Labour MP says people who don’t believe in magic gender are swivel-eyed loons.

A Labour backbencher has been filmed deriding “transphobes” as “swivel-eyed” and suggesting they are “not very well people”. Tim Roca described the Supreme Court judgment on trans rights as “very depressing” and rejected his own party’s stance that it had brought “clarity”.

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He made the remarks during a talk he gave earlier this month at an event hosted by the University of Westminster, called Queering Academia.

“I think actually the UK has now really gone down the rabbit hole into the way the United States discusses issues of gender, race, poverty, all of that,” he said. “So if we can bring the debate back into being

On Day 3 of Peggie v NHS Fife & Dr B Upton, the tribunal heard from Dr Elspeth Pitt, a senior consultant who encountered Dr Upton in visible emotional distress on Christmas Eve 2023. What unfolded was a revealing portrait of a system primed to cushion one staff member’s emotional response—so long as that staff member identified as trans.

Pitt testified that she found Upton “very shaken,” “pale,” and “sobbing” after a confrontation with nurse Sandy Peggie (SP) in the female changing room. The details were vague—Pitt could not recall the exact words—but Upton felt “cornered” and likened the encounter to hearing something as hurtful as a comparison to a rapist. Pitt moved the conversation to a wellbeing room

It just gets worse and worse.

This is Dr Kate Searle's email on the 29th of December 2023 to c. 20 senior doctors.

She said "we all condemn the actions of Sandie".

(my transcription from the redacted bundle which is available to read in Dundee). pic.twitter.com/9vao4MJadd

— Maya Forstater (@MForstater) July 18, 2025

Good old Esther, Louise and Lauren are aware, so that’s nice.

Poor darling fragile “Beth” was approached by this peon of a nurse in the changing room for female nurses simply because he’s neither a nurse nor female! Can you believe it?! Will the working class never learn to stay in its place? Will women never learn to obey?? We women must join hands to shun and … Read the rest

For Women Scotland back in February:

Imagine, if you will, a man called Pete. Pete is a manly-man, tall, with a beard and well-developed muscles. He’s also not real – or at least there may be many such men called Pete in the world, but the Pete who became a talking point in the Sandie Peggie tribunal this week is an invention of Naomi Cunningham, the barrister acting for Ms Peggie. Pete, Ms Cunningham suggested, enters the female changing rooms where a woman stands in her bra: he fails to leave; he shuts the door and walks into the room; he starts to undress. At what stage is a woman allowed to feel uncomfortable or scared? Well, according to

Is NHS Fife trying to get sent to bed without any supper?

Lawyers for a nurse who complained about sharing a hospital changing room with a trans doctor have condemned an NHS Fife statement on the case as “irresponsible”. The health board published the four-page document online while evidence was being heard in a case brought by nurse Sandie Peggie.

The statement alleged the employment tribunal had triggered “a threat of physical harm and sexual violence” against NHS staff. The matter was raised before the tribunal adjourned for the weekend and Judge Alexander Kemp said he would assess it before making any public comment.

Later, Scotland’s information commissioner criticised NHS Fife and said he may report the board to the

Aha, it turns out everything is Sandie Peggie’s fault after all.

NHS Fife has revealed it’s called in police after a threat of “physical harm and sexual violence” was received by a staff member as the health board defended its actions in a contentious employment tribunal.

In a statement published just as the tribunal was concluding for the day, the health board also hit out at scolded the organisation Sex Matters, whose chair is the KC representing the claimaint in the case, nurse Sandie Peggie.

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In the surprise statement this afternoon, NHS Fife said it was “having to defend” itself and wanted to answer questions posed by the press and politicians, addressing “misinformation” online. It urged for respect

Oh dear how sad, Trump is simply furious at the Wall Street Journal. Whatever next? A feud with Putin? Fisticuffs with JD? Fox News on the naughty stool?

A “bawdy” letter to Jeffrey Epstein bearing President Donald Trump’s signature was included in an album of letters Epstein received for his 50th birthday in 2003, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday evening, citing documents reviewed by the newspaper.

The letter, which the Journal said Trump sent at the request of Epstein’s friend Ghislaine Maxwell, would have been written 16 years before the Justice Department charged the now-dead Epstein with child sex trafficking in 2019, during Trump’s first term in office.

The missive, which Trump denied having written,

Let’s read this, shall we?

NHS Fife statement: https://t.co/EYVwiBhxmm

— Sex Matters (@SexMattersOrg) July 18, 2025

NHS Fife is setting out its position on a number of matters related to the ongoing employment tribunal and provide clarity around some of the misinformation circulating around the tribunal case that NHS Fife is defending.

NHS Fife is so furious it can’t even get a coherent sentence out. It means “in order to provide clarity” or similar.

The legal case brought against NHS Fife began after it commenced an internal investigation following allegations made by a member of its staff. The claimant’s case is being supported by Sex Matters, whose chief executive officer and co-founder was called as a witness by the claimant

Gosh, you don’t say.

In March, after Cammie Woodman won a match she was thrown out of a New York metro tennis women’s league because she is a trans woman.

On June 28-29, the self-named “Trans Tennis Princess” from Brooklyn completed a sweep to a crown at the Lincoln Terrace Open. Woodman raced through the tournament’s women’s division through four matches, giving up a mere two sets for the entire draw en route to her first open title.

Well of course he fucking did, because he’s a man.

She said it was a symbol of how far she’s come from being a self-described “queer kid who never played a sport” when she first took up the game.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, yeah?

Maurene Comey, a career federal prosecutor who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein case and was abruptly fired by the Trump administration this week, warned her colleagues Thursday about the chilling effect such firings could have on their work.

“If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain,” she wrote in an email that was circulated to her colleagues within the federal prosecutor’s office in Manhattan. “Do not let that happen.”

She called fear “the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought.”

Ms. Comey, who is the daughter of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director and an adversary

Nice title.

I can’t even be sure of my own sex, equalities officer tells tribunal

An equalities officer who advised that a transgender doctor should be allowed to use a hospital’s female changing room has said she cannot be sure of her own biological sex.

Isla Bumba told an employment tribunal that the definition of biological sex was “far more complex” than whether someone had a male or female body.

She is very young, she is NHS Fife’s equality and human rights lead officer, and she is paid far more than Sandie Peggie is.

Ms Bumba also told the tribunal, brought by nurse Sandie Peggie, that she did not need to “know anything” about the body of Dr Beth

If you’re going to tell silly braggy lies about yourself and your relatives, at least don’t include details that make the fictionality obvious.

On Tuesday, Trump conjured an especially odd imaginary tale – that linked his uncle with the late terrorist Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber.

Trump was speaking at a Pennsylvania event about energy and innovation when he said he had to “brag just for a second” about his uncle’s intelligence. After wrongly saying his uncle was “the longest-serving professor in the history of MIT” (he was one of the longest-serving but not the very longest) and wrongly saying his uncle’s three university degrees were “in nuclear, chemical, and math” (two were

Wait, there’s a thing here.

From the hearing today:

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham later quizzed Ms Bumba over whether she had stated in guidance to NHS Fife that the nurse had the right to be gender critical.

She said she was “100% certain” she had done this.

The lawyer said Ms Bumba’s advice was inclusive of trans people but not women who would not want to share changing facilities with them, citing women who had been sexually assaulted or had religious beliefs.

And hey you know what? We just don’t want to, for a host of reasons, derived from a lifetime of being seen and treated as inferior in some way, by the media and the entertainment … Read the rest

Fake official.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Sunday that reports that she’d kneecapped FEMA’s response to the deadly flooding in Texas were “fake news.”

During an appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker asked Noem to respond to a New York Times report that found thousands of calls for assistance from flood victims to FEMA call centers went unanswered because the secretary had failed to renew contracts to keep call center employees in place until nearly a week later.

“Why did it take so long to extend those contracts?” Welker asked.

“It’s just false. Those contracts were in place. Nobody—no employees were off of work. Every one of them were answering calls. So false

But you don’t. You say you do but you don’t.

A chief constable’s decision to allow uniformed police officers to take part in a Pride march was unlawful, a judge has ruled.

A case was brought against Northumbria Police Chief Constable Vanessa Jardine by Lindsey Smith, from Newcastle, who describes herself as “gender critical”. Ms Smith argued Mrs Jardine and her officers’ participation in Newcastle Pride last year meant they would have been unable to remain impartial if a dispute between those with similar beliefs and trans rights supporters had occurred.

The force said it would work through the ruling to understand the implications but would remain true to its values of “fairness, visibility, and support for all”.

But those … Read the rest

Trump is such a difficult guest/roommate/colleague/friend.

Trump is accusing some of his onetime supporters of being “weaklings” who are falling prey to Democratic “bullshit” about the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — concluding that he no longer wants their support.

The message was the clearest sign yet of the cracks emerging in the president’s coalition, many of whom are loudly demanding more information about the disgraced financier, who has been subject to myriad conspiracies since his death by suicide in 2019. And some of his allies don’t appear to be listening, with Republicans in Congress taking steps Wednesday morning to potentially force the Justice Department to release more documents.

How is this possible when the dictator specifically told them not … Read the rest

Sigh.

Bumba keeps saying, over and over, that if women had a problem with Upton in their spaces they should have raised it with management. Which is precisely what Sandie Peggie did, and look what happened to her.

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) July 16, 2025

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Originally a comment by maddog on A lemon by any other name.

Where to begin?

1. He talks with his hands. They never stop moving. He must be very distracting, not to say annoying, in a courtroom setting.

2. What is he wearing? A blazer over his undershirt?

3. “The UK Supreme Court ruled that the term ‘sex’ in the Equality Act must mean biological sex, even though ‘bioligical’ is not written into the Act.”

Well, duh. Statutory construction, how does it work? Of course, if the Act had made that clear in the first place, we wouldn’t have had all the silliness of men taking over everything from women under the johnny-come-lately doctrine of “transgenderism.” It wasn’t made … Read the rest

A bit more on the two people who idennify as an institute:

Their Ukraine project sounds decent enough, but it’s still at least deceptive for one or two people to idennify as an institute.

H/t Piglet for the Bellingcat tip.… Read the rest

From last November, The Algemeiner on the trickery of the bogus “Lemkin Institute”:

Members of the family of Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term “genocide” and pushed for the passage of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, say they are outraged that a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit organization is using the Lemkin name to pursue an agenda of extreme anti-Israel activism.

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention was initially registered as a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation on Aug. 19, 2021, and won US federal tax-exempt recognition in September 2023. In recent months, it has veered into strident anti-Israel political advocacy, supporting anti-Israel campus protests and reaching millions of viewers with social media posts that falsely