Magical thinking is the new educational foundation.

A Church of England school teacher told a pupil she was “despicable” after she refused to accept that her classmate identifies as a cat.

The 13-year-old girl and her friend were reprimanded by their teacher at Rye College, in East Sussex, on Friday at the end of a Year 8 class on “life education” in which they were told they can “be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you”.

So the aim of Rye College is to set students up for disappointment and despair?

It’s profoundly untrue that “you can be who you want to be and how you identify is up to you.” Of … Read the rest

Please, tell us more about the dehumanizing language.

This is literally the antitrans online mob going for her like a pack of rabid dogs. The language is foul, dehumanising, utterly lacking in a shred of decency. Hatred unleashed. Of course. https://t.co/UFBFBSeJQD pic.twitter.com/NFVNZ4YTR4

— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) June 18, 2023

To sum up: “these people are literally like rabid dogs, their language is dehumanizing.”… Read the rest

Oh really?

Rishi Sunak caught making cheap sleazy 'penis' jokes about trans women

His focus on genitalia & who has penises is borderline indecent

Sunak refuses to accept that there are women based on biology & women based on gender identity – both equally validhttps://t.co/k0G96cuPI2

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) June 18, 2023

There are women based on biology & women based on gender identity, both equally valid, says Tatchell. Is that right? Is that how these things work? Is it just women who are epistemically up for grabs in this generous way? Are there also men based on biology and men based on gender identity? Does Peter have sex with the based on gender identity kind? If not why … Read the rest

Man so addicted to posting selfies that even this didn’t stop him.

Why would he take a selfie while his mouth is full of mouthwash?

Doesn’t he realize we can see the thick makeup?

The whole world is asking why he’s wearing a bathmat.

It’s time to recycle the Xmas cards.… Read the rest

Guardianista Kathryn Bromwich tells us what we should worry about:

Judging by column inches alone, you might be forgiven for thinking that the thing keeping women awake at night is not femicide, sexual assault, plummeting rape convictions, stalking, unequal pay, the erosion of reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, rampant online misogyny, an institutionally sexist police force, healthcare inequality, insufficient childcare provisions, or never being allowed to age.

While all these issues do get reported, a disproportionate amount of attention is given to another topic: men masquerading as trans women in order to gain access to single-sex spaces.

That’s actually not “another topic.” It’s the same topic. Men pretending to be women are relevant to femicide, sexual assault, … Read the rest

Generous of him to provide all those selfies for free then.

Not so much circular as spiral.

If the #Wickes boss said racists were ‘not welcome' there would have been no backlash

Most people would have applauded him

So why the double standards over transphobia?

Prejudice is prejudice. It is always wrong & should be challengedhttps://t.co/opPVf2s1RT via @MailOnline

— Peter Tatchell (@PeterTatchell) June 17, 2023

If the Wickes boss had said “axe-wielding murderers are not welcome” there would have been no backlash but so what? We’re supposed to think “therefore it’s fine for the Wickes boss to say people with gender critical views are not welcome” but Tatchell’s analogy is not analogous. Knowing that men are not women is not analogous to racism.

It’s just one of those Big Lies … Read the rest

The local NPR station, KUOW, reports on a clash between virtue and profit:

The Seattle-based boutique ice cream company, Molly Moon’s, has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Seattle over alleged revenue losses during and after the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, also known as CHOP, in 2020.

The local ice cream chain claims the city violated its constitutional rights by creating a “government-authorized invasion” and acting with “deliberate indifference towards the safety and property” of its store. The suit is seeking an unidentified amount in damages.

During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, the Seattle Police Department left the East Precinct headquarters. Protestors then occupied a 10-block area surrounding a Molly Moon’s location.

The suit alleges

Originally a comment by Rob on Fundamentally unjust.

I listened to an interview yesterday with Jenny Nguyen. She’s a chef who has opened a bar in Portland called the Sports Bra, that plays only women’s sport on the screens and is billed as inclusive. Jenny is a lesbian and played basketball as a youth. She says the bar is not a lesbian bar, but it is designed for lesbians, but anyone can come.

During the interview she was asked about trans women in women’s sport. She replied that it was her, and the bar’s, position that TWAW. When pressed about the advantage that TW retain, she said she didn’t know anything about that, but given what TW and ‘others … Read the rest

Replies are hilarious, I’m afraid I’m going to have to share more of them.

“not our friends” – dude’s magazine steals the name of their home and he wonders why orcas are mad. pic.twitter.com/2aMJyCPIvN

— ben schwartz (@benschwartz_) June 17, 2023

Telling the Orcas that this guy has been talking shit pic.twitter.com/it900OzIea

— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) June 17, 2023

https://twitter.com/ChairladySpears/status/1670133652603166721

You know what? I'm gonna start rooting for the orcas even harder now pic.twitter.com/S0rTfdJGiJ

— Joe Katz is @joekatz45 wherever you microblog (@joekatz45) June 17, 2023

https://twitter.com/SuperDuperSJW/status/1670123041089630211 … Read the rest

Oh no! What damn fools have been cheering on the Orcas?! They’ll be up here ramming our windows next! What were people thinking?!!

Orcas are not on social media? Oh come on now – I like a contrarian as much as the next person but there’s a limit.… Read the rest

Sometimes people just don’t think things through.

In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.

Think it through, liberals in Hamtramck (pronounced Hamtrammick). Are you sure a theocratic city council is what you want? Not all Muslims are theocrats, of course, but some are, and it’s a very theocratic-leaning religion. I wouldn’t rejoice for a second if Seattle elected a Catholic-majority city council, or a Southern Baptist-majority one, or a Haredi Jewish-majority one.

This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags

This is hilarious, if only Pink News could see it. Demi Lovato stopped “using gender neutral pronouns” because omigod it was so exhausting. I’m pretty sure I know why it was so exhausting.

Demi Lovato, who now uses both she/her and they/them pronouns, publicly came out as non-binary with a preference for they/them pronouns in a moving video in May 2021, just weeks after coming out as pansexual.

Oh I bet that was tremendously moving. It’s always moving watching narcissists tell us all about their pronouns and opinions and struggles and feelings. It’s especially moving that it was just weeks after she came out as pansexual. We should all start coming out as things; apparently it’s very important … Read the rest

Pink News sneers at female athletes for wanting fair competition.

An athlete declaring herself the “fastest girl in Connecticut” is suing the state after she lost a race to a trans athlete.

A male athlete. She doesn’t care that he’s trans, she cares that he’s a male competing in female races. Pink News would care too if it had any sense, because there would be less resistance to trans ideology if it gave a damn about fairness to women.

A reference guide for the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) policy states that it would be “fundamentally unjust” to prevent trans athletes from taking part in gender-specific sports categories.

Again. Never mind about trans athletes, just keep males out of women’s … Read the rest

Updating to add: apologies for the abrupt beginning plus lack of source. I’d been going back and forth between video and a transcript so maybe I thought I’d done a previous post with the sources. US Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did a briefing June 14 at which a reporter asked:

“Does the White House worry about the physical safety of females directly competing against males in sports?”

It’s a complicated issue, says Jean-Pierre. She cites giving schools “flexibility to establish their own athletic policies while establishing guardrails to prevent discrimination against transgender kids.”

That is not what he asked. She carefully ignored what he asked. Why did she do that? Why is it more urgent for schools to have “flexibility” … Read the rest

So it really is forbidden to talk about LGB, even when LGB is in fact the subject.

But but but but what if it’s a study about LGB people? What if the study is just not about trans people? Isn’t it ok to report on the study?

Apparently not.… Read the rest

That’s very very very interesting.

Spoke with a journalist yesterday. At the end, she said “It’s nice to talk to a philosopher…. I talk all day to politicians and academics in other fields. But only the philosophers are willing to reply to question by saying they don’t know. Everyone else just wings it.”

— Robert Talisse (@RobertTalisse) June 17, 2023

It’s interesting the other disciplines/professions don’t grasp that it’s good to say you don’t know when you don’t know. It’s interesting that they’re more self-protective and less thoughtful. It’s interesting that they haven’t internalized the fact that winging it is bad, because it risks disinforming. It’s interesting that the truth takes second place to the ego.

Epistemology should be … Read the rest

I suppose we have Chase Strangio to thank for this bulletin:

The state of Florida never provided medically necessary gender-affirming care to Duane Owen — causing her enormous suffering and violating her right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment for the more than 30 years she was in state custody. pic.twitter.com/kjmzCrY2uh

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 16, 2023

In legal papers she drafted, Owen wrote that she "should be accorded the 'essence of human dignity' and be allowed to become 'who she was meant to be'" before her death.

No one should be killed by the state. The time to end the racist, unfair and cruel death penalty is now. pic.twitter.com/EsT17NkVR1

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 16, 2023

Opposing the … Read the rest

More mystifying than ever. He must think he looks fabulous or he wouldn’t tweet it but…

Onlookers don’t think he looks fabulous, and wonder why he has a bikini strap growing out of his neck.

Remember, kids, this is a man age 57. What men age 57 do you know who tweet photos of themselves simpering in bathing suits?

All the rest of his time he spends bullying women on social media. Weird fella.… Read the rest

Dude.

To be very clear:@Wickes is absolutely correct.

There is no LGB without the T.

What binds LGBTQ+ people together is we all suffer bigotry because we are defying the expectations attached to the gender on our birth certificate.

It's not hard to understand! pic.twitter.com/Kqwqp8SJTF

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) June 16, 2023

Newsflash, OJ. You know who else is defying the expectations attached to the gender sex on our birth certificate? Feminist women, that’s who. We’ve been doing it for years and years and years, decades, centuries. You didn’t invent it, gay men didn’t invent it, trans people sure as hell didn’t invent it. Women too suffer bigotry because we defy those expectations – including yours. You expect us … Read the rest