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Tomorrow at Pride in London we’ll send a message to the world: in our city you are free to be whoever you want to be, and love whoever you want to love.
We must take a stand against those seeking to roll back hard-won rights. pic.twitter.com/zGPiOMQs3X
— Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (@MayorofLondon) July 4, 2025
Leni Riefenstahl would be all over that. … Read the rest
When Pride becomes megalomania:
… Read the restWhen Marion Harding contacted the chief executive of Surrey County Council in 2021 to raise safeguarding concerns about her local Pride organisation, she expected a speedy response.
After all, the council itself had given Pride in Surrey tens of thousands of pounds in funding, and her concerns were about the protection of potentially vulnerable young people who came into contact with the LGBTQ organisation, which was set up in 2018 by local activist, Stephen Ireland.
Harding, 62, and her wife, Cathy, 59, had volunteered for Pride in Surrey, but both had a number of worries about Ireland’s conduct, not least that he had appointed himself head of safeguarding – a role that, according to
Oh goody, an open letter.
Open Letter: “Biological Sex” and Its Variants are Transphobic Slurs
Says Trans Advocacy & Complaints Collective, which I suppose is a person and a phone.
To our Public bodies, MPs, and Media outlets,
When considering the language we use to address a group, particularly a minority group, the most precise and respectful term is the language they choose for themselves. This is a widely accepted principle of respect, yet in recent years, it has been inexplicably overlooked when it comes to addressing transgender people and the trans community as a whole.
Is it? Is it? Is it really?
I don’t think so. The words “a group” can mean almost anything. Say you have … Read the rest
The reporting on trans issues is such a hodgepodge of incoherent language and bizarre assumptions. Reuters for instance:
Transgender minors. Transgender soldiers. Transgender characters in books.
The U.S. Supreme Court‘s latest term was bursting with fodder for America’s culture wars, few more so than three cases touching on transgender rights. The court, powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, in each case ruled against transgender plaintiffs or their interests more broadly.
But what if the putative rights are not rights in the first place? It’s not just obvious that men have a right to force themselves on women in women’s spaces provided they claim to be trans women. I, for one, don’t think they do have such a right, … Read the rest
Bad deceptive anti-informative journalism yet again.
Trans athlete wins USA Cycling women’s event as female opponents protest and speak out
MALE athlete you dishonest panderers. The problem is that he’s male.
A trans-identifying athlete won a women’s cycling event that was officially sanctioned by USA Cycling on Tuesday, prompting female opponents to protest and speak out.
A MALE trans-identifying athlete. Decent journalism does not hide the most important aspect of a story.
The trans athlete, Kate Phillips, won first place at the Lyons Masters National Championships in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Phillips beat out veteran women’s cyclist Julie Peterson for the gold, and Peterson then refused to take the podium at the medal ceremony in protest.
Think he’s huge enough?
… Read the restFellow
Originally a comment by Dave Ricks on The rights of female athletes.
I looked up this source material:
PRESS RELEASE
APRIL 28, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
JULY 1, 2025
I see 3 things: (1) The words “male” and “female” appear extensively in both press releases, to explain the government case against UPenn in terms of sex discrimination; (2) The phrase “trans” does not appear in either press release; (3) The phrase “gender” appears only once, in the July 1 press release, to … Read the rest
Just one little thing here.
Penn to ban trans women from women’s sports
… Read the restBy Tuesday afternoon, the Penn website showed other athletes holding the school’s top times in Thomas’ events. The site was annotated with a note that read, “Competing under eligibility rules in effect at the time, Lia Thomas set program records in the 100, 200 and 500 freestyle during the 2021-22 season.”
“While Penn’s policies during the 2021-2022 swim season were in accordance with NCAA eligibility rules at the time, we acknowledge that some student-athletes were disadvantaged by these rules,” Penn President J. Larry Jameson said. “We recognize this and will apologize to those who experienced a competitive disadvantage or experienced anxiety because of the policies in effect
In the past decade, British academics have been attacked, vilified and ostracised simply for asserting that sex is real, binary and important.
Very important indeed, I should think. Without it we wouldn’t exist!
… Read the restIn a climate where people are frightened to express their views or even to ask questions, universities have a responsibility to act as bastions of critical analysis, where reasoned debate and the pursuit of knowledge thrive. This is not only about protecting individuals but also the integrity of scientific research and scholarship.
Instead, universities have, perhaps unwittingly, institutionalised behaviours which undermine free speech and inquiry. Equality, diversity and inclusion policies and networks have been turned against groups they are supposed to protect,
There are many “Lemkin Institute” debunkers out there, fortunately, because there are also lots of credulous fools citing it as if it were a genuine human rights “institute” as opposed to one fanatic with no scruples.
Always remember the CEO of this organisation (run by a bunch of volunteers with no connection to Lemkin) transed her own daughter and believes that anyone who rejects trans ideology is genocidal, whilst the project ignores actual genocides.
They have zero credibility. https://t.co/JCw7UyvG0P pic.twitter.com/TBr8cUDLZH
— FeministRoar (@FeministRoar) July 2, 2025
https://twitter.com/yatakalam/status/1940358282696409310
Beware of people setting up bogus “institutes” that are really just a person and a laptop.
Remember the “Secular Policy Institute”? Yeah, like that.… Read the rest
UN Women:
15 years ago, @UN_Women was created.
Today, we continue to stand up for the rights, equality, and empowerment of the world’s 4 billion women and girls.
We will never back down. We will never give up.
Join us in driving change #ForAllWomenAndGirls: https://t.co/NcpkpZ7tVw pic.twitter.com/YTTCEU8rpt
— UN Women (@UN_Women) July 2, 2025
Also UN Women:
#Trans women have the right to recognition of their self-identified gender – but in most countries, this is not available or subject to abusive restrictions.
This makes even everyday tasks difficult & potentially dangerous.Let’s demand change: https://t.co/9FUJoNVare#AllWomen pic.twitter.com/93dCCCLgEU
— UN Women (@UN_Women) January 10, 2023
You do the math.… Read the rest
Of course CNN does the usual.
Some critics claim transgender athletes have an unfair advantage in sports, but that’s not what the research shows.
While research is limited and ongoing, a 2017 review in the peer-reviewed journal Sports Medicine found “no direct or consistent research” showing trans people have an athletic advantage.
No, dummy, of course “trans people” as such don’t, but men do, and trans women are men. It’s men who have the advantage, because men do have an array of physical advantages over women, which is why women have a separate category. Trans is used as a screen for that, to enable men like William Thomas to cheat.
… Read the restThomas has not commented publicly on the latest lawsuit.
Holy shit “Lia” Thomas has to give it all back. FINALEEEEEE!!!
… Read the restThe University of Pennsylvania says it will update records set by transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and apologize to female athletes “disadvantaged” by Thomas’ participation on the women’s swimming team, part of a resolution of a federal civil rights case.
The U.S. Education Department and Penn announced the voluntary agreement Tuesday. The case focused on Thomas, the transgender swimmer who last competed for the Ivy League school in Philadelphia in 2022, when
sheHE became the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title.The department investigated Penn as part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to remove transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, finding the
It’s not just trans ideology that hates women.
Dear Helen Lewis: @helenlewis @TheAtlantic
Remember when I tried warn everyone about this for years way out ahead of the curve and your response was to do everything you could to damage my public reputation?
This catastrophe lays at the feet of people who think exactly as… https://t.co/UShO0JWySJ
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 30, 2025
Remember when I tried warn everyone about this for years way out ahead of the curve and your response was to do everything you could to damage my public reputation? This catastrophe lays [sic] at the feet of people who think exactly as you do
… Read the rest70 million views, ma'am.
Disgraceful.https://t.co/dA22yWqAwPHave you learned anything?
Churches are not institutions set up to sort truth from fiction. Result: they’re not good at it.
The Church of Scotland flouted the law on single-sex spaces by wrongly insisting that biological men could still share female lavatories with girls, it has emerged.
A mother raised concerns that at least one man from an LGBT club was using female facilities at a church-run community centre in Cupar, Fife, where her 11-year-old daughter attended a drama class. She was told by the church that it was “lawful and often appropriate” for “women-only spaces to include trans women”, despite the Supreme Court ruling in April.
There you go. The truth is it’s neither lawful nor appropriate, but how is the church … Read the rest
Huh. The BBC admits it left out important details in a story about the usual subject. I haven’t seen it do that before.
A Guernsey teenager has been sentenced to almost three years in youth detention for child sexual offences, according to Guernsey Police.
The force said 18-year-old transgender woman Jessica Garnham-Burton was arrested in May 2024 for using social media platform Snapchat to speak to children.
That second sentence is a tweak. At the foot of the article we get:
This story was updated on 1 July 2025 to make it clear that Jessica Garnham-Burton is a trans woman and will be held in the male wing of the detention facility.
NOW DO THAT WITH ALL SUCH STORIES.… Read the rest
It all depends on how you look at it.
US Supreme Court tosses rulings that favored transgender people
Did they favor trans people though? Depends on how you look at it.
The U.S. Supreme Court threw out on Monday judicial decisions that favored transgender people in cases from North Carolina, West Virginia, Idaho and Oklahoma, including in legal challenges to state health insurance programs that deny coverage for patients seeking gender-affirming medical treatment.
That’s a car-crash of a sentence. The issue isn’t “favoring” trans people, it’s whether there is such a thing as “gender-affirming medical treatment.” Affirming gender isn’t really a medical category – gender itself isn’t really a medical category. Sex is, and sex is not switchable.
What the … Read the rest
… Read the restThe BBC has said it regrets livestreaming a Glastonbury performance by the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan on Saturday, with the prime minister and Ofcom among those to weigh in on the incident.
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In the run-up to Glastonbury, the BBC was under pressure over how it would treat the performance by the Irish-language rap group Kneecap, since one of the band had been charged with a terrorism offence.
But it was an act that appeared on the same West Holts stage before that has left the BBC expressing regret over its editorial decisions. Pascal Robinson-Foster – of the punk-rap duo Bob Vylan – led chants of “Death, death to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces]”. He
Broadcasters must air view that trans women are women, says Ofcom
Broadcasters must give airtime to claims that biological men are women when covering trans issues, Ofcom has said.
The media regulator warned GB News in a letter seen by The Telegraph that it could not treat the controversy as settled, despite the Supreme Court victory for women’s rights campaigners in April 2025.
But it’s not a controversy.
Granted, there are people who try to make it one. There are people who claim that biological men are women. But they’re wrong; wrong in a very crude obvious unmistakable sense. It’s not a genuine controversy, it’s a performance of controversy based on an absurd blatant falsehood.
… Read the restThe media regulator warned GB
No. That’s not how that works.
Why I Use Trans People’s Preferred Pronounshttps://t.co/Dhsjx8sR1x pic.twitter.com/aj10Y0dhlv
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) June 27, 2025
No, he doesn’t choose “being kind.” He says he does, but he doesn’t. Being kind is not what he’s choosing. He’s choosing a performance of “being kind” which is actually being astonishingly rude and aggressive and hostile to women.
When was it ruled that letting men who pretend to be women do whatever they want is what “being kind” means, while defending women’s rights is the very opposite of “being kind”? It’s clear that that’s what Benjamin Ryan thinks “being kind” means, so I wonder why he thinks that. Why does he see women as not in need … Read the rest
Originally a comment by Karen the Chemist on Near the crater.
Re risk taking: Ego is a factor.
Common objections to instituting safety measures or changing how they handle a chemical:
We’ve been handling it this way for years and haven’t had problems. Things have been going fine, no problems, without [safety procedure].
Another common attitude is that people think that they won’t have a mishap* with a chemical because they are careful. They assume they are very careful, certainly more careful, and a better chemist, than those who did have mishaps.
And those who claim they don’t need eye protection because they’ll use their arm or hand to shield their eyes. As if they could raise them quick … Read the rest
