Call the cops! This terrible woman here said this dainty trans woman is a man!

NHS staff considered calling in police to investigate a nurse who complained about having to share a changing room with a transgender doctor.

An employment tribunal heard that Dr Beth Upton and consultant Dr Kate Searle discussed reporting Sandie Peggie for potential criminality for “misgendering” on Christmas Eve 2023.

Ms Peggie, who has three decades of experience in the NHS, had challenged Dr Upton for being in female changing rooms, due to her belief that the medic is male and should not have been there.

No not her “belief” you damn fools: her awareness. It’s trans that’s the belief; being is just being.

The

The Washington Post tells a slightly different story about the words scientists are forbidden to use.

“Women.” “Diverse.” “Institutional.” “Historically.”

At the National Science Foundation, staff have been combing through thousands of active science research projects, alongside a list of keywords, to determine if they include activities that violate executive orders President Donald Trump issued in his first week in office. Those include orders to recognize only two genders and roll back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The search is driven by dozens of flagged words, according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post and two NSF employees…

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Previously published health documents have been expunged from public-facing websites in the wake of a Jan. 29 memo from Charles

Trump has ordered scientists to stop using the word “women.”

The word “men” is still allowed.

UC San Diego scientists say they’re still in “stop and start chaos” despite a recent pullback on a federal funding freeze. Researchers say their work is now at risk if it contains language deemed problematic by the White House, including the word “women.“

In his first week in office, President Donald Trump issued executive orders rolling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Now staff at the National Science Foundation are scouring thousands of research projects for dozens of words that could violate those orders. The agency already notified scientists to halt work that doesn’t adhere to Trump’s directives.

The list of banned words circulating

Journalism: STOP DOING THIS.

Hampshire woman appears in court charged with raping girl

Wilson, wearing a pink headband and all-black clothing, spoke only to confirm her preferred pronouns of ‘she/her’ when asked by the court’s legal advisor.

READ MORE: Former teacher accused of rape appears in court

Wilson faces a charge of sexual assault against a boy under 13 and causing or inciting a boy under 13 to engage in sexual activity.

A WOMAN charged with rape and sexual assault against children has appeared in court.

Despite ALL CAPS we can see he’s not A WOMAN.

Maddison Wilson, 37, who identifies as a woman, made her first appearance at Southampton Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday in a five-minute hearing.

He can … Read the rest

Dumb and dumber.

A Republican Congressman from Georgia has introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that would give a new name to Greenland as President Donald Trump continues his efforts to purchase the island.

Named the “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025,” the bill, introduced by Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter, seeks to rename the island from Greenland to a more colorful Red, White and Blueland. 

The act would direct the new Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to oversee the change and implement it on official documentation and maps to refer to Greenland by the updated name.

Let’s simplify this. Just rename every country with a nice simple easy to pronounce white person type name. France

Are words magic? Or no?

On Tuesday the White House broke with decades of precedent and blocked Associated Press reporters from attending two of President Trump’s media availabilities. The AP said it was blocked because it hasn’t changed its stylebook entry for Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America.”

The newswire’s executive editor, Julie Pace, immediately condemned the action. And in a followup letter on Wednesday to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, she signaled a likely legal challenge.

The actions “were plainly intended to punish the AP for the content of its speech,” Pace wrote, adding that “the AP is prepared to vigorously defend its constitutional rights and protest the infringement on the public’s right to independent news

Originally a comment by Bruce Gorton on All your words are wrong.

I think one of the big problems we have as a global society, is this idea of “basic respect” minus the idea of “basic respectability”.

You see it with the Republicans in America. They’re not respectable people.

Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing inherently disrespectable about being poor, about going through rough times or anything like that. What is disrespectable is – relying on federal aid and then voting to take it away from other people.

This is why the leopards have been feasting, the Republicans who are now crying about how their funding has been cut – knew it was going to happen, they … Read the rest

This guy…

[NC is Naomi Cunningham, the barrister representing Sandie Peggie; DU is Upton]

DU: No, for guidance how to achieve real safety at work – at that point had only had assurances re the next shift or so.

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) February 12, 2025

“Real safety” ffs – he’s a man, intruding on the women’s changing room, claiming to seek “safety” from a woman who doesn’t want a man in the women’s changing room.

NC: Which you do by going straight to ED, seeking her out; making up incident on 28/12 re socks/plaster room; embellishing incident w/Rohanna. All for punishment.

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) February 12, 2025

NC: You made up that SP asked about chromosomoes
DU:

Former Fox News personality says Ukraine just has to submit.

Donald Trump’s newly appointed defence secretary told allies on his first international trip that the US was no longer “primarily focused” on European security and that Europe would have to take the lead in defending Ukraine.

Pete Hegseth, speaking to defence ministers at a lunchtime meeting in Brussels, said Europe had to provide “the overwhelming share” of future military aid to Kyiv – and recognise that restoring Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders was unrealistic.

The Pentagon chief said he was “here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe”, though the language was notably

The winnowing continues.

The next stage of the Trump administration’s efforts to slash the federal workforce is underway.

Agency leaders have been told to begin preparations for large-scale layoffs, known as reductions in force, or RIFs, under an executive order President Donald Trump signed Tuesday. They will work with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to carry out the mandate, expanding the role of the billionaire’s team in reshaping federal government operations.

Titled “Implementing The President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative,” the executive order also severely limits federal departments’ ability to bring on more staffers and mandates that agency heads closely coordinate with their DOGE representatives on future hiring plans. Once the hiring freeze that Trump put

The BBC repeats the lie yet again.

A transgender doctor is “only asking for basic respect” when it comes to having their gender identity accepted, an NHS employment tribunal has heard.

But it isn’t “basic respect” he’s demanding. It isn’t “basic respect” to pretend a man is a woman. It’s way beyond basic, and it’s not actually respect.

How about we start demanding some basic respect? Step one would be to tell these bullies to stop ordering us to pretend they are the opposite sex. We all have our own lives and concerns and goals, and we’re fed up to the back teeth with being told to waste a ton of intellectual energy on entitled brats who want us … Read the rest

Originally a comment by Artymorty at Miscellany Room.

On the “berdache” thing,

A couple points to note about “gender roles” in indigenous cultures:

The most important distinction between indigenous cultures and modern Western culture is the deep social and psychological distinction between collectivism and individualism. Virtually all indigenous cultures were (and are, in the case of those that still exist) collectivist, which is to say that everyone within them was/is raised to conceive of themself as a part of a whole — that the tribe or community itself consists of the “individual” and that each of us serves a small role within it. In a tribal collective, we are only a small part of the “person” that is … Read the rest

Hahahaha Trump whined back in 2012 about Obama’s habit of…

wait for it

…issuing executive orders.

Snopes:

Claim:

In 2012, future U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted, “Why is Barack Obama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?”

Rating:

Correct Attribution

It’s fine when a white guy does it.

… Read the rest

What I keep saying. It’s all about the narcissism.

We've probably all had a nightmare colleague like this entitled manbaby. All you can do is remain professional, do your job and as far as possible within those parameters limit your interactions. But for narcissists that's not good enough. You have to be validating their… https://t.co/Al8SwwNzfq

— Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender) February 11, 2025

Trivial??? How very dare you??!!… Read the rest

Executive branch v courts:

Trump and key members of his administration are lashing out at judges who have blocked some of his second-term agenda, suggesting they don’t have the authority to question his executive power.

Parenthetically, why do journalists so often say “suggesting” instead of “saying”? I suppose it’s an excess of caution for the sake of peace, but at the price of enfeebling the journalism. Trump and his people are saying these things very loudly and explicitly, so to call it “suggesting” is both absurd and cowardly.

So far, the courts have pushed back on Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship, freeze federal grants, and the overhaul of federal agencies like USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Peak Smug Male Jumps In to Lecture Women Who Know More About It Than He Does And Have Vastly More At Stake Than He Does chapter 87 billion.

On a serious note, this is the problem with the Trans debate. There's no need to be hostile or impolite to people who identify as a different gender. All that's needed is to politely but firmly say "no, we can't allow you to do that because we have a duty of respect to others".

—1) (@DPJHodges) February 10, 2025

Oh, gee, thank you, Peak Smug Male; as if we hadn’t already done that and only been punished for it anyway.

“We have to protect women’s safe spaces, and they most

But sir…

DU – disagree I'm demanding, I can't make people comfortable. Spoke to DS and didn't escalate because I can't.
NC – insisting SP share a room without signs of discomfort. That insistence is bullying and abusive
DU – I've not insisted and it's not a falsehood and it's not B+H

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) February 10, 2025

“You are a man.” “Disagree.”

You can’t “disagree.” It’s not an opinion or a guess, it’s a fact. It’s a very very basic fact that everyone knows pretty much from birth. You can’t just wave it away with “I disagree” because it’s not subject to “agreement.”

DU – no
NC – the torturer insists 4 fingers are 5, the ultimate torture

Dashing into dictatorship:

While Trump and his henchmen deconstruct the administrative state, his lawyers are embracing the logic of dictatorship. The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants.

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Trump’s imperial ambitions have made for some laughably thin legal theories. As Just Security noted, the government’s argument in defense of Trump’s birthright citizenship EO does not reference any citizenship statutes nor point to any authority that would give Trump the right to undo birthright citizenship via the stroke of a pen. Instead, after quoting the relevant part of

It’s useful to have philosophy people on the scene.

The reference to the 'how many fingers?' torture bit towards the end of 1984 is very interesting. There's a similar case in Severance, where Holly has to read out an apology script over and over again, 'until she means it'. It's a kind of set piece in epistemology texts, about…

— Jon Pike (@runthinkwrite) February 10, 2025

The reference to the ‘how many fingers?’ torture bit towards the end of 1984 is very interesting. There’s a similar case in Severance, where Holly has to read out an apology script over and over again, ‘until she means it’. It’s a kind of set piece in epistemology texts, about ‘doxastic in/voluntarism’. Can I

The Upton fella is having his turn at the tribunal.

NC The Q is coming. U know some women will be unhappy
DU Not saying that. Some ppl have biased, misinformed unpleasant and bigotted or transphobic views about T ppl and was aware I might work w some of these ppl.
NC The reason is obvious. It's that yr male and wld expe as an

— Tribunal Tweets (@tribunaltweets) February 10, 2025

NC points out that he knew some women would be unhappy having him in the room where they changed their clothes. He replies that some people – not women, of course, but the evasive “people” – have BIASED, MISINFORMED, UNPLEASANT OR BIGOTED OR TRANSPHOBIC VIEWS ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE.… Read the rest