Hospital tells men to go right ahead and barge into women’s toilets.

A London hospital trust has told trans employees they can use the lavatories and changing rooms of their choice in a challenge to Wes Streeting.

Not to mention an insult and threat to women.

Why do we even have separate toilets and changing rooms for women and men? Oh that’s right, because some men enjoy sexually assaulting and intimidating women.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ trust’s new transgender equality policy tells all staff they must refer to everyone with the pronoun of their choice, even if they do not believe in gender ideology.

Seriously? Guy’s and St Thomas’s trust tell employees they have to memorize specialty pronouns for everyone they work with? Isn’t that a lot of extra mental work for no useful purpose?

It also advises managers not to disclose the trans status of a doctor or a nurse to patients, which campaigners fear could mean patients not being guaranteed intimate care by someone of the same sex.

To put it more bluntly (as journalism should, for the sake of clarity and understanding), it advises managers to put the frivolous demands of trans staffers ahead of the needs of patients. At this rate the patients will be told to get out of that bed so that the doctor can take a nice nap.

Fiona McAnena, the director of campaigns at women’s rights charity Sex Matters, said: “With the Darlington nurses and Sandie Peggie cases under way, it’s inexplicable that Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust has just produced a new policy stating that staff who identify as transgender can access the facilities of the ‘gender’ they identify as.

“The leadership of Guy’s and St Thomas’ needs to get a grip, pull this new policy and start again if the trust is to avoid becoming the latest NHS trust to face costly legal action because of reality-denying absurd policies and practices.”

Reality-denying and threatening to women.

The trust’s transgender policy, seen by The Telegraph, was drawn up by equalities officers and LGBT members of staff.

Controversially, it recognises “non-binary” identities, which are not recognised in law.

And don’t mean anything.

On toilets and changing rooms, the guidance states: “Facilities: provide access to gender-appropriate facilities. Gender-neutral options will also be made available where possible.

“Transgender people are accommodated according to the gender they identify with, rather than sex registered at birth, regardless of where they are on the transition journey.”

The guidance states that “everyone is addressed using the names and pronouns that they request at that moment in time”.

“At that moment in time” – so it can change from moment to moment, eh? Well that won’t be inconvenient at all. Nobody will use that rule to torment colleagues.

A spokesman for Guy’s and St Thomas’ said: “Transgender staff, like all our staff, deserve to be treated with kindness and respect in line with our Trust values. As an inclusive employer, it is important we ensure everyone is supported regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.”

Including women who don’t want to share toilets with or be examined by men?

Tsssss, no, of course not. That would never do.

Well, we all know how this is going to go.

Shaping the Century: 25 brilliant Irish women in 2025

Ireland has no shortage of brilliant women: decision-makers, entrepreneurs, sports people, artists and activists who have inspired others and served to change lives.

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2007: Lydia Foy

Often it is individuals who make a large contribution to changing legal history in Ireland. In 1993, transgender Kildare woman Lydia Foy sought a new birth certificate with her female gender. She was refused, and brought High Court proceedings in 1997. While her claim was rejected in 2002, in 2007 the case was brought back to court and the judge found that her rights under the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated. This significant result was initially appealed, and in the end it took until 2014 for Foy to settle her action against the State, which pledged to introduce a Gender Recognition Act. This was enacted into Irish law in 2015 and meant that such an onerous legal journey would no longer be necessary for other Irish trans people.

And that no article about women would fail to inclood a man.

Trump and Musk are slashing services, and meanwhile Trump costs us millions every time he takes his lardy ass down to Florida, which is nearly every damn weekend.

It has become a familiar routine for the Palm Beach county sheriff, Ric Bradshaw, and his deputies. Almost every Tuesday in recent weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration has posted to its website a formal “notice to airmen” advising of upcoming flight restrictions over south Florida, signaling once again to those who must protect him that Donald Trump is on his way to Mar-a-Lago for another weekend of golf.

The president is at his waterfront mansion again this weekend, his sixth visit to Florida and the beloved golf courses he owns since his 20 January inauguration.

His increasingly frequent and disruptive trips home are fast becoming a drain on county resources, obligating Bradshaw to put helicopters in the air, extra manpower on the ground, and boats on both sides of Trump’s opulent mansion sandwiched between the Atlantic and the Intracoastal Waterway almost continuously.

And this is a county, remember – not a state, let alone the feds, but just a county. Their pot of money is not infinite.

The Palm Beach bill, high as it is, pales against the federal costs of indulging the commander-in-chief’s wanderlust. That’s included his multimillion-dollar trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans last month, and an appearance at Nascar’s Daytona 500 weeks later, which critics saw as little more than an extravagant and expensive photo op.

Whenever he wishes to roam, the presidential airliner Air Force One is fueled up and fully staffed, racking up an hourly operational cost approaching $200,000, according to a 2022 air force assessment.

How interesting that DOGE seems not to fuss about these here operational costs.

The most recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, meanwhile, calculated in 2019 that federal agencies spent an average of $13.6m on each of four Trump odysseys to Mar-a-Lago that it audited during his first term in office, with a chunk of that money going straight into Trump’s pocket.

In 2017, he spent four of the first seven weekends immediately after his inauguration golfing in Florida; this year the tally is already at six.

A big chunk of that money goes into Trump’s pocket. It’s a fabulous scam – he gets to vacation and he gets to pocket all the money from putting up his entourage at his hotel.

Robert Weissman, co-president of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said he had similar concerns, pointing to evidence of Trump excessively overcharging the Secret Service to stay at his properties during his first administration.

“As much as the waste of taxpayer resources for excessive vacationing is, there’s the self-enrichment from the payments made to Mar-a-Lago by agents who were there to provide security,” he said.

All this while he’s busy impoverishing millions of us.

Ah there it is.

It’s odd that an adult academic either doesn’t grasp this, or pretends not to grasp it.

Laws are laws, but not all laws are good laws. There is such a thing as civil disobedience. Trump is issuing executive orders as a dog sheds fleas, but he can’t change reality. He can’t move Greenland to somewhere between Oklahoma and Arkansas. He can’t make Musk’s latest rocket unexplode. Sally Hines can’t make men into women by citing a law.

The rage, it choketh.

A man who gets it.

Sebastian Coe will demand urgent talks with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to stop “pond life” abusing female sports stars with impunity if he becomes International Olympic Committee president.

Speaking after a week in which Emma Raducanu spoke about not being able “see the ball through tears” after being approached by a stalker, and Eilish McColgan faced a blizzard of hate after posting a video of her running on social media, Lord Coe pledged to create a taskforce to find better ways to protect female athletes.

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Asked what he made of comments posted on Facebook, Instagram and X attacking women, the World Athletics president, who is among the favourites for the IOC presidential election on 20 March, replied: “It’s pond life. I’ve spoken to many female athletes about it. And some of the stuff that the American shot putter Raven Saunders told me made me want to cry. We’ve got to do more.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if frothing hatred of women were just not a thing?

The dear dear Guardian.

Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order

Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’

Oh yes?

Now consider what women could report when men turn up in their prisons. Groping possibly at all? Staring? Peering? Rape? Violence of all kinds?

“I’m just continuing to be punished for existing,” said Whitney, a 31-year-old trans woman who was transferred from a women’s facility to a men’s prison this week. The BOP changed her records from “female” to “male”, records show. In messages before her transfer, she said she felt like a “pawn in others’ political games”. The Guardian is not using her full name due to concerns about retaliation.

But what about the women in prisons alongside trans women? What about their fears and worries? What about violence against them? Why is the Graun so much more worried about men who pretend to be women than about women themselves? Real women, with their smaller bones? Why does it not occur to the Guardian that putting men in women’s prisons is grossly unfair to women???

There’s a lot more of the same crap, and of course it never once occurs to the “journalists” that men in women’s prisons are a danger to women.

Oh ffs.

The full photo:

Sista. That’s pretty much how I “present” except that I don’t wear earrings and I don’t wear glasses except when reading or online-babbling. I don’t have those nice curls at the top of the head, either. The woman at the desk, too – much the same.

That is not “transitioning.” Jeans have been for both sexes for decades, men can have long hair and women can have short hair, both sexes can wear earrings, yadda yadda yadda.

Willoughby is such a reactionary.

Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk

Aka King Kong v Godzilla v all of us.

Cabinet officials almost uniformly like the concept of what Mr. Musk set out to do — reducing waste, fraud and abuse in government — but have been frustrated by the chain saw approach to upending the government and the lack of consistent coordination.

“Chain saw approach” is too mild. It’s more like carpet bombing.

In a post on social media after the meeting, Mr. Trump said the next phase of his plan to cut the federal work force would be conducted with a “scalpel” rather than a “hatchet” — a clear reference to Mr. Musk’s scorched-earth approach.

Derp. That’s like burning down 75% of Manhattan and then deciding to burn it down more politely. Musk’s approach was obviously destructive and childishly sloppy reckless dangerous bad. Obviously from the very beginning.

Just moments before the blowup with Mr. Rubio, Mr. Musk and the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, went back and forth about the state of the Federal Aviation Administration’s equipment for tracking airplanes and what kind of fix was needed. Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, jumped in to support Mr. Musk.

Mr. Duffy said the young staff of Mr. Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr. Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?

Oh so they’ve noticed that firing air traffic controllers has its downsides? All too literally?

At another point, Mr. Musk insisted that people hired under diversity, equity and inclusion programs were working in control towers. Mr. Duffy pushed back and Mr. Musk did not add details, but said during the longer back and forth that Mr. Duffy had his phone number and should call him if he had any issues to raise.

The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.

And then they all made mudpies and threw them around the room.

What is the point of announcing tariffs and then promptly delaying them? Other than making yourself look like a clueless buffoon?

Canada’s initial retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. will remain in place despite President Donald Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month, two senior Canadian government officials said.

Trump said Thursday that he has postponed 25% tariffs on many goods from Canada and Mexico for a month, amid widespread fears of a broader trade war.

Why? Why do that? What can possibly be the point? Does he think they’ll be welcome in a month?

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said earlier Thursday that he expects Canada and the U.S. to be in a trade war for the foreseeable future after having what he called a colorful but constructive call with Trump on Wednesday.

A senior Canadian government official said the call became heated and Trump used profanity when Trump complained about protections in Canada’s dairy industry. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak publicly about the call, said Trudeau did not use profanity.

Now there’s a surprise – Trudeau is not as childish and out of control as Trump is.

It seems the Darlington cops think women are not allowed to meet up without men. I think their grasp of the law may be a little bit off.

The Independent reports:

Labour grandee Baroness Harriet Harman has been made the new UK special envoy for women and girls.

The former minister will “co-ordinate efforts across the globe” to push for the protection of rights over reproductive health, access to education and freedom from gender-based violence, the Foreign Office said.

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Baroness Harman said: “Over the last decades we have made tremendous strides towards ending women’s inequality. But the job is far from done.  Women and girls are still not equal, and many still face oppression, violence and discrimination. It’s a great honour to have been appointed UK Special Envoy For Women and Girls and look forward to driving this important work.”

But does she really want to end women’s inequality? Does she in fact even know what women are?

Happening now –

Cops hassling women for having a meeting on International Women’s Day.

Apparently the Council summoned the cops.

Kennedy’s woo infects the CDC:

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

In other news, NASA is planning a large study into the potential flatness of the earth.

The CDC’s move comes amid one of the largest measles outbreaks the U.S. has seen in the past decade, with more than 200 cases and two deaths in Texas and New Mexico. The outbreak has been fueled by declining vaccination rates in parts of the United States where parents have been falsely persuaded that such shots do more harm than good.

Kennedy, whose role includes authority over the CDC, has long sowed doubt over the safety of the combined vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR). In a cabinet meeting last week, Kennedy initially downplayed news that a school-aged child had died of measles in Texas, the first such death in a decade, calling such outbreaks ordinary and failing to mention the role of vaccination to prevent measles.

In other words Kennedy is a reckless self-involved idiot who thinks he knows better than the people who have actual medical training and that it’s just fine for him scare people away from getting vaccinated. Let the dangerous disease run rampant!

That’s the way to do it: smash everything in sight and then pause to decide to take a more nuanced approach.

President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.

According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.

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The president’s message represents the first significant move to narrow Musk’s mandate. According to Trump’s new guidance, DOGE and its staff should play an advisory role — but Cabinet secretaries should make final decisions on personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation.

Now he tells them. The government looks like Stepney at the height of the Blitz and now he tells them Musk doesn’t get to drop bombs.

Musk joined the conversation and indicated he was on board with Trump’s directive. According to one person familiar with the meeting, Musk acknowledged that DOGE had made some missteps — a message he shared earlier this week with members of Congress.

Yeah missteps, that’s what they were – missteps wearing boots the size of a container ship.

Trump stressed that he wants to keep good people in government and not to eject capable federal workers en masse.

Well that’s odd, seeing as how it’s what he’s been doing for the last several weeks.

Trump posted about the meeting on Truth Social after this story posted, promising to hold similar meetings every two weeks.

“As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go,” he wrote. “We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet.’ The combination of them, Elon, DOGE, and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.”

That fucking imbecile. He’s telling this as if we’re the ones who didn’t know it, when his little South African buddy used the hatchet and the axe and the nuclear weapon on the entire civil service for weeks on end.

The president later told reporters he wants Cabinet members to “keep all the people you want, everybody that you need.”

But he also said he wanted cuts, and that Musk would remain a power center: “If they can cut, it’s better. And if they don’t cut, then Elon will do the cutting.”

You can keep all the people you want, but you can’t keep all the people you want. You can keep your legs, but Elon will chop them off. You can keep your children, but Elon will slice them up. You can keep your house, but Elon will burn it down.

Trump’s side hustle of trying to annex Canada:

When U.S. President Donald Trump last spoke with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump pointed to a 1908 treaty as apparent ammunition to support his threats of a tariff war and his envisioned takeover of Canada.

Trump’s reference to the 116-year-old treaty regarding the Canada-U.S. border reportedly took Trudeau and his office by surprise, sending staff searching for the pact online as the leaders spoke on the phone. That’s not a surprise. The treaty is somewhat obscure in terms of the historical relationship between the former British colonies that became Canada and the United States of America.

Spoiler: it nowhere says the US gets to swallow Canada.

The Telegraph on antisemitic abuse in the NHS:

The file includes a Jewish doctor being given a hijab as a secret santa present and a patient having pro-Palestine stickers plastered across his room as he lay fighting for his life.

Meanwhile, a group of therapists who complained about a colleague posting messages supporting Hamas online were subject to a countercomplaint for “micro-aggressions”. A patient waiting to be discharged from hospital was told: “Get your Jewish ambulance to come and get you.”

The Community Security Trust found that the number of complaints of antisemitism in the NHS had tripled from 29 to 86 in the 17 months before and after October 7, 2023.

It’s so interesting that antisemitism increased after the Hamas (aka Islamist) slaughter of civilians at a rave.

Oliver Brown in The Telegraph:

… when I described Blair Hamilton, a transgender goalkeeper signed for Sutton United Women by a transgender manager, as a biological male in these pages last September, the player complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) that the label constituted a “transphobic dog whistle”. According to this argument, the description disregarded Hamilton’s “lived experience and affirmed gender identity”, not to mention “personal journey as a transgender woman”.

Six months on, the press watchdog has rejected this complaint, instead determining that The Telegraph’s use of the term was “genuinely relevant” to the issues raised by a biologically male goalkeeper competing for a female football team. “The committee did not consider that the term in the context in which it had been used was belittling or demeaning to the complainant, nor insulting in a manner that it considered pejorative or prejudicial,” it added.

Well hallefuckingjulah. At last.

The verdict marks a significant watershed. It can seem sometimes in this debate as if we have passed through the looking glass, with years of pandering to self-ID lobbyists threatening a situation where athletes had to be accepted as whatever sex they purported to be. Somehow, this fallacy reached the highest levels of global sport, with the International Olympic Committee’s former medical director Dr Richard Budgett infamously declaring in 2021: “Everybody accepts that trans women are women.”

Nuh UH. Lots of us don’t. Most of us don’t. And you know why? Because they aren’t.

Welcoming The Telegraph’s vindication, Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said of IPSO’s “genuinely relevant” finding: “Sports encapsulate the relevance in very compelling ways. I still can’t believe that biological sex is considered in many circles to be equivalent to the N-word: heretical, outdated, delusional, irrelevant, and hateful. This in 2025.”

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The IPSO ruling places the immutable laws of human biology above emotive personal testimony. Hamilton, who in addition to being a goalkeeper in a women’s team is an academic specialising in the impact of gender-affirmative care on the athletic performance of transgender athletes, had appealed for a definition of womanhood “beyond mere anatomy”…

“Mere” anatomy ffs. Ok buster, get rid of all your bones, see how “mere” anatomy is then. Go on, I dare you.

For too long, there has been a form of coerced speech on this subject, where pronouns mattered more than practicalities, where affirmation was prized above accuracy. It is still enraging to recall Thomas Bach, the outgoing IOC president, declaring at the height of last summer’s boxing scandal at the Paris Olympics that womanhood could somehow be validated by an “F” in an athlete’s passport.

Yeah it is. Just ask Angela Carini.

Now journalists should no longer feel cowed into toeing the activists’ line. It is critical that all reporters seeking to report the science are not intimidated into falsifying reality or into fooling their readership. I hope, too, that this IPSO decision has repercussions beyond the industry. I know of academics who have been furiously rebuked within their profession for going down the “biological male” route, even when they are guilty of nothing more than the faithful recording of facts. So, let us throw out the reflexive accusations of transphobia once and for all. This, ultimately, is about honest and transparent reporting of an issue at the heart of fair play. “Transphobic dog whistle”? How about just settling for the truth?

Goddam right. Truth matters.

When Trump is lost at sea without a life jacket or a paddle.

A reporter asks about TPS (Temporary Protected Status)—a major immigration policy affecting thousands of people. And this mush-brained idiot thinks they said GPS. GPS. This man has been in politics for years and still doesn’t understand basic policies that his own administration has to enforce. It’s actually incredible—every single neuron in his head is on permanent vacation. And yet, Republicans still worship him like a god while he fumbles through basic conversations like a drunk toddler trying to explain quantum physics. America is literally being run by a convicted, incoherent rapist who doesn’t know the difference between immigration policy and Google Maps. We are living in a national disgrace.

It’s crystal clear that he has absolutely no idea. The tell:

We’re not looking to hurt anybody, we’re certainly not looking to hurt them, [quarter second pause for thought] and I’m looking at that, and there are some people that think that’s appropriate and some people don’t and I’ll be makin’ a decision pretty soon, k?

That’s Trumpspeak for “I have absolutely no idea.”

A veteran called Frank C remarks

It’s actually incredible—every single neuron in his head is on permanent vacation. And yet, Republicans still worship him like a god while he fumbles through basic conversations like a drunk toddler trying to explain quantum physics.

Words well chosen.

Wait a second I forgot my shoes. Hang on, I have to eat lunch first. Sorry, I’ll be right with you, as soon as I find my wallet. Sit down for a minute, enjoy yourself, I have to do my taxes before we go.

US President Donald Trump has said Mexico will not be required to pay tariffs on goods that come under the trade pact between the two countries and Canada until 2 April.

Trump has not confirmed if the suspension also applies to Canada, but its northern neighbour is expecting an exemption of the “same nature”, a Canadian government source told the BBC.

The latest move is the second climbdown in two days from Trump on his tariffs.

Hey hey hey it’s not a climbdown, it’s just a slight delay while he figures out which is his right hand.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford told CNN that the province would go ahead with a 25% tariff on the electricity it provides to 1.5 million homes and businesses in New York, Michigan and Minnesota from Monday.

What??? No fair! Trump paused so you have to pause! That’s the rule!