But…but…but…

Good Law Project aka Jolyon Maugham exclaims Trans people must be allowed to have children.

But sir, trans people have had their child-making bits removed or rendered nugatory.

The Gender Recognition Panel is refusing to legally recognise trans people’s affirmed gender if they’re trying to conceive children. But that breaches their human rights.

Does it? How? Is legal recognition of “affirmed” aka fake “gender” a human right? It seems a good deal too niche to be a right. It may be a right according to the Jolyons of the world, but that’s not really definitive.

Good Law Project has appeared at the High Court to support a man who has been denied his gender recognition certificate. The Gender Recognition Panel rejected his application, saying that because he was trying to conceive, he had not been living as a man.

See, that just underlines what a consignment of geriatric shoe manufacturers all this is. What tf does “living as a man” even mean? Is it like children living as someone off the tv by thinking it inside their heads? Bullshit in, bullshit out, so a bullshit “gender certificate” is going to remain bullshit whether the man is trying to conceive or trying to count the hairs on his chest.

The full horrors of Tuam are about to be dug up.

The full excavation of a mass grave of babies and young children at Tuam in County Galway is under way. The exhumations will be carried out at the site of an institution for unmarried mothers, which operated between 1925 and 1961.

The story came to international attention 11 years ago, after amateur historian Catherine Corless discovered there were death certificates for 796 babies and children who were in the institution, but no burial records. In 2017, investigators found what they described as “significant quantities of human remains” at the site.

What the BBC carefully does not spell out is that 706 dead babies and children is a massive number and indicates neglect at best and horrors at worst. The Irish Catholic church is under the microscope again and it’s not going to be pretty.

The bodies were in underground chambers in a disused sewage system.

Because the Irish Catholic Church saw them as so much garbage. But hey, don’t you dare have an abortion. You have to gestate that fetus to term and then push it out so that we can starve and torture it to death.

The institution, which was known as St Mary’s mother-and-baby home, was run by Catholic religious order the Bon Secours Sisters and owned by Galway County Council.

Yeah really very wonderful bon secours there. Top notch. Almost as good as handing the babies over to a pack of wolves.

Scientists say the remains are largely “commingled” – in other words, the bones are mixed up.

Because the babies were thrown into the sewer system like so much garbage.

Where are the grownups???

He was doing them a favor.

The US Department of Justice dropped charges on Saturday against Michael Kirk Moore, the Utah doctor accused of destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided Covid-19 vaccines and administering saline to children instead of the shot.

Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, announced the news in a statement on the social media platform X, saying the charges had been dismissed under her direction.

“Dr Moore gave his patients a choice when the federal government refused to do so,” Bondi said. “He did not deserve the years in prison he was facing.”

Excuse me no he didn’t give them a choice, he lied to them.

According to a 2023 press release from the US attorney’s office in Utah, Moore distributed at least 1,937 fraudulent vaccination record cards in exchange for either direct payment or required donations to a specific charity. The minors he gave saline shots to were under the impression, at the request of their parents, that they were receiving a Covid-19 shot.

That’s not “doing them a favor.”

Recently, the Trump administration canceled a $766m award to Moderna on the research and development of H5N1 bird flu vaccines, and officials announced new restrictions and regulations for Covid mRNA vaccines.

Well that’s fucking terrifying. They’re going to let bird flu run amok. It will be like London in 1665 all over again.

H/t Tim Harris

That’s rich coming from UN Women.

What is the point of calling something “for women” if you’re going to let men have it? Why not just skip the calling it “for women” part if you’re going to do that?

A row at Hampstead Heath Ponds over permission for transgender women to continue swimming in the Ladies’ Pond could reach the High Court.

The campaign group Sex Matters is planning to make a £50,000 legal claim against the City of London Corporation, which runs the bathing ponds on Hampstead Heath, north London.

Since 2019 transgender women, who were born biologically male, have been allowed to swim in the Ladies’ Pond under formal guidance.

Transgender women who were born biologically male and remain biologically male because that’s how that works.

Critics say, however, that this is a breach of the law, in the light of the Supreme Court ruling in April that biological men should not have access to women-only spaces.

I’m a critic, and I say that it’s been an insult and unfair all along, ruling or no ruling.

The organisation that runs the pond is strengthening its policy of welcoming transgender women to the Ladies’ Pond and said that it was planning to put up signs to say that trans women could use the pond, changing rooms and showers.

Because it’s just so necessary to shove men into everything that belongs to women, and refuse to let women have anything just for women. It’s imperative to keep punishing women for being women – disgusting useless people that we are.

Originally a comment by iknklast on Consequences for marine life.

Sulfuric acid will fall as acid rain. Particulate matter of all sorts often leads to (temporary) cooling, but it doesn’t last as long as carbon dioxide. As the carbon increases in the air, the other pollutants remain the same, and eventually they get overwhelmed.

While the optimum trade off may be fewer stomata, it makes it foolish to say that plants will gain that much from increased carbon dioxide. Which is what I was saying earlier – unless the plant growth is limited by carbon dioxide, and ONLY carbon dioxide, you will not likely see great increases in plant growth. Since nitrogen and water are the two greatest limitations on plant growth, and there are only certain conditions where CO2 is limited, the overall increased growth of plants will likely be minimal. The death of plants from increased heat, and from increased insects (insects reproduces better when its warmer) will more than offset that.

The answer? At this point, I would say there isn’t one. Every answer has a downside, yes, even nuclear. But…the answer would be a combination of wind, solar, and nuclear, with limited use also of hydropower. The real answer is to reduce the population, because every single possible answer will be met with, yes, but it will hurt the poor. Yes, but we have to feed eight billion people. Yes, but….

There are excuses floating around in the ozone, and whenever something is suggested that might lead to a change in lifestyles, someone just grabs whichever one is floating by at that moment and deploys it…wham!…to smash your argument to smithereens. We really need to get off our buts.

The truly real answer, though, is the one NOT written on the front of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – panic. But that won’t solve anything, so we say not to, and we still don’t solve anything, because no one thinks it’s worth panicking about. Both solutions are non-starters, and so we don’t start.

It’s sort of like peace in the Middle East.

A long backgrounder piece on the Peggie v NHS case with lots of interesting details.

NHS Fife may be fatally undermining its own case against a nurse who had an altercation in a hospital changing room with Dr Beth Upton, a trans woman, which resumes this week

Good. Keep undermining, NHS Fife.

Peggie, an experienced nurse, was experiencing a sudden and heavy period and feared that it had bled through to her scrubs. She entered the hospital changing rooms to find Upton, a biologically male doctor who identifies as female.

What was said between the pair is disputed, but there was a confrontation. Peggie expressed her discomfort with sharing changing facilities with a colleague she considered male and, within hours, a bullying complaint was lodged by Upton.

That part can never be underlined enough. A woman needing to change her blood-soaked clothes is called a bully by an extremely tall hulking man because she objected to his presence in the women’s changing room. He said she bullied him. Those five words sum up what is so wrong with this revolting perverse women-hating ideology.

The Supreme Court ruling in April that backed the “biological” definition of woman — ostensibly a big boost for Peggie’s case and the wider “gender-critical” cause — led to immediate calls for NHS Fife to throw in the towel. It has refused to do so, contributing to a legal bill of over £220,000 (and rising). 

Because women must be both punished for disobedience and deprived of all rights.

During the tribunal, Jane Russell, the KC representing the NHS and Upton, launched what was perceived to be a character assassination on Peggie, suggesting that the nurse supported Donald Trump, had behaved like a “dog with a bone” and had been “haranguing this poor doctor” ​during the changing room showdown.

This poor poor poor doctor who towers over the nurse – yes he’s definitely the victim here.

One MP said: “Personally I find the case completely astonishing. It speaks to the SNP’s whole approach to gender issues and the extent to which it has taken hold in the public sector. Sandie Peggie’s case is the clearest example of how this niche ideology has taken over, even taking precedence over the law.

“If they lose this case, as they surely will, there will be serious questions of the NHS Fife leadership and the SNP government about how this was ever allowed to get to this stage. There will have to be accountability.”

The answer is gender ideology. It rots the brain.

Although the witness list has not been made public, the tribunal will hear from Isla Bumba, the equality and human rights officer at NHS Fife, whose advice Peggie’s managers relied upon after Peggie complained about Upton’s presence in women’s facilities. ​She had met Upton in the changing rooms twice before the Christmas Eve row.

Bumba, who is in her twenties and worked as a Covid contact tracer for two years after graduating in 2020 before landing the NHS Fife role, told Peggie’s line manager, Esther Davidson, that Upton had a “right” to use the female changing rooms because she “identifies as a woman”.

Bumba, who is paid between £50,861 and £59,159 per year, has described herself as a “support aid” to NHS staff and dealt with issues such as “staff [who] are not sure what the correct pronouns for someone are”.

[Michael] Foran said the fact that NHS managers deferred to Bumba, rather than to lawyers, was “baffling” but spoke to a wider cultural issue in the public sector.

Yes we know what that cultural issue is.

Other key witnesses ​include Kate Searle, an emergency medicine consultant, who was Upton’s line manager and agreed that she should use women’s facilities. Searle also received Upton’s complaint about Peggie’s conduct in the early hours of Christmas Day, 2023.

She has been accused of sending an email to consultants four days later, presenting Upton as the victim and Peggie as the “bully” before an investigation had been opened.

To repeat: Upton is huge; Peggie is not. That’s not always relevant but it sure as hell is here. It’s at the core of the ideology as well as this case – the absolute, ferociously imposed dogma that a man who claims to be a woman is always the victim and a woman who objects to his presence in women’s toilets or politics is always the bully.

Trans community praised for bravery in new film

Says the BBC, drooling slightly.

Film-makers have praised the bravery of the trans community in Cumbria for sharing their experiences in a new documentary.

Oh yes, it’s very brave to yammer at the BBC about how brave you are for being gender-special. The risks are horribly real: you might be laughed at!

I ME US chronicles the stories of those living in the county who are transgender, non-binary or gender non-conforming.

Ah, gender non-conforming – so it includes women who wear jeans and men who wear pink T shirts? So it’s everyone in Cumbria then? Being all brave n shit?

It is being screened for free in venues across Cumbria over July and August, including Rheged cinema in Penrith and Tullie in Carlisle.

Producer and project manager at PINC, Pam Eland, said they wanted to take a snapshot of community “to get their voices heard out there”.

Yes, because otherwise they are so very silent.

Talk about rubbing salt into the wound…

A divorcee has been forced by a judge to pay half for her ex-husband’s trans surgery.

The mother argued that it was unfair that she had to stump up £80,000 for the procedure when the decision to transition had led to the breakdown of her marriage.

But in what is believed to be the first case of its kind, the judge said that the surgery was a “need”, not a “whim”, and therefore it was “reasonable” for the cost to be met out of their joint funds.

But the relevant antonym here is not “whim” but “delusion.” It’s a delusion that surgery can change people’s sex, so it seems absurd as well as unfair to tell a dissenting spouse to pony up for half the cost.

The husband, 58, had said that the argument was “like saying someone who had cancer should not have the surgery” during the hearing at Brighton Family Court.

Yeah well people who believe in magic gender will say any old shit. Of course it’s not like that. Wanting to be the opposite sex is not like cancer. Trying to change sex is not like medical treatment for cancer. The simile is not a simile.

But the husband, who says his wife always knew he was trans, said that it should be “treated in the way of any other medical costs which would ordinarily be met from the joint assets”.

No, because it’s not comparable to “any other medical costs” because it’s not medical. A mistaken warped fashionable stupid idea about the self is not a medical issue.

[The judge] said he was satisfied the “surgery was meeting a genuine and deep-felt medical/psychological need”.

“This cannot be, and has not been, said to have been carried out as a whim when all of the effort and time that the respondent has invested in the process is considered,” the judge noted.

Deep felt, maybe, but genuine, of course not. Dude wanting to play-act being a woooman is not a medical need no matter how “deep-felt” it is. That’s an argument from early childhood. “I neeeeeeed the toy or I will die!!!!” sobs child in the toy store, but child is wrong about that.

It’s disturbing when even judges believe the lies.

FEMA wasn’t answering the phone.

Two days after catastrophic floods roared through Central Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency did not answer nearly two-thirds of calls to its disaster assistance line, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times.

The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had fired hundreds of contractors at call centers, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal matters.

The agency laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired and were not extended, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, who has instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100,000, did not renew the contracts until Thursday, five days after the contracts expired. FEMA is part of the Department of Homeland Security.

So in other words there is no federal emergency management. We’re on our own. Good luck!

The details on the unanswered calls on July 6, which have not been previously reported, come as FEMA faces intense scrutiny over its response to the floods in Texas that have killed more than 120 people. The agency, which President Trump has called for eliminating, has been slow to activate certain teams that coordinate response and search-and-rescue efforts.

Sorry, folks, disaster relief is a luxury we just can’t afford.

After floods, hurricanes and other disasters, survivors can call FEMA to apply for different types of financial assistance. People who have lost their homes, for instance, can apply for a one-time payment of $750 that can help cover their immediate needs, such as food or other supplies.

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.

Look, the federal government has more important things to do, like flying Trump back and forth to Mar a Lago every weekend.

“Responding to less than half of the inquiries is pretty horrific,” said Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, who directs the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.

“Put yourself in the shoes of a survivor: You’ve lost everything, you’re trying to find out what’s insured and what’s not, and you’re navigating multiple aid programs,” Mr. Schlegelmilch said. “One of the most important services in disaster recovery is being able to call someone and walk through these processes and paperwork.”

Most people apply for FEMA aid by calling the disaster assistance line or visiting the agency’s website, said Jeremy Edwards, a former FEMA spokesman under the Biden administration who is now at the Century Foundation, a liberal research organization. The Trump administration last month ended FEMA’s longstanding practice of going door-to-door in disaster-battered areas to help survivors apply for aid.

Sure he did, because the Merican People are not babies, they don’t need door-to-door help just because a flood has wiped out their entire neighborhood. What they need is Donald Trump running his mouth when he’s not too busy playing golf at Mar a Lago.

Yes and I’m considering revoking Trump’s membership in the human race. I suspect he’s a mustelid.

Trump says he’s considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship.

I know nothing about Rosie O’Donnell apart from what I’ve just read in the past few minutes. The name is familiar but I thought she was that other Ros-something person. Rosie Duffield is my idea of a Rosie.

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

The mind of a child – a younger child every day. US citizenship is not dependent on being in the best interests of our Great Country, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Nothing is dependent on that, except perhaps the continued employment of people who work in the government – like everyone who works for Trump for instance.

And even if it did mean something, he can’t just up and do it, the way you can up and tidy the kitchen or feed the cat.

Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law, said Saturday that Trump’s threat of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.”

“For good reasons, it is difficult to denaturalize a U.S. citizen and even harder to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote in April. “Congress has provided for only a handful of circumstances in which the executive branch is empowered to pursue such a move; and the Supreme Court has recognized meaningful constitutional limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) even in those cases.”

And Trump should be sharply aware of that, and disgusted by the very idea that a president could cancel someone’s citizenship because he’s in a snit, let alone that a president could publicly fantasize about doing so.

Trump has called O’Donnell “a real loser,” “crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” over the years.

Ironic, isn’t it, when he is so very much all those things himself? When they are literally at the top of the list of accurate descriptors of Donald Trump?

The Trump admin has made it impossible for FEMA to do its job. Since that job is responding to emergencies, that’s unfortunate.

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, [as] they have in countless past disasters.

But almost instantly, FEMA ran into bureaucratic obstacles, four officials inside the agency told CNN.

As CNN has previously reported, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — whose department oversees FEMA — recently enacted a sweeping rule aimed at cutting spending: Every contract and grant over $100,000 now requires her personal sign-off before any funds can be released.

How stupid (and destructive) can you get? Note the E in FEMA – it stands for EMERGENCY. You don’t want to put bureaucratic obstacles in the way of EMERGENCY disaster relief. Floods don’t wait for the boss to wake up and agree to release the funds.

For example, as central Texas towns were submerged in rising waters, FEMA officials realized they couldn’t pre-position Urban Search and Rescue crews from a network of teams stationed regionally across the country.

In the past, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams, which are specifically trained for situations including catastrophic floods, closer to a disaster zone in anticipation of urgent requests, multiple agency sources told CNN.

But even as Texas rescue crews raced to save lives, FEMA officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending those additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday, more than 72 hours after the flooding began, multiple sources told CNN.

Sorry, drowned people – sucks to be you.

About this whole “raid the kitchens” thing…

A federal judge in Los Angeles ordered the Trump administration to stop carrying out immigration sweeps in which she said federal agents have been indiscriminately arresting people across southern California without reasonable suspicion that they’re in the country illegally.

Since early June, agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Border Patrol and other federal agencies have been roving Los Angeles and surrounding counties arresting thousands of people in what civil rights lawyers characterized in a lawsuit last week as an unconstitutional and “extraordinary campaign of targeting people based on nothing more than the color of their skin.”

Well, the color of their skin plus California plus Los Angeles. Add it all up and it spells Demonic Invasion by Wrong Kind of Foreigners.

[The judge] issued two temporary restraining orders — one prohibiting immigration agents from arresting people without reasonable suspicion that they’re in the country illegally, and the other requiring agents to give people they arrest immediate access to lawyers. The orders, which apply to Los Angeles and six surrounding counties, are temporary while the case moves forward. But they could severely restrict the Trump administration’s ability to continue carrying out the raids that have sown fear and terror in immigrant and Latino neighborhoods since they started on June 6.

“It’s an extraordinary victory,” said Mark Rosenbaum, a senior lawyer with Public Counsel, one of the legal advocacy groups that filed the suit. “It is a complete repudiation of the racial profiling tactics and the denial of access to lawyers that the administration has utilized, and it means that the rule of law is back in Los Angeles.”

In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin criticized the ruling.

“A district judge is undermining the will of the American people,” McLaughlin said. “America’s brave men and women are removing murderers, MS-13 gang members, pedophiles, rapists — truly the worst of the worst from Golden State communities. Law and order will prevail.”

Yes, that’s what judges are supposed to do. Sometimes the will of the ___ people entails a violation of human rights, and the role of judges is to prevent such violations.

Since early June, agents have repeatedly raided known hubs for Latino workers, including car washes, day laborer gathering spots, and street vendor corners. They’ve also pulled people who appear to be Latino out of their cars, and picked them up from bus stops and on sidewalks. They’ve arrested immigrants without legal status and U.S. citizens alike. Many of the arrests have been filmed by bystanders and posted to social media.

I wonder how many Latino workers there are at Mar a Lago.

Janice Turner on the problems with Pride Policing:

In 2019, Stephen Ireland posted a film of himself at Surrey police HQ in Guildford beside a Jaguar patrol car customised with a swirling rainbow design and the name of the organisation he founded and controlled, Pride in Surrey (PiS). “This is what I will be riding around in today,” says an ecstatic Ireland, as the officer who will act as his chauffeur waves.

Ireland energetically cultivated Surrey police. He spoke on panels alongside officers, attended joint school visits, befriended its LGBT staff group. PiS was a “partner agency” on the force’s website. Most significantly, he was highly regarded by the then chief constable Gavin Stephens. After Surrey’s police and crime commissioner Lisa Townsend expressed gender critical views, Ireland launched a vicious campaign to have her sacked. Stephens, instead of offering her support, told her to apologise because Ireland “is a friend of Surrey police”.

Now that “friend” is serving 24 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old boy. Ireland had messaged his partner David Sutton, 27, (jailed for four and a half years) to say he’d found a “14-year-old baby” on Grindr who “wants to play with men’s bodies”. Discovering he was even younger, Ireland said: “OK, we just have to keep it a secret.” The couple smoked methamphetamine with the boy, described in court as “highly vulnerable”, filmed the rape and added it to their bank of paedophilic images.

I still, for the millionth time, have to wonder why Surrey police was so cuddly with Pride in Surrey and not with women in Surrey.

Paedophiles don’t all creep in the shadows: some know it’s safer to loom large on the landscape. That master of hiding in plain sight, Jimmy Savile, held a Friday morning breakfast club for West Yorkshire coppers at his Leeds flat. After his crimes were exposed, detectives said his friendly openness closed their minds to rumours. Likewise, it is not suggested Surrey police knew about Ireland’s crimes — its eventual investigation was thorough — but that its institutional approval acted for years as a protective forcefield.

Plus he’s a guy and guys are trustworthy, while women…well, you know.

The Mediterranean is too hot.

…recent ocean heat in the Mediterranean Sea has been so intense that scientists fear potentially devastating consequences for marine life.

The temperature of the sea surface regularly passed 30C off the coast of Majorca and elsewhere in late June and early July, in places six or seven degrees above usual…It has been the western Med’s most extreme marine heatwave ever recorded for the time of year, affecting large areas of the sea for weeks on end.

…

“What is different this year is that 30C sea temperatures have arrived much earlier, and that means that we can expect the summer to be more intense and longer,” said Marta Marcos, associate professor at the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain. “I grew up here, so we are used to heatwaves, but this has become more and more common and intense.”

We’re all familiar with heat, but more and more of it where it shouldn’t be is still a bad thing.

A letter to the editor:

The 2022 Census found that just under 0.5% of people in Scotland are trans. The Scottish Government employs 9,300 staff, so perhaps 40 are trans. Most will have been working at the government for years, and happily using the toilets in a way that matches their gender identity and appearance. For many of them, their work colleagues may not know that they are trans.

No.

Grown-ass adult people know a woman when they see one, and they know a man when they see one. The end.

There have been no reported cases of a trans person causing trouble or harassment in any of those toilets.

Oooh imagine that – in a climate of intense bullying of people who know what sex other people are, the people being bullied don’t dare complain.

But the group Sex Matters wants those trans people now to be forced to switch to using the other toilet – trans women required to use the men’s toilet, and trans men to use the women’s (“Seven-day ultimatum to ministers over trans toilet policy”, The Herald, July 4). That will be a mismatch with their presentation and appearance.

How fascinating; now think about what it will be for everyone else.

Such a change would humiliate trans staff and reveal their trans status to colleagues and other users. 

Again. Fascinating; now think about other people. Think about the women humiliated by years of having men in their toilets.

If this does go to the legal action threatened by Sex Matters, we will see how the Scottish courts decide between the privacy and dignity of trans employees and the insistence by Sex Matters that everyone has to always be treated as the sex on their original birth certificate…

Er, no, we will see how the Scottish courts decide between the privacy and dignity of everyone and the bizarre unreasonable demands of a handful of people who claim to be trans.

effectively an insistence that trans people, as such, do not exist. Of course trans people do exist

Stop right there. Manipulative wording foul, as usual. Of course people who claim to be trans exist; the issue is that they claim to be the opposite sex, and that claim is absurd and impossible. Of course they do exist, but they are wrong (or dishonest) about their claims to be the sex they are not.

From The Independent:

“I’m appalled by my party’s stance on trans rights,” says Nadia Whittome, Labour MP for Nottingham East, over the ban on puberty blockers and the government’s response to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

Then she’s a fool. (To be fair, we already knew that.) There’s no such thing as a “right” to receive puberty blockers because you believe you are the sex other than the one your body has. That’s not a right, it’s tampering.

It’s such a prominent topic, that Whittome’s been asked many times by her constituents if she thinks about leaving the party, or if the Labour party – founded by the trade union movement, as a party for the working class – no longer serves her and her beliefs. 

Yes, the trade union movement, for the working class – wtf does that have to do with puberty blockers?

Whittome says she’s “really proud that this government’s pledged to half violence against women and girls,” but thinks that the increasing attacks on trans women in the news, the courts and on TV, which are “rooted in very archaic and misogynistic ideology,” are harmful for all women. 

Then she’s stupid and wrong.

“If we’re continuing to marginalise and scapegoat trans people, especially trans women, as a threat to other women, that means we’re not focusing on the real problem – men who are violent.”

Trans women are men. The ones who are violent are men who are violent. That’s the whole point.

The number of male violence offenses of stalking, harassment, sexual assault and domestic violence have grown by 37 per cent in the past five years. Trans people, particularly trans women, are far, far more likely to be victims,” she says.

Than women? Where did she get that statistic? Her dreams?

Ok so what about this then.

On a lighter note, when did the fascist playbook become throwing a strop?

Trump has been randomly holding back funds for things he might not like if he had any clue what they are. Better penniless than sorry, right?

The Trump administration has declined to release nearly $7 billion in federal funding that helps pay for after-school and summer programs, support for students learning English, teacher training and other services.

The money was expected to be released by Tuesday. But in an email on Monday, the Education Department notified state education agencies that the money would not be available.

Because it’s bad to fund education. Ignorance is good – just look how far it’s taken Trump!

“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school and summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20 percent of all students in after-school programs nationally.

Among other things, those after-school programs make it possible for parents of young children to have jobs. Trump is keen for the working class to be working, right? Well, having 6-year-olds sent home at noon is not going to help with that.

Heidi Sipe, the superintendent in Umatilla, Ore., a low-income, rural district, said her district’s after-school program has traditionally gone until 4:45 or 5:30 p.m. and was fully funded through federal dollars.

She recently sent a note to parents urging them to make backup plans, though few exist in her community, where she said there is no Y.M.C.A. or similar alternatives.

Which means some people (mostly women) are going to have to quit their jobs, which will make their families poorer.