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On Wednesday, April 12, students and staff are encouraged to wear pink in support of creating a more inclusive and diverse world and to stand in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. Learn more: https://t.co/jFG6LKymes#DayOfPink2023 pic.twitter.com/P351x1Jxa7

— Toronto District School Board (@tdsb) April 10, 2023

What are they even talking about? How does “wearing pink” signify (or signal or advertise or promote or nudge or push) creating a more inclusive and diverse world? How does it at the same time stand in solidarity with the 2SLGBTQIAZMDJRVTPXMKLQ+ communities?

This time it’s not so much enraging as sick-making. It’s so smarmy, so creepy, so damp hand in yours and soft voice telling you you are loved when all you want to … Read the rest

One, ten, many Savita Halappanavars. The Washington Post has the details:

At 36, she’d already experienced a long line of miscarriages, but none of the pregnancies had been more than five weeks along. Now she had to deliver a nearly 16-week fetus — a daughter she’d planned to call Bunny.

And when she did she immediately started hemorrhaging.

She had intended to deliverthe fetus in a hospital, a doctor by her side. When her water broke the night before — at least six weeks ahead of when a fetus could survive on its own — she drove straight to the emergency room, where she said the doctor explained that she was experiencing pre-viability preterm prelabor rupture of the membranes

Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx:

A symposium in Nantes intended to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan and Iranian women has been postponed after trans activists threatened to violently ambush the event because of the presence of a gender critical speaker.

Step aside, Afghan and Iranian women, the much more important cause of men who pretend to be women needs all the space and attention and concern.

The Comité Laïcité République (CLR – Republic Secularism Committee), an organization dedicated to promoting secularism “as a force for reflection, dialogue, with a balanced tone,” issued a statement on April 5 announcing that their symposium – entitled “Women, Life, Freedom” after the mantra of the Iranian women’s protest movement – would be

The Nation for some reason decided to publish an article by a they/them called Frankie de la Cretaz who has nothing but contempt and hostility for women.

In 2021, the Department of Education announced a formal review of the way Title IX was enforced. The goal was ostensibly to come up with an interpretation of the law that protects transgender students from discrimination.

The proposal unveiled on Thursday, to put it mildly, does not meet that goal. Instead, under the cover of a ban on what it calls “one-size-fits-all” anti-trans policies, it makes explicit allowances for restrictions on trans participation in sports to ensure what it describes as “fairness in competition” and “preventing sports-related injury.” Even observers inclined to be

Nancy Kelley underlines her contempt for women.

But the EHRC doesn’t say ‘what's the policy intent here?’ or even ‘what's the *specific* matter you are seeking advice on?’ (these would be very normal responses to such a broad letter). It *assumes* a policy intent and writes back on the basis of those assumptions.

— Nancy Kelley (@Nancy_M_K) April 10, 2023

To make it easier to exclude trans lesbians from lesbian support groups.
To make it easier to exclude trans women from women’s book clubs
To make it easier to exclude trans women from women only shortlists

— Nancy Kelley (@Nancy_M_K) April 10, 2023

That is, to make it possible to exclude MEN from lesbian support groups, women’s book clubs, … Read the rest

News from Tennessee:

The Tennessee statehouse has expelled two Democratic politicians who led a gun control protest that halted legislative proceedings last week. In a rare move, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 72-25 to expel Justin Jones and 69-26 to remove Justin Pearson.

But an expulsion vote failed against a third Democratic lawmaker, Gloria Johnson, who also joined the protest. Republicans said the trio had brought “disorder and dishonour to the House”.

Republicans kicked out two elected Representatives of the other party because they felt like it.

Republicans said the trio had brought “disorder and dishonour to the House”. Crowds of protesters have attended the State Capitol since a school shooting. The 27 March attack at Nashville’s Covenant

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Thanks for participating peacefully.

She added: “Diversity promotes critical discussions, new understandings and enriches the academic experience. But we may also find ourselves exposed to divergent views and even views we find personally abhorrent.”

Please describe in detail how the fact (or even the idea) that men can’t be women is “personally abhorrent.” Please explain how this is no more than a “divergent view” that must be shouted down. Does not the truth of this simple statement have any bearing at all on the discussion?

The reality of sex is no more a “divergent view” than the existence of rain and sunshine. See how far you get protesting them. … Read the rest

Where they make a desert and call it peace (ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appelant – Tacitus).

Riley Gaines hit out at [sharply criticized] San Francisco State University (SFSU) after an email was sent to all students thanking those who “participated peacefully in Thursday evening’s event” when demonstrators stormed a talk being held by Gaines and allegedly physically assaulted her.

Hey students thanks for not murdering Riley Gaines. Nice one.

A video posted on social media showed Gaines being escorted to safety by police after dozens of protestors got inside the venue, with the ex-college athlete claiming she was “physically hit twice by a man,” and trapped in an empty classroom for three hours.

Ya see that’s participating peacefully. She’s not … Read the rest

American Oversight calls itself non-partisan and yet it uses the euphemism “gender-affirming care” as if it were affirmation to excise children’s genitals and/or breasts.

Mississippi recently banned gender-affirming care for minors. We submitted public records requests to the governor’s office and state legislators who supported the bill. We’re seeking communications with anti-LGBTQ groups.https://t.co/noH4OLftyF pic.twitter.com/YsKSCdjR3Z

— American Oversight (@weareoversight) April 9, 2023

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“It’s actually empowered men who really hate women.”

“This is the worst period of misogyny that I can remember since back in the 1970s, and this time it’s much more overt” – journalist & policy advisor Joan Smith @polblonde introducing #SilencingWomen: #AcademicFreedom & Unthinkable Thoughts, #IWD 2023 https://t.co/hJ5Q5a03Id pic.twitter.com/K4v16iCpEM

— Outspoken Women (@women_outspoken) March 26, 2023

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Self-obsession is the new “progressive.”

If questioned, say it’s complicated and you haven’t figured it out yet.

The captains or vice-captains of eight inter-county teams playing in the Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) league finals have been advised by the association’s media team to avoid expressing opinions on its new transgender policy.

The LGFA will host a round of media interviews on Tuesday with the players ahead of the four finals. The Sunday Independent has obtained a copy of an LGFA briefing issued to the players that contains suggested responses to questions on controversial topics journalists might ask.

A question about the LGFA’s new transgender policy, which was introduced in February, is listed at the top of the likely topics to be raised.

And what … Read the rest

Rubbing Our Noses In It chapter eleventy billion:

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has secured another major partnership deal, days after Bud Light was criticized for partnering with her.

Mulvaney, an actor and comedian who has been documenting her transition across social media, is now a sports bra model for Nike. 

Wait wait wait wait wait.

What is a sports bra? What is the whole point of a sports bra? Why is a sports bra necessary?

Because breasts, that’s why. Because breasts stick out from the body, and bounce if the body is in rapid motion, and that’s uncomfortable at best. Because breasts need support in the activities that make up sports.

Dylan Mulvaney doesn’t have breasts.

It’s … Read the rest

Ah yes, trans ballet at last; just what we all needed.

He's a charity case with no talent.https://t.co/7JKOaFFPU9

— The Goth (@TheGoth8) April 8, 2023

Do check out the Missoula Gala Performance. The dancers do the moves and then he just hangs out, tiptoeing around a bit like a burglar looking for the exit. The dancers are on pointe and he’s not, yet he’s somehow the star. Sums up the whole ludicrous mess.… Read the rest

A new front is opened in Musk’s war on all of us. Nick Cohen explains:

If you follow the tech news, you will know that Elon Musk has gone to war against Substack. He wants to punish it for launching a feature called Notes, which he fears may compete with his increasingly rickety Twitter platform.

Yesterday morning I found that no one could retweet Substack links to my pieces. By the evening, Musk had lifted the ban. But if Twitter users clicked on a link, they received a warning that made it sound as if they were about to enter the dark web.

It’s true. I tried it and sure enough I got the warning. Furthermore, I was … Read the rest

Texas senator is fine with a Supreme Court justice’s acceptance of bribes.

The left is furious it lost control of the Supreme Court, and it wants it back by whatever means possible. The latest effort is a smear on Justice Thomas. https://t.co/0cYWS9Mq7z via @WSJopinion

— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) April 8, 2023

How does the Wall Street Journal defend Thomas’s cheery acceptance of bribes?

The left’s assault on the Supreme Court is continuing, and the latest front is the news that Justice Clarence Thomas has a rich friend who has hosted the Justice on his private plane, his yacht, and his vacation resort. That’s it. That’s the story. Yet this non-bombshell has triggered breathless claims that the Court must

"Most women have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nmol/L, but Semenya has male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L."

Lynsey Sharp would have taken the bronze in a fair race. pic.twitter.com/dP9ucKUrCv

— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) April 7, 2023

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Ben Bradshaw’s grotesque waving away of femicide is from a New Statesman interview with Rosie Duffield.

For at least half a decade now, Labour, like many political parties in the West, has struggled with the contentious issue of “self-ID” – the proposed right of people to self-identity as another sex or gender.

Notice a funny thing about this. The word or label “self-ID” doesn’t literally mean to self-identity as another sex or gender. It just means [the right to] self-identify. We’re given a translation that claims it means [only] to self-identify as another sex or gender. Not, you see, to self-identify as an animal or a tree or a building or a planet – just as another sex or … Read the rest

My god. Sometimes it just knocks the breath right out of you.

Ben Bradshaw is a Labour MP. Yes that’s right: a Labour MP.

This is despicable from ⁦@BenPBradshaw⁩.
Men kill loads of women anyway, so why bother keeping the few safeguards women have. pic.twitter.com/0xdDyVAfms

— Janice Turner (@VictoriaPeckham) April 8, 2023

Says the Labour MP from the demographic that is not the target of violent misogynist men.… Read the rest

Reduxx reports:

Athletics Canada’s former head coach has come forward to reveal that he was threatened by the Canadian Olympic Committee lawyers after expressing discontent with the results of the women’s 800m at the 2016 Olympic Games. The competition saw three biological males take the top spots, displacing the female Canadian bid to fourth place.

Peter Eriksson, the record-making former head coach for the Canadian Olympic and Paralympic program, spoke to Reduxx about what happened at the 2016 session in Rio, and the consequences he faced if he spoke out on behalf of Canadian athlete Melissa Bishop. Bishop placed fourth after three males competed in the female division.

In the 800m women’s race, Caster Semenya of South Africa