The judge went on to explain that although the science of sex difference was not in dispute, âthe issues in this case involve wider issues than biologyâ. He considered and then dismissed expert opinion from evolutionary biologist Colin Wright, author and philosopher Kathleen Stock, and campaigner Helen Joyce. Remarkably, he declared Joyce, author of a best-selling book on transgenderism, as having âno recognised expertise in any of the areas in which she expresses an opinionâ.
Well, if all the maniacs decide as one that they’re not going to listen to a single thing a woman says because they take it for granted that women are all worthless idiots, then sure, we worthless idiot women have no recognized expertise on being a woman, in their particular worldview.
But they could always decide not to go that route.
Women no longer exist as a separate category in Australia. Sex is âchangeableâ, according to the judge who has just ruled in a case that effectively destroys single-sex spaces and services for Australian women. Itâs a devastating blow for female rights in the country, which is experiencing an âepidemicâ of violence against women according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
If sex is changeable, tell us who the men are who have changed into women and gone on to get pregnant and give birth. Name one.
The implications of the judgment, while not directly about sexual and domestic violence, are far-reaching. There has never been a more urgent case for single-sex services in Australia, yet the outcome confirms that âgender identityâ now takes precedence over sex. One of the most shocking features of the case is that the result has been welcomed by Australiaâs Sex Discrimination Commissioner, who issued a press release stuffed with familiar jargon.
How can the Sex Discrimination Commissioner do the job of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner if she (or he? but surely one doesn’t make a man the Sex Discrimination Commissioner?) thinks sex is changeable? It’s as if there were a Red Hat Wearing Discrimination Commissioner – just tell people to stop wearing red hats and boom, the job is over. Just tell women to change into men and problem solved.
But while an array of courts, politicians and human rights organisations have decided that sex is no longer obvious and immutable, the same cannot be said about the assumptions of men who murder women.
Last year, 64 women were killed by someone known to them in Australia, a higher rate even than in the UK. In April, six people â five of them women â were murdered in a rampage in a shopping mall in Sydney. It belongs in a horrific series of attacks based on sex that stretches all the way back to the Montreal massacre in 1989, when 14 female engineering students were murdered. The latest addition to this grim list happened in the UK last month, when three little girls were killed at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.
Well, no doubt there are plenty of trans “women” burning with resentment and fury that the killers didn’t murder them.
— Celine against The Machine (@celinevmachine_) August 23, 2024
“Has stolen the last three years of my life” You know what would’ve helped with that? Not launching the case in the first place.
“There is so much hate cast on trans people” Acknowledging biological reality is not hateful.
“When I walked into the courtroom, I felt safe because I was treated with respect” Bro, the TRA’s out the front didn’t even recognize you. I know that because I was there. You were also “misgendered” multiple times by your own team. Pfft. THIS is the face that is setting women’s rights back in Australia. Jason Tickle is a man. Pass it on.
Absolutely wild to watch a judge claim that sex can be changed because official documents can be updated with information contrary to the material reality of the person.#TickleVGiggle#IStandWithSallGrover#Onward
So Australia just decided that women cannot have nice things unless we include men who larp as women. And some women will agreeâŠonward to the court of appeal.
— Maria MacLachlan đŹđ§đŹđ· đđ€đđŠ (@MPMacLachlan) August 22, 2024
Australian women have no right to make a procedural boundary with a man if that man has a gender identity of female. Justice Bromwich relied heavily on the Qld BDM legislation that Shannon Femtiman admitted to making to affirm trans identified males. #TickleVGiggle
Apologies for swearing but I fucking hate this world. Women have zero rights anymore. A hairy arsed bloke now has to be accommodated whenever women want to meet, chat or do whatever they fucking well want to do. I hope no male only spaces are allowed in Aus any longer. https://t.co/ZTs1eeUBcw
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, life is not quite so light-hearted.
As of today, this is how women must dress in Afghanistan, according to the Taliban's Supreme Leader.
The following rules are now in effect: The full face must be coveredâno hands, nothing visible. The black veil was presented as a "recommendation" a year ago, now it is the law. pic.twitter.com/GmqupXlJms
I’m not gonna try and write a children’s book tomorrow. I rather wish she’d stick out of what I do, and not comment on stuff that she doesn’t know much about either.
Like mutilating people’s genitals?
This guy started out as a urologist and switched to “gender surgery” when it became the next big thing. He’s not a scholar of gender, he’s a surgeon. He knows how to perform surgery but that doesn’t mean he knows anything about whether it’s a brilliant idea to alter people’s genitalia to make them look more like the other sex. Since he has a financial incentive not to look deeply into that question, it’s rather the opposite.
James Bellringer qualified in 1982 from Cambridge and St. Thomasâ Hospital, London. After training in Urology, he started as a General Urologist in West London in 1996, but when Mr. Michael Royle retired, he was invited to come and take over the Gender Surgery service, at Charing Cross Hospital, London. After initial training with Mr. Royle in 2000, he has been working in gender surgery ever since, and with the increase in the gender workload, this has become his primary interest. An irretrievable breakdown with Trust management in 2014 led him to resign from Charing Cross, and he now works privately at Parkside Hospital.
Gee I wonder what caused the irretrievable breakdown with Trust management.
On other pages he provides details about his work. I don’t feel like quoting those.
A member of the police force in Basque Country, Spain, has been arrested for attempting to murder his wife in front of the coupleâs two daughters. Following the horrific crime, the family learned that Jose* had changed his legal sex in an apparent effort to avoid harsher penalties for domestic violence.
The Basque Government Security Department has confirmed that the attack took place in San SebastiĂĄn in the early hours of Saturday morning. Jose threatened to harm his daughters, one of whom is an infant, before grabbing a kitchen knife âof considerable dimensionsâ and attempting to harm his wife with it. Fortunately, the woman was able to locate some pepper spray that was in the house and used it to defend herself and the baby by pepper spraying Jose in the face. She grabbed the baby and ran, but not before Jose took the other child hostage.
According to El Correo, Jose requested to be treated according to the protocols established for the arrest of women, revealing that he had changed his sex marker to âfemaleâ last November without his family or friends being aware. Though he had not changed his name or appearance, Jose is recorded as a âfemaleâ in the Civil Registry.
So what happens? Men identify themselves as the very people they’re trying to wipe out, so that femicide and domestic violence can continue.
Now is it clear how regressive and woman-hating this ideology is???
This is the second case in the past month where a man in Spain changed his gender marker in an apparent attempt to avoid harsher penalties for crimes against women.
The ironies are so many and so horrible they’re hard to keep track of.
James Esses has reached a settlement with the Metanoia Institute in London, which specialises in training counsellors and psychotherapists. He lost his place on the course after campaigning against the governmentâs proposed ban on conversion practices.
Esses launched an online petition in April 2021 highlighting concerns that the proposed ban on conversion practices â the practice of attempting to change an individualâs sexual orientation or gender identity â might end up criminalising explorative therapy for children with gender dysphoria. He was expelled from the course by email shortly after.
That’s where the Guardian goes wrong, right there – sexual orientation is not the same as “gender identity.” There are some very salient differences.
In the statement, the college noted: âMetanoia recognises that gender-critical beliefs are protected under the Equality Act 2010. These are the beliefs that sex is binary, immutable and biological and is fundamentally important.â
Of course they’re not actually “beliefs” – but they have to be framed as beliefs now because so many people have decided that sex is not binary, that it is mutable, and that it’s in the mind or personality or soul rather than the body. Those are the real “beliefs” but it doesn’t do to say so.
If her voice can be heard, next thing you know she’s pregnant with some stranger’s kid.
The Talibanâs new decree bans womenâs voices from being heard by men outside their family. This regime has progressively banned women from work, education, travel, media, and public life, reducing their existence to mere reproductive functions with no voice or face. pic.twitter.com/NwULdOZfAQ
DONALD TRUMP HAS NO PLANS TO HEED the advice of his aides and limit himself to policy contrasts when he debates Kamala Harris. He wants to make it personal.
âThis is just the way I am. I hate my opponent. I hate my opponents,â Trump told a confidant who advised the former president to consider backing away from calling the vice president âstupidâ or âdumbâ at their high-profile standoff in a few weeks, which he has done repeatedly.
Trump explained to the confidant that heâs treating Harris the same way he did Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton. âHillary, Joe, Kamala. It doesnât matter. I just hate them.â
That’s toddler-talk. Normal people, adult people, know better than to admit that kind of thing, because they know how repellent it is.
I suppose people like it in Trump because it’s “real” – it’s a break from adult inhibitions or hypocrisies. He’s not fake.
But the thing is, those inhibitions aren’t just hypocrisy. They’re morality, too. It’s not good to heap abuse on people, it’s not good to jab and poke and bully.
On the other hand a lot of Murricans love it, so there’s that.
An Australian traveller in France who complained there was a trans woman in a female-only bathroom at their hostel was shocked to be told that she had broken the law by raising her concerns.
Melbourne woman Cassandra was visiting the French city of Lyon to watch the Olympics women’s soccer on July 26 and 27.Â
She booked a women’s dorm and got there late at night when everyone was asleep.
On the first morning she was shocked to see a trans woman, who she initially thought was a man, in the bathroom. She asked to speak to the hostel manager.
Derp. A trans woman is a man. That’s what the “trans” bit means – it indicates a man who is either pretending to be a woman or deluded that he is a woman. It does not indicate a woman.
‘The manager said the hostel classified them (the guest) as a woman. He told me my stance was political and not factual.’
ExCUSE me??? We’re the ones with the “political” take here? Please. It’s “classifying” men as women that’s political and not factual.
However the hostel’s response – forwarded by Hostelworld – accused Cassandra of being in the wrong.
‘This guest was transphobic,’ the hostel wrote. ‘What she did not mention is that the “man” that was in the bathroom was a woman (man who transitioned to woman so identifying as a woman which mean she IS a woman). Her personal opinion on the subject does not matter. In France, being transphobic is prohibited by law. She clearly refused to admit this person was a woman.’
Again, all backwards. No, “identifying as a woman” does NOT mean he IS a woman, it means he’s pretending or deluded. If he identified as a sewer rat that wouldn’t make him a sewer rat. If he identified as Marcel Proust that wouldn’t make him Marcel Proust.
And she’s not the one with the irrelevant “personal opinion.” She’s the one grounded in reality, while Monsieur Hostel Manager is trying to enforce a fiction as fact.
And she’s not the one who refused to admit anything. Monsieur Hostel Manager is the one refusing to admit this person is a man.
Sickening, disrespectful & deeply offensive that the BBC would call Samantha Holden anything other than a âwomanâ. Also, the sanitised language of âsex workerâ dignifies only the pimps and punters, never the women themselves, whether theyâre involved in prostitution or assumed toâŠ
The BBC using the term âsex workerâ to describe Samantha Holden is a partial editorial decision to sanitise the abuse and exploitation of women⊠which in this case ended tragically in murder. For shame. https://t.co/yZrYkCOifn
Iâd hoped weâd moved on from dark days âmurdered sex workerâ labelling. Not so @BBCNews. Appalling headline in same vein as 1970s âYorkshire Ripperâ coverage. BBC has now amended, but too late. https://t.co/WTIBPzMpVc
— Josephine (Josie) Tapper (@TapperJosephine) August 21, 2024
Donald Trump has apparently been stewing on a speech given at the Democratic National Convention by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The former president on Wednesday singled her out in a Truth Social post as âthe nastiest speaker on Monday evening⊠as it pertains to your favorite President, me.â He added: âHer total hatred, and statements made about me, had no bounds.â
Trump calling other people “nasty.” Trump complaining about hatred and statements. But the funniest –
…on the very distinct possibility I will win the Presidency, wouldnât it be better for the people of New York State to have a Governor who got along with the President? Adversarial relationships are not good in politics!â
Really?! Trump disapproves of adversarial relationships in politics???
Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.
“After” a lot of things. After the sun came up, after we all became a day older, after time passed…and after Rowling went on vacation. That little word “after” can be a sly way of implying causality without actually ascribing causality. That of course is what Newsweek is letting its pop culture boffin do here.
On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games.Â
But Ryan Smith and Newsweek don’t know that the statements are false. Thin ice, here.
Again: Newsweek and Smith don’t know the “incorrectly” part.
Rowling has been silent on X since August 7, when she shared a post from researcher Maya Forstater, who was fired from her job after making anti-trans statements.
And, this sleazy magazine and reporter fail to mention, won an employment tribunal case against her former employer.
Khelif spoke about how the erroneous statements regarding her gender during the Olympics had affected her, saying that “there was a lot of noise from politicians, athletes, stars, artistsâElon Musk and Donald Trump and that hurt me a lot, I cannot describe how scared I was.”
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She added: “This is a big shame for my family, for the honor of my family, for the honor of Algeria, for the women of Algeria and especially the Arab world. The whole world knows I am a Muslim girl.”
Oh really. Then how is it, many people have asked, that we can see all those photos of this Muslim girl hugging “her” male trainer and sitting on his shoulders while he grips “her” thighs?
Eh? Look at that – “her crotch” is pressed against his head, and his hands are on “her” naked thighs. Algeria is cool with that?
When those racist transphobes are spurred into action by the tears of a white woman who shouldâve stayed out of the boxing ring because she couldnât take the punches, you know that we win by refusing their gender binary goalpostshttps://t.co/wAASezTfNv
“the tears of a white woman” “should have stayed out of the boxing ring because she couldn’t take the punches” – the punches of a man, that is, which women in women’s boxing aren’t supposed to have to take.
Over recent years the UKâs Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) has updated their curriculum guidance in all subject areas to include themes of social justice. They have done this by requiring that all courses include elements of Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
I didn’t know there was such a thing as the UKâs Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, but now that I know, I’m baffled to learn that it “requires” political content in all subject areas. What, even physics, geology, astronomy, engineering, mathematics? What the flaming hell for?
One might well question how to incorporate the values of EDI into a course on abstract algebra or functional analysis. We are told it should be done by teaching that âsome early ideas in statistics were motivated by their proposersâ support for eugenics, some astronomical data were collected on plantations by enslaved people, and, historically, some mathematicians have recorded racist or fascist views or connections to groups such as the Nazis.âÂ
That’s insane. Stark raving mad. It’s also weirdly childish.
It is all but a tautology that promoting social justice is desirable. However, there is no consensus on what social justice actually is. The QAA talks glibly of âthe values of EDIâ, but EDI is one of the most contested topics in contemporary politics. There are fierce debates over such foundational topics as the definitions of racism, antisemitism and women.
About as foundational as it gets. If you don’t even know what women are you really need to go back to the basics until you have them down cold.
Fortunately, there is now a case-study one can consider to evaluate the effectiveness of the QAAâs recommendations. The module âGateway to Kingâsâ was piloted at Kingâs College London and was designed to introduce all first-year students at Kingâs to topics which map closely to the QAAâs required themes. The plan was to roll the module out as a compulsory module for all first-year students. However, the module was canned after the pilot. 1657 students were eligible to take the course, 366 enrolled and 42 completed it.Â
Let me guess – because it was more irritating than informative? Like, a LOT more?
Donald Trump has been speaking with the powers that be about Israelâs war on Gazaâbut itâs not in an effort to end the genocide.
Instead, Trump has allegedly been talking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avert a cease-fire deal, fearing that doing so could help Vice President Kamala Harris win in November, according to PBS.
That’s right, he’s trying to block a cease-fire for the sake of his job prospects.
