Originally a comment by Artymorty on And finally move on.

The corollary of the argument that only trans people should be allowed to play trans characters is that trans isn’t a neutral attribute that can be ignored.

Speaking to GQ magazine, Schafer said being known simply as a “trans actress” was “ultimately demeaning to me and what I want to do”. She continued: “I’ve been offered tons of trans roles, and I just don’t want to do it. I don’t want to talk about it.”

In a sense I get what he means, or what he thinks he means: something like how, say, Black actors were tired of playing “Black” characters, instead of just regular characters who happened to … Read the rest

Wait what century is this?

Woman removed from flight for not wearing a bra

Lisa Archbold was due to fly from Salt Lake City to San Francisco when airline staff, she said, took issue with her clothing — a loose white T-shirt.

The incident was in January and received some media attention, but Archbold now has legal representation. Her attorney is Gloria Allred, who has been involved in several high-profile women’s rights cases — including representing women who accused Donald Trump and R. Kelly of sexual misconduct.

In a recent letter to the airline’s president, Allred said Archbold wasn’t questioned when she boarded the plane but was later escorted off the flight by a Delta gate agent.

For wearing … Read the rest

Good luck with that, pal.

Euphoria actress Hunter Schafer has said she no longer wants to play transgender roles. The 25-year-old transgender star shot to fame playing a trans character, Jules Vaughn, in HBO’s hit teen drama.

But Schafer said she felt she could go further as an actress by “not making it the centrepiece to what I’m doing”. She said: “I worked so hard to get to where I am, past these really hard points in my transition, and now I just want to be a girl and finally move on.”

That’s not going to happen. The entertainment industry is about making money, it’s not about showing off one’s trans-allyship. The people who make movies and tv dramas … Read the rest

Willoughby longs for a trans woman to be murdered so that he can claim they are Uniquely Vulnerable.

Meanwhile in March 2023:

Labour MP Jess Phillips took more than five minutes to read a list of women killed over the past 12 months where the perpetrator or suspect was a man.

Before entering the Commons chamber on Thursday, she had to add another name to the list in pen – that of Helen Harrison, who was found dead in Yorkshire on Sunday.

Bereaved families, including the newly formed group Killed Women, reacted angrily to the fact that just three male MPs were present for the reading of the names a day after International Women’s Day.

Well, you know … Read the rest

Uppity women are Karens, or if they’re not Karens then they’re whiny hysterical babies.

Describing a pregnant woman as “very emotional and tearful” in the workplace amounted to discrimination, a tribunal has ruled. The ruling relates to an email sent by the boss of an account manager after she raised concerns about her workload.

…

Roger Tynan, an employment judge, said Hinds’s boss, Nav Kalley, had stereotyped her as “an emotional, hormonal pregnant woman and that in the particular circumstances his description of her as emotional and tearful was dismissive and belittling”.

That’s one version of The Art of Making Women Shut Up and Go Away. Another is this flower:

Beautifully nuanced & punches pulled to devastating effect .

Now isn’t she crafty.

Social media comments made by JK Rowling challenging Scotland’s new hate crime law are not being treated as criminal, Police Scotland has said. The Harry Potter author described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans activists and other public figures.

The new law creates a new crime of “stirring up hatred” relating to protected characteristics. The force said complaints had been received but no action would be taken.

Reacting to the news, Ms Rowling posted on X: “I hope every woman in Scotland who wishes to speak up for the reality and importance of biological sex will be reassured by this announcement, and I trust that all women – irrespective of profile or

King Lear without the peripeteia.

It took Donald Trump less than 24 hours to test the boundaries of Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order in his New York criminal trial.

In two posts on his Truth Social account, the former president attacked Merchan for issuing the gag order – and he went after the judge’s daughter for her liberal political work, exploiting the ambiguous language in the order that didn’t explicitly forbid discussion of Merchan’s family.

On Monday, Merchan pushed back, expanding the gag order to cover his family – though the judge remains fair game for Trump – and attempting to limit Trump’s vitriol two weeks before the trial is set to begin.

Merchan’s need to issue a second gag order highlights the significant and unique challenge that

The Beeb reports a scandal:

The prime minister has said people should not be criminalised “for stating simple facts on biology” in response to JK Rowling’s criticism of Scotland’s new hate crime law.

Cue global gasps. What can he mean?? People should be beheaded for such an outrage.

The author took to social media to hit out at criticize the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act which came into effect on Monday.

Seriously, Beeb – stop that. Stop calling dissent you dislike “hitting out at.” It’s childish at best. Some metaphors are best left on the cutting room floor.

In a series of social media posts, Ms Rowling described several transgender women as men, including convicted prisoners, trans

Furthermore, there’s the scandalous situation where gynecologists don’t know how to take care of a “neo-vagina”:

Gender surgery director Dr. Meredith Gray of KU Kansas City on how they train all obgyn residents at KU Med to do exams on the neovaginas she creates.

That it's unacceptable for any gynecologist to not be able to do a "well woman exam" on a trans woman. pic.twitter.com/HZN2fr1CNb

— Slim Wiggy🇺🇸 (@SlimWiggy) July 12, 2023

…the aftercare, becuzz a lot of times these women have a neovagina, and then the gynecologists aren’t trained to do the routine gyn care – and that’s a real problem, becuzz you go back to yer home state, and you wanna get yer well woman exam and the

BBC dutifully repeats that JK Rowling is bad awful horrible outrageous and above all of course transphobic.

Two men here discussing
The Crimes of JK Rowling.#ArrestMe pic.twitter.com/n4YpBYKXZP

— Ulrike Bullerby (@bullrike) April 2, 2024

The presenter tells us, in full BBC RP smug confident style:

…and now with a series of pretty explosive social media posts campaigner and provocateur on free speech. In response to the Hate Crime and Public Order Act coming into force in Scotland yesterday Ms Rowling posted critical and sarcastic comments about ten transgender women, rounding off her series with the remark “The people aren’t women at all but men every last one of them.” She ended by saying “Arrest me, Hate Crime Act Scotland.”

What a colossally stupid question.

“What's the wound to lesbianism, if the category of women is expanded to include transwomen? What’s the wound?”

😡 🤯

Judith Butler needs help w/a question@my_real_name @akabeth10 @Alisonellis27 @KnotsReeta @Docstockk @Aja02537920@LesbianOwl33 @formerleftwingr @HeidiBrionesq pic.twitter.com/2WwkOQgfaS

— WomenAreReal (@WomenAreReals) April 1, 2024

What’s the wound to lesbianism, really, if, um. the category of women is expanded to include trans women, what’s the wou – what – where – how do any of the people who live in that category, how are they actually suffering, it seems to me that what they’re suffering from is a kind of hatred or phobia that is overwhelming to them.

Gee, I don’t know, prof, what’s the wound if … Read the rest

Jolyon is on the case. Of course he is.

He's loving calling people racist! pic.twitter.com/USzK95jCre

— Mat (@MatHempell) April 1, 2024

Nothing says ‘social justice campaigner’ like being a White man who lives in a £3 million windmill defending men who take women’s jobs and rape shelters and everything else they can get their hands on.… Read the rest

This is genius.

VERY well done to the Indian Council of Scotland. pic.twitter.com/4EzwYLtcGk

— Gary Powell (@GaryJPowell) April 1, 2024

Not a joke. The screenshot is from their Facebook page.

They reported in another public post ten hours ago:

Important Statement: First Minister Humza Yousaf/Scottish government have been reported to the Police for racism.

(Police Reporting number:

PS – 20240401-0595)

The Indian Council of Scotland/UK are surprised to read Scottish Government Police Scotland Hate Crime guidance highlighting White Men aged 18 to 30 yrs from socially excluded backgrounds (Working Class) in a negative manner, as this could create unfair bias against them. The Equality and Human Rights Commission of Scotland has a duty to ensure public bodies ‘Foster

Soooo how is day one of Scotland’s hate crime bill going?

3.5k likes at present:

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Due to Humza/SNP's new 'Hate Crime Law' and confusion around retrospective cases Police Scotland is being BOMBARDED due to this speech.

People are phoning 101 and the form:https://t.co/qHCNxyaROu

As the law says even it 'feels wrong' you can report it. pic.twitter.com/b2i7YlbI87

— UNN (@UnityNewsNet) April 1, 2024

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JKR has thrown down the gauntlet.

She starts with a string of parody “behold this lovely trans woman” tweets and then gets down to business.

🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉

Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their…

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 1, 2024

In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new

But don’t worry, you have nothing to fret about, unless…

Yes but sir, you and your friends consider it “threatening” and “abusive” and “stirring up hatred” to say that men are not women. That means women in the UK have everything to worry about.

You smug fucking idiot.… Read the rest

Day one of Scotland’s heightened war on women:

JK Rowling could be investigated by police for misgendering trans people under Scotland’s new hate crime legislation, an SNP minister has admitted. Siobhian Brown, the SNP’s community safety minister, initially stated that misgendering – for example calling a trans woman “he” – would “not at all” fall foul of the legislation. But after being challenged over calls for JK Rowling to be prosecuted under the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act, she then admitted it would be for the police to decide.

Speaking as the Act came into force on Monday, Ms Brown said: “It could be reported and it could be investigated. Whether or not the police would

Trump’s lovely message for today:

HAPPY EASTER TO ALL, INCLUDING CROOKED AND CORRUPT PROSECUTORS AND JUDGES THAT ARE DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024, AND PUT ME IN PRISON, INCLUDING THOSE MANY PEOPLE THAT I COMPLETELY & TOTALLY DESPISE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA, A NOW FAILING NATION, LIKE “DERANGED” JACK SMITH, WHO IS EVIL AND “SICK,” MRS. FANI “FAUNI” WADE, WHO SAID SHE HARDLY KNEW THE “SPECIAL” PROSECUTOR, ONLY TO FIND THAT HE SPENT YEARS “LOVING” HER, LONG BEFORE THE GEORGIA PERSECUTION OF PRESIDENT TRUMP BEGAN (AND THEREBY MAKING THE CASE AGAINST ME NULL, VOID, AND ILLEGAL!), AND LAZY ON VIOLENT CRIME ALVIN BRAGG WHO, WITH CROOKED JOE’S DOJ THUGS, UNFAIRLY WORKING

Gosh, I remember when NOW was a feminist organization. Now it’s all about men, and telling women to do what men tell them.

Repeat after us: Weaponizing womenhood against other women is white supremacist patriarchy at work. Making people believe there isn't enough space for trans women in sports is white supremacist patriarchy at work. https://t.co/SacFuIgpPd

— National NOW (@NationalNOW) March 31, 2024

How is it white supremacy? What does it even have to do with white supremacy?

As for patriarchy – no, NationalNOW, what’s patriarchy is lying through your teeth about women who refuse to sign up to a religion that deifies men who say they are women. You’re the ones who are going belly-up for men; we are … Read the rest

What could go wrong?

Degrees in homoeopathy, computer science, English literature and human resources are being accepted as entry qualifications to train to become a physician associate, the Daily Telegraph can reveal.

The NHS is rolling out a mass expansion in the use of such workers, despite concerns that patients are being put at risk by workers with insufficient training.

And not just insufficient but QUACK. No one with a degree in homeopathy should be anywhere near the NHS.

The figures for 2021 to 2023 show Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge accepted two students with degrees in homoeopathic medicine, while Bournemouth University accepted degrees in anthropology, nutrition and computer systems engineering.

There’s no such thing as “homeopathic medicine.” Homeopathy … Read the rest