Yes, we know.
We know. It’s even worse when crazy stupid corrupt sadistic ignorant impulsive conceited slobbery people have a nuclear weapon.
(What is it with the slobber? Possible symptom of dementia is one answer.)
Category: Notes and Comment Blog
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We include you, get out
And another thing about that gender-critical lawsuit. The final paragraph:
A spokeswoman for the Green Party said: “The Green Party always strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place. After careful consideration, we were unable to grant GWD a stall at our autumn conference 2025, for reasons we explained to them at the time. As this matter is now the subject of threatened court proceedings, it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.”
Do they even see it? ““The Green Party always strives to be a welcoming and inclusive place, so we banish women who know which people are women.”
You can’t do both. You can’t preen yourself on how welcoming and inclusive you are and exclude people who know which sex people are, aka the vast majority of all people. You can’t boast about your inclusiviosity and your keenness to keep genner critickal women out in consecutive sentences.
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Easy being green
What is “Green” about banning and punishing women?
Green Party faces gender-critical group lawsuit over trans ‘witch-hunt’
The Green Party has been accused of carrying out a “witch-hunt” against people with gender-critical views after it allegedly refused to allow campaigners a stall at party conference.
Lawyers for Green Women’s Declaration claim the decision was “a deliberate and unlawful attempt to prevent women from expressing gender-critical views”.
Well what else would it be? That’s not a claim, it’s a definition.
The gender-critical group also plans to sue over the party’s definition of “queerphobia”, which rules it is transphobic to suggest trans women are “not real women”. In a pre-action letter sent last week, the group claimed the definition “precisely encapsulates a gender-critical view”.
Confusion and conflation always. Accurate definition is not phobia. There’s nothing “phobic” about saying men are not women. For that matter there’s nothing affectionate about saying men are women. It’s just a lie or a mistake; it needn’t involve any emotion at all. We may sound exasperated when we say it, but that’s because it’s so basic and obvious and we shouldn’t have to keep repeating it.
Jude English, 60, a director of the group, told The Times: “The way the Green Party has been acting is akin to a witch-hunt, purging people with gender-critical views. We were middle-aged ladies with leaflets who wanted to go inside the conference last year and talk about these issues. The cancellation of our stall was simply the party’s leadership saying, ‘We can’t allow these women’s voices inside [the leader Zack Polanski’s] big conference.’
There’s always some reason to push women’s voices out the door.
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Told to cool off
Oops.
Kelly Wilkinson was turned away from Southport police station and told to “cool off, give Brian a break” while seeking help just four days before her estranged husband, Brian Earl Johnston, burned her to death in 2021, an inquest has heard.
The allegation was made in an extraordinary 11th hour submission by the lawyer acting for her family as they successfully applied to adjourn the coronial inquiry to hear additional evidence about the allegation.
Their lawyer, Mitch Rawlings, said Queensland police’s claim during the inquest that 12 April 2021 was the last time Wilkinson engaged with police was false. He said that she also attended the police station on 16 April – four days before her murder – but that there is no record of this attendance in the internal police system.
“One of Kelly’s sisters drove her to the Southport police station, where she remained in the car while Kelly got out of the car with some documents,” Rawlings said. “She returned to the car moments later and complained that the person at the front desk turned her away saying words to the effect of, ‘Just cool off, give Brian a break,’ words to that effect.”
To be fair, the police must have to make decisions of that kind all the time, and treating every irritable quarrel as a step away from murder would have its downsides. Hindsight is 20/20 doncha know.
Thursday was scheduled to be the final day of a three-day hearing into Wilkinson’s 2021 murder, when Johnston stabbed her, doused her with petrol and set her on fire at her Gold Coast home.
I guess because she didn’t give him a break?
The coroner has heard that Wilkinson contacted police on four occasions before her murder, not including 16 April.
She was flagged as a high-risk aggrieved party, meaning “proactive police response to risk is recommended”. But a referral to a specialist domestic violence liaison officer was never opened, and she never had a safety plan prepared.
And her risk turned out to be high indeed.
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Guest post: There’s a smuggle going on here
Originally a comment by Artymorty on Is versus labeled as.
Gender identity is a term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.
But where did this term come from? When did it emerge? And what material thing does it point to, if anything?
Thetan is also a term used by some people — namely, Scientologists — to describe their sense of who they are.
Indigo Child is another term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.
I could pick out a thousand terms various cults use to describe their deeply felt inner sense of self. The whole fucking point of religion is that it gives people deep feelings about their inner selves. How does anyone not already know this?
Just because there’s a group of people who have a term for something they feel doesn’t mean that thing has any fucking credibility in the secular world.
Some people do not accept the concept of gender identity and argue only biological sex can determine whether someone is a man or a woman.
It’s not so much that we don’t accept the concept but that we disagree about what the concept is, what it means, what it refers to. I don’t disbelieve that trans-identifiers believe they have a gender identity. I disbelieve that their sense of gender identity points to any kind of innate, material, natural kind of thing, and I certainly don’t believe that one’s sense of a gender identity points to an innate, material, natural thing that is so profound that I should be compelled to pretend I can’t see people’s biological sex because of it.
But wait, let me revisit that quote again:
Some people do not accept the concept of gender identity and argue only biological sex can determine whether someone is a man or a woman.
There’s a smuggle going on in there. They’re not denying that people have biological sexes; they’re slyly insinuating that some people — i.e., good people — have been trained to act like they can’t see biological sex when they’re prompted to — i.e., when they’ve been cued about someone else’s beliefs about his or her gender identity. And some other people — bad, suspicious people, outsiders, boo hiss — haven’t learned the rules.
This isn’t about truth, it’s about social rules. In other words, it’s a new religion.
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Wait WHO is stupid and incompetent?
Ok that’s disgusting.
You know what else was stupid in Leavitt-world? Lend-lease! The US should have just let Hitler win!
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Is versus labeled as
I can’t even deal with this anymore. It’s too stupid.
The BBC asks from the pulpit:
What does trans mean and why is there a debate about transgender people’s rights?
Gosh, BBC, what fascinating questions. Please explain it all to us.
The UK Supreme Court ruled in April 2025 that the definition of a woman in equalities law is based on biological sex.
No, really?! Who knew? We thought it meant armadillo. No, ice cream soda. No, Lithuania. One of those, or something like them. Nothing to do with bibliological sekks.
What is biological sex?
The Supreme Court judgment used a simple definition of biological sex: it is the sex recorded at birth. The court said this is widely used in law.
Did it really? That definition isn’t simple, it’s incomplete. What if the people doing the recording happen to be drunk at the time? Bio sex isn’t what it is because it’s what’s recorded, it’s because it is. If a baby is born in the woods and the birth is not recorded, does it have no sex? Is that baby neither male nor female? Is it a little miracle plant baby?
Is the BBC sneaking in a strawman here? “They say sex is what’s written down when baby pops out but it’s so much more complicated than that!!!”
The Beeb tries deepities.
Gender identity is a term used by some people to describe their sense of who they are.
Groovy man. Some people’s sense of who they are is that they’re much smarter, sexier, funnier, stronger, attractiver, importanter than most people. So what? Some people think too well of themselves. Can we move on now?
A transgender person describes their gender identity as different from their sex at birth.
And when they do that, you know they are tediously self-admiring and a waste of time. Find your jacket, check your wallet, and leave.
According to the NHS, gender dysphoria describes the “unease or dissatisfaction” some people feel about the mismatch between their biological sex and their gender identity. It says this can be “so intense it can lead to depression and anxiety and have a harmful impact on daily life”.
Especially when way too many people spend way too much time and energy and what purports to be intelligence thinking about this mismatch and what it all means. Another option is to slap yourself upside the head for being a bedwetter and move on with your life.
Some people do not accept the concept of gender identity and argue only biological sex can determine whether someone is a man or a woman.
Those are two different things though. You can perfectly well accept the concept of genner idenniny and still know that biological sex means man or woman.
It’s pitiful that the Beeb is willing to sign its name to this kind of claptrap.
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Wolf calls rabbits discriminatory
The Independent breathlessly reports:
Trans people in the UK face a rising tide of discriminatory behaviour and prejudice which is creating a “hostile environment” impeding access to healthcare and damaging mental health, according to a major new report.
But who measures the rise of this tide?
Describing the situation as a “crisis”, in which trans people in the UK are “being catastrophically failed”, Trans Actual UK, an advocacy organisation focused on healthcare and legal protections for trans people, said: “Hundreds of thousands of trans people have seen the degradation of their human rights protections” over the past decade, and are now calling for government action.
Really? What human rights protections are we talking about?
Trans Actual surveyed over 4,000 trans people in Britain aged 18 to 81, and found rising levels of transphobia are having a profound effect on the wellbeing and daily lives of trans people.
Oh, that’s who measured the rising tide – an organization that believes in trans ideology. I suppose its definition of “transphobia” includes non-belief in trans ideology? Is it all just a tad circular slightly a bit?
The survey, which is the largest in-depth survey of the UK trans population to date, revealed that almost every respondent – 99 per cent of the 4,008 people surveyed – said that hostile or negative media coverage had affected their mental health or intensified their gender dysphoria.
Well duh. Of course they did. That’s their jam.
A key issue raised by respondents was the difficulty in acquiring ID that reflects their gender.
A Gender Recognition Certificate allows people’s affirmed or “acquired” gender to be legally recognised in the UK, and means trans people can update birth or adoption certificates.
But only 13 per cent of respondents said they were able to update their ID without any difficulty. The vast majority reported being unable to secure gender‑congruent documents, citing barriers such as high costs, complex bureaucracy and the absence of gender‑neutral options.
These barriers have far‑reaching consequences. Without accurate ID, respondents described heightened risks to their privacy, greater difficulty securing employment, and increased exposure to harassment and discrimination in everyday situations.
But it’s not accurate ID they’re trying to get, it’s the other kind. They want special fancy counter-factual ID, which kind of subverts the whole point of having ID at all.
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Let’s uplift
Oops. Plot twist.
Opinion: This International Women’s Day, let’s uplift the rights and dignity of all women
Sad, isn’t it, that we know that “all” doesn’t mean “all” but “including some who are not women.”
It starts well enough.
International Women’s Day is this Sunday. Every lesson I’ve learned, every battle I’ve been part of, has taught me one truth: when working class women organise, nothing can stop us.
Women make up the majority of the public service workforce, yet you bear the brunt of unsafe staffing levels, low pay, discrimination, and impossible workloads.
But it doesn’t continue well enough.
There are signs of things getting better – the Employment Rights Act is an important step on the road to pay parity – but the steps are far too small and far too slow.
For a start the government should increase access to paid parental leave so mums and dads can share care more fairly.
And as we demand better, we have to demand better for all women. I want to be absolutely clear: I stand proudly and unequivocally in defence of LGBT+ rights. I am proud to be a trans ally. Equality is not negotiable. And discrimination in any form has no place in our workplaces.
Nobody should have their dignity taken away because of the sex they were deemed to be at birth. Too many countries have moved forward on gender recognition while the UK has slipped backwards. That must change — and UNISON will be at the front leading to make that change happen.
So this International Women’s Day, let’s stand together as proud UNISON women for a transformation of society that uplifts the rights and dignity of all women.
Including the ones who are men.
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Perfect timing
I have a good idea, let’s try to climb Chomolungma wearing bathing suits and flip flops. My inspiration is Fox tv personality Pete Hegseth.
Kash Patel baselessly fired an elite team of agents specializing in foreign threats from the Middle East just days before Donald Trump launched an illegal military campaign in Iran.
Patel terminated a dozen employees and staff after accusing them—without providing evidence—of improperly investigating Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The FBI director specifically gutted a group known as CI-12, a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran and its proxies. Days later, Trump toppled Iran’s regime and sparked a sprawling regional conflict in the Middle East.
So, flawless timing. Who needs intel to fight a war? Gut instinct and bad temper are all that’s necessary. Besides, all those classified documents were his personal property, because he says so.
It’s not surprising that the members of CI-12 were involved in investigating Trump for holding onto classified documents after he left the White House in 2020. CI-12 is charged with media leaks and the mishandling of classified documents, and the documents found at Trump’s estate reportedly included U.S. military plans for Iran.
These latest firings have raised concerns that the U.S. will be unable to respond to threats as the United States and Israel engage in major combat operations in Iran. Nearly half of all working FBI agents have been reassigned to immigration enforcement, including those working in counterterrorism.
Trump and his minions can respond to threats better than any humans have ever responded to threats before, through the sheer power of confidence and a background in rage tv.
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Stupid rules he said
Hegseth says it’s stupid to have rules of engagement. Yeah, man! Let’s bring back war crimes! We miss those! Remember My Lai? We laughed ourselves sick! Pass the doobie!
Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismissal on Monday of what he called “stupid rules of engagement” in the illegal war against Iran amounted to an invitation for American and allied forces to commit war crimes, human rights organizations and other critics warned.
Hegseth’s remarks came during a press conference alongside the top US general, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine. The Pentagon chief boasted that the US is “unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history,” “all on our terms with maximum authorities,” unbound by “stupid rules of engagement,” and undeterred by “what so-called international institutions say”.
Right. Let’s have 2, 4, eleventy seven Babi Yars.
Hegseth, an accused war criminal who successfully lobbied President Donald Trump to pardon alleged or convicted war criminals during his first White House term, also praised Israel for its willingness to dispense with rules of engagement, “unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.”
Seriously, isn’t it just so wimpy and boring and politically correct to refrain from massacring civilians in their thousands? Get in there and show them who’s boss! Donald Trump, that’s who!
Hegseth has previously derided limitations on US troops’ conduct overseas as “stupid.” During remarks to hundreds of generals last year, the Pentagon chief declared that we “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.”
“We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy,” Hegseth said at the time. “No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.”
Clear enough yet? He wants mass murder. He can’t wait to slaughter civilians.
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It grew up – or did it?
The funniest thing about this is that it’s not parody.
Robin Gow is a poet, educator, and witch. It grew up in rural Pennsylvania and lives with his queer family on unceded Lenape land also called Allentown Pennsylvania.
Quite the medley of deliberate annoyingness in 28 words. There’s the “it”, the instant switch to “his”, the “queer family”, and the obligatory pious smug pretense of giving a shit about forcibly removed native people.
Awarded the Jerry Cain and Scott James Creative Writing Fellow, Gow earned faer MFA in Creative Writing from Adelphi University where fae also taught as a professor of English.
What is even the point? Other than extra added attention?
Fae is a managing editor The Nasiona. He also formerly worked as the assistant editor at large at Doubleback Books, served for four years as the production editor of the Lantern literary magazine, and three years as the Social Media Coordinator for Oyster River Pages. It has also worked to help produce several zines and taught creative writing workshops in a variety of community spaces, including online forms.
He is an autistic bisexual genderqueer person passionate about queer and disability justice.
Are we sure? I think fae/it/she is much more passionate about faeself than about any kind of justice. People who really are passionate about justice don’t waste time and alienate potential comrades by talking a lot of pretentious nonsense about self self self.
What is it with kids today that they can’t manage to see how revoltingly self-obsessed they either are or present themselves as being? It’s not as if it’s subtle.
Over the last five years, Robin has trained over 3,000 people on LGBTQIA2+ Inclusion and Equity and Neurodiversity/Disability Justice topics.
Over 3k people now fluent in bullshit; awesome.
And in conclusion:
Robin prefers the pronouns it, fae, and he but all pronouns except for “she/her” are alright.
She/her being the only correct one.
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Numbers
A councillor who was investigated over a possible breach of Cornwall Council’s code of conduct will face no further action. The council received ten complaints concerning comments Cllr Dulcie Tudor made about trans people.
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The complaints largely stemmed from a post Cllr Tudor made on social media which said: “Men claiming trans identity are not more vulnerable than women and girls. This is what they claim but it’s simply not true. A woman dies at the hands of a man every three days in this jurisdiction. Nine men who pretend to be women have been murdered in the last ten years in the UK.”
A woman every three days in that one jurisdiction, compared to nine men in the entire UK in ten years. That’s quite the gap.
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Challenging times
Melania Trump presided over a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday focusing on children in conflict, one of her signature issues, and acknowledged she was doing so in “challenging times” as the United States has joined Israel in attacking Iran.
Did she acknowledge she was doing so with no apparent qualification or reason?
Melania Trump was the first spouse of a world leader to take the president’s seat at the United Nations’ most powerful body, which is charged with ensuring global peace and security, according to the U.N.
Not the good kind of first. We don’t need spouses of “world leaders” to horn in on Security Council meetings. That’s called nepotism and it’s not good thing.
While the first lady spoke of a need to protect children and their access to education and technology in conflict, her husband’s administration has cut funding for a number of U.N. agencies and other international organizations that address these issues.
Well duh. She blathers pretty sentiments while he smashes everything he can reach. That’s called being a Power Couple.
Among them is the U.N. Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict, which provides detailed reporting on the impact that conflicts have on children around the world. This information can help trigger action to prevent rape and violence against women and children. President Trump withdrew U.S. support in January.
The U.S. has also dramatically cut funding for the U.N. children’s agency, UNICEF, and has withdrawn from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.
But in compensation they get Pretty Lady! It’s all good!
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Are you trans or are you trans?
Don’t be shy – just erase women entirely.
The only option for women is the one that includes men, so there is no option for women.
And what’s the “Trans” for? What’s the point of checking that? What even is the question? Trans is neither a sex nor a gender, it’s a modifier.
Back to Ontology 101.
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Jeez anointed the wrong guy
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
Great. That means there are way too many military commanders who think this is Armageddon and that’s a good thing. That means the more lethal violence in more places, the better.
MRFF President and Founder Mikey Weinstein, a veteran of the Air Force and the Reagan White House, told me that since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran early Saturday morning, the MRFF has been “inundated” with similar complaints:
These calls have one damn thing in freaking common; our MRFF clients [service members who seek MRFF aid] report the unrestricted euphoria of their commanders and command chains as to how this new “biblically-sanctioned” war is clearly the undeniable sign of the expeditious approach of the fundamentalist Christian “End Times” as vividly described in the New Testament Book of Revelation.
Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.Yeah that’s just great.
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Goldy gold
Meanwhile, in the corridors of power…
The occasion was actually a medal of honor ceremony.
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They will find ways
Pink News is ecstatic that women can never have anything just for women now.
Women’s Institute vows to ‘find ways to keep welcoming trans women’ after ban
WI vows to keep forcing men on women who want to do something without men.
On 16 April 2025, the Supreme Court judgement in the case of For Women Scotland vs Scottish Ministers decided the protected characteristic of “sex” for the purposes of the 2010 Equality Act means “biological sex” only and does not include trans people.
In the wake of the ruling, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) – the UK’s human rights watchdog – drafted interim updates to its Code of Practice on single-sex spaces.
How dare they? How dare they try to keep men out of groups for women?
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Equipment
Trump to Iran: Ok we fixed that for you, now get on with it, kthxbye.
The killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei marked the latest decapitation or defeat of a bitter U.S. adversary overseas, following the ouster of the Taliban in 2001, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq two years later, the breaking of Moammar Gaddafi’s grip on power in Libya in 2011 and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro just two months ago.
The United States has often followed such triumphant moments with attempts to fill the void — deploying thousands of troops, spending billions of dollars, seeking to nurture fledging democracies or, in the case of Venezuela, leaving the decapitated government in power. But those efforts have largely brought disappointment, yielding states that remain riven by conflict, have revolted against the U.S. role or hardly rank as robust U.S. allies.
Trump appears to be pursuing a starkly different approach with Iran, signaling that he has no intention to use Americantroops to steer the path of a country whose fate has been buffeted by U.S. power since Iran’s last democratically elected government was ousted in 1953 in a CIA-backed coup.
We broke it but we’ll be god damned if we’re going to fix it.
On Sunday, in phone calls with multiple journalists at several news outlets, Trump seemed to revel in the incapacitation of the Iranian regime, saying that the strikes had wiped out potential successors to the supreme leader.
After assessing Trump’s comments and the impact of U.S.-Israeli attacks, a German security official said the worry in Berlin and other European capitals is that “the plan is to have no plan.”
Well, you see, having a plan would require some actual brain power, and Trump doesn’t have that, so…
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2 or more
That’s another thing. Even if you do think it’s worth burbling about idennniny all the time, it doesn’t follow that idennniny=ONE thing about you. The odds are good that there’s more than one thing about you.
But even when trans people are being questioned about their very idennniny as trans people, that doesn’t mean their very idennniny itself is being questioned, because there is more to their idennniny than that one thing. Nobody is just one thing. It’s not even physically possible, let alone psychologically mentally emotionally. Cheer up peeps! There’s more than one thing about you! Life is rich; people are complex; the road stretches ahead of you; seize the day!