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Aug 28th, 2023 12:13 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Absolutely nuts.
A senior woman in the United Kingdom was visited by police after being caught taking a photograph of a sticker critical of gender ideology. Eve, whose identity is being protected at her request, was questioned at her home for over 30 minutes by officers of the West Yorkshire Police.
The same police who are in deep trouble for bullying and assaulting a teenage girl for no reason.
Speaking to Reduxx, Eve explained that the ordeal began in March after she spotted a sticker she thought was interesting while on a walk. The small sticker, which read “Keep Males Out Of Women-Only Spaces” had been placed on top of a large trans pride poster outside of Happy
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Aug 28th, 2023 11:30 am |
By Ophelia Benson
He does whatever he wants to do.
Former President Trump attacked federal officials connected to the Biden administration as “fascist thugs” just ahead of a Monday morning hearing before a judge who previously warned Trump that “inflammatory statements” would compel her to speed up his trial.
I wonder, who is more like a literal fascist thug, Biden or Trump? I’m not a huge fan of Biden, but it does seem to me that he loses this particular competition.
In a post Monday morning on Truth Social, Trump called Smith “deranged,” suggested federal officials investigating his actions were “political SleazeBags” and accused Biden allies in the White House of being “fascist thugs.”
“It has just been reported that aides to
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Aug 28th, 2023 10:51 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Is that how that works?
Is that right? Every medical innovation? There have been zero medical innovations that turned out to be unethical? People are murmuring about lobotomies, thalidomide, symphysiotomies, and whatnot.
Also, it really shouldn’t take that much effort to see why uterus transplants could and would be an absolute ethical slaughterhouse in a world where women are treated as so much cheap machinery. But it wouldn’t affect his body so…… Read the rest
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Aug 28th, 2023 9:38 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Clear your calendars for March 4 next year.
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election set a trial date on Monday for early March, laying out a schedule that was close to the government’s initial request of January and that rebuffed Mr. Trump’s extraordinary proposal to push off the proceeding until nearly a year and a half after the 2024 election.
The decision by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, issued at a contentious hearing in Federal District Court in Washington, to start the trial on March 4 potentially brought it into conflict with two other trials that Mr. Trump is facing that month.
The district attorney in Fulton
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Aug 28th, 2023 8:40 am |
By Ophelia Benson
LGB Alliance Australia tells us:
Victoria’s new Pride Centre in St. Kilda has rejected an application to hold a lesbian-only event at the Centre. The Lesbian Action Group, a group of lesbians from Melbourne and Central Victoria, have applied for an exemption from the Australian Human Rights Commission to hold a female-only lesbian event. They wanted to celebrate International Lesbian Day in October at the Pride Centre. The exemption, if granted, would legally exclude males, heterosexuals and males who identify as women.
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It must be noted that the Pride Centre has held trans-only events.
Some animals are more equal than others.
The Pride Centre is the first of its kind built in Australia, specifically purpose-built for
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Aug 27th, 2023 1:58 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Look at Peter Tatchell going out of his way to belittle and insult women.
No. No people are women “based on gender identity” just as no people are horses based on species identity. There are no people who are biologically male but women anyway. Women are the only kind of women there is; trans women are men. Men can feel womany all they like, but they … Read the rest
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Aug 27th, 2023 11:19 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Sonia Sodha in the Graun on the mindless excitement about altruistic hysterectomy:
…the UK’s first womb transplant was reported last week – transferred from an older sister who has had children to a younger sister with a rare condition that means she could not otherwise carry a pregnancy. Articles were packed with quotes from doctors heralding this as a profound development, the “dawn of a new age”, according to the chair of the British Fertility Society.
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I couldn’t believe how little discussion there was of the risks to the woman donating her womb. Hysterectomy – the removal of a woman’s womb – is described by the NHS as a “major operation”, with all the risks that involves, only recommended
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Aug 27th, 2023 10:39 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Germany makes trans ideology compulsory.
Here, Frauen, look at the men taking over the sex you thought you were. Look at them and OBEY.
From the Law Library of Congress:
On May 9, 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice (Bundesministerium der Justiz, BMJ) and the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend, BMFSFJ) published a proposal for a self-identification law (self-ID law) (Gesetz über die Selbstbestimmung
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Aug 27th, 2023 8:23 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Kathleen Stock asks:
Have you heard about the latest injustice in women’s sport? No, I don’t mean the disparity in pay or prize monies in comparison to men’s professional teams, or the relative lack of access to high-quality facilities.
Hell no, who cares about that? No, the burning injustice is keeping men out of women’s cycling.
Such is the tear-jerking tale presented to us by the cyclist and trans woman — that is, biologically male — Emily Bridges in this month’s edition of Vogue, objecting to British Cycling’s recent move to make the elite female category actually do what it says on the tin. Alongside a photogenic selection of newsreaders, entrepreneurs and nepo-baby models, Bridges is the only sporting
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Aug 27th, 2023 8:01 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The Taliban continues to find new places to tell women to stay out of.
The Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province.
Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue and vice, Mohammad Khaled Hanafi, said women had not been observing hijab inside the park.
And therefore they will be fucking every man inside the park and nobody will know who anybody’s baby is ever again and the world will fall to pieces. Put the women in a smaller box!
Band-e-Amir is a significant tourist attraction, becoming Afghanistan’s first national park in 2009.
And now it’s not a national park any more, because half the population is told to stay out.
The Taliban have a
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Aug 26th, 2023 4:24 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
The Palmer Report is reassuring:
Republicans love nothing more than inventing doomsday narratives about how they’ve supposedly already won, and the media loves nothing more than hyping those empty doomsday narratives for ratings. Usually these kinds of silly narratives fall apart of their own accord, as everyone is able to see in hindsight that the particular “magic wand” in question never existed. But one doomsday narrative that just won’t go away is the notion that Georgia Republicans are going to be able to remove Fani Willis from power and thus magically save Donald Trump. In the hope of putting this one to bed once and for all, let’s review why this isn’t really going to be a story, so
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Aug 26th, 2023 11:39 am |
By Ophelia Benson
They may be able to sabotage the whole thing.
[Trump’s] Republican allies are rallying to his defense—seeking not only to run political interference for him, but also remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from office, potentially undermining the prosecution entirely.
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In a Facebook post earlier this week, State Senator Clint Dixon accused the DA of prosecuting the ex-president to become “some sort of leftist celebrity,” and said he would call on a newly-formed committee of political appointees to “take action” against her. That commission, approved by Republican Governor Brian Kemp in May, was ostensibly created to make it easier to oust progressive, reform-minded DAs. “I am not gonna stand idly by as rogue or incompetent prosecutors refuse
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Aug 26th, 2023 9:54 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Janice Turner on women as spare parts factories:
Throughout the exultant coverage of Britain’s first womb transplant, I waited for news about the donor. We met the shiny-eyed, triumphant surgeons who’d worked a Sunday in their special double operating theatre. We learnt about the recipient, born without a uterus, now having periods and waiting to start IVF. But of her sister who had donated her womb there was just a cursory, “she’s recovering well”.
The gravity of her sacrifice was wafted aside, although this was a radical hysterectomy, removing not just the uterus and cervix but the “cuff” (upper part) of the vagina. Given the complex transplant process it took many more hours, with greater surgical risk than a
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