A “child”?

When you see establishment news either misgendering, or avoiding the pronouns of Graham Linehan's victim – a child at the time he criminally destroyed her property – you get how biased the system is against trans people.

— Aidan Comerford (@AidanCTweets) November 25, 2025

This is the “child” he’s talking about:

The trans activist known as Tarquin (Sophie Brooks) trying to intimidate and provoke by disrupting an event and shoving cameras intrusively into people's faces. pic.twitter.com/Y6RPQfai1L

— latsot (@latsot) May 12, 2025

That is not a child. A minor, yes, but a child, no. He’s large, he’s aggressive, he’s male. He’s what’s colloquially known as a shit – a guy who goes out of his way to hassle … Read the rest

No more “birthing persons” thank you very much.

Kate Forbes has ordered her civil servants to stop using the term “birthing person” instead of “woman” in SNP government documents.

The Deputy First Minister, a devout Christian, objected to the phrase being used in a briefing that dealt with official pregnancy and maternity guidance.

Her religion is irrelevant. Trans ideology is itself a kind of religion; irrational belief is not a compelling reason to reject a different irrational belief.

The SNP’s civil servants initially tried to withhold the term Ms Forbes had objected to but it was published following an appeal under the FoI legislation.

Scottish Government maternity guidance published the month after Ms Forbes’s intervention used the terms “woman/women”

Is that right?

The BBC will happily call drag queens ‘she’ and ‘her’ on their flagship Saturday night entertainment show, Strictly Come Dancing.

But real-world trans people – denied pronouns. Dehumanised. The tone: Undeniably hostile. Blatant bigotry.@BBCNews pic.twitter.com/b19tQNUUth

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) November 25, 2025

Really? The BBC of all institutions is mean to trans people? You’re going with that?

And how does the example illustrate his point? Where would a pronoun be an improvement in that caption? He’s saying that “Linehan cleared of harassing a transgender activist” should be replaced with “Linehan cleared of harassing a she/her”? Does he not understand what pronouns are? They’re there to simplify things by replacing two or three or more informative words … Read the rest

Trump on “Truth Social” two days ago:

Why yes, exactly. The US military doesn’t swear an oath to you, it swears an oath to the Constitution.

You didn’t read it, did you. Somebody told you to post it and you did. Not the sharpest tool in the shed.… Read the rest

More on Trump and Hegseth versus the laws of war:

The FBI is seeking to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who, in a controversial video posted last week, urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders.

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Earlier this week, the Pentagon announced it will investigate Kelly, a retired US Navy Captain, for misconduct, and warned it may even recall him to active duty to face a court martial or administrative punishment for his part in the video.

“The video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false. Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their Commanders undermines every aspect of ‘good order and discipline.’ Their foolish screed sows doubt and

No YOU’RE the sedition.

The FBI is seeking to interview Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona and five other congressional Democrats in connection with their appearance in a video encouraging members of the U.S. military to refuse to follow illegal orders, those lawmakers confirmed Tuesday.

President Donald Trump last week blasted the video, accusing Kelly and the other lawmakers of “seditious behavior,” calling them “traitors,” and saying that, “In the old days, if you said a thing like that, that was punishable by death.”

How old? Like, 5 centuries or so? Kindly research the My Lai massacre.

The other lawmakers on the video were Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin, as well as House Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie Goodlander of

Wo. It’s happened at last! Let the deluge begin! There’s a long list to get through!

Well this changes everything. A male cheated his way into the World’s Strongest Women championship and won. The organisers are stripping him of his prize. The cheat broke the rules and the organisers stood by their principles. How refreshing. https://t.co/5WsY7VnUnn

— Women's Rights Network – WRN (@WomensRightsNet) November 25, 2025

The woman on his right, our left, is all over twitX saying “This is bullshit” and walking away – and for once the bosses listened and agreed. She is the champion.… Read the rest

The whistleblowers provide much food for thought.

This passage about halfway through for instance:

The puberty blocker trial has a fundamental flaw in what it intends to discover. Young people experiencing intense distress about pubertal changes will understandably feel great relief when offered a way to halt them, and this relief may seem like successful treatment. However, the trial overlooks how the very prospect of medical intervention affects their mental state during assessment, and it fails to consider what this communicates: that their distress is unbearable instead of something they might be supported to work through. Many of these young people already struggle with their identity and experience a sense of not fitting in with most of their peers.

Some good news and some bad news.

Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a trans activist on social media at Westminster Magistrates Court but convicted of criminal damage for knocking an activist’s phone out of his hand when he thrust it in his face.

A top-flight legal team, provided by the FSU, who… pic.twitter.com/tlUL9Rs6uO

— The Free Speech Union (@SpeechUnion) November 25, 2025

Graham Linehan has been cleared of harassing a trans activist on social media at Westminster Magistrates Court but convicted of criminal damage for knocking an activist’s phone out of his hand when he thrust it in his face.

It seems to me that if someone thrusts a hard object (i.e. not a wooly hat or similar) … Read the rest

The last 30 seconds or so are illuminating (in a narrow sense of illuminating).

What you’re basically saying is that transgender identities don’t exist, so that somebody who has a penis and testicles can’t identify as a woman – and – I mean – where does that come from, where do you find that view – because there are millions, millions, of transgender women living in the world – there’s something like, in one count, up to eight million transgender people living in the US – but yet you’re saying it’s impossible that somebody who has a penis identifies as female – I mean [flailing] uh er how do you get to wipe out a whole section of the

Well, that’s something. Just the undoing of a bad thing, but in a storm of bad things, we take what we can get.

A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.

The judge found that President Donald Trump’s appointment of interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan in Alexandria, Virginia, was invalid.

Trump handpicked Halligan for the role amid increasing pressure to bring criminal cases against his political enemies, including Comey and James.

“The Attorney General’s attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid,” Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote in her Monday order.

Jeez. If a dirty guy can’t … Read the rest

Victoria Smith on the justbekind trope:

The past week saw another “reasonable” man — in this case the journalist David Aaronovitch — argue that calling a male person “she” if he so wishes is just a matter of being kind.

I like David Aaronovitch, but I don’t like this argument, which is one we all see a lot.

…there is quite clearly a potential cost to women when male people are referred to as “she”. That it may only be an emotional one, impacting on one’s psychological well-being, does not make it an irrelevance. Women’s physical safety, boundaries and access to public life matter, but so, too, does our own self-respect.

Self-respect in the form, for instance, of not … Read the rest

Yet again the same old point missed.

Scouts Scotland is accused of ignoring the Supreme Court’s gender ruling and allowing children and adults to use the toilets and sleeping quarters of the opposite sex.

But of course it isn’t just “allowing”; it’s also forcing. The forcing part is the problem. By “allowing” some people to use the toilets and sleeping quarters of the opposite sex you are forcing others to do so. You can’t do the one without doing the other. That’s the whole point, which is always left unstated by sloppy reporting. The news media need to start making this clear at the very beginning.

Scouts Scotland said its trans and gender identity guidance — which states that

Forget the substance for a minute, to ask questions about the presentation.

‘Baby P’ refers to Peter Connolly, a baby boy who was murdered with a horrific catalogue of injuries going back months

The comparison to women demanding cross dressing men aren’t in spaces we are undressing is sickening@HelenWebberley what is actually wrong with you? pic.twitter.com/ht910ZbURi

— Le_Sorelle_Arduino KPSS (@Sorelle_Arduino) November 24, 2025

First question: why is she filming herself talking to a huge mirror? Why not just talk to the camera, instead of talking to a mirror with a camera pointed at it? What’s her point?

Second question: what’s with picking up the giant mug and eventually taking a swig or pretending to?

In short why is this … Read the rest

Spot the error.

Being gay isn't a choice.

Being Trans isn't a choice.

Being disabled isn't a choice.

The colour of your skin isn't a choice.

How you treat people, that is a choice.

Learn to love your neighbour, whoever they are.

Let's chose love over biggotry.

— Harry Eccles (@Heccles94) November 21, 2025

But it’s too easy of course. It’s the second item. “Being trans” is a choice. It is, at a minimum, a choice to put that particular label on feelings and/or ideas about the self. Less minimally, it can be a choice to join the trend of claiming to be trans or nonbinaree or transnonbinaree or some other item on the list of gender-special labels.

It’s not … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Replacing outdate diagnostic categories.

Obviously, a man does not – indeed cannot know what it feels like to be a woman: I, for example, can only know what it feels like to be me, but the ideology says otherwise.

Exactly. I can’t extend my own experience to other men, let alone women. Me is all I’ve got. I have no other frame of reference. I happen to be male, but I can’t claim any expertise in “maleness” or “being a man.” I assume some degree of similarity and commonality with other humans, in that they will have their own subjectivities, but I can’t know what those subjectivities are. I … Read the rest

Telegraph exclaims

Transgender people face ban from single-sex spaces based on appearance

Yes, and?

People have always faced bans from single-sex spaces based on appearance. That’s because appearance is how we know who is what. It always has been. What else would it be? Identity papers? Come on. There just aren’t enough edge cases to make that not true.

Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on appearance under equalities guidance, it has been reported.

NHS trusts, councils and businesses have continued to allow trans women to use female-only facilities despite the Supreme Court ruling in April that laws against sex-based discrimination should only apply to biological women. Service providers have been waiting for updated guidance from the

When did the word “minority” become shorthand for “set of wonderful people unfairly neglected or persecuted by the plump prosperous majority”?

That’s not what it means. It just means non-majority. It’s quite neutral.

Of course there is. Successful projects to eliminate or find a cure for various diseases eliminate the minorities who suffered from them. Projects to extend education to all children eliminate minorities who have never so much as seen a school. And so on. Lots of kinds of minority are kinds of disprivilege, and eliminating them is not genocide, it’s genobenefit.

Guys like Brian Wu want to grab some of that benefit and attention and cuddling for themselves, despite the fact that they’re not the people the benefit … Read the rest

Natalie Angier writes:

In the 1990s, while working on my book “Woman: An Intimate Geography,” I mentioned the project to Larry Smith, a middle-aged editor at Parade magazine. He shook his head in astonishment. “I’ve never understood women,” he said. “When I was young, I wasn’t even sure women were people.”

Reading all the crap from the Epstein dump, including emails by high-powered male scientists and other predatory academics, I realize that nothing has changed. For too many men, women are, in Epstein’s despicable phrase, “a life support system for a vagina.”

Enough is ENOUGH!

I’ve been realizing that every day my whole adult life. Men are the norm, women are the weird aberration who can be ignored for … Read the rest

Trump belittles Zelensky. Again.

President Donald Trump on Saturday heaped pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he can either agree to the White House’s peace proposal by Thursday, or “continue to fight his little heart out.”

Little shmittle. His heart is a lot bigger than Trump’s.

The comment, made to reporters in Washington, is part of a White House push to get Ukraine’s leaders to agree to a 28-point plan to end the war that began with Russia’s invasion in February 2022. It has drawn criticism, including from Republican lawmakers, for being favorable to Moscow.

The plan forces Ukraine to make concessions long seen as unacceptable to the country, including ceding territory to Russia and significantly reducing the size