Oh oh oh but what about the immense tragic suffering of the tranz commmunniny?

And, yes, I know that women lost their jobs for voicing their beliefs on biology. That was a wrong that required to be righted. But suffering is not binary in the way the court has decided sex is. Trans people have been under attack, too. Their besiegement has been amplified by the same judgment that has lessened yours. 

Right. Ok. So the woman was raped, I get it, but the rapist has been under attack too. Now the rapist has been convicted and it’s your fault – you have amplified his besiegementitude.

Trans women won’t cease to exist because five judges decided the legal definition of

Now Musk is interfering with people’s health care.

The U.S. DOGE Service is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal health-care grants, requiring government officials to manually review and approve previously routine payments — and paralyzing grant awards to tens of thousands of organizations, according to 12 people familiar with the new arrangements.

The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor. Some grantees are waiting on payments they expected last week.

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Some officials have been told that only Trump political appointees can sign requests to disburse funds, even if a career official has already

Graham Linehan nails it in his Spiked article on the For Women Scotland ruling.

Sitting in court on Wednesday, I was especially delighted to hear the word ‘incoherence’ repeated in the judgement again and again. The incoherence of trans ideology wasn’t just an insult to me as a man who cared for the women in my life, it was also an affront to me as a writer. In standing for women, the Supreme Court stood up for all of us who need words to have meaning.

That. The incoherence and the sheer blinding stupidity. It’s been a grating maddening frustrating outrage all along, and will go on being all that until it dies entirely or the planet dies entirely. It’s … Read the rest

The real Sophie Molly in action.

He’s not massively charismatic.

Sophie Molly delivering a passionate speech dressed in the contents of a lost property box. It was nice of the crowd to maintain a 5 metre distance to avoid standing on his feet. pic.twitter.com/WqExrxG11d

— Jack David (@FFS_WhatNow) April 20, 2025

It’s quite a good laugh when his feet finally do appear.… Read the rest

Jo Grady, general secretary of the University and College Union.

Hate will never win.

With just 24 hours notice tens of thousands spilled onto the streets of London today to show solidarity with the trans community.

I was proud to be there and proud to see so many UCU members there too. pic.twitter.com/FKfnkbDjnD

— Jo Grady (@DrJoGrady) April 19, 2025

Multiple people replied with a clearer angle on that photo at bottom right. https://twitter.com/Silenced_Woman_/status/1913719182970994801

To repeat – Jo Grady is general secretary of the University and College Union.… Read the rest

What is an enemy? What is an alien?

Sometimes we need to know.

The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of a group ofalleged Venezuelan gang members.

A civil liberties group had sued to stop the removal of the men, currently in detention in Texas, saying they had not been able to contest their cases in court.

Donald Trump has sent accused Venezuelan gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which gives the president power to detain and deport natives or citizens of “enemy” nations without usual processes. The act was previously used only three times, all during war.

We’re not at war with Venezuela, … Read the rest

The BBC on the ruling and its consequences:

The Supreme Court case was brought by a group called For Women Scotland. It wanted to overturn Scottish legislation which said 50% of members on public boards should be women – and trans women were included in their definition.

The group lost its case in Scotland’s highest court but appealed to the UK Supreme Court. The case was heard towards the end of last year.

“What we wanted was clarity in the law – when something is described as a single-sex service, a single-sex space, that this relates to biology,” Susan Smith from For Women Scotland told the BBC.

We wanted things for women to be for women.

Over time the arguments

The trans communinnnnee is out demonstrating how solidarityish it is toward women.

Trans rights activists defaced a statue of Millicent Fawcett during a protest over the Supreme Court’s ruling on the definition of a woman.

That’s the spirit! Deface a statue that represents women’s struggle for equality! Make it both personal and anti-feminist!

Thousands of protesters marched through central London on Saturday in an “emergency demonstration”. Draped in blue, pink and white, they chanted calls for trans liberation, blocked traffic and held up placards which read “No feminism without trans women” and “Biology is not binary”.

No: all feminism without trans women. No feminism with trans women because they have demonstrated themselves to be saturated in hatred and contempt for … Read the rest

Jolyon Maugham hitting new peak Jolyon Maugham.

“Delegitimising”. These posts are a lawyer, a KC who formerly practised in tax law, who now runs a not for profit campaigning law organisation he set up, and who has a close personal interest in these issues, delegitimising the judgment of our country’s final court of appeal pic.twitter.com/Ic8VzElLPs

— Barbara Rich (@BarbaraRich_law) April 18, 2025

Sadly for him he’s on record saying what the Supreme Court rules is the law.

On a previous occasion in 2019 (the ruling that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was unlawful) when a judgment of the UK Supreme Court attracted public controversy, this selfsame commentator said something very different about the legitimacy of the court and its decision

Really?

But…he never objected to “trans women” searching women did he? Wasn’t that his whole point? Yes, it was. So why is he so horrified that men will be searched by male officers? If it’s ok for women how can it be so terrible for men? Why are people who support that “disgusting human beings” while people who support trans women searching women are the very best enlightened compassionate human beings?

Can anyone explain?… Read the rest

Look at this horrible grizzling whining man doing his affected woman-imitation while threatening women and promising to abuse them.

“I, as a trans woman, will always use female spaces no matter what,” he says, underlining that he will terrorize women because he can and he likes it. The “no matter what”=no matter how desperately women object. It’s the Bully’s Creed – “I will always do exactly what I want no matter how much you object.”

Heather Cox Richardson yesterday:

There seems to be a change in the air.

Three days ago, on April 14, Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times wrote that the vibe is shifting against the right. Yesterday, former neocon and now fervent Trump critic and editor of The Bulwark Bill Kristol posted a photo of plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Officers kidnapping Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk, and commented: “Where does the ‘Abolish ICE’ movement go to get its apology.”

Today, in the New York Times, conservative David Brooks called for all those resisting what he called “a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men” to work together. He called for a “comprehensive national

Trump’s war on the law continues.

After attacking judges and repeatedly sidestepping their orders, the Trump administration has accused a federal judge in Washington of escalating tensions between the judicial and executive branches by seeking to hold the White House accountable for its courtroom behavior.

Because he thinks he’s a monarch and the law is subservient to him. He’s the prez but he doesn’t understand the separation of powers.

The accusation against the judge, James E. Boasberg, came in a court filing early Friday morning by the Justice Department. In it, department lawyers asked the federal appeals court that sits over Judge Boasberg to prevent him from opening an expansive contempt inquiry into whether the White House violated an

This guy is such a gift. He will force himself on women and if cops show up to stop him he will scream “rape” at them.

And of course Willoughby says “Yeah!”

Brendan O’Neill is frankly gloating.

No sooner had the Supreme Court said what even the Neanderthals knew – that men are men and women are women – than these blokes were fuming. First out of the traps was thin-lipped loon India Willoughby. He branded the court’s decision ‘evil’. Yes, it is apparently wicked and immoral to say that if you have a todger you’re a fella. Willoughby spent the day furiously doubling down on his delusions of womanhood. ‘I have always been a woman’, he said. Tell that to the jizz you sired your kid with.

It’s a ‘grim day’, they cry. The ruling threatens trans people’s ‘safety’, they say. That’s big talk from a

It begins.

Rapists will no longer be able to identify as women following a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court.

Forces are now expected to begin recording criminals’ birth sex rather than preferred gender in official crime statistics following the ruling, which stated that trans women are not the same as biological women under equality laws.

It will end a situation where some police forces record rapists as being women, even though the legal definition of the crime requires a penis.

Finally the police will have to stop forcing rape victims to call their rapists “she/her.”… Read the rest

How ugly. University and College Union spits on women.

Medscape explains how clueless and reckless Bad Kennedy is.

In an interview earlier this year, RFK appeared on Fox Nation to talk about a range of issues, but he spent much of the time discussing infectious diseases and the measles outbreak in particular. We took a closer look at the secretary’s comments quoted in his own words and fact-checked them with some leading infectious disease specialists.

RFK: “The safest application of vitamin A is through cod liver oil because you’re getting it through food and the toxicity issue is no longer an issue. You can test people at the hospital for vitamin A.…There’s a lot of good studies out there to show that even as a prophylaxis it’s effective in

It never seems to occur to Kennedy that he doesn’t know as much about it as the professionals do. Why is that? The rest of us don’t prance around thinking we know all about electrical engineering and dark matter and how to fly planes, we understand that there are professionals and experts who have taken the time to learn a subject or skill and we can’t be professionals and experts without doing the same thing.

He thinks he knows better why rates of autism have risen. Why does he think that?

In remarks laced with scientific inaccuracies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, said on Wednesday that autism was preventable while