Such a progressive movement.

https://twitter.com/MrMennoTweets/status/1949533853468737764… Read the rest

The left hates women and the right hates women. Sucks to be us.

Darts drama as three protestors dragged away during World Matchplay match involving transgender player

Yebbut what kind of “transgender player”? Even GB News won’t say it’s a man cheating women. Instead it sneers at the women who objected.

Three individuals from the “Save Women’s Sport” campaign protested at the Winter Gardens during Noa-Lynn van Leuven’s quarter-final darts match at the Women’s World Matchplay on Sunday. The demonstrators, dressed in shirts bearing messages opposing the 28-year-old’s involvement, made their feelings clear as the Dutch competitor prepared to face Lorraine Winstanley.

The protest occurred as van Leuven appeared at the Blackpool venue for the third time.

Security staff

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Oh gee how exciting another man beat another woman competing in a women’s sport.

Noa-Lynn van Leuven caps off a dominant display to break new ground in Blackpool! pic.twitter.com/CXUhKS5EcI

— PDC Darts (@OfficialPDC) July 27, 2025

A dominant display indeed.… Read the rest

Oh here we go – the old “women are sluts whores harlots slags” routine.

“JK IS A SLAG”
“FUCK JK ROWLING.”

It is incredibly chilling that this extremist procession through our capital city denigrating a woman who has spoken publicly about her abuse at the hands of men as “a slag” is applauded & cheered.

Trans Pride is a misogynistic hate march. pic.twitter.com/98TjUtJvMm

— Robbie Travers (@RobbieTravers) July 27, 2025

Yebbut don’t forget to support your trans siblings.… Read the rest

The union idennifies as a union but it doesn’t protect the workers the way unions are supposed to do.

https://twitter.com/VioletWhiteG/status/1949399497236226092 It doesn’t come right out and say our support is for team trans only, but the mawkish wording is all too typical of that particular brand of “support.” The right-thinking people these days see trans people as needing endless declarations of love and support and sympathy and more love, while they see women who know men are not women as The Evil Other needing nothing but rebuke and punishment. I wouldn’t be in a hurry to “share my thoughts” with them.… Read the rest

NPR has further details on the updated Statue of Liberty.

Artist Amy Sherald is canceling an upcoming show of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sherald’s boldly colored portraits documenting the African American experience have graced magazine covers.

She is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama commissioned by the museum.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime was scheduled to be on view at the National Portrait Gallery for five months beginning Sept. 19. Described as “the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date,” the exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA, and is currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Sherald is canceling the show

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Originally a comment by What a Maroon at Miscellany Room.

Sometimes it’s hard to know whose metaphorical bed to jump into. On the one hand, Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could further provoke the Trump administration as it seeks to exert control over the Smithsonian Institution.

Sherald and a Smithsonian spokesperson Thursday confirmed that Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition, “American Sublime,” from the museum.

The artist said she had been told that the museum — whose director, Kim Sajet, resigned after President Donald Trump called for her ouster for

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It just keeps getting worse. This one takes the breath away. Daniel Sanderson in The Times:

One of Sandie Peggie’s bosses wanted her to be reported to police for confronting a transgender doctor in a hospital’s female changing rooms.

A male doctor, god damn it. The problem was not “transgender”; the problem was male. Peggie did not want to have to take her clothes off in front of a man.

So anyway – for the crime of not wanting to undress in front of a man, one of Peggie’s bosses thought the police should be called. Not to arrest the man spying on the woman, of course, but to arrest the woman telling the man to get … Read the rest

Hunnnnnnnnnh

Sandie Peggie’s cross examination 4.2.25

‘My dignity as a female is important to me’ pic.twitter.com/gVWoCX5Uee

— teresa smith (@treesey) July 25, 2025

Do you accept that calling this man a man is likely to cause immense distress?

No, I fucking do not. I think it causes him irritation and vanity-bruising at worst, and more likely a nice little thrill of righteous indignation. Meanwhile, do you accept that bullying women into agreeing with a man who says he’s a woman is harmful to women in general? Because that’s a far less fanciful petulant self-involved claim than his claim of “immense distress”?

I mean come on. He’s an adult. He’s a doctor. Surely he’s expected to have enough resilience and … Read the rest

One minute I compare trans ideology and its coerced beliefs racket to the Catholic church and its coerced belief racket, and the next minute I drop in on twitX and find

We do not, should not, have compelled speech in this country. We should not be compelled to comply with the belief of another just because of hurt feelings. We are not compelled to believe in the gods or faiths or delusions of others, except when it comes to gender ideology 2/

— Scottish Feminist Network (@Scot_Feminists) July 25, 2025

WE ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BELIEVE IN THE GODS OF OTHERS.

Those days are over. Our ancestors were so compelled, but we are not. You are not the pope … Read the rest

Yes! Agreed! It’s a religion! And you can’t force us to join or endorse your religion! Those days are over! At least outside the Ummah they are. I don’t believe in your religion, I think it’s harmful and bad and stupid, now go away.

I'll call you Calvin Klein underpants. pic.twitter.com/XpGIstKMrB

— Gay Not Queer (@Gaynotqueer1) July 26, 2025

Also, of course, it’s an idiotic analogy. Mr Pope is one guy, the monarch of one religion. We’re free to ignore him and his religion. Even his neighbors in Rome are free to ignore him. That hasn’t always been true but it sure as hell is now. The Catholic church is a horrific institution and it still has its claws in … Read the rest

The Daily Mirror:

OAP wife who repeatedly slashed husband with Samurai sword ‘had no choice’

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, repeated slashed husband Andrew, 69, to death with the Samuari sword she’d bought in the 1980s at their 15th floor Brighton flat.

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Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, had been deemed “unfit to plead” to the murder of her husband Andrew, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Brighton, on May 27 last year. She appeared in front of a jury at Lewes Crown Court for a trial of the act which decides if someone physically committed a crime, rather than their intent.

The BBC:

Transgender woman, 71, killed partner, jury finds

A jury has found that a transgender woman killed her partner.

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This is a very very very important point.

I've been told so many times that my position is ignorant because I don't have a degree in gender studies. But I don't have a qualification in homeopathy either – because it's nonsense. Training people in nonsense belief systems just makes them more stupid and more wrong.

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) July 26, 2025

You have to have a degree in Bullshit Studies before you can say that Bullshit Studies is bullshit.

Nah. An ideology whose foundation is an absurd lie can be tossed in the Bullshit Bin without further ado.… Read the rest

Helen Webberley is letting us know how much contempt she has for women.

https://twitter.com/HelenWebberley/status/1949008949908246567

I do wonder if it’s the same ladies, clutching and pulling at their skirt hems, fingers twisting anxiously, tiny giggles behind their glasses, holding out hope that a trans woman might be humiliated publicly for the crime of… getting changed at work.

I can hear them whispering… https://t.co/XXtKegrwmO

— Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) (@HelenWebberley) July 26, 2025

I tell you what, I wouldn’t want to be alone in a room with her. That’s some scary ragey contempt right there.… Read the rest

The Scotsman:

A war of words over pronouns broke out at the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and trans doctor Beth Upton.

That is, male doctor “Beth” Upton who identifies as female. The journalistic surrender makes it impossible for reporters to write clearly and truthfully about this subject.

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham was accused by NHS Fife’s legal team of being “offensive” by referring to Dr Upton as a man and told she must use “appropriate language”.

But the fact that he is a man playacting being a woman is at the core of the whole tribunal. It’s just ludicrous to try to force opposing counsel to prop up the very lie that the tribunal is … Read the rest

Women must not have jobs, because they have to have babies so what are we all supposed to do while they have those babies???

A prominent retired surgeon has claimed too many women are doing medical degrees, which is causing problems for the NHS as “women have got to have babies” and many end up working part-time.

Dr Meirion Thomas, a former professor of surgical oncology at Imperial College, said the gender balance has swung too far in favour of female medical students.

Asked what was wrong with having more female doctors in training, Dr Thomas told Times Radio “the fact of life is that women have got to have babies”.

Ok, so then they take … Read the rest

Boswell Today reports:

At the centre of today’s testimony was a simple, disquieting question: could the notes that formed the basis of allegations against Sandie Peggie have ever existed as described? The tribunal heard from two digital forensic experts – Peter Donaldson and Jim Borwick – who, despite differing styles, reached a chilling consensus: the data doesn’t add up.

Peter Donaldson was the first to fold. Pressed on the chronological ordering of Google Keep notes – particularly a now-infamous “weird incident” entry from August – he conceded he could not confirm that the note appeared in the position it did by creation date. Screenshots showed one thing; Google metadata suggested another. Donaldson couldn’t verify which notes were original or

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The Telegraph raises an eyebrow at the “safe with me” campaign.

A BBC presenter has provoked a row over a scheme to help transgender people access lavatories in schools. Dr Ronx Ikharia, a “black, queer, transmasculine, non-binary” medical doctor who has hosted children’s shows for the BBC, is behind the new “trans allyship” scheme.

It will distribute bright yellow “trans allies” badges to schools which state “Safe With Me”. Those wearing the badges will be expected to help “accompany trans+ people to their preferred facilities if asked”.

In other words, “those wearing the badges” will be children who will be expected to help protect “trans+ people” to use the wrong toilets. The doctor’s fun scheme is to tell children… Read the rest

The Herald on today in court:

A number of rows erupted between the legal team’s during Thursday’s hearing.

The first occurred after Ms Russell KC objected to Dr Upton being referred to as “he” by Ms Cunningham. The NHS Fife lawyer argued that it had caused the witness, Ms Glancey, to use the term “he” in her evidence, quickly following it up with “sorry, she”.

Ms Cunningham has consistently referred to Dr Upton using he/him pronouns throughout this whole tribunal.

It’s still so bizarre to see grown-up people in a courtroom demanding that everyone lie about what sex people are. Upton is a he. Furthermore, that’s what the case is about. It’s both absurd and outrageous that Team Upton … Read the rest

Circle circle circle

Using male pronouns to refer to a transgender doctor who used a hospital’s female changing room is “offensive”, a tribunal heard.

Stupid Telegraph left out the “male” part, thus making its own lede confusing instead of informative. The “transgender doctor” is a male transgender doctor. The Telegraph reports on the brutally enforced taboo on calling males males by refusing to call a male a male. Nice going.

Jane Russell KC, Dr Beth Upton’s lawyer, argued that nurse Sandie Peggie’s legal team were “confusing” those giving evidence in the tribunal by referring to the doctor as “he” and “him”.

Ms Russell claimed the witnesses in the case, which centres on the medic’s use of a women’s hospital changing

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