Bro journalist writes in the Herald Scotland about the awesomeness of standing up for men who claim to be women at the expense of women. There are women who would like a word, but he’s blocked them.

Rebecca Don Kennedy runs the Equality Network. She talks candidly to our Writer at Large about the attacks, abuse and hate she’s suffered campaigning for trans people

It was around 2018 that Kennedy, by then a policy officer for the Equality Network, began raising her voice in defence of trans people. It resulted in the first of countless “horrific social media pile-ons” where she was attacked en masse.

I wonder if she’s aware of the countless horrific social media pile-ons that gender critical … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Referred to.

Interesting that team trans’s defence here is that transwomen are male after all — or this particular one at least is — and that there is a clearly visible difference between males and females.

Watkin’s lawyers said she saw and presented herself as female but was “visibly and audibly” male, so it would have been “blindingly obvious” to the man that Watkin was not biologically female.

It’s notable that they only ever admit this when it’s advantageous to their side to do so. Still, this is one of those items that’ll make a handy bookmark. It can be deployed to show that transactivists are never consistent in what they profess to … Read the rest

Just a slight misunderstanding.

A transgender woman “deceived” a man into thinking she was a biological female so he would have sexual relations with her, a court has heard.

Ciara Watkin, 21, told the man she was on her period to stop him discovering she was biologically male, prosecutors told Teesside Crown Court…Ms Watkin, who was referred to by female pronouns in court, denies three counts of sexual assault.

He shouldn’t have been referred to by female pronouns in court. Courts shouldn’t allow lying, let alone encourage it or enforce it.

The defendant, who was born male, had used the name Ciara since the age of 13 although had not undergone any medical treatment or surgery, the court heard.

Chicago’s turn:

The Pentagon has for weeks been planning a military deployment to Chicago as President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, in a model that could later be used in other major cities, officials familiar with the matter said.

Trump on Friday touted his ongoing National Guard intervention in D.C., where more than 2,200 Guard members have been deployed in what he has cast as an overdue effort to crack down on crime. He zeroed in on Chicago as the next target.

“Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor. Grossly incompetent,” Trump said, in remarks that were immediately dismissed by Chicago’s leaders as unfounded. “And we’ll straighten that one out

Here’s a funny little circle. The other day I found a book in a Little Free Library titled The Sociopath Next Door. When I see or hear the word “sociopath” I always wonder how it differs from psychopath, so I snapped it up. Reading it last night I naturally noticed that Trump meets every criterion for both, and that that doesn’t get said all that often. So this morning I googled, and turned up The White House has become the Bates Motel by Robert Kahn from last April.

As a student of Ancient Rome, I am disturbed that the reign of Donald Trump.2 so closely resembles the reigns of Nero and Caligula. By some measures, Trump.2’s is worse. After

Wo. Just happened to notice the headlines about this and read further and wtf.

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS) arrested the captain of the container ship MSC on Wednesday for allegedly operating the vessel while intoxicated.

I can see the container ships gliding past from where I’m sitting, so I take an interest. I can see them in detail at the terminal every time I take a bus to West Seattle (which I do often), so I take an interest.

The incident began when watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a report from a Puget Sound Pilot aboard the MSC Jubilee IX, a 333-meter container ship operating under the Liberian flag.

The Liberian flag signals, … Read the rest

Hmm.

https://t.co/3ZPZDXI5F0 pic.twitter.com/yoMHQqa1tq

— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) August 23, 2025

I watched the clip. I gotta say, he’s not very good. Too slow. Waits for laughter that doesn’t arrive. Also of course not particularly funny. Other than that…… Read the rest

JKR firing with both barrels.

I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness… pic.twitter.com/O4MDKQBnrS

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 22, 2025

Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?

I’m thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV

Imane Khelif says he’d just love to come back, the very minute they drop those pesky tests.

Olympic champion boxer Imane Khelif insists she has not retired, accusing her former manager of ‘betrayal’ after he falsely claimed she had called it a day. 

Although the gender row fighter will be skipping the upcoming World Championships after the introduction of sex testing, she shut down any notion that she has stopped competing for good. 

Nasser Yesfah, who used to represent her, had been reported in French newspaper Nice Matin as saying she had hung up her gloves, which was then denied by gold medal winner.

I don’t know why the Mail calls him “her” at this point.

Since the

Not even at first glance.

Recently, a disturbing trend has surfaced at the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) games: fans throwing dildos onto the court. At first glance, some might brush it off as a crude joke or a bizarre stunt.

Might they? That would be stupid. Of course it’s not a joke or stunt. It’s just boring old misogyny. “You think you’re so great, bitch? Hahaha suck my dick.”

Throwing a dildo onto a court where women are competing isn’t comedy. It’s about control and humiliation. It turns a professional sporting event into a stage for sexualising female athletes and stripping away the focus from their skill and hard work. This act reinforces the belief that despite

Very special man with pink hair interrupts this broadcast to tell us he has brand new twin babies but he doesn’t love being called Daddy.

‘Daddy’s right here for you, okay?,’ said the neonatal medic to my newborn identical twins as they wheeled them to the special care unit.

This was the first time someone had referred to me by this name, but as well as finding it sweet and overwhelming in a good way, I also found it quite jarring. 

As an assigned male at birth (AMAB) non-binary person, being referred to as ‘the dad’ or ‘daddy’ – which are clearly masculine-gendered terms – didn’t fit with my gender identity. 

Way to make it all about you, bro. Way … Read the rest

This is what’s holding us hostage. This.

WTF?

Donald Trump just interrupted his own Press Conference to brag about getting a photo from Vladimir Putin that he will be signing and sending back.

He then says that Putin wants to be at the World Cup in Washington DC, and says he's been very respectful.

What is wrong… pic.twitter.com/vzHhRGFgH3

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) August 22, 2025

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This will go very well.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown to start carrying firearms, the Pentagon said Friday.

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The step is an escalation in Trump’s intervention into policing in the nation’s capital and comes as nearly 2,000 National Guard members have been stationed in the heavily Democratic city, with the arrival this week of hundreds of troops from several Republican-led states.

Trump initially called up 800 members of the District of Columbia National Guard to assist federal law enforcement in his bid to crack down on crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Since then, six states have sent troops to the city,

He done undercut the principle again.

When federal agents armed with a search warrant showed up at John R. Bolton’s home outside Washington at dawn on Friday, it was a display of one of the government’s most intimidating powers, in this case deployed against a fierce and high-profile critic of President Trump.

It is not yet clear what evidence the Justice Department cited in convincing a federal judge to sign off on the search warrant, or what culpability Mr. Bolton might have in an on-and-off investigation into whether he mishandled classified information dating back to when he served as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser during the president’s first term.

But the episode illustrated how Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution

The Australian:

A parliamentary committee examining the impact of stillbirth on mothers has prefaced its evidence by acknowledging that men who have transitioned or are transitioning to become women should also be part of the conversation around the loss of babies during labour and pregnancy.

What???

Obviously fathers are affected by stillbirths, but that’s not what this says. This singles out fathers who pretend to be women, and what the hell is the point of that?? I can guarantee you that men who pretend to be women are not physically affected by stillbirths the way women are, so what remains? There’s no reason to think fathers who pretend to be women are emotionally more affected than fathers who are … Read the rest

I couldn’t find any Anglophone news on this but for what it’s worth…

If it’s true it’s hard to think of anything more calculated to insult and harm women.… Read the rest

Why does he do this on “social media”? Why not just run around DC writing it on the walls of toilets?

Wait a second…

Citation Justice – what it is and how you can practice it

Citations play a powerful role in academia, both institutionally and for individual careers. They form the bedrock of research assessment practices and are increasingly influential in job applications, promotions, grant applications and university rankings. There is no denying that citations matter. However, there is increasing evidence that women, people of colour, and other minoritised groups are systemically under cited, serving to exclude and silence many voices from scholarly and academic debates. Take a look at the paper you’re writing, or the texts in your reading lists: how many of these authors are men and/or white? How many women or people of colour have you

Sounds interesting.

Period pain and heavy bleeding linked with lower school attendance and GCSE results – new study

The article is by two women, in fact two women named Gemma.

Menstrual cycles are experienced by roughly half of the population for half of their lives. The experiences of menstruation on teenagers are incredibly important, especially as young people are starting periods earlier. Our research shows that this impact extends to their school attendance – and GCSE results.

Previous studies have reported that many young people take time off school and struggle to concentrate in school because of difficult experiences related to menstruation.

By roughly half the population is it? Any particular half? Teenagers, young people, yes, but can you … Read the rest

Well this took my breath away. The NPR article is about Trump’s plan to meddle with all the museums, not just the federal ones, and that’s breathtaking enough, but then it got even more so.

In a statement to NPR Wednesday, the president and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums, Marilyn Jackson, framed the issue as one of creative and scholarly independence. She wrote:

“The idea of extending federal reviews to the nation’s 22,000 museums misunderstands how museums operate. The vast majority are independent nonprofits, guided by professional standards and community trust. Museums cannot and should not be subject to government review of their exhibitions. The integrity of museums depends on their independence, and that’s what makes them so