Earlier today…

Here’s a little story about what it’s like to go on @BBCWomansHour. I’m afraid it’s not a happy one. I’ve come away with a poor impression of the integrity of everyone involved in the show. But there’s still time for them to redeem themselves… 1/9

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) May 21, 2025

Sacha replied that what I had said was wrong. That the Supreme Court ruling had related only to the Equality Act, and not to other laws or “gender” in society more widely. But THAT IS WHAT I HAD SAID! 4/9

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) May 21, 2025

Anyone listening to my interview would understand that my claims about the judgment related to the meaning of

The Quakers are just as brain-dead as everyone else on this subject.

As a faith group, Quakers in Britain have a clear position statement, recorded in Minute 31 of Britain Yearly Meeting 2021. We wish to welcome and affirm trans and non-binary people in our communities. We have underlined this position in recent years through acts of witness, advocacy and solidarity. The Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland v. The Scottish Ministers [2025] has affected the interpretation of some parts of the Equality Act 2010. No provision in respect of protection from discrimination for trans people has been affected, nor has the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Following the ruling, the Equality & Human Rights Commission has issued interim non-statutory

Originally a comment by maddog on Some memberz of the communniny.

While the full implications of the ruling are not yet clear, some members of the trans community feel threatened by it.

BBC, how can you even say that? Of course the implications are clear! Did you even read the opinion? Where the Act says “sex” or “women” or “men,” it means biological sex. What could they have said to make it any more clear?

The Supreme Court also held that discrimination against someone because of their gender identity is also prohibited, but the acts proscribed have to be actually attributable to the person’s transgender status. The two might overlap when a transgender person is actually perceived as the … Read the rest

Will Darlington Memorial Hospital ever just do what it’s told? It seems not.

Further pressure has been placed on Darlington Memorial Hospital to “comply” with same sex policies as nurses remain locked in a legal battle over a transgender woman using their changing room.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation trust, alongside others across the country will be made to comply with a Supreme Court ruling moved forward last month that defines gender as “biological”.

When? And why won’t they just do it, without waiting to be “made” to do it?

I suppose it’s the usual answer: because women don’t matter, while a handful of men who pretend to be women do matter, matter infinitely, matter more than 5 or 10 or 100 times … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Bjarte Foshaug on Catastrophic inland migration.

Meanwhile in South-Eastern Norway, where the bulk of the population lives, 2021 still stands as the last somewhat “normal” year so far. In what we used to think of as a “normal” year the water flow in our rivers would increase something like five-fold, and the levels in our reservoirs (i.e. lakes) would rise several meters above the “highest regulated water level” around the second half of May due to snowmelt in the mountains. This “spring flood” was considered so reliable that hydropower companies would lower their reservoirs towards the “lowest regulated water level” during the winter season (when the demand for power was high and prices were good), … Read the rest

Helen Webberley is out of her depth.

This guy thinks he's clever. 'What does it mean to live as a woman' – again and again he asks it, and he smirks because there’s no neat answer to a question built on performance.

Women live as women – simple – it is not about dresses, heels, pinks, or body parts.

Gender…

— Dr Helen Webberley (she/her) (@HelenWebberley) May 20, 2025

Women live as women – simple – it is not about dresses, heels, pinks, or body parts. Gender identity and expression is not a costume and exclusion is not clever, it is a civil wrong.

Being a woman is not about body parts?

I think you’ll find it is, actually.

If … Read the rest

Same old same old – it’s vastly worse than we thought and we’re doing nothing at all to slow it down.

Sea level rise will become unmanageable at just 1.5C of global heating and lead to “catastrophic inland migration”, the scientists behind a new study have warned. This scenario may unfold even if the average level of heating over the last decade of 1.2C continues into the future.

The loss of ice from the giant Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets has quadrupled since the 1990s due to the climate crisis and is now the principal driver of sea level rise.

The international target to keep global temperature rise below 1.5C is already almost out of reach. But the new

Houses of Parliament refuses to ban trans women from female lavatories

Bros before hos eh?

Stupid women. They should just stay home if they want lavatories without men in them. Women are so fucking demanding.

The Houses of Parliament have refused to ban trans women from female lavatories despite the Supreme Court’s gender ruling.

A spokesman told The Telegraph that the House of Commons would be waiting for guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission before changing its rules.

You mean reverting its rules. The House of Commons hasn’t always let men use the female lavatories. If it had, they wouldn’t be called “female lavatories.” There was a rule (however implicit) against men in the women’s toilets until … Read the rest

It’s a funny thing…much of the time, or most of the time, or nearly all of the time, BBC Woman’s Hour seems to know perfectly well what a woman is. It is, after all, in the title of their program. Their daily program that they put on every weekday.

The author @StonexEmma joins @bbcnuala to talk about her new novel The Sunshine Man ✍️

Set in 1989, it tells the story of Birdie, who takes revenge on the man who she believes murdered her beloved sister.

Listen from 10am ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/8nbuYwkvp9

— BBC Woman's Hour (@BBCWomansHour) May 19, 2025

The man. Her beloved sister. Ordinary words used in an ordinary way.

Why are survivors of sexual assault being cross-examined

Same.

Just listened to this and found it quite uncomfortable listening.

Because it felt like @BBCNuala was challenging @KateBMwriting to justify the existence of lesbians. By pushing her to say men couldn’t be lesbians – then saying some people might find that view offensive.

So I… https://t.co/j2yOEFrj1n

— Janet Murray (@jan_murray) May 19, 2025

Just listened to this and found it quite uncomfortable listening.

Because it felt like @BBCNuala was challenging @KateBMwriting to justify the existence of lesbians. By pushing her to say men couldn’t be lesbians – then saying some people might find that view offensive.

So I re-listened to the recent Robin Moira White interview (trans identifying man + barrister) to compare. But there were no questions that

Replies are scathing toward Nuala McGovern.

Here’s the interview with @KateBMwriting on @BBCWomansHour

Kate from @AllianceLGB was cogent throughout.

It’s clear the programme is truly terrified of complaints activism from gender identity advocates (not from women).

Clips in sequence pic.twitter.com/y23otwILgW

— SEEN in Journalism (@JournalismSEEN) May 19, 2025

Listening to that interviewer raises my blood pressure. 'What do you mean by men?' GET A GRIP, WOMAN! You could say, she's not allowed to admit that trans women are men because it's not BBC policy, but in that case, she should resign and get a better job, frankly.

— Jane Holland Author (@janeholland1) May 19, 2025

… Read the rest

Ok by popular demand of at least one person I’ll go on with the “what even are women??” segment of today’s Woman’s Hour.

I paused at the cliffhanger moment when Nuala McGovern asked Kate Barker

and some of course that are listening may find what you’re saying very offensive – do you ever use the term “trans woman”?

Do you ever stop beating your children? Do you ever stop kicking dirt in the faces of the poor? Do you ever stop throwing men off high bridges?

Kate Barker, much too pleasantly in my opinion, says “Yes I would do” but then adds that she prefers to say “trans-identified male, and that’s not to insult or upset anyone but … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Some memberz of the communniny.

She says she was physically assaulted earlier this year – before the ruling – and now experiences abuse “almost daily”.

“I’ve had the most vile things shouted at me; people are so abusive,” she says.

Well, given that you probably think being called a man is abusive, pardon me if I don’t take your word for it. Given that you think the ruling is incorrect (for no reason other than its curtailment of your former “centred” and “validating” use of female spaces you shouldn’t have been entering in the first place), you’ll have to excuse my lack of sympathy. The scales of justice have finally … Read the rest

Godalmighty. Woman’s Hour today had Kate Barker, CEO of LGB Alliance, on to explain why lesbians are quite pleased about the Supreme Court ruling.

Nuala McGovern: Now you’ve described this ruling as a watershed moment for women and in particular for lesbians; why?

Barker describes the joy and relief of that day

I don’t think people understand just quite how tough it’s been for lesbians over the last ten-fifteen years – I really would characterize it as a kind of dark age for lesbians, and the reason for that is that the LGBTQ+ lobby groups have been encouraging men to self-identify as lesbians, and those men just haven’t taken no for an answer, in terms of trying to access women’s

I can’t wait to rush out and not read this book, let alone not buy it. ($55 for the paperback!)

Transgender and Non-Binary People in Everyday Sport – A Trans Feminist Approach to Improving Inclusion

Ok first what is “everyday” sport? If you mean amateur say that; if you mean something else, make it clear.

Second what is a “trans feminist” approach? Is that a sly euphemism for “fake feminist” approach?

Description:

This formative work discusses transgender people’s inclusion in everyday sport in the United Kingdom. It adopts a trans feminist approach to explore pivotal issues regarding the barriers to participation faced by transgender and non-binary people.

What is a “formative” work? Is “transgender people’s inclusion in everyday sport” a … Read the rest

The BBC is distraught over claims that women have rights.

It’s been a month since the UK Supreme Court ruled that under the Equality Act, “woman” means a biological woman. The decision was welcomed by some women’s rights groups but condemned in the transgender community. How are they and others affected by the ruling feeling now?

Or to put it another way, it’s been a month since the UK Supreme Court ruled that women have rights. How do people who think women should not have rights feel about this ruling now?

While the full implications of the ruling are not yet clear, some members of the trans community feel threatened by it.

Hey Beeb, you know what? Some members … Read the rest

Smith College is confused.

Sneaky. Anyone who doesn’t already know who “Rachel” Levine is will of course assume he’s a woman being honored by a women’s college. Sneaky all around – doing the women-insulting thing, and being coy about doing the women-insulting thing.

There’s been a lot of insulting of women over the past decade or more. We’re rather tired of it.… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on He had benefited.

The transgender community fears its rights are “melting away” after a legal ruling which has left people “terrified”, according to one trans woman.

Well they wouldn’t have melted away so easily if they had been actual rights, and not based on an unlawful interpretation of the statutes they were carried in on, would they?

Sarah Savage, a trans woman who is the chief executive and co-founder of Trans Pride Brighton, said it was not long ago that trans rights felt “solidified”.

Only to the degree by which your campaign of lying, bullying, and terrorism had succeeded. These “rights” were only “solid” because they were enforced on a

“Sarah” Savage, the guy who pulled the fire alarm because women were holding a meeting, gets attention from the less fastidious news media for being a trans woman who demands all the rights.

The transgender community fears its rights are “melting away” after a legal ruling which has left people “terrified”, according to one trans woman.

Sarah Savage, a trans woman who is the chief executive and co-founder of Trans Pride Brighton, said it was not long ago that trans rights felt “solidified”.

Miss Savage described the ruling as “extremely worrying”, adding she had benefited from access to a women’s refuge after she came out and is now concerned that opportunity has been taken away from others.

Extremely worrying for … Read the rest

The shouty man in question is Sarah Savage.

@OhSarahSavage SO upset by women having a meeting about women's health, he set off the fire alarm in a Brighton library, so everyone had to leave. Pathetic! Here's Savage posing by a sign claiming trans identified males "aren't a threat". But his actions say otherwise #WarOnWomen pic.twitter.com/x5P49o1k6B

— Hazel Tarragon #NoSelfID (@HazelTarragon) May 18, 2025

He’s not a threat, oh good heavens no, but if women dare to have a meeting he will make sure to shut that right down. Which is in no way a threat. At all.… Read the rest