Joan Smith at UnHerd:

Time and again, women are having to go to court to protect themselves against trans activists.

The cowardice of organisations that won’t stand up for free speech and women’s legal rights is one reason for this. The latest institution to be shamed for its behaviour towards people who hold gender-critical views is Arts Council England (ACE), which has just lost a claim brought by a former employee, Denise Fahmy. The Leeds Employment Tribunal came to the unanimous decision that Fahmy, who had worked for ACE for 15 years, was subjected to harassment because of her gender-critical beliefs. 

In other words a woman was subjected to harassment by Arts Council England because she knows that men … Read the rest

Originally a comment by latsot on Rainbow autism.

The forced-teaming of T with medical conditions and disabilities has been going on for quite a while. We’ve seen it most with DSDs (for the obvious reason) and with autism. In the latter case it is certainly at least partly because of autistic people being over-represented in the newer part of the alphabet community, as others have said. I’ve spoken about this to quite a few people with autism and they say there’s a strong sense that autism is completely captured and perhaps now intractably tangled. They feel that autistic people like them, especially children, are targeted because they are more susceptible to the concept of a magic bullet and less … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Papito on Rainbow autism.

The prevalence of autistic kids among those who self-identify as trans is much higher than that in the population at large. Sometimes it seems the entire complex taxonomy of gender identities and rules was created by autistic people; who else could be bothered. As you mentioned here in February, Barnes says, in Time To Think, that the Tavistock ignored evidence that 97.5% of the kids showing up there were autistic, and 35% of them moderately to severely so, versus around 2% in the general population. The Venn Diagram is practically concentric circles.

Growing up autistic – especially if you don’t know it – can be exhausting, alienating, and confusing. A simple … Read the rest

Jesus christ. I remind Jane Caro that women are vulnerable to male violence as opposed to the other way around, and she replies with stats on trans v “cis” people. I could swear she used to be a feminist.

Here are the stats. https://t.co/0zNE8PfToD

— Jane Caro (@JaneCaro) June 27, 2023

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Yet another idenniny we have to affirm and respect and fight for:

So autism is somehow linked to LGB now? Also TQ+?

How? Why? What is the link?

I started out thinking there was no link, apart from the sweeping “different,” which applies to everyone in some way, but it occurs to me that maybe the link is literalism. Trans ideology is pathologically literal about the fictitious gendered soul, and autism tends toward literalism in general. Could that be the link?… Read the rest

Canada is out of its tiny little mind.

From September 2020:

RUGBY CANADA PROVIDES UPDATE ON FEEDBACK TO PROPOSED TRANSGENDER GUIDELINES [pdf]

Rugby Canada has completed their feedback submission to World Rugby as part of the consultative process regarding circulated draft transgender guidelines. The submission included the full version of Rugby Canada’s Trans Inclusion Policy, as well as documented lived experiences of Canadian rugby trans participants that were consulted as part of the feedback process.

What about the documented lived experiences of Canadian rugby female participants? And what about biology and physics and what we know happens when a huge muscular man crashes into a woman?

The criterion that matters here is Trans Inclusion and not Women’s Safety.

Why?… Read the rest

Helpful tip: if it’s 119F / 48C, outside it’s not a good time to go for a strenuous hike on a trail with no shade or water.

A Florida man and his teenage stepson died after hiking during extreme heat at Big Bend National Park in Texas, officials said.

The boy fell ill along the trail and lost consciousness, and his stepfather was killed in a car accident as he tried to find help, authorities said.

Bad stepfather. Don’t take your kids out hiking in extreme heat.

The man, 31, and his two stepsons were hiking along the Marufo Vega Trail on Friday in 119F (48C) heat when the 14-year-old fell ill. While the stepfather hiked back to his

There it is.

Link

H/t NightCrow… Read the rest

Stoney Creek Camels Rugby Club is on Facebook.

Their most recent post is June 23, announcing the game the next day.

There is one comment on the post, but it’s “not visible” – which I surmise means it has been hidden, which I further surmise means it was a question about the man who played in the match, and perhaps about why the video of the match was made private yesterday.

It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Sastra on She stands by the vulnerable i.e. men.

But the platitudes about “standing by the downtrodden” only make sense from a feminist perspective if you genuinely believe that men who sincerely believe they’re women really are women. How did we get there?

Confusion, analogy, and platitudes. Such as:

1.) Women have historically been “defined by” their sex, limited by patriarchal assumptions about how having a womb means you must have babies and being physically appealing to men means they can own you as a commodity.

2.) If only people would consider women as people in their own right, regardless of what’s under their skirts! Let women make their own choices!

3.) So let’s … Read the rest

The BBC is excited about London Pride.

Some of London’s buses and trains are being wrapped in rainbow colours as part of this year Pride celebrations. Transport for London (TfL) is launching a campaign celebrating the city’s LGBTQ community ahead of Saturday’s parade.

Those featuring on posters include Gok Wan, Bimini from RuPaul’s Drag Race, Nick Grimshaw and Queen MoJo. “We are proud to continue to support Pride by sharing Pride messages across our network,” Patricia Obinna, TfL’s director of diversity & inclusion said.

That’s nice but…has London Transport ever wrapped some of its trains and buses in feminist colors? Or celebrated the city’s female community in any way?

It seems not. If you do a Google image search … Read the rest

This is thinking deeply? I’d hate to see what shallow looks like.

I have thought very deeply over almost 50 years. I stand by the vulnerable. I stand against stereotyping & bigotry. I believe people should be judged by the content of their character not the content of their knickers. Perhaps you should have a thinkz

— Jane Caro (@JaneCaro) June 26, 2023

By “the vulnerable” she of course means men who say they are women, as opposed to the women who say they are not.

How did we get here? How did we get to a place where adults solemnly insist that men who claim to be women are vulnerable while the women who say no they’re not are … Read the rest

“Pride”

NYC Pride – 6/25/2023
My name is K. Yang, I'm a former trans rights activist & LGBT non-profit whistleblower. I was just kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed by dozens of people in Washington Square Park. ♂️ who identify as ♀️ called me "bitch" & assaulted me. @KnownHeretic @bjportraits pic.twitter.com/4J9AaFXSEf

— Stop Female Erasure / K Yang (@StopXXErasure) June 25, 2023

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Where we are now:

This is the transwoman this string was about.

It was a game in the Niagara Rugby Union, Stoney Creek vs Fergus Highlanders. pic.twitter.com/mctZEv4u2o

— Diana Murphy (@diana_murphy613) June 25, 2023

Ok. Got it. There was a man playing. Not even a “trans woman” – just a man. How did that happen? Did he just say “My name is Susie” and that was all it took? Or what? I’d love to know more.

But. We still have no indication that three women were dropped on their heads, apart from one person on Twitter saying so. Arty seems to have watched the damn thing and didn’t see any serious injuries.

There was a women's rugby game between Stoney

Inching toward progress maybe?

NRU Stoney Creek vs Fergus pic.twitter.com/FRRJEli4E8

— Diana Murphy (@diana_murphy613) June 25, 2023

I googled NRU Stoney Creek v Fergus and found a video of a match, which I shared, but she replied to say that’s the wrong match. Why not link to the right match then? I don’t know. I can’t tell if she’s playing games or just unfamiliar with how to share information on Twitter.

A first-time commenter called “anon” provided this link, which does seem to fit.

Greg Abbot condemns construction workers to death:

In a week when parts of the state are getting triple-digit temperatures and weather officials urge Texans to stay cool and hydrated, Gov. Greg Abbott gave final approval to a law that will eliminate local rules mandating water breaks for construction workers.

Abbott and the Texas legislators who wrote and passed this law are knowingly, deliberately increasing the risk of heat stroke and death for construction workers in a very hot state. The deaths will happen.

The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Week 3.

Welcome to the new normal.

One of the things that gets brushed aside in the right’s politicization of climate change is that things don’t just get warmer; they get destabilized. Not only do weather patterns change, they become chaotic. It’s not just a different set of new temperatures and amounts of precipitation to be adapted to, but a constantly changing kaleidoscope of conditions, without enough stability for things like growing crops, which rely on particular, reliable combinations of conditions. The further our excursion from previous conditions, the more unstable things get. And this is just the agricultural realm. What happens to all of the current biomes when the … Read the rest

Another man takes another place that was supposed to be for a woman.

This event was oversubscribed. Ellie is legally and biologically male and, according to the ruling in our JR, should not be eligible to take advantage of a scheme designed for women. We wrote to @ElectHer_UK saying this was unlawful. pic.twitter.com/q73Nt8B65B

— For Women Scotland (@ForWomenScot) June 25, 2023

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Ok this is going well.

The fact the news isn’t making this a story is a story.

Dig you’ll find your answers.

— Diana Murphy (@diana_murphy613) June 24, 2023

So this is a quiz now? Or a treasure hunt? Dig where? With what kind of tools?

When they feel comfortable to disclose they will.

For now, you’ll have to wait.

Pretty sure if you did your own digging you’d find a spokesperson.

Do your journalistic thing.

— Diana Murphy (@diana_murphy613) June 25, 2023

Then why announce it on Twitter at all? Why tell the world it happened, and then get offended when people ask for the specifics? Who are “they”? If there’s a spokesperson why not just say who and … Read the rest

Sigh. This isn’t how to go about it.

Last weekend 3, yes three women’s rugby players had to be removed from a game and treated for injuries from hits sustained by a transwoman.

The referee, after repeated dangerous tackles, had to remove the trans player from the game.

— Diana Murphy (@diana_murphy613) June 23, 2023

1,126 shares so far, and 3,582 likes, but – no source. The tweet author says it happened in Hamilton, Ontario, but also that it has not hit the news yet. She doesn’t say how she knows it happened. So – useless. Worse than useless, because being shared.

Come on now. Don’t be reporting stuff like this if you have absolutely nothing besides your own word. … Read the rest