeking appointments every month, far too many for the clinic’s two psychologists to screen. Doctors in the emergency room downstairs raised alarms about transgender teenagers arriving every day in crisis, taking hormones but not getting therapy.

The clinic opened in 2017.

It was the only place for hundreds of miles where distressed adolescents could see a team of experts to help them transition

More stupidity and bullying, this time aimed at medical staff. What could go wrong?

A noticeboard at one of London’s biggest hospitals is advising staff not to ask patients their name in case it causes offence to trans people.

Critics have said that the poster, at the Royal Free Hospital, would in effect leave doctors unable to access a patient’s records and is against General Medical Council rules.

The hospital has been displaying materials as part of an “allyship scheme” that is supposed to be more inclusive.

Why?

Why can’t hospitals just be allowed to get on with their work, rather than making displays of trans allyship? Why would a hospital be a good place for hectoring noticeboards? Why … Read the rest

Gee, I dunno, ya think?

Have we broken the climate?

The record-shattering heatwaves, wildfires and floods destroying lives in the US, Europe, India, China and beyond in 2023 have raised an alarming question: have humanity’s relentless carbon emissions finally pushed the climate crisis into a new and accelerating phase of destruction?

Or is it nothing to do with the climate? Is it just bad luck? God’s wrath? A typo somewhere?

The scientists told us that, despite it certainly feeling as if events had taken a frightening turn, the global heating seen to date was entirely in line with three decades of scientific predictions. Being proved right was cold comfort, they said, as their warnings had so far been largely in

It seems he’s back.

An Ontario secondary school will lock all exterior doors and require all students and visitors to use an intercom system to enter the school in order to "uphold the individual rights" of a male shop teacher who wears enormous prosthetic breasts in classhttps://t.co/YrIkdXTSwr

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) August 29, 2023

From the article:

The principal highlighted to parents preparations for what he said may be an onslaught of media and potential controversary over trans teacher Kayla Lemieux’s return to the classroom, which included special entry and exit plans.

These will include “having students enter and exit the building using assigned doors at entry and dismissal” and “locking exterior doors during school hours, only using