First of all, the headline is nonsensical.

Trans teachers must be allowed to use same showers as female colleagues, schools told

Trans teachers are people who call themselves teachers but have no training and don’t teach?

Or, “trans teachers” are males and females?

No, neither of those. They mean, of course, male teachers who claim to be women.

The lede also gets it wrong:

Trans teachers must be allowed to use the same showers and lavatories as female colleagues, schools have been told.

The second paragraph gets it right.

Training from the National Governance Association (NGA) tells governors that staff should be given access to the bathroom “available to other members of their newly acquired gender”.

There you go. It’s not “all trans people go in with the women”; it’s trans people go in with the people whose sex they pretend to be. Tangled, to be sure, but that’s because the whole idea is tangled.

Anyway, the point is, yet another pack of fools is saying men should be given access to women’s spaces no matter how vulnerable that makes the women, because men who claim to be women get to do whatever they want all the time.

The advice, seen by The Telegraph, goes on to suggest that requiring transgender people to use a disabled toilet instead of making reasonable adjustments “is not lawful or good practice”.

It reads: “Employees who have undergone gender reassignment or who are transgender must be supported to use all toilets and shower facilities which are available to other members of their newly acquired gender. Requiring transgendered people to use disabled toilet facilities instead of making reasonable adjustments is not lawful or good practice.”

See? There it is: trans people get to do whatever they want all the time. Trans people matter; women do not.

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A disgrace to the name of Sherlock.

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female,….the reality is that there are a small number of people, but a real number of people, who believe they’re born in the wrong body, believe that they don’t fit into the male-female definition.”

But bodies are only male or female. Even if you’re born into the “wrong” body, even if that was a real phenomenon, that “wrong” body is still either a male one or a female one. There are no other sexes. That trapped entity has no impact on the cells and tissues making up the body within which it is trapped. “Gender identity” can’t change that. “Feelings” and “belief” can’t change that. This is another example where sex and gender are conflated and confused for tactical advantage. If it is advantageous to distinguish the two, they will do so, without worrying themselves over having mashed them together moments before. Firm, consistant definitions spoil their ability to play this game, which is one of the reasons they avoid any careful examination of the actual bases for the supposed phenomena upon which they claim to ground their demands. Yet you’d think that they would want to have clear definitions of transness in order to filter out those who won’t benefit from treatment. They should be the ones most interested in filtering out disphoric children who will desist as they go through puberty, and to prevent needless detransitioning. If you claim in retrospect that some people who transition were never really “trans” to begin with, what does that tell us about the standards for screening, and how do you know that anybody is trans? Without research findings that answer these vital questions, “gender affirming treatment” is nothing more than the recruitment of dedicated footsoldiers who are less likely to leave because of the sunk cost fallacy, because they have sacrificed their very flesh, and mental health for the Cause. Any method that could reliably determine exactly which disphoric people would not benefit from “gender-affirming medicine” might well show that nobody does.

We’re back to an undeclared (but fluid, on-again, off-again) Cartesian dualism, and the failure to explain how the “Mental substance” of the mind interacts with the “Material substance” of the body, or the Catholic inability to explain in real-world terms what the difference is between consecrated and unconsecrated Communion wafers, and what skill an ordained priest has learned in order to make that change happen. The unevidenced, faith-based concept of “gender identity” fits right in with these carefully unexamined metaphysical bedfellows.

Golly.

At four minutes she says “If your concern is that men will attack women, then we’re talking about men attacking women, and by subterfuge trying to get in.”

Uh, yes. Of course that’s what we’re talking about. It always has been.

Oh oh oh but some trans women really do idennify as women, and they’re not there to attack women at all, and if you think they are, you’re transphobic, and you lose and we win so ha.

Also why are her arms so short? She’s barely able to clap them, which is sad because she keeps trying to. (I know that’s a mean question but then she’s being pretty mean to half of all humans, so there’s that.)

“I find it sad that people feel so threatened by someone saying there is something other than biological male and female, and I think if any of us with lived life experience in this house can recognize that while our world is still very much built around binary male female order of things the reality is that there are a small number of people, but a real number of people, who believe they’re born in the wrong body, believe that they don’t fit into the male-female definition.”

Yes of course there are people who believe that, but they’re wrong. There are people who believe all kinds of absurd things – real people, who make a real number of people. There are lots of people like that. We know. We don’t dispute that. What we dispute is the jump from that to the claim that what they believe is true.

What we dispute is the claim that because they believe it so passionately, so noisily, so endlessly, so tediously, so ferociously, that somehow that makes it true.

It. doesn’t.

What we dispute is the claim that because they believe it so passionately the rest of us are somehow obliged to agree with them and pretend it’s true.

We. aren’t.

What we dispute is the claim that because they say it so loudly and so often the rest of us are somehow obliged to say it along with them.

We. aren’t.

Trump says Lincoln should have just gotten his act together and negotiated that whole Civil War thing.

It’s not exactly clear what Trump thinks Lincoln should have done to “settle” the dispute between the North and the South, the latter of which seceded from the Union largely because it wanted to keep enslaving people.

The South thought it had a right to keep enslaving people. It’s weird to think that, because what about the rights of the people being enslaved? Why should a purported “right” to enslave outweigh a right to be free, to be not enslaved, to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

Elsewhere in Trump’s sit-down with Fox, he claimed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “very much into women’s health,” that Kamala Harris is “a low-IQ person,” and that in a Harris presidency, “you won’t have any cows anymore.”

I don’t have any cows now. Most people don’t have any cows. We don’t have any place to put them, or any need for them if we did have the space, or any desire to milk them.

I generally think the term “virtue signaling” is thrown around too readily, but this one is a bullseye. 100% look at my virtue and be amazed.

Consult them for what purpose? There are only two sexes. Find the one that matches your sex, and walk in. What is there to consult about?

Unless of course he means the symbols. The symbols are idiotic. I’m a woman and yet I have two legs, not one. I’m a woman and yet I walk freely on my two legs instead of standing motionless like a doll on a wedding cake. But that’s nothing to do with transywansy, it’s just everyday sexism.

What the sphinx has to do with it anyone’s guess.

It’s all so mysterious.

Mountain West Conference commissioner Gloria Nevarez said Thursday that the forfeitures that women’s volleyball teams are willing to take to avoid playing San Jose State is “not what we celebrate in college athletics” and that she is heartbroken over what has transpired this season surrounding the Spartans and their opponents.

Four teams have canceled games against San Jose State: Boise State, Southern Utah, Utah State and Wyoming, with none of the schools explicitly saying why they were forfeiting.

Funnily enough, The Associated Press also doesn’t explicitly say why they’re forfeiting. The AP nowhere admits that the issue is a male player on the San Jose State women’s team.

A group of Nevada players issued a statement saying they would not take the court when the Wolf Pack were scheduled to host the Spartans on Oct. 26. The players cited their “right to safety and fair competition,” though their school reaffirmed Thursday that the match was still planned and that state law bars forfeiture “for reasons related to gender identity or expression.”

State law tells women they can’t refuse to play against men? What a horrific law if so.

“It breaks my heart because they’re human beings, young people, student-athletes on both sides of this issue that are getting a lot of national negative attention,” Nevarez told The Associated Press at Mountain West basketball media days. “It just doesn’t feel right to me.”

Yes, they’re human beings, some of whom are women and some are men. The teams are divided by sex. There’s a women’s team and a men’s team. Men shouldn’t be in the women’s team. San Jose State has a man in the women’s team.

San Jose State coach Todd Kress said playing was his team’s “safe haven” and noted that security and police escorts are now involved when his team takes the court. He has not discussed specific players publicly since the forfeits began.

“I know that it’s definitely taken a toll on many of them. They’re receiving messages of hate, which is completely ridiculous to me,” Kress said in Albuquerque. “Some of those people are the underbelly of society that you attack an 18-, 19-, 20-year-old female. And even more so if you’re a parent and you’re attacking 18-, 19- or 20-year-olds. Would you want your student-athlete, your daughter, to face the same kind of hate that you’re dishing out?”

But he’s not a female. He’s not anyone’s daughter. That’s the point.

So we’ll compromise, we’ll make it unfair to most women but not the ones at the very top. That’s the way to go, right? Split the difference!

Transgender women are to be banned from professional and semi-professional women’s cricket in England – but controversially not from the grass-roots game.

Those nasty smelly peasants who don’t play professional cricket can just suck it up, right? If they’re women that is. Stupid bitches.

Those rules are among the most liberal in sport, allowing anyone identifying as female to play in women’s cricket – subject to written ECB clearance only for “professional club and England pathway teams”.

This has long sparked major concern among women’s rights campaigners about fairness and safety for those born female, including around shared changing facilities.

But women’s rights campaigners are being exclooosionary by campaigning for women’s rights, so we ignore their concern.

Sharron Davies, the British swimming icon denied Olympic gold in 1980 by state-sponsored doping in East Germany, and a leading voice in the trans debate, branded the new policy “a coward’s cop-out”. She added: “If it’s dangerous, unfair and unsafe at professional and semi-professional level, it’s the same at grass-roots or pathways. The ECB can’t say, ‘We’ll protect these females but not these females – because they’re not good enough’. All sport for females should be protected and an open category created, made welcoming of all, no matter how they identify. It’s wilful negligence to pretend biological males and females aren’t physically different.”

Fiona McAnena, director of campaigns at human rights charity Sex Matters, said: “The ECB’s decision to include men who identify as women in amateur female competition is a disastrous, two-tier policy that makes no sense. Anyone who has ever played cricket knows that it’s neither fair nor safe for women to face male bowlers and batsmen, yet that is what most amateur female cricketers will have to do if men are included in women’s competition. And they will have no grounds to object.

“The message to women and girls from ECB seems to be that unless you’re a top player, you don’t get fair play. This policy will put promising girls and women off the game before they ever have a chance to progress to elite level, with catastrophic effects on the pipeline of player development. The ECB claims to support the women’s game but its grudging and partial acceptance of the International Cricket Council’s policy to protect the female category signals that male feelings come first.”

As always.

From Reduxx:

Northern Ireland’s Parliament Invites Trans Identified Male To Speak On “Gender-Based Violence” After Spike In Femicide Deaths

A trans-identified male was invited to speak in Northern Ireland’s parliament on “gender-based violence” and “LGBT youth education” following the brutal murders of four women in the country in just six weeks.

Why? Why ask a male when there are nearly a million women in Northern Ireland?

Alexa Moore, a male who identifies as a “woman,” was invited by the education committee this week to speak on an inquiry into relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools. Alongside Moore, Sophie Nelson from HERe NI, a Belfast-based community organization and registered charity for lesbian and bisexual women, also gave evidence.

But during the meeting, Nelson spoke about the recent killings, stating: “We have an epidemic here of gender-based violence and the prevention of this needs to start in school.”

Notably, Moore has previously made controversial social media posts describing women critical of gender ideology as “fascists” for seeking to uphold women’s single-sex spaces.

It’s not fascist for women to want a refuge from dangerous men. It’s a good deal more “fascist” for men to abuse women for wanting spaces away from men.

Oxford Mail reports:

Witney woman accused of threatening to stab teen near Waitrose

A jury has heard that a woman allegedly threatened to stab a teenage boy if he didn’t have sex with her.

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The defendant is accused of threatening a teenage boy, 14, to engage in a sexual activity with her in a wooded area near the Waitrose supermarket in Witan Way.

She allegedly threatening [sic] to stab him if he tried to run away.

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When he started walking back home, a woman sitting on a nearby bench allegedly gestured him over. The boy believed it was a family friend so obliged but soon realised he did not recognise her. Reportedly, Omoruyi encouraged the boy to drink ‘four to five cups’ of alcohol after telling him she was armed and she would ‘stab him’ if he didn’t do what she said such as staying on the bench with her.

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Omoruyi then reportedly sexually assaulted the teen and tried to force him to have sex with her. He told police he had tried but doesn’t ‘remember’ seeing her genitals.

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Omoruyi was arrested and had intimate swabs taken. The prosecuting barrister told the jury that the swabs revealed the defendant is biologically male.

That “revelation” is at the very end of the long multi-paragraph story, or not so much story as pack of lies.

The BBC goes into contortions to avoid saying that it’s only female people who can have pain from menstruation.

A new study will seek to identify changes in the brain when teenagers experience period pain and whether it is linked to developing chronic pain in later life.

In what is described as a world first, researchers at the University of Oxford will conduct a trial of 11 to 20-year-olds using a range of tests including MRI scans. Half of the 120 volunteers recruited into the RoADPain project will suffer from period pain and half will not.

It’s just bizarre to word it that way. It’s not generalized “teenagers” or “11 to 20-year-olds” who can have period pain. It’s girls/women. They know that of course, and they carefully don’t say it.

There’s one slip-up.

“I think it’s really important that we take period pain seriously,” she said. “About 30% to 40% of teenagers and young women will have periods that are so painful that they can’t go to work, can’t go to school, can’t do their normal activities.

“If we can reduce the risk of people developing chronic pain in the future, that would be so much easier than trying to treat it once it’s developed.”

Oops, how did that “young women” get in there? How embarrassing.

Dr Coxon said she felt it was time to change the narrative that all period pain is normal.

“Some people do experience period pain that is having a severe impact on their life and us telling them just to get on with it is never going to be helpful,” she said. “And if we keep that narrative going it’s just going to be harmful and lead to much more distrust in the system.”

Sigh.

When oh when oh when will adults stop talking this childish nonsense?

One, that “There’s no rationality” is laughable. JKR makes rational arguments, and she’s damn good at it. Rationality is exactly what there is. It’s highly eccentric to announce that there’s no rationality and then immediately talk about men who “feel” they are women with the implication that we should all agree with such men.

Two, that is not hate.

Knowing that a man is a man is not hate.

Women need to know who is a man. It’s not hate to know that and it’s not hate to say it.

I’ll tell you what I do hate though: I hate this mindless formulaic drivel pouring out of the mouths of people in government. That’s what I hate.

Originally a post by Sackbut at Miscellany Room.

This is strange. WaPo: Boston NWSL franchise apologizes for ‘Too Many Balls’ team reveal campaign

Subhead: “Fans and players disliked the slogan, leading the team to issue a statement acknowledging the “hurt we caused” the LGBTQ+ and transgender communities.”

In the launch, the club unveiled its brand through its “Too Many Balls” campaign, a product of Boston-based ad agency Colossus meant to be a pun referencing the number of famous men’s teams in the city and the need for more women’s franchises. In an accompanying video, a narrator says: “Yeah, Boston loves its balls, but maybe there are too many balls in this town. So let’s add a new chapter to our city’s legacy. With new idols, new dreams and a new league to cheer for: the National Women’s Soccer League.”

That sounds quite funny and apropos. But it was deemed “transphobic”, so it must be shut down and an apology issued.

The apology references the hurt they caused “to the LGBTQ+ community and to the trans community in particular”. But of course there was no hurt to anything other than the T part, and perhaps they were even standing up for the L part. There shouldn’t have been any hurt to the “trans community” either, except for those men who insist they are women and that they or other men should be allowed to play on this women’s team; can’t mention the fact that these men possess male genitalia, or used to possess male genitalia, nor make any reference to genitalia at all, except perhaps for phrases intended to insult women.

There was also some complaint about the team name, “BOS Nation”. I have no idea why. BOS is the code for the main Boston airport, and “BOS Nation” is an anagram of “Bostonian”. Seems clever to me.

When you can’t choose your roommates:

Female inmates at the women’s prison in Shakopee, Minnesota have come forward to report disturbing behavior from the trans-identified males housed at their facility. Former inmate Rebeca Warmbo alerted Reduxx to the situation and has been communicating with women inside Shakopee, who reveal the male transfers are making them feel “unsafe” and “scared” for their lives.

Well, sorry, but that doesn’t matter when men want to pretend to be women and be up close and personal. Sucks to be you.

As Reduxx reported last month, a total of five male convicts have been transferred to a Minnesota’s women-only prison following the adoption of a gender identity policy by the Department of Corrections in January of 2023. Two of the men who are now being held at MCF-Shakopee are sexual predators serving sentences related to the abuse of children.

Ah good choice. Couldn’t be something like stealing or fraud, no, has to be violence and abuse, so that the women will feel really unnerved. How nice people are.

The prison policy was altered following a June 2022 lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Corrections which ultimately resulted in the implementation of measures permitting male convicts to be housed in the female estate.

The discrimination claim was filed by the trans activist non-profit organization Gender Justice on behalf of Craig ‘Christina’ Lusk, who was serving a five-year sentence for the possession of methamphetamine at the Moose Lake correctional facility for men. In order to aid their legal fight to have violent men placed into the women’s prison, Gender Justice was granted nearly $500,000 in taxpayer funds from the administration of Governor Tim Walz.

The glorious fight to put violent men in women’s prisons.

Rachel Wong again:

Fundamental rights? Fundamental rights?? Are you serious? Do you have the adults locked in a closet somewhere?

It is indeed a sign of respect for gender idenniny, and that’s another reason I wouldn’t do it in a million years.

I can’t (and of course won’t) “respect people’s pronouns” because there’s no such thing as “people’s pronouns.” There are only pronouns. We don’t have our very own adjectives and we don’t have our very own pronouns, either. Geddoverit.

Aaron Rupar says Trump is rapidly crumbling, with clips that show Trump indeed crumbling.

On Monday night, Trump held what was easily one of his most bizarre campaign events ever — a failed town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, that ended with him bobbing and weaving on stage for nearly 40 minutes to a soundtrack that ranged from funereal opera to Guns N’ Roses.

Then, following his Economic Club of Chicago event on Tuesday, Trump traveled down to Atlanta for a low energy rally where he seemed to have trouble stringing together cogent sentences when he wasn’t reading from the teleprompter.

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These rallies may energize his base, but beyond that they mostly end up providing fodder for damaging video clips like the ones above. Trump, however, reliably gets help from a mainstream press that too often sanewashes his speeches for readers and viewers who aren’t watching them live and may not spend a lot of time on social media.

The New York Times, for instance, described Trump as “swaying soberly” during his musical “detour” in Pennsylvania, adding that he’s known “for improvisational departures.” The WSJ’s headline about the event read “Trump’s Pennsylvania Town Hall Ends in Concert,” as though the plan all along was to have Trump behave like a maniac. ABC News’ TV report on the bizarre spectacle was even worse, with a reporter praising the “almost intimate” atmosphere and noting “people were having a good time. It did not seem out of the ordinary.” (It was very much out of the ordinary.)

So the question is whether enough of his fans will notice in time.

New South Wales Labor and Greens display their contempt for women.

The speeches from @NSWLabor and @GreensNSW in support of Alex Greenwich’s “Equality” Bill have been atrocious.

The level of blind adherence to radical gender ideology and utter disregard for the safety of women and children is astounding. And that’s to say nothing of the blatant lies.

Greens MP @jennyleong chose to wear a t-shirt that says: “NO TERFS ON OUR TURF”.

No TERFS – AKA those who support women’s sex-based rights – but no issue with men who say they’re women (including autogynephiles – look it up) intruding on female-only spaces like toilets, changing rooms and refuges with women and girls. p.s. I have just realised I’m blocked by NSW Greens so feel free to tag them.

That photo is blood-chilling. The hatred of women among “progressives” – including women – is a non-stop horror.

BBC Sport pokes women in the eye again.

BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year nominees revealed

You know what’s next. This is the BBC after all.

Traitors and bullies.

The University of Nevada has issued a statement rebuking its women’s volleyball team for forfeiting a match against a team that includes a transgender player. In recent weeks, several schools have canceled matches against San Jose State, whose roster includes transgender redshirt senior Blaire Fleming.

Monday, players on Nevada’s women’s volleyball team issued a statement to OutKick announcing their decision to forfeit their Oct. 26 match, overriding a previous decision from their university.

“We, the University of Nevada Reno women’s volleyball team, forfeit against San Jose State University and stand united in solidarity with the volleyball teams of Southern Utah University, Boise State University, the University of Wyoming, and Utah State University,” the statement said, referring to the other teams who have forfeited their matches.

And the University scolded them.

“The players’ decision and statement were made independently, and without consultation with the University or the athletic department. The players’ decision also does not represent the position of the University,” the school’s statement said.

“The University and its athletic programs are governed by the Nevada Constitution and Nevada law, which strictly protect equality of rights under the law, and that equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by this state or any of its subdivisions on account of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, ancestry or national origin.”

Well guess what: if you force them to play against a team with a male member you are abridging their equality of rights. Including “gender identity or expression” in that list cancels “sex” in that list. You can protect women’s rights or trans rights but you can’t protect both.

“The University is also governed by federal law as well as the rules and regulations of the NCAA and the Mountain West Conference, which include providing competition in an inclusive and supportive environment.”

But not for the girls, you dumb fux. It’s not an inclusive and supportive environment for the girls. You might as well say one competitor in a marathon can ride a bike instead of running.