Why are we doing the flags at half mast thing for the pope? Do we do it for the Archbishop of Canterbury? Do we do it for all religious celebrities? If so why? If not why? Why single out the pope? Catholicism is a horrible religion, especially for women.

I did ask Google but it refuses to tell me – it just keeps repeating FrancisFrancisFrancis. Yes I know, I’m asking about other popes and clerics.

I feel like going out and buying a flag just so that I can fly it. Is there a devil flag? An atheist flag? A gender-atheist flag?… Read the rest

What next? Pete Hegseth accidentally dropping a nuke down Trump’s pants?

As last week got underway, one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon. Soon after, Darin Selnick, another top member of Hegseth’s team was out, too.

The same day, nearly every member of the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service — described as the department’s “fast-track tech development arm” — announced that they’re resigning. Soon after, Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was also removed from the Pentagon.

Good thing it’s only the Pentagon.

Wait…

And just when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse, they got worse. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary

They’re just falling all over themselves in the rush to keep women down.

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to stop a plot by ministers to thwart last week’s Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women.

Labour ministers and MPs will this week meet to discuss how to promote trans rights in the wake of the landmark judgment. They are understood to be planning to take their demands to the equalities minister.

The plot emerged in leaked WhatsApp messages from a group chat of Labour MPs, including ministers Sir Chris Bryant and Dame Angela Eagle. Both railed against comments made by Baroness Falkner, the equality watchdog chief, who said the ruling meant trans women would be

Joan Smith tells us Labour is plotting to make things worse for women.

Yesterday’s Mail on Sunday has revealed that government ministers secretly condemned the ruling in a WhatsApp group and plotted to challenge it. Labour MPs specifically attacked Baroness Falkner, chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is due to issue new guidance this summer on the court’s common-sense ruling that “sex” means biological sex.

Falkner has correctly interpreted the judgment to mean that men who claim to be women cannot use single-sex spaces or compete against female athletes at sporting events. But when a Labour MP in the WhatsApp group described Falkner’s response as “pretty appalling”, Culture minister Sir Chris Bryant replied that he “agreeed

Why aren’t ALL MPs saying this? With one voice? Why is it cool for men to threaten women with violence and murder? Why does the left look hard in the other direction?

A mob of trans-activists waving death threats at women isn't protest—it's criminal incitement. If the law isn’t enforced, we don’t have equality, we have two-tier justice.

It’s time for Labour to stop being on the side of these extremists and start defending women. https://t.co/CJKC4ZTesb

— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) April 20, 2025

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And another one. Lloyds Bank ffs.

The reaction to the judgment serves as an important reminder that, while the law is the law, our culture remains dead-set against women who say no to men. It’s how women’s and lesbians’ rights were so rapidly eroded by Stonewall and its allies in the first place, and why women have been bullied, hounded and sacked simply for trying to assert their legal protections.

The same people are ignoring the supreme court’s emphasis that none of this takes away from trans people’s existing rights, and are scaremongering and infantilising trans people as victims. Lloyds Bank wrote to all its employees to say it “stood by” and “cherished” all its trans employees.

Cherished! Cherished … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty on Yes but.

Trans women won’t cease to exist because five judges decided the legal definition of a woman within the Equality Act 2010 does not include them, even if they hold Gender Recognition Certificates.

No, they most certainly won’t. So what’s the fucking problem, then?

And now they have to navigate a world that is crueller than it was before.

No, they fucking don’t. There is absolutely nothing cruel about acknowledging anyone’s biological sex, ever. If a man cannot cope with other people acknowledging his biological sex, he’s clearly got his mind tied up in mental knots and he needs serious therapy to untie them.

But most of these men absolutely can cope … Read the rest

But I thought our trans siblings were so vulnerable and terrified?

Statues defaced in trans rights protest

That doesn’t sound like fear, it sounds like rage. Male rage.

Trans rights activists who vandalised statues in Westminster are “simply criminals” and should be prosecuted, the shadow home secretary has said.

Seven statues were defaced when thousands of people gathered in central London on Saturday to demonstrate against the Supreme Court ruling that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

Protesters daubed “fag rights” and a heart on a banner held by the suffragette Dame Millicent Fawcett. 

Well of course. She’s just another bitch, right? Another one of those horrible bitches who think women’s rights matter.

Robert Jenrick,

Cute little Sophie lets the mask fall.

If you’re a politician, and a speaker at the rally you’re attending starts calling women “bitches” and saying they want to shit on them, leave. https://t.co/dzQVDYElO7

— Helen Lewis (@helenlewis) April 20, 2025

At 12 seconds – “The only person who should shutup is YOU. We should all take a shite on YOU – you heinous creepy awl BITCH.”

He then realizes that was a bit much, and tries to backpedal for a couple of seconds, then reverts to roaring “Our rights are under attack!!”

What a loathsome person he is.… Read the rest

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.

…

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