Such a progressive movement.

The left hates women and the right hates women. Sucks to be us.

Darts drama as three protestors dragged away during World Matchplay match involving transgender player

Yebbut what kind of “transgender player”? Even GB News won’t say it’s a man cheating women. Instead it sneers at the women who objected.

Three individuals from the “Save Women’s Sport” campaign protested at the Winter Gardens during Noa-Lynn van Leuven’s quarter-final darts match at the Women’s World Matchplay on Sunday. The demonstrators, dressed in shirts bearing messages opposing the 28-year-old’s involvement, made their feelings clear as the Dutch competitor prepared to face Lorraine Winstanley.

The protest occurred as van Leuven appeared at the Blackpool venue for the third time.

Security staff responded immediately to the disruption, forcibly restraining two of the protesters whilst a third person filmed the confrontation. A banner saying ‘he’s a man’ was also visible.

Which he is, so why not say so? Merely mentioning a “transgender player” doesn’t do that.

Security staff responded immediately to the disruption, forcibly restraining two of the protesters whilst a third person filmed the confrontation. A banner saying ‘he’s a man’ was also visible.

Because he is. GB News should woman up and say so.

The incident appeared to have no impact on van Leuven’s competitive focus or performance.

The darts star delivered a commanding display against Winstanley, winning the quarter-final match with a comprehensive 4-0 scoreline.

Yes, because he cheated.

The left hates women but don’t worry, the right also hates women.

Oh gee how exciting another man beat another woman competing in a women’s sport.

A dominant display indeed.

Oh here we go – the old “women are sluts whores harlots slags” routine.

Yebbut don’t forget to support your trans siblings.

The union idennifies as a union but it doesn’t protect the workers the way unions are supposed to do.

NPR has further details on the updated Statue of Liberty.

Artist Amy Sherald is canceling an upcoming show of her work at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Sherald’s boldly colored portraits documenting the African American experience have graced magazine covers.

She is best known for her painting of Michelle Obama commissioned by the museum.

Amy Sherald: American Sublime was scheduled to be on view at the National Portrait Gallery for five months beginning Sept. 19. Described as “the largest, most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date,” the exhibition was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, or SFMOMA, and is currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Sherald is canceling the show because of a dispute over her painting of a trans woman with pink hair and a blue gown holding a torch, called Trans Forming Liberty, 2024.

That’s not quite all there is to say about the painting though. About that blue gown…

See there’s more to it than just swapping a “trans woman” in for the woman in the original. There’s also the pose.

The original stands squarely on her two feet, holding the torch of liberty aloft with one strong arm and a tablet bearing the date of the American Declaration of Independence in the other. She is not, repeat not, poking one leg out of a split skirt in a “wanna fuck me?” manner, nor is she holding a vase of posies next to her ear, nor is she clutching her hip with the other hand, nor is she lifting her left heel off the floor for no reason in the manner of India Willoughby.

Censorship is bad; in other news, that painting is a woman-hating piece of crap.

Originally a comment by What a Maroon at Miscellany Room.

Sometimes it’s hard to know whose metaphorical bed to jump into. On the one hand, Amy Sherald, the celebrated painter best known for her official portrait of Michelle Obama, has canceled an upcoming exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, citing concerns that the museum might remove an artwork that could further provoke the Trump administration as it seeks to exert control over the Smithsonian Institution.

Sherald and a Smithsonian spokesperson Thursday confirmed that Sherald had withdrawn her exhibition, “American Sublime,” from the museum.

The artist said she had been told that the museum — whose director, Kim Sajet, resigned after President Donald Trump called for her ouster for being “a highly partisan person” — might remove a painting…

The government really shouldn’t be in the business of censoring art. The Smithsonian is supposed to be an independent institution, without any direct interference from the president, especially this president.

But on the other hand,

…might remove a painting that depicts a transgender woman posing as the Statue of Liberty from the exhibition, which was slated to open in September after touring at museums in San Francisco and New York.

Why? Why does everything have to be transed? What is the underlying metaphor here–that brave men have to take everything from women, including (especially?) liberty?

And, as it turns out, the Smithsonian wasn’t even proposing that the painting be removed, but just that some context be added.

The New York Times first reported news of Sherald’s withdrawal. According to that report, Sherald said Smithsonian head Lonnie G. Bunch III proposed replacing the painting with a video discussing the piece, which she understood “would have opened up for debate the value of trans visibility.”

But the Smithsonian spokesperson told The Washington Post that Bunch wanted the video to accompany the painting — not replace it. The spokesperson added that the museum offered to spend more time contextualizing her work, but Sherald chose to remove herself from the show.

So it’s self-censorship.

It just keeps getting worse. This one takes the breath away. Daniel Sanderson in The Times:

One of Sandie Peggie’s bosses wanted her to be reported to police for confronting a transgender doctor in a hospital’s female changing rooms.

A male doctor, god damn it. The problem was not “transgender”; the problem was male. Peggie did not want to have to take her clothes off in front of a man.

So anyway – for the crime of not wanting to undress in front of a man, one of Peggie’s bosses thought the police should be called. Not to arrest the man spying on the woman, of course, but to arrest the woman telling the man to get out. Welcome to 1890.

Peggie confronted Upton in the women’s changing rooms at the A&E department at Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, on Christmas Eve 2023, telling Upton she believed they had no right to be there. 

What, both of them?

She believed he had no right to be there. Because he’s a he.

Previously, the tribunal was told on several occasions that Upton had discussed with senior colleagues the possibility of reporting to police what was viewed internally at NHS Fife as a potential hate crime.

However, it was not previously apparent that figures within NHS Fife were actively encouraging the step.

It’s so filthy.

On December 30, 2023, days after the Christmas Eve row between Peggie and Upton, Doyle emailed a number of colleagues to tell them he had found the doctor’s initial formal report of the incident, which it emerged had been typed by the A&E consultant Kate Searle, “very difficult” to read.

The report, known within the Scottish NHS as a Datix, described a “hate incident” concerning “transgender identity” and claimed that Peggie’s “aggressive and confrontational manner” was an “escalation of prior behaviours”.

He endorsed placing Peggie on “special leave”, meaning she could not return to work, and described the incident as a “potential hate crime” that was “not acceptable” and not to be “tolerated in any circumstance”.

Doyle added: “Such incidents should also be reported to Police Scotland, which I believe the staff member raising [the] complaint has been advised to consider, and we could also support if needed.”

Because a woman didn’t want a man in the room when she changed her clothes.

Tess White, the Scottish Conservative equalities spokeswoman, said the emails offered “further alarming evidence of the witch-hunt” against Peggie. White claimed the nurse, who had 30 years of previously unblemished service, had been “vilified by bosses at NHS Fife for standing up for her rights”.

“The behaviour of her employers is frankly indefensible,” White said. “Who in their right mind would think it’s appropriate to call the police because a female nurse didn’t want to share a changing room with a biological man?”

Well exactly! It’s grotesque!

Hunnnnnnnnnh

Do you accept that calling this man a man is likely to cause immense distress?

No, I fucking do not. I think it causes him irritation and vanity-bruising at worst, and more likely a nice little thrill of righteous indignation. Meanwhile, do you accept that bullying women into agreeing with a man who says he’s a woman is harmful to women in general? Because that’s a far less fanciful petulant self-involved claim than his claim of “immense distress”?

I mean come on. He’s an adult. He’s a doctor. Surely he’s expected to have enough resilience and sense of proportion to accept that he can’t force his colleagues to participate in his fantasy about himself? Times a million when it’s this particular fantasy and it’s women he’s trying to bully into participating? Where are all the grown-ups???

One minute I compare trans ideology and its coerced beliefs racket to the Catholic church and its coerced belief racket, and the next minute I drop in on twitX and find

WE ARE NOT COMPELLED TO BELIEVE IN THE GODS OF OTHERS.

Those days are over. Our ancestors were so compelled, but we are not. You are not the pope of us, you are not the Taliban of us. Your religion is stupid. Shut up.

Yes! Agreed! It’s a religion! And you can’t force us to join or endorse your religion! Those days are over! At least outside the Ummah they are. I don’t believe in your religion, I think it’s harmful and bad and stupid, now go away.

Also, of course, it’s an idiotic analogy. Mr Pope is one guy, the monarch of one religion. We’re free to ignore him and his religion. Even his neighbors in Rome are free to ignore him. That hasn’t always been true but it sure as hell is now. The Catholic church is a horrific institution and it still has its claws in way too many things, like hospitals and schools and universities, but at least it no longer inquisitions us for refusing to grovel to the pope.

Trans people however keep sending us new bills for ever-expanding attention. I’m not going to call Dave “Sally” no matter how loudly he announces he’s a woman now. Go say a rosary.

The Daily Mirror:

OAP wife who repeatedly slashed husband with Samurai sword ‘had no choice’

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, repeated slashed husband Andrew, 69, to death with the Samuari sword she’d bought in the 1980s at their 15th floor Brighton flat.

…

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, had been deemed “unfit to plead” to the murder of her husband Andrew, 69, in their 15th-floor flat in Brighton, on May 27 last year. She appeared in front of a jury at Lewes Crown Court for a trial of the act which decides if someone physically committed a crime, rather than their intent.

The BBC:

Transgender woman, 71, killed partner, jury finds

A jury has found that a transgender woman killed her partner.

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, 71, was charged with murdering Andrew Rowland-Stuart, 70, at their home in Brighton in May 2024.

Weird to see the BBC being slightly more truthful than the Daily Mirror.

This is a very very very important point.

Nah. An ideology whose foundation is an absurd lie can be tossed in the Bullshit Bin without further ado.

Helen Webberley is letting us know how much contempt she has for women.

I tell you what, I wouldn’t want to be alone in a room with her. That’s some scary ragey contempt right there.

The Scotsman:

A war of words over pronouns broke out at the ongoing employment tribunal between nurse Sandie Peggie and trans doctor Beth Upton.

That is, male doctor “Beth” Upton who identifies as female. The journalistic surrender makes it impossible for reporters to write clearly and truthfully about this subject.

Ms Peggie’s lawyer Naomi Cunningham was accused by NHS Fife’s legal team of being “offensive” by referring to Dr Upton as a man and told she must use “appropriate language”.

But the fact that he is a man playacting being a woman is at the core of the whole tribunal. It’s just ludicrous to try to force opposing counsel to prop up the very lie that the tribunal is about.

On Thursday the tribunal heard from charge nurse Angela Glancy, who was appointed as the investigating manager into the allegations against Ms Peggie, and HR official Anne Hamilton.

When Ms Glancy was giving evidence to the tribunal in Dundee, she referred to Dr Upton as “he” and then quickly corrected herself and said “sorry, she”. This was in response to a question from Ms Cunnigham where she used the pronoun “he” to refer to Dr Upton.

Throughout the tribunal Ms Cunningham has consistently referred to Dr Upton as a man and used the pronouns he/him in her questioning.

That’s because he is a man. It’s the people who refuse to call him a man who are in the wrong. It’s not as if the tribunal is about something else altogether so hey gee the participants could just call the poor guy “she” to be extra special nice. The fact that he’s a man pretending to be a woman and trying to ruin the life of a woman for not agreeing that he’s a woman is what this tribunal is about. It’s outrageous to try to force team women to call him a woman in the tribunal. Beyond outrageous; outrageous squared.

NHS Fife’s lawyer Jane Russell interjected to stop the proceedings and said: “I want to raise concerns about the consistent misgendering. I have checked the equal treatment benchmark from May 2025 which says we should use an individual’s preferred pronouns or alternatively the gender neutral ‘they’ to help minimise offence.”

She added there is an exception when discussing “a biological male attacker”, but said this does not apply to his case.

Yes it does. He is an attacker, and he is a biological male. He’s attacking Sandie Peggie as profoundly as he possibly can.

When you pause to think about it you simply realize more sharply than ever what a horrible man he is. This ideology is not good for the characters of its adherents.

Women must not have jobs, because they have to have babies so what are we all supposed to do while they have those babies???

A prominent retired surgeon has claimed too many women are doing medical degrees, which is causing problems for the NHS as “women have got to have babies” and many end up working part-time.

Dr Meirion Thomas, a former professor of surgical oncology at Imperial College, said the gender balance has swung too far in favour of female medical students.

Asked what was wrong with having more female doctors in training, Dr Thomas told Times Radio “the fact of life is that women have got to have babies”.

Ok, so then they take leave and someone else fills their positions.

Dr Thomas said women often end up working part-time or job-sharing, which he claimed was impacting NHS services.

No, see, because then what you do is you hire people to fill those gaps. If the women are working part-time then they’re getting a part-time salary, so the NHS can hire people to fill up the bottle.

Pressed on why that would be a problem, Dr Thomas said: “The one problem is that medical schools now are taking 60 to 70 per cent women as medical students. It’s a huge imbalance, huge imbalance and that should be reduced to 50-50 for sure.” 

But when there’s a huge imbalance in which men are the majority that’s fine, amiright?

Boswell Today reports:

At the centre of today’s testimony was a simple, disquieting question: could the notes that formed the basis of allegations against Sandie Peggie have ever existed as described? The tribunal heard from two digital forensic experts – Peter Donaldson and Jim Borwick – who, despite differing styles, reached a chilling consensus: the data doesn’t add up.

Peter Donaldson was the first to fold. Pressed on the chronological ordering of Google Keep notes – particularly a now-infamous “weird incident” entry from August – he conceded he could not confirm that the note appeared in the position it did by creation date. Screenshots showed one thing; Google metadata suggested another. Donaldson couldn’t verify which notes were original or which were later interpolations. “Can’t recall.” “Can’t remember.” His evidence was a fog of qualification.

Then came Jim Borwick. He brought something rarer: certainty.

Borwick had recreated scenarios using Google Keep, setting his phone to airplane mode, delaying syncs, even manipulating device clocks. None produced what he and Donaldson observed in the NHS Fife screenshots: notes showing edit dates preceding creation timestamps. As Borwick told the tribunal, that outcome was “not possible.” Google’s servers simply don’t work that way. In forensic terms, it would be like printing a page before it was written.

Worse still, Borwick explained the one remaining scenario: deliberate manipulation. The screenshots may have been superimposed – faked, in effect – to suggest an evidentiary timeline that never existed. This isn’t conspiracy theory. It’s the only remaining technical explanation when every natural mechanism has been exhausted.

He showed how one note had supposedly been edited on 21 August but carried a creation date of 26 October. No version history existed to support the earlier event. Another note referenced “aluminium mesh from Halfords” – a mundane entry, yes, but hardly one requiring deception. Unless, as Borwick dryly noted, “that’s a hobby [Upton] keeps secret.” The tribunal laughed; the implications were deadly serious.

If these notes were not contemporaneous – and every sign suggests they were not – then they are not evidence of Peggie’s behaviour in real time. They are reconstructions, post hoc justifications dressed in digital timestamp. More damningly, the edit histories were changed after Peggie had already raised her objections. This is not contemporaneity. It is narrative.

Aka storytelling aka lies.

The Telegraph raises an eyebrow at the “safe with me” campaign.

A BBC presenter has provoked a row over a scheme to help transgender people access lavatories in schools. Dr Ronx Ikharia, a “black, queer, transmasculine, non-binary” medical doctor who has hosted children’s shows for the BBC, is behind the new “trans allyship” scheme.

It will distribute bright yellow “trans allies” badges to schools which state “Safe With Me”. Those wearing the badges will be expected to help “accompany trans+ people to their preferred facilities if asked”.

In other words, “those wearing the badges” will be children who will be expected to help protect “trans+ people” to use the wrong toilets. The doctor’s fun scheme is to tell children to protect adults who want to use the wrong toilets.

In addition to escorting people to their facilities of choice, badge-wearers will also be expected to commit to “active allyship” and “trans+ safety, dignity and joy”.

Dr Ikharia, who fronted the CBBC show Operation Ouch, hopes to roll out the badges in schools, and also “shops, offices and public spaces” across the UK with the intention of encouraging “safe” access to toilets. The doctor has cited personal experience of the issue, writing: “As a transmasculine, non-binary person, I’ve faced abuse, exclusion and humiliation in public toilets. I’ve skipped water to avoid them. I’ve begged shops to let me use their facilities. I’ve run into disabled toilets and out again, heart racing. I’ve needed friends to accompany me, just to feel safe.”

So she wants to recruit children to act as security guards for gender-confused adults.

Blithering stupidity scores another new personal best.

The Herald on today in court:

A number of rows erupted between the legal team’s during Thursday’s hearing.

The first occurred after Ms Russell KC objected to Dr Upton being referred to as “he” by Ms Cunningham. The NHS Fife lawyer argued that it had caused the witness, Ms Glancey, to use the term “he” in her evidence, quickly following it up with “sorry, she”.

Ms Cunningham has consistently referred to Dr Upton using he/him pronouns throughout this whole tribunal.

It’s still so bizarre to see grown-up people in a courtroom demanding that everyone lie about what sex people are. Upton is a he. Furthermore, that’s what the case is about. It’s both absurd and outrageous that Team Upton are trying to force everyone to lie about his sex.

Ms Russell stepped in today, however, stating that she had checked the equal treatment benchmark from May 2025 which agreed counsel’s should use the preferred pronouns or use gender neutral ‘they’ to avoid “offence”.

But in avoiding “offence” they’re wallowing in confusion, specifically confusion of everyone in the courtroom.

She said: “I am concerned about the fairness of the proceedings with Ms Cunningham’s misgendering which is creating a hostile environment for the witnesses and is confusing them.”

What kind of environment would calling that large smug confident man “she” create for the witnesses? We keep getting caught in this same infinite regress. He’s not a “she” and pretending he is and forcing others to pretend he is a “she” is how everyone got to the courtroom.

Not even half an hour later and the row between the pair was reignited.

Naomi Cunningham had suggested that there were attempts to punish Ms Peggie because the nurse “was guilty of heresy” by maintaining that Dr Upton is a man. Ms Russell strongly interjected. She said it was not heresy and was merely “equal treatment”. 

She said: “Dr Upton is not a man. For Women Scotland doesn’t say so. I am very concerned about the latitude being given to Ms Cunningham to be so offensive in court”.

Siiiiiigh. This is what the case is about. Of course Cunningham calls him a man. 1, because he is one, and 2, because that’s why they’re all in court. Russell whining about it is just asking for the court to declare Upton the winner right this second, case closed.

Circle circle circle

Using male pronouns to refer to a transgender doctor who used a hospital’s female changing room is “offensive”, a tribunal heard.

Stupid Telegraph left out the “male” part, thus making its own lede confusing instead of informative. The “transgender doctor” is a male transgender doctor. The Telegraph reports on the brutally enforced taboo on calling males males by refusing to call a male a male. Nice going.

Jane Russell KC, Dr Beth Upton’s lawyer, argued that nurse Sandie Peggie’s legal team were “confusing” those giving evidence in the tribunal by referring to the doctor as “he” and “him”.

Ms Russell claimed the witnesses in the case, which centres on the medic’s use of a women’s hospital changing room, were “not used” to hearing Dr Upton being referred to as male.

Well of course they weren’t, because there’s this viciously enforced taboo! Which even the Telegraph obeys!

But Ms Cunningham continued to refer to Dr Upton as male as she cross-examined a witness who investigated Ms Peggie after the nurse complained about the doctor’s presence in the changing room.

The barrister said Ms Peggie was “guilty of essentially the same heresy that has so exercised Ms Russell in being prepared to say that Dr Upton is a man”.

This prompted Ms Russell to object again, insisting that “Dr Upton is not a man” and she was “very concerned about the latitude being given to Ms Cunningham to be so offensive”.

But this insistence that it’s offensive to call a man a man is how we got in this mess!

Men are men, and women have an extremely basic need to know which are which.

Ms Cunningham accused Ms Russell of having “indulged in repeated futile objections to my use of correct sex pronouns for Dr Upton”. She said Alexander Kemp, the employment tribunal judge, had already ruled on the matter and Ms Russell had not submitted “any grounds” for revisiting that decision.

In January, Mr Kemp rejected an NHS Fife request to impose an order that would have prevented the use of male pronouns or terms to refer to Dr Upton, who was born male but identifies as a transgender woman. The judge said at the time that forcing Ms Peggie and her lawyers to use terms they consider “inaccurate” would be unfair.

Wildly unfair. It would make the whole case all but impossible to win.