The Times (the London one):

As a self-proclaimed “leftie liberal”, Tracy Shaw, 44, a mother of three, had not taken much notice of the rise of transgender activism — but that all changed in the space of a few weeks last summer.

Her nine-year-old daughter brought home a notice from her gymnastics club in south Oxfordshire informing her that she would have to share changing rooms with trans children. Then a friend, who had to attend a rape crisis centre, was told that she had to be prepared to share details of her assault with self-indentifying women.

The final straw came when another friend’s teenage daughter, who has short hair and wears trousers, was approached by a teacher who asked

The myriad ways women are treated differently from men, not in a good way, are so myriad they’re hard to exhaust. We keep learning of new ones. Jill Filipovic points out that young men have promise while young women are incompetent.

There are several youngish men jostling for the presidential slot, and maybe this is why.

But whether a youngish candidate is bright, brilliant and promising or inexperienced, off-putting and ruthlessly ambitious depends on whether the young thing in question is male or female.

“Promise” itself is gendered. Research consistently shows that in American workplaces, women tend to be promoted once their managers see them perform well; men are promoted if managers believe in their potential to do well.

More on the trans women running with women in the Boston marathon last year issue:

Transgender women will race in next week’s Boston Marathon, officials say — a decision sparking controversy among experts who disagree on whether runners who identify as women but were born male might hold a competitive advantage.

At least five openly transgender women are signed up to run April 16. And while they aren’t the first, they’re helping bring clarity to the race’s stance on transgender runners.

“We take people at their word. We register people as they specify themselves to be,” said Tom Grilk, chief of the Boston Athletic Association, the group behind the race. “Members of the LGBT community have had a lot to

Trump called asylum seekers at the southern border “animals” yesterday and yet

As President Trump threatened to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border in recent days, his Department of Homeland Security nearly doubled the number of temporary guest worker visas available this summer.

Well, that’s different. That’s cheap labor; that’s a whole other story.

DHS and the Labor Department plan to grant an additional 30,000 H-2B visas this summer on top of the 33,000 H-2B visas they had planned to give out, the agencies confirmed.

The H-2B visa is for foreign workers to come to the United States and work for several months at a company such as a landscaper, amusement park or hotel. About 80 percent of these visas went

This has happened before.

The FBI has joined the investigation into a string of suspicious fires at historically black churches in Louisiana. Three churches have burned in less than two weeks in St. Landry Parish near Baton Rouge.

The fire at Greater Union Baptist Tuesday burned from the roof to the pews. For Pastor Harry Richard, whose grandfather helped start the church more than 100 years ago, the damage is personal.

“He left a legacy for me and I was trying to fulfill that to the best of my ability,” he said.

The suspicious fires began early last week, with the most recent one on Thursday. All three historically black baptist churches are just a few miles apart in

Speaking of the ACLU…

FACT CHECK: Supporting trans athletes hurts no one.https://t.co/zQ9peh1zwt

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 2, 2019

They say, captioning a photo of two boys who Identify As girls winning a race against girls.

Women and girls do not need protecting from the same people who are pushing abortion bans, removing Title IX protections for all girls, and rolling back the clock on gender justice.

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 2, 2019

Girls who are trans are girls. PERIOD.

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 2, 2019

No one is hurt when trans people live authentically.

Not in the restroom.

Not in the locker room.

Not on the court, field or track.

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 2, 2019

FACT CHECK: Many

I’m sensing a pattern.

Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.
Trans women are women.#EqualityAct

— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) April 2, 2019

TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.
TRANS PEOPLE WON'T BE ERASED.

— ACLU (@ACLU) April 2, 2019

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Elie Mystal on what a rat bastard Neil Gorsuch is:

We live in a culture that fetishizes vengeance. Nobody is going to cry if Tony Stark blasts Thanos’s face off this summer. Nobody is going to care if Game of Thrones returns with a ritualistic burning of the Lannisters. Morally, our society is more at peace with the death penalty than it might seem.

Compared to moral philosophy, the law offers a much more compelling case against capital punishment. Some would argue that the first law is a law against capital punishment: thou shalt not kill. And if Charlton Heston is not your idea of a law-giver, political philosophers will tell you that the only reason we’re even in

It’s all so technical, and I don’t have a gender identity degree. It’s over my head I’m afraid.

even in that instance though they still wouldn’t be a trans woman if they were afab, similar to how I am both trans and a lesbian but I am not a trans lesbian bc that’s appropriative of the identities of transfemme ppl.

— fagdyke friday (@bigdoggenergy) April 5, 2019

Damn I’m lost already. People are allowed to be agender/genderless and still call themselves women because they see it as a sociopolitical label…so…does it matter what kind of body they have?

Oh maybe it does, because they’re not allowed to be trans women if they are women with women-type bodies, because that’s…appropriative … Read the rest

Huh. Really?

Admin official slams House Dem demands for Trump's tax returns: "This is a hill and people would be willing to die on it… we will see you in court."

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 5, 2019

People would be willing to die on the hill of Trump’s ability to keep his tax returns secret? Really? That’s their noble cause?

Maybe it’s just the one spokes. Maybe everybody else in there is saying “Nope, nope, not me, get yourselves some other fool to die on that hill, I’m not interested.”

President Donald Trump continues to hold his ground against Democratic efforts to obtain his tax returns, with one administration official telling CNN that the President and his

Marathons threw women overboard a year ago:

The San Francisco Marathon confirmed it will allow trans athletes to compete in accordance with their gender identity.

Which is to say, the San Francisco Marathon confirmed it will make it impossible for a woman to win its marathon ever again.

After the Boston Marathon announced on Monday that transgender runners will be allowed to register in the gender category which most closely corresponds with their identity, a Care2 petition urged San Francisco to clarify its policies. It notes that the Bay Area race “requires people signing up for the S.F. Marathon to select a gender, male or female” on its website.

“We would love to see San Francisco Marathon clarify whether

When I was a kid my brother and I liked to entertain the adults after a large meal with suggestions of gross-out combinations to make them squeal in disgust. Anchovies in chocolate sauce, cherry pie with a scoop of chopped herring; that sort of thing. Here’s another one:

If you want tickets for the forthcoming showdown between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek, which will be held later this month in Toronto, better act fast: There are two left — as of this writing, anyway — and they’re $1,500 apiece. The unlikely and unshaven pair will square off at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, which seats about 3,000, where they will debate whether capitalism or Marxism

I’m still chewing on Kevin’s formulation.

Meanwhile, in reality, transgender kids are bullied for being trans; the principle effect of that bullying is psychological harm; the principle means of that bullying is misgendering; and the principle justification for that misgendering is trustworthy adults in those kids’ lives who argue in support of misgendering transgender people.

The transgender kids who are bullied for being trans…would they be bullied any less or more if they were not trans but nonconforming? Does Kevin know? Does anyone?

As many people have pointed out, kids are bullied for a slew of reasons, because kids seem to have a deep need to police other kids and/or take out their aggressions on them.

How does Kevin … Read the rest