A couple of weeks ago Dr Helen Webberley won her appeal.

A GP offering treatment for transgender patients online has won a High Court appeal against her suspension as a doctor and can now work again.

Note the word “treatment.”

Dr Helen Webberley has been unable to practise medicine since last year after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel found she committed serious misconduct.

But on Friday, a High Court judge said the panel’s determination was “wrong”.

Dr Webberley said she was celebrating a return to her “life saving work”.

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Mr Justice Jay said he had “concerns” about “certain aspects” of Dr Webberley’s “practice” in relation to Patient C – including a “failure to have a face-to-face

Callow misogynist reporter Tom Harwood tells us Labour is afraid of Pride.

LGBT Labour is a highly visible and notable wing of the Labour Party, with dozens of official patrons in Parliament, and a string of campaigning successes under the last Labour government.

Yet today GB News can reveal that the official Labour group are considering withdrawing from marching from all LGBT pride events this year due to safety concerns for their members, fearing backlash from the community.

In other words Harwood is revealing that the official Labour group is afraid of people involved in LGBT pride events. Which ones? The L? Probably not. The G? The B? Come on. No, they’re afraid of the T, because the T and … Read the rest

This is interesting. Women were not permitted to speak, with the result that more women are speaking, and so are men. The bullies scored an own goal.

As a result of Kellie-Jay's visit to NZ where she didn't even need to say a word, groups have been started up in NZ in response to the maniacal violent scenes in Auckland. This group is one of them: – pic.twitter.com/OhD3K8atGZ

— Michelle Uriarau (@singlikeadiva) April 12, 2023

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DeSantis is evil, and not as stupid as Trump.

Al Lawson felt the weight of his victory the night he was elected to Congress in 2016.

He was born in Midway, a small town that’s part of a stretch of land in northern Florida dotted with tobacco fields once home to plantations. A former basketball star, he was once reprimanded for drinking out of a whites-only water fountain. In some of his early campaigns for the state legislature, he ran into the Ku Klux Klan.

There was jubilation when he was elected.

“Everywhere I would go, it was like a celebration,” Lawson said one morning last month in his office in downtown Tallahassee. “People saying: ‘Boy, I wish my

Ugh. I don’t think the police should have been involved, but at the same time I really don’t think pub owners or restaurant havers or food truck users should have racist caricatures on display. Not every “should” or “should not” is a police matter, to put it mildly.

The landlady of a pub whose collection of golliwog dolls was confiscated by police has assembled replacements, which she plans to display in defiance of a continuing investigation.

Last week four Essex police officers and a trainee seized all the dolls on show in the White Hart Inn in Grays as part of an investigation into an alleged hate crime.

We don’t have “golliwog” dolls in the US; it’s not even … Read the rest

Saying men are not women is exactly the same as the Nazis says Willoughby.

We want trans people – people like Willoughby himself – to stop demonizing and trying to erase women. We want trans people, especially men who claim to be trans, to stop taking everything that belongs to women, and talking over us, and calling us Karens and cunts, and accusing us of hate crimes, and calling us Nazis. That’s what we want.… Read the rest

Watchdog to examine ‘implausible’ UK census trans figures

The statistics regulator is examining concerns that the data behind landmark census figures on the UK’s transgender population may be flawed.

Academics have queried findings by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that 262,000 people identify as transgender in England and Wales.

Next look into how many people identify as a different species.

Michael Biggs, a professor of sociology at the University of Oxford, believes the question posed to record the gender identity of respondents may have confused those whose first language is not English.

He claimed it may be why the London boroughs of Newham and Brent, which have a significant percentage of residents who speak English as a second language,

This is what you get when you elect a hardened criminal chief executive.

The Manhattan district attorney on Tuesday sued Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio in an extraordinary step intended to keep congressional Republicans from interfering in the office’s criminal case against former President Donald J. Trump.

The 50-page suit, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, accuses Mr. Jordan of a “brazen and unconstitutional attack” on the prosecution of Mr. Trump and a “transparent campaign to intimidate and attack” the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg. Mr. Bragg last week unveiled 34 felony charges against Mr. Trump that stem from the former president’s attempts to cover up a potential sex scandal during and after

Remember: always distort, re-word, ignore distinctions, exaggerate, lie, distort distort distort.

That’s how it’s done! McGovern said “We need to stop the virus of trans ideology” and Bozo says she “called trans people a virus.” Calling an ideology a virus is not calling the people infected by it a virus, just as calling Covid a virus is not calling the people infected by it a virus. The ideology is the virus, and it’s very very harmful to people, especially their brains and their critical faculties.

Willoughby has finally blocked me. I was surprised he hadn’t done it long ago; I’ve been a vocal non-admirer for a long time.… Read the rest

United Nations Women released a video last week profiling "Twisted Skeleton," a Venezuelan-Ecuadorian male dancer who identifies as a "non-binary trans girl."

UN Women has been active in pushing gender self-identification laws in recent years. pic.twitter.com/ZLTFiGWohD

— REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) April 11, 2023

UN Women is infuriating. Goddam quislings.… Read the rest

There it is, there’s the saying it out loud. He’s a better woman than women are because he had to fight for it. Women are like the children of millionaires while he is like the children of the scullery maid at Chatsworth.

Jean Hatchet points out that Dylan Mulvaney is mocking us and we don’t like it.

Shortly before this year-long, very public “transition”, Mulvaney performed a pilot video for his current lucrative act. In it he told the viewer that he “had trouble finding roles” so a friend had invented one for him, a “femme character”. His character wears a pink dress and pearls, white gloves and ankle socks. At this point Mulvaney must have been delighted to glimpse a potential new career path. It was a very savvy move for him to extend and develop this caricature of a 1950s woman. Now, just over a year later, Dylan Mulvaney has highly paid “partnerships” with a number of companies including Budweiser,

Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on They don’t even get the initial euphoria.

Not that this hasn’t been discussed all along, of course, but still, learning that estrogen likely makes them more depressed than they already were…well, it can’t help the discourse much.

And so they get locked into chasing the dragon with ever increasing medical interventions.

That’s gotta cause some major dissonance. When I finally started getting real help for my social anxiety, the hope that my life would improve by itself gave me a sense of hope and elevated my view of myself, the world, and my place in it. I’m trying to imagine what kind of state I’d be in if the thing I … Read the rest

Oof, this is a painful read. It’s about the horrifying side effects of “wrong sex hormones on men” as the author puts it, and how systematically it’s been and continues to be concealed. I say it’s painful but I also recommend reading it: it’s very clarifying.

It starts with the effects on feelings as opposed to the body, and finds that they’re a wash for males.

I started to find out what can be expected from the medical interventions for young AMAB (assigned-male-at-birth) trans women like my son. And there, the researchers of the NEJM study are unequivocal about their findings: even among the variables that were finally reported, “depression and anxiety scores decreased…but not among those designated

Nancy Kelley’s war on lesbians isn’t popular with everyone.

This extraordinary thread demonstrates the dangers of only associating with people who share your beliefs – and who feel self-righteous about imposing them on society at large.

It also exemplifies betrayal: the TQ+ monolith’s betrayal of the gay and lesbian rights movement. https://t.co/z5VeXmxLQE

— Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) April 11, 2023

https://twitter.com/sueveneer/status/1645691153067515904

We need to now open the conversation about the end of Stonewall. Nobody voted for an organisation determined to harass lesbians and straight women or poison public discourse with lies while pushing gender extremism.

It’s a hate group and it must go. https://t.co/xsXUREA2iN

— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) April 10, 2023

The idea that it's improper for lesbians to

Jim Jordan is a lawbreaker.

Legal analyst Glenn Kirschner has said that Representative Jim Jordan broke the law in New York state by threatening to investigate Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Jordan, an Ohio Republican who currently serves as chair of the House Judiciary Committee, vowed in the wake of Donald Trump‘s historic indictment to investigate Bragg’s conduct in bringing criminal charges against the former president, claiming that the district attorney’s actions were politically motivated. Pursuant to that goal, Jordan on Thursday issued a subpoena for testimony to former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who worked on the Trump case before resigning last February.

In response, Bragg’s office released a statement decrying Jordan’s efforts as “an unprecedented campaign of

Originally a comment by Sackbut on We need to be asking “fair to whom?”

I think here again the distinction between “disproportionate advantage” and “category advantage”, as described by Jon Pike in his recent paper, become important. We don’t look at individual adults to see if they are within the skill capabilities of children before deciding whether these particular adults are allowed to participate in children’s sports, we have separate categories for children based on the idea that children have abilities and needs different from adults, and beyond that we don’t test any further. Age grouping is a category advantage. Sex grouping is also a category advantage.

NPR recently interviewed an endocrinologist (why not a sports physiologist?) who basically … Read the rest

So I decided to Learn More and went to their “Day of Pink” page.

Or is it the Courage Across Canada Tour page?

Or is it the Reopening With Pride page?

Or is it the United We Stand a Chance page?

It’s hard to tell. We’re offered all those on the front page. Much slogan, very little explanation.

But anyway, they do tell us some things, in pink lettering on a white page.

April 12, 2023 is the International Day of Pink!

Discrimination takes many shapes, whether it’s based on race, age, disabilities, gender or sexuality. The 2SLGBTQIA+ community is no stranger to the bullying and violence that stems from hateful beliefs. While progress has been made towards removing

Wat?

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