More people ditch Trump’s Trump-Kennedy Center.

At least three more events are no longer happening at the Kennedy Center after its board, which was handpicked by President Donald Trump, voted to rename the venue the Trump-Kennedy Center.

New York Dance Company Doug Varone and Dancers announced that they would no longer bring their pre-scheduled performance to the institution in protest of the decision to rename the arts center.

Not simply in protest of the decision to rename the arts center; in protest of Trump’s decision to rename the arts center named after an assassinated president so that it includes Trump along with the assassinated president. It’s about as crassly greedy and callous and just plain dumb as it’s possible to get.

Alabama folk singer Kristy Lee, who was set to perform a free show on Jan. 14, was also among the artists who pulled out. “I won’t lie to you, canceling shows hurts,” she said in a Instagram post last week. “This is how I keep the lights on. But losing my integrity would cost me more than any paycheck. When American history starts getting treated like something you can ban, erase, rename, or rebrand for somebody else’s ego, I can’t stand on that stage and sleep right at night.”

Well said. It’s not just the usual trump vanity and egotism, it’s the tampering with an existing memorial. Next thing you know he’ll be adding a statue of himself whacking a golf ball next to Lincoln in the eponymous memorial.

Oh look, I’m too late.

We must end the scourge of scientific research once and for all.

The Trump administration is breaking up a research center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research after accusing it of spreading “alarmism” about climate change.

Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget, said the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, would be dismantled under the supervision of the National Science Foundation.

“This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,” he wrote in a social media post. “A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.”

Excellent. If we don’t do research on climate change, there won’t be any climate change. We make the planet hotter every time we say the words “climate change”.

Roger Pielke Jr, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute thinktank, told USA Today, which first reported the story, that the facility was “a crown jewel of the US scientific enterprise and deserves to be improved not shuttered”.

He added: “If the US is going to be a global leader in the atmospheric sciences, then it cannot afford to make petty and vindictive decisions based on the hot politics of climate change.”

When even the American Enterprise Institute disagrees with you…

The White House has accused the centre of following a “woke direction” and identified several projects that administration officials say are wasteful and frivolous, USA Today reported.

These include a Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences that seeks to “make the sciences more welcoming, inclusive, and justice-centered”, as well as research into wind turbines, an innovation that Trump has repeatedly denounced.

The administration has already proposed a 30% cut to the funding of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, slashing spending on its climate, weather and ocean laboratories, which work to improve forecasting and better understand weather patterns.

Never mind. We can always look out the window.

The level of detail is impressive.

The White House has installed plaques along President Donald Trump’s “Presidential Walk of Fame,” offering descriptions of his predecessors, often written in the style of his social media posts — including insults, baseless claims and random capitalization.

Nobody asked for a “presidential walk of fame” but he had to slap one up so that he could make his insults and caricatures that little bit more conspicuous.

What’s a walk of fame anyway? Former presidents are already “famous” in some sense, because of being former presidents. What need is there to give them a “walk of fame”? Apart from creating a new way to crap on them, that is, which I guess answers the question. Anyway there’s that thing in Hollywood, so obviously that appeals to prezident pinhead.

A plaque at the front of the exhibit, which lines the walkway outside the West Wing of the White House, says it was “conceived, built, and dedicated” by Trump “as a tribute to past Presidents, good, bad and somewhere in the middle, who served our Country, and gave up so much in so doing.”

Which, being interpreted, means he gave up so much in “serving our Country”.

The plaque for former President Joe Biden, who is represented by a photo of an autopen, leans on familiar Trump grievances. “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction,” part of the plaque reads. “But despite it all, President Trump would get Re-Elected in a Landslide, and SAVE AMERICA!”

Sigh.

“The plaques are eloquently written descriptions of each President and the legacy they left behind. As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told CNN in a statement when asked for more information about who’s paying for them.

No. Eloquently written they are not. Nothing Trump writes is ever eloquent. Nothing. Ever. He has a distinctive style, and it’s a very very bad one. It’s childish and vituperative and vulgar.

Ermmmmm what?

Indiana Senate Majority Floor Leader Chris Garten celebrated Christmas by posting AI-generated images of himself violently attacking Santa Claus in front of the Indiana Statehouse.

Well…I’m sorry to say this, but not Santa Claus – someone in a “Santa Claus” suit. There is no real Santa Claus. (There may be people named Santa Claus. Doesn’t count. You know what I mean.)

That aside, wtf?

In one picture—clearly edited to make him look super muscly—Garten is seen riding bareback on a reindeer with his fist in the air, while supporters stand behind him holding signs rife with AI-induced spelling errors.

As one does.

From President Trump to failed New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo, to Garten, so much of our leadership is obsessed with this useless, environmentally detrimental AI-slop. Nevermind the “beating bureaucrat Santa unconscious” message put forth in Garten’s post. Instances like these only further normalize a tool that is directly contributing to humanity’s cultural, psychological, and environmental decay.

Yes but we’re completely out of natural intelligence so it’s AI or nothing.

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There’s a bleak irony here that I’ve tried to point out more than once: the loudest champions of gender ideology are often the ones most afraid to actually look at it. “Transphobia” is real and common — it just doesn’t manifest the way we’re told. More often, it takes the form of incuriosity masquerading as virtue. It’s the Ardals of the world — people who don’t know the first thing about the subject — who are phobic in the literal sense: afraid of what they might discover if they examined it too closely.

They haven’t merely absorbed a set of beliefs; they’ve been handed a full epistemic template — a prefab way of slotting “trans” into the social landscape. Activists brute-forced the phenomenon into the moral mould of gay rights and civil rights more broadly, and once that move succeeded, dissent ceased to be merely rude or wrong. It became incomprehensible. They were never taught how to take the story apart. It never occurred to them that it might need taking apart.

Preassembled beliefs. Outsourced judgment. Critical thinking, for Ardal and so many like him, means following the Ikea instructions.

Graham built his own moral framework, guided by principles he actually thought through. It’s not a mystery why they can’t see it — the glass is a one-way mirror. The Dunning–Kruger effect explains the rest.

Graham Linehan points out something I hadn’t realized – some or many defenders of trans ideology haven’t bothered to find out a damn thing about it.

I’ve been here before. I’ve read all the quotes by now, from all the old friends who couldn’t pick up the phone before speaking to the press. Bill Bailey – our secret sauce on Black Books – said he found my stance in supporting women’s rights “baffling”. Amelia Bullmore – one of the things that made Big Train classier than it had any right to be – spoke of the “unfathomable escalation” of me standing against the mutilation of children in gender clinics. They all have their little variations, but the tune is always the same. Baffled. Sorry for me. Can’t understand why I got involved.

“If only he had done it differently,” when they never did it at all.

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I expected more from Ardal. I never thought he would intone the catechism.

“I still get on great with everyone,” he said in a recent interview with The Times, “though I haven’t seen much of the show’s creator, Graham Linehan, and am baffled as to why he got involved in the culture wars. I feel sorry for him – he’s entitled to his opinions, but the way he presented them made it confrontational.”

When I read that, I phoned him immediately.

When people betray me, I always make the mistake of phoning them straight away. My heart was thumping in my chest as I found his number and gave him a faux-polite, “Hey Ardal, how’s it going?”. My anger was already boiling. I knew exactly what he would say – the exact same things Bill Bailey said when I phoned him, the exact same things Amelia Bullmore said when I wrote to her. I knew, and I phoned anyway, because I can’t help myself. And when he started reading from the same script as all the others, I lost my temper.

At some point, Ardal said, “I just disagree with you.”

I was stunned for a moment. Then I said, “What? You think men should be in women’s prisons? You think children should be mutilated and sterilised? You think men should be in women’s sports?”

“Oh, er, no, I’m not as familiar with the subject as you.”

There. That.

So what is it you disagree with then?

If you don’t know enough about trans ideology to know about men in women’s sports and children being mutilated and sterilized then SHUT UP.

I mean honestly. What next? Slavery wasn’t so bad, unless you know about the lifetime of unpaid labor, the separation of families, the rapes and whippings, the inability to quit or leave or say no. Torture isn’t so bad unless you know what it is. War isn’t so bad as long as it’s thousands of miles away.

This is what we in the fight have come to call the Bananarama defence – “It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.” It’s never what we say, it’s the terrible, awful, confrontational way we say it.

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We hear the Bananarama defence constantly, almost always from people who have never said a word about the subject. They won’t know the first thing about puberty blockers. They couldn’t name a single safeguarding failure resulting from the idea that a group of self-selecting men are actually women. They haven’t followed the debate at all, because they know it’s more than their career is worth to pay attention. But they’re very confident that I went about addressing it in the wrong way.

If you don’t know anything about it then shut up.

Ardal didn’t seem to have read my memoir. Possibly for the same reason he never phoned me over the 10 years in which my life and career were being dismantled by trans activists – anonymous paedophiles on Twitter, homophobic parents who had transed their children, Wikipedia moderators, Guardian journalists.

I’m guessing he hadn’t done any reading on the subject at all. He doesn’t know about the thousands of children permanently harmed in gender clinics like the Tavistock and Boston Children’s Hospital. He doesn’t know that the psychotic Barbie Kardashian can walk into any female-only space in Ireland behind a woman and not be breaking the law until he decides to assault her. He certainly didn’t know that I raised over £20,000 for Vancouver Rape Relief, which had a dead rat nailed to its door by trans activists, or about the millions we’ve raised for women fighting back against this appalling misogyny in the UK and across the world.

No. He just went to the press, said he was baffled, said he felt sorry for me, and went back to doing precisely nothing about the greatest threat to women’s and girls’ rights in over 100 years – and the greatest health disaster for gay people since the Aids crisis.

It’s mystifying.

It turns out that climate affects many things. Who knew? Besides everyone who isn’t Trump?

Most Americans now connect the worsening climate crisis with their cost of living pressures, with clear majorities also disagreeing with moves by the Trump administration to gut climate research and halt windfarms, new polling has found.

About 65% of registered voters in the US think that global heating is affecting the cost of living, according to the polling by Yale University.

Extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, storms and heatwaves, exacerbated by the climate crisis, are taking a toll on food production, with recent spikes in the cost of coffee and chocolate blamed by experts, at least in part, on global heating.

Since taking office, the Trump administration has set about dismantling key environmental rules, firing federal scientists, removing public information on the climate crisis and explicitly backing the fossil fuel industry over cleaner forms of energy. The president has said that renewables are a “con job” and a “scam” and has attempted to ban certain solar and wind farms.

That’s because it’s all a left-wing plot, as any fule kno.

A White House spokesperson did not answer questions as to the unpopularity of the administration’s environmental policies, instead claiming that Trump had “restored common sense to America’s energy and sustainability policies”.

Well there you go. That’s all that’s required: common sense. Just consult your own good common sense on whether there’s climate change or not, and you’ll be sure to get it right. Look outside. The sky is still there, right? The sun rises and sets. You have to mow the lawn in summer. What more do you want?

Gosh, you mean they might actually mean it???

JK Rowling has urged politicians to “finally” take seriously any threat of violence from transgender activists after it was alleged one group had vowed to target senior officials including the prime minister.

Wouldn’t it be nice if politicians had taken it seriously all along?

The Harry Potter author spoke out after a pro-trans group was reported to be planning a series of attacks on the offices of senior politicians. Bash Back also indicated it could target Wes Streeting, the UK health secretary, five months after it said it had vandalised his constituency office, according to The Mail on Sunday.

They’re allowed to vandalize MPs’ offices because trans is the most everything – most persecuted, most marginalized, most important, most beautiful, most vulnerable, most adorable, most targeted, most sexy, most terrorized, most glamorous, most victimized.

Her latest comment came after The Mail on Sunday reported that Bash Back had said: “If you think we’re done, you’ve got another think coming. MP or PM, you’ve seen us once, we’ll see you again.”

The newspaper said the group had urged sympathisers to form cells and plot criminal damage against high-profile targets. A list of potential targets included the Free Speech Union and the gender-critical campaign group Sex Matters.

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Bash Back said that it had attacked Streeting’s office in his constituency of Ilford North, in east London, in July, when “child killer” was painted on the building and windows were smashed. The attack came after puberty blockers were banned for children on the advice of medical experts and following the Cass Review of gender identity services.

Bash Back confessed to a crime and nothing was done? Cops too busy arresting women for saying men are not women?

A UK government spokesman said: “Threats, harassment, and vandalism are not only cowardly, they’re criminal and we will pursue anyone who targets politicians and their staff in this way, with the full force of the law. The rhetoric from this group is dangerous and only seeks to distract from our work to improve the lives of trans people.”

Any chance of a little work to improve the lives of women? No? Not even an hour every other week?

We’ve moved on to the rambling about Her underpants now.

President Donald Trump raged at the FBI for making a “mess” of his wife Melania’s “panties” during a raid on their Mar-a-Lago estate.

As an aside: it makes me happy to see that hideous word “panties” in scare-quotes.

In a rambling speech delivered at a rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Friday night, Trump went off on a wild tangent about federal law enforcement agents, revealing how they had disturbed the First Lady’s underwear drawer during their 2022 search of the Palm Beach, Florida, property.

“They went into my wife’s closet. I’ll say this. Number one, it’s very bad, but it sounds a little strange. They looked at her drawers,” Trump told the crowd while both himself and the crowd laughed.

Hur hur. Never heard that one before. Hur.

“You have drawers, and then you have drawers. They looked at both,” he continued, miming the difference between the storage item and the undergarment.

The unprompted revelation of intimate details did not stop there, however, with Trump going full disclosure on the way his third wife likes to store her underwear.

That’s because he’s That Guy on the bus or in front of you in line or asking if you have a relationship with Jesus. He’s That Guy who thinks he’s a laugh-riot.

“She’s a very meticulous person… Everything is perfect. Her undergarments, sometimes referred to as panties, are folded perfect, wrapped, they’re like so perfect. I say, ‘That’s beautiful,’” Trump continued.

And then God and Santa Claus clapped and the little dog barked and everybody laughed, it was a fabulous party.

Thanks to Francis Boyle’s seeking out the link, we can read all of what the selectively zealous Perth District – WA Police Force said about those dreaded Stickers. Take a deep breath and brace for impact.

The State Security Investigation Group Hate Crime Team is investigating a series of criminal damage incidents in Subiaco around Wednesday, 10 December 2025.

Several transphobic stickers were placed in public spaces around the Subiaco Library precinct, nearby park areas, and close to a local school.

If you see any suspicious behaviour—particularly around bus stops, signage, or the library precinct—or have information that could assist, please report it to Crime Stoppers online at www.crimestopperswa.com.au or call 1800 333 000. Reports can be made anonymously.

WA Police are working closely with the City of Subiaco and the LGBTQIA+ community and are committed to addressing this issue.

The WA Police Force will not allow acts of hatred, intolerance, or discrimination to go unchecked. We have zero tolerance for hate in our community and will use every resource at our disposal to protect the public and bring offenders to justice. Those responsible will be held to account.

One has to wonder, does the WA Police Force get this panicked and upset and furious about “stickers” or any other form of communication that threatens or disparages women? Does the WA Police Force in fact get this panicked and upset about actual literal physical violence against women? Or is that just white noise, background, normal life?

Trump enablers are shocked, shocked at the rudeness of a musician’s canceling on them just because Trump added his own fragrant name to that of the Kennedy Center.

The head of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC has demanded $1m (£740,000) in damages from a musician who cancelled a concert after President Donald Trump’s name was added to the venue.

Chuck Redd called off his Christmas Eve performance, which he has hosted annually since 2006, citing a vote by the board to rename the site the Trump Kennedy Center.

See, the problem here is, the Kennedy Center was named that because Kennedy was murdered on the job. Trump has not been murdered on the job. Furthermore it’s worth noting that there have been a lot of presidents since JFK was killed and not one of them slapped his name up on the wall in front of Kennedy’s. Not even Nixon, not even Dubya. Not one of them had the vulgarity and out of control narcissism and greed to do that. It’s morally repulsive. Lots of things are even more morally repulsive (and Trump is willing and eager to do all of them if invited), but this one is this one, and I for one think Chuck Redd was entitled to say “In that case I’m out of here.”

In his letter, Richard Grenell, said the cancellation was a “political stunt” and “has cost us considerably”. 

Well if the cancellation was a stunt what do you call the renaming of the Kennedy Center? Wasn’t that a stunt, and a much bigger, and worse, and trashier one? Yes, it was. Tough shit about its costing them. I’d like it to bankrupt them.

Hadley Freeman talks to For Women Scotland:

Politicians are “thwarting” the Supreme Court ruling on women’s rights and are putting women at risk, according to the feminist group For Women Scotland (FWS).

Ruling in favour of the campaigners, who brought the court case, the judges said in April that the term “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, when it comes to the provision of single sex spaces. This means the term “women” refers to — hold onto your hats — women, and women-only spaces are lawfully provided for women. The term does not mean, as the Scottish government insisted, and spent at least £374,000 arguing, a man who identifies as a woman, known as a trans woman.

Because why would it? In other news, the term “horse” does not mean a human child on all fours whinnying.

Susan Smith, 53, a former financial adviser and one of FWS’s three founding members, says: “Both the Scottish government and the UK government claim they accept the Supreme Court ruling, but they have done nothing to implement it. Rather, they have gone out of their way to thwart it. Bridget Phillipson [the secretary for women and equalities] in particular is trying to fudge the law by sitting on the Equality and Human Rights Commission [EHRC] guidance, and it is having a serious impact on women.”

Yes ok ok you won, pat yourselves on the back, good for you, but we’re still not going to tell men to stop barging into women’s spaces.

After the ruling, the EHRC drafted a code of practice advising businesses and public bodies how to maintain single-sex spaces, including hospital wards and prisons, in order to comply with the ruling, and urged the government to bring it to parliament “at speed”.

More than three months later, however, Phillipson is still refusing to sign it, saying she is concerned the guidance is “trans exclusive” — and if she means that it excludes males from women’s-only spaces, she is correct, because that is what flows from the court’s ruling.

It’s what the whole thing is about, really. Women pretending to be men may be annoying, but they’re not threats to men in the multiple ways that men pretending to be women are. Men who pretend to be women are helping themselves to everything women have been fighting for since forever, and that is a problem.

FWS will be starting 2026 back in court because — shockingly, if not surprisingly — the Scottish government still has not settled FWS’s legal expenses, for which it is liable. These expenses are estimated to exceed £417,000.

“That’s currently being covered by our regular small donations from supporters. And of course our far- right millions,” says Calder dryly, referring to the lies spread by trans activist groups that FWS is funded by far-right Americans. In fact, the group is funded by small direct-debit donations from individual supporters, most of which are less than £40. It relies entirely on volunteers and cannot afford an office, relying instead on a PO Box and Zoom calls.

“I wish I could get some of those far-right millions to fix the hole in my ceiling,” says Smith. “Well, it lets in the fresh air, I suppose.”

The Scottish government says it has not paid the costs because “there is an established process to be undertaken to agree the final costs for a legal case and these will be calculated and published in due course”.

Oh in due course, I see. Good to know. When is that exactly? How is the course not due already? Not to say overdue?

Freedom of information requests have shown Scottish politicians exchanging emails with activists from the Equality Network on how to draft bills that respect — in one example — “gender expression, through the medium of clothing”.

“It’s like politicians have outsourced their brains to the third sector so they don’t have to do their thinking, and it all becomes a circle jerk,” says Calder.

Men’s gender expression through clothing is vitally important; women’s basic rights are not. Sucks to be us, eh?

It can be so disorienting living in this half-horror show half-slapstick comedy.

The Kennedy Center says it plans to file a $1 million lawsuit against jazz artist Chuck Redd, after the musician canceled his annual Christmas Eve performance. The Associated Press first reported that Redd pulled out of the show days after President Trump’s name was added to the exterior of the performing arts center in Washington, D.C.

In an email to NPR on Saturday, Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi said Redd’s decision is a disservice to the arts.

Oh dear, that sounds bad – but wait, who is Roma Daravi? Is she one of the Trump people who were hired to replace all the people who quit when he hijacked the place? Yes, of course she is.

“Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people,” she said.

Sssshhhhhhh. Sit down. Shut up. For one thing, some “political differences” are absolutely significant enough for artists to cancel their shows. For another thing Trump is not just a “political difference”; he’s an evil poisonous sadistic monstrosity.

“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” [Redd] told the AP.

Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell sent a scathing letter to Redd on Friday, criticizing him and calling the cancellation a political stunt. The center shared the letter with NPR.

“Regrettably, your action surrenders to the sad bullying tactics employed by certain elements on the left, who have sought to intimidate artists into boycotting performances at our national cultural center,” it reads.

Ah yes, the bullying tactics on the left, so much more bullying than the bullying tactics of Trump and his army of ants.

In a post on X on Friday, Grenell wrote: “The left is boycotting the Arts because Trump is supporting the Arts. But we will not let them cancel shows without consequences. The Arts are for everyone – and the Left is mad about it.”

Several artists have pulled out of performances and cut ties with the Kennedy Center since Trump replaced the board and was elected chairman. In March, Hamilton canceled its 2026 run at the Kennedy Center. Actor and producer Issa Rae also called off her appearance. Folk musician Rhiannon Giddens moved her concert to a different venue in the city.

Refusing to perform at Trump’s hijacked arts venue is not “boycotting the Arts” – and in other astonishing news, Trump’s seizure of the Kennedy Center is not promoting the Arts. What Trump did is just yet one more grotesque display of vanity and greed for Name Recognition.

Trump’s name was added to the Kennedy Center building last week, after the Board of Trustees voted to rename it. The exterior’s iconic lettering now reads “The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”

Beyond stupid. It’s the Kennedy Memorial Center because he was assassinated in office. Why is it now also the Donald J. Trump Center? What sense does that make? Is he going to slap his name on the Lincoln Memorial too?

“Art is a shared cultural experience meant to unite, not exclude,” said the statement from Daravi. “The Trump Kennedy Center is a true bipartisan institution that welcomes artists and patrons from all backgrounds—great art transcends politics, and America’s cultural center remains committed to presenting popular programming that inspires and resonates with all audiences.”

Bullshit. From beginning to end, complete bullshit. They might as well just rename it the Bullshit Center.

Sticker crime strikes again.

Western Australia’s recently formed State Security Investigation Group Hate Crime Team is investigating a series of criminal damage incidents in Subiaco around Wednesday, 10 December 2025 where anti-transgender stickers were plastered around Subiaco.

“The WA Police Force will not allow acts of hatred, intolerance, or discrimination to go unchecked. We have zero tolerance for hate in our community and will use every resource at our disposal to protect the public and bring offenders to justice. Those responsible will be held to account.” the police said in a social media post.

The stickers must have been really horrible.

The stickers were found around the Subiaco Library, the neighbouring primary school and a nearby park. There have been several incidents of the stickers appearing in this area throughout 2025.

The stickers read ““Trans women are real men”. Throughout the year contractors for the City of Subiaco have been removing the stickers, noting that they have dealt with 38 incidents since July. There have also been reports of the stickers appearing in other inner-city locations.

Um. That’s it?

Speaking to Perth Now earlier this month Sam Gibbings the CEO of Transfolk WA questioned what the perpetrator was trying to achieve by placing the stickers in a space predominantly used by young children.

The perpetrator? It’s stickers, not assault or rape or arson.

“It makes you wonder what they are actually trying to achieve. Are they trying to berate parents? Are they trying to scare children? Either way, when you resort to tactics like this in a playground, you have clearly lost the moral argument,” Gibbings said.

Tactics like what though? Saying something. It’s not as if the trans communinny never says things, including saying things to children.

“Messages like these are designed to create division. They try to import a loud, aggressive culture war style of politics that doesn’t reflect how most of us actually interact in real life.”

Gibbings said the local transgender community was very resilient by the message behind the graffiti needed to be called out. “While they are loud, they are the minority. We know most people in Australia believe in treating others with dignity and respect, and we need to call out this hateful behaviour.”

Is it treating others with dignity and respect to claim that men can be women? I don’t think so. I never feel respected when people claim that. Quite the reverse.

From the Department of Made-up Problems:

Youth charities like Girlguiding can hopefully come up with “innovative” ways to ensure children do not feel excluded in the wake of a ban on trans girls joining, the Children’s Commissioner has said.

The ban is on boys joining. Girlguiding is for girls (the name is a broad hint). Lots of things are for boys; Girlguiding is one thing that is for girls. If boys feel “excluded” because of that, well, welcome to what it’s like being a girl.

A coalition of volunteers and parents has argued that refusing a child based on their gender identity “sends a message of rejection” to young people.

But it’s not based on their “gender identity”, which is meaningless. It’s based on which sex they are. That’s not “rejection”; it’s allowing girls to have something boys have had since forever.

Girlguiding – which has around 300,000 UK members across its Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers groups – announced in early December that it will only allow those recorded female at birth to join.

In other words Girlguiding will allow only girls to join Girlguiding. Fancy that.

Dame Rachel de Souza said she was “so sad” to hear of children feeling excluded.

Buck up, Dame Rachel. I’m guessing that what you “hear of” is not actual children actually feeling excluded, but adults drunk on trans ideology imagining hordes of children sobbing themselves to sleep. Or, even less persuasively, adults drunk on trans ideology simply claiming hordes of sobbing children, because that’s how trans ideology gets propagated and enforced. There’s really no need to feel sad about imaginary boys longing to be in Girl Guides. Most of those boys will have already been raised to think girls are weak and worthless, so they won’t want to go anywhere near Girl Guides.

“And what I hope is that Girlguiding gets together with its sister organisations and other charities to think about how every child can be included, and nobody has that feeling of ‘they can’t be there’. So, you know, I’m hoping for some innovative on-the-ground response.”

But we have that “they can’t be there” feeling all the time. All of us do. It’s just part of life. We can’t barge in everywhere, we can’t join everything there is to join, we can’t always open that locked door. Just go for a walk around your neighborhood to test out my claim. Can you walk into every house you pass without first getting permission? No you can’t; in fact, you can’t walk into a single one without first getting permission. Life is full of “can’t be there” situations. It’s not something that normal people cry themselves to sleep over.

And then there’s the imbalance issue. Items like Girl Guides tend to be belated corrections to situations where male people have a good thing and after a few decades or centuries female people get a version of that good thing. There was Cambridge, and then after a long time there was Girton. It’s not unfair that there was and is Girton, because there was already Cambridge. Men don’t need to invade women’s things because men have had men’s things for far longer than women have had women’s things. Boys don’t need to infiltrate Girl Guides. They really don’t.

“Beth” Upton continues to get away with it.

A nurse who objected to sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor has won a claim for harassment against NHS Fife but other allegations of discrimination and victimisation were dismissed.

Sandie Peggie was suspended from her job in a hospital’s A&E department after she complained about Dr Beth Upton – a biological male who identifies as a woman – using a female changing room.

An employment tribunal judgement outlined four ways in which NHS Fife harassed Ms Peggie but dismissed the other allegations against the health board and all claims against Dr Upton.

Dr Upton is a sadistic misogynist bully.

The campaign group Sex Matters, which backed Sandie Peggie in the case, said it was very disappointed in the approach taken by the tribunal.

Maya Forstater, the organisation’s CEO, said it should have provided employers with clarity regarding single-sex spaces and that should have meant giving them the confidence to refuse to let trans women use those spaces. She added: “It is a travesty that a woman can be judged as having expressed herself in the wrong way when she objects to finding a man in the women’s changing room.”

Not least because a man in the women’s changing room could be in there for the purpose of assault. It’s not as if that never happens. I’m pretty sure all women have a supply of stories of finding a man lurking somewhere, and not enjoying the experience.

However, discrimination lawyer Robin Moira White – who works with Translucent, a trans-led advocacy and human rights organisation – said the ruling was a “very sensible, balanced judgement”.

Well of course he did!!! He’s a man who claims to be a trans woman! This is the whole point!

She said the tribunal had found that Sandie Peggie had harassed Dr Upton, not the other way around. Ms White added: “It recognised that both trans people and gender critical people have rights in the workplace and employers have to balance those.”

No they don’t, because the rights trans people have in the workplace don’t include a right for men to force themselves on women in toilets and changing rooms. If tribunals say they do have that right the tribunals are wrong, and evil besides.

Hadley Freedman talked to For Women Scotland about the interesting fact that Scotland has done absolutely fuck-all to put the ruling into practice.

Politicians are “thwarting” the Supreme Court ruling on women’s rights and are putting women at risk, according to the feminist group For Women Scotland (FWS).

Ruling in favour of the campaigners, who brought the court case, the judges said in April that the term “sex” in the Equality Act refers to biological sex, when it comes to the provision of single sex spaces. This means the term “women” refers to — hold onto your hats — women, and women-only spaces are lawfully provided for women. The term does not mean, as the Scottish government insisted, and spent at least £374,000 arguing, a man who identifies as a woman, known as a trans woman.

And why not? Because of the “man” part. It’s really quite simple once you figure it out.

Susan Smith, 53, a former financial adviser and one of FWS’s three founding members, says: “Both the Scottish government and the UK government claim they accept the Supreme Court ruling, but they have done nothing to implement it. Rather, they have gone out of their way to thwart it. Bridget Phillipson [the secretary for women and equalities] in particular is trying to fudge the law by sitting on the Equality and Human Rights Commission [EHRC] guidance, and it is having a serious impact on women.”

Well maybe it is, but you see that doesn’t matter, because women don’t matter. Men matter, and men who say they are women matter times a billion, but women don’t matter. Once you accept this obvious fact it’s all smooth sailing.

After the ruling, the EHRC drafted a code of practice advising businesses and public bodies how to maintain single-sex spaces, including hospital wards and prisons, in order to comply with the ruling, and urged the government to bring it to parliament “at speed”.

Honestly do they really need a written code of practice? Is it really that difficult? Just do what you were doing until the Trans Juggernaut rolled over the horizon. Put your pants on one leg at a time, and don’t tell men they can bounce into women’s toilets and locker rooms.

More than three months later, however, Phillipson is still refusing to sign it, saying she is concerned the guidance is “trans exclusive” — and if she means that it excludes males from women’s-only spaces, she is correct, because that is what flows from the court’s ruling.

It’s “trans exclusive” only in the sense that it doesn’t treat claims of being trans as a reason to force women to put up with men in their spaces. It’s just the same old guidance we’ve had for decades: don’t force women out of public life by refusing to let them piss in a room with no men in it. Continue to let women have their own spaces, shut the fuck up about trans whatevers, and move on.

Trina Budge, 54, a farmer from Caithness and FWS’s third founder, adds: “You know, we asked to meet with Phillipson just before the verdict last April, and she said no.”

Did Starmer contact them? They all burst out laughing at the thought.

I love them. I want to be their best buddy.

A very good listen – and under three minutes.

The NHS continues to force women to be ill in the presence of men.

The NHS is defying the Supreme Court by allowing transgender patients and staff to access single-sex spaces in English hospitals.

Hospitals are using outdated guidance allowing trans-identifying biological males to use women-only spaces such as wards, changing rooms and lavatories.

An audit has revealed that more than eight months after the Supreme Court ruled that the term “women” in the Equality Act referred to biological sex, the NHS is still failing to protect female spaces.

And thus refusing to protect women. In hospitals.

Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, pledged to overhaul the NHS guidance on single-sex spaces after the Supreme Court ruling but, like all departments, is stuck in limbo. In the meantime, single-sex guidance from 2019 that has been “under review” for several years remains the only national guidance available to NHS trusts.

An update was made in April 2025 simply to state that “revised guidance which supports privacy, dignity and safety for all patients in hospital accommodation will be published as soon as possible”.

As possible? How can it take most of a year (and counting) to publish guidance that says no men in women’s hospital accommodation? They could have done it in a matter of hours.

Now an audit of all the NHS trusts in England by a group of concerned women – and shared with The Telegraph – found that not a single one had protected spaces for female patients and staff.

Not a single one. It’s almost as if women just don’t matter.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust says that “non-binary individuals should be fully supported in using the facilities in which they are comfortable and not forced to decide between ‘Men’s’ and ‘Women’s’ facilities based solely on gender expression”.

Which entails saying (apparently silently) that women should not be fully supported in using the facilities in which they are comfortable.

It’s like watching snakes learn to tap dance.

Oh have they now.

Girlguiding, an organization for, as it says on the tin, girls, must use its power to terminate itself for the sake of being incloosive of boys in an organization set up for girls. It must do that. Girls must not be allowed to have anything for themselves. It’s imperative to take away everything that is for girls only.

Meanwhile…

No Women’s Institute for you, bitches! You have to let men in. You are not allowed to say no. Shut up, move over, make the refreshments.