The Independent breathlessly reports:

Transgender men and women are increasingly having crucial hormone treatment withdrawn by NHS doctors, an investigation has found.

Trans patients and staff at NHS gender services have said that cases of people being refused hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or having the medication withdrawn are on the rise.

That’s one way of putting it. Another would be “Some men and women who think they’re the opposite sex are no longer able to get opposite-sex hormones on the NHS.”

In other words the Indy is very much stacking the deck by calling cross-sex hormones “treatment” and “medication”. Delusions about what sex one is are not a good reason to harm patients by fiddling with their hormones.

HRT is a crucial part of the transition process for many trans people and involves the administration of hormones to align a person’s physical characteristics with their gender identity.

There is no “transition process.” That’s not a thing. We can’t become the opposite sex any more than we can become pigeons or bison or orcas.

While HRT is best known for its use in treating symptoms of the menopause, it is a crucial part of the transition process for many trans people.

Yuh huh, and while mastectomy is best known for its use in treating breast cancer, it is a crucial part of the maiming process for many trans people.

Yes, it’s possible to hijack some drastic medical measures to serve non-medical purposes, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

Of those who had their HRT refused or withdrawn, some were told their GP didn’t feel qualified to provide the care. Other GPs didn’t provide the treatment on the grounds they don’t have the resources to provide it.

Others, in their responses to a survey by Transactual, a trans-led research group, said their GPs had cited lack of policy or personal beliefs as reasons why they had withdrawn or refused their HRT prescriptions.

Ah, their personal beliefs is it. Well what about the personal beliefs that prompt the demand for cross-sex hormones in the first place? That demand is entirely based on a personal and mistaken belief.

Kamilla Kamaruddin, who has been a GP for two decades and is currently a lead clinician at the East of England Gender Service, said that the issue of care being refused or withdrawn from transgender people has become more frequent.

“GPs who refuse to prescribe are still in the minority but we’re seeing more and more GPs who are refusing to prescribe on the basis that they don’t have the expertise … even though they have already done the prescribing for a very long time,” she said. “If a GP didn’t know how to treat a heart condition they’d ask a cardiologist – they’d get advice and guidance … for some GPs this doesn’t seem to apply to treating trans people.”

But the two are not comparable. Heart conditions are physical; wanting to change sex is an idea.

The General Medical Council, the regulator of doctors in the UK, has previously stated to GPs that the provision of HRT prescriptions to transgender adults is not a highly specialist area and does not require specific expertise.

That’s rather damning. Maybe the GMC should have thought a little harder about that.

Disastrous Kennedy’s demolition of the CDC continues.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) immunizations chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said Sunday that he’s concerned with the direction the agency is going and worried about public health going forward.

Daskalakis, who served as director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, submitted his resignation from the CDC on Wednesday in protest following the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) removing CDC Director Susan Monarez from her position. In his resignation letter, Daskalakis denounced HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s leadership of both the HHS and the CDC.

“From my vantage point as a doctor who’s taken the Hippocratic Oath, I only see harm coming. I may be wrong, but based on what I’m seeing, based on what I’ve heard with the new members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, or ACIP, they’re really moving in an ideological direction where they want to see the undoing of vaccination,” Daskalakis told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz.

In short they want to do all the harm they can.

Daskalakis said there is now no separation of political ideology and science with Kennedy leading HHS.

“I didn’t think that we were going to be able to present science in a way free of ideology, that the firewall between science and ideology has completely broken down. And not having a scientific leader at CDC meant that we wouldn’t be able to have the necessary diplomacy and connection with HHS to be able to really execute on good public health,” Daskalakis said in explaining why he resigned.

And Kennedy is not just not a scientific leader, he’s not a scientific anything. He has no scientific education or training of any kind; he’s a rank amateur and he’s stupid and vain enough to think he can lay down the law on medical issues anyway.

The Telegraph:

A disabled child was banned from summer camp after his mother expressed gender-critical views, The Telegraph can reveal.

The eight-year-old was preparing for his first residential trip in July organised by Over the Wall (OTW) – a Derby-based charity that runs getaways for disabled children and their families. But he and his mother, 52, were turned away after she insisted, during a heated discussion with an organiser from the camp, that people could not change sex.

So now children have to believe in Magic Gender in order to go to summer camp?

But internal papers documenting the incident state that the eight-year-old was barred after the summer camp concluded that the mother’s “views on gender and inclusivity” did not “align” with its own.

How does that work? How is it “inclusivity” to drop a child from summer camp because his mother doesn’t believe in magic swappable gender? Where’s the “inclusivity” for that child?

In a form section labelled “getting to know the camper”, the charity asked: “What are your child’s pronouns?”

In response to the question, the child’s mother, who lives in the south of Scotland, replied: “Seriously?”

In March, months after she had submitted the application, the parent was called by Sally McCluskie, a clinical director at the charity.

In a written summary of the call uncovered by the mother using a subject access request, which allows an individual to see all personal information an organisation holds about them, Ms McCluskie recalled “explaining the importance of pronouns at our camps to ensure inclusivity and respect for all children”.

She added: “[The mother] immediately became defensive, stating that we cannot tell her child what to say. She made it clear that if her child sees a girl, he should refer to her as a girl. [The mother] strongly stated that there are only two genders (male and female) and that biology cannot be changed. I attempted to explain that as a charity, we value diversity and inclusion, and our primary focus is to ensure that every child feels safe and respected at camp, regardless of their gender identity.”

How can every child feel safe and respected at camp when every child is expected to have an opinion on genner idenniny and that opinion has to be the approved one?

As I’ve whispered a billion times, you can’t do both. You can’t burble about incloosividee and feeling safe n respected while at the same time mandating that every child obey all the requirements of genner ideology. It is not “inclusive” to order children to pretend that some children are the sex they are not.

Fraser Hudghton, director of the Free Speech Union Scotland, said: “The facts of this case are plain. Here we have a young child with a lifelong health condition prevented from attending a summer camp designed specifically for boys and girls like him. 

“This has happened because organisers deemed his mum’s rational response to an irrational question unacceptable.”

Exactly so.

That doesn’t sound good…

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood

The collapse of a critical Atlantic current can no longer be considered a low-likelihood event, a study has concluded, making deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions even more urgent to avoid the catastrophic impact.

The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is a major part of the global climate system. It brings sun-warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks to form a deep return current. The Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of the climate crisis.

Climate models recently indicated that a collapse before 2100 was unlikely but the new analysis examined models that were run for longer, to 2300 and 2500. These show the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades…

…

Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.

And so what will we do to avoid the collapse?

What we’re already doing. Nothing.

It seems pointless even to try to move the needle at this point. People are not giving up their cars or their long-distance air travel or their cruises or their tropical fruit in December. People are not giving up anything. They just aren’t, and they aren’t going to.

An odd way to put it.

That night, the atmosphere in the arena was charged with a tension distinct from the usual intensity of athletic competition. “I’ve never felt a crowd root against anybody before,” said Dan D’Addona, who covered the meet for Swimming World Magazine.

The target was Lia Thomas, a quiet senior from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Thomas swam competitively for years as a member of the men’s team, before beginning estrogen treatment to transition in 2019, and later switching to racing with the women. Over the course of the 2021-22 season, she became national news, an avatar for churning unease about gender, power, safety, sports, politics, feminism and biology.

First of all, what is a “quiet senior”? What is a noisy senior? How would the reporter know either way? What’s her point?

Her point, of course, is to stack the deck without being too blatant about it. Aw, poor guy, he’s just quiet, he’s not kicking up a fuss like those blahblahblah women.

At any rate, there is nothing “quiet” about pretending to be a woman and stealing women’s athletic prizes. Lots of women consider it quite noisy.

Farther down the page the reporter drops the subtlety.

Ms. Gaines’s approach to activism involves a weaponization of names, pronouns, physical descriptions and other language to undermine the legitimacy of transgender people’s mere existence in the world.

In 2022, she used female pronouns for Ms. Thomas and emphasized that she affirmed her gender identity. “I am in full support of her and full support of her transition and her swimming career and everything like that,” she told The Daily Wire days after the race.

Now, offensiveness is a part of her brand. 

It’s not “weaponization” of anything to call a man “he” or to point out that men are stronger than women. It’s the other way around. It’s a slow-motion attack on women to pretend that the physical disparities between women and men don’t matter when it comes to sports. It’s not automatically “offensive” to say that.

In other words, she often seems to go out of her way to provoke those who are not already fully on board with her mission. But if Ms. Gaines’s rhetoric is alienating, her specific position on transgender women and sports has increasingly widespread support.

In California, where Mr. Trump received less than 40 percent of the vote last year, 71 percent of public school parents say they support his executive order on transgender athletes, according to a statewide survey this spring.

Brilliant! That is excellent news.

Ok so let’s read SEEN in Journalism’s letter to the BBC.

We call on the BBC to embrace accuracy in its coverage of ‘transgender’ issues and adopt an editorial policy of accurately describing sex.

The BBC has a unique responsibility to deliver accurate, impartial, and transparent reporting to its diverse audience. The current default, of using preferred pronouns and the words ‘man’ and ‘woman’ according to a person’s ‘gender identity’ is at best highly misleading and at worst a betrayal of the BBC’s public service remit.

And it does have that public service remit, not least because people are required to pay for it via the license fee.

Biological sex is an objective reality defined by gamete size, determined by chromosomes and resulting in two distinct body types with specific physical traits relevant to reproductive anatomy. Sex cannot be changed. This is indisputably true: hormones and surgery can lead only to a superficial resemblance to the opposite sex.

Gender identity, while deeply personal, is subjective and distinct from sex. The words man, woman, boy, girl – and their equivalent in other languages – evolved to describe people with these two distinct body types. They did not evolve to describe people with ‘gender identities’ and it is misleading to use them in that way.

Because “woman” and “man” don’t describe people’s personalities, thoughts, dreams, fantasies, projects, hopes, fears, loves, hates, habits, occupations, hobbies, favorite foods, taste in wine, clothes, haircuts, art, literature…

There is no evidence to support the claim that a person can be the opposite sex or no sex at all. This is an ideological position that the BBC should report on, but not adopt.

It’s an ideological position and it’s bullshit.

It could after all be an ideological position and still map onto the truth. It could, but it doesn’t. It’s an ideological position rooted in an absurd and grotesque lie.

Sex is a protected characteristic in the Equality Act 2010, which covers every circumstance in which discrimination might arise. The Supreme Court judgment (For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers 2025) made it clear that ‘sex’ means biological sex at birth. It affirms that sex-based rights cannot be overridden by self-identification of gender, by the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, or by possession of a Gender Recognition Certificate.

Trans-identifying men are no type of women, and trans-identifying women are no type of men.

It is time for the BBC to acknowledge that equality law in the UK reflects sex-based reality, and to default to biological descriptors. This will ensure its audience is fully informed, across coverage of contentious issues such as access to women’s prisons, domestic violence shelters, or competitive sports, and public and private services.

The ideological viewpoint that people can change whether they are male or female has been adopted across all output by the BBC – rather than the legally sustained belief in the materiality of sex.

The BBC has a duty to ensure that it is not captured by any ideological viewpoint, including gender identity ideology. The belief and understanding that biological sex is binary and unchangeable, and that it matters, are not only legally protected, they are based on fundamental truths. Yet the BBC persists in telling its audience the opposite. This is a dereliction of the BBC’s Charter responsibilities.

So CUT IT OUT, BBC! Stop it. Just stop it.

Golly gee whaddya know, there are actually reasons women don’t want men in our toilets with us.

POLICE have swept Scottish Parliament toilets for hidden cameras after a suspended Labour MSP was charged with possessing indecent images and banned from the premises.

MSPs and workers in the Edinburgh Parliament were given an update on Friday after news broke that Colin Smyth, who has had his access suspended amid a police investigation, was accused of having installed recording devices in the toilets.

Huh. But we’ve been repeatedly assured that nothing like that ever happens so shut up.

Helen Joyce is pissed off at the BBC.

In May, shortly after appearing on Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, I wrote about what a depressing experience it had been. I mentioned that I would be putting in a formal complaint about the way the show misrepresented me in an interview the following week with Sacha Deshmukh of Amnesty, formerly of Stonewall, and predicted that my complaint would get nowhere.

And sure enough it got nowhere.

I’m really not joking when I say that I would like the BBC to be defunded – on my specialist subject, sex’n’gender, it has been nothing short of a propaganda arm. It’s directly responsible for much of the social contagion that has seen trans identification rise so much among young people, for the staggering degree of misinformation about human biology that we see all around us, and for the enormous harm done to women by presenting the unreasonable and narcissistic demands of a tiny number of deranged men as the biggest human-rights issue of our times. We’d be better off without it, and every licence-fee payer would be £174.50 a year better off too.

I’m resharing my original article today for two reasons: first because of an excellent open letter just published signed by several organisations, including Sex Matters, the one I work for, calling on the Beeb to stop doing this. You can read it on SEEN in Journalism’s Substack.

The second is because because of the shocking decision – genuinely, even when I think I can no longer be shocked, it turns out I can – at the highest level in the Beeb to call the Minneapolis shooter “she/her”, and to knock back complaints about its decision to do the same with a British trans-identifying man who killed his husband with a samurai sword.

There were complaints and the BBC responded as it always does. They’re just being polite, you see. It’s like when somebody asks you to pass the sugar. You don’t say sugar is empty calories, you just pass the sugar.

The Beeb says that its style guide requires journalists to refer to people as they wish to be described, and that when it comes to criminals, it uses the language that is used in court. This amounts to saying: “We have a shitty internal policy that prioritises a fringe counterfactual belief system over accuracy and impartiality – which are legal requirements in our charter – and if an arm of the state, namely the criminal-justice system, decides to gaslight the nation, we will too.”

Accuracy in news organizations is so over-rated, don’t you think?

Hey is it suddenly 1950 again? Did I miss the alert?

Aggressive energy is for men only. Women are supposed to have the Goddess energy, not the real kind. Them’s the rules.

A boyish prank?

An MSP has been accused of placing a secret camera in a toilet at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Colin Smyth was suspended by Labour earlier this month on a separate charge of possessing indecent images of children.

Holyrood’s corporate body told staff in an email that Smyth’s building access had been revoked during an “ongoing criminal investigation”.

Maybe he can save himself by doing a lightning-fast “transition” to being a woman.

Ahead of Holyrood returning from recess next week, Holyrood chief executive David McGill contacted MSPs to say Smyth would be denied access to the building.

He wrote: “We recognise the nature of the criminal charges and the ongoing investigation may be upsetting for colleagues and cause distress. We would therefore like to remind everyone who works at Holyrood or in constituency offices of the confidential support services that are available.”

Taking a wild guess I suspect it’s more “upsetting” to female colleagues. As far as I know it’s generally women who get upskirted and stealth-filmed in toilets. It’s mostly women men like to degrade that way.

The BBC stalwart as ever.

If you Google the question you get a long string of titles about explaining why women rarely (read: never) commit mass shootings. But hey, that’s no reason not to lie about it!

Tom Bateman and Max Matza reported yesterday:

The attacker, who died at the scene of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, left a note, officials said, but they added that a definitive motive may never be known. “I won’t dignify the attacker’s words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile,” said Mr Thompson.

Westman’s name was legally changed from Robert to Robin in 2020, with the judge writing: “Minor child identifies as a female”. However, some federal officials and police have referred to Westman as a man when discussing the attack.

Chief O’Hara told reporters that news outlets should stop using the killer’s name, because “the purpose of the shooter’s actions was to obtain notoriety”.

He added that she, “like so many other mass shooters that we have seen in this country too often and around the world, had some deranged fascination with previous mass shootings”.

Subtle stuff. Some federal officials and police have referred to Westman as a man, but you’ll never catch the loyal BBC doing that! Oh hell no! A judge in 2020 said the guy “identifies as female” so female he is, by golly, and the BBC will do all it can to distort the news coverage and the statistics. Yes women do too so commit mass murders!! It’s sexist to say they don’t!

Chief O’Hara told reporters that news outlets should stop using the killer’s name, because “the purpose of the shooter’s actions was to obtain notoriety”. He added that she, “like so many other mass shooters that we have seen in this country too often and around the world, had some deranged fascination with previous mass shootings”.

Interesting that that “she” is outside the quotation marks. That could mean that the BBC is outright lying – that the chief did not say “she” but the BBC did.

In their news conference, officials confirmed that the attacker had previously attended the school. Her mother, Mary Grace Westman, previously worked at the school, and has so far not responded to law enforcement’s attempts to contact her.

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Officials added that the guns used in the attack were all legally purchased, that the killer did not appear on any government watchlist, and that police are not aware of any mental health diagnoses or treatments that she was receiving.

Don’t you dare call that mass murderer “he”.

Well that’s ugly.

Trump has terminated former Vice President Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection, according to a letter obtained by The New York Times. Mr. Trump signed a memorandum on Thursday that will end Ms. Harris’s protection as of Monday.

The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed an order extending Ms. Harris’s protection for a year beyond that, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.

Ms. Harris’s aides had asked Mr. Biden’s team for the extended protection because of security concerns. Without the order from Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris’s protection would have ended in July.

The White House memorandum, signed by Mr. Trump, directed Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, “to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law,” for Ms. Harris.

Psychopaths gonna psychopath.

Ms. Harris, as the first woman and the first Black person to serve as vice president, faced an elevated threat profile throughout her time in office, according to the people familiar with her security arrangement. 

Because, you know, lots of people hate women and lots of people hate Black people. Also, lots of Republicans love guns. Also also lots of people love Trump. Put them all together and –

So while the Good Law Project is helping Sophie Molly’s effort to bully Sarah Phillimore it’s good to be reminded of his finest hour.

He knows that’s not how our children are sposed to look.

I saw want to ask this question straight to his face, or at least to his social face via social media, but he seems to have had the wits to make that not easy to do.

“Disabled people’s spaces are designed for them. I don’t think it’s right, and nobody asked their permission to take their space.”

Yes. True. Spot-on. Nail on the head. Exactly right. And you know what other set of people that applies to?

WOMEN you absolute raving buffoon. Women’s spaces are designed for us. Nobody asked our permission to take our space. We don’t think it’s right.

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

I genuinely cannot understand how he can say that and not see what it is he’s admitting. He’s a judge after all; they have to pay attention to the words and what they mean and what follows from them.

The chaotic dismantling continues.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dissolved into further turmoil on Thursday when guards escorted three top officials [out of] the agency’s Atlanta headquarters during the continuing standoff with the Trump administration over whether the C.D.C. director would keep her job.

The White House said late Wednesday that Dr. Monarez, an infectious disease researcher who was sworn in less than a month ago, had been dismissed. But her lawyers, who said she had chosen “protecting the public over serving a political agenda,” insisted that she remained C.D.C. director until President Trump fired her personally.

The dispute now appears to be in the hands of Mr. Trump, who has not weighed in publicly. A spokesman for the White House did not respond to an inquiry about whether the president would fire Dr. Monarez.

So he’s a cat playing with a mouse. Cute.

The three officials who were ushered out the door by security on Thursday had resigned en masse. C.D.C. employees had planned to gather at agency headquarters in Atlanta at 2:45 p.m. for a “clap-out” send-off to honor them, but they were rushed out before it could happen.

The officials had decades of government experience and all influenced vaccine policy. Dr. Debra Houry, the C.D.C.’s chief medical officer, coordinated the various arms of the agency. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis ran the center that oversees respiratory illnesses and issues vaccine recommendations. Dr. Daniel Jernigan supervised the center that oversees emerging diseases and vaccine safety.

A fourth official, Dr. Jennifer Layden, who resigned a day earlier, led the office of public health data.

So it’s only respiratory illnesses and vaccine recommendations and emerging diseases and vaccine safety and public health data. So that’s fine. We don’t need any of that stuff.

Jumping to the end –

Two experts in vaccine policy left the agency in June, saying they feared for the lives of Americans if Mr. Kennedy were to continue unchecked.

Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos oversaw the Covid vaccine working group before she resigned in June. “It’s heartbreaking to witness such important, nuanced work being led by someone who has shown publicly at the A.C.I.P. meeting that he not only doesn’t understand the data, but is also dedicated to baseless conspiracy theories,” she said about Dr. Levi on Thursday.

He doesn’t understand the data because he has zero education or qualification in the field. None. He’s a random opinionated ignoramus who should not have any job that requires medical expertise, let alone this one.

The suspense continues.

Apparently to refer to Mr XX’s inverted penis as a ‘wound’ is sufficiently morally culpable to mean I have no article 10 protection.

I repeat: inverting your penis to line a surgically created cavity is not a ‘vagina’. It is a wound that will require persistent dilation so it does not close up. This is a fact. It is not harassment nor morally culpable to acknowledge this fact.

I will now forward this complaint to @SpeechUnion and await the BSB decision. Anything other than a dismissal will be challenged by me.

82 paragraphs is a lot of paragraphs.

The war is on.

The White House on Wednesday fired Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she refused to resign amid pressure to change vaccine policy, which sparked the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.

Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced early Wednesday evening that Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she had not resigned or been fired. They accused HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of “weaponizing public health for political gain” and “putting millions of American lives at risk” by purging health officials from government.

Junior Robert Kennedy is evil.

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda,” the lawyers, Mark S. Zaid and Abbe Lowell, wrote in a statement. “For that reason, she has been targeted.”

Soon after their statement, the White House formally fired Monarez.

Because Trump wants cranks and lunatics and ass-kissers in charge of public health instead of people who have expertise in public health.

Since taking office, Kennedy has upended the government’s approach to vaccination, including firing every member of an advisory committee that recommends vaccines, terminating research funding for mRNA vaccines and reviving a task force to scrutinize the childhood immunization schedule.

Because epidemics are so much more fun than no epidemics.

The Telegraph:

The BBC has defended its use of female pronouns to describe a transgender killer who stabbed their [HIS] partner to death with a samurai sword.

Way to undermine what you just said, Telegraph! Y U afraid to say “his”???

Joanna Rowland-Stuart, who was born male and was known as John Stuart, attacked Andrew Rowland-Stuart at their Brighton home in 2024, in what a jury found was an unlawful killing.

The couple had married in a civil partnership but reporting on the court hearing earlier this year, BBC News headlined one story “Wife killed husband with samurai sword” and began: “A woman killed her husband…”.

The BBC used the pronouns “she” and “her” throughout its coverage.

There were complaints; the Beeb brushed them off.

In a written response, the broadcaster’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) said: “The BBC recognises the debate around sex and gender identity involves deeply held and sometimes conflicting views. The BBC’s approach, therefore, is to use terminology which is clear and appropriate to the context.”

EXCUSE me???

What the hell is “clear” about calling a violent murderous man “she”?

And how is it appropriate?

Some complainants said that the BBC’s choice of language was evidence of its “clear deference to gender identity ideology”. However, it said: “Respecting an individual’s chosen gender identity does not mean the BBC is endorsing or supporting any side of the debate around transgender rights.”

Yes it does. It can’t help doing that. What sex we are is not something we can choose, so to burble about chosen gender idenniny is meaningless.

What both the BBC and the Telegraph overlook here is the fact that pretending women commit these crimes is bad for women and therefore unfair to women. This isn’t some idle nitpick, it’s reporting about violent murder being committed by women when that is a lie.

I’m wearing out the italics this morning. Sorry. This stuff makes me angry.

Bad Ignorant Kennedy continues to sabotage US health care.

Susan Monarez, the newly installed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was ousted Wednesday, weeks after she was confirmed to lead the public health agency, according to multiple administration officials familiar with the matter.

Monarez was pressed for days by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., administration lawyers and other officials over whether she would support rescinding certain approvals for coronavirus vaccines, according to two people with knowledge of those conversations. Kennedy and other officials questioned Monarez Monday on whether she was aligned with the administration’s efforts to change vaccine policy, the people said.

Efforts to sabotage vaccine policy.

Monarez, who was a longtime federal government scientist before President Donald Trump nominated her to lead the CDC, declined to commit to support changing coronavirus vaccine policy without consulting her advisers, two people said. That prompted Kennedy to urge her to resign for “not supporting President Trump’s agenda,” one of the people said.

Monarez declined to immediately resign and enlisted Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), chairman of the Senate’s health committee who cast a pivotal vote for Kennedy’s confirmation after securing commitments to protect vaccines, said three people with knowledge of those conversations. Cassidy privately pushed back on Kennedy’s demands, the people said, further angering Kennedy, who lambasted Monarez for involving the senator.

Hey, Junior, allow me to lambaste you for having the arrogance and conceit to think you know more about medical issues than people with actual education in the subject. You are neither a scientist nor a doctor so why do you think you know better?

Public health advocates had hoped Monarez, a longtime federal government scientist, would be a check on Kennedy, the founder of an anti-vaccine organization who they feared would limit access to vaccines in his post as the nation’s top health official. 

It’s great that we have to seek out people who might be a check on the bozo officially in charge of public health. It’s great that he was appointed despite being a complete amateur and an obstinate ignorant fool.