Oh oh oh but what about the immense tragic suffering of the tranz commmunniny?

And, yes, I know that women lost their jobs for voicing their beliefs on biology. That was a wrong that required to be righted. But suffering is not binary in the way the court has decided sex is. Trans people have been under attack, too. Their besiegement has been amplified by the same judgment that has lessened yours. 

Right. Ok. So the woman was raped, I get it, but the rapist has been under attack too. Now the rapist has been convicted and it’s your fault – you have amplified his besiegementitude.

Trans women won’t cease to exist because five judges decided the legal definition of a woman within the Equality Act 2010 does not include them, even if they hold Gender Recognition Certificates. 

And now they have to navigate a world that is crueller than it was before. It doesn’t matter where you place the blame for that: with politicians, the media, extremists on either side of the culture war divide. There’s still a field out there strewn with casualties. 

The world is crueller than it was before because men who pretend to be women can no longer grab all of women’s rights for themselves? How does that make sense? How is it cruel to tell men that they can’t take what belongs to women? Think.

Now Musk is interfering with people’s health care.

The U.S. DOGE Service is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal health-care grants, requiring government officials to manually review and approve previously routine payments — and paralyzing grant awards to tens of thousands of organizations, according to 12 people familiar with the new arrangements.

The effort, which DOGE has dubbed “Defend the Spend,” has left thousands of payments backed up, including funding for doctors’ and nurses’ salaries at federal health centers for the poor. Some grantees are waiting on payments they expected last week.

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Some officials have been told that only Trump political appointees can sign requests to disburse funds, even if a career official has already approved it, adding an additional layer of review. The justification for each payment also must include an explanation of how the money will be used to advance Trump administration priorities, according to two employees in separate agencies who received high-level briefings on the process.

If that’s the case then most payments will be ended entirely, because they have nothing to do with Trump admin priorities. Naturally public health is not a Trump priority.

Among those immediately suffering consequences are federal health centers, which provide services for low-income people and those who lack insurance, the employee said. Those centers rely on regular drawdowns for their operational expenses, such as doctors’ and nurses’ salaries and basic medical supplies.

Among those immediately suffering consequences are federal health centers, which provide services for low-income people and those who lack insurance, the employee said. Those centers rely on regular drawdowns for their operational expenses, such as doctors’ and nurses’ salaries and basic medical supplies.

If the funding delay continues much longer, the situation will grow dire for such centers, imperiling their ability to assist the poor, the employee said.

Now that is a Trump priority.

Graham Linehan nails it in his Spiked article on the For Women Scotland ruling.

Sitting in court on Wednesday, I was especially delighted to hear the word ‘incoherence’ repeated in the judgement again and again. The incoherence of trans ideology wasn’t just an insult to me as a man who cared for the women in my life, it was also an affront to me as a writer. In standing for women, the Supreme Court stood up for all of us who need words to have meaning.

That. The incoherence and the sheer blinding stupidity. It’s been a grating maddening frustrating outrage all along, and will go on being all that until it dies entirely or the planet dies entirely. It’s incoherent, it’s absurd, it’s childish; why are we being bullied and pushed to sign up to something so ludicrous and stupid? The emperor is buck naked and he’s not a woman so get tf out of here and leave us alone.

This was the decade in which British history repeated itself. For their heresy in standing up to male power, these women lost jobs and friends, were thrown in cells, made the subject of mockery and smears by the press. The state broadcaster, the BBC, simply decided they didn’t exist. Feminist Jenni Murray was removed from her seat at Woman’s Hour, which then proceeded to talk about anything other than the unprecedented assault on rights already won. The most important feminists of the day were denied a platform and told there was ‘no debate’.

Women were told this return to Edwardian values was progress, that they should dim themselves so that men could shine. They were expected to make themselves smaller so men could crowd into their spaces. Eddie Izzard felt bold enough to recast the story of a group of young girls objecting to his presence in a woman’s toilet as an act of bigotry. None of his fellow comedians contradicted this, because to do so would be career-ending.

As Graham knows all too well.

The real Sophie Molly in action.

He’s not massively charismatic.

It’s quite a good laugh when his feet finally do appear.