Cricket.

Transgender women have been banned from competing in all levels of women’s cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced.

In an update to its transgender regulations, the ECB said “only those whose biological sex is female” will be able to participate in women’s and girls’ cricket.

It doesn’t get much more tautological than that. Men and boys won’t be able to participate in women’s and girls’ cricket. Well duh: that’s what it says on the tin: women’s and girls’ cricket. Obviously men and boys won’t be able to participate. Yet all this time all these people pretended otherwise. Could it be because women and girls just don’t matter?

Amelia Short, a transgender cricketer

Originally a comment by Acolyte of Sagan on More in the spirit of Mao than of Mill.

In regards to education around trans “rights”, I’ve sometimes thought that a good start to getting people to see gender ideology for what it is would be to get them to examine and understand the following concepts:

Understanding the concepts would be useful, but I believe that an understanding of where and how the modern concept of transgender actually began would explain so much about why the ideology is such a confused and confusing mess.

So far as I can tell, it started in the late 1990s as a purely philosophical idea centred on a post-modernist ‘no absolute truths’ view of sex … Read the rest

Dude is angry that men can’t ruin women’s sports any more. Dude needs to find a better hobby.

The i is the only news source I've seen that has pointed out that there is nothing at all in the UKSC ruling that mandates or justifies the FA's actions.

The FA are being a bit economical with the truth. https://t.co/VjoNSe6L0m

— SpeakOutSister (@speakoutsister) May 2, 2025

Also the pull quote is quite interesting. “Sport should be a safe haven.” Wut? If sport should be a safe haven, why should men be allowed to compete against women? Nonono you see sport should be a safe haven for men; never never never for women. Obviously.

“I’m a male footballer forcing my way … Read the rest

Stephen Robinson at Public Notice offers a selection of cold cuts Trump ramblings that reveal and emphasize how gone his brain is. Listening to such ramblings is torture, but reading them is not as much like having nails driven into your head, and they do underline how empty it is in his head.

Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms…

Well, sure, but that’s been true all along, and he got elected anyway.

But there is a kind of morbid entertainment in probing the infinite emptiness.

Time asked Trump, “You recently signed memos calling for

The wave continues.

ECB update on transgender participation in women’s cricket

The ECB is today announcing a change to its regulations regarding eligibility for transgender players in women’s and girls’ cricket. This is based on the updated legal position following the recent Supreme Court ruling.
 
With immediate effect, only those whose biological sex is female will be eligible to play in women’s cricket and girls’ cricket matches. Transgender women and girls can continue playing in open and mixed cricket.  

Bam.

Our regulations for recreational cricket have always aimed at ensuring that cricket remains as inclusive a sport as possible. These included measures to manage disparities, irrespective of someone’s gender, and safeguard the enjoyment of all players. However, given the new

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on What we don’t like makes us special.

All a diagnosis of gender dysphoria tells us is that a patient is in distress and is ruminating about his or her body. That by itself should only be the beginning of a proper clinical assessment, but far too often it’s treated like a conclusion. [Artymorty]

Exactly. One of the most evil things that gender ideology does is to claim that dysphoria = trans, skipping right past the phenomenon of “desistance”*. The motivation to fast track children into “social transitioning”, puberty blockers, surgical procedures, etc., is to short-circuit and pre-empt desistance by pretending it doesn’t exist, because the alternative is that “transness” doesn’t … Read the rest

Seems worth noting.

Kevin Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president and the architect of Project 2025, the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency, has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC, a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group.

Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that – for years – he has visited the Catholic Information Center, a K Street institution headed by an Opus Dei priest and incorporated by the archdiocese of Washington, on a weekly basis for mass and “formation”, or religious guidance. Opus Dei also organizes monthly retreats at the CIC.

Perhaps to be continued.… Read the rest

Reading something that mentions “gender dysphoria” I come to a stop to think about the label for a sec (not, of course, for the first time). It strikes me all over again what an absurd concept it is. You could use it for anything. I don’t like very hot summer days; is that Hot Days Dysphoria? No, wait, Thermal Dysphoria – so much more sciency and thus convincing.

I don’t like mosquito bites, and neither does anyone else; are we all mosquito bite dysphoric?

I detest Trump; am I Trump dysphoric?

We could play this boring game all day and never come to the end.

We all dislike some things. It’s the human condition – it’s the animal condition. … Read the rest

SOLIDARITY WITH OUR TRANS SIBLINGS

Or

maybe something else.

Tough choice.

Well…ok, but…isn’t he still our trans sibling? I mean she – isn’t she still our trans sibling?

Trans people are the most vulnerable people of all, don’t forget.

Being trans is the equivalent of being 172 women in terms of who has the most Oppression Points.

So, you know, little quirks like trying to get into the pants of underage girls become just another way trans women are fabulous and also more vulnerable than anyone else by miles.… Read the rest

Irish Independent:

Jenny Maguire: If my rights as a trans woman can be removed in an instant, what does that mean for yours?

Well what are your “rights as a trans woman”?

You mean your “rights” to be in women’s spaces and take jobs set aside for women and play in women’s sports? That kind of “right”?

Well, kid, if those “rights” that aren’t rights are removed then they are restored to women, and I’m a woman, not the pretend kind, so that’s what that means for mine.

That’s not what you mean though. You think you have a right to take what belongs to women. Well guess what: you don’t. It doesn’t matter how cute you look when … Read the rest

Jeezus. Talk about grudging, resentful, one-sided, hostile.

FA update following the recent Supreme Court transgender ruling

As the governing body of the national sport, our role is to make football accessible to as many people as possible, operating within the law and international football policy defined by UEFA and FIFA.

Our current policy, which allows transgender women to participate in the women’s game, was based on this principle and supported by expert legal advice.

How was that policy “based on this principle”? Their policy made football inaccessible to the women displaced by men pretending to be women, and to women who didn’t want to play against men because they didn’t want to get smashed up by men. If the FA’s … Read the rest

They’ve got a nerve.

Amnesty International pisses all over women every chance it gets. Amnesty International drives a tank through women’s rights because it finds fictitious “trans rights” more glamorous and exciting. Amnesty International wants to be down with the kids. Never was a Readers added context more richly deserved.

The past year has presented a bleak future for many women and girls amid attacks on gender equality. Women’s rights cannot continue to be under assault like this. Join us to fight for gender equality for all women, everywhere.

Our annual report on the state of the world’s human… pic.twitter.com/kYjJbNfEh9

— Amnesty International (@amnesty) April 29, 2025

… Read the rest

Originally a comment by Patrick on Junior engineers say it won’t collapse.

One of the classic argumentative styles of the era goes like this. I’m going to number it out because I’m a nerd.

1. Your opponent says X. But you believe Y.

2. State, or at least imply, that these options exist in binary opposition such that either one or the other must be the case.

3. Restate X such that it is very specific. Keep Y vague for now.

4. Offer a variety of undercutting defeaters for X. “It’s more complicated than that,” is an evergreen attack because most things are more complicated than the short, specific statements to which you have reduced your opponents position.

5. … Read the rest

Well you see we can’t say anything about the trans religion because we might get yelled at. You can’t expect a satirical magazine to risk getting yelled at!! Duh!!!

You might think that a Supreme Court ruling confirming the obvious fact that the word ‘man’ means ‘man’ and the word woman means ‘woman’ is a ripe subject for a satirist.

You might, unless that particular obvious fact had been magically transformed into a taboo enforced by sadists – sadists who rejoice in trashing people’s lives for saying men are not women.

Interlude for comparisons:

You can say apples are not carrots. You can say a hammer is not a wine glass. You can say France is not Idaho. You can … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Mark on Defy the reality.

Just as many conservatives dislike something solely because it is popular amongst the Left, there are those on the left who like something solely because the right dislike it. I believe the trans-rights movement is, in large part, a byproduct of such thinking.

I am someone who has loathed right wing, religiously driven thinking for most of my life, but just because my ideological opponents hold a position on an issue, it does not follow that I must have the 180 degree opinion on it. We all know the saying about broken clocks.

The “socialist” aspect of trans rights is, for many of them, simply because they know the right … Read the rest

Just a couple of questions.

What’s socialist about this?

What’s worker about it?

I just want to start the day with this one paragraph from an Atlantic piece on Trump by Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer.

He had announced plans to pave over part of the Rose Garden, and he had redecorated the Oval Office—gold trim and gold trophies and gold frames to go with an array of past presidential portraits, making the room look like a Palm Beach approximation of an 18th-century royal court.

Small and yet so very…… Read the rest

Oh really?

Doctors brand Supreme Court trans ruling ‘scientifically illiterate’

Really? Then why haven’t all doctors always known that men are women if they say they are?

The subhead perhaps hints at a reason:

Junior medics claim binary divide between sex and gender ‘has no basis in science’

Ah. Junior medics. The ones who don’t want to be called harsh names by their friends.

The British Medical Association’s (BMA) resident doctors – previously called junior doctors – have voted to “condemn” the judgment, which ruled that trans women were not legally women.

Of course “legally” is not the same as “medically” so one wonders why doctors are butting in anyway. The Supreme Court is not a medical body, … Read the rest

So let’s read the Stonewall mush about the tragic fate of those poor sad vulnerable cherished people who just happen to think they’re not the sex they are.

The headline:

Following the Supreme Court ruling we must remember compassion and humanity

To whom? Women?

Hahahaha that’s hilarious, right? No of course not to women. Women are bitches, women persecute the poor helpless fragile men who claim to be women. Women don’t deserve compassion and humanity.

Trans people are our families, friends, neighbours, and colleagues; we share our workplaces, our communities, our pubs, cafes and places of worship with them. They are worried and frightened by the legal implications of the ruling, and its unknown consequences. 

Women are also our families, … Read the rest

Surprise surprise – Stonewall’s mission creep has crept so far it’s below the horizon.

It’s also a tiny bit odd that Simon Blake still can’t remember the protected characteristics in the Equality Act. He leaves out sex, belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment – and yet inserts “gender”. Which is not a protected characteristic – as countless people have…

— Bev Jackson (@BevJacksonAuth) April 29, 2025

… Read the rest