The class-action lawsuit brought against the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) demanding to house all trans-identified male inmates in women’s prisons was brought by a pedophile, a rapist, and a domestic abuser who murdered his girlfriend, Reduxx can reveal. At the end of April, a federal judge ordered the ODOC to reassess its policies and house trans-identified males on the basis of their “gender identity” in a sweeping injunction.
How does a judge manage to think it’s fair to put violent men in women’s prisons so that the violent men will be safer and the women will be vastly more in danger? The violent men don’t want to be at the mercy of violent men, so hey, here’s the solution, put the subgroup of violent men with the women. Shift the danger to women! Problem solved!
For too many transgender Chicagoans, the sense of belonging they deserve in their city has been denied by exclusion and barriers to opportunity in spaces that should feel safe and welcoming. Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened… https://t.co/kJThl0CvHj
— Mayor Brandon Johnson (@ChicagosMayor) June 21, 2026
…Since declaring a Transfemicide State of Emergency, our administration has strengthened the City’s capacity to support LGBTQ+ Chicagoans. This framework builds on that work by centering the voices and lived experiences of trans Chicagoans to chart a path toward a safer, more connected city.
So what are the numbers? Please to quantify the transfemicide. Google AI obliges with:
Advocacy organizations and media investigations identified at least 15 transgender and gender non-conforming people—predominantly Black and Latinx trans women—violently killed in Chicago since 2015.
Oh. At least one per year.
Women?
In Chicago, approximately 50 to 80 women are killed per year. Women make up about 10% to 15% of the city’s overall homicide victims, with Black women disproportionately affected.
I wonder if Chicago has ever declared a femicide state of emergency.
If you type “chicago femicide state of emergency” into Google you get links to transfemicide. No links to femicide. None.
France has banned alcohol at some events at massive national music festival as a heatwave pushes temperatures towards record levels.
The annual Fête de la Musique celebrations draw millions to the streets but with the most serious heatwave warnings being issued for 35 of France’s departments, the government has banned alcohol consumption in public places under the red alerts.
Good plan. The hotter it is, the worse idea it is to gulp down the gin.
Temperatures have been forecast to peak on Monday, and authorities have warned they could match historic highs.
The government has called for limits on alcohol consumption “to preserve emergency and healthcare services and allow medical staff to focus on caring for the most vulnerable”.
The heatwave has been going for days and has disrupted the country, forcing the cancellation of dozens of trains and the suspension of classes.
Thank you, Tulsi, for documenting Dr. Fauci's central role in causing the COVID-19 pandemic — among the most consequential crimes in human history. https://t.co/Mni91nFi3Y
Trump has claimed that United States Park Police have made several arrests in connection with what he described as deliberate sabotage of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington D.C., which underwent a multimillion-dollar renovation earlier this year.
“The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our Nations magnificent Reflecting Pool,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Saturday evening. “These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail! Work will begin immediately on its repair.”
In a second post on Saturday, Trump described the alleged damage in greater detail, saying more arrests had followed. He provided no evidence for any of his claims about the nature of the damage, and neither the Park Police nor any other law enforcement agency had publicly confirmed any arrests as of the time of publication.
On Friday, Maryland resident and former Olympian David Hearn was arrested and charged with destroying government property. Hearn says he merely reached into the pool to touch one of the already dislodged blue pieces, and denies the charge.
Only Trump could manage to have one (1) person arrested and have that person turn out to be a former Olympian.
Trump said that the pool would be drained and repaired quickly, and framed the alleged vandalism as an affront to American history. “We met with contractors today, will probably be forced to release and drain much of the water in order to do the necessary repairs,” he wrote. “What these terrible Vandals have done is a true affront to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and should be dealt with accordingly”.
Those are the two he’s heard of. Jefferson? Adams? Other Adams? Roosevelt? Other Roosevelt? Hoo R they?
Trump described what he said was physical destruction to the pool’s newly renovated lining. “They took some form of knife or blade, and put a 250 foot long gash into the beautiful facade of what took so much work, competence, and money to build and complete,” he wrote Saturday. “They also poured corrosive and destructive chemicals into the Pool.”
Yuh huh and they installed invisible witches and they stole all the diamonds and they made Trump look like a clown.
The president connected the alleged vandalism to the recent green color of the pool — again, without evidence. The pool turned green last week after being refilled following its renovation, in which its floor was repainted in a shade Trump calls “American flag blue.”
Aquatic ecologists and pool specialists told NPR the discoloration was caused by a natural bloom of algae from the genus Desmodesmus — a process scientists say is common in shallow, sun-exposed bodies of water, and one that may have been accelerated by the renovation disturbing the nutrient balance of the water.
Oh no no no that can’t possibly be right, it’s pure coincidence.
This has been one of the most succulent ironies I’ve seen in a long time. The administration that denies climate change has created a scale model of how it happens at their door because of their ignorant decisions and impositive orders.
They have a miniature anthropocene right there.
Disturbed by what he deemed a “filthy” aesthetic, Trump bypassed seasoned engineers and civil specialists, awarding a $14.2 million no-bid contract to a company that had previously coated a swimming pool at one of his private golf clubs.
The mandate was simple, superficial, and unburdened by expertise: paint the bottom of the historic, 2,000-foot-long basin a specific, patriotic hue dubbed “American flag blue”.
What followed is a masterclass in the unintended consequences of weaponized ignorance. By applying a dark, industrial epoxy coating across an expanse larger than six soccer fields, the builders unwittingly created a perfect, enclosed macro-experiment in anthropogenic climate change.
And I want to state the following: executive orders cannot override the basic laws of physics.
When solar radiation hits a body of water, the color of the basin’s floor dictates how that energy is managed:
The light, untreated stone bottom reflected a significant portion of solar energy back out of the shallow water, keeping temperatures relatively stable.
The dark “American flag blue” epoxy acted as a giant solar heat sink. Dark colors absorb a drastically higher percentage of the light spectrum, transferring that energy directly into the stagnant water as heat.
As a heatwave rolled through Washington D.C., the water temperature spiked. In biology, an increase in temperature accelerates metabolic rates. Combined with the untreated, nutrient-rich water pumped from the Tidal Basin, Trump’s dark blue floor transformed the national monument into a high-capacity biological incubator. Within days of completion, the pristine “azure expanse” underwent an ecological shift, blooming into a chartreuse, mossy green soup.
It’s no part of a woman prisoner’s punishment to be terrorized by having to share their space with male prisoners. The women are subjected to ogling, leering, threats, voyeurism, touching, groping, and, yes, rape, when men are housed with women in prison.
Why does your concern for prisoner safety only run one way? Grab the smelling salts and the fainting couch over the prospect that men might sexually assault male transgender prisoners, but you become blind and your head becomes empty when it comes to the risks to women prisoners of putting men into the women’s prison. Your solution is simply to transfer the risk to women prisoners because, what? Women? Pfffft! What are they?
Besides, your transperbole is false. Keeping male prisoners who claim to be transgender in the men’s prison does not inevitably subject them to violence. Male prisoners can be segregated from one another for safety. The men’s prison could create a segregated unit for transgender prisoners.
It’s interesting that, of all the retail chains in the world, it’s Lush that’s the most dogmatic about trans nonsense.
What is it about Lush specifically that aligns it so perfectly with gender woo?
I asked ChatGPT to “describe the brand and target audience of the retail chain Lush.”
Its reply began with, “Lush is basically ethical maximalism as retail theatre.” It went on to describe “natural-ish cosmetics, anti-corporate vibes, and sensory excess”, and a brand personality that is “sincere but also performative”. The bricks-and-mortar stores are “like a farmers’ market, candy shop, apothecary, activist booth, and theatre workshop mashed together.”
So it’s a giant international corporation that needs something to position itself as activist-y, countercultural, and individual. A bit Starbucks-y in that way. Starbucks, of course, is next on the list of giant international corporations that have gone kookoo for genderpuffs.
Trans, then, is corporate shorthand for “our brand is virtue”. It’s brand-positioning performance.
(No wonder the annual Toronto parade formerly known as Gay Pride is now nothing but flatbed trucks advertising Canada’s banks and media conglomerates, covered in pink, white, and baby blue.)
(It’s also no wonder that Lush was the primary sponsor of the girls-only kids’ music day camp that operated out of the venue I used to manage. That’s the one that had a strict locked-doors, no-males-anywhere-in-the-building-under-any-circumstance-because-there’s-young-girls-here policy, which it promptly discarded by hiring a hulking middle-aged crossdressing man to look after the girls alone.)
We’re gutting women’s rights and mutilating kids so corporations can sell us expensive bath bombs and pumpkin spice lattes while making us feel like we’re supporting our quirky little neighbourhood friends as we hand them our cash.
Imagine how those blue-haired, mastectomy-scarred they/thems are gonna feel in a few years when it dawns on them that their bodies were seen as nothing more than free advertising by corporate bigwigs.
Shoppers who believed only women could get pregnant were seen as “bigoted” by Lush staff, a former employee claims.
The sales assistant, who asked not to be named, told The Telegraph she saw a customer of the cosmetics retailer become upset, after she asked staff to help her choose a gift for a “pregnant woman” and was directed towards products for “pregnant people”.
In other words after staff rudely “corrected” her by telling her not to say the filthy word “woman”.
She said staff were encouraged to wear badges with preferred pronouns; described as “trans allies” by managers, and could ask customers to leave if they felt they were expressing transphobic views. Some seemed “genuinely excited” at the prospect of confronting people they saw as transphobic, she said.
Yeah no shit. Of course they did. Hey kids, it’s Righteous Denunciation time!
The former staff member contacted The Telegraph following public criticism of a window display at a Lush in Chelmsford, Essex. It showed a tiger with pink, blue and white stripes, and the words “proud of my stripes”. The tiger also bears markings suggestive of “top surgery” to remove breasts.
The display attracted criticism from survivors of breast cancer, who accused the cosmetics retailer of “glorifying the removal of healthy breasts”.
Bucky Ringsell, the artist was painted the mural, said in an Instagram post she had designed the tiger to support and represent people who had undergone top surgery, “myself included”.
But of course it’s not “top surgery”; it’s mutilation.
Staff were encouraged to hand campaign materials to customers, including parents and children, although she had concerns that some of the subjects were “too adult” for children.
This included a 24-page booklet produced by Lush and TransActual called The Dream vs Reality: Creating a World Where Trans People are Safe. It stated that being trans was not a mental illness, called for the ban on puberty blockers to be lifted and backed legal gender self-identification.
A judge has ruled that prison guidance which allows some transgender prisoners to be held in jails matching their gender identity, rather than their sex at birth, is unlawful.
Judge Lady Ross said sex segregation in prisons must be based on biological sex, based on a Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equality law in April last year.
Campaign group For Women Scotland challenged the Scottish government guidance through a judicial review, saying only those born biologically female should be held in the women’s estate.
Lawyers for the government had argued this would breach transgender prisoners’ human rights. The first minister said they will take time to consider the judgement.
Sneery voice: “Lawyers for the government had argued this would breach transgender prisoners’ human rights.” Well what about breaching female prisoners’ rights?! Why is it horrifying to [purportedly] breach transgender prisoners’ human rights but perfectly fine to violate women’s human rights? Why are so many people so happy to throw women to the wolves while the wolves get whatever they demand?
Lady Ross said the guidance was “in conflict with the requirement that prison accommodation be provided separately for men and women” and constituted “a mis-statement of the law”.
She said: “In all the circumstances, the prisons guidance is unlawful.”
But the Scottish government doesn’t care.
First Minister, John Swinney told BBC Scotland Lady Ross’s judgement was complex and the government will take time to consider its implications.
He said: “We will consider all of these details because there are complex issues that are involved, but at this early stage I acknowledge the outcome of the judgement from Lady Ross and the government will consider its findings.
“We will assess the implications the judgement has on carrying out policy in relation to the handling of prisoners.”
He seems to be saying his government will abide by the ruling if it feels like it but not if it doesn’t. He seems to be saying he gets to ignore the ruling.
Via Mostly Cloudy: Jolyon Maugham talking the familiar childish jargon of Tranz Ideology.
"The UK court system is a fucking joke."No facts, no standing, no harm. They get a court to strip the rights of a minority group without them being involved in the case or any factual record."As bad as things are in the US… there are still constitutional restraints that prevent stuff like this."
“They get a court to strip the rights of a minority group…” What the hell is that supposed to be? “A minority group could mean anything. A group that likes to stroke caterpillars while wearing purple uniforms. A group that dislikes cheese. A group that is smaller than other groups. It means nothing or anything or everything.
He doesn’t mean “minority”; he means “persecuted and ostracized for no good reason”, which is not at all a synonym for “minority”.
It may seem like a trivial point, but vagueness of language, aka obscured meaning, is crucial to the success of Trans Everything Or Else. If the ideology is made clear every time, fans stop being fans.
The Court of Session has ruled that it is unlawful for trans women to be housed in female prisons.
The campaign group For Women Scotland brought a petition for judicial review challenging the Scottish Government’s policy on the treatment of trans prisoners.
On Friday, Lady Ross published a decision ruling the guidance unlawful.
It’s pretty simple. Men are a potential threat to women while the reverse is not true. The fun of a few men should not cancel the safety of women.
During hearings in February, Gerry Moynihan KC for the Scottish Government told the Court of Session in Edinburgh it is right for ministers to take a “case-by-case” approach on transgender prisoners.
So should we also take a “case-by-case” approach to throwing toddlers into the bears’ enclosure at the zoo?
There was “no real dispute” that the seasons for sex segregation in prisons are to protect the safety of women and secure the privacy and dignity of both women and men, and at no point did the Scottish Ministers or Lord Advocate argue that a male prisoner, who is not a trans woman, could be admitted to a female prison.
Those last two commas just make a muddle instead of clarity. It should read “at no point did the Scottish Ministers or Lord Advocate argue that a male prisoner who is not a trans woman could be admitted to a female prison.”
However, it was argued that there are cases in which human rights concerns may make it appropriate to house a trans person in a prison of the opposite sex.
But human rights concerns are for women as well as men. Housing a man in a women’s prison puts women at risk. The solution to risk for men should not be transferring the risk to women.
Lady Ross also wrote: “Insofar as the prisons guidance allows SPS to accommodate trans prisoners in prisons for the opposite biological sex, it is in conflict with the requirement that prison accommodation be provided separately for men and women. That constitutes a mis-statement of the law.”
It’s a mis-statement of the law at the expense of women. Always at the expense of women, this crap.
Speaking in Aberdeen, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch was asked if it is time for the SNP to accept defeat on the issue.
She said: “Absolutely. It is time to draw a line under this. I do not understand why the SNP want to die on this hill of putting men in women’s prisons. It’s extraordinary.”
Same old same old. Germaine Greer: “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.”
A judge has ruled that prison guidance which allows some transgender prisoners to be held in jails matching their gender identity, rather than their sex at birth, is unlawful.
Judge Lady Ross said sex segregation in prisons must be based on biological sex, based on a Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equalities law in April last year.
Campaign group For Women Scotland had challenged the Scottish government guidance through a judicial review, saying only those born biologically female should be held in the women’s estate.
Lawyers for the government argued this would breach transgender prisoners’ human rights and create an unacceptable risk of suicide.
And what about women prisoners? What about their rights? What about the unacceptable risks to them?
For Women Scotland brought the case following its successful appeal to the Supreme Court about the definition of a woman in the Equality Act.
Susan Smith, a co-director of the group, said it was “delighted” to have won a “comprehensive victory”.
“We hope that, in future, the Scottish government will start to listen to us rather than the lobby groups who drafted these policies and have so egregiously misled MSPs and MPs,” she said.
“We should never have needed to take this case and we hope this will be the last time that we are forced to go to law to defend the rights of women.”
But pretending that women are oppressing men is such fun!
The Guardian solemnly presents us with a think piece written by a 14-year-old girl. The girl is a boy, and I don’t believe he wrote the piece. I’ll show you why.
For as long as I can remember, I have known I am a girl. That certainty is as instinctive as knowing I am right-handed. It is difficult to explain to someone who has never been transgender or loved someone who is, but I have never lived this way to gain an advantage or take something from someone else. I live this way to honor what I know is true.
I transitioned at four years old. By sixth grade, my identity was public. I grew used to the double takes, the questions, the quiet skepticism. Most of it did not bother me. Curiosity, even when clumsy, is human. People understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas, just as I hope others respect mine.
Does that sound like a 14 to you?
But what occurred on 4 May was not respectful, nor was it curiosity – it was a blatant attack on the values I have always been taught to prioritize.
Does that? “nor was it” – is that a construction children use a lot? Do they say “prioritize”?
Days earlier, I competed in the Prep League Finals, a track championship for a small private school league in southern California. In the lane next to me was my older sister. Despite running on an irritated knee, my sister was chasing a likely victory in the 400 meters. She had won each of our prior races. So, when I crossed the finish line just milliseconds before her, I was as surprised as everyone else. My teammates rushed to me, cheering wildly. My sister wrapped me in a hug. My parents celebrated from the stands. It was a moment of joy, as simple, fleeting and shared as the victory of any other child.
Does the Guardian not have any sane editors? How can they solemnly tell us a 14 wrote this?
Through each degrading claim and ostentatious headline, I realized the conversation was more malevolent than I anticipated. Not because of what they said about my performance, but because of what they said about my character. This was not a healthy debate about fairness in sports; it was about my worth as a person.
I give up; my eyes can’t roll any farther back.
Countless adults absently unlocked their phones and devastated a 14 year old. It didn’t matter that my sister couldn’t have been prouder or that the scientific evidence on trans women’s advantages is mixed or even (and especially) that no child would upend their life for the chance of winning a race a decade later. It was far easier to comment than to question. Easier to react than to understand.
We can have conversations about fairness and equity in sports. In fact, we should. But the way we are conducting them is failing us. The line between debate and dehumanization has not just been crossed – it’s been erased. Opinion is being presented as fact. Disagreement is becoming ridicule. What masquerades as dialogue is amounting to something closer to public shaming.
There are six more paragraphs of this highly adult manipulative writing. The Graun has lost its tiny mind.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after the U.S. President told an Italian TV channel that she had “begged” him to take a photo with her at a G7 summit.
Meloni said she was “astonished” by his comments, which were “completely made up”. She also chided him for acting with far greater deference to the enemies of the West than he does towards old, established allies.
She’s astonished that he’s a ridiculous fool who tells ridiculous stories that flatter him at the expense of everyone else? Does she know him at all?
Underscoring how much Trump’s comments have angered Meloni’s government, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced he was cancelling a planned visit to the U.S. next week.
No matter. Trump will explain that it’s because she’s so in love with him that she has to avoid him for the sake of the children. [Children not specified.]
Video from the event in France showed Meloni and Trump deep in conversation, sitting side-by-side on a small sofa, but the U.S. leader suggested he had merely indulged her by chatting with her.
“She’s probably happy I talked to her. I didn’t have to talk to her,” Trump was quoted as saying by La7 TV channel in a brief interview, after he himself asked the journalist about Italy’s prime minister.
“She begged me to take a picture with her. She wanted a picture with me so badly. I wouldn’t have taken it, but I felt sorry for her,” Trump said, according to La7’s translation.
Well, see, it’s like this. There was that time back in high school when the prettiest girl in the whole school had a huge crush on him but he just wasn’t into her. It happens to him every year or so. No make that every month. It just never stops.
One of Meloni’s closest political allies, who usually shuns the media spotlight, struck out at Trump using a tone that would have been unthinkable beforehand.
“It is unclear whether out of intent or ineptitude (Trump) is wrecking the historic relations between the United States and Europe,” Giovanbattista Fazzolari, undersecretary to the prime minister’s office, said in a statement.
Guys guys guys don’t take it so seriously. Trump was just messing. He was just cutting other people down to enhance his own shimmering glory. It’s what he does. The fact that it’s both ludicrous and disgusting is irrelevant. He’s the boss.
