This is just news media gossip, but then news media gossip does matter, because we get our news from the news media, so we want to know which ones have good sense and which ones don’t.

I spent four years covering the Trump WH and two years covering the Biden WH. What’s fascinating is that they both lie, albeit in v different ways. Trump team was shameless, whereas Biden team is too cute by half. https://t.co/AphB967gHE

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) November 22, 2022

There are approximately 7 million replies all saying are you seriously comparing Trump’s record of lies with your not being invited to Biden’s granddaughter’s wedding???

Parker is a Senior National Political Correspondent for the Washington Post.… Read the rest

Suzanne Moore wonders where the armbands for women in Qatar might be.

Women’s rights are not much of a fashionable cause these days and are mentioned often as an afterthought.

If they’re mentioned at all. Mostly people are too busy calling us Karens and terfs to mention our rights.

This is particularly evident in Qatar, where footballers and commentators are struggling to make righteous statements about the tiny but hugely rich country they are in. The agonising around wearing a rainbow flag armband seems to me a substitution for real thought. Obviously, it is terrible to stage the tournament in a place where homosexuality is illegal and even punishable by death, but identity politics flails against the reality of choosing

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Another woman hauled up before the police for not genuflecting to trans ideology.

https://twitter.com/drlouisejmoody/status/1594988244768276480

Meanwhile the “kill all the terfs” gang continues merrily on its way.… Read the rest

Glasgow Times reports:

Two people who have gone through gender reassignment treatment and later regretted it – sometimes referred to as detransitioners – are due to speak to MSPs at a meeting in the Scottish Parliament.

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Sinead Watson, a 31-year-old woman from Glasgow, and Ritchie Herron, a 35-year-old man from Newcastle, will share their views on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.

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The stage one vote on the Bill led to nine SNP MSPs breaking with the whip to abstain or vote against the legislation, as well as the resignation of minister Ash Regan from the Scottish Government.

The Bill aims to make it easier for transgender people to be legally recognised as their preferred gender.

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A brand from the burning:

https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595060392031657984 https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595060877765791744 https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595062526944976901

Shame on everyone who has thrown her to the wolves, she concludes.

https://twitter.com/ejrosetta/status/1595071714790150146

NO in thunder.

Well done.… Read the rest

Baroness Nicholson has written a letter about that You are being monitored email. It’s good stuff. I especially like “awash with transgender-dominated staff groupings demanding ‘trans allyship’ in as official a manner as they can manage, while suggesting that anyone who demurs is a bigot or worse.” Exactly so, and it gets more suffocating and nauseating by the day.

Please tackle at your earliest convenience.… Read the rest

How can this circle ever be squared? Are they even trying?

https://twitter.com/Susanshox/status/1594600613060411392

If “trans people are entitled to use single sex facilities in accordance with their gender identity” then everyone else – 99% of people – is not. If men who call themselves trans are using women’s facilities then women can no longer use single sex facilities. Why do people who call themselves trans get more rights than everyone else?

I’ve never seen an answer to that question. I don’t see how an answer is possible.… Read the rest

The guy who stopped the shooter:

Richard M. Fierro said he was at a table in Club Q with his wife, daughter and friends on Saturday, watching a drag show, when the sudden flash of gunfire ripped across the nightclub. His instincts from four combat deployments as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan instantly kicked in. Fight back, he told himself.

In an interview at his house, where his wife and daughter were still recovering from injuries, Mr. Fierro, 45, who left the Army in 2013 as a major, according to military records, described charging through the chaos at the club, tackling the gunman and beating him bloody with the gunman’s own gun.

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When the shooting started,

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Digging right through the barrel:

Just when you think the bottom of the barrel has been scraped, Monty pushes it one step further. pic.twitter.com/Ecl5VnBsMv

— FeministRoar (@FeministRoar) November 21, 2022

https://twitter.com/katecra/status/1594755614277779460 … Read the rest

But this

never

happens.

https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1594536306318532614 https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1594536315420385280 https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1594536324744216577 https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1594536334898741249 https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1594536344100909056… Read the rest

The Colorado Sun gives background on Club Q:

Matthew Haynes opened Club Q 21 years ago with the goal of making sure LGBTQ people in Colorado Springs had a long-lasting place to call home.

Except that’s not exactly how Matthew Haynes words it, at least not in this story.

Haynes says Club Q has always been a community center more than anything else.

“There have been so many happy stories from Club Q,” he told The Colorado Sun on Sunday morning. “People meeting and relationships being born. So many celebrations there. We’re a family of people more than a place to have a drink and dance and leave.”

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Haynes, who is a co-owner of Club Q, said he

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Here’s a strange thing: Club Q in Colorado Springs describes itself as a gay or gay and lesbian adult bar, yet most of the headlines call it LGBTQ+. When did adding the TQ+ become absolutely mandatory with no exceptions? Why can’t lesbians and gay men organize and talk and agitate as lesbians and gay men? Why are they being forced to add trans people, when being trans is not the same thing as being lesbian or gay?

CNN: What we know about the suspect in the Colorado Springs LGBTQ nightclub shooting

NBC News: Live updates: Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting victims mourned as community pushes for answers

Washington Post: Shooting at popular LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs leave at least 5 … Read the rest

Trade union catastrophizing:

“It’s great to be able to be loud and proud – and I will continue to be loud and proud against homophobia and loud and very proud to be a trans ally, and I will ensure that UNISON always remains the best trade union for LGBT+ workers.”

That was the pledge from UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea this morning, when she addressed the union’s LGBT+ conference in Edinburgh, as she applauded the fact that being “loud and proud” was the event’s central theme.

Proud to be against homophobia and very proud to be a trans ally – there’s always that little extra that signals the category “trans” is the most urgent, the most in need of … Read the rest

Endless relentless nagging:

Staff at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have been told they should not use the terms “gender critical” and “protecting women and girls” in order to be trans allies, The Telegraph can disclose.

But what if they want to be allies to women? What if they are women? What if they think being an ally to women – half of humanity – is vastly more urgent than being ally to a tiny minority of humanity in thrall to a delusion?

Thousands of officials were emailed for “transgender awareness week” and told it was “vital that we keep scaremongering and misinformation at bay”, with trans hate crimes up 56 per cent in a year.

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Hmmm.

Politico a month ago:

Now, despite the setbacks Russia has suffered on the battlefield, [Fiona] Hill thinks Putin is undaunted. She sees him adapting to new conditions, not giving up. And she sees him trying to get the West to accede to his aims by using messengers like billionaire Elon Musk to propose arrangements that would end the conflict on his terms.

“Putin plays the egos of big men, gives them a sense that they can play a role. But in reality, they’re just direct transmitters of messages from Vladimir Putin,” Hill says.

And then they buy Twitter to be even more dedicated messengers for Putin.

Reynolds: We’ve recently had Elon Musk step into this conflict trying to

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Health Education England is some sort of government body, described slightly differently by each source I saw, and it came up with this new and exciting version of the usual sludge:

Health Education England statement of intent, publicly committing to trans inclusion and equality in support of the trans and non-binary community.

What is “trans equality”? What is the absence of “trans equality”? What are they talking about? In what way are trans people not already “equal”?

As for “inclusion,” we know what that means, and that’s the problem. It means men being “included” with women and (much less urgently and insistently) women being “included” with men. That’s a stupid idea of “inclusion.” We don’t have to “include” lawyers … Read the rest

NHS Scotland wants to do more of it, faster.

Scotland’s NHS is planning to fast-track irreversible surgeries for transgender patients, documents seen by The Telegraph reveal.

Quick, before someone stops us.

An NHS Scotland report, suggesting new transgender treatment rules, calls for “barriers” to gender reassignment surgery to be removed and proposes radical measures to make operations more widely available.

These include allowing GPs, rather than specialists, to send patients for procedures and that a “single opinion” is enough to refer for surgery in most cases.

Let’s err on the side of reckless haste, because why not?

The report goes on to call for an “affirming” model of non-surgical care to still be delivered to children, despite an

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Uh…whut?

Of all the campaign groups in all the world you’d think this would be the least relevant to the trans ideology.

Endometriosis UK stands in solidarity with the trans community. We will not tolerate hate speech on our platforms. You can read our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion statement here: https://t.co/rZ8qD999sk

— Endometriosis UK (@EndometriosisUK) November 19, 2022

Endofuckingmetriosis??? Are you serious?!… Read the rest

Blah blah blah grovel grovel grovel trans trans trans. Meanwhile Sadiq Khan still has not explained why he dumped Joan Smith from her role as head of the Mayor’s Council for Women, or even had the minimal courtesy to tell her why, despite her repeated requests for an explanation.

Transphobia has no place in our society.

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honour the lives taken by anti-trans hate crimes.

We stand in solidarity with London's trans and gender non-conforming communities.

And we vow to do everything we can to protect trans rights. pic.twitter.com/h6235MKEe3

— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) November 20, 2022

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Soppy gloppy blobby nonsense, issued by a parliament, an actual real world governing body.

Today, we remember the trans individuals who have lived, loved, fought and fallen.

We remember their spirit and their message that everyone deserves the right to be exactly who they are. #TransDayOfRemembrance pic.twitter.com/otrEF6pOf8

— Welsh Parliament (@SeneddWales) November 20, 2022

What on earth do they think they mean, “everyone deserves the right to be exactly who they are”? People don’t need a right to be exactly who they are, they just are who they are, exactly or otherwise. What they mean, of course, but are too dim or too evasive to say, is that they want people to have a “right” to force everyone else to … Read the rest