And that’s not even the end of it.
BREAKING: High Court kick @northumbriapol out of Pride.@RightNUFC has well and truly wiped the smile off the smug Chief Constable’s face. pic.twitter.com/JUxmY2vi2Q
— WeAreFairCop (@WeAreFairCop) July 16, 2025
Two topples in one day!… Read the rest
For once I’m glad to have woken up in the middle of the night.
Sandie Peggie cleared of gross misconduct allegations
… Read the restNHS Fife has cleared the nurse at the centre of a high-profile tribunal case of all disciplinary charges.
Sandie Peggie was being investigated by the health board after Dr Beth Upton, a trans woman doctor, accused her of a “hate incident” and patient safety breaches following a confrontation in a changing room at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
News of the outcome of the internal investigation came just hours before Ms Peggie’s Employment Tribunal against the health board and Dr Upton is due to resume.
In a statement, Ms Peggie’s solicitor, Margaret Gribbon, said: “On Tuesday July 14, the
Yet another buffoon yammering about the “Lemkin Institute” as if it were Amnesty International. It’s a guy with a laptop. That’s it. It has no significance.
Oscar the "non-binary" Barrister explains…
The UK is under a "Genocidal Alert", because Men in wigs and knickers aren't allowed access to women's toilets and safe spaces…Genocidal Alert?….they really are getting desperate… pic.twitter.com/8K2aeMZ2Hc
— Jonny Bell (@Jonnywsbell) July 15, 2025
Oscar prattles away about being nonbyenuree as if anyone cared. If you need a barrister, don’t pick him. … Read the rest
Ok now Trump is pissed off. He thought he and Volodya were buddies. Of course he did: being both vain and stupid made it inevitable.
Trump did not develop a new fondness for Ukraine or its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. He did not abruptly become a believer in the traditional transatlantic alliances prized by his predecessors as a counterweight to Moscow. Rather, Trump got insulted.
By ignoring Trump’s pleas to end the war and instead ratcheting up the fighting, Putin has made Trump look like the junior partner in the relationship. The Russian leader has “really overplayed his hand,” one of the officials told me. “The president has given him chance after chance, but enough is enough.”
Yeah! Pretty soon … Read the rest
Suzanne Moore on the Sandie Peggie tribunal:
[Dr “Beth”] Upton had begun transitioning in 2022 but claimed to be both “distressed” and “afraid”. If you’ve ever been physically assaulted or intimidated, you’ll know what it’s like to truly feel that way. But Peggie is small – and Upton is certainly not.
I have been, and I do know. Peggie is small and Upton is huge, plus he has the Trans Army behind him. I don’t believe for a second that he felt distressed or afraid. My bet is on sadistic glee.
… Read the restNevertheless, Peggie was suspended by her managers and faced a disciplinary hearing. Somehow, in these cases, it’s always the woman who says no who ends up
Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Two gowns on his shoulder.
I’m guessing that Zara also fails to provide changing rooms based on astrological sign, or the colour of one’s aura.
A non-binary shopper said they felt ‘dehumanised’ and accused a fashion brand of being ‘transphobic’ after they were refused entry to a women’s changing room.
No, there’s no such thing as a “non-binary shopper.” Someone might claim to be “non-binary”, but that declaration does not change their sex, or remove it altogether. They might, at most, be “gender nonconforming”. But, being a beardy bloke, he should not be trying to access women’s changing rooms.
A clothing store specializing in women’s clothing can’t be expected to … Read the rest
Oh goody, an opportunity to hassle the workers at a clothing store. Always fun.
A non-binary shopper said they felt ‘dehumanised’ and accused a fashion brand of being ‘transphobic’ after they were refused entry to a women’s changing room.
That’s just silly. Humans are the only ones who pretend to be the opposite sex and make a big fuss on social meeja if no one believes them.
… Read the restGiorgio Firico, 21, tried to go to the ladies changing room at Zara in Oxford when the female assistant told them it was against the rules and refused to give them a number for the clothing.
Giorgio, who studies in the US and is in Oxford visiting a friend, said: “I was wearing
But…but…but…
Good Law Project aka Jolyon Maugham exclaims Trans people must be allowed to have children.
But sir, trans people have had their child-making bits removed or rendered nugatory.
The Gender Recognition Panel is refusing to legally recognise trans people’s affirmed gender if they’re trying to conceive children. But that breaches their human rights.
Does it? How? Is legal recognition of “affirmed” aka fake “gender” a human right? It seems a good deal too niche to be a right. It may be a right according to the Jolyons of the world, but that’s not really definitive.
… Read the restGood Law Project has appeared at the High Court to support a man who has been denied his gender recognition certificate. The Gender
The full horrors of Tuam are about to be dug up.
The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway is under way. The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers, which operated between 1925 and 1961.
The story came to international attention 11 years ago, after amateur historian Catherine Corless discovered there were death certificates for 796 babies and children who were in the institution, but no burial records. In 2017, investigators found what they described as “significant quantities of human remains” at the site.
What the BBC carefully does not spell out is that 706 dead babies and children is a … Read the rest
Where are the grownups???
On International Non-Binary People’s Day, Liberal Democrats are proud to stand with and celebrate non-binary people in the UK and all around the world.
We will keep fighting until we can finally build a society where everyone is free to be who they are. pic.twitter.com/SilFn7fLsw
— Liberal Democrats (@LibDems) July 14, 2025
The US Department of Justice dropped charges on Saturday against Michael Kirk Moore, the Utah doctor accused of destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided Covid-19 vaccines and administering saline to children instead of the shot.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, announced the news in a statement on the social media platform X, saying the charges had been dismissed under her direction.
“Dr Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” Bondi said. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing.”
Excuse me no he didn’t give them a choice, he lied to them.
… Read the restAccording to a 2023 press release from
That’s rich coming from UN Women.
Women's.
Rights.
Are.
Not.
Negotiable.— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 13, 2025
They don’t even know what a woman is. They think a man is one if he says so, which means they have no clue what they’re talking about. What then can they possibly have to say about women’s rights? … Read the rest
What is the point of calling something “for women” if you’re going to let men have it? Why not just skip the calling it “for women” part if you’re going to do that?
A row at Hampstead Heath Ponds over permission for transgender women to continue swimming in the Ladies’ Pond could reach the High Court.
The campaign group Sex Matters is planning to make a £50,000 legal claim against the City of London Corporation, which runs the bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath, north London.
Since 2019 transgender women, who were born biologically male, have been allowed to swim in the Ladies’ Pond under formal guidance.
Transgender women who were born biologically male and remain biologically male because … Read the rest
Originally a comment by iknklast on Consequences for marine life.
Sulfuric acid will fall as acid rain. Particulate matter of all sorts often leads to (temporary) cooling, but it doesn’t last as long as carbon dioxide. As the carbon increases in the air, the other pollutants remain the same, and eventually they get overwhelmed.
While the optimum trade off may be fewer stomata, it makes it foolish to say that plants will gain that much from increased carbon dioxide. Which is what I was saying earlier – unless the plant growth is limited by carbon dioxide, and ONLY carbon dioxide, you will not likely see great increases in plant growth. Since nitrogen and water are the two greatest limitations … Read the rest
A long backgrounder piece on the Peggie v NHS case with lots of interesting details.
NHS Fife may be fatally undermining its own case against a nurse who had an altercation in a hospital changing room with Dr Beth Upton, a trans woman, which resumes this week
Good. Keep undermining, NHS Fife.
… Read the restPeggie, an experienced nurse, was experiencing a sudden and heavy period and feared that it had bled through to her scrubs. She entered the hospital changing rooms to find Upton, a biologically male doctor who identifies as female.
What was said between the pair is disputed, but there was a confrontation. Peggie expressed her discomfort with sharing changing facilities with a colleague she considered male and, within hours,
Trans community praised for bravery in new film
Says the BBC, drooling slightly.
Film-makers have praised the bravery of the trans community in Cumbria for sharing their experiences in a new documentary.
Oh yes, it’s very brave to yammer at the BBC about how brave you are for being gender-special. The risks are horribly real: you might be laughed at!
I ME US chronicles the stories of those living in the county who are transgender, non-binary or gender non-conforming.
Ah, gender non-conforming – so it includes women who wear jeans and men who wear pink T shirts? So it’s everyone in Cumbria then? Being all brave n shit?
… Read the restIt is being screened for free in venues across Cumbria over July
Talk about rubbing salt into the wound…
A divorcee has been forced by a judge to pay half for her ex-husband’s trans surgery.
The mother argued that it was unfair that she had to stump up £80,000 for the procedure when the decision to transition had led to the breakdown of her marriage.
But in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the judge said that the surgery was a “need”, not a “whim”, and therefore it was “reasonable” for the cost to be met out of their joint funds.
But the relevant antonym here is not “whim” but “delusion.” It’s a delusion that surgery can change people’s sex, so it seems absurd as well … Read the rest
FEMA wasn’t answering the phone.
… Read the restTwo days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.
The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she
Yes and I’m considering revoking Trump’s membership in the human race. I suspect he’s a mustelid.
Trump says he’s considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship.
I know nothing about Rosie O’Donnell apart from what I’ve just read in the past few minutes. The name is familiar but I thought she was that other Ros-something person. Rosie Duffield is my idea of a Rosie.
“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
The mind of a child … Read the rest
The Trump admin has made it impossible for FEMA to do its job. Since that job is responding to emergencies, that’s unfortunate.
As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, [as] they have in countless past disasters.
But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN.
As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released.
How … Read the rest
