Originally a comment by Artymorty on Then he announced an Australian DOGE.

I think a lot of people were dabbling in conservatism because they’d been alienated by the left’s creeping dogmatism. But with Trump 2.0 everybody realized no matter how badly the left had been tainted by extremism — and all of us in the gender trenches have the scars to prove just how bad it got — the right is dangerous, too, so much so that it’s become an existential threat to democracy.

I’m furious at the Liberal party. I’m furious at the CBC. I’m furious at pretty much all of Canada’s progressive apparatus. But I’d rather work to repair it than to see the conservative apparatus take … Read the rest

JKR has one of them there long post items on TwitterX, and as usual it’s a good read.

In light of recent open letters from academia and the arts criticising the UK's Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights, it's possibly worth remembering that nobody sane believes, or has ever believed, that humans can change sex, or that binary sex isn't a material fact. These…

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 3, 2025

These letters do nothing but remind us of what we know only too well: that pretending to believe these things has become an elitist badge of virtue.

An elitist badge of virtue or a desperate measure for the sake of avoiding punishment. We don’t know which are which, of … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Rev David Brindley on Trump boosts the other team.

Peter Dutton is the first opposition leader to lose his seat. As late as January all the polls were predicting he would be the next Prime Minister with a sizeable majority. Then he announced an Australian DOGE to be headed up by a woman wearing a MAGA hat, an uncosted plan to build 7 nuclear power plants around the country, sacking 47,000 unspecified public servants, and most tellingly, insisting that women would be forced back into the office instead of working from home, and if they didn’t like it, they could quit or job share.

He would announce a policy today only to reverse the announcement … Read the rest

There’s a lot that Trump doesn’t know, but whether or not he has to adhere to the US Constitution shouldn’t be one of them.

President Trump — when asked if he thinks he needs to uphold the Constitution on “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” — said, “I don’t know,” but added that his lawyers “are obviously going to follow what the Supreme Court said.”

Dude. You can say you don’t know what’s on the menu for dinner tonight, but you can’t go saying you don’t know whether you have to uphold the Constitution or not. It’s like not knowing how to apply the brakes when you drive a car.

The response came after a series of questions regarding the

Of course they do.

Transgender footballers plot to flout ban and play on

Transgender women and their allies have threatened to flout the ban on those born male playing in women’s football in England.

Telegraph Sport has been shown WhatsApp messages from those involved in a women’s league plotting to ignore a ban announced by the Football Association following last month’s Supreme Court ruling on single-sex spaces.

Fae Fulconis, who plays for Hackney Women in the sixth tier of the female game, told The i Paper: “I’m going to fight this ruling. If they want to ban me, then they can physically come and get me off the pitch.”

What does that sound like?

Oh yes: rape.

It sounds … Read the rest

What do we get in return?

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in a disastrous night for his conservative rivals, as voters chose stability over change against a backdrop of global turmoil inflicted by US President Donald Trump.

Australia’s return of a left-leaning government follows Canada’s similar sharp swing towards Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, another governing party whose fortunes were transformed by Trump. The loss of Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton’s seat mirrors that of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

I’m happy for Australia and Canada, I really am, but the price is too high.… Read the rest

Oh. good. god.

Watch the expression on the interviewer’s face when Trump doesn’t know what the declaration of independence is.

Don’t migrants who apply for a citizenship have to know what the Declaration of Independence is?

Why doesn’t the president of the United States know? pic.twitter.com/ISRH0NUYWQ

— BlueDream (@58bugeye) May 1, 2025

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Stonewall is poking its foot over the line Mummy told it not to cross.

Stonewall will be referred to the Charity Commission on Monday unless it withdraws “wrong and dangerous” advice on the meaning of last month’s Supreme Court ruling on women’s rights.

Sex Matters, the women’s rights group, say the controversial LGBT charity has encouraged “organisations to act unlawfully” by suggesting they delay any changes to female facilities such as toilets and changing rooms.

It’s heart-warming that Stonewall is so desperate to keep punishing women for being women. It’s impressive that Stonewall’s great project these days is to urge men to invade women’s toilets and changing rooms, because obviously women are bad people – spawn of the devil, … Read the rest

When misogynistic labels become ordinary language:

An NHS trust has come under fire for using the derogatory term “terf” in a guide on how to support transgender staff.

In documents drawn up by the North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), the guidance uses the slur, which stands for “transgender-exclusionary radical feminist”, to describe women who do not want to share single-sex facilities with trans women.

The women in question do not want to share single-sex facilities with men. The fact that they’re men is the part that matters. The fact that they call themselves trans is just a kind of veil drawn over the awkward fact that they are men. The men part should be front and … Read the rest

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