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

Large loud aggressive man tells us how he terminated a meeting of women by pulling the fire alarm, and shouts angrily about how fearless he is and how he will not let this go.

New boss even worse than the old boss.

“I was fired up..something *went* in my head
I knew I could not let it go. So I walked into the library and found the room where they were meeting”

It was a meeting in a public library for women’s health + free crèche
Too much for the organiser of Trans Pride in Brighton to bear pic.twitter.com/7vPeySQPGW

— teresa smith (@treesey) May 18, 2025

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Smith College tells us about its four commencement speakers for this year.

Four distinguished leaders in the arts, academia, health and wellness, social justice, and innovation will be awarded honorary degrees at Smith’s 147th Commencement on Sunday, May 18. In a tradition begun last year by President Sarah Willie-LeBreton, each honorand will offer a few words of wisdom and congratulations to the graduates.

Did I mention that Smith is a women’s college?

Honorary degrees will be awarded in May to:

• Danielle Allen, professor of political philosophy, public policy, and ethics at Harvard University and founder and chairperson of Partners In Democracy.
• Evelyn M. Harris, vocal teacher, former member of the world-renowned a cappella group Sweet Honey in the

In another, but very nearby, corner of the forest another court with another ruling.

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block a judge’s ruling that had temporarily paused plans for mass layoffs and program closures at federal agencies.

A judge paused plans for mass layoffs and program closures at federal agencies?? That’s so shocking! All federal agencies are bad, and everything federal agencies do is bad. Obviously! The people should all be fired and the programs should all be slammed shut. Nothing should ever be done for any reason other than profit.

Last week, Judge Susan Illston of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California called for a two-week pause on the

Trump does not have a close acquaintance with the law, but that doesn’t slow him down any.

President Donald Trump endorsed the idea that the United States Supreme Court had placed an “illegal injunction” on him by temporarily blocking his administration’s ability to deport Venezuelans, accused of being gang members, without due process, while litigation on the matter plays out in lower courts.

On Truth Social on Saturday, Trump reposted two posts made by attorney Mike Davis, a close Trump ally and the founder of the Article III project, calling the court’s recent decision “illegal” and claiming it was “heading down a perilous path” by not allowing Trump to continue a constitutionally questionable action.

“The Supreme Court

It’s hard not to suspect a new Sokal Hoax.

I mean come on. “According to this definition pregnancy or the potential for pregnancy define womanhood.” Well yes, Genius, they do. If you look you’ll find that that applies to other mammals too. You know what there would be if they didn’t? Nothing, that’s what. Without reproduction there is nothing. P.D. James wrote a novel about that very scenario – a world in which human reproduction had simply stopped. In a world like that it takes only a few decades for living humans to disappear entirely. Not just thin out, not just become scarce, but go extinct. Like the dinosaurs. Get it?

It’s too obvious not to get. Must … Read the rest

Human ingenuity.

Seattle Councilmember Dan Strauss is worried about Seattle’s ears. 

Earlier this spring, he drafted a “hearing protection ordinance” that would require music venues to provide hearing protection for free or less than $1, or risk fines. 

“This bill is about making sure that people have the opportunity to both enjoy Seattle’s vibrant music scene and protect their hearing health no matter where they go,” Strauss said when presenting the idea to his colleagues in March. 

Well…that’s like going swimming with the sharks while taking a box of bandaids with you. It’s like going to an all-you-can-eat restaurant with a bottle of diet pills in your pocket. It’s like setting your house on fire and then putting on … Read the rest

One of the many things I hate most about Trump

(It’s supposed to be only one of those – many things OR hate most – but with Trump it’s always both, because he always has all the toppings. There are many many things about him that I hate the most. I wish it were otherwise, but it isn’t.)

is the way he does the bad thing times 10 or 100 or 1000. He has no artistry, no restraint, no sense of Less is More. Every damn time he just jumps in with both feet and dials the abuse to a million. It should handicap him, but of course it doesn’t, because there’s no justice. The stupider his reaction to X … Read the rest

I didn’t realize Pride had gone homophobic. I’m so old I remember when Pride was all about lesbians and gay men.

Stroud Pride says no LGB views.

“Come and perform at Pride!

PS NO WOOFTERS” pic.twitter.com/rGOz7OVUFj

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) May 16, 2025

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Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Woman’s hour for men.

It’s funny how the BBC feels compelled to trot out all these spokespeople who are wringing their hands at having been caught out essentially breaking the law, and how following the law is going to be such a burden and hardship. How many voices of women who are happy with the judgement are they going to feature? What’s the ratio of whiners who claim the decision is “wrong,” to women who are relieved that someone has finally listened to their concerns? Four to one? Ten to one? The BBC is certainly doing its best to browbeat people into where it believes their sympathies and concerns should… Read the rest

Onward.

…we should remember that sadly trans people are very affected by domestic violence as of course are are other women – and those people have said “we know how to run our services, we know how to protect people in those services, um, we know how to safeguard, we do that for all individuals from other individuals, those are protected before this judgement they still are now, nothing changes, we’re open for trans people” – uh – that is really important and it is very welcome that we’re hearing that – we’re also hearing people uh hearing trans people saying things like “I don’t know if I can go to the gym any more – I’m I’m afraid even

Woman’s Hour had a bro from Amnesty International on today to explain why it’s still fine to take women’s rights away and give them to men. That segment starts at 18:19.

We’re currently hearing different perspectives this week on the Supreme Court ruling last month that the terms “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act refer to a biological woman and biological sex. The judgement has implications for many organizations.

Well yes, the fact that “woman” means “woman” does have implications. It always did. The claim that “woman” could also mean “man” provided he cleared the massive hurdle of saying so – that claim also had implications. Rather intrusive and annoying ones, actually.

We’re looking at the practical dilemmas

It’s like walking through three feet of mud carrying a piano. Progress is infinitesimal.

Guidance issued by an NHS hospital would allow men identifying as women to use female changing rooms, despite warnings that the policy breaks the law.

Officials from the Royal College of Nursing wrote to senior administrators at the County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust to warn that Darlington Memorial Hospital was breaching 33-year-old workplace legislation that requires the provision of single-sex changing facilities for men and women.

And by the way they’re also acting like sadistic women-hating shits.

It has now emerged that in the last week of March officials at the royal college — the professional body for nurses in the UK —

What Trump is destroying:

Scientists behind some of the most important breakthroughs in Northwest scientific research over the past two decades have left their jobs in the wake of budget cutting by the Trump administration.

The federal government has terminated science experiments, canceled research contracts, set spending limits for travel and purchases to $1 and created uncertainty at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, a flagship of scientific research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

I pass that flagship quite often on the bus. It’s near the Arboretum and the University, and right next to a Yacht Club. NOAA itself is a few miles northeast, on Lake Washington.

The science center has lost about 30 people, according

Ya it’s always encouraging to see public safety unions shouting that men are women and that women should shut up.

We know that the law is not always on the right side of history. The Supreme Court ruling last month does not make public spaces safer for anyone.

The interim guidance is unworkable, unhelpful and will only lead to an increase in discrimination for workers, including in fire… pic.twitter.com/JhOvqFSH5y

— Fire Brigades Union (@fbunational) May 14, 2025

The interim guidance is unworkable, unhelpful and will only lead to an increase in discrimination for workers, including in fire stations and in control rooms. Trans people are not a threat. Gender-based violence and misogyny are.

Trans ideology is misogyny, and it triggers … Read the rest