January 2021: a male OB/GYN informs us on the Planned Parenthood blog that it’s not just ” ciswomen” who get abortions.

Abortion rights, reproductive rights, women’s rights, reproductive justice…these terms may seem synonymous to many, but in fact they represent an evolution and intersectionality of many struggles for individuals to choose when and how to be pregnant and/or parent. Language around abortion has always been fraught with controversy, imprecision, and rhetoric. The topic of ending a pregnancy in the United States is more than a medical procedure but also carries political, ethical, and moral weight. Pro-choice advocates may use sterile scientific language while anti-choice proponents use emotion-evoking language about life and personhood. While abortion has long been a language minefield,

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Cute. Male host of newsy talk show won’t let Kathleen Stock finish a sentence. Why have her on the show only to talk over her?

Good Morning Britain viewers were less than impressed with presenter Ed Balls while he was interviewing Kathleen Stock. The professor appeared on the ITV show to speak about her upcoming Channel 4 documentary Gender Wars.

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The Channel 4 special, titled Gender Wars, will delve into the meaning of sex and gender and feature the professor who has caused controversy in the past with her views on the subject.

Having quit her role at the University of Sussex two years ago after accusations of transphobia, Good Morning Britain’s Ed Balls decided to question her

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Kevin Lister does a brilliant job of cutting up the history of Susie Green’s horrifying activities into manageable slices. Each slice is more hair-raising than the last.

Specific example of a Susie Green overriding the GP advice, and encouraging a potential case of Munchausen by Proxy pic.twitter.com/mmzKXptOkX

— Kevin Lister (@KevsTribulation) May 28, 2023

Mermaids overriding and discreding CAMHS services. Most psychatrists know of gender dysphoria as a mental health condition, not as a medical condition. It is just that Susie believes otherwise, and wants nobody to challenge her. pic.twitter.com/N32ZwvVsC7

— Kevin Lister (@KevsTribulation) May 28, 2023

Imagine if children start turning up with a mental health condition that causes them to identify as cars or buildings or plants – … Read the rest

Susie Green is still in the spotlight, or on the hot seat, or both. Why? Because despite having no medical qualifications of any kind, she was able to refer children to the Tavistock when their GPs had refused to do so.

https://twitter.com/Ju_Drops/status/1663046200671588352

I guess she was allowed to do it because she had her own kid castrated before he hit puberty? That was medical qualification enough?… Read the rest

Owen Jones explaining feminism again. What would we do without him.

If you still believe opponents of trans rights are feminists, read this wretched hit piece on Kylie Minogue by one of their leading lights.

“Feminism” indeed https://t.co/BWbpP27gbk

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) May 27, 2023

I keep forgetting to ask him if I’m doing feminism right or not.… Read the rest

Man is in jail for males. In other news cats have claws, rain is wet, fire burns, up is not down.

Non-binary former nuclear official Sam Brinton is to be placed in a men’s jail in Maryland while waiting to be sent to Virginia over suitcase theft charges.

A Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy told The Post Tuesday that Brinton is in a “pre-placement” hold at the county jail and should be housed with the “general population” of the men’s jail sometime next week.

I guess the non-binary jail must be full.

Brinton, 35 — who uses they/them pronouns — was arrested at their home last week and is facing Grand Larceny charges over the alleged theft of a case

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Now that’s a remarkably stupid thing to say.

The truth is, those 'liberals' don't see transphobia as the moral equivalent of racism or anti-semitism or homophobia. But they won't make that case. Easier to dress up their attitude as free-speech principle in a way that is every bit as intellectually dishonest as the Right.

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) May 28, 2023

We “won’t make that case”??? We won’t make the case that rejection of trans ideology is not in any way comparable to racism or anti-semitism or homophobia? We make that case all the time. We point out that it’s false and evidence-free and stupid and bad.

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It would be nice if the climate change issue were just politics, but unfortunately that doesn’t seem to be the case. I don’t think it’s a hoax that the Colorado River is drying up – there are too many people who could tell us so if it were. Same with those floods in India and Pakistan last year, and the massive wildfires in Australia, and the shrinking ice in Greenland and Antarctica, and other little blips like that.

Ron DeSantis has been accused of a “catastrophic” approach to the climate crisis after he launched his campaign for US president by saying he rejects the “politicization of the weather” and questioning whether hurricanes hitting his home state of Florida have

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Two out of five. A mere 40 percent! What are you women whining about?!

https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1662823023915802626… Read the rest

Mr Menno is reporting from the scene.

https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662788003410976770 https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662795818250772480 https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662808476727275521… Read the rest

It’s always worse than we thought. Susie Green told the Tavistock how to “treat” kids who were questioning their gender.

Susie Green, then chairman of the charity Mermaids, was part of a task group reviewing services at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation trans clinic.

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The Tavistock claimed that it did not have emails or minutes of meetings with Ms Green but after the information regulator threatened court action, it released more than 300 pages.

They show that Ms Green had a direct line to Dr Polly Carmichael, Tavistock’s director, and demanded to be regarded as a professional so she could refer ­children for treatment when their GPs refused. Ms Green, who has no known formal medical

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Aha, so we know who wrote that dopy crude letter saying Make Stock Go Away that some dopy Oxford academics signed. We know because he’s boasting of it.

Breaking now: more than 100 @UniofOxford scholars and staff members stand by @OULGBTQ in our right to protest and for trans rights. Proud to have written and organized this letter, and I'm overwhelmed and emboldened by the support it received >>> https://t.co/nUveVuPbIS

— Addi Haran (@AddiHD02) May 26, 2023

He shouldn’t be proud. It’s a bad letter.

Doc Stock hints as much, but much more politely than I did.

https://twitter.com/context_outside/status/1662407724334718978… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Cluecat on Calling themselves “Gold Command”.

It’s interesting, though isn’t it, that they have to do this each time.

They absolutely must go all out, every time, to attack, smear, dismiss any woman who dares to try to set a boundary. Any boundary. Particularly around a definition of female that excludes males – as with Sex being correctly defined as reality, not Vewy Speshul Identitay.

Women must not be permitted to say “no”. That’s the whole thing – it gives the game away entirely.

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The BBC reports on the Stock Spiral:

A group of Oxford University academics have signed a letter supporting the right of transgender students to speak out against Kathleen Stock, a prominent gender-critical figure.

“They have every right to try to shut her up!”

Another group of Oxford academics have already said objections to her invite go against free speech.

But the new letter said it was not a free-speech issue as revoking an invite “is not preventing them from speaking”.

When did we decide “invite” is a noun? When did we decide it’s the better word for “invitation”? When did we decide “invitation” is just too long and formal to bother typing? Four whole extra letters!

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Helen Webberley orders us all to submit or else.

This is a personal message to all those people that think it is acceptable to refer to some women as men.

It is not acceptable, it is deliberately misgendering and it has already been classified as a hate crime and you are guilty of that crime. https://t.co/invOvn8gR2

— Dr Helen Webberley she/her (@HelenWebberley) May 27, 2023

Funny that she dehumanizes us in the process of telling us we’re hate criminals. The wording should be “This is a message to all those people who think” – not “that” think. She must think we’re subhuman, and here she is saying so in public. To the dungeons with her.

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It seems Australia is making it illegal to say that inducing an imitation of lactation in men and then feeding the pseudo-milk to infants is dangerous to those infants. Nothing must be allowed to interfere with men’s fantasies.

Last week a notice was given to my friend and former breastfeeding counsellor Jasmine Sussex by Twitter, advising her of an Australian law infraction. I met Jasmine in person just over a year ago at a Brisbane radical feminist conference, but she first contacted me in 2021 when I wrote an article in The Spectator Oz titled On “Chestfeeding”.

At this time Jasmine’s long relationship with the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) was ending in some level of pain and bitterness.

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I saw this from Dennis so I hared off to find the details.

We now know a group of staff at the EHRC calling themselves “Gold Command” wanted the Baroness gone and submitted complains just before Kemi Badenoch asked the EHRC to advise on sex on the Equality act.

To whom did Gold Command report I wonder

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 26, 2023

Calling themselves “Gold Command” ffs. Apparently it’s a police thing, and Gold is of course the top rank, so they’re like Eisenhower on D-Day. Not that they’re at all stuck on themselves.

So I quested and found the Telegraph:

An investigation into Baroness Falkner of Margravine’s work as the Equalities and Human Rights Commission

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A little compilation for your weekend enjoyment.

https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1662195319193456641

Platform number one to Brighton. But of course.… Read the rest

The investigation into Kishwer Falkner has been suspended.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has announced it has “paused” an independent investigation into its Chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner.

On Tuesday, this programme revealed that Baroness Falkner was under investigation by an external barrister after allegations about her conduct from a number of staff. Our report also examined claims of a toxic culture at the Commission, allegations of bullying and harassment, claims that there is a high level of staff turnover and internal concerns about its independence and impartiality. The report sparked a lively debate, with accusations that Falkner was the target of a “hit job” by radical pro-trans activists inside the Commission. Today the Board said it had decided

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Let’s look at the Bridges statement in more detail.

British Cycling has just banned us from racing. This was to be announced at 11 am today. But I’m done with this whole conversation being on their terms, and being controlled by them.

They have no authority to control this conversation anymore. Does it surprise me that the same organisation funded directly by a state that ships vulnerable refugees to Rwanda, violently clamps down on any political dissent that they disapprove of, or starves their people?

He lost track of his wording there. He surely can’t be claiming that British Cycling violently clamps down on dissent or starves their people, but that’s what he wrote. He seems to have meant can … Read the rest